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I ? ! REV. DR. TALMAGE. i t THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- ( DAY SERMON. t i Subject: "Over All Forever." t Text "Christ came, who is over al?**? * jEomaos ix., 5. jj f For 4000 years the world had been waiting r i for a deliverer?waiting while empires rose t and fell. Conquerors came find made the e ( world worse instead of making it better? \ still the centuries watched and waited. They c looked for Him on thrones, looked for Him in t palaces, looked for Him in imperial robes, 0 looked for Him at the head of armies. At > last they found Him In a barn. The oattle I stood nearer to Him than the angels, for the former were in the adjoining stall, while the t latter were in- the clouds. A parentage of c peasantry! No room for Him in the inn be- c cause there was no one to pay the hotel ex- I pense. Yet the pointing star and the angelia tl cantata snowed tnat Heaven maae up m ap- a preciation of His worth what the world t! lacked. "Christ came, who is over all, God a blessed forever. Amen." s But who is this Christ who oame? As to t the difference between different denomina- n Hons of evangelical Christians I have no concern. If I could by the turning over of my t hand decide whether all the world shall at f last be Baptist or Methodist or Congregational I or Episcopalian or Presbyterian, I would not C turn my hand. But there are doctrines which t are vital to the soul If Christ be not a God. p we are idolators. To this Christological t question I devote myself this morning and ft pray God that we may think right and do aright in regard to a question in which mis- I take is infinite. p S I suppose that the majority of those here o to-day assembled believe the Bible. It re- o jquires as much faith to be an infidel as to be o a Christian. It is faith in a different direc- h tion. The Christian has faith in the teach- o ings of Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, * Moses. The iufldel has faith in the free y thinkers. We have faith in one class of men. {They have faith in another class of men. But o as the majority of those, perhaps all of those 0 here assembled, are willing to take the Bible u I for a standard in morals and in faith, I make n ris book my starting point. a I suppose you are aware that the two gen- n rals who have marshaled the great armies e against the deity of Jesus Christ are Strauss ' and Renen. The number of their slain will n not be counted until the trumpet of the arch- a .angel sounds the roll call of the resurrection. b Those men and their sympathizers saw that & If they could destroy the fortress of miracles d thev could destroy Christianity, and they I n rwere right. Surrender the mlraolee and you o urrender Christianity. The great Ger- t< man exegete says 'that all the miracles n iwere myths. The great French exegete says gi that all the miracles were legends. They ti propose to take everything supernatural from f< Che life of Christ and everything supernatural w itrom the Bible. They prefer the miracles of si human nonsense to the glorious miracles of Jeeus Christ. M V They say there was no miraculous birth in bi Bethlehem, but that it is all a fanciful story, ix Just like the story of Romulus said to have li been born of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. h They say no star pointed to the manger; it st jwas only the flash of a passing lantern. They w ?ay there was no miraculous making of bread, but that it is a corruption of the story that vr Elisha gave 20 loaves of bread to a hundred fo men. They say the water was never turned tl Into wine, but that it is a corruption of the ic story that the Egyptian plague turned the aj (water into blood. They say it la no wonder C that Christ sweat great drops of blood; he ft ?ad been out in the night air and was taken is suddenly ill. They say that there were no n( (tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples fr at the Pentecost; that there was only a great i0 thunder storm, and the air was full of elec- ie tricity, which snapped and flew all around ebout the heads of the disciples. tx V They say that Mary and Martha and Christ B felt it important to get up an excitement for o; the forwarding of their religion, and so they & dramatized a funeral and Lazarus played the si corpse, and Mary and Martha played the m [weepers, and Christ was the tragedian. I put it in my own words, but this Is the exact m meaning of their statements. They say the m JBible is a spurious book written by super- 13 ?titlons or lying men, backed up by men who died for that which they did not believe. la i Now, I take baok the limited statement tl {Which I made a few mbments ago, when I ft teald It requires as much faith to be an in- at Ifldel as tc be a Christian. It requires a thousandfold more faith to be an Infidel than tt to be a Christian, for if Christianity demand ic (that the whale swallowed Jonah, then it skepticism demands that Jonah swallowed a (the whale! I can prove to you that Christ tc ,wai God, not only by supernatural appear- 0I ,ancee on that Christmas night, but by what gt [Inspired men said of Him, by what He says of aj jHimself and by His wonderful achievements, aj .'"Christ came, who is over all." Ah, does jj [not that prove too much? Not over the et ICsesars, not over Frederick, not over Alex- G ander the Great, not over the Henrys, not jover the Louises? Yes. Pile all the thrones y; of all the ages together, and my text over- q 'epans them as easily as a rainbow oveispans n] a mountain, "Christ came, who is overall." is Then He must be God. C ' The Bible says that all things were made by y( tHim. Does not that prove too much? Could y( It Le that He made the Mediterranean, that h, Ho made the Black sea, that He made the w Atlantic, the Pacific, that He made Mount 01 Lebanon, that He made the Alps, tho Sierra hi Nevadas, that He made the Hemisperes, that ft He made the universe? Yes. The Bible says h so, and lest we be too slmpid to understand n Join winds up with a magnificent reiteration ^ (anii says, ">?nnout Hiui was not anything ti made that was made." Then He was a God. t The Bible says at the name of Jesus every . knee shall bow. All heaven must come down a 'on its knees. Martyrs on their knees, apos- 0 ties on their knees, confessors on their knees, i the archangel on his knees. Before whom? A man? No.JHe is a God. The Bible says every Js, tongue shall confess?Bomesian, Malayan, jj Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Persian, English. i( Every tongue shall confess. To whom? God. t The Bible says Christ the same yesterday, to- a day and forever. Is that characteristic of ^ humanity? Do wa not change? Doe6 not ^ the body entirely change in seven years? 0 Does not the mind change? Does not the j( heart change? Christ the same yesterday, jj to-day and forever. He must be a God. ? Philosophers say that the law of gravita- ? tion decides everything and that the centripetal and centrifugal forces keep the world from clashing and from demolition. But t Paul says that Christ's arm Is the axle on ? which everything turns, and that Christ's e hand is the socket in which everything is set. v Mark the words, "Upholding?upholding a'l e things by the word of His power." Then He must be a God. d Then look at what Christ says of Himself. ^ Now, certainly, every one must understand ^ himself better than any one else can under- t( ?tand him. If I ask you where you were a born ond you tell me. "I was born in Ches- j ter, England," or "I was born In Glasgow. _ Scotland," or "I was born In Dublin. Ire- q land," or "I was born in Now Orleans, the ^ United 8tatee," you being a man of integrity, ^ I should believe you. If I asked you how 0 many pounds you could lift and you should ?ay you could lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds or 300 pounds, I should believe you. It is a ' matter personal to yourself. You know bet ter thftn any one else oan tell you. a If I ask how much estate you are worth, ^ .and you say $10,000 or 5100,000 or $500,000, ^ I believe what you say. You know better f! than any one else. Now, Christ mu3t know better than any one else who He is and *what He is. When I ask Him how old He is, He says, ''Before Abraham was, I am." ? Abraham had been dead 2028 years. Was Christ 2028 years old? Yes, He says He is older than that. "Before Abraham was, I am." Then Christ says, "I am the Alpha." ? Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Christ in that utterance deciared, "I am ? the A of the alphabet of the centuries." Then He must be a God. > Can a man be in a thousand places at once? T1 Christ says He is in a thousand places at ^ once. "Where two or three are gathered to gether in My name, there am I in the midst ji of them." This everywhereatiteneee, is it p characteristic of a man or of a God? And w legt we might think this everywhereativeness p would cease, He goes on, and He intimates c, that He will be in all the cities of the earth? fl He will be In Europe, Asia, Africa, North and cj South America the day before the world burns n up. "Lo, I am with you always, even unto ;lJ the end of the world." Why, then, He must n, be a God. aJ Besides that, He takes divine honors. He y, declares Himself Lord of men, angels and e] devils. Is He? If He is, He Is a God. If He f? is not, He Is an impostor. A man comes into your store to-morrow morning. He says t jg "I am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. I n have built hundreds of ships." He goes on <j (0 giro his experience, zou defer to him as , man of large experience and great %osessions. But the next day you find out thai ie is not the great shipbuilder of Liverpool hat he never built a ship ; that he never buill nything. What is he then? An impoetor, Christ says He built this world. He built aL' hings. Did He build them? 11 He did, He 3 a God. If He did not. He is an impostor. A man comes into your place of busineef pith Jewish countenance and a German ,ccent and says: "I am Rothschild, the >anker, of London. I have the wealth ol Nations in my pocket. I loaned that large .mount to Italy and Austria in their perplexty." But after a while you find that he has Lever loaned any money to Italy or Austria bat he never had a large estate ; that he if 10 banker at all; that He owns nothing. Vhat is he? An impostor. Christ says He wns the cattle on a thousand hills ; He owrn his world; He owns the next world; He wns the universe; He is the banker of all rations. Is He? If He is, He is a God. If Ie not? Then He is an impostor. A man enters the White House at Washingon. He says: "I am Emperor William, ol rermany. I am traveling inoognlto. I have ome over here for recreation and pleasure, own castles in Dresden and Berlin." Bui he president finds out the next day that he 3 not Emperor William; that he owns no castes at Berlin and Dresden: that he has nc uthority. What is he? An Impostor. Chris! ays He is the king over all?the king immoral, invisible. If He Is, He Is a God. If He ii lUt, no ID Oil UU^VSbVl. Strauss saw that alternative, and he trie 0 get out of It by saying that Christ was sin ul in accepting adoration and worship lenan tries to get out of it by saying tha' Jhrist?not through any fault of His own ut through the fault of othere?lost Hi: <urity 01 conscience, ana he slyly intimatet hat dishonorable women had damaged Hii ouL Anything but believe that Christ U kxL Now you believe the Bible to be true, f yon do not, you would hardly have appeared in this church. You would have gone ver and joined the Broadway Infidel club, r you would go to Boston and kiss the foot f the statue of Thomas Paine. You would ardly come into this church, where the most f us are the deluded souls who believe in a rhole Bible and take it all down as easily as ou swallow a ripe strawberry. 1 have shown you what inspired men said f Christ; I have shown you what Christ said f Himself; now, if you believe the Bible, let s go out and see His wonderful achievelents?surgical, alimentary, marine, mortury. Surgical achievements! Where is the ledical journal that gives an account of such rploits as Christ wrought? He used no nife. He carried no splints. He employed o compress. He made no patient squirm nder cauterization. He tied no artery. Yet ehold Him! With a word He struck fast [alchus' amputated ear. He stirred a little ust and spittle into a salve and with it iused a man who was born blind and withut optio nerve or cornea or crystalline tens > open his eyes on the sunlight. He beat rasic on the drum of the deaf ear. He Taightenad a woman who, through contracon of musole, had been bent almost double >r well nigh two decades. He made a man ho had no use of his limbs foe 38 years 10older his mattress and walk off. Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine iott, stood powerless before a withered arm, ut this doctor of omnipotent surgery, comes i and He sees the paralytlo arm useless and feleas at the man's side, and Christ says to 1m, "Stretch forth thine hand," and he retohed it forth whole as the other. He as a God. Alimentary achievements! He found a lad ho had come out of the wilderness with five aves of bread for a speculation. Perhaps te lad had paid five pennies for the five >avee and expected to sell them for tan penlee, and so he would double his money, hrist took those loaves of bread and pertrmed a miracle by which He fed 7000 famhing people, and I warrant you the lad lost 3thing, for there were twelve baskets of agments taken up, and if the boy had five aves at the start I warrant you he had at est ten at the close. The Saviour'B mother goes into a neighjr's house to help get up a wedding party, y calculation she finds out that the amount t wine is not sufficient for the guests. She ilia m uorisi ior nmp, nnu vutibi, uut uy mo ow decay of fermentation, bat by a word, akee 130 gallons of pure wine. Marine achievements! He turns a whole ihool of fish into the net of men who were ourning over their poor lack, until the boat so full they have to halloo to other boats, id the other boats come up, and they are den to the water's edge with the game, so tat the sailors have to be cautious in going om larboard to starboard lest they upeetthe lip. Then there comes a squall down through le mountain gorge, and Gennesar^t, with ing locks of vrhlte foam, rises up to battle , and the boat crops into a trough and ships sea, and the loosened sails crack in the iroado, and Christ rises from the back part [ the boat and comes walking across the aggering ship until He comes to the prow, id there He wipes the spray from His brow VmaVina thn nt/irm nn th? Irnna nf is omnipotence. Who wrestled down that iroalydon? Whose feet trampled the rough alilee into a smooth floor? Let philosophers and anatomists go to restminster Abbey and try to wake up ueen Elizabeth or Henry VIII, No huian power ever wakened the dead. There a dead girl in Capernaum. What does hrist do? Alas that she should have died so Dung and the world so fair! Only twelve sars of age. Feel her cold brow and cold ands. Dead, dead! The house Is full of eeping. Christ comes, and He takes hold 1 the hand of the dead girl, and instantly er eyes open, her heart starts. The white ly of death blushes into the rose of life and ealth. She rushes into the arms of her jjoicing kindred. Who woke up that death? rho restored her to life? A man? Tell bat to the fanatics In Bloomingdale asylum, t was Christ the God. But there comes a test which more than nything else will show whether He was God r man. You remember that great passage rhich says, "We must all appear before the udgment seat of Christ." The earth will be tunned by a blow that will make It stagger a midheaven ; the stare will circle like dry saves in an equinox; the earth will unroll he bodies, and the sky will unroll the spirits, nd soul and fleeh will come Into in corruptive conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and arkness and triumph. On one side, piled ip in galleries of light, the one hundred and orty and four thousand?yea, the quintillons?of the saved. On the other side, piled ip in galleries of darkness, the frowning, the lacing multitude of those who rejected GotL Between these two piled up galleries a hrone, a high throne, a throne standing on wo burnished pillars?justice, mercy?a hrone so bright you had better hide your ye leet it be extinguished with excess ol isiOL. But it is an empty throne. Who will ohm up and take it? Will you? ^h,%o!" you say "I am but a child ot ust. I would not dare to climb that throne." i-'ould Gabriel climb it? He dare not Who rill ascend it? Here comes one. His back is i us. He goes up step above step, height hove height until He reaches the apex. Then [e turns around and faces all the Nations, nd we all see who it is. It Is Christ, tho rod, and all earth, and all heaven, and all ell kneel, crying: "It is a God! It is a God!" fe must all appear before the judgment seat f Christ. Oh, I am so glad that it is a Divine belna rho comes to pardon all our sins, to com)rt all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs re so great they are beyond any human jrmpathy, *nd we want Almighty sympathy, ih, ye who cried all last night because ol ereavement or loneliness, I want to tell you ; is an omnipotent Christ who is come. When the children are in the house and tie mother is dead, the father has to be mora entle in the home, and he has to take the fflce of father and mother, and it seems to le Christ looks out upon your helplessness, nd He proposes to be father and mother to our soul. He comes in the strength of one, 1 the tenderness of tho other. He says with nn KaAdik 4 A ci n rvU inik V* 4 n nKiMoan uicttm, n.3 a loiaci paictu urn ruiiuicu, 3 the Lord pltieth them that fear Him," and len with the next breath He says. '"As one hom his mother comforteth, so will I com)rt you." Do you not feel tho hush of the lvine lullaby? Oh, put your tired head down on the heavbosom of divine compassion, while He uts His arms around you and saya "O idowed soul, I will be thy God. O orhaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do not ry." Then Ho touches your eyelids with His tigers and sweeps His fingers down your leek and wipes away all the tears of lonli893 and bereavement. Oh, what a tender ad sympathetic God has come for us I I do ot ask you to lay hold of Him. Perhaps you re not strong enough for that. I do not ask du to pray. Perhaps you are too bewildred for that. I only ask you to let go and J1 back into the arms of everlasting love. Soon you and I will hear the click of the itch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong ten will take us in their arms and carry us own and lay us in the dust, and they cannot bring us back again. I should be scared with infinite fright if I thought I must stay in the grave, if even the body were to stay it the grave. But Christ will come with glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up the rocki w&d lef us all come forth. The Christ of tht manger is the Christ of the throne. RELIGIOUS READING. thoughtful prayer. Tho whole tendency of the age is to i religion of forms, and formality even in tht true modes of worship. With exception! quite too few, the prayers of the sanctuary the family, and the social circle, are cold lr tho utterance; and the tones and laborer periods show that the mind of the supplian is trying to lift itself up to the spiri'. of de votion. It is not the "unction from tb< holy One," apparent in the humble, ferveni oratory of effectual supplication. It is nol the praying in the spirit?not that abun dance of the heart out of which the mouth speaketh. And what can the .utmost eloJuence of the mouth do at the throne ol rod. if the heart be far from Him ? Forma t prayer is delusive: is offensive, unheard, un answered, cxcept in ttie increase 01 spiritual ' barrenness.?When again shall the Spirit help the iufirmities of the saints, makiug ' intercession for them with groanings thai camiot be uttered ' And when shall th< preacher wield the sword of the Spirit, the t Word of God?the Word in its essential, dia. tinctive. subduing truths brought dowr ' with direct aim and undivided energy upoc > the conscience of the hearer? Alas for thee i daughter of Zion, thy rowers have broughi i thee into great waters! But the formal prayer of the church, a! present so emerged in'the world, on wbicl > amassing word has been bestowed, is nol , that which I have denominated thoughtless Erayer, and which is so universally preva int. I mean chiefly and specially, thai kind of prayer by which, as saith the proi phet,"the land mournethjthe pleasant places i of the wilderness are dried uj>? and theii course is evil, and their force is not right." I In this form of supplication we have, as s i nation, become rapidly and extremely prominent. The fancy gentleman, and the fashionable lady arc punctual in ejaculatory petitions, which also paaa over into the i form of imprecation. How frequent the i short prayers arc heard, Good Lord, Lord > bless me, etc. But with what levity and abi sence of thought these habitual supplication: are uttered! And from the so-called polished circle down to the lowest dregs of human1 ity. the mingling voices of the crowd are heard in almost unbroken prayers through all the dav. aud far into the stillness of the night. The sacred names of the Trinity, and the most awful forms of imprecation* are used in thoughtless levity; while in every street and on every play-ground, the tattered and well dressed urchin throws ofl | these wicked prayers as fast as the intervening puffs of the cigar will allow. By swearing the land mournetb. And bow awfully prevalent lue aweairio yiajti ubj w come. Passing by the profanely praying adult classes, the obscenity and profanene<?e of the juvenile population shocks every moral sense. Into what bands are our oivi and religious institutions descending ? II the vain use of God's name is a national trait of character, what cau avert from us tational judgments ? "Shall I not visit foi these things? saith the Lord: and shall nol mrcnrt be avenged on such a nation as this?" " WHAT DOES IT MEAN? " I am a bearer of the gospel?and have been for years. Still I feel that I hnve no personal interest in the great truths that arc taught by it. 1 am now an old man?the .grave is ready tor me, and having a speculative belief in tbe scriptures, I know that il I die in my present state. I shall be lost, and lost for ever. Such being the case, I, ol course, feel anxious. lama sinner exposed to the wrath of an angry God, and I wish to know if there is any way to escape. I have listened attentively to tbe instruction of my pastor. I have endeavored to obey the command of the Saviour, "Search the scriptures"?but as yet 1 have no hope of thai "eternal life" promised by both. I go in distress to the sanctuary on the Sabbath, and with too eagerness or a drowning man, eize everything thrown out, in hopes to learn soma way in which I can escape the avenger of blood, and be found at last in the city of refuge. lam told that I can change my heart, that I cau repent, that I can exercise saving faith in the Lord Jesus Chriot, and I am exhorted with eanientnena and even with tear? to per form all these duties. I go home with a strong determination immediately to commence a re>igious life. I begin?I take down the long neglected Bible from the shelf to learn what I am to do, when the first words which meet my eye are the dedication of the Saviour. "No man can come onto roe, except the Father which bath sent me, draw bim." Again I read, "The carnal mind is enmity against God; it is not subjcct to the law of God, neither indeed can be." I see myself represented as spiritually dead, and the thought comes home with force to my heart, that unless I am made alive, I can do no good thing. I see plainly that there is a different gospel taught by my ministers from that taught by God in his word. Now I cannot consent to have my soul trifled with tiny longer. If I am able to obey God I wi.*h to begin^ for 1 have squandered * my life in the service of Satan, and wish to spend the little that remains in preparing for another world. But if I am utterly incapacitated by sin to become holy, and a new heart, repentence and taith are the gifts of God, I beg of you, for my soul's sake not to tell me what I can do, and thus prevent me mibaI# of tKrt ? r\f flla GauL 11UU1 looting tiijocu aw kuo w ui mt uair our and cryiDg for mercy.?[Christian l Watchman. ' WHO WROTE THE 1(1 ULE ? | "A. thought has o!ten come home to me. ' If Holy Scripture be not the fruit of Divine wisdom, if it be not a message to ua from above, whence comes this wonderlul Book? What account can we Rive of it ? Can it co:ne from man's great enemy, the Devil ? Is not every page of it for the overthrow of bis kingdom ? "Could it bnve been written by wicked men? Was there ever a wicked man in the world that did not hate the Bible, aud cither 1 wish that it was false, or endeavor to prove it so? 1 "Could it have been written by good men out of their hearta ? But woulcl good men ; have taken God's name in vain ? And does , not every part of it claim to be a revelation from God ? Do we not find the words, 'Thus saith the Lord,' continually occurring? And can we imagine godly men thus to have forged the name of Jehovah ? "Could it have been written by fanatics and enthusiasts? Then where would have ' been the calm, quiet and devout tone that prevades ii ? Where would have been the depth of wisdom which exercises to this day the earnest study of men of the greatest in1 tellect ? "I confess I can see no way out of this difficulty for an believer. If there be difficulties in the Bible?and no doubt many such there are?it s>eems to me a far greater difficulty to imagine any other source but a Divine one from which it could have come. It seems to me to carry a Divine stamp upon the face of it. It rebukes of falsehood and every kind of sin, its mighty encouragements to live a holy and godly life, the power that is ever going forth with it to raise the fallen and tbe 1 st?all this tells mc that'the Voice that spake it Is Divine,' in fact, I'euring out its own witness, that4 it came not by tbe will of man. but holy men of God spake as they were moved !>v the Holy Ghost.' 2 Pet. 1. 21."?[George Everard. SCIENCE AND ItELNHON. It has been said that science i.? opposed to revelation. But tbe history of the former show, that the greater its progress, the deeper its investigations, and the more ac:urate its results, the more plainly it is ever seen, not only to clash with the latter, but in all thing* to roufirm it. In every instance, the very science from which objections have been drawn against religion, have by their own progress, entirely removed these objections, and even furnished the strongest confirmation of the truth. An Eastern Journal refers to Omaha as the center of culture. Omaba may not exactly resent this, but to have been called the center of the hog-raising Industry and the home of the corn-fed steer would have illumined the city with a glow of Dride,^ I SAitBATfl SCHOOL. | INTERNATIONAL LESSON Ft , 31 AY 21. Lesson Text: "Against In1emp? auce," Prov. xiil., 29-35- Golden Tc.\t: Prov. xx., I ?Commentary. 29. "Who hath woe? Who Lath sorro Who hath contentions? Who hath bablir Who hath wounds without cause? Whc hi redness of eyes?" The Golden Text tells that "wine is a mocker, strong drink is n ing, and whosoever is deceived thereby is i wise." Yet them are Tools without numl k who seem to j\*efer the woe and sorrow a nontentlon. At least they prefer the wl j and stronu drink, even though it bring th< ^ things. To* woes of Scripture against th< t who havo to do with wine arc not few. "W . to them that rise up early in the morni t that they may follow slrong drink : that c< . tinue until night till wine inflame then j "Woo unt>> them that are mighty to dri I wine, and men of strength lo mingle stro . drink.'' "Woe unto him tfiat giveth [ neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle toh and maketh him drunken also" (Isu. v., , 22 ; Hab. ii.. 15). Then it is plainly writ) I that drunkards shall not inherit the kingdi J of God (I Cor. vi.. 10). bo for this life andt , life to como it is naught but woe for th< . who aro slaves of strong drink. But tha , God for deliverance, oven for thosy who j ! bound with such chains, for the drunkai and vile people <>' Corinth had, many of the [ experienced" the power of the Grace of 0 and become washwd. sanctified and justif t in the nam** of tho Lord Jesus and by 1 [ Spirit of our God (I Cor. vi.. 11). 30. "They that tarry long at the wine ; rii I that go to"^eek mixed wine." This is I . answer to the pn.-.ioi:? \er?f. Drunkcnn t is invariably associated with trouble. . verse 21 it is said that "til** drunkard s'o i come to poverty." The story of druni Nabal, ana of Elah, who was siain while ' was drunken, are among tho sad records t the Bible. (I Sam. x::v.. 30. 38 ; I Kinirs x8-10). But perhaps mor?i oad is the stow ! righteous Noah, who forgot himself ana high calling and becamo uruken, thus brii . ing great humiliation to himself and una > his sons and giving great occasion to 1 1.- ui?. w oo-o*-* Wn [ I'UVlliy LU UiU-rpiiviiiiv i^uvu. -w .wy. .. y . still is the story <.>f David making Ur, i drunk (II Sam. xi.. 13). Surely overy ie at his bast estate is altogether vanity, ! . what can b9 said of ? drunken man exci i that he ha* descended lower than the brut i 31. 4'Look not thou upon the wine whei I is red, when it giveth his color in th? ci when it moveth itself aright." The R. I has for the last clause, '-When it goeth do i smoothly." Wine has its attractions and i pleasures, but they are wholly on the side [ self and sensuality when carried to exce. There is no manner of use in making a jc . of Paul's advice to Timothy t? use a lil 1 wine for his stomach's sake (I Tim. v., 2 . nor in saying that the win9 of the JJgw Tes ; ment was wholly unfermented, for how coi i unfermented wine burst wineskins? But th is use in letting tho word of God stand, a I In all humility and teachableness take it ! mean what it says in its plain, literal sen I unless it is 'dearly a figure or a syml: i Happy are those whose stomachs need 1 wine; happy those who prefer to let even m : alone, if need be, rather than be a stumbli I block; happy the church that prefers to i an unfermented wine at the commun: rather than put temptation before any wt one. Happiest of all those who can tn say, "Not I, but Christ, who liveth in me.1 i 32. "At the last it biteth like a serpent a stlngeth like an adder." It is on the pr ! triple of "he that soweth to the flesh shall i the flesh reap corruption" (GoL vl.. 8). "J thft mind of the flesh is death" ("Rom. viii. 1 B. V.). The flesh will manifest itself | greater or less degree in some or all of I 1 works named in Gal. v.. 19-21, and the rect i is ''that they which do such things shall i i inherit the kingdom of God." If a man t simply a natural man. a man after the flu never born from above, he cannot see 1 kingdom of God, but must in due time i . perienee the second death, whioh is the It ; of Are (Rev. xx, 15,14.) Then shall he deed know to his eteVnal sorrow tho rerpei bito and adder's sting. Foretastes of hell; in mercy given in this life (let any drunk? testfy) if perchance men may repent and escape the lake of Are. i 33. "Thine eyes shall behold strai women, and thine heart Bhall utter perve things." Woman in Scripture is the typa i the very best and the very worst. The chui is spoken of us a chaste virgin, espoused Christ, and as a bride adorned lor her hi i band (II Cor. 2 ; Rev. xxi.. 2). whilo all t) is vile and false is described as a wool seated upon a scarlet colored beast, full names of blasphemy (Rev. xxii.. ?). 1 strange woman is described in verses 27, of this chapter, and more fully in chapter i 3-5 ;vL, 24-26. The way to be saved fri ; destruction is to give heed to verse 26. "J son, give me thine heart and let thine he observe my ways." Not only do we need v * " o.lnrt rxAMraMO f V? ! n n?o hllf LK3 IIVIU uuotiii5.|/oifciiow I""--,", need to be kept from foolish thoughts, for1 thought of foolishness is sin (chapter xxi 9). And since we are not sufficient la thi anything as of ourselves, how utterly he less in our condition, but our sufficiency is God (II Cor. iii.. 5). 34. '"Yea, thou shalt bn a? h?> that lit down in the midst of the sea or as he tl lieth upon tho top of a must." Dangerc positions surely. Such a one might say.; deed, what David thought was true of hi self, "There is but a step between me a death" (I Sam. xx.. 3). When we know tl death shall usher us into the presence of t King, that to die is gain and to depart is be with Christ, then indeed one has no cav to fear that enemy. But if one's sorrow hti already begun through wine and women, the odge of what a fearful precipice does an a one standBut the figure is that of u asleep In danger. This is more feariul at for if one is only awake there is some hope escape, but what hope can there be for Sa son asleep in the lap of Delilah. 35. ''They have striken me, shalt Thou si and I wa*?iOt sick ; they have beaten me, a I felt it not. When shall I awake? I will se it yet again. '*' Refusing to receive correctk they make their faces harder than a rock a refuse to return (Jer. v., 3). They say ooi and we will All ourselves with strong drir and to-morrow shall be as this day and mil more abundant (Isa. lvl.. 12). Of such it v, doubtless become tru^, !,He that, being oft reproved, hardeneth his neck shall suddei be destroyed, and that without remed (Prov. xxix., 1). And yet God is not willi that any should perish, but that all shot come to repentance. He has uo pleasure the death of the wicked, but cries implorii ly, Turn ye, turn ye why will ye die (II Pi ili., 9; Ezek. xxxiii., 11)V How deceitful a desperately wicked is the human heart Lesson Helper. What physicians do not knc about the bodies of those on who they practice their art is shown the death of Colonel Elliot F. She ard. Both ether and Colonel Shepa were presumably well known to tl doctors, but the effect of combinii them was a surprise Much of tl practice of medicine is a groping the dark. The processes of the bo< iu health and disease are largely hi den from observation, and the doct has to guess at what is going on i side, and to guess again in regard 1 what will *e the effect of pouring ] drugs. The science of medicine hi made many advances in tne presei century 3nd even in the past ten < twenty years. But the main a vance has been in surgery and in tl prevention of disease. It is natur to suppose that the greatest progre must be made along the latter lln The wisest may not know what disease or a drug may do to a ma when it gets inside of him, but whe It is discovered how a disease caused it does not need more tha good common sense to explain to th man that It is best for him to ke? away from It. ^ ant one can readily tell the dl ference between custom-made cloth and ready-made clothes by simp looking at the bill. . TEMPERANCE. >R WHAT IMPAIB8 CITIZENSHIP. The presence of many working people, in duf.trious, sober, honest, is a valuable help t< any business ; but by as much as any of then ?r. patronize the dram-shop, by so much thei value as citizens will be impaired, the com munities pauperized, and every interest o the people demoralized. ?Demorest's Famil; Magazine. ONE OUEA T CAUSE OF FAMINE. vr'l Count Leo Tolstoi declares that dronkenig? ness was one of the great causes of the recent it-i awful famine in llussia. We begin to wonus der if there is any really widespread disaster iK- nowadays to the human family in which the lot alcoholic fiend is not present as a contrib >er uting cause or to increase the resulting nd misery.? The Voice, ino* _______ :-so )se WHZBE "DOCTORS DISAOEEE." 00 When one tells yon to put toads, lizards, nS anakee, etc., in bottles filled with alcohol so ,n* as to preserve the flesh from dissolving and keep fresh for a term of years, another tells nk yOU to put alcohol in your stomach where a ng good meal of fresh meat has gone, for the hi* purpose of dissolving it and ''aiding digee *m tion." The man who takes alcohol to help digest his food must first throw off the alco en hoi before his stomach can commenoe the jui operation.?nanooai lemperanue auyww. ;he jao ilk jr0 DEATH IS THE COT. rcU The number of deaths from the use o m. strong drink has been variously estimated ir od the United States to be from 60,000 to 100.00( led a year. Dr. Norman Kerr, an eminent :he scientist of England, has for some fifteen years been pursuing an inquiry into the isy matter in connection with several medical the experts, and. according to their deductions, ess the latest estimate of deaths of adults annuIn ally caused by intemperance is: In Great tall Britain, 120.000 s in France. 142.000, and in :en the United States 80,000, or nearly half a he million in an aggregate of 122.000,000 ol of people. If yellow fever and cholera, which ri., carry off a few thousand each year, are so of feared and shunned, what shall be done with bis the drink which slays its hall millions? igol :hn rse MEDICAL DISUSE OF ALCOHOL. iali I have been fully engaged In the general ian practice of medicine, including much hospiiut tal and dispensary work, continuously for a ept period of tlfty-six years. During the last ss'- forty-five of those years I have prescribed for i it internal use no forms of either fermented or up, distilled liquors in the treatment of either V. acute or chronic diseases, simply because I wa had previously proved to my own satisaction its that their effects were a positive hindrance | of to the recovery of my patients. ' During all ss. those years I nave embraced every oppor)ko tunity presented by consultations with other :tle practitioners, to study the clinical results ob3), talned bytheia, and I am certain that there ta- Is no disease that cannot be treated more nld successfully without alcoholic liquors than ere m 1th.?N. 8. Davis, M. D. ind to ' 50. iOh a state's experiment. no South Carolina is to try an eiperimeat in the eat State regulation of the liquor traffic. Under ng what Is known as the Evans Dispensary Bill, nso which was passed by the Legislature at its 'on recent session, the State If to oontrol all sales >ak of liquor. It is an adaptation of the Gotfceniily burg system, which has been in use in Sweden " and Norway for some years., Under it 11nd censes are granted to companies to sell spiritin ous liquors under certain limitations. These of companies are to receive six per cent, for ?or capital Invested, and to turn all profits in ex, 0 ceee of this amount over to the State. Each in company Das a monopoly of Its business in its iho particular locality. Beer and wines are ex>rd cepted from the provisions of the system.but lot in South Carolina these are included,' and ia hereafter there can be no legal saloons in the sh. State except those controlled by the State :he authorities. The Legislature has appropria!! ted (60,000 as capital to start the business, ike and Governor Tillman proposes to buy a stock m- of liquors with this money and on the credit it's of the State. The purpose of the law is to ire Insure, we suppose, that good liquors, shall ird be sold, that they shall be sold only to S? l nereona entitled to receive them, and that all the conditions c 1 restrictions shall be ige properly observed. Whatever profit rao there may be in the sale will go of to the State and not to individuals. The rearoh son that the liquor traffic has become so great to a traffic Is because there are large profits in as- it If it should cease to be profitable, men hat now engaged in it would go into other lines an of business. They do not sell liqtier because of they want to debauch their fellow-men, but 'ho because they want to make money and as a 28, general thing they are willing to do anything v., to increase their profits. They become Dm hardened to evidences of suffering and degMy radation and ruin, regarding these aa inciart dental to the business. Their one purpose is to to make money. If the possibility of profit we were no longer before them they would cease :ho to be liquor dealers. We shall wait with inv., terest to see how the 8outh Carolina law nlc operates. There seems to be no question of lp- its constitutionality, as the lawyers who have of been consulted by the liquor dealers advise them to run no risk, but to close their places )th of business promptly on the first of July, iat when the new law takes effect--New York ,U3 Independent In mnd TEMPERANCE NEW8 AND NOTES. French brandy is the most dangerous drink Id Paris. In races, it has been found that the men who do not use stimulants do by far the best ou work* ich If drinking men could oniy see the effect mo that whisky has on the stomach, they would ill, never drink another drop. The Chief of Police of Baltimore says that ru" he never found boys in thesaloons until lager beer was introduced and games prepared to entice thorn in. In one of the great Paris hospitals, it was )n fotind that of eighty-three patients who n(j suffered irom epuepsy, aisiy wero cuuureu vi ne drunken parents. ik, Men in foundries, who used to drink a eh great deal of liquor and beer, now very gener411 ally drink oatmeal and water and ?nd that en they work much better. ? *ly General Booth, of the 8alvation Army says y' that nine-tentha of the evil that he has to Q? tight against in the social department of his 'Jd work is caused by drink. ^ People make a great mistake in using 2" liquor in case of sickness. The use of liquor : in sickness has been known to make men drunkards for the rest of their lives. Mildura, a town of New 8outh Wales, was founded by the Chaffey brothers in 1888. By means of irrigation it has been transformed from a desert to a beautiful garden. By the m terms of the "Mildura Irrigation Act" no Jq liquor is allowed to be sold in the settlement, and in consequence every one appears happy ? UUU rd If liquor could be kept from the Indians tie of the plains we should seldom hear of any bloodshed between them and the whites. ? The pity of it is thut the men who sell the tl0 liquor seldom suffer forthei? misdeeds, while jn the loss nearly always falls upon Innocent persons. A few exceptionally severe sen17 tences dealt out to men oonvicted of selling d- liquor to Indians would do great good. or Miss Frances E. Willard was given a great reception recently by the English Methodists. n" City Road Wesleyan Chapel, "the Cathedral to of British Methodism." was crowded to overi_ flowing. The gathering represented about 200 London congregations.and speeches were 19 cordial in the extreme. Miss Willard was m presented with an illustrated edition of "Wesley's Journal" and a copy of John and ar Charles Wesley's Hymns. d- The Woman's Temperanca Hospital, pro10 jected in 1883 at the Detroit National W. C. , T. U. Convention, and opened on the south al side of Chicago in 1886, was removed last 89 June to greatly improved quarters in a handsome building on the North Side, just outside Lincoln Park. The hospital has accommo8 dation for sixty patients, a score of physicians ,n representing all the organized schools, and was founded to demonstrate the use of nonalcoholics in medication. is ,n is In Missouri vagrants are put up at ;P auction. Of course there is sentimental objection to this system. The f- sentiment is so strong in fact that if es the vagrants would refrain from inly dorsing it so loudly it would pro"bably kill the imitation of slavery days. An Earthquake irroyhet. Br. Falb is a native of Styria, in Ana* tria, the eon of a German miller, and is now abont fifty years of age. He re ceived his first scientific training in a [> n i I w 'j'j / ^y, v J | D3. FAXiB. i ? a Benedictine monastery, where he was fi taught meteorology and lingnal sci- j , ences. In the latter branch of educaI tion he is master of Latin, Greek, ' French, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanscrit and Chinese. After leaving the monastic school he . entered the University of Gratz, in order to study theology and languages. But his drift was to meteorology and literature, and he began the publication in Gratz of a popular astronomical paper, called '"Sinus." In 1864 he accepted a position as professor in the Handels-Academie at Gratz. In 1860 he went to the Univerity at Prague to study astronomy, working industriously at the observatory there and still editing the Sirius. He then began his studies on the influence of the moon on the fluid mass of the earth's interior, and came gradually to the construction of his theory of "criticals day a" At first his prophecies were not altogether successful on account of the lack of statistical material on which to work. Since then, however, he has had the assistance of many hundreds of observers, who have enabled him to follow the course of every great sesmic convulsion in every part of the world. In 1877 he visited Peru and other parts of South America, crossing the Andes and studying earthquakes and meteorology. The result of his travels was a book entitled "In the Land of In- ^ cas." He returned home by way of ^ San Francisco and New York. Returning to Styria, he married. Then he went to live in Leipsic, then in Berlin, but is now in Vienna. His c ? am I repuwuuu tU) uu csrtu^uu&c piujjuuv, which began in 1870, was greatly * strengthened in 1880 in Agram. The 1 city had had a visitation of earth- c quakes, which seemed as if they would * never come to an end. In order to calm the panic among the people, the i city authorities asked Professor Falb % to come from Vienna to give a series t of lectures. a He gave the people comforting ae- ? entrances, but told them there was one t critical day yet to be passed, namely, December 16, when there would be a violent shock, though it would not be as bad as some that had preceded it. ? December 16 passed, and no shock, but T exactly at midnight his prophecy was p fulfilled, and he himself was almost r thrown out of bed. His fame then p spread all over Austria, Germany and ^ the world. He is a scientist whose ^ prophecies command serious scientific . attention.?New York Recorder. n * a Grace Darling's Boat v The story of Grace Darling is fami- c liar all around the world. It has been e told in verse and heroic prose and put on canvas. The little craft in which li the heroine went to the rescue of the & passenger steamer Forfarshire on the 1 r THE GRACE DABLTNQ. r T t rocks of Fame Island, September 6 n and 7, 1838, was bought in 1873 by Colonel John Joicey, M. P., for South t. Durham, of Newton Hall, Stocksfield- e on-Tyne,from Grace Darling's brother, m George Darling (who is still living in 8] Northumberland), and was with the I utmost kindness placed at the society's ? o disposal by Mrs. Joicey for the Tyne- b mouth Maritime Exhibition (Septew-* u ber and October, 1882) where it was k eagerly visited by about 23,700 per- h sons. The little boat has reached tl Chicago and is one of the many inter- f< esting exhibits in the Transportation w ?Chicago Tribune. w Vf Dangerous Bottle Cleaning. e It is surprising, says Doctor F. Sow- p* yer, how many people persist in clean- 11 ing bottles with shot after the frequent cautious that have been given. Nothing cleans bottles so easily as a haridfuk 111 of shot, which can be shaken into evtry* tc corner until the glass fairly shinA with w cleanliness; but the clanger of lead poi- ta soning is great, even when the bottle ?? 1 x? ?.i *4. 18 rinsed out wnn ciean water, mi jbi.i doubly dangerous when there is no rinsing out at all, as is usually tho case. Si Clean sand is a convenient and thorough J( bottle cleanser, especially as the parti- fu cles of sand which adhere must be af- ai terward washed out to complete the us process. When time is not an object, T1 a bottle can be well cleansed by the aid ne of potato parings, but as they must be ar | corked in and left to ferment, the plan ce is not expeditious enough for gen-.ral in use.?New York Dispatch. te: -i cl< Threading a Ilair Through a TValnnt. ?a To pass a hair through a walnut without boring a hole seems an imposaibilitv, but the ??at has often been done. The hull of the walnut, when examined . ' with a strong glass, is seen to have in- . numerable small openings, some of q1 which lead entirely through the nnt. The trick consists in using a very fin a . hair and an infinite amount of patience. , Pass the hair into one of these minute . crevices and urge it gently along. Some- . . times it will appear on tho other side , at the first trial, but if it comes out at f1 the hundred and first you will be very . 1 | Ucky.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. rcrULAS SCIKtCti. d ??ag Obsidian is a lava glass. Two per cent, of sea water Is comion salt. At the equator the average annual. > ainfall is 100 inches. ;JThe cost of a one-man sea diving aparatus for a depth of 200 feet is $575. The coldest place in the United imitates is the interior of Alaska, eighty legrees below zero. At a depth of more than four miles he ocean is without life, without vegtation and without light \ To escape from <ho%?rs wfcfeh men*' * ce them,, star fishes commit suicide. !his instinct of self destruction is ound only in the highest and lowest cales of animal life. Carnegie Music Hall, New Tork City, 3 probably the only building of the 'J ort which is ventilated by introducing resh air at the roof and removing foul ir through the floor. Comfort for the fat and lean can be lerived from some recent medical staistics, which show that at the age of hirty-six lean men generally become atter and fat men leaner. A prominent physician says that the average cook is absolutely ignorant of anitary cause and effect, and that the ?* dtchen processes are sources of illness Qore often than is imagined. Fishes are without eyelids, properly o-called, and as the eye is at all time* rashed by the surrounding water that [land which supplies moisture to the >ye is not required, and therefore does lot exist. The nr\w waterworks in Havana* 3uba, which have been building these lfty-eight years, and which were,finally >pened on January 23 of this year, lave proved immensely successful is educing the high mortality of the uty. An iron meteorite, weighing nearly ' i ton, and measuring four feet two nches in length, two feet three inohee n width, twenty inches thiok, was resently found at Youndegin, Western Australia, and nas oeen xorwaraea \o London. All the speoies of shellfish draw thesarbonate of lime of vhioh their shells ae formed from the sea. After the leath of the animals the shells aoeu* nulate at the bottom of the ooean, y-m orming lofty mountains and vast bed* >f chalk. "V The position of the lamprey eels has >een reviewed by Professor Howes, rho thinks that instead of being prim* tive forms they are aberrant flsh-like orms which haye lost their lower jaw, % heir sacking month having been seo> ?ndarily acquired. By a simple rule the length of the ' lay and night, any time of the year, oay be ascertained by simply doubling he time of the iron's rising, which rill give the length of the night, and InnWo fltA Wnvfl nt uffina will crtVA lie length of the day. ? Doctor Haffkine, the bacteriologist, rho has been investigating cholera, rntes from India to the Buaaian papers hat he has conquered the disease by n inoculative method which he will five to the world. He regards his ests in India as conclusive. ) Have Snakes the Power of Soent! In a sensational story in areceni aeue of "The Idler" a man, to cure hi* rife of her fear of snakes, plaoesa dead ijthon in his study. On entering the oom the wife is attacked by a living >ython, which unobserved, had enered therein. In view of a discussion hat has arisen as to whether the ap> iearance of the seoond snake was s a ere coincidence invented by the ":i uthor, or whether it was in keeping rith reptilian habits, the following in ident may be of interest to yOur read- . rs: I had brought home one evening s irgo but harmless snake whioh I had illed while crossing the road aboul talf a mile from my huts. On my arival the coolie cook at onoe said, 'Him she-snake, ear! No good yoo ?kw a?i?) Kff M*. Tlllg 11H1L UC1C UJ auu WJ, w off, next day, father snake; he com* leie and stay. On the following after:oon a monkey, chained up outride the ,ut into which I had taken the dead eptile, appeared very exoited.. I enered and found a somewhat similarly larked snake lying almost on the very pot whereon J had placed the slain one he evening before. After a fight and truggle I killed the second reptile, 'hjch proved to bo a male of the same pecies. Under ordinary circumstance? < should have regarded the appearance f the male as a curious coincidence; ut the prophecy of the cook, based pon his traditional and practical nowledge, testified to tho recognized abit of snakes in thus following up leir mates. As I carried the slain imale on a stick the whole way from here I had killed hex to my home, I as anxious to find out by what faoulty, hether by scent or otherwise, the lale had tracked her to my hut. The iolie, however, was unable to give any lformation on this point, nor could s explain why the male hod comc to le hut where the female had only been .omentarily placed, instead ol going ? the rubbish-heap a few yards off here she was buried.?London Speoitor. Dairy of the Prince of Wales. The dairy of the Prince of Wales at indringham, England, is stocked with ;rsey cows, and is very handsomely xnished with marble tables and china id glass milk pans. The buttor ia ted by the household and is not sold, tie amount made so far as known haa ;ver been made public. The public id private social duties of the Prinsh probably prevent her from milkg her cows and making her own butr. But it is said that the iady keeps jse supervision over this as all other rts of her domestic arrangements.? ;w York Times. ckjaw in Horses Caused by Docking. It is stated upon good authority that it year 102 well-defined coses of lockv Tffiro rprmrfcpd to the Roval S. P. Animals, Englnnd, with a certificate each case from the attending veteriry that the malady resulted from eking, and one single veterinary ited tliat out of thirty-one cases of :anus which he has been called to ntid within a year, twenty-seven of esc cases resulted from this same utal custom. ? American Hoiud coder. I