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Ieev. dk. talmage. / ,THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Maytime Thoughts." Text "A fountain of garden#, a tcell of 'Jiving xralers and streams from Lebanon? Solomon's Song iv., 15. I Some of the finest wardens of olden times were to be found at the foot of Mount Leifcanon. Snow descended,and winter whitened "the top of the mountain. Then when the warm spring weather came the snows melted and poured down the side of the mountain and cave great luxuriance to the gardens at the foot, and you see now the allusion of my text when it speaks of the fountain of gar dens and streams from Lebanon. I Again and again the church is represented as a garden all up and down the word of God, and it is a figure specially suggestive at this season of the year, when the parks and the , orchards are about to put forth their blossom and the air is filled with bird voices. A mother wished to impress her child with the love of God. and so in the Bpring-time, after the ground had been prepared in the garden, she took a handful of flower 6eeds and scattered these seeds in shape of letters all across the bed of the garden. Weeks passed . by, and the rains and the sunshine had done their work, and one day the child came in and said, '-Mother, come quickly to the garden?come now." The mother followed the ' child to the garden, and the little child said . "Look here, mother. See! It is 3peiled all over the irroiinii In flnwprq 'Crcui is T,nv? ' " i Oh, my friends, if we only had faith enough we could see Gospel lessons all around and about us?lessons in shells on the beach, lessons in sparkles on the wave, 'lessons in stars on the sky, lessons in flowers all over the earth. > Well, my friends, you know very well that there have been some beautiful gardens created. There was the garden of Charlemagne, and you remember that this king ordered gardens laid out all through the realm and decided by decree of government what kind of flowers should be planted in those gardens. Kenry IV. at Montpellier decreed that there should be flowers planted throughout his realm and gardens laid out, and he specially decreed that there should be Alpino pyrana and French plants. Shenstone. the poet, was more celebrated for his gardens than for his poetry. His poetry has faded from the ages for the most part, but his gardens are immortal. To all the 'beauty of his place he added perfection of art. Palisade and arch and arbor and fountain and rustic temple had their most wonderful specimens, and the oak, and the hazel, and the richest woods of the forest were planted in that garden. He had genius, and he had. industry, and all his genius and all his industry he applied to the .beautiflcation of that garden. He gave for it $1500. and he sold it at last for $85,000, or what was equal to that number of dollars. It was an expensive garden, laid out with great elaboration. And yet I have to tell you now of a garden of vaster expanse?the garden spoken of in my text?a fountain of gardens with the streams from Lebanon. Walter Scott had the great ambition of his life to build Abbotsford and lay out extensive gardens round about it. It broke his heart that he could not complete the work as he desirad it. At his last payment of ?100,000, after laying out these gardens and building ,that palace of Abbotsford, at that time his heart broke, his health failed, and he died almost an imbecile. A few years ago, when I walked througn those gardens and I thought at what yast expense they had been laid out?at the expense rtf that man's lifo if aaomoH T /tmilrl aoa the crimson flowers the clood of the old man's broken heart. But I have to tell you now of a garden laid out at vaster expense. Who can calculate that vast expense? Tell me. ye women who watched Him hang; tell me. ye executioners who lifted and let Him down ; tell me. thou sun that didst hide and ye rocks that did fall, what the laying out of this garden cost. This morning, amid the aroma and brightness of the springtime, it is appropriate that I show you now the chu*ch of Christ is a garden. I remark llrst it is a garden because of the rare plants in it. That would be a strange garden in which there were no flowers. II you cannot find them anywhere els&, you will And them along the paths, and you will flnd them at the gateway. II there be no especial taste and no especial means, yo-\ will find there the hollyhock, and the daffodil, and the dahlia. If there be no especial taste and no especial moans, you will find the Mexican cactus, and the bluebell, and the arbutus, and the clusters of oleanders. Flowers there must be in every garden, and I have to tell you that in rhe garden of the church are the rarest plants. Sometimes you will And the violet, inconspicuous, but awe.?t as heaven?Christian souls with no pretense. but of vast usefulness, comparatively unknown on earth, buc to be glorious in celestial spheres. Violets and violets all the time. You cannot tell where these Christians have been save by the brightening face of the invalid, or the steaming tureen of the stand near the sick pillow, or the new curtain that keeps out the glare of the 3un trom the poor man s cot. Such characters are perhaps better typilled by the ranunculus which goes creeping between the thorns and the briers of this life, giving a kiss for a sting, and many a man has thought that life before him was a blacic rock of trouble and found it covered all over with delightsome jasmine of Christiau sympathy. In tnis garden of the Lord I find the Mexican cactus, loveliness within, thorns without, meu with great sharpness of behavloi and manner, but within them the peace ol God, the love of God, the grace of God, rhey are hard men to handle, ugly men tc touch, very apt to strike back when you ?irtK<9 mem, yei wiioui mem au loveiinesf md attraction, while outside so completely anfortunate. Mexican cactus all the time. Said a placid elder to a Christian minister, "Doctor, you would do better to control youi ( temper." "Ah," said the minister to the placid elder, "I control more temper in five ininutes than you do in five years." These jeople, gifted men, who have great exasperation of manner and seem to be very different trom what they should be, really have in their souls that which commends them to the Lord. Mexican cactus all the time. So a nan said to me years ago : "Do you think t ought to become a member of the church? i have such a violent temper. "Yesterday I was crossing Jersey City ferry. It was very early in the morning, and [ saw a milkman putting a large quantity of watr" into his can, and I said: 'That is snoTfgh, sir,' and he got off the cart and intuited me, and I knocked him down. Well," ' laid he, "do you think I could ever become ? Christian?" That man had in his soul the grace of the Lord Jesus, but outside he was Full of thorns, and full of brambles, and full of exasperations, but he could not hear the itory of a Saviour s mercy told without having the tears roll down his cheek. There was loveliness within, but roughness outside. Mexican cactus all the time. But I remember in boyhood that we had in >ur father's garden what we called the Giant >f Battle, a peculiar rose, very red and very lory. Suggestive flower, it was (jailed the Slant of Battle. And so in the garden of the U>rd we find that kind of flower?the Pauls ind Martin Luthere, the Wyclifs, the John Snoxes?giants of battle. What in other men s a spark, in them is a conflagration. Whon ihey pray, their prayers take fire; when they rafTer, they sweat great drops of blood ; when ihey preach, it is a pentecost; when they Ight, it is Thermopylffi; when they die, t is martyrdom?giants of battle. You say. 'Why have we not more of them in the church ?f Christ at this time?" I answer your question by asking another, "Why have we not no re Crom wells and Humboldt's in the world?" 3k>d wants only a few giants of battle. They lo their work, and they do it well. jlant that I shall call tho snowdrop, very >eautiful, but colcL It is very pure?pure as 3ie snowdrop, beautiful as the snowdrop tnd as cold as tho snowdrop. No special ympathy. That kind of man cover loses lis patience; he never weeps, he never iashes with anger; he never utters a rash .*ord. Always cold, always precise, always sassive?beautiful snowdrop, out I don't like iiim. I would rather have one Giant of Battle than 5000 snowdrops. Give mo a man who may make some mis;akes in his ardor for the Lord's service rather than that kind of nature which spends its whole life in doing but one thing, and that is keeping equilibrium. There are snowdrops in all the churches?men without any jympathy. Very good; they are in the garden of the Lord; therefore I know they i>ujjht to be there, but always snowdrops. You have seen in some places perhaps a sentury plant I do not suppose there is a person in this house who has ever seen more I than one century plant in full bloom, and I when you see the century plant your emo- ! rions are stirred. You look at it and say, "This flower has been gathering up its beauty for a whole century, and it will not bloom again for another hundred years." Well, 1 have to tell you that in this garden of the ihurch. spoken of in my text, there is a century plant. In has gathered up its bloom from all the ages of eternity, and 19 centuries ago it pul forth its glory. It is notonly a centuryplant, but a passion flower?the passion flower ol Christ, a crimson flower, blood at the root and blood on the loaves, the passion flower ol Jesus, the century plant of eternity. Come, 0 winds from the north, and winds from th< south, and winds from the east, and winds from the west, and scatter the perfume oi this flower through all Nations. His worth, if all the Nations knew, Sure the whole earth would love Bim too. Thou, the" Christ of all the ages, hast garments smelling of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces. I go further and say the church of Christ is appropriately compared to a garden because of its thorough irrigation. There can be no luxuriant garden without plenty of water. I saw a garden in the midst of the desert amid the Bocky mountains. I said, "How is it possible you have so many flowers, so much rich fruit, in a desert for miles around?" I suppose some of you have seen those gardens. Well, they told me they ; on/1 ninao ,-oa r?h incr nn tf\ fhrt I UttU ftljUOUUUW -1' *v ?? ' hills, and the snows melted on the Sierra i Nevada and the Bocky mountains and then poured down in water to those aqueducts, and it kept the fields in great luxuriance. And I thought to myself?how like the garden of Christ! All around it the barrenness of sin and the barrenness of the world, but our eyes are unto the hills, from whence oometh our help. There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of our God, the fountain of gardens and streams from Lebanon. Water to slake the thirst, water to refresh the fainting, water to wash the unclean, water to toss up in fountains under the sun of righteousness until you can see the rainbow around the throne. I wandered in a garden of Brazilian cashow nut. and I saw the luxuriance of those gardens was helped by the abundant supply of water. I came to it on a day when strangers were not admitted, but by a strange coincidence. at the moment I got in, the king's chariot passed, and the gardener went up on the hill and turned on the water, and it came flashing down the broad stairs of stone until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet. And so it is with this garden of Christ. Everything comes from above? \ pardon from above, peace from above, comfort from above, sanctiflcation from above. Streams from Lebanon. Oh, the consolation in this thought! Would God that the gardeners turned on the fountain of salvation until the place where we sit and stand might become Elim with twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees. But I hear His sound at the garden gate. I hear the lifting of the latch of the gate, Who comes there? It is the Gardener, who passes in through the garden gate. He comes through this path of the garden, and He comes to the aged man, and He says: "Old man, I come to holp thee; I come to strengthen theo. Down to hoary hairs I will shelter theo ; I will give thee strength at the time of old age. I will not leave; I will never forsake theo. Peace, broken hearted old man ; I will bo thy consolation forever." And then Christ, the Gardener, comes up another path of the garden, and He sees a soul in great trouble, and He says, "Hush, troubled spirit; the sun shall not smito thee L'JT Urtjr, UUC IUO JLUUUU UJ IXl^uif 7 hUO JJViu shall preserve theo from all evil; the Lord shall preserve thy soul." And then the Gardener comes up another path of the garden, and He cornea where there are some beautiful buds, and I say, "Stop, O Gardener; do not break tfcem off. But He breaks them off, the beautiful buds, and I see a groat flutter among tho leaves, and I wonder what He is doing, and He says: "I do not come to destroy these flowers. I am only going ts. plant them in a higher terrace and in the garden around My palace. I have come into My garden to gather lilies. I must take back a whole cluster of rosebuds. Peace, troubled soul: all shall be well. Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Oh, glorious Gardener of the church I Christ coines to it now, and He has a right, to come. We look into the face of the Gardener as He breaks off th i bud, and we say: "Thou art worthy to have them. Thy will be done." The hardest prayer a bereaved father or mother ever uttered? "Thy will be done." But you have noticed that around every king's garden there is a high wall. You may have stood at the wall of a king's court and thmicht: ''How T would like to aea that par den!" and while you were watching the gardener opened the gate, and the royal equipage swept through it, and you caught s glimpse of tae garden, but only a glimpse, for then the gates closed. I bless God that this garden of Christ haa gates on all sides; that they are opened b.7 day, opened by night, and whosoever v?Jl may come in. Oh, how many there are who die in the desert when thoy might revel Hi the garden! How many there are who are seeking in the garden of" this world that satisfaction which they can never And ! It was so with Theodore Hook, who made all nations laugh while he way living. And yet Theodore on a certain day. when in the , midst of his revelry he caught a glimpse of his own face and his own apparel in the mirror said: ''That is true. I look just as I am?lost, body, mind, soul and estate, lost!" And so it was with ShenstoDe about his garden, of which I spoke in the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid all its beauty and wrung his hands and said, "I have lost my way to happiness; I am frantic; I hate everything; I hate myself as a mad man ought to. Alan, so many in the gardens of this world are looking for that flower they never can find except in the garden of Christ! Substantial comfort will not grow In nature'* barren ?ou. All we can boaac till Christ we know T? - ..A ml I jo tauti/ auu vuu> How many have tried all the fountains of this world's pleasure, but never tasted of the stream from Lebanon ! How many have reveled in other gardens to their soul's ruin, but never plucked one flower from the garden of our God! I swing open all the gates of the garden and invite you in. whatever your history. whatever your sins, whatever yourtemptations, whatever your trouble. The invitation comes no more to one than to all," "Whosoever will, let him come." The flowers of earthly gardens soon fade, but. blessed be God. there ar? garlands that never wither, and through the grace of Christ Jesus we may enter into the joys which are provided for us at God's rig"ht hand. Oh, come into the garden. And remember, as the closing thought, that God not only brings us into a garden here, but it is a garden all the way wit& those who trust and love and serve Him, a garden all through the struggles of this life, a garden all up the slope of heaven. There everlasting sprint; ablrtei Ana never withering flower*. Death, liUe a narrow stream, divides That heavenly land from ours. systematic escalation. Tho monks of the middle ages divided the kiss into fifteen distinct and separate orders?fli-st, the decor ous, or modest Kiss; second, toe diplomatic, or kiss of policy; third, the spying kiss, to ascertain if a woman has drunk wine; fourth, the slave kiss; tifth, the kiss infamous, a church penance; sixth, the slipper kiss, practiced toward tyrants; seventh, the judicial kiss; eighth, the feudal kiss: ninth, the religious kiss, kissing the cross; tenth, the academical kiss, ou joining a solemn brotherhood; eleventh, the hand kiss; twelfth, the Judas ki6s; thirteenth, the medical kiss, for the purpose of healing some sickness; fourteenth, the kiss of etiquette; flfteeuth, the kis? of love, the only real kiss. .Pittsburgh undertakers at a recent convention took a new cadaver and transformed It Into a mummy. The mummy is to be shipped abroad, but if it does not soon return swathed in antique rags and claiming to ante-date the pyramids, the undet. takers must have endowed it with a character far above that possessed bj Dummies in gener&L RELIGIOUS READING. BLOSSOMS IN AOE. You Is an appie-tree. Joints all shrunk like an old man's knee, Gaping trunk half eaten away, Crumbling visibly day by day; Branches dead, or dying fast, Topmost limb like a'splintered mast. Yet behold, in the prime of May, How it .blooms in the sweet old way ! Heart of it brave and warm, Spite of many a wintry storm ; Throbbing still with the deep desire, Burning still with the'eager fire, Striving still with the zeal and truth Of the gladsome niorning-days of youth. Still to do and to be, forsooth, Something worthy of him whose care, Summer or Winter, failed it ne'er? Tnis is motive for you and me, When we grow old like the apple-tree. ?By James Buckham, in Christian Union. A CHIEF CAUSE OF CHIME. t*?Kor? T Kfttfo hoan oclroH whflf nVP the causes, or what is the particular cause, that sends roost men to prison, I have of late years invariably answered: "The want of family discipline." The indulgence of the father and mother, who allow the child to grow up without any discipline to form character, leads almost inevitably to evil ways and consequently to prison. The child, even of tender years, who ia indulged in its natural waywardness, and who is allowed to say to its father or its mother, "I will" or "I won't." is in a fair way to be- , come an inmate of our penal institutions. Parents are also responsible for the waywardness of their children which leads them , into crimefrom a practice of deceiving them, j The intelligent child, when deceived by Us parent in small things, is likely to form evil ! habits, which in its future life will not be easily eradicated. This cannot be better illustrated than by ! the growth of fruit and other trees. If they are allowed in the first year of their growth ! to become crooked, distorted and out of shape, it is found nearly or quite impossible, ! in later years, to bring them into symmetry and to make perfect trees of tuem. So with the child. Its early training lasts 1 for a lifetime, and unless there are elements j in its character and will power, to correct its 1 evil bringing up, it naturally grows worse j and worse as it grows older.?[Ex-Wardeu 1 A. A. Brush of Sing Sing. I PERSONAL EFFORT. A Christian who is keen for work will soon find his right place. If he is "apt to i tearh." if he has the knack of breaking Bible j truth into nice morsels for children's mouths, ( then he will soon scent his way into the , Sabbath school. I have often watcbed, with : admiration, the superintendent of the '*in- | fant department" in the Sabbath school of , my late charge as she held hundreds of little eyes and ears in a way that any pul- ( Eit orator might envy. That skilful teacher , ad evidently found her place. Another , person had some leisure and a sincere love | of souls; to such an one personal visitation | among the poor and among the unevangel- | ized is a welcome work. It only requires | health enough to walk, and loving courtesy t enough to talk to those who are visited. If a j Bible and a tract go with the visit as well , as a loaf for the hungry or a toy , for the children, then all the better. The system of dividing New York into di-tricts, with a visitor for every district, which was carried out so efficiently by the City Tract Society forty years, was an admirable one; ana it OUgm never 10 nave ueen aouuuoueu. It wns one of the best methods for bridging tbe chasm between the Gospel-fed and the Gospel-starved. Tbe outlying masses never will be evangelized until tbere is more personal contact and personal effort.?[Rev. T. L. Cuyler, in The Evangelist. THE INEFFICIENCY OF WORDS. The wife who would depend upon her words alone to express her love and her allegiance to her husband, hns a very poor medium of expression. It is tbe little act, the constant thoughtfulness, the unselfish caretaking that shows her real affection. And so with us. We ought, many of us, to speak more earnestly in the prayer-meeting, to take a more active part in the public services. But tbere is a life tbatspeaks more distinctly than wordB in a prayir-meeting. It is tbe DafiKet leic at loe aoor 01 ine poor. It is tbe kneeling form at the bedside of the dying. It is the extended hand held out to tbe stranger. It i9 the beaming face reflecting the love of Christ. And the cburchmember who depends entirely upon bis words for the expression of his Jove for God or man, or bis allegiance to his church, is a very shallow church-member, however finely be may speak, and however beautifully combined his words and sentences may be. He is loving God most who acta mos't like him, does most for him. MV LAMP. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet," said the Psalmist of old. You want your lamp to burn as brightly as possiblt. You trim ,the wick; you wash, dry and polish the glass chimney; you keep tbe shade clean. Let tbe dust gather and the smoke make its sooty deposit, and ttie wick become crisp and hard and black, and tbe light upon tbe open page is flickering ?nd weak. Tbe lamp is your menu, oui you must ia*e goou care of it. It will treat you as you treat it. The figure may be homely. but it is true: What the Bible brings to you will depend in large measure upon what you bring to it. You may have a crumb, or a loaf, or a granary full to bursting, just as you choose. There is gold on its surface, there are jewels in its mines, there are royal pearls in its depths. All are not equally equipped for its study; but every one of us can do his utmost in its patient, loving study, and jo labors will bring a surer or richer reward.? [Dr. A. J. F. Behrends. ANANIAS. Lying to G&d is dangerous business. The first mau who'died in the primitive i hurch was struck dead for lying to the Holy Ghost, and lying about money! What would be tbe resuit if the same results followed lying to-day? Says Bishop Wilson iu the Arkansas Methodist: "The man of fifty thousand dollars who brings five dollars, twenty dollars, or one hundred dollars to the altar of God and says "that i.4 all 1 have to spare,'' if he does not lie to God. Ananias never did. Tens of thousands are living in luxury, spending millions for pride, vanity, gluttony and sensuality. submitting a mere bagatelle to the uses of the Holy Spirit, and yet flatter Miomonlfoa that thoir nro nn tha Wflv trv heaven and sure of glory. Beware, lest a worse fate than Ananias overtake you." IF AVE 0X1.Y KNEW. If only we knew bow much we are surrounded with the tokens of mercy! The earth is full of them; grains of wheat, leaves, flowers, the commonest thing?, have ill their tales to tell. Our ignorance hinders our thanksgiving?not that we are as thankful as we might be tor the mercies that we io know of; perhaps if we were more would be revealed to us. Say to yourself: 411 am surrounded with mercies which I know not af. Lord, that I may praise Thee, let all things have their voice for me."?[Quiver. Christianity is not the religion of any riven time or p ace. It appeals to the human soui. not 10 me lar.cie# 01 any scuooi or period. It doe9 not week its support iu the prevailing1 ideas of the day, but seeks and tinds it in the sufferings anil the abiding aspirations of humanity. Death will ever be a reality; tbe questions it arouses may be set aside today, tbey will recur tomorrow.?[Bersier. Mother?My daughter, I'm astonished at your conduct with that gentleman. I distinctly heard you kiss him twice. Daughter?Nonsense, ma. You know very well the conservatory has an echo.?Life. Cloth that a rifle bullet cannot penetrate has been invented by a tailor. The tests have been severe. It oniy remains to subject the material to the trial of facing an unloaded pistoL SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MAY 28. Wesson Text: "The Excellent Woman," Prov. xxxi., 10-31? Golden Text: Prov. xxxi., 30?Commentary. The chapter opens with wise and loving oounsel from a mother to her royal son. She would have him to be a true Nazarite and a real friend to the desolate and oppressed, the poor and the needy. Compare Num. vi., 1-8; Ps. Ixxii., 1-4. And who can help thinking of Him who is the true brightness of God, for such, according to Young, is the meaning of Lemuel? Then follow these twenty-two verses of our lesson concerning the model woman, each verse in the Hebrew commencing'with a letter of the alphabet in regular order, thus forming an acrostic. In the study of this lesson many will confine themselves to the admirable portrait of (he perfect wife and mother, and thus find a most profitable study. I will take this woman as at least suggestive of thetrue church, the bride of Christ, as to her Dersonal stand ing and character, her relatione to her husband, to her household and to the poor and needy. She is a virtuous woman (verses 10, 29). Young defines virtue as strength of mind or body. Peter says that if we desire in adundant entrance into the kingdom we must add to our faith virtue. Then 9he walks in the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom and a fountain of life (II Pet. I.. 5 ; Prov. J., 7; 14-27). Her clothing is said to be silk and purple, strength and honor (verses 22, 25), reminding lis of Ezek. xvt, 13, 14, and the clothing of fine linen, silk and broidered work, and the beauty because of the Lord's comeliness. 3ee also Isa. Ixi.. 10. Her loins are also girt frith strength (verse 17). and what strength Is there that can'compare with that of truth, righteousness and faithfulness (Eph. vi., 14; [sa..xL.5)? Her words are wisdom and idndness Averse 26), making us think of Him Who was rail of grace and truth (John i., 14). There is no slothful*ess nor love of ease in tier, for she works early and late, before the iawn and on into the night (verses 15, 18). Her works are manifoid, she is always abounding, and it is all willing work (verses 18-19). Compare I Cor. xv.. 58; II Cor. riii., 12. 8he bringeth her food from afar [verse 14), suggesting to us the manna from ieaven in contrast to the leeks and onions of Egypt. Man's words cannot satisfy; we nust have the word of God. The Held which ihe takes in order to work it and the vineyard which she plants turn our thoughts to ;he field in which Buth gleaned and to the vineyard yet to prove fruithful (Isa. v.), while the joy and reward in the time to com? ;verses 16.,25. 81) cannot but point us to the lime when Ho shall say to the faithful, "Well ione; enter thou into the joy of the Lord.", Let the record stand as a description of the model woman, and may the Lord greatly multiply such among our daughters! But let is also consider the true church and the individual believer, and may these things be true of us < .*. our daily life! Let us only beleve, and thus realize what our perfect standing is in Christ through His finished work, ind so shall our lives be increasingly conformed to His image, more perfect reflections [>f His life which He desires in some measure to repeat in all His redeemed, even in these mortal bodies (II Bom. viii., 29; II Cor. iii., L8; iv., 10, 11). Her husband is mentioned In verses 11, 23, 18. It is written of Israel, ''Thy Maker is thy husband ; the Lord of Hosts is His name" [Isa. liv., 5). The Lord Jesus is frequently jpoken of as the Bridegroom (Luke v., 34, 36; John ill., 29; Bev. xxi., 9), and we know that A.dam and Eve were a type of Christ and the shurch (Eph. v., 31, 32). Her husband doth jafely trust in her, and she is all His desire (verse 11). Hear Him say of her, "Thou art all fair, my love; there is nd spot in thee." "A ear den inclosed Is my sister, my spouse; % spring shut up, a fountain sealed" (Song lvM 7.12). She will do him good and not evil (verse 11). Her husband Is known In the gates (verse 23). When we have the spirit of Paul, who determined to know nothing but OhrlBt and Him crucified; who said, "Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by deathwho was ready not to be bound only but to die for Jesus's sake (I Cor. 1L, 2; Phil. L, 20; ActsxxL, 13), then will we ever do Him good and give Him pleasure, and He shall be known and honored through us. Her husband praiseth her (verse 28). .Herchildren and her household claim a share of our attention. In verses 21, 15, 27. wo learn of their clothing, their food and their ways, all abundantly provided and well seen to. Our clothing as children of God is Christ Himself, for we are commanded to "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. xiii., 14). He became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of Ood In Him (II Cor. v., 21), and in Rev. xix., 8, the fine linen garments of the bride represents the righteousness of the saints which must be His righteousness Imparted to us and then wrought out through us. The church may aaiH fn baa thw matter of clothing by pointing others to Him who provides it by His great work. As to food, the church has an abundant supply provided for her to dispense in the wonderful word which contains milk fo? babes and bread and strong meat for older children (I Pet. it, 2; I Cor. iii., 2 ; Hpb. v., 13, 14; John vi., 51, 57). Then, as to her ways, we have already learned from this book that Wisdom's ways are ways of plea?antnoas, and all her paths are paths of peao* (iii., 17 j. If wo are only willing to be guided, we will not fail to see the way wherein we should walk and the thing that we should do (Jer. tIH., 8). See also Ps. ixrit, 8. Not only are her own household, the household of faith (Gal. vi., 10), well seen to, but "she stretcheth out her hand to the poor?yea. she reacheth both her hands to the needy" (verse 20). If the ohurch has the spirit of her Lord, it will be one of herprominent characteristics that the poor and needy are well seen to. When Jesus would prove to John the Baptist that He was indeed the Messiah, He told the messengers to say, among other things, that the poor have the gospel preached to them (Math, xi., 5). It will be one of the features of the kingdom when the church has become the bride ol Christ that the poor and needy shall have special care (Ps. lxxii., 2, 4, 12. 18). In verse 80 we leafn that all else but the fear of the Lord is only vanity, or, as it is said in I Cor. xiil, there is a love without which all else, even the giving of one's bod; to be burned, is as nothing. Without Me, says Christ, ye can do nothing (Jolmxv., 6). Paul said concerning His lifeand His works, "Not I, but Christ," "Not I, but the grace ol God" (Gal. li., 20; I Cor. xv., 10). When It It Is so with every believer and the church as a whole, then will this excellent woman be folly manifested.? Lesson Helper. Edison's Latest Invention. Thomas Edison's exhibit at Chicago is the kinetograpn, the last of his wonderful inventions displayed in connection with the most versatile group of phonographs ever brought together. It is to the eye what the phonograph is to the ear, a mechanical retina, which stores away a living picture, to be reproduced in all its actions, every movement faithfully shown at any time and in any placc. With the kinetograph it is possible to show in Chicago Chauncey Depew delivering a speech aboard the flagship Chicago in New York Harbor. Not a photograph - C nlirincf mHD UI uxicaicu nuuuu, isuu buw ^ his every gesture, the play of expression ou his face anil the movements of his lips. It will transmit and reproduce motion of any kind for any distance. ?Atlanta Constitution. Bosom Friends.?"What do you say to the young barrister making ine an offer of marriage?" ".Just as I expected! When I jilted him he swore ne would do himself an injury!"? Plauderecke. Siie?You are always sneering at women who talk too much. Are you hitting at me? He?Not at all. There are lots of women besides you who talk too much.?Texas Siftlcgs. TEMPERANCE. WHAT DO TOU CABE ? Strong men are falling on every hand, Havoc appalling is wrought in the land; Pestilence, famine and war are outdone? Never more damning ill under the sun? Highest and lowest aro caught in the snar Statesmen and patriots, what do you care'i Women are weeping worn hearts away, Fasting and watch keeping day after day; Tremblingly waiting steps that were dear, Love soured to hating, hope chilled to fea Weak beneath more than the strongest ci bear? Chivalrous husbands, what do you care? Children are crying for love and for bread, Needlessly dying, happy when dead; Carrying friendless hearts made for fun Through shadows endless, life just begun. Aimlessly wandering, hungry and bare; Fathers and mothers, what do you care ? Babes are polluted. curs9d from their birt Parents embruted fixing their worth, Infancy prized by the Spirit of Wine? The modern Moloch?is burnt at his shrin Daily his priests for their altars prepare ; Champions of Christendom, what do y care? Daily the weak to slavery sink, Vainly they seek escape from the drink ; Household and neighbor, involved in th< thrall, Fruitlessly iabor to break the fall; Piteously rises the victim's prayer; Lovers of freedom, what do you care? Jesus by dying liberty gave, Love self-denying only can save, Light to its strength is the temperance croi Glorious at length the gain of its loss; Passion and triumph Love asks us to shai Friends of the Saviour, what do you car*? ?L F. B. Tinling, in the Voice, OBOG ON BRITISH WAB SHIPS. Visitors to the British flagship Blake not* with some surprise that regularly every dj at noon a ration of 4 'grog" is served out toh 500 sailors. This ancient custom, it seems, still maintained in the British navy, thouj it was abolished in the American servi many years ago. Yankee man-o'-waram do not seem to have suffered by it either, the result of the series of international be races count for anything. Tbey have w< every conteet in which they have entere and once ortwice their grog-drinking Briti cousins have brought up the rear of the pi cession.?Boston Journal. PUBLIC SAFETY. The general public is entitled to the maa mum or security for property and person, pays for tkat. It wants sober conductoi engineers, firemen, brakemen and swltc tenders. As a rule its wants in this respe are gratified. No railroad company wou dare to employ an Inebriate in any one these positions. But the tendehcy is to i further, and to' refuse to employ any drin lng man, whether a drunkard or not. ] rational man will employ a drinking coac man. No factory will employ a drinki engineer, supposing the business to be w managed. Few will employ a doctor who know to drink habitually, and to an exte to cause remark. These consequences m deter some from evil living.?Philadelpl North American. SATAN'S 8HABE. There is an ancient fable which tell us tl while Noah was planting the vineyard, 1 devil approached him and inquired what was doing. "Planting a vineyard;" repli Noah. Hum!" grunted Satan, "what's t use of a vineyard?" To which Noah gt answer that ''its fruit is sweet and good, a its wine gladdens the taste." Whereup Satan, seeing here a good chance for spec lation, proposed that they work it on shar which was agreed upon, and Immediately 1 devil brought a lion, a hog and a monk and mingled their- blood with the s< Therefore, if a man eats only of the fruit the vineyard, he Is as Innocent as a lan if he drinks wine, he imagines himself a li< and falls into mischief; if he drinks habi ally, he becomes as selfish and unmanne as a hog; if he gets drank, he jabbers a jumps about, and is silly and nasty, lik< monkey.?Sacred Heart Beview. DBINKINO SEEK AND ABBOAD. In spite of the widespread impression t! the United States are a Nation of dninkar its people are in reality the soberest and m temperate in the world, according to 1 Troy (N. Y.) Times. Whatever drunlcenn we have to endure comes chiefly from abro; brought here by people who retain their i world habits, or transmitted by them in I nature of appetite to their children born he Except for this constant accession to < drunkard list by importation not more tb one man in 10,000 among us would b< drunkard. Our best and most temperate foreign pi ulation comes from the United Kingdo But in that country the drink bill for 1891 placed by Dr. Dawson Burns, of the Unit Kingdom alliance, at $706,000,000. In 1 United States in 1890. according to Wilbur Copeland, of the Voice, the drink bill v $1,131,000,000, or about sixty per cent lar( than in the United Kingdom, though the p< ulation is eighty per cent, larger, the wea a quarter larger, and the average drink tw as high in price. Taking into considerati All these facta, our liauor consumption is I more than one-half that of the next sober country In the world. The accommodations for getting drank i also greater in the "mother country" th here. In England and Wales, with less tfc half the population of the United Stat crowded into an area about equal to N York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, thi are 128,000 public houses or drinking plac while in this entire country there are oi 141,000, or ten per cent. more. The compi population of England and Wales has a pi lie house for every 202 persons, while I United 8tates has one for every 460. 1 average English city has a public house every 173 persons; in this country the avers proportion is considerably less. Even in N York, the essentially foreign city, there only one licensed saloon for every 200 inha tanta, while in Philadelphia the proporti is about one per thousand. In most of 1 cities of the country the saloons are clos by law on Sunday; in all of the United Kii dom the law permits them to remain opi The difference in the habits of the people the two Nations is due mainly to the agi tion of the question that has been going here for seventy years and the legislatl has hflfln thfl friHt thereof. In Enela there has never been any such temperai agitation or any restrictive act passed by P [lament. TEMPERAXCE NEWS AND NOTES. Of the 51,000 breweries estimated to be the world 26,000 are in Germany. In Christian.!, with its 160,000 inhabitaj there are only twanty-saven plases whe liquor is retailed. It is estimated that of every hundred d< lars paid out for drji1:, s x:y dollars ar<) Ire the pockets of wording men. The Alli?emeina Z^itung, of Munich, saj "Experience tn Germany. as e.s iwa>?re, t proved that the dangerous au'oao! pest ca not be fought detei'JiiU'iJiy tx :epc by radi< methods." The number o! suirldes in Par's lost yc was 1020, two huuirr) I an 1 for:y-;uree bei by hanging. The grv>?r:a o.' sjirit-d-lnki Is credited with being an important factor the remarkable in *r jas-.\ As the Catholic goes to its readers to-d an unfortunate man iu tais city pays t penalty of his misdeeds ou ttie gallows, one end was whisky, than the murier. nc the hangman's rope. They all fit. ?Pitts'ou Catholic. What is the good of "moderate drinkin any way you pioase to iook at it.' can t m manage to b'j social without sticking thi noses in the same beer bottle or pouring soi of the same fiery fluid into their stomach Out upon such social customs which requi men to run the risk of being sots in order be "dooial. ' Coffson?I don t see why we cat find a policeman occasionally in tt neighborhood when we want hii Coles?Hum; are you bothered by ti saloons? "Saloons? There isn't o within a mile of us." "Well, thai why."?Chicago Tribune. Tiie bite of a dog bestowed upon book agent has been assessed by Jury at $5,000. A dog like tb should not be kept by a man of c dlnary means. Better even subscril for the book. FAIR EXHIBITS. THE RESOURCES OF THE LATINAMERICAN COUNTRIES. e; Models and Pictures Relating to Central and South America and the West Indies?Gallery in the Government Building. 15 ~ m OUBTLESS a good I jj deal of interest J J J will center about /I i vi/ the Columbian cral V^'-lcry intheGovern>2 y J ment Building, V-.-ff 41 ^8 the Chicago TkJjjf Herald. It is there h, -^^SSfcfe^L Proiect?rB of closer relations with the Latin-American countries will 6' make their chiefest exhibit. They ou have been accorded excellent space, and enough of it, and there they have placed the exhibits they have for the past three years been collecting all the Jlr way from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. ? The exhibit from the Southern countries is very interesting, indeed. It is devoted to an exposition of the present conditions and resources of ss, the Central and South American countries aad the West Indies, the articles 10? of general import into the LatinAmerican countries, their prices, popular patterns of goods in demand there, samples of inplements desirable and jd methods of transportation both to the er ~ ~ ~ 1> ' NATIVES OP CUBA. seaport and to the interior regions, ell In this last item is embraced many of is the most curious devices. Our >nt American manufacturers as a rule like ^ to send their goods to the eonsignee in packing cases. They have done I fViat wav fnr a lone time, and thev know " "J O ' m iat of no better way to send articles in good he shape. Bat yon can't ship goods in he that way into the interior of South America. lv? Shipments across the mountains nd there are made as a general thing by on pack mule. And one of the aims of the commercial exhibit is to tell Amar:he ican shippers how to pack goods so aa ey, to enable freighters to take them to )U- distant destinations. There is no use sending goods to west Brazilian pointe 3ii,' in packing cases. They will never reach tu- the consignee, and all the possibilities of trade are ruined for the simple rea3 a son that the Beller does not use the judgment an intelligent understanding of the case will give him. European merchants understand - this and send theii - ? . i i S goods to tne juatin-American owm 05t all ready for packing on mules or or the the backs of men if they be consigned 5?? to a place where that is the accepted ol(j mode of transportation. the The lesson is taught by a profusion re. of pictures, whioh will be interesting ^ to all classes as well as the special one 3 a of commercial tendencies, articles oi trade, models of implements, effigies oi >P- animals and materials used generally in the country designated. A prom;ed inent place is given to articles of food :he supply, with the methods of preparaF tion and use. Under this head comet ^ the indigenous cereals, fruits and vegjp etables, their cultivation, irrigation and itb harvesting and storing. The processes [on of raising coffee are shown, togethei iot with pictures of machinery used foi est pulping, drying and cleaning the berries. rTT1? ?'?? io nUnirad in rplfttinn jl uc oamc w ? ?,? ao to sugar. The ancient and modern Byees, ?? lg- CABBYTNO TOBACCO IK SAN DOMINGO. an. ?! tems are fully illustrated from the primon itive "bull mills" in use by the naon tives to the great establishment on the ^ island of Cuba. Chocolate and its prep *tio nnnan hoftn with ftp. ttiaUULl iXUUX IIUU vmvmv processes and means of preparing it for shipment, are illustrated. The curious coca found in the Peruvian Andes conies in for description; its manner and use, lts with the various preparations, as wines, !re cordials and the materials used with it by the natives who sustain the fatigues ol- of the long journeys by its use alone. )m There we can learn how oinchona and other medicinal plants are collected, iaa' dried and prepared for export, with m- their uses as remedies and the legends and traditions relating to them. Fibre and fibrous plants, rubber and j" rubber gathering, and so far as posDg sible all the factors in the great natural in wealth of those countries are illustrated in a manner that will throw a flood ?? of light on lands almost unknown to At the people of the United States. It is >w well known that these countries are rS very deficient in the mechanical arts aud their application, and in order to |n show what they need and what can be sir supplied by the United States the ne various trades and professions are prea* sented, illustrating the proficiency of ^ the natives. "Raw materials and finished products, with information where the former is l't obtained ; metal and metal work : texlis tiles and fabrics from native materials; 11. pottery, ancient and modern, with the j he uses to which it may be applied ; ar- j DC tides used in hunting and fishing; | t'9 native musical instruments used by the j Indians, National songs, war songs, j anthems and chants of the, aborigines; j a literature, art. music; lace making, a artistic engraving?in fact everything J lis relating to the condition of the various i ir- peoples are fully shown, and iu a man-1 L,0 ner that will be as interesting to the merely thoughtful as to the student of ? .." m . conditions and the prospective maker of laws. LOADED WITH CHARCOAL. 1 Incidentally the histories of those countries are illustrated by photo- ' ' graphs of their noted men?piesidente, governors, revolutionary leaders, ancient viceroys and leaders of more than local prominence. Fac similies of their declarations of independence, constitutions and famous State papers ?all extremely valuable?are for the first time presented. Together they will tell the story of the two great epochs, the viceroyalties and the revo- ' lutions. The theory of the pan-American advocates is that a great and growing market for American goods lies close to the south of us, and that it should be controlled Dy tne mercnanwj anu manufacturers of the United States instead of those of Europe. For this purpose - ) the various articles of import into the Latin-American countries are shown and enumerated, representing the various classes of goods best adapted to the uses of the people in* every district. For instance, the most popular styles of dress goods and other fabrics for wearing apparel, bpots, sho^s, l&il-' linery and hosiery, and articles of adornment are shown, that our people may know what things will meet the readiest sale in the south lands. J The markets of Europe have been ransacked to find samples of the goods most in demand in the South American countries, and these also are here exhibited that Americans may know against what they are compelled to , compete. Prices at factories, cost of i transportation and selling rates, both r\t flinoo fynm TilnrnnR And from thfl GIRL ONBULLOGK'fl BACK IK SAN DOICNGO. , factories of the United States, are , plainly indicated. To make this object [ lesson perfect the chief oz tne ijoiin[ American department has prepared complete models of carriers, and Btuffefl : < t specimens of those animals employed , as beasts of burden, each one equipped \ with its proper accoutrement of pack I saddles, and carrying an exact counter* f f part of the load expected of it These . samples show how goods may be . packed to insure safe and proper tran[ sit over the roads and trails of each . country, giving also weights and maxii mpm weights permissible, so as to suit . all methods of local transportation. [ The necessary material for the pack* , ing is also given?whether in cases of . bags, bales or barrels, and whether the . same should be tin lined or hermeti. cally sealed. Where the same articles themselves could not be shown as earnt pies they are illustrated by photo* . graphs showing perfectly their uset and functions. Big Trees. One hears a good deal of the big ? . trees of the Northwest, but the fact ii that all the vegetation there is luxori< ant beyond the belief of the Eastern man. There are Douglas firs in Wash' ington and for some distance north oi that which are honestly said to be as tall as the ErooklynBridge towers. Planki from these trees sixteen feet wide have been exhibited, and a straight mast 125 feet long, unmarked by branches, wai cut on the shores of Puget Sound. Common roadside weeds and buahet have a proportionate largeness, theii leaves being twice as large and theii stems twice as long as in the East, and the ordinary fern that in this State grows knee high is found there with ^ stalks seven feet long.?Cleveland ^ Leader. Treading the Water. The Indians on the Mississippi Riv?r tread water just as the dog treads it. Amnnc the natives* of Joanna, an isl Q ?- . and on the coast of Madagascar, young persons walk the water, carrying fruit and vegetables to ships becalmed or, it may be, lying in the offing miles away. At Madras, watching their opportunity, messengers, with letters secured in an oilskin cap, plunge into4 the boiling surf and make their way to the vessels outside, treading the water through a sea in which uo ordinary boat could live. At the Cape of Good Hope men used to proceed to the vessel in the offing through mountain billows, treacling water as they went with the utino3t security. ?New York A/lvarfiQAr I A Fonr-Year Old Gcnlns. Marguerite "Treasure" BiUlantyue, ! ihe four-year old daughter of T. C. Bal! iantyue, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is going j to the World's Fair. Sbt: is a linguis' tirrtl riiJ musical wondt-r. She socaks j English, German and French, and plays i on the piano anything she hears. Men| tally she is as bright as can be, and iu all but her musical and linguistic talents [ is like any other child of four.?NewYork Press. The upper classes of the .Tapancso are well educated, and while they read such heavyworks as Spencer. Carlyle, Kant, Darwin and Huxley, thoy huvo j no practical knowledge of politics and I of other matters as have the youth of i this country.