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[ ' __ REV. DR. TALMAGE. L {THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN I DAY SERMON. Subject: "llarp and Javelin." ^ Text : "And Davidplayed mlA his hand c <tl other times and there teas a javelin in Saul Jiand. And Saul cast the javelin, for he sai< I will smite. J)avid even to the wall with it. An David avoided out of his presence twice."I Samuol xviii., 10-11. I What a spectacle for all ages! Saul, Slant, and David, a dwarf. An unfortunal war ballad had been composed and sun eulogizing David above SauL That son threw Saul into a paroxysm of rage, whic brought on one of his old spells of insanity t t , which he had been subject. If one is dispose L to some physical ailment and he get rei I mad, it is very apt to bring on one of his ol L attacks. Saul is a raving maniac, and h T goes to imitating the false prophets or sibyL< ! who kicked and gesticulated wildly whe ft they pretended to be foretelling events. B Whatever the physicians of the royal sta may, have prescribed for the disordered kin I I know not, but David prescribed musi< I Having keyed up the harp, his fingers bega I to pull the"rhythm from the vibrating strings -Thrum! Thrum! Thrum! No use. Th king will not listen to the exquisite cadences He lets fly a javelin, expecting to pin th minstrel to the wall, but David dodged th weapon and kept on, for he was conflder that he could, as before, subdue Saul's ba spirit by music. Again the javelin is flung, and Davi v dodges it and departs. What a contrast Boseate David with a harp and enraged Sav with a javelin. Who would not rather pla the one than fling the other? But that wa not the only time in the world's history ths harp and javelin met. Where their birth place was I cannot declare. It is said ths the lyre was first suggested by the tigt drawing of the smews of a tortoise across it 6hell, and that the flute was first suggeste by the blowing of the wind across a bed c (reeds, and that the ratio of musical interval >was first suggested to Pythagoras by the dil ferent hammers on the anvil of the smithj , but the harp seems to me to hav? dropped ou of the sky and the javelin to have been throw <np from the pit. The oldest stringed Instrument of the worl Is the barp. Jubai sounded his harp in th Ibook of Genesis. David played many of hi psalms on the harp while he sang them. Th captives in Babylon hung their harps on th Willows. Josephus celebrated the inventioi of the 10-stringed harp. Timotheus, th Milesian, was imprisoned for adding th twelfth string to the harp, because too mucl luxury of sound might enervate the people Egyptian harps. Scottish harp3, Welsh harps Irish harps have been celebrated. What a inspired triangle! Everlasting honors to Sebastian Erard who by pedals invented called the foot a well as tne hand to the harp. When th harpiscord maker for whom he worked dis charged him for his genius, the employe not wanting to be eclipsed by his subordi nate, Erard suffered from the same passio; of jealousy that threw Saul of my text int the fit during which he flung a javelin at th harpist. The harp is almost human, as yo find when you put your finger on its pulse. h Other instruments have louder voice an may be better for a battle charge, but wha exquisite sweetness slumbers between th harp strings, waking at the first touch of th tips of the fingers. It can weep. It ca plead. It can soothe. It can pray. Th Aiuiu is luuro mciiu vr f mo uuui^ci. u uivi Startling, the organ is mora majestic, th cymbals are more festive, the drum is mot resounding, but the harp has a richness of it own and will continue its mission throug all time and then take part in celestial syn phonies, for St. John says he heard in heave the harps of God. But the javelin of my text is just as old It is about five and a half feet long, wit wooden handle and steel point, keen an Bharp. But it belongs to the great family c death dealers and is brother to 6Word an Bpear and bayonet, and first cousin to all th Implements that wound and slay. It has cu Its way through the ages. It was old whe: Saul, in the scene of my text, tried to hai poon David. It has gashed the earth wit; grave tretches. Its keen tip is reddens with the blood of American wars, Englisl wars, German ware, Busslan wars, Frencl ware, Crusader ware and ware of all ages. The structure of the javelin shows wha It was made for. The plowshare is sharp but aimed to cut the earth in preparation fo harvests. The lightning rod is sharp, bu aimed to disarm the lightnings and secur safety. The ax Is sharp, but aimed to fel . forests and clear the way for human habi tation. TJie knife is sharp, but aimed to cu the bread for sustenance. But the javelin ii sharp only to open human arteries and extin guish human eyesight and take human lif and fill the earth with the cries of orphanag and widowhood &nd childlessness. Oh, I am so glad that my text brings thee so close together that we can see the contras between the harp and the javelin. The on to soothe, the other to hurt; the one to save Tile uuier iu ursii, mo uuo rnc, iriir; uiut diabolic; the one to play, the other to hurl the one in David's skillful hand, the other ii Saui's wrathful clutch. May God speod th harp, may God grind into dullness the shar; ?dRK of the javelin. No** what does all this make you think of It suggests to me music as a medicine fo physical and mental disorders. David tool hold o( the musical instrument which he hes knew how to play and evoked from it sound Which wero for King Saul's diversion an< -medicament. But, you say, the treatment L this case was a lallure. YVny was it a failure Saul refused to take the medicine. A wholi apothecary shop of curative drugs will d< nothing toward healing your illnesses if yoi refuse to take the medicine. It was not th fault of David's prescription, but the fault o Saul s obstinacy. David, one of the wisest and best of al ages, stands before us in the text administer lng music for nervous disorder and cerebra disturbance, and David was right. Music i the mightiest force in all therapeutic*. It Jesuits may not be seen as suddenly w othe forms of cure, but it is just as w onderful You will never know how much luSering am Borrow music has assuaged ant' healed. 1 soldier in the United States army said tha on the days the regimental band played nea the hospitals all the sick and wounded re -yived, and men who were so lama they couii not walk before got up and went out and sa In the sunshine, and those so dispirited thu they never expected to get homo began t pact: their baggage and ask about timetable on steamboat and rail train. Theodosius, the emperor, wrathful at th behavior of tho people of Antioch, who, oi some sudden provocation tore down th statues of emperor and empress, resolve severely to punish them, but the bishop knowing that the emperor had a group c boys to sing to him while eating at the taoit taught the boys a plaintive song in which th people lamented their bad behavior, and th king under the pathos of the music cried qui "The city of Antioch is forgiven." The ra? of Achilles was aesuaged by a harp. Ascl< piades swayed rebellious multitudes by After t?b battle of Yorktown, when musician was to suffer amputaHon/and b< lore the days of anaesthetics, the wounde artist called for a musical instrument an lost not a note during the forty minutes < .amputation. JUippo Palma, the great mus oiau, confronted by an angry creditoi played so enchantingly before him that th creditor forgave the debt and gave the debtc ten guineas more to appease other creditor An eminent pnysician or omen rime coi tandod (of course carrying our theory to far) that all ailments of the world could b cured by music. The medical journals nev*1 report their recoveries by this mode. But i What twilight hour has many a saint of Go solaced a heartache with a hymn hummed o sung or played! Jerome ol Prague san; while burning at the stake. Over what key of piano or organ consolation has walked Yea, in church one hymn has rolled peac over a thousand of the worried, perplexe and agnized. Whileihere are hymns and tunes ready fc the jubflnnt, there is a rich hymnology fc the suffering?"Naomi" and "Eventide'* an "Autumn Leaves" and "Come ye discons< late," and whole portfolios and librettos < tears set to music. All the wonderfi triumphs of surgery and all the new mode of successful treatment of physical and mei tal disorders are discussed in medical coi ventions and spread abroad in medical book, and it is high time that some of the millioi <rt bouis tnat nave tveen medicated by musii vocal and instrumental, let the world kno what power there is in sweet sound, wheth< rolling from lip or leaping from tightene chord or asoenaing from Ivory key. Musio is a universal language. At tl foot of the Tower of Babel language wi spilt into fragments never to be a^aln pc together, but one thing was not hurt, an that is music, and it is the same all the worl over. Last summer in Russia at a waterin place we were greeted as we entered a grea auditorium, which was flllod with thousand of Russians, whose langu.i^o I could nc understand any more than thoy could undei stand mine. But after the trrand band had, out of con pliment to us, played our two great Amen can airs, I stepped on the platform and sai to the bandmaster: "Russian air! Russia 3 air!" and then he tapped with his baton o * - V ?ill. i, the music racK, ana w?u u ?piouuui au ^ majesty of power that almost made us qua ? the full band poured forth their Nations anthem. They understood our America; music, and we understood their Russia music. It is a universal language, and s ' good for universal cure. g I should not wonder If In the day of jud? ? meat it should be found out that more sou! 0 have been saved by music than by preaching I should not wonder if out of the one hun j dred and forty and four thousand ransome< d souls that John foresaw before the throne c e God at least 130,000 had been saved by swee } song. Why does not the church on eartl q take the hint? Heaven is the great musica center of the universe, the place of doxolc ff gies and trumpets and harps, and in prepara ? tfon for that place we ought to make more c ? music on earth. a" The band of music at Waterloo played th , retreat of the Forty-second Highlanders bac q to their places, and saored musio has re , turned many a faltering host of God into th g Christian conflict with as much determina e and dash &3 Tennyson's "Six Hundred. lt Who can tell what has been accomplished b (j Charles Wesley's 7000 hymns, or by the con gregational singing of his tima, which coul< a be heard two miles off? When my dea ;; friend Dio Lewis (gone to re3t all too soon conducted a campaign against drunkennes at the West, and marshaled thousands of th ? noblest women of the land In that magnifl lt cent campaign, and whole neighborhoods ani [. villages and cities shut up their grog shops rt do you know the chief weapon used? It wa !t the song. a Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to T&ee. >f They sans? it at the door of htmdreds o Is liquor saloons which had been open foi years, and either at the first charge of th< r campaign or the second the saloon shut up Lt At the first versa of "Nearer, My God, tc n Thee" the liquor dealers laughed, at th< second verse they lookedsolemn, at the thirc (j verse they began to cry, and at the fourtl 0 verse they got down on their knees. Yoi s say they opened their saloons again. Ye3 e some of them did. But it is a great thing tc a have hell shut up if only for a week. Giv< a full swing to a good gospel hymn, and il e would take the whole world for God! e But when in my text I see Saul declining 1 this medicine of rhythm and cadence and ac i. tually hurling a javelin at the heart of David l, the harpist, I bethink myself of the fact thai n sin would like to kill sacred music. We ar< not told what tune David was playing on th< I, harp that day, but from the character of th? 3 man we know it was not a crazy madrigal, o: e a senseless ditty, or a sweep of strings Bug h gestive of the melodrama, but elevated music r God given music, inspired music, religioui i- music, a whole heaven of it encamped unde; a a harpstring. No wonder that wicked Sau o hated it and could not abide the sound anc e with all his might hurled an Instrument o u death at it. I know there are styles of musio that aii d admires, and you hear it as you pass th< it casino or the dance hall, and the devil ha; e stolen most of the fiddles, though I am glac e the Ole Bulls have snatched up the charmec a strings froa* their desecration, but it is a facf e that sin has a javelin for sacred sounds. Ir ? many churches the javelin of criticism ha; a killed the music, javelin flung from organ lofi e or from adjoining pew of the supersensitive g Saul's javelin aimed at David's harp. Thou h sands of people so afraid they may not sing i- scientifically, they will not sing at all, orslnj n with such low tone that no one hears them In many a church the javelin of criticism L has crippled the harp of worship. If< satar b could silence all the Sunday-school song: d and the hymns of Christian worship, h< >| would gain his greatest achievement. Whei d the millennial song shall rise?and it is be e ing made ready?there will be such a roll ol t voices,such a concentrated power of stringed q and wind instruments, such majesty, suet > unanimity, such continental and hemisphere b and planetary acclamation, that it will be imd possible to know where earth stops and h heaven begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up,thou b millennial harmony! i See also in my subject a rejected oppor t tunity of reverse. Why did not David pick i, up Saul's javelin and hurl it back again? r David had a skillful arm. He demonstrated t on another occasion he could wield a sling, e and he could have easily 'picked up thai 11 javelin, aimed it at Saul, the would-b( - assassin, and left the foaming and demented t monster a3 lifeless under the javelin as h< i bad left Goliath under a sling. Oh, David - Bow is your chance. No, no. Men and e women with power of tongue or peii or Hand e to reply to an imbittered antagonist, better imitate David and let the javelin lie at your a feet and keep the harp in your hand. Dc .t not strike back. Do not play the game ol e tit for tat. !, Gibbon, in his history, tells of Bajazet, the r great Moslem General who was brought a I, captive to the tent of Timur. He had ata tempted the massacre of Timur and his men, e Timur said to him: ''Had you vanquished tu p I am not ignorant of the late which you reserved for myself and my troops, but I dis? dain to retaliate. Your life and honor art r secure, and I shall express my gratitude tc k God by my clemency to man." Beautiful, t Revenge on Christian's tongue or pen 01 a hand is inapt and more damage to the one IJ who employs it than the one against whoa a it is employed. What! A javelin hurled al '{ you and fallen at your feet, and you not hur a it back again? Yes. I have tried the plan 3 1 learned it from my father and have praci ticed it all my life, and it worko well, and bj e the help of God and javelins not picked up J f have conquered all my foes and preache funeral sermons in honor of most of them. 11 The btstthing you can do with a javelii hurled at you is to let it lie where it droppec ,1 or hang lt'up in your museum as a curiosity s The deepest wound made by a javalin is no s by the sharp edge, but at the dull end of th r handle to him who wields it. I leave it ti l you to say which got the best of that fight h i the palace?Saul or David. V. See also in my subject that the fact that i t man sometimes dodges is not against hi r courage. My text says that when Saul as s sailed him, "David avoided out of his prea 1 ence twice"?that is, when the javelin wa t flung, he stepped out of its direction or ben t this way or that?in other words, he dodged o But all those who have read the life of Davi< s know that he was not lacking in prowess ! David bad faults, but cowardice was not on e of them. a When David, who was, I guess, about fou e and a half feet high, went out to meet thi J giant, who was, I guess, about 10 feet high >, it was a big undertaking, and the inequali ?f ties of the struggle were so great that i >, struck the giant's idea of the' ludicrous, ant e he suggested to the little fellow that he woul< e make a fine dinner for a buzzard or a jacka t, ?"Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unt< :e the fowta of the air and to the beasts of th< > 1 field." a When David went out to meet that glan and conquered him, he demonstrated, as hi a did on other occasions, his couraga. Due am so glad that when Saul flung that javelii ? David dodged it, or the chief work of his 111 d would never have been done. What a lesso this is to those who go into useless dangf ' and expose their lives or their reputations c r> their usefulness unnecessarily. When dut demands, go ahead, though all earth and be >l oppose. Dodge not one inch from the rigl ' position. But when nothing is Involved ste l" back or step aside. 0 Why stand in the way of perils that yo ,f> can avoid? Go not into quixotic battles t )l fight windmills. You will be of more use t ? the world and the church as an active Chrii d tian man than as a target for javelins. Thei r are Christians always in a fight, If they g ? into churches, they flght there. If they g 3 into presbyteries or conferences or consoclt L tions, they light there. My advice to you ii ? if anything is to be gained for God or th d truth, stand out of the way of the javelix I Samuel, xviii., 11, "David avoided out < >r his presence twice." >r Washington was aa mighty in bis retreat d as in his advances. His army would seven times have been destroyed if be had nc Jf dodged. He dodged on Long Island; h d dodged on New Jersey heights. Lincoln o 19 his way to inauguration at Washington wa waited for by assassins, but he took anothe train and dodged the desperadoes. We hav 9. high example of the fact that sometimes a ma 18 will servQ God best by disappearing from thJ Bf or that place, this or that environment. ^ A mob brought Christ to the top of th jr rocks back of Nazarrah. They did not Ilk d His preaching, and they proposed to hui Him down . tne preciploe. But while the ie were getting ready for the massacre Chrif is darted into the crowd and amid the oonfu j t sion escaped to Capernaum and continued I exercising devils ana cooling fevers and flll ing fish nets and giving healthy oiroulation of blood to paralysis and curing dementia and 5 turning corpses into living men and women and doing His chief work. I What a good thing He dodged the crowd on the rocks back of Nazareth! Likewise at Jerusalem one day, while He was sauntering up and down in Solomon's porch waiting for " an opportunity to say kind words or do a : useful deed, the people proposed to pay Him for His self sacrifices by stoning Him to death, but the record is, "He escaped out of thoir J hands." m 8ee also in my subject the unreasonable . attitude of javelin toward harp. What had that harp in David's hand done to the javelin in Saul's hand? Had the vibrating strings of the one hurt the keen edzo of the other? Was there an old grudge betwuen the two families of sweet sound and Bharp cut? Had tho triangle ever insulted the polished shaft? vvny tne aeaaiy aim 01 tne destroying '* weapon against the instrument of soothing, T calming, healing sound'/ . Weil, I will answer that if you will tell me why the hostility of so many to the Gospel, . why the virulent attacks against Christian . religion, why the angry antipathy of so many to the most genial, most inviting, most salutary influence under all the heavens. ^ Why will men give their lives to writing and speaking and warring against Christ and the Gospel? Why the javelin of the world's hatred and rage against the harp of heavenly * love? You know and I know men who get wrathfully red in the face and foaming at the mouth and use the gesture of the clinched ?, flst and put down their feet with indignant emphasis and invoke all sarcasm and irony ' and vituperation and scorn and spite at the r Christian religion. What, has the Christian * religion done that it should be ao assailed? f Whom hath it bitten and left with hydro? phobia virus in their veins that it should * sometimes be chased as though It were a maddened canine? T To head off and trip up and push down and corner our religion was the dominant ' thought in the life of David Hume and Voltaire and Shaftesbury and even the Earl ot Rochester, until one day in a princely house, in which they blasphemously put God on . trial, and the Earl of Rochester was the attor. ney against God and religion and received * t-.h? finnlfttisn nf t.h? whnl? c.cvmrmnv whpn J suddenly the earl was struck under conviction and cried: "Good God, that a man who > . walks uprightly, who sees the wonderful ? works ol God ahd has the use of his senses 1 and reason, should use them in defying his 1 Creator! I wish I had been a crawling leper 1 in a ditch rather than havo acted toward God as I have done." > Javelin, of wit, javelin of irony, javelin of 5 scurrility, javelin of sophistry, javelin of human and diabolical hostility have been flying for hundreds of years and are flying now. > But aimed at what? At something that has - come to devastate the world? At something > that slays nations? At something that would t maul and trample under foot and excruciate 3 and crush the human race? s No, aimed at the gospel harp?harp on 5 which prophets played with somewhat lingerp ing and uncertain Angers, but harp on whioh. - apostles played with sublime certainty, and ? martyrs played while their fingers were on 5 fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood r of the Christ, out of whose heartstrings the J harp was chorded anil from whose dying J groan the strings were keyed. Oh, gospel " harp! All thy nerves a-tremble with stone* or self sacrifice. Harp thrummed by fingers long ago turned to dust. Harp that mado heaven listen and will yet make all the earth hear. Harp that sounded pardon to my sinful soul and peace over the grave whcro my dead sleep. Harp that will lead the chant of t'<ie blood washed throng redeemed around the throne. May a javeiin slay me before I fling a javelin at that. Harp which it seems almost too sacred for ine to touch, and so I call down from their thrones those who used to flntrer it and ask thflm to touch it now. I > "Come down. William Cooper, and run your > fingers over the strings of this harp." He aaya, "I will," and ho plays: There w a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immannul's veins. , "Come down, Charles Wesley, and touch the I strings." He says, "I will," and ho plays: Jeans, lover of my soul, [ Let me to Thy boiorn fly. I "Come down, Augustus Toplady, and sweep t your fingers across this gospel harp." He j says, "I will," and he plays: llock of Acei, cleft for me. L Let me hide myself ia thee. I "Come down, Isaac Watts, and take this harp." He 3ays, "I will," &nd he plays: Ala*, and did my Savior bleed, And did my Sovereign die? "P. Pr Bliss, come down and thrum this gospel harp." He says, "I will," and he plays: . Hallelujah, 'tis done 1 | I believe on the Son. Ineffable harp! Transporting harp! Harp j of earth! Harp of heaven! Harp saintly and seraphic! Harp of God! Oh, I like the [ idea of that old monument in the anoient church at Ullardj near Kilkenny. Ireland, i The sculpture on that monument, though chiseled more than a thousand years ago, as , appropriate to-day as then, the sculpture [ representing a harp upon a cross. That is wnere I hang it now; that is whore you had , better hang it. Let the javelin bo forever k buried, the sharp edge down, but hang the harp upon the cross. AnH t\mtt imnn rttif arm la Iflf fhft h.iTOQ nf i heaven rain music, and as when tho sun's rays fail aslant in Switzerland at the approach of" eventide, and tho shepherd among the s Alps puts the horn to his lips and blows a , blast and says. "Glory be to God," and all the shepherds on the Alpine heights or down f the deep valleys respond with other blasts of 5 horns, saying, "Glory be to God," and then t all the shepherds uncover tbeir heads and t kneel in worship, and after a few moments of I silence some shepherd rises from his knees and blows another blast of tho horn and says, "Thanks be to God," and all through the r mountains the response comes from other [ shepherds, "Thanks be to God," so this mol ment let all the valleys of the earth respond to the hills of heaven, with sounds of glory i and thanks, and it be harp of earthy worship i to harp of heavenly worship, and the words of St. John in the Apocalypse be fulfilled, "I t heard a voice from heaven as tho voico of 9 many waters and as the voice of a great j thunder, and as the voice of harpers harping i with their harps." i 8 An Awful Slavery. r "Were yon ever troubled with the ? thought while you walked along some street," said Charles Ebert, who is at i the Lindell, "that somehow you ought not 10 siep on tne crucitr* mat separate 9 the flagstones of the pavement or the. r boards of the walk ? You have been, a th?well, then you know. That is the ? meanest habit to form. The crack^ dodging habit is the worst of all. "If I could exchange this miserable 1 feeling that possesses me when I walk J along the street for any one of those a habits?providing I didu't possess all of them already?I would do it inI stantaneously. I will start out of a j morning for a pleasant stroll, just to a see the beauty of nature, and uncona sciously I will begin to step over all n cracjss. Then I will accidentally step * on one and all my prospective pleasure y is gone?simply dispelled and driven II away by that one miserable thought of lt utter usolessneBa that I have stepped p on a crack. I have started for home u of a nighttime fairly tired and con? scious of duties well done purposing ? to enjoy a long, sound sleep. e * "Again I fajl into the desire to avoid o stepping on those miserable partition 0 lines. If I succeed in avoiding all of , them I rest beautifully, but ii; uotthen e I go Lome and have a restless, nervous J- sleep, in which there in no satisfaction whatever. Of all the diabolical mental 3 inventions that go to break up a man's d happiness and peace of mind, this one >t mental status of avoiding cracks is the ? most consummate that' any evil genius a could afflict a man with. "?St. Louia ir Globe-Democrat. e ? ? Boaos?"The United States Senate Is the great National Theater* afteje all." Fogus?"How so?" Boggs? ? "Seats in the body of the house coat y more than those in the gallery."? it Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly. RELIGIOUS READING. bear out the banner. .Bear out the banner from the wall, Obedient to our Captain's call; Be one in heart and one in tongue, Let all the army swell the song:? CHOItus Now be the banner full unfurled, The Cross of Christ uplifts the world. In love for God and love for man, We hold the Cross high in the van? The symbol o! almighty ijracc, To full emancipate our race. Chorus 8?ys Jesus, "Go, my gospel preach, And my divine commandments teach, My message of salvation send, Lo, I am with you to the end." Chords Loud sound the trumpet, call the host, Before us goes the Holy Ghost; By words of Christ shall idols fall And earth shall crown him Lord of all, Cllouus ?[Rev. F. Deniaou. light and joy. I want to show you how the work of God does create a joy-making people. As soon as ever we are converted, wdm is one or cue first things that come of it? Why, joy. Tbe morning I found Christ it snowed very hard. The snowflakes fluttered around me, like white doves, a3 I went home; and I felt just as light as those, lor my soul was washed lighter than snow. It was not a gloomy winter's day to me; but all nature wore her bridal drees in sympathy with my delight. "Was it net so with you on the day of your new birth ? Were you not as happy as ever you could he when you first found the Saviour? So far,, you see, the Lord creates joy; and it is better still further on. When tbe creation of f?od jroes on, and a man is helped to conquer M <ri>a/>a in l\io tAul urnu'i 3JiJ J v\ uru tuc nui a ui ^iav.b in uia r-vv*i ni ?* ?? *? and increases, be cries! "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory"; and he gets increased joy in his soul over every conquered sin. When you and I see sin subdued, do we not feel liappy? Whenever the news cornea to me that a man hss been reclaimed from drunkenness, or a woman is saved from the streets, or when I hear of a hard-heartud sinner repenting, I rejoice in the Lord. Conversion days are our high holidays ; revivals are our jubilees. Thus the Lord gives us opportunities for joy and rejoicing as hU new-creation work proceeds stage by stage. Better days are in store, it may be; and I trust that in years to come we shall more and more behold tiod working aud shall rejoice therein. But by and by there will be a still greater joy. tVe shall enter into heaven, and there will be joy among the angels and joy in our heart over God's new creation-work, which .will proceed at a glorious rate. Then the nations will be converted to God. I know not when or exactly how, but the day shall come when Christ shall reign from pole to pole. And what a joy that shall be! "We shall indeed be glad in that which God creates, as the islands of the sea shall ring out his praise! Then Christ the Lord will come, and what rejoicing there will be in that day when be has fully fashioned the new earth aud the new heavens! His ancient people, the seed of Abrnham, shall be gathered in with exultation. We will clap our hands when the long wandering nation shnll turn unto the true God, and own the rejected Messiah of the house of David; the Gentiles will not be jealous. They will rejoice as the Jew comes in; and then will the Jews rejoice over the Gentiles, as they see them worshipping Abraham's God. ttveryining mat is 10 come in me eternal future "flashes light iuto the eyes of believers, and calls upon them to rejoice in anticipation. Nothing prophesied should be dreaded by us. There is nothing foretold by seer or beheld in vision thai can alarm the Christian. He can stand serenely on the brink' of the great eternity and say: "Come on! Let every event foretold become a fact! Pour out your vials, ye angels! Come. Gog and Magog, to the last great battle of Armageddon!" Nothing is to be dreaded, nothing is to be feared by those who are one with Jesus. To us remains nothing but joy and rejoicing, for God hath made his people a rejoicing; yea, bis people a joy.?[C. H. Spurgeon. 44 BY NAME." In tbe wilderness wanderings, the Almighty God uttered words to St uses which ever seemed to me to involve a weight of meaning far greater than appears upon their surface. 'And the Lord said to Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou has found grace in My Bight, and I know thee by name." What intimacy! what familiarity ! what dignity and glory ! None 1 ut a frieud could cail his friend by name! And what must it not be, to be the friend ot the Deity Itself I Yet all this is sure for any 0119 of us, whom Jesus Knows mill 1.1.13 uy iiuuic. The prophet c'oinpares the starry b08t9 to a flock of sheep, scattered through the fields of 8j ace. "Lilt up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number: he catleth them by names, by the greatness of Ilis might, for that he is strong of power: not one faileth." But surely one, for whom Christ died, is worth more to Him than all the hosts of heaven ! And if the stars are so safe, because He ib responsible to maintain and guide them, shall not we too be equally safe, whom He calleth by name? Would He have entered into such intimate relationship with us, if that were uot to issue in an eternal union ? Three is one sure sign of the true sheep : " They know His voice." They cau distinguish its sweet tones among all other sounds; and to hear is to obey, " He leadeth them not." In heaven He is said to leed the redeemed as a flock, and to lead them to living fountains of water, i. e. from one fountain to another deeper and deeper into the heai t of heaven. But this gracious ministry is < qually His work on earth. He is always leading us out?out from the old into the new: out from the familiar to the untried; out from the attained to the unattained: out from experiences and confessions, which have become familiar, to the glorious possibilities of Christian living. These leadings come in many delicate and tender ways?by circumstances, by friendships, by books, by passages of Scripture; but when they com*, it will well repay us to obey and follow mere if no experience in iuc u?c?*eu i>uv in which Jesus will not lead uh, if only we are faithful to the slightest intimation of His will.?[Rev. f. B. Meyer, in Present Tenses. SYMPATHY. It is not merely the words and the form into -which they are cast when sympathy is expressed that will do gocd, though sometimes. when delicately and appropriately worded, the sorrowing one will preserve :hem for their own sake, that they may at a future day beapp.ied to the healing of grief elsewhere. There is value ill the simp'est expression of unexpected interest and sincere concern. It deprives sorrow of the more or less inseparable feeling of loneliness. It is i proof to the stricken heart that the lunlen is shared by others. With God's blessing it applies help and comfort. He who iins words at command will do well to use them thoughtfully as pos>ible in the blessed ministration orsvmpathv. He who has no iboice of words, but can only in simple jluntueta of speech ruake manifest his own joncern at his neighbor's distress, will do well to be not too tiiuiJ. Tiie mere hand rrasp. with the transfigured look, and the faltering words that have genuineness of oul in them, will t< II ihe other all he needs ;o know, and so will lie e fleeted Ihe good ;hat a beiulieent Father meant to be cfl?*ct;d when lie made us capable of symp: thy ind made svmpatliy :i link between heart ind hearts.?I'The Moravian. "Mn. GiJfonAM," said Taper, "1 wouiu use u. lurwuigiii/s a useuui; iy attend the wedding of a very dear friend." "It must be a very dear friend, indeed, to maice you want that much time. Who is it?" "W?Il, sir, after the ceremony sho will bo my wife."?TitrBits. AN exchange, In speaking of the marriage of a popular citizen, gives the age of the groom as 72, and says that for "every one of these years he was a bachelor." A truly remarkable mati. Comparatively few are born in the full bloom of bachelorhood. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR I JUNE 4. Lesson Text: "Reverence and Fidelity," Ecclesiastes v., 1-12? Golden Text: Romans xli., 11?Commentary. "This ia the boon and mirror of the natural man. The thread of the book is the expression, 'Under the sun,' which is found in it more than twenty-five times. Its conclusion, 'Fear God and keep His commandments,' has in it no redemptive power, but prepares the way for the Redeemer from above the sun. who alone can make all things new" (W. J. Erdman). The life of Ecclesiastes compared with that of the Song of Solomon is like the seventh of Romans compared with the eighth, it is the fruitless effort to do good and be good apart from Him who alone is good. In all the "times" of chapter iii., 1-8, there is no ' time to pray." 1. "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools, lor they consider not that they do evil." Our feet may take us to the house of God. but unless our hearts are right with God we shall be as fools. The life of a Christian is in the New Testament compared to a walk. We are to walk worthy of our vocation, walk in love, walk as children of light, walk circumspectly (Eph. iv., l,v., 2, 8, 15). 2. "Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God. for God is in heaven and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few." Not only do our feet need keeping, but also our mouths. David's resoluton was a good one, "I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue" (Ps. xxxix., 1). His prayer is always appropriate, "Set a watch, 0 Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips" (Ps. cxli., 3). How can w6 prder our words aright before God? I know of no way so good as being filled with His words. See how in Hos. xiv., 2, He puts the very words ia our mouths which He woilld have us say. And there are prayers throughout the Psalms suitable to every possible occasion. 3. "For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words." There are dreams from above the sun?from God Himself?of which many are recorded in Scripture, but ordinary dreams are from wordly cares. As to a multitude of words, we are told that in such there wanteth not sin (Prov. x., 19). and this may be true even of some/prayers we know about which occupy anywhere trom 10 to 20 minutes or more. Contrast with such waste of words and time the prayer of our Lord in John xvii., not over five minutes in length. 4. "When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it, for He hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed." Compare with this verse Num. xxx., 2 ; Deut. xxiii., 21-23; Ps. Ixvi., 13, 14, and be careful how you make promises to God. He is the faithful promisor (I Cor. i., 9; x., 13; I Thess. v., 24 ; II Thesa. ill., 3; Heb. x., 23), and our part is to trust Him, confide in Him, for all His promises are in Christ, yea and amen (II Cor. k, 20). 5. "Better is it that thou shouldest not vow than that thou shouldest vow and not pay," because that would be simply lying, and neither deceit nor lies can dwell in God's sight (Ps. ci., 7). Some people called Christians think it all right to make promises to their fellows which they have neither ability nor intention to meet. We would commend to such the last clause of Rev. xxl., 8, Ail liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." 6. "Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin." One member of the body may cause another member or even the whole body to suffer. We knpw this to be true physically. It is also true spiritually. See I Cor. xii., 12-27. If we believed this, we would be more careful of others' feelings and watch lest we should thoughtlessly cause another to suffer. 7. "For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities, but fear thou God." God said to Abram, "I am the Almighty God; walk before Me and be thou perfe<?t"?margin, upright or sincere(Gen. xvii.. 1.) Jesus says to us, "Lo, I am with you always" (Math, xxviii., 20.) This fact believed is the greatest possible corrective of one's life if we think of Him as the One who so loved us that He gave Himself for us. Then His love will constrain us to love what He loves and to avoid what He dislikes. 8. "He that is higher than the highest racrardeth. and there be hicrher than thev." Oppression of the poor and perversion of justice arc among the perplexing things of life even to this day. Bnt it is a very old story. David. Asaph and Jeremiah were all distui bed by tnese things (Ps. xxxvii. ,1,2; lxxiii., 3; Jer. xii., 1), but light is found in the context of each passage, and this verse of our lesson assures us that God does see and care. Our need is faith and patience (Heb. x., 36, 37 ; Rev. xiii. 10 ;xiv., 12). The llnished story will make all clear. 9. '-Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all r the king himself is served by the field." Nothing lives unto itself; all things exist for the good of all; even 1;he king with all his wealth has to depend upon the produce of the field. No one can truly talk o! being independent. The God in whose hand our breath is. and whose are all our ways, in whom we live and move and have our being (Dan. v.. 23; Actsxvii., 28). will require an account from us for thesethings. 10. ''He that loveth silver shall not be satisfled with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This is also vanity." The king who could make silver to be as plentiful ns stone (( Kings x.. 1:7) was qu.uitlerl to speak upon this subject, A greater than Solomon has advised us that we should lay up treasure in heaven, and by His Spirit has taught us that the love of money is the root of all evil (Math vi., 19-21; I Tim. vi., 10). Nothing under the sun can satisfy the human soul, but it is written, "My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, saith the Lord'1 (Jer. xxxi., 14). 11. "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them." To possess and enjoy is worth while, but to possess merely for the sake of gazing upon is surely vanity, and yet take out of most lives all that is not truly profitable, and how very little of earth's goods will be leTt as the portion which gives satisfaction? Nothing under the sun can satisfy the eye nor fill the ear (chapter i,, 8), but let us behold our Creator and Redeemer in the person of Jesus Christ, and He will be to us the chiefest among 10,000?yes, altogether lovely (Song v., 10, 16). 12. "The sleep of a laboring man is 3weet, whether ho eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."- Riches are uncertain, and profit not in the day of wrath (I Tim. vi., 17 ; Prov. xi., 4), but there are durable riches which accompany righteousness, even the riches of His trrace and glory (Prov. viii., 18; Eph. i., 7, 18), which the poorest laboring man can have without money and without price, and which will cause him to sleep all the more sweetly. ?Lesson Helper. George I. Seney, the millionaire philanthropist of Brooklyn, disposed of a good share of his property while living. He gave as reasons for so doing, that he was sure of Its going where he desired, and he could enjoy the good he saw it was doing other?. Would it not be well for all others, rich in this world's goods, to entertain similar views and go and do likewise? Objecting Parents?Yes, I know how it is with you young people. You'd get along so long as the sea is calm and it is smooth sailing, but what would you do in case of abquall? Fractical Sailor?Well, if the worst comes to the worst we can employ a | nurse. ?Puck. "My old aunt out in Brown County has sent me a jar of brand ied peaches," said Mr. Lash forth to a row of friends. "Now, while I don't like peaches, still I fully appreciate the -- ?u:?u ? 1?.. il spino ill Willi; u uiicjr VYC1C icuucicu. ?Indiauapolis Journal. "ITiis is a temperance hotel, isn't it?" asked one guest of another. "I think it must be," was the reply. "I never knew it to lie full."?Browning, King & Co. 's Monthly. ! FISHERIES EXHIBITS. NORWAY'S FINE SHOWING AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Many Styles of Craft in Which the Hardy Northerners Ply Their Trade on the Deep?Japan's Fishery Exhibit. TOBM ESCRIBING the J fisheries exhibit at the World's Fair, the Chicago Her_ aid sayB: Norway secured a large IjjWLfr concession from j&ysw \ Russia in the Fish6ii yfeitfTgji OF ery Building, and * " now Commissioner ^51=; J3FT Buch smiles over ^pJn^P the possession of one-sixth of all the . space in the main pavilion. He eminently deserves it, since in magnitude and completeness the land with its tip in the polar seas has surpassed other exhibitors, and, moreover, it is more than possible that some wandering viking in a crnde craft -was the first man to visit America. He is also ready -with his curious fisher shells that dance in the breakers of the Lofoden reefs, graceful barks that scoot around the Skager Rack, and stanch-ribbed yawls, of the Lister folk. There are a dozen of these boats, representing all the sections of the wide-reaching coast. Some show the quaint notions of the days of Eric and Harold as they are yet used in the fiords of the far North cape country; others are built on modern lines, making up in usefulness what they lack in beauty. Fishing is Norway's best business. The figures showing its magnitude ore too big to look well in print and so large they are beyond comprehension. Nobody can conceive what it means for a country to catch fifty million cod in three months, and this is only an official sample of the magnitude of this industry up to date this year. That is why this great country has spent so much money in this line at the Columbian Exposition and to show hazardous lives led by 40,000 of its good men. It has been the fish nurvevor of En rope, ^nd now Mr. Buch, who is director of the Government school in Bergen and a head in many other important branches of State work, hopes to extend the exports into the Westem world. The boats are only a fraction of the exhibit, bnt they form an interesting collection. There is an old chap with a high prow and a wooden rudder of large dimensions. It is used by the people who live in the northern end of the country, who retain many of the customs of olden times. Until a few years ago this style prevailed exclusively, but now the desire to beautify and add quaint trimmings is leaving these people, and soon the models of the daring salts who pillaged the English coasts when Britons lived in mud huts will only be found in booka The oars are massive, more than two strong men could easily ply. The sails are A NORWEGIAN BOAT FROM THE NOBTH CAPE square rigged and the anchors cumbersome and oddly shapped masses of iron. Walrus and seal capturing, with their attendant hardships and uncertainties, will also be shown. The boat used in this business is constructed with strength as the only requisite. The prow is sheathed with iron plates, a safeguard against contact with a piece of iceberg floating in the north 6eas. In the front is a platform, upon which the harpooner stands, with pigeonholes for the ropes of his weapon. Directly in front is a stack, about which the lifce of the harpoon is wound when the monster makes a plunge into the water and is off at a terrific speed with the boat in tow. It is also rigged with heavy guns, ice anchors, pikes, with seats for six men at the oars. The codfishery boats do not differ materially from those used in this country, save in points of construction. The lines are similar to those of the boats used on the Massachusetts coast. The most practical one in the lot is the Lister boat and the commis_e ii. sioner tmnKs tnis Biyie 01 vran, mu soon be universally adopted in the cod, herring and salmon catching, not only in Norway, but in America. It is not so light as the old pattern used by the vikings. It scored a great victory in the awful storm last January when 125 fishermen wero drowned. The only men who weathered the tor- , nado and escaped with their lives were hose who sailed in the j^ist er crafts. , A SOUTH OF NORWAY SHIP. Norwegian people refuse to eat fish which have been frozen. They .say they lose their flavor very shortly after death, and when the housewife goes to , the market she insists on seeing the . " ' T fL: UK +.TW 1 nsu uie. aiiiss uuu^ca iiuc ^abwudo .v bring their fish to the market alive. They consequently put the stock in- j tended for home consumption into queerly shaped wooden boats, with * holes in the sides. These boats sink j to the water edge, being covered. The j hshermen then tow a long string of these traps to the harbor. They frequently make twenty miles in a t night, and scramble for good positions f like the truck gardener in American city markets. ^ The Japanese also have a magniticoat s fishery show including models of 1 boats employed in the trade. Thty are examples in neatness and workmanship, just as all the contribution# A JAPANESE FISHING SHACK. from this country seem to be faultleca. The prettiest model is an angling boat. Its sails are made in long strips, extending from the yard to the bottom. They are knit together with ropes in a peculiar fashion and each strip is made fast at the bottom by a line of its own. The main stick is in the center, with smaller ones fore and aft. The rudder is nearly as long as the boat. The oars are spliced just above the socket * ?- 1?j ?- T_ it wliu ft Uttuu ui iUjpc? in ig suggests the ancient pictures of Cleopatra's barge. Speaking about fish, Captain L L. CJhurch, across the way in the Rhode Island section, can give any man cards and spades and then beat out on a story. He has spent some fifty years in capturing menhaden down the Atlantic coast, and his yarns beat any inland tale ever heard. He has records MEAN8 FOB TRANSPORTING FISH, - .. showing at one haul how hejahded 460,000 pounds of marketable ^fish. They filled 2300 barrels. This was a phenomenal catch, but it is not an nnusual thing for him to bring home 1POO barrels as the result of a single setting of a net. He incidentally remarks that fishing is the best trade in tliis country, the business being entirely free from strikes. The poorest paid hand receives $60 a month, including the best of board. The captain of a crew receives $2000 a year and the A1AAA mate sxuuu. The Singhalese. An interesting place to visit is the Pettah, or native market place, at Colombo, a busy scene at all hour^ filled with a great variety of races, colore and costumes. The tradesmen and merchants are Moormen and Singhalese. The former wear cotton trousers and jacket with a curious beehive-shaped hat of plaited grass and silk. The Singhalese wear a brightly* colored piece of calico twisted twice around the hips and reaching to the feet like a petticoat. Above this a white jacket. Their hair is very dark, long, wavy and glossy, and they twist it into a chignon after combing it straight back all around the forehead. They wear no head covering, but instead a circular tortoise shell comb, sometimes, in the . case of the more well-to-do persons, supplemented by a s tall, wedge-shaped back comb of the same material. The Tamils wear m little as possible, generally cetton cloth, gracefully disposed around tlia body. The Singhalese women dress bo much like the men that it is difficult A SINGHALESE GENTLEMAN. to tell them apart till yon note that the men only wear combs and the women hairpins. All the women of Ceylon, accustomed to carrying burdens on their heads, are very erect and graceful in their ?-.iv t-Ko irrnnnn r>f wnmAn around me.u?, ?uv, r> C v the wells waiting their turn to fill their jars (lotas) make extremely pretty pictures.?Detroit Free Press. A Gum-Chewing Town. ''There is more gum-chewing in St. Louia than in any other city on the continent," said Corliss Jordan at the Southern. "Brooklyn claims tp outchew any other city in the United States in the matter of prepared parafiine. But I have seen more men chewing gum here inside of one hour than I would see in Brooklyn in a week. 1 asked a druggist about it, and he tells me nearly everybody in St. Louis chews gum. I should certainly think so from observation. "One druggist sells over 8100 worth of it every week. The idea prevails here that gum-chewing helps the digestion. A little of it may, but constant gum-chewing injures the teeth and impairs the stomach. It creates saliva, which is carried to the stomach And causes n lri^utiui noovn ui ?.*?> valuable gastric juices. It keeps the stomach busy when it should be at rest. Some men chew pepsin gum because they think there is a lot of pepjin in it. There is not enough in a ;vagon load of it to save a mosquito ;'rom one dyspepsic pang. "The same fallacy obtains in thia :ase as in soda fountain sarsaparilla. [f you were to drink a hogshead of it rou wouldn't get enough genuine :araor>ori lla in+.n voiir svstflm to mobi ize a single pimple."?St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. v*ne ot the Chicago hotels boasts ;hat it serves seven kinds of oatmeal or breakfast "every day in the year.' A diamond for catting glass iaata ibout three months.