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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. ? Subject: "The Healing Touch." Text : " Who touched Me*n?Mark 8L j 'A great crowd of excited people elbowing each other this way and that and Christ in the midst of the commotion. They were on the way to see Him restore to complete health a dyintr person. Some thought He could l?ffect the cure; others that He could not. At jany rate, it would be an interesting experi!?nonf A cHsklr rrnmnn of fvalrA rpars' Invalidism is in the crowd. Some say her name was Martha; others say it was Veronica. I do not know what her name was, but this L ** certain, she had tried all styles of 1 cure. Every shelf of her humble home had ft medicines on it. She had employed many of | - the doctors of that time, when medical L science was more rude and rough and ighoB rant than we can imagine in this time when the word physician or surgeon stands for I potent and educated skill. Professor LightI foot gives a list of what he supposes may J have been the remedies she has applied. I " suppose she had been blistered from head to foot and had tried the compress and had used all styles ot astringent herbs, and she had been mauled and hacked and cut and lacerated until life to her was a plague. Beside that the Bible indicates her doctor's bills had run up frightfully, and she had paid money for medicines and for surgical attend( anco and for hygienic apparatus until her purse was as exhausted as her body. What, poor woman, are you doing in that Jostling crowd? Better go home and to bed and nurse your disorders. No! Wan and wasted and faint, she stauds there, her face distorted Swith suffering, and ever and anon biting her lip with some acute pain and sobbing until her tears fell from the hollow eye upon the laded dress, only able to stand because the crowd is so close to her, pushing her this .way and that. Stand back! Why do you crowd that poor body? Have you no consideration for a dying woman? But just at that time the crowd parts, and this invalid comes almost up to Christ. But she is behind Him, and His human eye does not take her in. She has heard so much about His kindness to the sick, and she does feel so wretched; she " * *? JJ *v - -**" itieffAiirth T7im nnpA It IQintfS II alio oau UiUT JIU> kvuw. ? Krill do her good. She will not touch Him on the sacred head, for that might be irreverent. She will not toach Him on the hand, for that might seem too familiar. | She says: "I will, I think, touch Him on . _' His coat, not on the top of it, or on the botb torn of the main fabric, but on the border, B the blue border, the long threads of the H binge of that blue border; there can be no 61 harm in that. I don't think He will hurt me, I have heard so much about Him. Besides that, I can stand this no longer. Twelve years of Buffering have worn me out. This is my last hope." And she presses through the crowd ptiil farther and reaches for Christ, but cannot quite touch Him. She pushes still farther through the crowd and kneels and puts her finger to the edge of the blue fringe of the border. She just touches it. Quick as an electric flash there thrilled baok into her Shattered nerves, and shrunken veins, and exhausted arteries, and panting lungs, and Withered muscles, health, beautiful health, rubicund health, Ood given and oomplete health. The 12 years' march of pain and pang and suffering over suspension bridge of nerve and through tunnel of bone instantly halted. Christ recoenizes somehow that magnetio and healthful influence through the medium of the blue fringe of His garment had shot out. He turns and looks upon that excited crowd and startles them with the Interrogatory of my text. "Who touched Me?" The Insolent crowd in subetanoe replied: "How do we know? You get in a crowd like this ?a ? ? ?* tAn^1Ai4 Vam nolr ana you must expect i<-? uo jugum. j.uu us a question you know we cannot answer." But the roseate and rejuvenated woman came tip, and knelt in front of Christ, and told of the touch, and told of the restoration, and Jesus said: "Daughter, thy faith had made thee whole. Go in Deace." So Mark gives us a dramatization of the gospeL Oh what a doctor Christ to 1 In every one of our households may He be the family physician. Notice that there to no addition of help to others without subtraction of power from ourselves. The context says that as soon as this woman was healed Jesus felt that virtue r strength had gone out of Him. No addition of help to others without subtraction of strength from ourselves. Did you never get tired for othere? Have you never risked your health for others? Have you never preached a sermon, or delivered an exhortation, or offered a burning prayer, and then felt afterward that strength had gone jgut^of you? Then you have never imitated Are you curious to know how that garment Of Christ would have wrought suoh a cure for this suppliant invalid? I suppose that Christ was surcharged with vitality. You know that diseases may be conveyed from city to city by garments as in case of epidemic, and so I suppose that garments may be surcharged with health. I suppose that hoH on oh nhvairtal magnetism that it permeated all rfis robe down to the last thread on the border of the blue fringe. But in addition to that there was a divine thrill, there was a miraculous potency, there was an on:nipot-int therapeutics, without which this 12 years' invalid would not have been instantly restored. Now, if omnipotence cannot help others <? ' without depletion, how can we ever expect to bless the world without self sacrifice. A man who rives to some Christian object until he feels n, a man who in his occupation or profession overworks that he may educate his children, a man who on Sunday night goes home, all his nervous energy wrung out by active service in churoh, or Sabbathschool, or city evangelization, has imitated Christ, ami the strength has gone out of him. A mother who robs herself of sleep In behalf of a sick cradle, a wife who bears up cheer^ fully under domestio misfortune that she may encourage her husband in the combat against disaster, a woman who by hard saving and A earnest prayer and good counsel wisely given and many years devoted to rearing her family for God and usefulness and heaven, and has nothing to show for it but premature gray f hairs and a profusion of deep wrinkles, is 1 like Christ, and strength has gone out of her. That strength or virtue may have gone out through a garment she has made for the home, that strength may have gone out through the sock you knit for the barefoot destitute, that strength may go out through the mtuitle hung up in some closet after you Ua o /lm'rvnla/^ aKIM a q f avanr WC UCaU. UU a vnypivu vuuu kA?? v? v*j morning on her father's front step so that when the kind Christian teacher passed by to school she might take hold of her dress and let the dress slide through her pale Angers. She said it helped her pain so muoh and made her so happy all the day. Aye, have we not in all our dwellings garments of the departad, a touch of which thrills us through and through, the life of those who are gone thrilling tniough the life of those who stay? But mark you, the principle I evolve from this subject. No addition of healteh to others onle?s there be a subtraction of strength from ourselves. He felt that strength had gone out of Him. Notice al?o in thi subject a Christs sensitive to human touch. We talk about God on ? vast scale so much we hardly appreciate His accessibility?God in magnitude rather than God in minuti?, God in the infinite rather than God in the infinitesimal?but here in my text we have a God arrested by a suffering touch. When in the sham trial of Christ tney struck Him on the cheek we can realize how that cheek tingled with pain. When under the scourging the rod struck the shoulders and back of Christ, we can re. alize how He must have writhed under the lacerations. But here thero is a sick and nerveless linger that just touches the long threads or the blue fringe of His coat, and He looks around and says, "Who touohed Me?" We talk about sensitive peopie, oui vuiui was the impersonation of all sensitiveness. The slightest stroke ol the smallest finger of liuman disability makes all the nerves of His head and heart and hand and feet vibrate. It is not a stolid Christ, not a phlegmatic Christ, not a preoccuppied Christ, not a hard Christ, not an iron eased Christ, but an exquisitely sensitive Christ that my text unveils. All the things that touoh us touch Him, if by the hand of prayer we make the connecting line between Him and ourselves complete. Mark you, this invalid of thetext might have walked through that crowd all day and cried about ther suffering, and no relief would have come If she had not touched Him. When in your prayer you lay your hand on Christ you touch All the sympathies of an ardent and glowing and responsive nature. You know that in telegraphy there are two currents of electricity. 80 when you put out your hand of prayer to Christ there are two currents?a current of sorrow rolling up from 1 your Heart to G&rtet and a current of commiseration rolling from the heart of Christ to von. Two currents. Oh, way do you go unnelped? Why do you go wondering about this and wondering about that? Why do you not touch Him? Are you sick? I do not think you are any worse off than this invalid of the text. Have you had a long 3truggle? 1 do not think it has been more than 12 years. Is your case hopeless? So was this of which my text i3 the diagnosis and prognosis. "Oh," you say, "there are so many things between me and God." There was a whole mob between this invalid and Christ. 8he pressed through, and I guess you can press through. Is your trouble a home trouble? Christ shows Himself especially sympajthetio with questions of domestioity, as when at the wedding in Cana He alleviated a housekeeper's predicament, as when tears rushed forth at the broken dome of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed to weep. There are men who if the tears start will conceal them. They think it is unmanly to cry. They do not seem to understand it is munlinpoa pr?H atHHodpo n orfiot h?arf T am afraid of a man who does not know how to cry. The Christ of the text was not ashamed to ory over human misfortune. Look at that deep lake of tears opened by the two words of the evangelist: "Jesus wept!" Behold Christ on toe only day of His early triumph marching on Jerusalem, the glitter- 1 lng domes obliterated by the blinding rain of tears In His eyes and on His cheeks, for when He beheld the city He wept over It. 0 Tnan of the many trial*, 0 woman of the heartbreak, why do you not touch Him? "Oh," says soms one, "Christ doesn't care forme. Christ is looking the other way. . Christ has the vast affairs of His kingdom to ' look after. He has the armies of sin to overthrow, and there are so many worse cases of trouble than mine He doesn't care about me, ( and His lace Is turned the other way.'' So His back was turned to this Invalid of the . text. He was on His way to effect a cure . which was famous and popular and wide re- 1 sounding. But the context says. "He turned Him about." If He was facing to the north, He turned to the south; if He was facing to the east, He turned to the west. What ? turned Him about? The Bible says He has no shadow of turning; He rides on His chariot . through the eternities. He marches on, 1 crashing scepters as though they were the ( crackling alders on a brook s bank, and tossing thrones on either side of Him without looking which way the fall. From everlast- < ing to everlasting. "He turned Him about." < He, whom all the allied armies of hell cannot stop a minute or divert an inch, by the wan, siok, nerveless finger of human suffering turned dear about. > Oh, what comfort there is in this subject for people who are called nervous! Of course it is a misapplied word in that case, but I use 1 it in the ordinary parlance. After 18 years I of suffering, oh. what nervous depression she , I mno+ tiora K H I Vftn All IfllflW that A ETOOd deal of medioine taken If it does not core I leaves the system exhausted, and in the Bible j in so many .words she "had suffered many . I things of many physicians and was nothing I bettered, but rather grew worse." She was 1 as nervous as nervous could be. She knew all about insomnia, and about the awful ap- , prehension of something going to happen, and irritability about little things that in ' health would not have perturbed her. I war- \ rant you it was not a straight stroke she gave to the garment of Ohrist, but a trembling fore-arm, and an uncertain motion of the . hand, and a quivering finger with which she missed the mark toward which she aimed, i She did not touoh the garment just where she expected to touch it. When I see this nervous woman coming to i the Lord Jesus Christ, I say she is making , the way for all nervous people. Nervous , people do not get mnch sympathy. If a man breaks his arm, everybody Is sorry, and they 1 talk about it all up and down the street If a woman has an eye put out by accident, they say: "That's a dreadful thing." Everybody ia, asking about her convalescence. But when 1 a person is suffering under the ailment of wnioh I am now speaking they say: "Oh, that's nothing. She's a little nervous, that's all," putting a slight upon the most agonizing oi suffering. Now, I have a new prescription to give you. I do not ask you to discard human medicament. I believe in it. When the slightest 1 thing occurs in the way of sickness in my < household, we always run for the doctor. I ( do not want to despise medioine. If you cannot sleep nights, do not despise bromide of potassium. If yon have nervous paroxysm, do not despise morphine. If you wants to strengthen up your system, do not despise quinine as a tonic. Use all right and proper medicines. But I want you to bring your insomnia, and bring your Irritability, and 1 bring all your weaknesses, and with them touch Christ. Touoh Him not only on the hem of His garments, but touoh Him on the shoulder, where He carries our burden, touoh Him on the head where He remembers all our sorrows, touoh Him on the heart, the oenter of all His sympathies. Oh, yes, Paul | was right when he said, "We have not a high priest who cannot be toaohed." The fact is Christ Himself is nervous. All those nights out of doon In malarial districts, where an Englishman or an American dies if he goes at certain seasons. Sleeping out of 1 doors so many nights, as Christ did, and s? hungry, and His feet wet with the wash of , 4-v^ex aon ar\A fKo v^Mnfnooa tmmn anrl thfl persecution, and the outrage must have broken His nervous system ; a fact proved by the statement that He lived so short a time on the cross. That 1s a lingering death ordinarily, and many a sufferer on the cross has writhed in pain 34 hours, 48 hours. Christ lived only six. Why? He was exhausted before He mounted the bloody tree. Oh, it is a wornout Christ, sympathetic with all peo- j pie worn out A Christian woman wont to the Tract House in New York and asked for tracts for distribution. The first day she was out on tier Christian errand she saw a policeman taking an intoxicated woman to the station i house. After the woman was discharged from custody, this Christian tract distributer saw her coming away all unkempt and unlovely. The tract distributer went up, threw her arms around her neok and kissed her. The woman said, "Oh, my God, why do you kiss me?" "Well," replied the other, "I think Jesus Christ told me to." "Oh, no," 1 the woman said, "don't you kiss me. It breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed me since my mother died." But that sisterly kiss broucht her to Christ, started her on the road to heaven. The world wants sympathy. It Is dying for sympathy, large-hearted Christian sympathy. There is omnipotence in thetouoh. Oh, I am so glad that when we tonoh Christ Christ touches us! The knuokles, and the limbs, and the joints, all falling apart with that living daath called the leprosy, a man Is brought to Christ. A hundred doctors could not cure him. The wisest suTgery would stand appalled before that loathsome patient. What did Christ do? He did not amputate ; He did not poultice; He did not scarify. He touched him, and he was well. The mother-in-law of the Apostle Peter was in a ] raging fever?brain fever, typhoid fever, or , what, I do not know. Christ was the physician. He offered no febrifuge; He prescribed no drops; He did not put her on plain diet. 1 He touched her, and she was perfectly well. Two blind men come stumbling into a room , where Christ is. They are entirely sightless. Christ did not lift the eyelid to see whether it was cataract or ophthalmia. He did not put : the men into a dark room for three or four weeks. Kg touched them, and they saw every- . thing. A man came to Christ. The drum of his ear had ceased to vibrate, and he had a stuttering tongue. Christ touched the ear, I and he heard : touched his tongue, aud he , articulated. There is a funeral coming out of that gate?a widow following her only boy fn tho nrovo r.hriat cannot stand it. and He ' puts His hand on the hearse, and the obsequies turn into a resurrection day. O my brother, I am so glad when we touch Christ with our sorrows He touches us. When out of your grief and vexation you put your hand on Christ, it awakens all human reminiscence. Are we tempted? He was tempted. Are we sick? He was sick. Are we persecuted? He was persecuted. Are we bereft? He was bereft. St. Yoo of Kermartin one morning went , out and saw a beggar asleep on his doorstep. The beggar had been all night in the cold. The next night St. Yoo compelled this beggar to come up in the house and sleep in the saint's bed, while St. Yoo passed the night on the doorstep in the cold. Somebody asked mm wby that eccentricity. Ho replied "It isn't an eccentricity. I want to know how the poor suffer. I want to know their agonies that I may sympathize with them, and therefore I slept on this cold step last night." This is the way Christ knows so much about our sorrows. He slept on the cold doorstep of an inhospitable world that would not let Him in. He is sympathetic now with all the suffering and all the tired and all the perplexed. Oh, why do you not go and touch Him? You utter your voice in a mountain pass, and there come baok 10 echoes, 20 echoes, 30 echoes perhaps?weird echoes. Every voioe of prayer, every ascription of praise, every V groan of distress has divine response and r celestial reverberation, and all the galleries I] of heaven are filled with sympathetic echoes and throngs of ministering angels echo, and the temples of the redeemed echo, and the hearts of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost echo and re-echo. I preach a Christ bo near you can touch j.' Him?touch Him with your guilt and get tb pardon?touch Him with your trouble and . get comfort?touch Him with your* bondage ^ and get manumission. You have seen a man take hold of an electrio chain. A man can , ' with one hand take one end of the chain, aad ^ with the other hand he may take hold of the ?> other end of the chain. Then 100 persons t. taking hold of that chain will altogether feel the electric power. You have seen that ex- ' periment. fo. Well, Christ with one wounded hand . takes hold of one end of the electric chain )n of love, and with the other wounded hand D0 takes hold of the other end of the eleetrio gn chain of love, and all earthly and angelio j0] beings may lay hold of that chain, and ^ around ana around in sublime and everlast- ^ lng circuit runs the thrill of terrestrial and an oelestial and brotherly and saintly and ^ 6herubio and seraphic and archangelic and Q divine sympathy. So that if this morning ' ( Christ should sweep His hand over this audienoe and say, "Who touched Me?" there would be hundreds and thousands of voices . i-espondlng: "I! I! I!" y0 CURIOUS FACTS. It! " ^ England imports Canadian turkeys, n A Philadelphia bellboy is a grand- W( ather. A hen's egg resembling a pie, it is <*' claimed, is an oddity at Ellijay, Ga. Turkey has 1500 postoffices, but no ecords are kept of the amount of mail landled. Reuben Lasher, of Rensselaerville, ST. Y., has a sheep which recently gave jirth to four lamba The date of the invention of enveopes is uncertain, but they were in < sommon use in Swift's day. iai An Illinois man is credited with the ^a jurious feat of writing 41M word on I \ ?ne side of an ordinary postal card. Th A letter addressed to "Roast Pig, pj Mass.was deciphered by the Boston it. nail clerks to be intended for Dedham. J stc The popular leather known as Cor- mi loven and used for dress shoes is tin really horsehide. It is supposed to be svaterproof. up During the complicated process of manufacturing stamps, they are ^ :ounted eleven times in order to guard gi? igainst pilfering. ba A bridal couple on their wedding m( tour, from Brussels, reached Rouen, ee< H*ere arrested ps cholera suspects, and spent a week in a pest-house. Jack Rice, a one-eyed, one-armed bo ind one-legged man, of Flushing, Long tin fsland, has just been sent to jail for ^ rmo mnntli fr\r fhraahinor n. Tiftichhnr. .1 Eight at the foot of a great glacier I c in New Zealand there is a tropica^ 6? growth of plant life and a hot spring, 8e( with water issuing forth at a tempera* tn ture of over 100 degrees. ey In the museum at Mayence are several piles from a Roman bridge acroBS ph the Rhine there. They are long and sti heavy beams, tipped with iron to prevent splitting when driven. The sap of the cow tree, as its name implies, resembles milk both in look and taste, and is very wholesome and nourishing. The tree grows in Ven- ^? ezuela, and frequently attains a height w of 100 to 125 feet. T1 "W An American traveling in the Sahara ha recently wrote to one of the Chicago do newspapers, saying he had found a in' bird's-eye view of the Columbian ex- jjjj position hung up in an Arab tent on ca the edge of the desert. ca A Brooklyn physician has a dozen ^ patients who have nothing to do but to nurse fanciful ailments and discuss dif them with their visitors. He pre ?" V* Am anrl BCriUCO uicau ifLLxa iui vuuiu) UQ imagination effects a temporary cure. po One of the oldest houses in America is generally reputed to be located at to Santa Fe, New Nexico. The building f*j was erected before the Spanish con- ? r quest, and itsis traditionally reported tai that Coronado stopped there in 1540. The largest slide in the world is at AJprach, in Switzerland, from Mount Pilatus to Lake Lucerne, eight miles. 0tl It is made of trunks of 25,000 trees, a 3 laid at an angle of ten to eighteen de- nv grees, and logs placed in it descend " to the lake in six minutes. is A curious will is to be placed on record in Louisville. It was written a ( by a young woman who poisoned her- ab Belf with laudanum in a sensational way te! recently. In the last agonies of death foJ the girl had scrawled her parting in- wl junctions to her friends in this world, ra on the pillow with a lead penbil. This pillow case is to be regularly recorded ,m and filed. ba A yellow pine on the banks of the ^ Rogue River, Southern Oregon, con- r* tained, according to a rough estimate, th< about eighty thousand acorns, which har? Koon rlr-i-eon infrn if.q Vmrk hv the California woodpecker. These acorns, thus Btrangely stored, are not valued of so much as articles of food direct as tfii for the worms which are afterward >rc found in the decaying portions of thfl ^ acorn kernela. m, A Lucky Accident. nn One of the greatest discoveries ever ^ made was the result of the purest accilent. It was the year of 1796. The lift litizens of Munich had just witnessed fu: the first triumphant performance of Mozart's opera, "Don Juan," and the the theatre was deserted by all save one i* < tnan, Alois Sennefelder, who, after 1X3 making a round of inspection in the building to see that no sparks had ignited anything combustible, retired to ] his room to stamp the tickets of admis- n ft sion for the day following. When he da; entered his apartments he had three things in his hand?a polished -whet- 0f stone which he had purchased for the ter purpose of sharpening razors, a ticket v" stamp still moistened with printing ink ,irv and a check on the treasurer of the vir theatre for his weekly salary. As he f?e.' placed the latter on the table a gust of wind swept it high up in his room and rjK then deposited it in a basin filled with Fa water. Sennefelder dried the wet paper as well as he could and. then wexgneci yn] it down with the whetstone upon which he had before carelessly placed the printing 6tamp. When he returned to ha. his room the following morning he was as astonished at seeing the letters printed with remarkable accuracy upon the jQt dampened paper. A thought came to ^ him. He wondered whether by some , such means he could not simplify hie * work of continually copying the songs m? of the chorus. He went out and purchased a large stone, commenced mak- pal ing experiments, and as we all know, alt finally discovered the art of print- ele ing from stone?lithography. ?Science ?je Sif tings. it ve; RELIGIOUS READING. HOW VICTORIES ARE WOK. If you will look into the oldest book of Dgraphies on the globe, you will find that e men who have conquered the strongest uptutions have not only the courage of eir convictions, but have had the indewell; power of God. Joseph, spurning a mendou? temptation, not because Potior saw him, but because Qod saw him: iniel, facing both a laugn in tbe palace ana b lions in tbe royal park: Paul, defying iro because "the Lord stood with me d strengthened me,"?these are the models r your imitatiou. Good impulses are undant andcheap. They will never hold you a sharp tight unless you have the staying wer which Christ imparts. To stand the eera of scoffers, to resist toe suoaen rusn r wealth, to conquer fleshy appetites, to Id au unruly temper under control, to ep base passions subdued, and to direct your plans and purposes straight toward b highest mark requires a power above ur own. Christ's mastery of you will give you selfistery; yea, and mastery over the power darkness and of hell. Faith will tire the it shot, and when the battle of life ends, u will stand among the crowned conerors in glory. The faith fight is a "good fight," because Is for the best objects, it ensures a clean art, a pure conscience and God's approval, is a good fight because God supplies us with apons. It is a winning fight, because the impotent Christ takes you into His own eping, and neither man nor devils a pluck you out of His hand. When the n of God is conquered you will be conered and not before. "Faith is a living power from heaven, It grasps the promise God has given; Securely built on Christ alone, YoMf *oul can never beo'erthrown.'' ? [The Fight of Faith. HAD AN EYE ON HIM. 'That young Brown has become a CbrisN 1, nas oer ou emu uiiu uusuicco uiau iv other. "Yes, I heard so." "Well. I'll ve my eye on him to see if he holds out. pant a trusty young man in my store, ey are hard to'find. If this is a real thing tn him. he will be just the man I want, e kept my eye on him ever since I heard I'm watching him closelv." 3o young Brown went in and out of the ire, and up and down the street. He xed with his old associate.", and all tbe tie Mr. Todd bad an eye on him. He itched bow tbe young man bore the sneer being''one of tbe saints," if he stood manfully for his new Master, and was t afraid to show his colors. Although r. Todd took rides, went to church, or 1 what he pleased on Sunday, he was very id to see that Brown rested on the Sabtb day and hallowed it. Though tbe ednesday evening bell never drew the >rchant to prayer-meeting, he watched to i if Brown passed by. Sometimes he said, Vbere are you going, Brown ?" and always :eived the" prompt answer, "To praytr?eting." Brown's father and teacher were th questioned as to how tbe lad was get>g on. For a year or more Todd's eyes were on own. Then he said to himself: "He'll . He is a real Christian. I can trust him. an afford to pay him. He shall have a od place in my store." Thus, young' Christians, others watch to 3 if you are true, if you'll do for places of ist. The world has its cold, calculating e on you, to see if your religion is real, or you are just ready to turn back. The >rk is pleasant and tbe pay good. These ices may be for you when, through his ength, you have proved yourself true, x an eye on him, and he will keep you in e way.-r-jExchange. STRENGTH IN FAITII. The strong men of earth are not tbe ubters or tbe disbelievers. Men who are revcr telling what they do not possess, bo cares what a man does not believe ? ie question is, What does he believe ? bat has be that is of any value ? What he * - -m - ? vr?? ,s nut is vi uu use iu auj .vue. iuou nuv i i great works believe something. The I ventors. the discoverers, the men who dss oceans, explore lands, solve problems d discover great principles, are men who n see wbat other people never have; they see a building before a stone is laid or a nber hewn. They can see a complete icbine before a single part'of it has been rmed. Men who see the invisible, who icern the sixns of the times, who observe e hand of God in nature, wbo see the irking of his providence where others see ily blind chMnce, are charged with eternal wer and tilled with thoughts of Ood; and ssing through this world they fill its solry places with songs and cause its deserts rejoice and blossom like the rose. Have Ith in God. "Without' faith it is impos>ie to him,'' but if we huve faith like a ain of mustarikseed we can move rnounns.? IThe Christian. GOOD ADVICE. Weovirheard a conductor on a train the tier day, counselling a casual acquaintance, roung girl, after the following fashion, owing at the same time that he was not ligious, but only "a sort of a decent railaijman:" "Never go to a donee?there always harm-it. It has proved many a ne the first step toward ruin for both men d women. Nq|; while I live would I allow l..uglite? of mine to go. I know too much out the harm there is iu it to allow adaugh of mine to dance." Not long before that we beard a man who r years had been a consistent Cbristinu, but 10 had been before conversion very dissiteil, say io prayer-meeting, "I wish I uld make others see as plaiuly as I do the 11 01 catd playing. I have tested it?It led } down almost to hell. It brought me into d company, it started me to gambling, it rew a strange fascination over vice, it al >st ruined my life forever. I hate cards ? *?nd I wish I could make others hate 3m!" tiie rower of ciiri8t. rt'hen 1 was a student at Princeton, Pro,sor Henry had so constructed a huge bar iron, bent into the form of a horseshoe, it it used to bang suspended from another in bar above it. Not only did it hang ;re, but it upheld four thousands poundsY light attached to it! That horseshoe ignet was not welded or gluei* to the metal oveit: but through the iron wire, coiled >und it, there ran a subtle current of eleccity from a galvanic battery. Stop the w of that current one inVtant, and the ge boi8e8hoe dropped. So does all t_he :ing power of a Christian come from the rrents of spiritual influence which flow ,o his heart from the living Jesus. The ength of the Almighty One enters into ! believer. Jf his connectiftn with Christ nit off. in an instant he becomes as weak any other man.?fT. L. Cuyler. keeping the vinevakd. Wends. the Lord of the vinevnrd will er awhile appear at the gate. The y of vintage will come. When the grapes olden times were gathered there was jrting through all the land and tbe sound musical instruments. What kind of eluus .-hall we tie able to show at last in our leyard? Will they he stunted mid sour ripe and large? If luitliuI in tbe planting, tl the trimming and tbe watching the lta^e will be gTorious. Let the niessen s of God put the full clusters into the tie press and then, with all the banqueters heaven, the instruments chordeu to tbe ht pitch, wc will drink new wine in our tbei's kingdom. God forbid that ours juld be the lamentation, "They made me r keeper of vineynnlx. tuit my own vinerd I have not kept."?[Christian Herald. A. distinguished French scientist 3 declared that the electric shock administered to criminals by the :w York law does not kill, but only luces unconsciousness, and that 5 victim is afterward finished off the dissecting knife. The statejnt, if true, is chiefly of interest scientific purposes, as it has no rticular bearing on the murderer's ;imate fate. Perhaps we have in :ctricity the coming anaesthetic, rtainly the unconsciousness which induces as applied in New York ia ry profound and permanent. i SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB JUNE 11. j Lesson.Text: "The Creator Remembered," Eccles. xil., 1-7, 3, 14? Golden Text: Eccles. xii., 1? Commentary. 1. "Remember now thy Creator in the days j of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them." In the last two verses of the previous chapter the young man is warned that there 1b s judgment to come, in the light of which all present things should be tested, and now he l? entreated to think of his Creator in the days of his youth and strength and to considei Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift. Let Samuel, David, Joash and Josiah be studied as examples. 2. "While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain." This ia suggestive of days of judgment, as in Isa. xiii., 10: Math. xxiv.. 29; Rev. viiL, 12; Jer. xiii., 16, for those who persistently refuse the mercy of God. But the content seems rather toi indicate the time of old cge, when the senses become dull, and with no light froir heaven in the soul the condition of suoh n one is dark and gloomy. indeed. Listen tc old Barzillal when invited by King David tc make his home with the king in Jerusalem "I am this day four score years old, and car I discern between good and evil? Can thj servant taste what I eat or what I drinki Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Wherefore, then should thy servant be yet a burden unto mj lord the king" (II 8am. xix., 35)? Barzilla: was doubtless a good man, yet hp simply describes the ordinary failures of the body ir old age. 3. "In the day when the keepers of th( house shall tremble, and the strong men shaL bow themselves, and the grinders cease be cause they are few, and those that look oul of the windows be darkened." This is sug gestive of the failure of bands and arms, feel and legs, teeth and eyes. The earthly h%us< begins to decay, failure is evident in ever} part, and if there is no light shining front above the sun it is a dreary picture. Bui listen to Caleb, the friend and companion o: Joshua, each of whom wholly followed th< Lord: "Lo, I am this day four score and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day at I was in the day tljat Moses sent me. As mj strength was then, even so is my strengtl now for war, both to go out and to come in' (Josh, xiv., 10, 11). 4. "And the doors shall be shut in the street! when the sound of the grinding is low, anc he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, anc all the daughters of music shall be broughi low." Suggestive of lips closing in upoi toothless gums, inability to sleep and failuri of the voice. Comment seems unnecessary rather consider the possibilities of an old ag< in the fear of God. Think of Moses, of whom it is written that at the age of 120 his eye waj not dim nor his natural force abated. At tba age he walked up the mountain alone anc went out to be with God, and 1400 years latei we find him alive and well (Deut. xjcriv., 7 Math, xvii., 3). 5. "Also when tt^ snail do airaia ox ina which is high, and fears shall be in the way and the almond tree shall flourish, and th< grasshopper shall be a burden, and desiri shall fall, because man goeth to. his Ion; home and the mourners go about tho streets.' This is probably suggestive of the easily terri fled old person to whom everything is a bur den and nothing is satisfying. The almond tre< may suggest the white head of old age, anc the grave is spoken of as the long home "Under the sun" is still the key. for rejoicing believer anticipates no long home in thi grave, "but "with Christ in paradise," "ab sent from ths body, present with the Lord' (Luke xxift X3; II Cor. v., 8). 6. "Or ever the silver cord.j)e loosed, o; the goldfin bowl be broken, or the pitcher tx broken at the fountain, or the wheel brokei at the cistern." Poaslbiy the reference her< may be to the spinal cord and whole nervoui sysiom, the brain, the heart, with its vein/ and arteries. However much or little th< writer may have known about these things the Holy Spirit who wrote through him wai "perfect in knowledge" (Job xxxvi., 4). 7. "Then shall the dust return to the eartl as it was, and the spirit' shall return unt( God who gave it." God/said to Adam Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou re turn." And the psalmist wrote concerning vain man, "His breath goeth forth; he re turneth to his earth; in that very day hi/ thoughts perish" (Gen. ill, 19; Ps. cxlvL, 4), Through Jesus, tno last Adam, the seconc man, we learn of victory over death and ol the fact that many shall never die. "W( ihall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eyo, al tho last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, 1 J -t-lt finu lUo utjau auaii uu rauscu mwuupbium and we shall bo changed" fl Cor. xv., 45, 47 51, 52). See also I Thess. iv.J 16-18. Andii contrast to this whole dreary picture of frali old age, with no light from heaven, listen to this contrast, "Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed daybj day." By receiving Him who became man and a sin offering for us we may be ?urc oi an endless life and eternal youth. 13. "Let us hear the COholusion of the whole matter. Fear God find keen His commandments, for this is the whole duty ol man." But inasmuch as no mere man since Adam fell, aver kept the commandments ol God there is little comfort here. "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (Jas. ii^ 10\ And it is written that the law was given to condemn man and prove to man his helplessness, ?ha? lid might be led to receive Him who is the fulfilment of the law and the end of the law for rightenoussness to every one that believeth (Rom. iii., 19, 20; x.,4:GaL ii.. 21: iii.. 21. 22). The Lord Jesus Christ is the only man who has ever done tho whole duty of man. He was mado sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (II Cor. v., 21). Receiving Him, He becomes our life and righteousness (John i., 12; I John v., 12 ; CoL Si., 4; I Coc.,i., 80), and His love constraining us wo live henceforth unto Him. rejoicing in hope of tho glory of God (II Cor. v., 14, 15; Boa. v., 1, 2). 14. "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secrct thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil." If we are in Christ, wo can rojoice that tho judgment for our sins is past, nhd they shall be remembered no more (John v., 24; Rom. viii., 1; Isa xliii., 25). Every believer will, however, appear before tho judgment seat of Christ that all his works as a Christian may be tried (II Cor. v., 10; Rom. xiv., 10; I Cor. iii., Ilia; Luke xlx., 11-26), and position in tlio kingdom will depend upon his faithfulness. So in due time and in due ordor tho secrets of all hearts shall bo made manifest, and only those who are in Christ and the works which He has wrought through them shall stand. Ail else shall perish.? Lesson Helper. Cyclone Storlea. The conscientious reporter of the Associated Press at St. Louis aid quite well wheu ne told of an elevator being blown acrois the Mississippi River at that point and landed on the site of a lumber yard, which was in turn transferred to the spot where the elevator had been. A very creditable cvclone story, indeed, but not equal to one which has lloated up from Georgia and runs thus: "An old colored woman in that State owns a large washpot which she claims was turned inside out by a cyclone. She say* the pot is as good as ever, only the legs and handles are on the inside now, and pester her when she stirs the clothes." ? Minneapolis Tribune An*d now it is said the new tannery trust is not to have things all its own way?that the Chicago packers are going into the business of tanning their hides, instead of disposing of them in their raw state. This will deprive the combination of the monopoly of th3 sole leather production, and the public will be the gainer by the competition. The military prisoner is forced to be guarded in all he says and does.? Troy Press. TEMPERANCE. t I WHISKY. What brings a man from station high Down to the gutter?there to lie With fellow tramps and meanly die? Whisky. What takes his self-respect away And makes him poorer day by day And causes health to soon decay! Whisky. What wrecks his happy home so sweet 1 And turns his family on the street To beg and starve in woe complete? J J Whisky 1 What makes his loving wife to moan And weep heart-broken and alone To pray for one who strikes her prone? Whisky What makes his children hang In shame Tlvir pretty heads and hate tne name L Of 4 'father*' who, when drunk, will maim? Whisky. > What makes him lose all friendship dear While strangers shun his presence drear , And children from him fly in fear? Whisky. What makes his body reek with slime > And steeps his once pure soul in crime i Which to the devil goes in time? t Whisky. , What makes him carry on his nose The horrid sign a drunkard shows AnH TTPQr olrl Hlrfv rtlnfK/viO r Whisky. > ^ What makes him as with palsy shake And with delirium tremens quake \ In torment worse than hades' lake? [ Whisky. L What makes him in the poor-house dwell Or All a prison's lonesome cell , Or on the gallows hear his knell? I Whisky. ' What should each youth who sees to shun These self-cursed human wrecks undone " Befuse to touch?lest he be one? j Whisky. r ' And what should everybody seek ' To rid the world of so the weak \ May not be crushed by tempter's sleek? Whisky ?H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Sun. SIGNIFICANT COKPABI8ON8. i The Bockford Monitor says that to get an ' intelligent Idea of the vastness of the drink bill of the United States for 1892?$1,200,000,3 000, we make a few comparisons: "The net 1 earnings of all the railroads of the United 1 States amount to less than one-third of our t drink bill. The loss of property by fixe In i 1891 was only one-ninth of the liquor bill. 3 The entire expenses .of the United States ; Government are only about one-half what we 3 pay for intoxicants. The aggregate capital x of all our National banks is about <700,000, ; 000 or but little more than one-half the t amount squandered on drink eaoh year." 1 r IQNOBANC* AND TEACHING. ' An exchange speaks as follows of the plan to teach all school children the nature and c effects of alcohol: ? "popular ignorance of the fact that alcohol ' and other narcotics have the power to create * an uncontrollable appetite for more leads to ? the formation of such appetites and their consequences. No boy expects to become a * drunkard when he begins to drink. In fancied security youfhof generation after ' generation have embarked in the current of 1 tippling only to be drawn into the rapids of * appetite and finally plunged over the awful ? nbyss of drunkenness. To prevent this and a .l _i. ?kll4VA/\4 aI IaJov on/1 Icnus pre-empt uio uuuujuuvu v? kv-u?i ...... the Nation of to-morrow, for an intelligent r sobriety is tie primary object sought by I what are called the temperance education I laws already enacted by the National Congress for ail schools under Federal control and by thirty-six out oMorty-four States that constitute the United States. In these schools are the overwhelming majorities of the future, the lawmaking power of t<h morrow. "Every year's experience and observation strengthens the f&nh in the' prophecy that ten years from the day whea physiological temperance to as thoroughly' taught in all the aohools as geogx&pBy and arithmetic the alcohol* Question will be settled and settled aright In this Republic by popular intelligence with corresponding habits. Hard indeed must be the heart of the man or woman who oould deliberately withhold the utmost warning scienoe has against strong drink end-other narcotics from the children under his or her care." PUNI8HIMO DBU1TKNNE8B. European scientists whoee labors are directed toward the betterment of present conditions are now discussing a question that is of as much importance to the people of this country as any of the complex social problems which public benefactors are endeavoring to solve. Shall drunkenness be punished as a crime? is their query, and the reply seems to be largely affirmative, brought out principally by the new Italian penal code, in whioh provision ^ made for tne erection of special asylums for alcoholic criminals. This change met with strenuous opposition from many of the most experienced legal practitioners, but it was deemed Dest Dy medical expero tnai , liquor-made criminals should be kept apart, | so that their peculiarities might be the more closely studied. In the United 8tates we have made no such advancement, bjji if *e%. son continues to rule this Nation* 'for a few years longer some such action will be necessary. Camoin de Vence, eminent as a magistrate, and one of the most active among social reformers of the practical variety, says that he has long since reached the positive conclusions that drunkenness should be declared by the law punishable, as well as the crimes committed under Its influence, when it was in the power of the delinquent to have avoided getting drunk; that drunkenness should be visited by a more severe penalty when the alcoholic excitement was purposely brought about in order to strengthen the determination to commit the crime, that it should be punishable with extenuation by the magistrate when it" occurs in persons of weak intelligence, whose power of enduring alcoholic drinks is diminished by the inferiority of their cerebral organization. The judge holds that drunkenness is Inexcusable in persons who know they cannot drink without danger, and that there is no admissible excuse for drunkenness unless alcoholism has produced cerebral lesions, from which result a real alienation of mind; and such an affection would, of course, be treated in an asylum for the insane.?Washington Star. TEMPEBANCE NEWS AND NOTES. We have in the United States 36,000 more saloons than public schools. The United States produced 10,000,000 gallons more wine last year than did Germany. Russia's daily drink bill is said to amount to $ 1,000,000, and Russia is confronted with famine. The employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad have been prohibited from smoking or chewing while on duty. In one of the great Paris Hospitals it was found that of eighty-three patients who suffered from epilepsy, sixty were children of drunken parents. The well-known scientist, Doctor B. W. Richardson, sums up the case against drink in the words: "If by any miracle England wore made sober, the average value of life of the people would be Increased one-third." Many people are going insane from the use or cocaine. The peculiarity of the cocaine habit when once it is flrmiy seated, is that it creates an ungovernable appetite for all kinds of stimulants, under the combined effects of which the victim sinks to ruin. Several of the large railroad systems of the country have inaugurated a temperance reform, insisting that all tram employes shall be abstainers from d-ink, and a number of men have been discharged recentiy on their refusal to be total abstainers. The authorities argue that even if a man is sober during his hours of duty, if he overdrinks one day, he cannot as safely perform his duty the next, in a position where human life depends upon a clear head and a steady hand. The New York Medical Times gives the following temperance or intemperance statistics "InGreat IJritair. and Ireland 145,000 persons are every year committed to prison as drunkards : 112,000 of these ure men. the rest women. Three tbousaand and four women were murdered in the United King dom from January 1. i889, to January!, 1891, by drunken husbands. There are 30,000 criminals in German prisons, 14,000 of whom were arrested lor crimes committed while intoxicated-" '';;v The Crown Prince of Portugal There are only two knights of th* ancient and illustrious Order of th? Golden Fleece who are under ten yean of age, saya the New York Tribune. One of them is the seven-year-old King of Spain, while tin other is the si* THB CBOWN FRJCTCK OF POBTOOAL. year-old Grown Prince of Portugal* who used to bear the title of Prince of Beira, bnt who, since the accession of his father to the throne, has blossomed forth into a full-fledged Duke of Braganza, that being the title borne by+ the heirs apparent to the throne. The Order of the Golden Fleece worn by , the six-year-old Duke was presented to him a few weeks ago by his cousin, the small King of Spain. There is much in common between the two boys; for while, on the one hand, the throne of Spain is considered so shaky that rt is doubted whether it will last until the termination of the young monarch's minority, that of Portugal is even in more dangerous condition. Not only x ? is it threatened by a Republican movement, which is far stronger in Portucml tKan in flnairr anil Kir a TdniMmi^ > Pretender, a sort of Portuguese Don Carlos, in the person of Don Miguel of Braganza, but it is even threatened by pedis from within the royd family itself. Indeed, so strained is the situation, and so strongly divided is the royal family among itself, that were King Carlos either to die suddenly or to abdicate, it is very doubtful whether the little Duke of Braganza would be permitted to succeed to his father's throne without very serious trouble. Inasmuch as King Carlos is in very bad health, so much so that his death or abdication on the ground of illness are subjects of open and constant discussion at Lisbon, it is possible thaithe little Duke may at any time become the subject of an insurrection and even of civil wr ?. There is s large party in Portugal which is strongly opposed to the young Queen M&rie Amelie, and who are determined St all ' costs to prevent her from obtaining *he supremacy in Portuguese wiairH.wmcu sljg wogld, on the death oj abdication of her husband, enjoy as Begent during the long minority of her eldest eon. They .are believed to have aeonred y^ support of the Queen Dowager, who is on the worst of terms with her daughter-in-law, Queen "Marie ^bneHe, both ladies being of the most imperious character and ambitious for supreme power. Should the party hostile ta Queen Marie Amelie secure the victory, they would put forward as successor to the throne, not the little Duke of Bra- < ganza, but the present Sing's younger brother, the Duke of Oporto, who ia the favorite son of the Dowager Queen Pia, and by far the most popular member of the royal family of PortugsfiL ? *? Railway Speed in England. 0 An eminent English civil engineer ha? recently observed that we often hear of a speed of ninety or 100 miles knimM nAfl/tkA/) kw *a?1wa?f 1/na^. wciug xuavudi uj xjuguou x ?u n ?j ivw motives, but for twenty-five years ho has ridden upon many engines and traveled on the. fastest trains in Great Britain for the t special purpose of ascertaining their speed. Upon a few occasions, and under favorable circumstances, he has recorded the very high speed of 79.9 miles an hour, but he states he has never been able to time an engine or train at as much as eighty miles an hour.?Iron Age. Largest Price for a Short Story. The largest sum ever paid for a short . * story was received by Charles Dickens from Robert Bonner. He paid Mr. Dickens $5000 for a story of less than thirty thousand words, and not even the remarkable success of the "Pickwick Papers" or the splendid earnings of Dickens gained by hia series of readings in America so greatly astonished that author as did this payment, which he confessed to his friend Foster was a preposterous sum to pay for so little work. ?New York Advertiser. Too Hearj lor Comfort. -1 McDermott? "sure usa ueuvy mau t yez are. How much,do yez weigh?" Fatman?"I suppose you'd like to see me weighed. ?" McDermott?"Yis, I'd like to see yez wade ashore."?The Bang's Jester. At the beginning of the century the Bible was accessible to but one-fifth of the population of the world. Now it may be read by nine-tenths oi' the people of the globe, so rapidly hats its translation been carried on. One-cent pieces arc being introduced in Oakland, Cal., for the first time. The .smallest legal tender formerly used wus tive-eent pieces. The army of St. Louis, in Egypt was panic-stricken when Greek firn was thrown among the man from the Saracen catanulta.