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REV. DR. TAB!AGE. / THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SER3ION. Subjcct: "Grapes From Canaan." !? Text ; "AmI they came unto the brook of Es?hol end cut doxen from thence a branch with one cluster of gropes, and they bare it between two upon a stajf."?Numbers liii., 23. The lonp trudgs of tho Israelites acro33the irilde rrsess v.*as almost end?d_ Thpv hail come to the borders of the promised land. I Of the 600,0C0 adults who started from Egypt for Canaan, how many do you suppose sot there? Fivo hundred thousand? Oh, no. Not 200,000. not 100,000. nor 50. nor 20, nor 10, but only 2 men. Oh, it was a ruinou3 inarch that God's people made, but their children were living, and they were on tho march, and now that they had como up to the borders of the promised land they were very curious to know what kind of a place it was and whether it would be safe to go ever. So a scouting party is sent out to recontooiter, and they examine the land, and they come back bringing specimens of its growth. Just as you came "back from California, bringing to your family a basket of pears or plums or apples to show what monstrous fruit thay have there, so this scouting party out cfif the biggest bunch of grapes they could find. It w&s sc large that ono man could not carry it, and they thrust a pole through the cluster, and there was one man at either end of tli9 pole, and so the bunch of grapes was transported. I was some time ago in a luxuriant vineyard. The vine dresser had done his work. The vino had clambered up and spread its wealth all over the arbor." Tbe sun and shower had mixed a cap whieh the vine drank until with flashed cheek it lay slumbering in the light, cluster against the cheek of cluster. The rinds of the grapes seemed almost bursting with the juice in the warm lips of the autumnal day, and it seemed as if all you had to do was to lift a chalice toward the cluster and its lifeblood would begin to drip away. But, my friends, in these rigorous climes we know nothing about lasge grapes. Starbo states that in Bible times and in Bible lands there were grapevines so large that it took f?o men with outstretched arms to reach round them, and ho says there were clusters two cubits in length, or twice the length from the elbow to the tip of the long finger. Achaicus, dwelling In those lands, tells us that during the time he was smitten With fever on? grape would slake his thirst for the whole day. No wonder, then, in thosa Bible times two men thought it worth their while to put their strength together to carry down one cluster of grapes from tho promised land. n .. ??? i Bat this morning I bring you a larger cluster .from the heavenly Eschol?a cluster of hones. "a "cluster of Drosneeta. & cluster of Christian consolations, and I ain expecting that one taste of it will rouse up your appetite for the heavenly Canaan, During the past winter some of thi3 congregation have 1 gone away never to return. The aged have put down their staff and taken up the scepter. Men in midlife came home from office or gjiop and did not go back again and nevlr will go back again. And the dear children, some of them have been gathered In Christ's arms. He found this world too rough a place for them, and so He has gathered them in. And, oh, how many wounded souls there are?wounds for which this world offers no medicament?and unless from the gospel of our Lord Jesus Cbrlst there shall . come a consolation there will be no consolation at all. Oh, that tho God of ail comfort would help me while I preach and that tho God of all comfort would help you while you hear! k I console you with the divinely sanctioned idea that your departed friends are as much yours now a3 they ever were. I know you sometimes get tho idea in your mind when you have this kind of trouble that your friends are cut off from you and they are no lonfTpr vnnr=! hnt the desire to hava all onr loved ones in the same lot in the cemetery is a natural desire, a universal desire and therefore a God implanted desire and is mighty suggestive of the fact that death has no power to break up the family relations. . If our loved ones go away from our possession, why put a fence around our lot in the cemetery'/ Why tho gathering of four or five namos on one fami>y monument? Why the planting of one cypress vine so that ft covers all the cluster of graves? Why put the husband beside the wife and the children at their feet? Why the bolt on the gate of our lot, and the charge to the keepers of the ground to see that the grass is cut and the vine attended to and the flowers planted? Why not put our departed friends in one common field and grave? Oh, it is because they are ours. That child, O strioken mother! is as much yours this morning as in the solemn hoar when God put it against your heart and said as of old, ''Take this child and nurse it for Me, and I will give thee thy wages." It is no inera whim. It is a. divinely planted principle in the soul, and God certainly would not plant a lie, and He would not culture a lie! Abraham would not allow Sarah to be buried in a stranger's grounds, although some very beautiful ground was offered him a free gift, but he pays 405 shekels for JIachpelah, the cave, and tho trees overshadowing it. The grave has been well kept and to-day the Christian travoler stands in thoughtiul and admiring mood gazing upon Maehpelab, where Abraham and Sarah are taking their long sleep of 4000 years. Your father may be slumbering under the tinkling of the bell of the Scotch kirk. Your uruiuer may nave gone down m tne snip tbat foundered off Cap a Hitteras. Your little child may be sleeping on the verge of the flowering western prairie. Yet God will gather them all up, however widely the dust ' may be scattered. Nevertheless it is p.easant to think that we will be buried together. When my father died and we took him out and put him down in thegraveyardatSomer ville, it did not saem so sad to leave him there, because right beside him was my dear, good, old, beautiful Christian mother, and it seemed as if she said: "I was tired, and I came to bed a little early. I am glad you have come; it seems as of old." Oh, it is a consolation to feel that when men come an/! with solemn tread carry you out to your resting place they will open the gate through which some of your friends have already gone and through which many of your friends will follow. Sleeping under the same roof, at last sleeping under the same sod. The autumnal leaves that drift across your grave will drift across theirs, the bird songs that drop en their mound will drop on yours, and then in starless winter t nights, when the wind comes howling through the gorge, you will be company for each other. The child close up to the bosom of its mother. Tho husband and wife remar ried ; on their lips the sacra/hent of the dust. Brothers and sisters who used in sport to fling themselves on the grass, now again reclining side by side in the grave, in flecks of sunlight sifting through the long, lithe willows. Then at the trumpet of the archangel to ris3 side by side, shaking themselves from the dust of ages. The faces that were ghastly and fixed when you saw them last all afiusn with the light of incorruption. The father looking around on his children and saying. ' Come, come, my darlings; this is the morning of the resurrection. ' Mrs. Sigournsy wrote beautifully with the tears and blood o! her own broken heart: r There was a shaded chamber, A silent watching banO, I On a low couch a suffering child Grasping her mother's hand, t But 'raid tho gasp and strugjlo With shuddering lips sho cried; "Mother, ob, dearest mother, Bury me by your side." Only one wish she uttered As life was ebbing fast: " Sleep by my side, dear mother, And rise with me at last." Oh, yes, we want to be burled together. Sweet "antetype of everlasting residence in each other's companionship. Whan the wrecker went down into th? <abln of the lost steamer, he found the t mother cnrl child In each other's arms.. It was sad, but It was beautiful, end it was appropriate. Tosether they went down.. Together they will rise. One on earth. One in neaven. is inero not someinin^ cnoonni? :in all this thought and something to impress upon us the idea that the departod ara ours yet?ours forever? But I console you apain with the fact c I your present acquaintanceship and comi munictttion with your departed friends. I I . havo no sympathy, I need cct say, v/ith thi s idea3 of modem spiritualism, but what 1 I meaa is the theory set forth by the apostle a when he says, "We are surrounded by a ^ groat cloud of witnesses." Just as in the V ancient amphitheatre there were 80,000 or 100,000 people looking down from the galH Series upon the combatants in the center, so. saj* Paul, there Is a great host of your friends in all the galleries of the sky lookinq down upon our earthly struggles. It is a Eweet, a consoling, a scriptural idea. With win-;; of angel, earth and heaven are in constant communication. Docs not the Bible say. "Aro they not sent forth as ministering "spirits to those who shall l>o heirs of salv.ition?" And when ministering spirits come down and see us, do they not take some inessago bask? It is impossible) to realiso, I know, the idea that tbere is such rapid and perpetual intercommunication of earth and heaven, but it is 3 glorious reality. You take a rail train, and J- f.?ll IUU IXiUXl 19 All. lull U.VUUU, UUU (lUUbUCl HckUJ from the opposite direction flashes past you so swiftly that you are startied. All the yray between here and heaven is filled with the up trains and the down trains?spirits coming?spirits going?coming?going?coming Koin;?/ mat friend or youra who died last month ?do you not suppose he told all the family news about you in the good land to the friends who are gone? Do you not suppose that when there are hundreds of opportunities every day for them in heaven to bear from you that they ask about you?that they know your teare, your temptations, your struggles, your victories? Aye, they do. Perhaps during the last war you had a boy in the army, and you got a pass, and you went through the lines, and you found him, and the regiment coming from your nelgborhood and you knew most of the boys there. One day you started for home. You said. "Well, now, have you any letters to send? Any messages to send?" And they filled your pockets with letters, and you started for home. Arriving home, the neighbors came .! in, and one said, "Did you see my John?" and other3, "Did you see George?" "Do you know anything about my Frank?" And then you brought out the letters and gave them the messages of which you had been the bearer. Do you suppose that angels of God, coming down to this awful battlefield of sin and sorrow and death and meeting us and seeing us and finding OHt all about uS, carry back no message to the skies? Oh. thero is consolation In it! You are In present communication with that land. They are in sympathy with you now more than l they ever were, and they are waiting for the moment when thehammer stroke shall shatter the last chain of your earthly bondage, and ' your soul shall spring upward, and they will stand on the heights of heaven and see you , come, and when you are within hailing dls- ' tanoe your other friends will be called out, | and as you flash through the pearl hung gate their shout will make the hills tremble. "Hail! ransomed spirit, to the city of the J blessed P* 1 I console you still further with the idea of a resurrection, I know there are a great i many people who do not accept this because tfeey cannot Understand it; but, ray friends, ((here are two stout passages?I could bring a hundred, but ?warthy passages are . enougtf^aha one DavMwill strike down the 1 largest Goliah. "Marvel not at this, for the i hoar is coming when all who are fn their graves shall come forth." Theotherswarthy passage is this: "The Lord shall descend ? from heaven, with a shout, and the voice of ( the archangel, and the trump of Qod, and the dead in Christ shall rise first." Oh, thera will be such a thing as a resurrection. You ask me a great many questions I can- 1 not answer ?about this resurrection. You say, for Instance, "If a man's body is con- ( stantJy changing, and every seventh year he has an entirely new body, and he lives on to 1 seventy years of age ana so has had ten dif- 1 ferent bodies, and at the hour of his death : there is not a particle of flesh on him that was there in the days or nis cnuanooa, in mo resurrestion which of the ten bodies will come up or will they all risoV" You say, "Suppos3 a man dies, and hi; body is scattered in the dust., and out of that dug: vegetables grow, an;\" Caen eat the vogtables, and cannibals slay those men and eat tiien, and cannibals fight with cannibals until a^Ustthera shall be? a hundred men who shall have wltbH "tBeih some particles th.it started from the dead body first named, coming up through tho vegetable, through the first man who ate it and through the cannibals who afterward ate him, and there be more than a hundred men who havo rights in the particles of that body?in the resurrection how can they be assorted when these particles belong to them all?' You say, "There is a missionary buried in Greenwood, and when he was in China he had his arm amputated?in the resurrection will that fragment of tho body fly 16,000 nil's to join the rest of the body?" You say, "Will it not be a very difficult thing for a spirit coming back in that day to find tho myriad particles of its own body, when they have been scattered by the winds or overlaid by whole generations of the dead, * looking for the myriad particles of its own body, while thcro are a thousand million other spirits doing the same thing, and a!i the assortment to be made within one day?" You say, "If 150 men go Into a place of evening entertainment a ad leave their hats and overcoats in the hali, when they come back it is almost impossible for them to get the right ones, or to gat them without a great deal of perplexity, and yet you tell me that myriads of spirits in the last day will come and find myriads of bodies." Have you any more questions to ask? Any more difficulties to suggest ? Any mors mysteries? Bring them on! Against a who!*} regiment of skepticism I will march thes s two champions: "Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves shall come forth." "The Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout, and tho voice of the archangel, and the trump or God, and the dead in Christ shall rise llrat.*' You see I stick to these two passages. Who art thou. O fool, that thou rcpliest against God'/ Hath He promised, and shall Ha not do it? Hath He commanded, and shall He not bring it to pass? Have you not confidence In His omnipotence? If He could in the tlrst place build my body, after it is torn down can He not build it again? "Oh," you say, "I would believe that if you would explain it. Iam not disposed to b<? skeptical, but explain how it can be done." I My brother, you believe a great many things you cannot explain. You believe your minJ acts on your body. Explain the process. This seed planted comes upa blue flower. Another seed planted comes up a yellow flower. An vbiiur a*rcu piamua cumus up fi wuiiu uuwlt. Why? Why that wart on your linger? Taii mo why r?ome cows have horns and othei e0W3 have no horns. Why, when two obstacles strike each other in the air, do you hear the p&v.ussioa? What is the subtle en?r^v 1 that dissolves a solid in a crucible? What makes tho notches on an oak leaf different froai any other kind of leaf? What makes tho orange blossom different from that of the rose? How can tho almightiness which rides i on tho circle of the heaven find room to turn Its chariot on a heliotrope? Explain these. Can you not do it? Then I will not explain tho resurrection. You explain one-half o the common mysteries of everyday life, and I will explain all the mysterios of the resurrection. You cannot answer me very plain questions in regard to ordinary affairs. I am not ashamed to say that I cannot explain God, and the judgment, and the resurrection. I simply accept them as facts, tremendous and infinite. Before the resurrection takes place everything will be silent. Tho mausoleums and the labyrinths silent. Tho graveyards silent, the cemetery silent, save from the clashing of hoofs and the grinding of wheels as the last funeral procession como3 in. No breath of air disturbing the dust where Persepolls stood and Thebes and Babylon. No winking of the eyelids long closed in darkness. No stirring of the feet that once bounded the hillside. No opening of the hand that once plucked the flower out of the edgo of the wil<5 wood. No clutching of swords by the men who went down when Persia battled and Kome relL Silence from ocean beach to mountain cliff and from river to river. The sea singing the same old tune. The lakes hushed to sleep in the bosom of the same great hills. No hand disturbing the gate of the long-barrod sepulcher. All the nations of tho dead motionless in their winding sheets. Up the 6ido of tho hills, down through the trough of the valleys, far out In the caverns, across the fields, deep down into the coral palaces of the ocean depths where leviathan sports with his fellows?everywhere, layer above layer, height above neignt, uepin ociow a?pm?uean! aeaa! dead! But in the twinkling of on eye, as quick cs that, as tno archangel's trumpet comes pealing, rolling, reverberating, crashing ncross continents and seas, the earth will give one fearful shudder and the door of tho family vault, without being unlocked, will burst open, and all the craves of the dead will begin to throb and heave like tho waves of thesea, and the mansoleum of princes will fall into dust, and Ostend and Sobastopol and Austerlitz and Gettysburg stalk forth in the lurid air, and the shipwrecked rise from the deep, their wet locks looming above the billow, and all the land a&dalltheaeabeoome tno moving mass of life?all venerations, all ages with upturned countenances?some kindled with rapture and others blanched with despair, but gazing in one direction, upon one object, and that tho throne of resurrection. On that day you will get back your Christian dead. There is where the comfort comes in. They w?ll come up with the same hand, the same foot and the same entire body, but with a perfect hand, and a perfect foot, and a perfect body, corruption, mortality having become immortality. And, oh, the reunion! Oh, the embrace after so Ion# an absonce! Comfort one another with these words. Whilo I present these thoughts this morning does it not seem that heaven comes very near to usj as though our friends, whom wo thought a great way off, are not in tho distance, but close by? You have sometimes come down to a river at nightfall, and you have been surprised how easily you could hear voices across that river. You shouted over to the other side of the river, and they shouted back. It is said that when George Whitefleld preached in Third street, Philadelphia, one evening time his voice was heard clear across to the New Jersey shore. T - u: 1 ~ 4-u*. VTUUU. X WOO u XILIJC WU1.U U_l itlO army, I remember how at eventide we could easily hoar the voices of the pickets across the Potomac just when they were using ordinary tones. And as we come to-day and stand by the river of Jordan that divides us from our friends who are gone it seems tome we stand on one bank, and they stand on the * other, and it is only a narrow stream, and our voices go, and their voices come. Hark! Hush! I hear distinctly what they say. "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Still the voice comes aoross the water, and I hear, "We hunger no more; we thirst no more; neither shall the sua light on us nor any heat for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne, leads us to living fountains of , water, and God wipeth away all tears from our eyes.'' ? CURIOUS FACTS. London makes 90,000 pianofores anmally. ' An Antwerp (Belgium) steeple is 476 !eet high. Aristides of Thebes was, according , ;o Pliny, the greatest master of exiression. The portrait statuea of the early Roman Emperors are among the finest 1 relics of ancient art. There is a zinc mountain near Hillsjoro, New Mexico, which has a base sovering about 500 acres. Public schools have been in existence in Massachusetts since 1645, andpolicenen in New York since 1697. In 1836 English drafts crossed with i banker's name were made payable >nly to or through the same banker. Of King Mithridates of Pontus historians say that he spoke twenty-two j languages and knew by name each one ; of his 80,000 soldiers. Cyrus, the Persian king, and Julius Caesar were also J familiar with the name of every soldier < in their vast armies. Napoleon and I the Duke of Wellington had the same j faculty, though in a smaller decree. , Previous to 1847 the mails were carried by private firms, and rates varied, : according to the distance of their des tination. Carriers frequently traveled j on foot or on horseback, and their pro- i gress was slow. In 1816 some of the 1 postoffices established local stamps of ' their own. These were known as pro- ; visional issues. The adhesive stamp was first used in the United States in ' 1847, and prepayment was made com- j puisory in 1000. ?s?-. j The Fox-Terrier. Of all small dogs the fox-terrier is j the most engaging, and for many years t has been the most fashionable com- i panion for young men. He was orig-. ? inally kept as an addition to every pack of fox-hounds, and was used to worry the fox out of a hole when in the chase ReyAard had gone to the ground. Of ] recent years, however, the fox-honnd < has developed so mnch speed that the little terrier cannot keep up in the i chase. For a while a huntsman used 1 to carry a fox-terrier on horseback to 3 be used in case the fox went to ground, { but nowadays, in hunting countries, ^ fox-terriers are so nutnerons that one f can always be had for the huntsman's j use in any neighborhood. The fox- t terrier is the most gentleman-like of i all dogs, and his cleanly habits make 1 him welcome wherever he is known. , He is also as courageous as possible, t The writer once saw at the Central t Park menagerie a small fox-terrier f chained in an elephant's cage. The two t were evidently good friends ordinarily, ? but something was wrong the day the 8 writer saw them. JL'ne terrier was iy- t ing in his corner evidently in the sulks, j The elephant, with a comical twinkle 1 of his eyes, would pick up straws with | his trunk and drop them on the dog. $ The terrier for a while shook these off, s and merely growled. Then, his pa- J tience worn out, he jumped out and t dashed at the elephant with Bavage anger. He went as far as his chain would let him. The .huge elephant backed as far as he could into a corner, and seemed to be trying to make him- j self as small as possible. But there s was a twinkle in his eyes, and there j seemed to be a smile on his face. The t fox-terrier tugged at his chain, and n acted as though he would eat that elo- < phant up if he could only get at him. * It was a most comical sight. There is ? no better dog to destroy vermin, and \ he courses rabbit3 with much zest. A 3 good fox-terrier puppy costs from five 3 to one hundred dollars. Mr. August ^ Belmont several years ago paid in Eng- * land five hundred guineas for his dog j Lucifer.?Harper's Young People. f Freaks of the Wind. . t "Cyclones is funny things," said the 3 man with the ginger beard. * t CVrto '' flio a a Tip ^ A CDj ?OOV? U WVU UliV WWkf uv g lifted the cat out of the dried apple barrel, "I guess you are about right. I've read?" r "I don't know just what you might t have read, but I can tell you of things J I have seed. I see a little town out in r Kansas wiped azactly half out by a cy- a clone, while the other half wa'ut even touched. Place was cut in twojist as if it had been done with a knife. Funny thing: the Mayor of the place was a- c standin' in the middle of the street ' when old Cy came along. Now, this ? hers feller lis had the finest pair of [ side whiskers I ever see. In fact, that is how it conic that he was Mayor?the women vote out there, you see. Weil, H as I was savin', ho was standin' iu the ^ middle of the street when the twister ceme along. An' what does it da but ^ just barely reach out to where he was ivid pull one of them side whiskers clean off, while the other side of his p face wasn't touched. Thut shows what i a clean and narrer path one of thorn a cyclones takes. So never you mind lwhat you have read about cyclones in ths lying newspaper. No man knows nothing about them, when you ain't o eaa one."?Indianapolis Journal. 1) f RELIGIOUS READING. * IN" rnoTECTioi*. There is n castle beautiful, Besieged by bitter foes, If he, within, is dutiful Le< Its faithful lights disclose: Its bidden chambers few i^en see. And of tlidr treasures none agree. But many on that outer wall. By sun and tempest marred, 11 Do often gaze and doubt if all th?: Within hath perfect guard; Th More envious and bolder grow, of n E'en tamoer with its locks to know. or 1 Aye! trample flowers that smiling rise About the battered wall; (-les And Time, with sport beguiling flies, to Discov'ring not. yet all! so;I But wise the master, untouched, stands, Despite these cruel, artful bands. 2( For One is building 'yond the skies, in? A castle nobler far than this; P?? A castle time and storm defies, the And there his greater treasure is ! tro' Wbiit though this ciiMtln shall rieeav ex" Its beauty fiideand fall away. j*?' Unto tbnt fitter, far abode aid The germ of bright eternal life, I seei Unwnrpcd by earth's too heavy load, the: Untouched by earth's soon ending strife moi Shall speed with unencumbered wing, 2: To wake the bliss the angeis sing. law ?Mrs. Marshall FJamburgh. beii the alsc A CimrSTIAK IIKRO. p0( Such a hero was Michael Verran, a splen- 9? did specimen and true type of a Christian ' Cornish miner. ^ From a boy lie had lived and worked in r.t the dark mines, but he learned to lisp the th mime of Jesus at his mother's knee, and the .,ufi dark galleries and levels of the mine did not hinder his having an abiding sense of the ? Saviour's presence. ' Ope day in bis full manhood he was engaged with two others sinking a shaft. They maj had bored a hole in the usual way for blast- ^ ing, and then, according to a rule, one of the bee three had ascendtd the shaft leaving the for to finish the preparation for firing the aire cbarec- . exn The hole was filled with powder and se- 2curely tamped, and all that was left to do was to cut the fuse and then for one man to j^ei asccnd the shaft and let down the bucket for at a the last, so that he who fired the fuse mteht bave time to be drawn up to the surface oefore the charge should explode. pOV oml Ilia I'rtmnoninti hail Koonmo -ui familiar with danger. They were carel?s:>; |re!; and while the fuse was attached they set to the. work to cut it through with a atone and-an iron drill. In doing it the iron gave out a f0r spark, and in a second the hissing of the 21 fuse told tbem that in a few momenta the pra charge would explode. pri? Both dashed to the shaft, and holding on pUt to"the bucket, gave the signal to be drawn jSj up; but alis! the strength of the man at the pra windlass was not equal to lifting two; he (p3 conld wind up only one man at a time. spi To remain was death to both, and it war W0r Michael Verran's turn to ascend. He looked fler it his companion, stepped from the bucket, 2( ind quietly said: qua ' Escape, lEd, for tby life; I shall be in The [leaven in a minute." . on < Swiftly the bucket ascended, and the man jnt saved leaned over the pit's mouth and lis- a q tened?listened for what? For the great bon roar and boom that told of the sudden des- coir Auction of the brave comrade who had given and up his life to save him. eve; Up came the smoke and rubbish, blinding f#Jr ind sickening. There could be no doubt of cap .he miner's fate, close shut against that fear- thei fill hole. Yet down they hurried, and 2' miong the scattered blocks" of rock at the enii Dottom of the shaft tbeysbouted in faltering self tones his name, "Michael! Michael! Where sufl ire you?" tho And the stroug answer came, "Thank God, mer L am here." . mot Eager hands dragged away the rubbish in h xnd rock, and there, underneath a huge afte dab of stoop that had blown across him, and intc lodglfigrguiiietlhc O" o? the shaft protected spa iiim from aj] the rest, they found him safe, xiv. not a scrafch upon him nor his clothes torn. 2S He had set himself down in the corner of his ing, rocky prison, placed a shield of rock before Her iis eyes, and commended bissonl.in nraver the :n God, ond the Ood who cared for Daniel He n his rocky dungeon had delivered him and nor laved him from death.?Toronto Guardian, owr an H do i JIOW MUCII DID YOU TAKE? "Uaveii't we had a fine sermon?" said one ^ g ady to another, while passing out with the pau jongregation at the close of a Sunday.service. wiic replied tbe other, "I think we have? Uke liow much of it did you take?" The sermon guc] was really a Kood one, upon "Charity," out ivhich "suffereth long, and is kind, envietli ^ar jot, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, far leeketh not her own, is not easily.provoked, hinketh no evil." The diction of the sermon ivas almost unexceptionable. Tbe lady who jje io warmly praised it was fashionably iressed. accustomed to live quite at her ease, ihd so far $s we could learn, not particularly gut ?iven to sacrificing her substance or conven- Hve) once for tbe benefit of anybody, eke, and f0r ;vas often heard maKing very uncharitable ,jan emarks about others; yet she was captivated a s0 with the sermon; it was a fine one, she 30 . bought; sbe had been interested and enter- Qf J ained. While we remained within hearing 31 ihe had iu t framed a reply to the cfaestion, jes, 'How much did you take of it?" This is the hou est question as to the true appreciation of a ^ t iernion. What avails it that we praise the flnj< lermon while never taking it to the heart or t ind the home for practice? How often is 32 he sermon eulogized, and tbe preacher com- the jlimented. with no manner of profit to the No 1 learerr oo u wna :n ilzckiuib uay, ana &o turt t will continue to be: '-Lo, thou art unto law hem as a very lovely son-: of one that hath end i pleasant voice, and can play well on an in- one itrument; for they hear thy words, but they rect lo them not." "How much of it did you and ,ake?" is the question that remains after all (Ga lie pleasant compliments.?Selected. I Jo 33 the THE QUEEN Of ALL. bap Honor the deur old mother. Time has ^ u irattereil tlie snowy Hakes on bcr brow, and ?.r'1 )lowed deep furrows 011 her elipck, but is ibe not sweet and beautiful uow? The lips ire thin am! shrunken, but those are the "r0< iDS which have kissed msny a hot tear from lireI he childish cheeks, and they are the 3t^ iweetcst Hps in all the world. The eye is .,3* lim, yet it glows with all the soft radiance of r . t holy love which can n6ver fade. Ah, yet, J?lCl ibe is a dear old mother. The sands ot'life *n v ire nearly run out, but feeble as she is, she vill go further and reach down lower for rou than any other on earth. Yon cannot tnal valk into midnight where she cannot see Jro rou; you cannot enter a prison whose bars ?urJ vill keep her out; you cannot mount a scaf- Ior 1 old too high for her to reach that she may ciss and bless you in evidence of her deathess love. When tbe world shall despise and I otsake you; when it leaves you by the way- sonJ lide unnoticed, the dear old mother will ^ea ;ather you in her feeble arms and carry you lome, and tell you of all your virtues until can 'ou almost forget that ylour soul is disfigured pan T ...... I..,. ?..n/4n.u. .nil iv vHia, xjyj\vzu\.k iciiuuij , uiiu icci uci COV1 i?clining years with holy devotiou.?Select- g0IE spri Generally speaking, as those who have the P0^ nost grace ami the greatest gifts, and arc of dea he most usefulness, are the most humble, tfoo ind the most meanly of thenuelves, so those <rmjrhs and branches ?>f trees which are * ' no?t richly laden with fruit bend downward 111,11 tnd iiang ioweat.?(.Dr. Gill. furl kne The world that wr inherit must have an iri^in; that origin must have consisted in a &e 1 aiise; !b:tt cause nmst have been intelligent; , Mai. intelligence must have been supreme: ind Mint supreme, which always was and is gcsl ii{?r?'M)?>. wc know by the uaine ol Uod.? n! tcoidj IMvine Pie ^ pov Milkman (apologetically) ? The UP? nilk is a little blue this morning. ing Irs. Housekeeper?It must be think- dea ag how everlastingly poor it is get- har incr.?Trov Press. 1 It shows hotter discipline to havt uut laronts take after their children than Wh t does to see the children taking life fter their parents. ?Rochester Demo- Dea Goose eggs have been picked up ,e^ ut in Shackleford County almost as arge as hail-stones?Dallas Hews. * 8 SABBATH SCHOOL, f rERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JULY 9. p 3son Text: "Paul at Philippi," Acts xvi., 19-34?Golden Text: Acts xvi., 31?Commentary. C' ). "They caught Paul and Silas and drew ai into the market place unto the rulers." ! previous three verses tell of the healing i woman who bad an evil spirit, by moans ivhich she brought gain to her maatera. being healed she was of no more use to at m, and hence their rage against the apos- ^ . What a devil we have to contend with, . whom a sound mind in a sound body is lething distasteful! Let us all the more de is the Lord, who healeth our diseases. in ). "These men, beiusr Jews, do exceed- th ly trouble our city." It is ail right to ruin pie soul and body, but those who seek welfare of soul and body are accounted iblers. It grieved Sanballat :ind Tobiah eedingly that a man had come to seek the fare of Israel (Neh. ii., 10). It grieved v* Jews that Jesus had como to heal the ff i ana raise ine aeaa. Alia i nave actually a ministers grieved that a man should in y, Ir town teach people to love the Bible r j re, and thus be saved from sin and folly. I. "And teach customs which are not S? ful for us to receive, neither to obssrve, r_ lg Romans." They did not know that men who were prosecuting were Romans . > Averse 37) and loyal citizens. If to honor s" i is contrary to Roman cuatam, then Rome n( ot on God's side. PJ I, "And the multitude rose up together inst them." The whole world lieth In the 1 ked one (I John v., 19, R. V). Marvel- P if the world hato you (John xv., 18). If world does not hate U3, we cannot be very "j i our Master, but it was the religious P* id that hated Him. ). "And when they had laid many stripes m them thoy cast them into prison." This lied like very poor treatment from the i of Macedonia who said, "Come over J* I help us." but Paul understood it, having n told at the stp.rt that he was to suffer ct Jesus's sake (chapter ix., 16) and having |e ;ady, on his first tour, had considerable erience of it. ?* t. "Who. having received such a charge, ist them into the inner prison and made th Ir feet fast in the stocks." And It is not a II likely that he U3ed much tenderness in tiling them. So with torn and bleeding n< ks they find themselves well under the ol rer of the enemy. Without trends and eh liout influence they suffer this shameful ac itment (I Thess. ii., 2) simply because ol y had interfered in the unlawful gains. th l have been murdered in lour own day U. the same cause. The world changes not. oj 5. "And at midnight Paul and Silas re yed and sang praises unto God, and the oi wnere heard them." Truly they were ol ting in practice the words of the psalm"I will bless the Lord at all times. His di ise shall continually be in my mouth" gi , xxxiv., 1). They were filled with the re rit of Daniel and his companions, who ol it cheerfully to the lion's den and to the C< y furnace for the sake of their God. tb 5. "And suddenly there was a great earth- bt It a. ?n:1 everv nnn's honda whpb Innml " cl lir songs were heard in heaven 03 well as re aarth, and though they had no influence tb he city see the power they had in heaven. ol uaking earth, open prison doors and all b< ds loosed. Surely this is suggestive of m ling events and reminds us of His death resurrection and the accompanying uj nts of earthquake and resurrection of the Bb its. He came to proclaim liberty to the th tives and the opening of the prison to a\ m that are bound (Isa. lxi., 1). ai J. "And the keeper of the prison, awak- gj lg out ot his sleep, would have killed him- ol ." While the righteous, although in great w ering, were praising God, the ungodly, pi ugh perhaps on the verge of eternal tor- th it, were in hta'th and a3lsep. What u 81 cy to awaken six ih era it be too lats! Then pi lis blindness, not knowing of the here- w ir, the Jailer would have rushed madly n< >it, only to find himself in hopales3 de- in ir. Head carefully Luke xvi., 22, 23 ; lis v. B , 9-11; Job xxxrt., 18. th i. "But Paul cried with a loud voice, s>ay- ol , Do thyself no harm, for we are all here." ge e is good for evil on the part of .Paul in true spirit of his Master (l Thoas. v., 15). cc could not rejoice to see tne jailer suffer, at permit him to injure himself, though his th l body must have been full of pain. If we th ure grief, suffering wrongfully, or if we ai well and suffer for It and take it patiently, fa I is well pleased (I Pet. ii., 19, 20). ac 1 n nn,l nn.unn _ < 7, iunu iiu tttiiou i\Jk (iii^uk auu QI ,nd came trembling and fell down before gU it and Silas." How well he knew to th >m to go! He had never seen prisoners p? these, nor met with such conduct under m h treatment, and then had not Paul called th to him that he should do himself no yg m? Paui's interest in him andin his wel- M ! wrought upon him by the Spirit of God. ). "And brought them out and said, M . what must I do to b? saved?" Whether nc had before heard anything of Paul's iching or had through others received light ou things eternal wo are not told. jja through a combination of marvelous tr ats he is now powerfully wrought upon his soul's good and made to see his groat _c ;?er. See how much Go 1 will do to save * Q ul from death, liead Job xxxiii., 18, 29, OJ ind the context and consider the sorrows ^ esus to save us. cu L. "And they said, Believe on the Lord tjc is Christ and thoushalt be saved and thy tQ ss." This is the teaching of all Seripture tQ o the work of salvation. His work is a ^ shed work. It is impossible to add to it ^ o improve upon it. Qf !. "And they spake unto him the word of Lord and to all that were in his house." ? doubt they would show from the Scrip- ? is that Jesus was the ChrisJ and that the . cannot give life, but that Christ is the of th^law for righteousness to every . that believeth, and that believing means siving, for he that hath the Son hath life. ? he that hath not the Son hath not life _ 1. iii., 21; ii., 16 ; Bom. x., 4; John i.,12.; hn v.. 11. 12.) " I. "And he took them the same hour of nitfht and washed their stripes anO was lized, he and all his, straighway." Here public confession ol their faith in Christ, perhaps more correctly, a formal confes- ^jl , and also fruits meet for repentance. c.~ s faith in Christ, or, as in Jobn i., 12. ( :elving Christ," makes sinners into chil- j10 l of God, and the love of Christ con- [0( Ins to good works. ! ;. "And when he had brought them into st: house he set meat before them and read, believing in God with all his house." Pf' erse 15 we saw Lydia's household all id and now another. Behold the Spirit til! rod at work, but do not forget the sore J*1' Is of the agents by whom the Spirit ?e ught. How much are you willing to en3 for Christ's sake it He will only use you firi :he salvation of souls.?Lesson Helper. - * ba The Daisy. thi n Scotland the daisy was, and In do ic parts still is, regarded as a wi ling plant; and if the sick man is.< only put his foot on a fully ex- c* ded daisy, he has hopes of re- ^ ery, Just as in some other parts of le mountain stream or quiet ch ing is supposed to possess magical pa 'ers. Faith, no doubt, has a good I to do with the cure, and the ^ ught that touching any given ob- coi , would effect a cure would do ' :h to accomplish the same. It is :ncr oenevea tnat u uiu liirmur els down and bites off the flrst of ;y of spring a plentiful crop will *h< >h<i reward. .n old saying in new garb i3 sug:ed by circumstances. Some poo- fl are born pcor, some achieve ertyand some have poverty thrust n them by the misfortune of 'beheirs to large estates that envor vainly to pass through the ?* ids of lawyers. th *nnd Vis.tok?Isn't that water lealihy? (.hioiyo Landlord? 0i at'.' That water, sir, is filled with and strength.?Cleveland Plain- n(; tier. _ , ? ince the introduction of type- pa iing machines, with seato for the Eii raters, the printers' trade has lost '&1 reat deal its standing.?Troy '91 MR TO OPEN SUMS. INAL DECISION BY THI UNITEDSTATES COUBT. __ hlef Justice Fuller and His AasOCt ates, Judges Runn and Alien,Unan imonsly Decide In Favor of Opei Sundays at the World's Fair?Tin Local Directory in Full Control. The United States Court of Appeals, sittinj Chicago, decided unanimously that th< orld's Fair directors could keep the exhibi >n open on Sundays. The ground of th< icislon was that the United States wis no actual control of the enterprise, and tha e United States had no case In equity 1: kin? for an injunction on tho ground tba > injury or wrong had been shown as th sultant of Sunday opening. Chief Justic iller gave the opinion and Judges Bun id Allen assented. The decision settles th se for all time, as an appeal will have to g the Supreme Court of the United States hich does not meet until October, when th iir will be ended. Every seat was taken a )ur before the time announced when th iurt would decide the case. Chief Just'i iller. In rendering the decision,, spoke a Hows: "Deeming it desirable tha: this matte lould be disposed of at once, we shall an mnce the result at which wo have arrived ratponlng for want of time the full expressio our views, which will hereafter be giver he appellees have submitted a motion to di? iss this appeal upon the grounds that th risdlction of the Circuit Court was in issue at the case involved the construction or ap Icatlon of the Constitution of the Unite ates, and that the constitutionality of a la; the United States was drawn in questio erein; that therefore the appeal for a Am igree would lie to the Supreme Court of th olted States, and not to this court, an >nce this appeal, which is from an interlc itory order, cannot be maintained nnde ction 7 of the Judiciary act of Marc! 1891. We do not understand thatthe powe ' the Circuit Court to determine the casewa .'nied. but that the appellants contended thn le United States had not by their appeal mad case properlycognizable in acourt ofequitj tie objection was to the want of equity, am >t.to the want of power* The jurisdictio; ! the Circuit court was tnereioro noi m is 19; and within the intent or meaning of th it so far as the construction or appiicatio; ! the Constitution of the United States am te constitutionality of the laws of th nited States are concerned, we are of th >inion that the order we are called on t iview Involved or drew in question neithe le nor the other ia the sense that the actio: ' the Circuit Court was invoked. "The disposal ot the proceedings or th spositfbn of the contention rests iipon th round as to whether the deoiflion had an; iference to the construction or appilcatio: f the Constitution or the validity of acts c ongress In respect of that instance. An le conclusions upon which the order wa ised were invoked as constructions of tha laracter. The jurisdiction of tfiis court t iview cannot be defeated at the instance c le appellees, because the* constitutionalit ! the acts upon which they rely might hav sen challenged by their adversaries. Th otion to dismiss is overruled. "The question to be determined iswhcthe Don this circuit preliminary iniunctioi lould have been granted. The bill plead lat the defendants are usurping unlawft ithority over the Exposition and grounds id in virtue thereof assume to open th ites on Sunday in contravention of the act t Congress?notwithstanding such openin ould be 'of great injury and a greviou rejudice to the common public good and t le welfare of the people of the Unite rates.' It is not* contended that an roperty interests of the complairiai ill be injured by the threatened actloi sr is there any allegation of irreparabl jury or probable loss by such actioi lit it is said that the intervention < le court may be rested upon tho purpos ! protecting the United States in Its pos ssion of the grounds of the Exposition Tho furnishing of the five million souveni tins was a condition upon the local corpoi ion by the United States. In addition t ie many millions it had already contribute ie further sum of two and a half million id the giving to the Government of a satis ctory guarantee that it would provide a Iditional sums necessary for the completio the work prior to May 1, 1893, and wa ibject to two conditions subsequent, namelj e payment by the corporation of all cx inse, costs and charges of the great depart ents of thg Exposition and the closing o e Exposition on Sunday. In view of th ist previous expenditure of the corporatio id the extent of the obligations assumed e right of all parties concerned and th iture of the conditions subsequent, we d >t think this a proper case for the rule ii lestion. nor can we concur in the proposi )n that the appropriation of the two and i tlf million dollars amounted to a charitabli list, upon certain conditions warranted. "The appropriation was mado for the pur ?e of aiding in defraying the cost of th< mpletion of the work and to be paid ove l vouohers for labor done, material furn led, and services performed in the prose tlon of that work. It was an appropria >a for the benefit or the local corporattoi help it out of its financial difficulty, anc enable it to comptotj its undertaking, anc such does not coma under the aeceptec .Inition of a charitable gift for the benefll an indefinite class of persons. So far a.' e purpose of the appropriation subs* iently made is concerned, that purpose hat be accomplished before the money coulc i paid over. "The decLsion of the court might interpesi protect the United States in its possessioi ;t it is the local corporation that is in ac al possession under the law of the Stat< d of the ordinance of jhe South Par! >mmissioners. The possession is reeog zed by the acts of Congress as essential t< e construction and administration o e Exposition by the corporation that construction the corpo ratio: s invested sixteen millions of dollars unde; cumstances that preclude the view thai 9 United States have exclusive administra^ >n and authority in the premlsas. It 13 per:tly clear that Congress never intended thai should become responsible for the conviction of any of the buildings oxcapt its rn, or for the work provided for by the apspriation. However, it was intandod that a Exposition should receive the sanction ol ) Government, and in that sense, as reirked by Chief Justice Waite in the Philalphia case 'be impressed by a National and ernationa! character.' Of course, the Gov .. 1 _ K.,? imrcat UiU U I^U'WIUOU puoswivu, uui. r? v. d nothing in this regard upon which to 39 an interrentioa of a court of equity on it (ground. 'We cannot now discuss the various queens necessary to be considered, but woioh 11 be treated of in the opinion to ba filled, ll Sufficient to say that we cannot except thui >e from the ordinary rule, which to invoke > exercise of jurisdiction in chancery, reires someinjury to property whether actual perspective, some invasion of property oi il rights, some injury irreparablo ic it1 turo and which cannot be redrassada v. This is not such a case, and the result we hereby refuse the order and the oas< remanded for further proceedings not in asistent with these conclusions." 3hief Justice Fuller's clear, positive voic< is audible to the remotest hearer. It wof th difficulty that cheers were suppressed the court room, and there were outburst exuberant satisfaction by many b?-.'ore jy got without the hearing of tho court, dges Buan and Allen concurred in everj int as spoken by the Chief Jusii?c. .'AWAII'S NATIONAL FLAG Now I-'loats Over the Palace Ii Honolulu. The Hawaiian National Hag was Coatfv er the palace at Honolulu on June 2. Tho formal occupation of tin palace tj e Provisional Government, and the rai.-:in: tho National emblem ov?r it. ar- regarded th" annexationists generally an 1 by manj thy natives as a final blow to monarchy. Tho imildiug w.is formally dedicated to it." w usm on June ti with a little ceremony in lieh troops, Government band, aad ofiiiIt* participated. l'he Provisional Government on Juno 3 id to UJatii Spraikois tin SS.'.OCO owed to n, anl therms a foelins: of relio! ntnong 9 officials that tha Government ia no i<?er under obligations to him. Sproeklea njas fh.it ha was actu:itad by a de3tre to ibarratt the Government by demanding return ol hia money. r mm J ^ i mm i ii i :;1 m rori'ME scustJi. 1 An electric band lamp is announced.1 The difference of time between Wetw ] York and Liverpool is not quite fire hours. >??.< The blood contains millions ot millions of corpuscles, each a structure in itself. A German scientist has calculated i that the gray matter of the brain ia. e built of at least 600,000,000 cells. To make 1000 cubic feet of illumin?; ating gas, eight pounds of coal, coet5 ing two cents, and four gallons of - naphtha, costing twelve cents, are re3 quired. * Cannel coal, containing thirty per * cent, of gas, has been found a mile J from salt water on Hood Canal, Waahington, and less than 100 miles from a Seattle. ? The scction of a tree, shown by its 0* circles to be 401 years old?a sapling i, when Columbus landed?is in the 8 forestry section of the Government " Building. a An alleged English scientist ad* a vocates a theory that the earth is a> r hnge balloon and that it tfill finally - collapse as a resalt of drilling for natural gas. Q L Lean beef contains about twenty-ona h per cent, of albuminoids, which pro? e duce bone, muscle and blood, and leas K; than one-half of one, per cent, of tha (2 heat-producing carbohydrates. * The? Whistling Well, Tacoma, j Washington, has resumed operations e after a silence of two years. Previous d to every storm the well, it is said,' pror duces a kind of whistling noise, forcing * h out air of a gaseous nature. ' : t'. r Solidified petroleum fuel is said tot t have been experimented with succeeee fully. The fuel is composed of 600 ' parts of petroleum to 300 parts at ? melted and dissolved soda, ninety ? parts of rosin and ten parts of cone centrated calcium chloride. solution. | In certain iron lamp posts used e abroad for arc lights a number of onme mental projections are thrown out by 0 turning a key, enabling the trimmer j to climb up without the aid of a ladder. The turning of the key also short6 circuits the switch, making tho lamp ? safe to handle. i' a The Bavarian Government has made j a grant of $400 to Herr Koch, m 1 aeronaut and author9 of a pamphlet it entitled "Free Human Flying, as tha 0 Preliminary Condition of Dynamic ? Aeronautics," to enable him to con e struct an apparatus on the principle he a describes in his work. Three electric lighthouses have been I constructed in Europe, each of whicir 3 ia equipped with a light whose briltl liancy is said to equal that -of 6,000,^ 000 candles. The light can be seen at 3 a distance of sixty-two mi^es; ; > ? nem g French lighthouse at Lif E&Y0 fk'tfrbe 13 equipped with a light even mor? ^ powerful than the three referred ip. y An apparatus for telephoning. 4ver II telegraph wires has been in operation ^ for some time with satisfactory results i. over the telephone line from1 Budapest >I. to Szegedin, a distance'of mile& 16 It is said that simultaneous telegraphs '* ing along the line does not integers lr with the telephoning,* ancfc thai'tha '* eAffects of induction and all disturbing noises are removed, a * is A writer, in support of the theory j; that sound does not consist of a num.- , jJ ber of countable wave beats, adduces a the fact that a plate of iron an inch r, thick, when used as the diaphragm of * a' telephone, will respond to and j transmit' perfectly the sottnd yibrao tions of the human voico. It fs almost D inconceivable that this result could b? '? twmora mnoA riiirq.&nn. a ?? Q Gun-Shy Dogs. a A writer in Forest and Sixeam ada viae3 the following as a good, cure for gun-shyness in dogs: . I Instead of giving your pup his regttr lar exercise; shut him up where he can * see all you do. . In th9 morning lire " two ordinary charges in plain sight of x him and open the inclosure for him t? 1 come out. Should he refuse, leave him| and close the gate or door. Kepeat . this daily without coaxing him ana ha i will soon come to the gun. Should he * becom? frightened in the ?eld, leave [ him and he * will soon look you up. Paying too much attention, to him will ) only cause him to think that the shot 1 was fired for his benefit, and if Left j alone he will soon come to his master, c especially if it is a kind . one. .Dog* - trained by kindness arc th) most viD2 ing workers, and unless yoa have a good store of patience don't attempt to i train a dog, for you may ruin a dog * that kindly but firmly handled would . be first class. The dog whip is a most excellent thing properly used, ae is also the check cord, but feither, if used to excess, make sulky or cowardly dogs of those which otherwise would., be cheerfully obedient. Commenting on the above, the Sport ? ~ "O??. a J/la Ao faiilf. in (k 1UL? HCViCW UUUO . xxo iuu M [ sporting dog, or, in fact, in any dog, is most annoying, we think that a trial J of the above plan may show better r> t suits than the common practico oi firing the gun and holding or dragging the dog when he tries to run after the report. .Large hearted, courageous I pups will generally at the report of a > gun or any unusual noise merely raise [ their heads and crane their necks, . curious to know what the trouble is* i while the timid pup sho7es his tail bet tween his legB, humps his back and runs. Dogs intended for the gun ! should be made accustomed to sudden noise and the report of guns fr?>ju the 5 time they leave the nest. Logs that r would never show this fault, if so , [ treated, will skulk if they do not hear > > a gun before they ara six or seven mouths old. f ' Zoological Nomenclature. The "buffalo" iu the United States ? t- i ? n ..r isa uisun; sue "pariritujc ui ^utm,t gan ami the "pheasant" of Pennsylvania and ether States is a rafted I grouse; the "rabbit." so plentiful ia the market at times, is a hire. Both species of grouse, ihi ruffed an 1 pinnated, pre called "pheasant." "parj tridge" and "patriae," and the pinnated grouse is universally referred to aa the "prairie chicken." "Prairie 1 chicken" is not a bad name for the ' pinnated grouse, for ifc is original and does not confound it with other birds, but it is not right, to use the names "partridge" aad "pheasant" when referring to our grouse, for the3o are the i correct names of European specimens. T^"?York Commercial Advertiser. , - -