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EXTRA SESSION CALLED. A PROCLAMATION CONVENING CONGRESS AUGUST 7. president ClevpJand l:r?pil to This Action by JJustiipss .nen, ? no Demanded (he Repeal of the Sherman Silver Law in Order to Alleviate the Financial Distress. / * President Cleveland has cilled upon Congress to meet in extraordinary ??S3ion at noon, August 7, for tho purpose of r 'pialing the Sherman Silver law Tha determination to call the extra session the* first week iu August instead of the first w."?k in September, it is understood was definitely arrivod at at a throe-hours' Cabinet session, after giving full wnisht to the many telegrams received from ( all parts of the country urgius this enurse. Another consideration which caused tho President to change hLs mind *va? foreshadowed in the remark made by one of his Cabinet, officers tw> days before, that if the President received reasonable assurance that there was a likelihood of a prompt repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase law he might l>e disposed to call Congress together earlier than ho had announced. It was inferred, from the fact that tho President has done so, that he obtained the assurances he desired. The following is the text of the proclamation Executive Ma.vsiox. ? Washington*. D. C., June 30, 1893. t I Whereas, The distrust and apprehension concernins: the financial situation, which pervade all business circles, have already caused great I03S and damage to our people, a 4.i ^*a /.zinnia Aiir map^hantS Qtrtl) uuu lurcttica tw VW? ?, ,...r the wheels of the manufactures, brine; distress and privation to our farmers, and withhold from our workiugmen the .wage of labor. and "* Whereas, The present perilous condition is largely the result of a financial policy which the executive branch of tho Government linds embodied in unwise laws, which must be executed until repealed by Congress . Now. therefore. I. Grover Cleveland. President of the United States, in performance of a constitutional duty, do by this proclamation declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both Houses of the Congress of the United States at the Capitol, In the city of Washington, on tho seventh day of August next, at 12 o'clock noon, to the end that the people may bo relieved through legislation from present ami impending danger and distress. All those entitled to act as members of the Fifty-third Congress aro required to take notice of this proclamation and attend at the time and placo abov? stated. : Given under my nand and the seal of the jUaited States, at the city of Washington, on the thirtieth day of June, iu the year of our kord one thousand eight hundred and ninetythree. and of the Independence of tho United States the one hundred and seventeenth. , Gaovsa Clevk&^jo. LATliK JNtiWS. Daxiel and Myrtle McCarthy, aged respectively thirteen and ten years, children of Dennis McCarthy,i saloon keeper at Buffalo, N. "Y., were burned *o death in .1 tire which resulted from the cxplosiou of a lamp. The Fourth of July was eelehrated in New York City and thereabout in t he customary various and divers wayp, flags being raised, Tammany hearing speeches from Speaker Crisp, Benton, McMillin and others. Seth Low, Justice Brewer and Senator Hawley were the speakers at Henry C. Bowen's annual Fourth of July celehratiou at Woodstock, Conn. A bronze* status of William Lloyd Garrison was unveiled at Newburyport, Mass., ex-llepresentative FrederickT. Greeuhalge, of Lowell, making the oration. A trolley car dashed with full fore? into another trolley car just south of the southern boundary of Brooklyn, N. Y. The occupants of both cars were hurled in all directions. Peter McHugh.'the motorman. was killed and seven passenger.; injured. The two-year-old son of Charies Nagle was instantly killed by trolley car in Buffalo, N. Y A mob nearly lynched the motormac. Twenty picnickers were injured in a trolley car collision at Wilkesbarre, Penn. -? -* - joel .uitchell, fh l? [uuuir ucai nwubine. Ky.. killed John Marsee, James Francis and Dempsy Smith. Tliey hal been drinking. There were 250.003 persons at the Fourth of July exercises on the World's Fair Grounds, addresses werj ma'ie by VicePresident Stevenson, Hainpton L. Carson, of Philadelphia, and Mayor Harrison . the Paul Jones flap was unfurled and the nuw Liberty Bell was dedicated. Sfxretary Herbert nas appointed Miss Letitia C. Tyler, of Alabama, granddaughter of ex-President Tyler, to a clerkship in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Department. The monthly circulation statement issued by the Treasury Department shows a net decrease in circulation sinse June t of $2,425,400. and slncc July 1, 1802, of $9,346,977. making the amount of all kinds of money in circulation July 1, 1893, 31.593,720.111. Moue than 100 miners were supposed to have been killed by an explosion of firedamp In a colliery at Thornhill, Yorkshire, England. The United State cruiser Monocacy went ashore on an island between Jehang and Hankow. China. Tha forward part is badly on Dnma'jft unlrnnwn The new Germau Reichstag was opened by Emperor William; in his speech from the throne he uwalt upon thr. aecessity Tor tho passai;" of the Army bill without delay. The boilers of the trade steamer Alfoas ex ploded .jn the Volga, near Romanov, Russia, killing twenty-six of the passenger-*. Tukkk were continue I riotou.-! demonstration* by students in the stre?ts of Paris many worts injur"il on both sides in collisions between cavalry and rioters. A destructive hailstorm pw*l over Eastern Pennsylvania, doing much damage to crops and building. Thk United States cruiser Atlanta arrived at Norfolk, Va.. from Nicaragua. ' Near Bardwell, Ky., two girts named Ray. aged sixteen and twelve years, w?r? brutally murdered, presumably by a tramp. They had left their home in Bardwell to pick 1 blackberries. ? ? Theodoee Coombs, a miner, at Butte. Montana, cut his wife's throat and then committed suicide by taking poison. Their lifo h.-ifl h??n nnhnnnv. ' Tex Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the Custom Hous? Commission at New York to investigate the whole subject of refunds of excessivo dut'es, aa conducted at that port, and to suggest any improvements whioh seem to them desirable. United Sti7E3 Consul Hanna. at La Guayra, has informal thd Htato Depar:m?nt of the election of General Joaquin Craspo as President of ths republic of Venezuela to All out the unexpired term onding February 20, 1894. A plot to blow up the headquarters of the Hawaiian Provisional Government ani restore the ex-Queen has been discovered and three conspirators arrested. Tkx thousand delegates to the Christian Endeavor Convention arrivod in Montreal* Canada. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Arrogance and Humility." Text : " God be merciful unto me, a sinner!" ?Luke xviii.. 13. No mountain ever had a more brilliant coronet than Mount Moriah. The glories of the ancient temple blazed there. The mountain top was not originally large enough to hold the temple, and so a wall 600 feet high was erected, and the mountain was built out into th3t waii. It was at that point that satan met Christ and tried to persuade Him to cast Himsel f down the 600 feet. The nine gates of the temple flashed the light of 9ilver and gold and Corinthian brass, which Corinthian brass was mere precious stones melted and mixed and crystallized. The temple itself | was not so very large a structure, but the courts and the adjuncts of the architecture made it half a mile in circumference. We stand and look upon that wondrous structure. What's the matter? What t strange appearance in the temple? Is it flre? Why, it seems as if it were a mantle all kindled into flame. What's the matter? Why. {fe hntir r\t mr?rninc? .ind the smoke on the altar rises and bursts out of the crevices and out of the door and wreathes the mountain top with folds of smoke through which glitter precious stonesgathered and burnished by royal munificence. I see two men mounting the steps of the building. They go side by side ; they are very unlike; no sympathy between them? the one the pharisee, proud arrogant, pompous ; he goes up the steps of the building ; ne seems by his manner to say: -'Clear the track! Never before came up these steps such goodness and consecration." Beside him was the publican, bowed down, seemingly, with a load on bis heart. They reach the inclosuro for worship in the midst of the temple. The pharisee goes close up to the gate of the holy of holies. He feels he is worthy to stand there. He says practically: "I am so holy I want to go into the holy of holies. Oh Lord, I am a very good man! I am a remarkably good man. Why, two days in the week I eat absolutely nothing. I am so good. I'm very generous in my conduct toward the poor. I have no sympathy with the common rabble; especially have I none with this poor, miserable, commonplace, wretched publican, who happened to come up the stairs beside me." The publican went clear to the other side of the inclosure, as far away' from the g3te of the holy of holies as he couldj?et, for he felt unworthy to stand noar the 3acred place. And the Bible says he stood afar off. Standing on the opposite side of this inclosuro, he bows his head, and as orientials when Viicv JLKISYU i*uy uuuuao uoot tucu kja.y(ww?, ou he begins to pound his breast as he cries, "God be merciful to me. a sinner!" Oh, was there ever a greater contrast? The Incense that wafted that morning from the priest's censer was not so sweet as the publican's prayer floating into the opening heavens, while the prayer of the pharisee died on his contemptuous lips and rolled down into his arrogant heart. Worshiping there, they join oach other and go side by side down the steps, the pharisee cross, wretched, acrid, saturnine?the publican with his face shining with the very joys of. heaven, for "I tell you that this man went down to his house justifled rather than the other." . -. Now, I put this publican's prayer under analysis, and I discovered in the first place that he was persuaded of hi3 sinfulness. He was an honest man ; he was a taxgatherer; he was an officer of the government. The publicans were taxgarherers, and Cicero says they were the adornment of the State. Of course they were somewhat unpopular, because people then did not like to pay their taxes any better than people now like to pay their taxes, and there were many who disliked them. Still I suppose this publican, this tax gatherer. was an honorable man. He had an office of trust; there were many hard things said about him, and yet, standing there in that enclosure of the temple amid the demonstrations of God's holiness and power, he cries out from the very depths of his soul, ;'*God be merciful to me, a sinner!". Ey what MArtaao ahull T rvf>Atra fkof T um a ainnarV Til/ what process 9hall I prove that you'are a sinner':1 Shall I ask you to weigh yottr motives, I to scan your actions, to estimate your be- i havior? I will do nothing of the kind. I j will draw my argument rather from the plan j of the work that God baa aohieved for your salvation. You go down in a storm to the beach, and you see wreckers put on their rough jackets and launch the lifeboat and then shoot the rockets to show that help is coming out into the breakers, and you immediately cry, *'A shipwreck !*' And when I see the Lord Jesus Christ putting aside robe and crown and launch out on the tossing sea of human Buffering and satanic hate, going out into the thundering surge of death, 1 cry, "A shipwreck !" I know that our souls are dreadfully lost by the work that God has done to save them. Are you a sinner! Suppose you had a commercial agent in Charleston or San Francisco, or Chicago, and you were paying him promptly his salary, and you found out after awhile that notwithstanding he bad drawu the salary he had given nine-tenths of all the time to some other commercial establishment. Why, your indignation would know no bounds. And yet that is just the way we have treated the Lord. He-seut us out into the world to serve Him. He has taken ^ood care of us. Ho has clothed us, He has sheltered us. and He has surrounded us with 10,000 benefactions, and yet many of us have given nine-tenths of our lives to the sen-ice ol the world, the flesih and the devil Why, my friend, the Bible is full of confessions, and I do not find anybody is pardoned until he has confessed. What did David say? "I will confess mv transgressions unto tha Lord." What did Isaiah say? "Woe is me, because I am a man of unclean lips." What did Ezra say? ''Our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up into heaven." And among the millions before the throne of God to-night not one got there until he confessed. TTio coast of eternal sorrow is strewn with the wreck of those who, not taking the warning, drove with the cargo of immortal hope into tue white tangled foam of the breakers. Keoent! the voice celostlal cries. Nor longer dare delay: The wretch that scorns the mandate dies And meet* the flery day. But I analyze the publican's prayer a stop further, and I find that he expected no relief except through God's mercy. Why did uot he say, I am an honorable man. When I get $10 taxes, I pay them right over to the government. I give full permission to anybody to audit my accounts. I appeal to Thy justice. O God! Ho made no such plea. He threw himself flat on God's mercy. Have you any idea that a man by breaking off the scales of the leprosy can change the disease? Have you any idea that you can by changing your life change your heart?that you can purchase your way to heaven? Come, try it. Come, bring all the bread you ever gave to the hungry, all the medicine you ever gave to the sick, all the kind words you have ever uttered, all the kind deeds that have ever distinguished you. Add them all up into the tremendous aggregate of eood words and works, and then you will see Paul sharpen his knife as he cuts that spirit of self satisfaction as he cries. "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified." Wall, say a thousand men in this audience, if I am not to get anything iu the way of peace from God in sood works, how am I to be saved? By mercy. Here I stand to toll the story; mercy, mercy, lon< suffering mercy; sovereign mercy, infinite mercy, omnipotent mercy, everlasting mercy. Why, it seems iu the Bible as if all language wer? exhausted, as if it were stretched until it broke, as if all expression were struck dead at the feet of prophet and apostle and evangelist when it tries to describe Goi's mercy. Oh, says some one. that is ouly addin? to my crime if I como and confess before God and seek His mercy. No, no. The murderer has oome. and while he was washing the blood of his victim from hia hands, looked into the face of God an? cried for mercy, and his soul hiw been white in Ood's pardoning love. And the soul that bts wandered off in the streets and down to the very gates of hell has come back to her Father's house, throwing her arms around His neck, and been saved by the mercy that saved Mary Magdalen. But. says *ome one, you ardthrowingopen that door of mercy too wide. No, I will throw it open wider. I wilf take the responsibility of saying that if all Xliis audience, instead of being gathered In a semicircle, wore placed side by side, in one long line, they could all march right through tl wide open gate of mercy. "Whoseovei "whoseover." Oh, this mercy ofGod?t.h< in no line long enough to fathom it: there no ladder long enough to scale it; ther< no arithmetic facile enough to calculate no angel's wing can fly across it. Heavenly harpers, aided by ohoirs w feet like the sun, cannot compass tl harmony of mercy, mercy. It sounds in ( rumbling of the celestial gate. I hear it the chiming of tho celestial towers. I so< flashing in the uplifted and downc: coronets of tho saved. I bear it in I thundering tread of the bannered ho around about the throne, and then it con from the harps and crowns and thrones a processions to sit down, unexpressed, 01 throne overtopping all heaven?the thrc of mercy. How I was affected when some one told in regard to that accident on Long IsIh sound, when one poor woman came and | her hand on a raft as she tried to save h self, but those who were on the raft thou; there was no room for her. aud one n came and most cruelly beat and bruised hands until she fell off. Oh, I bless God t Win I i frtKrvn aP f hnAL'nal Koo w>S\rv? rtnr>v (<UI9 uiuuvm \Ik IUU UIM 1VVIU VJUVU for the sixteen hundred millions of the r ?room for one, room for all, and yet th is room! I push this analysis of the publicai prayer a step further and find that he < not expect any meitey except by pleading it. He did not fold his nands togethei some do, saying: "If I'm to be saved,! be saved. If I'm to be loat, I'll be lost, a there is nothing for me to do." 3e kn what was warto having was worth ask for; hence this earn eat cry of the text, '"( be merciful to me, a sinner!" It was an earnest prayer, and it is char teristic of all Bible prayers that they -w. answered?tbe'blind man, "Lord, that I n receive my sightthe leper, "Lord, if Tfc wilt, Thou canst make me clean sinki Peter, "Lord, save me;" the publican, "G be merciful to me, a sinner!" But if 3 come up with the tip of your finger and 1 at the gate of mercy, it will not open. \ have got to have the earnestness ot the w rior who, defeated and pursued, dismou from his lathered steed and with gauntlel flst pounds at the palace gate. You have got to have the earnestness the man who. at midnight, in the foui story, has a sense of suffocation, with t bouse in flames, goes to the window a ..U U.x (tlTJn f'? AVi ?tv(, 3IJUULS l?J LUf IILUIUUII, adJJ . V^U, IIU1I given soul, if you were in full earnes might have to command silence in the am tory, for your prayers would drown tho vo of the speaker, and we would have to pau in the great service. It is because you not realize your sin before God that you a not tilts moment crying, "Mercy, men mercy!" This prayer of the publican was also humble prayer. The pharisee looked up : t publicau looked dowu. You cannot be sav as a metaphysician or a3 a rhetorioian ; y cannot be saved as a'scholar; you cannot saved as an artist; you cannot be saved an official. If you are ever saved at all, will be as a sinner. "God be merciful to n a sinnar!" Another characteristic of the prayer of t publican was, it had a ring of conflden< It was not a cry of despair. He knew he w going to get what he asked for. He want mercy : ho asked for it, expecting it. A do you tell me, 0 man. that God has pi vided this salvation and is not going to you have it? If a man build a bridge across a riv will he not let peoplo go over it? If a pi: sician gives a preftcriptiou to a sick ma will he not let him take it? If an arcbitf puts up a building, will he not let people it? If God provides salvation, will He i let you have it? Oh, if there bo a pilaris here, a fhan who says, I am all right, r past life has been right. I don't want t 1?? .ciu? tnr. T Viott/* r>/> ain I piuuu UllUD IVI A uu f XJ uu OIU pardon, let mo say that while that mau is that mood there is no peace for him, there no pardon, uo salvation, and the probabili is he will go down and spend eternity wi the lost pharwee of the text. But if there be here ono who says I wa j to be better, I want to quit my sins, my li has beeu a very imperfect life, how ma things have I said that I should not ha said, how many things I have dopelshou not have done, I want to chango my life, want to begin now, let me say to such asoi I God is waiting, God is ready, and you a I near the kingdom, or rather you have e lered it, for no man says I am determined 3erve God and surrender the sins of my lil here, now, I consecrate myself to the Lo Jesus Christ who dipdUoTedeem me ;nom WOfla'the'depth of "his soul says that but he already a Christian. My uncle, the Rev. Samuel K. Talmago, Augusta, Ga., was passing along the stree of Augusta one day, and he saw a man, black man, jtep from the sidewalk out in the street, take his hat ofT and bow ve slowly. My uncle was not a man who d manded obsequiousness, and he said, ** Wt do you do that for?" "Oh," says the ma "nmssa, the other night I was going alo: the street, and I had a burden on my shouldc and I was sick, and I was hungry, and I cai to the door of your church, and you w( preaching about 'God be merciful to n a sinner!' and I stood there at the door loi enough to hear you say that if a man cou utter that prayer from the depth of his so God would pai don him and finally take h; to heaven. Then I put my burden on t shoulder, and I started home. I got to i home and I sat down, and I said, 'God mercuui uut-, ??iuum . um. u (,u? u?i.n and darker, and then, massa, I got down ray knees, and I said, 'God be meret) to me. a sinner!' and the burden g heavier, and it got darker and darker, knew not what to do. Then I got do' on my face, and I cried, 'God be mer ful to me, a sinnerand away off I saw light coming, and it came nearer and neai and nearer until ali was bright in my hoa and I rose. I am happy now?the burd is all gone?and I said to myself if eve meet you in the street I would get clear the sidewalk, and I would bow down ai take my hat off before you. t feel that I o more to you than to any other man. That the reason I bow before you." Ob, are there not man)' now who can utt this prayer, the prayer of the black man. t prayer of the publican, "God be merciful me,;? sinner?" While I h*lt in the sermc will you hot all utter it? I do not say au] bly, but utter it down in .the depths of yo soufe? consciousness. Yes, the sigh goes i throttgh the galleries, it goes all through t pews, it goes all through these aisles, si| after sigh?God be merctful to me, a sinnt Have you all uttered it? No, there is o soul that has not uttered it, too proud to i ter it, too hard to utter it. O Holy SpL descend upon that one heart. Yes, he begi to breathe it now. No bowing of .the he yet. no starting tear yet. but the prayer Deginning?it is born. God be merciful me, a sinner! Have all uttered it? Then utter it myself, tor no one in all the hou uneds to utter it more than my own sou) Itu tr\ ma ?i ainnar ' Trra Australian oanlia fell into tl custom of superseding the merchanl who are naturally their customers, commercial factors. They becac traders, exported on their own a count, accepted risks in operatlo which t?fey attempted to conduct" part, and sometimes took goods repayment instead of money. Tl disastrous failures which finally i suited are only added warnings tb banking should always be kept wit in its legitimate function of servii the business classes rather than superseding them. Mrta Squgkzism?"I mean to ha spring lamb aDd green peas for di uur soon." Boarder?"I move th your resolution be tabled at once." Boston Gazette. A Kaltimouk paper says that t sold iers at Fortress Monroe have thr pet billy-goats. They are doubtU kept on the ram-parts.?Philadclpb Record. A Kansas man thinks he can c stroy cyclones by exploding thci "Try It and be blowed!" says the ( clone.?Chicago News. A TBAM8TER often loses his ba board. So does a boarding-hou keeper.?Yonkers Statesman. ? RELIGIOUS READING. 1 is > is IN' it ; TTIE MYSTERY OF QOD'S LEADIt'OS. That Goil does loail His people is a truth ith which is abundantly established by the 13ibl* lal and confirmed by tHe experience of thousands [jC, he of God's people in all ages of the world. But in there are mysteries connected with God's } jt loadings of His people, in many instance, which are too profound for them to unravel, t^0 and ospeeiaily so during the time that they "sts ^r" ,,f,iDg Sometimes the mystery has t. ^ reference to the path in, which the'believer in At/i ind le<** Thrt paths are so different from what mo; Qa one woulji naturally choose. They are direct- cla\ me 'V contrary to what humau sagacity and pru- vers denco would eloet to walk in. They appear to ,woi mo he beset with difficulties that are entirely taui n,| uocdless to encounter. They invite to dan- wot tjot 5(,rs which might easily be avoided. Wo turr er. utteriy fail to see. at the time, any good rea- in t ?ht S0Q why we should be led along such strange, aim lan uninviting unpromising and apparently de- ix.. her strut-live ways. They are so radically at va- chu hat riauco with our conceptions of right, of rea- ber son, of prudence, of safety, of personal good this ace and even of duty, that we are strongly tempted 6). i ere at times to rebel against proceeding. We are to q tempted to question whether we are being 2. - f-vtil..- l?/l Af ir\ cnnh n?iv?. Ann ild We havo found 110 difficulty in accept- Ital for tag the abstract truth that God Clai aa does lead His peojile. As a theory pari i1 U wo prefer to believe it. There is comfort in We ,nd the thought that the great God over all yeai ew does load us; but then when we And our- pari ing selves moving along in a certain path which the Jod is repugnant to our tastes, disappointing to the our hopes, bringing most bitter experiences wor ac. to our souls, wo feel inclined to revise our ago, ere estimate of the theory that God actually cur? i3y' ' leads Ilis people. We sav that this is apt bles l0u to bo our feeling, especially while we are thei in?? . being lod in ways which are contrary to that lod our judgment of what is best for us. And the ou y?N after passing through the most disagree- Jer. tap able parts of the why and coming out into the 3. 'ou light again, we flnd'that God did indeed lead he ar- us. With all of our short-sightedness we can thei nts see that the path in which we were led wa3 Whi t?d the best for us. Our experiences therein wh( wore worth more to us and to others through Gos of us than treasures of gold. Then we thanked in v 7th God tor leading us in just such a path as He istei ha did; and then too we felt condemned for our Gos ad tnurmurings and lack of faith and want of fll- I T )r- ial submission to his dictates and directions, gre> tl aud praynd Him to forgive us freely Again, to 1 ;ii- there is a mystery also oftentimes in the mot ice means which God often uses to lpad us. "It iso Ho employs the most unlikely means,? it." do means which men despise and which wc peri ire ourselves despise, to accomplish His pur- wor ;y( pose. And sometimes the means are very free small and quite insignificant He takes tine * UHO J? /I i i An onH 1 I 4. lie in another, us seemeth good to Him. We evei ed wonder at the time why we are moved the ou about by such little things. Some incident, ontc be very slight in Itself, has been tho means of opei as turning us out of the current of our lives, havi t it We would not have believed that we could and bo affected thus; yot God had a purpose in 2,3] ' it all, and if tho purpose have not been re- that ho voalod to us, tho time may come, either in ter this world or the next, that we shall know 5. 'im tho mystery, the meaning and the mercy of com od such leading.?Bel. Herald. the i nd 13 o- "coi l?t WHY DO WE HIT STILL? Awake ye slumberers in the vineyard of the deri ? ' Lord. Religious indolence admits of no ap- mor ology. Activity in the cause of Christ is ben- BUCi ' ofleial to tho physical fraino, and for the in- t0 9j j " tolloct no exercises are more useful than those g_ [0t required by the Savior. An increase of piety would render the mental powers more ant( efficient.?''They are continually throwing heal contempt on their own natures, that live un- g0 t , concernedly about their future, eternal salva- evei ^ tiou." Where Is the zeal of thousands whose js names are recorded in the annals of the con tv church? "Slothful professors like a door up- (Acl ou its hinges."?Urgent Interests of Zion call war upon all the sons and daughters of Jeho- his I nj vah to be earnest in efforts to pro- Tho mote its prosperity. The church is i8he u_ uttering loud lament because so many within j. g Vy her borders are slack in the performance of jj'eh llcl duty. By whom will tho bread of life be 7. j borne to the famishing world, If believers fail into ul to do it? Say not, tho ungodly desire no one ro' measures on their behalf; they need them, har( n_ and tho Son of Man charged his people to go 9hul t0 lorth in pity, to save the noedless and heart- time >0 . less. The blood of Calvary was shed for the clos rd wuria i* romeay tiro uwcu jiruvjuvu iur uiw aooi au wouikicki, inflicted by sin. HftSten", ye , a ho jg aids of divine mercy, and boar the balm of meg: Gilead to all tho dwellers on earth. Waft, aam 0{ waft, ye winds, tho choering truth that the that jW diseased and dying may be restored. Christ we 3 healoth the sotiL Toll the wanderers on g. death's dark mountain, that tho Sun of llight- gym iry oousnoss has arisen. hou; le- "Go, ye messengers of God; belii tat Liko the beams of morning lly; rule in, Take the wondor working rod: whe ng Wave the baftnor cross on high." of a sr, ?N. E. Puritan. the i ne Ruli sro 9 obet 16, the lioht op nature. p&u Thero lived many yoars ago, in Philadelphia, a celebrated Indian chief by the name of ;ul Tedyuscung. He was sitting one evening by . lm the dreside of a friend, both of them looking ^ ?y silontiv at the (Ire, indulging their own reW flections. . XI , 8 At length the silence was interrupted by the exa[ :er friend, who said, "I will tell you what I have been thinking of; I was thinking of a rule de- ^elc livored by the author of the Christian religion ^ >?* which, from iTs excellence, we call the Gold1 en Rule." "Stop," said Tedyuscung, '-don't Jinj 'VQ praise it.to me, but rather tell mo what it la, f1" and let me think for myself. I do not wish j^av( a you to tell mo of its excellence?tell me what o t?, n? "It is, for ono man to do to another as ho ^ad would tiie other should do to him." ,_e;, r* That's impossible lit cannot be done,'Tedy- yj uscung immediately replied; and taking his jn'ti pi[K', lighted it, and commenced walking xv. about tho room. In about a quarter of an un|'e ** hour he came up to his friend with a smiling we e countenance, and (taking the {ripe from his ta|?0 ?r mouth) said, 'Brother I have been thoughtful jg he on what you told me. If tho Great Spirit that get c t0 mado man would give him a new heart, he paor conkl do as you say, but not else. " pr0j st" Ezek., x,xxvi., 'Jj. ?A heart also will I tjj uf give you. and a new spirit will I put within He t ~ you ; and I will take away the stony heart out jere of vour flesh, and I will give you a heart of 12 , fr, ?6?h. jer. no ?v' lt. thk salvation of one soul. 11. rit John Augell James, in the preface to his 3'x c ns admirable book. "An Earnest Ministry." fnen art says?"more is a time coming in every 1 is mun's history when tho knowledge of hav- P??? to ing been the instrument to pluck a single 1 I brand from tho eternal burning, will yield f11,113 isa more real satisfaction than tho certainty of .?. I? having accomplished the loftiest objects of literary ambition." The remark is specis- J finally designed for the ministry, hut it Ls J?. tlQ pertinent to every member of human so- w , ciety. It has a truth in it that shouid dwell ?j* jS' in every heart, and rouse to energy and "r03' as zeal. Tho fact is that no man lives without QQ influence, and there is none so poor, so . lowly, so obscure, as to bo unable to do g :C- something for the salvation of men. na What is the honor of men, ( compared to POP the joy of spying a soul from death! ''"0," Insl 'n said an eloquent preacher who loved the in souls of men far more than their praise, 8ea' u though of this he had much, "God knows I 6,00 do not want their applause?1 want their in<J* e- salvation." at DEAXIJfO IK SCRIPT(JIIK. gree ltr A woman went one day to hear a famous D. yeai . D. preach, and as usual, carried a pocket bible with her, that she might turn to any of the passages tho preacher might happen to u?P] refer to. But she found that she had no use Lect1 of her bible there; and coming away, said to . vc a friend : "I should have left my bible at home " _ nn/4 Kmia KpAiiifht rr?\r Hi/itiAnunf r\f t .11" KJ-Uaj, au.! ...,r w. V jlt The doctor does uot deal in scripture, but in ^ah such learned words aud phrases as require the heln of an interpreter to render them T lntellisible.'_____ C(jr( To marry recklessly and without be reasonable means 13 to marry miser- thffi 'ss ably; but to marry on an income that 'j*23 !ia with care and self-denial and pru- 9loa dence will suffice to provide all that is ^ essentially necessary for comfort is to ver) le. call into play the best affections of wee m. man's nature. It tends to make first ;y- youth happy, middle age contented, *nS old age calm and peaceful. 1,01)1 ... -A. ck A man who gives himself away is to e se apt to lose his self-control.?Phila hot* delphia Record. ton <4 SABBATH SCHOOL. rERXATIONAL LESSON FOR JULY 23. ?son Text: "Paul at Corinth,'* \e(s xvill., 1-11?Golden TpxU 1 Cor. 1., 18?Commentary. "After tliese things Paul departed from oq3 and came to Corintb." His testily was not m vain at Athens, for some a unto him and believed. See previous le. He did not expect that all the seed ild fall on good soil, neither are we so ?ht. But he did know that God's word ild accomplish His pleasure and not rei void, and that his labor was not in vain he Lord (Isa. lv.. 11; I Cor. xv.. 58). Hid was "by all means to save some" (I Cor. 22). and this ha accomplished." The rch of Christ is made up of an elect numout of all nations, given unto Him out of world (Rev. v.. 9; Eph. i.,4: Johnxvii., md to this end wo, like Paul, should seek et the gospel everywhere. "And found a certain Jew named tila. horn In Pontus, lately come from y with his wife Priscilla (because that iidius had commanded all Jews to det from Rome), and came unto them." cannot help remarking that after 1800 rs the Jews are still commanded to det from cities, aqd countries on the face of earth. It Is the same sad old story as in' days of Paul. It is the fulfillment of ds spoken through Mo3os over 3000 years , See Deut. xXviii., 6J-G6. But if the ie has come so . literally and so fully the sing shall also come, and ,;the days of r mourning shall be ended." "for He : scattered Israel will gather him." and time it even now at hand (Isa. Ix., 20,21, xxxi., 10; Ezek. xxxviL, 21, 22). " And because ho was of the same craft abode with them and wrought, for by r occupation they were tentmakers." iie Paul believed and taught that tbey ) preach the Gospel should live of the pel (I Cor. ix., 14), he also took pleasure forking at hia trade that he might minr to his own necessities and give the pel freely (Acts xx., 34; I Cor. iv., 11,12 ; Eiess. ii., 9; II Thess. iii., 8). It is a it advantage under some circumstances je able to do, this now and thus stop the iths of those who say of the preacher, i is his business ; he makes a good thing of I am glad that I had three years' oxence of ministering to my., necessities by king seven hours a day, "th.it I might ly give ail the rest of. my time to distively religious work. And he reasoned in the synagogue y Sabbath and persuaded the Jews and Greeks." He doubtless did as at Thessal\& and reasoned out of the Scriptures, aing and alleging that Christ must needs i suffered and risen again from the dead, that this Jesus is the Christ (chapter xvii., ). From his conversion his one story was Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God (chapix., 20-22). "And when Silas and Tlmotheus were e from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus 19Christ." The R. V. says that he was nstrained by the word." This reminds f Jeremiah, who, when the word of the i was made a reproach unto him and a sion daily, 3aid he would not speak any e in His name, but tbib word of God was 1 a fire in his heart that he was constrained peak (Jer. xx., 8, 9). "And when they opposed themselves and phemed he ahoolc his raiment and said ) them. Your blood be upon your own Js ; I am clean ; from henceforth I will into the Gentiles." It was his custom y where to preach the gospel to the Jew (Kom. i., 10) and then to the Gentile. 1 ipare their conduct at Antioch in Pisidia ;s xiii., 45, 46). When any one is duly ned of danger and refuses to take heed, blood is on himself (Ezek. xxxiil., 4, 5). 1 se who obey not the gospel shall be pun- i d with everlasting destruction (II Thtfss. , 9). As to shaking one's raiment see . v.. 13. "And he departed thence and entered a certain man's house named Justus, that worshiped God, whose house joined 1 to the syuagogtie." $vhan one door is : another Is sure to be open, and come ?, as in this cage, next door to the one ed against us. When the 'Lprd opepa a r for us, no power can shut it, and when iuse or city is closed against us or our 1 sage we have only to move on in His ie (Rev. iii., 8 : Math, x., 14). It is not us they ill treat, but Him whose message bear (Luke x., 16). "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the igoguo, believed on the Lord with all his 3e, and many of the Corinthians hearing jved and were baptized." The chief r cannot always control the other rulers, ther he be president of a nation, mayor I city or only ruler of a synagogue, but time will come when there will be a Chief | sr to whom all others shall yield a perfect lience. He will be this same Jesus whom I 1 preached, but He will then be King of ?s and Lord of Lords. All kings will fall n before Him ; all nations shall serve t (Rev. xix., 16 ; Ps. Ixxii., 11). It was a I ndid victory for the Lord and His servant ave the chief ruler and his household re- j e the despised Nazarene as Israel's Mes- , . Many must have been helped by his j npletodo likewise. Here again, as at i ids, Paul is privileged to save some and j i complete the church. ' Then spake the Lord to Paul in too it by a vision, Bo not afraid, but 3peak I hold not thy peace." Hi wa9 probably | g tempted like Jeremiah, to whom we 5 already referred. He says in I Cor. iL, ' lat he was with them in meekness, and 1 >ar, an-' > much trembling. His Master j observeu this, and hence this vision and ;t comfort. Compare Josh, i., 9, Jer. i.. . What exceeding great comfort there is ' iese '-fear nots" of our Lord from Gen. 1, to Rev. i., 17, but we get no benefit ss we appropriate them to ourselves. If ire the Lord's and in His service, we may I His promisas right to oi\r hearts. | . "For I am with thee, and no man shall in thee to hurt thee, for I have mtioh He in thi3 city." One of the largest uiaes in the Bible, if not fctje vprj largest. Nul am with you" of Jehovah. See how ;ave it to Moses, Joshaa, Gideon. Isaiah, miah. Haggal' and the apostles (Ex. Hi., Josh. i.. 5; Judg. vL, 1G: Isa. xli.. 10: i.. 8. 19; Hag. i., 13; iiM 4; Math. ii.. 20). I , '"And ho continued there a year and . oonths teaching the word of God among 1 i." He did not teach science nor phi- 1 phy. nor did ho lecture upon the great of the day. He did not try to prove i th9 books of Moses and the Psalms had , y authors, aud that thero must have been Isaiahs, bur believing all things written 1 le law aud in the prophets (Acts xxiv.. , lie taught the Scriptures. He preached Kingdom of God aud taught the thin-^s T ;h eoncera the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts I ii., 31), saving none other things than j a whicn Moses and the prophets did a ay ild como (A:ts xxvi., '12). ? Leaoou >or. r ^ \ xplqf.ation is injproving the ( ular knowledge of .the Sahara. t tead of being largely below the j the greater part of it is from i0 to 8,000 feet above that level; L ead of being rainless, showers 1 re it bloom and cover it with F id grass for a few weeks every ? ; large flocks and herds are main- 1 frt nnon its hordera: the oases are ressed whore water can be coled and 9tored, and are villalnousnhealthy in hot weather because t his stagnant water and the fllthy f) Its of the inhabitants. M he president of the St. Paul p lage Company suicided by jump- s into the river. Those who put 1 r trust in combines and monopo- " come to horrible endings occaally\_.. . , ? t'ouxo Hustle didn't succeed w ' well as editor of that religious sl ekly, did he?" "Not very; the thing he did was to start a votcontest to see who was the most liar sexton."?Buffalo Express. he proposition of base-ball people nlarge the diamond will put the A, >1 clerk on his mettle.?Washing- ,tl Star. _ . m A PRETTY FANCY. ti A fancy ha3 arisen for wearing a & bangle of jade, it being claimed that P' the costly green material brings good r luck. By way of contrast to this la lii mode ordains that there shall also be P( ? bangle of tortoise shell and one of * gold. The oontrast is artistic and " tends to make the arm very white. ? n< New York Recorder.* AWA CLOTH FOB A 8TJMMEH SKIBT. Awa cloth is the latest material for a summer skirt. It is' a substitute for ;he silken petticoat. It is a cotton t P1 cloth with a crimpled surface and comesshades Of dark blue, gray and cl black. The skirt when made with a full ruffle is stiff ^enough to dispense f0 with the crinoline lining of a gown. It washes well and does not need to be ironed. Ready mada it costs $3. ? f New York World. tinted lace. 1 A very popular fad just now takes the form of tinted lace. Girls who are at all clever with the paint brush color b( the filmy garniture in shaded tones, in CI this way securing a suitable trimming for shot silk gowns. The shaded lace ti is so very fetching that more than one bright , witted maiden has carried out the coloring idea upon her other toilet pj items. The fronts of silken hoiserv fc 1 i* . i *i.1_ J may oe tinted exquisitely ana snaaea. gauze collarettes are attractive novel- fll ties.?St. Louis Bepublic. ju HAJRDRE3SENG IN JAPAN. 10 One of the joys of the Japanese ra woman's life, which Sir Edwin Arnold has failed to dwell upon, is her hair- . dressing, although he mentions the re- 10 suit admiringly. The ordinary Japanese v8 woman has her hair dressed twice a ei week. First the assistant hairdresser comes and oils the locks with camel- c* lia or sesamun oil; then the principal b{ arrives and spends nearly an hour in piling,up the hair so that it will indi- . cate the caste and age of the woman tr and whether she be "maid, wife or fit widow." For all that is expressed by su the arrangement of the locks in Japan. The women sleep upon neck blocks, ot carefully hollowed out so that the hair th may remain undisturbed all night. re For ladies of high degree these blocks are beautifully lacquered and decorated. They generally have a little drawer into which the superfluous ornaments can be put at night. ?New York World. cu ? - hfl WOMEN IN THE ROLE OP LIBRARIANS. . U "Women have made a special success in the training school for . librarians." that has resulted from the present, system in vogue by the conductors of aD the State Library at Albany. Three of; an the great popular institutions of instruction, the Pratt in Brooklyn, the Drexel in Philadelphia, and the Armour in Chicago, have all secured both to shief librarians and assistants from mi recent graduates of the State Library School, During the past month re- 01? quests for librarians came not only From several parts of New York State, po but also from Tennessee, Minnesota, sej Indiana, California, Montana, two or from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and or three from Illinois. Propositions (vere received also from New England or States regarding tnree omers. uue 01 an bhe young women employed at the or State Library has accepted a position he is assistant-librarian in Philadelphia ?nd another leaves this week to be- j :ome an assistant in the Helena (Montana) Public Library. Few of the general public know of this new avenue 5pen for women's work, or that such a profession has evolved a regular school for training its members. ?Baltimore Sun. P? wl AN INDIAN GIRL NtJRSS. There is in one of the great hospitals ^ >f New York a full blooded Indirfn girl ictiug as a nurse in the woman's ward. Bhe has the black hair and physiogno- ri^ nical peculiarities of her race, is pr?tty ve vith the bloom of youth, tall and lithe an >f figure and of most prepossessing ap- va Dearance. She has been thoroughly I wlii/in+oH ot TTiimrifiin Institute and at im ;raiuing school and has all the advan- \ an ,ages of an educated and intelligent I wh voman. j pr< I am told by the ex-patient of the no wspital that the wild blood of this ' 'linnehaha of the pill and pestle shows ani :-uh in one way, and that rather an ad- pe rentage in a room where there are sick mc voir.cn. At night her tread is abso- fla: utely inaudible. She moves as quietly : p;i is her great-great-grandfather might sw tare done on the quest for scalps?! nueh >is a cat does when there is forridden cream in sight. During the ^ lay her ste2> is no more noiseless than hat of other women, though always jrt ight and springy. tef It might not be a bad idea for some | e^-( (onevoleut person to train up a whole j ot of Indian girls for a gainful occu- j .j atiou, to which they seem no well, J?1 dapted by inheritance.?New York >rc1ss. 0V THK MOST POPULAR MATERIA!,. aQ( . . 8(3.*i It appeal's to be au established fact j f fashion that, the most popular ma- j eriuI is to be grenadine, it is to ne 1,? remuline of a very soft, fine make : rhich ".ve fire to patronize, aad it is j rennui.-je beautifully patterned with , ct.a ilkeu flowers in various colors. 1 ! 'heue fabrics are to be made" lined ! aQ 'itli a light-colored silk, and in the j ^ implcst fashion, trimmed with a little ! wm ;t or colored ribbon. The chine i Th* dks and the light-grounded silks. ! w*'' ith merely pin spots and narrow j the iripes upon them, will share our at- w^' intion with these grenadines, and. ght colors will be very much worn i E lis summer. I vog Of course the crepon is not to be i coll egleotcil; it is far too charming a j slee laterial for us to cast it aside yet | gar while. But the most attractive ma- j eqn siial of tfc.'u description is now en- j wil. r ' . P\ I I* rely made of silk, and is of a very ne, soft texture, by no means inex< ansive; but, then, what that ii ^ tally nice is inexpensive in these ew ghtened days? It is becomingrathef jpular to trim the hems of skirt# ith Vandykes of satin ribbon, and it good to know tfiat far from the fab ess of the skirts increasing, it ha* ready commenced to be diminished. -New York Journal. " , . FASHION NOTBS. A season of ruffling may be safelj r^dicted. Three gold safety bars connected bf lains are for children's blouses. . -rrrt v'v White gloves have returned to favo? >r morning as well as evening wear, A new material for the autumn sem >n is called Puritan, and is kind of ise velvet. " " . .. The latest craze in jeweled orn* ents for bonnets and the hair is iamond bat.. , : *>< Bluish violet shades are now taking 5tter in Paris than the reddish ^Violet rafee now here. '' t Pretty straw hate in pale violet an immed with gold lace, green velvet id a single pink rose.1 1 >Linen tatting makes an exceedingly retty trimming for morning drpaea* >r both women and ohildren* e<.< The latest parasols are made of lac? id lined with rainbow chiffon, and ive gold mountings on the handle'. Real lace veils, of the large old faefr ned size which delighted oar grandothers, are coming into style again. The new silver bracelets are charmg in design and workmanship.. . On* iriety is made up of woven wi*e and ids in tassels. Black organdies have cluster# of terries,\inripe blackberries and hoHysrries tossed gracefully on their sheer ack surfaces. In spite of all rumors to the conary, skirts continue to be madecloeir ;ting at the top, unless for thin o* miner materials. ' ,? The many navy blue traveling' and. iting suits that will be fashiohabW is summer should be worn with dark d gloves in harmonious; contrast: ; Charming necklaces of silver- ara irn with fine chains netted together. ley oannot fail to be popular ' witl# . .. ' ' tung girls with their summer gowns. The "round table skirt," which is t out of goods five yards wide, and ks. no seam, is ,at present the/, moot >p'aiar one. Nothing surpasses- thiM fit. . - . Linen tatting, in the new intricate id really beautiful patterns, make* r exceedingly pretty trimming for orning dresses for both woman and ildren. i . *. ? ? To restore the brightness of steel bAtns, buckles and other small ^rticle* V ide from this metal, it has soma* * lere been recommended to use on* iked lime. The sweet pea blossom tints are very pular in shot silk toilets for next ison, made wholly of this material used for princesse slips ander looe net dresses. ..... , Pretty bedroom slippers are of felt velvet, with warm flannel lining* d trimmings of soft, dark fur. Undet dinary slippers they have a moderate el and rathar smart toe. White kid and suede sailor hats are w this season, but straw takes tha id, with quills for trimming, while jre fancy sailor has roses around the own and under the brim. A pretty idea for a bridesmaid's cos- ' me is a gown of soft white silk with le green sa3h and shoulder cape of lite lace; large white leghorn hat mmed with yellow tea roses and een foliage. The popular veil is finished with ree .narrow rows of ribbon velvet n through the mesh. Other new ils1 are covered with chenille dots, d purple and grass green are the preiling colors. 9ilks and satins are used for every aginable article of dress this year, ,3 4l%A /t/tlswa Qi?a IfuralfAr thftn U. VUC V,V/lVl'7 M4V W<V?V. w die watered silks, which have been oduced generally in solid colors, are w seen iu changeable hues. The wide skirts must be supported cl to this eud are provided under tticoats of grans cloth, sateen, reen and linen canvas, which havo ring flounces that answer the same rpose that the tilting hor.^skirt oners. \mongthe new trimmings for snmr dresses are laces having the em )idery and scollops on both sidee ke. They are either laid flat on the ?ss or are. shirred through the cen, thus giving something of the ruche ;ct. English walking gloves to be used h promcuade costumes come in all i cloth shades to match toilets. )V38 for the street fasten smoothly >r the wrist by four or five button* I are made with pique-stitched ms. f yo-i nra going to the sea shore, ? ? nil j. a Tom U Simmer. mey ace wu;u , afortable tilings, and the occasion* ; ' I lie many when you will find ? nee to wear one. The prettiest are white angora wool, lined with silk 1 with a silk pompon. Hear white muslin is used for dresses eh arrf worn over colored siik. > skirt is of three deep flounces with e hems and colored ribbon run in hems. Waist of silk, draped over li muslin, and a broad, soft sash of color at the waist. f . Slack lacos were never more the ue. They are used for bretellea. arettee. fichus, sleeves and parts of ves, jacket fronts and neck and belt nitures. Ecru l?toe eujoyn almost al favor, and later in the season 1 be eveu more the mode. ,