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* , v ; : ' ' ' v iREY. DR. TALMAGE. 'THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN\ DAY SERMON. jl. [ 'Sharpened Axes" (Preached at Madison, Wis.)? Text : "Xmr. there ma* rw smith, found throughout all itir land of tsraei, erc.?i Samuel xiii. 19-21. !> My loving and Kind salutation to this un4 100anted host, Chautauquans, Christian Enideavors, gospel workers and their friend? (from all parts of Wisconsin and America, saints ana sinners! My te.<rt is gloriously Appropriate. What a Railing subjugation |the Israelites were suffering ' The Philistines thad carried off all the blacksmiths aud torn dow-nll the blacksmiths'shops and abolished . .the blacksmith's trade in the land of Israel. ! These Philistines had a particular grudge > against blacksmiths, although I have always admired them and have sometimes thought - * , 1 ought to have been one myself. The Philistines would not even allow these parties to ."Work their valuable mines of brass and iron, nor might they make any swords or spears. There were only two swords left in all the land. Yea. these Philistines went on until they had taken all th<s grindstones from the land of Israel, so thai if an Israelitish farmer .wanted to sharoen his olow or his ax ho had ,to go over to the frarrison of the Philistines to get it done. There was only one sharpening instrument left in the land, and that was a file. The fanners and the mechanics having nothing to whet up the coulter, and the , goad. and the piokax save .a simple file, industry was hindered and work practically disgraoed. The great idea of these Philistines was to keep the Israelites disarmed. They might got iron out ofthe hills to make swords of, frut they would not have any blacksmiths to ,weld tide iron. If they got the iron welded, they would have no grindstones on which to t>ring the instruments of agriculture or the military weapons up to an edge. Oh. you Eoor, weaponless Israelites, reduced to a tile, ow I pity you! But these Philistines were not forever to keep their heel on the neck of God's children. Jonathan, on his hands and knees, climbs up a great rock beyond which were the Philistines, and his armor bearer, on his hands and knees, climbs up the same rock, and these two men, with their two swords, hew to pieces the Philistines, the Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So It was then; so it ia now. The two men of nn their knees misrhtier than a Philistine ' host on their feet. II learn first from this subject how dangerous it is for the church of God to allow its weapons to stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites might again and again have obtained a supply of swords and weapons, as for instance, when they took the spoils of the Ammonites, but these Israelites seemed content to have no swords, no spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron mines, until it was too late for them to make any resistance. I see the farmers tugging along with their pickaxes and plows, and I say, "Where are you going with those things?" They say, "Oh. we are going over to the garrison of the Philistines to get these things sharpened." I say, 4,You foolish men; why don't you sharpen them at homeV Oh." they say, "the blacksmiths' shops ire all torn down, and we have nothing loft us but a file." ^ So it is in the church of Christ to-day. We ?willlnn rrir-A iin Aiir ITPAtmnQ tft fhrt FtUU VV/V Tt llliu^ iv &*?V U|/vu* H - ? enemy. The -world boasts that it has gobbled up the schools, and the colleges, and the arts, and the sciences, and the literature, and the printing press. Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to get all our weapons in its hand and then to keep them. You know it ifl making this boost all the time, and after a while, when the great battle between sin and righteousness has opened, if we do not look out we will be as badly off as these Israelites, without nny swords to fight with and without any sharpened instruments. ' I call upon the superintendents of literary institutions to see to it tbat the man who go into the classrooms to stand beside the Leyden jars, and the electric batteries, and the microscopes or telescopes bo children of I God, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers iuu >fA <?af aJI i ha infol_ I f ui IUI9 uojr axe ujiEig, w ?.??? tuv ?>? leotuiil weapons of this century In their own j grasp. What we want is scientific Christians to capture the science, and scholastic Christians to capture the scholarship, and philosophic Christians to capture the philosophy, and lecturing Christians to take back the lecturing platform. We want to send out against Scheakel and Strauss and Benan of the past men like the late Theodore Christlieb of Bonn, and against the infidel scientists a God worshiping Siliiman and Hitchcock and Agassiz. We want to capture all the philosophical , apparatus and swing around the telescopes ^ on the swivel until through them we can see the morning star of tho Bedeemer, and with mineralogical hammer discover the "Bock of Ages," and amid the flora of the realms find the "Bose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley." We want a olergy learned enough to discourse of the human eye, showing it to be a microscope and telescope in one instrument, With 800 wonderful contrivances and lids olosing 80,000 or 40,000 times a day, ail its muscles and nerves and bones showing the infinite skill of an infinite God, and then winding up with the peroration, "He that . ' formed the eye, shall Ho uot see?" And ohruih f-h a hiirnnn ' ear, its wonderful integuments, membranes and vibration, and its chain of small bones, and its auditory nerves, closing with the question, "He that planted the ear, 3hall He not hearV" And we want some one able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it the geology and tho astronomy of the world, until, as Job suggested, "tho stones of the field shall be in league" with tho truth, and "the stars in their courses shall tight against Sisera." Oh, church of God, go out and recapture these weapons. Let men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Let all the printing press of this country speak out for Christ, and the reporters, and the typesetters, and tho editors and publishers Bwear allegiance to the Lord God of truth. Ah, my friend, that day must come, and if the great body of Christian men have not the faitb, or the courage, or too consecration to do it. then let some Jonathan on his busy hands and on his praying knees climb up on tho rock of hindrance, and in the name of the Lord God of Israel slash to piec&s those literary Philistines. If these men will not be'converted to God, then they must be destroyed. Again, I learn from this subject what a larfje amount of the church's resources Is actually hidden and buried and undeveloped. The Bible intimates that that was a very rich land?this land of Israel. It says, "The stones are iron, and out of the hills thou shalt di? brass," and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the difficulty with the church of God at this day. Its talent is not developed. If one-half of Its energy could be brought out, it might take the public iniquities of tho day. by the throat and make them bite tho dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ, it could in a few years persuade this "whol# earth to surrender to God. There Is enough undoveloped Christian enertrv in the United States to brine the whole world to Christ, but it is buried under strata of indifference and under whole mountains of sloth. Now. is it not time for ? the mining to begin, and the pickaxes to I plunge, and for this buried metal to bo brought out nnd put into tho furnace* and be turned into howitzers and carbines for ? the Lord's host? Tho vast majority of Christians in this day are useless. The t most of the Lord's battalion belong to the reserve corps. Tho most of the crew aro asleep in the hammocks. The mast of the metal is under the hills. Oh. is it not time for the church of God to rouse up and understand that we want all the energies, all the talents and all the wealth wmstert for Christ's sake? t like the nickname that tho English soldiers gave to Biucher. tho commander, Thoy culled him "Old Forwards." We have had enough retreats in the church of Christ; let 113 have a glorious U.l T r-n? * r. ?ni. or, fkn uu>auvf. auu x nny iw yun uun uic general said when his troOps were affrighted. Rising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind, he lifted his voice until 20,003 troops heard him, crying out, "Forward, the whole line!" Again, I learn from this subject that we sometimes do well to fako advantage of tho world's sharpQning instruments. Theso Israelites were reduced to a .file, and so they went over to the garrison of the Philistines to got their axes, and their goads, and their plo ws sharpened. The Bible distinctly states in the context that they had no other instruments now with which to do this work, and /v '-triv i' ^ * v.- , J*.-.?:!:.'' . the Israelites did right when they went over to the Philistines to U9e their grindstones. My friends, Is it not right for us to employ the world's grindstones? If there be art. if there be logic, if there be business faculty on the other side, let us go over and employ it for Christ's sake The fact is we tight with too dull weapons, and we work with too dull implements. We hack and we maul when we ought to make a clean stroke. Let us go over among sharp business men and among sharp literary men and find out what their taste is, and then transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they have scieni'3 and art. it will do us good to rub against it. In oth?r words, let us employ the world's grindstones. We will listen to their music, and we will watch their a<-umen. and we will use their grindstones, and we will borrow their philosophical apparatus to make our experiments, and we will borrow their printing presses to publish our Bibles, and we will borrow their rail trains to carry our Christian literature, and we will borrow their ships to transport our missionaries. That was what made Paul such a master in his day. He not only got all the learning he could get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward standing on Mars hill and In crowded thor oughfarea quoted their poetry and grasped their logic and wielded their eloquence and employed their mythology until Dionyslus, the Areopagite, learned in the schools ot Athens and Heliopolls, went down under his tremendous powers. That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his power in his day. He conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for the second time the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted foe joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his influenoo in his day. He conquered the world's metaphysics and forced it into the service of God, until not only the old meeting house in Northampton, Mass., but all Christendom, felt thrilled by his Christian power. Well, now, my friends, we all have tools of Christian usefulness. Do not let them lose their edges. We want no rusty blades in this flght. We want no colter that cannot rip up (he glebe. We want no ax that cannot fell the trees. We want no goad that cannot start the lazy team. Let us get the very best grindstones we can find, though they be in the possession of the Philistines, compelling them to turn the crank, while we bear down with all our might on the swift revolving wheel until all our energies and faculties shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge. Again, my subject teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took the spears and the swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then they took the grindstones, and they took everytuing due a nie. *jn, inac is iu? wu.v sui works. It grabs everything. It begins with robbery, and it ends with robbery. It despoils this faculty and that faculty and keeps on until the whole nature is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it generally thickens his tongue. Was he fine in personal appear- j ance, it mars his visage. Was he affluent, it | sends the sheriff to sell him out. Was he influential, it destroys his popularity. Was he placid and genial and loving, it makes him splenetic and cross, and so utterly is he changed that you can see he is sarcastic and rasping and that the Philistines have left him nothing but a tile. Oh, "the way of the transgressor is hard.'' His cup is bitter. His night is dark. His pangs ar9 deep. His end is terrific. Philistine iniquity says to that man, "Now, surrender to me, and I will give you all you want?music for the danoe, swift steeds for the race, imperial couch to slumber on, and you shall be refreshed with the rarest fruit3 in baskets or golden filigree." He lies. The music turns out to be a groan. The fruits burst the rind with rank poison. The filigree is made up of twisted snakes. The couch is a grave. Small allowance of rest, small allowanoe of peace, small allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough?noth- i ing but a file. So it was with Voltaire, the j m,*st applauded man of his day : The Scripture vra.* bU Jeutboolc. whence he drew Boomow to sail the Christian and the Jew; An tnfldel when wel, but what when lick/ Oh. then a text would touch him to the qnlcic. Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs in Paris, where he had gone to be crowned in the theatea as an idol of all Franoe, he sends j a messenger to get a priest that he may be reconciled to the church before he dies. A great terror falls upon him. He makes the place all round about him so dismal that the nurse declares that she would not for all the j wealth of Europe see another infidel die. Philistine iniquity had promised him all the | world's garlands, but in the last hour of his life, when he needed solacing, sent tearing across his conscience and his nerves a file, a file. So it was with Lord Byron, his uncleanneas in England only surpassed by his uncleanness in Venice, then going on to his brilliant misery at Missolonghi, and fretting at his j nursa. Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting j at the world, fretting at God, and he who | gave to the world "Childe Harold," aud | "Sardanapalus," and "The Prisoner of ] WUiUUU, OUU XUC Vi wiuvu, dused to nothing but a file! Oh. sin has great facility for making prom- j ises, nut it has just as great facility for breaking them. A Christian life is the only ! cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender ! is remorse, ruin and death. Its painted glee j is sepulchral ghastliness. In tne brightest j days of the Mexican Empire Montezuma ! said he felt knawing at his heart something i like a ranker. Sin, like a monster wild j beast of the forest, sometimes licks ali over I its victim fi order that the victim may be j more easily swallowed; but generally sin ! rasps and galls and tears and upbraids and j flies. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so. Hil- j debrand? Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye' i aye! it is 30: it is so. "The way of the , wicked He' turneth upside down." I Hiatory tells us that when Home was I founded, on that day there were 12 vultures j flying through the air, but when a transpressor dies the skies is black with whole i flocks of them. Vultures! When I see siu robbing so many peopie, and I see them go- J ing down day by day and week by week, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it back lest I risk the salvation of my own soul. Bover. the pirate, pulled down the warning bell on In'-heaperock, thinkingthat he would have a c hance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night his own ship crashed down on this 1 n.?n4- /J/MTrn mifh It II hiu very tuck, ?iiu hc i cargo. God declares. t'Wlien I say to tho wicked thou shall surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that same mau shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hands." I learn from this subject what a sad thing it ia when the church of God loses its metal. Theso Philistines saw that if they could only pet all the metallic* weapons out of the hands of the Israelites all would be well, an 1 therefore they took the swords and the spears. They did not want them to have a single metallic weapon. When the metal of the Israelites was gone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble with the church of God today. It is surrendering its courage. It has not got enough metal. How seldom it is that you see a man taking his position in a pew, or in pulpit, or in a religious society, and holding that position against all oppressioo, andall trial, and all persacutiou, and all criticism The church of God to-day wants more backbone, more dellance, more consecrated bravery, more metal. How often you see a man start out in some Rood enterprise, and at the first blast of newspaperdom he has collapsed, and all his courage gone, forgetful of tho fact that if a man be right all tho newspapers of tho earth, with all their columns pounding away at him, cannot do him any permanent damage ! It is only when a man is wrong that he can be damaged. Why, God is going to vindicate His truth, and H? is going to stand by, you. my friends, in every effort you make for Christ's cause and tho salvation of men. I sometimes say to my wife: ''There is .something wrong: the newspapers have uot assaulted mo !or three months! I have not don-> my duty against public iniquities, and I will stir them up noxt Sunday." Then I our mem uj>, .mu uu me ioiiowiuk wbbs ui" devil howls imd howls, showing that I have him very hard. Go forth in the service of Christ and do your whole duty. You have one sphere. I have another sphere. "The Lord of Ho3ts is with us, and the God of Jacob is our refuse. Selah." We want more of the determination of Jonathan. I do not suppose he was a very wonderful man. but he got on his knees and clambered up the rook, and with the help of his armor bearer he hewed down the Philistines, and a man of very ordinary intellectual attainments, on his knees, can storm anything for pod and for the truth. We want something of the determination of the general who went into the war, and as he entered his first battle his knees knocked together, his physical courage not quite up to his moral courage, and he looked down at his knees and said, ,:Ah, if you knew w I was going to take you, you would si worse than that There is only one question for you to and for me to ask. What does God wanl to do? Where is the field? Where is work? Whore is the anvil? Where is prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? j finding out what God wants us to do ahead and do it?all the energies of ourb mind and soul enlisted in the undertak Oh, my brethren, wo have but little tin which to fight for God, You will be < soon. Put In the Christian cause every en< that God gives you. "What thy hand fin to do, do it with all thy might, for thei neither wisdom nor device in the g: | whither we are all hastening." Oh. is it I high time that we wake out of sleep ? Chi ! of God lift up your head at the coming I tory! The Philistines will go down, and j Israelites will go up. We are on the wini ! side. Hear that?on the winning side! j I think just now the King's horses are ing hooked up to the chariot, and when j does ride down the sky there will be su ' hosanna among His friends and such a \ I ing among His enemies as will make thee i tremble and the heavens sing. I see now i ninmoa rtf Mi a T.nrri'a pjia*h.1 rvm ail fnqqin i the air. The arohangel before the throne ! aiready burnished his trumpet, and thei i will put its golden lips to his own, on< ' will blow the long, loud blast that will n I all Nations free. Ciap your hands, al j d3ople! Hark! I hear the fallingthr< I and the dashing down of demolished ; iquitles. PKOMQTENT PEOPLE. Govebnob Russell, of Massachui rides a bieyclo. General Alr-jandbo Rodbiourz a Governor-General of Cuba, is dead. Genbbal Mellinet, aged ninety-five, holds a commission in the French army, ing stationed at Nantes. General Edwabd Jabdine, hero of tr battles and the New York draft riots, dio u New York hotel a few days since. Colonel C. C. Jones, Jb., historiai Georgia, died a few uays ago of Brii disease at Augusta. He was sixty-two y old. Colonel James Clay, of Bourbon Cou Kentucky, owns more blue grass land I any man in the world, being assesse* 4295 acres. The decadence of the popularity of bull 9ght in Spain is largely responsible the Duke of Yeragua's threatened bankx cy. He raises fighting bulls. Major Elijah W. Halfobd, who was vate Secretary to President Harrison,has 1 stationed at the Department of the PI headquarters, Omaha, Neb., as assistant master. A botal personage has been added to list of operatic singers by the debut inFri of the Princess Ahmadee, who is said to descendant of the house of Delhi. Ue the rest of her immediate family, this Im aristocrat is a Christian. The inventor of the now important ar lithography, Alvis Senefelder, was born Prague in 1771. He died, almost unkm at Munloh in 1834, having benefited littl his discovery. A monument has at last 1 erected to lxim at Berlin. Finding that* Cluny Castle would b small to accommodate his summer guest Scotland Andrew Carnegie has rented Ct -dhu House, two miles distant. This is place which John Morley once describe an ideal Highland residence. The Corean Minister and his wife members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Ye determined to identify tb selves with Christianity shortly after death of their first child. Except on a occasions they wear American clothes. Two or three years ago, against the ad of all her friends, the wife of Senator SI art. of Nevada, bought a silver mine Mexico. Then she went for a trip aro the world, and recently returned to find self the owner of a bonanza that aln equals anything Nevada ever knew. Sh | now building a large villa near Washing The late Senator Stanford always woi I little hutterflv naoktie. one of the kind i I is fastened on a short ended bow and fas 1 to the collar button with a rubber loep. many years that wag the only cravat in Senator's possession. He parted with It c when it was completely worn out and wife made him get another. The portrai j Melssonier, which cost $15,000, has him w I ing this tie. S CALIFORNIA'S SENATOR. George 0. Perkins, Who Succeeds JjAte Lelund Stanford. George C. Perkins, appointed Un States Senator from California to succeed late Leland Stan for i by Govei Mack ham, is a representative Araori merchant. Ho wat born August 188?, in Kennsbunkport, Me. W twelve years old he ran away to sea. In 1 he went to California ,'is a sailor. He gaged in farming and mining in J) County and prospered. In 1870 he elected State Senator, auti three yi later became :i member of the lira Goodall. Nelson A Perkins, which since become the Pacific Coast riteami Company. In 1870 Mr. Perkins was olo< by tbo Republicans Governor oi Cnlifor Ho is still uu active partner in the stoumf company. CLAIMS AGAINST CHILE, Commission to Adjudicate the Clai of Americans for Damages. The commission appointed under the tre of 1892 to ndjost the claims of the citizens the United States and Chile against a other's Governments met at the State : partment at Washington for organlzati Tho members are Alfred do Clapare Minister from Switzerland; Don DomJi Gana. Minister from Chile, and John Goo of Virginia, representing tne uniuea oun The commission Is limited to six month which to perform Its labors. The com mil will handle and adjudicate every claim damages arising from Chilean and Uni ! States citizsns since the foundation of Chilean Republic in 1818, excepting Baltimore claims, which have been p: The amouut of claims presented will probably into the millions. EATING OP FORESTS. ! Timber Worms Destroy the Trees Two Townships, i Capitalists of Portland, Oregon, owi timber along the Hoqulatn River, in Chel | County, Washington, are greatly war over reports that a small measuring w i has made its appearance in myriads in ! section and is devastating the forest. 1 great fir. spruce and hemlock trees are a suffering. J. H. Baker, of llontesano, oi the most capable and reliable timber in the State, asserts the worm iy destro; a tract of timber equal to two whole tv ships along the Hwquium River. ; Tiik Point of View.?"Tennis splendid game, don't you think Miss Highflyer?" "Yes, indeed; brother Tom. who is great on K?*?l rrrMi I'piaw aitra fnnnJa ia uirv I'au, j wu >v uv/ ?? f oujo uv/uuia oni immense?tet girla and duffers. Boston Beacon. ^ I''ond llusbanu?"sweetest, are an angel." Pretty Wife? "I d. want over to be an angel." F ; Husband?"Why?" Pretty Wil J "Because I have found that featl . are not becoming to me."?I'ittsb Bulletin. Two brothers* ameu ilail v to New York to buy counter money. They did not get any course, but the trip was not wh fruitless. They shot a green-g< man, and this was something. Some people imagine that they serve a month's rest every time t do right.?Galveston News, S RELIGIOUS READING. ask fc ?ie XS OOU BEAUTIFUL? the the How great is his beauty?"? Zech. is. 17. Aud "Mother," said little Fanny to her mamma. go as she was sitting in her lap one evening, ody, ''1^ God beautiful?" ing. "Ves my child," replied tho mother, "God le in our father is very beautiful." lead ''How does ho look?" replied Fanny. The mother drew back the curtain and srgy told little Fanny to look out at the sky. deth ''Yes," she said, "those bright colored e is clouds, and those others that look like bed* rave of roses, and that shining white one?how not beautiful and bright they all lie together, iroh and above them is a great dark purple one vie- with silverodges. fait not very beautiful?" I the "Yes. mother." ling "And what makes them beautiful?" "I do not know." s b?- ''It is the brightness of the sun which you He can not see, because he is sunk down in the ch a sky: you do not see the sun. but you see how vail- beautiful ho makes tae clouds, ana you Know arth that he is brighter than they are. So you rthe <mn not see God, but you see a great many g in bright and lovely things that ho has made, i has and you know that he is more bright and a he lovely than any of them." Then Fanny's d he mother's took a fair white lily from the vase lake and bade her look at the leaves; see how they 1 ye are all made of little bright shining grains, jnes "Yes," said Fauny, "'they look like little in- white grains of snow, and how sweet it is. "Still mother, you do not tell me how he looks?" "Do you remember, Fanny, how beautiful you thought the moon was the other night when you saw her looking into your window?" "Oh yes, mamma, but does God look like jetts tho moon?" "No, my ehild, God is far more beautiful lbiz, than the moon!" ' "Does he look like the blue sky when it is still ^u" of 3tttr9? mother?" be- '*No. dear child. God is more beautiful than the clear sky and the stars." "Oh, mother, I saw a rainbow the other lany day, it was the most beautiful thing I ever d at saw. Does God look like the rainbow?" "No, my dear ehild, God is far more beau tii 0{ ful than the rainbow, a thousand times more ?ht'a beautiful." earg "Mother, our garden is full of flowers, are there any of them as beautiful as God is ? Oh mother, some of our flowers are very ihZl beautiful." "No. my ehild, God is more beautiful than all the flowers you ever saw." "Mother, I want to net-. God;" said little the Fanny; "will anybody ever see him?" > for "See here," replied her mother, opening the "upt- Testament, "what our dear Saviour says "Blessed are the pi ire in heart, for they Pri- shall see (fori." been ''Mother, am I pure in heart?" latte '"No." replied her mother, "you are not and pay- I am not." "And shall we never see God, then,mother, ?can't we grow to be pure?" "Dnnp I'hIM " her mother, "our kind be Saviour left his heavenly home and came to ilike "ve 'u our wor'd. mak* us pure in hocrt. illtn that wo might see God, and all those who love and trust iu him are made pure, so that tliey can see him." t p' "How dees he make us pure?" i in <.jjy Jo^-ing us, and teaching us to love hira, ,w"? till wo learn to love all that he love#, ami to 0 ?y hate all that he hates, and then when we die been - he takes us to his own beautiful homo, and there we are never tempted to sin any more." ?too "Oh Jesus," said the little girl earnestly, s in "love me too, and make me pure in heart." aig the i d aa are you a woxdeb? The sweet singer of Israel ?the man so sinijL1"0 gularly exalted by Providence and distinguished by grace forsaking his palace, fleeing from the city, ascending Mt. Olivet, weeping as ho the w?nt, patiently receiving the curses of 8h imitate ei?says of himself. (Ps. Lxxi, 7) "I am aa a wonder unto many." vice The prophots und pious men of old were :ew- "men wondered at." Men beheld their pa1 in tieuce "under affliction.-!, their perseverance und amid difficulties, their zeal in seasons of dehor clenaion, their constancy and fortitude under Q09t persecution, their blamele^tsness in life, and e is their holy joy in death, and wondered at ton. them. .<* ? .Tolin the Baot?t was wondered at?the that Lord of life and glory in his walks of humiltens iation and suffering, and reproach and death. For was wondered at?the disciple of Gamaliel, tlio condescending to unite with the followers of >nly the Nazarene. and devoting hi# talents to the hia promulgation of the doctrines of ono who t by suffered an ignominous death in Jerusalem Bar- was often wondered at. Such was Henry Martyn, and Harriet Newell, in modern times have beeu wondered at. ?Any one, indeed, who cordially embraces the doctrine of the Cross, consecrating his time, talent and influence to the upbuilding of a kingdom "which coineth not with obscrvaut n," is a wonder unto many. Many who are among the professed follow... ore of* Jesus, however, are not subjects of wonder. Their conversation differs little I the from that of the world; they seem as much nor engaged in the pursuit of worldly aggrandizement as any; they are as much devoted to ' vain pleasure as ever?their lives resemble 23. fhat of the multitude around them, hen Fellow disciple! Do men plainly discern a [855 distinction between the life which you now ei- live, and that before you became a Christian? utto And has the distinction become so marked, WrtK that yon are wondered at? Are vou living ^" 3 in the midrt of unconverted frienas, exposed 1 daily to annoyances and hindrances, and is ha* your meek and quiet spirit, your holy, steady, jhip christian life wondered at? ; Jted if those who endeavor to live godly in Christ Jesus, are a -wonder unto many' now, '"ip it is ouly for a season; a day is corning wheu 'fools for Christ's sake' iprill be accounted the only wise persons in the world. Rejoice, then, fhniich vour name bo cast out as evil: for 1 yours is the kingdom of Heaven. If the eye of an impenitent friend rests on n?3 these lines, permit me to say that the language of ihe Psalmist may be employed by you.? ' Well does it become you to say, I am a wonaty der unto many." The angels wonder at you: of all holy beings wonder at you; your pious -gjj friends wonder at you. They wonder that you choose the way to death; they wondeo De' that you devote your time and your talents to on. the acquisition of that which cannot proflt; de, they wonder to see you living without God, igo without hope, without prayer, without parde, ilon, without Christ, without Heaven. Contes. tinuing in your present course, you will nev8 in or ceaso to be a wonder. The devoted Christitee lan, it is true, may be a wonder, but only for for a few days. He is not a wonder in Heaven, ited Would you not rather, if the choice be such, the be a wonder for awhile here, and be among tha the wise, "who shall shin3 as the firmament, ild, and the stars for over and ever.?[New York run Presbyterian, the lips in wtssrsa souls. Tjo successful" soul winuor must have a special, quality in his speech, a power of ) lu spiritual impression that no elocutionist or rhetorician can teach. Jesus had it. While there was probably nothing specially impressing sive in His personal appearance it seems that iall? when He spoke there was that which people ,.inA noticed at once, and at which they marveled (Luke iv. 22; John viii, 46). A verso of ua oriu old song which was not understood until Jesoe that came well describes it "Grace is poured Tho into thyiips. " Ps. xlv, 2). 1'0U' winner dike that has grace in his lips is much like bis Maaono ter. men He will need the {?race of a gentle speech, yin;; It is a delicate matter to unveil faults and >wn- sins. Our sins are our own. They bear ? ur nersonalitvstami)ed uuon them. If we touch a [>erson in his fault or siu, we touch him iu his jg? sense of individual freedom. We 8wai to , arrest him. Wo do it. however, in order to free and heal him. It must therefore l>e done my gently, as a shepherd tenderly and (Irmly puts foot ''is hands on a lamb in a thorny bush. partly injf the branches carefully lest he should ,? " wound and tear afresh. Grace in our lips ~~ will cleanse from anger. bitterness, impatience, latent contempt and from a tone of biting criticism, --[Itev. S. P. Cook iu Golden Rule. you ? jn't When TJTcycles were novelties In ond Scotland, the question of regulating >e~~ tteir speed was brought up before iera the local authorities of a southern urR town. A learned officer of the town gravely Informed the court that the rent Dew mode of rapid transit came un reit jjcr tll0 traction-engine law, and that ',? every bicycle, unless he showed cony >I.U.nf<nn ho m n Al 1 P.(\ t.O jods oiu.ci auiuuj wuiu w ww?r? ? send a man on ahead, on foot, with a red flag, to warn pedestrians. de- Hi hey a "dsar, swbet thing"?the sugar 4*uat.? Philadelphia Record. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB AUGUST 13. Lesson Text: "Paul at Jerusalem," Acts xxl., 27-39 ? Golden Text: Phil, i., 29 ? Commentary. 27. "And when the sjtvendays worn almost ended the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid bands on him." After nip+lnfF nrifh tha alHarvi nT P.nhnHiis PaiiI .inil his companions continued their voyage and in due time landed at Tyre in Syria; then on to Ctesarea, where they tarried some days with Philip and his daughters, after which they continued on to Jerusalem and were gladly received by the brethren. Then that Paul might not seem to the zealous lawkeepers to disregard any of the laws and so prevent their anger he does a questionable thing, which does not accomplish any good. Both at Tyre and at Csesarea Paul was warned by the Holy Spirit not to go to Jerusalem (verses 4.11), but he would not be persuaded (verse 14). 28. ''Crying out. Men of Israel, help! This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place." Not a word of truth in either of these charges or in the one following. So that Paul could truly say, "Thfcy laid to my charge things that I knew not." 29. "For they had seen beforb with him in the city Trophisms and Ephesian whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple." Their last charge, therefore, was grounded on mere supposition. In their fancied zeal for God they were disobeying the very commands of Gods. for it is written, "Let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart" (Zech. vii., 10; viil., 17). They knew nothing of the love which thinketh no evil, is not easily provoked, rejoioeth in the truth, hopeth all things (I Cor.' sill., 5-7). 30. ''Anu all the city was moved, and the people ran together, and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple, and forthwith the doors were shut." How much of the devil there may be under the cloak religion and apparent zeal for God! What righteous indignation (?) and the whole city moved, huf it- la all thft wrnrlr nf t.h? winkerl one. Be calm, Paul, for the unseen Almighty One careth, and legions of angels are ready to do His bidding. See II 'Sings vi, 16, 17, Pa. xxxiv., 7 , Math. xxvi.. 53. 81. "And as they went about to kill him tidings came unto the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem Was in an uproar." Death is the devil's last and worst that be can do to a child of God, but even then he is only a black servant to usher us into the presence of our Lord, who has taught us not to fear them which kill the body (Math, x., 28). He has taught us not to be ofTended if we are put out of the company of religious people, and even if they kill us (John xvi., 1,2.) 32. ''And when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers thoy left beating of Paul. ' This was probably one of the three beatings which he speaks of in II Oor. xi., 25. His back had many a scar ere this, but he took pleasure in all distresses for Christ's sake if only the power of Christ might rest upon him (II Cor. xii., 9, 10). We do well always to consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself lest we. be wearied and faint in our minds, for not many of us have, like Paul, resisted unto blood (Heb. xiii.. 3. 4). 33. "Then the chief captain came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded who he was and what he had done." Of these bonds also ho had been forewarned (veree 11 ana chapter xx.. 23), but these were neither his first nor his last chains for Jesus's sako (chapter xxviii., 20 ; II Tim. i., 16). These chains were but /or a time and for the glory of God, but we read of everlasting chains for lost spirits (Jude 0; II Pet. li., 4). Not present suffering, but the eternal is to be feared (Math. x:. 28 ; xxv., 30, 41; Rev. xiv., 10, 11; XX., 15 ; xxi.. 8) 34. "And some cried one thing, some another. among the multitude, and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult he commanded him to be carried into the castle." This is very suggestive of the tumult of to-day among religious people. There is such a orying of one thing and another by higher and lqwor and no critics, by the different denominations and by the posts and press that it would almost seem impossible to know the certainty of anything, but those who cling to tlie book may know and will know if they only take God at His word flsa. viii., 20 It. V.). 35. "And wtton he came upon the stairs so ! it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people." Violence and strife in the city, sure enough (Ps. Iv.,9). I But the day will come when Jerusalem shall : be called a city of truth ; when her walls shall I be salvation and her gates praise; when the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever (Zech. viii., 3; Isa. ix., 131 xxxii., 17). 36. 4-For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with Mm !" So , they cried out concerning his Master (Luke xxiii. 18, John xix., 19), and He taught us that we must expect His treatment It faithful unto Him (John xv., 20). How few of us in these days seem to be counted worthy of this honor! , Is it because we are so little like Him. so unfaithful to testimony, so mixed up with t he world, or is it because we fear suffering for His sake? 37. "And as Paul was to be led into the castle h.e snid unto the chief captain, May I speak unto tnee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?" During this uproar and I tumult Paul was doubtless communing with i his unseen Friend and Master. His heart | would be saying "I am Thine, O Lord, Tot j Thy service. What wilt Thou have me to do? . (chapter xxviL, 23; ix., 6)? Captain and soldiers and anijry mob were nothing to him I as oompared with his own Captain. 38. "Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days madest an uproar and leddest out into the wilderness 4000 men that were murderers?" Here is a compliment for a faithjftil follower of the meek and lowiy Jesus. A' man who preached peace and went about rescuing people from the hands of the fattier of all liars and murderers (John viii., 44) to be accused of being the leader of 4000 murderers?that is a feather for your cap, Paul, more fellowship with your Master. Blessed privilege to be misunderstood and falsely accused if only for His sake. 39. "But Paul said, I am a man which am o Tiar nf Tarsus r citv in Cllicia. a citizen of i no meau city, and I beseech thee suffer me I to apeak unto the people " Though suffering in body from the beating and the rough handling, his heart longed to tell if possible once more the story of Jesus. The false accusation was not worth noticing, but it was worth while to get another opportunity to apeak of Jesus. Fellow believer we are oitiMna of no mean city Compare Phil, iii., 20, with Rev xxi.. 2. Is your heart so stirred by this heavenly citizenship that you long above all things to speak of Him??Lesson Helper. A Day in Bed. A French mother has hit upon a plan I */Y iwoanrm flin hfiftlth and btJftlltV of ,u I"?'? her daughter, and has given it to her j friends, with the strength of her endorsement as to its efficacy. She declares that "the young lady went to a party six days a week, but on Sundays stayed in bed, rising only for flvo o'clock lea and retiring again at an early hour. The results of this system ivere very happy. When the timo camo for going to tho seaside, sho was the only one of her companions who did not peed its benefits. Sho was like a country girl, as fresh as a rose. This ftvueriinont. bv the wav. has been ? L * ?, tried elsewhere, but uot in the unchristian Gallic manner, and has beeu found efficacious; two sisters, with arduous household duties, made a practice of spending one day each week- say Tuesday or Thursday?in bed, with the result that they were never ill, and for that matter, never tired, never requiring a vacation or u change.?New York Dispatch. Of all the different varieties cf bees the most profitable and the beat all round bee is the Italian. , TEMPERANCE A LITTLE TEM?E2AJfCE MAHT. Yes. I'm a little temperance man, Not very big or old": But mamma says she wouldn't sell Me for Australia's gold. Yet. dear and precious though I am, I might be mined quite If I should let old satan tempt Me from the path of right If I should smell, or touch or taste His wickod, siniul bowl, Which spoils the body, we can see. And, God's Word savs, the soul! 5>0 CONSOLATION" FOB THE*. "Let liquor alone and it won't hurt you," says the wise fool. But the sailors who had formed a Good Templar lodge on board the Victoria were sent to a watery death by the reckless act of a drinking commander, and their Brothers, wives and children will derive very little consolation out of the wlso fool's saying,?The Voice, TEMPEBAXCE PBOOBESS IK IXDIA. There are over twantv thousand members in the Army Temperance Association of India. This is nearly one-third ot the whole strength of the British forces serving Jn India. At Singapore, where intoxicating drinks are chenn and particularly injurious, there are odo hundred artillerymen out of a I total strength of two hundred. Such signs of progress in the temperance cause among soldiers must be gratifying to the more farseeing of English statesmen.?New ibrk Observer. a "temptbaxce" oMrrznsrnr. A novel educational movement has been begun at Harrimau, Tenn. Under the leadership of Dr. J. F. Spenee, late Chancellor of Grant University, at Athens and Chattanooga, in that State, and with the co-operation of other weil known educators, the ''American Temperance University" haabeeD chartered. A site and building materials have been donated to the value of $50,000. several thou .sand dollare have been subscribed towards the support of the school the first year and the new university will open its doors on the 12th of September next. It is believed that the various temperance organizations of the South and North will gve to this new non-sectariau. non-3ectional stitution their support, and that its growth will moan great things for the promotion of education, morality and fraternity in the land. Temporary buildings have been secured for use until the first permanent university hall shall be complete, some time next year, and Dr. Spence and his coadjutors look,to the erection there, at an early day, of a magnificent group of college edifices dedicated to science, literature, liberal art, law, medicine, technology, etc , with temperance the corner-stone of each and all comprising one grand university that shall be well equipped ouu uucion; cuuu ivcu. SAVE THE YOCXa^ The Journal of Hygiene publishes a suggestive article, entitled ''The Greater Temperance/' by Charles H. Shepard, M. D., in which the writer says : "Judging from past experience, there seems but little hope for the adult inebriate, but we may at least save some of the younger generation." He adds: ' When children shall have been taught and thoroughly indoctrinated with right principles on this subject there will be a regenerated mankind.' Dr. Shepard thus indicates what should impress more tullythe friends of temperance everywhere, the fundamental importance of juvenile temperance work. In the same article Dr. Shepard takes occasion to say 'The drink curse is not an accident or theory, but a condition?the direct result of cause and effect, and can be successfully grappled with only by the application of physiological laws and foroes." These laws and forces the consumer of intoxicants defies, and though heredity fastens the unhappy consequences of his self indulgent conduct upon succeeding generations. Illustrating this vital point, Dr. Shepard cites the remark of an eminent physician who once said "The proper way to treat such cases is to begin with the grandparents." The children ot to-day are the grandparents of the future.?National Temperance Advocate. ENGLAND'S URVXKAnDS. The British Parliament Las lefore it the report of a committer recommending a much more drastic methocLof dealing tvith drunkards than British law uow permits. This committee was appointed under the Salisbury Government and has among it members several eminent physicians and the Superintendent of the Broadmore Criminal Lunatic Asylum Under an act passed in 1879 there were established some retreats* or reformatories for the treatment and cure of drunkards who chose to go to them volun, tarily. This committeo finds that a considerable part of the drunkards who enter these reformatories are cured and that more would be if they remained longer : therefore, they recommend that Parliament giva magistrates the power to send these dlassmaniacs to these retreats for a period not exceeding two years. This commitment may be made on petition of the relatives of the inebriate or at the Hiaf>rptir>n nf magistrate, and it subjects the drunkard to a rigorous discipline and close confinement if necessary. A drunkard may still be admitted to these retreats on his own petition. but once in ho must stay there until discharged .'is cured. He may select his own retreat, whether sentenced or voluntarily going there, and such property as he has would be liable for his an.l his family's maintenance during his confinement. This poorer clusses are to be provided for out of the public treasury or in public asylums. The semi-criminal class of habitual drunkards with wiiom the police have to deal are to be subject to an indeterminate sentoaj?, which shall not be les3 than a year, upon their third conviction for drunkenness or being proved guilty of ill treatment or neglect of their families. It is also proposed to glvethe police in the large towns and citie? the powar to arrest without a warrant all persons found drunk on the public streets nt in public places and lock them up uutil they can be tried before a magistrate. These last suggestions of the committee are regarded <is bold and almost revolutionary, for the right of the Britou to be drunk on tne 3treets has been regarded as an inalienable one. Public sentiment is said, however, to approve the recommendations of this committee, which are largely based on the legislation in force in several of our States, and they are likely to be enacted by the (lorn- J mons, and probably by the LoriLs also.?New York Advertiser. iC.JIt'r,UA.ltL i>i#na AOf Gia. More people die of alcoholism in Stockholm than in any other city in the world. The s .'orpion is a total abstainor. If a drop of whisky be placed on one's back it will'immediately sting itself to death. It is noteworthy that in a !ong obituary list of foreign brewers, given in the Brewers" Journal of the 1st ult., nearly all whose ages were given were in the forties or younger. Hon. Carroll T). Wright, the well-known statistician, ret eJtly stated that facts show that -for every dollar the people receive from the saloon they pay out twenty-one. ' A correspondent of the Christian World, who has made a study of the subject, says thers are 51.000 breweries in the world, and that Germany heads the list with 2C.240. The production of whisky in the Stat<> o! Keutr.i-ky for the seasoa ending Juue ;>0, 18'J2, was C-J.ail.^'J galions. Up to April IS'.'J, tue production was gallons. It is jaiil th.it we pay twice as much Tor drink as for the support of the < lovernm ?nt. seven times as mi; -a for the saloon as lor education; lliicen :irti.-s ? ? mueit '"or th? ilram shciTi as 1br r 'ligio.i with all its missions. Wii: :< ftdwiu Ji ootit n*ati'.? ?;< 'irsi .-:i '" s? in Boston. nrorn thtiu thirty years a^?. William W-irreu. . *.vn then a vwrau. said to him !? !? iD. remomb-r, hot. with >\>u it is either lame ant! fortune, or. a bottle 01" brandy: th? ehoiee r>sts with y.>i;rsdl' " The same may l<e saitl to-day to any young man 01 Ability an I energy. The teniperau movsm-mt.' says the Glasgow Herald, "is spreading rapidly anion? railroad m *n. Already 10.00 > w.'iito buttons stamped with initials siKuifyisg tho Kail road Tern per.i ace Asso dation havo be:a distributed among engineers and trainmen, and thy demttn 1 lor iheoi has been so grea: jUat CO.CCa more have baea orier JJL" 0 WORDS OF WI8DOM. A mercy counted ia a trouble rubbed out. A lazy man's clock always runs too* fast. Small fish will nibble at any kind of bait. No rice has any more ugly face thaar self conceit. Many people think nothing Can b6l wrong that pays well. ( >.%j The man who lives a lie, does it with, a sword over his head. Only those can sing in the darj^. who have light in the heart. The favorite employment of a con?ceited man is to brag himself.' A wise man can see more with oatt eye than a fool can with two. The fish that get away are the one# ji that always look the biggest. Some people are always resolving to ' do good who never go and do it. Don't go security for the man who /; lets his gate swing on one hinge. Look your troubles squarSly in th? fsce, and tliey will eoou scatter and run. Wherever you find a doubt you may be sure there is some kind of a sin - . r^fj sticking to it. Seme men are always asleep when a *;. golden opportunity knocks at tka '' door of their house. People are not made rich by any- .% thing the world can give, nor poor by anything it can take away.?Bam'* M Horn. A Long-Lived Toad. Among all the stories that are told of toads, none is more remarkably perhaps, than that related of * toad' which lived for more than thirty-sic years in a hole beneath the doorstep of a French farm-house. How old it was when first noticed no one could'' say, but it had probably lived a long time before familiarity with the sight -' 1?IJ 1 it. 1 UL XI1UU WUIUUIUOUOU AW XU loon bl.auquillv on the doorstep over which per- 'J sons were constantly passing. ' The step became the batrachian*# "hnnting ground," where, with little trouble, it might captnre the ante . jS which persisted in crossing and recrossing the step. The toad "hunting > for the supper" came to be regarded as one of the sights of the neighbor- ' . >,? 1 hood, and certainly the skilful manner r in which it used its wonderfully f ormed : $j tongue entitled it to be ranked as aa ffl expert. For one thing, it showed wonderful -i'M, skill in judging distances; the tongue ; . g was never darted out until the insect ' '7:$j came within a certain range. The ao? M curacy of the creature's aim was an- , other matter of surprise. The insect* were generally in motion when the '-.}M tongue was darted out against; them, '? and the arrow never failed to hit The toad was so tame that it might justly be called "domesticated." It would remain quietly in one hand and tane its iooa irom tne oiner, pronuwr v< sg a leaf were placed on the hand whicfc held it. Without this precaution tfca M warmth of the human hand was eri- $8 dently annoying.. Few things seemed to please it more than-to be placed one a table in the evening when the lamp was lighted. It would look around ^ with the greatest confidence in its 5':?j gleaming eyes, and when insects were placed on the table it snapped them up even with greater rapidity than i&. its daily huntings. In this way the toad lived for thirty-six years, the pot ? of the neighborhood It might have lived many years fi more had not a tame but spiteful raven / pecked out one of its eyes. The bird brought upon himself universal hatred for this assault, but sympathy was no A profit to the poor toad. He could no . ;l." longer measure distance** accurately nor aim with certainty, and he died in ; abj?ut a year after his injury, apparently from starvation.?New York Journal. t Biding in the Ferris Wheel. The statement that there is nothing ' ' new under the suu appears to be dis- ]'< countenanced by the Ferris wheel at - ty the World's Fair, which, apparently, produces a sensation entirely new. It .) has a motion that has been felt, as s reporter graphically says, neither on land nor sea. And the added sensation of being lifted 250 feet into the air, in safety and comfort, certainly is not old. The Ferris wheel appears to be a tremendous triumph of engineer ing ingenuity, as much so, according to the Omaha World-Herald as the Eiffel tower. It is by such arrangements that engineering ability must exploit itself at the Exposition. Bat it has not been engineering alone which this has called attention to. There hM been demonstrated every day sinpe that astonishing structure has been in, process of cousfcruction the courage of ' 'vis men who work for wages?the personal, physical courage of them. Looking up any time in the air, among the delicate, intricate, countless bars and shafts, irons and braces of that famous construction,onecouldsee the figures of men, small in the height, walking carefully to and fro along those begins. No tight rope walkers ever risked hid life so. No vaulter in the circus requires more precision, more clearne?r , of head or more determination and self-control. This magnificent oontrotof nerve and exhibition of courage haa ?i -i it "Et. 4 r-iH been a daily entertainment at sue r?*tr since its opening. And one may well be glad that it is over with and that if there is further risk of life on the Ferris wheel that it will be incurred bJ those who do it voluntarily, and not by those who must do it in the earning of their daily bread. Probably the < Ferris wheel is not dangerous any more than anything is that takes a man 250 feet above ground. It will be perfectly safe as long as nothing breaks, a'H. it goes without saying that gr^at precaution has been exercised and that the builders have felttheir responsibility. And the experience will be a new one?no gainsaying that. The Water Clock. The principle of the water clock was discovered, according to ancient records o* the Chinese Empire, by a Chinese nearly 5000 years ago. The inventor's name was Hwang Ti. His apparatus consisted of two copper vessels, one above the other. The upj>er vessel had a hole in the bottom through which the water percolated inti the lower - vessel, 111 WU1UU mere Wits ? uw.-?v, VIAO gradual ripe of which-iniicatsJ perii>J* of time.