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) T REV. VII TALMAGE. < t " THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- < DAY SERMON. < i Subject: "A Bold Challenge." c t t ' Tkxt : " Who is he that condemnetti! It is 1 Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen-again,* v > uiho is <ten at the right hand of God, reho 8 aim maketh intercession for us."?Romans * fill. 34. J ' Thin is the last sermon 1 shall ever a preach," said Christmas Er*ns on the 13th g of June, 1838. Three days afterward he ex- j. pired. I do not know what his test was. r out I know that no man could choose a bet- r ter theme?though he knew it was the last ^ time he should ever preach?than the subject ^ found in this text. x Paul flung this challenge of the text to the g feet of all ecclesiastical and civil authority. ! He feared neither swords or lions, earth nor f v hell. Diocletian slew uncounted thousands 0 under his administration, and the world has 0 ( ' been full ot persecution, but all the perse- t t outors of the world could not affright Paul. g "Was it because he was physically strong? f Oh, no. I suppose he was very much weak- j, ened by exposure and maltreatment. Was j ilt because he was lacking in sensitiveness? ? No. You find the most delicate shades of t feeling playing in and out his letters and t sermons. Some ot his communications t buret into tears. What was it lifted Paul J Into this triumphant mood? The thought of v a Saviour dead, a Saviour risen, a Saviour s exalted, a Saviour interceding. . All the world has sang the praise of Prin- ^ cees Alice. One child having died of a con- v tagious disease, she was in the room where ? another was dying, and the court physician ? tA Iwt I'Vmi mn?t nnt hreathe the breath t. , t of this child, or you yourself will die." But ^ seeing the child mourning oeoau3e of the ^ . death of her brother, the mother stooped ,j down and in sympathy kissed the little one, ^ joaught the disease and perished. All the (World sang the heroism and the self-sacriflce w 'of Princess Alice, but I have to tell you that n when our race was dying the Lord Jesus p stooped down and gave us the kiss of His ? ieverlasting love and perished that we might r. Jive. "It Is Christ that died." Can you tell me how tonder hearted Paul oould find anything to rejoice at in the horrible death scene of Calvary? We weep at (funerals; we are sympathetic when we see a (stranger die; when a murderer stops upon ,the scaffold we pray for his departing spirit. And bow could Paul?the great hearted Paul ?And anything to be pleased with at the R: [funeral of a God? Besides that Christ had w jonly recently died, and the sorrow wa3 fresh n: In the memory of the world, anil how in the 1* . fresh memory of a Saviour's death could Paul d be exultant? h It was because Paul saw in that death his b own deliverance and the deliverance of a Ace ^ from still worse disaster. He saw the gap ^ into which the race must pluuge, and he saw 0 ? tha hiofviint? hands of Christ close it. The s! glittering steel on the top of the execution- h er's spear in his sight kindled into a torch to L light men heavenward. The persecutors saw ^ over the cross five words written in Hebrew, A Greek and Latin, but Paul saw over the cross? h of Christ only one word?"expiation!" He o iheard in the dying groan of Christ his own groan of eternal torture takeu by another. E Paul said to himself, "Had it not been that u Christ volunteered in my behalf, those would ft have been my mauled hands and feet, my ^ gashed side, my crimson temples." 2 . * Men of great physical endurance have 91 sometimes carried very heavy burdens?300 a pounds, 400 pounds?and they have still said: "My strength is not yet tested. Put ti on more weight." But after awhile they s were compelled to cry out; "Stop! I can I <> tka K,,,./lar> nf i) WiTJ UU LLlUiC. JUUb lUV i;ui uou v?. vmm was illimitable. First, there wis His own to burden of hunger and thirst find bereave- J ment and n thousand outrages that have '' been heaped upon Him, and on top of that burden were the sorrows of Hie poor old 1' mother, and on the top of those burdens the 0 crimes of the ruffians who were executing t Him. "Stop!" you cry "It is enough. Christ ^ can bear no more." And Christ says, ''Boll c on more burdens ; roll on Me the sins Of this ' entire nation, and after that roll on Me-the sins of the inhabited earth, and then roll on " He the sins of the 4000 years past, so far as 1 those sins have hpen forgiven." And the 1 angels of God. seeing the,- awful pressure, 1 cry "Stop! He can bear no more." And * the blood rushing to the nostril and lip seems 8 to cry out "Enough! He can endure no J more." But Christ says : "Roll on a greater I burden, roll on the sins of the next 1900 f years, roll on Me the sins of the suoceeding 1 ages, roll on Me the agonies of hell, ages on age9, the furnaces and the prison houses and J the tortures." That is what the Bible ' means when it says, "He bore our sins and ' carried our sorrows." ' "Now," says Paul, "I am free. That suf- 1 ferint; purchased my deliverance. God never ' collects a debt twice. I have a receipt in I full. If God is satisfied with me, then whi>,t < ' do all the threats of earth and bell amount to? Bring on all your witnesses," says Paul. "Show all your force. Do your wor3t 1 against my soul. I defy you. I dare you. I I challenge you. Who is he that condetnneth? It is Christ that died." Oh, what a i strong argument that puts in the hand of ev- 1 ery Christian man! Some day all the past sins of bis life come down on him iu a liary troop, and they pound away at the gate of iiis soul, and they say : "We have come for your arrest. Any odo of us could overcome you. We we 10,000 strong. Surrender." And you open the door, and single handed and alone you contend against that troop. You fling this divine weapon into their inidst. You scatter those sins as quick as you can think it. "It is Christ that died." Why, then, bring tip to us the sins of our past lite? What have we to do with, those obsolete things? You know how hard it is for a wrecker to bring . up anything that is-lost nfcartSie sbore of the sea, but suppose something b? lost balf w.-.y between Liverpool and New Yorlc. It caunot bo found; it cannot be fetched up. "How, saystioa, "your runs navo oeen cast ^ Into the depths of the sea." Mid-Atlantic! All the machinery ever fashioned ia foundries of darkness and launnhed from the doors of eternal death, working for 10,000 j yearn, cannot bring up one or our sins /or- i i given and forgotten and sunken into tlio i depths of the sea. When a -an is pardoned, I < It is gone. It is gone out of the books ; it is I gone out of the memory ; it is gone out of ex- < ' ikence. "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." Prom other tragedies men have come away exhausted and nervous and sleepless, but : there Is one tragedy that soothes and calms < and saves. Calvary was the stage on which I it was enacted, the curtain ot tho night fall- i ' lng at midnoon was the drop scene, the | thunder of falling rocks the orchestra, angels : , in the galleries and devils la the pit the ' spectators, the tragedy a crucifixion. ''It is i Christ that died." Oh, triumphant thought! [ If you go through the picture gallery of i Versailles, you will find a great change i there. I said to a friend who bad beeu i through those galleries, "Are they as they f were before the French war?" and I was t told there was a great change there: that all i that multitude of picturas which represented ' Napoleonic triumphs had been taken awav. t and in the frames were other pictures rep- \ l resentative of German success and victory. I Oh. that all the scenes of satanic triumph i:i e \ our world might be blotted out. and that ' \ the whole world might by a picture gallery ? \ representing the triumphant Jesus! Down f \ with the monarchy of transgression! Up I; ,? with the monarchy of our King! Hail! Jesus f hail' C But I must givo you the second cause of J , Paul's exhilaration. If Christ ha 1 staid in c that grave, we never would uay<? gotten out of it. The grave would have been dark and I dismal as the coneiergerie during the reign r of terror, where the carts came up only to | I take the victims out to the sciffoid. I do 3 not wonder that the ancients tried by em- s balmment of the bo ly to resist the dissolution f of death. 3 b xne gravels the dar:?st, do:ip?st. ghastli- a e6t chasm that was ever opened if there bo ^ no light from the resurrection t hrour? stream- t ing into it. but Christ staid in tfw tomb all Friday nisrht and all Saturday, all Ssturdav i < > night and a part of Sunday morn ng. Ho j * staid so long in the tomb that lie might fit it i j for us when we go there. He tarried two ! ^ whole nights in the grave, so that He saw I how important it was to have plenty of ? light, and He ho3 flooded it with His own glory. , It is early Sunday morning, and we start h up to find the grave of Christ. We And the f morning sun gilding the dew, and the shrubs p are sweet as the foot crushes thom. What a c beautiful place to be buried in! Wonder 3 they did not treat Christ as well when.. He , fl was alive as they do now that He Is dead, t Give She military salute to the soldiers who K itancl guarding tho deal. Bit hark to tho ;rash?an earthquake! Thesoldlers fa.ll back is though they w>re dead, and tho stonn at he door of Christ's tomb spius down the hill, lung by the arm of an angel. Come forth, 3 Jesus, from the darkness into the sunlight! ^'ome forth and, breathe the perfume of Toseph's garden. Christ comes forth radiant, and as He steps >ut of the excavation of the rock I look lown into the excavation, and in the diaance I see others coming hand in hand and roop after troop, and I tind it is a long proession of the precious dead. Among them ire our own lovod ones?father, mother, >rother, sister, companion, ohildren, coming ip out of the excavation of tho rosk until he last one has stepped out into the light, ind I am bewildered, and I cannot undertand the scene until I see Christ wave His tand over the advancing procession from the ock and hear Him cry: "I am the resurection and the life. Ho who believeth in Ie, though he were dead, yet shall he live." tnd then I DOtice that the Ion? dirge of the rorld's woe suddenlystopsatthearchangelic hout of "Corns forth!" Oh, my friends, if Christ had not broken mt of the grave you and I would never come >ut of it! It would have been another case if Charlotte Corday attempting to slay a yrant, herself slain. It would have been nother case of John Browu attempting to ree the staves, himself hung. It would have ieen Death and Christ in a grapple and )eath the victor. The black flag would have loated on all the graves and mausoleums of he dead, and hell would have conquered he forces of heaven and captured the ram)arts of God. and satan would have corns to loronation iu the palace* of heaven, and it rould Save been devils on tne throne and ons of God iu the dungeon. No! no! no! When that stone was rolled rom the door of Christ's grave, it was hurled rith such a force that it crashed in all the rave doors of Christendom, and now the >mb is only a bower where God's children ike a siesta, an afternoon nap, to wake up 1 mighty invigoration. '-Christ is risen." fang that lamp among all the tombs of my ead. Hang it over my own resting place. hrist'9 suffering as enaea * ais wojk js one. The darkest Friday afternoon of the orld's history becomes the brightest Sunday lorning of its resurrection joy. The Good riday of bitter memories" becomes tha aster of glorious transformation and resur jctlon. Ve mourning saints, dry every tear For your departed Lard. Behold tne plac?. He la not bore. The tomb ts all unbarred. The gates of deatk were closed In vain. The Lord la ns?n?lie Uvea asala. I give you the third cause of Paul's exhilration. We honor the right hand more than a do the left. If in accident or battle we iust lose one hand, let it be the left. The ift hand being nearer the heart, we may not 0 much ot the violent work of life with that and without physioal danger, but he who as the right arm in full play has the mightist of all earthly weapons. In all ages and 1 all languages the right hand is the symbol t ofMnnth ami nnvpp and honor. Hiram * ?? f""" it at the right haud of Solomon. Then wa ave the term. "Is ho a right hand man." afayette wa3 Washington's right hand man. [arahal Key was Napoleon's right hand man. nd now you have the meaning of Paul whea e speaks of Christ who is at the right hand f God. That means He is the first guest of heaven.* [e ha3 a right to sit there. The hero of the niverse! Count His wounds, two in the jet, two in the hands, one in the side?Ave" rounds. Oh, you have counted wrong, 'hese are not h3lf the wounds. Look at the everer wounds in the temples. Each thorn n excruciation. If a hero comes back from battle, and he akes off his hat or rolls up his sleeve andhows you the scar o! a wound gotten at Sail's Bluff or at South Mountain, you stand a admiration at his heroism and "patriotism; ut if Christ should make conspicuous the tve wounds gotten on Calvary?that Waterao of all the ages?He would display only a mafl part of His wounds. Wounded all over, et Him sit at the right hand of Gcfci. He has right to sit there. By the request of God he Father and tha unanimous suffrage of all leaven let Him sit there. In the grand reiew when the redeemed pass by in cohorts if splendor they will look at Him and shout 'Victory The olde3t inhabitant of heaven never saw b grander day than the one when Christ took lis place on the right hand of God. Hosan.la! With lips of clay I may not appropriatey utter it. but let the martyrs nnder the altar hrow the' cry to the elders before tho throne md they can toss it to the choir on the sea of floss until all heaven shall lift it?3ome on >oint of scepter, and sonic on string of harp, ind some on the tip of the green branches, losanna! hosanna! A fourth cause of Paul's exhiliration Mter a clergyman had preached a sermon in regard to the glories of heaven and the iplendors of the scene an aged woman said, ' If all that is to go on in heaven. I don't inow what will become of my poor head." Ob, my friends, there will be so many things ?oing on in heaven I have sometimes wonWa<1 if the Lord would not forxet you and em! Perhaps Paul 3aid sometimes: "I, wonder God does not forget me down here in Antioch, and in the prison, and in the shipwreck. There are so many sailors, so many wayfarers, 30 many prisoners, so many heartbroken men." says Paul, "perhaps God maj forget me. And then I am so vile a sinner. How I whipped those Christians'. With what vengeance I mounted that cavalry horse and dashed up to DamascusOh, it will take a mighty attorney to plead my causft and gel me free." But just at that moment there came in upon Paul's soul something mightiei than the surges that dashed his ahip intc Melita, swifter than the horse he rode to Damascus. It was the swift and overwhelm ing thought of Christ*3 intercession. My friends. wo must have an advocate. / poor lawyer is worse than no lawyer at all We must have one who is able successfully to present our causa before God. Where is He? Who is He? There i.i only one ad voeate in all tho universe that can plead ou: cause in the last judgment, that can plead our cause before God in the great-tribunal. Sometimes in earthly courts attorneys havo specialties, and one man succeeds better in patent cases, another in insurance cases, another in criminal cases, another ic land cases, another in will cases, and his success generally depends upon his sticking to that spacialty. I have to tell you that Christ can do many things, but it seems to me that His specialty is to take the bad case of the sinner and plead it before God until He gets eternal acquittal. Ob, we must have Him for our advocate. xjui wnai pie* can rt? mak'e.' hometimes in attorney in court will plaadthe iiuiocenca A the prisoner. That would be inappropriate [or us. We ar>all guilty! guilty! I'n^iean' inolean! Christ, our advocate, will uot Mead oar innocouoe. Sometime the attorlay in court tries to prove a:i alibi. He says This prisoner was not at the scene. He was n some other place at the time." Such a jlea will not do in our case, Th?v Lord fouu 1 is in all our sins and in the very place of out niquity. It is impossible to prove an alibi. Sometimes an attorney will plead th? insanity >f the prisoner and say he is irresponsible on hat account.? That plea will never do in our :ase. We sinned against light, against mowleuge, against the dictates of our own fonsciences. \\ e snow wnat we were doing. Vhat, then, shall the plea be? The plea for our eternal deliverance will *> Christ's own martyrdom. He will say: 'Look at all these wounds. By all these ufferings I demand the rescue of this man rom sin and death and hell. Constable, inock off the shackles?let the prisoner go ree." "Who is he that condemuath ! It is Christ tha: died, yea, rather tnat is risen tguiu. who is even at the right hand of God, yho also makech intercessiou for us." But why all this sladnes-j ou the faces of tu-se sous an I dau^htor* of the Lor.i A!niitbty? I know what you are thinking of. L Saviour d^ad :.i Saviour* risen: a Saviour xalted : a Saviour inter'edincr. 4*\Vhat." ay you, "is ait cli.it for me? ' All, nil! fevsr let rut* h:vir voi rotriplainias; about .nvtbiiiis' a^aiu. With your pardoued sin >ehind you, and a vt v?3sful Christ pleading ,bove you, an 1 aatforiou? heaven before you, iow can you bo despondent about anybins:? "But," says some maa in the audience."all hat is very i?ooi and vary trao for those rho ar? inside the Kingdom, but how about hose of us who are outside?" Then I say, ;ome into tne kingdom, come out of taw irison houso into the glorious sunlight of rod's mercy and pardon, and come now. It was in the last day of the reign of terror -the year 1793. Hundreds and thousands lad perished under the French guillotine, 'ranee groaned with the tyrannies of Robesilerre and the Jacobine Club. The last group f sufferers had had their locks shorn by lonchotte, the prison barber, s? that the neck aight be bare-to the keen knife.of the guilloine. The carts came up to the prison, the poor wretches were placed In the carts and driven off toward the scaffold, but while they were going toward the scaffold tlier* was au outcry in the street, and then the shock of lire arms, and then the cry: '"Robespierre has failed ! Dowu with the Jacobins! Let Franco bo free!" But the armed soldiers rode in upon those rescuers, so that the poor wretches in the carts were taken pa to the scaffold and horribly died. But that very night these monsters of persecution wera seized, and Robespierre perished under the very guillotine that he had reared for others, all France clapping their hands with joy'as his head rolled into the executioner s basket. Then the axes of the excited populace were heard pounding against the gates of the prison, and the poot prisoners walked out free. My friends, sin is the worst of all Robespierres. It is the tyrant of tyrants. It has built a prison house for our soul. It plots our death. It has shorn us for the sacrifice ; but. blessed be God, this morning we hear the axe* of God's gracious deliverance pounding against the door of our prison. Deliverance has come. Light break.' through all the wards of the prison. Revo luiion! Revolution! '"Where sin abounded, grace does much more abound ; that whereas sin reigned unto death even so grace maj reign unto eternal life through Jesus Chrisi nnr T.r,ri " fMoricvmtruth ! ASavlourdead a Saviour risen: i Saviour exalted; j Saviour interceding! HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. PKE3ERVKD PEACEE3. Pare the peaches or remove the skint by plunging the peaches into boiling lye (two gallons of water and one pinl of wood ashes). When the skins wil1 elip easily, take the peaches out wit! a skimmer, and plunge them into colo water; rinse in several waters and there will be no taste of the lye. "Weigh, and add three-fourths of e pound of sugar to each pound of fruit. Halve them and use some of the pits, or leave them whole, as you please. The stones improve the flavor. Make a syrup by adding as little water ae possible to the sugar?about one cupful to each pound of sugar. When it boils skim till clear, then add the peaches and cook until transparent.? Mew lorfc worm. BREAKFAST POTATO CAES. Let me ask you to try the frying-pan for the following recipe, writes Margaret Compton. I have found that it gives better results than a soapstone griddle. As the secret of success lief more in ths cooking than in the making, I give direction for both: Take one-half pound of mashed potato, three ounces of flour, milk , slightly warm, a little hotter and onehalf teaspoonful of baking powder. Have the potato finely mashed, being sure there are no lumps in it. Some use an egg. I never do. When the mixture is a smooth dough roll it out two inches thick. Have you: frying-pan hot as for a steak. Wher it is well buttered and drainec drop your cake gently into it, set il where it will cook steadily, but not toe fast. Have a large plate ready, out Lhat will fit into the pan. See that i is hearted "piping-hot." When you] cake has been on about four or fiv< minutes place the hot plate over it, turn it out and slide it back into tin pan. This is to prevent any possi "bility of breaking it in turning. Cool five minutes more and test it by press ing the sides lightly with the finger If it remains dented it is not done, When cooked, turn out on the hoi plate, butter lavishly and served? St Louis Republic. v . HOW TO CHECKMATE MOTHS. Just at this time of the year lh< careful housewife is particularly bus} packing away the winter garments and furs in a place of safety from the muct dreaded and most pernicious of all in sects, the moth. She is perhaps at her wits' end t< know just what to do with the manj articles belonging to the differenl members of the household. The pow ders and moth bailB she has usea art surely effective, but it takes nearly t ' whole season of thorough airing t( eradicate the disagreeable odor whicl j has permeated every thread of the gar i ment during the months it had beer 1 stored away. Happily, however, som< 1 thoughtful and ingenious person hai | come to the rescue, and the perplexec ? housewife can now do away with olt " newspapers, cloth bags and pasteboard boxe3. 1 The invention is simply a paper bag, ; but so arranged that it takes the placi , of all previous devices, and at the sam< time does away with disagreeabh odors, which fact is not the least to b< considered. i The bags can be bought in thre< sizes, ranging in price from twenty | five cents to forty-five cents each. Th< largest are roomy enough for coati and gowns. They are made of verj strong, heavy paper, thoroughly satu J rated with moth preventives, princi pally cedar oil. Within are hooks oi * ii - ' one side ana pocKets on me uppuanc which are just the place for fur caps , muffs, mitts, and numerous small arti cles. There is a sort of lid at the tow whicl can be brought over and tied securely, thus keeping out dust and every inter loping insect. The bags are not only very inexpensive to begin with, bu1 they will last for ten years?iu fact if well cared for, a lifetime. They maj ' be used in summer for' the winter gar ments, and will be a great conveniene* in winter for packing away summei gowns. One great advantage which even woman will thoroughly appreciate it that at the end of the season the gar ments come out smelling ah sweet as though they had been stored in a $501 cedar press.?St. Louis Star-Sayings, COLD PUDDING. Chaparone Pudding?Soak a pint oi fine bread crumbs in a quart, of milk. Add a cup of sugar, the volks of foil! ecrgs beaten light, the grated rind of i lemon ami a pie?e of butter the size o an egg. Bake until it is brown, bir not watery. Whip the whites of foui eggs until they are stiff; beat in a tea cup of 6Ugar; add the juice of t lemon. Pour over the pudding wher cold. Serve cold. Lemon Pudding?Heat to boiling e pint of milk. Stir into this two tablespoons of corn starch wet with cold water. Boil for Ave minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in a tablespoon ol butter and set away to cool. Beat the yolks of four eggs light, add a cup oi sugar and mix thoroughly. Add to thif the jaice of two lemons and the grated r\-na Rout to a stiff cream, J. liiu V* VOW. Add to the corn starch milk when thai in cold. Stir, pour into a buttered di$h and h?k& Serve gold. , SABBATH SCHOOL. i INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR 1 SEPTEMBERS i ? I>3SonText: "Paul at Athens," Acts c sxvii.. 30-44--Golden Text: ? Psalm xlvl., 1?Com- r laentary. I I > SO. "And as theshipmen were about to flee J out of the ship, when they had let down the J boat into the sea, under color as though they " J would have cast anchors out of the foreship." ' I feel grieved to begin this lesion with the ' treachery of these sailors, when such rich ' food for the soul is in verses 22 to 25. so a strancrftlv omittftd bv tha lesson committee. * 31. ''Paul said to the centurion and to the * soldiers, Except these abide in the whip ye , ?annot be saved." Paul was only promised a the lives ot those with him in the ship (verse * 24); if they should start off in the boat by ' | themselves, he could not be responsible for 't them. Noah was given those with him in the t ark, and Rahab those with her in the house. * Only those can be saved who are in Christ, J and abiding is the evidence that we are truly 1 in Him (John x., 27, 28; I John ii., 19). * 3?. "Then the soldiers cut off the ropes ot J the boat and let her fall off." It looked like 1 throwing away their only hope, but it was 8 really their oUlj'safety. In order to be saved c by Christ we must let go our own righteous- * neas, our own works and even our own ways 1 and thoughts?in fact, all that we have (Isa.'' ? lxiv.,6; Titusriii., 5; Isu. lv., 7. and Luke xiv? 33). , 33. -And while the day wa3 coming on Paul besought them all to take meat. ' They ? had endured fourteen days of such tempest- ( I uous weather that they had little opportu- ( I nity and perhaps little desire to taste food. 1 In verse 20 we read that all hope of ever ( . seeing land had been given up. But now s ' there is light in the darkness. He who con- t I trols the winds and the aea (Mark iv., 39) i had for His servant's sake sent a message of t ' peace. t 34. "This is for your health, for there i shall not an hair fall trom the head of any of i you." This is a common Old and New e Testament illustration of perfect safety. See \ I Sam. xiv., 45; II Sam. adv., 11; I Kingsi., ' ' 52; Math. x.. 30; Luke xii.. 7; xxj.. 18. t i Even concerning Daniel's friends wh o were . cast into the seven times heated furnace it is written that there was not a hair of their heads singed (Dan. ill., 27). 1 35. "And when he had thus spotcen he, took bread and gave thanks to God in the, presence of them all, and when he had broken it he began to eat." Thus he gloriGed God, whose he was and whom he served. Thus he magnified Christ In his body (Phil. I., 20). He testified before all that he knew God. that he trusted In God and that he had ' . dealings with God. He gave thanks for dei liverance when it was not yet visible except , to faith. 36. "Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat." He not only exhorted them to be of good cheer, but being of good cheer himself he influenced others to do likewise (verses 22,. 25). Compare Acts xxiiL, 11; Math, ix., 2, 22, and John xvi.. 33. If we steadfastly believe God, we will be filled with joy and peace (R?m. xv.. 13), and inasmuch as it is impossible for any of us to live ,. only unto ourselves (Rom. xiv., 7) we must of necessity influence others to be cheerful ) also. , 1 1, 37. "And we were in all in the ship two > ; hundred, three score and sixteen souls." ? Think of 275 people saved from a watery i grave by one man. Ten righteous men would ' t have saved Sodom from its fiery overthrow. ' I How many thousands have been saved from i l eternal death by such men as Spurgeon, I Moody, "iluntiall, Needham and others? What ' ) is your influence in the world? Does It tend 1 5 to the health and safety of others, or are you t t a troubler and a dishonor to the Prince of ' Peace? 1 38. "And when they had eaten enough they 1 i lightened the ship and cast out the wheat into ' , the sea." The angel had told Paul, and he < nnB^A/l U An *Kat *V?n ah<?\ . hA loct" I ] J UUU p?09CU U VU |U?I IUU oiMy ffwwtM wv .??. (verse 22). There was therefore no object in * attempting longer to preserve the cargo. The C life is m'ore than meat, and to lighten the . ship would tend to their safety. If some Christians would unload some of tbe'r wealth for the good of others and for Jesus's sake. It would be better for them, both for this t world and for the world to come.. 39. "And when it was day they knew not the land." How welcome the daylight would be and also the sight of the land, since they tnew that all Would somehow reach it in safety. The storm was still on. and on a lea shore as they were there would J Beem to be more danger of their lives than f ever, but the word of God t*as been given [ that no life will be lost. How happy and peaceful should those b# whoso anchor is 1 within the vale, sure and steadfast (Heb. vl.. - 19)! 40. '-And when they had taken up the an j chore they made toward the shore." Now came the greatest danger apparently, for T might they not all be dashed to pieces? No, ; for the word of God was pledged on their behalf. One who trusts in that word can s ?ay, "Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains i be carried into the midst of the sea" (Ps. > xlvi., 2). . 41. "And falling inro it place where tw.> i seas met they ran the ship aground." Thus part remained immovJWe, while the rest was i soon broken by the waves and the vessel j that had held together through all the tem pest on the sea and kept them from going to ? the bottom was now a hopeless wreck. It i 1 came to pass as Paul had been told?the shi') | I should be lost (verse 22). I 42. "And the soldiers'counsel was to kill ( the prisoners, lest any of them should swim | out and escape." It was because of one of j i these prisoners that all were alive. They ? were glad enough to listen to his words of < j ep:;ouraijement in the storm, but now they ( would ruthlessly take his life if permitted, j ' Ah. Paul, thou hadst much fellowship with , i thy Master, for thoss whom Ho came to bless , actually took His life. When shall we learn | t tho lesson that the servant is not greater , than his master and be will content to be as , " He (John xv , 19, 20)? ^ 3 43. "But the centurion, willing to save < a' Paui, kept them from their purpose." The records of the centurions whom the Lord | f used to accomplish His purposes or who j were led to know Him as tneir Lord is most instructive. The name of this one is given , in verse 1. Compare chap* r x.. 22, and see also Math. viii.. 5, 6. 10 ? xxvli.. 54. > 44. "And so it came to pass that they es- \ , caped all safe to land." What God and j angel3 testify we may surely believe, for The Lord of Hosts* hath sworn, saying, surely as I have thought so shall it come to ' l pass, and us I have purposed so shall it , stand" (Isa. xiv.. 24). May the fulfillment of the words of this angel lead us to believe firmly the words of some other angeis who j said. "This same Jesus shall so come in like . ? manner." And also the words of Gabriel, that "the Lord God shall give unto Him the ' throne of His father David, anl lie shall j T reijrn over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there shall b? no end" (Acts j 3 i.. 11; Luke i., 32. 33).?Lesson Helper. r i 1 j Thousand* of Snail* of All Slzen. ' 4 There are over 2,000 specics of snails J and they are found in all parts of the ( world. Sorno aro oven smaller than a . pin heart, while others, in France and I Italv, for instance, are cultivated for t foou and are large enough to maice a 1 good mouthful. Snails are vegetarians, j and have jaws and tongues of saw-like t e edure. the number of points on each j running into tho thousands. On tho approach of cold weather the snail t r throws a film over tho mouth of its I 1 shell, which tightens like a drumhead, f As it becomes colder other films are t added on the plan of storm windows. r Extorsive drouth will cause the snail 1 to close its doors in the same way to J: prevent tho evai>oration of its bodily ( moisture and dry up. These little ani1 mals aro possessed of astonishing vitality, regaining1 activity after having t been frozen in Bolid blocks of ice and _ -i J U~..4 f/x.. enaunilg a lie^ieo U1 l&CUb i\JL nt^ao [ which daily crisps vegetation. Anything that would be consldr ered rude at home Is considered a huge joke at a picnic. ? Atchison [ Globe. . j "Pay as you go" and save enough to come back on. RELIGIOUS READING. COMPORT FOR THB BEREAVED. T.et this be our consolation when we mourn >ver those who sleep in Jesus. It is not an en>my who haih done this. It is no frightful nonster that lias torn that dear one from our oving embrai e. Jt was ti brother's arm which ecelved the departing spirit. He commits the mportant office to no inferior messenger, far ess to an enemy. ' Iwillcomeag^un.aad.receive . ouuntomywslf." Dying Stephen Befield hlfrf 1 vhen he said, '-Lord Jt sua, receive my spirit." L'es, it is Jeeua! In that chamber of anxiety uid tears, where the feeble tiile of ebbing life s watched So tenderly, and all is being done hat skill and kindness can suggest to delay he dreaded moment of separation, .Jesus is laying. "It is I." In that darkened abode vhere the activity of love no longer holds >aek the flood-gates of grief, Jesus whispers, 'It is I." At the sad funeral procession, each tdvancing step of which seems as though it vere conveying the mourners to heir own burial, Jesus?as at wain -touches the bier, and says to the widow, the fatherless, the friendless, "It is I." At he open grave, where, with that dead body ire to be sepulchred so many living joys and lopes, Jesus?as at Bethany?stands among he mourners, and, while weeping with them, tllays their sorrow, "aying, "It is L" Yes, it s Jesus who has taken away the departed ipirit to the full enjoyment of a love still ten-t lerer than theirs, in a world where tears are lever shed, and pain is never felt, and deajh s forever unknown.?Newman Hill. CHRISTIAN, BE EARNEST IN DOIUO qftOD. Blessed are they who sow beside all waters. )h, Christian! time, time is passing away! Opportunities are going, will soon be gone! /ye snail soon oe ai ?ae uar 01 uruu. iuc Christian who means to do all he can, will iay, What can I do this week?this day? his hour?"' This is the genius of earnestiess. Are there tiDy sick to be visitedV Are here any poor to be relieved? Are there my serious? Go, my soul, and see. Delay lot to speak a, word of encouragement; dl ectthat90ul to Christ. Does the Sabbath tohool need a teacher? here am I ready and villing. What can I do for Jesus my Savior? Whateverthy hand flndeth to do, doit with by might." Nettleton wa3 a man of power with men, >ecause he was so much in earnest He sufered no opportunity to slip till he had said a vord. They were as nails fastened,in a sure >luee. Soon after his conversion be had the nost intense desire to. ba instrumental in the lalvation of his fellow-men. He would often lay to himself, '-If I might be the means of laving one soul, I should prefer it to all the lchos and honors of this world." He was in he habit of frequently looking forward to iternity, and saying, "What shall I wish I lad done thousands and millions of years lence? " "80 should we live, that overy hour Should die, as dies the natural flower? A self-reviving thing of power: That every thought and every deod May noia wunin itseii uio w?n Of future good and future need."?Vernont Chronicle. MY OWJf PICTDBE. Suppose all Christians were just like me! What would become of the world? Suppose ione prayed more, or .mora fervently, how nany sinners would be awakened? How nany revivals sent? Suppose none were nore faithful in exhorting the impenitent, how nany would bo led to Christ? If none evinced nore of the power and spirit of holiness in heir lives, how many gainsayers and skeptics would be convinccd and put to silence/ If lone were more liberal than I am, how would :he pastor be sustained, tho gospol spread,the kingdom of tho Kedoemer extended to the mdaof the onrth? In short, if all Christians iverejust likemo, when would the millennium ome-the day of Zion's triumph, when there shall be one Lord, and his name one; every cnee bowing, and every tongue eonfesaiog to Him alone? Alaa! bavo I not too much realon to fear that happy day is yet far distant, I no one is to be more efficient in bringing it ibout than I am? 0, if my faith, and my teal, and my liberality, were the measure for ;he whole church, there would be a sad prospect for this dark, ruined world! Who would iako care of oi? country, if no one wusmore Rilling to sacriflco his own ease and comfort for it than I am? Who would give the water )f eternal life to famishing millions in heathen ands, if no one had more bowels of compassion than I have? And why should any one "eel more responsibility in these matters than [ do? If I can free my skirts, why uot others? Have wo not all one Master, one Jud^e. to whom we must renaor our account? u, men, [ can answer for jiy delinquencies, othws will lave no more difficulty. There is no just;e in easing one, while all the rest arc burdened. If lean get a dispensation to 3ervo Mammon, or Belial, or self, why may not jthersV If I may lovo the Lord with less :han my whole n in 1, and strength, and my neighbor less than myself, so may every disciple of Jesus. And if I may seek the "gratification of my own desires as the first end of ny being, so may all tjie world beside. And Satan may riot amid universal ruin and death, till the last trump shall wake us all to receive iccording to our deeds, whether good or bad PITCHING TOWAHDS 80DCM. We often meet with individuals whose conluct leads us to say within ourselves, they are pitching their tents towards Sodom. The man who in any way sacrifices moral jood and spiritual ends for physical and temporal advantages is pitching his tent towards Sodom. The man of family, who leaves a religious loinrounity and Christian privileges; and arries his family merely for purposes of gain into a country where there are no Sabbaths lor sanctuaries, where the influences are lcrainst religion, whore hi3 children will have ;he children of vil? and profane men ai their jniy companions, and will of course, marry mgodly husbands and wives, will find after a while, that he has pitched his -tent towards 36dom. A gentleman, a ruling elder in the Presby;erian church some years since opened a hotel in a country village. He did it to support hi? ,'amily and it was right, but tiien to secure ustom lie departed from Christian principles, and kept :in open bar. In a few years le died, leaving a widow and seveu sons, rhe'hotel was kept up, and his sons attended ;he tmr.?Tha sons of that man all became Irunkards, they squandered his property, ind his widow is now sustained by the beievolence of the church. He was a good nan. but he pitchod his tent tcfoards Sodom. The young man who commences the indulgence of bad habits is pitching his tent towards Sodom. He may love a social glass. may prefer the society of the vicious. Ho nay indulge in an occasional ?ime of cards. He may go to the house of her whose steps :ake hold on hell. In all this ho may see no jreat evil. But after a while, unless arrested >y God's providence and grace, he 11 mis himself bound in the strong chafris of habit, rexed by evil passions?a suitable subject to lave dwelt in aucient Sodom, and, ere l< ng, :o take tip his abode iu those regious ot vhich Sodom aud Gomorrah are but an efl>jlem. Finally, every impenitent sinner has pitched lis tent towards Sodom, liecwise ha chooses ;o dwell in tho cities ot tlia plains; Decause le is travelling to .1 plow over which the itorms of God's wrath are gathering; and jecause ho must soon be cast into the lake hut burneth with lire and brimstone, unless 10 llee into the mountain, and tarry not in ill the plain. -Reader! hast thou pitched thy ent towards Sodom??Watchman and Helector. Some churches grind their preacher* down o a starvation salary, which they pay in hips ami whetston?2>, y*t make a good deal >f noise in sinking, "Sloro love to thee, 0 Christ, more love to thee." New Zealand Is competing la 5heese, aa it has for some time been loing in mutton, for English markets. A consignment of 450 tons of :heeae was received in London two weeks ago la good condition. Amerl:an cheese makers must take care not jo lessen the standard of their prodluct, and must study carefully the demands of tho English market. THE BERING SEAVERDICT ? roW3 TECHNICAL POINTS DECIDED Pi IN FAVOR OF ENGLAND. . of^ head. The Tribunal of Arbitrators Render Their Decision In Paris?A Great wom Point Won for America?Its Con- _ tentlon That the Seals' Have"'; Proper Protection Sustained. ? Tr The Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration . rendered its decision, after a deliberation at Paris extending nearly over Ave months. * The decision was adverse to the claims ol than the United States on every point; but by the Th adoption of regulations as to seal Ashing by selve vessels of the United States and Great Brit- Dc ain. the United States gain the point for wouj which they have striven in diplomatic corvoannn/laniia fnr TYIATIV VPHfil. Ol' the actual preservation of the seals, repu They (cain this point most emphati- i_ caliy. Not only Is pelagic sealing prohib W ited within sixty miles o( the Pribylov Isl- you < ands at all times, but practioally it is only ,. permitted to the citizens of the United States At and Great Britain in the Bering Sea or North be gi Pacific Ocean for one month each year, the q month of August. It is always unprofitable . . after that month. Moreover, the use of fire- F"lc arms In the capture of seals is absolutely pro- ideaj hibited in the Bering Sea. Shotguns may be , rpj used in the Pacific outside the limit only in . the months when pelagic sealing Is to be caltl permitted. This means in other words that for i all profitable pelagic sealing is stopped rm henceforth, for only by the use of firearms in the months of May, June, July and August are seals captured. It will be lawful aero hereafter to use shotguns la their capture only in the North Pacific Ocean sixty miles Bc from land and only after July 31 of each by i year- ch*8 The arbitrators decide that the Bering Sea jj, is an open sea, and that the United States rpi , did not purchase this sea when Alaska was ? purchased. They decide that JKussia aianot uuu< claim exclusive jurisdiction, and that Great to w Britain never recognized it. They also deoide _ that the United States have no property right in the seals outside the usual three-mile limit, pag< against the assertion which the American seea counsel made and argued strenuously for anfa several days. But, by the adoption of the . regulations, th6y practically concede to the 0Q United States some control, for the seals l, may not be killed outside the new sixty- , mile limit from May 1 to July 31; nor at any ? time may they be killed within sixty miles of TJnf< the Prlbylov Islands. doul The question of reparation for the seizures com and confiscations by the United Stipes, as well as the damages for the close season, has not been fixed. When it is determined, the treaty of arbitration says it must be paid promptly. T The agents of the United Statea think l0t, they really have won the victory, jIn the proceedings of the arbitration tribunal II . the counsel for the United Stares made no Uni serious attempt to argue that the Bering8ea pert ta a nlnaorl nnn Tf In olC?T11 flIn COIlSld erlne the fairness of the decision, that the two English, as well as the two American ar- ancl bitrators, were on opposite sides of the case the in some of the points of the decision. doll The Amerioan arbitrators believe that the * regulations decided by tha tribunal mean . practically the end of pelagio sealing, and Apr that they are better forms than were hereto- fine fore offered to the United States by Great Britain as a settlement of the question* in- 1QQ, volved. All the Englishmen connected with tae t.*?- F bunal are exceedingly reticent with their 18, opinions as to the decision, and apparently n are disappointed because it was not more unfavorable to the United States. flr7 The arbitrators made a special finding T on the facts agreed upon by theagent3 12 of both Governments with reference p to the seizure or British vessels in Bering Sea in 1887 and 1889. In addi- 28, tion the arbitrators make certain sagges- A tions to the two Governments, the most important being that they should come to an ,. understanding to prohibit the killing of seals Vmc on land or sea for a period of from one to three years, and should enact regulations to 31 carrv out the findings of the arbitrators. ^ In an Interview the Hon. John W. Foster, American agent tg the Bering 8ea Tribunal cnlf ' of Arbitration, said that he thought that the " restrictions would render the pelagic indus- , u:-j try unprofitable. The provision for a close ,, season will not only prevent pelagic hunting during three out of the four months when it yon can be aaid to be very profitable, but it will hail break the sealing season. t The two.forces of sealers most suspend op- . erations during the best part of the summer. wriD It leaves the right to hunt seals in the North I Pacific from January to May. The weather aj(j duringthree-fourthsof that period Is very un- , . favorable, and the catches then made areal- Da11 ways small. It also leaves the right to hunt T seals in part of Bering Sea after July, which due means for a period of about twenty-five days, after the expiration 6f which rough weath- _ er compels the hunters to leave. -*1 The decision in t?e Bering Sea arbitration ' cha was a subject of much interest at Washington. and ^rhile various opinions are ex- . pressed by people who have given the *n 8 matter casual attention, those best posted torj in regard to It feel that the United States ^tai has gained a victory in the substantial elements of the case. of T ? 1 TflBOUflH A TBESTLE. me: A Train Falls Sixty Feet Into a Vlr- the ginia Creek. 1 Just east of Milton, Va., at 2 50 o'clock a. m.. two passenger coaches and a sleeper broke through a trestle and Tell to the creek , below, a distance of sixty feet, killing seven persons outright and injuring a number of T others. The train was the regular bound for Ports- of J mouth. After passing through Milton and soil going over the trestle, the engineer, Peyton Tanstall, who says he was running at the t rate of ten miles an hoar, felt the bridge -I giving away. He threw open the throt- app tie, and the engine, tender, and a box a ?car got safe over, but the" passenger . r car was too late, and the span went down under its weight, the second passenger car her and sleeper following. The cars ware shat- mot tered to pieces. The water in the creek had f?aJ risen to the depth of twelve or more feet,and . It is the general belief that the rise had up- iardermined the foundation of th& iron piers, ?L - A aA??1A causing ins ireswo iv kuk. On the train at the time were Voout sixteen parsons, inaludln? the train hand*, but J. only one of the latter?Conductor H. Morris, of Portsmouth?was killed, nona of the ?m! others receiving serious injuries. in t In the sleeper were Mrs. Harvey Giersch, gacl two children and nurse, of Winston, N. C. ; Conductor J. L. Sizer, of Richmond, and J. " R. Townes, colored porter. The nurse was WftS drowned and the conducter and porter were For slightly injured. 3Ire. Giersch was on her pUI way to Lawrenceville to visit friends. The ,, depot agent at Milton heard the crash and tQS immediately gave the alarm by tolling the selv bell. The people turned out ip full foruaand to t went to work at once to rescue the dead and i__a( injured from tho debris. . of 1 * WU3 FLOODS IN HUNGARY. iats mal Villages and Towns Deluged and buy Scores of Lives Lost. 0f t Floods havo been causing suffert&g in T Galicia and northern Hungary. The coun- cov. tries of Saro9 and Ungb, which border Uaiicia tae on the south, have been devastated. The froi suburbs of Unghvar, the capital of Ungb. cosl were inundated. In many cases houses on lowlands have been completely sub- ll4 merged, dwelling houses have collapsed and w many persons have been killed by falliug J-h9 buildings or drowned in the floods Im- chu mense damage has been done around jjg,, Przemysl, an important town of Galicia. , The town of Turka in Galicia has been partially destroyed, and twenty persons there The have been drowned. tak< The damago caused by the floods amounts to many millions of florins. In many districts the peasantry has been beggared. war Thousands of small landowners have lost whi aheds, cattle and crops. j)nr At Vorosco a workshop was swept away . - ' and fourteen employes were drowned. Sixty tiea persons are said to have been drowned at hail Eymanow, Galicia. hog stit The Pennsylvania Railroad has effected a seq $3,000,000 loah in LcmMon at six per cent, to Ne complete tmprovomoota now under way. , ?????? WOEDS OF WISDOM. """" - ^ e sweetest joys are consoled sor-J sasure is the lard in the piecrust ne. te heart gives in charity what the provides. i man ever saw a woman as &< an sees her. te. drop of regret will embitter etfttfiof bliss. ue love is love of love, not love of Measures of love. is easier to die for some people to live with them. ie honey which we gather oors tastes the sweetest. >gs don't think; if they did, there d be fewer good dogs. ir characters are onr own; our tations are other people's. ith conrageand civility as alliee ' - *a i- i- iJ_i Jt 3an oiten taite capuve guuu mus., yon. are stingy, do not pretend toj enerous; the effort will betray yoa. j ir happiest moments are those in h we believe we can realize oar Isl'.' ; te secret-pf gaining friends is to ivate within ourselves the capacity friendship. . . .. le moral lessons of our youth a** our love letters?carefully preid, but never read. cial progress is advanced far mora strengthening the weak than by s tising the wicked. 5 you wish to improve your mind? i read carefully what you do not jrstand, and listen dispassionaiei/j hat you do not agree with. . f le heart of every woman is like m ) written with sympathetic ink. Itis blank, bnt warm it sufficiently,, you will find a love letter wrifctear i ... oveisthe language in whioh the ) speak to man, observes Plata. ortunate is he who hears it not; bly unfortunate he who hears, but ; * prehends it not.. The Dollar of Oar Daddies. he silver dollar seems to have had ? }f trouble in its day and gener?> , and it is now getting baek at tb? ted States Treasury with alarming tistenoy. Some of the faots conung it are of immediate interest will bear summing up. Here is chronological history of the ailver ar: uthorized to be coined, act of il 2, 17:92; weight, 416 grains; ness, 892.4. height changed, act of January 18, 7, to 412$ grains. ineness changed, act oT Januaryi 1837, to 900. \ oinage discontinued, act of Febru 12,1873. otal amount coined to February 1837, $8,031,238. \ oinage reauthorized, act February 1878. mount coined from March 1, 1878^1 December 31, 1887, $283,295,357j ilucting $1837 recoined). ?. 'otal amount coined to December 1889, $357,969,239. 'he first silver dollar was put in cirition in 1794. :It was a crude design," says ? ;orian. "On the obverse or face of coin was imprinted the head of ? :ng lady facing to the right. Her r was flowing to such an extent thai looked as if taken in a gale oft. id." , a 1790 Congress stepped in to the of the typical damsel and tied iier r up with a bit of ribbon. he fifteen stars were after this re- ' ed to the original thirteen in reOogon of the number of States, a 1836 the design was agaia nged, and the silver dollar bore the figure of a neatly-dressed womaa i flowing garment. The designer jot, however, to put in the thirteen s and the coin was soon called in.; ir person now in possession of one^, iliase dollars has a "valuable goqve!K7; 'he new design had the lady sur^ bj-.th? It was improveit on its pradec33sor, but the air of female figure was defiant and stiff !ho dollar of 1838 was the first ar-* ic pieoe of silver coined by th? ited States mint. >n April 22, 1864, the first dollar ing the legend, "In God Wo Lst," was coined. n 1873 the era of the trade dollar )00 fineness began. That troublele dollar ran its erratio course ia ; five years. n 1878 the liberty dollar made its. earance. Miss Anna W. William^ sacher in the Girls' Normal School Philadelphia, sat for the portrait. profile being then considered iuo it perfect obtainable., Her classic ;urea still decorate the silver dol?Detroit Free Press. Mahogany Used as Ties. t is not often that ons hears of tha jloyment of mahogany as cross tioa he construction of a railroad, but h an occurrence actually cam9 to ). In the winter of 1851 a railroad in course of construction from t Smith, Ark., to Little Rook, ids were low with the promoters of enterprise, who finally found them' es forced to surrender the property he creditora The road, which wa? led part of the way and a portion t in readiness to receive the rails,, purchased by two English capitalfor a mere song. Shortly after ung the acquisition the English ers set out to make an inspection heir proparty. 0 thair great amazem3at they dis?red that thi cross t^'es laid upon 1 - 1 ?l!lj W1PJ KflCVIl Dtfil nut i?>w ..... u solid mahogany logs, a rare and ;ly hard wood. Great ranges of ?eties, of the sami matsrial, lined grade awaiting to b? put down, i shrewd English purohasera ckled with delight oa making the :overy, and set to work at oace to e the ties conveyed to Little Rock. >se which had been laid dowa were 2ii up and added to the stock of the logany timber. The ties ware forded thence to New York, from, ch place the timber was shipped to jland and sold. The sale of the i alone netted the speculators a 'lo'imrt nrofit. and in lieu of ma ;any tiea a cheaper wood was anbiuted by the Englishmen in the snt??^ent construction of the road? w Orleans Times-Democrat. J