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XfT | " I | ? i REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. v "T~zr Subjcct: "Week Day Religion." / Text . "In all thy ways acknowledge Him.' Proverbs iii, 6. >. | There has been a tendency in all lands anc [ages to set apart certain days, places and oc 'casions for especial religious service, and tc ithink that they formedtho realm iu which re 'llgion was chiefly to act. Now. while holj Idays and holy places have their use. they cat never be a substitute for continuous exercisi of faith and prayer. I In other words, a man caunot be so Rood? .Christian on Sabbath that he con afford to b( a worldling all the weok. If a steamer star! ifor Southampton and sail one day in that dimr ,Section and the other six days sail in othei W [directions, how long before the steamer will lget to Southampton? Just as soon as the 'v * [man will get to heaven who sails on the SabIbath day toward that which is good, and the ,iovc nt fhfl woek nails toward the |World, the flesh and the dovil. You cannot eatso much at the Sabbath banquet that you 'can afford religious abstinence ull the rest ol the week. \ Genuine religion is not spasmodic, doe.? not go by fits and starts, is not an attack oi chills and fever?now cold until your teetb 'chatter, now hot until your boues ache. .Genuine religion marches on steadily up steep hills and along dangerous declivities, Sts eye ever on the everlasting hills crowned (With the castles of the blessed. i I propose, so far as God may help me. to ehow you how we may bring our religion into ordinary life and practice it in common ? things-yesterday, to-day, to-morrow. i I And, in the first place. I romark, we ought ,to bring religion into our ordinary conversation. A dam breaks, and two or three vil 'lages are submerged, a South American m earthquake swallows a city, and people bey igin to talk about the uncertainty of human " life, and in that conversation think they are (engaging in religious service when there Quay be no religion at all. I have noticed jthat in proportion as Christian experience is bhallow men talk about funerals and death[beds and hearses and tombstones and epitaphs. f I' If a man have the religion of the gospel in tdts full power in his soul, he will talk chiefly {about this world and the eternal world and /very little comparatively about the insignflloant pass between this and that. Yet how leeldom it is that the religion of Christ is a I jwelcome theme! iiamaniuuoi luc (juajjo, l jof Christ goes into a religions circle and be| , jgins to talk about sacred things, all the con1 .versation is hushed, and (.hinge become exf oeedingly awkward. As on a summer day, r the forest full of song and chirp and carol, mighty chorus of bird harmonies, every (branch an orchestra, if a hawk appears it (the sky, all the voices are hushed, so I have teomotimes seen a social circle that professed to be Christian silenced by the appearance ol the great theme of God and religion. \ Now. my friends, if we have the religion 01 'Christ in our soul, wo will talk about it ii 'an exhilarant mood. It is more refreshing jthan the waters, it is brighter than the sunshine, it gives a man joy here and prepares . him for everlasting happiness before the throne of God. And yet, if the theme ol religion be introduced into a circle, everything is silenced?silenced unless perhaps an 'aged Christian man in the corner of the ? cnmAt-hinir nurrht to be 1WU1, wuu. ? isaid, puts one foot over the other and sighs i heavily and says, ''Oh, yes ; that's so !" t My Iriends. the religion of Jesus Christ i; mot something to be groaned about, bu! something to talk about and sing about, youi liace irradiatod. The trouble is that men projfessing the faith of the gospel are often sc {inconsistent that they are afraid their con jversation will not harmonize with their life, | FWe cannot talk the gospel unless we lire th< f (Rospel. You will often find a man whoso en jtire life is full of inconsistencies filling hl< conversation with such expressions as, '*Wt tare miserable sinners," "The Lord help us,' 'The Lord bless you," interlarding theli (conversation with such phrases, which ar< jnere canting, and canting is the worst kinc Of hypocrisy. | It a man have the grace of God in his hear! . dominant, he can talk religion, and it wil seem natural, and men, instead of being re (pulsed by it, will be attracted by it. Do yoi aaot know that when two Christian peopl< i [talk as they ought about the things of Chrisi k and heaven God gives special attention, anc [He writes it all down. Malaehi iii., 16 ["Then they that feared the Lord talked oni Ito the other, and the Lord hearkened anc heard, and a book of remembrance was writ iten." But I remark again, we ought to bring th< (religion of Jesus Christ into our ordinary employments. "Oh," you say, "that's aven jgood theory for a man who manages a largt [business, who has great traffic, who holds t s (great estate?it is a grand thing for banker: {and for shippers?but in my thread and nee die 3tore, in my trimming establishment, ii imy insignificant work of life, you canno japply those grand gosple principles." Wh< told you that? Do you not know that i Jaded leaf on a brook's surface attracts God i . . {attention as certainly as the path of a blaz * iing sun, and that the moss that creeps upth< eide of the rook attracts God's attention a: certainly as the waviug tops or Oregon pirn and Lebanon cedar, and that the cracklin; of an alder under a cow's hoof sounds a loudly in God's ear as the snap of a world'! , , conflagration, and that the most Inslgnlfl cant thing in your life is of enough impor jtance to attract the attention of the Lore God Almighty? i My brother, you cannot be called to do any thing so insignificant but God will help yo n flohormon f!hrl?ir wil stand by you as He did .by Simon when h |dragged Gennesaret. Are you a drawer o k I water? He will be with you as at the wel curb when talking with the Samarita g iwoman. Are you a custom house officer f Christ will call you as He did Matthew atth L jreceipt of custom. The man who has only !day's wages in his pocket as certainly need w religion as he who rattles the keys of a ban I jand could abscond with a hundred thousan (hard dollars. And yet there are men wh profess the religion of Jesus Christ who d !not bring the religion of the gospel int their ordinary occupations aud emploj jments. There are in the churches of this day me |Who seem very devout on the Sabbath wh KSre far from that during the week. A coun ry merchant arrives in this city, and ho got Into the store to buy goods of a man wh professes religion, but has no grace in hi heart. The country merchant is swindlec He is too exhausted to go home that week he tarries in town. On Sabbath he goes t some church for consolation, aud what is hi 4 Umazement to find that the man who carrie around the poor box Ls the very one wh * swindled him. But never mind. Thedeaco " has his black coat on now and looks solem iand sroes*home talking about that blesse sermon! Christians ouSunday. Worlding during the week. i That man does not realize that God know evary dishonest dollar he has in his pocke' 'that God is looking right through the iro wall of his money safe, and that the day < judgment is coming, and that "as the pai nidge sitteth on exgs and hatcheth them no l bo he that getteth riche9 ani not by rigl L shall leave them in the midst of his days, an M at his end shall be a fool." But how mac there are who do not bring the religion c IB Christ into their everyday occupation. The thiuk religion is for SundayK. r Suppose you were to go out to fight fc i your country in some groat contest, woul I you go to do the battling at Troy or i f ' Springfield? No, you would go there to g< your swords and musk"ts. Then you woul fgo out in the face of the enemy and conteu ifor your country. Now, [take the Sabbnt ? iday and the church to be only the armoi Where we are to get equipped for the gr?; 'battle of life, and that battlefield is Jtonda W^nno^nv TKl.rcH,..- Pri.lll-nn | Saturday. "Antioch." and -St. llortia.'; L and "Old Hundred" nro not worth much i -we do not sins all the week. A sermon is < i ilittle account if wo cannot carry it behin & the counter an Ibehind the plow. TheSil & Ibath day is of no value if it last only ! H I hours. "Oh."' says some one, ''if I had a pre; sphere, I would do that. If I could ha' [SB ;lived in the time of Martin Luther, if I coui ihave been Paul's traveling companion, if |B 'had some great and bounding work to d H then I should put into application all th: you say." I must admit that the romam W and knight errantry have gone out of IffP There is but very little of it left in the wor!< I The temples of Rouen liavo been change into smithies. The classic mansion at As! | land has been cut tip into walking stick The muses have retreated before the em ? grant's ax and the trapper's gun, and a Ve monter might go over tho Alleghany and tl ztoclcy mountains and see neither an Oread nor a Sylph. The groves where the gods used to dwell have been cut up for firewood, and the man who te looking for great spheres and great scenes for action will not And them. And yet there are Alps to scale an J there are Hellesponts to swim, and they are in common life. It is absurd for you to saythat vnu would serve God if you had a great sphere. If you do not serve Him on a small scale, you , wonld not on a large scale. If you cannot stand the bite of a midge, how could you endure the breath of a basilisk? 1 Our national government does not think it belittling to put a tax on pins and a tax on buckles and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you, oh Christian man, put a high tariPT on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in "" " * * 'v '* ^iiM Ivq a irrant Tl4VAnilt> Of > me C|,aiu It HVUH* ^ -t spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even out of a nettle, " and if you have the grace of God in your I heart you can get sweetness out of that > which would otherwise irritate and annoy. A returned missionary told me that a comi pany of adventurers, rowing up the Ganges, > wsre stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the i earth strewn with the carcasses of men slain ' by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to i conquer these small troubles. ! Suppo3e'a soldiershould say. ''This is only a skirmish, and there are only a few enemies ?I won't load my gun ; wait until I got into some gre3t general engagement." That man is a coward and would ba a coward in any sphere. If a man does not serve his country in a skirmish, he will not in a 1 Waterloo. And if you are not faithful going out against the single-handed misfortunes of [ this life you would not be faithful when great disasters with their thundering artillery came rolling down over the soul. This brings me to another point. Wo ought to bring the religion of Jesus Christ ' into our trials. If we have a bereavement, if we lose our fortune, if some great trouble blast like the tempest, then we go to God for comfort, but yesterday in the little annoy' nncea of vour store or office, or shop or fac tory, or banking house, did you go to God 1 for comfort? You did not. My friends, you need to bike the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ into the most ordinary trials of your life. You have your misfortunes, you have your anxieties, you have your vexations. "Oh," you say, ''they don't snape my cnaractor. Since I lost my child, since I have lost my property. I have been a very different man from what I was." My ! brother, it is the little annoyances of your L life that are souring your disposition, clipping your moral character and making you less and less of a man. You go into an artist's studio. You see 1 him making a piece of sculpture. You say, "Why don't you strike harder?" With his ' mallet and his chisel he goes click, olick, 1 click ! and you can hardly see from stroke to ' stroke that there is any impression made upon [ the stone, and yet the work Is going on. You say. "Why don't you strike harder?" "Oh! * he replies, "that would shatter the statue. I [ must make it in this way, stroke by stroke." \ And he continues on by week and month ? until after awhile every man that enters the studio is fascinated. Well, I find God dealing with some man. ! He is shaping him for time and shaping him for eternity. I say, "0 Lord, why not with one tremendous blow of calamity shape that 1 man for the next world?" God says.''That's ' not the way I deal with this mac ; it is stroke after stroke, annoyance after annoyance, ir' ritation after irritation, and after awhile he will be done and a glad spectacle for angels J and men." I Not by one great stroke, but by ten thousand little strokes of misfortune are men i fitted for heaven. You know that large fortunes can soon be scattered by being paid out in small sums of money, and the largest estate j of Christian character is sometimes entirely . lost by these small depletions. j We must bring the religion of Jesus , Christ to help us in these little annoy ances. Do not say that anything is too insignificant to affect your character. 3 Rats may sink a ship. One lucifer I match may destroy a temple. A queen got her death by smelling of a poisoned ^ rose. The scratch of a sixpenny mil [ may give you the lockjaw. Columbus, by . askin? for a piece of bread and a drink of L water at a Francisaan convent, came to the ? discovery of a new world. And there is a j great connection between trifles and im1 mensities, between nothing} and everything*. ) Do you not suppose that Goi cares for I your insignificant sorrows? Why, my friends, - there is nothin? insignificant in your life. How dare you take the responsibility of siy5 ing that there is? Do you not know that the whole unlvoree is nor ashamed to take ' ?~ T o?i ir ? Whut- ara vnu r oareui uus yivioi; *. aoj uwn ? j doing down thore ia the grass, poor little i violet? Nobody knows you are here. Are . you not afraid nights? You will die with thirst. Nobody cares (or you. You will x suffer ; you will perish." "No, * says a star, t "I'll watch over it to-night." ''No," says ) the cloud. "I'll give it drink." "No," says j the sun. "Til warm it In ray bosom." Anl 5 then the wind rises and conies banding down the grain and sounding its 3 psalm through the forest, and I say. 5 "Whither away. O wind, oil such swift 3 wing?" and it answers, "I am going to cool , the cheek of that violet." And then I see 3 pulleys at work in the sky. and tne clouds 3 are drawing water, and I say, "What are you doing there, O clouds?" They say. "We are drawing water for that violet." And then I i look down into the grass, and I say. "Can it be that ,God takes care of a poor thing like you?" and the answer comes up, "Yes. yes. a God clothes the grass of the field, and He has [I never forgotten me, a poor violet. Oh, ray o friends, if the heavens bend down to such inif significant ministry as that, I tell you God is [I willing to bend down to your care, since He o is ju3t as careful about the construction of a ? spider's eye as He is in the conformation of e flaming galaxies. a . riato had a fable which I havo now nearly s | forgotten, but it ran something like this : He k said spirits of the other world came back to d this world to .1nd a oody aud find a sphere of o work. One spirit came and took the bo iy of o a king anl did his work. Anotherspirit cam-i o auil took the body of a poet aud did his work. After awhile Ulysses came, and he said "Why. all the fine bodies are taken, and all a the grand work is taken. Then) is nothing o left for me." And some ono replied. "Ah. i- the best on? has bean left for you." Ulysses a Slid. "What's that?" Anl the rsply was o '-The body of a common man. doing a comis? mon work and for a common reward." A I- good fable for the world aud just as goo 1 ; fable for the church. o . But. I remark again, we ought to bring the s religion of Je3us Christ into our ordinary s blessings. Ev-sry autumn the President of o the United States aui the governors mak^ Q proclamation, and wo are called together iu n our churches to give thanks to God for His d goodness. IJut every day ought to tjethanks19 giving day. We take most of the blessings of life as a matter of course. We have had '3 ten thousand blessings this morning for t. which we have not thanked God. Before the a night comes we will hava a thousand mon? blessings you will never ttunk of mentioning before God. We must sse a Wind man led along by his >t j dog before we learn what a grand thing it is d to have one's eyesight. We must see a man lf with St. Vitus's dance before we learn what a >' grand thing it is to have the use of our physi>Y cal energies. Wo must see some soldier crippled, limping along on his crutch or his )r empty coatsleeve pinned up. before wo learn d what a grand thing it is to have the use of all our physical faculties. In other words, 't we are so stupid that nothing but the misfor'd tunes of others can wake us up to an appreid ciation of our common blessings, h We get on boir 1 a train and start for Bjston an I come to Nor walk bridiie. aud the '-draw" is on- and crash! cow the train. >' Fifty lives dashed out. We essaps. W? id come homo in ur^at excitement an I call our >' frien Is aroun i us. and they congratulate, in, if and we all knell dowu and thank God for our escape while so many perished. But told morrow mornins? you set 0:1 a train of cars i>- for Boston. You cross that bridge at Nor-4 walk ; you cross all the other bridges ; you t ??et to Boston in safety. Then yoa return home. Not an accident, not an alarm. No L,j thanks. t In other words, you seem to be mors grateful wheu 50 people lose their lives and you gut oft than you are grateful to God when ,e you all get off and you have no alarm at all. g Now. you ought to be thankful when you esj" cape from accident, but more thankful when j they all escape. In the one case your gratituie is somewhat selfish ; in the other it is 3 more like what it ought to be. ^ Oh. these common mercies, these common r" blessings, how little we appreciate them and le how soon we forget them! Like the ox A grazing, with the olover up to its eyos, like the bird picking the worm out of the furrow ?never thinking to thank God, who makes the grass grow and who gives life to every living thing from the animalcule in the sod to the seraph on the throne. Thanksgiving on the 27th of November, in the autumn of the year, but blessings hour by hour and day by day and no thanks at all. I compared our indifference to the brute, but perhaps I wronged the brute. I do not know but that among its other instincts it may have an instinct by which it recognizes the divine hand that feeds it. I do not know but that God is through it holding communication with what we call "irrational creation." The cow that stands, under the willow by the water course chewing its cud looks very thankful, and who can tell how much a bird means by its song? The aroma of the flowers smelt like incense, and the mist arising from the river looks like th<? smoke of a morning sacrifice. Ob, that wc were as responsive! If you were thristy and asked me for n drink and I gave you this glass of water, youi common instinct would reply, '"Thank you." And yet, how many chalices of mercy wo gel hour by hour from the hand of the Lord, out Father and our King, and we do not ever think to say, "Thank you." More just tc men than we are just to God. Who thinks of thanking God for the watei gushing up in the well, loaming in the cas cade, laughing over the rocks, pattering it the shower, clapping its hands in the sea Who thinks to thank God for that? Wh( thinks to thank God for the air, the fountaii of life, the bridge of sunbeams, the path o! sound, the great fan on a hot summer day' Who thinks to thank God for this wonder/u physical organism, this sweep of vision, this cmme or narmony struck into the ear this crimson tide rolling through arteries anc veins, this drumming of the heart on th< march of immortality? I oonvxct myself and I convict everyou* of you while I say these things, that w< are unappreciative of the common mercief of life. And yet if they were withdrawn, the heavens would withhold their rain and th< earth would crack open under our feet, and desolation and sickness and woe would stalk across the earth, and the whole earth would become a place of skulls. Oh, my friends, let us wake up to an ap preciation of the common mercies of life. Lei every day be a Sabbath, every meal a sacra ment, every room a holy of holies. We al have burdens to bear; let us cheerfully beai them. We all have battles to fight; let vu courageously fight them. It we want to die right, we must live right. ?ou go home and attend to your little sphere of duties. I will go home and attend to my little sphere of duties. You cannot do my work ; I cannot do your work. Negligence and indolence will win the hiss of everlasting scorn, while faithfulness will gather its garlands and wave its sceptre and sit upon Its throne long after the world has put on ashes and eternal ages have begun theii march. Hatching Oat a Python Family. The python lately received at the Zoological Gardens in Leipsic has com pleted its work of hatching its eggs This and a second sitting python of th< Indian species were received a fev weeks ago at Hamburg by the propri etor of the Leipsic Garden. They wer< sent to Leipsic carefully packed ii chests, but one of them, disturbed bj the jolting of the train, left her place on her eggs, and they were destroyed, The other python, who had laid sev eral dozens of eggs as big as goos< eggs and covered with a thick, leathery skin, remained coiled upon them in t pyramidal coil, at the apex of whicl protruded her head. Both pythoni were unusually angry, and tried tc shoot forth their heads through ever] opening of the chest, uttering low, hissing cries. The first young snakes of the successfully hatched brood be gan to appear, creeping out betweei the coils ol the python motner, Jiverj day more appeared, until, when th< mother at last left her long-continuec position, there were more than thirtj young snakes. They were as thick a* a man's thumb, about two feet long, and exquisitely marked, their lighl color contrasting strongly with tiu dark brown of their mother. Th< empty eggs, slit in a remarkably man ner, looked like a heap of flat leathei pockets or bags. The young pythons which at first resembled a Medusa'i head, began to creep away from theii mother?some lying in a tangled heaj under the blanket, some twisted sep arately into a small knot in the cor ners of the chest. The python whos< eggs were destroyed by her forsaking her position has gone blind. Th< hatching of python snakes in confine ment is of very rare occurrence, bu the place the mother was kept in ii the Leipsic Zoological Gardens ii tropically hot. The occurrence provei the truth of the belief that it take about two months to hatch such crea tures.?St. James's Gazette. "Flim-Flain" of a New Kind. A very neat method of operating the flim-flam game was exposed the othei day when Samuel Ash, James H. Mo Glinsey, Jr., Newton A. Moore ant Henry T. Wallace were put 02. tria before Judge Wilson in the Quarte: Sessions Court, charged with con spiracy and the larceny of sums o money ranging from $5 to $20 fron the proprietors of a number of smal stores in the upper section of the city Ash, who is the youngest of the qtiar tette, pleaded guilty on one of th< bills and described the mode of opera tion. The four traveled togcthe about town, and when they came to i store one of them would take off hii coat and hat and give it to the other to hold for him whilj he went into th< store and asked the proprietor to givi him a $10 bill for teu 81 notes, as hi wished to send it away in a letter, a the same time holding an envelope ii bis hand. Upou obtaining the $1( bill he would hand the notes o jmallatt /l.maminofmn fV?i> ufAVfl 3UIIHICI Ut'ilVUl 1UWU4V/U W* VUV/ wvt V keeper and busy himself iu sealing th< lettor. Upon counting the money th< storekeeper would find that there wa only $9 and would immediately cal his attention to it. The conspirato would then feign surprise and coun the money over himself. Upon beinj assured that there was only $9 h would gracefully apologize, saying hi mother must have made a mistake am if the storekeeper would hold the let ter in which he had sealed the $10 bil he would run across the streej and ge the extra one dollar. Invariably .th scheme worked to perfection, and afte waiting patiently for the return of th young man the storekeeper would tea open the envelope to find that it con tained a blank sheet of paper. As! testified that the other defendant -ere parties to the fraud ami sharei vhe uiouev. The others denied al knowledge of the conspiracy, disdain: lag any connection with it whatever.i'hiladelphia Timea. " .T<~ nv. ltUUlillNS 1 IU JU.11/ uani nuiJLi \jin cago. Dobbins?Ileally, old fellow I'm sorry, but I'm so tied up flnan ciully that I can't lend you a cent.Philadelphia Record. The fly that the spider wove a we for was not so very fly after all. H was curioils about the weaving, an got taken in.?Picayune. I FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Sonntc. 18th Dat.? Mr. Fry (Me.) offered a resolution. which was adoptod, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish to the Senate a statement showing for the last two years the exports and imports carried under the several flags eneaged in foreign carrying trade. The House bill : for the repeal of the Sherman act was taken i ud. and Mr. Wolcott (Col.) spoke in opposir tion to. and Mr. Caffery (La.) in favor of, its passage. Mr. Peffer's resolution as to National banks refusing to pay depositors checks in currency, by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 21 nays, was referred to the Committee on r Finance. Resolutions of sorrow for the i death of Representative Mutchler, of Pennt sylvanla. were passed. ( 19th Day.?Mr. Vance (N. C.) made a i speech against the Wilson Silver Repeal bill. Notice was sriven by Mr. White (Cal.) i that he would offer appropriate resolutions : touching the death of the late Senator Stan' ford, of California, and would ask for their t consideration. Executive session. : 20th Day.?At the request of Mr. Voorhees i (Ind.) the House Silver Repeal bill was tem> porarily laid aside to permit Mr. Dolph (Or.) to address the Senate in advocacy of his bill r appropriating $500,000 to enable the Secra fairy of the Treasury to enforce the Chinese i Exclusion law. After a debate on the atti/ tude of the United States toward the Chinese ) the Dolph bill was referred to the Committee > on Foreign Relations. Executive session. t 21ht Day.?After the passage of the two I I, House joint resolutions for the observance of 1 the 100th anniversary of laying the corner I stone of the Capitol, an amendment to the 811, ver Repeulnct was offered by Mr. Butler (S. C.) 1 and referred to the FinanceCommittee,repeal? ingtbelOper cent, tax on State banks. Mr. Gallinger spoke in favor of his bill sup> plemental to the pension act of June 27th, ? 1890. It provides, among other things, that, > except in cases of established fraud, no pen) sion shall be suspended or withheld until after ' a notice of ninety days to the pensioner and i after a full and impartial investigation. : Mr. Butler (8. C.) offered an amendment to I the bill repealinc the Sherman act, and had it referred to the Finance Committee. It pro vides for the repeal of the ten per cent, tax t on State bank circulation, provided that such circulation be secured by coin or approved I State or municipal bonds. Mr. Allen(Neb.) c offered a resolution to adjourn out of respect to Labor Day. Defeated by forty-one nays to Sight yeas. Mr. Kyle (S. D.) offered u free silver coinage amendment to the repeal > bill, and it was referred to the Finance Committee.-?Mr. Cullom (III.) spoke in ' favor of the bill'to repeal the purchasing > clauses of the Sherman ant, and Messrs. Coke (Miss.) and Peffer (Kan.) made free silver speeches. 22d Day.?Mr. Morgan introduced a joint resolution for the appointment of a joint committee of the two Houses?seven Senators and seven Representatives?to constitute a select committee on finance for the purpose of examining into the financial and monetary condition of the Government and J peopio Ol me uunou owura. jxr. tenet . (Kan.) finished the speech which he had be1 gun on the previous day in support of his amendment for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Mr. Stewart (Nev.) addressed the Senate in opposition to the Silver Repeal bill.?Executive session. 23d Dat.?A bill was introduced by Mr. Cullom and referred to the Finance Committee for the repeal of ail acts for the creation or maintenance of the sinking fund. Mr. Vocrhees withdrew his resolution for 11 o'clock sessions of the Senate. Mr. Morgan's resolution for a joint select Committee on Finance, was taken up. and Mr. Voorhees' having suggested its reference to the Finance Committee, Mr. Morgan argued against the suggestion, stating that the purpose of the resolution was to supersede the Finance Committee In each house and substitute a joint select comdlittee for them. When Mr. Morgan had closed , Mr. Voorhees moved to take up the Silver Repeal bill. Messrs. Morgan. Harris and others objected, but the motion was carried by 37 yeas to '21 nays. Mr. Stewart continued nis speech against the Silver Rypeal bill. Exeoutive session. The House. [ 21st Dat?Mr. Goodnight (Ky.) introduced r a bill to create the Eastern Judicial District - ?' ? * J 1/- T?1 /Al. \ 01 IveniUOKy. iveierreu. iux. cjjuu 1 introduced a bill granting to_s<jtt1ers oa cer, tain lands in Oklahoma the fight to homet stead entries. The House resumed the consideration of tho rules without action. 22d Day.?The House spent the day in dis> cussing tne rules. Several amendments to the rules, designed to prevent filibustering, , were introduced and lost. Mr. Dingley(Me.) declared himself as opposed to filibustering. ' Mr. Morse's amendment, prohibiting the i smoking of tobacco upon the floor of the r House, was carried by lllty-flvu yeas to fiftyone nays. 23d Day.?Debate on tho rules of the House was cor.tinued without practical results. The House agreed to tho Senate 3 amendments to the Urgent Deficiency Ap" propriation bill. > 24th Day.?Mr. Talbent (S. C.) asked 3 leave to introduce a bill for the enlargement of the volume of currency. Mr. Brosius (. (Penn.) objected. The House resumed the consideration ot tho new code of rules, and J agreed, by 118 yeas to 61 nays, totheamends ment, striking from the rules the i clause making 100 members a quorum in Committee of the Whole. The consideration of the code having been completed. Mr. Burrows (Mich.) offered as a substitute for it the rules of the Fifty-first Congress, with a modification which provides that when a call of the House is ordered the yeas and nays shall also foe considered as ordered. This, he thought, would put an end * to filibustering. The substitute wiis defeated r by 148 nays to 65 yeas, and the code of rules was adopted without division. i TEE LABOR WOELD. r In Japan a farmer with more than ten ? acres is considered a monopolist. Tailors held a National Convention at St. * Paul; the organization has added $100,000 a 1 year to their wages. Coal owners in England have resolved not to accept the offers of the strikers to return B to work at their old wages. Commissioner Fairciui.d says that gardeners and coachmen are domestic servants and r may be brought into this country under con4 tract. 9 The big Industries all over the country are 8 rapidly resuming work. They shut down for , only a few weeks, and some of them for only a few days. The manufacturers of Tall River, Mass., 2 decided to reduce wages ftom ten to fifteen b per cent., the cut down to go into effect the j second Monday in September. ) The full plant of the Merrimack Mills, at , Lowell, Mass., print works and all, employ' ing 2000 operatives, has started up on full time, and will run permanently. 3 The mines of the Monongahela Valley, 5 Pennsylvania, are being deserted by the 3 Hungarians, Poles and Italians who camo to . this country to work there last year. The tfoiler makers and iron ship buildars 1 of Brooklyn have given up their fight for S nine hours for the iresent, as their employs' ers stated that during the general depression ' they would bo compelled to close if the nlueu hour day were insisted upon. ? Fbank L. Ronemus, successor to S. Kellher i as Grand Secretary of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, was one of the founders of j that organization. He has served two years , as Recorder of Emmett County, Iowa, and * was for several years ? member of the Broth3 erhood's General Executive Board. r All local unions of the Journeymen e Tailors' Union of America have been advised by their General Executive Board to avoid strikes during the present industrial crisis, as there is hurdly any chance of winning li under present conditions. Reductions ol 8 wages have been reported froaa all parts of , tho country, and if the members were to , strike in all these plaoes the Union would go ii to pieces in less fihan no time. LThe marks of a recent stroke of lightning on James Gillespie, of Nodaway County, Misi Hniiri who still lives, start from the Hntrers p of the right hand, pass to the elbow Tind ' there jump for the body, beginning just below the sixth rib ; then passing to the hips l.he scar divides and goes down each leg and to the big too of each foot. k Mobk than one handred persons at Sholo9e novodez, a summer resort in the Caucasus, d have been poisoned by koumiss. The rest of the summer visitors have left In a paala. RELIGIOUS READING. man's xoblest act. I have said, that in works of benevolence human exertion produces tho greatest and most permanent effect. History is Ailed with illustrations of the truth of this r<Jmark. Tho world has for nearly two thousand years been lllled with the fame of Julius Crcsar. He was the master spirit of his age; and strongly was that age agitated by the workings ot his genius.?But what traces hath he left upon the ages that have come after him? In what is the world now the letter, or the worse, for his having U..O..I0 V^.. ?..-4 r I,I hn?n haan na orida and iis happy, though his famo and achievements had never passed the limits of Brundusium. But it is not so with the labors of the apostle of the Gentiles. The effect of his life is seen in the revolution of a world from Paganism to Christianity. Everything we behold around us, which distinguishes us from the savage Britons, bears witness to the changes which,through the power of the gospel,he has wrought in the destinies of man. Of Charles V. I have read much, but I see nothing on the fnce of society that reminds me of his existence. But this solemn temple, the liberty to worship Orod within its consecrated walls, the civil freedom of our commonwealth, and of our country, and all that career of improvement on which the age hath entered, all, all of itdoes homage to the name of Martin Luther. Such examples as these?and history is full of them?teach us, that in the work of benevolence, man may act most worthily of his high destination. They teach us moreover that this is the cause and the only cause, to the success of which the Omnipotence of God is pledged, and which therefore, though every other should fail; shall infallibly succeed. But wo are not left to conjecture on this subject Jehovah himself hath promised that vice and misery shall yet bo done away from our world, and that it shall be done away by human effort: and, planting on Calvary the cross of his well beloved Sou, he hath left to the universe the all-sufficient guarantee, that the work shall yet be fully and triumphantly accomplished.?[Wayland. "LET YOUR LIOHT SO SHINE." A single illustration, happily Introduced into a aermon, will sometimes fasten itself on the mind of a person never to be forgotten. We remember a case iu point. The substance of the sermon in which it was introduced is forgotten, but the point to which we refer is permanent. We have thought of It a hundred times, in connection with religious consistency. The preacher referred to a light house near New York, for illustration. The light, which is a revohingone, had ceased to move by reason of some derangement in the machinery. As soon as the keeper discovered it, he ran to the proper position, and by manual labor kept steadily revolving tho light, until weakness compelled him to call another to his fjsistance. Then another took his turn, and so during the live-long night, and th' light kept its uniform revolution. A stranger, astonished at the solicitude of the keeper, inquired the cause.?"Why," said he, "there may be a hundred seamen looking out from the darkness and storm below, to catch a glance at this light. If it move not it will bo mistaken for another, and, in their uncertainty and danger, they may lose the channel and be shipwrecked." How many happy hearts paased over Broadway the next day, all uncotscious of the danger to which they had been exposed, but for the faithfulness and consideration of that keeper of the lighthouse! Christian, the world is looking on you. i'ou may not know who are below in the darkness and storm of I fe's troubled sea. but you know tho sea is stormy, and there are dangerous shoals to bo avoided. Let your light give no uncertain gleaming on the gloom. Keep its motion uniform and continued ! And when the day of eternity shall dawn, thousands may tread tho streets of the New Jerusalem?who, but for the brightness and regularity of your li^ht, might have made shipwreck of faith, and usver moored In thj harbor oreternai sawty.?l iTOsessaui. C3BISTIAX FIDELITY. At the critical moment in tho battle of Waterloo, when everything depended on. the steadiness of the'soldiery, courier aftor courier kept dashing into the presenceofthe Duke of Wellington, announcing that unless the troops at an important point were iinmedi ately relieved or withdrawn, they must soon yield before the impetuous onsets of the French. By all of these the duke sent back the self-same spirit-stirring message?14-Stand llrm!" But we shall perish!" remonstrated the officer. ' Stand firm !*' again answered the ironhearted chieftain. "You'll find us there!" rojoined the other, as he fiercely galloped away. The result proved the truth of his reply, for every man of that doomed brigade fell bravely fighting at his post. What an example is this for tho Christian contending under the blood-staiued banner ol the cross! Shall the worldling maintain his position at all hazards for mere earthly considorations, and the follower of the Meek and Lowly dare nothing for the boon of eterna life! God forbid! His pathway should In lighted up by the flumes of Divino love, and in the strength of Christ ho should press niAnfullv on from eonnuerinsr .into conquest if he will only continue to do tliia, he will eventually achieve a glorious victory over hi; last foe, and be able to shout the ''harves home," in that upper and Itetter kingdom where the sound of weeping never comes, anc where the weary are at rest.?[Ch. Advocate WHICH WILT THOO CH003E? Behold, sinners, we are sent as the messea gers of the Lord, to sat before you Life o: Death! What say you?which of them wil you choose? Christ standeth, as it were by thee, with heaven in-the one hand am hell in the other, and offers thee thy'choice Which wilt thou choose? The voice of tin Lord maketh the rocks to tremble And is i nothing to hear him threaten thee, if thoi wilt not turn? Dost thou not understand am fejl his voice ? Turn ye, turn ye, wh; will ye die?" It; is the voice of love, o infinite love, of thy best and kindest friend, as thou mightest easily per eeive by the motion: and yet cans't thou asgleet it? It is the voice of' pity and com passion. Uio L.ora sactn wanner cnou an ?oing bettor than thou dost, which makes him call after thee. "Turn, tarn." He seetfc what will become of thee if thou turn not. He thinkcth with himself, ,-Ah, this poor sinner will cast himself into endless torment il he do not turn. I must in justice deal with him according to my righteous law." And therefore lie calleth after thee, "Turn, turu!' 0 sinner! if thou didst but know tho thousandth part as well as God doth the dangei that is near you, an.i tli? misery that you ar* running into, we should have no mora need to call after you to turn. Some people fancy they can make themselves reformers by llrst making themselves critics; but critics are tho shaky timber out oi which the devil makes cynics. No man is made great by voting everybody else small. No man is a champion of freedom who is his owu slave. No man is free whose chief concern is his own freedom. 1 do not wish that sorrow touch me not, Or storms ne'er steal the calmness of life's sea. If, Father, Thou wilt come, when sad my lot. To comfort me. ?M. Johnson. The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest zone, is tondnrn ss toward tho har.l, forlwarauce toward the unforbeariuff. warmth of h?art toward the cold, philauthropy toward the misanthropic. ?ltichter. Hk?l often trunk?at least 1 sometimes wonder?1 mean I wish I knew if you cared lor rue, don't you know? She?Oh, but they've sot a clairvoyant in the next town. Couldn't you And out??Boston Budget. The active dog-catcher ofteD catches it most severely when the woman who owns the dog catches him at his little game.?Swansea Gazette. . . - . .1 ' \ SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOF SEPTEMBER 24. Lesson Text: Quarterly Review, Acts xvl-xxvlli ? Golden Text: Romans x., 17? Commentary. Lesson I.?Paul called to Europe (Acts xvt, 6-15). Golden Text (Math, xxviii., 19), ' Go ye, therefore, and teaoh all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son. and of the Holy Ghost." This quarter's studies might be summed up in the phrase. "God glorified in Paul" (Gal. i., 24), for wherever he went and whatever he did his ambition was that Christ should be magnified in his body (Phil, i., 20). This particular lesson illustrates the words. "Led bythe spirit of God," "Do as occasion serve thee, for God is with thee," "My word shall not return unto me void" (Rom. viil., 14:1 Sam. x., 7 ; Isa. lv.t 11). Lessox II.?Paul at Philippi (Acts xvi., 19-34). Golden Text (Acts xvi.. 31), "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou sfaalt be saved." As we follow Paul from pii.ee to place, let us remember his words, "Not I, but Christ." "The life of Jesus manifest in our mortal flesh" (Gal. 11., 201 II Cor. iv., 11). He has graceto praise God. even though his back is scourged, his feet in the stocks and he cast into prison. He takes pleasure in reproaches and persecutions (II Cor. xii., 10) for Christ's sake. He has no influence with the magistrates, but be has power with God, and a household finds Christ. ., Lesson* III.?Paul at Athens (Acts xvil., 22-31). Golden Text (John iv., 24). "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." Journeying through the centers of earth's wisdom and culture and seeing the blindeas oi people to the realities of time and eternity, he is constrained to tell them of the true God, who is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (IIPet. ill.,9), and of him who is to be the judge of all, even He who was delivered for our offenses and rose again for our justification (Bom. iv., 23-25). Lessojj IV.?Paul at Corinth (Acts xvilL, 1-11.) Golden Text (I Cor. 1., 18.) "The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the powe* of God." See the hand o? Lord in bringing Aqulla and Priscilla to Corinth about this time. Thus Paul is provided with a home and employment so that he may freely preach the gospel, and they became qualified to teach others of Christ (verse 26.) Note the Lord's care of His servant and His kind words to him in verses 9, 10. Make much of the promise "I am with thee," and compare Ex. ill., 12; iv., 12; Josh, i., 5, 9; Judg. vi., 16; Jer. L, 8, 19; Hag. L, 13 ; 11., 4; Math, xxvlll., 20. Lesson V.?Paul at Ephesus (Acts xix., 1-12.) Golden Text (John xvi., 13), "When TTo fho Hnirlfrif Truth, ia come. Hewill guide you into all truth." tfow we have two years at Ephesus resulting in all in the province of Asia hearing the gospel (verse 10) and so left without excuse. It; seems to me that the Lord would be glorified and His coming greatly hastened if the church would neglect eome other things and arise to give every soul on earth a chance to hear the gospel once at least. Lesson VI.?Paul at Miletus (Acts xxviii; 22-35.) Golden Text (Heb. xlii., 7),"Remember them which have .the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God." He is now on his way to Jerusalem, returning from his third missionary tour. Ho knows that more suffering awaits him. but ho gives that no thought. He only desires to testify of Christ and finish his ministry (verse 24). Lesson VII.?Paul at Jerusalem (Acts xxL, 27-39). Golden Text (Phil, i., 29), "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake." Paul has now fallen into the i hands of religious zealots who knew not the i Lord Jesus, and gladly would they kill him as they did his Master, but Paul 1b safe till his work is done, though he may be called upon to endure much suffering. Lesson VIII.?Paul Before Felix (Acts xxiv.. 10-25). Golden Text (I Cor. xvi., 13), "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you i like men, be strong." Paul is now a prisoner at Cffisarea. in the handsof the Romans, , and this lesson Is his testimony before the j governor. Felix, and in answer to his accusers, the high priest and elders from Jer! usalem. He confesses to his firm faith in , all the things written in the law and in the prophets, in the resurrection of the dead and in the necessity of having a conscience void of offense toward God and man. Later in Warm he nreaehes Christ before Felix and Drustlla, and reasons of righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. Lessox IX.?Paul Before Agrippa (Acts xxvi., 19-82). Golden Text (I Cor. i., 24). ' 'Christ the power of God and th e wisdom of God." After two years Paul is still a pris, oner at Caesarea (chapter xxiv., 27), and nav' ing appealed unto Caesar, Festiis, the new governor, desires him to testify before King . Agrippa, that he may have some dellnite accusation to send witn him to Caesar. Lesson X.?Paul Shipwrecked (Actsxxvii., 30-44). Golden Text (Ps. xlvi., 1), "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help ' in trouble." The close of last iesson made us feel sorry that Paul ever appealed to CiEsar, but God's ways are higher than ours, and we learn in verse 24 of this chapter that ? it was God's purpose to bring Paul before ' Casar. Nothing can frustrate God's purposes (Ps. xxxiii., 11; Isa. xlv., 24), while man's vain imaginings will always come to | naught. Satan had many times sought to kill Paul, and this storm is probably another * attempt of his. but the Lord delivers, ana satan is confounded. What Je3iis said concerning His church is true also of every member of it (Math. xvi., 18: Johnx.. 28). Lesbox XI.?Paul at Rome (Act3 xxviii., 20-31). Golden Text (Rom. i., 16), "I am i not ashamed of the gosp3l of Christ" The purpose of God has thus far been accom: plished. and Paul is at last in Rome, still a 1 prisoner, it is true, but free to receive all * who come to him and to preach to them the e kingdom of God and the things concerning * the L?rd Jesus Christ (verses 30, 31). This i ^almost the last we hear of Paul, and we ' And him still expounding Scripture, and P from Moses and the prophets preaching JeI sus (verse 23). May the last heard of us be I on the same line. Lessox XII. ? Personal Jlespoasibility (Rom. xiv.. 12-23). (A Temperance lesson.) Golden Text (Rom. xiv.. 21), "It is good t neither to eat flesh, nor to driuic wine, nor i anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." i I would emphasize in this lesson just the thought of the whole quarter that these bodies of ours are for Christ, not for our I selves; that as ''even Christ pleased not i Himself" (Rom. xv., 3). so we are to live, I not unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for us and rose again (II Cor. v., 15), the kingdom of God and His righteousness being always first with us (verse 17 and Math, vi., 33) and everything tested by "How will it appear" at the judgment seat of Christ (verse 10 ; II Cor. v.. 10)V?Lesson Helper. The problem or manufacturing a non-corrosive paint for the bottoms of steel and iron warships, which has been vexing the navy officials for a long time, has just been satisfacto, rily settled. A paint was invented in Germany, several years a^o, which had the desired properties; but, as LllB yu Vtl U LUCU u itijuuco auiei i^au~ made paint on American warships, it could not be used. Now, however, the German paint plant has been removed to this country and United States cruisers will now have noncorrosive bottoms. The question of suitable paint for use in salt water has troubled all countries, the Japanese alone having had a non-corrosive article. This is a lacquer whoso composition they keen secret. Although ;is a rule the girls are no admirers of stinginess. wh*n ihe right fellow comes along few of the fair ones object to a certain degree of closeness.?Buffalo Courier. "II12 is flippant- He can't be serious if he tries." "Yes, he can. He is very serious when he tries to be funny. "?Brooklyn Life. ' ' mm 'M TEMPERANCE. <; ? ? PLENTY OF OPPOBTUNITIU5. r It is reported that a man in Buffalo, N. T.^t is going to build a liquor saloon that is try cost $107,000. and the walls are to be dooorated with $10 and $20 gold pieces. Ther? will be plenty of opportunities for him to hand over some of those pieoes to the widows and orphans of his victims, from whichwill be enough of tears flow to wash tb* walls of the said building.?Media (Penn.> Ledger. INEBRIETY A8 A CAUSE OT CBIHE. ~! " Lord Chief Justice Hale was perhaps thai ' first to oall attention to Inebriety as a crass of crime, requiring special study and attention. In 1870 he is reported ds saying: "If , u'; the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults,; and other enormities committed during the! last twenty years, were divided Into flr? parts, four of them would be found to have* been the issue and product of HrinUng " THREE BLACK SPOTS. ! ' ''' The great Scientific Temperance Instruction map in the educational exhibit at the1 World's Fair has three blaok spots covering' the States of Indiana. New Jersev. Tennes see, Georgia and South Carolina. All theother States and the territories provide bjf law for the instruction of the children la their public schools, in temperanoe principles based on scientiflo truth. This loglslation in the interests of temperanoe education has been secured within little morethaiu a decade under the leadership of Mrs. M&ryi H. Hunt, National Superintendent of auaw work for the W. C. T. U. _ .. [M ONCE WAS ENOUGH. A speaker at a meeting recently said hftt knew a man who, not content with getting; drunk himself, one day took it into his head; he would make his dog drunk. He poured | wine down the dog's throat, and fairly accomplished his purpose. Their way noma: lay over a wooden footbridge, which orossedi a stream; and though the dog had two legs: more than his master, yet he could not keep] on the bridge, so he fell over, and was near! being drowned. Next day. when they wew ' both sober, the man and his old companion! started off together to the public house.! When they got there, however, Plncher sat I himself down at a very respectable distanooj from the entrance, and not all the whist ling j and coaxing of his master oould induce hint' to try another drop. DBIXKINO Off OCEAN STEAKZSS. The consumption of intoxicants on boarft y our great ocean steamers, though not supposed to be as extensive as formerly, and! fqj there are certainly many abstaining voyagers,' still assumes large proportions. In a late number of the Leisure Hour Mr. W. J. Gor-. < don writes of "Our Floating Hotels," an ar-' Hole giving many interesting details concerning such magnificent modern steamen) as the Maiestic. Campania and others. Is; h speaking of the extensive supplies of food-' and drink provided by these great steamers, < he gives, among other items, the average per veeael per year of about fifty thousand bottles of beer, twenty thousand bottles of mineral waters, three thousand bottles of spirits and five thousand bottles of wine. In view < of the many passengers who do not drink j intoxicants at all on shipboard, many oft those who do drink, in the light of Mr. Gor-, don's figures, must he accounted hard, drinkers. The use of Intoxicants is deplorable and dangerous in the extreme.?National' Temperance Advocate. OEBXAXT8 ALCOHOL QUMTIOTT. Dr. Wllhelm Bode, of Hermsdorf, near Dresden, has in the Christliche Welt, concluded a series of nine lengthy articles la whloh, at the hands of on overwhelming abundance of c?cial statistics, he demonstrates that Germany most emphatically ha* an alcohol question to be solved. It is doubfcful whether ever before the terrible facts la. the 0336 have been marshalled as the writer, has done them here. In concluding he give* In a summary outline som 3 of his results. He says: The preparation (of alcohcUc intoxicants) robs us year by year of sixteen million double hundredweights of grain, twenty million. double hundredweights of potatoes, twentyseven million double hundredweights of ooal, , ? and many other useful articles. It robs us,, in other words, of the harvest of 1,779,00? "hectares" of land, whose rye value would be 380,000,000 marks; it robs every inhabitant of 653^ pounds of bread each year. It robe us of the working power 01 one mu \ out of every sixteen ; on its battlefields we find each year 6343 wounded (lu-atics, murderers, etc.,) and 223 dead. The drink bltti last year robbed us of 2,000,000,000 marks, of which we pay 60,000,000 marks to foreigners ; it makes each year 32,000 paupers to be supported by the State and by charity; takes 4236 German men each year into the involuntary imprisonment of the working colonies. and endless numbers of men, women and children into other charitable institutions. ; At lowest estimate fully 1,333,000 German men are shortening their lives through these intoxicants ; 1600 become suicides each year from the same cause, 1300 are injured by accidents, 30,000 lose their minds, and 150,000 become transgressors of the law. Is there a German alcohol question? THE CUR8Z OP INTEMPEBAJTCE. In parsing along one of the streets of our city to-day, says a letter to the New York Morning Journal. I saw a man trying to steady himself against a lamp-post ; hi?head, swaying from side to side, hung until his chin rented upon his breast; he emitted unintelligible sounds, his clothing wa& ' ' "y covered with the filth in which he had grovelled, and on near approach to him one was greeted with a sickening odor. rrt~ J n Kr\nf Kv thof Aid UUUUIliUU W?UJ Vi uwvu? wj ??<> which the Government permits to be vended and reaps a profit from its sale?alcohol. I ask you, Mr. Editor, if the highwayman who throttles you and takes away yotfr purse is not less harmful to society than the man who dispenses intoxicants or the Government that permits the sale of them? Lathe one case you lose but your property, i& the other the man loses not only property, but good character, self-respect and all else that honorable men hold dear. Nor is thia all. Think of the misery entailed on the family of the drunkard, the transmission to the offspring of a desire, a thirst, for the damning liquid that is the cause of their degradation ; so that the drunkard is not only a curse in the present, but his baneful influence reaches, through his children, to the future. Should we, Mr. Editor, not endeavor to root out the cause of this evil. It is our duty to do so. As a simple and effective means, to this end, I propose that every woman, jrirl, man and boy reader of the Journal who abhors drunkenness and desirew to see it corrected refuse to enter a house or 9tore where alcoholic stimulants are dispensed or sold; that they cut the acquaint-f anoe o2 those who render themselves ob-f noxious by tho drink curse, and, further, i that they refuse to live over a saloon. No formal organization is necessary. Let) each person simply resolve to do as suggested! and be faithful and persistent, and the be-! " " S rr4/l_l diamonded rutn-aoner aau mnuntowun tim, if not altogether driven out, will car-* tainly not be 30 obtrusive. TEMPEBANCE XEWS AND NOTES. According to a recent statement, there ar?i in Sweden atone 300,000 total abstainers. In 1992 the city of New York paid for it*, school bill $4,000,000, for its amusement' bill 37.000,000 and for its drink bill 860,000,000. A law in Denmark provides that alL' drunken persons shall be taken to thuir | homes in i-arriages at the expense of the pul>I lican who supplied them with liquor. Ia tho Argentina Republic, instead of lining a drunkard, they sentence him to sweep tho streets for eight days; and a similar punishment exists in St. Petersburg. In tho recent report of the Massachusetts Stat<5 Board of Charities it is stated that the proportiou of prime traceable to intemperance must bo set down, as heretofore, at aot less than four-fifths. Temperanco is at once a principle, a motive. and a practice. Its principle is purity, for tho sake of the highest uses of life. Its motive is abstinence for the sake of good. Its practice is chastity for th-jsako of the noblest ideal ends of being The diso:ises or w:ne drinkers, says Dr. William A. Alcott, are ape to be more acuta' and to tend more rapidly to putridity than, those of persons who drink nothing but water. So it is with those who use animal; food compared with those who U9J a diet; exclusively vegetable and well selected. j ? : ||H