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% REV. DR. TALMAGE. ; a THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUIi- b DAY SERMON. * - o i Subjcct: "The Battle Ours." * tl Tkxt* "And the children of Israel pitched " before them like two little flocks of kids."?I a Kings xx., 27. ? With thirty-three kings drunk in one tent b this ohapter opens. They were allies plot- j ting for the overthrow of the Lord's Israel. a You know that if a lion roar a flock of a kids will shiver and huddle togethor. One lion would conquer a thousand kids. The tj battle opens. There are a great raulti tude of Syrians under Gonoral Ben- f, hadad, strong as lions. Tho Israel- ^ ites are few and weak, liko two little flocks f( of kids. Who beat? Tho lions, of course. r, Ob, no ; the kids, for it all depends whether t] God is on the side of the lions or the kids. 0 After the battle 100.000 Syrians lay dead on u tho field, and 27,000, attempting to fly, came a along by a great wall, which toppled and w crushed them to death. Which was the stronger weapon?great ^ Goliath's sword or little David's sling? tj David bad Ave smooth stones from the brook. ^ He only used one in striking down Goliath. c Ho had a surplus of ammunition. He had _ enough to take down four more giants if they had appeared in the way. It all deponds up- _ on whether God is on the side of the shep- ^ herd boy or on the side of the giant. Thero have been many in our day who t. have ventured the opinion that Christianity ^ is falling back, and that in 50 years It will be j, extinct. They found their opinion on the n assumed fact that the Bible is not as muoh of ^ a book as it used to bp, and that portions of a it are repulsive to tho people. I reply by ? asking, Which one of the publishing houses a of New York, Philadelphia, Boston or Chi- j( cago is publishing the Bible to-day with the u omission of a single verse or chapter? Are ^ not our publishers intelligent men? And a would they, contrary to their financial inter- a ' ests, continue to publish the Bible without the omission of a single chapter or a single 0 verse if it were becoming an unpopular book f] and the people did not want it? tj If Harpers or Apploton or Scrlbner or Lippincott should publish a Bible with the ^ omission of one chapter, they would not iiell c 10 copies in 10 years. The fact that th: ough- M ought Christendom there are hundreds of ? printing presses printing tho word of God without the omission of a chapter or a verse 2 proves that the Bible is popular, and the ? fact that there are more being printed in ? this decade than any other decade proves H that the Bible is increasing in popularity. ? I go through the courtrooms of the country. Wherever I And u judge's benoh or a ? olerk's desk I And the Bible. By what other 7, "book would fhey take solemn oath? What ~ is very apt to be among the bride's presents? i The Bible. What is very apt to be put in the ^ trunk of the young man when ho starts for ^ oitylife? The Bible. Voltaire predicted mat trio Jtsioie daring tne mnereoutu uwasury would become an obsolete book. Well, we u are pretty nearly through the nineteenth cen- 31 tnry. The Bible is not obsolete yet. There 0 is not much prospect of it becoming obsolete, v but I have to tell you tnat that room?the V very room in which Voltaire wrote that pre- . diction?some time ago was crowded from J] floor to ceiling with Bibles1 for Switzerland. Suppose the congress of the United States 0 should pass a law that no Bibles should be s printed in the United States. a If there are 30.000,000 grown men and Sl women in the country, then there would be ^ 80,000,000 peoplo armed against such a law. 5 But suppose the -aongress of the United States should pass a law that Macaulay's history or Charles Beade's novels should not be read?coald you get half as lar^e an army ^ or the fourth as large an army? In other ~ worila. there are, as you know and I know, ^ a thousand men who would die for their Bibles whore there are 50 men who would ,] dio for any other book. The fact that th? re are now more Bibles beinsr printed than u evor before, that publishers find it a financial " interest for them to continue the Bible, f' proven that this book is still the most popular 11 Vook on the planet. v "But," say those who are antagonistic, P 'Christianity is falling back from tho fact C( that the church is not as much respected as ? It used tOibe and it Is not as influential." I ~ reply to that with the statistic that one de- " nomination?the Methodist church?accord- n lng to a statistic given by one of the bishops, dedicates on an average a new church every " day or tho year. Three hundred and sixty- >" five new churches in one denomination in a ^ year and over a thousand now churches built 15 every year in this country. Does that look ? as though the church were failing in its j-' jjowerand were becoming a wornout institu- 1:1 tion? Around which institution in our com- n munities gather the most ardent affections? P The postofflcc, the hotel, the courthouse, the n oity hall or the churches? n Why, whon our old Tabernacle was burning there were hundreds of men standing in " the streets who never went to thuroh, tears ? raining down their cheeks. It Is becausethe " church of God stands nearer to the American people than any other institution. Men may caricature the church and call it a collection of hypocrites, but when their chil- a dren are swept off with the diphtheria for % whom do they send? To the postmastsr, to 11 the attorney general, to the aldermen, or to ? the pastors of the churches? And if there J be not room for tho obsequies in the private house what building do they solicit? The academy of music, the hotel, public hall, courthouse? No; the churches. And if P they want music on the sad occasion do * thoy select the '"Marseillaise" hymll, or ? 4'God Save the Queen," or our own grand b National air? No, they want the old hymn j| with which we sans: their old Christian ~ mothers to sleep. They want the Sundayschool hymn that their little girl sang the P last Sabbath afternoon she was out before ? she was seized with the awful sickness that ? broke father's heart and mother's heart. Oh, ? you know as well as I do?I shall not dwell on it any longer?the church of God, instead J* of being a wornout institution, stands nearer tj the sympathies of the people than it ever ? did and oclipses all other institutions. a But our antagonists fco on and say that Christianity is falling back, in tho fact that J infidelity is bolder now and more blatant ? tban it over was. I deny the statement. In- " fidelity is not near so bold now as it was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers. * There were times in this oountry when men j! who were openly and above board infidel and 11 antagonistic to Christianity could be elected ? to high office. Now, let some man wishing jj high position in the State proclaim himself J1, the foe of Christianity and an inlldel, how many States of the Union would he carry? r' how many counties? how many wards in Brooklyn? Not one. Ah, ray friends, infidelity in this day is not n half as bold as it used to be. It it comes ? now, it is apt to come under the disguise of . rhetoric or fantastic sentimentality. I know 11 If a man with great intelligence does become c. an infidel and begins an attack on Chris- J1 tianity it makes great excitement?of course it does, and people come to the conclusion, * woakminded Christians come to the oonclu- J sloa, tfcat'everythinf; is going overboard be- ^ oause some man of strong intellect assails Christianity. If a man jumps overboard from a Cunard steamer, ho makes more excitement than oil 0 I] the 600 sane passengers who continue in the j, berths or on the decks, but does that stop ,, the ship? Does that wreck all the 500 pas- ^ senders? It makes threat excitement when a ^ man leap# from a platform or a pulpit into .i Infidelity, but does that binder our glorious ,, Bible from taking its millions into the skies? 3 I tell you infidelity is not half as bold now us t] it used to be. - ; e Do you suppose suoh things could be ^ enaotod now as were enacted in the days of (, Robespierre, when a shameless woman was j| elected to be goddess, and she was carried on a goldon chair to a cathedral, and the ^ people bowed down to her as a divine being and burned incense before her?3he to take i: the place of the Bible, and of Christianity. c and of the Lord Almighty? And while that ceremony was going on in the cathedral, in r tne chapels and in the corridors adjoining <? *he oathedral scenes of drunkenness and de- h bauchery and obscenity were enacted such h as the world had never seen. Could such a e thing as that transpire now? No, sir. The police would swoop on it. whether in Paris n or New York. Infidelity is not half as bold t flow as it used to be. 1 ''Bat," say our antagonists, "Christianity ' is falling back because scienon, its chief li onemy, is triumphing over it." Now, I deny Q that there is any war between science and a revelation, mere is not a fact in science t that may not bo made to harmonize with the " statements of the Bible. So said Hugh Miller; 3' so said Joseph Henry; so said Professor Hitohcock; so said Professor Sllliman ; so t sakl Professor Mitohell. s 11 the scientists of the day wore alt agreed, j' and they or*fce up with solid front to attack Tir Christianity, perhaps they might make der 1 ome impression upon it, but they are not dread. It is often said that we religionists re failing in our advocacy of Christianity lecause we differ in our theology. I tell you 6??' re do not differ inside the church in thool- Petr gy half as much as they differ outside the ra?e hurch in science. If they reject our religon because wo differ in some minor points, y?ui re might just n* well reject science because no* 10 scientists differ, but as far as I can tell est ( ie war of infidel science against Christl- half nity is not so severe as it used to be, be- Scri ause these men are antagonistic .to each and ther, and as far as I can tell it is going to e a war between telescope and telescope, mer <eyden jar and Leyden jar, chemical appar- the tus and chemical apparatus. They do not ire gree on anything. havi Do you supposethat this Bible theory about sciei ie origin of life is going to be overthrown dea< y men who have different theories?50 dif- bad ;rent theories?about the origin of life? thet nd when Agassiz comes out and puts both 01 jet on the doctrine of evolution and says in f?ur agard to many scientists: "I notice that thos lese young naturalists are adopting as the- thui ries in science things which have not passed stre' * flnii nder observation. ' Agassiz saw wnac we II see?that there are men who talk very isely who know but very little, and that ist as soon as a young scientist finds out tho is c< ifference between fhe feelers of a wasp and Bh?' le horns of a beetle he begins to patronize w^e le Almighty and go about talking about C^UI ulture as though it were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r an(* -culchar! ohal It makes me sick to see thesa literary fops woc oing down the street with a copy of Darwin was nder one arm, and a case of transfixed grass- ovei oppers and butterflies under the other arm, ne?. liking about the "Survival of the Fittest," *' nd Huxley's "Protoplasm," and tho "Nebu- "? 1 ir Hypothesis," and talking to us common was ien as though we were fools! Ifthey agreed ] i their theories and came up with solid facts *~ll gainst Christianity, I say perhaps they c?"' light make some Impression, but they do not gree. Darwin charges upon Lamarck, WalM59 upon Cope. Hersohel even charged weD pon Ferguson. They do not agree abqut lie gradation of the species; they do not y e gree about embryology. What do they gree about? Herschel wrote a whole chapter of what ho alls "Errors In Astronomy." La Place says tiat the moon was not put in the right place ; 8? aat if it had been put four times the distance and rom our world there would have been more ?XP armony in the universe. But Lionville "?!1 omes up just in time to prove that the Lord - li tn n ras wise and put trie moon in tne rignr piace. ? *[ow many colors woven Into the light? reP' even, says Newton. Three, says David m.e irewster. How high is the aurora borealis? 2* a wo and a half miles high, says Lias. One ' undred and sixty-five miles, says Twinig? J*1? [ow far is the sun from the earth? Seventy- ,ow Ix million miles, says Lacaille; 82,000,000 tao liles, says Humboldt; 90,000,000 miles, says on 1 tenderson; 104,000,000 miles, says Mayer. anJj nly a little differenco of 28,000,000 miles! ^ hese men say we do not agree in religion. ^as >o they agree in science? Have they come a d with solid front to assault our glorious t?01 ihristianity? ' Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed 7;<5t poa your verdict?" the court or the clerk the jys to the jury, having been out all night, "?ai n coming in. "Have you agreed on your Bkol erdict?" If they say yes, the verdict is mar iken and recorded. If they say, "No, we ave not agreed," they are sent back to the iry room. It one juryman should say, "I (link the man is guilty of murder," and an- H ther juryman should say, "I think he ia uilty of manslaughter," and another jury- ? lan 9hould say, "I think he is guilty of as- a8'?< mlt and battery with intent to Ull," the ftroi idge would lose his patience and say, "Go ack to your room now and make up a ver- .. ict. Agree on something." Well, my friends, there has been a great end rial going on for centuries and for ages be- like tveen Skepticism, the plaintiff, verses ern 'hristianlty, the defendant The scientists , ave been impaneled and sworn on the jury. 'hey have been gone for centuries, some of ioue 3am, ana rney come uaun, .iuu mo Dec Gentlemen or the jury, have you agreed g pon a verdict?" They say, ''No, we have ot agreed." Then we say, ''Go back for a toa? iw more centuries and then come in andsee Ilea ! you can agree, see if you can render some tak< erdiot." Now, there is not the meanest risoner in the Tombs Court who would be I ondemned by a jury that did not agree, and poa et you expect us to renounce our glorious foo< hristianity for such a miserable verdict as t}UZ lese men have rendered, they themselves ** ot having been able to agree. exP But my subject shall no longer be de- plai >usive; it must be aggressive. I must show the ou that instead of Christianity falling back , is on the march, and that the coming relig- * >n of the world is to be the religion of the U iord Jesus Christ 10,000 times intensified. ing i is to take possession ot everything?of all (jjfg tws, all manners, all customs, all oities, all ations. It is going to be so mighty as com- Di? ared with what it has been, so much more clai dghty that it will seem almost like a new the sligion. . h * I adopt this theory because Christianity r as gouo on straight ahead notwithstanding "ac II nnH VlOfl nrvf rAQT II IUO uviuuuiuiuwm, uv?, -WJ estroyed a church, or crippled a minister, the r rooted out one verseof theBible, and now ^ leir ammunition seems to be pretty much ? ihausted. They cannot get auythingnew ?ari gainst Christianity, and if Christianity has Doc one on under the bombardment of cen- r^inr jries and still continues to advance, may wo . . h ot conclude that, as the powder and shot of tie other side seem to be exhausted, Chris- dig< ianlty is going on with more rapid stride? cial I Qnd an encouraging fact in the thought j bat the secular press in this day and the ' ulpit seem harnessed in the same team for *J,ec be proclamation of tho gospel. To-morrow picl hero will not be a banker on Wall street or ?uj( tate street or Third street who will not havo b 1 his pocket or on his table treatises on mel Christianity, calls to repentance and Scripore passages. 20 or 30 of them, in tha reorts of the Christian churches of this city it nd other cities. Why, that thing would ave been impossible a few years ago. Now vari n Monday morning and Monday evening sigl: le secular press spreads abrond more re- Cy0; gious truth than all tho tract societies of ] le country spread in tho other six lays. tlessed be the tract societies! We hail them, e1"3 nd we hail these others. effic I say it would have been impossible a few oars ago. Hundreds of letters would have ?, ome to the secular newspaper offices, say- Rna ig, "Stop my paper: we have religion on dep unday; don't give us any through the Uae reek. Stop my paper." But I have been p jld that many of the secular papers have ieir largest circulation on Monday morning, ?* 1 nd the whole population of this country are muf ?coming sermon reaaers. uesia?*s mar, ave you not noticed the papers proclaiming ? . lecnselvea secular almost every week have *8CI eligious discussions in themV *ur< Qo back a few years when there was not a fort ecent paper in the United States that had cgr^ ot a discussion on the doctrine of eternal unishment. Small wits made merry, I aiDl now, hut there was not an intelligent man Mai 1 the United States that as a result of that dee ontroversy in regard to eternal punishment _ id not ask himselr the question, '-What is P?" > be my eternal destinyV" And some years up 1 go when Tyndali offered his prayer gaugo pla< here was not a secular paper in the United Ujjg] tat?? that did not discuss the question: Does God ever answer prayer! May the I00< reature impress the Creator?" whe Are not all these facts encouraging to ev- }jftV ry Christian and ever}* philanthropist? aee lesides, that, the rising generation are be- q ag saturated with gospel truth as no other 0 eneration by this international series of on 1 unday-3chool lessons. Formerly the chlN are ren were expected only to nibble at the lit- ca_ le infantile Scripture stories, but now they . re taken from Genesis to Revelation, the tnei trongest minds of the country explaining dan he lessons to the teachers, and the teachers 0th xplaining them to the classes, and wh are ;oing to have in this country 5,000,000 youth Drestalled for Christianity. Hear itHear Iigfc t! "va Besides that, you must have noticed, ifyou cojr ias'6 talked on these groat themes, that they , ,re finding out that while science is grand Wilt a secular directions, they cannot give any tiro omfort to a soul in trouble. met Talking with men on stonmboats and in q ail cars. I flni they are coming back to the omfort of the gospel. They say. "Somehow mman science doesn't comfort me when I _ iave any trouble, and I must try something " lse." And they are trying the gospel. steo TaKe your scientific consolation to the thei nother who has just lost her child. Apply i he doctrine of the "survivai of the fittest.'* .'ell her that her child died because its life tun ras not worth as much as the life of one that the Ived. Try that if you dare. Gotothedying mU? nan with your transcendental phraesology nd tell him he ought to have confidence in 1DS he great "to be." and the everlasting "now," do 1 jid the eternal "what is it?" and go on with ^iin our consolation and see if he is comforted. , Go to that woman who has lost her bus- 01 ? land and tell her It was a geological necee- or i ity that that man passed out of existenoe, to a U3t ae the megatherium disappeared in or- B0r to mako room for a higher style of erea, and go on with your consolation and her that there is a possibility that 10,- J 300 years from now we ourselves may bo ogical specimens on the geological shelf, Ifled specimens of the extinct human id after you have got all through with r consolation, if the poor afflicted soul is ^ utterly crazed, I will send out the plainChristian from my churoh. and with 0110 hour of prayor and the reading of pture promises the tears will be staid, ^ the consolation and joy in that house be like the calmness of an Indian sumsunset. There will be a glory flooding house from floor to cupola. Oh. people y finding out themselves?and they all 3 troubles?they And that philosophy and ace do not help them when there is a y i babe in the house. They arc coming ?* f?inrlnna nIH fftQhlnnfld Hvmn.i io religion. h, young man, do not be ashamed to be f, id on the side of the Bible. Do not join >e young men who in this day put thoir nb in their vest and swagger about the 3 9t and the--stores talking about the glo9 nineteenth century, about its light besufficient without any Bible and without Christ and without any God. The time >ming?we may not live to see it, but I lid not be surprised if we did see it? n this whole country is to be one great rch, tho forests the aisles, the Allegheny , the Rocky Mountains the pillars, the in of inland lakes the baptistries, and the }' ship the hallelujahs chorus to Him who {' and is and shall be evermore. Oh, come 11 : to the majority?come under the ban- T of EmanueL c arnon was the son of an English squire. n was Drougnc up m groat eieganue. mora a man working on the place of'the name '' Ralph. Vernon used to often talk with 8 ph. After awhile Vernon went off to v age and came back with his njlnd full of * jticiam. He talked his skeptioism to f E>h, the workman. After awhile Vernon i it from home again, was gone for years, v io back, and among his first questions s in getting homo was, "Where is Ralph?" v 1!" said the lather, "Ralph is in prison ' ting for the day of execution." v arnon hastened to see Ralph. Ralph, d cing through the wicket of the prison, 1: "Vornon, how good you aro to come d see me t I am glad to see you. I hardly ? eoted you would come and see mo. I c 't blame you ; I don't blame anybody ; I J r blame myself; but, Vernon, I want you ? romise me ono thing. Will you?" Vernon 1 ied, "I will." "I want you to promise ^ never to talk skepticism in the presence 1 nybody. You see it might do them harm. * jn you used to say there was nothing in Bible, and it didn't make any difference c r we lived, we would come' out happy at 1 last, somehow it had a bad influence up- 6 ne, and I went from bad to worse until I ^ here, and I must die for my crimes." 1 f almost superhuman effort the sentence t changed, and he was to be transported c nother country for life. The ship going a e was wrecked on Van Diemen's Land, t >ng those who perished was Ralph, the I im of Vernon's skepticism, vernon ieus <= story to-day with tears and a broken 8 rt, but it is too late! Ob, do not talk s jticism! Let God be true, though every a l be found a liar. s m < Modem Hygiene. j 'ardly a day passes that we do not c >ive some shock, that wo are not < ;d to give up some favorite dish ? ind which clusters a host of tender r y memories, and after eating of ( ch we have, for twenty years ou s , felt ourselves grow fat and child- J and undyspeptic. But the mod- T hygiene says it must go, and if we \ ,in it on' our list we do it in an anx- ( i and guilty mood sure of itnelf to J ct internal trouble. i eemingly simple things like dry it, oatmeal anTt apples we have rd forbidden of late as hard to j care of, and bananas, or, for ex* >le, the delicious, but as we sup-. ,J sd deadly, fried bacon cried up as j i for babes and sucklings. This is t zling; it goes against our personal < erience, it upsets all our dietary ^ is and pleasures, and it awakens t shrewd suspicion that mere fashion 3 b the bottom of the ohange. J ?ne interested in the subject, hav- { an ax to grind, could without much culty prove that every known edi- < has at some time or other been dc- 3 ed digestible and healthful; let 8 experimenter eat with his (or 1 | eyes shut, and he (or she) will be 1 ked up in what is chosen by some ? )ectable authority. This being so, c wisest plan is to select food accord- t to the private palate without re- ' :1 to Doctor A., B. or C. (since t ;torX., Y. and Z. will infallibly \ rnte them), and with the eye of h fixed on that good day when all ? sstion will be carried on by artifi- t means, and the whole world may n that lovely state attributed to J >rge Meredith's gourmet who is n ;ured in after dinner ease as "lan- t ily twinkling stomachic content- t it."?Hartford Courant. g Eyes ot Deep-Sea Fish. c he eyes of deep-aea fish are very c led; some have neither eyes nor c it; others have greatly enlarged j: balls, so as to catch the least ( ipse of light. Their eyes tend * ler to disappear or to be unusually 1 uent; but ftince no trace of sun- fi it can penetrate to any great depth, e it is probably quite dark beyond a 1( th of some 200 fathoms, of what 0 can eyes be? 11 'ish have been captured at a depth ? learly 3000 fathoms, where there fj it be not only absolute stillness, .1 ^nvlrnoaa nvnonf fnr t.hp t< i that some of these deep-sea crea- 9 >9 are phosphorescent, anil there> luminous. This fact was first asgained in the Challenger expedition, ij ce then Mr. Alcock, of the Indian tl rine Survey, has found that some {* p-sea crustaceans have a similar ls rer, one large prawn quite lighting j, \ bucketful of water in which it was u sod. Fish with large eyes have 1 refore a better' chance of finding j' 3, (and matos) but they cannot w >Jly depend upon sight, since some ? e quite abandoned all attempts to tI omo, again, have luminous organs ? their head or body or tail, which ' under their control, so that they jj actually throw light at pleasure on .1 ir prey or extinguish it in times of ger. Thus the angler, among era, attracts its prey by means of ae colored lures or phosphorescent * its. it. has been well said that these ai .st profounds of the deep have beio a sort of almshouse or asylum, 1 ireunto antiquated forms have red, and amid the changeless environ- t<] it have dwelt for ages unaltered. '* t>i lhambers's Journal. Ci Toluenes* in Sweden. flien a train leaves a platform or a .mboat pier, all the lookers on lift r hats to the departing passengers C bow to them, a compliment re- 0 led by the traveler. If you address a: poorest person in the streets yon w it lift your hat. A gentleman pass- 0] a lady on the stairs of a hotel must q ;he same. To enter a shop or a k with one's hat on is a terrible . ich of good manners. If you enter eave a coffee room you must bow ^ 11 the occupants.?New York Ob- ^ fcr. v' I RELIGIOUS READING. IN BATETT. By Frauk Waleott Hutt, Boston, Mass. 'here's a lamp to guide me onward till tho coming of tho day. There are words of cheor to sooth my vain alarms; 'here are angels charged to keep mo, lest my footsteps turn astray, And underneath are Everlasting Arms. SThat foeman dare assail tho strength that doth my soul upbear? What siren evil conquer with her charm? Vhat sudden dread unto mine ill in combat shall prepare, While underneath are Everlasting Arms? {o pestilence on land or sea can bring to me dismay, The lion in the path no longer harms: ;ho deep, dark river liath no terror in its cold array, For underneath are Everlasting Arms. ?Episcopal liecorder. THE CIIILDBEN'G GOSPEL. Louise Chandler Moulton, in nn article in 'Childhood," Says: "I think my first real isson in the true spirit of human brotheriood came from a lady who went long ago to lor reward. There were no factories in the daeo where I lived, no crowded tenements, 10 starving poor, but there was a certain .mount of poverty and of ignorance, and here was in this place a lady?the richcst ady in all the country, so I heard the people ay?and I watched her comings and goings pith a sort of romantic eagerness. She used o ride about, oil over the big, sparsely-setlod township, in a little open wagon, and a that wagon were books for children yho had no home libraries, dainties for iok people, toys for fretful babies, rtiose mothers had their own house 70rk to do. And this rich lady ? viio seemed to my cmidish eyes a sort of godless of pood fortune?never Indulged herself n any luxury. Fashion for her was as if it lid not exist. She wore a simple cotton [own in Summer, an equally simple woolen no in Winter, and she went on her errands >f mercy with a sunbonnet shading her sweet ace from the hot suns of June, or a warm lood protecting her ears from the blast of 'anuary. I don't know that I ever said to nyself, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," mt I surely felt it. One day I was sent to her house on a slight icmraission for my mother. She was out, as isual, but her housekeeper, discerning, I upposein my face something of the reverence vith which I regarded her mistress, asked no suddenly, "Do you want to see whero she >rays?" and thereupon opened the door of a oom almost as austerely bimple as a monk's, ind pointed to a couch where I could sea he impression of a head bowed in >rayer. ''There," she said, "is where ihe kneels." The housekeeper was called iway, and shyly, and almost as if it were lacrilege I was committing I kneeled in the ipot where the Lady of Heaven, as I called ler in my thoughts, was wont to pray, and I laid a hurried prayer that I might, with 3od's help, walk in the holy way she trod. ! had been taken to church all my life, I lad heard prayers enough and sermons rnough, but I do not remember that any >ne of them had oyer moved me to a lingle thrill of spiritual longing and aspira;ion such as I experienced in that hushed oom, where she was wont to kneel, whose laily life seemed to mo moro than prayer or lermon. . . . There is no truth in the vorld more solemn than that our lives are the jospel or our children, a gospel tnat outveighs a thousand-fold any teaching with vhich our lips contradict it. Put on what left disguises we may, the thing we aro is ipparent to tho young eyes that watch us so ineeasingly. ? [Message and Deaconess IVoild, TALOE OF BELI0I0C8 EXAMPLE. By M. J. Middleton. Many years ago there was living in Belfast, Ireland, a large family of young people, who vere rich but very trifling and careless. sTino sisters all lived in mere gayety and folly, lover thinking of their souls or the Word of Jod. About that time, however, God sent a poor jut pious girl to live with them as a dressing naia. As she was much in their presence, the roung ladies ridiculed her religion very often; till sho did not resent their ridicule, but made ? her constant study to bo useful and helpi ul to them and attentive to all their wants. After they were in bed at night she would >flfcr to read the bible to them. At first they oon fell asleep; still she persevered, and wae lot discouraged. Before very long, though, he was taken sick and died. But the young adies were not allowed to see her after she wis taken sick, although, they desired very nuch to do so, as they had become very fond >f her. Soon after her death, the eldest two >f the nine young ladies began to feel xn in rest in Christianity, and soon became ollowcre of Christ and his religion. In a short time afterwards God so blessed hr*ir infliiPTiPA thnt thrtir cdatara rcprA all pnn. 'ertcd to the Savionr.. The eldest of all ascribed her conversion, >y the blessing of God. ontirely to the influ:nce of the life and death of this humble, ious maid. And the blessed ofTccta of her example did lot cease there. Another family in the neighlorhcod heard that these young ladies were ill insane about religion; but when they came ') see them about it, expressly to inquire the ruth of it, the influence of the converted oung ladies was so great that their example ecame also a ble?siLg to their friends; and ire long both families united together to enourage each other in the service of the Lord, jjd to promote the interests of his kingdom. Ihus untold blessing and power camo out if a single good example, and from a girl loor in this world's goods, but happy in the reasures of heaven, where neither moth nor ust can corrupt. Who, then, should say, of what consequence J my conduct and example? We,all exert a ;reater or less influence, either for'evil or for :ood. Even a little child often leads whole families o seek the salvation of their souls and love rod above all else. Sometimes even the eath of these little ones seems necessary to lake the impression of God's love upon his leatures. forming a golden link between be friends on earth and these little lambs afe in the arms of Jesus where, though dead A j us here, they yet speak.?[Christian Cyno- j nrc* i HERE MY MOTHER KNELT WITH ME. Tbo Rev. Mr. KnIIl, well known to the re- i jious world in connection with Russia, was ae child of a pious mother. Among his let rs he gives the following interesting reminicence: "After spending a large portion of my life 1 foreign lauds, I returned again to visit my ative village. Both of my parens died while was in Russia, aud their house is now oecuied by my brother. The furniture remains ist the same asw"H(sp I was a boy , und at night I us accommodated with the same bed in ^hich I had'often slept before; but my busy noughts would not mo sleep. I was I linking how God had lead me through the mrney of life. At last the light of the mornig dawned through the little window, and ien my eyes;caught the spot where my tinted "mother, forty years ago took mv and and said', "Come my dear, and kneel own withme, and I will go to prayer." Aud sure I am that it is better to be sick, r >viding Christ comcs to the bedside, and raws by the curtains and says. "Courage! I in thy salvation," than to be lusty and rong, and never be visifed by Christ.? utberfor<L Satan selects his disciples when tliey are lie, but Christ chose His whilo they were usy at w<>rk, either mondiug their nets or isting them into the sea.?Farendon. TTT.. _1 .,1J II.UI. * U ~ /sf rv rj siiuuiu bum a. uuc uuuca ui hristopher Columbus would turn yer in one of their several sepulchers ad that the shin-gearing of the same ould kick hard. Tho descendants ! t Christopher who were honored at | hicago arc anxious for charity, and ' leading American is passing the hat \ >r them. Blushes for Spain and < rncle Sam, and tears for the dlaugh- j jr of a prido that everybody ought i > 3 A WHITE HOUSE BABY. [ a! ANOTHER DAUGHTER BOEN ? TO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. I P The First Child Born to a President in the Executive Mansion? n Bunches of Roses and Telegrams ^ of Congratulation Pour Into the White House. 0 BIK8. CLEVELAND. jj A df3patch from Washington says . The h birth of a baby in the White House, a few ii days ago, was an event in which more than s] usual interest was felt. In an Incredibly tO short space of time the news that a daugh- I ter had been born to President Cleveland n was known in Congress, and was spread ti through all the departments. Doctor Bry- a: ant, who accompanied the President and Mrs. '1 Cleveland back from Gray Gables and took up his quarters in the White House, was the ~ attending physician. Just before the occurrence the gates leading through the rear part of the Executive Park were closed to insure absolute Quiet about the mansion. Earlier in the day orders had been issued suspending the regular afternoon concert of the Marine band for that day and the rest of the season. The President during the morning attended as closely as usual to his official duties. He signed two bills passed by Congress in connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of tho Capitol, and gave an informal reception to Prince Yorinito Komatsu, grandnephew of the Mikado of Japan, who is traveling incognito in this country The Prince was accompanied to the White Hotbe by Secretary Gresham, the Japanese Minister, some attaches of the Japanese Legation' and by his traveling companion, Prince M. 8. Nagasiki,Minister of Ceremonies of the Mikado's household. THe jpresiaent aoscnreu mmwn iroui ma office shortly before 12 o'olock, and remained anxiously awaiting a message. When in- l iormed by Doctor Bryant and the professional nurse of Mrs. Cleveland's safety, he at once 7 went to hi3 wife's chamber, and two hours a afterward quietly re-entered his office' and ]j authorized Mr. Thur'oer to confirm a rumor . which by this time was all over tUe city. The cloecst reticence jvas maint:ua?d,. at 2 fEeWhite House as to the evehh Tho first li statement given out was that it occurred at ? 2 p. qu Later it w:'-? permitted to .he known r that the event occurred exactly at noou Tho *3 President was informed by Doctor Bryant, o' but it is said did not mention it to Private Secretary Thurber until 2 p. m. In the mean- i time the news had become known outside, the first public mention being made of it iu a the War Department fri Immediately after the news had been con- ~ firmed, members of the Cabinet and their ? wives called to oongratnlate the President and to leave their cards for Mrs. Cleveland, ti Mr. Olney happened to be at the White Hbuse a] when the President came back to his offico g from the sick room shortly after 2 o'clock, tr and was the first member of the official family to lender his good wishes. , h Bunches of roses from intimate friends poured into the White House, and there. was a general air of suppressed excitemeof s about the employes of the mansion. Tele- ' grams of congratulation were received from all parts of the country. The baby is bright 61 eyed and healthy looking. It has not yet B been weighed, but is said to be of good size. This is tne first child born to a President In the White Honse, though there have been other births in the Executive Mansion. Of the babies who first saw the light of day 1c in the old house, probably only two were' living, until this happy event added an other. One is Mrs. Mary Douelson-Wilcox, e a daughter of Andrew Donelson, nephew tl of President Jackson and the private st secretary and confidential adviser of _ ''Old Hickory" during his entire official life, and the other is Julia Dent Grant, the first child born to Colonel and Mrs. Fred Grant, and now a young lady just past sweet sixteen. Mr. and Mrs. Donelson had two other children born in the White House, which, with a grandchild ofPresident Jeffer- I son and another of President Tylor. complete the list. Of christening fetes in the old mansion Mrs. Wilcox has said of the event in which she took the most important part: "Both Houses were invited, and for a few minutes I was of more importance than any of the great diplomats, jurists or Statesmen at the o-vpital. Over near the big window of the Ef. n.oom the ceremony was performed, _ Uncle Jackson holding! nle in his arms, and Martin Van Buren standing as godfather, ? while Miss Cora Livingston, daughter of. the c< Secretary of State, and the reigning belie and je beauty of that Administration, took upon herself the responsibilities of godmother. I M was said to have behaved very well during the ceremony." b< When Miss Julia Dent Grant was Christ- e. ened tho company invited by President and Mrs. Grant assembled in tho Bluo Room, C? where the ceremony occurred. The last w christening to take place in the Blue 0i Boom was during the first part of < * President Harrison's term, when his granddaughter, Mary Lodge McKee, was baptized with water irom the river Jordan, hi and the clergyman officiating was the baby's jj grandfather, the. venerable Doctor Scott. ,. The presence of four generations of the fam- J1 ily made a notable gathering, and one prob- fe ably never before seen at the White House, ai dl FOE SENATORIAL ACTION", h 8f A Butch of Imporiiini Nominations w By President. Cleveland. tb The President has sent to the Senato the at following nominations: ai HiitiuAn r%f Vaw Tapoav A ID sndor Extraordinary tind Plenipotentiary of be tbe United States to Germany. h? Ex-Congressman Albert 8. Willis, of Ken- ht tuoky, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister m Plenipotentiary of the Unltod States to the Hawaiian Islands. Henry M. Smythe. of Virginia, to bo Mln- re Ister Resident and Consul General of tbe th United States to Hayti, sn Ellis Mills, of Virginia, Consul General at , Honolulu, Hawaii. al William S. Carroll, of Maryland, Consul ti< General at Dresden, Germany. til . United States Consuls?George J. Willi?, of Georgia, at Tort Stanloy and St. Thomas, Canada; John R. Mobloy, of Texas, at Aaa- ',r pulco, Mexico ; Henry R. D. Moclver, of New ai i'ork, at Lenin, Spain: Georgo Keenan, of th Wisconsin, at Kohl, Germany; Henry C. C. Astwood, of New York, at Calais, France; Leopold Moore, of New York,at Christopher, N< West Indies. or A Washington special says that "the appointment of the diplomatic and consular representatives to Hawaii is regarded at the 3tate Department as official notice that Ha- . wall is not to be annexed. There is here a 118 representative of the annexationists with fr svhom negotiations for annexation could be ro jompleted in a fortnight were Mr. Cleveland 1 xnxious for annexation, and lie would not send men half around the world to represent ev :his country in islands about to bo annexed. ti< Hr. Blount's report will probably bo ma (hi. m public within two woeks. A Famong Dwart in an Almshouse. Two of the most interesting sights ^ t the Philadelphia Hospital which are [ways a center of attraction to visit- qi rs are the two little people Lizzie ^ 'rancks, known as Barnum's Dwarf, jg nd Bartie Mills, who, by reason of ^ aralysis, never developed beyond t.he tature of boyhood. The former is ow in her fifty-eighth year and the ^ itter is over forty years old. Lizzie Francks was once the center 8? f considerable attraction and was en- W. ibited for years by Barnum as "Titnia, the Fairy Queen." She was one So f the most wonderful and pretty mid- Tt eta twenty years ago, and, although lien advanced in the thirties, still had Tl tie glow of youth and beauty about Oi er. She traveled with Barnum's Cirus all over the country and amused y her singing and dancing the great merican circus-going public. She T1 as a wonder on account of her dimintive stature, and always drew largo ^ rowds. Many may ask how, after a long nd well-requited service, extending ^ vcr several years, she has come now, ^ i her advanced age, to be an inmate f the almshouse. The tale as told by ^ er is a short but satisfactory explana ion. D The money that was maile for her exibition was handed to her parents, ho accompanied her, and who, by aeir lavish extravagance, wasted the ' ttle "Queen's" hard-earned cash. :Had it been invested," she often has iid, "I would still have a little to ve upon now in my old days." The ttle woman, however, is happy with, er lot and beloved by all her (comrades 1 distress in the almhouse, to which p tie was admitted on August 28, 1877, irough her best friend, Mrs. Mc- m >oweU, of this city. Although now ear the three-score years she still re- k: iins to a wonderful degree her beauty ffi nd demure ways. She is always very adustrious and cheerful. it B OLD, BUT DWARFED IN STATURE. ^ Bartie Mills was born in Paschall and 7' as never been able to walk or talk be- ~ ond a little mnttering. He looks like well-grown baby boy and is much tfl ke one in habits. He always eats his " )od with a relish and enjoys the life 0? hich he is compelled to lead. Bartie kes to be aroundwnen the days are ga ne_and, although quiet and apparent- tl Hike a chilaitf tys chair, he is a close m bserver of all that passes. In his tanner he is much like a child and q as to be handled and fed the s^me as little one six months old. He has 8C wo brothers in Paschall who are full ^ rown and well developed. Bartie always knows when it "is bed me as well aa when he should be fed, fj ad makes motions to ins guardian, ie was admitted to the institution on ? ctober 10, 1879, and enjoys excellent ealth. ?Philadelphia Inquirer. ? b; Oyster Bed Watchers. Dotting the marshland of the west- ^ rnmost section of the Great Southern 31 ay, says the New York Herald, are ttle huts on stilts, resembling moles bi pon the face of the landscape. Among the yachtsmen near to the ^ cality and to fishing and sailing pares they excite considerable interest, ipociallj- when the fact is learned that P ie huts are inhabited. These odd sc ructures represent a good deal to ol ... Q] AN OYSTER WATCHMAN'S HUT. \ D ie inhabitants of Freeport and adja;nt Long Island villages, who are the m asees of oyster beds which abound in d< ie bay. Conjointly the citizens and oyster ' sd lessees have contributed the mon- ca rs necessary, erected these little ibins and populated them with fij atchmen, who defend the growing sL paters from the incursions of pirates H r the common oyster thief. "I If any oyster watchman is married ca is family lives with him in his primive quarters. Owing to the high des the huts aro elevated eight or ten ?<j et above the surface of the marsh id are perched upon posts firmly m, riven into the ground. Here they ^ ee. year in and year out, tasting the ill effects of the storms, dashed y$th iray, aud their companions are >the va ild sea birds. All supplies come-from' ev i<> villacre of Freenbrt, a mile or miles O- A. vay as the case may be. The days J / e filled in with fishing, snipe shoot- '.r ^ g and sailing about among the oyster ' >ds to see if the piles and signboards tve been misplaced or any vandal is disturbed the young oyster in his <1" oist bed. 7e All the watchmen are Solons. They J4*' ad all the papers which are sent or em, and in their hours of enforced litude think out and settle the most Pe >struse political and financial ques- va jns that occupy the public mind. In e course of a few years they become tanned that they take on a half- a 1 eed tinge, and the action of the salt A H r wrinkles their skins in folds, some- ac^ ing like the neck of a turtle. How- a H er, they are a happy, contented lot. J rei j gossips or scandals interfere with I 001 . .v j__. i;4. . 1 ca< Dllgui lacir everjuuy mu. A survey for a cabin from the shore*: t California to the Sandwich Islands is resulted in a route being chosen ^ om Monterey Bay to Honolulu. The pj( ute selected will require the smallest ngtli of wire, and it passes over au en bottom, favorable for the protecan and preservation of a cable, sub- :nj arine Mountains being avoided. atr w.... Wh mmm' . TWILIGHT TOWN. yond the shadows lies Twilight Town, hero wee heads nod and lids shot down i rer black eyes, blue eyes, gray and brown f id through a gap in the city wall a beautiful spot where sunbeams fall ; v id dance for aye, through tree-topa talL. , Hush, baby! Soft and slow. Soft and slow, let us ro trough the shadows to Twilight Total, t * I .> * ft as the wind through rippling wheal, hen the sun's last rays and the shadow* meet, unds the patter of thousands of little leek. V in ?.v,? urn 11 .in thftfr film? UVU(JU ILIO m IF? ; ? pled knees, . ... > ie babies creop under the waving tree?r 1 the grass of the kingdom, "Do-as-you? please." Hush, baby! Soft and slow, 81ow, slow, let us go irough the gap in the wall of Twilight Town. . Twilight Town all things are faif, *"j M ie masic of waterfalls in the air, id bright wings flitting here and .th^ro; id through the walls in the Dream Hill, bright ith the thoughts that please wee *no8 at nig'ht, incing In rings on cobwebs light* j. Hush, dearie! Mother know3? ? Soft, slow, baby goes * ) fair Dream Hill, in Twilight Town. ?St. Nicholas. 1 \ 't thtttt aath pafw 1 X11UL Alll/ AVJ-L^X.- : Literary circles?The rounds of tha. x ress. It is the comic opera singer who is tost apt to "steal a march" on us. There are more ways than one to ill a cat; but most of them are lilurea.?Puck. In the game of life it's the non-pay*, tg tenant who gets the moat moves.?7 uffalo Courier. The man who looks out for a rainy ay generally makes many a.sunny.ono >r his heirs.?Puok. Inquisitive Party?"Whose funeral . Q 1 this?" Irish Undertaker?fMine, >r."?Texas Siftings. t The young man who sows his wild , its is laying up a store of gopd'&dvioe ( >r his children that are to be. Some people are so anxious to get lead in the world that they only snosed in getting a headsione.1?Puok.; . Jty Mamma?"Robbie,; why did. you .;*|j >me to the table with that p^ir*of> ands?" "'Cause I haven't any other." 'i Just Possible: Lord G.?"You're . I irl after my heart. " She? "H^w do du know? I may be after your title.'*, j -Brooklyn Life. . "Jack?"I told her I would Jike to ie care of her always." -Tom? What did she say?" Jack?'Taka^ ire, sir."?Vogue. i > ,.|3 "My hair," murmured Van Arndt,' idly, as he strove carefully to'fconceal' le bald snot on his head, "reminds e of a fool and his" money.*?rPuok., Among the new members of tho erman Reichstag, is a master chimiy sweep. In some rfespect it is >otable occupation. ?Philadelphia edger. \ tefafr "JIas my boy been a little defender id kind to dumb animals to-day?" Yes, grandma, I let yonr canary out the cage, and when my cat caught I set Towser on her."?Life. A Brazilian recently saved his life Y carrying a roll of ?100 notes inside is vest when a bullet came that way. et there are people who neglect so mple a precaution. ?Tit-Bitp. Tommy?"My father's in the an ntcher business. What bnsinese 1a jur'n in?" Sammy?."My father jn't have to foller any business. He's Alderman."?Chicago Tribune. Fiddleback?"Do you suppose Mias inkerly noticed that my cuffs were tiled?" Tutter?"I don't believe ao, id man. She n6ver notices anything aless it is out of the ordinary. rnth. 1 ' "'' N. Yabsley ?' 'Did Bings apologize for icking you yet?" Mudge?"No. H? tid he knew he owed me an apology, at times were so hard that he could it think of paying it. "?Indian-^ jo lis Journal. Mr Roberts?"There's one thing X jn't like about our National motto." eters?"What?E pluribus unum? Tiat's the matter with It?" Roberts -"Parts its name in the middle."-? rooklyuLife. Mrs. Dangle?"What do the papers onn K? +Ko nhraaa 4no.inflll All ATI ' jar? I don't see how silence could rer be painful, do' you?" Dangle? No, I can't, Mrs. Dangle; no I m't."?Buffalo Courier. "Yes, we are going to get up a bene; entertainment for Yellowly." "Why Lould you get up a benefit for him? e earns as much money as you or L" , Oh, but he is just home from Chigo."?New York Press. Gaswell?"I'm disgusted with young r. Van Braam." Dukane?"Why?" Ee does nothing but flirt with the rls." "Then you don't like to see a an's efforts miss directed."?Pittairgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Mistress?(instructing green ser- '? nt)?"And don't forget, Bridget, ery time there is a ring at the bell ' >u must go to the door." Bridget? Jure Mum, Oi will. Au' can Oi keep e ring?"r-Philadelphia Kecord. Deadliest of Snakea. ' Throughout Cochin China, in Toniin and the extreme east there is ? ?i-inalrA nolla/? fKo ' 'nO_ " V Ly VUUULUUUO ouuftt vnuvu vuv **w i," whose venom causes death in two three hours. Every year thiaanake s been the cause of death to 15,000 rsons. It was evidently a matter of st importance to discover an antite, and this has at last been done by >etor Calmette, a Paris physician and mpil of Pasteur. The substance ia ;ort of salt of gold, which not only ;s medicinally after the bite, but oa ort of vaccine taken internally it iders the person proof against the naa/iiiAn/inu <\P fliu nuidC o --HK? LIOt7\?< lUUV^trj v/x UUC uujua 1/ftlW. V*aa jo Herald. Degrees of Arctic ('old. rravelers in arctic regions say the yaioal effects of cold tbere are about follows: Fifteen degrees above, un asantlv warm; ten degrees below, icing; twenty degrees below, sharp, t not severely cold ; thirty degrees low, very cold; forty degrees below, ensely oold ; fifty degrees below, 9 uggle for life. ?Detroit Free Proa. 1 > ,,/v ??