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VICTIMS OF DYNAMITE f :? SAILORS KILLED BY ENEMIES j IN SAN FRANCISCO. A Terriblo Crime Carried out by Union Sailors? Three Buildings Destroyed and Glass Broken for lllocks?P'iv? men jdiuwu w Atoms?A Sixth Wounded. A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal., savs: Six men were blown up with dynamite early in the morning on the water front. Two wero killed-outright, three died in tho City Roceiviag Hospital after a few hours of agony, and the sixth still lives with the prospect of ultimate recovery, but he will be a shattered and broken wreck of a man. The explosion was the result of a deliberate orimo, meant to do far deadlier work than the snuffing out of five lives. It is charged directly to the Coast Seamen's Union, a strong and lawless organisation that has ruled the Ban Francisco water front for four years and more. Tho list of the dead ifj: George Holmes, piledriver, as?ed twentv-tw<i; William T Mackenzie, boxmaker-twentj* ** <? nhirlps Bernard. boardinp-hOTse cm- | p)i>ye. twenty-five; Edward Murphy, sailor, twenty-eipbt; Andrew McGuinness, Bailor, twenty-five. John Curtin. Jr., is the survivor. There is a rumor that seven men were in the party and that the missing man was blown to atoms, but no fragment of a seventh body oAn be found. The scene of the explosion was in front of John fiurtin's sailora' boarding house. 334 Main street, near Harrison, a wooden, two-story building. The Curtin house has for years been known as a non-union or ''scab" sailors' boarding house, and attacks of more or less brutality have from time to time been made by union sailors, both upon John Curtin and the men he housed, and three times has Curtin been brutally beaten in the past two years. Only two or three days ago a trap was' set on the sidewalk for Curtin to fall into. As a result , of the injuries thus received he was lying in bed when the explosion occurred. At midnight the door of the Curtin house i_was locked. Most of the inmates were abed, including Mr. and Mrs. Curtin and their little children. Some one tried the latch cautiously and stole away. A few minutes later the six victims strolled down the street. All but two were lodgers in the house. They had alt been at a theatre and stopped to chat a minute or two before separating. niirtin saw lvlni? nsraint the door what seemed to be a valise covered with an old blanket. Jerking away the covers he picked up the valise and instantly put it down again and sprane back with the cry. <;Boys. it's dynamite!" McGuinness stepped forward and carelessly pushed the valise with one foot. That instant there was a crash that shook thf whole eastern side of the oity and tore beams and timbers from their fastenings. Caved-in partitions, like eggshells, strewod the street for two blocks with shattered windows, and scraped out a yawning hole where the sidewalk had been. Worse than that, it left in the tangle of splintered boards and broken glass vsix bodies stripped, most of them, to the skin, all apparently lifeless. From the Are engine house near by and irooi ovary nouso mm taiiio i uuum^ m spot. They found three houses completely wrecked. > Out of the ruins men, women and children were crawling. Hero was a naked foot, and there another, and all about was a smell ot burned flesh and of clothing that was still afire. Directly in front of Curtln's house the sidewalk was torn up for over twenty feet, and in the centre was a hole at least five feet deep. At first glance nothing could be seen in the holo. but when a lantern was lowered the spectators saw, half covered with earth, broken glass, and splinters of board, the mutilated remains of a man. Both legs were blown off below the knees, the head hung t3 the body by a few shrads of flesh, and the entire body was burned. The tattered remains of an undershirt still clung to the body, but every other particle of clothing was gone. In the gutter next to the sidewalk lay the bodies of three men, and the faint moans from two of them showed that life was not yet extinct. Policemen and patrol wagons were soon at hand, and the bodies were carried to the receiving hospital. It was found that Holmes and McGuinness had been instantly killed. The surgeons saw at once that Curt in was the ouly one who could live. It was only an liour or two before all the rest were dead. Strangely enough, no one else was hurt by the explosion. One of the victims revived enough on the way to feel his terrible pain as he was carried to the operating table. On him, as on the other victims, there was not a spot an inch square from which blood was not oozing. The bomb was undoubtedly meant to kill Cur tin. his wife and children, and all tho non-union sailors in the house. Probably it had a time fuse attached and the man who carried it feared to wait long enough to open tho locked door. It was merely a ctiHuce that brought the six victims to the spot just at tho moment wheu the deadly engine was to explode. Tho polica did prompt work. Three men weri arrested within an hour on strong suspicion. Mr3. Curtin told the police that a few days before several union sailors had warned her that the days of herself and her husband were numbered. I THE LABOR WORLD. Buffalo, N. V., has 20.000 idle. TnKRE are 311 Moiders' unions. Canadian farmers need worker.?. Milwaukee (Wis.) elerk3 organized. Fall River. Mass.. has 8000 weavers. : Nearly 100 to was celebrated Labor Day. Kansas runs a State Employment Bureau. LohAnoelek. da!., has a free labor bureau. California grap? pickers get 31 a day and board. Laundry haals will form a National Union. Montana bill poster? formed a State (Jnioo. Connecticut butchers held a State Convention. Portland. lias a longshoremen's benevolent society. New Bkdfobo (Ma3?.) mule spinners have accepted a cut of ten per cent. Rtkikks cost Brotherhood carpenters $26,000 the past three months. Out of Albany's population o? 100,000 over 15,000 are working women. European shoemakers want our workers to join in an International Union. Loohfixekh "in two Fall River (Mass.) mills have been cut to $1.96 a day from $2.50. Omaha., Nek, has been ariving $1 worth of groceries and a sack of flour to the unemployed. The Spinner*' Union at Fall River distributed $2500 among unemployed members one day, recently. A Mexican peon gets twenty-six cents, upward ; a Chinese or Indian coolie at home seven or eight cents a day. France was very much disturbed by strikes last year. An official return shows that in twelve months there were' close upon 300 trade disputes, affecting 109,000 workmen. The two oldest locomotive engineers on the oldest railroad in the country, the Camden and Amboy. were called to Chicago to run the oldest locomotive, the famous John Bull. The operative? in Japan mills work every day, there being no Sunday. The hours range from twelve to seventeen, but the pace is slow, ^nd there ar?i frequent holidays. Th* Fall Kiver (Mass.') mills that are in operation are scooping iu the most skilled men of other lactones, and when everything is running again many mills will lurnish poor work. In a recent parade in New York City Union electrical workers carried an um Droiui, m rue iuj? 01 wui'ju ?(? nn^uv?u<ucandescent lamp. The current came from ithotrolloy wire In the street. Im New York all the bonded warehouses Are at present Dacked solid with foreign goods, waiting the improvement of the times, there being now comparatively little demand for sujh merchandise. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. 3Srs Dat.?Mr. Piatt's reaction to establish closure was introduced *Hnd discussed by Messrs. Piatt and Lodge. Mr. White, of California, spoke against repeal. Mr. Voorhees tried to secure a vote on an amendment to the repeal bill, but was opposed by tbo minority, who resorted to filibustering. "7th Day.?An agreement for longer sessions. boginninir immediately, was adopted. Messrs. Wolcott and Teller spoke on the .closure resolution, and Messrs. George, Hansbrough and Stewart against the Repeal bill. 3Hth Dat.?The cloture resolution was taken up, and Mr. Turpie addressed the Senate in opposition to it. He was followed by Messrs. Call and Dubois who also opposed the measure. The members then held a long executive session. 39th Day.?Mr. Stewart while debating the liepeal bill made a personal attack uj)on President Cleveland. 3ir. uameron iu?u took the floor and addressed the Senate in opposition to the Repeal bill. Mr. Bute also addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. 40th Dat.?Mr. Stewart made another bitter attack on President Cleveland. Mr. Perkins spoke against repeal. 40th Dat.?Debate on the Tucker bill to repeal the Federal Election laws was continued by Messrs. Lawson and Daniels. The House. 35th Dat.?The resolution of the Committee on Rules that the Federal Eleation bill be taken up and considered until October 10 was adopted. Mr. Rusk presented a report from tj>e Committee on Accounts, recommending that those committees to which clerks wem assigned in the Fifty-second Congress?thirty-six in number?be assigned clerks in the Fifty-third Congress. Mr. Paynter submitted as a substitute a resolution for the allotment of clerks to committees to carry out the redaction of 91200 per month he advocated. After further debate the Paynter substitute was agreed to yeas, 120; naj-s, 78. Mr. Crain moved to reconsider the vote, and, pending that, the House adjourned. 36th Dat.?The House resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee on Accounts assigning clerks to committees. The report of the Committee depriving some of the smaller committees of the services of clerks, was adopted. Mr. Loud introduced a bill appropriating $500,000 with which 'to enforce the'Several acts regulating and prohibiting Chinese immigration. 37th Dat.?Mr. Bretz, of Indiana, provoked merriment by a complaint against Assistant Postmaster-General Maxwell for not removing a Postmaster who had offered to make Bretz a present of $15 if he would have him reinstated. The Speaker said that this was not a privileged resolution. The House (in Committee of the Whole) proceeded to the consideration of the bill remitting the penalties on account of delay in the construction of the dynamite cruiser. Pending action, the morning hour expired and the Committee rose and the House adjourned. 38th Da?.?The House proceeded to the consideration of the report granting the Committee on Naval Affairs an additional clork. Agreed to. Yeas. 105 ; nay3, 75. Mr. Powers reported his bill amending the Presidential Succession act of the Fortyninth Congress, by making the Secretary of Agriculture eligible to All the office of President in case o? the death of the President, Vice-President and the other members of the Cabinet. Mr. Cummings introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to make an international agreement with other Governments for the reporting, marking, and removal of dangerous wrecks, direllcts, and other menaces to navigation in the North Atlantic Ocean. The printing bill was then taken up. but without disposing of it, the House at 4.20 adjourned. 39th Dav.?The bill to repeal the Federal Election laws was taken up and debated by Messrs. Tucker and Brosius. 41st Day?After the introduction of some resolutions the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the Dubois resolution looking to a postponement of action on financial, lann, ana reuenw uiccuuu. iuomuico umu next January, when the States of Washington, Montana, and Wyoming may be fully represented in the Senate, and Mr. Dubois spoke in its support He was replied to by Messrs. Mitchell, Chanoler and Hoar. There was a heated personal controversy, in which Senators Wolcott, Gorman and Aldrich took part. The repeal bill was then taken up. and Mr. Pasco addressed the Senate against repeal. He was followed by Mr. Teller. CURIOUS FACTS. Australians are great meat eaters. Swans keep water free from weeds. The Arabs have a superstition that the stork has a human heart. A resident of Chicopee, Mass., glories in the name of John Ouaddeusenesebetoncourt. The various German fraternities r Freemasons were incorporated into one body byJost Dotzinger in 1444. The oldest statue in the world is of the Shiek of an Egyptian village. It is believed to be no less than 6000 years old. Flying buttresses were first em-1 J A- i piUytJU ttl ouppuib tuc lUVio VI churches. Their origin dates from the thirteenth century. According to the 1891 census of Germany no less than 629,897 persons of the name of Mueller live within the limits of the Empire. In some of the hotels of Lnoknow and Cawnpore, much frequented by foreign travelers, there are sign6 which read thus: "Please Do Not Strike the Servants." Very few of the Dawara race of Africa die a natural death. A sick person is pushed out of his hut by his relatives, who do their utmost to hasten his death. The old-fashioned dictionaries derive "luncheon" from "nuneheon," or /;noonchun"?the refreshment taken at noon when laborers desist from work to shun the sun. Some of the early copper coinR of Connecticut bear curious legends. One is, "Value me as you please;" Arother, "lam good copper;" another, under the image of an hx, "I cut my way through." Some tribes of North American Indians punished matricides by hanging them by their hands to the limbs of a tree, at a height just sufficient to permit the wolves to reach them from the ground. They were then left to be eaten alive. The Finger Prayer Book, issued by the University of Oxford, is the smallest prayer book in the world. It weighs three-quarters of an ounce, and measeres one inch iu length by threequarters of an inch iu width. It contains 670 pages. About three centuries ago a wealthy old maid in London left a legacy to the pigeons. It consisted of a bushel of grain a day ti> be thrown from the steeple of St. Martin's. Every day at nnnn if. in thrown out. anil t.hrniKftnrlfl of pigeons assemble ti> share the old maid's bounty. A lock of hair front the head of Charles Thompson, the first Secretary of the Continental Congress, and a pair of high-heeled white slippers, once worn by Martha Washington, are claimed to be in the possession of Catharine Sheetz, an old resident of Merion Township, near Norrifltown, Penn. ........ .?( REV. DR. TALMAUE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. SubTeefc: "A Proposition to Celebrate tlie Nineteen Hundredth liirtliday of Christ by an International Jubilee." Text : "To us a child is born," Isaiah ix., 6. That is a tremendous hour in tho history ot any lamily when an immortal spirit is incarnated. Out of a very dark cloud there descends a very bright morning. One life spared and another given. All the bells o( gladness ring over tne cr.iuie. i snow not why any one should doubt that of old a star pointed down to the Saviour's birthplace, for a star of joy points down to every honorable nativity. A new eternity dates from that hour, that minute. Beautiful and appropriate is the custom of celebrating the anniversary of such an event, and clear on into the eighties and nineties the recurrence of that day of the year in an old roan's life causes recognition and more or less congratulation. So also Nations are accustomed to celebrate the anniversary ot their birth and the anniversary of the birth of their great heroes or deliverers orbeneractors. The 22d of February and the 4th of July are never allowed to pass in our land without banquet and oration aud bell ringing and cannonade. But all other birthday anniversaries are tame compared witli the Christmas festivity, which celebrates the birthday described in my text. Protestant und Catholic and Greek churches, with all the power of music and garland and procession and doxology, put the words of my text into National anri continental and hemispheric chorus, "To us u child is born."* On the 25th of December each year that is the theme in St. Paul's and St. Peter's and St, Mark's and St. Isaac's and all the dedicated cathedrals, chapels, meeting houses and churches clear round the world. Wo 3ball soon reach the nineteen hundredth anniversary of that happiest event of all time. This century is flying. Only seven more pulsations, and its heart will coase to bent. The fingers of many of you will write it at the head of your letters and the foot of your important documents, "1900." It will be a physical and moral sensation unlike anything el?e you have before experienced. Not one hand that wrote that "1801" at the Induction of this century will have cunning left to write "1901" at the induction of another. The death of one century and the birth of another century will be sublime and suggestive and stupendous beyond all estimate. To stand by the grave of ono century and by the cradle of another will be an opportunity such a8 whole generations of the world's inhabitants never experienced. 'I pray God that there mav be no sickness or casualty to hinder your arrival ?t that goal or to hlndor your taking part in the veledictory of the doparting century and the salutation of the new. But as that season will be the nineteen hundredth anniversary of a Saviour's birth, I now nominate that a great international jubilee or exposition be opened in this cluster of cities by the seacoast on Christmas day, the 25th of December, 1900, to be continued for at least one month Into the year 1901. This century closing December 31st, 1900, and tho new century beginning January 1st, 1901, will it not be time for all Nations to turn aside for a few weeks or months from everything else and emphasize 1 he birth of tho greatest being who ever touched our planet, and could there be a more appropriate time for such commemoration than this culmination of the centuries which are dated from His nativity? You know that all history dates either from before Christ or aftor Christ, from B. C. or A. D. It will be the year of our Lord 1900 pausing Into the year 1901. We have had the Centennial at Philadelphia, celebrative of the one hundredth anniversary of our Nation's birth. We have had the magnificent expositions at New Orleans and Atlanta and Augusta and St. Louis. Wo have the present World's exposition at Chicago, celebrative of this continent's emergence, anil there are at least two other great celebrations promised for this country, and other countries will have their historic events to commemorate, but the one event that has most to do with the welfare of all Nations is the arrival of Jesus Christ on this planet, and all the enthusiasm ever witnessed at London or Vienna or Paris or any of our American cities would be eclipsed by tbe enthusiasm that would celebrate the ransom of all nations, the first step toward the accomplishing of it being taken by an infantile foot one winter's night about five miles from Jerusalem, when tne clouds dropped the angelic cantanta, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to men." The throe or four questions that would be asked me concerning this nomination of time and place I proceed to answer. What practical me would come of such international celebration? Answer?The biggest stride the world ever cook lowaru iue uvau^oillation of all Nations. That is a grand and wonderful convocation, the religious congress at Chicago. It will put intelligently before the world the nature of falso religions which have been brutalizing the Nations, tramping womanhood into the dust. enacting the horrors of infanticide, kindling funeral pyres for shrieking victims, and rolling juggernauts across the mangled bodies of their worshipers. But no one supposes that any one will be converted"to Cftrfef Oy hearing Confucianism or Buddhism or any form of heathenism eulogized. That is to be done afterwards. And how can it so well be done as by a celebration of many weeks of the birth and character and achievements of the wondrous and unprecedented Christ? To such an exposition the kings ancfqueens of the earth would not send their representatives?they would come themselves. The story of a Saviour's advent could not be told without telling the atory. of' His mission. All the world say, "Why this ado, this universal demonstration?" What a vivid presentation it would be, wheu at such a con"nnofinn fht? nhvaimunn of the world Should tell what Christ has done for hospitals nn'l the assuagement of human pain| and when Christian lawyers declare what Christ has done tor the establishment of good laws, and Christian conquerors should tell what Christ had done in the conquest of Natious, and Christian rulers of the earth would tell what Christ had done in the Government of earthly dominions I Thirty days of such celebration would do more to tell the world who Chri6t is than any thirty years. Not a land on earth but would hear of it and discuss it. Not an eye so dimmed by the superstition of agos bui would see the illumination. The difference of Christ's religion from all others is that its one way of dissemination is by a simple "telling." not argument, not skilful oxegetists, polemics or the science of theological flstouffs. but ''telling." "Toll ye the daughter of Ziou, Behold, thy King cometb." "Go quickly and tall His disoiples that He has risen from the dead." "Gohome to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord bath done for tliee." "When He ia come. He will tell us all things." A religion of "telling." And in what way could all Nations so well be told that Christ had come us by such an international emphasizing of His nativity? All India would cry out about such an affair, for you know they have their railroads and telegraphs. ''What is going on in America.-1'' All China would cry out. "What is that great orm'fftmonf in AmeriertV" All tbe islands of the sea would come down the gangplanks of the arriving ships and ask. '*What is that they are celebrating in America?" It would be the mighti?i3t missionary movemeut. the world has ever seen. It would be the turning point in the world's destiny. It would wakeu. thy slumbering Natioub with oae touch. Question the Second ?How would you liava fi' h an international jubileo conducted / Ausw<y?All arts should be marshaled, and art in it* most attractive and impressive shape. First, architecture. While all academies of music, and all churches, and oil great halls would be needed, there should be one great auditorium erected to hold such an audience as has never been seen on any sacred occasion in America. If Scribonius Curio, at the cost of a kingdom., could build the t1r9t two vast amphitheatres, placing them back to back, holding great audiences for dramatic representation, and then by wonderful machinery could turn them round with all their audiences in them, making the two auditoriums one amphitheatre, tn witness a gladitorial contest, and Vespasian oould ooni struct the Coliseum with its oighty columns, * and its triumphs in three orders of Greek architecture, and a capacity to hold 87.000 people seated and 15,000 standing, and all for purposes of cruelty and sin, cannot our glorious Christianity rear in honor of our glorious Christ a structure large enough to hold 50,000 of its worshipers? If we go groping now among the ruined amphitheaters of Verona and Pompeii and 1 Capua and Puzzuolt and Tarraco, and then stand transffecofTwrth amazement at their immense sweep that held from 50,000 to 100,000 spectators gathered for carousal and moral degradation, could not Christianity afford one architectural achievement that would hold and enthrall its 50,000 Christian disciples? Do you say no human voice could be heard throughout such a building? Ah! then you were not present when at the Boston poace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice enohanted 50,000 auditors. And the time ia near at hand when in theological seminaries, where our young men are being trained for tho ministry, the voice will be developed, and instead of tho mumbling ministers, who speak with so low a tone you cannot hear unless you loan forward and hrti.i vrmr h?.nd behind vour ear. and then are able to guess tho general drift of thesubjeot and decide quite well whether it is about Moses or Paul or some one olse?instead of that you will have coming from the theological seminaries all over the land young ministers with voice enough to command the attention of an audience of 50,000 people. That is the reason that the Lord gives us two lungs instead of one. It is the Divine way of saying physiologically, "Be heard!" That is the reason that the New Testament in beginning the aocount of Christ's sermon on tho mount describes our Lord's plain amcumtron and resound of utterance by saying, "Ho opened his mouth." / In that mighty concert hall and preaching place which I suggest for this nineteen hundredth anniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring all the orchestras, all the oratorios, all the Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn societies. Thon give us Haydn's oratorio of the "Creation," for our Lord took part in universe building and "without him." s:iys John, "was not anything made that was made,'' and Handel's "Messiah" and Beethoven's ''Symphonies" and Mendelssohn's "Elijah." the prophet that typified our Christ and the grandest compositions of German and English and American mastars, living or dead. All instruments that can hum or roll or whisper or harp or flute or clap or trumpet orthundor the praise9 or tne Lord joined to all voices that can chant or warble or precentor multitudinous worshipers. What an arousing when 50,000 join in "Antioch" or "Coronation" or Ariel,', rising into halleluiah or subsiding into an almost supernatural, amen! Yea, let sculpture stand on pedestals all around that building?the forms of apostle3 and martyrs, men and women, who spoke or wrought or suffered by headsman's ax or fire. Where is my favorite of all arts, this art of sculpture, that it is not busier for Christ or that its work is not better appreciated? Let it come forth at that world's jubilee of the nativity. We want a second Phidias to do for that new templo what the first Phidias did for the Parthenon. Let the marble of Carrara come to rosurrection to celebrate our Lord's resurrection. Let sculptors set up in that auditorium of Christ's celebration bas-relief and intaglio descriptive of the battles won for our holy religion. Where are the Canovas of the Nineteenth Century? Where are the American Thorwaldsens and Chantreys? Hidden somewhere, I warrant you. Let sculpture turn that place into ano thor Acropolis, but more glorious by as much as our Christ is stronger than their Hercules, and has more to do with the flea than tlieir Neptune, and raises greater harvests than their Ceres, and raises more music in the heart of the world than their Apollo. "The gods of the heathen are nothing but dumb idols, but our Lord mado the heavens.'' In marble pure as snow celebrate Him who came to make us "whiter than snow." Let i tho chisel as well as pencil and pen be put down at the feet of Jesus. Yea, let painting do its best. The foreign galleries will loan for such a jubilee their Madonnas, their Angelos, their Ilubens, their Raphaels, their "Christ at the Jordan," or "Christ at the Last 8upper,"Of "Christ Coming to Judgment," or *rChrlst on the Throne of Universal Dominion," and our own Morans will put their pencils into the nineteen hundredth anniversary, and our Blerstadts from sketching "The Domes of the Yosemite" will come to present the domes of the world conquered for Immanael. / i Added to all this I would have a floral decoration on a scale never equaled. The fields and open gardens could not furnish it, i for it will be winter, and that season appro> priately chosen, for it was into the frosts and desolations of winter that Christ immigrated when he came to our world. But while the t fields will be bare, the conservatories and hot-houses within 200 miles would gladly i keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro1 malic during all the convocations. Added to all let there be banquets, not like the drunken bout at the Metropolitan i Opera House, New York, celebrating the > centennial of Washington's inauguration, where the rivers of wine drowned the sobriety of so many senators and governors i and generals, but a banquet for the poor, tho feeding of scores of thousands of people of a world in which the majority of the inhabi tants have never yet had enough to eat, not a banquet at which a few favored men and \ women of social or political fortune shall sit, but such a banquet as Christ ordered when He told His sen-ants to "go out into ; the highways and hedges and compel them I to come in." Let the mayors of cities and the governors of States and the President of the United States proclaim a whole week of i legal noitaay?at least irom i/uriamjoa to New Year's day. Added to this let there be at that International moral and religious exposition a mammoth distribution ot sacred literature. Let the leading ministers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Franco, Germany and the world take the pulpits of all these cities and tell what they know of Him whose birth we celebrate. At those convocations let vast sums of money be raised for churches, for asylums, for schools, for colleges, all of ' which institutions were born in the heart of Christ. On that day and In that season when Christ gave Himself to the world let the world give itself to Him. Why do I propose America as the country for this convocation? Because most other lands have a State religion, and while all forms of religion may be tolerated in many lands America is the only country on earth ' where ail evangelical denominations stand on an even footing, and all would have equal hearing in such an international exposition. Why do I select this cluster of seacoast cities'!' Answer?By that time?December 25, 1900?these four cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hobo ken, by bridges nnd tunnels, will be practically one and with an aggregate population of abont 6,000,003. Consequently no other part of America will have such an immensity of population. Why do I now make this nomination of time and place? Answer?Because such a stupendous movement cannot be extemporize!. It will take seven years to get ready for such an overt^wering celebration, and the work oucrht to begin speedily in churches, in colleges, in legislatures, in congresses, in parliaments, in all styles of National assemblages, and we bave no time to lose. It would take three years to make a programme worthy of such a coming together. Why do I take it upon myself to make such a nomination ot time and place? Answer? Because it so happened that in the mysterious providence of God, born tn a farmhouse and of no royal or princely descent, the doors of communication are open to me every week by the secular and religious printing presses and have been *>pen to me every week for many years, with all the cities and towns and neighborhoods of Christendom, and indeed in lauds outside of Christendom, where I rvt-ir\f iiva? nrwacioa havA hop.n Pat fthl iflhttl!. and I feel that if there is anything worthy in this proposition it will be heeded and adopted. On the other hand, if it be too sanguine, or too hopeful, or too impractical. I am sure it will 'lo no harm that [ have expressed my wish for such an international jubilee, celebrative of the birth of our Immanuel. My friends, such a birthday celebration at the close of oue century and reaching into a now century would be something in which heaven and earth could join. It would not only be international, but interplanetary, intei^itellar, interoonstellation. If you rememoer what occurred on the first Christmas night, you know that it was not a joy confined to our world. The choir above Bethlehem was imported from another world, and when the star left its usual sphere to designate the birthplace all astronomy felt the thrill. If there be anything true nbout our religion, it is that other worlds are sympathetic with this world and In communication with it. The glorified of heaven would jolu In such a celebration. The generation that toiled to have the world for Christ would take part in suot jubilation and prolonged assemblage. The upper galleries of God's universi would applaud the scene, whether we hearc the clap of their wings and the shout of thei voices or did not hear them. Prophets wh< predicted the Messiah, and apostles whi talked with Him, and martyrs who died fo Him would take part in. the scene, though t< our poor eyesight they might be invisible The old missionaries who died in the malaria swamps of Africa, or were struck down b Egyptian typhus, or were butchered at Luck now. or were slain by Bornesian cannibal would come down from their thrones to re jolce that at last Christ had been heard oi and so speedily in all nations. At. the Are roll of the first overture of the first day o that meeting all heaven would crv: "Hear Hear!" Aye! Aye! I think myself such a vast pro cedure as that might hasten our Lord's com ing, and that the expectation of many mi] lions of Christians who believe in the seconi advent might be realized then at that con junction of the Nineteenth and Twentietl Centuries. I do not say it would be, yet wh knows but that our blessed and adored Ma? ter, pleased with such a plan of worldwid observance, might say concerning this wan dering and rebellious planet, "That world a last shows a disposition to appreciate what have done for it, and with one wave of m scarred hand I will bless and reclaim am save it." mu~4. ?.?Ak M f * AH r\f Ami T.Af.Va Klrtf jL 11 lit ouuu a ucinuiabiuu ui vu& kept up for days and months, would pleas all the good of earth and mightily speed o the gospel chariot and please allthe heaveni saintly, cherubic, seraphic. archangelic an divine, is beyond question. Oh, get read for the world's greatest festivity I Tuneyou voices for the world's greatest anthem. Lil the arohes for the world's mightiest procoe slon. Let the advancing standard of th army of years, which has inscribed on on side of it "1900" and on the other side "1901, have also insoribed on it the most charmin name of all the universe?the name of Jesus Whether this suggestion of a world's cell bratlon of the nativity be taken or not, has allowed me an opportunity in a som< what unusual way 'of expressing my love fc the great central character of all time an all eternity. He is the infinite nonesucl The armies of heaven drop on their kne< before him. After Bourdaloue. before ovei whelmed audiences, has preached Him, an Milton in immortal blank verse has sun Him, and Michael Angelo has glorified tb ceiling of the Vatican with His second con ing, and martyrs while girdled and canc pied with the flames of the stak have with burning lips kissed his men ory, and in the "hundred and forty and fou thousand" of heaven with feet on seas c glass intershot with sunrise, have with up lifted and downswung baton, and soundin cornets, and waving banzsrs, and heave capturing doxologies celebrated Him, tk story of His loveliness, and His might and H beauty, and His grandeur, and His grace, an His intercession, and His sacrifice, and of H birth, aad His death will remain untold. ? His name on our lips while we live, and whe we die after we have spoken farewell to fath< and mother and wife, and child let us spea that name which is the lullaby of earth an the transport of heaven. Before the crossing of time on the mid night between December 31, 1900, and tfc 1st of January, 1901, many of us will 1 uone. Some of.you will .hear the cioslc stril twelve or one century an! un nour arter hear it strike one of another century* bi many of you will not that midnight hoi either the stroke of old the city clook <Jr < the old timepiece in the hallway Of the homi stead. Seven years cut a wide swath throug the churches and communities and Nation But those who cross from world to worl before Old Time in this world crosses thi midnight from century to century will tal among the thrones of the coming earth] i'ubilee, and on the river bank and in th Louse of many mansions, until all heave will know of the coming of that celebratior that will All the earthly Nations with joy an help augment the Nations of heaven. Bt whether here or there we will take part i the music and the banqueting if we ba^ made the Lord our portion. Oh, how I would like to stand at my froi door some morning or noon or night rnd s? the sky part and the blessed Lord descend i person, not as he will come in the last judj ment, with fire and hail and earthquake, bu in sweet tenderness to pardon ail sin, an >heal all wounds, and wipe away all tear: and feed all hunger, and right all wrong: and illumine alt darkness, and break a bondage, and harmonize all discords. -Som think he will thus come, but about the coming I make no prophecy, lor I am nc enough learned in the Scriptures, as some ( my friends are, to announce a very positiv opinion. But this I do know, that it would be wel for us to have an international and an inter world celebration of the anniversary of HI birthday about the time of the birth of th new century, and that it will be wise beyon all others' wisdom for us to take Him as ou 4 "-.J AtfA?laaMnfl> rtrtoHlllfnr And j prosem uuu umiuonus that Darling of earth and heaven will odI ' accept you and me after all our lifetime c unworthiness and ain we can never pay Hit what we owe, though through all the eternit; to come we had every hour a new song an everv moment a new ascription of homag and praise, for you see we were far ot among the lost sheep that the g03pel bym so pathetically describas: Out la the desert he.heard Its crv, Sicic and celple?s ana rea ly to at<j, But all throug.i the mountain thunder riven. And up from the rocky steep, 'there rises a cry to the gate of heaven, "Kejolce, I have found my sheep!" And the angels echo round the throne, "Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!" While the fireworks displays a the Fair are an attractive feature c the Exposition there are disquietin rumors that they do not put muc money in the treasury. On the cor trar/, it is said that they have a d rectly opposite effect. The best vie' of the pyrotechnics is to be had froi the lake, and the thrifty owners c excursion boats have taken advanl ? ?? frt H ro TO AFnw^Q t iigu Ui luc ia\ju uu uiuu v?v..v.w . their vessels. Passengers pay for th boat ride, and get the fireworks dis play free. The boats steam down t a point opposite the Expos!tio grounds and there anchor, while fror their decks the excursionists viei pleasantly and, economically th flight of the rockets, the bursting c the bombs and the glories of the se pieces. When the show is over the are carried back to the city com fori ably and expeditiously, without ha^ ing to scramble for seats in the Illi nois Central cars or on the elevatei road. "They have had the whole en tertainment free without any of th discomforts attendant Hpon a visit t the grounds. In view of these fact the Council of Administration migh well consider the advisability of dls continuing the fireworks. It is wel enough to furnish entertainment fo those who pay for it, but the Fair i not a purely philanthropic institu tion, and the propriety of giving fre shows for the benefit of the owner of excursion boats and their patron la open to discussion. The Louisiana Experiment Statloi has been devoting itself to a carefu trial and analysis of peas. It ha long been known that peas wer valuable as re'viviflers of the soil an< would do excellent work where clove was, for some reason, impracticable The result arrived at, however, ii likely to cause peas to be raised mon generally than ever before. It woulc be a good plan for each farmer to trj a small patch and satisfy himsell that peas are suitable for his partic ular soil. The closed season for seals Include; May, June and July. The closed sea son for sealskins thM year also in eludes nino other months. f mmrnmmmmmmmm^^mmmmmmmmmammmmm^mmmmmmmmmmmmmm ' SABBATH SCHOOL 3 i r INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB I OCTOBER 15. r (< Lesson Text: "Justification by Faith," .1 Romans v., 1-11?Golden y Text: Romans v., 8? j Commentary. | I. "Therefore, being justifled by faith, wo ,( ,haye peace with God through our Lord r Jesus Christ." If thero is a foundation truth that needs to be fully, received, firmly held, _ daily enjoyed and joyously passed on, it is this?that all who receive Christ are justifled f and actually have peace with God, for / Christ Himself is our peace, through the finished work of Christ withoqt any work of IT ours. Commit Rom. iv., 5;Eph. ii, 8,9; Titus iii., 5, ns notable proof texts. Christ made the peace by the blood of His cross, and it is our privilege to receive it (Col. ! 1., 20). t 2. "By whom also we have aocess by faith r into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice t, in hope of the glory of God." It is by grace, s without a single work ot ours, that we are saved, and in that grace it is our privilege to live, fcr our High Priest within the veil repI ?UnlAaA H.a/4 4** nil XT ?'a '9 resell 13 US UOJULD UVU 1U lUt JUkAO jJ/V*1CV.? ness, and we may come boldly for mercy and 11 grace in every time of need (Heb. iv., 15,16). *? This covers all oar life from the moment of d oar acceptance until we are taken home, y The last clause of this verse calls attention r to the blessed hope of Titus 11., 13, when we * shall be like Him (1 John ili., 2, 3). h 3 "And not only so, but we glory in tribae lations also, knowing that tribulation worke oth patience." The sufferings of this pres" ent time are not worthy to be compared g with the glory which shall be revealed in us, J. and all our afflictions are worktng out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of it glory (Rom. vili., 18; II Cor. iv.. 17). By s- His grace we may learn to count trials a joy, >r knowing that when patiently borne they d bring glory to Him and great good to us, i. conforming us to His image (Jas. 1. 2, 3, 11; >s II Cor. xii,. 9,10; Rom. vlii., 28, 29). 4. "And patience, experience, and experid ence, hope." Patience under trial is very g glorifying to God and very confusing to sae tan, and is one of the most convincing proofs l- of the reality of Christianity (II Thess iiL, 5 h margin ; Jas. v., 10 ; Rev. xiii., 10; xiv., 12). e The word translated "experience" is in II i- Cor. 11., 9; xlii., 3, Phil. li.. 22, translated r "proof." It is the evidence that we are the if Lord's and develops in us a firmer grasp of ?- the joys set before us and the glory to* be g brought unto us at the revelation of Jesus Christ (I Pet. i? 6, 7, 13 > iv , 12, 18). is 5. "And hope maketh not ashamed, beis cause the love of God is shed abroad in our d hearts by the Holy Ghost whioh is given unto is U3." TW Holy Spirit is the earnest of our te inheritance until tne redemption of the purin chased possession (Eph. 1.. 13, 14). He jr makes known the love of God to us, and that k He loved us even when we were dead in sin3 d (Eph. ii., 4. 5); that, knowing all about us. He loved us and will love as even to the end L- (Deut. vii., 7, 8; Jer. xxxi., 3; John xiii., 1); L9 that, having loved us enough- to seek us out ma h-a na VHa narn TTa will not AAASA till :e he has finished the work and made us just It like Himself in that bright morning (Phil. L, it 6; 111., 20, 21). His people shall never be ir ashamed (Joel 11., 26, 27). 6. "For when w$ were yet without strength a- in due time Christ died for the ungodly." h ,;Without strength" means that we are as b,. helpless to better ourselves spiritually as the fd young man at the Gate Beautiful of the temit pie was to walk of his own accord, for the k word "impotent" applied to him (Acts iv., 9) y is the very word here used. "Ungodly" is ie said by Young to signify in some places |Q ''worthless, or without value " We are apt i, to think that there must have been something d about us to cause God to love us, but from it this verse it is not so. Ask the missionary in' n Alaska or in Centra! Africa what there is to re love in the most degraded they have ever seen, and from the dark picture see yourself it in the sight of God. >o 7. "For scarcely for a righteous man will n one die, yet perad venture for a good man ; some would even dare to die." It seems t strange, yet we ail know it to be true, that d there are righteous persons who are not much i, given to good works. They have accepted i, Christ and are outwardly blameless in their 11 lives and very religious In the way of churohie 4 going, but as to helping the poor and making it. the widow's heart to sing for joy, that is not >t their way. It would bo very hard to find a it I tnr anf?h a narann in the matter of '? death, but for one who ha9 lived to do good and scatter hjs substance among the needy it I would not be so difficult. 8. "But God commendeth His love toward 3 us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ o died for us." Here is love beyond all that d earth ever witnessed. The objects of this tr love are ndt only felt negatively impotent and if worthless, but positively sinful transgressions y against Him who loved them and died for ?f them. "Hereby perceive we the love of God." n "Behold what manner of love" (I. John ill., y 16; ill. ,2). That this love can be slighted d and despised sho^ how hardened is the heart ;a of man. * it 9. "Much more then being now justified by n His blood we shall be saved Jrom wrath through Him," In tfce first verse it was justified by faith and now by blood. In chapter ill., 24, it was by grace, and in Jas. ii., 26, it is by work9. There is no conflict nor contradiction in these statements. We are justified meritoriously by the blood of Christ, instrumentally by faith in Him, freely by His grace, and the evidence of our justification before men is our good works. Being justified, we a (mm tha wrath to COUti (I. , 0 mo . UCilYVi vU J.4W1U ?MV x V Thess. 1., 10.) 10. "For if when we were enemies we were g reconciled to God by the death of His Son, h' much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." The work of reconcilial" tion is entirely of God; the need is wholly i-' ours. . God was .in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself (II Cor. v., 19). The " cry through the embassador is that because D of such love on the part of God, who seeks ,f the welfare of the impotent and worthless, the sinner and enemy, and has provided 'righteousness for such, the rebel snould be ? willing to believe and-reopive such love. Tba further joy is that having 3aved us, He lives 0 to keep us. He is our life (Heb. vli., 25; Rev. j- 1,17 18, Col. ill., 4.) " ? 11. "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom U we have now received tne atonement." The q God of hope Alls us with air joy and peace in believing and makes us to abound iu hope ^ through the power of the HoJy Ghost (Rom e xv., 13.) By a more intimate acquaintance * with and knowledge of the Father, Son and 11 Holy Spirit we learn that the kingdom of t God is righteousness, peace and joy in the v Holy Ghost (Rom. xvi., 17.) So the recon3 ciliatlon (see margin) provided by God, 'f wrought out by Christ and brought to us by r. the Spirit makes us new creatures in Christ , Jesus.?Lesson Helper. ' i TAKING A DROP, ''Come in, Frank, and have a drop," said one Chicago man to another. e "No, I'm afraid of drops ever since Tom 0 Johnson died." a 'JWell, what about TomV ' t VHe was one of ie liveliest fellows in 0 these parts. But he began tne drop ousi(. ness in the saloon around the corner. It was , a drop of something out of a bottle at first, *i But in a little while Tom took a few drops r too many, and then he dropped into the gut _ ter. He lost his place, iie lost his coat and . hat, he lost his money, he lost everything H but his love for strong drink. Poor Tom ! 0^ But the worst is to come. He got crazy wijh d drink one day and killed 11 man, and the last* time I saw him he was taking his last si drop with a rope around his neok. I have ' quit the dropping business. I have 3een too many good fellows when whisky had tho drop on them." They ju9t took a drop from q ihe bottle, then they dropped into the giUter, and then dropped into the fjrave. No rum1 seller cau get the drop on me any more, aud S it you don't drop him he will drop you. A " STAXtTEINO FACTS. Three million children born annually of r drunken parents, half a million born idiots, J ' and three hundred thousand born deaf, dumb or blind! Such nro some of the startling 8 facts discovered by social scientists in their ? ^offorts to explain the vitiation of the human . "stock, which is slowly, but surelv, takiner 1 placo in the midst of our boosted civilization. f What are the underlying causes for these f badly born children, and how can this race deterioration be checked? These and similar questions touoh tho most vital point iu our National and social life, and any attempt to answer them wisely ou??ht to enlist the hearty j interest of every thoughtful person. "What's a limited monarchy?" "A pair of kiDgs against the other fellow's straight" RELIGIOUS READING. flYMMETBICiJ. DEVELOPMENT OF EMINEM? PI EXT. * The Christian Proieesor addressed in a a#? ries of Counsels and Cautions to the Members of Christian churches, by John Angeli James, is the title page of a new book pub- . lished by Gould and Lincoln. Wo select ? passage which dwells on the importance of eminent piety in symmetrical development Symmetry means beauty; and symmetry means the union of many good features <* parts in due proportions. One good featurfe enough of surpassing loveliness. If combine* with others that are as much below medioority, as this is above it, will not make a beautiful or interesting ooufttenance. One i riking excellence, if associated with defects and deformities, instead of throwing them back into shadow, serves only to render them more conspicuous and more offensive by the power of contrast ? This applies strictly to religion. A man, though seemingly eminent for spirituality, yet if low in morality; or if not deficient uk liberality, yet lukewarm in spiritual affection; or if very upright, and also devotional, jm of known bad temper, cannot be emlnmt In \ % religion. Oreat and lamentable errors on this subject have prevailed in the Christian world, and it is necessary that they should be rectified. It has been too commonly supposed, that spirituality alone, apart from the other things mentioned, constitutes a high degree of rellgiom: and hence many have parsed for eminent Christians simply on the ground of fftrvid fpfilltio nUhrmoh nnrhAM Lament* ably deficient In tenderness of conscience, a tense of honor, or Christian charity. It ia tuo symmetrical union of all the varieties of Christian excellence, that fort#? moral beauty; the association of high devotion with justice and truth; the character that ascends the mount to commune with God, and that comes down to reflect the light or excellent glory upon man in moral virtuee; : ^ the blending of dispositions that prepare us for heaven, with those that fit us to adorn ? our stations and bless our species on earth. The Apostle in speaking of the church says, "From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted with ; } that which every part supplJeth aocord- ' '.' Sting to the effectual working in the meaBur? of every part, maketh Increase of the body unto the edifying of its self in love. Eph. iv. . '<{ 16. As far as it can, this may be applied to individual personal religion. We must not pay attention to one part, and endeavor to y carry that to perfection, to the neglect of the ' rest, but seek eminence in alL If It ware lawful to make comparison on such asuWect. ? we should say that mediocrity in all, without . the absence of any one part, is better than. great attainments in one to tne total neglect i of several others. But our obvious duty is to . wk after perfection both of parts and of & Fees. THE WEALTH OF LIFE. _ Some lives are lived so quietly, so ynevenN '!{ fully that their close causes a vibration In fevr ; hearts, and yet they are lives that are rich la V results felt by those who have known their influence. They remain In the memory like the odor of violets. No newspapers reoovd their course; that is written on the hearts at j those who knew them. What has been their htotnrv? To the outside world, birth, mar riage, death. To the inner world, to those ' who have entered the home, the life history " of such beings is written in the lives of bra- * band and children, friends and neighbors. Poverty has not been as crushing, for their sympathy and help have lightened it; sorrow has been borne with calmness, for. the spirit ' -'i of faith and patience has entered with the neighbor; joy has been intensified, for the <$l friend and neighbor rejoiced with those who rejoiced. Children grew up in the homes thev infoeneed, believing that wealth Increased reeponsibl Iities, made the holders stewards only, not ' /> owners; that education wan each man's priv- nI Uege, character each man's salvation, repot*- : tion the capital of each man's lite, and to b? most carefully guarded. That Caesar's wile must be above suspicion was the foundation . of each daughters creed, and each sorts ' C charge. Neighbors grow more kindly, friends more loving, kindred more true, who have oaoe felt the personal power of these quiet lives. Hospitality is the duty of man to man, tfcta '. is another Creeid of these homes?not for ex* change merely, but as a debt to humanity. ,.->j Not only th4 known but the unknown have felt the touch of kindly grace "and fellowship. ,V, The rush of life may separate the busyOMi iac from those whom kindly fate has left to grow pjS old in the sweet dignity of a home. life. But even the rush and hurry of life - can never ' drive from heart or brain the memory or the X/eJj influence ot the home made rloh by the pree- ? ence of one who held that gift of all gifts, the gift of a home-maker, a home-keeper. -j'i Every thought of such a one is a resuneo- ' tion of the better impulses, the higher Belt, that often are so bidden, if not burled, under y . .<? the business cares, and soeial' demands, of every-daylife.?Reformed Church Measeng?c? 1 * ? t WA. CHEEEFTJXi FACE. Next to the sunlight of heaven is a cheerWt face. There is no mistaking it?the bright eye, the unclouded brow, the sunny smile, * ' all tell of that which dwells within.. Who has not felt this electrilying influence? On* glance at this face lifts us out of the mists and shadows into the beautiful realm of hopa Ono cheerful face in the household will koep everything warm and light within. It maj be a very plain face but there i* something In it we feel, yet cannot express; and iti cheery smile sends the blood dancing through the veins for every joy. There is a world of > blessed magic in the plain, cheerful faoe, and we would not exchange it for all the soulleat beauty that ever graced the fairest fonp Oft earth. It may be a very little face, but somehow it shines, and the shining is so bright the shadows cannot remain, and silently they creep ' away into the dark corners. It may be a i wrinkled face, but it is all the dearer for that, and none the less cheerful. We linger neer it and gaze tenderly upon it, and say. "God blcse.tjijis dear, happy face." We must keep it with' us as long as we can, for home wiu lose much of its brightness when this sweet faco is gone. And after it is gone, how the remembrance of it softens our wayward natures ! When care and sorrow snap our hcarta nsunder. this wrinkled face looks down upon us, and the painful tension grows lighter, the way seems less dreary and the sorrows lese heavy. God bless the cheerful face! What a dreary world this would be without fbfr heaven-born light.- Home Visitor. * ' the bich child. A great man may say, "My houses, my lands, my horses and chariots, Ay numerous and valuable estates." A great merchant can say?"My ships laden with treasures, my silver. my gold." A great king can say, "'My kingdom, my throne, my diadem, my palaoe, my navy and my army." A pious child,. though poor and mean, has more than the great man. the great merchant, or the great king. And a pious ehiid, though very poor. can say more than the great man, the great merchant and the great king, if they hare no grace. He can say, "Tne Lord is my God; God the I'&ther is my father; God the son is my Saviour; God the Holy Ghoat ? is my Sanctifier God is my God forever,a*d He will be my" guide even unto death. He is the Faithful Gap. who has mademeanersrlasting covenant; well ordered in all thfsgi and sur*. He is all my salvation, and all my ' < desire." Pray ftnreritly, my' young friends, for that piety and that grace, by which' you shall say. what no graceless king on earth can ever say,- '-Jehovah is my God,- He is my strength. Hrt'is my song, and He also is become my ?alvatiou." Amen and Amen. Men may close ^icir eyes to the evidence* of the truth of the New Testament, and remain in voluntary* darkness and blindness, but th-- evidences exist, attested by unionpeachahle witnesses.-- John Hall. ? An* exchange publishes the aston| lshing information that a stupendous group of black spots on the sua ia "easily visible to the naked eye when the latter Is protected by a darl* glass." With such protection the eye would no more be "naked" thart If the observer were looking through a magnifying glass. Walter Besaxt calls us a nation/ of slaramers. Oh, no! It's tht> Xurks who s'larn.? Boston HeralcL rm ?