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J v" i KEY. DR. TALMAGE. i 1 THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Gospel in Politics." % Text: "Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the more part leneio not wherefore they were comc together. And they dreit Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hawl, and would have madt his defense unto the people. But when they lenew thai he was a Jew, all with one voict about the space of two hours cried out: 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians?Acts six., 32. Ephesus was upside down. It was about the silver question. A manufacturer of silver looses for holding heathen images had called v his laborers together to discuss the behavior of one Paul, who had been in public places assaulting image worship, and consequently very much damaging that particular busi* tiesa Th?rfl was ere&t excitement in the t city. People stood in knots along the streets, violently gesticulating and calling each other hard names. Some of the people favored the policy of the silversmith. Other people favored the policy of Paul. There were great moral questions involved, but these did not bother them at all. The only question about which they seemed to be interested was concerning the wages and the salaried positions. The silversmith and his compeers had put up factories at great expense for the making of these sil? ver boxes, and now, if this new policy is to be inaugurated the business will go down, the laborers will be thrown out of employment and the whole city will suffer. Well, what is to be done? '"Call a convention," says some one, for in nil ages a convention has been a panacea for public evils. The convention is called, and as they want the largest room in the city they take the theatre. Having there assembled," they all want to ? get the floor, and they all want to talk at once. You know what excitement that always makes in a convention, whore a great manv people want to talk at once. Some cried one thins:, some cried another. Some wanted to denounce, some wanted to resolve. Alter awnile a pro:ninenr man gets cuo uuur, and he begins to spaak. but they very soon hiss him down, and then 'che confusion rises into worse uproar, and they begin to shout, all of them together, and they keep on until they are red in the face and hoarse in the throat, for two long hours crying out "Great Is Diana of the Ephesians. Great is Diana I of the Ephesians!" The whole scene reminds me of .the excitement we have almost every autumn at the ?lections. While that goddess Diana has lost k# her worshipers and her temples have gone ' into the dost, our American people want to set up a god in place of her, and they want us alt to bow down before it, and that god i3 political party. Considering our superior civilization, I have to declare to you that Ephesian idolatry was less offensive in the sight of God than is this all absorbing American partisanship. While there are honest men, true men, , Christian men. who stand in both political parties, and who come into the autumnal elections resolving to serve their city or their State or the Nation in the best possible way-, I have noticed also that with many it is a mere contest between tho ins and the outs? those who are trying to stay in an l keep tho outs out, and those who are trying to get in and thrust the ins out. And one party cries, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" and the other party cries, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!'" neither of them honest enough to say, "Great is my pocketbook!" Oncc or twice a year it is my custom to ? talk to the people about public affairs from wh.it I call a Christian standpoint, and this morning I have chosen for that duty. I hope to say a practical word. History tells us of a sermon once preached amid the highlands of Scotland?a sermon two hours long ?on the sin of luxury, where there were not xnoro than three pairs of shoes in the audience, and during our last war a good man went Into a hospital distributing tracts and ' gave a tract on "The Sin of Dancing" to a man both of whose legs had been amputated! But I hope this morning to present an appropriate and adapted word, as next Tueshstv on-t??ir fitTairs .IPA ha UO^ ttl IUV k/UtkVk w/A Q W.. ? settled. The Rev. Dr. Emmons, in the early history of our country, in Massachusetts, preached about the election of Taomas Jefferson to the Presidency. The Rev. Dr. Maynew, of Boston, in the early days of our * republic, preached about the repeal of the stamp act. There are times when ministers of Christ must look off upon public affairs and dis:uss them. We need go oack to no example. Every man is. before God, sponsible for his own duty. If the Norwegian boasts of his home of rocks, and the Siberian is pleased with his , land of perpetual snow: if the Roman thought that the muddy Tiber was the favored river in the sight of heaven, and if the Laplander shivers out his eulogy of his native clime, and if the Chinese have p'.ty for anybody, born outside of the Flowsry Kingdom, shall not we. born under these fair skies and standing day by day amid those glorious civil and '"iigious lioerties, be public spirited? I propose to tell the people very plainly what I consider to be tneir Christian duty at the ballot box! First, sot yourself against all political false'hood. Tho most monstrous lies ever told in .this country are during the eloctions. I stop &tthe door o? a Democratic meeting and listen aud hear that the Republicans are liars. I sto p at the door of a Republican meeting ;and listen And hear that the Demosrats are :scoundrels. Our public men microscopized, and the truth distorted. Who believes a tenth part of what he read3 or h9ars in tho autumnal elections'? Men who at other seasons of the year are vary careful in 'cheir speech become peddlers of scandal. ~ In tho far east there is a place where once a yoar they let the paople do as they please and say wflat they please, and the place is full of uproar, misrule and wickedness, and they call it the '"devil's day." The nearest f approximation to that in this country has been the first Tuesday in November. The community at such times seems to say, "Gc to, now, let us have a good time at lying.' Prominent candidates for office are denounced as unprinciplad and renegade. A smart lie will start in the corner of a country newspaper, an 1 keep on running until it has captured the printing presses of the wholt* continent. What garbling of speeches! What misinterpretation of motives! What misrepresentation of individual antecedents! Tho trouble is that we have in this country two great manufactories?mar.ufactories ol lies?me xvepuouciiu mauuiauiujr} ui iieottju tho Democratic manufactory of lies?and they are run day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large lies and small lies. Lies private and lies public and lies prurient. Lies cut bias ami lies cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies with double back action. Lies complimentary and lies deiHinatory. Lies that some" paople believe, and lies that all the people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with hump3 like camels, and scales like crocodiles, and necks as long as storks, and feet as swift as an antelope's, and stini^ like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping lias aad soaring lie?. Lies with attachment screws and raffl^rs and braiders and ready wound bo!> bins. Lies by Christian people, who never He except during elections, and lies by people who always lie. but beat themselves in a political campaign. ^ I confess I am ashamed to have a foreigner visit this country in these times. I should think he would stand dazed and dare not go out at nichts ! What will tho hundreds ot thousands of foreigners who com? here to live think of U3? What a disgust they must hare for the lan J of their adoption ! Tne only Rood thins? about it is that many of them cannot understand the English language. But I suppose the German 3nd Italian ami Swedish and French papers translate it all, and peddle out the infernal siulT to their subscribers. Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after awhile. The billingsgate and low scandul through which we wade almost 8very autumn must be rebukod by that raligioa which speaks from its two great mountains, from the one mountain intoning the oommand, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," and from the , ather mount making plea for kindness and lovo and blessing rather than cubing. 0 Christian me n. frown upon political falsehood! ltemembertiiat a political lie is as black as any other kind of a lie. God has recorded all the falsehoods that have been told at the city, State or National elections since the foundation of this Governmsnt, and though the perpetratora and their victims g % ' . \ V J i ma/- have gone into the dust, in the last day judgment will be awarded. The falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed into the ear of Blenaerhassett. the sianders that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed ibout George Washington, the misrepresentations in regard to James Monroe, areas fresh in God's book to-day as the lies that svere printed last week about our local can" 1 4? ' 4?1 -n aKnll hovtt thoiV np.rf I aiaaces. "Aau ah uoi? oumi u??v [ in the lake which ourneth with Are and brimi stone, which is the second deatn." Again, I counsel you as Christian men to set yourselves against the misuse of money in political campaigns. Of the thousands of dollars already spent this autumn, how much of the amount do you suppose has been properly used? You have a right to spend money for the publishing of political tracts, for the establishment of organisations for the carrying out or waat you consider to be toe best you have a right to appeal to the reason or men by argument and statistics and by facts. Printing and renting of public hnlls and political meetings cost money, but he who puts I a bribe into the hand of a voter or plies weak 3 .inf mAfivoa i men Wltn mercenary uuu uunuy^my,., commits a sin against God and the Nation. Bribery is one of the most appalling sins of this country. God says, "Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery." Have nothing to do with such a sin, 0 Christian man! Fling it from the ballot box. Hand over to the police the man who attempts to tamper with your vote, and remember that elections that cannot bo carried without bribes ought never to bo carried at all. Again I ask you as Christirn men to set yourselves against the dissipations that hoverover the ballot box. Let me say that no man can afford to go into political life who is not a teetotaler. Hot political discussion somehow creates an unnatural thirst, and hundreds of thousands of men have gone down into drunkenness through political life. After an exciting canvass through thd evening you must "take something," and rising in the morning with less animation than usual you must "take something," and going off among your comrades through the forenoon you meet political friends, aud you must "take something," and in the afternoon you meet other political friends, and you must "take something," and being night has come something has taken you. There are but few cases where men have been able to stand up against the dissipations of political life. Josepn was a noiiueian, Dut ne mainrainea his integrity. Daniel was a politician, but he was a teetotaler to the la?r. Abraham was a politician, but he was always characterized as the father, of the faithful. Mose3 !ps a politician, the grandest of them, but le honored God more than he did the Pharaohs. and there are hundreds of Christian men now in the political parties maintaining their integrity, even when they are obliged to stand amid the blasted, lecherous ani loathsome crew that sometimes surround the. ballot box?these Christian men doing their political duty and then coming back to the prayer meetings and Christian circles as pure as when they went out. But that is not the ordinary circumstance?that is the exception. : How often you see men coming back from the political conflict, and their eye is glazed, and their oheek has an unnatural flush, and they talk louder than they usually do, and at the least provocation they will bet, and you say they are convivial, or they are exceedingly vivacious, or you apply some other sweet name to them, but God knows they are drunk! Some of you, a month or six weeks ago, had no more religion than you ought to have, and after the elections are over to cal/tiiln+ia Katit mnoh rnlirrinn mil hflva lftff J 1 be a sum in vulgar fractions. Ob, the pressure is tremendous! How many mighty intellects have gone down under the dissipation of politics! I . think of one who came from the west Ha was able to stand opt against the whole American Senate. God had given him facN ulties enough to govern a kingdom, or to frame a constitution. His voice was terrible to his country's enemies and a mighty inspiration in the day of National peril. But twenty glasses of strong drink a day were bis usual allowance, and he went down into the habits of a confirmed inebriate. Alas for him! Thousrh a costly monument has been reared over bis resting place, the young men of thi3 country shall not be de| nled the awful lesson that the agency by i which the world was robbed of one of i;s i mightiest intellects, and our country of one j of its ablest constitutional defenders, was the I dissipation of political life. You want to j know who I mean? Young man. ask your | lather when you get home. The adverse tide is fearful, and I warn you against it. You need not go far off to find the worcI out politician. Here he is, stumbling along I the highway, his limbs hardly able to hold I him up. Bent over and pale with exbaust| ing sickness. Surly to anybody who accosts him. His last decent article of apparel pawned for strong drink. Giad if, when going by a grocery, some low acquaintance invites him in to take a sip of ale and then, wiping his lip with his greasy sleeve. Kicked off the steps by men who once were proud to be his constituents. Manhood obliterated. Lip blistered with a curse. Scars of brutal as-sault on cheek and brow. Foul m/Mirhnrf A f>miir?hiri!T stipirrtrimy. whenz ing wretch. No friends. No God. No hope. No heaven. That is your wornout politician. That is what some of you will become unless by this I morning's warning and the mercy of God I your steps are arrested. Ob, there are no | words enough potent, enough portentious, ' enough consuming, enough damning, to de| scribe the horrible drunkenness that has | roiled over this land, and that has bent down I the necks of some of the mightiest intellects, ' until they have been compelled to drink out ^ of the trouejh of bestiality and abomination! I warn young men against political life, un> less they are teetotalers and consecrated > Christian men. . Again, I counsel you that when you pro to the ballot box at the city, or the State, or the ' National elections, you recognize God and ' appeal to Hi for His blessing. There is a power higher than the ballot box, than the >niberntitorial chair, than the presidential I White House. It is high time that we put 1 i less confidence in political platform", and 1 | more confidence in God. See what a urealt I thing is human foresight! How little out j wise men seam to know! See how. every ! autumn fhrvicanfls of m?n whon.ru clamher 1 ! ing up for higher positions are turnod under! 1 i God upsets them. Every man. every party, i every Nation, ha3 a mission to perform. Fail; ing to perform it, down he goes. | God said to the house ot Bourbon, "BeI model France and establish equity." Housa 1 j of Bourbon would not do it. Down it went. 1 God said to the house of Stuart. "Make the i English people free, God fearing anil happy." House o< Stuart would no: do it. Down it went. God says to the political parties in this day, '*by tho principles of Christianity, remodel, govern, educate, sava the people." Failing to do tbat, down they go, burying in 1 their ruins their disciples and advocates. God can spare all the political intriguers of this day, and can raise up another cenera tion wno shall do justice and love mercy j If Goi could spare Luther oefore tho roI formation was done, and if He could spare ; Washington before irae govern went had bean : hilly tested, and if Ho could apara Howard before more than one oat o; a thousand I dungeons had bean alleviated, and if He I could tspura liobert AlcCheyne just as Sco:j land was cathering to his burning utterances, I ami if He could spare Thomas Clarksou j while yet millions of his fellow men had chains rusting to the bone?then Ho can j spare any man, and He can spare any party. That man who through cowardice or blind I idolatry ot party forsakes the cause of righteousness goes down, and the armed battalions I of God march over him. O Christian men. take out your Biole this ! afternoon, and in the light of that word j make up your mind as to what is your duty as citizens 1 Remember that the higufst kind of a patriot is a Christian patriot. Consecrate yourselves, first to Goj, then you will know how to consecrate yourselves , to your country. All these political excite| meats will be gone. Ballot l>oxes and guj bernatorial chairs ani continents will smo!<? in the final conflagration, but those who love God anl do their best shall come to lustrous dominion after the stars have ceased their shining, and the ocean has heaved its last billow, and the closing 1 thunder of the judgment day it\iall toll at the funeral of a world I Oh. preparo for that day! You may vote right and get the victory at | the ballot box, and ye'e suITer eternal defeat. I j After you have cast your lust vote, where will you go to? lu this country there aro two , parties. You belong to the one or the other of them. Likewise in eternity there will be two parties and only two. ''These shall go away into everlasting punishment and the righteous into life eternal." To which party | will you belong? God grant that, while you | look after the welfare of the land in which God has graciously cast your lot, you nay not forget to look after your soul?blood bought, judgment bound, immortal! God save the people! 4 SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOP NOVEMBER 26. Lesson Text: "The Christian Home,'* Col. iii., 12-25?Golden Text: Psalm cl., 2 ? Commentary. 12. Put on therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness. ions suffering." Because of the fullness that dwells in Christ and because all this is ours we ought to manifest it in our lives in the power and graces of the Holy Spirit (Gal. v., Z'Z7 Z3). vre are rue wect ur yuuocu u*. uuu to be holy in our lives because we have been made holy in Christ (Eph. i.. 4). 13. "Forbearins: one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any?even as Chri3t forgave you, so also do ye." A full commentary upon this is found in Math, xviii., 21-35. Then if any one should say. "How can I attain to it?*' the answer is. "My grace is sufficient for thee" (II Cor. xif., 9). We are His body, He is the head (chapter i., 18). and if the body is in health all the members are under perfect control of the Head. 14. "And above all these things put on charity (or love), which is the bond of perfectness." The best commentaries on this verse are I Cor. xif'. and X John iv. The spirit through Peter says, "Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves, for love covereth a multitute of sins" (I Pet. iv.. 8). Since God is love (I John iv., 8,16), it He dwells in us, this love cannot but bo manifest, for He is aiso Light, and light must shine. 15. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in oue body, and be ye thankful." Christ Himself is the peace of God. and He will delightfully rule in our hearts if we will only let Him. It is our part to yield ourselves unto Him as those that are alive from the dead (Rom. vi.. 13). 16. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and' hymns and spiritual" songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." It is our business to eat the word of God. and eat plenty of it and 'eat it continually (Jer. xv., 16: Job xsiii.. 12: Ezek. iii., 1-4); not simply read it, but meditate upon it (Ps. i., 2), digestif, make it our own. 17. "And whatever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him." or as in I Cor. x., 31. "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do. do all to the glory of God." This is the essence and the simplicity of the Christian life. Cur bodies became His abode or mansion (John xiv., 2, 23). for it is the same word in each verse, and surely it is right to refer all thinjrs to the Head of the house and let Him rule in His own house. 18. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord." The reason is given in Eph. v., 23, 24. that the husband is the head of the wife as C'brist is the head of the church, and in that chapter fUo .inolAm* la raforroH hanlr trt AHam Jinrl Eve. In I Pet. iif., 1, wives are exhorted to submission s order that they may win their husbands, and in Titus ii., 4, 5, that the word of God r>e not blasphemed. 19. "Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them." In Epb. v., 25, 28, the analog is "as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it," and it is said that he that loveth his wife loveth himself. Where there is this love on th' part of the husband, love will ordinarily be returned, and submission will be ea&j- all round. One has said that womau was taken from man's side to be on an equality with him, from near his heart to be loved by him, from under his arm to be protected by him, but not from his head nor his feet to rule over him or be trampled on by h'm. 20. "Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord." According to the law, a stubborn and rebellious son was to be stoned (Deut. xxi.. 18-21). and in Prov. xxx., 17. a terrible thing is written of the eve that mocketh at father and despiseth mother. The fifth commandment sums up the plain teaching on this point ( Ex. xx., 12), and the great illustration is Jesus Himself, who, wnile about His Father's business, was subject to Hi* parents until He was thirty years of age (Luko ii., 49-51). 21. "Fathers, provoke not you children to anger, lest they be discouraged." In Eph., vi.. 4. there ische addition, "but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of th? Lord." . We are to think of our Father in heaven and His love to us, and thus lovingly deal with our children. When He chastens it is in love, not in anger, and for our proilt that we may be partakers of His holiness (Hob. xli.. 10. 11). 22. "Otwyin all things your masters according to the flesh, but not with eye service, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God." Peter adds that this subjection to masters is to be not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward (I Pet. ii., 18), This is a word which reaches also to all Christians, for one of our highest titles is "sen-ants of Christ." 23. "And whatsoever ye do do it heartily, as to the Lord and not unto men." Even a? looked at under the sun, we are told that whatsoever our hand flndeth to do we are to do it with our might (Ecol. ix., 10). Jesut couid say concerning His service in relation to the Father. "I do alwavs those things which please Him" (John viii.. 29). We art to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, that we may provt what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Rom. xii., 1. 2). Let our motto be, "Unto Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood" (Rev. i., 5), 24. "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall re ceive tue rewaru 01 mo innnruniiue, iui yr servo the Lord Christ."' The question ol service brings up the question of wages. Salvation, forgiveness of sins, life eternal, is the gift of God and is ours in Christ when we receive Him (Bom. vi.,23 -.John i., 12). Then we begin to serve God aud to wait for Hi= Son from heaven (I Thess i., 9, 10 ;Titus ii., 11-13). Though unbelievers shall not come intojudgmeut for their sins (John v., 24 Isa. xliii., 25). we must appear before the judgment seat of Christ to have our service examined, and then shall every one receive his own reward according to his own labor (Uom. xiv.. 10 ; II Cor. v., 10 ; I Cor. iii., 8). All that has been done unto Him shall stand] while all else shall prove worthless. 25. "But he that doeth wrongshall receive for the wrons; which he hath (lone, and there is no r?spact of persons." A careful reading of I Cor. iii.. 11-15, will show the possibility of a Christian's works proving to be ouly wood, hay and stubble and consequently burned up in the day of the trial, leaving sueh a Christian saved as by tire. Jesus will prove a righteous judge?there is no unright eousness in Him. He shall not judge aftei the sight of His eyes, neither reprovo aftei the hearing of His oars, but with righteousness shall He judge (Jsa. xi., 3, 4.)?Lessor Helner. Many Miles in a Canoe. Warburton Pike, the English explorer, has just arrived at Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the interior of Alaska, having made a journey of over 4000 miles in a small canoe. He left Victoria, British Columbia, a year ago last July, for Fort Wrange), and thance proceeded to Stikeen lliver in a canoe through the Cassair country and followed the Dease River as far as the junction with the Laird tributary of the Mackenzie River. There he spent the winter hunting biff came. Late in the winter Pike started out with a dog sled for Francis Luke, which he crossed, and thence made the portage to the Pelly Lakes, getting into a country never beforo explored by white man. Spring had set in by the time the Pelly Lakes were reached, and crossing there Pike followed the P;lly Iiiver to its source. On his return he followed tin Pelly River to Lewis River, which ho followed to the Yukon. He then began a continuous jour nr-v of 12500 miles, which lasted for iwo raontl)3. He left the Yukon River near the const and made a porf;ii;o to Kuskoipiin River and tlx uce mauo his way around tlin coast to Fort Alexander, tho trip having lusted thirteen mouths. During the whole timo he met with no accident. Ho used tho same canoeallthrough. It weighs only one hundred pounds and is seventoen feet long. Mr. Pike formed a vary poor opinion of the interior of Alaska. He says it is absolutely worthless, except fot hunting. Game of all kinds is abundant. Only tho best of certain kimls of grapes are being gathered on the Stanford vineyan at Vina, Cal., as there is no market for pool grapes. In a portion of tho vineyard devot ed to the California or mission grapes, an-* other like qualities, the sbeap of the rancl are new running. It is considered bettei that the grapes should be oaten from th? vines than that thoy should rot on them. I RELIGIOUS READING. tl ' BE 8TILL jP It is often easier to do than to suffer the will of God. There is a pleaxureablo excitemeat in the employment of one's active pow<*rH in the service of Christ, a satisfaction in tl the consciousness of doing good. A little w grace, with favoring providence, may make a Christian hero; while abounding grace P' will onfR/in fn mnL*n n ^'hriaHan mnrtvr U' Bo still when persecuted aud slandered.? tl If unjustly accused, you may regard every ! epithet of abuse a< a badge of discipleship. Your divine Master and His apostles and wit- " uesses were marked in the same way. Then, aj too, every lie has the seeds of death withiu C( it. Let alone, it will die of itself. Opposition may look very formidable; it may seem as ' though the mountains were carried into the C midst of the sea: the waters thereof roar, aud tl be troubled; the mountains shake with the ^ swelling thereofbut the voice of wisdom cries. "Be still and know that I am God." 11 lie still when^hwarted in your* plans and t< disappointed in your hopes.?You are not re- g; sponsible for results. If you have sought trust worthy ends by lawful means, and have done vour utmost to attain them, the issue is "i of divine ordering, and should be 'no more tl the subject of murmuring or repining than B? the changes of the seasons or the rolling of , the spheres. rJ he purpose of God in your loss ~ or disappointment may not be obvious. You S may have to content yourself with the f< thought, "These are but parts of his ways.'' a, But the fact that they are his ways must _ hush the soul in quietude under the most & trvintr and mvstfirious crosses of life. Faith ii will take up Cowper'3 song: a: "Behind a frowning providence He hides u smiling face." Be still under sore afflictions.?They are 4. all deserved. They are .ill ordered of God. They are embraced among the "all things" b that shall work together for good to them u who love God. Murmuring does not lesson, 0 but rather increases the burden of griefs. Submitted to?acquiesced in?sanctified? 1( every sorrow may distill new joys; every f< affliction may work out "u far more exceed- 1 iug and eternal woi?ht of glory." Many a saint has never experienced the' infinite preciousncss of the gospel, until the rod of God is upon him. It is when in the vale, with eyes uplifted and mouth closed?"I was numb'"?that the stars of promise glisten on the spiritifal vision, and the sun of righteousness darts his rays of comfort and holy joy on the stricken soul.?Heber. A SHOUT SERMON OX HOXESTY. "In all thines willing to live honestly."? Heb. xiii. 18. To live honestly is to live justly and above reproach. It is to live so that no man, who knows how we live, can truly say any harm of us. Nothing is honest which is against justice or honor. One may be able to keep out of jail, and yet not "iive honestly." All stealing is dishonest. It may be a pin, or a marble, or an apple, that we steal, but if we take it slyly, it is stealing. It is wicked to steal from a brother or sister or parent. We may not steal anything even if we need it. The eighth commandment is "Thou shalt not steal." We may also be dishonest in borrowingfirst. when we do not need what we borrow, and then, when we keep it longer than we need it. or do not take good care of it. "In all thiugs live honestly." Some are not honest in buying and selling. Thoir rule is, to buy at all times as chcap as they can, and soil as dear as they can. This is a wicked rule. Wo often trade with those who do not know the worth of tho thing bought orsoM Ir is cheating them, to make the be^t bargain we can. Sometimes wo trade with those who are in great want, and we fix our own prices, and make them much 1 too high, if we sell, or too low, if we buy. x There is a fair price for everything. Let that be paid or taken for everything. Ho who is 1 just and true, and loves his neighbor as him- t self, will soon fiud out what a fair price is. r Almost all m>?n use too many words in buying . and selling, and when too many words are . used, there is almost always a lie somewhere, i a A. OLOaiOUS PBIVILEGE. 8 8 Shame on tho Christian who shirks church work! Shall one count it a task to fit one- ^ si If for comradeship with the kings and ? i queens of celestial courts? Is it an irksome duty to show gratitude for doliverance from eternal Uea.cn i1 une muse imve nean, 01 siono i to shrink from the opportunities and openings that arc calling to devoted and ardent . service for God and humanity. It gives the c t lie to any profession of Christianity if one r cherishes or indulge?; the indolence, apathy * or repulsion of the Adamie man. It isaroja! privilege, a unique and noble A heritage to which the child of God is called, a i To be a co-worker with the kingliest Man of ^ all the ages; to he a partner with God in tho , regeneration of a race, lifting it from ani- ' malism to C'hristliness; to teach a soul wis- t dom for eternity: to keep back a friend from ? falling into a bottomless pit; to work for the I coronation of some child that might other- _ wise live a felon's life; it is enough to thrill J i the nerves of a tailor's dummy. Is it nothing c i to you'/ f This will bo a year of the right hand of , the Most High. There Is no doubt that there J i will be many and precious ingatherings. .1 It must be so. The Mills meetings through- i out our western country have brought many ? i to Christ who are now ready to be used for j i his service. They must not be permitted to 1 ' grow cold before thoy learn tho joy of bring- 1 ? ing others to Christ. Hard times in business | i invariably bring men to the Lord, who be> came poor for us, that we might enjoy true waslth. Now for a glorious campaign! I ' "CHBISTIANITY IS TBCTII." j ThelateMr. Randall, solongadiatinguished c ? member of Congress from Pennsylvania, was j never a disbeliever of Christianity, though he did not become a member of the church 1 i until late in life; but he was always and c ' everywhere known as a believer in divine a t truth. The following anecdote is related by 1 one who knew him well: 'I was with him (some years ago) in his * 1 committee-room, with three or four members a : of Congress who were seated by the table, at j ihe head of w hich Mr. Randall sat busily en- rj 1 gaged with his correspondence. His worl: ! seemed to absorb all his attention, and he ap- ? peared to take no notice of whatever was said 2 in his hearing. The conversation took a t 1 philosophical turn and finally b.-'came a diB- j cussion of the Bible and Christianity, the tone of remark being decidedly skeptical, while y there was a strong atheistical sentiment in much that was said. '-The discussion went on for a time without seeming to interest the distinguished T> innotrltMiniut) TX'hr* cfill TUOnf AM loifll hi? ] work, reading and writing in tun usuai energetic manner. Before long he got up from ! his chair, pushed his papers aside, and stood1 for a moment at the eoruor of the table, with ^ the decided and positive expression of coun[ tsnanec which was so often noticed and remarked upon in the debates of the House of Representatives. 'Gentlemen," ho said with serious emphasis, 'Christianity is truth. The man who doubts it disparages his own intelli1 genre.' This was said in his most solemn 1 and impressive manner, and it at once silenced k {he discussion. A. moment later he left the rcom." i i " the rosrnvisT s prayer. Dr. Lyman Abbott has lieou criticising severely the theology of Positivism ; and. as a sort of reduetio ail abtniri/um, he has reconstructed the Lord's Prayer on Positivist lines .lu fnllnwa . lift,,. I,nifkn<n ,rhlnl< t i haliowcd be our name; our kingdom coma; our will be done on earth, for there is 110 heaven. We will get us this day our daily i bread. We will forgive no trespassers, for 'here is no forgiveness. We will fear no temptation, for we can deliver ourselves from i evil; and ours Is tho kingdom, and ours is the power, and there is no glory and no for over. r , to. 0 ? I r To Test the GunsSome interesting tests of rapid-fire guns of 0 tho six-pounder ealibre are to be undertaken during the next few weeks at tho Sandy Hook proving grounds, under tho direction of United States ordnance officers. It is de- a signed that these trial3 shall demonstrate to o the satisfaction of the experts the best typo (] cTwenpoL for general use and adoption by tnc uniiOQ states Army, ?uc ouij ma I i American models of Hotchkiss, Maxim. a I Driggs-Schroeder and others havo been en- ], i tered, but tho tests will also include many new rapid-fire guns of foreign manufacture. 1 Weapons of this class are of immense value i in modern warfare; and some noteworthy f results may be anticipated from the forth- g > coming trials at Sandy Hook. One Wetiidn'a Work. Miss Jessio Ackerman, President of le Woman's Christian Temperance nion, of Australasia, has led a busy ' fo. She is but thirty-three years of and hac compassed the world in 1 lnhnro in fho COtlSP nf CX UiiDOlUURljr luwvAw ??v v?? ie white ribbon. Miss Ackerman as born in Boston, July 4, 1860, of ilgrim and German stock. When she as about twelve years old she joined ie Good Te:nplars and began active ork for the good of society. At renty-one she became a grand lecturer ad organizer for that association and >ntinued the labor for seven years. In 1883 she united with the Woman's hristian Temperance Union, and aveled in British Columbia and laska, organizing local unions. Durlg that time she responded to a call ) go around the world and sailed from "" in Tor>iiQW 1 ftftQ Oil I'laUUlDUU XU vnuutMj) After laboring some time in the andwich Islands, New Zealand and le Australian colonies, Miss Ackerman liled for China, inspired by a sense of uty to arouse the women of the East, he found opportunity to speak be>re large meetings of students, and t various missionary conferences, and nally at Shanghai she gained the floor 1 the general missionary conference, ad amid great enthusiasm formed a fational "Woman's Christain Tempernce Union for China. She then reamed to the British colonies and laored incessantly until twenty new nions and a colonial union had been rganized in New South Wales. Then jllowed a general convention and the Drmation of the Woman's Christian 'emperance Union of Australia, with Iiss Ackerman as President. "* MISS JESSIE ACKERMAN. During four years (from 1888 to 892) this indefatigable young woman raveled over 4UUU miles, spoEe inrougn nterpretera in seventeen foreign ongues, built over 100 unions, adninistered 5000 pledges and drew over :000 women into the society. Capacty for hard work and organizing .bility . are not Miss Aokerman's only prings of power. From the platform he sways an audience with the force >f her appeal and the attraction of ler personal presence.?Star-Sayings. Excellence ot American Horses. Probably more and better horses are >wned in America per thousand of )opulation than in any other country, ind the farmer or corner grocervman, kt least in the North and "West, can md does keep as good a roadster as ha m'tv nabob?often a better one. Vhile the average horse lacks the disinctive characteristics of, race, he has ixceptionally good qualities. Ameriian horses are, as a rule, sure footed. There are more broken kneed nags in sabs and livery stables in England fourold than here. Smooth roads and evel meadows uniformly breed horses ess careful how they tread thau rough oads and stony pastures. The Eastern granite soil produces safer steppers han the clay of the South. ?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Stylish Dress. An exceedingly nice dress for home >r visiting wear is here shown. It is nade of natte silk in a charming shade >f fawn. The skirt is cut on simple ines and is less full than of yore, a ow of cut jet cabochons are placed ilose together right down the front, md on either side are bands of black atin ribbon, finishing with a bow at he hem. Two other rows of cabochons >re placed down the next seams, dividng the skirt into breaths or sections. The plain bodice is a decided and jTaoeful change from the various oose-fittiug dresses which have been he only wear of late. The trimming dea is continued from the shirt, as hown in the sketch; the sleeves, /jf II itiffed to tho elbow, have graceful i-wohIi.+l: nF will.- with black .sati.'i _ ihhon, unci the waistbelt is of black atiu, fashioned into a tiuy puff on n each hip. A Rahway (X. J.) widow, who had towed away ?500 in small bills in uu Id bureau drawer, discovered two ays ago that her hoard htid been conerted into fractional currency by . lice. The moral is that hoarding nt ?- .. ?. . i om<! Ill uutiKM nuii i'orut'1!) in u nsn ray of banking. Seigneur was the title originally j iyeu to the ruler of a district. / The Chimpa. The chimpu is a reckoning device till employed in some remote parte of Peru and Bolivia. It consists prin* A jipally of a certain number of corda THE CHI1EPU. R tied together at one of their extremities and along which slide small per forated balls. The cords are of different colors and the balls are made of * the shells of various fruits. These ^ balls can be strung all at the same , time upon all the cords or upon a cer rain numoer uuy. The Indian thus haa a mean3 of ere- ^ ating for himself catagories of juxta- g posed numbers corresponding in our ? processes to as many columns as there are cords in the apparatus. If, as it ^ happens, moreover, the native calculator decides that the balls strung a * single time shall represent units, that those through which two cords pass shall equal tens, etc., he will be able ^ to represent any numbers whatever ^ He will figure, for example, as1 in Mr. j Ber's drawing, the figur6 4456 by stringing six balls on one cord, five on j two cords, four on three cords and ^ four on four cords. The little instru- ^ ment once tied at the lower extremity, j ae it was previously at the^upper, will ^ indefinitely preserve the* quadruple numbers which will have thus been j confided to it. ^ Big Mussels. 1 Some very fine specimens of mussels were brought to this city from Mendocino City by Purser W. H Paddock, of the steamer Point Arena, MENDOCINO MUSSELS. which cam? into port during the morning. He brought a sack of them down for Ned Short, the wharfinger on the dock, but that individual had so many of his friends call on him and ask for a couple that he did not have more than half a dozen to take home. Any single one of the mussels would mafep a fair meal bv itself. The bi- | valves ranged in size from five to eight inches in length, were from an incn , and a half to two and 'a half inches wide, and from an inch to two inches ^ in thickness. They are monster mus- ^ sels. The meat is not as coarse as j would naturally be expected and the nmssel flavor is all there. These bivalves grow on the rocks all 1 along the coast. At Mendocino City, where the specimens drawn in the cut were taken at low tide, the mussels ( grow very fast. They are dislodged 1 from their holdings on the rocks by means of a sharp spade. Coasting . j steamers at outside ports lie within a few yards of high rocks and bluffs off 1 Mendocino, and it is a favorite pas- , time of the crew to launch a boat and secure a mess of mussels. ?San Francisco Chronicle. Old A?c Not Reverenced in Katchin Land. Onco we came to a clearing on a narrow saddle where a lup, or conical thatched tomb of a Sawbwa stood out black against the sky, surmounted by a fantastic cross, looking in the i gloom like the writhing body of some J crucified malefactor. Near it was a scaffold, built of four tall bamboos, J towering above the forest trees, but the details of its top lost in the dark- ( ness. I could see, however, that it was approached by a rough bamboo j ladder, and its whole appearance was somewhat similar to that of early models of the guillotine. I learnt afterward that it was an altar to Van, j the spirit of the sun, and is used by ( some Kiiteliin tribes for gently re- ^ minding their aged relatives of the ^ impropriety of clinging too long to j their fleshly tenements. Having been j politely and tenderly conducted to the y L C tl.A +1%?\ IirA 1 up Ul till? liiunui, uu v/m .?V T prodded with long bamboos, trom below, until overstepping the limits of their narrow restiug-plaee, as thoy bad previously done those of life, ( their souls anil bodies take different ( routes. ?Scribner's Magazine. , The exact distance from either the 1 North or South Pole to the Equator, ( measured aloug the earth's surface, is ^ exactly GOUO. miles. -1 m THE MATABttE. l SOUTH AFRICAN "NATION O# THIEVES AND BEGGARS. I very On? Sav^ tlio Ring Takes 4 Hand In Begging and Stealing ?Their Military System . and Superstitions. rTTHE Matabele, of South Africa* I' ' with whom England has been | having considerable trouble, 6 are a Nation of beggar. They ,re thievish as gypsies, and for im? lortunate demands for grataities dia* ount the lazzaronf of Naples. These />; )ractices are characteristic of all, rom the highest to the lowest. Indunas of the most elevated rank ittach no idea of shame to the act oi dealing, nor is it beneath the dignitj ?f a member of the King's council toripend hours day after day in begging :rom a white man's camp. They look xpon the white man solely as a conrenient repository of desirable articles, ymcn csu ce Deggea or sicien irons , ivv -J lim without scruple or loss of self " v J'&M respect. Their conversation in hia;ent consists mainly of entreaties that le will do himself the honor of con- . 'erring upon them guns, or jam, or lis hat, or his boots, or anything that s his.' If he neglects to watch them ihortly after their departure someihing or other will surely be missing; t may be spoons, or a few knives, or a imall ax, or a jar of preserves, or " tome other littlo keepsake of the kind.' In tii3 whole Matabele Nation there s said to be "only one man who does lot beg of the white man, and that one - : ' s the Kinor. But then there is little 'Vjfs ;hat lie can want. He has such nam* )ers of cattle that many of them die rearly of old age; his people keep ' kl lim -well supplied with corn and beer 5 ' . he subject tribes who own hia rule lend him tribute in ivory, Bkins, and articles of native manufacture; every, vliite man who enters the country wrings him presents of guns, blankets, jowder, champagne, while from the soncessionaires to whom he has grant;d mining rights he receives a good, -V&li round sum in English sovereigns, paid , ?$?? ;o' him at each now moon. He has iroops of slaves? Whatever skilled abor he may require for thatching, tainting, gun mending, and the like s supplied generally for nothing by, k.lll ihe white men who live in the coun .rjr. YTueutJvc* no ueouo wum w* v"U rv8 jeada for the replenishment of the V7,'^ wardrobes of his eighty odd wives he lends down an order, and generally* . <|2 argeone, to the traders at the storer . vho cannot well refuse to supply him.'* . [t appears that thd King does some* "1-1 ;imes pay for the goods fchich he ha# ^ )rdered, but nayor until a long while liter he has received them, and the ife of the white trader in Matabeland is described as anything but prosper- . ius and satisfactory. The military system' of the Nation is still much the same as that of the Zu- '? .us, from whom the Matabele are de- . jcended. When the king wishes ta raise a new regiment nu v?us uut *? lumber of the young men.^ Certain! lands are allotted to them*. Flocks ind herds are given them, which thai i regiment keep up for its own benefit! Fhe regiment builds its own kraal, has its own induna, and lives there under, bis command till such time as ite members, having seen sufficient servJ ice, lvo given their head-rings by the 1 rKing, allowed to marry and to retire into the reserve and live anywhere -'-4 ;hey please. Till the soldiers get their iead-rings they are known as matjakaj >r "young braves." After they have jot them they are madoda, or men. j One of the most general supersti-f ' r':A ;ions is an earnest belief in witches) *nd witchcraft. This is part of the re^ igion of the Matabele and the practice of "smelling out" the witches and ;he attendant massacre of the latter !Vvo? aas caused much trouble to the English Httliovmos in .iYiriuau bbubiuua. uur / s it only the accused man who suffers.! Sis wives, his relations, his slaves, and! sometimes his cattle are on occasions slaughtered frith him. The terror of aritchcraft which prompts these masiacrcs applies generally to all agencies irhich the natives do not understand > \ ind over which they havo no control.: But, curiously, while they fear the - jpells of their own people, they do not ipparontly entertain any fear that the tvhite men will bewitch them. It is jaid that the Matabele are beginning to recognize the superior efficiency ot the white man's medicine, and thatbis usually gratuitous practice seriously interferes with that of the old! established herb doctors who expect to be feed. The King himself doos what little rain rW.fcorinff the climate reauires. ind on oue occasion ordered the cessation of revolver practice in the European settlers' camp lest the sound of the gnns should frighten the rain away when he was engaged in his incantations. The "magic broth" which the witch doctors brew is still sometimes sprinkled on the trees and the King'u r~--;gatw kraal and wagons, and even on the royal person of the King himself, in 'fflm : time of war in order to preserve them from evil influences and to make the Bullets of the enemp miss fire. It i3 wonderful how this Nation^ ~ small 03 it is, has managed to make its ; .VySM came ureailcd from the borders oi British Bcehuanaland right up to the Zuunbesi, and from tho lake to the country claimed by the Portuguese. For the Matabclc Nation in itself is insignificant. Of the inhabitants of - - ' ? * x . Matablc proper (a strip 01 country ibout 100 milos long by fifty broad, which would include fill the kraals of the Matabele us distinguished from their subject races, the Makalaka and Muslioim), two out of every three are dare*. In the very heart of the Mataiicle kingdom there are two slaves to .very one of the dominant race. If ho slaves wero to rise any day, had hey only pluck, they might almost jeat their oppressors, even if they tad ,q-> ?->tlier :?rm? tuau the hoes with ffkich ILtry till the Alatabclo eerniolds. Hare Cure J or Corns. "?i:cpk> ne-jcl not suffer from corns )r othf'1* pedal troubles if they "will sbaugo thoir shoes thrco times a day," isseuis a man who ka3 tried the expermeat. "Where oue pair pinches an>thcr sets easily, and frequent jhan^cs of footgear k<>ep the circula ion :n uraor unci me roso uuuuxju" ;.rcd."?Uliicngo Herald.