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j? HE-ASSEMBLES
SCENES AT THE CONVENED
! OF THE FEFTY-THEED TEBIl.
I
Crowds of Spectators in the Galleries
of Both Houses?The Day's Sessions
Devoted to the Reading of
j the President's Message?No Busi i
ness Transacted.
f The Fifty-third Congress met in regular
session at noon on its Constitutional day of
assemblage, and in a brief time had resumed
business in both Houses. The extraordinary
session, called by President Cleveland
for the purpose of repeal*
ing the purchasing clause of the Sherman
Silver law, adjourned on November 3d. one
day more than a month before, and so the
^ meeting was more in the nature of a re
? - ?? ?? A#- fhA Ancnut
assemoiuiK ?uci <* - t
meeting both Houses had been organized.
committeos appointed, and patronage
distributed. so that the
f session was robbed of the interesting excitement
that generally accompanies theuneetlng
of a new Congress. There was no election ot
Speaker to create enthusiasm or arouse political
animosities, no new Senators to be strorn
In, no new Members to besiege the Speaker
}for committee assignments, and altogether
the meeting was quite a featureless one. Yet
* (the interest in this session, as indicated
by the gallery attendance, was great, for
the first scenes in both branches were witmessed
by throngs as large as the seating
capacity of the gallery would permit.
(Two hundred and sixty-two Representatives
Answered the first roll call in the House, and
there was more than'a quorum present in
/the Senate Chamber.
- - - * ? TT!?? D.aaMnnP
f la tbe senate, mo tap ui ? 4VO?* ioaivivMi *
jStevenson's gavel was heard precisely as the I
hands of the gilt-rimmed dock over the main I
entrance pointed to the hour of 12. Then I
the blind chaplain, Mr. Milburn. of Illinois,
offered tbe opening prayer. It was brief,
earnest ' and eloquent, but not in any way
sensational or dramatic, as was frequently
the case when Mr. Milburn was chaplain
of the House of Representatives. At
the outset of the proceedings the new leaders
of the Senate in the changed relation of
parties came immediately to the front The
echo of the chaplain's amen had scarcely died
away before Mr. Cockrell, Democrat. Chairman
of the Committee o! Appropriations..
(Was on his foet to move the customary
(resolution to notify the House. Mr. Sherjman.
Republican, took the lead on the other
x jside of the chamber by suggesting that a call
of the rull was the first thing in order. This
jpoint being admitted to be well taken, the
iclerk called the roll and fifty-six answered
'to their names. Three other senators saw- i
sequent] y entered the chamber, making flftynine
present out of a present total
of eighty-five (threo vacancies). Mr.
iMcPhereon moved the appointment of
a committee to wait upon the
, President in conjunction with a similar com.mittee
to be apointed by the House of Representatives,
to inform him that Congress
was organized and ready for business. Mr.
McPhersen and Mr. Sherman were named by
the Vice-President as such committee,
'.Then Mr. Harris, at 12.10 o'clock, moved
that the Senate take a recess for one hour,
and this motion being oarried the interest
In the proceedings lapsed for that period.
(When the Senate again resumed its session.
Mr. McPherson and his associate on the
Senate Committee. Mr. Sherman took their
stand in the doorway and Mr. McPhersen announced
the intention of the President te
~ ? ? liftnona
Immediately communicate iu uutu uviuu
of Comrrees a message in writing. Assistant
Private Secretary Pruden immeIdiately
emerged from the cloakroom, and
Doorkeeper Bassett announced ua message
Ifrom the President of the United States."
Secretary Cos immediately entered upon its
reading in a distinct voice, and at the conclusion
tho deaths of Representatives
O'Neill and Lilly, of Pennsylvania, were announced,
and after tho adoption of the
usual resolutions of respect the Senate adjournert.
i In the House at 12.01 o'clock the Speakct
called for order and prayer was offered by
the chaplain, who touchingly referred to the
death, and.long public sen-ice of the late
Representative O'Neill, o* Pennsylvania. The
iroll was then called to ascertain
the presence of a quorum. The roll call disclosed
the presence of 242 members, and the
(Speaker declared the House ready tor the
{transaction of business. The following
committee was appomieu ny iue opcu^c* iu
wait upon the President and inform him
that the House was ready to receive any
communication he might wish tc
make. Messrs. Wilson. Democrat, Oathwaite.
Democrat, and Burrows, Republican.
Mr. Haines offered a resolution providing
that a committe be appointed to investigate
the strike on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, ita
causes and effect, and, if possible suggest u
remedy. The House thon, at 12.55 o'clock,
took * recess for fifteen minutes. At 1.35
o'clock Executive Clerk Pruden appeared in
the House and delivered the President's mes*
rage, which the Cierk was directed
by the Speaker to read. When he Lad con
i eluded the deaths of Representatives O'Neill
[and Lilly of Pennsylvania wore announced
/and after tho adoption of the usual resolu'tions
of respect the House adjourned.
collision"in a fog.
Blany Persons Killed and Injured by
a Railway Wreck in Italy.
An express train bound from Milan, Ita'.y,
, ;'to Venico collided with a freight train at
'midnight at Limitro station in a fog. Two
passenger coaches were completely shattered.
The wreck took Are from the overturned
engines.
Thirteen persons were killed and twentytwo
were seriously injured. The wounded
were taken to Milan and placed in hospitals.
All the employes of Limitro station and
^numerous citizens hastened to the scene of
the disaster to lend assistance in rescuing
the injured.
Teleirrama were sent to Milan and other
places asking for assistance, and a train arrived
in a short time from Milan with doctors
to care for the injured and a company of
soldiers to aid in rescuing.
In tho meantime the rescuing party had
cut away the burning woodwork with axes,
and streams of water were poured upon the
wreckage, under which a number of passengers
were inextricably jammed.
Some of the victims met with horrible
death*, being cremated before the eyes of ,
the spectators, who were powerless to help
them'owing to the impossibility of removing
the heavy masses of woodwork with which
they were surrounded. Other unfortunates
were only extricated to die in. the arms of
their rescuers.
All the injurod men were suffering from
burns, mid most had broken limbs. In some
cases immediate amputation was necessary.
! R A IT/ROAD STATISTICS.
Some interesting Information Con-.
{ corning Our Common Carriers.
I la its normal report, just made public, tho
Interstate Commerce Commission says that,
although the expectations have not been
fully realized, the operation and administration
of the statutes havo brought about reforms
in transportation vrhich, compared
with the evils that existed prior to the law,
amount to commercial emancipation.
The commission gives the total railway
mlleago on Juna 30 as 171,563.52. an increase
VI ijioi/. (O : luc luiiti uuuuci ui laiaiuj wiporations
was 1832, an increase of thirtyseven
during tbe year. Eight hundred and
ninety-nine maintained independent operating
accounts and 712 were independent companies.
The total capitalisation reported was $10.226,748,134.
There were CC0.03S.211 passengers
and 709,555,471 tons or freight carried
during the year. Tho gross earnings were
$1,171,407,343 and the net earnings $300,400,847.
There were 821,415 persons oniployod in
railway service during the year, of whom
2554 were killed in accidents and 23,267 were
injured, while 375 passengers were killed
and 3237 ware Injured.
The dead body of a colored tramp was
Of T.ftnio \Tr% />mahAri hatvAAn th?
lvuuu ai uu mvui^ v* ?.
top of a pile of lumber and the roof of the
car loaded with it. The man had crawled on
top of the lumber and gone to sleep, and the
lumber, which waa damp, swelled and
crushed him.
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LATEB NEWS.
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Mrs. C. kerleb, and her daughter, Mrs.
Flora Martin, were murdered at their home
near St. Joe, Penn. Harper Whitmire is suspected
of the deed.
The New York Locomotiva Works In
Rome, N. Y., one of the largest establishments
of the kind in the country, was nearly
entirely destroyed by Are. The establishment
was worth between 8400,000 and $500,
000. The lossis about $350,000.
Discovert of dishonesty on the part of J.
H. Louis, managing clerk, who afterward
attempted suicide, is said to have caused the
failure of the big New York clothing firm of
N. J. Schloss A Co. j
The managers of the Ferris Wheel at
the World's Fair grounds decided to remove
it to New York as soon as a permanent site
has been secured.
It is reported from Hawaii, by way of San
Francisco, CaL, that Minister Win is n&f
made a statement that he is awaiting instructions
and that he will maintain the
peace in Honolulu. The revenue cuttet
Corwln sailed from San Francisco with, it is
believed, instructions for Minister Willis at
Honolulu.
A Stat* Banking law has been passed by
the Georgia Legislature.
Thk President sentto the Senate the following
nominations: (Failed of confirmation at
last session.)?William B. Hornblower of
New York, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. John B.
Riley of New York, to be Consul-General of
the United States at Ottawa, Canada. To be
Consuls of the United States: H. Clay Armstrong,
Jr., of Alabama, at Grenoble,
Franco; Newton B. Ashby, of Iowa, at DubJin,
Ireland; Marcellus L. Davis, of Arkansas,
at Merida, Spain ; Benjamin Lenthier, of
Massachusetts, at Sherbrooke, Canada;
Frank W. Roberts, of Maine, at Barcelona,
Spain. r (
M. Duptjt was elected President of the
French Chamber of Deputies, to succeed M.
Casmir-Perier, who has become Prime Minister.
M. Dupuy was the French Prime
Minister prior to the recent crisis.
SiIgnob Zanardelli has at last succeeded
'a forming a Ministry in Italy.
Grand Master Sabgettt, of the Brother*
hood of Locomotive Firemen, announced
that the Lehigh strike had been declared off
on a fair compromise, mon to go back as
rapidly as places can be found for them. The
end was brought about by the Boards of Arbitration.
Mast of the World's Fair buildings are
going to pieces under the weight of the
snow.
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U.nly eiguieeu uoiokqiot uicuum .-?
Miners' Convention at Salida, Col., in response
to Governor Waite's call.
A statue of General James Shields was
unveiled in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol.
The President sent to the Senate the "following
nomination : Joseph B. Doe, of Wisconsin,
t? be Assistant Secretary of War.
A demand for fractional silver for the
Christmas trade was made on the Treasury,
and the coinage of $100,000 in new fifty and
twenty-five cent pieces was ordered.
The loss from the great coal strike in England
is estimated at more than $165,000,000,
and the number of people made destitute at
o caa nnn
yvoi tf,vwfvw.
Influenza is spreading in Europe; t'aere
were seventy-four deaths from the disease in
a week in London.
Sioxob Zanabdklli resigned the Italian
Premiership, being unable to form a harmonious
Ministry ; the Independanco Beige
prints a rumor that King Humbert Is thinking
of abdication.
A traitor in the crew of the Brazilian
cruiser America, whioh sailed from New
York for Rio Janeiro on November 26, so
seriously injured the ship's maohinery that
she will be unable to proceed on her voyage
for several weeks. The vessel is at Bridgetown,
Barbados.
ONLY ONE SAVED.
Wreck of the Steamship Jason at
Kastham, Mais.
The British shin Jason, which went ashore
off Eastham, Mass., in the-storm broke
in two amid ships. 'Her main and mizzea
masts are gone, and every man of her
crew on board, numbering twenty-six. were
washed into the sea and lost. Samuel J.
Evans, her only survivor, who was washed
Kshore, tells this story of the voyage of the
Jason:
We sailed from. Calcutta last February
with a full cargo of juto butts for Boston.
Two days after leaving port we were nearly
dismasted in a storm and had to put into
Mauritius for repairs. During the gale our
mate was washed overboard and lost. Wo
came in through South Channel and shaped
our course for Boston. We had no observation
for two days, but Captain McMillan
thought we were wide off Cape Cod, and wo
kept on our course. At 3.30 in tho afternoon
we made breakers under. oar
lee, and a few moments later saw
the land. We shook out our upper topsails
and tried to drive by tho Cape: but we had
no sea room, and at 7:15, llnding that we
must soon strike, the ship was headed for the
beach. The Captain had been below examining
his charts. On reaching the dock he
cried, ''We are lost!"
The ship struck with fearful force, and we
all sprang lor the lifeboats. Before we could
cut the lashings the spars began to fall, and
the vessel to go to piecee. This was too much
for the boys, and they all rushed for the lee
mizzen rigijing. Only half of them succeeded
in-gaining a footing. Some of them were
swept overboard and ware seen no more.
I clung, desperately to the rigging for a
few moment*, when a great wave broke my
grip and I went into tho howling sea. I
thouirht it was my end. but the water threw
me hero an 1 there for a while when suddenly
I found myself ou the sand. Soon men came
apd took me to the life saving station. I am
thankful that I am saved, but my poor shipmates
aro all gone. Ail of them had Jlfe
preservers on and I don't see why s6me of
ihem could not reach the shore as well as I.
ME. OLNETS REPORT.
A Year's Work in the Attorney-General's
Office.
The annual report oI Attorney-General 01neyshows
that the volume of the business of
the Federal courts is rapidly increasing. The
number of criminal prosecutions pending in
theCircuit and District Courts of tho United
States on July l, 1893, was 9385 against 3808
pending in the same courts July 1, 1885,
while the expenses of the United States
Courts, exclusive of judge's salaries, inourred
and paid in the tlscal year 1893 were
84.528.67C. auainst $2,874,703 incurred and
paid for the like expenses in the fiscal year
1885. Gratification is expressed at the Supremo
Court's progress in overcoming the
arrears of business which, until the establishment
of the Circuit Courts of Appeal,
steadily increased.
The Attorney-General recommends that
the system of supporting United States prisoners
should be*changed. There aro 1181
United States convicts confined in the various
penal institutions of the country, from
Maine to California, and he believes that immediate
steps should be taken for the erection
of at least two penitentiaries iind one reformatory,
capablo of accommodating all
prisoners sentenced to long terms by the
United States courts.
Data collected during the trial trip of the
United 3tates cruiser Columbia show that
ahA in the fnateftt stnftmshln In the w?rM
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mTEMAL" AFFAIRS.
Report of Secretary Smith, of th
Interior Department.
Secretary of the Interior Smith la h
annual report says that during the year nil
additional forest reservations have be<
created, making a total of fifteen, and en
bracing an estimated area of 18,053,4
acres. Legislation providing for a Wise ar
comprehensive forestry system is recor
mended.
The Secretary says that hardship incurrt
by applicants at the opening of the Cherok<
Strip was an unavoidable result when i
large a crowd, far in excess of the land to t
obtained, was preparing to rush madly upc
it. No care of the department oould hai
lessened the intense heat or prevents
the stifling dust. The scarcity of wat
was due to drought, which had dried i
many of the usual sources of water suppl
and when over twenty thousand persons gat
nf n. ainHft hftOth
was impossible to place all the booths at li
cations suited for entry, and also to And
sufficient water supply. It is believed tha
aside from these hardships, tho plan adopt*
was carried out to a successful conclusioi
and that it prevented to a large extent tl
wrongful occupancy of land by people wt
were Dot entitled to settle thereon, whic
marked the first opening of Oklahoma.
Referring to the Cherokee Indian alio
ments the Secretary says that he sought ui
successfully to dissuade those represents
the Indians from seeking to select ton
sites for speculative purposes. In order i
defeat the pltths of the Indian speculators 1
approved the allotments made, but ftx<
town sites in such a way as to thwart the
schemes.
The payment of Indian depredation olain
?.ill ~U? ? -U ?? mUliAno r\f ^Allam on
Will ttU?UIU uimu.y uiiftivua vt uvtuuo) iw
the policy of subjecting tne Treasury to thi
strain i9 questioned.
The recent troubles in the Choctaw Nati(
are referred to at length, and the Secretai
urges the prompt passage of the bill no
pending before Congress extending tl
jurisdiction of the United States Courts I
the Indian Territory so as to include tl
right of removal of all cases where local pr
judico is shown, without regard to citizej
ship.
The Secretary calls attention to the sto
page of payment of illegal pensions in Nc
folk, Va.; New Mexico and Iowa, and es
mates the amount saved to be nearly equ
to the salaries of the entire force of sped
examiners, although the work has been
progress but six months. The Secretary e
plains and defends the policy of suspends
certain persons.
The Secretary says: "I now feel all con
dene a that every effort is being console
HmulrmaH* tn hrinc th* nnnSlIS to a clO!
and to roader it as useful as possible wh
finished." It is estimated that an additioi
appropriation of $500,000 will be neoessa
to continue the work after February 1st.
PE0MINENT_PE0PLE.
IbaD. Sajikzt, the evangelist, is flfty-thr<
Rosa Boxastrn, the animal painter, w
born at Bordeaux, France, and isnowseve
ty-one.
Cornelius Vasdehbilt Js said to ha
given $1,000,000 to religious work in the U
two years.
Even in premtersbips tho record has gtv
way under M. Tricoupis, who has becoi
Prime Minister of Greece for the. fifth tin
Thomas P. Egax, of Cincinnati, who is
goto Antwerp in Mayas a United Stiti
commissioner, began his career on a snia
of $2 a week.'
Oijb ex-Minister to England Edward
Phelps takes his recreation when at leisu
from his exacting professional and colic
duties by driving a favorite span of cheetn
horses.
Ex-President Harbison's favorite tune
"The Soldier's March," from Gounoi
" Ua /inn n Af m Inafo a a ft r*n
L'auni, uy UOUUVl UH7VliUUUUVWf U0 ? A w
between tunes, but iu this case he recogniz
the time instantly.
The second medalist of the Royal Ge
graphical Society ihis year (M. Selous, tl
African explorer, being the first) was Woo
land Rockhill, an American diplomatist, wl
had made himself famous by his explor
Hons in western China and northeaste,
Thibet.
A wohaniy trait of Queen Victoria of En
land is her intanse love for-little cbildrenlove
which she shares with ever}* other mei
ber of her family. She delights in bavir
the small creatures about her, and nothii
so quickly brings tears to her eyes as
pathetic story about a ohild.
Mabvin Hdohitt, who controls the ra
Chicago and Northwestern Railway systet
with its 10,000 miles of tracks, begnn b
onpAAp hv wafo? tn a/v
structioii hands on an Iowa Una. Ho wi
then a boy of fourteen and at sixteen ho wj
a station agent with a salary of $35 a mont
The new Assistant Secretary of State. M
Uhl, is a country'boy. His parents are p!al
farmer folks who live near Ypsiianti, Mic
Ho saw some very tough times when goii
to college at Ana Arbor. Mich. He used I
walk from Yp6ilantito Ann Arbor, a distant
of ten miles, every Monday morning, retur
ing home on foot every Friday night. Tl
object of this was to save a board b ill ov
Sunday.
nni-kt at mrrr w/ydtti
UUUl V/X X 11.11 if Viujyi
Director Preston's Report on tt
Work of Our Mints.
B. E. Preston, Director of the Mint, hj
submitted to the Secretary of the Treasui
a report 'of the operations of the mints at
assay offices for the fiscal year ended Jui
SO, 1893. It shows that the value of the go
deposited, including redepoeita, during tl
fiscal year 1893, at the mints and assi
woo ?rj? ftso onk nf fhin ??s tfm h
was classified as of domestic prod action. TJ
amount ot silver deposited aggregated 71
135,706 standard ounpes, ot the coining vali
in silTor dollars of'$851106,367,
The value of the coinage executed at tl
United States Mints during the fiscal yei
was; Gold. $30,038,140; silver dollars. ?
343,715; su&sidiiry silver coin, $7,217.22
minor oolc, $1,066,102; total, $43,686,17
The number of pieces coined was 97,280,87
The coinage of the world for the calendi
year 1892 is stated to have been ; Gold, $161
917.337; silver, $143,096,239.
The stock of metallic money in the Ucit<
States, July 1. 1893,is estimated to have bee;
Gold, $597,697,686; silver, $615,861,484 ;tot?
ft-to CCO 1CQ A# 4n a
Ly&lOyUUV) IUJ> AUG aiUVUUl VI JLUUUOJ IU O
tive circulation, exclusive of the amount he
by the Treasury, is stated as $1,596,701,245.
The report contains a table exhibiting tl
approximate stock of gold, silver, and u;
covered paper money in the principal con
tries of the world, aggregating: Gold, ${
901,900,000 ; silver, $3,931,100,000 ; uncover*
paper money, $2,700,000,000.
The production of the precious metals
the world during th? calendar year 1892,
estimated to have been: Gold, $138,861.00
silver. $196,158,800.
Soldiers Exempt From Prosccutto
A civil court at Bilt Lake City has e?ta
Ilshed a pi$eodent by deciding that a soldi
tried by court martial for killing a man ai
acquitted,' is exempt from prosecution f
the same Dffenco by a civil court. The ca
was that of Lieutenant B. B. Buck, of tl
Slxtaenth Infantry, stationed at Fo
Douglas, Utah, who i!i Juno last ordered
civilian, who was crossing the reservation 1
halt, and on no attention being paid to tl
order, and there beingsuspicion against hir
the Lieutenant ordered two unlisted men
shoot, and the civilian was fatally wounde
Bu-:k was tried by n court martial und
General McCcok'a orders and acquiitn
when the civil authorities tookthe matter u
An Untamed Gas Well.
The gas woll drillod on the farm of Charl
Gibbs. five miles northeast of GreenQold, Inc
got beyond control and tore up everythii
in sight, one day recently. The workm<
had just packed the well and pot it socure
auchored down when, all of a sudden, 61
feet of the casing were sent flying in the ai
A. loud report was heard, and the tubin
weighing 10,200 pounds, ascended heavoj
ward. The derrick was torn almost 1
pieces. The tubing was scattered far ar
wide, pieces falling as far as 400 feet from t:
well.
The flow of gas Is estimated at 30,000,0
oubio feet per day, and the gas rushed o
and roareu' like a Uttlo Niagara.
i REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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I'-UHi BltUUivu x ;? ui v im ci s ou jDAY
SERMON.
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;n Subject: "The Mission of the Frost."
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10 Text ; "By the breath of God frost is
td given." Job xxxvii., 10.
Q* Nothing is more embarrassing toanorgan,
1st or pianist than to put his finger on a key
>a of the instrument and have it make no re'e
sponse. Though all the other keys are in
J0 full play, that one silence destroys the music.
>0 So in the great cathedral of Nature, if ono
m part fails to praise the Lord the harmony is
halted and lost. While fire and ball, snow
and vapor, respond to the touch of inspiraer
tion, if the frost made no utterance the
lP orchestral rendering would be hopelessly
y* damaged and the harmony forever incomplete.
I am more glad than I can tell that
lt the white key of the frost sounds forth as
I mightily as any of the other keys, and when
14 David touches it in the Psalms it sounds
: forth the words, "He scattereth the'hoar
' frost like ashes." and when Job touches it in
tt' my text it resounds with the words, "By the
10 breath of God frost is given."
'? As no one seems disposed to discuss the
mission of frost, depending on divine help I
. undertake it. This is the llrst Sabbath o(
winter. The leaves are down. The warmth
has gone out of the air. The birds have
made their winged march southward. .The
' landscape has been scarred by the autumnal
^ equinox. The huskers have rifled the corn
; SHOCKS, xne ui^ui ?ny iiiwi siiuwu mc usuai
meteorio restlessness of November. Three
seasonsof the year are past, and'the fourth
and last has entered. Another element now
'? comes in to bless and adorn and instruct the
world. It is the frost. , The palaces of this
king are far np in the arctic. ' Their walls
are glittering congelation. Windsor castles
and Tuileries and winter palaces and
Kdnilworths and Alhambras of ice,
temples with pendant chandeliers ol
i? ice, thrones of iceberg on which
eternal silence reigns, theaters on
whose stage eternal cold dramatizes eternal
^ winter, pillars of ice, arches of ice, crowns
of ice, chariots of ice, sepulchers of ice,
I 4_j? .1 ^$ i?
mountains UL ice, uumiuiuua ui ico?oioiuiu
P" frigidity! From those hard, white, burnished
!*" portals King Frost descends and waves his
, silvery scepter over our temperate zone.
! , You will soon hear his heel on the skating
l.a pond. You already feel his breath In the
ln night wind. By most considered an enemy
x" coming here to benumb and hinder and
Blay, I shall show you that the frost is a
friend, with benediction divinely proH"
nounced, and oharged and surcharged with
,n' lessons potent, beneficent and tremendous.
30 The Bible seven times alludes to the frost,
erj and wo must not ignore it. "By the breath
lR of God frost is given."
First I think of frost as a painter. He begins
his work on the leaves and continues it
on the window panes. With palette covered
with all manner of colors in his left hand
nn<4 rtf rt*ro+ol In V?ia V?or>r1 Via
ouu i ui v.ij jiut w uio x uauu, uy
sits down before the humblest bosh in the
latter part of September and begins the
sketchingof the leaves. Now he puts upon
'M the foliage a faint pallor, and'then a touch of
in" brown, and then ti hue of orange, and last a
flame of Are. The beech and ash and oak are
ve turned first into sunrises and then into sunist
83ts of vividness and splendor. All the leaves
are penciled one by one, but sometimes a
f?D whole forest in the course of a few days
shows great velocity of work.
ie, "WeenLr, the Dutoh painter, could make in
a summer day three portraits of life size, but
cc the frost in ten days can paint ten moun68
tains in. life size. It makes the last days of
fin nntnmnal tr/'iAil thtt (Intra n f It a /ihlafocf
glory- Luxembourgs In the Adirondack,
J. Louvres In the Sierra Nevadas, Vaticana in
u* tne White Mountains. The work of other
painters you must see in the right light to
nt fully appreciate, but the paintings of tho
frost in nil lights are enchanting from the
>fa time when the curtain of the morning lifts to
l'g the time when the curtain of the night drops,
le, Michael Angelo put upon one ceiling his
;ee representation of the last judgment, but the
frost represents universal conflagration
itr\r\r> milon aF nnf /wnnifmim
Q_ upvu uuuu UI Olivivuuu wui ^iauur.ui.
k* Leonardo da Vinci put upon a few feet of
j canvas our Lord's last supper for all ages to
admire, but the frost puts the gleaming chalft_
ices of the imperial glories of the last suprj^
per of the,dying year in the heights and
lengths and breadths of the Alleghanies.
When Titian first gazed upon a sketch of
8" Correggio, he was wrought up into such
~a ecstacy that he cried out, "If I were not
n" Titian, I would be Correggio," and so great
" uuu uvcrpvworiu,' uiu IUO uuiuuiuui sueuctt
*8 of our American forests that one force of
a nature might well exclaim to another, "If I
were not the sunlight, I would be the frost."
st Bugenda3, the German painter, suffering
n, from weakness in his right hand, laboriously
is learned to paint with his left hand, but the
Q- frosts paints with both hands, and has in
is them more skill than all the Bembrandts and
as Bubens and Wests and Pousslns and Albert
h. Durors and Paul Veronoses and Claudes
r. gathered in one long art gallery. But the
[q door of that great musetiavgfcfeutumnal colh,
oring is now closed for ijfiEresriohrh, and
ig another spactacle just oaMRBerTul is now
to open. I put you on tho^W& and ask you to
30 put your children on the aTW.
n- Tirad of working on the leaves, the frost
f)(j win ouuu iuiu iv luo iiauvfrr puuro. iuu
et will sooa waken om a cold morning and find
that the windows of your home have during
the night been adorned with carrea, with
coronets, with exquisiteness, with pomp,
with almost supernatural spectacle. Then
you will appreciate what my text says as it
declares, "By the breath of God frost Is
ie given." You will see on the window pane,
traced there by the frost, whole gardens of
beauty?forns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes,
bb china Asters, fountains, statues, hounds on
_ the chase, roebucks plunginginto the stream,
' battle scenes with dying and dead, catald
falquee of kings, triumphal processions?and
ae as the morning sun breaks through you will
see cities on fire, and bombardment with
10 bursting shell, and illuminations as for some
great victory, coronations and angels on the
68 Wing.
!i0 All night long while you were sleeping the
l_. frost was working, and you ought not let
i0 the warmth obliterate the scene until you
have admired it, studied it, absorbed it, set
ie it up in your memory for perpetual refreshar
ment and realized the force and magnitude
;. and intensity of my text. 4,By the brepth of
I God frost i3 given." Oh, what a God we
g' have! What resources aro implied by the fact
5* that ho is able to do that by the linger of the
^ frost fifty times in one winter and on a hunj.
dred thousand window panes for thousands
' of winters!
J(j The great art galleries of Venice and NadIqh
and Dresden are carefullv eruarded.
V and governments protect them, for once l09t,
^ they can never be reproduced, but God seta
up in the royal galleries of the frost piclures
such as no human art could ever produce,
10 hundreds of thousands of them, only for
__ four or Ave hours, and then rubs them out,
" making the place clear for a display just as
?* magnificent the next morning. No one but
/J a God could afford to do that. It would
bankrupt everything but infinity and omnll_
potency. * .
ja Standing here between the closet^doore of
q . the pictured woods and the opening doora of
4 the transfigured window glass, I. want to
cure my folly and your folly oc longing for
glorious things in the distance, while we
neglect appreciation of glorious things near
by. "Oh, if I could only go and seethe
o. factories of lace at Brussels !"says someone,
b- Why, within thirty feet of where you awaken
oamr? nnnmKa?" TnAcninrr vam rtMI OOA HohftP
V3? Dvrno l/uuuuti/vi muiuiu^ j wn not s\.v *?wMVk
id lace interwoven for your window panes by
oi divine flnger?. "Ob, if I could see the facse
tories of silk at Lyons 1" shj-s some one.
io Why, without leaving youc home on the
rt north side of your own house on Christmas
it morning you may see where the Lord has
to spun silken threads about your windows this
le way and that?embroideries such as no one
d, but God can work.
to Alas, for this glorification of the distant
d. and this belittling of the closo by! This
or crossing of oceans and paying a high admissi
ju in exponses co loo!: at that which is act
P' half as well done as so moth tug we can see
by crossing our own room, and free cf
cnargo 1 This praising of Raphaels hundreds
of yt?ar3 gone, when the greatsi* Raphael, the
frost. will soon be busy at tae entrances to
33 your own home!
I Next I speak oE the frost as ?. physician.
,ij.' Standing at the gates of New York harbor
in autumn beforo Inst, the frost drovo back
ly tho cholera, saying. "Thus far ahalt thou
30 rorao and no farther." From Memphis and
r. New Orleans and Jaoksonvillo he smoto the
%'t fever plague till it reeled back and departed.
The frost is a physician that dce'crs cities,
Nations nnd continents. He nieatcinee tho
' world. Quinine for malaria, ai.ti-iebiile fot
116 typhoids, sulplional for sleeplessness, nntinn
spasmodic for disturbed nerves, but in nil
? , therapeutics there is no remedy like the
ut Bmall pellet3 prepared by tha cold, and no
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physician so skilful or bo mighty as the frost. n
Scotland haa had great physicians, but hei tl
greatest doctors have been the Abernethies f,
and Abprnrnmhirv? that- havn comn down ?
aver the highlands horsed on the north wind. a
England has had her grea.t physicians, but g
her err eat est doctors have been the Andrew p
1 Clarkes and tho Maokenzies who appeared "
the first night tho fields of England were ft
rimmed with white. America has had its
great physicians, but her greatest doctors a
rmvo oeen rne vviuara rurtcers ana valentine a
Motts who landed from bleak skies while d
our fingers were benumbed and our ears U
tingled with the cold. Ob.it is high time ii
that you add another line to your liturgy! t
It is high time that you make an addendum t
to your prayers. It is high time that you n
enlHrge the catalogue of your blessing. 1
Thank God for frost. . It is the best of all 1
germicides. It is the only hope in bacteriol- n
ogy. It is the medicament of continents. It J
is the salvation of our temperate zone. It is '
thb best tonic that God ever gave the human P
race. It is the only strong stimulant whloh '
has no reaction. The best commentary on *
it I had while walking near here one cool
morning with my brotner John, who spent 8
the most of his life as a missionary in China, t
and in that part of it where there are no a
frosts. He said there was a tingling glad- n
nessinhisnervesindescribable.and anaimost *
Intoxication of delight from the fact that it a
was the first time for years he had felt the I
sensation of frost. We complain of it, we *
scold it. we frown upon it, when we ought 1
to be stirred by it to gratitude and hoist it on >
a doxology. . o
But I mu9t go farther and speak of the ?
frost as a jeweler. Ajs the snow is frozen P
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. rGod trans- a
forms It from a liquid into a crystal It is b
the dew glorified. In the thirty-eighth chapter
of that inspired drama, the book of Job, o
God says to the inspired dramatist with a
ecstati? interrogation. "The hoary frost of ^
heaven, who hath gendered it?" God there 5
asks Job If he knows the parentage of c
the frost. He inquires about its pedigree, a
He suggests that Job Btudy up the frost's t
genealogical line. A minute before God had <3
asked about the parentage of a raindrop in, c
words that years ago gave me a suggestive
text for a sermon, "Hath the rain a father?' ( c
But now the Lord Almighty is cateohising I
Job about the frost. He practioally says: t
"Do you know its father? Do you know its <
mother? In what cradle'of the leaves did I
the wind rock it? 'The hoary frost of heaven, ^
who hath gendered It?*"
ne is a stupid unrisuan who 111111 *? bo ?
much of the printed and bound Bible that :
he neglects the Old Testament of the fields, :
nor reads the wisdom and kindness and
beauty of God written in blossoms on the
orchard, In sparkles on the ialce, in stars on
the sky, in frost on.the meadows. The
greatest jeweler of all the.earth is the frost.
There is nothing more wonderful in all
crystallography. Some morning in December
a whole continent is found besprent with
diamonds, the result of one night s work by
this jeweler.
Do ypu make the depreciatory remark that
the frost is impermanent and will last only
two or three hours? What of that? We go
into London tower and look at the crown
jewals of England, bnt weareina procession
that the guards keep moving on, and five
minnfnc r\f 1 oaa aro trnnp nnlr nnnnrfnnlfv of
looking at those crown jewola, but at tbe I
crown jewels bestarrcd of the frost in parks
and fields yo\) may stand to look deliberately i
and for hours, and no one to tell you to move I
on. I
. Ob, these regalias and diadems of beauty
flung out of heaven! Kings and queens on 1
celebratlve days havo come tiding through '
the streets throwing handfuls of silver and
gold among the people, but the queen of the
winter morning is the only queen rich enough 1
to throw pearls, and tbe king of frost the j
only king rich enough to throw opals and
sapphires and diamonds. Homer describes
a necklace of amber given to Penelope, but
the frost necklaces a continent. The careanet
of precious stones given to Harmonia bad
pinions of orange jasper and white moon- 1
stone and Indian agate, but it was a misfortune
to any oue who owned or inherited it, 1
and its history, generation after generation, 1
was a history of disaster, but the regalia of
lrost is the good fortune of every morning 1
that owns it. 1
The imperial household of Louis. XVI
could not afford tbe diamondnecklace which
had been ordered for Queen Marie Antoinette, 1
and it was stolen and taken apart and lost,
but the necklace that the frost puts on the
wintry morning, though made of as many i
brilliants as the withered glass blades, is I
ooailv nffnrHoi) Kif rlirina nnnlflnM nnH in
never lost, but after its use in the coronation
of the fields is taken }>ack to heaven. 0 men
and women, accustomed to go into ecstasy
when In foreign travel you come upon the
historical gems of Nations, whether the jewel <
be called the Mountain of Glory, or the 8ea 1
of Light, or the Crown of the Moon, or the I
Eye of Allah, or the Star of Sarawak, or the '
Koh-l-noor, I implead you study the jewels I
strawn all round your wintry home and rea- I
lizathat "by the breath of God frost Is given."
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Bat I go a step farther and speak of the 1
frost as an evangelist, and a text of Scripture 1
Is not of much use to me unless I can find <
the gospel in it. The Israelites in the wil- I
derness" breakfasted on something that 1
looked like frozen dew, and the dew evapor- 1
ated and left a pulverized material, white and '
looking like frost, but it was manna, and of
that they ate. So now this morning, mixed
with the frozen dew of my text, there is
manna on which we can breakfast our souk.
You say the frost kilta. Yes, it kills some
things, but we have a] ready seen that it gives
health and life to others. This gospel is the
savor of life unto life or of death unto death. ]
As the frost is mighty, the gospel is mighty. ,
As the frost descends bom heaven, the gospel
descends from heaven. By the breath of 1
God frost is given. By the breath of God the ]
gospel is given. A? the frost purifies, so the ]
grace of God purifies. As the frost bestara (
the earth, so grace bejewels the soul. As the ,
Jro3t prepares for food many things that ,
otherwise would be inedible, so the frost of J
trials ripens and proparea food for the soul. In 1
the tight grip of the frost the hard shells of ,
walnut and chestnut and hickory open, and
the luxuries of the woods come into our laps '
or upon our tables; so the frost of trial takes <
I many a hard and prickly shell and crushes
it until tnac wnicn stung tae som now
feeds it.
Therj are passages of Scripture that once
were enigmis, puzzles, riddles and impossi- (
bilities for you to understand, but th-j frosts ,
oftroublo after awhile exposed the full meanIn^
to your soul. You said, "I do not see J
why David keeps rolling over in his psalm i
the story of how he was pursued and perse- i
euted." Ha describes hiaisslf as surrounded <
by bees. Ha say3, "They compassed ma
about like bees; yea, they compassed ma ]
about like bees." You think what aa ex- <
augerating thing for him to exclaim, "Out i
if th?j depths of hell have I criel unto Thae, j
O Lord! 1
And there is so mush o? that style of lam- '
fntation in his writings you think he over- 1
does It, but after awhile the frost comes upon ,
ran in rhi? ahniv* nf nflrnfinution and vou are
7 "? ? ? ' t X 1 ? stuck
with this censure and stuck with that 1
defamation, and stuck with some falsehood,
nn.l lies iu swarms nro buzzing, buzzing
about your eiirs, and at List you uuderstau 1
what David meant when he said, "Tflpy
compassed me about liko bees ; yea, they
compassed me about like bees,*' and you so
aown under nervous prostration and feel
teat you r,re as far down as David when he
cried, "Out of the depths of hell!"
What opened all those chapters that
hitherto Lad no appropriatenessV Frosts!
For a long while the Bible seemed lopsided
and a disproportionate amount of it given
up to the consolatory. Why page after page
and chapter after chapter and book after
book in the Bible taken up with alleviations,
with pacifications, with condolence? 1
The book seems like an apothecary store 1
with one-half of the shelves occupied with \
balsams. Why such a superfluity of balsams?
But after awhile the membraneous
nrouD carries off vour ohlld, or your health
gives way under the grip, or your property ]
is swept ofT by a bad investmeut, or perhaps ,
all three troubles come at ouo?bankruptcy,
sickness and bereavement. Now 1
the consohtory parts of the Bibls dc not i
seam to bo disproportionate. You want. {
something o!T almost all the shelves of that
sacred dispensary. What has uncovered
and exposed to you tho xisefulness of so ?
much of the Bible that was before hidden? *
The frosts have been fulfilling their mission. ;
Put down all tho promises or the Bible on
a table lor study, and put on ono side the 1
table a man who has never had any trouble, 1
or very little of it, but pile upon the table {
beside him all encyclopedias and all dictionaries,
and all arohajologies and all com- 1
mentaries, and on the other side of the tablo ^
pat a man who has had trial upon trial, dis- c
lister upon aisiwtor, ami mi m;u uu^iu mo
study of the promises without lexicon, without
commentary, without any book to ex- 1
plain ?r holp, and this latter man will under- g
stand far more of the height and depth, and j
leni^th and breadth of those promises than .
?ho learned exeget opposite, almost sub
lerged in sacred literature. The one has
lie advantage over the other becanae he has
alt the mission of the frosts. Oh, take the
oosolation ol this tnnme, yo to wnom nre is
i struggle and a disappointment, and a
antlet and a pang. That is a beautiful
roverb among the Hebrews which says,
'When the tale of bricks is doubled, then
loses comes."
Mild doses of medicine will do for mild
Icknese, but violent pains need strong doses,
nd so I stand over you and count out some
xops that will alleviate your worst troubles
t you will only take the medicine, and here
i is: "In the world ye shall have tribulaIon,
but be of good cheer; I have overcome
he world." "Weeping may endure for a
dght. but joy cometh in the morning."
?hank God for frosts! What helped make
Illt'on the greatest of poetsV The frost of
rmaneas. What QeTpoo matdTVasTUngfon
He greatest or generals!" xne iroscs 01 vaisy
Forge. What made it appropriate for one
asiing John Banyan's grave to exolaim,
'Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers?" The
roets of imprisonment.
The greatest college from which we can
.Tadnate is the college of frosts. Especial
rial fits for especial work. Just now watch
ud you will see that trouble Is preparative
nd educational. That is the grindstone on
rhich battle axes ore sharpened. I have
lways noticed in my own case that whentne
jord hod some special work for me to do it
ra? preceded by especial attack upon me.
ihis is so proverbial in my owu house that 11
or something I say or do I get poured upop
ae a volley of censure and anathema, my
rife always asks: "1 wonder what new oplortunlty
of usefulness is about to open?
Something good and. grand is-surely com:
ag!"
What is true in my. case la true on a large:
>r smaller scale in the history of every man
nd woman who wants to serve the Lord.
Vtthout complaint take the hard knocks,
fou will see after awhile, though you ma}
lot appreciate it now, that by the breath ol
h good and loving God frost is given. Let
he corners of your mouth, so long drawn
[own in complaint, be drawn up In smiles ol
ontent.
For many years posts and essayists have
lelnhrated the irrace and swiftness of the
Lrabian horses. The m03t wonderful exhitition
of horsemanship that I ever witnessed
rasjust outside the city of Jerusalem?ar
Arabian steed mounted by an Arab. Do you
enow where these Arabian horses got theii
leetness and poetry of motion? Long cen
uriesago Mohammed, with 30,000 oavalrj
>n the march, could find for them not a droj
)f water for three days. Coming to the toj
>f a hill, a river was in sight. With a wild
lash the 30,000 horses started for thestream
V minute after an armed host was seen ad
rancing, ,and at Mohammed's command 10<
suglee blew for the horses to fall in line, but
ill the 30,000 continued the wild gallop tc
:he river except five, and they, almost dea<
frith thirst, wheeled into line of battle.
Nothing in human bravery and self sacri
Ice excels that bravery and self sacrifice o
hose five Arabian war horses. Those flv
splendid steeds Mohammed chose for his owi
i?e, and from those five came that race o
Arabian horses for ages the glory of th<
equestrian world. And let me say that ii
this great war of truth against error, of holi
aess against sin and heaven against hell, th<
best war horses are descended from tho?
ivho, under pang and self denial and trouble
fVio ffnanpl trnmnet And wheole<
Into line. Oat of great tribulation, out o
cfreat flree, oat of great frosts, they came.
And let me say it will not take long fo:
God to make up to you In the next world to
all you have suffered in this. As you ente
heaven He may'spy,'"Give this man one o
those towered and colonnaded palaces 01
that ridge of gold Overlooking the sea o
glass. Give this woman a home amon
those amaranthine blooms and between thos
fountains tossing in the everlastingsunlighi
Give her a couoh canopied with rainbows t<
pay her for all the fatigues of wifehood am
motherhood and housekeeping, from whlc;
she had no rest for forty years.
"Cupbearers of heaven, give these newl;
arrived souls from earth the costliest bevei
ogee, and roll to their door the gra&dei
chariots, and hang on their walls the sweet
nM* ham that aimr thrnmmnri fa fln>ar
seraphic! Give to them rapture on rapture
celebration on celebration, jubilee on jubl
lee, heaven on heaven. They had a hari
time on earth earning a- livelihood, or nan
Ing six children, or waiting on qu?ruloa
old age, or battling falsehoods that were toll
utout them, or were compelled to wort afte
they got shortbreathed and rheumotio an
dimsighted.
< 'Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers of th
king's robes! Banqueters of eternal royalty
Make up to them a hundredfold, a thousand
fold, a miilionfold for all they suffered froc
swaddling olotbes to shroud, and let a]
those who, whether on the hills, or in th
temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wal]
were helped and sanctified and prepared fo
this heavenly realm by thd mission of thi
frosts stand up and w4ve their scepters?1
A.nd I looked and, behold! nine-tenths ot th
ransomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenth
}f the scepters swayed to and fro in the ligh
ot the suti that never sets, and then I tinder
stood far better than I ever did before tha
trouble comes for brneflcent purposes, ani
:hat on the coldest nights the aurora i
arjghtest in the northern heavens, ani tha
:iby the breath of Qoi frost is gi ran."
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
HOW TO USB STALE BREAD.
Housekeepers who have top nmol
principle to throw away stale breac
ind who cannot bring their families t<
relish bread padding will find they oar
rat 'their loaves to practical use b)
naking what an experienced mothei
lalla "bread omelet." Cut the bread
in very thin slices?and there is noth
ing that one can slice so thin as stale
bread?and dip the slice in beater
jggs. Fry in butter. A most sub
3tantial, economical and satisfactory
iish for breakfast.?New York Herald
WATERING HOUSE F&AJ5T8.
Plants may be injured by too frequently
watering the surfaoe of the
K>il. To water thoroughly, when the
plants require it, is essential, and thu
is the proper method. Many plants,
when a solid ball of roots is formed,
3o not get water enough when it is ap
plied in the ordinary way, as it run:
jft* the surface or down through th<
pots, next the outside, without wetting
the roots at all. It is a good plan,' anc
i saving of time, once a week, to plac<
the pots in a deep vessel so that the
water will come over the tops of th<
pot, and leave them for an hour or two.
ar until the 3ir bubbles cease, Syrmg
ing over and under the surface of th<
leaves will not only keep them ; cleai
ind free from insects, but will afiforc
much of the moisture, required. :> It ii
better not to water some plants unti
they indicate the need by the droop
ing leaves, then water thoroughly. ?
Imerican Agriculturist. , ' ;
HOW TO COOS CRANBERRIES. "1
The risk of not having cranberrie!
uold adds to the anxiety of the house
[?ife. Good Housekeeping gives in?
following directions as safe to insure
mccess:
"To a quart of cranberries add 8
aint of sugar and half a pint of cold
rvater. Cook the cranberries in th(
ivater, without the sugar, for twentj
.ninutes, then add the sugar and cook
;hem ten minutes longer. Do not adc
me drop more of liquid or less ol
wrill ncifc mnlrt ThfiV
, OX VLX^J ?
should boil all the time they are cook<
ng. The time during which an article
s coming to the boiling point cannol
.>0 counted in auy rule,. The moment
he cranberries are cooked, turn them
nto an earthen mold. A metal mold
Till give them a bad tasto and a baa
iolor. So will cooking them in metal.
They should be cooked in porcelain 01
n a porcelain-lined kettle or in one oJ
pranite ware. Do not serve cranberies
till they have stood in the mold
wclve hours."
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RELIGIOUS READING- ,
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in? DADDaiu*
There is no land where?all religions ohll?
Kations aside?the Sabbath is so necessary a*
in this country. We should become oarbarfins
without it Already the lust of money
and distinction, acting- upon natures lashed
by our peculiar institutions into the moot
vehement emulations, wrinkles almost every
brow, and makes anxiety a constant presence '.'.J
and uower at which ntrannrers craze and WOIV
der. Our very pleasures have this dash of
Impatience about them; and our days,and
bourn hurried on In th j whirl of constant excitement,
lose their distinctness, and mingle
in a misty mass in which the better reasoning
faculty can distinguish little that accords wit*
the natural purposes of life. Were this harried
way of life, this eager hunt of gold o* ,-X
rank uninterrupted, it would soon sweep />'$$
away before it all that elevates and puiiflM
hum<in nature, or gives the grace and. go&d- a
uess of life.
Tbe Sabbath stays the severer pulse of gocietr.
ODens the low and dark clouds that- .
gather round the heart, and. lets in the light
of bfftter thoughts and loftier feelings. T<r ?
lose this recurring dispensation from the .xii
ours-? of the impetuous life-struggle, would
be to render our destiny that of the dungeon
9iav>). While, therefore, we regard the dese- ' s
oration of the Sabbath, as primarily offensive,
as a violation of the divine la^y, we condemn
it as a wrong done to the heavy laden-^-as a rj#
| step taken onwards to barbarism.
W 8 see, with great regret, a constant tan
Jenny to the loss of the Sabbath. This is the
greatest in those communities where the poise , x
of society, is the most rapid and unintermtt- . . j.
1 tent, ana wheie the worship of mammon, <*
of pleasure, is as perpetual as it Is absorbing.
Thin hostility to the Sabbath is manifested in '
, the raoceas of the Sunday papers devoted fee ^
business and pleasure, ana the devotion of
the day to idle entertainments.
Tiiey who invade the day of rest, do ? .-da
wrong to the race at large, and aid in weakens *.
ing a divine institution given in mercv, and
Inseparable from the interests of civilization. .
?[North American.
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l CHRISTIAN OBAOXS ELCiUBTBATID.
[ Many among you m&y think it to, inaxped??
ent to speak frequently, or, indeed, ev?jr, ex- - :<&
' cept on occasions of great solemnity, of religion
; and to this I shall not attempt to
' reply. But the world cannot forbid yod to manifest
the spirit of religion trf a holy life.
1 You may, therefore, show forth its essence In
every act and deed; -even the most ordinary
' and trivial affairs and relations of life nee? ' >]
' not be devoid of the, expression of a, plot*
heart Let the deep and sacred feeling which >
l Inspires and governs all your actions, ?how
cuat even m laose irmee over waiou a pcvr- . - ?t^a
fane mind passes with levity, the ipusio m
of a lofty sentiment echoes ih jcna
heart; let the majestic serenity with whlefc ./
you estimate the great and the small, prove ; j
that yon refer everything to the Inimitable,
that you perceive the Godhead alike In every- v. . j
thing; let the bright cheerfulness with which
you encounter every proof of our transitory :'j
nature, reveal to aJl nature that you live
above time and above the world, let your easy
and graceful self-denial prove how many of
tha KnnHi nf aoinfiann vnn hum alnwdv tank- ;, 'JB
1 en; and let the ever quick and open spirit,
1 from which what Is rarest nor most ordinary '
escapes, show with what unwearied ardor
I you Seek for every trace of the Godhead, with
? what eagerness you watoh for its slight-* .'.v
. manifestation. If your whole life, and every t .- ^nsE
* movement of your outward and lnwacd bo- - ...
. Loof is thus sruided by religion. perhaps tb# ->ai
* hearts of many will be touohod by this mots
? language, and will be open to the reception ,.
of that spirit which dwells within you.?
' [Schlelrmacher.
^ BZAflONS FOB PBAISHTO OOD. '
y Is it not worth living for, if only to peases#
>. that wonderful body of yours; so beautiful, J
t so delicately formed! No architect but Go?E ' ';]
oould plan anything half 00 glorious! UMB . .rn
look at the pleasures of the body. We might . v ^
, haye been so made that every movement y&J
[. should be attended with pain; but instead ot
. this, all is enjoyment Watch the child a?
_ play. What pleasure in every turn, in the .
" exercise of every limb, in every movement .
j and position of the body! Pleasant to run,
pleasant to stand still, pleasant to sit. down,
- pleasant to rise up, pleasant to lie down
sleep, pleasant to wake and rise. If this (
world was all, and we died, "like the brutw ji
j that perish," to live no more?yet it is word* . <i
, living for to see all the beautiful' thing* i
" around us, and feel the pleasure of life withia' &
7 us. For this, dear children, <<I>raise ye the Y;*r??S
Lord."
< But, then, you hare thinking souls... Mot -r-.
' only are your erect bodies superior to those ' '*
of animals, and more lovelv. but you h&Ycr a
i? power within which they'do not posaeti
God has given to them what is called insttaet
to preserve them from danger and make thear I
t useful to man. But to you he has gives a- $8
souL The body will die and docay, but the / /jjB
1 soul never! It is this which thinks. And a*
j with the exercise of the body so with the w 'ja
mind?it .is pleasant It might have bees '/ Oh
t painful to think, but instead of this how we
enjoy it and how constantly we are doing it ';sj
Children! for body and soul, ''Praise ye th?
Lord!"
LITTLE THINGS. ; US
To put the best of ourselves into the emaft '
ways and words of every day is the nsoeoBaiy
t and only way to bring out the perfection at
1 our whole lives. It is good to fee) keenly the ' %
> .dignity and importance of each word and .,
deed because jach contributes to the perfee
1 tion of the grand whole, of the working oat . v. ;
r of the ideal we are striving for. It ii v ?8
f good for us all to feel it in the smallest
[ trifles of every day. It is particularly
gOOd lor younjj peupiw iw iwi iu nu? a
you do today, the way you do it, the mottr? q
i with which you do it, are of immense ooa- . V
sequence t"> you. They involve the meaning
of your whole life. If you were blocking
\ out a statue, you could not afford to break off
r one bit. of marble tho wrong way, or evea H
break it off haphazard, without someaena* ^
of what you were doing. You would sot
sew your new gown together at random or \V
without a careful study of the proper join*
ing of the parts to produce a desired
. . effect. So you cannot afford to cos- .<
4 aider what you do or say today as "a trifW" 4
* ^ or as "no difference," becaa?e it will xnait*
I a difference in the whole. It all makes a difference.
It is the words and deeds of today
' that are making or marring the great resa*
1 you are expected to produce by and by. Yon
cannot afford to throw away the smallest
j chance to make the result perfect The sooner
, you realize that everythingraakesadifferennw
the better for that result?[Eleanor Kirk's.
* Idea. .
3 ' none or his. v . . .
j "If any man have not the spirit of Christ'*
' ?O, what an if! How it tries the hopeeo# '
5 the Christian! Am I meek as He was? wtah
reviled, do I revile not again? when srnittM* , ,
? on one cheek, do I turn the other al'to? do t . ^ -j
} pray for mine enemies, -Father, forgive thism?
do I go about doing good? is it my meat sod. ?
1 drink to do the will of God? Such was th? 1
I spirit of Christ, and we havo it not, we aw ' )
I _?( what terrible words, brief, simple, but *
i on that account most terrible?'none of hist*
?noplace in his household?no place in hto ; ,
heart. An alien from Christ, a stranger to
? i pardon, "having no hope and without God la
I the world."
Better gink into annihilation, than live un? ' ; {
' reconciled, unrenewed, out <A the covenant * -if ?>
of grace, while death i9 so busy, and the>
grave yawns under every footstep. ;
? i
, TH* COUEAOEOOH PEEACHEB. 1
j The people will always rush to hear tno
man who does not stick, stutter and stammer
in telltngthe truth. Of couse people will b?
I offended if we tell them the truth. The old
I . maid broke the looking glass because it
, showed the wrinkles in her face, Those who
i get vexed because sin is aimed at, do so be'
cause they are shot, and woe to the minister
who fcoaps his mouth shut when the people
| sin.
i I . *- ?? _
1 THE WOULD 8 UEKR DEINKEK3.
Last year no less tliau throe thousand million
gallon* of beer were imbibed in Europe
, alone. Germany, of course, headed the list
o! consumants with 1,051,000,000 gallons;
Great Britain being a good second with 855,1
000,000 ; third eanio Austria with 300.000,00?
i gallons; while France and Belgium wer?
"bracketed fourth" with 220,090,000 apiec#;
Denmark "tails" tho list with 145,000 gallons.
Of extra European countries, the Unitad
States comes first with an annual consumption
of 800.000.000, Australia taking second
| place at g2.000.000.
Railroad Ties.
From 16,000,000.03,1 to 17,030,000,0*7 feet ot
.timber, board measure, ar-) at present used.
In railroad ties in this countrr.
A j