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I 10 f BEV. DR. TALMA (tE. /, r ,~XHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Christ the Conqueror.'* Txtt r "Who is this that cometh from Edom wUh dyed garments from Bozrah?this that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the great* ness of His strength?"?Isaiah liiii.. 1. Edom and Bozrah, having been the scene Of fierce buttle, when thoss words are used here or in any other part of the Bible they are figures of speech setting forth scenes of severe conflict. As now we often use the word Waterloo to describe a decisive oontest of any kind, so the words Bozrah and Edom In this text are figures of speech descriptive of a scene of great slaughter. Whatever else the prophet may have meant to describe, he most oertainly meant to depict the Lord Jesus Christ saying, '-Who is thisthat cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, traveling in the greatness of His strength?" When a general is about to go out to the wars, a flag and a sword are publicly presented to him, and the maidens bring flowers, and the young men load the cannon, and the train starts amid a huzza **iat drowns the thunder of the wheels and the ahrleK of the whistle. Bat all this will give no idea of the excitement that there must have been in heaven when Christ started out on the campaign of the world's conquest. If they could have foreseen the siege that would be laid to Him, and the maltreatment He would suffer, and the burdens He would have to carry, and the battles He would have to fight, I think there would have been a million volunteers in heaven who would have insisted on coming along with Him. But no; they only accompanied him to the gate; their last shout heard clear down to the earth ; the space between the two worlds bridged with a great hosanna. You know there is a wide difference between a man's going off to battle and coming baok again. When he goes off, it is with epauiet% untangled, with banner unspecked, with hoxses sleek and shining from the groom. Allthat there is of struggle and pain is to come yet. So it was with Christ. He had not yet fought a battle. He was starting out. and though this world did not give Him a warm hearted greeting there was a gentle mother who folded Him in herarms. And a babe finds no difference between a Stacue ana a pajace, ueiweeu cuuiuns uuu carnal drivers. r As Jesus stepped on the stage o! this world It was amid angelic shouts in the galleries and amid the kindest maternal ministrations. But soon hostile forces began to ?iiher. They deployed from the sanbedrin. boy were detailed from the standing army. They came oat from the Cesarean castles. | The vagabonds in the street joined the gentlemen of the mansion. Spirits rode up from hell, and In long array there came a force together that threatened to put to roat this newly arrived one from heaven/ Jesus, now seeing the battle gathering, lifted His own standard. Bat who gathered about it? How feeble the recruits! A few shoremen, a blind beggar, a woman with an alabaster box, another woman with two mites and a group of friendless, moneyless and positlonless people came to His standard. What chance was there for Hfm? Nazareth against Him, Bethlehem against Him, Capernaum against Him, Jerusalem against Him, Galilee against Him, the courts against Him, the army against Him, the throne against Him, tip world against Hie., all hell against Him. No wonder they asked Him to sur CWUOI. But H? coold not surrender. He could not apologise. He could not take any back steps. He had come to strike lor the deliverance of an enslaved race, and He must do the work. Then they sent out their- pickets to watch , Him. They saw in what house He wont and when He came out. They watched what He ate, and who with; what He drank, and how much. They did not dare to make their final assault, for they knew not but that behind flim there might be a re-enforcement that was not seen. But at last the battle came. It was to be more fierce than Bozrah, more bloody than Gettysburg, involving more than Austerlitz, more combatants employed than at Chalons, a ghastlier conflict than all the battles of the aarth put together, though Edmund Burke's estimate of thirty-fi^e millions of the slain be aoeurate. The day was Friday. The hour waf between 12 and 3 o'clock. The field ' was a slight hillock northwest of Jerusalem. The forces engaged were earth and hell, joined as allies on one side, and heaven, represented by a solitary inhabitant on the other. The hour aame. Oh, what a time it was! I think that day the universe looked on. The iplrits tha' could be -spared from the heavenly temple and could get conveyance UX WiUK ui UiUUIUk VXiillv? UVWU UWUi OWUTt, and spirits getting furlough from beneath came up; and they listened, and they looked, and tbey watched. Oh, what an uneven battle ! Two world's armed on one side; an unarmed man on the other. The regiment of the Soman army at that time stationed at Jerusalem began the attack. They knew how to flgb^, for they belonged to the most thoroughly drilled army of the world. With spears glittering in the sun they charged up the hifi. The horses prance and rear amid the excitement of the populace?the heels of the riders plunged in the flanks, urging them on. The weapons begin to tell on Christ See. how faint He looks! There the blood starts, and there, and there, and there. If He is to have re-enforcements, let Him call them up now. No ; Ho must do this work alone. He Is dying. Feel for yourself of the wrist; the pulse is feebler. Feel under the arm; the warmth is less. He is dying. Aye. they pronounce Him dead. And just at that moment that they pronounce Him dead He rallied, and from His wounds He unsheathed a weapon which staggered the Soman legions down the hill and hurled the satanio battalions into the pit. It was a weapon of love?infinite love, all conquering love. Mightier than javelin or spear, it mumpnea over au. rut dock, ye armies 01 earth and hell! .The tide of battle turns. Je9us hath over* oome. Let the people stand apart and make a line that He may pass down from Calvary to Jerusalem, and thence on and out all around the world. The battle is fought. The victory is achieved. The triumphal march is begun. Hark to the hoofs of the warrior's steed and the tramping of a great multitude, for He has many friends now! The hero of heaven and earth advances. Cheer, cheer! "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments trom Bozrah, traveling in the greatness of His strength?" We behold here a new revelation of a blessed and a startling fact. People talk of Christ as though He were going to do something grand lor us after awhile. He has don? i? Peooletalk as thoueh ten or twentv years from now, In the closing hoars of oar life or in some terrible pass of life, Jesus will help us. He has done the work already. He did it 1861 years ago. You might as well talk of Washington as though he were going to achieve oar national independence in 1950 as to speak of Christ as though He were going to achieve our salvation in the future?He did it in the year of our Lord 33?1861 years ago?on the field of Bozrah, the Captain of our salvation lighting unto death for your and my emancipation. Allwehavetodo is to accept that fact in our hearts, and we are free for this world, and we are free for the world to come. Bat, lest we might not accept, Christ comee through here to-day traveling in the greatness of His strength," not to tell you that He is going to fight for you some battle in the fixture, but to tell you that the battle is already fought and the victory already won. You have notice ! that when soldiers come home from the wars they carry on their'flags the names of the battlefields where they were distinguished. The Englishman coming back has on his banner Inkcrm;in au<l B:ilaklava, the Frenchman Jena and Eylau ;theGermun, Versailles and Sedan. And Christ has on the banner He carries as conqueror th? names of lOjOOObattleflelds He won for you and for me. He rides past all our homes of bereavement?by the door bell swathed in sorrow, by the wardrobe black with woe, by the dismantled fortress of our strength. Cy>me out and greet Him to-day, 0 ye people ! See the names of all the battle passes on His flag. Ye who are poor, read on this ensign the story of Christ's hard crusts and plllowleaa head. Ye who are persecuted, read here of the ruffians who chased Him from Hifl first breath to His last. Mighty to soothe your troubles, mighty to balk your calamities, mighty to tread down your foes, "traveling in the greatness of His strength." Though His horse be brown with the dust of the march, and the fetlocks be wet with the carnage, and the bit be red with the blood of your spiritual foee, He comes up now, not exhausted from the battle, but fresh as when tie went Into it?coming up from Bozrab, ( "traveling in the greatness of His strength." You know that when Augustus and Constantine and Trajan and Titus came back | from the wars what a time there was. You | know they came on horseback or in chariots, , and there were trophies before, and there , were oaotives behind, and there were people i shouting on all sides, and there were garlands flung from the window, and over the ( highway a triumphal arch was sprung. The solid masonry to-day at Benevento, Rimini I and Rome still tell their admiration forthoiQ heroes. And shall we let our conqueror go without lifting any acclaim? Have we not flowers red enough to depict the caanage, white enough to celebrate the victory, fragrant enough to breathe the joy? Those men of who n I just spoke dragged their victims at the chariot wheels, but Christ, our Lord, tatces those who once were captives and invites them into His chariot to ride, while He puts around them the arm of strength, saying, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love, and the waters shall not drown it, and the tires shall not burn it, and eternity shall not exhaust it." If this be true, I cannot see how any man can carry bis sorrows a great while. If this conqueror from Bozrah is going to beat back all your griefs, why not trust Him? Oh, do you not feel under this gospel your griefs falling back and your tears drying up as you hear the tramp of a thousand illustrious promises led on by the conquerer from Bozrah, ''traveling, traveling in the greatness of His strength?" On that Friday which the Episcopal church rightly celebrates, calling it "Good Friday," your soul and mine wore contended for. On that day Jesus proved Himself mightier than earth and hell, and when the lances struck Him He gathered them up into a sheaf as a reaper gathers the grain, and He stacked them. Mounting the horse of the Apocalypse, He rode down through the ages "traveling in the greatness of His strength." On that day your sin aud mine perished, if we will only believe it. ( There may be some one here who may say "I don't like the color of this conqueror's J garments. You tell me that His garments ( were not only spattered with the blood of j conflict, but also they were soaked; that they were saturated : that they were dyed in it." I admit it. You say you do not like that. Then I quote you two passages of Scripture: "Without the sheding of blood there is no remission." "In the blood is the atonement." But it was not your blood. II was His own. Not only enough to redden His garmpnis and to redden His horse, but i enough to wash away the sins of the world. . Oh, the blood on His brow, the blood on His 1 hands, the blood on His feet, the blood on i His side! It seems as if an artery must have 1 been cut. ] There to a fountain filled with blood . Drawn from Iinraanuet's velis, And sinners plunged beneath that flood ] Lose oU their guilty stains. At 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon ?o among ( the places of business or toil. It will be no difficult thing for you to find men who by their looks show you that they are over ' worked. They are prematurely old. They i are hastening rapidly toward their decease. { They have gone through crises in business that shattered their nervous system and pulled on the brain. They have a shortness of breath, and a pain in the back of the head, and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Why are they drudging at business early and late! For fun? No; it would be difficult to 1 extract any amusement out of that exhaustion. Because they are avaricious? In man; cases, no. Because their own personal ex- { penses are lavish? No; a few hundred dollars would meet all their wants. 1 The simple fact is the man is enduring alt ( that fatigue and exasperation and wear and , tear to keep his home prosperous. There is an invisible line reaching from that store, from that bank, from that shop, from that scaffolding, to a quiet scene a few blocks, a few miles away, and there is the secret -of that business endurance. Ho is simply the 1 champion of a homestead, for which he wins i bread and wardrobe and education and pros- , perity, and in suoh batye 10,000 mon fall. Of ten business men whom I bury nine die of overwork for others. Some sudden disease 1 finds them with no power of resistance, and < they are gone. Life lor life. Blood for blood. . Substitution! At 1 o'clock to-morrow morning, the hour 3 l nhsn In most nnintnrmntftd and i most profound, walk amid the dwelling ] houses of the city. Here and there you will find a dim light, because it is the household J custom to keep a subdued light burning, but most of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful God has sent forth the archangel of sleep, and he puts his wings over the city. But yonder is a clear light burning, and outside on the window casement a gloss or pitcher containing food for a slok child?the food set in the fresh air. This is the sixth night that mother has sat up with that sufferer. She has to the last point obeyed the physician's prescription, not giving a drop too muoh or too little, or a moment too soon or too late. She is very 1 anxious, for she has buried three children t with the same disease, and she prayB and . weeps, each prayer and sob ending with a An fho rtnU nhoaL' stint af 1/i'n^noca J hi DO vu l inj yaiv uucodu vuui vi, aiuuuw?g she gets the little one through the ordeal f After it is all over the mother is taken , down. Brain or nervous fever sets in, and i one day she leaves the convalescent child with a mother's blessing and goes up to join i the three in the kingdom of heaven. Life i for life. Substitution! The fact is that , there are an uncounted number of mothers , who, after they have navigated a large , family, of children through all the diseases of infancy and got them fairly started up the | flowering slope of boyhood and girlhood, 1 have only strength enough left to die. They fadeaway. Some call it consumption : some ' call it nervous prostration ; some call it inter- 1 mittent or malarial disposition, but I call it martyrdom of the domestic circle. Life for 4 life. Blood for blood. Substitution ! Or perhaps the mother lingers long 1 enough to see a son get on the wrong road, ] and his former kindness becomes rough re- j ply when she expresses anxiety about him. But she goes right on, looking carefully after his apparel, remembering his every birthday 1 with some memento, and when he is brought 1 home, worn out with dissipation, nurses him ^ till he gets well and starts him again and , hopes and expects and pravs and counsels ' and suffers until her strength srivee out and 1 she falls. She is going, and attendants bend- ] ing over her pillow ask her if she has any message to laave, and she makes great effort to say something, but out of three or four f minutes of indistinct utterance they can catch ] br.t three words, "My poor boy!" The simple fact is she died for him. Life for life. Sub* stitution. About thirty-three years ago there went ] forth from our homes hundreds of thousands i of men co do battle for their country. All j the poetry of war soon vanished and left . them nothing but the terrible prose. They ' waded knee deep in mud. They slept in 1 snowbanks. Thoy marchedtill their cut feet j tracked the earth. They were swindled out of their honest rations and lived on meat not fltioradog. They had jaws all fractured, 1 and eyes extinguished, and limbs shot away. ] Thousands ot them cried for water as they j lay dying on the field the night after the , battle and got it not. They were homesick ' and received no message from their loved i ones. They died in barns, in bushes, ia \ ditches, the buzzards of the sammer heat th? only attendants on their obsequies. No one but the infinite God, who knows ] everything, knows the ten thousandth part i of the length and breadth and depth and ( height of aneulsh of the northern and southern battlefields. Why did these fathers leave their children and go to the front, and why did these young men, postponing the marriage day. start out into the probabilities of never oomiDg back? For the country they \ died. Life for life. Blood for blood. Sub- j stitution! But we need not go so far. What is that 1 monument in Greenwood? It is to the doc- ] tors who fell in the southern epidemics. Why go? Were there not enough sick to be , attended in these northern latitudes? Oh, yes ; but the doctor puts a few medical books 1 in his valise, and some vials of medicine.and i leaves his patients here in the hands of other 1 physicians, and takes the rail train. Before he gets to the infected regions he passes 1 crowded rail trains, regular and extra, taking the flying and affrighted populations. , He arrives in a city over which a great hor? ror is brooding. Ha goes from couch to eouch, feeling of pulse and studying symptoms, and prescribing day after day, night i after might, until a fellow physician says, , "Doctor, you had better go home and rest; you look miserable." But he oannot rest while so many are suffering. On and on until some morning finds him in a delirium, in which he talks of , home and then rises and says he must go and look after those patients. He is told to lie down, but he fights his attendants until i he falls back, and is weaker and weaker, and diee for people with whom he had no kinship, and far away from his own family, and is hastily pat away in a stranger's tomb, and ittly the fifth part of a newspaper line tells is of his sacrifice?hia name just mentioned imong five. Yet he has touched the farthest height of sublimity in that three weeks of iumanitnrian service. He goes straight as in arrow to the bosom of Him who said, "I was sick and ye visited Me." Life for life. Blood for blood. Substitution! Some of our modern theologians who want j :o give God lessons about tho best way to ' save the world tell us they do not want any : 5lood in their redemption. They waut to :&ks.this horse by the bit and hurl him hack J jn his haunches and tell this rider from 1 Bozrah to go around some other way. Look ' DUt iest ye fall under the flying hoofs of this j horse, lest ye go down under the sword of :bis conqueror from Bozrah ! What means j :he blood of the pigeons in the old dispensa- s :ion, the blood ot the bullock; the blood of ;he heifer; the blood of the lamb? It meant :o prophesy the cleansinpr blood, the pardoning blood, the healing blood of this oon- . jueror who comes up from Bozrah, "travel- ' Lng in the graatness of His strength." i eaten a nanarui 01 tne rea torrent taat rushes out from the heart of the Lord, and I ' throw it over this audience, hoping that one drop of its cleansing power may come upon jroursoul. 0 Jesus, iu that crimson tide wash our souls! We accept Thy sacrifice. Conqueror of Bozrah. have mercy upon us! We throw our garments in the way. We fall into line. Ride on, Jesus, ride on! "Traveling, traveling is the greatness of Thy strength." But after awhile the returning conqueror will reach the gate, and all the armies of the 9aved will be with Him. I hope you will be there and I will be there. As we gc.through the gate and around about the throne for the review, "a great multitude that no man can number"?all heaven can tell without asking right away which one is Jesus, not only because of the brightness of His face, but because while all the other inhabitants in glory are robed in white?saints in white, cherubim in white, seraphim la white?His robes ?hall be scarlet, even the dyed garments of Bozrah. I catch a glimpse of that triumphant joy, but the gate opens and shuts so quickly I can hear only half a sentence, and It is this: ''Unto Him who hath washed us in His blood!?" HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A SKILLED SCBAPEB. One of the handiest pieces of furniture about a kitchen table is a thicklipped oyster shell. It makes a much sicer pot and skillet scraper than an "iron dish cloth." The chain arrange- ( cnents which are used for that purpose ( ire all abominations. They get full of s infinitesimal bits of cabbage, burned ' potatoes, bits of fried onion, broiled , jteak and the like, and only a bath of I concentrated lye and the application of scrub brush will clean them. An j J ?1 '1 ? ? ? l*-* art nlnort OQ A oyster Bueii ut*u uo m ^io?u - , silver spoon.?Washington Star. I TO CLEANSE WILLOW FTTRNITUBE. ^Most of the willow and rattan furniture now offered is tinted, so that the necessity for bleaching or oleansing has almost passed away. However, there may be some housewives who prefer the natural color, and for their benefit we give the best methods of renovating furniture of this kiud. The work may be done most advantageously on a sunny, breezy day in summer. First, brush away all iust that may have accumulated in the crevices, and then scrub thoroughly with a stiff brush, warm, soft water and white soap. Wipe dry with a soft cloth and place the furniture in the sun and wind to dry quickly. If it is desired to bleach * J 1? tne wood, procure a uovereu uua hubu is large enough to contain the price of furniture, and after the latter has been washed, and while it is still wet, place it in the box, set a dish containing a small quantity of burning mlphur upon the bottom of the box ind close lid tightly. In about half in hour the article will have been nicely bleached and may then be removed from the box, ?New York World. TO CLEANSE CHENILLE DRAPERIES. Chenille draperies are more satisfactory when cleaned by a professional jcourer, but many housekeepers have produced very good results with the < following mode of treatment: First shake and brush the portieres vigor- 1 ausly to remove as much dust as possi- J ble. Then partly fill a large pail with | gasoline, put in one portiere, and shake it about in the gasoline, pressing it fho hands and rubbinc: verv lightly any spots that are badly soiled Work rapidly, and when the portiere ' seems to be clean, press out the gasoline, but do not wring the material tightly with the hands, as this would I be likely to produce wrinkles. The best plan is to fold the portiere j together lightly and run it through a wringer, thus pressing out the greater i part of the solid fluid. Then unfold ' It, and rinse lightly in clean gasoline, which will not be much soiled by the rinsing and may be used for the first I washing of the next portiere. After J the ringing, fold the portiere, pass it through the wringer again or press out i is much gasoline as possible with the liands, and hang the portiere on a line j in a shady place. The gasoline will soon evaporate, leaving the material perfectly free from odor. i The portiere should be placed length- j wise upon the line and secured with plenty of pins; and it should be well sl-iolr an romnTO all xlTinlflftfi. ftnd I then palled into its original shape, so ;hat when taken from the line it will , be ready to be draped or hnng as before. Each portiere should be entirely jleaned and hung upon the line before another is begun, as the washing and ringing should be done as expeditiously as possible. Gasoline gives off fumes that are highly inflammable, md should be used very carefully. If the work cannot be performed outloors, choose a room in which there is aeither fire or light, and have all the windows open to permit the gas to escape.?New York Journal. Desiccated Cocoannt. A writer, describing the manufacture of desiccated cocoanut, states that the husked nuts come to this country in burlap bags containing about one hundred each, and are sold from the vessel at 330 to $60 a thousand. In the preparation of the nut it is first jet on end and struck with a hammer, md the shell and . kernel cracked at the same time. The outer shell is then removed and the nut passed along to the peeiers, who remove the skin. An 9xpert can shell as many as 3000 nuts in a day, and a first-class hand can I peel as many as 1800. The kernels j are then put through a grating ma- , chine having a capacity of 7000 a day. 1 A.bout seventy pounds of grated ? material are placed in each of a series ? of heated galvanized pans resting on steam pipes, and from eight to thirty pounds of granulated sugar are added to each pan. After drying J about twelve hours the material is ' passed through a sieve and packed in boxes and barrels. ?Home and Farm. RELIGIOUS READING. I rMPUBtTY. Parity precedes all spiritual attainment an! progress. It is the letter A in the moral alphabet. However beautiful your face, and j varied your attainments, and charming your social qualities, you are nothing without purity?only tinkling cymbals. An impure woman outrages ali our holy ideas of womaniiood, all proper conception*! of true beauty. French author writes, i-B3auty unaccompanied by virtue is a flower without perfume." She is not beautiful, however com- ? plete on the outside, who is faulty and uu- r sightly within. p t k philanthropist's motto. Lord Shaftsbury was one of England's no- * jlemen. He held a high title by right of worth, r is welt as by right of birth. "Love; serve," ias been the motto of his family since the y lays of the Plantagenets. Such a legend t would mean but little to most ancient lines, j jut it inspired or interpreted Lord Shafts- ^ jury's life. A touching story is told of the ivay in which he was led to dedicate himself ;o philanthropic effort. r Whea he was a boy in Harrow, the greut r Itting school, he was startled on the street j jy hearing the noise of shouting and coarse singing. Five drunken men came staggering j ;owards him, carrying a coffin. Reeling in < :heir intoxication, they let the coffin ( ( Irop with oaths just before him. The boy ( stood horrified at the sight. g "Can this be allowed," he exclaimed, "simply because this man was poor and friend- ( iess?" The horrible incident so impressed t lim that he resolved to devote his life to be- t 'riending the helpless. He became well t cnown as the helper of the friendless. He ;ook up the case of the parish lunatics who j were subjected to great cruelties. He b&- j friended the pauper children who were t "armed out to work in factories. Chimney sweeps and bootblacks found in him a pro- t ;ector. Prince and pauper vied in doing honor to t ;his man when he died. A laboring man, | j standing with bare head ih Westminster ibbey. with a ragged bit of crape upon his 1 irm," was overheard to say in a choking ? roice: "Our earl's gone. God A'mighty j snows he loved us, and we loved him. We shan't ses his likes again." 2 i THE DISSIPATIONS OF FASHIONABLE LI FX. "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead 1 while she liveth" (I Timothy v. 6). Paul rejoiled with horror from the ghastliness 01 the ;ay scenes of the city of Diana. With the same shuddering would he turn from many a scene of dissipation among the fashionables jf our cities. The woman whom these words iescribe is a being who lives todres3,to dine, to wine, to dance, to coquet, to idle away lours over trashy Action and frivolous talk, ind without any serious purpose. If she is a mother, she dismisses her children to the jare of servants that she may continue uninterrupted in the gaveties of life. If she is a wife, she is a hopeless deadly weight upon manly ambition. If a daughter, she keeps tier father working year in and year out that she may make an annual display of bewildering toilets at some fashionable summer resort. Extravagance is a great and increasing ivil among us. Each tries to outdo the Jther, until a style of living and display is es;ablished which only the very rich can afford md which excludes all sensible people from jompetition. She who bedecks herself with [ewels and dresses, the annual cost of which ivould support several of our charitable institutions, becomes not only more than an advertisement for the jeweler, milliner and iressmaker, but forgets herself, shows poor taste, bad judgment and compromises her ilgnitv. 8he is the best dressed woman who makes'us forget what she had on. An affected disregard of fashion is as much i violation of good taste as to go to the extreme of display. Our good friends the Quakers are as proud of their simple dress ind glory in it as much as do our ultra fashionables, whose gorgeous displays draw all jyes toward them with astonishment. "Avoid making one'3 self conspicuous'* is a good rule in all things. The dissipations of fashionable life lead to frequent sacrifices of health. It s quite a luxury to see a fashionable young woman in the enjoyment of vigorous health, with a fresh, natural color and symmetrical physical development. These rounds of so-called social duties and pleasures in time make the quiet of home iistasteful and incapacitate the mind for serious thought. The husband finds that the ?xpenses of married life are far greater than ie anticipated, and the comfort less as the sxpenditure increases, and that his children ire growing up with notions of life which he janhot satisfy, and we need not wonder that jreat discontent prevails among many men, THE ENDUBING MONUMENT. The following incident i3 related in thd 'Life of Dean Stanley" just published. In 1882 a gentleman was travelling from Norwich to Liverpool in a third class compartment. He fell into conversation with a jouple of workingmen, the details of which lad better be given in his own words ' Where is your homo?" I asked. "Chester, sir." T ool,l (it tnn nm frrtm ? Pflthprfral ftitv -the city of Norwich.. "Norwich," both of them exclaimed. 'Why. that's where Dean Stanley lived!" "Yes," I said. "But what do you know ( ibout Dean Stanley?" I shall never forget the expression of the , 'ace turned toward me as the speaker said, ' 'Me and my mate here navo cause to bless ' the Lord that we ever saw good Dean Stan- , ley, sir, I can tell you." t They then recounted an incident to the sfTect that on a certain occasion they wanted a to visit the Abbey, but found to their grief "r that they were barred, and what followed we ^ jive in quotation: p "Our words and disappointed looks," con- j tinued my friend, "attracted the notice of a j jsntleman, who approached us and said, You very much wish to see the iraside of the ^ kbbey, do you? Well, can't you come to- ( morrow?' . , " 'No. sir, we must be at Chester tomorrow, { ind if we don't see inside today,its not like- s ly we ever shall." ? "With this the crentleman invited tis to go with him, and taking the keys from the beadle, he entered with us into the Abbey, walking by our side an<i pointing out to us the things most worth seeing. Presently became 6 to a marble monument erected to one of our c soldiers, and, as we stood looking at it in ad- J miration, the gentleman said : *You wear the uniform of her majesty, and I daresay would like to do some heroic "deed worthy of a mon- r ument like this.' t 'We both said we would?when, laying j his hands on each of us.be said: *My friends, j you may both have a more enduring monument than this.for this will moulder into dust e and be forgotten; but you. if your names are 8 written in the "Lamb's Book of Life," you i will abide forever." q We neither of us understood what he ? meant?but we looked iuto his grave,earnest, loving face with queer feelings in our hearts, > 8 and moved on. Just as we were leaving the' t Abbey, our guide told us he was the Dean, a and invited us to the Deanery to breakfast t next morning. We did not forget to go, I J x can assure you, and affer breakfast the Dean j ^ came to say good-by. He gave us money , enough to pay our fares to Chester, and once I * again in earnest, loving tones, he told us to ' c be sure and get our names written in the (. 'Lamb's Book of Life.' and then, if we never e met again on earth, we should meet in i heaven. And so we parted with the Dean, and ns a we traveled home we talked about our visit a to the Abbey, and puzzled much as to the ii meaning of the 'Lamb's Book of Life.'" e They were both so deeply impressed that thev became Christians. ? d Don't look at th-j Bible through your ^ creed, but look at vour creed through the I f Bible. " I M t< Has Done Good Service. ti Secretary Morton has been calling the at? u lention of the public to the valuable services t< lately rendered by the weather bureau. It 0 ma predicted the storms of the past month ivith great accuracy, has saved a steamship f ivhich went aground off Cape Henry, and " jenerally has saved more to commerce, agri- si :uliure and shipping in the past few weeks _ ban the entire appropriation for the year. p They Are After Him. r' Somebody in Boston marks all the bank. dotes which pass through his hands with Scripture texts in bold red letters. The s' United States Treasury detectives have not r< ret succeeded in [spotting him, though thejr h ire anxious to Ret their hands ou him. ^ SABBATH SCHOOL NTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MARCH 25. >sson Text: "The Resurrection of Christ" (An Easter Lesson), Mark xvi., 1-8?Golden Text: I Cor. xv., 20?Commentary. When the Sabbath was past. ''They wonic\ lot break the Snobath. " xne aaooaxn w.w> i eally only about to begin. There are no ndings in God's blessings. There is au end o sin, to death, but not to blessin-rs.?Parser. Anoint Him. With spices. This is proof hat they did not expect Him to rise again ; ind this fact adds new force to their testioony.?Jacobus. Very early in the morning. John says, while it was yet dark : Mntthew, as it be^an o dawn. Yes, that is just what it did. Tiiat s the very poetry of the occasion?the word written with apparent accident is the very sxpression of heaven's truth. "It began to lawn." When Christ comes, the light comes. There is a joyousness. an activity, a hopefulless, an energy about the early morning.? ?arker. The first day of the week. The day has :ept its place ever since, always the first. 'This is the day the Lord hath made." Christianity has its primacy in personsChrist ; in graces?charity; in days?the iabbath. They came to the sepulchre. But not to Christ's. They who seek Christ in unbelief o-day are simply visiting empty tombs. Do lot be disturbed nor wonder if in trumpet ones they declare: "He is not here." And they said among themselves. How nany of our anxieties are needless, groundess and absurd. "The worst difficulties are hose which never happen." The stone was rolled away. The stone was urned to new uses, for an angel sat upon it. ?Parker. The seal, the watch, the guard? ind yet the open tomb. Who can stay His land? Entering?they saw a young man. There troa fho Trloirtn onH th? vnlpp The vision WRS i vision of youth. Young?life, powe;,promse, eagerness, belong to youth. The voice was sympathetic?"Fear not re." Heart rending, "I know that ye seek Tesus." Explanatory?"He is not here; He a risen." Comforting?"Come, see the place where he Lord lay." Inspiring?"Go ye?tell."?Parker. The empty tomb brought confusion, ter or, fearful forebodings to the enemies of 3hrist t but hope, comfort, confidence, to His riends. Tall his disciples and Peter. Christ's first ippearance was to Mary Magdalene. John, ex., 18, out of whom He had cast seven* levils; so His special message is to Peter, vho had denied Him.?Abbott. Tell Peter?although he has sinned so grievously. Tell Peter?for he has wept, jrod's anger against His children ceases with he commencement of their penitence. Tell Peter?for he hrfs suffered. Tell Peter?for he is dear to Cnrist. Sin ;an grieve Christ, cause Him to withdraw, vound and disfigure us, -but it cannot alter 3is love. Tell Peter?for he is your brother. They lad sinned, Have not we denied our Lord? ?Stems and Twigs. The result of it all on the women?fear, laste, energy. They were afraid, they ran, hey trembled and were amazed. From Matthew we learn that as they "met Jesus in he way." All who go upon gracious errands neet Him in the way. He is risen. "Through woman death was Jrst introduced into the world; to woman he first announcement was made of the esurrection." Proofs of Christ's resurrection. I hare >een used for many years to study the hisory of other times, and to examine aud urelgh the evidences of those who have vrttten about them; and I know of no one act in the history of mankind which is >roved by better and iuller Hvidence of every lort. to the mind of a fair inquirer, than that Dhrist died and rose again from the deader. Arnold. Moreover, it was precisely the lame body which was buried that rose again, >r all the proofs fail. I. Proved by the friends of Christ. 1. rhe apostles had the most powerful faith in :ne lacr. iney were unanim'jus m iueit ieclaration of it a few days after on the very spot on which it occurred, and that to men ivho were prepared to do anything to conceal the fact. 2. This faith came in lirect opposition to their previous beliefs ind worldly interests. They had no expecta:ion and no hope of such resurrection. 3. They had every opportunity for thoroughly satisfying themselves on the point. 4. By :heir declaration of the fact they induced housands of the very enamies of Chri9tto aelieve in it, and that close to the time and lear the very spot on which it occurred Tb.e j'arly Church universally belietad in It; 1 md it is incredible that a myth, a falsa story, should have so grown up without substantial foundation?From Thomas's Genius )f the Gospel. 5. They attested this fact not jnly by their lives, but by their death. 6 Dnly the fact of the resurrection can account 'or the marvelous change in the spirit and ?haracter of the apostles. The resurrection jompletely transformed them : inspired them _?*?_ . Willi U uew CUIll'epilUU U1 V/ULiai o mu^uvui *s for all people, with a new courage to suffer for the sake of their risen Lord and His kingdom, and. with a new purpose to preach Christ and Him crucified everywhere as a spiritual redemption for sin, Acts il., 39 : v., 11: x., 43. Neither fraud nor fiction Is competent to account for the moral contrast. II. Proved by the enemies of CliriAt. 1. It Tits impossioit: lor these enemies to deny hat Christ had by some mean* left the frave. 2. It was impossible for them to give iny other explanation than that which they iow invented?that His disciples stole tho >ody. 3. It was impossible for this, the only 'xpianation they could give, to be credited : or (a) tho disciples couid not have st?len 3im if they would; (b) it was in the last decree improbable that all the Roman watch vere asleep: (c) nor would the Jewish ;ouncil have voted money merely to have rojorted a truth, (d) if the soldiers slept, hey could not have known that the disciples itole the body: their story contradicted it>elf.?GeniU3 of the Gospell Ar? Men Growing Smaller ? A French statistician, who has been tudying the militarv and other rec-J~ _:il. - ... >XU9 WILLI U, >1CVV Ul UCLCliUUUU^ I HO | leight of mbn at different periods, has eached some wonderful results. The ecorded facts extend over three cenuries. It is found that in 1610 the iverage height of man in Europe was .75 meters, or say five feet nine inchis. In 1320 it was five feet five inches nd a fraction. At the present time it s five feet three inches and three,uarters. It is easy to deduce from hese figures a rate of regular and gradual decline in human stature, and hen to apply this, working backward nd forward, to the past and to the fuure. By this calculation, it appears hat the stature of the first man atained the snrpusing average of sixeen feet and nine inches. The race iad already deteriorated in the days of )g, and Goliath was quite a degenrate offspring of the giants. Coming own to the latter times, we find that t the beginning of our era the averge height of man was nine feet, and i 1he time of Charlemagne it was ight feet eight inches, a fact quite uftic-ient to account for the heroic eeds of the Paladins. But the mo>t stonishing result of tbi3 scientific tudy conies from the application of he same inexorable law of diminution 3 the future. The calculation shows hat by the year 4000 A. D. th? statre of the average man will be reduced 5 fifteen inches. And the conclusion f the learned statistician is that "tha nd of the world will certainly arrive, )r the inhabitants will become so mall that they will finally disappear" -"finish by disappearing," as the rench idiom puts it?"fiom the terBstrial globe." A cow being driven through the treets of Hannibal, Mo., charged on a ;d coat hanging on a post, eutangled er horns in it, gave a bellow and ropped dead. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, The Senate. 50th Day.?Mr. Fryo concluded his speech on the Hawaiian testimony, after which the Senate took up the bill for the erection of a Government printing office, .- ? unfinished business. This furnished Mr. Dolph a pretext for a speech on the tariff, which merged into a personal debate between him and Mr. Allen. 51st Day.?The old McGarraban claim was considered. The Bland seigniorage bill was laid before the Senate. 52d Day.?Discussion of Mr. Stewart's mo tion to take up the Bland bill, and personal explanations from Democratic Senators occupied most of the day. Mr. Hill introduced resolutions directing the Finance Committee to strike out of the Wilson bill the internal revenue and income taxes and to report a bill providing for the deficit by ivvyiim lunu iuaci. 53d Day.?The Bland bill was pushed to the point of final passage by the Democrats and silver Republicans before the minority realized what way happening; a vote was avoided only by adjournment. The bill appropriating 345,000 for the purpose of reclaiming the United States ship-of-war Kearsarge and her equipment, provided that not more than $10,000 shall be paid if the attempt prove a failure, passed. The House. 64th Day.?Mr. Bland's bill for the coinage of the silver bullion in the Treasury was passed by a vote ot 167 to 130. The House also passed the bill appropriating $40,000 to raise the wreck of the Kearsarge. 65th Day.?Representatives Meredith and Funk tried to have a fist fight, but were parted before blood was drawn: The Fortification bill, appropriating over $2,000,000, was passed. The Pension bill was passed. 66th Day.?The House devoted three hours to a further discussion of the administration of the Pension Bureau, under cover of the Pension Appropriation bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Pickler, Black and Waugh. 67th Day.?The House began the second year of the Fifty-third Congress with prayer by Dwight L. Moody, the noted evangelist. A bill was passed amending the act authorizing the constructing of a bridge across the East River, from New York to Long Island. so that the lowest part of the bridge shall not be less than 127 feet above mean low water at spring tide, instead of 142 feet. Further debate was held on the Pension Appropriation bill. 68th Day.?The House adopted the resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to investigate United States Judge Jenkins's act in enjoining the employes of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Sickles made an attack upon the Administration's pension policy. 69th Day.?The Pension Appropriation bill was passed without a division. THE LABOR WORLD. Bbooklyn, n. Y., has 30,000 unemployed people, Fabm laborers in Belgium receive forty-six Bents a day. A pbinteb in Peru can make from (1.25 to 11.80 a day. Shopqiblb in France receive an average of $100 a year. New York ironworkers are giving financial aid to brassworkers. Lakefabing men have formed an organization in Buffalo, N. Y. Bbabs workers say there is no Improvement la their trade to speak of. Fall Riveb (Mass.) idle spinners receive financial aid from the union. Labobeb81 wages in Minnesota now average about fifty-three cents a day. The average salary of school teachers in Pennsylvania is about $9 per week. Ik Mexico seamstresses are paid thirtyseven cents a day; weavers, fifty cents. Union labels in hats are now sewed on the sweat-band. Labels pasted on are counterfeits. " Gotham's millionaires are subscribing liberally to the fand for relief of the unemployed. Five hckdbed mothers are earning daily bread in the Woman's Club sewing-rooms, Chicago. In many factories in Germany workingwomen are not permitted to wear corsets while at work. Wages of coal miners in Gunnison County, Col., have been voluntarily raised from sixty cents a ton to seventy-five. A new glass factory has been started at Cicero, Ind. It uses natural gas entirely nnd will employ 300 hands. Lsctcbiso lours have been arranged by members of the K. of L. Executive Board, with hopo of revivifying the Order. Fubtheb reductions. in the wages paid to employee of steel and iron manufactures show that the war staffed bv the Carnegie Steel Company, of Pittsburg, against its competitors is not ended yet. .A bzcest British* Consular report states that at Ancona, Italy, there are seventeen spinning mills, in which over 800 women are employed. The wages average fourteen cents for a day of twelve hours. In Switzerland, girls on arriving at the age of fourteen are regalarly employed as porters, and during the season in that country may be seen daily carrying the baggage of travelers up and down the steep mountain paths. Contbactobs at Denver announce that they cannot secure men to work on Cripple Creek (Col.) roads for $1.60 per day and they may have to resort to the employment of Chinese. The mining camps have absorbed the unemployed. Two thousand unemployed men went to the City Hall, Toronto, Canada, and demanded that the Mayor either give them work or money. Tbe agitators distributed anarchistic literature and made threats of looting tne residences or tne aiayor ana Aldermen. Owing to the great demand for public work in the parks at $1 per day the City Employment Committee, of Pittsburg, Penn., Issued an order some time ago to employ only married men. This had the effect of causing a big boom in business at the marriage license Clerk's office. Every unmarried Italian and Pole in Pittsburg seems to be hunting a wife. th annnrpn wtttte X V UU V V T AAA A Ml Representative Blanchard Appointed by the Governor of Louisiana. Governor Foster, of Louisiana, having received the resignation of United States Senator E. C. White, to take effect on Monday, March 12, accepted the eamo and appointed Congressman Newton C. Blanohard to succeed him. Mr. Blanchard has served longer in the House than any Congressman elected from Louisiana since the war, and is now in the fourteenth year of his service in tho lower branoh of Congress. Newton Crain Blanchard was born in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, on January 19, 1849. and he is now. therefore, forty-flve years of age. He will serve as Senator until the Legislature has filled the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice White. The Governor has authority to appoint during the recess of thoLegislature only. Justice Whlte'3 term as Sonator will expire in in 1897. Mr. Blanchard Was a candidate for the Senate before the Legislature in 1878 and In 1802. THREE SHOT DOWN. A Eloody Affray In Mississippi With a Very Tragic Ending. Rev. W. P. Batcliffe, editor of the Alliance Vindicator, shot and killed S. A. Jackson, at Kosciusko. Miss. Sam Russell was also killed and Will Sanders was dangerously woumted. The latter two w*re fanners and bystanders. Jackson was a leading business man of the town, and was elected recently to the Legislature. He leaves a widow and four small children. The affair grew out of a reply by Jackson, in the Kosciusko Star, denouncing Raiclifftf in very emphatic language for publishing in his paper that he (Jackson) voted in caucu? at the late meeting of the Legislature for a Populist for United States Senator. The Brazilians say that they wer? terribly swindled in the purchase of the Nictheroy and the America, and the commander of the America, which is considered the better vessel, says that he would not risk her within range of the Aquidaban. Lions Tamed by a Cigarette. About four years ago, while engaged in entertaining the readers of an afternoon paper with his versatile pen, Napoleon Alonzo Jennings conceived the idea of entering a den of lions and "writing up" his experiences from the standpoint of a novice, describing the action of the animals at the sudden appearance of a stranger in their cage and the sensations that these actions provoked. Permission to attempt the experiment was obtained from the proprietor of a circus and menagerie quartered in Jersey City. Jennings supplied himself with a package of cigarettes and applied to the keeper r>f thp animals to have the rear door of the cage opened. The man thought he was joking at first, but when convinced that he was in earnest unbarred the door, fully convinced that his visitor would weaken and decline to go any further. But Jennings did nothing of the kind. Puffing hard on two cigarettes at once he jumped into the' cage, and, adjusting his eyeglasses, gazed superciliously into the face of a large lion with whiskers, crouched in one corner. Whether the king of beasts regarded the intruder as some strange four-eyed freak introduced merely as an amusement, or whether the cigarette smdke suggested a smokestack and a furnace is not known to a certainty. At all events the lions?there were three of them?were too much astonished to even so much as roar. The big fellow blinked his eyes and his companions nearly yawned their heads off. Jennings bowed gravely to the openmouthed keeper, who stood in front of the cage with a long iron prod in his hand, and then backed to the door and leaped out. He returned to New York and wrote a thrilling account of his adventure, demonstrating, to his satisfaction at least, that the most ferocious beasts of the field were powerlpss under the fixed gaze of the human eye. The keeper read the article disdainfully. "Say," he said afterward, "if that feller had gone in there without them cigaroots he'd been chawed up. The lions thought it was a piece o' carpet afire, and it made *em sick, xjxons is werry psmwiiu. _ ?New York Mail and Express, ju' ? . %* Explaining a Climatic Freak. ^ People who visit the east coast of Florida, and especially the Indian River and the Lake Worth region, often wonder why the climate of that section is so delightful at all times of the year and so different in almost every particular from what one would expect in those latitudes. The explanation is simple enough. The difference between northern and semi-tropical Florida, apart from the latitudinal distance, is due to the elevation of the former and the distance from it of the Gulf Stream. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico temper the immediate coast line. Their effect does not extend far inland. The stream is pressed close to * * T"\ _ J1 _ SI the east coast snore aiong vaue by the Bahama banks. Atlantic steamships southward bound, to avoid the force of the current, stand in so near the shore that they can at some points be hailed from land. The Gulf Stream is an old story, but it is a great fact. The vast, deep blue ocean river, a thousand times the volume of the Mississippi, is thirty miles wide, 2000 feet deep, and has a velocitv of five miles an hour the year round. The temperature of the stream is eighty-four de-* grees, or nine degrees higher than thfc, waters of the ocean through which it flows. The trade winds blowing nine- % tenths of the time, winter and summer from the eastward, bear the stratum of warm air formed by the Gulf Stream?* >. westward across the land. This is_why the east coast is milder and equable than the west coast in the same latitude. With the Gulf Stream are found three other equalizing agencies?the trade winds, the everglades, with a water surface preventing a land breeze, and the zone of high barometric pressure. The midsummer i heat, that might otherwise be ninetyfive degrees, is reduced to something like eighty-eight degreee. The mid, winter chill, which might get down to thirty degrees, is warmed up to something like forty degrees. ?Chicago Herald. For Cheap Housekeeping. A Chicago man thinks that the sysstem of co-operative housekeeping, which has been tried and failed in several cities of the country, can be made to work in that city, and will solve the problem, which many young tntli "TTnw in lueu ma gMu{j^uu(j ! ??) ? support a family on $50 a month." He proposed a large apartment house, wherein 200 families may be accommodated with more or less room, as they need and are willing to pay for, and a restaurant, where all are boarded in common. The guests would have a barber, a laundry, a house physician, and would be able to get all their supplies.. dry goods, etc., at wholesale rates: and on the whole could live very reasonably, indeed. The plan would work to admiration, provided all the inmates of the house were angels, or were thoroughly civilized, which is much the same thing. But with human nature, as it is, no one house is big enough to contain two families, especially if there are any children. This is the rock whereon this ship hat always split. ?New Orleans Picayune. Children's Eyes. A physician advises mothers to discard bangs even for their smallest daughters, these very little girls being the only ones whom fashion, at the moment, permits to wear them. There are, it seems, sensitive nerves about the eyebrows which are weakened when the hair is long enough to rest upon them. These nerves directly concern the sight, and that important function is more or less tampered with by this constant though sligh: weight of hair. And another physician inveighs against another practice, which hat never been regarded as having any specially serious effects?that of having night lights in children's bedrooms. This he pronounces very injurious. Instead of allowing the optic nerves the perfect rest afforded by darkness, the light keeps them in a perpetual stimulation, with the result of causing the brain and the rest of the nervous system to suffer. ?New York CommeJcial Advertiser. \