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) f ! EEY. DR. TAIMAGE. THE ;BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: ''From Conquest to Conquest." Text : "Behold the days comc: saith (ht Lord, /hat the plowman shall overtake tht reaper."?Amos ix., 13. Picture of a tropical clime, with a season bo prosperous that the harvest reaches clear ! over to the planting time, nnd the swarthy ' husbanOman swinelnjr the sickle in the thiol: grain alrro?t feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the horse3 hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." When is that? That is now. That is this day, when hardly have you done reaping one harvest thn nlowmfjn is ffettinsr ready for another. I know that many declare that Christianity has collapsed ; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian church is on the retreat. I will here and now show that the opposite of that is true. An Arab guide was leading a French infidel across a desert, and ever and anon the Arab guide would get down in the sand and !>ray to the Lord. It disgusted the French nildel, and after awhile as the Arab got up from one of his prayers the infldel said, ' How do you Know there is any God?" and tho Arab guide said: "How do I know that a man and a camel passed along our tent last night? I know it by the footprints in the sand. And you want to know how I know 1 whether there is any GodV Look at that sunset. Is that the footstep of a man?" And by the same process yoa and I have come to understand that this book is the footstep of a God. But now let us see whether the Bible is a last year's almanac. Let as s<je whether the church of God is in a Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing . all the way. The great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and ; of great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attornev as well as a historian, elves this overwhelming statistic in regard to Christianity and In regard to the number of Christians in the different centuries : In the first oentury, 500.000 Christians; in the second century, 2,000,000 Christians; in the third century, 5.000,000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000,000 Christians; in the filth oentury, 15,000,000 Christians ; in the 3ixth oentury, 20.000,000 Christians; In the seventh oentury, 24.000,000 Christians; in the eighth century, 30,000,000 Christians; in the blnth century, 40,000.000 Christians; in the tenth century, 50,000,000 Christians; in the eleventh century, 70,000,000 Christians; In the twelfth century, 80,000,000 Christians; tn the thirteenth century, 75,000,000 Christians ; in the fourteenth century, 80,000,000 Christians; in the fifteenth century, 100,300,000 Christians; in the sixteenth cenury. 125,000,000 Christians; in the seveni au ? rr AAA AAA _ j_ iu. [Ofaiu century, ioo,uuu,uuu ; ju iiw oiguiV eenth century, 200.000,000 Christiana?a decadence, as you observe, In only one century and more than trade up in the following centuries, while it is the usual computation that there will be, when the record of the nineteenth century is made up. jtt least 300,000,000;Christians. ' Poor Christianity! What a pity it has no friends! How lonesome it must be! W bo will take it out of the poorhouse? Poor Christianity! Three hundred millions in one century. In a few weeks of the year 1881 . 2,500,000 copies of the New Testament distributed. why, the earth Is like an old castle with twenty gates and a park artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom and see how heathendom is being surrounded and honeycombed and attacked by this all conquering gospel. At the beginning of this century there were only 150 missionaries; now there aro 25,000 missionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of this century there were only 50.(k)0 heathen converts; now there are 1,750,000 converts from heathendom. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the battery of the gospel is planted and ready to march on?north, south, east, west. You all know that the chief work of an army is to v\1 nnf f Ka KitflaniAfl T f mow in Irn no n n t? /Inra iuo uauciico. At uaaj Iticwu inauj uojo to plant the batteries, and they may do ail their work in ten minutes. These batteries are being planted all along the seacoasts and In all nations. It may take a good while to plant them, and they may do all their work In one day. They will. Nations are to be born in one day. But just come back to Christendom and recognize the fact that during the last ten years as many people have connected themselves with evangelical ehurches as connected themselves with the churches in the first fifty years of this century. Bo Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, they say, is becoming an obsolete book. I go into a court, and wherever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the solemnity of an oath? book is apt to be put in the trunk of tne young man as he leaves Tor city lirei* xne Bible. What shall I And in nine out of every ten homes in Brooklyn? The Bible. In nine out of every ten homes in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bible in the nineteenth century would become extinct. The century is nearly gone, and as there have been more Bibles published in the latter part of the century than in the former part of the centuiT, do you think the Bible will become extinct in the next six years? I have to tell you that the room in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not long ago was crowded from floor to ceiling with Bibles from Switzerland. Suppose the Congrew of the United States should pass a law that there should be no more Bibles printed In America and no more Bibles read. If there are 40,000,000 grown people in the United States, there would be 40,000,000 people in an army to put down such a law and defend their right to read the Bible. 3ut suppose the Congress of the United States should make a iaw against the reading or the publication of any other book, how many people would go out ia such a crusade?. ' Could you get 400,000,000 people to go out and risk their lives lu defense of Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Hacaulay's "History of England?1' Ton know that there are 1000 men who would die in defense of this book where there is not more than one man who would die in defense of any other book. You try to insult my common sense by telling me the Bible is fading out from the world. It is the most popular book of the century. How do I know it? I know it just as I know In regard to other books. How many volumes of that book are published? Well, you say, 5000. How many copies of that book are published? A hundred thousand. Which is the more popular? Why. of course the one that has 100.000 circulation. And if this book has more copies abroad in the world, if there are five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book, doss not that show you that the most popular book on the planet to-day is the word of God? "Oh," say people, "the oharoh is a collection ot hypocrites, and it is losing Its power, and it is fading out from the world." Ia it? A bishop of the Metbodist church told me that that denomination average" two new churches every day of the year. There are at least 1500 new Christian churches built in America every year. Doesthat look asthough the ohurch were fading out, as though it were a defunct institution? Which institution stands nearest the hearts of the people of America to-day? I do not care in what village, or in what oity, or what neighborhood you go. Which institution is it? Is it the postofflce? Is it the hotel? Ia It the lecturing hall? Ah, you know it is not. You know that the institution which stands nearest to the hearts of the American people is the Christian church. IT you have everseen a ohurch burn down, you have seen thousands of people Etandiug and looking at it ?n?ool" who n?v?r w into a church?the jtear* raining down their cheeks. The whole story is told. j You may talk about tho church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children off whom do you send for? The postmaster, the attorneyganeral, the hotel-keeper, alderman? No; you send for a minister of this Bible region. (And If you have not a room in your house for the obsequies, what building do you solicit? Do you say, "Give me the finest room In the hotel?" Do you say. "Give me that theatre?" Do you say, "Give me a plaoe in that publio building, where I can lay my dead for a little while until we say a prayer over It?" No. You say, "Give u3 the house of God." And if there is a song to be sung at the obsequies, what do you want? What does anybody want? "The Marseillaise" hymn? "God Bare the Queen?" Oar own grand j I. national air? No. They want the hymn with which they sans; their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want sun? the Sabbath-school hymn which their little girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was out before she got that awful sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to yoar common Bense. Ton know the most endearing in titution on earth, the most popular institution on earth to-day is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The infidels say, "Infidelity shows its successes from the fact that it is everywhere accepted, and it can say what it will." Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our days as it was in the days of our fathers. Do you know that in the days of our fathers there were protiouneed infidels in' nnhlic authority and thev coald cret anv political position? Let a man to-day"declare himself antagonistic to the Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, what State wants him tor governor, what nation wants him for president or for king? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious Christianity, and he cannot get a majority of votes in any Stat^, in any city, In any county, in any ward of | America. Do you think that such a scene could be enacted now as was enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elevated as a goddess and was carried in a golden chair to a cathedral, where incense was burned to her and people bowed down before her as a divine being, she taking the place of the Bible and God Almighty, while in the corrider of that cathedral were en- I acted such scenes of drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity as has never been witnessed? Do you belteve such a thing could possibly occur in Christendom to-day? No, sir! The pollen, whether of Faris or New York, would siwoop on it. I know infidelity makes a good deal of talk in our day. It la on the principle that j if a man jump overboard from a Cunard steamer he makes more excitement than all the 500 people that stay on the deoks. But the fact that he jumps overboard?does that stop the ship? Does that wreck the 500 passengers? makes great excitement when a man jumps from the lecturing platform nr from the dii!nit in fldelitv. but does that keep the Bible and the Church from carrying their millions of passengers into the skies? They ssy, these men, that science is overcoming religion in our day. They look through the spectacles of the infidel scientists, and they say: "It is impossible that this book can be true. People are finding it out. The Bible has got to go overboard. Science is going to throw it overboard." Do you believe that the Bible account of tha origin ot life will be overthrown by infidel scientists who have fifty different theories about the origin of life? If they should come up in solid phalanx, all agreeing upon one sentiment and one theory, peihaps Christianity might be damaged, but there are not so many differences of opinion inside the ohuroh as outside the church. People used to say, "There are so many different denominations Of Christians?that shows there is nothing in religion." I have to tell you that all denominations agree on the two or three or four radical doctrines of the Christian religion. They are unanimous JLU LC^tUU l\J O C3UZJ UUXIOI, "4AIA CkXO unanimous In regard to the divinity of the Scriptures. How is it on the ottier side? All split up?you cannot find two of them alike. Ob, it makes me sick to see these literary fops going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, telling about the "survival of the fittest," and Hurley's protoplasm, 8nd the nebular hypothesis. The fact is that some naturalists jost as soon as they find out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any pretensions to oeing a Christian, puts both his feet on the doctrine of evolution and says, "I see that many of the naturalists of our day are adopting facts which do not bear observation or have not passed under observation." These men warring against each other?Darwin warring against Lamarcae, Wallace warring against Cope, even Herschel denouncing Ferguson. They do not agree about anything. They do not agree on embryology, do not agree on the gradation of the species. What do they agree on? Herscbel writes a whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon was not put in the right place. He says that it it had been put four times farther from the earth than it is now there would be more harmony in the universe, but Lionville comes up just in time to prove that the moon was put in the right place. How many colors woven into the light? 8even, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight miles, says Twining. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six million miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt. Mnetv million mues, says tienaerson. une hundred and four million miles, says Mayer ?only a little difference of 28,000,000 miles! All split up among themsalves?not agreeing on anything. They come and say that the ohurchea of Jesus Christ are divided on the great doctrines. All united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scriptures. While th?*y come up and propose to render their verdict, no two of them agree on that verdict. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you - agreed on a verdiot?"' asks the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in after having spent the whole night'in deliberating. If the jury say3, "Yes, we have agreed." the verdict is recorded, but suppose one of the jurymen says, "I think the man w is guilty of murder," another says, *1 thinlr he was guilty of manslaughter in the second degree," and another man says, "I think ho was guilty of assault and battery, with intent to kill," the judge would say: "Go back to your roon* and bring in a verdict. Agree on something. That is no verdict." Here these infidel scientists have impaneled themselves as a jury to decide this trial Knttronn (nflikllfv th? nlwintiff. and Ohrls tianity, the defendant, and after being out for centuries ihey come in to render their verdict. Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict? No, no. Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. Tbere Is not a poor, miserable wretch in the Tombs coart to-morrow that could be condemned by a jury that did not agree on the verdict, and yet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on anything. Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ instead of falling back, is on the advance! I am certain it is ontheadvunce. 0 Lord God, take Thy sword from Tby thigh and ride lortn to tne victory: I am mightily encouraged because I And among other things that while this Christianity has been bombarded for centuries infidelity has not destroyed one church, or crippled one minister, or uprooted one verse of one chapter of all the Bible. The church all the time getting the victory, and the shot and shell of its enemies nearly exhausted. I have been examining their ammunition lately. I have looked all through their oartridge boxes. They have not in the last twenty years advanced one new idea. They have utterly exhausted their ammunition tn the battle against the church and against the Scriptures, while the 6word of the Lord Almighty is as keen as It ever was. We are just Retting our troops into line. They are coming up in companies, and in regiments, and in brigades, and you will hear a shout after awhile that will make the earth quake and the heavens ring with "Alleluia!" It will be this. f'Forward, the whole line!" And then I find another most encouraging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and pulpit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every Wall street banker to-morrow in New York, every State street banker to-morrow in Boston, every Third street banker to-morrow in Philadelphia, every banker in the United Stat".s, and every merchant will have In his pocket a treatise on Christianity, a call to repentence, ton, twenty or thirty passages of Scripturo in the reports ot session preached throughout these cities and throughout the land to-day. It will be so in Chicago, so in New Orleans, bo in Charleston, so in rjosron, so in rnuadelptita, so everywhere. I know the tract societies are doing a grand and glorious work, but I tell you there is no power on earth to-day equal to the factthatthe American printing press is taking up the sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people and on Mondav morning and Monday evening, in the morning and evening papers, scattering that truth to the millions. What a thought It is! What an encouragement for every Christian man Besides that, have you notloed that during the past few years every one of the doctrines of the Bible came under discussion in the secular press? Do you not remember a few yeare ago, when every paper In the Onitegi States had an editorial on the subject. "Is There Such a Thing as Future Punishment?" It was the strangest thing that there should be a discussion iu the secular papers on that subject, but every paper in the United States and in Christendom discussed, "Is There Such a Thing as Retribution?" I know there were small wits who made sport of the discussion, but there was not an intelligent man on earth who, as the I result of that discussion, did not ask himself the question, "What is going to be my eternal destiny?" So it was in regard to Tyndall's i prayer gauge. About twelve years ago, you remember, the secular papers discussed that, and with just as much earnestness as the religious I papers, and there was Dot a man in Christendom who did not ask himself the question: "Is there anything in prayer? May the [ creature impress the Creator?" Ob, what a mighty fact, what a glorious fact?the secu[ lar printing press and the pulpit of the church of Jeeus Christ harnessed in the same team! Then look at the international series of Sunday-school lessons. Do you know that every Sabbath, between 3 and 5 o'clock, there are 5,000,000 onlldren studying the same lesson?a lesson prepared by the leading minda of the country and printed in the papers? and then these subjects are discussed and ?' ? ? * ? ?*Ka rwitra. fViam | given ov?r iu mo loouucis, nuu 6iTy I over to the children? So, whereas, once, and | within oar memory, the ohiidren nibbled here and there at a story in the Bible, now they are taken through from Genesis to Revelation, and we shall have 5,000,000 children forestalled for Christianity. My soul is full of exultation. I feel as if I could shout ?I will shout, "Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" Then you notice a more significant fact, if you have talked with people on the subject, that they are getting dissatisfied with philosophy and science as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house. They will tell you, when they were sick and the door of the future seemed opening, the only comfort they could find was in the Gospel. People are having demonstrated all over the land that science and philosophy cannot solace the trouble and woes of the world, and they want some I ?oI!i?!nr nnrt thnv Am takhli? Chris VIuci t. J 0 tianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world. Now, there are some men who say they have never seen Christ crowned in the heart, and they do not believe it la ever done. There is a jjroup of men who say they have never heard the voice ot Christ; they have never heard the voice of God. They do not believe it ever transpired or was ever heard?that anything like it ever occurred. I point to [ 20,000,000 or 1,000,000 people who say, "Christ was crowned In our hearts' affeci tions; we have seen Him and felt Him in our [ souls, and we have heard His voice; we have heard It in storm and darkness; we have heard it again and again." Whose testimony will you take? These men who say they have not heard the voice, have not seen the | coronation, or will you take the thousands and millions of Christians who testify of what they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears? Yonder i3 an aged Christian after fifty years' experience of the power of godliness in his soul. Ask this man whether, when he burled his dead, the religion of Jesu3 Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through the long years of his pilgrimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him if, when he looks forward to the future, if he has not a peace and a joy, and a consolation the world cannnt tatA ftwav Put this testimonv of what ho has seen and what he has felt opposite to the testimony of a man wbo says he has not seen anything on the subject or felt anything on the subject. Will you take the testimony of people who have not seen or people who have seen? You say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time ot sickness it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to Sleep; it never alleviates pain. You ask me why I say that. I have never tried it. I never took it. I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or any quiet In time of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anvbody to sleep, but here are twenty persons who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a physician's prescribing morphine. Whose testimony will you take? Those who tooK the medicine or my testimony, I never having taken the medicine? Here is the Gospel of Jesus Chri3t, an anodyne for all trouble, the mightiest medioine that ever came down to earth. Here is a man who says: "I don't believe in it. There is no power in it." Here are other people who say: "We have found out its power and know its soothing influence. It has cured us." Whoae testimony will you take in regard to thi3 healing medicine. I feel that I have convinced every man in this house that it is utter folly to take the testimony of those who have never tried the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart and Ufa Wo f-ona of thousands of wit nesses. I beiieve you are ready to take their testimony. Youngman, do not be a9ham?d to be a friend of the Bible. Do not put your thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swagger about talking of the glorious light of the nineteenth century and of there being no need of a Bible. They have the light of nature in India and China and in all the dark places on earth. Did you ever hear that the light of nature gave them comfort for their trouble? They have lancets to cut and juggernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, my friends, yotf had better stop yeur skepticism. Suppose you are put in this crisis: Oh, father, your child is dying. What are you going to say to her? Colonel Ethan Allen Vtas a famous infidel in his day. His wife was a very consecrated woman. Toe mother instructed the daughter in the crutb3 of Christianity. The daughter sickened and was about to die. and she said to her father : ''Father, shall I take your instructioa, or shall I take mother's instruction? I am going to die now. I must have this matter decided." That man who had been loud in his infidelity, said to his dying daughter, "My dear, you had better take your mother's religion." My advice is the same to you?oh, young man, you had better take your mother's religion. Yon know how it comforted her. You know what she said to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother's religion. CURIOUS FACTS. There are 13,000 kinds of postage stamps. The United States contain 151,680 street cars. Switzerland has more postoffices in proportion to pojmlation than an; other country. A map of America, by Columbus, has been discovered. It lepresents this continent as part of Asia. To prove he had a large mouth a Columbus, Ohio, man inserted a billiard ball. A surgeon cut it out. Cakes of tea in India, pieces of silk in China, salt in Abyssinia and codfish in Iceland have been used as money. W. H. Faulkner, of Henderson, N. C., is the father of eighteen children, has forty grandchildren and is not yet an old man. Over the door of a general score in Pineville, Ky., there used to be a sigu reading: "Pistols, coffins and dime novels sold here." There are several factories in India and one, at least, in Europe, that at Mannheim, Germany, where butter is made from cocoanuts. The statue of Benjamin Franklin which stood in front of the Electric Building at the World's Fair Vas been presented to the University of Pennsylvania. Greatest or Bargain Counters. The highest offering that is made for tha Manufacturers' Building at Jacuson i'.irk, (Jbtcsigo, a structure that covers more grounu man any other ill tne world, is Out wnilelor tnt famous Colonnade but #45 is tendered. The bigbest bid ot all the buildings is but $15,OUU. These strictures represent expenditures of mauy millions. The World's r'tur Commission, which is disposing of these ejiUces, has a bargain cuuuler (.hut r.iver had a rival. RELIGIOUS READING. JUX'8 EXTREMITY, OOD'8 pPPORTUNtT?. It i8 often made manifest in the history of fflaukind.that when man most feels his weako ?\/l .lunrtn/Jon/.a fLt\A moL-oafllft ( ifthoat ll iq. play or His Providential care and of Hi9 overruling hand. It is also made as mauifest that what God does for man He does by man. He helps those who help themselves. A Joseph whom his brethren sold into slavery, hopiug never to see his faco again, trusting his God becomes most efficient aid in preserving the lives of his brethren. An infant Moses is raised up to become the great Hebrew lawgiver under the projecting care of the very authority that had given strict orders for his dissolution. The smooth stone in tho sling of the stripling David stays the mighty Goliath and a proud army is put to flight. The most carefully demised plans of the jealous king Herod utterly fail to secure the death of the child Jesus, the promising king of Israel. The most violent enemy and persecutor of the followers of this same Jesus becomes the most zealous and successful promoter of the cause he was determined to destroy. The array of highest ecclesiastical authority to suppress tho voice and writings of Martin Luther against the errors, vices and abuses of the church gave increased efficiency and power to the great work of Reformation. Tue effort to suppress religious freedom to the Puritans drove them to a new continent where their principles have been thoroughly established and have made it the olnru nf all 1 nnHa O'WI J V*. ? In the late wonderfal exhibiton of the results of the enterprise, skill, and industry and wealth of the world, there were also impressive illustrations of how easily the devices of the wicked are brought to naught and the glory and pride of man made to lick the dust. Tnis has been brought about by the very iastrumentality that despised the counsels of Divine wisdom. God makes the wrath of man to praise Him, and restrains the remainder,makes the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, the weak things those that are mighty, that no flesh should glory in his presence. In times like these, when banks aro burdened with deposits, but the manufactories are closed, the storehouses are well-provisioned, but the unemployed are crying for bread; business men are inquiring what can I do, whom can I trust ? is there not an impressive lesson to be learned, when in addition to all this, monir n m Hainr* mi Iv taken aWttV b\f death; that something more reliable and enduring i3 needed than this world can afford? Have not the tens of thousands of young soldiers of Christ in the ranks of Christian Endeavor a fleld open and an argument at hand for pressing home the claims of their Lord and Master? Underlying all these external anxieties and wants of multitudes are unxieties of mind and yearnings of soul that cannot be satisfied with anything less than the provisions of the Gospel and the Water of life. Whom does our Lord command to invite to the feast??Religious Herald. HOW TO SfoDY THE BIBLE. Study the Bible with an obedient spirit. This is not simply a rule of life; it is also a rule of interpretation. Jesus said: "If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God." One must love the truth and hold himself subject to it if he would learu the truth. Nothing blinds the understanding and warps the judgment like a perverse will. When men are determined to do wrong they persuade themselves that wrong is right. It is doubtful whether there has ever been an error that has not had its honest advocates. When men will not obey the truth which is offered them, they are given over to believe a lie. A sort of moral blindness falls upon them, and they lose any capacity they may have had to perceive tlie truth. Of course this blindness exists in varying degrees, just as men obey the truth they know with greater or less faithfulness. But no man can rightly Interpret the Bible unless he comcs to it with an obedient spirit. A film will be formed over his eyes by any lurking purpose iu his heart not to obey its precepts, if they snould happen to omw ntimnaea he has already formed. The law is not arbifrary; it is a law of the human mind. Christ's saying does not mean that the obedient man will have the truth miraculously revealed to him. He means that an obedient spirit is a necessary condition of knowing the truth. There is a sort of sympathy which one must have with the truth in order to know it. We must love the beautiful and have a cultivated taste in order to appreciate works of art. We must love a man if we would really know the best that is in him. In somo such way the organ of spiritual knowledge is an obedient spirit which proceeds from love of the truth. i'or example,suppose an unregeneriite man begins the study of the Bible. He does not go far before he llnds that he is commanded to respect and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ He realizes that to obey will involve a complete change in his life. If he obe;. s he will find that God has other truth for him which he will make plain. If he disobeys, he cannot expect to interpret aright any portion of Scripture beyond this precept Simple matters of fact ?truth such ?s the intellect can apprehend? he may understand; but he will have no power to discern the spiritual. "The natural man receiveth not the things of tne Spirit of God; * * * neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned" (i Cor. li. 14).? The Rev._A.. E. Waffle, in 4*The Interpreter witli tli(; uiuie.' AGGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN WORK. Tho position which the church of Christ seems to occupy iu this country at the present time is that which call* for efficient and aggressive work from all of the followers of Christ. By the church we waut to be understood to meau the body of Christ of which all true believers are members. Tho relation of almost every community in this broad land to the people of other lands, and tho character of our government and of our institutions, seem to afford special opportunities for those who feel that they who have been born into a new life iu Christ, and have thus imbibed his spirit, should heed his admonition and, like the woman of Samaria, go and tell others of their discovory, and invito them to come and see how this Gospel has proved itself to be the wisdom of God and the power of God unto the salvation of men. Lpon those especially is this duty eujoined who are called be pastors and teachers. Who are and havo been most successful and blest ofj,God in this work? Our superintendents of mission work at home and on our frontiers give their uniform testimony that those who adhere most closely to the simple .story of the cross, those who are filled with the spirit of Christ, and yearn for the salvation of their fellow men, are most successful. While those who turn aside to the philosophies of men. and enter the realm of criticism, and wan.ler in the fields of doubt and unbelief, allured away by those who are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth have fruitless ministries of the word.? [Religious Herald. BUHDEN'-BEARIHG. That each man has a burden to bear, ot toil, ol pain, of trouble, and that his characacter is formed in bearing the burden, is the fundamental fact of human life. Unhappily, in the vicissitudes of our mortal state, these burdens n*e of unequal heaviness. Some amoui; us are clearly overweighted; they aro in daugor of being crushed beneath the load. Here is the opportunity of the strong. So much of our neighbor's burden we may carry as shall keep him from sinking to the earth. But when we assume it all, or, in the excess of our sympathy, permit him to shirk the ureatur part of it upon i:s, or kindness becomes cruelty. We take away from him the opportunity of manhood. Weeuwurage him in sa"ritlcing his integrity to his love of ease, bis soul to his senses.?[Washington Gladden. Inst-ad of keener arguments with which to mert unbelief, wo want more of God's love in our hearts. A New swilp Canal. Trc Torouto (C.mada) Aqueduct Company l?ns s jcurea a Irancuise Iroin tho board of wor;s. subject to the approval of the city council, wuieh provides, subject to certain conditions, that the company shall within fen years construct a phip canal from L-ifco Ontario to Georgian Bay. aud that on rfa 13 undertaking work shall bo eommencod with- I in six months alter incorporation ; that 8500090 shall be expended on it withir. eiguloeri months and tS.000.000 within live years. Subject to the carrying out ot thia pro-nis* the city grants to the company an ele<nric light, bfiat.-md power franehw *. the company paying to the city treasury fv? per cent, on all gross receipts up to $1,000,000, and increased percentage beyond that on all Jiglu, hoat or power held in Toronto. SABBATH SCHOOL, - INTERNATIONAL LESSON FC ? APRIL 8. ^jC ??? Lesson Text: 44 Discord In Jacol Family," Gen. xxxli., 1-11? nnlilati Clan -rlv 24?Commentary. 1. ."And Jacob dwelt in the land whor< his father was a stranger, in the land Canaan." The margin says, "In tho land his father's sojourn ings." God sooko Abraham as a stranger in the land, a Abraham spoke of himself as a stranger a a sojourner (Gen. xvii., 8; xxiiL. 4). So al David in I Chron. xxix., 15. Compare I P ii., 11. If we are Christ's, we are citizens heaven (Phil, ill., 20,21), but shall reign the earth when the kingdom come3 (R< v., 9, 10). The principal events in the inti venlng chapters since last lesson are the : conciliation with Esau, another appearac of God to Jacob and the death and burial Isaao, Rachel and Deborah. 2. "These are the generations of Jac< Joseph, being seventeen years old, was fe< incr the flock with his brethren, and Jose brought unto his father their evil repor This is the tenth time that we have met this book the phrase, "These are the g? eratlons," and it is the last time. ' Jose and Benjamin were the younger sons Jacob, and both were the children of his I loved Rachel, who died when Benjamin w born (chapter xxxv., 18, 19). It would see that the conduct of Joseph's brethren Vi not commendable, and that he brought I father word to that effect. 8 "Now Israel loved Joseph more that ; his children, because he was the son of 1 old age. and he made him a coat of ma colors. ur all tne sons ouacootneti most honored by Jehovah were Judah a Joseph, for from Judah came the Messin and the birthright was Joseph's (I Chron. 2). 8ee in verses 34, 35 of our lesson elm ter how great was Jacob's love to this sc and how he refused to be comforted when thought him dead. 4. ' 'And when his brethren saw their fatt loved 1dm more than all his brethren, th hated him and could not speak peaceably ur him." Joseph was in many respects a wc drous type of God's well beloved Son, Jesi our Saviour. Observe him hated and sepi ated from his brethren (Gen. xlix., 23,5 Deut. xxxiil., 16), and think of Jesus hat without a cause (Ps. xxxv., 19;lxlx., John xv.. 25). These brethren make usthi of the elder brother in Luke xv., but t practical part ia for us, if ever hated wll out a cause, to think of Jesus and rejoice the privilege of fellowship with Him (I Pi ii., 19-21). 5. "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it his brethren, and they hated him y the more." JoseDh does not seem as vet have known his brothers' hatred, and In t simplicity of his heart he told them 1 dream. We have already read of God coi ing to Abimelech, to Jacob and to Laban a dream (xx., 3; xxxi., 11, 24), and in J xxxlli., 14, 15, we road that God speaks men in dreams and visions, if by any mea He may turn them from their pride and t ruin to which it leads. There is not the sar need for him to speak in dreams now th we have the whole word of God, yet ^ would not like to say that he never tells an thing in dreams any more. 6. "And he said unto them, Hear, I pr you, this dream which I have dreamed, must have deeply impressed Joseph ai made him anxious to tell it. When we ha the sure word of God concerning all comi; events, how is It that we are so little ii pressed by it, and therefore so slow to spoi of it'? It must be simply unbelief on o part, or else willful ignorance, for as sure as Joseph's dreams were in due time fi filled so shall every word of God be fulflllc See Isa. xiv., 24 ; xlvl, 9, 10 ;Ps. xxxiil., 1 11. 7. "For behold, we were binding shea^ in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, andal stood upright, and behold, your shea\ stood round about and made obeisance to i sheaf." The significance of the dream see) simple enough and the brethren evidenl understood it, but it seemed very unlikely bo fulfilled. The sons of Jacob were dout less familiar with the fact that God h spoken to their father and to Laban in dream, and Joseph probably believed tb God had now spoken to him. When a word of God takes hold of us as the ve voice of God to oar 60uls, we are not a either to forget or keep still about it. 8. "And his brethren said to him, 8hi thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou i deed have dominion over me? And th hated him yet the mors for his dreams a for his words." Their hatred did not aff; the dream nor its fulfillment, but only the selves, neither has the hatred of the Jews their brother Jesus affected the fulfillment the sure word of God that He shall sit David's throne and reign over the house Jacob forever (Isa. ix., 7: Luke i., 82, 3 but it has seriously affected themselves a will until they bow before Him in true pel tence (Zech. ix.. 10:xiil.. 1). 9. "And ho dreamed yet another <jje; and told it to his brethren, and said, Beho! I havedrea?ed a dreamjt^re, agd, behol t'he'sun, and trie moon," and the eleVon "sti made obeisance to me." Here is the sai revelation with an enlargement includi father and mother. The dream being dc bled would prove thaflF was establlsnSd God, and that He would bring it to pass (x 32). And we know that it camo to pa When I read in Rev. xil. the record of t woman clothed with the sun, the moon t der her feet, and on her head a crown twelve stars. I associate that vision with t dream and think that the man child of t! chapter will prove to be a first fruit3 fr Israel in the time of the great tribalatii which with the chttrch as a first fruits fr all nations and both identified with Chi will form the complete man child to rule nations. In due time we shall see. 10. "And he told it to his father and his brethren, and his father rebuked b n.n<l said unto him : What is this dream tl thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mott and thy brethren Indeed come to bow do' ourselves to thee to the earth?" His fatl saw the interpretation, and it went soc what against the grain, but he lived to se< all fulfilled, and when he and his sons I came thoroughly humbled before this sai Joseph then it was well with them and tb prospered. So shall it be with the Jews a Jesus. It is hard to humble, but all w walk in pride shall be made to come doi (Dan. iv., 87 ; v., 20 margin). See also L ti.. 11, 17 ; Jas. iv., 10 ; I Pet. v.. 6. il. "And his brethren envied him, but 1 father observed the saying." Stephen sf that, movad with envy, they sold him il Egypt (Acts vii., 9). Paul says, "Lo envieth not" (I Cor. xti.. 4). In I Pet. ii., we are told to lay envy aside. It was w for his fathor to obsorve the saying, but h he believed it ho might have found comfc when led to suppose that Joseph was dea See Dan. vii.. 28; Luke ii., 51; Rom. iv., J 21.? Lesson Helper. Surgery on a Tiger. An operation for appeadicitis was -p< .formed the other day on ''Jim Blaine," royal Bsngal ticrer in the winter quarters a circus at Baraboo. Wis. 'Jim" has been sufferingforseveral weel Wednesday a celebrated New York speclali who was in Baraboo attending a wealtl lumber merchant, visited the circus quarcw and noticed the beast clawing at his abd men. He hazarded the remark that appe dicltis wa3 the trouble. When asked if 1 would operate on the tiger he said he wou for $750. This was agreed to, and the bsa was secured Dy ropes, chains and a muzzl and the doctor entered the cage. He was n sistod by two youm* stu lents. A deep incision was made iu the left oftl abdomeu. The surgeon thrust his bare ar I into the opening while one or his assistaa held the wound open and the other tied tl severed arteries with silve. wire. Tne do tor cut away an inflamed sac, in which w; imbedded one of the rims of a pair of spe tacles which the animal had taken into h interior at some time duriui; his rvree Then with a small tincup he removed over quart of suppurating matter. The pai were cleansed with warm water, medicati cotton was placed in the wound and tl: cavity sewed up with silver wire. His his;! ness is not in an abiabie mood, but is doiu well. Kausas's Bijj Wolf Crop. Kansas oouciies paid for wolf s -alps 561 000 d?:ri?v rn?? List lour years. The comti havrv pa>,i -avro ?aoh year covered by tho r porv. Tix,.s? tho interesting qu:;stioi Ar? s:>m? farmers in iho wo*torn part of ti State ciuvtog wolvos i* Uou of ancopf LOUIS KOSSUTH DEAD. The Hungarian Patriot Passes Away ^ at Turin, Italy. 1 'in LOUIS KOSSUTH. ;n- Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, Pjj died at Turin, Italy, a few nights ago. His 3e. temperature was above 102 degrees. At 3 p. m. his physicans annoanoed that "he Jm was barely alive. His son, slsten r?f and other relatives were present when ^ he died. He passed away holding the hand of the Hungarian Deputy Karoly. The agony of his last hours was extremely lis harrowing. It was decided that the body of uy Kossnth be Interred in Genoa, near that of his daughter. Edmond de Amlcls, the Italian author, was invited to deliver a 'h, funeral oration in the name of Italy. v't Louis Kossuth, onco Governor of Hungary, >P* was born in Monak, Hungary, on April 27, ,n? 1802,of a noble Croatian family. His tendency he to opposition to Austria may well have been hereditary, for between 1527 and 1715 sevenier teen members of this family were proseey cuted by the Austrian Government for ito high treason. This instinct was fostered >n- by his course in the college of Patak, an institution where traditions were all ir- anti-Austrian. Shortly after his gradua!6; tion he became an assessor for the county ed of Zomplien and spoke in its Assembly. 1; He was at that time a lawyer. His political ak influence among the people grew rapidly, be and at the age of thirty years he was sent th- to the Diet at Presburg as an alternate for in an absent member, but when he endeavored at. to speak he was set upon by the party In power. he For seven years his unceasing efforto were 'et for the establishment of Hungarian indepento dence. As member of the Diet he proposed he the address to the Emperor Ferdinand askii9 ing that Hungary be restored to indepenm dence, and when this was done Kossuth bein came Governor of Hungary. ob But the bloody war of the preservation of to independence was close behind. Kossuth as saw it coming and prepared as best he could, be Against combined armies from without and ne treachery from within Hungary tonght hor at brave but hopeless flght, and lost. The exve Governor fled to Turkey, where he was imy prisoned. Austria demanded his extradition, but the Porte, strengthened by the support ay of the United States and England, refused. It These two nations demanded that Kossuth ad be released, and the United States sent the fn Ki?JnC9 Vt I m frt fVila TW Wiit OUip iUIOSiSSip^l iv wimg uiut kv ?u?w ag country as the nation's guest. m- His request to be allowed to pass through France was denied by Louis Napoleon, to the ur jjroat indignation of the French people. In ily England he was enthusiastically received, il- and on December 5, 1851, he landed in id. this country, where he was received 10) with such enthusiasm as has never be* fore nor since been accorded to any 'es foreigner save Lafayette. Hia course so through the country was n succession of res triumphs. While In prison he had learned ny English by the aid of a lexicon and on edius tion of Shakespeare, and he spoke in many tly of the large cities of this country, always to to tremendous audionces. Those who heard >t- him pronounced him the greatest orator in ad the world. a At Washington, at a public banquet given iat to Kossuth, Senator King presided, wltn the ny great Hungarian and the Speaker of the >ry House at his right hand and Daniel Webster ?pt at his left. Kossuth returned to Europe in 1852, and alt for years lectured in the hope of winning in- other nations to help in the fight for Huney garian independence. His last great effort nd was to get the Hungarians to repudiate the jet Deak compromise with Austria. Falling in m- this he settled down to a life of exile in to Turin. For some time this advertisement of appeared in the Turin Courier: on "Lessons in German, English and Hunof garian given at moderate rates by L. Kossuth, 3), 164 Strada Nuova." nd Thus he supported himself, declining a ni- gift of 50,000 florins offered to him by Hungarian admirers. After the pubim lishing of his memoirs ho lived in comld, parative comfort from the proceeds of the Id, sale of the book, his sister, Louise Kossuth irs Ruttkay, keeping house for him. In Dae 1892 the city ot Budapest presented him with ng the freedom of the cltv. and he was the m- recipient of hupdrgds of testimonials of his by countrymen^ a'Jm'mion. Nevertheless he II.. considered that no had lived fifs life in vain, ss. not seeing that Hungary, practically free to:he day,'owes her liberty In a great measure to in- his light in past years. < Kossuth Was married when about thirtyhi3 fl?e years old and had three children, two hat Bong aiKi daughter. His wife and daugh om ter are dead; his sous survive him. on> Kossuth had three nephewB iu the Uulon om army at the time of the Civil War: Colonel nut Zulyavsky, Colonel Ruttkay, and Major ^ Albert Ruttsky. Mrs. Albert Ruttsky and her son, Louis Kossuth Ruttsky, a namesake of to his prrent uncle, live at 348 Grand avenue, iim Brooklyn, lat ler ^ S PROMINENT PEOPLE. je ?it Joseph Jeffebson is sixty-four years old. 3e" The Earl of Dudley's diamonds are worth me $2,500,000. ey nd Bket Habte has not been fn the United ho States since 1878. ivn The yearly salary of the President of M. Mexico is $30,000. Rrntjlnr, Ponrrn f ho VflW Vrtrlf nollHffi&n. Is to buy a ranch in Texas. Senator Bhice's income is not leas than V0 $800,000 a year, and probably more. i Lord Rosebery, the English Premier, is ell largely interested in Florida lumber lands, ad Senator Coke, of Texas, will retire from >rt public life at the end of his term, March 3, id. 1805. * Georqe B. Platt. still hale and athletic, is the last survivor of Phil Sheridan's headquarters scouts. Sunday mornings the German Emperor goes reverently to churob, and Sunday eventw ings to the opera. Ji Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, said he comtemplates the resignation of his Senatorship, but not in the immediate future. Francis Thompson, who is the latest addi[jv tion to the ranks of the English poets, sold ^ matches in the streets of London four years 0- aS?n "Mark Twain" has absolutely no regard lis for neatness in his apparel. His clothes look !d as if they had been pitchforked onto him at st long range. 'e? The King of Portugal has just effected an s* insurance on his life of ?200.000 with an English office, the risk being subdivided among ie several companies. Dr. Harper, of the University of Chicago, ie holds more offices and is in the enjoyment of more honors and emoluments than any other man in America. Justice White is one of the largest indiis vidual sugar planters in Louisiana. Last r. year over 3,000,000 pounds of sugar were <1 manufactured on his plantation. ts The richest German is considered to be M. ?d Albert Hoesch, the principal owner of the is great Hoesch steel works near Dortmund. 1- His annual income is a little over $2,000,000. J. S. T. Stranahan, of Brooklyn, is the only living American to whom a public monument is erected. He drives to Prospect Park to take a look at his statue every pleasj ant day. os ~ ?* The Anglo-Australian Steamships Com1 * Pany, by crossing the American continent by f rail, propose to take passengers from Eng. I land to Australia In twenty-five days. WORDS OF WISDOM, Rather skin' a carcass for pay in the* pnblic streets than be idly dependent1 on charity. There is nothing in the world which' a resolute man who exerts himself cannot attain. If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. AA IUUU DUUUJUDl UUU LU.J U1QUU UV the wrong, reprove him secretly, but in comany praise him. As gold is tried by the furnace, and ~ . the baser metal shown, so the hollowhearted friend is known by adversity. Let every man sweep the snow from, before his own doors, and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbor's tiles. A man of little learning deems that ^ little a great deal; a frog, never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea. In youth a man is deluded by other ideas than those which delude him in middle life, and again in his decay he embraces other ideas. A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other; an old place should not be forsaken recklessly. Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a servioe go to a person who can appreciate your merit. , "j There are three things to beware of through life; when a man is young, let him beware of his appetite; when he is middle-aged, of his passions, and when old, of covetousness, especially. As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary iorce, so words, though few and painfol, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. The fish dwell in the depth of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook; but the heart of man, at a foot's distance, cannot be known. Preserring the Hair. "Alopecia," or baldness, is corrected by whatever habits keep the bodily strength within the body, and do not exhaust it. Whatever restores the freshness of life to the veins will give renewed vigor to the hair. Soma hygiene will not renew the roots that are obliterated any more than it will grow new teeth when the old ones have fallen out; but for a tendency to alopecia in youth care should be taken to keep the normal strength of the body unexhausted. Weak hair means a weak constitution. It is better, says an authority, to use ammonia on hair brushes, keeping them immaculately clean, than to pat it on the hair. The same may be said ^ ~ ?? QnH An /lAnfMW vbll Ul UUI OA. tjaib) VU VUW wuium j | iryw robbed into the scalp, is very useful. It goes further in keeping the color of the hair than any known preparation. Here again the fine, dry salt is better than salt water, unless the scalp needs cleansing. Yolk of an egg will do this, as the natural oil in the egg yolk seems to dissolve out the dust from the pores of the skin. The white of the egg is too drying to be used in the hair at all. There is very little that should be used. "Shampooing," when it is merely rubbing the hair without the use of soap and water, or bay rum, is, perhaps, not suoh an agreeable process as the customary scouring, but soap always leaves the hair very stiff when it dries, requiring either more washing with warm water or more oilinjr to remove this defect. As a rule most people wash the hair and head entirely too often, or "els? not at all. They should brash the hair to get the dust out or rub it with a piece of silk to remove the dandruff Bub the head with the finger tips until a real activity is created in the skin a* the scalp. . - - ' Seeing the World Move. r It is possible by a simple experiment to demonstrate to the eye thai the earth really moves; a fact which most of us at present take largely upon hearsay. Place upon the floor of? room, with closed doors and windows, a large bowl full of water. Sprinkle | over the surface some"powderJnatwuT I vaodiitr nint Viv wettincr. The finest pulverized 'sawdust is excellent^ Take care that it is placed in the middle of the surface of the water and does not touch the edges of the dislr. Carefully scatter a very narrow line of powdered charcoal over the sawdust and across from side to side of the bowl. Place a long, slender stick on the floor in a parallel line with the charcoal streak upon the sawdust. Leave the bowl and room undisturbed for a few hours, when it will be seen mat iae noaimy imo id uu u. the same relative position to the stationary one. The explanation given of this is that the earth in its motion carries the room and the bowl, bat the water, having a slight inertia, moves mojo slowly, and revolves, as it were, in the bowl. To make this experiment entirely successful, it is necessary that there shall be no draughts or currents of air in the apartment and no perceptible jeurring of the building.?New York Ledger. How to Fight Mosquitoes. "Insect life," a late publication from the Government Printing Office at Washington, gives the results of some experiments in New Jersey to obtain relief from mosquitoes. Sprinkling petroleum or kerosene on the surface of the ponds in which the mosquitoes breed has been found to bo effective. A film of oil on the surface of the water destroys the larvae that are ready to emerge, and also any female mosquitoes that may alight to | deposit their eggs.?San Francisco Examiner. A Daisy. The schooner R. F. Chandler is a daisy. She was wrecked in July, 1893, off the Cuban coast, and waa passed bottom up 6ome months later. A few days ago she was sighted by the steamer North Anglia, from the Mediterranean for New York, right sider up, with foremast and bowsprit still tanding. The next thing to be expected is that she will come into port' without hailing a pilot. ? BrooklyuT Citizen.