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REV. Dl{. TALMAUE.
|XHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
I [Subject : "Strangers Within the
Gates."
. Text : "I was a stranger and ye took
r."?Matthew xxv., 83.
It Is a moral disaster that ioeositr has de
jspoiled so many passage* of Scripture, and
;jny text is one that has suffered from Irreverent
and misapplied quotation. It shows
I great poverty of wit and humor when people
L (take the sword of divine truth for a game at
[ fencing or chip off from the Eohinoor dlaI
jnond of inspiration a sparkle to decorate a
fool's oap. My text is the salutation in the
last judgment to be given to those who have
shown hospitality and kindness and Christian
helpfulness to strangers. By railroad
and steamboat the population of the earth
are all the time in motion, and from one
year's end to another our cities are crowded
With visitors.
Every morning on the tracks of the Hudson
River, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the
Long Island Railroads there come passenger
trains more than I can number, so that all
I the depots and the wharves are a-rumble
and a-olang with the coming in of a great
Immigration of strangers. Some of them
come for purposes of barter, some for mechanism.
some for artistic ^ratification. some
for sightseeing. A great many of them ro
out on the evening trains, and consequently
the city makes but little impression upon
them, but there are multitudes who in the
hotels and boarding bouses make temporary
residence. They tarry here for three or four
days, or as many week". They spend the
days in the stores and th'e evenings in sightseeing.
Their temporary stay will either
make or break them not only financially, but
morally, for this world and the world that is
to come. Multitudes of them come into our
morning and evening services. I am conscious
that I stand in the presence of many
this moment. I desire more especially to
speak to them. May God give me the right
word and help me to utter it In the right
way.
There have glided into this house those
unknown to others whose history if told
would be more thrilling than the deepest
tragedy, more exciting than Patti's song,
more bright than a spring morning, more
awfal than a wintry midnight If they
could stand up here and tell the story of
aananao on/) hoiy tamnfoHnna anri I
their bereavements, and their disasters, and
their victories, and their defeats, there would
be tn this house such a commingling of
groans and acclamations as wo aid make the
place unendurable.
There is a man who, in infancy, lay in a
cradle satin lined. Out yonder is a man
who was pioked up a foundling on Boston
Common. Hero is a man who is coolly ob*
serving this religious service, expecting no
advantage and caring tor no advantage for
himself, while yonder is a man who has been
for ten years in an awful conflagation of evil
habits, and he is a mere cinder of a destroyed
rature, and he is wondering if there shall be
In this 89rvioe any escape or help for his Immortal
soul. Meeting you only once perhaps
face to face. I strike hands with you in
an earnest talk about your present condition
and your eternal well being. St. Paul's ship
at Melita went to pieces where two seas
meet, but we stand to-day at a point where
a thuisand seas converge, and eternity alone
can tell the Issue of the hoar.
The hotels o f this country, for beauty and
elegance, are not surpassed by the hotels in
any other land? but those that are most celebrated
for brilliancy of tapestry and mirror
cannot give to the guest* any costly apartment
unless he can afford a parlor in addition
to his lodging. The stranger, therefore,
Will generally find assigned to him a room
Without any pictures and perhaps any rocking
chair. He will find a box of matches on
a bureau and an old newspaper left by the
nrtwlnna fwnroint and font nrlll ho nhont all
the ornamentation. At 7 o'clock In the evening,
after having taken his repast, he will
look over his memorandum book of the day's
work, he will write a letter to his home, and
then a desperation will seize upon him to get
out. ' You hear the great city thundering
under tout windows, and you say, "I must
Kn that procession." and in ten minutes you
ve joined it. Where are you going? "Oh,"
you say, '1 haven't made up my mind yet."
Better makeup your mind before you atart.
Perhaps the very way you go now you will
always go. Twenty years ago there were two
young men who came down the Astor House
steps ana startea oat in a wrong direction,
Where they have been going ever since.
"Well, where are you going?" says one
winn "I am going to the academy to hear
tome music." Good. I would like to join
von at the door. At the tap of the orchestral
paton all the gates of harmony and beauty
Will open before my soul. I congratulate
you. Where are you going? "Well," you
, eay, "I am going up to see some advertised
pictures." Good. I should like to go along
with you and look over the same catalogue
and study with you Eensett and Bierstadt
and Church and Morau. Nothing more
Alevatlnor than erood pictures. Where are
you going? "Well," you say, "I am going
up to the Young Men's Christian Association
rooms." Good. Yoa will find there
gymnastics to strengthen the muscles, and
books to improve the mind, and Christian
Influence to save the soul. I wish every city
In the United States had as fine a palace (or
its Young Men's Christian Association
as New York has. Where' are you going?
"WeU," you say, "I am going to take a long
walk up firoadway and so turn around into
the Bowery. I am going to study human
life." Good. A walk through Broadway at
8 o'clock at night is interesting, educating,
fascinating, appalling, exhilarating to the
last degree. Stop in front of that theatre
and see who goes In. Stop at that saloon
and see who comes out. See the great tides
of life surging backward and forward and
beating against the marble of the curbstone
and eddying down into the saloons. Wnat
ia that mark on the face of that debauohee?
It is the hectio flesh of eternal death. What
I Is that woman's laughter? It is the shriek
ota lost soul.
Who is that Christian man going along
With a vial of anodyne to the dying pauper
on Elm street? Who Is that belated man
on the way to a prayer meeting? Who Is
that oity missionary golnsr to take a box in
Which to bury a child'i Who arts all these
clusters of bright and beautiful faces? They
are going to some interesting plaoe of amusement.
Who is that man going into the drug store?
That is the man who yesterday lost all his
fortune on Wall street. Hn is going in for a
dose of belladonna, and before morning it
will make no difference to him. whether
Stocks are up or down. I tell you that Broadway,
between 7 and 12 o'clock at night, between
the Battery and Central Park, is an
Austerlitz, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where
kingdoms are lost or won and three worlds
mingle in the strife.
I met another coming down off the hotel
Bteps, and I say,''Where are you going?"
You say: "I am going with a "meiciiant of
New York who has promise i to show me the
underground life of the city. I am his customer,
and he is eoing to oblige me very
much." Stop! A business house that tries
to get or keep your custom through such a
process as that is not worthy of you. Thera
are business establishments In our cities
which have for years been sen ling to destruction
hundred and thousands of merchants.
They have a secret drawer in the
counter wh^re money is kept, and the clerk
goes and gets It when he wants take these
visitors to the city through the low slums of
the place.
Shall I mention the names of some of these
great commercial establishments? I havi
them on my lips. Shall I? Perhaps I had
better leave it to the young men wno In that
process have been destroyed themselves
While they have been destroying others. I
care not how high sounding the name of a
commercial establishment if it proposes to
get customers or to keep them oy such a Dr?
cess as that. Drop their acquaintance. They
will oheat you before you get through. They
will send you a style of goods different from
that whioh you bought by sampler They
fWill give you under weight. There will be
In the paokage half a dozen less pairs of suspenders
than you paid for. They will rob
you. Ob, you feel in your pockets and say,
"Is my money gone?" They have robbed
you of something for whioh dollars and cents
can never give you compensation.
When one of these Western merchants has
been dragged by one of those commercial
agents mrough me slums of the city, he Is
sot fit to go home. The mere memory of
(what he haaeeen will be moral pollution. I
think you had better let the dty missionary
and the police attend to the exploration of
New York and underground lifa. You do
not go to a smallpox hospital for the purpose
of exploration. You do not go there
f because you are afraid of contagion. And I
yet you go into the presence of a moral lep- 1
rosy that Is as much more dangerous to you *
as the death of the soul is worse than death t
of the body. I will undertake to say that ^
nine-tenths of the men who have been ruined c
in our cities have been ruined by simply ?
going to observe without any idea of particl- d
pating. The fact is that underground city life
is a filthy, faming, reeking, pestiferous depth 1]
which blasts the eye that looks at it In the c
reign of terror In 1792 in Paris people eecap- *
ing from the officers of the law got fnto the *
sewers of the city and crawled and walked J
through miles of that awful labyrinth, stifled "
with the atmosphere and almost dead, some 5.
of them, when they came out to the river
Seine, where they washed themselves and 5
again breathed the fresh air. But I have to e
tell you that a great many of the men who go ?
on the work of exploration through the un- *
nrnffoM If fa TIATfif ^
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come out at any Seine River where they
can wash off the pollution of the moral .
sewerage. Stranger, if one of the represen- ?
tatives of a commercial establishment pro- 1
poses to take you and show you the "sights" ?
of the town and underground New York, say '
to him, "Please, sir, what part do you pro- F
pose to show me?" ?
About sixteen years ago as o minister of *
religion I felt I had a divine commissson to ?
explore the iniquities of our cities. I did not ?
ask counsel of my session or my presbytery I
or of the newspapers, but asking the com- ?
p anions hip of three prominent police officials *
and tWo of the elders of my church I un- l
rolled my commission, and It said: "Son of ^
man, dig into the wall. And when I had J
digged into the wall behold a door, and He ?
said go in and see the wicked abominations
that are done here. And I went in and saw J
and behold!" Brought up in the country
and surrounded by much paternal care, I ^
had not until that time seen the haunts of _
inlauitv. Bv the crace of God defended. I ?
ha<J never sowed my "wild oats." ?
I had somehow been able to tell from g
various source? something about the iniqul- t
ties of the great cities and to preach against _
them, but I saw in the destruction of a great j
multitude of the people that there must be ^
an infatuation and a temptation that had t
never been spoken about, and X said, "I will _
explore." I saw thousands of men going 2
down, and if there had been a spiritual per- .
cussion answering to the physical percussion fl
the whole air would have been full of the ^
rumble and roar and crack and thundex of t
the demolition, and this moment, if we j
should pause in our service, we should hear
the crash, crash! Just as in the sioklv sea- t
son you sometimes hear the bell at the gate t
or me cemetery ringing almost inoessantly, i.
so I found that the bell at the gate of the
cemetery where ruined souls are buried was t
tolling by day and tolling by night. I said, t
"I will explore." J
I went as a physician goes into a fever n
lazareto to see what practical and useful in- ti
formation I might get. That would be a c
foolish doctor who would stand outside the j ii
door of an invalid writing a Latin prescrlp- ! g
tion. When the lecturer in a medical col* t]
lege is done with his lecture, he takes the ! a
stndents into the dissecting room, and he I h
shows them the reality. I went and saw . d
and come forth to my palpit to report a h
plague and to tell how sin dissects the body h
and dissects the mind and dissects the soul. k
"Oh," say you, "are you not afraid that in a
consequence of such exploration of the ini- p
qulties of the city other persons might make f<
exploration and do themselves damage?" I 0
reply: "If in company with the commis- ?
aioner of police, and the captain of police, ?
and the inspector of police and the com- ?
pany of two Christian gentlemen, and not ?
with the spirit of curiosity, but that you may "
see sin in order the better to combat ft, then, ?
in the name of the eternal God, go? But, if B
not. then stay away." ] .
Wellington, standing in the battle of | ?
Waterlooo when the bullets were buzztng r
arouud his head, saw a civilian on the field. J;
He said to bim: "Sir, what are yon doing Ji
here? Be off!" "Why," replied the civilian, ^
"there is no more danger here for me than !*
there Is for you." Then Wellington flushed , ?
up and said, "God and my country demand
that I be here, but you have no errand here." "
Now I, as an officer in the army of Jesus I
Christ, went on that exploration and on to ?
that battlefield. If you bear a like commis- j*
sion, go. If not, stay away. But you say, ?
"Don't you think that somehow the descriptton
of those places induces people to co and
see for themselves?" I answer yes, just as ^
much as the description of yellew fever In ?
some scourged city would induce people to 3
go down there and get the pestilence.
But I may be addressing some stranger *J
already destroyed. Where is he, that I may ^
Eointedly yet kindly address him? Coma J
ack and wash In the deep fountain of a
Saviour's mercy. I do not give you a cup, ?
or a chalice, or a pitcher with a limited *np- B
ply to effect your ablutions. I point you to j
the five oceans of God's mercy. Oh, that the J
Atlantic and Pacific surges of divine forgivenees
might roll over yoar soul 1 As the glorl- 3
ous son of God's forgiveness rides on toward ?
the mid heavens ready to submerge you in 6
warmth and light and love I bid you good ?
moraine. Morning of peace for all your 1
troubles. Moraine: of liberation for all your '
Incarcerations. Morning of resurrection for '
your soul burled in sin. Good morning! *
Morning for the resuscitated household that
has been waiting for your return. Morning
for the cradle and the crib already disgraced
with being that of a drunkard's chtid. Moraine
for the daughter That has trudged off
toliard work because you did not take care
of home. Morning for the wife who at forty
or fifty years has the wrinkled face, and the
stooped shoulder, and the white hair. Morn- ;
ing for one. Morning for all. Good morning
! In Gcd's name, Rood morning! e
In our last dreadful war the Federals and
the Confederates were encamped on opposite j
sides of the Rappahannook, and one mornlng
the brass band of the northern troops
, played the national air, an 1 all the northern 1
troops cheered and cheered. Then on the
opposite side of the Rappahannock the brass 1
band of the Confederates played "My Maryland"
and "Dixie." and then all the south- 1
ern troops cheered and cheered. But after
awhile one of the bands struck up "Home, .
Sweet Home," and the band on the opposite
side of the river took up the strain, and
when the tuno was done the Confederates "
and the Federals an rogecner uuueu us u>o
tears rolled down their cheeks in one great <
huzza, huzz'i!
Well, my friends, heaven comes very near (
to-day. It is only a stream that divides us,
the narrow stream of death, and the volcea .
there and the voices here seem to commln- J
gle, and we join trumpets and hosannahs and 1
hallelujahs, and the chorus of united song
of earth and heaven is "Home, Sweet Home." t
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Home of forglveaes3 In the great heart of
God. Home o! eternal rest in heaven. Home I (
Home I Home! f
But suppose you are standing on a crag
of the mountain and on the edge of a preci- t
pice, and all unguarded, and some one ?
either in joke or hate shall run up behind
you and push you off. It is easy enough to push
you off. Eut who would do so das- .
tardly a deed! Wny, this is done every hour
of every day and every hour of every night.
Men come to the verge of city life and say: <
' Now, we will just loot off. Come, young ?
young man, do not bo afr<iid. Come near,
let us loot off." He comes to the edge and (
loots and looks until, af'er awhile, satan ,
sneaks up behind hioc and puts a liand 01 {
each of his shoulders and pushes him off.
Society says it is evil proclivity on the part 1
of that young man. Ob, no I He was simply
an explorer and sacrificed his Ufe in dls- i
co very.
A young man comes In from the country t
bragging that nothing can do him any harm. |
He knows about all the tricks of city life. j
"Why," he says, "did not I receive a circa- ]
lar in the country telling me that somehow
they found out I was a sharp business man,
and If I would only send a certain amoant j
of money by mail or express, charges prepaid,
they would send a package with which
I could make a fortune in two months, but I
did not believe it. My neighbors did, but I
did not. Why, no man could take my
money. I carry it in a pocket inside my
vest. No man could take it. No man could
cheat me at the faro table. Don't I know all
about the cue box, and the dealer's box, and
the cards stuck together as though they were
one, and when to hand in my checks? Oh,
they can't cheat me. I know what I am
about." while at the same time, that very
moment, such men are succumbing to the
worst satantc Influences in the simple fart
that they are going to observe. Now, if J
man or woman shall go down into a hatu-t
of iniquity for the purpose of reforming
and women or for the sake of being able intelligently
to warn people against sccU
perils; if, as did John Howard or Elizabeth
Fry or Thomas Chalmers, they go down
among the abandoned for the sake of saving
them, then such explorers shall be God protected,
and they will come out better than
they went in. But if you go on this work of
exploration merely for the purpose of satisfying
a morbid curiosity I will take twenty
percent, off your moral character.
JI1PSI
/'V < J, If-yJh
Sabbath morning comes. Ton wake up In
he hotel. Yon have had a longer sleep
tan nsnal. You say "Where am I? A
honsand miles from home? I have no famly
to take to chnroh to-day. My pastor will
lot expect my presence. I think I shall look
ver my accounts and study my memoranlum
bouk. Then I will write a few business
alters and talk to that merchant who came
a on the same train with me. stop: xou
annot afford to do it.
"But," you say. "I am worth 6500,000."
'ou cannot afford to do it. You say, "I am
rorth 81,000,000." You cannot afford to do
t. All you gain by breaking the Sabbath
ou will lose. You will lose one of three
hings?your intellect, your morals or your
iroperty?-and you cannot point in the whole
artli to a single exception to this rule. God
tfves us six days and keeps one 'or Himself,
low, If we try to get the seventh, He will
ipset the work of all the other six.
I remember going up Mount Washington,
teforethe railroad had been built, to the
?ip-Top House, and the guide would come
.round to our horses and stop us when we
rere crossing a very steep and dangerous
ilace, and he would tighten the girth of the
torse and straighten the saddle. And I have
o tell you that this road of life is so steep
ad full of peril we must at least one day in
even stop and have the harness oi life readusted
and our souls re-equipped. The seven
lays of the week are like seven business
partners, and you must give to each one his
hare, or the business will be broken up.
tod is so generous with us?He has given
ou six days to His one. Now, here is a
ather who has seven apples, and he gives
ix io nis greeay uoy, prupusuis iu uuo
or himself. The greedy boy grabs for tho
therone and loses all the six.
How few men there are who know how to
:eep the Lord's day away from home! A
Teat many who are consistent on the banks
>f the St. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the
UssisslppI are not consistent when they get
o far off as the East River. I repeathough
It Is putting it on a low ground?
xhi cannot financially afford to break the
lord's day. It Is only another way of tearng
up your Government securities and putIng
down the price of goods and blowing up
our store. I nave friends who are all the
lme slicing off pieces of the Sabbath. They
rat a little of the Sabbath off that end and
, little of the Sabbath off this end. They
lo not keep the twenty-four hours. The
Jlble says, "Remember the Sabbath day, to
:eep it holy."
I nave good friends who are quite aocusomed
to leaving Albany by the midnight
rain on Saturday night and getting home
efore church. Now, there may be occasion
rhen it Is right, but generally it is wrong,
low If the train should run off the track Into
he North River? I hope your friends will
ot send to me to preaoh your funeral serion.
It would be an awkward thing forme
d stand up by your side and preach, you, a
'hrlstlan man, killed on a rail train travelig
on a Sunday morning. "Remember tho
abbath day to keep It holy." What does
hat mean? It means twenty-four hours.
. man owes you a dollar. You dont want
lm to pay you ninety cents, iou want tne
ollar. If God demands of us twenty-four
ours out of the week. Ho means twenty-four
ours, and not nineteen. Ob, we want to
eep vigilantly in this country the
.merlcan Sabbath and not have translated
here the European Sabbath, which
)r the most part Is no Sabbath at alL If any
t you have beep In Paris, you know that on
abbath morning the vast population rush
ut toward the country with baskets and
undies, and toward night they come back
igged out, cross and intoxicated. May God
reserve to us oar glorious, quiet American
abbaths.
Oh, strangers, welcome to the great city!
lay you find Christ here, and not any physlal
or moral damage. Men coming from inmd,
from distant cities, have here found
tod and found Him in our service. May
tiat be your case to-day. You thought you
rarn Ki?ann?hf fn fhla mai>o1r tr\v tha nnktiaqq
IViV UlVU^Uh vvy IUbJ LUVAWiJ iUJ. iuv ^?up/ou
f sightseeing. Perhaps God brought you
5 this roaring city for the purpose of worklg
out your eternal salvation. Go back to
our homes and tell them how you met
Ihrist here, the loving, patient, pardoning
nd sympathetic Christ. Who knows but the
Ity which has been the destruction of so
lany maybe your eternal redemption?
A good many years ago Edward Stanley,
be English commander, with his regiment,
X)k a fort The fort was manned by Borne
00 Spaniards. Edward Stanley came close
p to the fort, leading his men, whenaSpanird
thrust at him with a spear, intending to
astroy his life, but Stanley caught hold of
be spear, and the Spaniard, in attempting
9 jerk the spear away from Stanley, lifted
im up into the battlements. No sooner had
tauley taken his position on the battlemants
ban he swung his sword, and his whole regment
leaped after him, and the fort- was
aken. So it may be with?fou, O stranger.
Jhe city Influences whlohtov# destroyed so
aany and dashed them <Sma forever shall
>6 the means 01 lifting you up lntotherowar
f God's mercy and strength, your soul more
ban conquered through the grace of Hfttt
?ho has promised .in especial benediction to
hoso who shall treat you well, gajiag, "X
ras a stranger, and ye took Me In.'1
THE LABOR WORLD,
Gebhaxy runs Government Iunoh rooms.
A boss mason in Ceylon can earn 83.20per
?eek. ,
Boston stair builders will open a trade
ichooL
Co-opesative banks are Increasing In
England.
Policemen In Saxony receive ?2G1 a yeat
ls salary.
New Socth Wales worklngmen iji a
lewspapor.
Lowell (Mass.) unions demand city work
tor the idle.
Deteoit labor unions have a library and
'ending room.
Miohioan building trades workers average
H89 per year.
The mrster horseshoers of St. Louis have
leclareda lockout of the journeymen.
The Notional Longshoremen's Association
>f th3 United States has thirty local branches.
Eight thousand miners are out of workfaj
Birmingham, England, owing to a out in
wages.
All of the unmarried men at the New Cenral
Coal Mines, Cumberland,Mi, have been
lischarged.
"J.he pay 01 orpanizers oc me xwiKers anu
Confectioners' International Union has been
lxed at 85 per day.
The Columbia River Fishermen's ProtecIve
Union has established a labor bureau
ind reading room at Astoria, Oregon.
It is asserted the annual income of Chief
P. M. Arthur, of the Locomotive Engineers'
Srotherhood, is not less than $20,000.
Cleveland, Ohio, has eighty-nine labor
>rganlaations, thirty-nine of which are afflllited
with the Cleveland Central Labor Union.
Organized laborat San Francisco ''turned
lown" the Midwinter Fair because non-unian
vsges and hours were in force for the erec;ion
of the buildings.
Mr. William, an English Member of Pariament
and part owner of the Salford Iron
[Vorks, reports that the eisjbt-hour movement
has been a marked success in his firm.
The petition of the unemployed, bearing
12,833 signatures, was forwarded to the
State Legislature by the Secretary of the
Neighborhood Guild, 26 Delancey street,
New York City.
The Spanish Cabinet resolved to establish
public works in Granada. Cadiz and Andausia
for thousands of workmen now unemployed.
in view of the bread riots at San
Luca, Montlllan and Eeija.
The development of machinery has progressed
to sucq an extent that in South Dakota
5500 bushels of wheat represent the
product of oue human being engac^d in
igriculturai labor, and in this city 1000 barrels
of flour are transformed into bread by
ane baker per year, while seven men suffice
10 produce bread for 1000 people.
In Lyons. Iowa, co-operation has been
juite successful. Five years ago a few men
rented a small store at $15 a month. Now
almost anybody in town is a member of the
['o-operation Association, and their store oc3upies
a solid block, employing thirteen
ulerks. It is worth to-day between $50,000
ind $75,000, paying seven per cent, dividends
on the stock.
Turbulent Central America.
The epidemic of revolt threatens to sweep
sver all of Central America. Nicaragua's
:ovetous gaze is said to bo now directed
:owards Costa Rica. The Blueflelds envoys
md Minister Guzman conferred with 8ecre*
:ary Gresham over the Blueflelds affair.
RELIGIOUS READING.
ADVICE OF A SUCCESSFUL MAN.
I think the habit of generosity may be cultivated
like other habits. And I have felt
that it is a great mistake to put off being generous
until you are dead. In the first place,
you lose the pleasure of witnessing the good
that you may do; and again, no one can admlnistery
our gifts for you as well as you can
do it for yourself. It is a great pleasure to
be brought into personal relations of that
kind, and to make people feel that you
are not a philonthropist in the abstract
but that you are interested In them personally,
and care for their welfare. In
that way you benefit them not merely in
the natural way, but you make them feel
Hint, man am ronllv hroth(?rS. and that theV
wore made to help one another. Not only 6
that feeling agreeable in itself, but it will be
apt to prompt them to carry out the principles
themselves. Put yourself into all you
ao, and let others feel that you are there. Do
not only contribute to a charitable object, but
go yourself and help. It may seem an inconvenience
at first, but soon you will come
to consider it worth an inconvenience.
Perhaps I ought to say a word about the
companions a young man should choose for
himself in life. You should try to make companions
of the best people you become acquainted
with. In order to do this you must
have something in yourself that may be a return
to them for what they give you. It is
not necessary for this purpose to be a genius,
or to have remarkable intellect, or extraordinary
erudition. But be yourself and be a
man, and learn to think of others
before yourself, and you will have
friends enough, and of the best. To be Intimate
with the magnanimous and the noble,
aids to form those qualities in one's self. A
man is known by the company he keeps, and
those who know what friends you have, will
be able to form a very correct idea of what
you yourself are. You should see to it that I
this estimate be as high as your opportunity
may secure. |
I cannot better sum up my advice to young
people than to say that I have derived, and
still find the greatest pleasure in my life from
doing good to others. Do good constantly,
patiently and wisely, and you will never have
cause to sav that vour life was not worth liv
ing.?[George William Childs.
EVEEY DAY PIETY.
There is generally more of true piety exhibited
in the faithful observance of the minot
duties of religion than those that excite the
notice and applause of men. Improper motives
may prompt the public duties while
those duties which escape men's eyes, and
are intended only for God's observation, are
not likely to be practised by an unrenewed
person. There was more piety in the devotion
of Nathaniel when he bowed alone beneath
the fig tree than in all the ostentious
prayers of the philactery adorned Pharisees at
the corners of the streets. Tiiepoorwoman who
modestly cast into the treasury her hard earned
mite, gave greater evidence of piety than did
the wealthy Jew, whose golden coin rattled
their own phrase as they fail into the chest
Desire of applause, pride of consistency,
dread of censure, prompts to external devotednese,
but only piety towards God can lead
perseveringly and joyfully to the closet?to
the chamber of affliction and poverty?to the
alleys and lanes?in search of opportunity to
do good. This child is dutiful who obeys his
father's requirements but that child is more
dutiful who obeys his father's requests in
little matters ? who seeks opportunles to
please, and who watches for occasion
to show his love. So general obedience
may warrant the belief that the
man is a Christian; but he furnishes
greater evidences of love to God
whose full heart overlooks no little tnings
that may please or glorify his name. There
was no piety in Peter's burst of zeal, when he
hewed off the ear of tho high priest's servant,
but thero was In Mary's quiet approach,
when her raining tears washed the Saviour's
feet. Tho unostentatious duty of Christianity,
those that never win public applause?
that only find place in the pure tenor of ordinary
life, are more satisfactory proofs oj
tho pure godliness upon the heart, than any
ebullitions of piety or spasmodic starts of devotion.
UNABLE TO DO AJiTTHING BUT PBAY.
In his revival letters, Mr. Finney tells of ?
man in New York state, whose name he doe?
not give?a consumptive, poor and sick, unable
to do anything but pray. Yet his inter
cessions brought auswers to one soul, and
one community after another, and even tc
distant fields in pagan and heathen solL
Revivals spang up as if spontaneously and
unaccountably; but after his death his diary
revealed the secret cause. Daily he set apart
certain hours for certain ministers, churches,
and mission stations. Often in these pages
would be found such an entry as this:
"Today I have been enabled to offer what
I believe to be the prayer of faith for the
outpouring of tho Spirit on , and I trust
In God that there will soon be a revival
11 A n<1 nr*f- lon<r nff-Ar urnnlri fnllow fhp
record of the answer, even in places as distant
as Celon.
What is more remarkable, the revivals followed
in the order named, as though to defy
any explanation but that found in prevailing
prayer. During his sickness, as death drew
nigh, ho was especially engrossed in prayet
for the town he lived in. After he died his
works followed him, and that last prayer
found gracious and abundant answer in the
place of his residence. The prayer was recorded
on high, and his tears put into God's
bottle; and, though the praying lips were
dumb and the holy tears were wiped from his
eyes, the prayers he had offered came back
In converting grace, and the tears he had
shed descended in abundant showers of blessing.
Prayer is appointed to convey
The blessings God designs to give;
Long as they live should Christians pray;
They learn to pray when flr3t they live!
?[The Christian.
BESIGXATIOX.
'Amid the various scenes of ills,
Each stroke some kind design fulfils;
And shall I murmur at my God,
When sovereign love directs the rod?
Resignation is an exalted Christian virtue.
It is a plant that grows not up from nature's
Boll. It is a grace that must be cultivated
like the rose tree, that it may flourish and
shed forth its sweet fragrance amid the passing
scenes of life. To possess resignation,
calm and settled, under all circunstances, is
a high attainment. Yet it is attainable; and
blessed arethev who live under is benign influences.
It will shed a holy balm o'er the
moral waste of life, and cheer us amid the
darkest hours of our pilgrimage. Life has
its f?nrrwj rmd nfflinHnnc Us crnseixj nnri Its
conflicts, its disappoontments and its sacrifices.
Bat in every scene of earth
resignation, like tho strong and faithful archor
that holds the ship in safety till the
storm is past, secures its possessor peace and
quietness, till tho darkness and danger of the
tempest aro over, and the sunshine of tranquility
and joy again beams upon us. Nothing
is ever lost to the just by the exercise of
this virtue: but it will secure to the anxious,
the impotent, and heavy-laden, much joy.
blessedness and consolation. It will render
our afflictions, blessings; our crosses, pleasure;
our disappointments unexpected good;
and our sacrifices cither for our own or the
well-being of others, acceptable oblations to
God. Then
'Though Heaven afflict, I'll not repine:
Each heart-felt comfort still is mineComforts
that shall o'er death prevail,
And journey with me through the vale.'
A liquor seller presented his bill to the executor
of a deceased customer's estate,asking,
"Do you wish my bill sworn to?" "No,"
said the executor;; the deah of the deceased
is sufficient evidence that he bad the liquor."
When you want a friend don't choose a
man whose c'iildren are afraid of him.
Decllnc in Immigration.
Official figures prepared by Superintendent
StumD show that tho number ot immigrants
entering tho Port of New York since January
1 up to March 25 this year, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year,
had decreased 17,767.
Superintendent Stump says this decline In
immigration is duo to dull times and strict
enforcement of immigrant laws. Ocean
steamship lines report that the number of
immigrants booked by them for tho United
States this season is sixty per cent, less than
at this time last year.
Output'of'Wrapping Paper.
Every year 85,000 tons of paper are used
for wrapping store packages.
I SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
APRIL 29.
Lesson Text: liJoseph Forgiving His
Brethren,'* Gen. xlv., l-lo?
Golden Text: Luke xvll.f
3?Commentary.
1. "Thpro stood no man with him while
Viimcalf L-nnron f-n his hrpfhrpn."
The seven years of famine had begUD, and
not only all Egypt, but all countries, came to
Joseph to buy corn (xli., 56, 57). Ten of
Joseph's brethren, at once recognized by
him, but not he by them, had come for corn,
I and nine had gone home with their sacks
full and their money in their sacks, with inj
structions to bring their youngest brother
' when they came again, Simeon meantime being
detained as hostage. They had now returned,
bringing Benjamin, and the eleven
had dined with Joseph, being seated at table
according to their ages, much to their surprise,
for as yet they kuew him not.
2. "And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians
and the house of Pharoah heard." Our lesson
begins and ends with weeping, but it is
weeping for joj*. Consider the seven weepings
of Joseph in char ters xlli., 24 . xliii, 30;
xlv., 2. 14; xlvl.. 29; 1., 1.17.
8. "And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
am Joseph. Doth my father yet live'?" Is it
any wonder that they were troubled and
could not answer? How vividly would come
to mind the events of twenty years before a3
they looked upon the face of him whose pitiful
cries and tears they would not regard,
and now he has already been returning them
good for evil while at the same time leading
them to repentaiice. It must be all true, for
who but Joseph could know their ages so as
to arrange them at table?
. 4. "And Joseph said unto his brethren,
Come near to me, I pray you. And they come
near. And he said, I am Joseph, your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt." Wecan
imagine them dumb with astonishment until
he calls them near to him and repeats the
astounding statement with the additional allusion
to their guilt. It is all true, and after
so long a time their sin has found them out
(Num. xxxii., 23).
5. "Now therefore be not grieved nor angry
with yourselves that ye sold me hither, for
God did send me before you to preserve
life." He maketh the wrath of man to praise
Him (Ps. lxxvl., 10), and Joseph had grace
to see, not the hatred of his brethren, but
the guiding hand of God. It is possible for
us to see God in everything and believe and
rejoice in Bom. viii.. 28, 29.
6. "For these two years hath the famine
been in the land, and yet there are five years,
in the which, there,shall neither be earing
nor harvest." As truly as there had been
seven years of plenty, so surely would there
be seven years of famine. Joseph simply
believed God?he had no other means of
knowing. "Abiaham believed God."' Let
our souls say, "I believe God" (Jas. 11., 23;
Acts xrvli., 25).
7. "And God sent me before, you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth and to save
your lives by a Kreat deliverance." How
suggestive it all is of Jesus hated, sold, rejected,
slain, yet still alive, a grqpt deliverer,
the oniy deliverer, and ere long now He will
say to the nation of Israel, "I am Jesus, your
brother, whom ye crucified." They shall see
Him and mourn bitterly and welcome Him
(Zech. xiL, 10; xlii., 1). Many Individual
Jews are now seeing and receiving Him by
faith, but soon it will be all Israel.
8 "So now it was not you that sent me
hither, but God." Joseph gives God all
the glory for makinehim a fatherto Pharaoh
and ruler over all Egypt. He has nothing
but forgiveness for his brethrea and praises
for God. Jesus told Pilate that he could
have no power against Him except It were
given him by God (John xlx., 11. We may
all believe that nothing can come to us without
God.
9. "Haste ye and go up to my father and
say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph,
God hath made me lord of all Egypt. Come
down unto me; tarry not." He thinks of hla
poor old father, wondering day by day If
Benjamin will ever return to him, little
dreaming that Benjamin will come all right
and Joseph too. And lie longs to have his
father see and share his glory. See the long*
ing of Jesus in John xvii., 24.
10. "And thou shalt dwell in the land of
Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me,
thou, and thy children, and thy children's
children, And thy flocks, and thy herds, and
all that thou hast." Mark the repeated
"near unto me" of verse 4 and this verse i nd
think of Israel a people near unto Jeh ;vah
(Ps. cxlvlii., 14), and of all who were onco
afar off made nigh by the blood of Je?B
(Eph. ii., 13). See even the flocks and herds
included and think of all creation enjoying
K/* /'Rnm. 21V
1L "And there will I nourish thee, for yet
there are five yeare of famine, leet thou and
thy household and all that thou hast come to
poverty." Assurance of continued andabundant
supply for all. He who spared not His
own 8on, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not with Him also freely give
ns all things (Rom. viii., 32)? Consider the
daily rations and the day by day without
fail of II Kings xxv., 30, and Ezra vi., 9, and
let your heart rejoice.
12. "And behold your eyes see, and the
eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it Is my
mouth that speaketh unto you." When the
disciples were troubled as Jesus Himself
stood In their midst after the resurrection.
He said, Handle He and see that it is I Myself
(Luke xxiv., 3G-S9). Thomas was encouraged
to feel tne vary wounds of Jesus (John
xx., 27). And when Jesus shall be asked by
the Jews about tne wounasin mt> uunu n?
will say that He received them in the house
of His friends (Zech. xlii., 6).
13. "And ye shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt and of all that ye have seen,
and ye shall haste and bring down my father
hither." They would have to say when they
told all they could, "Father, we cant, tell
you the half of his glory" (I Kings x.. 7).
And when they did tell him Jacob couldn't
believe it till he saw the wacons which
Joseph had sent to fetch him. "That which
we have seen and heard declare we unto
you" is the testimony of the apostles (I John
i., 3; Acts iv., 20).
14.15. "And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's
neck and wept. And Benjamin wept
upon his neck. Moreover, he kissed all his
brethren and wept upon them, aud after that
his brethren talked with him." What assurance
of forgiveness ! What teure of joy
on the part of Joseph and of Benjamin! Bat
did the others weep? The record does not
say. Tear3 pent up sometimes come afterward.
Joseph'9 heart is full as he gives of
his bounty to his father and his brethren.
What wondrous srace to these brethren,
and yet how small when compared with the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ?the graca
by which we are saved, in which we stand
and the full revelation of which we still wait
for (Eph. 11., 8 ; Rom. v., 2 ; I Pet. i., 13).?
Lesson Helper.
Liberal Pay for a Spy,
Tho 6py, Le Caron, who was no prominently
identified with the charges against
the late Charles Stewart Parnell, died at
London, a few days ago, of a painful malady,
from which he had long suffered. The
Star says that before Major Honry Le Caron,
tho Government spy. took the witness stand
before the Parnell Commission, to give testimony
against Mr. Parnell and his associates, (
he entered into an agreement with representatives
of tho London Times, the terms
of which were that he should be paid a life
annuity of 65000 and that his life should be
Insured for $100,000 for the benefit of his
bacsers.
The provisions for this contract, tho Star
says, were strictly carried out. but whether
the Times paid all of the annuity and the
premiums on the insurance policies, or
whether the Government assumed part of the
obligation, is not known.
Shortage In the Supply oC "Wheat.
The Secretary of Agriculture, in response
to a peremptory request, sent a statement to
the United States Senate showing the available
wheat supply. Under the exact terms
of tho resolution the Secretary finds an apparent
shortage of 50.000,000 bushels. In
another statement which he volunteers and
which he says will definitely present the surplus
available, he shows the amount available
for export from March 1. 1S94, to July 1,
1894, to bo C9,000,000 bushels, and the apparent
discrepency, 119,000,000 bushels, between
the amount of supply and the quantity
distributed due. ho adds, to au underestimate
of the reserve stock held by farmers on
March 1, 1693.
Peace and Prosperity Predicted.
It is claimed that the Rus90-German treaty
will make for peace and prosperity all over
Europe.
DAINTY TOILETS, .
THE PREVAILING STYLES IN
WOMEN'S GARMENTS.
Street Costumes Are ''Stunning" ?
The Latest Fancies In Parasols
?Startling Shapes In Hats
?Dresses for Misses.
The most beautiful combination this season
Is green and heliotrope, and the most fashionably
dressed women have those combinations
showing it some way. A pretty toilet Is made
od! green and heliotrope mixed goods, combined
with a pretty shade of dark green
moire. The pointed oversklrt has a circular
raffle, on which areappliqued lace pieces. The
bodice haa large revers, with lace tope and
vest of a delicate shade ol heliotrope chiffon.
It is finished about the edge of the waist with
the circular ruffle now so fashionable, and
this has small appliqued pieces of the lace.
The double skirt and pointed will be most
warn this Spring, and the ruffle about the
DOttOHl 01 lilt) waits*, 13 umy buiuiuie lur ouuau
hips and slender figures. The long coats are
made up as much in silk as in cloth. The
crepon la decidedly the most popular of all
wool materials. It Is light in weight and fine
and pretty in texture, comes in all colors,
and is suitable for every kind of function. A
combination of black crepon, jet and moire
silk is very effective. Louis SYI reigns In
everything. Flaring bows appear everywhere,
and in the oddest of places.
The costumes this season are exceedingly
stunning, especially the street gowns. The
pleasant Spring weather coming so early has
made the streets look very gay, and this season
the women have elected to drees very
conspicuously. For evening wear some new
designs in decollete bodices are seen; one
7. -j handsome one was for a white satin
toilet. Tulle was put on the waist in full
plaits, very broad at the top and tapering at
the waist line into a tiny point The tulle
was on back and front of the waist in this
fashion and had a very beautiful effect. It
was held in place by a broad cap wire
bent In and out and sewed on the tulle to
form the plaits.
Waist coats and shirt waists are to be seen
with all the cloth suits, and instead of the
coat being open the whole length as last year,
it is now double-breasted, and longer skirted
than fnrmarlv. Some of them are cut so they
can be worn open or closed and short skirts
are used entirely with them. The new gowns
are cat entirely different from those of last
year, and to remodel an old bodice or skirt*
it is necessary to almost cover the waist at
least with ruffles or lace trimming.
It 1b somewhat early to carry parasols and
I doubt if many of those I have seen in the
shope will ever be carried on the streets, or
even in carriages or at the seashore. But
they are certainly most tempting and beautiful.
Those of the taffeta silk with rows of
lace, one laid flat upon the parasol, and the
other hanging full around the edge, are very
dainty and beautiful, while the plain sOk with
the chiffon ruffling with a slight trimming
are enticing to any one. A good way to utilize
old parasols that are plain and old fashioned
and with the long walking stick
handles that were so much in vogne a few
seasons ago, is to buy chiffon to match your
I ?
fc" 1/ l>
costun e, and sew row upon row of It about
the parasol, allowing the out9ide row to hang
down. This Is done of course with chiffon
that oomes already gathered, finish all with a
large bow on the handle and on the tip of
handsome molro or Louis XYI ribbon. The
illustration shows a handsome parasol made
entirely of the Jaeunssee silk, which comes In
all popular colors and shades.
This summer skirt waists win again reign.
After the popular blouses and silk waists
women cannot go back to the uncomfortable,
tight-fltting dress bodice. During the heated
term they are about the only thing in which
a woman can look neat, cool, and stylish,
and at the same time feel comfortable. The
shirt waist of this year deserves its name
more than any of its predecessors. It is an
exact reproduction of a man's shirt to the
belt. Tho cuff, even, is made an exact copy
of the true shirt finish, being set on the
sleeve with a staying piece uppermost, opening
on the top, exactly like a shirt cuff. The
shield-shaped bosoms are very mannish, and
the high, straight collar has points which
turn slightly, exactly like those of the hus'
band and brother. The only thing which
varies slightly is the big sleeves, which, full
and loose, are very much in evidence on this
very new design. The bosoms come in pink,
blue, heliotrope, gray, and also in fine stripes,
As a rule the back of the waists are tho yoke
and fullness gathered into tho belt, which
seems to have been settled upon as the most
satisfactory one. Tucks and gauged backs
are shown, but the most popular is tho yoke
back.
Gowns of organdies are to be made up over
foundations of taffeta glace silk, and heavily
trimmed with lace, which really makes the
dress in tho end quite as expensive as one
made of more costly material. The saeh is
worn both broad and narrow, tied in the back,
front or at the side, wherever it will make the
weaierlook the most chic. Sleeves are quite
asfullas formerly, the change in their appearance
is quite marked. Where they formerly
stood up quite high, they now are so gathered
and foiled as to stand out more from a long,
sloping shoulder. Tho overskirt is an acknowledge
fact. One of the new colors is called
cyclamen. It is a bluish mauve, a peculiar
tint, between a sherry and magenta. Ginghams
are to be worn more than ever. Some
come with a strip of the crinkled effect in
shades of green, violet, tan and blue. The
dotted ginghams are novelties. One I saw was
Dale blue with a plain glossy finish and three
rows of white lace insertion worn in th?
gooda about four inches apart and gradually
narrowing in width; plain goods of the sama
material come for extra use if desired^
Linen suiting is a novelty for the summer*
season. Some of it looks like cheviot and
can be made up in tailor fashion, trimming '
with braid of linen and large pearl buttons.
Dotted swiss is shown in many new designs^,
many of the Frenchiest looking patterns being
on the Dresden order. Glace silk is used
for the foundation. Bright scarlet-dotted
swiss is selling welL Valenciennes laoei*
used in great profusion. The chambrays are
also shown in beautiful patterns. Pique will
be worn a great deal this summer, and duok
suits will be more In favor than last season.
The spring wraps that are shown are very
curiously shaped and I do not think would be
of much value to any one whodeslred to securewarmth.
They are made In all sorts of material
and fit quite olosely to the neck bo*
come only in a point or round over the
shoulders and in front. In most instances
they do not make any attempt to cover tbe
sleeve. They can of course be made very
dressy with lace, net and jet, and are becoming
to anyone.
There are so many new, odd and startling
shapes in hats that it is hard to decide whafc
the prevailing style is likely to be. Ecoentriclty
is the leading motive I should judge.
The straws are in all colors as well as shapes,
and some daring combinations are essayed.
The open work straws are again to be worn
and more gold spangles are used this year la
hat trimmings than ever before; even the
crowns, feathers and laces are all spangled.
The variety of hats this season is so greet
that no excuse is left for anyone not having*
becoming hat, no matter how little they ma?
have to expend upon it.
4 (
The above Is a pretty little pink gingham
for a child of ten. It is made with a plain
fall skirt, fall baloon-like sleeves, with caffs
of gingham and turned back white embroidery
edge. The waist is tight fitting^
zouave jacket or gingnam, upper pan ox
which is finished with a broad turned book
sailor's collar finished with white embroideryedge.
This opens over a white front of embroidery
; turned down collar of white embroidery.
A little miss of six years to-day tripped
daintily to her mamma's carriage looking lika
a beautiful minature woman. Long golden
curia hung down from under a broadbrimmed
black straw hat, trimmed elaborately
with black plumes and flaring satin
bows. On her tiny body was a long Greenawsy
coat of black satin, surmounted by a tiny
cape, edged with heavy cream colored laoe
fully twelve Inches in width, grey kid gloves
were on her little haiids and patent leather
shoes on her dainty little feet. As she smilingly
thanked me for uncatching the laoe of
her ooat from the latch of the door I could
not help wishing the dear little lady was alL
my own.
Children's shoes differ but little from those
of previous seasons. They come for dress in
cloth tops and patent leather vamps, light
and dark tan leather, and low shoes, both,
light and dark. A grey cloth top with patent
leather vamp is very pretty. Low ties will
be worn more this summer than formerly,
and the red and brown shoes to match costume
and hosiery will be seen on the littla.
folks.
Broad brimmed hats prevail almost entirely
for girls, the small ones making them look
almost too old. J. Flobej.ce Wilson.
rsjmaire small talk.
There is more danger 01 catcning a disease
through not washing the hair frequently than
In any other way.
If one is troubled with frequent headachca
or hot and feverish sensations, before retiring
for the night wash the feet with cold water
acd thoroughly heat them before the Are
before getting Into bed. This is particularly
beneficial to a nervous. Irritable child.
It Is said Queen LU of Hawaii is coming'
over here to lecture, and, to make her presence
more royally realistic, she is to wear ?
crown while speaking, "just as she does at
home"?except when the royal brain is
wooing repose and wears a night cap.
On the toilet tables are now seen the now
Dresden china articles of toilet, and gold
has succeeded silver. The designs are
strictly new, or less very, very old like those
ased in the sixteenth century, and the mora
years these articles have been in your family,
and the more generations that have handled
them, so much more claim have you to one of
the latest fads.
It is not well to follow the caprices of
fashion in decorating your home. In the
matter of wall paper, for Instance, take Into
consideration the size and location of the
room. If it receives the cold north light use
a warm-tinted paper, while a gray paper may
look better in a room with a southern exposure.
A delicate, retiring wall enlarges s
small room, while a flaring, bold design contracts
the apartment unto suffocation.
It is a custom of the French young woman
to accept no presents from men, even from a
fiancee, except flowers. This prevents obligations
and any possible entanglements, for
the flowers, being perishable, can have no
lasting claim, and can only bo construed as an
evanescent and sw?*?7-?<Mnted bit of etiauette..
AIDS TO HOME DECOEATIOUS.
A pretty border decoration for walls represents
a cornice or frieze upon which pigeons
are sitting?as real pigeons do on such places.
The birds may be in various positions, and
so colored and shaded as to look like basrelief
work. If you can draw a "little bit"
you might paint them in water-color on the
white wall.
Aesthetics Is showing itself in architecture
as well as In what is inside of the architecture.
An attractive exterior presupposes
an attractive interior, just as one expects to
And a pretty woman a witty woman; and
there is hardly a plausable excuse for allowing
your home to look rigidly plain and to be of
a bad complexion. You can fix up the coiffure
with a dormer-window or two, and give it an
embroidered apron in the shape of an artistic
porch, and a fancy pocket will do for a pretty
bay window, which adds to both the outside
and inside of the house. These innovations
are comparatively inexpensive, and retunv
big interest in joy and comfort. _