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^ *" \ PW.V HR TAT.MAffR. XUU | ? JL/XVI J.1JULUUMVIM THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Martyrs of the Needle." T*xt- "It Is easier for a camel to g through the eye ol a needle."?Matthew xbr.. 2L Whether this "ere of the needle" be th small gate at the side of the big gate at th entranoe of the wall of the ancient city, as 1 generally interpreted, or the eye of a needl such as is now handled in sewing a garmen I do not say. In either case it would be i tight thing for a camel to go through the ey of a needle. But there are whole caravans o fatigues and hardships going through th eye of the sewing woman's needle. Very long ago the needle was busy. I was considered honorable for women to tol in olden time. Alexander the Great stood i1 his palace showing garments made by hi own mother. The finest tapestries at Bayeu: were made by the Queen of William the Con queror. Augustus, the Emperor, woulc not wear any garments except those thai were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toiler everywhere be respected. The greatest blessing that could have hap pened to our first parents was being turned out of Eden after they had done wrong Adam and Eve, in their perfect state, migbl have got along without work or only suol light employment as a perfect garden, witl no weeds in it, demanded. But as soon a< they had sinned the best thin? for them was to be turned out where they would have tc work. We know what a withering thing II Is for a man to have nothing to do. Goodolc Ashbel Green, at fourscore years, when asked why he kept on working, said, "I do so tc keep out of mischief." We see that a man who has a large amount of money to starl With has no chance. Of the thousand prosperous and honorable men that you know, 999 had to work vigorously at the beginning But I am now to tell you that Industry Is Just as important for a woman's safety and happiness. The mo3t unhappy women in our communities to-day are those who have no engagements to call them ud in the morning ; who, once having risen and breakfasted, lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep, and having spent an hour and a half at their toilet, pick np their cardcase and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings waiting foi somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned In so dark a dungeon as that. There is no happiness in an idle woman It may be with hand, it may be with brain, it may be with foot, but work she must 01 be wretched forever. The little girls of oui families must be started with that idea. Th( corse of our American society is that oui young women are taught that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, thousandth thing in their life Is to get somebody to take care of them. Instead of that the first lesson should be how, tinder God, they may take care of themselves, The simple fact is that a majority of them dc have to take care of themselves, and that too, after having, through the false notion; of their parents, wasted the years in whiot they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outragf of that father and mother who pass theii daughters into womanhood, having giver them no facility for earning their livelihood. Mme. de Stael said, "It is not these writings that I am proud of, but the fact that I have facility in ten occupatk .is. in any one o) which I oould make a livelihood." You say you have a fortune to leave them. O man and woman, have you not learned that, like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away? Though you should be successful in leaving a competency behind you, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some elders or deacons of our churches may get up a fictitious company and induce your orphans to put their money into it, and if it be lost nrove to them that it was eternally decreed that that was the way they were to lose it, and that it went in the mo3t orthodox and heavenly style. Ob, the damnable schemes that professed Christians will engage in?until God'puts HL fingers into the collar of the hypocrite's rob< and rips it clear down the bottom! Yot have no right, because you are well off, tc conclude that your children are going to be as well off. A man died, leaving a larg< fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphii grogshop. His old comrades came in ant said as they bent over his corpse, "What L the matter with you, Boggsey?" Th< surgeon standing over him said: ' 'Hush up He's dead P' "Ah, he is dead 1" they said "Come, boys, let us go and take a (lrink ii memory of poor Boggsey!" Have you nothing better than money tc leave your children? If you have not, bul send your daughters into the world Witt empty brain and unskilled hand, you art guilty of aasassinasion, homicide, regicide, Infanticide. There are women toiling in oui cities for $3 and #4 per week who were th< daughters of merchant princas. These suf faring ones now would be glad to have th< crumbs that once fell from their fathers table. That wornout, broken shoe that she wears is the lineal descendant of the $15 gaiters in whioh her mother walked, and that torn and faded calico had an eestry of magnificent brocade tha swept croaawsy cm&u wnuuui any c* pense to the street commissioners Ihough you live in an elegant residence anc fare sumptuously every day, let your daugh tera feel it is a disgrace to them not to kno? how to work. I denounce the idea, preva lent in society, that, though our young wo men may embroider slippers and croche and make mats for lamps to stand on with out disgrace, the idea of doing anything foi a livelihood is dishonorable. It is a sham< for a young woman, belonging to a large family, to be inefficient when the father tolls his life away for her support. It Is a shami for a daughter to be idle while her mothe toils at the washtub. It Is as honorable t< sweep house, make beds or trim hats as it to twist a watch chain. As far as I can understand, the line of re epectability lies between that which is usefu and that which is useless. If women dotha which is of no value, their work is honora ble. If they do practical work, it is dishon orable. That our youn? women may escapi Ka nanonra of Hnin rHchnnrtPflhlA WOrk shall particularize, you may knit a tidy fo the back of an armchair, but by no mean make the money wherewith to buy the chair You may, with delicate brush, beautify i mantel ornament, but die rather than eari enough to buy a marble mantel. You ma; learn artistio music until you oan squai Italian, but never sing ' Ortonville" or "Oli Hundred." Do nothing practical it yoi would in the eyes ol refined society preserve your respectability. I scout these tinica notions. I tell you no woman, any mor than man, has a right to occupy a place i< this world unless she pays a rent for it. In the course of a lifetime you coasum Whole harvests and droves of cattle, and ever day yon live breathe forty hogsheads of goo pure air. You must by some Kind of usefu ness pay for all this. Our race was the las yhlnfl created?the birds and fishes on th fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the flft day and man on the siyth day. If geo ogists are right, the earth was a million < years in the possession of the insects, beasl and birds before our race oame upon it. I one sense we were innovators. The cattli the lizards and the hawks had pre-empt to right. The question is not what we are t do with the lizards and summer Insects, bi what the lizards and summer insects are t do with us. If we want a place in this world, we ma earn it. Tne pnrfrldge makes its own net before it occupies it. Tne lark by its mori lag song earns its breakfast before it eats i Tne _ j.e g.. .s ail lut.mrtiiou tn.it .lr.duty o: nn idler is to starva when it says i he will not work neither shall he eat. Idleness ruins the health, an! very soo nature says: "This man has refused to pa; his rent. Out with him!" Society is to be reconstructed on the sut Jeet of woman's toil. A vast majority of thos who would have woman industrious shut h< ! - up to a few kinds of work. My judgment i this matter is that a woman has a right t do anything she can do well. There shoul be no department of merchandise, mechai ism, art or science barred against her. Miss Hosmen has genius for sculpture, gft her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has a font: ness fcr delineating animals, let her mat "The Horee Fair." If Miss Mitchell wl study astronomy, let her mount the starr 1 ladier. If Lydia will be a merchant, let he sell purple. It Lucretla Mott will preach tfc b. ' L. . ; Gospel, let her thrill with her womanly eloquence the Quaker meeting house. It Is said that if a woman is given such odeortunitles she will occupy places that might a taken bv men. I say if she have more skill and adaptedness for any position than a man has let her have it. She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have. But it is said that her nature is so delicate that she is unfitted for exhausting toil. I o ask in the name of all past history what toil n on earth is more severe, exhausting and tremendous than that toil of the needle to which forages she has been subjected? The 9 battering ram, the sword, the oarbine. the 9 battleax, have male no such havoc as the 3 needle. I would that these living sepulchres ? in which women have for ages been burie I * might be opened, andthat some resurrection * trumpet might bring up tnese living corpses ? to the fresh air and sunlight. Go with me, and I will show you a woman 0 who by hardest toll supports her children, her drunken husband, her old father and * mother, pays her house t?nt, always has 1 wholesome food on the table, and when she 1 can get some neighbor on the Sabbath to s come In and take care of her family appears 1 In church with hat and cloak that are far * from Indicating the toil to whioh she is sab* jected. [ Such a woman as that has body and soul . enough to fit her for any position. She could stand beside the majority of your salesmen and dispose of more goods. She could go into your wheelwright shop? and 1 beat one-half of your workmen at making carriages. We talk about woman as though 1 we had resigned to her all the light work, 1 and ourselves had shouldered the heavier. ' But the day of judgment, which will raveal the suffering of the stake and inquisition. : will marshal before the throne of God and ; the hlerarchs of heaven the martyrs of wash| tub and needle. , Now, I say, If there be any preference in occupation, let woman have it. God knows her trials are the severest Ey her acuter t sensitiveness to misfortune, by her hour of _ anguish, I demand that no one hedge up her pathway to a livelihood. Oh. the meanness, /laonUoKtlitr r\t m<*n wrhn hftcrndcft !L luu uojyi\. avtinj w? n**v >pj- 0 - ? ' woman the right to work anywhere in any honorable calling! " I go still further and say that women should have equal compensation with men. By what principle of justice is it that women in many of our cities get oniy two-thirds as much pay as men. and in many cases only half? Here is the gigantic injustice?that ; work equally well if not better uone woman receives tar less compensation than man. I Start with the national government. For a long while women clerks in Washington got $900 for doing that for which men received . $1800. To thousands of youn? women in our cities to-day there is only this alternative?starvation or dishonor. Many Of the largest meri cantile establishments of our citics are accessory to these abominations, and from r their large establishments there are scores of f souls being pitched off into death, and their ) employers know it! f Is there a God? Will there be a judgment? I tell you, if God rises up to redress woman's , wrongs, many of our large establishments > will be swallowed up quicker than a South American earthquake ever took down a city. God will oatch tnese oppressors between tin two millstones of His wrath and grind them ) to powderI , I hear from all this land the wail of wo s manaooa. niau uiut uuiuiug u aujnn ? i that wail but flatteries. Ha says she is an t angel. She is not. She knows she is not. > She is a human being, who gets hungry when i she has no food and cold wheu she has no ' flre. Give her no more flatteries. Give her i justice! ' There are about 50.000 sewing girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across the darkness of ! this night I hear their death groans. It i3 c not such a cry as comes from thos9 who are suddenly hurled out of life, but a slow, j grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather 1 them before you and look into their faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger struck! Look at their Angers, needle prlckei and blood tipped! See that premature stoop in the shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking, merciless cough! At a large meeting of these women, held In a hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches were delivered, but a needle-woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and with her shriveled arm hurled a very thunderbolt of eloquence, speaking out the horrors of her own experience. Stand at the corner of a street in New York in the very early morning as the women go to their work. Many of them had no breakfast except the crumbs that were left over from the night before or a crcst they ohew on their way through the streets. Here they come?the work- , inggirls of the city! These engaged in beadwork, these in flower making, in millinery, enameling, cigar making, bookbinding, labeling, feather picking, print coloring, paper box making, but, most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing women. Why do they not take the olty cars on their way up? They cannot afford the five cents. If, concluding to deny herself something else, she gets into the car, give herseat. You want to see how Latimerand Ridley appeared in the fire. Look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyrdom?a hotter flre, a more agonizing death. j One tjaDDatn nignr, in me vesuuuio ui my church, after service a woman fell ia conJ vulsion?. The doctor said she needed meiloine not so much as something to eat. Ja i she began to revive, in her delirium she said J gaspingly: "Eight cents! Eight cents! Eight ! oentsl I wish I could get it done! I am so tired! I wish I could gat some sleep, but I t must get it dona! Eight cents! Eight cents!" We found afterward that she was matin? I. garments at eight cents apiece, and that she L could make but three of them in a day. Hear it I Three times eight are twanty-four. Hear T it, men and women who have comfortable - homes! * Some of the worst villains of the city ara c the employers of these women. They beat ' them down to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must * deposit $1 or $2 before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is don^, ' it is sharply inspected, the most lnslgnifl? cant flaws picked out and the wages refused, ' and sometimes the $1 deposited not given ? back. The Women's Protective Union reports a case where one or these poor souls, finding a place where she could get mora j wages, resolved to change employers and ' went to get her pay for work done. The employer says. "I hear you are going to leave me?" "Yes," she said, "and. I have come to get wha$ you owe me." He made * no answer. She said, "Are yoa not going J to pay me?" "Yes," he said, "I will pay ? you," and he kicked her down stairs. How are these evils to be eradicated? What have you to answer, you who sell ? coats and have shoes made and contract lor . the southern and western markets? What help la the?e, what panacea, what redempL tion? Some say, "Give women the ballot." a What effect sach ballot might have on other I questions I am not here to disccuss, but * what would be the effect of female suffrage upon woman's wages? I do not believe that 0 woman will ever get justice by woman's II ballot. Indeed,women oppress women as much aa 9 men do. Do not women, as muoh as men, ? bent down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Are not women as sharp j as men on washerwomen and milliners and mantua makers? If a woman asks $1 for her u work, does not her female employer ask if j. she will not take ninety cents? You s?y, }f 'Only ten cents difference." But that is tg sometimes the difference between heaves lQ and hell. Women often have less commis} oration for women than men. If a woman a steps aside from the path of virtue, man may 0 forgive?woman never! Woman will never lt get justice done her from womau's ballot. 0 Never wi'l she get it from man's ballot. TTow, then? Go 1 will rise up for her. God has more resources than we know of. The 5* flaminu swor l that hunc at Erlen's gate " when woman was driven oat will cleave with Its terriV" <vlsre her oppressor*. But th*re is something for our women to ? do. Let our youn? people prepare to excel ;[ in spheres of work, and they will be able after awhile to set larger wazes. If it be a shown that a woman can in a store sell more Y goods In a year than a man, she will soon ba ahle not only to ask but to demand more wages, and to demand them successfully. 19 Unskilled and incompetent labor must take ,r what is given. Skilled and competent labor n will eventually make its own standard. Admittlnc that the law o! supply and demand lcI regulates these things, I contend that the demand for skilled labor is very great and [f the supply very small. 9 Start with the idea that work is honorable I- and that you can do some one thing better ;e than aryone else. Resolve that, God help11 log, you will take care of yourself. If you y are after a while called Into another relation, >r you will all the better be quallfled for it bv e your 6pirlt of self-reliance, or if you are caned to stay as you are you can be happy and self-supportfn?. Poets are fond of talkinor about man ns .in oak and woman the vine that climbs it, biv I haye seen many a tree fall that not only went down itself, but took all the vines with it. I can tell you of something stronger than an oak for an ivy to climb on, and that is tup tnrone ot tne great jenovan. oiugia or affianced, that woman Is strong who leans on God and does her best. The needle may breat. the factory band may slip, the wages may fail, but over every good woman's head there are spread the two great, gentle, stupendous wings of the Almighty. Many of you will go single handed through life, and you will have to choo3e between two characters. Young woman, I am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, painted nonentity which society Ignominfously acknowledges to be a woman and ask Go 1 to make you a humble, active, earnest Christian. What will become of this godless disciple of fashion? What an insalt to her sex! H?r manners are an outrage upon decency. She is more thoughtful of the attnuae sne strikes upon the carpet than how she will look in the judgment, more worried about her freckles than her sins, more interested in her bonnet strings than in her redemption. Her apparel is the poorest part of a Christian woman, however magnificently dressed, and no one has scr much right to dress well as a Christian. Not so with the godless disciple of fashion. Take her robes, and you take everything. Death will comc down on her some" day, and rub the bistre off her eyelids, and tha rouge off her cheeks, and with two rough, bony hands scatter spangles and class beads and rings and ribbons and lace and brooohes and buckles and sashes and frisettes and golden clasps. The dying actress whose life had been vicious said "The scene closes. Draw the curtain." Generally the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward, but in her life it was first the farce of a useless life and then the tragedy of a wretchel eternity. Compare the lite and death of such a one with that of some Christian aunt that was r\nnA a Kloecinrf VAlIf* hmiBAhflM. T do IlOt know that she was ever offered a hand in marriage. She lived single, that untrammeled she might be everybody s blessing. Whenever the sick ware to be visited or tho poor to be provided with bread, she weut with a blessing. She could pray or sing ' Rock of Ages" for any sick pauper wbc asked her. As she got older there were days when she was a little sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam?just the one for Christmas eve. She knew better than any one else how to fla things. Her every prayer, as God heard it, was full of everyoody who had trouble. The brightest things in ail the house dropped from ner fingers. She hud peculiar notion?, but the grandest notion she ever hsd was tc make you happy. She dressed well?auntie always drebsed well?'mt her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of Go J, is of great price. When she died, you all gathered lovingly about her, and as you carried her out to rest the Sunday-school class almost covered the coffin with japoaicas, and tho poor people stood at the end of the alley, with theii aprons to their eyes, sobbinc: Bitterly, and the man of the world said, with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies," and Jesus, a9 unto the maiden in Judaa, commanded, "J say unto thee. aris? ?" CURIOUS FAttfS. A human skull as large as a bushel basket has been found in Sicily. A man who shave regularly until he is eighty jears old cuts off about thirty-five feet of hair. No fewer than 1760 ancient manuscript copies of the New Testament in whole or in part exist. A club in Berlin, called The Giants, admits to membership only men who are over six feet in height. The German mile of to-day is 24,318 feet in length, more than four times ?A - u~ic ? ami a nan as xuu^ no uui iuuv* Oysters that weigh (with their shells) about sixty pouud9 are sometimes found in Puget Sound, Washington. The British Museum now has more than 10,000,000 books, and additions are being made at the rate of 50,000 a year. Owing to the extension of deer forests in Scotland golden eagles and wildcats are on the increase in that country. The earliest coins were formed by impressing seals on one side of disks of the metal as a certification of weight and fineness. It is estimated that the annual consumption of wheat for food in the United States averages about four and a half bushels per capita. Gold, silver and copper were known to the Greeks in the time of Homer, but oxen were still the standard by which other things were estimated. When Egyptians went fishing they used to spit in the Nile in honor of the river god Hence, it is said, comes the modern fishermen's practice of spitting on the hook to insure good luck. The average whale is from fifty to sixty-five feet in length and thirty-five feet in circumference. The jawbones are twenty to twenty-five feet long, and a tongue has been known 16 yield about a ton of oil. In 1761 a Glasgow (Scotland) paper announced the marriage of David Lin coin to Catherine Crow, his fifth wife, and continued: "He is seventy-one. His first wife was a Datoh woman, whose name he has forgotten. The rest were Scotch." Sugar to Produce Muscular Work. The subject of sugar as a food producing muscular power was discussed last winter before an English society by Dr. Vaughan Harley. From r brief summary of his paper, given in Nature, we make the following extracts : During a twenty-four hours' fast, on one day, water alone was drunk; on another, 500 grammes of sugar was taken in an equal quantity of water. It was thus found that sugar not only prolonged the time before fatigue occurred, but caused an increase of sixty-one to seventy-six per cent, in the muscular work done. In the next plaoe, the effect of sugar added to the meals was investigated. The muscle energy producing effect of 6ugar was found to be so great that 200 grammes added to a email meal increased the total amount of work done from six to thirty- nine per cent. Sugar (250 grammes, about eight ounces) was now added to a large mixed meal, when it was foun-.l not only to increase the amount of work done from eight to sixteen per cent., but increased the resistance against fatigue. As a concluding experiment. 250 grammes of sugar was added to the meals of a full, diet day; causing the work done during the period of eight hours to be increased twenty-two to thirty-Bix per cent. ?Scientific American. Over 600 Chinamen Drowned. According to advices from China about 800 junks were wrecked by the flood in Hau River, i*ntailine preat loss ot life. Over COO l>oJies had bean recovered at latest accounts. 1 SAEBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JUNE 24. Lesson Text: Lessons of the Second Quarter?Golden Text: Deut. xxxil., 9?Commentary. Lessos I.?Jacob's Prevailing Prayer (Gen. ? a n 10- on* ?. )/i AAAll.^ i AA4 ?. , VJUIUCU. A DAI ^UWU. j xxxii., 26), "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." The first part of this lesson shows us Jacob filled with a sense of his unworthiness, yet pleading and clinging to the promises of God. The second part shows us Jacob with his thigh out of joint, helpless to resist any longer, clinging in his weakness I ana conscious need to the Mighty One, and obtaining that which he sought. The whole lesson teaches us how to obtain power with God and men. Here is found the word "Israel" for the first time. Lesson II.?Discord In Jacob's Family (Gen. xxxvii., 1-11). Golden Text (Gen. xlv., 24), "See that yo fall not out by the way." Here we see Jacob's special love for Joseph, the beloved Rachel's firstborn, and are warned of the danger of having favorites among the children. But we see also the special love of God to Joseph in exalting him above father, mother and brethren, and choosing him to be a great deliverer, and before God, who cannot err, we bow with adoration, for none can say to Him, "What doest Thou?" Lesson III. ?Joseph Sold Into Esypt (Gen. xxxvii.. 23-36). Golden Text (Gen. 1., 20;, "Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good." Joseph now enters upon his road to royalty, which means death to father, mother, brothers, sisters, home and friends, self and the world, to find one's all in God. It is the way of the cross and means much suffering and long suffering with patience and joyfulness (Col. iv., 11). If we ooo fnefiMimcmfc wo cV?o 11 Ka or\ya]rr vi VVA w iu^iiuiuvuiC) if v ouuu uu ovii wi j | cast down and discouraged, but If we sea God rather than His instruments, as Joseph did, all will be well. Lesson IY.?Joseph Ruler la Egypt (Gen. sli., 38-48). Golden Text (I Sam. ii.. 30), "Them that honor Mo I will honor." The twenty years' humiliation and suffering, the false accusations and imprisonment are now past, and the dreams are about to bo fulfilled. Joseph can now say from his position as ruler, in the joy of his gentile bride and his two sons. "God hath made me forget all my toil; God hnth caused me fo be fruitful" (Geu. xli., 51, 52). Through all his sufferings he was pro&psrous, for God was with him (Gen. xxxix., 2. 21), but it did not look so to human eyes. Now all can see it. See the application to us in Rom. viii., 19; I John iii., 2. Lesson V.?Joseph Forgiving His Brethren (Gen. xiv., 1-15). Golden Test (Lute xvii., 3), "If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him. and it ho repont forgivo him." The sin of twenty years is at last uncovered and brought home to them, but there is forgivness for them. They see now the reality and fulfillment of the dreams they despised, and they bow down to their brother Joseph as their great and only deliverer. When the Jews again look upon their brother Je9us, after perhaps 2000 years sinc9they saw Him last oil the cross and heeded not His cries, they will find a wonderful parallel to the history of Joseph, Lesson VI.? Joseph's Last Days (Geo. 1., 11-26). Golden Tost (Prov. iv., 18). "The path of the just i3 as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto tho perfect day." Still misunderstood by his brethren after so great kindness, he has again to comfort them and reassure them of his unchanging lovo. If we have treated Jesus In any degree like this, let us be ashamed and question His love no longer, but with Implicit confidence mako Him glad by our faith in Him. See Heb. si., .22, as a fitting close to this story. Lesson VII.?Israel in Egypt (Ex. I., 114). Golden Test (Ps. osslv., 8), "Our help is in the name of the Lord." We now come to tho book of redemption, but before tho deliverance we must see the bondage. Tho word to Abraham concerning the affliction of his seed Is being fulfilled. (Gen. sv., 13), but the words of dollvorance are just as true, and they also sball be fulfilled. This is again tho story of the cross?humiliation boforo osultation. Lesson VIII.?The Childhood of Moses (Ex. 11., 1). Golden Text (Ps. xcl., 15), "I will deliver him and honor him." Here Is God working, even through His enemies, to accomplish His purposes. Those who fight against Him aro all unconsciously' made to further His ends to their own confusion. Consider Jochebed's faith and its reward in tho light of Hob. si., 23. Let your own heart fear no evil. "If God be for us, who can bo against us?" Consider the three arks of Scripture, of which this Is the second, each made to proservo its contents. We aro preserved In Christ (Judo 1), Lesson IX.?Moses Sent as a Deliveroi (Ex. Hi., 10-20). Golden Test (Isa. sit., 10), "Fear thou not, fori am with thee." Moses at tho ago of forty thought that Israel would boo in him their deliverer, but at the ago of eighty ho is slow to obey the call of God and asks, "Who am I that I should go?" The freat lesson for us is to hoar God say: I am; will send thoe; I will bo with theo. We are nothing except as we are messengers for Godi The one who sends us is everything, and His message Is everything. We are hothing except In so far as we carry His message correctly and In His name, Lesbon X.?The Passover Instituted (Ex. Jrii., 1-14). Golden Text (l uor. v., "Cnrist, our passover, is sacrificed for us." The jljiv-ui i<-s-3<ju.s hero aro liio an ny oJ tlie firstborn under tho blood and their occupation as savel ones ; teaching us so strikingly that it is the blood alone that saves, but there is no safety for us unless we are under it; then as saved ones we are continually to feed upon Him who saves us. evoa as He said. ''He that eateth Me, even he shall life by Me." Lesson XL?Passage of the Red Sea (Ex. xiv., 19-29). Golden Text (Heb. II., 29), "By faith they passed through the Red Sea." In the cloud we see God as Israel's light and shield and guide and avenger. In the incident of the lesson we seo how God leads His people into difficulties that He may show His power in their behalf; that He may be glorified. When we find ourselves in straits and see no way out, let us stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Consider that He who divided the sea is our God, the creator of Heaven and earth, and there is nothing too hard for Him (Jer. xxxil., 17). * ' 4 1 mjo Lesson XII ?Tno Auomieu ? uu? sionary Lesson fP.^. ii.. 1-12). Golden Text (Ps. il.,8), "Ask of Me, and I shall prive thee tne heathen for thine inheritance." This is the picture of the Lord God of Jacob and Joseph and Moses. Israel's great Deliverer and Messiah, who will in due time he Kim; over all the oarth. but not until He sbali have received His bride, the church, and returned with her for the salvation of Israel and judgment of tho nations.?Lesson Helper. A "Grave Signal" Invented. Hubjrt Ddvan, a Canadian, has patented an iovention whloh he calls a "gravesignal." and is designed to save people who .are buried alive. The device consists of u s*c ' tion of Kas pipe,attached to tin coffin near tiio head of the casket. Through it passes a stick which rests on tho forehead ot the corpse. Attached to tho top of the stick is a tiny red signal flag, which is protected by a small glass glob.*. Any movement by the supposed corpse breaks the globe, admits fresh air and notifies the watcher that some one has bean buried alive. The inventor believes that many victims of catalepsy are so bur.oJ. A Strange Phenomenon. Great excitement has been created at Newman, 111., over tho appearance of smoke issuing from the ground on Thomas Shaw's farm, throe miles west of th* city. On approaching tho spot where it ssoms to come forth 110 smoke is to be seen. Several noted scientists have visited tho spot and claim the supposed smoke to be natural g;is. Tuere is au area of about twenty acres from which the smoke seems to be issuing, and great numbers of people visit the place daily and wonler at the scene. A Foundling Inhenlts Half a Million. Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Ramacciatti,or Omaha, Neb., six years ago adopted nn eighteenmonths-old boy at the St. Louis Foundling Hospital, St. Louis. They have since died and the boy has bean declared their heir, inheriting nearly $500,000. Ha9 a Good Credit. Massachusetts is borrowing money on forty-year bonds at about threo per cent, interest. I RELIGIOUS READING. A BOUGH DISCIPLE. rTo -was an ugly customer before tho gospel (ook hold of him. For manners, a good deal like a polar bear; and for temperament he was a twin with one David writes of, who was "such a son of Belial that a man could not speak to him." It was a matter of wonder, in the speculation of some of us, what sort of a creature the gospel would make of him, provided he should ever come under its power. And we had a chance to see; for Ho who "came fromBozrah traveling in the greatness of his strength," come our way, and. to the astonishment of us all, this rough ana rugged stranger to the covenent went and sat down at Jesus' feet There was no mistake about it.?The eye we had seen flash with vengence was filled with the tears of penitence, and the voice that wa3 accustomed "to mutter harsh thunder," we have heard utter the melting and subdued tones of prayer. That there has been a great change in the hidden man of the heart, all the disciples rejoice in believing. And we have welcomed into the fold. But some of the sheep are shy of him, and a good many of the lambs are afraid of him. He is no wolf now?that is certain?wolfish though he once was, and abundantly less like a bear than he was in former days. And the change that has been wrought does make the whole flock glad, and that most cordially But the dear brother is, after all, as coarse, rough, shaggy, uncouth, harsh and forbidding a sort of a disciple as ever entered the fold. If good manners, gentlemanly deportment, kind and condescending demeanor; if any one of these had been door-keeper, he would not have got in. But the Great Shepherd would not give the key to any of them; though he is on most excellent terms with them all, and would have been as pleased as any of them to have had that disciple as like them as two peas are alike. Yet for high and important reasons he did let him in. And we who are fellow disciples with him do not wish bim out. No, not one of us. But we do wish, and we will not mince the matter, we wish our lion was little more like a lamb.?We hate to see his shaggy mane and hear bis harsh and terrible voice. We do not wonder the small-fry clear the road for him when they see him coming, and that the young people are scarce when they hear the thunder of his rap on the door. There is so much that is repulsive to them in him that they think less of the heaven where they doubt not he is going. They say so: and we chide the young rebels. Yet we ourselves have a vast desire to have our Boanarges a peg or two lower, to say the least, on the scale of repul siveness. Some of us have tried to be a trifle broth 3rly in the matter, and with winning words of the kindest good-will have sought to turn the sternness and harshness of the rough disciple into a little of that courteousness and softness which better becomes the gospel of Christ. But he was cast in too rough a mould, and made of sterner stuff than was compatible with change. He will go ahead through life in hi* own way. We may give him a hint now and then, but wo are to look out that we do not get a rap with the paw of a lion. We have made up our minds, with tolerable unanimity, that inasmueh as the Great Keeper of the fold has welcomed him, with all his repulsive qualities, and as we can see, under a forbidding exterior, evident traces oi divine grace, that we will love, forbear And hold on in cordial good fellowship. It has stuck some of us too as among the possibilities, that our grim and rough brother may discern something in us not a particle more agreeable to him than his Polar-bear qualities are to us, and that, likely as not, he is forbearing himself, with right down Christian good will, with some follies of ours. 80 we think we had better bear one another's burdens, in the hope that what is wrong on both iHii <n lino tfmfi cet mended, and that we may yet see in each other the perfect image of Him who loved us and redeemed us by hla blood. GRIEVE SOT THE SriBIT. I have grieved him deeply, and I am afraid others have. We must all cease from it, if we would enjoy a rovival; for there can be no revival where he is not, and how can he dwell where he is constantly grieved? He comes to us as a friend, and desires to speak to us; but how have you slighted him? He speaks in the Bible. There are a thousand minutes in the hours we are awake daily; but when ho offers to speak to us words of healthful counsel, or balmy consolation, or glorious hope, how slow we are to give him five minutes out of a thousand! Our business, company, or the news of the day, is preferred by listening to him, and ho is grieved at our neglect He invites us to speak to him. He loves like every true friend to hea r our voice. He is grieved by our neglect to speak to him in prayer. Injuries and insults, resulting from sudden passion, friendship can bear. But cold neglect, continued day after day, what friendship can long endure? Who would not withdraw from the company of one who would pass hour after hour in his presence, and not speak to him? who would only address to him to him a few word3 once or twice a day, and then with cold formality? We have grieved him, also, Dy not minting much of our sins, our duty and the life to come. His work in the world is to 'convince men of sin, of righteousness, and ox judgment to come.' This work, according to the plan God has seen fit to adopt, be cannot accomplish in the minds of tho.^e who will not think of thess things. He invites us to cooperate with nim, by 'minding the things of tlie Spirit,' by caring for our own spiritual state and that of others;and if he will not do it he is grieved. He desires that men should repent and be saved, and if we will not seek to persuade them to repent and be converted he is grieved at our indifference to what he sees to be infinitely more important than anything we do care for. I need not multiply words. These few lines are sufficient to direct your thoughts to the subject, and point you to the way in which you may enjoy a revival. Grieve not the Spirit by the neglect of the Bible, nor of Draver. nor by indifference about the spirit ual state and others; and you will most surely enjoy a revival. Look over our country and see the dearth of revivals; see the youth passing by the age of most frequent conversions; think of the heathen without, needing preachers among them; look around your own home or in it, perhaps, and see those whose souls you love, unsaved, hastening on in the broad road; look and realize your need of a revival; and as you would have one, grieve not the spirit. ?Christian Observer. THE DIFFERENCE Between a saint and a sinner is not that the one is not in God's hands and the other is. The whole universe?the believer and the unbeliever ? Satan himself ? are in God's hauds, and he will do with them whatsoever he pleases. The difference is, that the believer acquicsces in this arrangement, and Js heartilysatislled with it; the unbeliever is dissatisiled with it and opposed to it. The prayer of the diselple is that which Christ has taught us: "Thy will, oh God, be done." We learn the words of this prayer in childhood, but many are the grey-headed ones who never learned the prayer.?Whoever can say these six words in sincerity and truth, is surely a child of Ged. The prayer of aJl others is that which, with such a wonderful union of simplicity and selfishness, was once offered to Jesus." "We wouid that thou shouldst do to us whatsoever we desire."? When we say that a penitent gives himself and his all to God. we do not mean that he is in God's hands any more than he was before : but only that he now consents to bo in God's hands?becomes pleased with the arrangement. Hit ceases to offer the latter of these two prayers, and l**j;ins to offer the form' r. What a blessed doctrine, then, to every Christian, must bo the doctrine of God's unlimited, absolute sovereignty. A Circus Performer's Fate. j Mary Labor, aged eighty-four years, die 1 i a few days ago at the county farm. Joliet, . III. in 1849 Joliet was visited by a circus iu which she was the star equestrienne. Her * riding delighted every oDe, and she was applauded to the echo. While in .Toilet she was I taken sick and was compelled to leave the f show. All her circus friends deserted h^r ? and the poorhouse was her only refuge. Her malady proved to bo typhoid fever, and for weeks shi struggle J agitust death. < She survived, but the disease left her deaf, i dumb and blind. All efforts to get-? ( frieuds were unavailing, an 1 slie ron-*wl at the County Hous^ near.y half a century, uot seeing, nor hearing, nor speaking. ~n ouiviaea 3Brrr?r The City Council from El Paso, Texas, has forbidden women to wear divided skirts on tha street* of thai citr TASTE IN DRESS. " h WOMEN "WILL SHOW 3IORE INDI- y VIDUAL1TY IN TIME. a t< Fashions Will Not Then Be So Unl- ?form as at Present ? Seasonable Hints and Suggestions About Feminine Garments. a n une reason wny tne tauor-maae gown ib so w popular Is that it approximates nearer and a nearer to man's attire, and this means 0 greater freedom of movement, greater com- ti fort, with corresponding health, and a fit 1 that tends to show the grace of figure, as the if variable styles of woman's, as distinguished v from man's dress, do not do. Women are u moving for reform in many things, but in d nothing is reform more desirable than in s their own attire. In the better day that is surely coming, v there will be a larger liberty in dress, and b individuality will assert itself. Then fashion d trill not mean uniform, and women will not b look like so many dressed window dummies, fc but each will show her own taste in mater- c ials, colors and draping, and the dead level p of monotony induced by an apish following 0 of fashions, prescribed by goodness knows 0 ?^ v who, will be broken up. To be sure, when such liberty Is given to women there will be a great deal of wretched taste manifested, but who can say that it will be woree or more harrowing to the artistic eye than it is at present. The education that will result from fMa frnm th A m Pftn i n crl ASS routine of fashion must in the end result in a 1 far better display of taste than wo find where ? fashion is blindly followed, without any t regard to the eternal fitness of things. While some of the recent fashions have gone to extremes in many things, it must be confessed that women's tailor-made gar- t ments have tended more and more to sim- 1 plicity, and to a corresponding comfort, for t such a garment means a costume suitable to t the needs of every day, and in the present g season it is more popular, and deservedly so, c than ever. Curiously enough one of the most becoming garments of recent make that I have seen, c copies, almost exactly, the walking coat of a 0 swell dude. Women can wear such outre * things far more becomingly than do men. This t coat has the front corners rounded entirely t away, and wittv the back modelled on the c lines of a man's coat; vests, either double breasted or single, can be worn. Some of the i best material for summer tailor-made suits \ is a new fabrio composed of silk and linen t rvloin t UUU&f Witu |(V4itWUJ MH** *wi It i3 well for the world that artists of note now find the designing of dresses for women a profitable and congenial occupation. Labourier has recently modelled a charming novelty which he calls "the Grecian gown." The very name suggests something simple, graceful and classic, and we may be sure that on the proper figure, with suitable colors and materials, it will be all that the most critical could desire. This costume consists of a skirt of soft wool, attached to wide em* broidered bands of the same material extending over the shoulders, and worn over a silk waist, made in ordinary fashion, and e usually of a contrast! ig color. An ecru tl wool gown over a pin Chise taffeta waist is a t recent Paris coloring. The* skirt is some- c what bell-shaped, the back gathered to a j) belt, and to the shoulder strap?, while the ^ front is prolonged to form the straps that 5 end in the back. These straps are seven ii inches wide at the waist, where they are folded in, so that they may become abomt four inches wide upon the shoulders, where they are tied, still narrower, by a bow of p black satin ribbon with erect loops and v ends. Jj e French blouses are coming into general jjj use, and promise to bo s feature of sum- Jj mer wear, and will be useful for boating or ^ yachting dresses. This is the only blouse j that is gathered to a belt in front and ba^k, a giving an added blouse effect by cutting the I front fuller at the throat and long enough v below to allow them to droop an inch or two ? on the belt The 6ides are kept intact, the n under arm seams of the outer material c being sewed up separately from those of c tho lining?if a lining be used. * ^ A very natty and becoming garment com- t bining the ease of the jacket with the dig- n nity of the coat, and thereby losinp fcbe I neglige appearance of the former 13 a % ^ style of blouse. It is close-flttiug and com- i. pleted by a waistcoat and chemisette, and p jombines well with any sort o? skirt. Brown or tan colored covert cloth is the jest material, with revers of brown moire, lad waistcoat of changeable moire in blue ^ ind brown. Suits of black serge are b?- a( joming popular with waistcoats of white th :k>th or satin, and those of black moire or di satin often complete gowns of blue whip- ^ sord or brown hop-sacking. The handsome ^ waistcoat cloths formerly to be had only hi from foreign sources, are now on sale in th aearly all shop3; they are Arm, heavy 51 fabrics, mostly silk and wool, in brocades, ^ shecks and pin-head dots, and in these te' irleties, every combination can be found. Standing or stock collars of folded crepe ave taken the place of those of velvet, hich were very much more in vogue in le past winter. Some of these collars have large rhinestone or steel buckle fastened > the throat in front, with falling loops of hiffon, drooping upon the shoulder. Shoulder capes are so becoming and conenient that the desire for novelties of this ort remains unabated. The favorite models re short, very full, and the shoulder trimlings are considerably moderated from lose of last season. Black silks, satins nd moire, which can be heavily trimmed r overlaid with lace are the favorite triatrial, black as usual being the favorite color, "hese wraps have one advantage and that i they are at all times seasonable and alrays becoming, and they are particularly eeful in the country, whether boating, riving, or walking in the chilly air after unset A street dress of checked tanned ecru, rhich we have recently seen, has a full loused front, fastened on the left side; and rooping low on a wide black moire belt rib' on- The same blouse droop la given in the ack, but is only a short and scant puff of the hecked wool, set above the belt, as the upper art of the book ia covered with a little bolero >f black moire. The fronts of the small jackets, ourse, do not meet, and are ornamented of rith rolled revers of moire covered with white ' nipure. The sleeves are large glgots and be skirt has narrow bias folds of moire for rimming. A. French yachting dress, that promises to ie very popular in Paris this summer, is of lavy-blue wool, as thin almost as berege, >eing put on the lining in pleats, to make it [roop two inches at least on the belt. This >louse has a yoke of lighter blue cotton lerge, embroidered with white linen flosa n imitation of lace. This new material is jailed "flsh-net," though it is not in meshes, ind is draped as a short apron overskirt moat gracefully, or a kilt skirt of light blue serge, he latter fabric is called Galatea twill. The (leaves, reaching only half-way between the ilbow, are very full with embroidered culls of sotton. A belt of wide blue ribbon completes i most becoming yachting costume, which ?n be worn as well in the fields or on the ennis ground. Simple gowns of pale blue Jalatea cotton have a yoke-blouse waist, the Iront drooping, after the French model, and he entire gown waist and skirt trimmed iround with stripes of white pique, edged la >n each side with black braid. I give this week an illustration of a dainty lummer hat received from a friend in Engand. It is so small as hardly to need lescriptlon but that it is very becoming to the Droper kind of head and face, and particuarly to the young, those who look on the iccompanying illustration will see for themselves. Fbaj.*ce8 Logan. well woeth enowisq. It Is said by one who has tried it, that ft imall lump of sugar added to turnips when railing will correct the bitterness which sometimes spoils that excellent vegetable. If he turnips are to be served mashed, it will greatly improve them to lorce them into a tolander. :t I know an old lady, and not a superstitious ine, either, but a closely observant person .nd one of the best housekeepers in all this iroad land, who maintains that jelly should made on clear days only. She has noiced, like Mrs. Partington, that on cloudy lays "Jellies don't ielL" do you tnowtnat powdered soapstone and ia.lt, in equal proportions, saturated witfe vater, but not so as to make it a liquid, Is >ne of the best fireproof materials that oaa >e had? It is especially valuable for mendng the linings of stoves, is very cheap, and lan be applied by any person of ordinary inelligence. If your flre-brioks are broken or >ut of order, apply this substance at ono? rnd so save your stove and add to your own lomfort Flo wee Sales.?It is now generally knows, it least in New York city, that the flower sales are held, In the early morning, in Union Square, near Fourth avenue. This new en;erprise has given an impetus to early rising. Lb most of the girls, men and women who sell flowers are foreigners, it is not difflonlt :o imagine one's self on the Champs Elyseein Paris, or In the flower gardens by the Spree in Berlin. A specialty is made of potted plants, and these are sold at such a low price that the poorest peoplo can indulge in what io them is a lusury. The result of this flower market has been to make women of the upper classes better acquainted with flowers jf which they knew little or nothing before, ind it has added to the window gardens now so common and so very pretty in the cheaper dnd of flats and even in th? tenement louses. ?coy As to Hammocks.?Very few people know low to swing them, and as the time for theirmtdoor use has come, a hint on this subject nay be of use. As an authority informs us, he head should be about six and a hnir eet from the ground, and the foot end ibout three and three-quarters feet, a curve vhich secures to the occupant the greatest )ossible ease of position. The foot-rope ihould be about three times as long as the iead-rope, the purpose being to give the ower part of the body freedom in swinging, rhile the head remains comparatively stationary. The ropes with metal catches are o be preferred, and can be bought cheap at ,ny hardware store. Where trees are used o support the rope bearings, the branches hould be well protected by heavy canvas or loth, as the friction is apt to wear off the ark and so work injury to the tree. White ammocks, made of bleached cord, can be rimmed with ruffles of webbing, which are heap and effective. Wherever it is possible 9 use it, the hammock in summer should ike the place of the sofa or lounge. This an be done on galleries or wide piazzas. Ineed. in the winter season hammocks can be ung in an invalid's room, and are preferred y physicians to easy chairs or even to a ed, where the patient can stand slight movie State of the Peach Crop. Except in Florida, where a full crop Is erected, an.1 in lower Mississippi an I Tex is, rhere the Indications favor a partial crop. here will be but few ueaehes in the comlerclal orchards of the United State3 iyintf ast of the Rocky Mountains and south of 'onnsylvania. North of the southern bounary line cf Pennsylvania less damage was one, and the outlook tor peaches is good la he larger portion of Pennsylvania an 1 New ersey, Northern Ohio, Western Michigan nd the Hu<!sou I?iver district in New York, n Western New York and the Connecticut alley the percentage of live peach buis is mall, but with favorable weatner a partial rop may be expected. On the Pacific slop? iO serious injury to buds or young fruit oo urred, and the outlook is good for a full rop of all kin-is. The now orchard country n Utah, Idaho. Nevada, Colorado and Ariona also escaped. It is therefore apparent hat peaches eaten on this side of the conti,ent this year will have to come from tna 'acific west and the north. Virginia has but hree per cent, of her crop left. Maryland rill have iassthan half a crop, and Ci-ior^ia 3 going to have but one p?r cent, of the exlected harvest. Will Not Build a Tabernacle. It may be considered practically decided at another big Brooklyn tabernacle will )t be erected. The movement looking to le rebuilding of the tabernacle has been opped altogether. Trustee Leonard oojy said that they would probably finally ^ ure some sjnail placo and give up the idea preaching to ail the world. The public is not sustained thom, a3 was expected, and' e result is the accumulation of a big debt. r. Moody inrimated that Mr. Talmago ouid not resume the pastorate, and that in s place a young and srnall-aaleried minia-* r would be secured. \ ? H