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' REV. DR. TAIMAGE. I - ITHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Excited Governor." Terr: "Felix trembled and answered, Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season I will call for thee."?Acts xxiv., 25. A city of marble was C?3area?wharves o! marble. holism of marblf. temples of raarmi.!. of 'Die. mis uciuv; IUC viuiutikj "the place, yo\j may imagine something of the splendor of Governor Felix's residence. In 'a room of that palace, floor tessellated, windows curtained, celling fretted, the whole scene affluent with Tyrian purple and statues and pictures and carvings, sat a very dark complexioned man of the name of Fe,lix, and beside him a woman of extraordinary beauty, whom he had stolen by breaking up another domestic circle. She was only eighteen years of age. a princess by birth, and unwittingly waiting for her doom ?that of being buried alive in the ashes and scoriae of Mount Vesuvius, which In sudden eruption one day put an end to her abominations. Well, one afternoon Drusiila, seated in the palace, weary with the macniflcent stupldi ties of the place, say3 to Felix "You have a very distinguished prisoner, I believe, of the name of Paul. Do you know ho is one of my countrymen? I should very much like to see him, and I should very much like to bear him speak, for I have heard so much about his eloquence. Besides that the other day, when he was being tried in another room of this palace and the windows were open, I heard the applause that greeted the speech of Lawyer Tertullus as he denounced Paul. Now, I very much wish I could hear Paul speak. Won't you let me hear him speak? ''Yes," said Felix, "I will. I will order him up now from tho guardroom." Clank, clank, comes a chain up the marblo stairwav. and there is a shuffle at the door, and in comes Paul, a little old man, prema turely old through exposure, only sixty years of age, but looking as though he were eighty. He bows very courteously before the goverj nor and the beautiful woman by his side. They say: "Paul, wo have heard a great deal about your speaking. Give us now a specimen of your eloquence." Ob, if there ever was a chanco for a man to show off, Paul had a chance there! Ho might have harangued them abcut Grecian art. about the wonderful waterworks he had seen at Corinth, about the Acropolis by moonlight, about prison life in Philippi, about "what I saw in I Tbessalonioa," about the old mythologies, but "No!" Paul said to himself, "I am now on the way to martyrdom, and this man and woman will soon be dead, and this 13 my only opportunity to talk to them about the things of eternity." And just there and then there broke in upon the scene a peal of thunder. It was the voice of a judgment day speaking through the words of the decrepit apostle. As that grand old missionary proceeded with his remarks the stoop begins to go out of his shoulders, and he rises up, and his countenance is illumined with the glories of a future life, and his shackles rattle and grind as he lifts his fettered arm and with it hari9 upon his abashed auditors the bolts of God's indignation. Felix grew very white about the lips. His heart beat unevenly. He put his hand to his brow as though to stop the - quickness ana violence of bis thoughts. He drew his robe tighter about him, as under a sudden chill. His eyes glare, and his knees aVmL-n onH na h? olntohes the side of his chair In a very paroxysm of terror he orders the sheriff to tate Paul back to the guardroom. 4,Fellx trembled andsaid Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." A young man came one night to our services, with pencil in hand, to caricature the Whole scene and make mirth of those who should express any anxiety about their souls, but I met him at the door, his face very white, tears running down his cheek, as he said, "Do you think there is any chance for me?" Felix trembled, and so may God grant it may be so with others. I propose to giVe you two or three reasons Why I think Felix sent Paul back to the guardroom and adjourned the whole subject of religion. The tlrst reason was, he did not want to give up his sins. He looked around. There was Drusilla. He knew that when he became a Christian he must send her back to Azzlus, her lawful busbaud, and he said to himself, "I will risk the destruction of my immortal soul sooner than I will do that.'' How many there are e ow who cannot get to be Christians because they will not abandon their sins! In vain all their prayers and all their churchgoing. You cannot keep these darling sins and win heaven, and now some of you will have to decide between the wine cup and unlawful amusements and Insertions gratifications on the one hand and eternal salvation on the other. Delilah sheared the locks of Samson; Salome danced Herod Into the pit; Drusilla blocked up the way to heaven for Fells. Yet when I present the subject now I fear that some of you will say: "Not quite yet. Don't be so precipitate in your demands. I have a few tickets yet that I have to use. I have a few engagements that I must keep. I want to stpv a little longer in the whin of conviviality?a few more guffaws of unclean laughter, n few more steps on the road to death, and then, sir, I will listen to what you say. 'Go thy way lor this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.*" | Another reason why Fells sent Paul to the guardroom and adjourned this subject was he was so very busy. In ordinary times ne found the affairs of state absorbing, but those were extraordinary times. The whole land was ripe for insurrection. The Sicarll, a band of assassins, were already prowling around the palace, and I suppose he thought, <4I can't attend to religion while I am so pressed by affairs of state." It was business among other things that ruined his soul, and I suppose there are thousands of people who are not children of God because they nave so much business. It is business In the storelosses. gains, unfaithful employes. It is business in your law office?subpoenas, writs you have to write out, papers von hfivn to Ale. arguments vou have to make It te your medical profession, with Its broken nights and the exhausted anxieties of life hanging upon your treatment. It Is your real estate ofnee, your business with landlords and tenants and the failure of men to meet their obligations with you. Aye, with some of those who are here it is the annoyance of the kitchen, and the sitting room, and the parlor?the wearing economy of trying to meet large expenses with a small income. Ten thousand voices of "business, business, business" drown the voice of the eternal Spirit, silencing the voice of the advancing judgment day, overcoming the voioe of eternity, and thev cannot hear; they cannot listen. They say. "Go thy way for this time." Some of you look upon your goods, look upon your profession, you look upon your memorandum books, and you see the demands that are made this very week upon your time and your patience and your money, and while I am entreating you aboat your soul and the danger of procrastination you say: "Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season, 1 will call lor thee." Oh, Felix, why be bothered about the affairs of this world so much more than about the affairs o! eternity? Do you not know that when death comes you \rill have to stop business, though it be in the most exacting period of it?between the payment of the money and the taking of the receipt? The moment he comes you will have to go. Death i waits for no man, however high, however low. Will you pat your office, will you put your shop in oomparlsoa with the affairs of an eternal world, affairs that involve thrones, palaces, dominions eternal? Will you put 200 acres of ground against immensity? Will you put forty or fifty years of your life against millions of ages? Oh, Felix, you misht better postpone everything else, for do you not know that the upholstering of Tyrian purple in your palace will fade, and the marble blocks of Cro^area will crumble, and the breakwater at the beach, made of groat blocks of stono sixty feet long, must give way 'before the perpetual wash of the sea, but the redemption that Paul offers you will be forever? And yet and yet and yet you wave him baok to the guardroom, saying: "Go thy way for this tfme. When I have a convenient season, I will call for tnoe." Again, Felix adjourned this subject of religion and put off Paul's argument because he could not give up the honors of the world. He was afraid somehow he would be comEromised himself in this matter. Remarks e made afterward showed him to be intensely ambitious. Oh, how he hugged the lavor of men! L I never saw the honors of this world in their hollowness and hypocrisy so much as in the life and death of that wonderful man, Charles Snmner. As he went toward the place of burial, even Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, asked that his remains stop there on their way to Boston. The flags were at half mast, and the minute guns on Boston Common throbbed after his heart had ceased to beat. Was it always so? While he lived how censured of legislative resolutions; how caricatured of the pictorials; how charged with every motive mean and ridiculous; bow all the urns of scorn and hatred and billingsgate emptied upon his head; how, when struck down In Senate chamber, thero were hundreds of thousands of people who said, "Good for him; serves nlm right QOW no naa to put luo uusui ueiwoeu mm and his maligners that he might have a little peace, and how, when he went off sick, they said he was broken hearted because he could not get to be President or Secretary of State! 0, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who is that man that sleeps in your public hall covered with garlands and wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is that the man who, only a few months before, you denounced as the foe of republican and democratic institutions? Is that the same man? Ye American people, ye could not by one week of funeral eulogium and newspaper leaders, which the dead senator could neither read nor hear, atone for twenty-five years of maltreatment and caricature. When I see a man like that, pursued by all the hounds of the political kennel so long as he lives and then borled under a great pile of garlands and amid the lamentations of a whole nation, I say to myself: What an unutterably hypocritical thing is all human applause and all human favor: You took twenty-five years in trying to pull down hi? fame and then take twenty-five years in try lng to build his monument. My friends, wa? there ever a better commentary on the hoilowness of all earthly favor? If there are young men who read this who are postponing religion in order that they may nave the Iavors 01 tms woriu, ict mc po?uuuo iuuu* of their complete folly. If you are looking forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or presidential chair, let me show you your great mistake. Can it bo that there is now nny young man saying:- "Letme have political office, let me have some of the high positions of trust and power, and then I will attend to religion, but not now. ' Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee!' " And now my subject takes a deeper tone, and it shows what a dangerous thing is this deferring of religion- When Paul's chain rattled down the marble stairs of Felix, that was Felix's last chanco for heaven. Judging from his character aiterward, he was reprobate and abandoned. And so was Drusilia. One day in the southern Italy there was a trembling of the earth, and the air got black with smoke intershot with liquid rocks, and Vesuvius rained upon Drusilla and upon her son a horrible tempest of ashes and Are. They did not reject religion. They only put it ofL They did not understand that tnat day, that that hoar when Paul stood before them, was the pivotal hour upon which everything was poised, and that it tipped the wrong way. Their convenient season came when Paul and his guardsman entered the palace. It went away when Paul and his guardsman left. Have you never seen men waiting for a convenient season? There is such a great fascination about it that, though you may have great respect to the truth of Christ, yet somehow there is in your soul the thought: "Not quite yet. It is not time for me to become a Christian." I say to a boy, "Seek Christ." He says, "No. Wait until I get to be a young man." I say to the young man, "Seek Christ." Hesays, "Wait until I come to midlife." I meet the same person in midlife, and I say, "Seek Christ/' Hesays, "Wait until I get old." I meet the same person in old age and sayto him, "Seek Christ." He says, "Walt until I am on my dying bed." I am called to his dying couch. His last moments have come. I bend over the couch and listen for his last words. I have partially to guess what they are by the motion of his lips, he is so feeble, but rallying himself he whispers until I can hear him say, "I?am?waiting?for?a? more?convenient?season," and he is gone! X coil lcli j uu ?uru j' uul v.w1a> ctcihvu will come. I can tell you the year. It will be 1894. I can tell you what kind of a day It will be. It will be the Sabbath day. lean tell you what hour it will be. It will be between 8 nnd 10 o'clock. In other words, it isnow. Do you ask me how I know this is your convenient season? I know it because you are here, and because the elect sons and daughters of God are praying for your redemption. Ah, I know it is your convenient season because some of you, like Felix, tremble as all your past life comes upon you with its sin, and all the future life comes upon you with its terror. This night air is agiare with torches to show you up or to showyou down. It is rustling with wings to lift yeu into light or smite you into despair, and there is a rushing to and fro, and a beating against the door of your souls with a great thunder of emphasis, telling you, "Now, now is the best time, as it may be the ! only time." May God Almighty forbid that any of you, ???* alefflM a/? fha nirf r\t Pnllr L1XJ UiChUiCU Vi UVh l/Uii VI A VilA and Drnsllla and put away this great subject. If you are going to be saved ever, why not begin to-night? Throw down your sins and take the Lord's pardon. Christ has been tramping after you many a day. An Indian and a white man became Christians. The Indian, almost as soon as he heard the gospel, believed and was saved, but the white man straggled on in darkness for a long while before he found light. After their peace in Christ the white man said to the Indian, "Why was it that I was kept so long in the darkness and you immediately found peace?" The Indian replied; "I will tell you. A prince comes along, and he offers you a coat. You look 1 at your coat, and you say, 'My coat is good enough,' and you refuse his offer, but the prince comes along, and he offers me the coat, and I look at my old blanket, and I throw that away and take his offer. You, sir," continued the Indian, "are clinging to your own righteousness ; you think you are good enough, and you keep your own righteous- 1 ness; Irnt I have nothing, nothing, and so when Jesus offers me pardon and peace I simply take it." My reader, why not now throw away the wornout blanket of your sin and take the roba of a Saviour's righteousness?a robe so white, so fair, so lustrous, that no fuller on earth can whiten it? 0 Shepherd, to-night brine home tha lost sheen! O Father, to night give u welcoming' kiss to tho waa prodigal! 0 friend of Lazarus, to-night break down tho door of the sepulcher and say to all these dead souls as by irresistible flat: ''LiveI Live 1" Long Clock Fen?n!ums. Tie longest clock pendulum ever made is that used at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which is 377 feet in length. The pendulum of the clock of St. Chad's Church at Shrewsbury in England ia twenty-two feet long, with a ball four feet three inches in circumference and 200 pounds in weight. Tho clock known as "Big Ben" in the Westminster Hall Clock Tower has a pendulum fifteen feet in length, the dial is seventy-one feet in circumference and the minute hand, which is eleven feet six inches long, is hollow, made of copper, and weighs lj hundred weight. The figures on the face of the clock are over two feet in length and the minute dots exactly one foot one inch apart from centre to centre. The clock reports its own time at Greenwich and is so accurate that it does not vary more than four seconds in the year.?New York Sun. Strangled Leaders of Strikes. Owinc to a strike of the artisans engaged In repairing the palace at Pekin, China, for celebrations in honor of the birthday of tho Empress Dowager, the Emperor promulgatedja decree that all strikers siiould bo pumsueu wiiuuut mercy, tne ^mgieauera should be strangled and the others banished to the fever and mosquito grounds. The strike immediately collapsed when this de- | eision of the Emperor becam? known. Summer Resorts Still Popular. Notwithstanding the present depressed state of things throughout the country, summer hotel proprietors state that the engagements this year run far ahead of last sutn? mer. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JULY 1. Lesson Text: Luke it., 1, 16?Golden Text: Luke it, 11?Commentary. 1-3. "There went out a decreo from Cccsai Augustus that all the world should be enrolled." See B. V. This enrollment and the journeying of each to the proper city to bo enrolled is the first fact fn our lesson. We see a worldwide dominion, tbe fourth of Dan. ii. and vii., but the ruler of this empire, like Belshazzar of the first, does not glorify God in whose hand his breath is and whose arc all his ways ("Dan. v., 28), yet God uses him to accomplish His pleasure. 4-5. "And Joseph also went up from Galilee unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, with Marv. his esooused wife." Here is the reason of Caesar's decree, though Ctesar knew it not. The time had come for the Christ to be born, and he must be born at Bethlehem, in Judaaa, in order to fulfill the words of the prophet in Mic. v., 2. Bat Mary lived at Nazareth, in Galilee, several days' journey north of Bethlehem, so He who doeth according to His will in the army of heaven and among the Inhabitants of the earth (Dan. iv., 85) moved all the world in connection with the birth of Him who shall yet be king ovor all the earth (Zech. xiv., 9). 6. "And bo it was that while they were there the days were accomplished that she should be delivered." The fullness of the time was come, and God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law (Gal. iv., 4, 5). To every event there is with God an appointed time, even to the hour and day and month and year (Rev. ix., 15, B. Y), and the clock of His providence is never fast or slow, but strikes correctly to the minute. 7. "And she brought forth her firstborn Son and wrapped Him in wadding clothes and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." This was the reception that the world gave her King at His first coming in humiliation. When He shall come again in power and glory for Israel's national convarsion, the nations will be angry, and all kindreds of the earth 6hall wail because of Him (Rev. xv., 18; L.7). 8. "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." Therefore not at all probable in December, as one who lives in Jerusalem said to me recently, but it is the event and not the time of the year that is the most important. 9. "And. lo. the ancrel of the Lord came upon them, and tho glory of the Lord sbono round about them, and they were sore afraid." Time was when man was not afraid of God, but as soon as sin entered man was afraid and hid himself (Gen. iii., 10). Since them all are by nature children of wrath. Some day wo shall shine as the sun (Math, xiil, 43). 10. "And the angel said unto tbem, Fear not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." "Fear not" was also the angel's greeting to Zachariah and to Mary (chapter T., 13, 30). Consider the first. "Fear not" in Gen. xv., 1, and the last in Roy. L, 17; 1L, 10, and among thoso that come between fail net to appreciate Isa. ill.. 10. 13 ; xliii.. 1; Hag. 11., 4, 5 ; Mark v., 36. Notice that the good tidings must come to us personally before they can through us pass on to all people. These shepherds heard and saw for themselves, then made it known abroad), verses 17, 20). 11. "For unty you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord." In other words, He is Jesus Christ the Lord. He became a man, born of a woman, that He might redeem man. but one has truly said Though Christ la Bethlehem a thousand times bo torn. If He's not born In thee, thy soul Is still forlorn. Other religions and religious teachers try to tell people how to get saved, but Jesus saves and is able to save unto tho uttermost all who come unto God by Him (Heb. vii., 25V 12. "And this snail be u sign unto you. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Ye know the grace of onr Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for our sakes Ho became poor, that we throught His poverty might be rich (II Cor. vliL, 9). Consider His humiliation unto the manger at Bethlehem, unto the humble home and the carpenter's shop at Nazareth, unto Gethsemane and Calvary, and let the same mind be in us. 13. "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, "One angel only had appeared thus far, but now a multitude are visible." In Rev. v., 11, they are said to be "Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands,'' and allare heard praising God. In our lesson they praise Hlia in His humiliation, while In Revelation they praise Him because of the results of His life iind death and resurrection. 14. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." He came to glorily God, and before He was slain He said to His Father, "I have glorified Thee * ?- ".un /T~V~ _~l< A \ TT~ OB. ILlt) (XUIU I.IIVUU i?u., 1J. ULU UUIDI songht His own will nor His own glory (John vl., 83 ;viit, 50), but in all things made manifest that He represented the Father and that it was the Father who spoke the words and wrought the works through Him (John xiv., 10). He came to make peace wit a God for all men (Col. i., 20), and when wo accept Him we have peace with God, for Ho is our peace (Rom. v., 1; Eph. ii., 14). 15. ''Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. 1'his is what the 3nepherds said as tho angels 'eft them and went away again into heaven. The augels delivered their message and relorned quickly?they do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word. It is their joy to do His pleasure (Ps. elii.. 20, 21). The shepherds did not doubt nor question the good tidings brought to them, but believing implicitly went at once to see the child. Their mind was like that of Paul when he said, "I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me" (Acts xxvli., 25), or like the man who believed the word that Jesus bad spoken unto him and went his way (John iv.. SO). 16. "And tney came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger." So they found it just as the angels had said. All that was ever spoken before hand concerning the humiliation of Christ was fulfllled to tho letter, and all that has been written by the Holy Spirit concerning His return in glory -will be fulfllled to the letter. The time will come when we shall say, "Not one thing hath failed; all aro come to pass" (Joshua xxiii., 14).?Lesson Helper. Won His Cabin Boy at a Raffle. Captain Karratt. of tho Amorican bark Carrie WinsloT. which tied up a few days ago at pier 70, South Wharves. Philadelphia, hnd on board ono of tho straogest prizes over captured in a raffle. It was nothing less than a boy, a swarthy younx Argentine, Juan Baptisto by name, whom the captain won in a raffle at Buenos Ayres. Juan is only seven years old, and was an Inmate of a Spauish orphan asylum at Buenos Ayres when tho Winslow reached nil nof In of vm-nrrn .Tua.il ilpalred his liberty, but under the laws of the Argentine Republic that could only bo secured by the payment of a casn sum that would go to a fund for tho prosecution of persons taking out I ho orphans and then treating them badly. In Juan's ease the amount required was $46. and in order to secure this the enterprising boy decided to put himsolf up in a raffle and sell tho tickets himself. Captain Barratt became interested in the boy to tho extent of 55 spent for ticket3, and when tho drawing wns announced was somewhat surprise to !ind himself the winner. The youth fa! prizo hu.s been installed on the Window as cabin boy, and though he has now been away from his native laud several months, shows no desire to return to it. He is bright and intelligent, and as he cvinces a decided disinclination to associate with the crow. Captain Barratt treats him as one of ha own family. Kailroads ! Japan. Sixty-two applications for new railroad concessions are unaer consiuenuioa oy me authorities iu Japan, the total lencth of the projected lines being about 14)0 miles. During the next twenty years the Governmpnt will build 12G4 milee of road, which, Hildsil Jo the mileage now In oparation, will give a total of 1815 miles. Besides this there are now 1310 miles of road owned by private capital, the total lengths of roads now operating being 1870 miles. RELIGIOUS READING. POOB HEABISQ. I have hoard much formerly and lately,and At all times, about poor preaching, so that I have not doubted there is such a thing in the world. But I have wondered something has not been said about poor hearing. I believe there is a reality too. And as I believe more has been said about poor preaching than poor hearing, I will cast a mite into the latter scale, thinking that if the pulpit feels the lash, the pews ought to at least hear the snapper! 1. Drowsy hearing is poor hearing. You shall have a case, rather, and see for yourself what you think of it. Enter into a "tale to your friend, that deeply interests your heart. While in the hot haste of your own interest, you hear your friend gaoping, and soon after be snores. What kind of hearing do you call that? In sorrow I say it. there is not a little of just snch hearing about those days in the sanctuary; and if you do not call that poor hearing you can help yourself to any appellation for it you like better. If you were in the pulpit, and there were no more than these men in the ark, hearing after their fashion, you would soon take vengeance on the thing, by some suitable epithet, if you did not on the perpetrators. 2. Attention with the eyes only, is poor hearing, that is, they give their eyes to the speaker, but their thoughts and ima'ginations are pilgrimaging the whole creation. The natural eye is in the right direction, but the mental is in the wrong. "I go, sir, but went not." However, a half a loaf is better than no bread. Even looking at the preacher is better than nothing.?For if he ha3 the eye he can but hope he has the ear. 3. Captious hearing is very poor hearing. Some people always hav-itheir net spread for the worst flsh that swim. They solaom catch any other. They think they are excellent fishermen. And so they are in their way. Successful they most certainly are. If the preacher falters anywhere, the keen eye sees itthe acute ear hears it; the well trained memory retains it, and the tongue is set on (Ire to let others know what a rich specimen their course presents of poor hearing. 4. Hearing for other people is a bird of the same feather. "I am thankful the 'Squire is here to hear that: and Miss P. may take that, and I think the colonel will hear the whistling of that shot, and if Mrs. Bubbletongue is not quieted now," ctc. It is a comfortable thing to get the mind so trained that, unwounded ourselves, we may look about us and see where the preacher's artillery take3 effectBut if this is not one of the ways of ofi'ering ' the sacrifice of fools" in the house of God, I will take meekly any man's rebuke who will point out my mistake. But one thins about it I shall not take back for anybody, viz.,that this is poor, very poor hearing. 5. Praverless hearing is so also. Let the husband'man cast his seed upon unsoftened ground, and who would commend such husbandry??And what thankless soil is the unsoftened human heart. Oast the good seed of the word upon it and it would be nothing but madness to look for a harvest. But humble, fervent prayerdoes wonders with the heart. It waters the ridges thereof, it settles the furrows thereof; it makes it soft as with showers." Prayer opens the heart so that the great sun of righteousness can penetrate U UnfAli <1 nrnvorlpca honrtiq a shut UD heart, and prayerles3 hearing is poor hearing. It follows! 1. That poor preaching is not th? only poor thing to be found in the sanctuary. 2. The subject sheds some light on the origin of poor preaching. Poor hearing does not account for all of it, but that it does for no small amount of it, I defy any man to deny. "Were there a pew reform there would be a pulpit reform. Let the heaters eschew all drowsiness, fix their eyes in deep and solemn attention on the speaker, bo captious of caviling no longer, hear in downright honest earnestness each one for himself, and do all this in the spirit of humble and fervent prayer both for themselves and the preacher, and" if they would not then hear excellent preaching, from that same preacher, too, I will sit down submissively in the shame of my mistake. And if that preacher under so delightful a reform in his congregation, does not get a new and powerful impulse to good preaching, yea the very best in his power, then let another take his bishopric, and all the people shall say, Amen! WHAT FBCIT HAD YE IX THOSE THINGS/ Lord Chesterfield, the cc-Jebrated worldling, fins Dome as empniuic a teaumva* lu luc- Penalty of this world, as we remeraSer to have rend. Says he. "I have run the silly round of business and pleasure of the worid. and consequently know their futility, and do not regret their loss. I appraise them at their real va'ue, which is is in truth, very low; whereas those who have not experienced them, always overrate them. They only see their gay outside, and are dazzled with their glare. But I have been behind the scenes; I have seen all the coarse pulleys and dirty rones, which moves the gaudy machinery. I have seen and smelt the tallow candles which illuminato the whole decoration, to the astonishment and admiration of the ignorant multitude. When I reflect upon what I have seen, and what I have heard and done. I can hardly persuade myself that all the frivolous hurry, and bustle, and pleasures of the world bad any reality: but I look upon all that has passed, as one of those romantio dreams which opium commonly occasions; ana I ao t?v no means wisu..tu repcm tut uauceous dose forthe sake of the fugitive dream." Lord Byron declares, that, upon the mo6t careful recollection of bis experience of life, of joy and sorrow from childhood onward, he could not recall but eleven days in which ho enjoyed himself, and which he could wish to live over again. There can be no doubt of the entire sincerity of these declarations of Byron and Chesterfield. and as little reason to donbt their truth. When, tben, we reflect upon the emin? ent opportunities of these witnesses to make the most of this wprld. and enjoy it to their heart's content, we must see the overwhelming force of their conclusion, that the world, taken as a portion, is very vanity and delusion. It is a very observable fact that they mourn the most about the delusiveness of the world, who have gone deepest into it and had the largest share of it. Not your beggar, with his bone and rags; but your Byrons, Chesterfields and Solomons, w&o nave rrom mrancynaa every temporal good to satiety. These are they who in the bitterest spirit try out, "Vanity ol vanities." Equally true and worthy of reflection is it, that those who seek but little hero below, And much. We suspect that there has been very few lively Christians who have found this world so barren as Byron found it. They have found this world to answer a very cood purpose, and yield them many enjoyments. But tho secret of this has been, that they sought the kingdom of God first, and the world last, in its proper place and for its legitimate uses.?Mother's Magazine. RECENT EXHORTATIONS. "Let me in love urge the question home? (vhat are you doing with your pound? If there is a soul who hears me that has laid his away in a napkin, giving as excuse for lack of service that God is austere?and oh! how many do give just this reason for their niggardly service, neglecting hoiy living because they think events have taught them God is hard ? if there is such a soul hearing me, I warn you this hour of the hour of reckoning and I urge you to begin at once trading with your pound. Maybe you can increase it three-fold, if not five or ten. The napkin 1.a naojl fn trlno fitCPflt nf QPrvifA OWJUiU U^vv* w t? ??.w v.. VM. w? . from your forehead, ami not to hide tho gift of Goii. To us all the words come, not as the lash of a task-master, but as trumpet blast calling onward to fresh victories, new tri umphs and increased renown. In the little while remaining some of us may please our Lord by surprising gains, and in heaven enjoy the* rewards that we ought to enjoy, and lie sovereign for good over all the cities which He desires us to rule." The Tennyson Beacon. Tho English Committee have accepted tho design of John L. Pearson, a member of tho Royal Academy, for the Tennyson memorial, which is to be an Iona cross thirty-four feet high, and called the Tennyson Beacon. The cross will bear an inscription showing that it was erected by the friends of Tennyson in England and America. Tho beacon, which will occupy a commanding position near Farlngford, tho home of the late laureate at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, will be 716 feet above high water and visible many miles landward and seaward. Socialists Gaining Ground. Tho Socialists are gaining ground throughout tho German Empire. SUMMER STYLES. I NOVELTIES THAT COME WITH WARM WEATHER. Muslins Again in Vogue - New and Becoming Materials That Have the Advantage of Being Inexpensive. The woman who has abundant means and ample leisure deserves no credit for dressing well, for even If her taste be crude she can depend upon her modiste and be safe in following her advice. But to dress well on limited means, and particularly where a woman has to take the time from other duties to be her own seamstress, is an entirely different matter, yet I will confess that I have seen better dressed women?by this, mark you, I do not mean more expensively dressed?among the middle or salary-earning class than I have ever seen among the ?o called "upper four hundred." Money will buy rich materials and skilful workers, but taste, like knowledge, is something beyond its power. To be sure taste can be ;ultivated, but I have always maintained that the skill, tho art, to wear a becoming thing gracefully is, like tho poet's gift, bom with one, but impossible to acquire. Tho summer is a season of cotton gowns and cheap and becoming muslins; a time Hi** fvnawritop out for her vacation. can dress as tastefully and becomingly as the daughter of the millionaire oil king in her mountain chateau. This season batistes, organdies, dotted muslins, and dimities are very popular, in a brilliant poppy red. These red gowns can be becomingly trimmed with black insertions, but where the material is blue, whlto ribbons or other embroidery of the same color give a better finish. Belted waists are the rule, a majority having narrow belts of ribbon or of insertion ; I have seen cases where the ribbon itself was becomingly wound around the waist three or four times, the upper row reaching to the bust. Pink or blue lawn dresses of a single clear color are charmingly made with a shirred or tucked yoke, shirred wrists on full sleeves, and sometimes shirrine about the hips of a full, straight skirt . llack or white ribbons make the collar and the belt of dresses in preference to having, them the same material and color. EiiBBOiDEEns?I notice a pleasing novelty this summer. It is the introduction of an open embroidery, very popular some ten years ago, when it was known as English embroidery. This is now done on colored Chambery, as well as on ecru or white, and is used on parts of gowns of Chambery oi the same color. Other embroideries in open wheel, star, or compass designs, cover an entire skirt of Chambery and is very pretty. In the sweet pea and mauve colors of mingled pink and blue, the skirt is usually of circular shape and hangs over a foundation skirt of white lawn, that is faced at tne 1001 with colored embroidery. The pretties! muslin for an upper waist to wear with this skirt and for the lower part of colored sleeves has small dots, in stripes, in a very effective way. Many of the New York shops display butter-colored embroideries as trimmings foi Bummer gowns. Thoy are done on sheei mull and come in both open and loose patterns. They will have to be used with care for yellow does not harmonize with every color and is not becoming to every com plexlon. I have seen even a white dress trimmed with this butter colored embroidery, but as to its being becoming, will depend altogether on the wearer. Butter-colored embroideries are destined to bo a fad this crammer, and will be worn, no doubt, whether Iheyaro becoming or not, simply becauso they are fashionable. OtTinco Dresses.?The favorite costume to bo worn this summer for traveling, or even for street wear and general shopping, is the blazer suit. One great advantage of this inexpensive dress is that it is nearly always becoming and is alike suitable for the young | and middle-aged. The Eton jacket of last season and tho now blazer or "waiter jacket," as it is called, aro particularly becoming to girls. The popular material for blazer suits ere serge, mised homespuns and hopsacking, ?? ' fv> nnlnr? nrn hlae!i and dark navy blue. Tho blazer suit per se consists of in outsido coat and skirt which are worn irith shirt waists of percale or linen. The .ailore have tried to popularize this summer, or negligo wear, a new material called flax lloth, which lias the merit of being inespeniivo and at tho same time being becoming aid durable. It is in reality a heavy linen nucu resembling the light duck of former lays, and is finished with strapped scams And without any lining. This flax cloth is imported and comes In a great variety of iolors, but the favorite scorns to bo a dull orown, or what is known in tho Southern States as a "butternut." Aeoct Waist".?There has been a change In shirt waists. New ones, whether in ailk, linen, or percale, are made with a hig*' fx>ke back and a loose front, having three pleats on each side of the buttons. They ate fastened In front by three plain gold studs and a collar button, and can be worn with a aecktie of navy blue or the color of the suit. It would seem that few laundresses know how to properly do up a percale shirt waist. The cuffs and collars should be starched as stiffly as those of a man's shirt, but the rest of the waist should be left soft, or with just enough starch In it to give it body. I have seen some very pretty pongee silk wr.ists; they are cool, becoming, and excellent for traveling; the only trouble about thgm is that they aro very trying to the complexion. Rational Deess.?Denver has a Rational Dress Club, which promises to be a great success, if the promoters can secure the necessary number of women who are willing tc> wear what they call a "rational dress skirt." In addition to the rational dress skirt, there is to be a blouse or waist, containing no whalebone, no stiffening, no corset and no corset waist. The shoes are to have common-sense heels, broad soles, and pointless toes. Every member has to pledge herself to wear this attire on the streets for at least three months. Mrs. B. 0. Flower, the wife of a Denver editor, has furnished the desired model for this costume, and a number of prominent Denver women are interested in it. Before beginning on a larger scale and going out to revolutionize this country, and afterwards the world, it will be necessary to secure for the Denver club a membership of one hundred. As only seventeen reformers have so far signed this pledge, we need not expect to see the proposed costumes on our streets for some years to come. Materials.?Faehion does not always force Itself into popularity. An attempt was made recently to force taffeta into favor, but in those times when women have to be economical they would be glad to know that foulard retains its popularity. It is being used in combination with soft wools and it is the favorite material for combining wlthcrepons. Cashmere is another material which bos again become popular and I am glad of it, for it is one material that can always be depended upon to give itsown peculiar grace to drapery. The latest cashmeres are made up with long English overskirts showing a few inches of the underskirt beneath thom. At the edge of a round waist is a volant ~>t silk and large leg of mutton sleeves. Black cashmere and black Henrietta gowns for wear by ladies who aro not in mourning, have again been revived. Fboji Pabis.?My Taris correspondent writes me of the bright display of summer toilets now to be seen at all the Paris picture inhibitions, flower 6hows, parden parties, ind on the Bois. I notice that many of the most gracefully draped dresses are still the plain, lamp-shad? shaped skirts which are still generally adopted. I also notice with pleasure that eren in Paris individuality is beginning to assert itself, and that more latitude than formerly, and hence better oppor* tunities for the display of taste, are conceded co be in accord with social harmony. For rery thin, transparent fabrics, draperies are more graceful and may be safely adopted, as they will certainly contfnuo to be fashionable ill summer. For silts, fancy woolens and goods of a firmer texture, the abatjour skirt is much more suitable. This skirt has been greatly modified since its first introduction. Quito clinging at the top, it gradually widens and forms full goget pleats in the lower part. The Extinction of War, We have little more hope of the extinction of war, or of the burden now bo terrible?of military preparation. It is as certain that nations will qnarrel as that individuals will; it is most improbable that when the anarrel is vital they will submit to "J arbitration, and when the quarrel has once attained that height, there is no substitute for war even conceivable by the mind. War might be stopped in the rest of the world by the five European powers agreeing to give judgment in every case of dispute and to enforce that judgment collectively. But even that nearly impracticable system?impracticable because the supreme tribunal could hardly punish either the United States or China, if either choae to resist to the death? would be powerless to avert war if the five powers quarreled, as they are now doing, among themselves. Nor are we sure that if war could be prevented, the long years of bickering, boycotting and brutality, such as have .for twenty-three years divided Germany and France, would be so acceptable a substitute, or would tend in any solid way to make mankind either happier or more noble. It is far easier to reduce war to a minimum than to extinguish it, and there is fair reason to hope that this is being done. The progress of military science, and, indeed, of all soience, has shortened ?? oiroctod the old nillacre of WUl Oj uao wwv W ? 4 w provinces, and lias rendered the coercion, which means the oppression, ( of peaceful citizens much less neces- i eary. i No army will starve while the citizen has food, but good commissariat ar- ( rangeinents have stopped that horrible | plunder of necessaries which, even in , the wars at the beginning of this century, made invasion worse than pesti- | lence and converted regular troops , into ravening mobs of brigands.?The , Snantatnr Tons ot Nickel Coin. , Tho contract for the making of C0.000.000 nickel ''oias. which have betjn ordered by the Italian Government, lias been awarded ' to a German iirai. The order wi!i require 200 toils of nickel, anil the coins must be ready for delivery within four months. Breathing Tbrongh the Nose. It is all-important, in order to pro? serve the system from shock and the danger of contamination by foreign substances, that before the air enter* the lungs it should be made as nearly as possible of the same temperature as the blood, and should be deprived of all particles of dust, which might be a hindrance to the bodily functions. The entire course of the tortuous nasal canals is lined with mucous membrane, and this membrane is of a highly vascular structure. That is to say, the whole tissue is flushed with blood by a perfect network of vessels, over which the air we breathe passes, and from which it borrows the requisite heat The mucus which is secreted by the membranes is also advantageous in rendering the atmosphere suitably moist. In the light of these considerations, the difference between air breathed in through the nose and that taken in by the mouth becomes at once apparent. In the first case it is gently drawn in thrmitrh win/liner rn.nn.ls. and ia tempered and purified on the way; while the air which reaches the lungs by way of the mouth comes upon them all at once, and is identical in nature with the surrounding atmosphere, whether that be warm or cold, dry or moist, full of dust, or free from it. Of not less importance than the benefits accruing to the whole system from properly breathing through the nose, are those which result to the nasal membranes themselves. In the process of imparting heat and moisture to the air as it passes over them, the tissues are prevented from accumulating an oversupply of mucus, and any excess of blood-pressure in the parts is relieved by the contact of the cool air which is constantly breathed in. One investigator has even gone so far as to assert that many forms of colds may be greatly benefited by a correct breathing exercise taken every few hours. However that may be, it is certain that the disadvantages of mouth breathing are too numerous and glaring to be lightly passed over.?Youth's Companion. a Ag A ^uriusiij ui ^.osie. What do you think of the idea of sweetening your sugar with a little salt or quinine? asks the "Facts for the Curious" man of the St. Louis Republic. Don't laugh at the proposition, for there is more of a point to it than can be seen on the surface of the mere assertion, as you will see before finishing this "note." Professor Zunte, a German chemist, and an expert before some big Berlin physiological society, accidentally discovered the fact that sugar's sweetening properties were actually strengthened by the addition of a minute quantity of salt. From his experiments he finds that if to a solution of sugar there be added a slight amount of salt and water, so weak that it excites no saline taste, the result proves that the strength of the sugar is much augmented thereby. He also says thai: the very weakest possible solution of quinine and water produces a similar effect. The explanation which the learn ad Professor gives of the above seeming incongruity is this: That, be the 6altness or bitterness ever so feeble, providing it is sufficient to excite the follicles of the tongue at all, it imparts an increased sensibility to the organs of taste. For fear that the above will be hardly intelligible to the Republic's scientific readers, I will close by giving a quotation from Professor Zunte: "The sensation of taste is wonderfully excited by thesimultaneous stimuli of the epyrean follicles and the consequent enlargement of their peletia." Homesickness a Fnghtlul Malady. "Th*re is one frightful malady with which medical science has never been - ' * At ?1_ able to cope, even parnaiiy, tuougn x?. is as old as the human family and has undoubtedly counted its victims by the millions," said Dr. T. J. Williams, of New York, at the Southern. "I have seen little reference to it in the medical books, but the pension rolls of this and every other country that provides for its veteran soldiers or their dependents abound with evidence of its deadly existence. 'Nostalgia' is the name given to it on the pension rolls. 'Homesickness' is what common people call it. "That men die from homesickness there is no doubt whatever, and many a widow in the United States to-day is drawing a pension for this reason. I was in the Union army myself and I've known any number of men?great, big, strapping fellows?who died from 'nnatftbria.' Anvbodv who has ever "O" V v been to college knows what it is, whether or not they saw anybody die witn it Its symptoms are the same iiC the schoolboy as in the soldier. The reason it is not as fatal among the first named class as among the latter is that every effort is made to cheer the college boy up and drive his melancholia away, while in time of war men are too reckless and thoughtless to give proper attention to their unfortunate comrade who has fallen under.the terrible spell of homesickness."?St. Louis Republic. Peculiarities of Iusanitj. The differentiation of the various forms of insanity grows apace, and the old cry of excessive terminology and elaborate classification is of no account. The latest form of madness is reported from the asylum ofSainteAnnp. in Paris. The patient so affected is regarded as entirely sane iu all reBpects but two. Cue, an uncontrollable impulse to bark like a dog, and to otherwise imitate "all the modulations of the canine voice." The other, a passion for the number "three." The barking mania, we take it, is not rpiite exceptional, for it is not unusual for epileptics and idiots to mimic ilog barks, and the passion for number three is by no means uncommon among the same. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes observed how frequently men think in triads. The fact is that few men have not some peculiarity of mental hnbit known only to themselves, and the tendency to nominate everything of the kind a mouomauia or madness is absurd. It will have this effect by and by, that madness will not be regarded as so grave an afiiciion as in days gone by.?Medical Press.