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j RELIGIOUS READING. I A WISH. By Helon Thorneycroft Fowlor. I When the world to thee is new. When its dazz ing dreams deceive thee Ere they pass like morning dew? Faith retrieve thee! REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEUiUOX. Subject: "Narrow Escapes.'* i i Tkxt : "I .am p??cape1 with the skin of my i teeth," Job six., 20. Job had it hard. What with boils an-? bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool of a | wife he wisbM hf> was dead, an 11 do not blame him. Ills flosh was son<\ and hU I bones were dry. His toeth wasted away un- I HI K,,( ^oonimt] QBSfllflii l?ff_ He I U1 UULlliU^ I'Ul lit'/ vuit.Mv. _ cries out, "I am eseapod with the skin of my teeth." There ha9 been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and Barnes have all tried tiioir forceps on Job's teeth. Ton deny my interpretation and say, "What did Job know about theenameloftheteeth?" He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found to-day with gold flllin? in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Voses wrote about thesa Important factors Of the body. To other provoking complaints Job, I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and putting his hand against the Inflamed face he says, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." A very narrow cscnpe, you say, for Job's body and soul, but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel; but, as Job Anally escaped, so have they. Thank Gol! Thank God! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are "saved as by Are." A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shoved off. The flames ad ??? onHnmthn heat no lonjrer TdUCC. JLVU V.UU on your fuee. You slide down on the side of the vessel and hold on with your fingers unI til the forked tonsruo of the tiro begins to lick, the back of yoar hand, and yon feel that Byoa mast fall, when one of the lifeboats Boomes back, and tho passengers say they B think they have room lor one more. The boat swings under you; you drop into it; yon are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they aro partially con Burned, but after all get off?"saved as by fire." But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, becauso the pulpit has not worn it out, and I want to show you, If God will help, that some men make narB row escape for their souls and are saved as B "with the skin of their teeth." H It is as easy for some people to look to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, H gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say, "Grandon joined the church yesterday." Your business comrades say: *That is just what might have been expect ed." He always was of that turn of mind. Bin youth this person whom I describe was ^Iways pood. He never broke things. Ho never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At sevon ho could sit an hourln church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right Land nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he under stood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that It is uncertain just when the matter was decided. ^ Hero is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see he could balance himsqlf. There was no |Hhorse he dared not ride, no tree he could not ^klimb. His boyhood was a long series of pre dleaments : his manhood was reckless ; his midlife very wayward. But now he is con verted, and you go over to the store and say, |H"Arkwright joined the church yesterday." Yoar friends say; "It is not possible! You must be joking." You say: "No; I tell_you | the truth. He joined the church." Then they reply, "There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Christian." In other words, we all admit that it Is more difficult for some men to accept the gospel than for others. I may be addressing some who have cut loose from churches and Bibles and Sundays and who have at present no intention of becoming Christians themselves, but just to ee what is going on. And yet you may find yourself escaping before you hear the end, as ''with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch and drop their nets and alter awhile come ashore 1 polling in their nets without having caught a single Ugh. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of a ner. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The wuter is full of fish ; the wind is in the right direction ; the gospel net is strong. O tbou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show as to-day how to cost the net on the right llde of the ship 1 Some of you, in commg to God, will have to run against skeptical notions. It is useless for people to saysharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By wnat process A# ?AIM /? I At* Katre vu I Vftn ha\'A ^HVl IVUi|;MtkIVU Vi ki. tut v* Wtkiljw* j vv* W.IW Wcuma to your present state 1 know not. Vl'duru are two fates to your nature? the gate Hot the head and the gate of tbe heart The ^Hnte ol your nead ia looked with bolts and ^Kars that an archangel could uot break, but Hp he gate of your heart swings easily on its Hhmgea. III assaulted your uody with wea pons, you would meet me with weapons, and ^Et would be sword stroke for sword stroke, Hand wound lor wouud, and blood lor blood. H| bat if I come and knock at the door of yoni ^ houie you open it nnd give me the beet seat ^ ln your parlor. UI should come at you to? ^ daywithan argument, you would answer H|ms with an argument; it with sarcasm, you j^HUiswer me with sarcasm, blow for blow. ^Ktroke for stroke, but when I come and knock at the door of your heart you open it ^Bmdsay, "Come in, my brother, and tell me Hall you know about Christ and heaven." H Listen to two or thre9 questions j Are you Ki happy asyou used to be when you bettered Hn the truth of the Christian religion'/ Would S^ftrou like to have your children travel on in |^Khe road in which you are now traveling? j^Hrou had a relative who prof?wed to be a a^Khristian and was thoroughly consistent, ^Hivlnsr and dyinp in the faith of the gospel. I would yon UOt Hike IU Ilyn lun simo 411101 if? and die the same peaceful death? I reseived a letter sent me hv one who has rinjected the Christian religion. It says : "I un old enough to know that the joys and Measures of life are evanescent and to realize he fact that it must be comfortable in old ige to believe in something relative to the bture and to have a faith in some system bat proposes to .save. I am free to confess hat I would be happier if I could exercise he simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. I am not rlllingly out of the church or out of the aitb. My state of uncertainty is one of unset. Sometimes I doubt my immortality md look upon the deathbed as the closing cene, after which there is nothing. What haU I do that I have not don?. Ah, skeptlJam is * dark and doleful landLet me ay that this Bible Is either true or false, It t be false, we are as well off as you ; Kit be rue, then whioh of us is safer? Let me also ask whether vour trouble hfl<? Lk bean that you confounded Christiiwlty |^vlth the Inconsistent character ot some who Hrofets it. Yoa are a lawyer. Id your proHKeeion there are mean anddishoneet men. Is anything atrainst the law? You are a MHoctor. There are unskilled and contain pti^Hletnan in yoar profession. Is that anything H^Hgalnst medicine? You are a merchant. I^Hhere are thieves and defrauders in your ^Hosineps. Is that anything against merohnn^Hfase? Bohold, then, the unfairness of ohargBHigxipon Christianity the wlokedaoss of its ^Hiiviples. MM We admit some of the charges against H^Kose who profess religion. Some of the most ^^ gnntio swindles of the present day have ^^Lcn carried on by members of the church. ^^Riere are men in the churches who would ^ ot b? trusted for $5 without goo 1 collateral 9^H>carity. They leave thoir business dishonI^Btles in the vestibule of the church as they R^E> in and sit Ht the communion. Having con^^Kided the sacrament, they get up, wipe the B^Bine from their lips, go out and take up I^Heir sins where they let off. To serve tha Kvll is their regular work ; to serve God, a ^^Brt of play spell. With a Sunday sponge P^Roy expect to wipe off from their business Hate all the past week's inconsistencies. You [^^Lve no more right to take such a man's life a specimen ot religion than you have to B^Kke the twisted irons nnd spilt timbers that HHs on the beach at Coney Island as a speclHen of an American ship. It is time that wa I^Kew a line between religion and the frail* Ha of those who j>rofeas.it. Again, there may be some of you who, in the attempt alter a Christian life, will have to run ag;tinst powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposition to anger that you have to contend against, and perhaps, while in a very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that you must swear or die. I know of a Christian man who was once so exasperate! that he said to a mean customer, "I cannot swear at you myself, for I am a member of the church, kut if you will go down stairs my partner In business will swear at you." All your good resolutions horetotore have been torn to tatters by explosions of temper. Now, there is no harm in getting mad it you only get mad at sin. Y<ou need to bridle and saddle these hot breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong. There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at. There is no harm in getting redhot if you only bring to the force that which needs hammering. A mnn who has no power of righteous Indignation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a righteous iudignatisn and not a petulancy that blurs and unravels and depletes the BOUl. There is a large class of persons in midlife who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a "little fast, "high livers," "free and easy," "hall fellows well met." They are now paying in compound interest for troubles they collectj ed twenty years ago. Some ot you are trying to escape and you will, yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your teeth." God and your own soul only know what the struggle Is. Omnipotent grace has pulled j out many a soul that was deeper in the i mire than you are. They line the beach o. heaven, the mnltitude whom God has re? cued from the thrall of suicidal habits. I you this day turn your back on the wrono and start anew, God will help you. Ob, th? weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for a while and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon, they will give it and say they will try you again ; but, fall, ing away again under the power of temptation, they cast you off forever. But God forgives seventy times seven?yea, seven hundred times?yea, though this be the ten thousandth time He Is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your first misstep. I', with all the influences favorable for a right life, men make so manr mistakes, how much harder it Is when, for Instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction! If under such circumstances he break away, there will bo -?'- tin/iorfnUniF nr> holldav en QU S|IU[l 1U Ilia uuvtw.... ,,, __ joymeDt, but ft struggle in which the wrestiere move from side to side and bend and twist and watch for an opportunity to fret in a heavier stroke until, wit'i one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins start out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit fails under the knee of the victor?escaped at last as with the skin of his teeth. In the last day it will be found that Hu^h Latimer and John Knox and Hus3 and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, but Christian men who went up Incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall street, Water street, Pearl street, Broad street, State street. Third street, Lombard street and the bourse. On earth they weru called brokers or stockjobbers or retailers or importers, but in heaven Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet, no inquisition demanded from them recantation, no soldier aimed a spike at their heart, but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning. I find in the community a large class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, bo outrageously wronged that they have bst iaith In everything. In a world where everything seems so topsy turvy they do not see how there can be any God. They are confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate argument prove to them the truth of Christianity *?r thetruthof anything else touches them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. J. preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse, but I put my hand on your shoulder and invito yon Into the peace of the gospel. Here is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddystone lighthouse. Do not oharge upon God all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God, God stuck to the world, but the earth seceded from His govei nment, and hence all these outrages and all these woes. God i3 good. For many hundreds of years He has been coaxing the world to come back to Him, but the more Ho has coaxed the more violent have men been in their reslstame, and they have stepped | back and stepped back until they have dropped into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had tbo bloodhounds after you, and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him and see if He will not help. Try Him and see if He will not pardon. Try Him and see if He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet asthe flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hath 110 warmth compnred with the glow of HI9 heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the cool mountain torrent the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without crackling a stiok under bis foot he comes close by the stajr, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its death agony and falls backward, its antlers crashing on the rocks, but the panting heart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded and shall never die. Making Haps. Map makers seldom use copper plates. Very often they print their maps on cylinder presses from stereol types. The engraving for the past fifteen years has been done with the aid of was. This prooess was invented by a Buffalo man and it has revolution* ized the map business. Maps were never so cheap as they are to-day, and i tne gazetteer wincn twenty-nve years ago cost a small fortune can now be had for a song. Map making is now done iE a room whose temperature is never allowed to fall below ninety degrees. This temperature is hard on the engraver, and workers on map engravings do not stick to the business long. The heat of the room keeps the beeswax in a condition which makes it susceptible to easy engraving. A coat of this wax mixed with some hardening ingredient is poured on a metal plate. The wux sheet may be as thin as tissue paper or it may be an eighth of an inch thick. Pen and ink drawings of the work are given to the operators and they make their own sketches in the wax with a sharp steel tool. For the dotted lines of different styles which are used to mark county or township lines, or to indicate real or proposed railroad routes, little wheels like those which women use in transferring dress patterns are employed. Wherever names are to be filled in the impression is made in the wax with type, one letter at a time. When the engraving is completed the plate is taken to a cooling room, where the wax hardens. A coating of black lead is then rubbed over the plate and it is suspended in ~ V? HP k A nu cicub^u'piuuu^ uaiu, AUO in eolation is deposited on the black lead and forms the original. This thin copper plate is backed with type metal, and from this plate stereotypes are made. Frequently from twenty to forty plates are used in printing one order of maps; and when the map is small, sometimes a dozen impressions of it are printed on one sheet. But large or small, the maps are printed by the fast presses in enormous quantities. There is a map concern in Chicago which has a record of 624,000,000 maps printed in twelve years?a million maps a week. This would have been impossible under the old process of printing from Blone, copper or steel?Washington Star. _ \v nen the glory fades away. When of light the clouds bereave theo, When the shadows mar the dayHope relieve thee! When despair's destroying breath Come at eventide to grieve thee With the bitterness of deathLove reprieve thee! When the bells at curfew toll. When the lingering sunbeams leave thee, When the night o'erwhelms thy soul? God receive thee! ?The Quiver. THE POWER OF THE BIBLE. The Rev. Robert Newton of England, when on a visit to this country a few years ago, advocated at an anniversary of tbe American Bible Societj*, the cardinal* principle of that noble institution, the circulation of the scriptures without note or comment. Illustrative of tbe sufficiency of the Bible to convert the soul, with God's blessing on its perusal, he related the following anecdote: A woman considerably advanced in years, who had heard unmoved from Sabbath, to Sabbath, the thunders of Sinai, and the affecting appeals of Calvary, called one day on the pastor of the church which she attended, and to his astonishment and joy, apprized him that she had found '"the pearl of great price." To his probing question she gave clear and satisfactory replies; and he was convinced that the work was the Holy Spirit's. In tracing the changes to its source, he asked her under which sermon of his she had been converted. "Sermon!" she cried, it wns no sermon that converted me, it was the text. Before you had well begun your sermon I was a converted sinner. The Lord carried this truth home to my heart with mighty Cower; and I dwelt and dwelt upon his own lessed words until I found peace and joy in believing. The precious text was, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in*him. should not perish, but have everlasting life, John 3:16. Blessed be God for his unspeakable gift. I have read many interesting accounts of the conversion of souls in solitary places by the simple reading of the Bible; but a few on the desert ocean, where the voice of the living teacher was not; and these facts thould no mrtrn ovcfflmnHfl nnrl lintipinff efforts to circulate the Book of Life. The duty is imperious; the encouragement great: and the rewards?through grace?such as "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,'' to conceive. DIVINE COMMUNION'. There is no possible way of finding comfort amid the providences that come to us in life but in intimate and habitual commmunion with God. Much as we may desire to avoid providences often of an afflictive and disciplinary character, our heavenly Father sees it wise to administer his government over us in a manner that often hides his love to our human thought. Doubtless in this way he would keep us from pride and vanity, impress upon us our absoluie dependence upon his guidance, instil a deeper religious conviction in our minds, perfect more fully our ideals of truo life and clarify our vision of spiritual things. But theorizing thu?, as we often do, how few accept his way with unruffled composure, rejoicing that we ate in his hands! Such blessed rest in God comes to us only Ana ,lnn r\of}i fho nnth nf bllll/U^ll UUO n?711"HVUUVU buv |'?v" v* holy prayer. We do not mean an approach to the mercy seat merely at stated times and in formal utterances, but a constant drawing near to him in ttie silent depths of devotion, in the soul's unuttered supplication", in the hourly spiritual contact of the human with the divine heart. But this power to pause amid conflicting unceriianties. and let God give light upon the path in his own good time,is not i he product of human philosophy. This ability to wait until he shall solve the problem belongs only to souls that are constantly closeted in his presence. Helping him to decide difficult questions is one of his ways of "rewarding them openly." And who will say that this is not a rich reward for obeying o*r Lord's command. "Enter into thy closet?" Can anything surpass such comfort as is found here? Toiling, weary pilgrim, wherever thou art found, enter into the enclosure of prayer, and abide very near to him who "seeth in secret." Oh, what safety is here! ?Christian Advocate. UNTIL HE FINDS IT. A pleasant incident is recorded of General Garibaldi. Ono evening he met a Sardinian shepherd, who had lost a lamb out of his noclc, ana was in great actress oecause ne could not find it. Garibaldi became deeply Interested in the man, and proposed to nis staff that they should scour the mountains and help to find the lost lamb. A search was organized, lanterns were brought, and these old soldiers started off full of eager earnestness to look for the fugitive. The quest was in vain, however, and by-and-by all the soldiers returned to their quarters. Next morning Garabaldl's attendant found the general abed and fast asleep, long after his usual hour for rising. The servant aroused him at length, and the general rubbed his eyes and then took from under his bed coverings the lost lamb, bidding the attendant to carry it to the shepherd. Garibaldi had kept up the quest through the night until he had found the lamb. This illustration helps us to understand how Jesus Christ seeks lost souls in the world of sin, continuing the search long after others have given it up, seeking until he finds.?Rev. J. R Miller, D. D. INFLUENCE OF GOOD EXAMPLE. "Not long since,"savs a well known author, "on board a man-of-war there was a young midshipman who was in the habit of kneeling daily at his berth. This was such an unusual practice that the other middies resolved to put it down, so they watched him. and the moment he knelt 1 e encountered a volley of caps and shoes. This was repeated again and again, but still the midshipman persevered i nd said his prayers. The commander heaid of it, and summopthe young man before him, bade the persecuted middy state his grievance. The lad replied that he . had no charge to bring. The commander said that he knew there was good cause of complaint and cautioned the other midshipmen against repeating the annoynnce. That night instead of the usual volley, the kneeling middy heard footsteps approaching, and to his surprise n young companion bent at his side. Shortly afterward came another and another, till 14 were found yielding to the influence of this noble example." DELIVERED FROM TEMPTATION. When Wendell Phillips was a boy fourteen years of age, in the old church at the North End. Boston.he heard Lyman Beecher preach on the theme: ,4You belong to God." He went home alter service, threw himself on the floor of his room, with locked doors, and prayed: *'0 God, I belong to thee; take what is thine own. I ask this that whenevi-r a thinir bo wrong it may have no power of temptation over me; whenever a thing be right, It may take no courage to doit" From that day on, he testified that whenever he knew a thing to bo wrong it held no temptation ; and whenever he knew a thing to be right, it took no courage to do it. Prayer is s^ mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered nil its kevs. They sweep ahmg the inlluite scale of mail's wants and of God's goodness.?Hugh Miller. Prisoners Strike. Thora tos a big strike in the bolt shop of the Ohio penitentiary, at Columbus, thr. other day. The strikers were all convicts, and they were not dissatisfied with their wages, as they get none, nor with their hours of labor. The trouble was with the food that wa3 served them, and they vowed they would do no more work until they were better fed. The warden made a personal investigation of the cause ot the complaint, after which he promised the men that their desire should be granted, and they went to work with a will. Less Business Failures. There were 236 business failure throughout the United States during the week ending July 21, as compared with 4S7 the corresponding week last year. I [ SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR AUGUST 19. Lesson Text: "First Disciple of Jesus," John I., 35-49? Golden Text: John 1., 42 ?Commentary. 35. 86. "Again the next day after Jobn stood and two of discAles. and, lookingupon Jesua as Hh walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God." During the time of fasting and temptation of our Lord John had gone on preaching and baptizing and preparing the way of the Lord. Then on a cortain day he saw Jesus coming unto him and said, | "Behold the Lamb of God. which taketh , ; away the sin of the world" (verso 29). The opening verses of our lesson ten us 01 me day following. This cry of John is the I answer to Isaac's question asked so long ago, "Where is the lamb for a burnt offerine?" (Gen. xxil., 7.) 37. "And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus." John was not seeking to draw people to himself, but to prepare them for and point- them to the Lamb of God. When be heard later in his ministry that all were following Jesus, be said, "This my jov is fulfilled. He must increase. but I must decrease" (John ill., 29, 90). We do well when our testimony leads men to follow Jesus. Let us live to point j Him out. 38. "Then Jesus turned and saw them following and salth unto them, What seek ye? They say unto Him, Rabbi, where dwellest ThouV" We may imagine Him saying to us every time we go to church, or prayer meetinsr, or Bible class, "What seek I ye?" Let us acquire the habit or asking ourselves, what am I going for? And may our hearts ever say, "I would see Jesus," "I would know Him" (Johnxli., 21; Phil. Hi., 10). 39. "He saith unto them, Come and see. I They came and saw where He dwelt and abode with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour." If the reekoning is the same as in chapter xiv., 14, then it was about 10 a. m.. and they had several hours with Him. We wonder what home was so fortunate as to have Him for a guest, and where He entertained those two that day, but it is more important for us to open our hearts to Him and have Him abide with us continually. 40. "One of the two whioh heard John 6peak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter'8 brother." The other was probably John himself, as he would not be likely to mention his own name. From Math, iv., 18; Luke v., 10, we gather that these four, Simon, Andrew, James and John, were partners as fishermen, and all left their boats finally to follow Jesus and become fishers of men, about the same time. 41. "He first findeth his own brother Simon and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the Christ." Tne result of that call upon Jesus was that Andrew (which signifies manly) became a true man?a manly man indeed, for he henceforth lives to bring men to Jesus and make Jesus known to men, and begins ' Kla Amn Vivnthafi 42. "And he brought him to Jesus." This is the one thing to do -not bring him to a church or prayer meeting merely, or to a truth or doctrine, but to Jesus as a living person. Andrew brought him to Jesus, who was to die as a sacrifice, but wo bring people to Jesus, who has died and is alive forevermore and has nil power (Rev. i., 18 ; Math, xxviii., 18). Jesus, who knows all men and what is in man (chapter ii., 24, 25), told him who He was and gave him a new name. Compare Oen. xvii., 5 ; xxxif., 28. 43. "The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and flndeth Philip and saith unto him, Follow Me." Either directly by the Spirit, or by the Spirit through the word or some person, God is ever seeking to draw people to Himself. He beean in the gnrden of Eden and has been at it eversinee. "44. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter." See how Jesus recognizes earthly lriendships and continues as friends In Himself those who had been friends before, if they are only willing to have it so. Special mention is made of Philip in John vi.. 5, 7; xil, 21, 22, and xiv., 8, 9. He seems to have grown in the knowledge of Jesu9 very slowly, and to have been of a easoning, calculating turn of mind. 45. "Philip flndeth Nuthanael and saith unto him. We have found Him of whom Moses In the law and the prophets did write. Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Philip certlnly did well in at once seeking another. If, from that day on, every believer had promptly brought another soul to Jesus, think of the result. 46. "And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come ou< of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see." It is not a question of place or circumstances, but it is a person with whom we have to do, about whom we have to speak, and whom we must show unto the people. It would seem from this that Nazareth was not a place that it was an honor to hail from, anotlier proof that Jesus made Himself of no reputation I fPhi). ii.,7). 47. "Jesus saw Natbanael coming to Him and salth of him. Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no j^uile." What a testimony from the searcher of hearts! Nathanael mast have been a true worshiper up to the light he had, one who walked uprightly, wrought righteousness and spoke the truth In his heart (Ps. xv., 2), one who walked with a perfect heart in a perfect way (Ps. ci., 2). Jesus will surely make Himself known to those who thus sincerely seek to know God. Consider the gentile Cornelius (Acts x., 2) and see how God enlightened him (Acts x., 47,48 ; xi., 14). 48. "Nathunael saith unto Him, Whence knowest Thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Betore that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." The eyes of the Lord are in every place, they run to and fro through the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect toward Him (Prov. xv., 3 ; II Chron. xvi., 9). We might safely infer that Nathanael under that lis; tree was engaged in studying the prophets and in prayer. 49. ' Nathanael answered and saith untoHim : Rabbi, tbou art the Son of God ; thou are the king of Israel.", Philip might have argued with him for houcs about the possibility of a good thing coming even out of Nazareth without convincing him, but a moment with Jesus and a word from Him settle it all. Jesus Himself, and none but He, is the solver of all doubts, the dispeller of all fears, the rest and peace and joy ot every soul who comes to Him. Nathanael at once proclaims Him divine (see John x., 33, 36), and Israel's Messiah, the long expected king, whereupon Jesus assures him that he shall yet see heaven opened and the complete iulfllment of Jacob's vision. It shall be when Jerusalem from above and old Jerusalem restored shall be in perfect accord.?Lesson Helper. The Wheat Yield. The report* from the wheat-growing gallons of the Uaitel State3 Indicate that th<j yield will be something more than an average crop. The advices from Great Britain ore that the crop of wheat compares thlsyeAr most favorably with the condition ot the corresponding periods In the ^wo preceding year?. Tnklng 100 as the average condition for Great Britain, the report for England, in which nine-tenths ot Grout Britain's crop 13 raised, reports as high as 102. The Argentine wheat crop which last yarwas seventeen bushols per acre?a phenomenal yield?Is tully expected this year to amount to tnirteen bushels nr. acre, which is about the Average crop. The acreage in Argentine this year hns been increased over last year about twenty per cpnt. There would seem to be no reason to believe that American wheat will for many months be sold at one dollar per bushel. . Alien Laborers Must Go. New York Stato has decided that nlien laborers must go. at least so far as public work is conccrned. Among the laws adopted by the Leerislaluro this year is ono decreeing that none but citizens of the United States may be employed on any State or municipal work, and the people of thoState show a disposition to see that the law is enforced. The Grand Jury at Buffalo'has just returned an indictment against Henry J. Warren, Supsrinteudent of the Barber Asphalt Company, for employing Italian laborers on the streets of the city, which liis company 19 paving. Wrecked on the Great Lakes. Between December 17. 1SS5. an I November 15, 1893. 227 vessel* were wreovuloaths graat lakes, representing a loss 01 A BULL FIGHT. HOW THE BRUTAL SPORT IS CONDUCTED IN SPAIN. Three Kinds of Bulls?Duties of the Men "Who Fight the Brutes ?Raising Bulls for the Ring. V HATEYER the morality of \ /\ / the thing may be, nothing \ \ is more stirring and imposing than the first part of an extensive bull fight, There is the ceremonions entrance to the blare of trumpets, the procession of historic costumes, crimson, pale blue, white and canary, pea green, silver, white and pink, scarlet, black, dark blue and white?and over all the brilliant sunlight and the enthusiasm of an audience blazing with excitement. The ring at Tarragona has seats for 17,000 people?more than the entire population of this little city on the Mediterranean, writes a New York Recorder correspondent, and yet the seats are often full, for the country people flock in, on foot, on donkeys, asses, horses and in bullock-cart. When the great band strikes up the stirring march, when the thousands on the benches begin to move themselves uneasily and scream down greetings to their favorite fighters, when the long procession glitters in the ring, you have a scene before you not* to be forgotten. The central idea of a bull fight is to show the courage and dexterity of men. It is acknowledged that the bull is more than a man's match?the bull with his strength, fopocity and sharp horns?the man armed only with a slender sword. The man must kill the bull with but a single stroke; this stroke must be delivered in a special spot, behind the shoulders, and to give this stroke the man must face the bull. All this is delicate and dangerous?witness the lamentable death of the young and handsome Espartero, killed in the ring at Madrid by a bull BAN" DERI LlrKBO STEPFDK of no great courage, cunning or force of character. When 1 &peak of a bull's moral qualities, it is no idlo word. Bulls are of three kinds, aud whenever a new bull jumps into the ring the people know by hi? first movements just what kind of a bull he is. Bulls arc levantados, parados and aplomados ?just as men are heedless, indolent and well balanced. Tho lev.nntado, the giddy or thoughtless bull, rushes immediately, with a high head, across the ring. He makes in turn for every aide, he leaps and dashes, often comically. Then he nhr.vnroa r?-n linrcAR ftnrl f.KlA niPY! -who ride tliem. He is an easy bull to kill. His adversary knows how ho will act?he is a bull who jumps directly at the last thing taking his attention. The parado, or lazy bull, comes on 'in a little trot, then stops, wheels around and returns to the gate whence he emerged. But it is necessary to distrust a lazy bull. Sometimes he becomes irritated in the very midst of his laziness, and then he is a terrible nrr.Ls in the stalls. opponent. There is no counting with him then. His character is changed. The aplomado, or level-headed bull, however, is the most dangerous of all. Nothing is more splendid than his entrance to the ring. He stands before the public with bin head thrown up, without excitement. His air is so majestic that the people shout. He i scarcely notices the enemies, but eeerns to look entirely at the andiouce, as if io .i3k their admiration. Then ! pouuding on the ground with hia forefeet, he rushes surely at the apearsinan mounted on his shaky and blindfolded horse. Throughout the tight J he takes care not to tire himself, but | shows an .ntcliigcnce ami decision I that amount to generalship. It is not j strange he fciiould?the Spanish light- j j ing bull is cut * common bull. The music hf-.s ceased playing, and j the light commences. The bull is in the riug ant1, he is bt?ii'g teased by men with red cloak?, which they flaunt before him. He is a s!eud<-r animal, with small hind quarters, but with a tremendon* neck and shoulders. Jrlo is rather j small than large. His horns are ntraigbt and sharp, and he i3 quite quick and trieiy. They flaunt their cloaks before his face, escape by a mere j inch; they jump tlw fence. But for tLo Lorse there is no escaoo. The I hu:3en are poor creatures, ready for j tho oliamblctt. They would be killed j anyway, for they are useless and decrepit. The reason for the introduction of tlis hvrsea is (1; to show the 1 vigor of the hull, who tosses them j with wicked strength; (2) it is to tire i the bull a little, in order that a single handed man may face him ; (3) it is to ; ^ .St ' ESP AX) A RECEIVING APPLAUSE. give the bull a smell of blood, that being naturally what he himself is fighting for; and (4)?it must be said ?it is to give the people themselves a smell of blood. They like the blood ! The fighters who have waved the cloaks are toreadors; the men who ride the horses are the picadors, and those who come in after three or four or seven horses have been killed are banderilleros. The coming of each set of men is like a new act i'^* tragedy. And their coming and their going are marked by long flourishes of trumpets. Each of the banderilleros holds two beribboned darts, which he must stick in the bull's neck. It is a matter of great skill and danger. 1 saw a banderillero ruined for life at Madrid in the spring of 1S92. The reason why thev prick the bull with these steel darts is to make him ferocious after he is tired. It is a trying thing to watch the daring and the danger oi the banI 5 ASIDE FROM THE BULL. derilleros. The bull comes with a rush upon tie nimble fellows, wno evaae him by a hair's breadth. Each evasion fiud each trick of their bravado has its name, and is applauded by the thousands on the benches. The trumpets blow again and the dram rolls. It is the entrance of the matador?the "toreador," as he is incorrectly called in "Carmen." He is the high professional who holds the sword. So he is called "espada," swordsman, which is the name he prefers. After the Paris Exposition of 1S89 when they (the Duke of Yeragua and others) were trying to maintain a permanent bull ring in the City of Light, there was an outcry in the papers, saying that such cruelty was not in the French character. The Courrier Francais brought out a cartoon by Willette, which, being circulated throughout Spain by humane Spaniards with a missionary zeal, provoked the bitter curses of the populace. It showed a black-faced "es" ? ? <?.?1 otyion " in <v hull rinrr jl/UUUj Ui OITVIUQIUHIU) M ?Q with ft flying bull behind him. He was starting back, in guilty fright, from a fair, shadowy female figure representing France. She pointed to his sword, which she had broken at his feet, and said: "The sword is not for the butcher!" The matador must kill a crazy animal. The bull is weakened, but the banderilleros with their darts, have gixen him a temporary strength, which comes from his aroused ferocity. For | a few moments he is stronger even j than at first, although it is a strength that cannot last. In these few moments, full of danger, theespada must dispatch him. Do not talk of cowardice ! These espadas are the bravest kind of men. The drum sounds. Come now, let us kill him! He calls to the President: "I greet your worship and all amateurs and ail men of courage! Ole!" He has a flag in one hand, He tries the bull with a great wave. A little more and there would be one matador the less. What an escape! Now, Ajaja! That came off well! "Take that!" Ah! He feared to strike. A hiss. Now every one is quiet. Now for a stroke! Oof! The sword bends; it has struck a bone. He strikes again, like lightning! "Long live my merit and my art! And let it be as God wills!" Applause, applause, applause! It was a great stroke. There is no blood from the j bull's mouth. He has been struck ' straight through the heart, not in the lungs. The bull sways, drunken. Then he comfortably settles on his knees. Then he sits down as if he were to go to sleep at night. Then he is dead. The matador is walking round the ring and bowing, while cigars, oranges and hats ami flowers rain down on him by thousands. It is a way the audience has of showing its delight i ana namiruuuu. Tin? lighting balls of Andalusia have | thoir breeding places chosen for them as if they were young princes with a taste for natural scenery, or gods masquerading, as they one time did, in bovine shape. No valley is too fresh andswoet with odorous herbs for them, no stream of mountain source too virginal and oool for their hot youthful | hides to wallow in. The young bulls j have even chaperons to keep them i company and keep them out of harm. There are the cabestroa, very intelli ijent oxen, who fulfill toward them the office of guide, philosopher and friend from their youth up. As soon as a young bull goes beyond the limits of bis natural pasturage these cabestros, without even an order from the guardian, dash after him, ringing their bells which hang from their fat necks. They soon surround the young deserter, who, without the least resistance comes back with a lowered head, as if he were ashamed. The usefulness of these cabestros is no less even in the bull ring. From time to time young bulls are tested in the ring, with leather balls around their horns. A crowd of boys climb down from out the audience and show off their skill by teasing him and slipping from him. There is not much danger for the boys, excepting brokeu ribs, and for the bull there is not even pain. They tease him with their coats, but may not strike him. But he gets excited, rushing furiously, and you cannot make him leave the ring. Or, as it sometimes happens, a brave and intelligent bull at a real fight is spared his life at the demand of the audience, or disables two men or kills one. In each case he must go free. But it nmnlil in vain tn tnr Vlim " -? ?J ' ~ from the ring. Yet it ia sufficient th^t these good old oxen should appear ringing the remembered bells of his childhood for ^ie young bull or the old bull to hasten to join the group again and run out to the stables, after a short trot round the ring. A Fruitful Tree. C. W. Madison, section boss of the Louisville and Nashville Bailroad, at Ocean Springs, Miss., has favored the Picayune with a specimen of the fruit of his pear orchard. It is a bit ot a branch some two feet long, broken from a four-year-old tree, and along it cluster fifteen large and perfect pears. They are yet green, and apparently not more than half grown. The gulf coast is one of the best places in the country for the culture of this fruit. This year the pear trees along the coast have suffered some from the blight for the first time in many years, but the damage so far to the crop is not serious. There are many other kinds of fruit that flourish to perfection along the coast, notably grapes and scuppernongs, figs and persimmons.?New Orleans Picayune^ Oldest Mason in the United States. The oldest Freemason in the United States, Adna Adams Treat, was born . in Hartford, Conn., April 8, 1797. In 1823 he became a member of Apollo Lodge of Troy, N. Y., and he is still a member of that organization. In 1825 he married Miss Jane Reilay, of Troy, who died October 28,1890. For a number of years Mr. Treat has lived in Denver, Col., with his daughter, the wife of Doctor Burnham, of that city. He is the oldest churchman in the West. In early life this aged Mason was engaged in the picture frame buiness in Hartford. He was one of the founders oi "the Troy L.ooking-Glass Manufactory." In 1830 he removed to Syracuse and engaged in the grain trade. Subsequently he resided in Ohio and Indiana, going westward ADN'A ADAMS TREAT. with the population of the period. Ho was eighty years of age when he began the writing of poems of an anniversary and descriptive character. Hia description of the Rocky Mountains and the poem written' on tne ninetysixth anniversary of his birth have been published. The^old Mason and his bride, Jane Reilay, were regarded as the handsomest couple in Troy back in 182-5. Mr. Treat is hale and hearty in hia ninety-eighth year and bids fair to reach the coucluding years of the century. He has been a Mason more than seventy years. ?New York Times. The greatest naval review of modern times was by Queen Victoria in 1854 at the beginning of the Crimean war. The fleet extended in an unbroken line for live miles an4 comprised 300 men-of-war, with twice that number of store and supply ships. The fleet was manned by 40,000 seamen. The Greek common people not only paid no taxes, but received large appropriations from the State in the shape of free shows and games. There are 220,000 men of all nations in the British army. When the "Kldw Turned. The Dog? "I'll frighten the life oat 3f that kid. "Good gracious!" "What'er matter, doggy?"?Life.