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* *v Vc?3ffllj KEY. DR. TALMAGR .THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. ir*. _____ ; Subject: "Suicide." t<t Tbtt : "He drew out bis sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." Acts xyJ., 27, 28. Here is a would be suicide arrested In his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and acoordinpr to the Roman law a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner, and if the prisoner breaking jail TO sentenced to be endungeoned for three or four years then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years, and if the prisoner breaking jail was to have suffered capital punishment then the sheriff inust suffer capital punishment. i The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silr The government had not had confidence ?u bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strancre and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a Bound sleep and supposing these ministers have run awny, and knowing they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's ax on the morrow and Buffer public disgrace resolves to preoipitate his own dccease. But before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart one of the unloosened prisoners arrests the blade by the command, "Do thysell no harm." In olden time, and where Christianity had not interfered with it, suioide was considered honorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's embassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather than surrender to Philip of Macedsn. Cato, rather man suomit 10 jtinus usBsar, iook ms uwu life, and alter three times nis wonnds had been dressed tore them open and perished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed his life by poison irom his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycnrgus a Buloiiie, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster 'of Moscow Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put fomethlng in a glass and drink it, and soon after the groans arouse all the attendants, and it was only through utmost medical Bkill be was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate. ! Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned upon the pubject of sutolde. Have you seen a paper In the last month that did not announce the passage out of life by one's own behest? Defaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Hen losing large fortunes go out of the world because they Seannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affection, domestic Infelicity, dyspectlo ' Impatience, anger, remorse, envy, Jealousy, ? destitution, misanthropy, are 'considered ufficlent causes for absconding from this life by Paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. More cases of "felo de se" in the last two years of the world's existence. The evil Is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some COUDC as 10 wneiner mere was reauy naything wrong about quitting this life when it became disagreeable, and there are found in respeotable circles people apologetio for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that uicide is the worst of all crimes, aiid I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But v'n the ?arly part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that have ever lived have committed self destruction, but always in dementia and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felloity than I have of the Christian who dies in his bed in the delirium of typhoid lever. While the shock of the catastrophe is vnry great, I charge all those who have had Ctiristian friends under cerebral aberration step off the boundaries of this life to have do doubt their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from tile kind way he treated the demoniac of Oardara and the child lunatic, and the po tency with which he hashed the tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific cf intellectual giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller, groat for science and great for God. He eame of the best Highland blood, and he was ? descendant of Donald Boy, a man eminent for hia piety and the rare gift of second -fight. His attainments, olimbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and Murohison, the . scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God In the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills Is the God of the Bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant , in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the "Testimony of the Rocks," proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this latter book he toiled day and night, through love of nature and love of God, until he could not aleeo. and his brain eave wav. and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel Instrument having had two ballets? one tor him and the other for the gunsmith who, at the coroner's inquest, was examining It and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Miller after his hot brain hod ceased throbbing t&at winter night in his study at Portobello-r Among the mightiest of ear:h, among the mightiest of heaven. No one ever doubted the piety of William Cowper, the author of those three great hymns, "Oh. For a Closer Walk With God!" 'What Various Hindrances We Meet!" "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood"? William Cowper, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hymnology. In hypochondria he resolved to take his own life and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on flcmo goods at the very point from which he expected to spring and rode back to his homo and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke, and then he banged himself to the ceiling, but the rope iparted. No wonder that when God merciiulJy delivered him from that awlul dementia ho sat down and wrote that other hymn iuat as memorable God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform. Be plunts His footsteps in the sea Auu rides upon tne storm. Bltud unbelief is sure to err And m ud His work In vain. 0(W Is His own Interpreter. And He will mate it plain. While wo make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to tfiose who were -plunged into mehtal incoherence. I declare that tb? man who in the use of his reason, by hia own act, snaps the bond between his body and his soul goes straight into perdition. Snail I prove it? Revelation xxi.. 8, "Murderere shall have their part In the lake which burnefh witb fire and brimstone," Revelation xxii.. 15, "Without are dosjs and *orcerer? and whoremongers and murderare." You do not believe tbe New Testament? Then perhaps you believe tbe Tod Commandments. "'Thou sdiait not kill." Do yon say all these passages refer to the taking of the life of others? Then I ask you if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the life of others? God save you a special trust in your life. He made you the custodian of your life as he madeyou the custodian of no other life. Ho gave you a9 weapons with which to d?fen 1 it two arms to strike back assailants, two eys<5 to watch for invasion and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert. Assnssination of others is a mild crime compared with the assassination of yourself, because in tho latter case it is treachery to an especial I 4 -* i* in 4U? rtf fl nattflu I'All Wf?rrt I irUOl | II 10 UK3 3UUCUUV4 Vi M vuwuu J v? especially appointed to keep, it is treason to n natural law. and it is treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God In the Bible looked upon this orime I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some part3 of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have committed this unnatural crime. Here is the hdadlees trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Hero Is the man who chased little David?ten foet in statue ohasing four. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyan*, r. . witch of Endor. Here Is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering hia sword with dignity, asks his servant to slay him, and when the servant declines then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws bis body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide! H?re is Ahithophel, the Machiavolli of olden times, betraying his best friend, David, in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom and joining that fellow in his attempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics be take3 a short cut out of a disgraced life into the suicide's eternity. There he is, the insrrato! Hero is Abiraelech practically a suicide. He is with an army bombarding a tower, whr.n a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life he ha3 left in a cracked skull he commands his armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me." There is his post mortem photograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was a martyr, and we have in nnr iiav anoIo!?ists for him. And what won der in this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the part $f some of His pretended apostles?a betrayal so black it makes the intamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hunsr up for the execration of all the ages, Jadas Iscariot. All the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job who had a right to commit suicide if any man ever had?what with his destroyed property, and his body all aflame with insufferable carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it? a pestiferous wife?and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." ' Notwithstanding the Bible is asralnst this evil and the aversion which it creates by tho loathsoma and ghastly spectacle of those who have hurled themseives out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is apainst it and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious rinnthR of its disciDles. it Is a fact alarmins ly patent that suicide is on the increase. What is the cause? I charge upon infidelity and agnostioism this w'uole thing. If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter be blissful without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the next? And when our existence here becomes troublesome why not pass right over into Elysiutn? Put this down among your most solemn reflections and consider it after you go to your homes ?there has never been a case of suicide where the operator was not either domented, and therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all the ages, and I challenge the whole universe. There never has been a case of self destruction while in full appreciation of his immortality and of the fact that that immortality would be glorious or wretched according as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected Him. You say it is business trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is the abdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity which practically says, "If you don't like this life, get out of it, and you will land either in annihilation, where there are no notes to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be everything glorious and nothing to pay for it." Infldeli ty always nas ueen apoiogeuc ior sen immulatioa. After TomPaine's "Age of Reason" was published and widely read there was a marked increase of self-slaughter. Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, tinder certain circumstances, were apologetic for self immolation. Infidelity puts up no bar to people's rushing out Irom this world into the next. They teach us it does not make any difference how you live here or go out of this world, you will land either in an oblivious nowhere or a glorious somewhere. And infidelity holds the upper end of the r?"e for the suicide, and aims the pistol witti which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day and persuade the majority of people that it does not made any difference how you go out of the world you will land safely, the rivers would be so full of corpses the terryboats would be impeded in their progress, and the crack ot a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble of a street car. Ah, infidelity, stand up and take thy sentence ! In the presence of God and angels and men, stand up, thou monster, thy iip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages! Stand up, sat3T, flltby goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster infidelity, part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up and take thy sentence! Thy hand is red with the blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou hast waded. Stand up and take thy sentence! Down with the** to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of famtlies thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed of knives whloh thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be ttie everlasting miserera of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead o( Infidelity with all the crimes of self Immolation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, If ever your life through its abrasions and Its molestations should seem to be Tsnbeayaote, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, do not consider yourselves ns worse than other?. Christ Himself was tempted to oast Himself from the roof of the temple, but as He resisted so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on their way. Remember that God keeps the chronology of your life with as much precision as He keeps the chronology of nations. Why was It at midnight, just at midnight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock that night. The 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the destroying annel struck the blow, and Israel was free. Aud God knows just the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By his grace make not the worst of things, but the best of them. If you must take the pills, do not chow them. Your everlasting rewards will accord witn your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been his chain of iron. For your asking you may have the same grace that was eivfn to the Italian martyr, Algerlus, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated bis letter from ' the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." There is a sorrowless world, and it is so radiant that the noonday sun is o nly the lowat doorstep, and the aurora tha t lights up our northern heavens, confounding astronomers as to what It can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors home from church militant to church triumphant, and you and I have 10,000 reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self immolation or lmpenitency. All our sins slain by the Christ'who came to do that 4h<nrv rtra nrnnf- tn irrt In lit iuSt the time divinely arranged,and from a couch divine* ]y spread, and then the clang of the sepulchral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. 0 God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's burial, a Christian's immortality! Coyotes Quench Their Thirst. A remarkable story of tho sagacity <> animals comas from Cheyenne County. Oklahoma. There has been very little rain tnero his season and all tho streams aud spnnss have gone dry. so that there Is no place for the many wild animals abounding in that section to quench their thirst. The soil there is well adapted to watermelons and hundreds of acres have been planted by the scattered settlers. Since it has become so dry the farmers find that. Tor the ilrst time, the coyotes are after their melons. When an animal becomes thirsty he goo3 into a watermelon patch, jumps on a melon until he cracks it. then inserts his sharp noso into the melon and quenches his thirst" with tbe contents. As soon as one discovered this he communicated the faat to tho others, and tho entire melon crop of the county bids fair to bo destroyed in this way. I j RELIGIOUS READING, INDIVIDUAL BESPONSIBIUTY. A correspondet of the Puritan, in stating the impressions made upon his mind at the late anniversaries, among others, says: I was impressed with the necessity of a new and individual consecration to Christ If the events working, which constitute the glorious progress of the church, are the result of individual and obscure efforts in limited spheres,then I cannot roll off the responsibility of doing this work on others. It is not thespeakersof anniversaries; it is not the secretaries of societies and the ministers and churches in the cities. It is I that must do the work, and the aggregate of results wilr be greater or less according to the fidelity of every individual Christian in his humble sphere. Let us. then, understand what God through his church is actually doing.and consecrate ourselves anew to itsaccomplishment. I have thought much, while listening to the recital of faithful efforts of God's children all over the world, of the preciousness of those words to him that is permitted to hear them. 'Well done, good-"and faithful servant.' After all our anxiety whether we are in the path of duty, all our fears lest we accomplish nothing good, all our difficulties, discouragements, temptations to have the great master scrutinize our uves. aim uiuu 10 say, 'Well done, pood and faithful servant'? Oh, there is a bliss in the very anticipation of it makes the heart overflow. What, in view of this, are the toils i nd pains of self-denial to be regarded? And if, by our selfish toils, we heap up wealth and gain all the honors of the world, what is it all compared with the crown which God will give to him that has lived to do good? No. He that in a day like this dares to take the name and vows of a Christian, must trample on selfish gains and consecrate himself with apostolic fervor to doing good. He must be a laborer, and a laborer with God in carrying on the great work in which the hearts of the really godly are now throbbing and their hands toiling. "Why should I regard Earth's little store of borrowed sweots? I sure i lave had enough of bitter in my cup, To show that never was it His design Who placed me here, that I should live at ease. Or drink at pleasure's fountain. Henceforth then It matters not if storm or sunshine be My future lot, bitter or sweet my cup; I only pray, 'God fit me for the work, God make me holy, and my spirit nerve For the stern hour of strife.' COMMIT THY WAYS TO GOD. Reflection will teach a man that lie 3hould trust himself to the guidance of some supe rior being; and reason unites with revelation to tell us to commit thy ways to the Lord. Human life is such a journey that man needs a guide and provider. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Men are entirely ignorant of the future; hence, 6ince we know not what our circumstances will be, ourselves cannot form theplans which shall be best to be adopted. Every man may say in verity, "Thus far in life hath the Lord helped me." Our own present condition and that of all others, is utterly and entirely a way that was unknown to ourselves. The great and blessed God has been our conductor, though unseen, and it may be acknowledged. Ought we not, then, to acknowledge him and commit our ways to him? Time is an ocean, and each person's life a voyage. Its tossings and heavings, its tempests and innumerable perils, should plainly tell to each voyager that himself cannot steer his frail tempest-tost bark. He needs a pilot, if he would make the port of safety; he needs a helmsman other than himself. Let him commit his ways to God. The world is a wilderness?a dark and thorny desert. Shall the traveler attempt to tread its wilds alone? Let him remember, it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. He has not been that way before, and does he - - ?- -> iJ-'l LlUl Dteu U ^uiucr I'CiiUWuoYcioij 4.UW Uiiij proper guide is God; to him let us commit our ways, it is rational and safe. Voyager, traveler, by prayer commit thy ways to God. Venture not alone upon such an o^ean, through such a wilderness. Thou canst not guide thine own bark?thou canst not guide thine own steps; every morning and ask wisdom of God. HE IS OCT. 'See there, he is out!' 'But how did he get out,' said the other? While they were thus discussing the matter, the creature out was rapidly running off, and it was soon seen that such a discussion would not bring him back a?ain. It was therefore suspended, and the whole attention was directed for the time to the recovery of the gone one. When he was secured and placed once more within the enclosure, the "question came up again, 'How did he get out?' There was a difference in opinion entertained on this subject. One said he must have gotten out underneath. 'No said the other, he could not have gotten out there. Ho must have jumped over.' They ended the discussion, however, by resolving to stop up below, to put on more above and to cuard all around, and thus make it sure that he should get out no where Hguin. Tiiis oecurr? nee is brought to rememtierance sometimes, when I hear brethren discussing the question relative to the causes which have < produced iho low state of religion in the church. Ardent piely has evidently gotten out of our hearts and is running off. The inquiry is often raised how happened it? One says one thing, another, another. But all this 1 does not bring it back again. Let us get it back. Let our who e attention and efforts be dirtcted to that, and when back let us stop up beneath and elevate above, and guard cjyery part and keep it back. Yes. keep it back, by lcfr?ning our hearts with all diligence.?Watchman. ( In illustration of the possibilities of mother's prayers, Mr. Mills related a story about a sister aud two brothers in Now Jersey, who, about to start out one nignt for a party, were spoken to by their mother, who suld: "I think, children, thut there must be something wrong with me that you are not more anxious about the things of God. I ask you to forgive me. I do not want to rob you of your joy, but when you are at the party to-night, remember that I will be praying to God for you.'' They went to the revelry but they could not banish the figure or the words of the mother. And sure enourh when they re turned uiev saw me hklii iu iu? inmuera room, and heard the mother's prayer in their behalf. Next morning when tho mother went up to the daughter's room, she heard a sob. Opening the door she found the girl crying bitterly. What was the matter'{ The girl was deeply convinced of sid. Putting her arms around her, the mother preached Christ to her. and she was converted. 'Ana where is your brotherV" asked the mother. "Out in the woodshed. I think," was the reply. And that was where the mother found the boy. on his knees behind a pile of wood, crying for mercy. He, too, was savingly converted. The third boy was found in the hay mow, convinced of sin, and imploring pardon. And ho found the Saviour. Now, one of these young men was engaged to b?married,and when he told his betrothed, .4>e said she would give her heart to God, too. and did. In course of time they ware married, and had three children, of whom one was Dr. Talmage, who has prea-.'hed the Gospel by tongue and pen to more people than any other man in the world." "There was a most affecting word about Mr. Mill's own mother nnd her influence over him. JCe was away from home. He seemed to be away from God. In a room where ho was stopping in a big city, he felt one nighi tho influence of a mother's prayers to God on his behalf.in a sudden glory which seemed to fill the room. Ho felt that he had to go back risht at once to mother and to his mother's God. His mother had been on her knees that very nijrht pleading for him at the throno of grace. Ho had to come back tow Got'. * ,1^ rrni? ? it.. lieniuuitnv niiu it nviiv} ivcigui, i Ward Eberley, weighing almost 50( pounds, died suddenly, a few days ago, at Dayton, Ohio. He vi as only seventean years old, and weighed only ten pouuds when born, but was conceded to bo the heaviest youngster in the world. A few weeks agu thousands ot people saw him at ono of the side-show attractions at the Charity Circus, in Dayton. The doctors consider his illness, which had gradually developed since that time, due to tho excessive drinking of lemonade. ^ _ Fascinating Woman in Politic*. Miss Emma P. Bates. Republican candidate for Superintendent of Schools in North Dakota, has turned a formidable rival iuto an advocate by promising to marry him if sbe is elected." . " /c: ' l ; SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER il. Lesson Text: "Jesus Cleansing the Temple," .John ii., 13-25? Golden Text: John il., 16?Commentary. 13. ' And the Jews' nasaover wns it hand, rtnd Jesus went ur> to Jerusalem." After thH miracle at Cuna He, with His mother aud brethron and discinW. spent somn days at rnnnrnnim I'wofcn 1ON Knf hnv? fnrf hur record of that visit. This is, as far ns w? know, His second visit to Jerusalem, asd the first since, at the age of twelve. He went up with Joseph and Mary to the passover (Luke ii.. 41, 42). In view of' the fact that Hi* brethren did not believe in Him (John vii. 5) we wonder that they went to Capernaum with Him. It is not likely that they went tc Jerusalem. The proper name of this feast was "The Lord's Passover" (Ex. xii., 11) but like other feasts had degenerated intc mere feasts of the Jews (John v., 1). 14.-"And found in the temple those thai sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the* changers of money sitting." So Hf found il again at the close of His ministry (Math xxi. 12). According to the law the people were to bring to the Lord to Jerusalem the tithe of corn, wine, oil and the firstlings of herds and flocks, but if they were living too fai from Jerusalem to do this they were per mitted to turn the tithe into money and pur chase at Jerusalem what they wanted (Pant, xiv., 22-26). This arrangement, however, did not necessitate making a market of the temple. 15. ''And when He had made a scourge oi small cords He drove them all out of thf temple, and the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and over throw the tables." It' Ho were .to-day to drive thus out of an ordinary place of worship on His holy day all in whoso hearts He | sees business or pleasure instead of thoughts ! of Himself, what a thinning out of many a ! congregation there would be! 16. "And said unto them that sold doves. I Take these things hence; make not M> [ Father's house an house of merchandise.' When He again cleansed the temple at the close of His ministry. He told them that instead of its being a house of prayer, as God intended, they had made it a den of thieves (Math, xxi., 13). At the age of twelve Jesus had said in this very temple that He mast be abont His Father's business (Luke ii.. 49) or (R. V.) in His Father's house, and now one of the first acts of His public ministry is to cleanse that house. 17. '"And His disciples remembered that it was written, the zeal of Thine house hath oaten me up." This is written in that psalm (Ixix.) so full of His sufferings, which, if we laid to heart more, we would be more full of zeal for His house, His church, instead of possessing so much misguided and wasted zeal for oar own houses or churches or societies. 18. "Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign showest Thou unto us, seeing that Thou doest th?se things?" A similar question is asked in John vi.. 30, and Math, xli., 38, and in the latter place Jesus toid them that the sign would be the typical death and resurrection of Jonah illustrated in His own case, and now He will tell them the same thine under another fluure. Death ! and resurrection is the great secret of I power on earth for God. 19. ''Jesus answered and 9aid unto them. Destroy this temple, and in three days I will ; raiseitup." This is the earliest intimation from His own lips of His death and resurrection. He wus the anti-type of tabernacle and temple, buildings ereoted that God mlorht dwell on earth among men, and in Him God was manifest in the flesh. It is interesting to notice that the temple of Solomon was plundered by Shishak in the thirty-fourth year of its existence. See I Kings vi., 38, and II Cliron. xiiM 2, 9. 20. "Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt Thou rear it up in three days?" Being only natural men. they understood nothing of spiritual things (I Cor. H.. 14). 21. "But He spake of the temple ot His bo.ly." See how they perverted His words and tiungthem at Him in His agony on the cross (Mark xiv., 58. and xv., 291. If wo have become temples of the Holy Spirit, in whom Father, Son and Spirit have come to dwell (I Cor. vl., 19, 20; John xiv.. 17, 23), we must not think it strange to have our word3 perverted anil thrown at us in our trials. This is a fellowship with Christ which should make us greatly rejoic?. 22. "When, therefore. He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He bad said this unto them, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said." The whole of this gospel was written with the special object of proving that Jesus is the 8on of God (chapter xx., 31). and as it was by the resurrection that He was with power ueciarea to oe me sun ui uua ^i?ulu. I., 4), this may account for its onrly mention and emphasis in this gospeL It is only wiieu we nre risen from the dead or translated to meet our Lord that it shall fully appear that we are sons of God (I John iii., 2). 23. ''Now when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day. m-iuy believed in His name when they saw the miracles which He did." This is the great gospel of believing. It is found more times in this Kospol than in the other three and in the Acts all put together. The true moaning of believing is seen in chapter i., 12. to be the receiving of Him as our own Saviour. To believe about Him is of no avail ualess we become fully i iutiilod with Him in His death and resurrection--one? with Him at God's right hand and ono witii Him in present service here. 24. "But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men." The word ''commit" is the same word which is translated "believe" iu the tjrrfeoding verse. The R. V. has it ' irust." Jesus, knowing all men. knew whom He could trust or believe and was never deceived in any. Ho treated them upon their profession as If they ineunt all thoysaid and gave them every possible opportunity and help to prove themselves s'neere, but He thoroughly knew them all the titn*.\ 25. "And needed not that any snould tes- | tily of man. for He knew what was in man.'' He, being <ioa. i?ould read people's thoughts. He is the Lord who searches heart and reins (.Ter. svil.. 10: Rev. ii.. 23). For investing instuiieea oiHim mind rmliner sen Luke v., 22 : v).. 8 : ix.. 47 : xl.. 17 : xxiv.. 38. and remember Ef.:ak. xi.. 5. "Kor i know toothings that conn: into your mind, every one of thorn.*' 1 have <.>iten been glad that He knew all that was in mo before He ever let me know that He loved me, lor it He ha-'n't known all my possibilities for evil before He started with me lie might have been tempted i o give me up many a tim". Bat who in Ho loves Ho lovtS to tue end (.John xiii., 1?-Lesson Helper. Greeu Corn Dance. The Pottawatomie Indians, on their reservation near Topeka, Kan., have been enjoying one of their annual holidays, the green corn dance. The festivity is a sort of worship offered to the deity on the arrival of the green corn season. Tne dance lasts about eight days, and Is kept up without intermission, day and night, the bfraves, who do all the dancing, taking turns at tho exercise. The dancing takes place in a ring, something like a circus ring, the participants being togged out in all their savage llnery?feathers, beads, paint and all. The music is furnisaed with a drum oT one head, which is beaten by turns by a party of braves in the middle of the ring. Tue dance goes on foi about bulfan hour, and then the music stops, while one of the braves makes a speech. Tht dancing is thon resumed for awhile, ami then comes another speoch and so it goes on. In the meantime tho squaws are busj brewing a sort of broth from green corn, which is brought to the ring in buckets, pip lug hot, lor the rotreshmout of tho dancers. A litlinillilivi:i o guvowoot Two iMtiwrtia of Yankton, South Dakota, visited Rainmaker Jewell rocontly and got his formula lor producing, which he seems to make no secrot of. Ha guaranteed them a rain inside of tun days, if his directions were followed. They used a ton of chemicals, and within a woek got one of the heaviest rains ever seen there. Two tind n linlf incbos of water fell and tho people are delighted. A $4,200,000 Fire by Appointment. Chicago had, tho other morning, by appointment, a $4,200,000 lire. It took place under the auspices of the drainage trustees in the boiler room of the ltialto Building. The combustibles wore 3000 bonds of the boar.l of the denomination of $1000 cach bearing four per cent, interest. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOB FEMININE READERS. 8HOHT k K y1 K H?R?i A novel idea of the moment is the wearing of very short sleeves in the day time. They are occasionally to be seen not more than five or six inches long, thongh this is extreme. An ordinary length for afternoon dress is half way or more down the upper arm or else jnst covering the elbow. Extremely short sleeves can be worn only with gloves, since if they stop above the elbow the arm must be covered.? New York Advertiser. widows' weeds. Widows' weeds can be worn as long As a woman pleases, but a year and a day is the stated time fixed for the deepest mourning; but many women who have passed the heyday of youth wear it some three or four years, and then only moderate the severity of mourning attire, and always wear black. Many women have linen collars and cuffs, not stiffened like shirt collars, but made at home of the same shape as the muslin ones, simply a double piece of linen, not stitched.? Washington Star. THE "BEAUTY NAP." A luxurious housewife in New York who appreciates, the comfort and realizes the benefit of the "beauty nap" prepares her dishes for the coming breakfast the night before and placing them in their appropriate compartments in the electric range, simply presses the button at her bedside in the morning, takes her "breakfast nap," goes down to breakfast, finds her rolls light and delicate, her steak done to a turn, her coffee a delight to her husband, and the bouquet of flowers on top of her electric range as fresh as when first cut.?Atlanta Constitution. A CBY FOB "WOMAN CLEANLINESS." In the splendid bath honse at Hot Springs, Va., is a woman superintend - A OL . 1 1 1_ -T. T eat. one uus a complexion which, x believe, does much to tempt people to bathe. It is the expression of health and cleanliness. The vast building, with its marble floors and porcelain baths and white paint, is kept, under her supervision, in a most immaculate manner, and she is proud of her housekeeping. She makes such a success of it that I wonder why more women are not put in charge of the publio buildings. They are usually very dirty. The custom houses, capitolfi, and even the public libraries of large cities have not the "woman cleanliness" about them that they should have. A woman's eye can instantly detect the difference between the two sorts of housekeeping. ?W omankincL A WOMAN LANDSCAPE GARDENER. The interest in Miss Wilkinson's fiuocess as a landscape gardener is spreading. She was born in Manchester, England, and, determining to devote herself to landscape gardening as a profession, applied for admittance to the "class" which was one of the Crystal Palace studies. At first sfie was told the olass of studies was only intended for men, but they finally admitted her. The celebrated landscape gardener, Edward Milner, was her instructor. Surveying, leveling, drawing plans, making estimates and staking out from plans was mastered under him. She had been six years professionally engaged, and, besides a large general practice, does all the work of the London Public Gardens Association, which has secured 380 small parks for that great city in twelve years. Vauxhall Park, her work, has recently been opened by the Prince of Wales, who is regarded as a good critic in landscape gardening. He characterized it as one of the best pieces of landscape gardening he had seen.?Meehan's Monthly. VEILS THAT ARE BECOMING. There are really very few women who know how to wear the becoming veil. Veils are queer things. They make lines on a pretty face, and to the nervous woman they are a horror. To tell the truth half of the womankind fail to know how to buy a veil, an/1 what Rnif.R the stvle of the face. which, for fashion's sake, they cover up. A brunette invariably selects a net full of large round dots. Sometimes the mesh is coarse or square in figure, sometimes fine, but in any case it casts a gloom ovsr a face that should be free from blemish or dull effects. The Brussels net does always excellent duty if it is the real Brussels net. It is delicate in appearance and if the best is purchased you will have for some months a covering for the face which shelters it from the wind and yet does not deprive the passerby of that sweetest of all things, "the face of a fair woman." White Brussels net veils are an addition to every woman's toilet. They enhance the rosy tints of the complexion, soften the hues and give a charm to a feature however homely. If a young girl looks well in brown, by all means adopt the brown veil. It is a becoming color, enriches the complexion and shows off the eyes to a great advantage. But the square mesh should be abolished forever. It - - - 1?1? rwifV* ATi a Ar/?onfinn IS a JUUijr UU1IU1 >1 11U l/tti; it does not impair the sight. Tissue veils, light gray, delicate brown or even white, look well for a traveling rig, and keep the dust from the eyes, and preserve the cleanliness which is so necessary if a tour is contemplated, A veil should be chosen as carefully as a glove.?New York Herald. MADAME CARNOT'S DEPARTURE. Madam Carnot, widow of the mur- | dered Frcnch President, has entered a : new phase of life. Soon after the de- j parture of Lord and Lady-Dufferin ! and of the Dutch minister, who called upon her in tho morning, she left for ever tho Executive Palace. The man-1 ner of her departure was in the good taste that has marked all her actions since she went to reside at the Elysee. Instead of all the clerks of tho Minis- . try of the Interior?which is on the opposite side of the Faubourg St. j Honore?and the functionaries of the palace being ranged round tne court to salute her as she left, she gave orders that nobody should be in the court. The four officers of the late J Z'",r' ^ \ t r President's military household and his two civil secretaries were admited to the hall of the Elysee to see her leave. She was dressed in deep mourning, and a thick veil fell over her face. When it was announced that the car* riage awaited her, she appeared on the steps of the courtyard entrance to the palace, leaning on the arm of Lieutenant Carnot, her eldest son, and was followed by her other two sons, the civil and military secretaries, and Madame Chamoin and some other ladies. The carriage was the landau which M. Carnot bought when he was elected President, and was drawn by two of the team of four Irish bays. As soon as Madame Carnot and her sons were seated, all the other persons present bowed almost to the ground. ? J trrn a a oil at. 4- arra?4* n r* JL11C UCpnibUic nao a ouvuv urtuij uv | one saying a ;word. There were a I good many persons in the Faubourg ' St. Honore trying to see "what was go- j ing on in the court-yard. When the | gateB were swung back, and the carriage rolled out, they all bowed low, for they recognized in the veiled lady the most deservedly respected woman in France. In a moment the carriage turned the corner to enter the short Avenue Gabriel, and was soon lost sight of. The venerable mother of the late President is still with her eon, M. Adolphe Carnot, at the Ecole des Mines.?London News. FASHION NOTES. Pearl color, lilao or gray are thft favorites in notepaper. The "lamp-shade" skirt can be cut out of very wide materiaL The organ pipe skirt is used principally for silk and woolen fabrics. Bolero jackets of heavy guipure accompany an accordion plaited bodice. Bridesmaids should be all dressed in one color. Pink is the favorite just now. New shell-back Spanish combs have tops in silver and rolled gold filigree in Spanish arabesque patterns. One of the newest caprices of fashion is an enormous tulle cravat, forming a fan-like bow directly under the chin. Miniature breastpins are the fad. Miniatures are also worn in bracelets and watches in this fin de siecle period. The puffed sleeve has attained a high pitch of development, and therefore counts great variety among its attractions. The "Jane Hading" veil is worn by the four-in-hand patrons. The veil is densely spotted and has a velvet band under the chin. The hollyhock collarette during the warm weather has been such a favorite that there is little doubt of its continued popularity. Lace is never out of place in a summer gown; ib is the lightest trimming we can find, and its freshness stands the bright sunshine. Bridal veils are fastened to a coronet of orange flowers and float down the back. The veil should not be allowed to cover the ears. The most correct parasol is pure white. For morning use it may be of duck, though white gros grain or silk moire is to be preferred. Few jewels are worn just now, but instead a boutonniere of flowers. Blue bachelor buttons are the most seen, and their peculiar blue has found its way into millinery and dress fabrics. A great deal of lace is used, of course, lace plain, or beaded or jeweled. Silk muslin is less to the fore. Silk crepons, gauzes or every Kina and lovely silks for silk and woolen fabrics. A stylish waist is of India silk. The front and back are shirred full at the waist line, a shirred collar and enormous bow finish the neck, and the sleeves are made of black and white striped satin. Lace insertion set in the middle of the silk curtain is one of the new things in vestibule curtains. This four or five inch strip of handsome, heavy lace admits additional light and adds to the beauty as welL The bow knot is the latest thing in hair dressing. It is set up high on the top of the head and stuck through with a tortoise-shell dagger. The front hair is parted in somewhat demure fashion and brought rather low on the forehead. A much admired waist is of velvet ^ ai/^Dc onrl V>onlr UUU CJJiUIUlUCi T. xu? v?.v are very nearly close-fitting; the front is slightly loose, the sleeves are in full bishop style, and shoulder ruffles and a suggestion of a Figaro jacket are of the embroidery. The sash is an institution by itself, and the young woman of mean9 invests in one almost every time she goes shopping. Sashes are in all styles, from stiff moire ribbon to soft silk, depending largely on the dresses with which they are worn. Overskirts have struggled hard to gain a foothold in the world of fashion. But women have intuitively opposed them. The plain, full skirt has proved itself too satisfactory to be cast aside. Still, the new overskirt of the summer gown is not so bad as it might be, It is graceful, and, more than that, it is novel. Panels are becoming every day more numerous. For day dresues, panels of moire are fashionable, two of them or one alone?in front or at the side. For evening or elaborate afternoon dresses lovely panels are being made of silk muslin?a sort of double coquillo pinked or delicately V .3 _ A Xt - _ <3 nemmeu at tue cugc. A novel French corset is made of silk net wit)i elastic gores. It is lowcut and rather short, and is laced in front, the lacings passing around small but very strong hooks instead of through metal-rimmed eyelets. It is claimed that this corset can be lacsd to lit very snugly and with less discomfort than with the old style of lac* A Spectacled .2>0?. A curious thing to be seen occasion ally on a frequented Philadelphia street is a dog wearing spectacles. Itis not done as a joke, but the owner of the dog, an optician, claims that the animal's eyesight is affected and that the glasses enable him to see all right, but it is barely possible that there may be something of an advertisement iu the fro^k. ?Philadelphia Times. T :' yf.r -4.. 'r . ' :?fr ^y^3r-r,-;y HOUSEHOLD MATTERS, BEHOVING SCOBOHED SPOTS. , , When an article becomes scorchd&l fa ironing, lay it where bright sun* shine will fall directly on it. Peel' | and slice two onions, extract the juice; by pounding and squeezing; cut up half an ounce of white soap, and add j to the juice two ounces of fuller's ! earth and half a pint of vinegar. Boil all together. When cool, spread over the scorched linen, and let it dry on ; then wash and boil the linen, and the spots will disappear unless burned so badly as to break the threads.?Neir York Dispatch. QENEBAIi RULE3 FOB CANNING FBUIT5. Suggestions for tho cooking of fruits and vegetables are always acceptable. The American Vegetarian gives the following general rule for canning fruits: Time for Quantity i Per quart. boiling. of sugar. Cherries 5 minutes S ounce* Ituspb::rries 6 4 " Blackberries 6 " 6 '* Strawberries 8 " 8 " Plums 10 " 10 " Whortleberries 5 " 4 " Rhubarb 10 " 10 " | Bartlett pears, halved..20 " C " ' Peaches 8 " 4 *' Peaches, whole 15 " 4 ** Pineapple, sliced 15 *' 6 " Crab apples 25 ,s 8 " Ripe currants 6 " .8 " Wild grapes 10 " 8 u Tomatoes 20 " / none Gooseberries 8 " 8 " Quinces, sliced 15 ' 10 " Take one-lialf pound of loaf sugar to each pint of water aud boil rapidly for ten minutes before the frait ig put in. TO POLISH THE SILVER. The pretty filigree silver ornaments which are coming into fashion again in the form of neckties, bracelets, hair combs and b'nckles require not a little care and attention to keep them from blackening and losing their polish. There are several ways of cleaning silver ornaments, any one of which is little trouble and is satisfactory. One nlan in +,n rnh thA oiltrAP inwfilrv with the slice of a lemon, then rinsing with, cold water; next comes a wash of soap suds, a rinse in hot water, drying with a soft towel, and a final rub with chamois. A simple cleaning process is to wash the silver in hot water with a brueh dipped in ammonia and soap. Rinsa in boiling water and dry in sawdust. Jewelry which is very much blackened should be first washed in a weak solution of potash. After rinsing, dip the articles in water composed of one part of salt, one of alum, two of saltpetre, foui; of water. ' Do not soak longer than five minutes. Then rinse in cold water and dry on a piece of chamois,?New York World, BECIFKS. Croutes with Tongue?Grate some cold tongue finely, add some cream, :i.i_ j ix ccaoon wim pepper spa Ban, mix m the yolk of an egg, stir over the fire, then pour a little of the mixture osl I each square of fried bread or toast. Rice Curry?In hot climates curry is much used, and a curry of somo kind is often a pleasant and appetizing change in eummer, when appetites so often fail. Steam some rice; fry ? minced onion in a little butter until it turns red; add a teaspoonful of curry (for a quarter of a pound of rice) dissolved in half a cup of stock or gravy ; boil up once and pour oyer the rice. This is a delightful accompaniment to roast veal. Kidney Toast?Chop fine four veal kidneys with half a pound ot calf's liver; season with pepper and salt. Make a little butter hot in a fryingpan and toss them about until cooked, but not overdone. Remove from the fire and stir in the beaten yolk of one egg aud half a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Spread on toast and serve at once. Stewed or broiled tomatoes and hot iDdian meal muffins go nicely with this excellent dish. Fried Apples?Wipe, core and cut into eighths four tart apples. Put a tablespoonful of butter into a frying1 1 !_ _ J. 1 1 pan, ana wnen very noi >ay me appieain it so that they will just touch each other. Brown and turn. Sprirfkle with sugar and brown on the other side. If not perfectly tender, put on. a cover and steam a moment or two. Remove to a warm dish, and fry the others the eame way, and sprinkle all with sugar. Serve very hot. Tomato Toas t?Ran a quart of stewed tomatoes through a colander; place in S stew pan; season with butter, salt and pepper, and sugar if liked (many do not like tomatoes sweetened); cut slices of bread thin, brown on both aides; butter and lay on a piaster, ana just as the bell rings for tea or breakfast, add a pint of good, rich, sweet cream to the tomatoes and pour them over the toast. Vegetables of all kinds are better if butter is added last, and not allowed to boil any more. Potato Chowder?Cut half a pound of salt pork into thin slices, and fry lightly. Lay them in a kettle, whila you fry five sliced onions a light yellow color in the fat." Now have a quart dishful of pared and sliced potatoes, aad put them in the kettle with alternate layers of pork and onion, seasoning each layer with pepper, and dredging with floor. Cover with two quarts of water, and simmer forty minutes or until the potatoes are done. Just before taking from the fire throw in a tablespoonful of minced parsley, or velery tops, or both. Pour over toaat. Dogs and Insomnia. On the occasion of the dog show in Paris a French statistician published an Aa+.imn>.e of the number of docs at present to be found in that city. Evidently it is with no good feelings toward the poor animals, foi^ after informing the world that there are no fewer than 80,000 of them in the French capital alone, the calculator proceeds to speculate upon the number of persons who arc kept awake by their barkings. On an average, he thinks, one dog in ten would be restless and inclined to bark during the night, ami in each ease the barking would cause at least one persontolo.se his night's rest. On this basis he arrives at the dreadful conclusion that there art- iu Paris at all times 8000 persons who cannot sleep from this cause alone. And yet, he complains, the barking of dogs is not even mentioned in medical works as one of tha causes of insomnia.?London News.