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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "An Only Son." *' T*it : "Now when He came nTfjh to the gate ot the city,. behoid there was a dead man carried oaf. the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and mucti people of the dtv was witn ner. Ana ween me jl,wi-u 8aw her He had compassion on her and said onto her, Weep not, and Ho came and touohed the bier, and they that bore him stood still. And He said. Young man, I say unto thee arise! And he that was dead sat up and began to speak, and He delivered him to his mother."?Luke viL, 12-15. : The text calls us to stand at the gate of the city of Nain. The streets are a-rush with ^business and gayety, and the ear is deafened With the hammers of mechanism and the wheels of traffic. Work, with its thousand arms and thousand eyes and thousand feet, fills all the street, when suddenly the crowd 'part?, and a funeral passes. Between the wheels of work and pleasure there comes a long procession of mourning people. Who ^s it? A trifler says : "Oh, it's nothing but a funeral. It may have come up from the hospital of the city, or the almshouse, or some low place of the town," but not so, says the serious observer. t There are so many evidences of dire bereavement that we know at the first glance Borne one has been taken away greatly beloved, and to our inquiry, "Who is this that Is carried out with so many offices of kindness and affection?" the reply comes, "The only son of his mother, and she a widow." Stand back and let the procession pass out t Hush all the voices of mirth and Dleasure! Let every head be uncovered! Weep with this passing procession and let It be told through all the market places and bazaars of Nain that in Galilee to-day the sepuloher hath gathered to itself "the only son of his mother, and she a widow." There are two or three things that, in my mind, give especial pathos to this soene. The first is, he was a young man that was being carried out To the aged death becomes beautiful. The old man halts and pants along the road, where once he bounded like the roe. From the midst of immedicable ailments and sorrows he cries out. "How long, Jbora, now long: rooisuro and hardly bestead on the hot journey, he wants to get home. He sits in the church and sings, with a tremulous voice, some tune be sang forty years ago and longs to join the better assemplage of the one hundred and forty and lour thousand who have passed the flood. How ewoetly he sleeps the last r sleep! Push back the white locks from the wrinkled temples. They will never aohe again. Fold the hands over the still heart. They will never toil again. Close gently the eyes. They will never weep again. Bat this man that I am speaking of was a young man. He was just putting on the armor of life, and he was exulting to think how his sturdy blows would ring out above the clangor of the battle. I suppose he had young man's hopes, a young man's ambitions and a young man's courage. He said: "If Ilive inany years, I will feedthe hungiy and clothe the naked. In this city of Naln, where there are so many bad young men, I Will be sober and honest and pure and magnanimous, and my mother shall never be ashamed of me." But all these prospects are blasted in one hour.. There be passes lifeless in the procession. Behold all that is left on earth of the high hearted young man Of the city of Nain. There is another thing that adds very much to this scene, and that is he was an only sen. However large the family flock may be, we never could think of sparing one of the lambs. Though they may all have their faults, they all have their excellencies . that commend them to the parental heart, and if it were peremptorily demanded of you to-day that you should yield up one of your children out of a very large family you Would be confounded and you could not make a selection. But this was an only son, around whom gathered all the parental exTTnnr mnih rnpn In his ednCA Itfoa! How much caution in watching his habits! He would carry down the name to other times. He would have entire control of the family property Ion? after the parents bad gone to their last reward. He would Stand in society a thinker, a worker, a phil anthropist. a Christian. No, no. It is all ended. Behold him there. Breath is gone. ; Life is extinct. The only son of his mother. I There was one thing that added to the pathos of this scene, and that was his mother was a widow. The main hope of that home r had been broken, and now he was come up to be the staff. The chief light of the household has been extinguished, and this was the only light left. I suppose she often said, looking at him, "There are only two of us." Ob, it to a grand thing to see a young man step out in life and say to his mother; "Don't be down hearted. I will, as far as po3flible. take father's place, and as long as 1 live y.ou shall never want anything." It is not always that way. Sometimes the young people get tired of the old people. They sat they are queer; that they have so many ailments, and they sometimes wish them out of the way. A young man and his wife sat at the table, their little son on the floor playing beneath the table. The old father was very old, and his hand shook, so they said. "You shall no more sit with us at the table.' And so they gave him a place in the corner, where, day by day, bo ate out of an earthen bowl?everything put into that bowl. One day his hand trembled so much he dropped S,and it broke, and the son, seated at the egant table in mldfioor, said to his wife, 4'Now well get father a wooden bowl, and that he can't break." So a wooden bowl was obtained, r.nd evory day old grandfather ate out of that, sitting in the corner. One day, while the elegant young man and his wife were seated at their table, with chased silver and all the luxuries, and their little son sat upon the floor, they saw the lad whittling, and they said: "My son, what ar? you doing there with that knife?" 71 Ka ?<T.?T'ra mntlno? fpntivK fnt* VU, oam "V, A A *** *e? ? "' o- ?v. my father and mother to eat out of?when tbey got old!" Bat this young man of the text was not Of that char.ictcr. He did not belong to that school. I oan tell it from the way they mourned over him. He was to bo the companion of his mother. He was to be his mother's protector. Ho would return now ome of the kindness he had received In the days of childhood and boyhood. Aye, he would with his strong hand uphold that form already enfeebled with age. Will ho do It? No. in one hour that promise of help and companionship is gone. There is a world of anguish in that one short phrase, "lie only son o! his mother, and she a widow." Now, my friends, it was upon this scene that Christ broke. He came in without any introduction. He stopped the procession. He had only two utterances to make?the .one to the mourning mother, the other to the dead. Ho oriod out to the mourning one, "Weep not," and then, touching the bier on which tnc son lay, Ho cried out, I "Young man, I say unto thee arise!" And fie that was dead sat up. I learn two or three things from this subject, and first that Chirat was a man. You see how that sorrow played upon all the chords of His heart. I think that we forget this too often. Christ was a man more certainly tfian you are. for He was a perfect man. No sailor ever slept in ship's hammock more soundly than Christ slept in that boat on Qennesaret. In every nerve and muscle and bone and fiber of Hisbody, m every emotion and affection of His heait, in every action and decision of His mind He Was a man. He looked off upon the sea just as you look off upon the waters. He went into Martha's J""* ?? inin. o YTa breathed hard when He was tirod, just as you do when you are exhausted. He felt after sleeping out a nisht in the storm just like you do when you have been exposed to & tempest. It was just as humiliating for Him to beg bread as it would be for you to become a pauper. He felt just as much insulted by beiiiK sold for thirty pieces of silver as you would if you were sold for the price of a dojr. Fromthe crown of the head to the sole of the foot He was a man. When the thorns were twisted for His brow, they hurt Him just as much as they hurt your ibrow If they were twisted for it. He took not on Him the nature of angels. He took on Him the seed of Abraham. "Ecce Homo!" behold the man! But I must also draw from this subject ,thatHewasa God. Suppose that a man ,should attempt to break up a funeral obsequy. He would be seized by the law, he .would be imprisoned. If he were not actually .slain by the mob before the officers could secure him. If Christ had been a mere mortal, would He have a right to oome in upoa jfe1 ! : - ; ;>"< " x-;;-, " > , V such a procession? Would Ha have succeeded In Hi3 Interruption? He was more than a man, tor when He cried out, "I say unto thee, arise!" he that was dead sat up. What exoitement there must have been thereabout ! The body had lain prostrate. It had been mourned over with agonizing tears, and yet cow it begins to move in the shroud and to be flushed with life, and at the command of Christ he rises up and looks into the faces of the astonished spectators. 'Ob, this was the work of a God! I hear it in His voice; I see it in the flash of His eye; I behold it in the snapping of death's shackles; I see it in the faoe of the rising slumberer; I hear it in the outcry of all those who were spectators of the scene. If, when I see my Lord Jesus Christ mourning with the bereaved, I put my hands on His shoulders and say, "My brother," now that I hear Him proolaim supernatural ? CTl'n deliverances, x muk up mw mo muo olu say with Thomas, "My Lord and my God," Do you not think He was a God? A great many people do not believe that, and they compromise the matter, or they think they compromise it. They say He was a very good ma a, but He was not a God. That is Impossible. He was eithor a God or a wretch, and I will prove it. If a man professed to be that which he is not, what is he? He is a liar, an impostor, a hypocrite. That is your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ professed to be a God. He said over and over again Hs was a God, took the attributes of a God and assumed the works and offices of a God. Dare you now say He was not? He was a God, or He was a wretch. Choose ye. Do you think I cannot prove by this Bible that He was a God? If you do not believo this Bible, of course there is no need of my talking to you. There is no common data from which to start. Suppose you do believe it. Then I can demonstrate that He was divine. I can prove He was Creator, John i.. 3, "All things wer9 made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." He was eternal, Bevelation xxii.j 13, "I am Alpha aid Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." I can prove that He was omnipotent, Hebrews I., 10, "The heavens are the work of Thine hands." I can prove He was omniscient, John ii., 25, "He knew what was in man." Oh, yes, He is a God. He aleft the sea. He upheaved the crystalline walls along which the Israelites marched. He planted the mountains. He raises up governments and casts down thrones and marches across nations and across worlds and across the universe, eternal, omnipo- j tent, unhindered and unabashed. That hand tnat was nailed to tne cross noias me scars In a leash of love. That head that dropped on the bosom in fainting and death shall make the world quake at its nod. That voice that groaned la the last pang shall swear before the trembling world that time shall be no longer. Oh, do not Insult the common Bense of the race by telling us that this person was only a man in whose presence the paralytic arm was thrust out well, and the devils crouched, and the lepers dropped their scales, and the tempests folded their wings, and the boy's satchel of a few loaves made a banquet for 5000, and the sad procession of my text broke up in congratulation and hosanna! Again. I learn from this subject that Christ was a sympathizer. Mark you, this was a city funeral. In the country, when the bell tolls, they know all about it for Ave miles around, and they know what was the matter with the man, how old he was and what were his last experiences. They know with whattemporal prospects he has left his family. There is no haste, there Is no Indecency in the obsequies. There is nothing done as a mere matter of business. Even the children come out as the procession passes and look sympathetic, and the tree shadows seem to deepen, and the brooks weep in sympathy as the procession goes by. But, mark you, this that I am speaking of was a city funeral. In great cities the cart jostles the hearse, and there is mirth and gladness and indifference as the weeping procession goes by. In this city of Nain it was a common thing to have trouble and bereavement and death. Christ saw it every day there. Perhaps that very hour there were others being carried out, but this frequency of trouble did not harden Christ's heart at all. He stepped right out, and He saw this mourner, ana He had compassion on her, and He said "Weep not!" Now I have to tell you. O bruised souls, and there are many everywhere?have you ever looked over any great audience and noticed how many shadows of sorrow there are? I come to all such and say, "Christ meets you, and He has compassion on you, and He says, 'Weep not." Perhaps with some It is "financial trouble. "Ob," you say, "it Is such a silly thing for a man to cry over lost money! Is It? Suppose you had a large fortune,and all luxuries brought to your table, and your wardrobe was lull, and your home was beautiful by music and sculpture and painting and thronged by the elegant and educated, and then some round misfortune should strike you in the face and trample your treasures and taunt your children for their fadod dress and send you into commercial circles an underling where once j*ou waved a scepter of gold, do you think you would cry then? I think you would. But Christ comes and meets all such to-day. He sees all the straits in which vou have been thrust. He observes the sneer of that man who ones was proud to walk in your shadow and glad to get your help. He sees the protested note, the uncanceled judgment, the foreclosed mortgage, the heartbreaking exasperation, and Ho saya "Weep not. I own th? cattle on a thousand hills. I will never let you starve. From My hand the fowls of heaven peck all their food. And will I let you starve r1 Never: no, My child, never!" Perhaps it may be a living home trouble that you cannot speak about to your best friend. It may be some domestic unhappiness. It may be an evil suspicion. It may be the disgrace following in the footsteps ol a son that is wayward, or a companion who is cruel, or a father that will not do right, and for years there may have been a vulture striking its beak intc^the vitals of your soul, and you sit there to-day feeling it is worse than death. It Is. It is worse than death. And yet there is relief. Though the night may be the blackest, though the voices of hell may tell you to curse God and die, look up and hear the voice that accosted the woman of the text ad it says, "Weep not" Earth hath no sorrow That heaven cannot cure. I learn, again, from all this that Christ is the master of the grave. Just outside the gate of the city Death and Christ measured lances, and when the young man rose Death dropped. Now we are sure of our resurrection. Oh, what a 3cene it was when that young man came hack! The mother never expected to hear him speak again. Rho never thought that he would kiss her again. How the tears started and how her heart throbbed as she said, ''Oh, my son, my son, my son!" And that scene is going to be repeated. It is going to be repeated 10,000 times. These broken family clrolas have got to come together. These extinguished household lights hiwe got to be rekindled. There will be a 3tir in the family lot in the oemetery, and there will be a rush into life at the command, "Young man, I say unto thee arise !" As tho child shakes off the dust of the tomb and cones forth fresh and fair and beautiful, and you throw your arms around it and press it to your heart, angel to angel will repeat the story of Nain, "He delivered him to his mother." Did you notice that passage in the text as I read it? "He delivered him to his mother." Oh, ye troubled souls! Oh, ye who have lived to see every prpspect blasted, peeled, scattered, consumed, wait a little! The seedtime of tears will become the wheat harvest. In a clime cut of no wintry blast, under a sky palled by no hurtling tempest and amid redeemed ones that weep not, that part not, that die not, friend will come to friend, and kindred will join kindred, and the long proonaQinn f-hnf inttrehna thfl .avenues of STOhl will lift up their palrus as again and again it is announced that the same one who came to the relief ot this woman of the text came to the relief of many a maternal heart iind ref>eated the wonders ot resurrection and deivered him to his mother." Ob, that will be the harvest of the world. That will bo tho coronation of prlnoes. That will be the Sabbath of eternity. Dried Horse for Food. It has been discovered at Sioux City. Iowa, that a firm hns been slaughtering cheap ranch horses, the flesh of which is made into '-dried beef." The product is all shipped to Jersey City. The proprietors say that they have converted 1100 horses into "dried beef." They buy the horses for less money on the ranges than cattle can be had for. Michigan's Cheap Iron Ore. Investigation shows that iron ore is being mined as oheaply in Michigan districts as at any place on the globe. 1 r??ga<a --n f SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER. 9. Lesson Text: "Jesus and Nlcodc* mus,'' John ill., 1-16-Golden Text: John III., 16Commentary. Having 30 many verse9 assigned for this fesson, we will not quote them, but trust you to study with the open Bible. 1. This chapter illustrates tue last words of chapter il., and we might read this way: He knew what was in man. Now, there was a man. See R. V. So this ruler Nicodemus Is introduced as a specimen, and Jesus proceeds to read to him his thougnts and deal with him. In the next chapter He takes the woman of Samaria as a specimen, and from the rich religious ruler and the poor ungodly woman He shows us the best and the worst in man and that each must and may be born anew. 2. Better to come to Jesus by night than not at all. The great thing Is to come, and the great assurance is "him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out" (John vl., 37). 8. All the verilies in John are double ones, and there are 25 of them, this being the second one. The first is chapter L, 61, and the third and fourth are in verses 5 and 11 of our lesson. It is just the word amen, and might bo read amen, amen. Jesus calls Himself "The Amen" In Rev. ill., 14. 4. Nicodemus, though so religious, was only a natural man, and understood not spiritual things, therefore asked so foolish a question. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, and the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man (I Cor. i., 18; ii., 14). 5. Jesus enlarged upon His first statement as t? the necessity of the birth from above, and now emphasizes that necessity and says that it Is accomplished by water and the Spirit. Both James and Peter testify that we are born again by the word of God (James i., 18; I Pet. i., 23). Paul says that the water signifies the word (Eph. v., 26, with which compare Johaxv., 3, and Ps. cxix., 9). 6. The flesh or natural man can only produce the flesh or natural man. It may be cultivated and educated and become very talented and refined, but it is only flesh and cannot please God (Rom. vili., 8). When we frnm ahnvB hv renaivlnff a AJ.O uviu auun V4 - ? 0 ? life we never had before, even Jesos Himself, then we are said to be in the spirit, not in the flesh (Rom. viU., 9). 7. When Jesus says "Must," that settles everything for the mind that is meek and submissive. There is another in verse 14, and as truly a3 the Son of Man had to be crucified so surely must every refined, talented, educated, religious man or woman be born from above by receiving Jesus, or he shall never see or enter the kingdom of God. One may be very near the kingdom and not enter in, like the scribe of Mark xli., 34, of whom Jesus said, "Thou art not far fromthe kingdom of God." 8. The work of the Spirit in the heart of man is at first a secret work, "as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the 3eed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how ' ("Mark iv., 26, 27). 9. The natural man continues to ask, "How?" The man in whom the Spirit works simply believes and receives with meekness the engrafted word (Jas. i., 21). "The entrance of Tby words glveth light. It giveth understanding unto the simple" (Pa. oxiz., 180), but as long as we are asking "how or why we are not simply receiving. Rather let us say, "Lord, I believe." or like Mary, "Belt unto me according to Thy word." 10. A tencher in Israel might have known that at the word of the Lord, in the vision / ?f IT-raHfll fViA Htt* hrtnaa noma Ar bone to his bone, find were covered with flesh, and by the Spirit of the Lord they stood up an exceeding great army (Ezek. xxxvii., 1-10). The testimony of every spirit filled man in the Old Testament history, confessing his sin and helplessness and giving God the glory, as Joseph, Isaiah, Daniel and others (Gen. xii., 16 ; Isa. vi., 58; Dan", x.,S, 10:Mic. lil., 8), taught the helplessness ot the flesh and the necessity of the Spirit and word of God. . 11. Notice that "I say unto you" of Christ In the gospels is equivalent to "Thus saith the Lord" In the Old Testament, for the Lord, or Lord of Hosts of the Old Testament, is none other than the Christ of the New. For a simple proof see Rev. xxiii.. 6, 16, or perhaps Isa. vl., 5, with John xii., 41, would be more plain to some. One who knows because be has seen is surely a good witness, yet how often a false witness is believed rather then a true one! Compare chapter v.. 43. 12. The only one thing to do with the testimony of a true witness Is to believe, as / otherwise we make the witness a liar, and those who believe not God are guilty of making Him a liar (I John v., 10). Unbelief keeps unsaved souls in a lost condition, and even those who believe to the saving of the soul are kept from enjoying the rest and peace and joy which is their privilege by not believing fully. The last half of John iii., 18, proves the first, and Heb. iii., 18, to iv., 3, the second. "Be not afraid ; only believe.'' 13. Very often in this gospel we have tho testimony of Jesus that He came down from heaven, came forth from the Father, was sent from God, but here He testifies that even while He was on earth He was still in heaven. The other view of this great fact is that now in heavsn at the right hand of God He is still with us alway, and wherever two or three are gathered in His name He is in !h? midst fMnth. ivvii).. 20 : Tviil.. 201. 11. Jesus now takes Nicodemus baok to something he must have been familiar with ?the story of the sinning and bitten Israelites and the wondrous healing by the brazen serpent lifted up upon a pole in sight of all. The brazen serpent was the likeness of that which by its poisonous bite was slaying the thousands of Israel. 15. Tho bitten Israelite who lorked upon the bra/.tm serpent lived, ' WbeD j beheld the serpent of brass he lived" (Num. xxi., 9). Looking is equal to believing or receiving. The sinuer, when convinced of his sin and helplessness and led to see Jesus made a sin offering on the cross for him, dying in his stead, the just for the unjust, receives Him as his substitute. and believing that Christ was made a curse for him he, through the atonement of Christ, is instantly saved. 16. Let a sinner convinced of his sin take this verse and write it out, putting his own name in full instead of "tho world" and 'whosoever" and let hlmlook up to God and sav sincerely. "0 God, I do most heartily believe thatthen ho can go on and say, "And 1 thank Thee that, receiving Jesus as my own Saviour. 1 have f by word for it that I now h?ve everlasting life and shall novor perish." I believe sucn a soul to be truly born from above.?Lesson Helper. A Remarkable Resuscitation. A 8an Diego paper recently announced the death at Moosa, Cal., of Washington E. Irving, nephew of the great Washington Irv ing. at the age of seventy-two. A day or two later the surprising news was received that, after all preparations for the funeral had be?n completed and the lid of the casket had been screwed down just prior to interment, a knocking was heard inside by the horrified attendants. Some persons present hurriedly unscrewed the lid, when the sup Oftrnc? anr nr* 7T?? nnnonnwl frv r- I ? ' "V IV dazed or out of brnr.th lor some moment?, but finally managed to say that he was hungry md weak !rom lack of sustbn.mce. So great was the shock of the i-ulden transition from apparent death to life that some of the women present fainted, while the men were so astounded that their ordinary wits deserted them. Food was finally uirnlshed the patient. So lar as can be learnud he has nlmost entirely recovered from his lato trauce, and is as strong us couJd reasonably be expected. Wisconsin's Big War Claim. The State of Wisconsin is about to suo the CTnited States for $7,975,005.77 for munitions of war furnished in 1861, which wer? paid for only in part by the United States, and for interest on deferred payment. A United States statute of limitations may be made to apply to thi3 case as to bar part of the claim. An Ex-Scnator's Bis Ranch. Ex-Senator Warren's Wyoming ranch is 75x100 miles, and is stocked with 2000 ! horses, 15,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. The sheep are divided into bunohes of 8000 to 10.000, and driven from place to place, or rather herded for a short time in one place, the herders living In movable houses built on wagons. 1 1 ' ; -r?< RELIGIOUS READING. FOUR IMPOSSIBLE THINGS. 1. To escape trouble by running away from duty. Jonah once made the experiment. But he soon found himself where all his imitators will in the end find themselves. Therefore, manfully meet and overcome the difficulties and trials to which the post assigned to you by God's providence exposes you. Go at Sod's bidding, as did Moses, and do the work laid upon you. His grace will be sufficient for vou as it was for him, and the end will be peace, honor and eternal glory. 2. To become a Christian of strength and maturity, without undergoing severe trials. What Are is to gold, so in affliction to the believer. It burns up the dross and makes the gold shine forth with unalloyed lustre. Therefore, do not timidly shrink from the troubles which God's providence brings upon you, but count it all joy to overcome them, "knowing this, that tho trying of your faith worketh patience." 3 To form tin indeDendent character, ex cept when thrown upon our own resources. The oak. in the middle of the forest, surrounded on every side by trees that shelter and shade it, runs up tall and sickly. Cut away its protector, and the first blast will overturn it. But the same tree in the open field, where it is coctinuallybeat upon by the tempest, becomes its own protector. "As high and wide as it sends its boughs aloft so deep and so wide does it strike its roots below. So the man who is compelled to rely on his own resourses, from an independence of character, to which he could not have otherwise attained. Therefore, never purpose to be zealous and devoted Christians only when others are so. but let you faith, and love and zeal shine clear and steady, in the dark days of general declension. 4, To be a growing man, when you look to your past for influence, instead of bringing influence to your past. Therefore, prefer to climb up hill with difficulty, rather than to roll down hill with inglorious ease.?Ohio Obs. WHAT 18 BALIEVING? "At last," says he, "when I lost all hop?, these words were deeply impressed on my mind, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.' I cried out in agony, "What is belioving? What is real Scriptural faith?? Lord teach me! I know nothing? I can do nothing! If thou save me not I perish!" It was then brought to my mind, "Cast all thy care upou him." I cried,"Lord, the burden of my sin is all my care, and may 1 cast this upon thee? Wilt thou receive sucn a sinner? I know thou art able to save and thy hlnnri is sufficient to atone. But art thou in deed willing?" It came into my heart?only | believe. I felt a rising hope, and cried l,l will," but my sins stared me in my face, and I thought "0, it is impossible. My sins have been so secret, sq complicated!" It came to me again?only believe, I thought it cannot be now. I must repent more,be more in earnest It is impossible he should be so merciful to forgive all my sins now. It was applied a third time?Only believe. I said, "Lord, help me to believe and to cast my soul upon thy mercy! Let me know that I am indeed born of thee; that I do believe to the saving of my soul." I have nothing to plead; but Jesus came to save sinners, even the lost I am lost! Thou hast said, "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." I am weary and heavy laden. I come, therefore; the promise is for mo. While I wa9 thus pleading, I was enabled to venture my soul upon the redeemer, with an assured confidence in in his promises. Then I was happy indeed. His love was shed abroad in my heart; and those precious words were applied: "He that loveth i? born of God.'' Now, if I had a thousand souls, I could have trusted him with tbem all. I found a real change in my heart. I was a new crcature?i was a child of God.?Evangelist Magazine. . alone yet not alone. There are experiences in life when, whas> ever the surroundings, one must, so far as human counsel and help are concerned,walk alone; when one knows that the Voice whose word is supreme in loyal souls, has called him to a path, whether longer or shorter, in which not even his dearest ones can go beside him. It is one of those places in which the pilgrimage where the narrow way be comes SO yarrow 11 VMI uuiy aurnn ilia t/cjosa;,re, side by side, of ihe oeliever and his Lord. Even the beloved Son of God, in his human life, tasted this experience; and in it xound, what ever}- true soul linds, "Yet I am not alone because tho Father is with me." And this revelation of the blessedness of the Lord's companionship, its sweets and supports and satisfactions, compensates the soul for its human solitariness. It is one of the most helpful and preciou9 lessons of life to h?ive learned in our own experience the truth of the poet's lines: "A presence actual as the heart From whence my own life-motions start* A being real, though unseen, More true than trace where form hath been', A spirit to my soul is nigh. Alone, yet not alone am I." DBIFTIXQ APABT. How many persons there are who are drifting apart. Families part asnnder, husbands and wives separate, brothers and sisters drift away. The same roof may cover them, they - may eitf at the same table, they may come and go ostensibly members of the same family, but in reality drifting asunder day by day. Thoy have less in common, less union, less friendship, less love, and then sometimes love turns to hatred and disgust, and persons who begin by drifting away,end in open warfare and unbrotherly strife. Families which begin to drift apart on trifling matters, are llnally utterly wrecKea ana nroicen up. Watch against the tendency to drift asunder. Keep the bonds of affection bright, Eray against the tendencies to evlJ. Let eart end hands be united in sincere affection. Let love be without dissimulation, abhor that which is evil, cleave to that tfhich is good. Stay the harsh words.be patient under trials and afflictions, watch against sin, resist evil, and pray that God may keep you peaceful and united in a world of strife, "dissension and desolation, and bring you to the land of rest and peace, the home of everlasting gladness in the presence of the Prince of Peace.?The Christian. ONLY ONE MUST. 8turdy Luther once in a time of fatnin? found a lot of rough peasants about to break into a mill where corn was stored- "What do ye?" cried he. "Master Luther, we must live, pleaded one of the peasants "Nay," thundered Luther, "I do know but one must . We must be honest." To carry ever a thorough surrender of ourselves to tho word of the living God is our only saiety, as it was the safety of the tempted Christ To cast away the future for the present good, to barter the relationship to God, and all that is loftiest and best for a present and passing gratification, is the sin of Esau. Temptation can never justify sin; circumstances can never justify it Would our King tell us again and again, "Fear not!" if ;here were any reason at aH to fear. Would be say this kind word again and again, ringing changes as of the bells of heaven upon it, only to mock us, if he knew all the time that we could not possibly help fearing? Only give half au hour to seeking out the reasons he gives why wa are not to fear, and the all-inclusive circumstances in which he says we are not to fear: see how we are to fear nothing,iiiyl no one,and U'-ver and nowhere; see how he himself is in every case the foundation and the grand reason of his command, his presence and his power always behind it; and then shall u*e hesitate to say, ' I fear no evil, for thou art with me?" Shall we even fancy there is auy answer to those grand and forever unanswered questions, "The Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"?F. R. Havorgal. The Drought In Nebraska. The drought in Nebraska is so severe tunt it is estimated that 10,000 farmers have ieft the State. They are getting away while thcv can. Many of thism are penniless. They dread the winter that will follow the failure of the crops and are working to reach the Mississippi, where they will, many of them, become objects of charity. There are thousands of farai liamls Idle in Western Nebraska and Eastern Colorado because of the drought. The calamity is so seriuos that it cannot fail soon to command national attention. Petrified In a Swamp. Middlebury, Ind., is greatly excited ovor the finding in a swamp of the petrified body Of a man, which weighed 400 pounds. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. SHE IS AT HOME ITT AFRICA. Mrs. Theodore Bent, while exploring in Africa and Asia with her husband, has always worn the same kind of costume?a twBed and skirt (coming well over the knees), breeches, gaiters and shoes. The skirt is made in pleats and arranged so that it can be altered for walking or riding. She and Mr. .Bent always rase 011 sueir eipeuinuuB plenty of towels and sheets, but no glass or crockery. All their cooking and eating utensils are made of enameled iron.?New York Tribune. LADIES AT TEE BIFIiE. The Duchess of Connaught lately drove over to Aldershot, where the Army Rifle Meeting is now held. The Duchess took special interest in the ladies' competition, distance fifty yards, with small rifles, and watched the firing for some time. Some fifty ladies took part in the contest, with weapons of various calibre, and handled the rifles with wonderful dexterity. Three ladies made within one of the highest possible?34 out of the possible 35?Mrs. Pilcher, Mrs. Dumbreck and Mrs. Grier.?New York Journal. TWO BEMABKABLE WOMEN. Two of the most remarkable women in America lived in Glasgow, Conn. The late Miss Abby Smith made a uame for herself by steadily refusing to pay her taxes, bbcause she was not A Unwed to vote. Her sister. Miss Julia, had even a more startling record. She was curious to know something of the original Hebrew, which she studied diligently. She found that no one man alone had ever translated the Bible. She accordingly decided that a woman should do the work, and after going over her great task five times, shut the fruit of her labors up in her closet for a quarter of a century. When she reached the age of eighty-four her Bible was published. When eighty-two she had a law suit which was decided in her favor, and she appeared on the stand every day during the trial. She was married at the age of eighty-six.? American Farmer. THE FASHION* IN GLOVES. While there are any number of fancv and bizarre colors in new gloves, general taste is limited to but few shades. Goldea brown gloves have a large sale, and tan in all its tones, with strange pertinacity, hold3 its own even among those of the most conservative tastes, but women who do not like this color have a choice of several very pretty shades of yellow from jonquil, maize and primrose, to the deeper dyes known severally as golden rod, cowslip and chanterelle. There are also imported some neutral tints in violet gray, of a brownish tone, thrush, fawn, mushroom and dove gray. The approach of hot weather has been the signal for the purchase of suede-finished lisle gloves and silk gloves in black and colors. jmnrnro/l moL-aa nf fVlOQA orlflVPS JL.JUU w. ?<?WWW Q? are line and handsome, and another thing in their favor is the fact that, when soiled, their wearer, with the aid of some lukewarm water and a bit of fine soap, can restore them to their fresh looks again.?New York Advertiser. HE "FIXED" THE PIANO. A Utica (N. Y.) family changed their residence from one street to another a few days since. Among the household effects was a handsome square piano, the cover of which had in process of transportation been slightly cracked Wh?t\ the tuner came he noticed the cracked covei' and told tho lady of the house that he knew of a man who could repair it so that it would not be noticed. There was a carpenter working about the house and as the cost of moving had been considerable the lady decided to have the carpenter do the wc rk, and informed the tuner that he need not send his expensive expert. Calling the capenter she showed him the damaged cover and informed him that he could easily fix it with glue. The carpenter set about his task and the lady paid no further attention to him. A day or two ago she had company, and was requested to play upon the piano. Haying found it, she learned that her surmise was incorrect. Failing, after repeated and strenuous efforts to lift the lid, she was compelled to forego the pleasure of entertaining her guests in this way. When her husband came home he exercised his muscle, but to no avail. After three or four trials he begun an examination, and found that the carpenter had labored under the mistaken notion that the lid ought not to rise, and had accordingly placed a thick coating of glue between it and that part of the piano upon which it touched. To Jiake the job undeniably complete, he further secured it by driving a tenpenny nail through it.?Chicago Times, a prince's cradle. The cradle in which the infant son of the Duke and Duchess of York re- ! jjoses is a gift from the Queen, and ; bears an inscription to the effect that it was made in 1840 for the Princess lioyal, was used for all her Majesty's children, and was given by the Queen to the Duchess of York in 181)4. The Queen commissioned the firm of Edmond Orr, Wigmore street, to fit it up with pure white satin and Houiton lace, and us the bassinette is itself in < white wood, there is no scrap of color j i about it. The Queen bus also given ft j j second cradle to the Duchess, made of j i mahogany inlaid with fine gilding, i < This is lit ted up with brocade in deli-1 i cately pale tones of color. The bed- j i ding provided for both cradles is of < the softest and lightest description, j 1 The sheets are of Irish lawn bordered > 1 with Valenciennes lace, and the blun- ' I lcets are of Pyrenean wool, very white, ' i and weighing very little, the texture 1 more nearly resembling eider down i than Annuel. Two small eiderdown i quilts have been provided for the 1 baby's use, one white and one pale i pink. The Queen has also given the { little prince several robes, including i one of fine Irish lawn and lace, and a i handsome cloak and hood of Zibeline 1 bilk. Three small plumes in the hood suggest the Prince of Wales's feathers. Such articles as these, for the children of the wealthy, were some years ago almost invariably made of French cambric, but of late years the manufacture of Irish lawn has so immensely improved that it now equals, if it does not even surpass, the finest products of the looms of Cambray, so close, so even and so clear is it.?London News. FASHION NOTES. White chiffon veiling is worn with broad leghorn hats. Very wide ribbons trim shade hats, the bows being immense. Parasols are profusely decorated with ribbons in loops, bows and ends. White, pink, blue and heliotrope lawn ties, with plain or silk embroidery are worn. Tortoise shell hair pins grow more elaborate and obtrusive with every changing fashion. Butterfly bows of moire satin and shot ribbon, No. 12 wide, are mounted on a long hair pin. Blue canvas Oxford ties, with patent tip trimmings, are worn to match the popular blue duck outing suits. A novelty in a sailor shape hat is small and trimmed with large bouquets of flowers and flat bows in stiff effects. Butterflies in silver and gold are popular hair ornaments. They should be perched on the coil at the back oJ the head. The sleeves of dressy costumes are somewhat shorter than those heretofore worn. The latest thing is a sleeve with a full puff to the elbow and below this a fall of lace six or eight inches deep. A pretty dress for a little girl is made of fine white alpaca. It has a round skirt with a gathered ruffle, 8 deep yoke, pointed front and back, a gathered waist, a coiselet, belt and sleeves with enormous puffs at the shoulders and full ruffles below. Shirt waists are standard articles in the wardrobe of almost every welldressed young woman. They are not quite as mannish as heretofore, tha fonilonnr +.r? ri Artnrn.+.ir>r> fftlrina noma reui""*v; ? d what from the severe styles that have been accepted as the proper mode. A stylish trimming for a dress is made of old-fashioned serpentine braid, alternating with very narrow star braid. The latter is stitched on in half a dozen close rows, then another row of the serpentine. This may be repeated antil the trimming is as wide as desired. The latest novelty in petticoats is made of moire, with deep flounces of lace. The moire is scalloped at the lower edge, and falls over a ruffle of plain material, that may match the moire or not, as the wearer pleases. A profusion of ribbons also appears as trimming for these garments. A gown of cherry red at a health resort the other day was trimmed with three bands of white insertion. The bodice was of lace, with a draping of the red sewed in at the armhole and knotted in front at the bust. At the waist was a belt with a silver buckle. The sleeves were balloons with lace cuffs. There is one style of trimming a dress waist that produces a, queer effect in the eyes of the beholder. It is where a deep fall of lace or fringe, five or six inches, makes a straight line from bust to hips. It looks for all the world as if the wearer had fltxng a towel over her shoulders while brushing her hair and had forgotten to remove the -towel. A charming and effective tailor co3tume has a waist slightly pointed at the bodice and with a double front; the inner front buttoning closely up to a pointed shirt front. Over this is a section that closes under the arm and fastens up under the lapels of th? inner waist. The effect is peculiar and new, and will therefore have a certain amount of popularity. Distinctive names for one's gowns are not exactly a fad yet, but may become one, and has certainly more to commend it than many of the fads of the day. You see it simplifies directions and explanations vastly when you have only to say to your maid: "See that the Scotch Mist is ready for me to wear to-morrow evening, and don't forget to pat a fresh balayeuse in my 'Heliotrope Symphony,' for I shall wear it to Miss C. 's wedding on Thursday." Lace ad libitum seems to be the accepted trimming for frocks, whether gingham, muslin, ciepon or silk. Some of the coarse-meshed hand-made laces are especially effective, and are " i ? ? ji n.11 li. in Very "good 8Cyie. C-oiiareite& are becoming, worn with a ribbon band at the neck and a big bow behind. They give a pretty finish to any oostume, and fill a long-felt want in solving the problem of making a low body into a high one, for some small function or for an occasion "en plain jour.'' New fancy waists, of endless styles are variously formed of delicate and beautiful laces, of flowered taffetas and summer 3atins, of India muslins as shadowy in texture and pattern as dreams, of chiffon plain and silk wrought in floral designs, of batiste, organdie, veiling and so on. They are made appropriate for day or evening wear, for yachting, luncheon, garden party, church, coucert or dance, according to their simplicity or elaborateness of design, fabric and garniture. Flower (irowini? tor Perfume, Grasse and Cannes, France, are the 3entres of a>ery active industry in the manufacture of perfumery near the Mediterranean Sea. In the vicinity af the former city the annual output jf orange blossoms is nearly four million pounds, of roses three-fourths as much; white jasmine, tuberose and jther fragrant flowers are largely cul- i ;ivated. It is found that the most faro r able conditions to the success of lower growing for perfumes are an ittitude of 500 to 2000 feet above sea .evel, a soil ricn in calcareous elements, and a situation well sheltered ironi cold winds, and not subject to ;ho severe frosts which in autumn and spring affect the lowlands. Flowers jrown in localities of the elevation mentioned are said to be far more rich in perfume than similar varieties cultivated in valleys or damp lowlands. ?American Agriculturist. ? POPULAR SCIENCE. Charcoal is said to be the best fuel for prodaoing intense heat. Seashells murmur because the vibrations of the air are brought to a focus in them. A telephone has been invented through which a voice may be heard in any part of room. Boiled water tastes flat and insipid because the gases it contained have been driven off by heat. A tree in a forest near the southern boundary of Japan attains a height of four feet in seven weeks. Scientists are now able, by means of an ingenious machine, to count tha particles of dust in the air. Lieberkuhn estimates that the extent of respiratory surface in the human lungs is not less than 1400 square feet. Of 67,000,000 rays of light and warmth radiated by the sun only 1,? 000,000 fall on the planets of the solar ' system. Besearch shows that there is not a particle of vegetation in the eastern part of the North Sea. It is'one great watery waste. The earliest known attempt at an explanation of the rainbow was made by Aristotle. It was along the line of modern scientific investigation. The most remarkable formations of frost known to the. meteorologist are found on Mount Washington, where the orystals are often a foot long. Charles Mcllvaine, an American expert on fungi, claims to have eaten full meals of over 400 species of toadstools without ever having been poiI soned. Electrical weaving machines are is nse in Germany. Seamless stookings, with doable heels, are rattled out of each machine at the rate of eleven pairs an hour. Muscles of the eyes, ears and nose show that several groups, which, in the lower animals are very highly developed, in man are in an almost rudimentary condition. Professor Ball, the Astronomer Royal of Ireland, says that if the fixed star Sirius is inhabited its people cannot see our sun, which is 100,000,000,000 miles from them. Animal magnetism is no new discovery, but was practiced by Father Hehl, at Vienna, about 1774, and had wonderful success for a while in France and England in 1788 and 1789. In the interior of Australia is a series of great lakes which are occupied by water only at long intervals. The mud which remains when the water is absent is filled with the bones of i geologic monsters. ^ An inventor has just discovered that there is enough latent energy in a cubic foot of air to kill a regiment, and that this power can be "liberated by vibration." This is the Keely motor principle. As air is composed of certain elements (gases), united in proper chemical proportions, it ia simply necessary to produce a vibration of sufficient intensity to make a new chemioal combination, and there you have the power. Easy enough! An Annual Crop of Meat. j Upon a certain spot on the lawn of one of my neighbors, year after year, without fail, there spings np a moat singular crop. For the first two years of its appearance it was looked upon with curious awe by the proprietors of the premises, and usually ignominiously spurned with the foot by thfc indiscriminating and destructive 3malT boy. One day I observed about five pounds of this Delmonico delicacy thua scattered piecemeal about grass, and my pfotest has since sparga the animal crop for my sole benefit.' It usually makes its appearftflo^ifl l^ja September, and continues in intermit-^ tent crops until November. A casual observer of this cluster of edible toadstools might imagine that he beheld a convention of goose eggs standing oa end in the grass, their summits more or less spotted with brown. If one of them is examined, it is seen to be a curious short-stemmed mushroom which never expands, perhaps five inches in height, and whose surface is curiously decorated with shaggypatches. In its early stages it is white and singularly egglike, but later becomes brownish, and its shaggy points almost black. The concealed gills are I crowded and of equal length, at first ' creamy white, but gradually changing I through a whole gamut of pinks, sepias and browns until they becomtf jet black, at which time the whole substance of the cap melts or deliquesces into an unsightly inky paste, which besmears the grass and ultimately , leaves only the bare white stalk standing in its midst. This is the "shaggymane" mushroom, Coprinus comatus. It is a savory morsel, and it cannot ba confounded with any other fungus. It should be gathered in the white or pink stage, and may be prepared for the table in various ways, either broiled or fried, as described for previous species, or stewed with milk. ?Harper's Magazine. Pets Detested Aboard Ship. "The officers -nd crews of oceangoing steamships fairly hate to see a passenger come aboard with a pet in the shape of a bird or beast," said N. F. Sidney, of Philadelphia, at the Arlington this morning. "They know the individual will be forever in the fidgets about his animated possession, and from captain to cabin boy a groan goes up when a dog or a parrot comes over the side. Many of the companies charge heavy fare for pets, and the French line that runs to Havre deA ' 1 _ rnands ;fiu passage ior a aog or a monkey, and 34 for a parrot. If the pet possesses any striking physical peculiarities the sailors are pretty apt to endeavor to bring it to grief before the voyage is fairly begun, for they are sure that the animal is a harliitiger of bad luck. Several years ago 1 wa3 a passenger on the Arizona, and aa English serio-comic singer aboard had an ugly cross-eyed pug dog with her. The second day out a big piece of lifting tackle accidentally fell on the dog an J broke its back. The singer was in hysterics over her darling's death, but the other men in the crew clubbed together and bought a month's supply of tobacco for the shrewd companion who engineered the accident."?Washington Star,