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. N, rc % REV. DR. TALMAGE. I THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- I DAY SERMON. J Subject: "Everlasting Life.'* J Text : "Arise y? and depart, for this is not { your rest."?Mieah II., 10. This was the drum beat of a prophet who wanted to arouso his people from their op* * ji*.j-_ {f mov* iilQt I pressea ana simui coaumuu, uui ?v j? 88 properly bo uttered now as then. Bells by long exposure and much ringing lose their clearness of tone, but this rousing bell of the gospel strikes in as clear a tone as when It first rang o". the air. As far as I can see your great want and mine is rest. From the time we enter life a great many vexations and annoyances take after us. We may have our holidays and our seasons of recreation and quiet, but where is the man come to midlife who has found entire rest? The fact is that God did not make this world to rest In. A ship might as well go down off Cape Hatteras to find Bmooth water as a man in this world to find quier. From the way that God has strewn the thorns and hung the clouds and sharpened the tusks, from the colds that distress us, and tho heats that smite U3, and the pleurisies that stab us, and the fevers that consume us, I know that He did not make this world as a place to loiter in. God does everything successfully, and this world would be a very different world if it were intended for us to lounge in. It does right well for a few hours. Indeed it i3 magnificent! Nothing but infinite wisdom and * J aP gooJness couia nave mixea mia water, or hung up these brackets of stars, or trained these voices of rill and bird and ocean, so that God has but to lift His hand, and the whole world breaks forth into orchestra. Bat, after all, it is only the splendors of a king's highway, over which we are to march on to eternal conquests. Tou and I hav<> seen men who tried to rest here. They bullded themselves great stores. They gathered around them the patronage of merchant princes. The voice of their bid shook the money markets. They had stock in the most successful railroads and in "safety deposits" great rolls of Government securitres. They had emblazoned carriages, high mettled steeds, lootmen, pkteth3t confounded lords and senators who sat at their tables, tapestry on which floated the richest designs of foreign looms, splendor of canvas on the walls, jxquisiteness of music rising among pedestals of bronze and dropping, soft as light, on snow of sculpture. Here let them rest. Put back the embroidered curtain and shake up the pillow of down. Turn out the lights. It is 11 o'clock at night. Let slumber drop upon the eyelids and the air float through the naif opened lattice drowsy with midsummer perfume. Stand back, all care, anxiety and trouble. But. no, they will not stand back. They rattle the lattice. They look under tne canopy. With rough touch tbey startle his traces. They cry out at 12 o'oioci at night: ''Awake, man! How can you s!e ap when things are so uncertain? What a'->out those stock*? Hark to the tap of that flretrell! It Is your district! How If you should die soon? Awake, man! Think of it I Who will get your property when you are gone? What will they do with It? Wake up! Riches sorretimes take wings! How if you should get poor? Wake up!" Rising on one elbow, the man of fortune looks out Into the daricnpss of the room and wipes the dampness from bis forehead and says, "Alas, for all this scene of wealth and magnificence-' no rest I" I pissed down a street of a city with i merchant. He knew all the finest houses on the s.reet. \He said: "There Is something the :r.utter in all these houses. Ih that one it is conjugal inFeliolty; in that one, a dissipated son; in that, a dissolute father; in that, an idiot child; in that, the respect of bankruptcy." This world's wealth can give no permanent satisfaction This is not your re6t. You and I have seen men try in another 1 min ; "If I OOtild Only rise to such and such a place of renown; if I could gain that office; if I could only get the stand and have my sentiments met with one good round of hand cl&pping applause $ if I could only write a book that would live, or make a speech that would thrill, or do an action that would resound!" The tide turns In his favor. His name is on 10,000 lips. He v Is bowed to and sought after and advanced. Men drink his health at great dinners. At bis fiery words the multitudes huzza. From galleries of beauty they throw garlands. From housetops, as he passes in long pro* cession, they shake out the national standards. Here let him rest. It is 11 o'clock at night. On pillow stuffed with a nation's praise let him lie down. Hush all disturbant voices! In his dream let there be hoisted a throne, and across it a coronation. Hush, bush* "Wake up," says a rough voice. 'Political sentiment is changing. How 11 you should lose this place of honor? Wake up." The morning papers are to be full of denunciation. Hearken to the execretions of tnose who once caressed you. By tomorrow night there will be multitudes sneer ing ac tne woras wmou i^sl u^ul j uu ?pected would be universally admired. How can you sleep when everything depends upon the next turn of the great tragedy! Up, man. Off this pillow." The man, with head yet hot from his last oration, starts up suddenly, looks out upon the night, but gees nothing except the flowers that lie on his stand, or the scroll from which he read his speech, or the books from which he quored his authorities, and goes to his desk to finish his neglected correspondence, or to pen an indignant line to some reporter, or sketch the plan for a public defense against the assaults of the people. Happy when he got bis first lawyer's brief, exultant when he triumphed over his first political rival, yet, sitting on the very top of all that this world offers of praise, he exclaims, "No rest, no rest." The very world that now applauds will Boon hiss. That world said or the great Webster: "What a statesman! What wonderful exposition of the constitution! A man for any^ositlon." That 6ame world said after awhile: "Down with him! He is an office seeker. He Is a sot! He is a libertine. Away with him!" And there is no peace for the man until he lays down his broken heart in the grave at Marshfield. Jeffrey thought that if he could only be judge ?hnt- Tt-nnlrl hn tVin mnfclnc of him : crot to hn Judge and cursed the day In which he was born. Alexander wanted to submerge the world with his greatness; submerged it and then drank himself to death because he could not stand the trouble. Burns thought he would give everything if he could win the favor of courts and princes; won it, and amid the shouts of a great entertainment when poets and orators duchesses were adoring his genius wished '..hat he could creep back into the obscurity in which he dwelt when he wrote of the Daisy, we?, modest, crimson tl; pe-J flower. Napoleon wanted to make ail Europe tremble at his power; made it tremble, then died, his entire military achievements dwindling down to a pair of military boots which he Insisted on having on his feet when dying. At Versailles I saw a picture of Napoleon in his triumphs. I went into another room and saw a bust ot Napoleon as he appeared at St. Helena ; but, oh. what grief and anguish in the face of the latter! The first was Napoleon In triumph; the last was Napoleon with his heart broken, fiow they laughed and cried when silver iongued Sheridan in the mfdday of prosperity harangued the people of Britain, ani bow thev howled at and executed him when, outside of the room where his corpse lay, his creditors triel to get his miserable bon&3 and sell them. This world for rest? "Aha!" cry the waters, "no rest here! We plunee to the sea." "Aha'" cry the mountains, "no rest here! We crumble to the plain.'* "Aha!" cry the towers. '*no rest here. We follow Babylon and Thebes and Nineveh into the dust." No rost for the flowers ; thay fade. No rest for the stars; they dt\ No rest tor mr.n ; he must work, toll, suTur anl slave. Now. for what have. I said all this? Jast to prepare you for the text, "Arise ye an 1 depart, for this is not your rest." I ".m {joins? to make you a errand offer. Some of you remember that when gold was discovered in California larze companies were made up and started off to get their fortun?. To-day I want to make up a party for the land ol gold. I hold in my hand a deed from the proprietor of the estate, in which he offers to all who will join tho company 10,000 shares of Infinite value fa a city wiiose streets are cold, whose harps are gold, whose crowns are gold. You have read of the crusalers?how that many thousands of them went off to conquer the holy sepuloher. I ask you to join a grander crusade, not for the purpose of oonquering v*. .v."--'-. theaepuleherofa deal Christ, but for the purpose of reaching the thron* of a Hvia? Jesu3. When an army 19 to be made up, the recruiting officer examines the volunteers. He tests their eyesight, he sounds their lunt?3, he measures their stature. They must be just right or they are rajected. But there shall be no partiality in" m akin? up this army of Christ. Whatever yo ur moral or Dhysical 9tature, whatever your dissipations, whatever your weakness, I nave a commission from the Lord Almighty to make up this regiment of redeemed souls, and X I cry. "Arise ye and depart, for this is not I your rest." Many of you have lately Jolnei this company. and my desire is that you may all join It. Why not? You know in your own hearts' experience that what I have said about this world is true?that it is no place to rest in. There are nunareas uara wdury?^a, UVI, . weary!?weary with sin, weary with trouble, weary with bereavement. Some of you have been pierce! through and through. You i carry the scars of a thousand conflicts, in which you have bled at every pore, and yon sigh, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest! Yoa have taken the cup of this world's pleasures and drunk it to the dregs, and still the thlr3t claws at your tongue, and the fever strikes to your brain. Yoa have ohased pleasure through every valley, by every stream, amid every brightness and under every shadow, but just at the moment when you were ready to put your hand upon the rosy, laughing sylph of the wood she turned upon you with the jglare of a flend and the eye of a satyr, j her locks adders and her breath the ohlll ! damD of a crave. Out of Jesus Christ no > rest. No voice to silence the storm. No light to kindle the darkness. No dry dook to repair the split bulwark. Thank God, I oan tell you something better. If there Is no rest on earth, there 13 rest In heaven. Oh, ye who are worn out j with work, your hands calloused, your back3 i bent, your eyes half put out, your fingers j worn with the needle that in this world you i may never lay down, ye discouraged ones , who have been waging a hand dght for j bread, ye to whom the night brings little I set and the morning more drudgery?oh, | ye of the weary hand, and of the weary elde, and the weary foot, hear me talk about . rest! "* ?-Amnonr nf nnf-hroned ones. I IjDU& ttl luab WLUpwuj V* ?- _ Look at their hands; look at their feet f look at their eye3. It cannot be that those bright ones ever tolled? Yes, yes! Thesa packed the Chinese teaboxes, and through ' missionary Instruction escaped into glory. These sweltered on Southern plantations, 1 and one night after the cotton picking went up as white as if they had never been black. Those died of overtoil in the Lowell carpet factories, and these in Manchester mills. Those helped build the pyramids, and these broke away from work on the day Christ was hounded out of Jerusalem. No mora towers to build; heaven is done. No mow garments to weave; the robes are-finished. No more harvests to raise; the garners are full. Oh, sons and daughters of toil, arise , ye and depart, for that is your rest! Scovill McCallum, a boy of my Sundayschool, while dying said to his mother, "Don't cry, but sing, sing "There Is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary." Then, putting his wasted hand over his heart, said, "Therevls rest for me." Oh, ye whose looks are wet with the dews of the night of grief; ye whose hearts are heavy because those well known footsteps sound no more at the doorway, yonder 1? your rest I There is David triumphant, but j once he bemoaned Absalom. There is Abra- ; ham enthroned, but onoe he wept for Sarah. ! There is Paul exultant, but he once sat with his feet in the stocks. There is Payson radiant with Immortal health, but on earth he was always sick. No toll, no tears, no partings, no strife, no aaronlzlng cough to- 1 night. No storm to ruffle the crystal sea. 1 No alarm to strike from the oathedral i * * J1 DOMnHl/l *! towers, nu mr^o luivuuiug uvu v. . harps. No tremor In the everlasting song, | but rest?perfect rest?unending rest. j Into that rest how many of our loved ones have gone! The little ohlldren bad been gathered up Into the bosom of Christ. One of them went out of the arms of a widowed j mother, following its father, who died a few | weeks before. In its last moment it seemed ; to see the departed father, for it said, look- ' ing upward with brightened countenance, j "Papa, take me up!" Others-put down the work of midlife, feellng they could hardly be spared from the of- j flee or store or Bhop for a day, but are to be I spared from it forever. Your mother went. Having lived a life of Christian consistency here, ever busy with kindness for her chll- j dren, her heart full of that meek and quiet i spirit that is in the sight of God great price, suddenly her countenanoe was transfigured, and the gate was opened, and she took her i place amid that great cloud of witnesses that nover about the throne. Glorious consolation! They are not dead. rT~- /if mob-a mo hnllflvn thev are dead. I IUU uauuvk *u??v -V Tbey have only moved on. With more love than that -with whioh they greet us on earth, they watch us from their high place, ana their voices cheer us in our struggles for the sky. Hail, spirits blessed, now that ye have passed the flood and won the crown! With weary feet we press up the shining way, un- j til in everlasting reun'on' we shall meet j again. Oh, won't it be grand when, our I conflicts done and our partings over, we shall clasp hands and ory out, "This is heaven!" Vegetables lor Summer Diet. It is not natural to eat a great amount of meat in summer. The system doss not require it as it does in colder j weather. A vegetable diet is best for hot weather, provided it be the right kind of vegetables to give strength for I those who have heavy work to do. There are no more nutritious vegetables than green peas and green beans. They contain much of the nutritious elements that these same grains contain when they have ripened. The diet of vegetarians has not been diversified as it should be. It is this that has brought their system into discredit.?Boston Cultivator. A Novel Beehive. When the workmen came to tear off the roof of the EHicott City (Md.) Presbyterian Church, which is being demolished to give place to a new church, they stirred up a numerous and influential colony of bees which had made their home in a cornice of the old building for years and years. The bees fought oft' the intruders and had to be smoked out ana massacred before the men could go on with their work. The honey which the industrious little insects had hoarded up was taken out, and it filled a big tub and a pan, making all told not much less than 150 pourds.?Washington Star. ? ?? Extirpating Peach Yellows. The ^peach yellows" commission, appointed by the last Legislature to visit ovory orchard in Connecticut and destroy, root and branch, with axs or Are, every tree infected with the yellows, has completed just about half Its work. The Commissioners are six in number, and their pay Is $5 a day. They began their task about the mlddln of T.ilw on.T mnof (t nil Snnfomhsr 1 Tho Commissioners have done the work In the most painstaking way. In searching for diseased trees they penetrate even into city dooryards and examine all fruit for sale at stores or street stands. The main tokens of the yellows in a tree are a short, yellow, sprouty growth, and a premature ripening on the part of its fruit. The malady is contagious, and it has almost completely wiped out the peach-growing industry in Connecticut. Owing, perhaps, to considerable unofficial work ot the kind done last year, the Commissioners thought that the number of trees that it is necessary to extirpate Is considerably smaller than was antialpated. The percentage of diseased trees, Chief Commissioner Hubbard said Is Ave per cent., as against ten per cent, last season. The disease is far more prevalent In old than in new orchards, sometimes amounting to twenty-ilve per cent, of all the trees there. The Commissioners hav3 arbitrary powers. The penalty of opposing them about their work ranges from $30 to ?100 la flne3, with or without imprisonment. .Patriotic Japs. A fund of 680,000,000 bearing no interest has been subscribed by the Japanese nobles for the prosecution of the war. I I ' ' >, ' RELIGIOUS READING. A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO A CHRISTIAN. What, art thou faint hearted ? Hast thou forgotten the faithfulness of him who hath said, "I will not fail theo nor forsake thee?" Josh, i, 5. For shame! For shame! Fear not. for they that are with thee arc more than they that be against thee. Dost thou want to sec horses and chariot3 of Are drawn out for thy protection, or thousands of angels on the wing for thy defence? Thou hast much more than these. Look around thee with the eye of faith, and seo who is on thy side. See who is pledged for thy defcnce, thy safety, thy comfort, and thy joy. G'od the Father, in all bis divine and his almighty perfections, infinite in strength, in wisdom and in goodness; whose word is povster, and whose arm none can withstand. The li^htenings are in his hands, and the thunders; and his are the hosts and the armies of heaven. He will not leave thee nor f^-sake thee. Fear thou not, for I am with tfiee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea. I will holp thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Is. xli. 10. God the Redeemer, clothed with grace as with a garment, in the rich ess of his mercy, and the fulness of his love. He is on thy side. He has suffered for thy sIds, and atoned for thine iniquities. He has lived, he has died, yea, risen a?ain Tor thee. '"When Christ, who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Col. iii, 34. ' Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom propared for you from the founda- j tion of the world. ' Matt, xxv, 34. God the Holy Ghost, quickening, consoling, guiding, and strengthening thee, surrounding thee with all his hallowed influ- j enctss, is with thee. He encourages thee with 1 his merciful invitations. "Come, and let him that heareth say come. And let him that is ] athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. sxiit, 17. Take comfort Christian. The attributes of God, the graces of Jesus Christ, and the consolations of tho Holy Ghost, are in league for thy benefit, joined together for thy good; and such a threefold cord cannot be broken. Thou owdest much, but thy debt is paid; thy sins are many, but they have been forgiven. Christ has died for thee, and thou mayest now say, "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the rtehteons .Tudye shall give me at that day." 2 Tim. iv, 8. Gt? on then with confidence, Though thousand foes thy heart appall, And death and heli combine, Yet sualc thou win thv wuv through all. And heaven, indeed, be thine. USEFULNESS THE GREAT END OF LIVING. In reading an obituary notice of Mrs. Margaret Maltby, wife of Rev. John Maltby of j Bangor, we were forcibly struck with a remark of her father, Rev. William Jackson, ! D. D., of Dover, Yt. After she was married, i and about to leave her father's house, he j said, "Now, Margaret, I want you you to re- : member this one thing?"All you can get out I of life is usefullness." This is a living truth, worthy of being engraven on every heart Its practical j influence must be highly salutary. It ; will keep constantly before the mind the great end of living. It is not ; the great design of God in placing us in this world, to give us an opportunity of gratifying our animal appetites. 'Such pleasures never ; satisfy, and always ends in pain. It is not the , design of God that we should live for the sake of amassing wealth. This passion can j never be gratified. It rises in its demands by every new acquisition. Ii never has enough, j The indulgence of this passion is pernicious. It is idolatry. Tt in no n?rt nf tVip nf find in nlnHnc us in this world, that we should seek after , vrord'y greatness. Tho indulgence of this ; desire is contrary to tho spirit of the Gospel, j It is also invariably attended with carcs, and perplexities. It is something in anticipation ; but nothing in fruition. But he who i lives to do good, or to be useful, has a present satisfaction which no pure wordly ' pursuit ever affords. If, like his master, he goes about doing good, or does all things ' for tho glory of God, he has a pence ! which the world can neither give nor j take away. Great peace have they which ! love thy law. But all the good effects of a j lifo of usefulness are not confined to this ; world. Whatever is done for the sake of do- j ing good, will in no wise lose its reward, j The smallest thing done from this motive will be remembered in the day of judgement, A ( cup of cold water cannot be given to a disciEle without receiving its appropriate reward. ! et then the wise saying of Dr. Jackson to J his daughter be remembered "All you can j get out of lifo is usefulness." USEFULNESS.' A man's usefulness depends far more on the ! kindness of his daily temper, than on the j great and glorious deeds that shall attract the admiration of the world, and that shall send ' his name down to future times. It is the little j rivulet that glides through tbe meadow, and j that runs along day and night by the farm- j house, that is useful, rather than the swollen . flood, or the noisy cataract. Niagara excites i our wonder, find tills tne mina witn amazement and awe. Wo feel that God is there; and it is well to go far to see once, at least, how solemn it is to realize that we are in tho j presence of the great God, and to see what j wonders his hand can do. But one Niagara ; is enough for a continent?or a world; while j that same world needs thousands and tens of I thousands of silvery fountains, and gently , flowing rivulets, that shall water every farm. ; and meadow, and every garden, and that shall j flow on every day and every night with their j quiet and gentle beauty. So with life. We admire tho great deeds of Howard's benevolence. and wish th:it all men were like him. We revere the names of tho Illustrious martyrs. We honor the man who will throw himself in the 'imminent de idly breach,' and save his country?and such men and such deeds we must have when the occasion calls for them. But all men are not to be useful in this way? \ any more than ali waters are to rush by us in j swelling and agry floods,?wo are to be useful in more limited spheres. Wo are to cultivate I the ceneral charities of life. We are by a con- ! sistent walk to benefit those around us? | though in a humble vale, and though like the i gentle rivulet we may attract little attention, and may soon cease to be remember on earth. ?Rev. Albert Barnes. SYMPTOMS OF BACKSLIDING. If decay of love of Christ be our disease, it will have*such symptoms as these: 1. Christ will be less in our hearts and mouths than formerly. 2. We will be more slack in our obedience, and have less delight in our duty than before. 3. It is a sign of decaying love when we lose our tendency of conscience, and wonted abhorrence of sin. Christ's enemy. 4. When we are more easy under Christ's absence and withdrawings, and less anxious for his r.reseni e. 5. W hen we lose our wonted appetites for our spiritual food and nourishment from Christ in the ordinances. 6. When we lose our public-sp'iritedness and concern for the interest for Christ's kingdom and glory in the world. 7. When we are little concerncd to have heart-holiness, which is Christ's image drawn upon the soul. 8. When we have little desire for Christ's second coming, or for the enjoyment of him in heaven. 9. When earthly-mindnoss and love to the world is on the growing band. CALVIN. Said this eminent man of God, to the reforming churches?''Send me wood, and I will send you arrows for the battlo. "Say the men of Calvin's spirit now at Geneva, to tho American churches, "Senl us Biblesandsoon we will send you preachers of salvation for the countries of your continent, which are 5till covered with tho darkness of popery." a. ttoz rarm. William Hnmmond, of Eldrod, Sullivan County, across ta? Delaware from Shohola, Penn., keeps 400 dogs. To properly support this great canino army he has a bakery and a meat-chopping machine, which in combi* nation use up ten barrels of flour and half a ton ot meat to make dog biscuits. These dogs do not all belong to jlr. Ham mond. They are the property of sportsmen in Now York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Hammond is a profession-it trainer ot hunting dogs and he is handling ani breaking these dogs in the woods and covers of Sullivan County for service In the Held and chase. Twenty hired men who know something about dogs themselves assist Hammond In this work. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 10. LessonTcxt "Jesus ut Jacob's Well," John Iv., 9-2G--Golden Text: John lv., 14?Commentary. 9. .Tesus, having left Ju'lac.a to go into Galilee, In passing through Samaria stops to rest at Jacob's well. If the sixth hour of verse G is tho same as tho sixth hour of chapter xix., 14, it was 6 o'clock in the moraine when Jesus, resting on the well, meets the womnn of Samaria, who had come out to draw water and asks her to give Him to drink. This verse is the woman's first response to Hie request. 10. His reply is that if she knewwho asked / her. oven the gift of God, she would havo askod Him for living water. If she had ever read the Sariptures and memorized Jer. ii., IS, she might now have thought ofthewords of the Lord, "They havo forsaken Me, the fonntain of living waters." 11. As in the case of Nicodemus, Ho is talking with a natural person who cannot understand spiritual things. She can only think of thiB deep well and this water by 1 which they now are. But she who wondered i that a Jew should aak anything of her is now | asking something of Him for already He has i interested her in a water she knows not of. 12. She knew something of Jacob and the story of this well and begins to speak of what sho knows. She calls him "our father Jacob" and acknowledges him as a great man, the giver of this well from which ho and his had drunk, but she does not know the God of Jacob. 18. Jesus does not take up the question of the comparative greatness of Himself and Jacob, out Keeps to His subject and the woman's real need, which is living water. The woman knew that while this was a good well and good water- she had to come again and HffflJn. hpflimsa of hpr nnrl nt-hoi-a' nnn.-l I but perhaps she had sometimes though of and felt a deeper thirst than that of the body. | 14. Hero is surely something strange?a water that will keep one from ever thirsting, because it will be a well In them, ever springing up, and twice in a single sentence He speaks of it as 'he wnter which He will give." He had askt.*' hor for water, but He has water to give which she knows not of. Paul tells us that the rock from which Israel drank in the wilderness was Christ (I Cor. x., 4), and the same spirit says that if Israel bad only harkened to God He would have satisfied them with honey from the rock (Ps. lxxxi., 13,16). 15. dhe is not interested enough to ask Him for this water, but only in order to save her making journeys to this well for her dally need. She thinks of nothing yet beyond the natural water for the need of the body, for she la stUl carnal, and tho natural man is wholly occupied with, "How shall I obtain somewhat to eat and drink and wear?" Jesus said elsewhere how to make sure of these without any anxious care (Math. vl.. 31-33). 16. In order to make hor see her need of the living water which He longs to give her. He will now show her herself, and therefore this request. There is no sending for tho physician till we know that we are sick; there is no sense of a need of righteousness better than our own till we seo that our own is filthy rags. Therefore the Spirit's first work is to convince of sin (John xvi., 8, 9). 17. Her consnlenco Is jirousfld ? shn has I her attention called to her manner of life. What we are is manifested in what we do. Yet she would hide from Him if she could, for it is the garden of Eden story o'er and o'er again. The guilty are afraid and seek to hide from God, By her answer, which was true, she would cover up if she could the real truth. But covering sin will not prosper. It is only by confession ani forsaking that we obtain mercy (Prov. xxvili., 13^. 18. The eyes of Are now search her through and through, for all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Heb. iv., 13 ; Rev. ii.. 18, 23). Thero i3 nothing hid which shall not be manifested (Mark iv., 22). Be sure your sin will find yon out (Num. xxxiL, 23). j 0 Lord, Thou hast searchod mo and known ! me and art acquainted with all my ways (Ps. cixxix., i4). 19. Having seen herself in all her sinfulness, she now looks upon Him with a new light, for the light from Him had shone upon her. Like Isaiah, she has seen her uncleanness, because she has looked upon the King (Isa. vl., 5). Job had heard of Him, but when he looked upon Him then he abhorred himself (John xiii., 5, 6). 20. Yet she would evade the main issue by a Question of place, like those who when j shown their sinfulness would turn it off by saying, I do not belong to your church, or, Which church do you think 13 the right oneV or by a controversy as to what various people believe. 21. He discards all question of place and holds her face to face with God. It is not a question of what the fathers did or taught 1 or believed, but only a question of what the Father commands. There are j creeds many and churches many, so called, but only one God, the Futher of all, who is above all and through ail and in all (Eph. iv., 6). 22. This saying, "Salvation is of the Jew9," along with, "Salvation is of the Lord" j (Jonah 11., 9), lnoludes the whole story of whom to worship, for God has chosen Israel as the people who are to fill the earth with fruit, and Jerusalem as His throne, and Jesus of the txibe of Judah to sit on that throne (Isa xxvii., 6;Jer. iii., 17 ; Luke i.f 32. 33 : Hob. vil.. li). 23. God, the Father, ha3 revealed Himself in Christ, for God was In Christ (II Cor. v., 19), and Jesus said, "He that hath seen Me | bath seen the Father" (John xiv., 9). It Is ' not the fathers we are to worship, nor saints nor angels, but only the Father, revealed In I Christ. He is tho way and has said, "No J man cometh unto the Father but by Me." 24. No outward form of worship can bo ; acceptable to God. It must bo from, the j Heart in tne power 01 ine cpinr. iua : sacrifices commanded in the law became vain obligations when they became a mere form (Isa. 11-14). A worship that is taught by the precept of men or is merely a lip worship, while the heart goeth after coveteoasness. is abomination to God (Isa. sxis., 13, : 14: Ezek. xxxiil.. 31. 32. 25. Once more she tries to evade the issue j by saying, "When Christ comes, He will tell j us." 2G. By this word of Christ the controversy : is ended. There stands before this woman | the "I Am" of the law and the prophets, and ! the one question now is, Will she accept Him : or reject Him? She accepted Him as tho ; Christ (verse 29) and through her testimony many moie believod in Him as the Christ, the Saviour of the world (verses 39-42).?Lesson j Helper. Arlstooratic Turkeys Dying. There is the mischief to pay with tho tur- | keys of Westerly, R. I., and Westerly turkeys are famous the world over. Tae President of the United States dines on Wosterly turkey on Thanksgiving day and Christmas. Westerly turkey is part of the Ohristmas ainno. nt ntioon and other crowned heads have eaten of him and approved. Bat | this year there is a plague anions tho oirds, | and whole flocks of them are turning their toes skyward. a Tiny Kegunent. The bull flght3 have b^un la San Sebastain. where the Queen Regent of Spain 1? staying with her children. One of the 3icht3 of tho season is a regiment of tiny children, j who have b?en trained to go through mili- ; tary evolutions in honor of tho king baby, ! as littio Alfonso is generally called. Thera : is a band of baby musicians belonging to the j resriment, and their performanc e before tho j residence of the vouaar kiair is verv amusing. Drowned Little Sister in n Tub. Mrs. John H. Kirkman, of Elizabeth, N. j J\, placed her infant, Edith, In a bath tub. j While she had gone into the kitchen for a j moment her son Joseph, acred three year?, I turned on the water faucet. When the j mother returned to tho bathroom the baby | was lying face downward In tho w.'-ter, un- , conscious. Tho infant died soon after being removed. Fording the Mississippi on Ilorses. : They are fording the Mississippi on hors ?- : back, without getting the saddles wet, just above the mouth of the Missouri. The old- j est inhabitant never heard of such a thing : before. *,V *> / > - *'* r- f' >' *' ' " ' ' . . . LATER NEWS, There was a great rasa of bioker3 at tae Custom House, New York City, to withdraw J goods from bond under the new Tariff law. j The Delawaro Democratic State Conven- ' Hon met at Dover anl nominated Ebe \ Tunnell for Governor and Samuel H. Bancroft, Jr., lor Congress. A. dig majority of th3 Legislative candidates renominated in South Carolina aro for Governor Tillman for United States Ssnator. Moee than *1,000,003 damage has been 1 clone by forest fires in Michigan. The President approval tha act appropri- j ating $9000 for the collectlou of the income tax. ? - -e Uanlra ahftw THE ropons Ol lun iiuiwiin. ^,wwmv? | that on July 13 last the gold in reserve was I 8125,051,677. The total specie In reservo : was $250,070,652. Tde surplus fund amounted to 6215,727,673. The hurricane which swept ovar Laurahutte, Silesia, almost destroyed the town. Many houses were blown down and a number of others were struck by lightning and burned. Six persons were killed. A begimext of Cossacks at Terek, Russia, became mutinous, whereupon the loyal ; troops sucroundei them an 1 mid3 thirty of ' the leaders prisoners. The ringleader of tho mutiny was knouted to death. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ma. Feottde, the English historian, is a j most enthusiastic yachtsman. Rev. .Tames Spubbsxa. of England, gave 81,130,000 to charity last year. I Mke. Paxti'8 annual income for soma i years past has been not les3 than 8200,000. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts possesses, among other honors, tho freedom of the city -*t ?I UI ijUUUUil. Editor Charles A. Dana, of tho Now York Sun, has just celebrated tho seventy-.lfth an- | niversary of his birth. The young Chinese Emperor's knowladcre ! of English leads him to encourage long talks j with foreign diplomats. Professor Ely, of the State University of i Wisconsin, has been put on trial for teaching i students socialistic doctrines. It was an electric car that startled the horse of the. Archduke of Austria the other day. causing the Duke's death. Among Father Kneipp's patients, at Woerisbofen, Bavaria, at present, is Dr. Koch, who j is trying the priest's water cure. Ax American, John Hays Hammond, is the engineer of tho British South African Company, and receives a salary of 560,000 ayear. The oldest of the Forty French Immortals Is M. Betrouve, who is nearly eighty-eight. Paul Bourget i3 the youngest, and he is foity-one. Florence Nightingale, who Is now seventy-four year3 of age, Is in very poor heaJth. She lives in a very quiet spot in the west of London. Bicyclist Zimmerman has a great heart. The doctors say that it is two inches longer than the average man's, and that his endurance is due to this tact. Bcbtox C. Cook, the nominator of Abra- j ham Lincoln for the presidency in 13Bi, died a few days ago at Evanston. 111. He was born in Pittsford, N. Y., in 1819. The most expensive shooting bos on earth i belongs to George Gould, and is in the Cats- i kills of New York. There are fores and j buffaloes and pigeons and pheasants galore, j The Mikado of Japan has never been will- j ingly photographed or even sketched. It is i a capital offense for a nativa to make any ! kind of a pictorial representation of him, as j it is regarded as a grave indignity. "Willia.31 C. Vax Hobx, the President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who has been . made a Knight-Commander of the Order of i St. Michael and St. George, is a native or II- j linois, and began life as a telegraph opera- j tor at the age of thirteen. After the close of his term of office Gov- j ernor Northern, of Georgia, will devote his I time to the business of attracting immigra- | tion to Georgia.' He was the principal of a 1 school before his election, and recently d?- j clinbd an offer to take charge of a Southern | ?o? , Judqe Eli Aylesworth, President of the ' Westminster Bank, of Providence, B. L, who lately died at the age o! ninety-two, had been a banker fifty years. In a little bos in the bank he kept all his life the flrst fonr silver dollars he ever earned. He got thaai by pitching hay and hoeing potatoes. Francis Marios Crawford is a thrifty j literary man. He has been spending u good i deal of time in Washington lately educating j Congressmen about a 8100,000 claim in ! which he is interested. Now he has helped I pay his board bill there by writing his im- ! pressions of the city for one of the big maga- j zines. Herr Krupp, the great gun founder, has j commissioned a Munich sculptor to model a j Btatue of the Chinese Viceroy, Li Hung j Chang, which he means to present when j completed to the Asiatic diplomatist as a j token of respect for the pains taken by him to introduce European ordnance into the ' Chinese army and navy. Andrew Franklin. of Burlington. Kan., j is one of the oldest pensioners on the rolls | of the War Department, having been born ; on Christmas Day, in 1791. He fought in ! the war of 1812, in two Indian wars, and served as a teamster in the Civil War. In j spite of his 103 years, Frunklin, it is said, | "Can UU LUUi'J muin luuu UAW. ?? Biity." ARMOR-PLATE SCANDAL. The Report of the House Iuvestl- ! ?atln<; Committee. Representative Amos J. Cummings, Chair* j man of the House Committee on Naval Af fairs, presented to the House at Washing- j ton, the preliminary roport upon the investl- | gation of the armor-plate and bolts fur- j nished to the Government by thfe Carnegie Steel Company. Homestead, Penn. The investigation has been in progress for several j weeks, and during its course testimony has I been given by the principal officers of the Carnegie Company, bv workmen, and by | Government officers. The report is a com- j plete review of the case. The committee finds that the charges of i fraud have been sustained, condemns the j company severely, nnd recommends that flf- | ty-nine suspected plates in use should be j tested, as the only method of proving their . fitness or unfitness. It also finds that the | Government inspection was negligent and ; defective, but no charge of dishonesty rests j uponthe inspectors. The charge, that tfalse reports of treat- l ment of plates were systematically made, the committee holds, is proved by the rough reeordsofthe company Itself of over seven hundred plates and lots of bolts which came into the hands of the Navy department. The records examined show that the figures in the reports were almost in variably changed, ana ia sumo crtat;^ , entirely new reports were returned. Thero i were "fake" reports of treatment of plates j that received no treatment whatever, says | the report, ami over ninety-five percent, of | the records show similar changes; which were evidently made for tho purpose of deceiving j Government inspectors. The reports were . made to make ii appear that the plates had j received the uniform and efficient treatment , required by the contract. The report shows that the contract with I the company covered a period of two years j and threo months, from November, lS'J). to j Febuary, 1893. The amount oi armor plate . eontiactod for was SJ7a' tons, costing i 111,920, BRorKPor.T, 3f. I., is on? or tie graat bean ! markets of the Unite I States. All sorts of j beans are shipped thence in every sort of ! condition?green, dried an 1 canned. Many j hundreds of acres about the place are pi lutei In beans, and there is a strong tendency to j revert to beans as a topic in conversation . thereabouts. ^ Texas is to nave a cotton palace, to be ! opened November G, anl to continue )ne month. The cotton crop of Texas is officially estimated at 250.0J0 bales, which is more than a quarter of the whole cotton crop of the country. ' AGRICULTURE. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. HORSE FAB2IING. Horse farming is a branch of agriculture which has superseded the production of milk upon an increasing number of farms around Boston, says the Massachusetts Ploughman. The horses mostly came from the city and suburbs. They are boarded for a fixed price per week in winter and pastured by the season in summer. The profits are considered a little better than from milk raising at wholesale. The disagreeable work of milking is done away with, and the stable manure produced is regarded as especially beneficial to grass lands where the soil is jLieavjr KLU muubt. BEAUTIFUL NATIVE SHBUBS. But few people think of the great number of native flowering trees and shrubs which abound in nearly every State and county, and the use that might be made of them in the decoration and ornamentation of the home grounds. The common dogwood, the Juneberry or shad-blow, the mountain laurel, the pinkster or wild azalea, the sumac with its gorgeous autumn foliage, the basswood, and many others, are so common as to excite but little notice, yet they are as handsome and hardier than many foreign trees and shrubs that we are all anxious to have and which costs considerable money. A handsome shrub should be marked with a stick, stone or white rag, so that it can be easily distinguished and transplanted to the home grounds at the proper time* Ferns, lady's slippers and other orchids, and many flowering plants which come up in the fields and woods may be transplanted,?American Agriculturist. HEALTH OP SHEEP. The health of the flock is sometimes affected by what maybe briefly termed 4lrva"m-nprinrr ctrofnm fr\r* ir?r* 0 * ? W W*** W*VV,V.lUjj ewes," says an English writer on cheep. Pedigree sheep are sometimes sapplied so continually with artificial food that they are always fat, and, according to very general experience, keeping breeding animals in such an unnatural state, whether they be sheep, cattle,-horses or pigs, militates very much against fecundity, and too frequently brings total sterility. Bams, bulls, stallions and boars are less serviceable than they otherwise would be from being too highly fed in training for sale, owing to which twenty-guinea and forty-guinea rams, although procured from the highest class flocks, frequently cause grievous disappointment. Health is, however, much oftener endangered, even to the extent of being irreparably ruined, by being forced to feed continually on "wishywashy" bad grass, or on nothing but raw, watery roots. The former is well known to be a fruitful cause of that fatal disease, liver rot, which, in the peculiarly wet years of 1879 and 1SS0, *(%' ? ?? _1 ? cat. -1' iv. ?xi? ovrcjyt uix ucarijr uue-111 in %ui tue enure eheep stock of one-half of the kingdom and in many lowland districts made a clean sweep of them. The cause is well known to be a small snail, which is taken into the mouth and stomach with the grass; ;he antidote, giving plenty of salt, condiments and dry food, whenever the farmer is compelled to feed grass likely to impart the infection. The regular employment of condiments is indeed to be recommended at all times as likely to be conducive to health. Some of them contain a healthful tonic ingredient, which acts as a corrective to unhealtny dietary. Gendering food agreeable to the palate is consequently not the only good effected?New York World. TETHERING OB PICKETING AXMALS. Farm stock may be tethered out to grass so as to leave them out all day without other care than to tie them out in the morning and take them in at night, writes Dr. A. S. Heath m the American Agriculturist. This may be done in many ways, but whether turned out or tethered to grass, all animals require water in the middle of the day, and economy demands some watchtul care; even at pasture, surrounded by the best fence, accidents may occur. A cast horse or cow must get relief soon to save their lives. When stock are tethered or picketed, even in the best manner, accidents are more frequent than when pastured. For either horses or cattle a strong web or leather halter, with a ring in the center of the nose-piece, is the best arrangement. In feeding, the chain or rope is not in the way, and they are more easily controlled. Cattle can be pinned or staked out, for they will not so easily get cast. .but Horses getting tne rope or cnam around the hind fetlock, will kick till they rasp or cut the limb, and, even when cast, keep up the struggle, resulting in serious injury. For tethering horses, two high posts may be firmly set, to the top of which a large wire may be tightly stretched, a strong iron ring having been passed over the end of the wire before fastening to the posts. Then one end of a light, strong rope is tied to the ring, eliding freely over the -wire, and the other end to the ring of the nosepiece of the halter, long enough to easily permit grazing, but not. long enough to permit of either the fore or hind feet getting over it. This will give a safe range a few feet each side of the posts. Thus by a set of posts and wires a considerable extent of grazing may be permitted to a horse that, without such an arrangement, would be kept shut up in the stable. Properly located iree3 naaj serve lae ; place of posts. By this plan a horse ; may roll without getting cast. A similar plan is used for cavalry horses. HOW TO STERILIZE mC. The conviction that milk should be sterilized, or Pasteurized, as is con- j ceded to be the better method, is j forcing itself upon more and more : mothers and housekeepers every day. : It is, however, one of those depart-! ures from conventional method, to | which the great majority must be educated little by little. Many women laughed at the notion of boiling drinking water, who now would not think of using any other sort. Most o?%hese were converted during the cholera m scare. If now in like manner the laggards in the sterilizing movement could appreciate the dangers to be escaped by conversion to it, another big step forward in domestic sanitation will ha\e been gamed. Directions have been given on one or two occasions in these columns just how to rid milk of dangerous germs, but the story needs telling and retelling. Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, gives a simple formula that any woman can follow: Take a tin pail and have made for it a false bottom perforated with holes and having legs half an inch high to " - 1 xi. X? aiiow circulation 01. xue wtner. mc bottle of milk to be treated is set on this false bottom and the pail is filled with water until it reaches the level of the surface of the milk in the bottle. A hole may be punched in the cover of the bottle, in which a cork is inserted, and the thermometer is put through the cork so that the bulb dips into the milk, and the temperature can thus be watched without removing the cover. This water is then heated until the milk reaches a temperature, of 155 degrees Fahrenheit, when it is removed from the heat and allowed to cool gradually. A temperature of 150 degrees maintained for half an hour is sufficient to destroy any germs likely to be present in tbe milk, and it is found in practice that raising the temperature to 155 degrees and then allowing it to stand in the heated water | until cool, insures the proper temper atare for the required time. The Pasteur method is practically the same?the tamperature is raised to 160 degrees kept there about ten minutes, and the cooling process is as rapid as possible, rather than gradual. It is found that the latter method makes the milk more easy of digestion in the case of infants or delicate persons. Either process insures the ridding of dangerous germs, and milk so prepared will keep usually thirty-sii hohrs.?New York Timea. J FABM AND GARDES NOTES. Remember to keep the drinking vessels supplied with water. A small flock well cared for will pay more dollars than a large one neglected. While poultry manure is a good fertilizer for grapes it should not come in contact with the roots. Feed little corn to the hens these hot days. Wheat or middlings make the bent foundation for eggs. The better the feeding, so that it is not excessive, the better the cow will milk after the calf is dropped. Don't feed surplus cockerels till they become "old roosters." It takes corn and cuts the price to do it. The seed of the white turnip may be sown any time during Aucrust. The quantity is one pound to the acre. Every farmer should keep a few bees on the farm to collect the honey afforded by his orchards, pasture fields, etc. Grass or hay fed to cows in milk x ?l -i. cannot reiuru lbs iuu iiiauuixai y aiLLxj to the soil, as a part is ased up in producing the milk. Some who supply customers regularly with fresh egss use a rubber stamp to mark on each egg the date on which it was laid. A thorough currying every morning will be a great help toward destroying vermin on cows, with perfect cleanliness about the stalls. Huski prevent a rapid drying of the corn cob and should be removed from late planted corn when the corn is gathered for housing. Gather the eggs daily?store in a cool, dry place and find as far as possible private customers that will take eggs weekly or oftener. When shipping poultry long distances supply the coops with corn and water. Do not mix a lot of meal and" compel the eating of sour stuff, The hog has been called the mort* B gage-raiser. Have you ever tried to o fe.Tr Vionc Troll car Ar^ fr\r will 9 OCC UUau a &vn uvuv n do toward preventing a mortgage. ? Soiling crops should be near the M barn for convenience in feeding and a shady pasture in fly time will more I than pay in the comfort of yoar ani- I mals. H Late corn grown on low land shonld 9 be carefully selected, and all decayed H and worm eaten and otherwise dam aged grains removed before being fed I to horses. Many Colorado poultry fanciers are H using extract of logwood as a preven- Sgj tive of cholera. Pat enough in the H I drinking water, ouce a week, to redden H it the least bit. Sj j A mixture of grasses will almost al- H I ways give better results and profits H | than any single on9 sown alone, not H only for permanent pasture, but for K any crop as welL 30 Fresh eggs are always wanted and B they are as hard to get in summer as M in winter, and we are inclined to think H harder, for eggs so soon become stale 9 in warm weather. Bu One ought to do his own retailing of butter at private prices. Sell the sH quarters of the well fattened sheep to the neighbors and at better rates than the marketman will par. SB Not even the ruminant cow will di- H| gest whole grains without waste. The horse does worse, because he does not SH remasticate. There is sound reason in ^8 giving chopped mixed feeds. When the ground is worked to a fine condition the roots penetrate the soil |B more easily, secure a greater share of plant food and grow more rapidly BH than when but slight cultivation is BP given the soil. If you have old hens that are to be disposed of this fall it will pay to sell Hi as soon as they quit laying. Grain is KB money these days and fed to fat hen9 that are not laying it will bring no IH paying returns. fflfl That the yield of milk be rich in quality, and the stock kept in good Hm condition, and the pasture kept up at HW the same time, feed a little oil cake and corn while pasturing. Grass alone will not cause the best yield of milk. H Give plenty of room in the coops when shipping live poultry. The n extra cost of coop transportation will H| not be as great as the loss of two or three of the largest hens in the lot, to say nothing of tho humanity side of EH the question.