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REV. PR TALMAGE. She BROOKLYN DIVINE'S S*JNHa DAY SERilON. Subject J "The Tax Collector's Con L version." M TVtt ? "This dav !s salvation come to tMs Suse."?Lube xix., a Saccheus was a politician and a taxgathsr. He had an honest calling, but the port unity for "stealings" was bo large ) temptation was too much for him. The Die says he "was a sinner"?that is, in the blic sense. How many fine men have been ned by official position! It is an awful ng for any man to seek office under govimeA unless his principles of integrity i deeply fixed. Many a man upright in an igniflcant position has made shipwreck in Teat one. As far a3 I can tell, in the city rvi Jericho this Zaccheus belonged to what blight be called the "ring." They had things their own way, successfully avoiding expolure, if by no other way perhaps by hiring somebody to break In and steal the vouchL* ers. Notwithstanding his bad reputation 1 ihere were streaks of good about him. as I I Ihere are about almost every man. Gold is I ! round in quartz, and sometimes in a small I | percentage. I*-1 Jesus was coming to town. The people turned out en masse to see Htm. Here He I wmes, the Lord of glory, on foot, dust covered and travel weary, limping along the ray, carrying the griefs and woes of the frorld. He looks to be sixty years of age, (Then He is only about thirty. Zaccheus was I 'ort man and could not see over the peo,headswhile standing on the ground, e got up into a sycamore tree that swung tim clear over the road. Jesus advanced d the wild excitement of the surging &bwd. The meet honorable and popular I tnen of the city are looking on and trying to .tain H!s attention. Jesus, Instead of regarding tl)em, looks no at the littte man in The tree and says: "Zaccheus, come down. I am going home with yon." Everybody Was disgusted to think that Christ would go home with so dishonorable a man. I see Christ entering the front door of the house of Zaccheas. The King of heaven knd earth Bits down, and as He looks around Dn the place and the family He pronounces the benediction of the text. "This day is salivation come to this house." B Zaccheu9 had mounted the evcamore tree K>ut of mere lnqulsttlveness. He wanted to MBee how this stranger looked?the color of Hbis eyes, the length of Hia hair, the contour H>f His'features. the height of His stature. ^B*Come down," said Cbrist. t And so many people in this day get up inHto the tree ot curiosity or speculation to see ^fchrist. They ask a thousand queer questions about His divinity, about God's sovBgrelgnty and the eternal decrees. They ^ peculate and criticise and hang onto the ^Kmtside limb of a great sycamore, but they ^Bnust come down from that if they want to ^ >9 saved. We oannot be saved as philoso^fchers, but as little ohlldren. You cannot go ^Ko heaven by way of Athens, but by way of ^Bethlehem. BBB Why be perplexed about the way sin came ^ nto the world when the great question is PTiow we shall get sin driven out of onr hearts. ' How many spend their time In criticism and r religious speculation 1 They take the rose T of Sharon or the UUy of the valley, pull out ,' the anther, scatter the corolla and sav. "Is L. that the beautiful flower of religion that you Mare talking about?" No flower is beautiful Z fetter you have torn It all to pieces. The path to heaven is so plain that a fool need not j make any mistake about it, and y?t men ?top and cavil. Suppose that, going toward the Paciflo slop*, I had resolved that I would stop until I could kill all the grizzly bears ana the panthers on either side of the way. I would never have got to the Pacific coast When I ' ant out to hunt the grizzly bear, the grizzly bear would have come out to i hunt me. Here is a plain road to heaven, ftlen say they will not take a step on It until they can make game of all the theories that bark and growl at them from the thickets. ^^They forget the fact that, as they go Jout to ^(h?nt the theory, the theory oomes out to | T hnt them, and so they perish. I !>r. Ludlow, my professor In the theo? ' laical seminary, taught me a lesson I shall ' % nver forget, while putting a variety of fa? cestions to him that were perplexing be F, trned upon me, somewhat in sternness, ' It more in love, and said, "Mr. Talmage, proa trill have to let Ood know some things tbjft you don't." We tear our hands on the pines of the cactus instead of feasting our eye on Its tropical bloom. A great oomr pany of people now sit swinging them,V, selves on the sycamore tree of their pride, v aad I cry to you: "Zacoheus, come down! Coma down out of your pride, out of your ! inqolsitlveness, out of yqur speculation. You cannot ride Into the gate of heaven With coach and four, postilion ahead and lackey behind. 'Except ye become as little i children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.' God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Zaconeus, r comedown, come downP* I notice that this taxgathereraooompanled his surrender to Christ with the restoration of property that did not belong to blm. He says, "If I have taken anything by false accusation, I restore fourfold"?that Is, if I have taxed any man for $10,000 when he had only $5000 worth of property and put in my own pooket the tax for tne last 85000, I will restore to him fourfold. If I took from him #10,1 will give him $40. If I took from him - $10.1 will give him $160. TTnnrirndq nt thnnswind* of dollars have I been sent to Washington during the past few ' years as "conscience money.'1 I suppose that money was sent by men who wanted to be Christians, but found they could not until they made restitution. There is no need of our trying to come to Christ as long as we keep iraudulentiy a dollar or a farthing in otxr possession that belongs to another. Suppose yon have not money enough to pay your debts and for the sake of defrauding your creditors you put your property in your wife's name. You might cry until the day of judgment for pardon, but you would not get It without first making restitution. In times of prosperity It is right, against a rainy day, to assign property to your wife, but if, in time of perplexity and tor the sake of defrauding your creditors, you make such assignment you become a culprit before God, and you may as well stop praying until you have made restitution. Or suppose one man loan9 another money on bond or mortgage, with the understanding that the mortgage can lie quiet for several years, but as soon as the mortgage is given commences foreclosure?the sheriff mounts the auction block, and thi property Is struck down at hall price, and the mortgagee buys it In. The mortgagee started to get the property at half price and is a thief and a robber. Until he makes restitution there is no mercy tor him. . You say: "I cannot make restitution. The parties whom I swindled are gone." Theo 1 1 gay, "Take the money np to the American Bible Society and consecrate It to God." Zacchens was wise when he disgorged his unrighteous gains, and It was his first step in the rlgnt direction. . The way being plain, Christ walked Into the hoc?o of Zacchens. He becomes a different mnn v his wife a different woman; the children are different. Oh. It makes a great change in any house when Christ comes into tt! How many beautiful homes are represented among you? There are pictures on the wall, there is music in the drawing-room, and luxuries in the wardrobe, and a full supply In the pantry. Even If you were half asleep, there is one word with which I could wake you and thrill you through and through, and that word is ,4home!"' There ata houses of suffering reDresented in which there are neither pictures nor wardrobe nor adornment?only one room, and a plain cot, or a bunk in a corner. Yet it is the place where your loved ones dwell, and your whole nature tingles with satisfaction When you think of it and call it home. Though the world may scoff at us and purBue U5. and all the day we be tossed about, at eventide we sail into the harbor of home. Though there be no rest for us In the busy world, and we go trudging about, bearing burdens that well nigh crush us, there Is a refuge, and It hath an easy chair In which we may sit. and a lounge where we may lie, and a serenity of peace in which we may repose*, and that refiige is home. The English soldiers, sitting on the walls around Sevastopol, one night beard a company of mn(Jolana playing "Home, Sweet Home,'* and It Is said that the whole army broke out Into obr-and walling, so great was their homestokness. God pity the poor, miserable wretch who bos no home 1 Now, suppose Christ should come Into yonr bouse. First the wife and the mother WCTUjd. feel His presence. Bellgion almost always begins tnere. It Is easier for women toWoome Christians than for us men. They I without astmg tnat sae ass lkvu uro^iuni The basband notices that her face is brighter than on the day when, years ago, they stood at the marriage altar, and he knows that Jeans has been putting npon her !brow a wreath sweeter than the orange blossoms. She puts the children to bed. not satisfied with the formal prayer thatthey once offered, bat she lingers now and tells them of Jesus who blessed little children and of the good place whore they all hope to be at last. And then she kisses them good night with something that the child feels to be a heavenly benediction?something that shall hold onto the boy after he has become a man forty or fifty years of age, for there is something in a good, loving, Christian mother's kiss that fifty years cannot wipe off the cheek. Now the husband Is distressed and annoyed and almo6t vexed. If she would only speak to him he would "blow her up." He does not like to say anything about it, but he knows that she has a hope that he has not and a peace tnat ne nas nou n? nuvws that, dying as he now Is, he cannot go to the same place. He cannot stand it an? longer. Some Sunday night, as they sit in the ohuroh side by side, the flood9 of his soul break forth. He wants to pray, bat does not know how. He hides his face lest some of his worldly friends see him, but God's spirit arouses him, melts him, overwhelms him. And they go home, husband and wife, In silence, until they get to tbelr room, when he cries oat, "Oh. pray for me!" And they kneel down. They cannot speak. The word will not come. But God does not want any words. He looks down and answers sob and groan and outgrshing tenderness. That night they do not sleep any for talking of all the years wasted and of that Saviour who ceased not to call. Before morning they have laid their plans for a new life. Morning comes. Father and mother descend from the bedroom. The children do not know what Is the matter. They never saw father with a Bible in his hand before. He says, "Oome children; I want you all to sit down while we read and pray." The children look at each other and are almost dls- I posed to lauffb, bur tney see meir parenra are In deep earnest. It Is a short ohapter that the father reads. He is a good reader at other times, but now he does not get on muoh. He sees so much to linger on. His voice trembles. Everything Is so strangely new to him. They kneel?that Is, the father and mother do, but the ohlldren come down one by one. They do not know that they must. It is some time before they all get down. The sentences are broken. The phrases are a little ungrammatlcal. The prayer begins abruptly and ends abruptly ; but, as far as I can understand what they mean, It Is about this: "O 8aviour, help us t We do not know how to pray. T^ach us. We cannot live any longer In the way we have been living. We start to-day for heaven. Help us to take these children along with us. Forgive us for all the past. Strengthen us for all the future, aDd when the journey Is over take us where Jesus Is and where the little babe is that we lost. Amen!" It ended very abruptly, but the angels came out and leaned so far over to listen (hey would have fallen off the battlement but for a stroke of their wings and cried: "Hark, hark I Behold, he prays 1" That nlcrht there is a rap at the bedroom door. "Who Is there?" cries the father. It lathe oldest child. "What Is the matter? Are you sick?" "No; I want to be saved." Only a little while, and all the children are brought Into the kingdom of God. And there Is great Joy in the house. Years pas^ on. The telegraph goes click, click I What is the news flying over the country? "Come home. Father is dying 1" The children all gather. Some come In the last train. Some, too late for the train, take a carriage across the country. They stand around the dying bed of the father. The oldest son upholds the mother and says: 'Don't cry, mother. I will take care of you." The parting blessing Is given. No long admonition, for he has, through years, been saying to his children all he had to say to them. It Is a plain 'good-by!" and the remark. "I know > ou will all be kind to your - mother," and all is over. . Life's duty don?, as sinks the clay, Light from Its load, the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say How bleis'd the righteous when he dies. A whole family saved lorever! If the deluge come, they are all In the ark?father, mother, sons, daughters. Together on earth, together In heaven. What makes It so? Explain it. Zaccheus one day took Jesus home with him That Is all. Salvation came to teat House. What sound Is it I hear to-night?' It Is Jesus knocking at the door of your house. Behold a ftrancer at the door! He gently tnocks?has knockel before. If you gazed out of your window and saw me going up yonr front steps, you would not wait, but go yourself to open the door. Will you keep Jesus standing on the outside, His locks wet with the {lews of the night? This day 1s salvatlo'n come to thy house. The great want of your house Is not anew carpet or costlier pictures or richer furniture. It Is Jesus! Up to forty years men work for themselves, after that for their children. Now, what do you propose to leave them. Nothing but dollare? Alas, what an inheritance! It is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. Your own common sense and observation tell you that money, without the divine blessing, is a curse. You must soon leave your children. Your shoulders are not so strong as they were, and you know that they will soon have to carry their own burdens. Your eyesignt is not so clear as once. They will soon have to pick out their own way. Your arm is not so mighty as once. They will soon have to fight their own battles, Ob, let It not be told on judgment day that you let your family start without the only cofarmo^?fKo rollrflnn ft f Phrlct ftlrfl yourself no rest untS your children are the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Your son does just as you do. He tries to walk like you and to talk like you. The daughter imitates the mother. Alas, if father and mother miss heaven, the children will! Oh, let Jesus come into your house. Do not bolt the hall door, or the parlor door, or the kitchen door, or the bedroom door against Him. Above all, do not bolt your heart. ' Build your altar to-night. Take the family Bible lying on the parlor table. Call together as many of your family as may be awake. Bead a chapter, and then, if you can think of nothing else besides the Lord's Prayer, say that. That will do. Heaven will have begun in your house. You can put your head on your pillow, feeling that, whether you wake up in this world or the next, all is well. In that great, ponderous book of the judgment, where are recorded all the important events of the earth, you will read at last the statement that this was the day when salvajion came into your house. Oh, Zaccheus, come down, come down! Jesus is passing by! 1 Hogs Sold at a Sacrifice. Two car loads of hogs from a Western Kansas ranch, where the crops totally failed this season, were unloaded on the streets in Fort Scott and sold for from fifty oents to 83 each. The average price was 81. Three months ago they woukl have sold for 88 each. The scene was a rare novelty. The herd was surrounded by eajjer butchers anxious to purchase. The shippers sell them for only enough money to pay the transportation, rather than let them starve wnere there is no food. Many loads havu passed through Fort Scott going to other cities to I be sold in a similar way. So 3?ore Letters to Be Advertised. Unclaimed letters will no longer ba advertised In the n?wspaoers. The expense oi this has been 820,000 per ycnr, and the retrenchment is made neoessarv by the appropriation for the current fiscal y<*ar. Hereafter the list of unclaimed letters will be bulletined In the respective postofflces. Striking Water In South Dakota. Water was struck In an experimental ar- 1 teslan well sunk on the farm of G. S. Grant, In ceded Sioux lands, near Chamberlain, 8outh Dakota, solving the water problem In a region composing about 10,000,000 acr3S. ?ii | ] A Triumph for California. California fruits have sold well in London, paying a profit to the growers after meeting all the expenses of handling and transportation for 7000 miles. SABBATH SCHOOL I INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 14? Lesson Text: "The Draught ol Fiahes," Luke v., 1-11?Golden Text: Mark I., 17?Commentary. 1. "And It came to pass that, as the people pressed upon Him to near the word of God, He stood oy the lake of Genaesareth." After He was expelled from Nazareth, as we saw In last week's-lesson, He for a time made Capernaum His centre (Matb. It., 13) that prophecy might be fulfilled. About that time Andrew ana .perer, James ana joanreceivea a call to follow Him and did so (MatH. It., 18-22). Among the many slok and suffering whom He healed In Capernaum were the man In the synagogue with an unclean spirit and the mother of Simon's wife. Throughout all GalUee He healed all manner of disease and preached the gospel of the kingdom, so that His fame spread everywhere (Math. lv.. 23-25). In the midst of this popularity to-day's lesson finds Him preaohlng to the people hungering for the word on the shore of Galilee's sea. From my present experience in fifteen Bible classes, held In as many different cities and towns, in whiah I meet from 2000 to 8000 people weekljr In all kinds ot weather, I most earnestly testify to all preachers and teachers that people still hunger for the word of God. Why should there be a famine? (Amos viii., 11,12). 2. "And saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen were gone out ol them and were washing their nets." This Is clearly a different incident from that in Math, iv., 18-22, for there the men were in the ships, two of them casting a net 'and two mending their nets. How interesting it is that all we do is seen and noted, and the Spirit thinks it worth while to record whether these men were washing or mending or casting their nets! If we would live always as under the eye of the Lord, what a difference it might make! 3. "And He entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he trrmM t-hrnsr nnt a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the people out ol the ship." To appreciate this fully one must remember that a fishing boat Is not always the sweetest nor cleanest kind of a vessel, and some Christian people would consider well before stepping into a fishing boat, even to do people good. Let us consider Jesus and have more of His spirit. What He would teach the people we may imagine from His discourse with Nicodemus and the woman of Samaria, etc. It would surely be concerning the kingdom and how to reach It and walk worthy of It. 4. "Now. when He had left speaking, He said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draft" He had been In a figure, casting the net for souls, and His word would surely accomplish His pleasure and bear fruit to the glory of God. But He has been using Simon's boat and taking Simon's time, and He will let no service go unrewarded. He is not unmindful of the needs of the body and will surely make good Math, vl., 33. 5. "And Simon, answering, said unto Him, Master, we have tolled all the night and have taken nothing?nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the Jnet." We cannot help thinking of that other night long after when they toiled all night and caught nothing (John sxl.f 3). Is there any connection? It is well for Christians to remernber that no labor is ever in vain in the Lord (I Cor. xv., 58). 6. "And when they had thia done they inclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net brake." At His word something is always accomplished. When it is God who worketh there.will always be results, perhapn ?4 ?u-4 ? ~ ttHOVI Hnt nltxrflTM UOl wuai WC nvuiu nivu ui w, U.. what He pleases. He controls even Ashes, and fishes more easilyjthan men, for they dc not resist Him. In the post resurrection Incident the net did not break (John xxi., 11). Consider why. 7. "And they beckoned unto their partners which were In the other ship that the\ should come and help them. Ana they came and filled both the snips bo that they began to sink." What a River the Lord is! How abundantly He rewards these partners for the use' of one of their boats! Why do we know so little of the Lord's fullness, oi His exceeding abundance? Is it not because we do not yield fully to HimV We pre 60 loath to present our bodies a living sacrifice, so afraid He will require too much of us or in some way afflict or grieve us, when all the while He desires to fill us with all His fullness (Eph. Hi-, 19). Hear Him as He says that if His people would only hearken unto Him He would feed them with the finest of the wheat and satisfy them with honey from the rock (Ps. Ixxxi., 18, 16.) . 8. "When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus's knees, saying. Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord." Nothing gives such a deep conviction of sin as a sight of the Dord and His goodness. It is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance (Rom. ii., 4). Consider what abhorrent views of self were wrought in Job, Isaiah, Daniel and Paul when they saw the glory and tmodneas of the Lord (Job xlil., 5,6; IsaT vf.~ 5; Dan. x.. 8; Phii: iii., 7. 8;. If we have a good opinion of ourselves, we need only to see Jesus in order to have all our comeliness turned to corruption and be enabled truthfully to say, "X Know that in me?that is, in my flesh?dwelleth no good thing" (Rom. vli., 18). 9. "For he was astonished and all that were with him at the draft of the fishes which they had taken." All their night's toil' had accomplished nothing, but now, with one cast of the net, both boats are filled almost to sinking. What an illustration of Prov. x., 22, R. V., "The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and toil addeth notning thereto!" If we would only abide always and wholly under His control, how much He might accomplish through us! His name is wonderful, and there is nothing too wonderful for Him. 10. "And so was also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto- Simon : Fear not. From henceforth thou shalt catch men." Earthly partnerships are helpful if in the Lord, as these four were, but we must avoid all partnerships- with the ungodly (II Cor. vh, 14-18). Esteem above all things the partnership with this very same Jesus, who in our lesson so blesses these men, for He condescends to let us be laborers with Him (I Cor. iii., 9). 11. "And when they had brought their oklrvo tn lond thav fnnnnr nil nnd followed Hlti." On previous occasion It is written that they left their nets and followed Him (iMaiD. iv., 20), but now they iorsook all. let, after the resurrection, we find some of them, at Peter's suggestion, toiling at their nets again, but fruitlessly. It was on that occasion that Jesus said to 8imon, "Lovest thou Me morn than these?" (Jphn xxi.t 8. 15.)?Lesson Helper. Putting Eggs In Cold Storage. A remarkable ohange has takeC place of reoent times in the egg Industry through the Introduction of cold storage appliances, and It is now possible to sell eggs almost asoheap In December and January as In May, aside from the Influence of speculation. Some Interesting points relating to this industry were brought out recently by the purchase of an immense number of egi?s by a Baltimore retail merchant. There were four car loads, each containing 400 oases, and each case containing thirty dozen eggs, making in all 12,000 dozen, or 576,000 eggs. Some eggs were put on present sale, but the majority were stored away for use next winter. Ei?gs put in cold storage will keep fresh for from eight to ten or twelve monthsv and a Baltimore physician has given his opinion that a cold storage egg is better than a fresh egg, as any germs of disease that may collect on the shell of an egg by the frequent handling it receives before it reaches the consumer are killed by the intense cold of the storage rooms. This purchase of 576,000 eggs for retail sale is small as oompared with the number of eggs bought at a time by wholesale and commission merchants in Baltimore, and enormous quantities have been bought In the past summer and spring and put In cold storage, so that the prices in the winter holiday season will De small, as compared witti those of past years, when they have been as high as sixty 09Uts a dozen during the Christmas season. The old method of keeping eggs was to paok them In lime, but this served to deaden or flatten the flavor of the egg. f A Jtlodern Jean Valjean. For stealing a loaf of bread from a bakery, Mayor Nichols, of Wllkesbarre, Penn., sentenced seventy-year-old Jacob Baffly to the city lockup until he ate the baf. The old man ate his way to liberty In (our hours. RELIGIOUS HEADING. the dnso deacon's pbateb. He had lone been faithful and exemplary as a Christian, and now he lay upon the" bed of death. He felt and his physician assured him, that the close of life was at hand, and In a few short hours he must enter eternity! His minister came in to see him, and before departing proposed prayer, asking for what he should pray?If there was any particular petition that his dying friend wished him to offer. And the answer of the good old man was, "Yes, pray for me the first three petitions of the Lord's prayer: Hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as It is in heaven! What, a spectacle of sublimity! What a triumpfi of faith I What an example of selfforgetfulness, in the all-absorbing Interest In Christ's kingdom, and the desire that it might everywhere be extended through the world! In circumstances in which of all others, the holiest saint might well feel his need of Divine support and comfort, and specially pray for upholding and sustaining grace, he forgets himself, to pray that Qod's name be hallowed, and his kingdom come, and his will be done on earth as In Heaven! "Thy kingdom come!" Is this our daily prayer; our constant desire; the end for which we toil and give and pray and habitually live? Does this lead us to speak for God, to pray for the impenitent, to supplicate the influence of the Holy Spirit, to circulate the Bible, the tract, the religious paper, to be faithful to the means of grace, to co-operate with the ministry of reconciliation, and earnestly pray for a blessing on their labors,to look well to our own example, to do good at home, to send the missionary to the end of the earth? For this do we seek to be holy ourselves and to train up our families for God? For this are we faithful in the church, and consistent and exemplary before the world? "Thy kingdom come!" There Is no better prayer, no Joiner enu mm we i-uu pivpvao w ourselves or others; no higher object to All our thoughts and eDgage our pursuits in life, or to engage our desires in the very article of death! He whose Interests and Aims and ends are one with those of God must be useful. must be happy, both here and hereafter. ?Let the pray then of our lips and also of our life be "Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!"?Pur Bee. "THERE ABE SO GRAVES THERE." Late in the afternoon of a beautiful summer day, I entered a quiet graveyard, where slept oue of my dearest friends. It occupied the brow of a hill, which, with many a knoll and graceful udtilation sloped to the green meadow, watered by a winding stream, now catching, at its repeated curves, the rays of setting sun. On the left was a pleasant wood where the sturdy pine and fruit bearing beech concealed narrow paths to cool caves and mossy banks. White birches and the tremulous aspen, with the sweet-scented willow grew upon the right, and, from beyond, rose the curling smoke from cottage homes. A robin sang its song of love and praise, a sparrow passed me. bearing food to its little progeny, and the chirp of the merry grasshopper mingled with the hum of hundreds of flitting insects. But for this peace breathing scene I had no greeting. The wild storm, thunder and rain and darkness had seemed far more welcome, and yielding utterly to my grief, I threw myself upon the sod. I took no heed of time, W monrmlnnfpa milQt. havft nasaed when & child approached me. She iooked on me tenderly for an instant, and then lying one hand upon my arm. and raising one toward heaven, said earnestly, "There are no graves there." There was some'hing almost seraphic in the countenance of the child, a power not of earth in her quick and undoubting faith. My eye sougth the blue depths toward which she pointed, my heart bounded toward the Infinite. All the representations of the gospel, adapted as they are to sooth and cheer, came to me so vivid, so truthful, so full of meaning that they absorbed my whole soul. The abundant promises seemed to glow with the hues of-that heaven from whence they came. At once I perceived the selfishness" of my sorrow, and kneeling. I thanked God that he had transferred my loved one to himself. Often since then have I looked upon the resting-places of my kindred, often has there come over me a sense of utter and hoipeless desolation, often has an agony like that of death turned to bitterness the continued blessings of my lot. Yet, when the first burst of grief has passed, I see again that lovely child, and hear the soul-cheering assurance ' There are no graves there."?Watchman. PUNCTUALITY. W ashington was a minute man. An accurate clock in the entry at Mount Vernon controlled the movements of the family. At his dinner parties, he allowed five minues for difference of watches, and then waited for no one. If members of Congress came at a late hour, his simple apology was, "Gentlemen, we are too punctual for you." or "Gentlemen, I have a cook who never asks whether the company has come, but whether the hour has come." Nobody ever waited for General Washington.' Hfc was always five minutes 1 ? - ? * r>n?4iACi V>a ha/1 ueiore me uuie ; suu u iug engaged to meet, were not present at the season appointed, he considered the engagement cancelled, and would leave the place, and refuse to return. But nothing is so discouraging to a devoted pastor as the apathy and indifference of his people. They may "pay his salary punctually; they may attend his ministry respectully but something more is necessary. They must help him to build up the church spiritually? They are needed in the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, and the church conference. ?They should aid in the great work of conversion ; for if they do not aid, they will retard the work: they will wither the right arm of the most faithful pastor. Now, reader, do you help or hinder your pa?tor? Are you a blessing or a curse? Do you hold up his hands, or do you pull them down. Let conscience speak. GOD SEES THBOCGH ALL PBETENCE8. And he will one day make his intelligent universe see through them, too. No wolf can carry his sheep's clothing with him to the judgment seat. He must leave everything, false and painted behind. There he must appear as he is, not as he would like to have men think of him. Why then spend my time in garnishing the outsiile of mw character, while my character itself is neglected. God sees through a'l pretences?and he will blow them away at the last day like cha?f before the whirlwind. Everything* fa'se and hollow will be carried into eternal oblivion. Nothing but the naked reality will remain. And 0, what a wreck of human pomp and parade, a vain show! How infigniflcant will the great ones of this world appear, when all their outward "pomp and circumstance," in which their greatness lay, is left behind, and they appear in their own proper littleness before the Judge of all the earth. Would men take a hundredth part of the pains to be, that they do seem good and fair, how well would it be f<. r them, and for society, too.?Ohio Ol'S. HELP TOOB PASTOR. A pastor needs help. He has a great wr>rk to do, and in many respects it is a very discouraging work. Great obstacles have to be overcome. The world, the flesh, and the devil are in the way. Gospel truth meets opposition in all quarters. The wisest meas ??" mrto^ -ranlnnj /"?ffon r*jCl1 If UIC3 UUU IUO LUUCl 6VUIVUO VUU1W 4?wuiV in no visible good. Our safety is In having lofty ideals, anil In constant labor to secure their realization. Let the Retting of money bo a man's idea!, and be will of necessity grow toward the dust.?Joseph Parker. A Christian with some unconfessed sin in his life is lite a blasted tree in the desert. Apple Exports. The apple export season has opened with ft pood demand from Great Britain. The European crop has been a very poor one this year, and there Is every prospect that our exports will approach nearer the figures of 1892 than those of 1893. In the former year the apple exports from the United States and Canada amounted to 1,204,000 barrels, while In 1893 only 175,000 barrels were exported. The American orop is, unfortunately, only a half one this your. The Canadian crop is good. Loudon Eats Deer. Yenlson has become plentiful in the London market. v ' '--'y \ >\ 'r- Vr/. AGEICUIinJEAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. CAEBOUO AOD FOB FOUL BBOOD. A German bee-keeper reports entire success in the cure of foul brood with, carbolic acid. As generally employed the acid is a failure, being too weak if diluted and driving out the bees if full strength. The experimenter used full strength a tablespoonfol mixed with as muoh tar, put nnder frames in a little box, open enoagb to allow evaporation, bat bee-tight. It should be used every three months,?New York World. TOP-DBESSIKQ WETTEB WHEAT A3T> EXE. Instead of hanling the barnyard manure to the field as made, many fivrmern niln if nn in rto . w ^mv *v ujy au wug jMUf auu after the wheat or rye is sown to topdress the field with the thoroughly decomposed material, which is usually spread directly from the wagon, entailing less labor and a more even distribution than by any other plan. There is, however, a question, about making this application after sowing. 1 Those who have tried both , plans in the same field and upon the same crop, prefer to apply the manure just previous to the last harrowing, or at least before drilling, as this insures < not only a more even distribution but a fining of all lumps and the covering with soil of a large per cent. of i the manure, placing it nearer the growing plant, where the soil will absorb the fertility, instead of allowing it to escape, as much of it does when simply scattered over the surface. < The more thorough the harrowing the better the efiect of the manure,? American Agriculturist. TOO MUCH WORK. On the way to the depot with butter one winter, writes 0. Meader, I overtook a neighbor with a ton of hay. I. aaked him what he got for the hay; he said it was a fine article, and he got $12, $2 above the market price. I called his attention to the fact that my load, which I was moving along easily with one horse, would bring over $100, while his heavily loaded two horses, would bring only $12. He acknowledged the advantage I had over him, but said there was too much work to this dairy business, for him. Now this ia the trouble, too many are j trying to escape work, and especially brain work. Dairying, to be carried on successfully, requires brain work as well as muscular work; it requires attention to details. Nothing can be done in a careless or slipshod manner. Regularity and neatness must be stamped upon everything. The cows ; must be fed and watered at regular intervals and at apeceifled timfes* so ! there will be no uneasiness noticed. Milking must be attended to at a specified time, aad performed with cleanliness and dispatch; the milk must be skimmed and the cream churned at just the right time in arder to produce a fine article of batter, and no other kind pays for producing. This course can be pursued just aa easily as the opposite plan if we only make up our minds to it, and, lay our plans accordingly.?New England Farmer. OIVDTO STLPHTJB TO ANIMALS. Sulphur Is not food, and is not nutriment, but is medicinal, and the effort made by the system to get rid of it as soon te possible through the bowels and the skin is so active that it becomes a laxative and a diaphoretio? which means something that produces . perspiration. The action on the skin i by'sulphur is so strong that the gas produced by its decomposition in the system passes through the skin so 1 profusely as to tause silver in the 1 pocket of a person Jo turn black by 1 the formation of 4 sulphide of the 1 metal, and this effect of it endangers ' a person or an animal by the readi- * ness with which cold is taken after a ^ dose of it This action of sulphur on , the skin is, however, quite useful in j uuituieuufl uaocuoco, ua tuo gas passing through the skin destroys parasites ' and minute germs that produce such 1 diseases as mange, or scab, or itch. ) Thus, if sulphur is thought desir- 1 able for any animal, it is better to 1 give it in combination with other elements?as in epsom or glauber salts, J which are sulphates of magnesia or 1 soda?and notin its undisguised form. 1 Some plants, as those of the turnip ] and cabbage tribe, contain a large 1 proportion of sulphur, and are thus 1 desirable for food for all kinds of ani- 1 mals, especially sheep, whose wool has much more sulphur in it, in propor- < tion to the coat, than that of other i animals. When given as medicine, ] however, it may be useful, but should j be intelligently used.?New York ( Times. < y BTTCTEB BY ELECTRICITY An electric butter-making plant has j just been installed in Brisbane, Queens- 1 land. This use of electric power for the making of butter is a distinct departure in the history of the industry in Australia. There are grave objections to the presence of steam or gas engines inside a butter factory, and, unlees the motive machinery is under t the immediate control of the attendants, it is impossible to make use of mechanical power except in factories of;very large dimensions. The heat given off by both gas and steam engines -would militate considerably against successful working, and every oae who knows the suaoeptibility of butter and cream to odors, both good and bad, is aware that it is inadvisable to allow tho fumes of burnt gas or heated oil to enter the building in which these products are stored or handled. These drawbacks are entirely obviated by the electric motor, which gives off neither heat nor smelJ, and which is almost noiseless. The motor, too, may be placed in the most accessible situation without risk of affecting the qnality of the butter and ? the regularity of its running is also an important aid to successful butter i manufacture. 1 The plant of the factory at which 1 the eleotric butter-making plant has i just been set up comprises a concus- i sion churn of considerable capacity t and u circular power butter worker, j as well as the smaller accessories to 1 the business. Both are operated by < oae small motor, and one man can at- j tend to both at the same time. It 1 may be mentioned that the. company separates the rnilir at the source of supply in the district from which it derives its names, and the cream ii forwarded by rail to the Brisbane factory, where itgls churned into butter. By thus dividing the two stages of butter making'the most serious, draw* bacds with which country factories have to contend?the want of ice ancj the injury whioh the butter suffers by overheating in the olose and warn atmosphere of the railway trucks? aroavoided. THBBSm^Q GtaAE?.' The modern threshing outfit leave* nothing to be desired, but there are e few useful hints which may be of as? sistance to some farmers. Sufficienl help should be employed that the grain may be delivered to the machine in e steady stream, and in ample quanti* tiea It is a fact that in every section are farmers who are noted for being short of help at t threshing time. The men are consequently overworked. The threshers are dissatisfied because they cannot make the usual progress, and a sourness prevails on all sides, because one man desires to economize to the extent of two or three dollars. The fact is that he loses many times that sum, for men thus imposed upon will shirk their duty in more ways than one. ^The farmer who raises several varieties of grain should, if ha desires to keep the seed pure, take pains and thoroughly sweep the floor when changing from one variety to another. If one has been considerate, the ripest'and best developed portion of the grain was so placed in a certain part of the building, or so located by placing a little hay or other fodder it and fVm main rtrnr?. the pitohers could distinguish it and inform the one who carries it away that it may be deposited separately and used for seed The great prevalence of fool stuff should cause the careful farmer to use extra precaution in having the threshing apparatus thoroughly cleaned before coming upon the premises after having threshed grain for a neighbor whose grain is known to contain foul weeds. This is one source of danger that but few of even the careful farmers have ever seriously considered. It is an important one, as the maohine will have lodged about its various Mparts many weed seeds that are liable to become dislodged at any moment when in operation. Threshing machines are a great source of danger in the dissemination of weed seed, hence it is well to be on the guard and save future expense and trouble.?American Agri' culturisi PABM AXD- GABDEN NOTES. A hen may be made to lay right o& from the time she begins in the spring till she moolta in tne lau u sue is iea judiciously. In making good butter attention to the proper ripening of the cream is much more important than "frill in manipulation. When the windmill towers loom up among the buildings we find the best stock, the best barns and the best farmers. No long drives of the cattle to the river when the drought oomes. Haifa oattle, horses, hogs and.poultry enough to oo nan me all the grain and roughness on the farm and that mortgage will soon be lifted. The farm will fertilize itself, meanwhile. Be carefuljand do[not overstock. The butter-maker who puts her product on the market in such a condition as not to appear as good aa it is, does herself injustice. Make the butter first class, and put it on the market in such a manner as to show for all it is worth. An Ohio dairy woman attributes the presence of white fiakee in butter to the fact that when cream gets too tcarm the acid formed turned little particles of milk to cord. A current :>f air passing over the surface of the 3ream also dries it and dried flakes are formed. A Kansas fruit grower says that corn is undoubtedly by far the best crop for an orchard that can be grown, as it areaks the wind and the trees grow ap straight. Insects, as a rule, will aot trouble the trees when there is plenty of green fodder and corn for them to work on. When a horse is being driven on the road he should not at any time be al? lowed to overload his stomach with a large quantity of water. So far as is possible the rule should be to give crater frequently, and, while he should tiave all that he will drink, it should t>e given in small doses. Take the time to have half a dozen i-in'tln nt TTTofa* atariAinrr Mnnd tvhile threshing with steam power; it nay save the year's crop in oase of ire. A machine with seven stacks of sprain were burned the other day near :>ur home. A pail of water at hand nrould have saved the whole. A Cornell experiment station bulle* tin concerning raspberries and black* Derries says that the only remedy fo: , red dust is to dig up and burn at once jvery plant found to be affected. Oat iway and burn all canes affected with inthracose pits and spray the plantation with the Bordeaux mixture. In its first stages caked adder can >e quickly relieved by copious nppli* :ationa of hot water?hot as the hands jan stand. This is a simple thing thai s well to remember. It will also pa~y o remember that vaseline is a first*ate application for sore teats. Someimes the teats get badly scratched by >riers and occasionally by the barbs >n wire fencing. Will it not nav von to mow out - X- ? y ? hat slough in the back field this year? Taken care of, the stock can find much n the "hay" from it that will do for 'roughage" in the absenoe of better, vhich with a grain ration to piece it >ut will help carry them through the vinter. If none of it is fit for eating, t will do for bedding and thereby save he staw for feed. Save all the roughige possible. The violet does best in a moderately ich, moisture-looking loamy compost, vith no rank manure within reach of ;he roots. The planting should be irmly done, crowding of the plants lot allowed, and but little space be:ween the lights and the plants peraiitted; therefore the foundation of the bed must* not be of a yielding sharaoter, and for this purpose nothing is worse tjian manure or tree leaves. ' CURIOUS FACTS. Chicago i& 25} miles losg. Steel pens originated in England in 1803. In Holland the cows are alway? tethered. The best bricks are made by th# tribes of Central Asia. Painting in both oil and water colors was known in Egypt 1900 B. C. The use of the Christian era iff chronology began in Italy in 525. II was not employed in England uattf 816. The oelebrated Plymouth (England), breakwater contains as much stone a? the great pyramid, viz., 3,800,000 tons, Tn Plrrrif^a. a inrv rfiflftntlv ?SCaued from the jury room at night and seren* aded the judge, the lawyers, the plain4 tiff and the defendant before they were recaptured, Inoitatus, the famous horse of the Boman Emperor Caligula, was ordained as a priest and consul, had a manger of ivcry and was given a gallon oi wine from a gold pail every day. While some workmen were digging recently among the ruined temples oi upper Egypt they unearthed an iroij box containing a metal plate, whiol) two scientists who have reputation* at stake declare to be a camera and lens. The skull of a mammoth human b&t tngof prehistoric times was discovered in Southern California some time ago, and recently it was discovered that a cavity in one of its teeth was flllec? with gold in the manner employed bj> modern dentists. Game birds appear to be coming into favor as subjects for ornamental pins for both women and men. A prominent firm of New York jewelers shows woodcock, grouse, partridges, snipe, gameoooks and pheasants made of tiny diamonds. The will of the late Edmund Yates contained a clause in which he expressed the doe ire that his jngular vein should be opened immediately after the physician had pronounced him dead, in order to prevent any possi bility of his being buried alive. A unique trolley car fender is proposed by a Boston inventor. He has taken the large revolving brushes from a street sweeper and placed them in such a position under the oar so that a person who happens to fall in front of the oar will be swept from the track. The title of doctor was invented for the especial benefit of the learned Inernius, of the twelfth centary. The title was conferred by the University of Bologna. The fif st doctor of medicine was William Gordenio, who received the title from the college at Asti, in 1329. Fridolin von Holbein, the last living descendant of the famous painter, haa been admitted as an inmate int? thi poor house at Aussig, Bohemia, old, deorepid and without means of sup* port. He had earned a scant living at a photographer's assistant for manj| years at Vienna, Budapest and else* where. The idea of a postpaid envelope originated in 1653. The first applioa* tion of it^was by M. *de Yolfyer, who established a private postoffice in Paris, placing bores at the street corners, ana navxng regxuar uweo ui uuiuvuuu and delivery. The plan did not work, however, because of the reluctance oi the people to intrust their correspond dence to these unguarded receptacles. The boxes wfere repeatedly plundered, and w#*e finally removed and the system abandoned. The Zuyder Zee. Holland, or the Netherlands, enjoy* the peculiar distinction of being t land of ever-changing extent, as it w always subject to great losses from erosion, while the work of reclaiming land is constantly in progress. Thus, in 1833 its area was 8768 square miles, which modern engineering activity had increased to 12,731 square miley in 1877. Portions of the country so largely artificial are sixteen feet be* low sea level, while about half of it is protected from sea, lakes and riven by dykes, some of them sixty feel Wh In two of the eleven provinces, North Holland and South Holland, . about ninety lakes have been convert* ed into dry land, the draining of the Lake of Haarlem?the greatest achievement? having been accomplished between 1839 and 1852 by means of steam pumps, which displaced the windmills so characteristic of mechanical operations in Holland. It has been now decided to undertake a still greater work, which has been long contemplated. This is the drainage of the Zuyder Zee, a gulf whicb was formed by an irruption of the German Ocean early in the thirteenth century, and which now coverd about 1300 square miles to an average depthr of twelve feet. It is proposed to close the entrance to this gulf by a dam fifteen miles long, to connect the little island of Wiarengen witn tne coasi oo either side, and then to pump ont the (rater. It is estimated that the un? dertaking will oost about 872,000,000,, exclusive of oompensation to fishermen, and the expense of new measures of defense that will be made accessary, and that 469,490 aores of valuable land will be gained.?Trenton (& J.) American. Burglary Insurance. "It is not likely that burglary in? suranoe will ever beoome very general," said Thomas H. Maguire, a New York insurance man, who was at the Southern yesterday. "It opens th? way for too much fraud, and the losses oan hardly be appraised accurately. Many aooident insurance companies are now insuring people against the risk of being injured by a burglar, and as about one person in a million gets so hurt every year, such insurance ought to be very profitable. Insurance against loss from house breaking in this rfifmlt of a ioke nemetrateii *"0 4 J. ? by a man who waa going to Europe and who asked an insurance man whether he would insure his gooda against burglars during his absenceTo his surprise the broker took himj up, and to the broker's surprise and! annoyance, his olient's house was ransacked from cellar to garret while h? was away. There are three or four insuranoe companies doing a profitable business in London, but it is only where the police supervision is very etriot that it is Bafe to carry suoik risks."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat, j do not flght so against God. If woman tempted man originally away from holiness, now3h<? tempts him back. She ma? not make any fnsa about it, bat somehow everybody in the house knows that there is a change in the wife and mother. 8he chides the children more gently. Her face sometimes lights up with an unearthly glow. She goes into some unoccupied room for a little while, and the husband goes not after ' her. nor asks why she was there. . He knows 1 - * ?- - 1 1?