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sr<?; ' . . f ? I-V-. . * | REV. DR. TALMAGE. - THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. tcrr, ?? Subject: "Victory Over Pain." _____ Texti Neither shall there be any more pain.*'- Revelation xxi., 4. The first question that yon ask when about to change your residence to any city is "What is the health of the place? Is it shaken of terrible disorders? What are the bills of mortality? What is the death rate? How high rises the thermometer?" And am I not reasonable in asking, What are the sanitary conditions of the heavenly city into ' whiQh we all hope to movj? My text answers it by saying, '-Neither shall there be any more pain." First, I remark, there will be no pain of , disappointment in heaven. If I could put the picture of what you anticipated of life When you began It beside the picture of what you have realized, I would find a great difference. You have stumbled upon great disappointments. Ferhaps you expected riches, and you have worked hard enough to gain them; you have planned and worried and persisted until your hands were worn, and your brain was racked, and vour heart fainted, and at the end of this long strife with misfortune you find that if you have not been positively defeated it has been a drawn battle. It is still tug and tussle, this year losing what you gained last, financial uncertainties, pulling down faster than you build. For perhaps twenty or thirty years you have been running your eraft straight Into the teeth of the wind. Ferhaps you have had domestic disappoint* ment. Your children, upon whose education you lavished your hard earned dollars, have not turned out as expected. Notwithstanding all vonr counsels and prayers and painstaking, they will not do rlgnt. Many a good father has had a bad boy. Absalom trod on David's heart. That mother never Imagined all this as twenty or thirty years ago she sat by that child's cradle. Your life has been a chapter of disappointments. Bat come with me and I will. show you a different scene. By God's grace entering the other eity, you will never again have a blasted hope. The most jubilant of expectations will not reach the realization. Coming to the top of one hill of joy, there Will be other heights rising up in the vision. This song of transport will but lift you to higher anthems, the sweetest choral but a prelude to more tremendous harmony, all , things better than you had anticipated?thu robe richer, the crown brighter, the temple grander, the throng mightier. Farther, I remark, there will be no pain of weariness. It may be many hoars since you quit work,but many of you are unrested, , some from overwork, and some from dullness of trade, the latter more exhausting than the former. Your ankles ache, your spirits flag, you want rest. Are these wheels ' always to turn, these shuttles to fly, these axes tqyfer, these shovels to delve, these pens toj^mese books to be posted, these goads t^Pftold? Ah, the great holiday approaches. No more curse of taskmakers. No more stoopIniT nnt1l th? hnplr nnhM Va mnri> nabnln. tlon until the brain is bewildered. No more pain. No more carpentry, for the mansions are all built. No more masonry, for the walls are all reared. No more diamond cutting, for the gems ore all set No more gold beating, for the crowns are all completed. Ho more agriculture, for the harvests are pontaneous. Further, there will be no more pain of poverty. It is a hard thing to be really poor; to have your coat wear out and no money to get another; to have your flour barrel empty and nothing to buy bread with for your children; to live in an unhealthy row and no means to change your habitation; to have your chHd sick with some mysterious disease and not be able to secure eminent medical ability; to have son or daughter begin the world and you not have anything to help them in starting, with a mind capable of research and high contemplation to be perpetually fixed on questions of mere livelihood. JPoets try to throw a romance about the poor mans cot, but tbere is no romance about it. Poverty is hard, orael, unrelenting. Bat Laz&rus waked up without his rags and his diseases, and so all ot Christ's poor wake up at last without any' ot their disadvantages?no almshouses, for they are all princes; no lenis to pay, for the residence is gratuitous; no garments to buy, lor I the robes are divinely fashioned; no seats in | church for poor folks, but equality among temple worshipers; no hovels, no hard crusts, no insufficient apparel. "They shall hunger no more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat." No more pain! Further, there will be no pain of parting. . AU these associations must some time break up. , We clasp hands and walk together, and talk and laugh and weep together, but we must after awhile separate. Your grave will be in one place, mine in another. Wo look each other full in the face for the last time. We will be sitting together some evening, or walking together some day, and nothing will be unusual in our appearance, or our conversation, but Ood knows that it is the last time, and messengers from eternity on their errand to take us away knovvlt is the last time, and In heaven, where they make ready for our departing spirits, they know it is the last time. Oh, the long agony ot earthly separatlon! T* 4* nnifnl rt ofnn/1 in rrttip miMQiit* Al AO aiTlUl IV oiuxau tu juui u^u^uig I death back from the couch of your child, and try to hold fast the little one, and see all the time that he is getting weaker, and the breath is shorter, and make outcry to God to help us and to the doctors to save him, and see it is of no avail, and then to know that his spirit is gone and that you have nothing left but the casket that held the jewel, and that in two or three days you must even put that away and walk around about the house and find it desolate, sometimes feeling rebellious, and then to resolve to feel differently and to resolve on self control, and just as you have come to what you think is perfect selfcontrol to suddenly come upon some little coat or picture or shoe half worn out and how all the floods of the soul burst in one Wild wail of agony! Oh, my God, how hard It Is to part, to olose the eyes that never can look merry at our coming, to kiss the hand that will never again do us a kindness. I know religion Rives great consolation in such an hour, and we ought to be comforted, but anvhow and anvwav you mate it it is awful. On steamboat wharf and at rail oar window wo may smile when we aay farewell,but these goodbys at the deathbed?they Just take hold of the heart with lroa pinchers and tear It out by the roots until all the fibers quiver and curl in the torture and drop thick blood. These separations are wine preeses, Into which our hearts, like red Clusters, are thrown, and then trouble turns the windlass round and round until we are . utterly crushed and have no more capacity to suffer, and we stop crying because we have wept all our tears. On every street, on every doorstep, by every couch, there have been partings, But once past the heavenly portals, and you are through with such scenes forever. In that land there are many hand cJaspings and em* bracings, but only in recognition. That great home cirole never breaks. Once find your comrades there, and you have them forever. No crape floats from the door of that blissful residence. No cleft, hillside where the dead sleep. All awake, wide awake, and forever. No pushing out of migrant ship for foreign shore. No tolling of bell as the funeral passes. Whole generations In glory. Hand to hand, heart to heart, joy to joy. No creeping up the limbs of the death chill, the feet cold until hot flannels cannot warm them. No rattle ol sepulchral gates. No parting, no pain. manner, tno oeavemy cii)' wm u?YO u.\J pain of body. The race Is pierced with sharp distresses. The surgeon's knife must cut. The dentist's piDchers must pull. Pain is fought with pain. The world is a hospital. Scores of diseases, like vultures contending for a carcass, struggle as to which shall have It. Our natures sre Infinitely susceptible to suffering. The eye, the foot, the band, with immense capacity of j anguish. The little child meets at the entrance of life manifold diseases. Tou hear the shrill cry of lnfanoy as the lancet strikes Into the swollen gum. Tou see its head in consuming fevers that take more than half of them Into the dust Old age passes, dizzy and weak and short breathed and dim siglited. On every northeast wind oome down pleur* ilea and pneumonias. War lifts Its sword and hacks away the life of whole generations. The hospitals of the earth groan Into the ear of God their complaint. Asiatlo choleras and ship feven ana typhoids and London "plagues make the world's knees knook together. Pain ha3 gone through every street and ud every ladder and down every shaft. It Is on the wave, on the mast, on the beach. Wounds from clip of elephant's tusk and adder's 6ting and crocodile's tooth and horse's hoof and wheel's revolution. Wc gather up the infirmities of our parents and transmit to our children the inheritance augmented by our own sicknesses, and they add to them their own disorders, to pass the inheritance to other generations. In A. D. 262 the plague in Rome smote into the dust fiflOO dailv. In 544. in Constant! nople, 1000 gravediggers were not enouRh to bury tho dead. In 1813 ophthalmia seized the whole Prussian army. At times the earth has sweltered with suffering. Count up the pains of Austorlitz. where 80,000 fell; of Fontenoy, where 100,000 fell t of Chalons, where 300,000 fell, of Marius' fight, in which 290,000 fell: of the tragedy at Herat, where Genghis Khan masjacred 1,600,000 men, and ofNlshar. where he slew 1,747,000 people; of the 18,000,000 this monster sacrificed in fourteen years as he went forth to do as he deolared. to exterminate the entire Chinese nation and make the em* plre a pasture for cattle. Think of the death throes of the 5.000,000 men sacrificed in one campaign of Xerxes. Think of the 120,000 that perished in the siege of Ostend. of 300,000 dead at Acre, of 1,100,000 dead in the siege of Jerusalem, of 1,816,000 of the dead at Troy, and then complete the review by considering the stupendous estimate of Edmund Burke, that the loss by war had been thirty-five times the entire then present population of the globe. Go through and examine the laoeratlons, the gunshot fractures, the saber wounds, the gashes of the battleax, the slain of bombshell and exploded mine and falling wall and those destroyed under the gun carriage, and the hoof of the cavalry horse, the burning thirsts, the oamp fevers, the frosts toar smverea, tas iropioai ouuo mtn smote. Add it up, gathor it into one line, compress it into one word, spell it in one syllable, clank it in one chain, pour it out in one groan, distill it into one tear. Aye. the world has writhed in 6000 years of suffering. Why doubt the possibility of a future world of suffering wheu we see the tortures that have been inflicted in this? A deserter from Sevastopol, coming over to army of the allies, pointed back to the fortress and said, "That place is a perfect hell/Our lexicographers, aware of the immense necessity of having plenty of words to express the different shades of trouble, have strewn over their pages such words as "an> noyance," "distress," ''grief," "bitterness,* "heartaobe," "misery " "twinge," "pang,' "torture," "affliction," "anguish," "trlbu> lation," "wretchedness," "woe." But I hav? a glad sound for every hospital, for every sickroom, for every lifelong invalid, for every broken heart. "There shall be no more pain." Thank God! Thank God! No malarias float in the air. No bruised foot treads that street. No weary arm. No painful respiration. No hectio flush. No one can drink of that healthy fountain and keep faint hearted or faint headed. He whose foot touches that pavement becomes an athlete. The first kiss of that summer air will take the wrinkles from the old man's cheek. Amid the multitude of songsters not one diseased throat. The first flash of the throne will scatter the darkness of those who were born blind. See, the lame man leaps as a hart and the dumb sing. From that bath of infinite delight we shall step forth, our weariness forgotten. Who are those radiant ones? Why, that one had his jaw shot off at Fredericksburg; that one lost his eyes In a powder blast; that one I had his baok broken by a fall from the ship's halyards; that one died ot gangrene In the hospital. No more pain. Sure enough, here is Robert Hall, who never before saw a well day, and Edward Payson, whose tody was ever torn of distress, and Richard Baxter, who passed through untold phvsical torture. All well. No more pain. Here, too, are the Theban legion, a great host of 6666 put to the sword for Christ's sake. No distortion on their countenance. No fires to hurt them, or floods to drown them, or raoks to tear them. All well. Here are the Scotch Covenanters, jione to hunt them now. The dark cave and Imprecations of Lord Glaverhouse ex* changed for temple service, ana tne pres- i ence of Him who helped Hugh Latimer out Of the Are. All well. "No more pain. I set open the door .of heaven ontil there blows on you this refreshing breeze. The fountains of God have made it cool, and the gardens have made ft sweet. I do not know that Solomon ever heard on a hot day, the ice olick in an ice pitcher, but he wrote as if he did when he said, "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so Is good news from a far Country." Clambering among the Green Mountains I [ was tired and hot and thirsty, and I shall not forget how refreshing it was when, after j' awhile, I heard the mountain brook tumbling over the rocks. I had no cup,no chalice, I so I got down on my knees and face to | drink. Oh, ye climbers on the journey,with cut feet and parched tongues and fevered temples, listen to tne rumbling of sapphire brooks, amid flowered banks, over golden | shelvlngs. Listen! "The Lamb which is in the midst of th9 throne shall lead them unto living fountains of water." I do not offer it to you in a chalice. To take this you must bend. Get down on your knees and on vour face, and drink out of this great fountain of | God's consolation. "And; lo, I beard a voice from heaven, as the voloe of many waters." Golf a Royal Game. A game with a history of more than four hundred years must necessarily have some interesting records. Golf has been*greatly liked by kings. In the time of James I. it was generally practised by all classes. The unfortunate Charles I. was devoted to golf. While on a visit in Scotland in 1641, as he wab deeply engaged in a game, news was brought him of the breaking out of a rebellion in Ireland, and the royal golfer threw down his club and retired in great agitation to Holyrood House. When he was imprisoned at Newcastle, his keeper kindly permitted him to take recreation on the golfing-links with his train. It is said that Mary Queen of Scots was seen playing golf in the field beside Seaton " a a iew uays anoi mo muiuoi ui husband. In 1837 a magnificent gold medal was presented to St. Andrews by William IV., to be played for annually. One of the earlier kings forbade the importation of golf-balls from Holland because it took away "na email quantitie of gold and silver out of the kingdom of Scotland," and at one time "golfe and futeball and other unprofitable games" were forbidden in England, because archery, so necessory to the defence of the nation, was being neglected in their favor. ?St. Nicholas. Argentine's p Wheat Crop. United States Consul Baker at Buenos Ayres has been trying to collect cnmo data touchincr the wheal crop of the Argentine Republic, one of the great competitors of the United States in the world's markets, but, as he reports to the State Department, in the absence of any governmental bureau of statistics, he has met with great difficulty. The estimates of the area in wheat this year vary from 7,434,250 acres, which is an increase of fifty per cent, over last year's acreage, to 5,453,250 acres, which is but a ten per cent, increase. The wheat looks well. The shipments for the first six months of this year were: Wheat, 1,029,546 tons, and flour. 20,628 tone, greater than the entire shipment of any preceding year, and heavy shipments are still being made. No one can tell how much wheat remains in the country.?Washington Star. Respect for the Bird of Freedom. A Kentucky court has decided that as the eagle Is a National emblem, a picture of the screaming bird cannot be aged on the purely local ballots. ... . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ex-?oi,tck Captain* Johv T. Stephevso*? was indirted by the Graud Jury in New York City for alleged bribery, James E. Clawpett. aliquordmler. crazed by ill-health and hnsiness reverses. jumr>ed rrom the seventh floor of the Morse" BnildIpp, New York City, and was instantly killed. Srx workmen were precipitated forty feet from a railroad buildincr in Jersey City, N. J., by the fall of a scaffold. One was killed, two others fatally hurt and the rest were severely Injured. William Gipps, of Buffalo. N. Y., shot hiss mother dpad and seriously wounded his fnther. William Schmidt, aged fourteen, was shot dead at Binshamton, N. Y., by his sixteen-year-old brother. Sergeant Frederick Dillman stabbed his brother Bobert over the heart with an ink eraser which he was showing him in Brooklyn, and from the accidental wound the brother died. Japanese residents of New York City celebrated the anniversary of the Mikado's birthday with a reception and luncheon at tlio Consulate. South and West. Patrick Walsh was named bvthe Georgia Democrats in caucus to fill United States Senator Colquitt's unexpired term, and A. 0. Bacon, a free silver man, for the long term. Two firemen were killed at the Hammond packing plant, which was burned at Omaha, Neb. The killed were John Steele and Henry Peters. Two officers nnd a bandit were killed in a running fight betw^n the Cook gang and United States marshals in Indian Territory. Cook's band murdered. the Postmaster at Red Fork, in the Cherokee Strip. At the Lincoln (Neb.) University E'. G. Shafor, a student of divinity from Oateviile, Ind., snot and killed Vivian Church, of Fair monc, hi., a young maa eiguieen youra uiu. The j'oung men were playing with a revolver. While 100 persons were standing on a wooden awning at Terrell, Texas, in front of a store to see the street parade of a circus the awning fell. Tnere were fully 100 pursons underneath, and the awning struct them with terrific force, badly injuring fifty, five mortally. The wharf of the West India and Dominion Steamship Company, 700 feet front on the river, the sheds and houses containing 4200 bales of cotton and other freight awaiting shipment, were burned at New Orleans, La., the total loss boing $165,000. The fire was started by the white strikers or theU sympathizers. A fire in San Francisco, Cal., oaused a loss of $30tJ,000. 1 Washington. Mobe than three thousand employes of the Government in Washington decided to go home to vote. The German Ambassador at Washington Insists that the beof embargo in his country Is only sanitary and that retaliation was not thought of. General Schofield says it cost $2,399,602 to feed the United States Army during the last year, which ended June 30. John James Howard, coachman to Levi P. Morton, whose deportation was ordered by Secretary Carlisle on the ground that he was an imported contract laborer, was released from Ellis Island, Mr. Carlisle deciding that he was exempt. Pbesident Cleveland extended the civilservice rules to a large number of excepted places. The Presidential family moved out to Woodley, Mr. Cleveland's country residence, and will retain there until winter weather sets in. I3he President has directed that Chaplain Henry B. Plummer, a colored Maryland preAoher, who was appointed on July 1, 1884, be dismissed In disgrace from the urady. Plummer was tried by court martini recently for getting drunk with enlisted men. I Foreign. Pebtj's civil war continues. Businmw is ntirely paralyzed by the guerrilla conflict. The siras of sorrow for the death of Alexander III. have in France assumed the proportions of a National mourning. The German Emperor seized on the death of tho Czar to attempt to make the world believe that this event has changed the relations between Germany and Russia. Marshal Yamagata defeated the Ohinese ind captured Fong-Fang-Chen ; the roa l to Mukden is now clear for the Japanese ; Marihal Oyama is attacking Kin-Chow. Sbnoe Saoasta has formed a new Spanish Ministry, of which he is the Premier. An earthquake in the City of Mexico had serious consequences. Thirteen persons were killed by falling roofs and walls and a targe number were wounded. Considerable damage was done to property. John Walteb, chief proprietor of the London Times, is dead. He was the gran.lson of the founder of the greatest English newspaper, and was seventy-six years old. The Japanese took Audong and FohgWong, from both of which pluses the Chinese Bed without fighting. TALMAG-E'S TOUR, The Brooklyn Divine Returns From a Trip Around the World. The Rev. Dr. T. DeWltt Talmage has returned to Brooklyn from a sis months1 trip around the world. He has been to Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, India, France and England. In all the large cities he passed through he preached ana lectured, speaking over sixty times." T. DE WITT TALMAGE. From San FranciGOO the Doctdr went last Mayto Honolulu, where he arrived atthetlme that the aotual transition of the Sandwich Islands from a Monarchy to a Republic took place. Then he proceeded to 8amoa, arriving at Apia the dny after a floret^ battle had taken place between the natives. He continued his journey to Auckland, New Zealand and Sidney, New South Wales. Then he went to Ceylon, Bombay, India, Brindisi, Italy, France and England. He was accorded a flattering welcome home by 6000 people at the Thirteenth Regiment Armory, Brooklyn. He also received a warm welcome by the children of the Tabernacle Sunday-school. Dr. Talmage was escorted down the aisle by the children of tho Infant class, who were loaded down with flowers. . He said that his plans for the future wero not entirely settled. He could s:iy nothing about what may be done toward erecting a church to take tho place of tho Tabernacle, destroyed by Are just before ho departed. SHE LIVED 100 YEARS. Death of Mrs. Lydla Caldwell King Mulock In Mlddletown, N. Y. Mrs. Lydla Caldwell King Mulook has just died at Middletown, N. Y., at the age of 100 years and two months. She leaves many descendants, some of whom are prominent In New York State, and others in the West. Mrs. Mulock possessed a remarkable memory for names, faoes andiSoriptural (passages, and retained most of her faculties until the end. In September last she celebrated her onehundredth birthday. SABBATH SCHOOL | INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB NOVEMBER 25. Lesson Text: Mark ill., 22-35? Golden Text: .John!., 11? Commentary. 22. "And the scrihps 'which came down from Jerusalem said. He hath Beelzebub and by the prince of devils casteth Ho out devils.' It is probable that the incidents ot Luke vii.. ! (the heal'nc of the centurion's servant, the raising of the widow's son and the anointing of Jesus' feptl came in hetween last, lesson and this. He is so forgetful of Himself and whollv given to ministering to others thai His friennssaid He wasbpside Himself (verse I 21). and the scrihns said He had a devil. 8ee *' ??*??i ? -e 1?1? ? on/1 J IDe priVllH^H Ol UO!U? uuuuueinvvu misrepresented. I 23. "And He called them unto Him and I said unto them In Durables. How oan satar | cast out Patau?" Parables were for those who by their unbelief preferred to remain without, and He taught thus that they might not 'see nor understand nor be converted (Markiv., 11. 12). If we willfully shut our eyes to the light, we cannot blame God for our not seeing. If we refuse to'give heed to His lovlnar words, we can only thank our selves for the hardening of our hearts. He would have it otherwise. 24. "And If a kingdom be divided against Itself that kingdom cannot stand." It would seem almost unnecessary to saythis. It 13 10 self-evident, but for them it was necesj *arv. They were so desperately blind and foolish throngh their unbelief and hardness Df heart. Not one of them would willingly work against his own Interests, yet by their remark they think satan foolish enough to do so. 25. "And if a house be dtvided against itself that house cannot stand." There are In the world those who belong to the kingdom and house of Gori and those who belong to the kingdom and house of satan, but the one Is by its nature as opposite to the other as I light to darkn&ss, as heaven to hell. That light should contend with light or darkness j with darkness is not in the nature of things, j See how simply Jesus spake; how very plain ! He made it even as He had lone before told His servants. Moses and Habakkuk, to do (Deut. xxvil.. 8; Hab. li., 2). 26. "And if satan rise up against himself 1 and be divided he cannot stand, but hath an ' end." This would certainly be a fine thing j for the world that satan should have an end, J -- ? - J"V?rill nrtmfl /Par TT 9. I huu sumo ua) 11 Dunn w>uv , 10). but not by any rebellion In his oamo? rather by the mighty power of the light that shall finally prevail over all darkness. The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent. The.God of peace shall bruise satan under our feet shortly (Gen. 111., 15; Bom. xvl., 20). 27. "No man can enter Into a strong man's house and spoil his goods exoept he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house." All unbelievers are satan's house, whether religious or Irreligious unbelievers (John vlil., 44), just as all true believers are the house of Christ and of God (Heb. ill., 0 ; Eph. 11.. 19). When Jesus shall have bound satan In the pit and afterward cast him into the lake of fire, then all he has ever had control over, air and earth and I people who have not willingly submitted to him, shall be forever delivered from his worse than Egyptian bondage. 28. "Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme." What a Redeemer and a redemption God has made known to us! What precious blood it is that can cleanse from all - - - - 4.- U* i sin and Dior oar so as never iu us muuu, ! even the precious blood of Christ, the Lamb without blemish and without spot (I John 1., 7; Isa. xliii., 25; I Pet. i., 19). Then to know that under no olrcamstanoe shall any I one who comes ever be cast oat (John vi., ' 37). Halleluiah! What a Saviour! 29. '*3ut he that shall blaspheme against j the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, bat ! is in dancer ot eternal damnation." It was | by the Spirit of God that He cast out demons j (Math, xli., 28). It is the work of the Spirit ; to convince of sin and righteousness and ; judgment (John xvL, 8). He it was who j brooded over the deep in the time of the darkness of Gen. L, 2, 3. He wrought in j and through the prophets. He spake and ! wrought through Jesus himself. He madt known to us the love of God and the rej demption that is in Jesus Christ. 30. "Because they said, He hath an un clean spirit." As the 8plrlt is the one who alone can open our eyes, to go against Him is to cut ourselves off from all hope of forgiveness. He has well been called the exeo utive of the Godhead, nnd we can thus see that, while Father and Son have made all I " nnlalnn tnr nnr qftlmtlon. tO resist the Spirit is to continue in eternal sin. 31. "Then cSme His brethren and Hii mother, and standing without sent unto I Him, calling Him." In Mark vi., 8, we have His brothers and His sisters .mentioned and Himself referred to as the carpenter. That they were His own brothers and sisters, Mary's children, it seems to me is vary cleai from Ps. lxbc., 8. 32. "And the multitude sat abouc Him, and they said unto Him, Behold, Thy mother and Thy brethren without seek for Thee." It is just possible that they spoke sneerlngly of His brethren as being from Nazareth, ol which Nathanael said. "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" (John L, 46.) We may be sure that Jesus was not ashamed of His mother or of His brethren any more than Joseph was ashamed of his father and his brethren when he presented them to Pharaoh. 33. "And He answered them, saying, Who i is My mother or My brethren?" That which j He said to Mary at Jerusalem at the age of twelve must have been always a reality to | Him, "About My Father s business," for He . loved to speak of the Father who sent Him I and wns always with Him. He was also ever thinking of the many ohildren of God who, ! through Him, would be brought to the king dom (Heb. 11., 10, 13). 84. "And Ha looked roundabout on them which sat about Him and said, "Behold My mother and My brethren." Many of His disciples must have been present, onoe sinners dead in trespasses and in sins, but now through Him ohiidren of God and taught to say, "Our Father who art in heaven," redeemed by His precious blood soon to be shed for them, and therefore as precious as the blood that bought them because of it3 preciousness. 35. "For whosoever shall do the wi'.i of Go J the same is My brother, and My sister, and mother." Or, as He said in Lukevili., 21, "My mother and My brethren are these which hear the word ot God and do it." All who truly receive Jesus are children of God (John i., 12} and have the forgiveness of sins (I John ii., 12) and may continually sin<, "Be my feelings what they will, Jesus is my Saviour stilL "?Lesson Helper. Hojj Exports. While ?ery few live hogs are being exported, the trade in the product is heavy, Europe is a vast consumer of our pork, hams and bacon, the increase in our exports lo Great Britain alone during the first seven months of 1853 being over 100,000,000 pounds. Germany's proportionate consumption has b*?en greater, from 3,500.000 in 1893 to 13,000.000 pounds in 1894. France takes a much smaller quantity, but has imported American hog product to tho tmount of 1,500,000 pounds. Of lard these three countries named have taken. Great Britain, 93,000,000 ; Germany, 65.000,000,and Trance almost 20,000,000 pounds. Our total xports of bacon, hams, pork and lard during the first seven months of 1894 were as fnllottTs- Rfieoii. 260.000.000 pounds; hams, 50,000,000 pounds ; pork, 39,200,000 pounds, I ind iard. 294,720.000 pounds. The valuation 5f these products is $55.420.000. Tunneled to the Treasure. Vincent Bogranis, a laborer, was arrested nt Chicago, 111., on the charge of stealing I $9000 from Mrs. A. Christian, a widow. Mrs. Christian has no faith in hanks, and when the panic came on she collected the $9000 and buried it In the oallar of her cottage in Georee street. There was $5000 in gold and $4000 in bills. A month ago she discovered that the money was gone, and that a tunnel led from the cellar to a spot under the steps in front of the house. > A shovol found in the cellar was alleged to belong to Bogranis, who lived next door. Bogranis was shadowed, but nothing further was discovered until he bought some real estate, paying 61000 for it. He denies that he stole the money. Cost otTfew York's Schools. The total expense of New York City's school department this year is $5,000,000. Of this sum $3,500,000 go for the salaries of prinolpals, teachers, substitutes and em plo/ea of the Board of Eduoatloa. RELIGIOUS READING. SELF-EXAMINATION. Self-examination is profitable. The papert during the last weok have contained columns of the trial of Erastus Willinms in New York. Ho was a noble and genorous man, he had accomplished much good; but I believe he was so busy with the enterprises of the world that ho never examined himself, and bo he wu3 led to commit forcery. Now he must pay the penalty in the penitentiary. It is a terrible calamity. I believe he would have avoided his errors if he had thorougly examined himself. It is easy to examine others. I, myself, am good to see the faults of others, but every little while I have to stop and examine myself and any, "Moody, what are your faults?" It is good to bo well acquainted with one's self, v..*. u k?./1 rtlvo trAiiMolf (i fViorr?nrrVi UUL lb ID UttiU IU 5110 J uuiuuii ? amination. Some men want to sell me a horse. He looks well, but I want to drive him a week and examine him. Bo I tell you examine yourselves. You will find the best way to do It mapped out in the Bible. I would not nlve a snap of my linger for you, even If you lead ln.yotir examinations, if you are not truthful and cannot be trusted. I once had to do a terribly hard thing In Chicago. I found myself jealous of a certain minister, and I determined to cure myself. I invited him to preach, and then I advertised and filled the church. I took a back seat and made my old human nature squirm. Pretty soon I began to like the man, and have liked him ever since. No man can ever get a prip on the conscience If he is possessed with Jealousy. I like a man with anery temEer, but he must have it under control. We ad one boy here that wanted to be an evangelist, and I set him to digging a ditch under a hot sun. Pretty soon he cried out, a What In the world has this got to do withevangelistio work?" and I told him it was to give him strength and a good constitution. If your mind scatters like an old shot gun it can never do any good work. Don't let your appetite master you; be its master. Any fool can yield to temptation. Practise self-denial; postpone your engagement if necessary. Control your tempers. Live for others and not for yourself. I sometimes think that, as a nation, we lack in reverence for our fp^hers and mothers. They practise self-denial In order to send you to school, give you an education, and equip you partly to do good work in the world. Love, honor and respect your parents. Your school life here has been an utter fallftre If you do not go home with this feeling.?Dwight L. Moody. AT HOME IX THE EVENING. One of tbe grossest nejrlects of youth, producing Incalculable mischief and ruin, is in the improper spending of the evenings. Dark was created for quiet; home is the place of quiet. Daakness is temptation to misconduct ; suffering the young to be out when the light of day does not restrain them from misconduct is training them to It. We have already an abundant harvest of this seedling. Riots, mobs, crimes, giving fearful forebodings, are the result of our youth running uncared for on evenings. What we see In these re&pects is deplorable enough; but what is this, compared with what we do not seemultitudes making themselves miserable and noxious, a pest to community. Parents snould look at the truth that evening pleasures and recreations are often dearly purchased?the price, their own impaired comfort, and the blighted prospects of their offspring. It must be obvious, that in this matter there can be no prescribed rule. There can be no interdict of all evening recreations and employments, yet here Is an evil not only destructive to youtn, but planting thorns in many paths, and covering many lives with desolation. The reformation demanded must proceed from judgment and conscience, and for this purpose judgment and conscience must be enlightened?heads of families must learn that the place on earth best adapted to a blessing is home; and by example and wholesome restraint, they must teach this truth to all under them. Especially ghould home during Sabbath hours, be consecrated. Sabbath mornings and evenings are blessed, indeed, when they gather the family into the circle of converse and instruction ;and parents andchildren, masters and apprentices and servants in the presence and by the grace of God, who has made them and placed them in their respective stations, raised themselves to the exalted level of the trutb, and they are invested with capacity and obligation in their respective conditions, assigned them by an allwise Providence, to help eabhotheron to honor, glory and immortality: eternal life. THE PALM THEE. The Scripture says: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree." Let us seo what this comparison means: '-The palm grows not in the depths of the forest or in a fertile loam, but in the desert. Its verdure often springs apparently irora tne scorcning dust It is a friendly lighthouse, guiding the traveller to t'he spot where water is to be found." The tree is remarkable for it3 beauty, its erect aspiring growth, its lealy canopy, its waving plumes, the emblem of praise in all ages. Its very foliage is the symbol of joy and exultation. It never fades, and the dust never settles upon it. It was, therefore, twisted into the booths of the feast of the tabernacles, was borne aloft bytlie multitude that accompanied the Messiah to Jerusalem, and it is represented as in the hands of the redeemed in heaven. For usefulness, the tree is unrivalled. Gibbon says that the natives of Svria speak of 3G0 uses to which the palm is applied. Its shade refresh s the traveler. Its fruit restores his strength. When his soul fails for thirst, it announces water. Its stones are ground for his camel3. Its leaves are made into couches, its boughs into fences and walls, and its fibres into ropes or rigging. Its best fruit, moreover, is borne in old age; the finest dates being often gath" - ^ 1 -1 1 - erea wnen tne tree mis rcacucu a uiuiuim years. It sends too from the same root a large number of suckers, which, in time, form a forest by their growth. What an emblem of the righteous in the desert of a guilty world! It is not uninstructive to add that this tree, once the symbol of Palestine, is now rarely seen in that country.?Joseph Angus. EVIL COMPANIONS. Society is the atmosphere of souls, and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or sa'ubrious. The society of virtuous persons is enjoyed beyond theii company while vice carries a sting into solitude. The society or company you keep, is both the indication of your character and the Srmer of it. In company when the pores of e mind are opened, there requires more caution than usual because the mind is passive. Either vicious company will please you or it will be defeated. In such society you may feel your reverence fot the dictates of conscience weai off, and that name at which angels bow and devils tremble, you will hear condemned and abused. The Bible will supply materials foi unmeaning jests or impious buffoonery; the consequence of this will be a practical deviation from virtue, the principles will become sapped, the fences of conscience broken down; and when debauchery has corrupted the character, a total inversion will tuke place, while they glory in their shame. THE WOBKEBS NEEDED. The church needs workers of mediocre talent, workers who never see a giant when they look into their mirrors, workers who, do not look straight over the woodpile when looking for some work to do, workers whose regard for themselves is not of such avoirdu"o ti'nvont th?ir flHinp into a small 1I?K> IK .V ,..v, place. Tho ranks of the church militant are not yet filled, but the call is for souls who are ready to take the lowest places. As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that pives souls, as well as stones, their lustre. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles: and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect his people.?Dr. Guthrie. A Kentucky Midget Dead. Abner Astrop, the midget, is dead in his nountaln home in Johnson County. K?a:ucky. He was fifty-two years old. Astrop lever weighed more than forty-five pound?, ind at his death his welpht was hut thirty jounds. He was two feet ten inches tall. Astrop was born in Johnson County. He was of ordinary size in babyhood, but h* <rew very little after his fifth year. His Jtrength for a dwarf was remarkable. His parents established him in a small jross roads store when ho was twenty years >ld, and he spent his life in it. Museum managers made flattering offers to him. but !ie refused them. He died worth $ 10,000. He never married and was never out9lde his native county. ~WOMAN^WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOE FEMININE HEADERS. DISAPFEABANCE OP THE BANS. The bang has almost wholly disappeared from the streets. New Orleans girls are all wearing their hair fluffed from the face and daintly coiled over the ears, with a part in the middle and a high top knot that makes them look for all the world like the old pictures of our grandmothers.?New Orleans Picayune. INFLUENCE OP A QUEEN'S DOLLS. "They are more than mere puppets; they are the material for the Bocial history of a great monarch and not a little of her times, also." It would be difficult for any ordinary American citizen to guess what is referred to in this sentence, which occurs in an editorial article recently published in the London Standard, the principal organ I of the Conservative and Unionist par ties. The "material for the social hiBtory" of Queen Victoria and her times, is nothing else than a collection of wooden dolls nsed by Her Majesty when she was a child.?New York Tribune. THE SCIENCE OF HOME LIFE. The new science, Oikology, or the science of home life, has to do with the physical side of the house, and concerns itself with such vital subjects as plumbing, heating, and ventilation, bacteria, purity of foods, housekeeping, etc. Mrs. Tobey, of Boston, who is trying to interest women in the height and depth and length and breadth of the science, has been lecturing on "Bacteria as Friends, Bacteria as Foes," "Pasteur and His Work," f kCl * x. " < oanuary -Deuruuuia, huudciiuiu Pests and Best Methods of Exterminating Them," "Tests for the Purity of Milk and Water," and other domestic questions.?New Totk Post. WRETCHED CHINESE "WOMEN. "The lile of a Chinese.woman must be something in the nature of an affliction. She is of little value, save as a worker. Young girls are seldom educated, and those of the lower classes are not infrequently sold as slaves to married men and families. As in Japan, the marriages are managed by a go-between. The betrothals are sometimes made when the pair are infants. They do not see each other until the marriage ceremony is performed. The wife, in higher class circles, leads a life of seolusion, never going anywhere, doing her husband's every bidding without question. Yet 11 ii.. J T ? iney are quite liiuuBiriuuB. in iorm, face and costume, they are not pleasing. Their long, baggy trousers, long gown and stumpy feet, would be sufficient to make a guy of any woman, to say nothing of a woman possessing the additional advantages of a complexion like an ancient lemon's and features which look as if they had been shaped in the dark with a rusty axe."?Lenz's World Tour Awheel, Outing. business women's directory. A woman was complaining the other day of the difficulty of obtaining comprehensive statistics about women's work. There was, she said, no work of which she had been able to hear, after persistent inquiry, in which was condensed and tabulated information of all departments of work in which women are now engaged. That want will not long exist. Business women's directories are being compiled in more than one city, and once they become common statistics collated from them will be forthcoming in an easily referred to shape. A Boston woman pUDllbner iu Huuub iu laouo a ivurnnu a directory after the appearance of which the continuance of popular ignorance in regard to woman's work will not long exist. Her book has already brought to light some unasual occupations of the sex. "Women harness-makers, tailors, commission merchants, crockery, shoe and cutlery dealers, funeral directors, managers of milk routes?all these are recorded with printers, lawyers, electricians, sculptors and druggists besides.?New York Advertiser. THAT BLACK SILK QOWlf. A plain black gown, fashionably cut, is a blessing to the woman who owns it. It may be made of any of the new black silks, crystalline, Pekin stripe, moire or Persian gro grain. Such a gown made with a plain full skirt and a bodice equally plain, but with enormous sleeves, may be transformed many times with but little expense and trouble. Just a stock collar of bright velvet gives it a pretty, fresh touch. A yoke of lace Van Dyke points in addition to a stock and belt of velvet will transform it into a theatre costume not to be despised. Jet is always an effective trimming for a black gown, and in combination with a jeweled passementerie is very elegant. A plain gown of black silk which was made in a hurry for a theatre party had the yoke outlined by a band of old rose and gold galon. From this hung a deep fringe of jet. The sleeves were crowned with epaulettes of the jet fringe, and a stock collar of old rose velvet completed the charming effect. The little bonnet, which was also put together in a hurry, was formed of a butterfly-shaped bow of old rose velvet, the wing-like loops being covered with a tracery of jet.? New York World. A NEW FIELD FOR WOMEN". The success of a number of women in this country wlio have made architecture their profession is drawing attention to this new field of enterprise for the gentler sex. A bright woman of a practical turn of mind can beat aman..nine times out of ten in planning a dwelling that will be comfortable, homelike and beautiful. Perhaps ajwoman architect would make a failure if she drew the design for a public building, a factory or a warehouse, but she knows just what a mansion or a cottage should be, and there is no good reason why she should not devote her attention to domestic architecture. By all means, let us widen the fields of woman's work. Teaching law, medicine, authorship and typwriting do not offer all the opportunities - v -I-Y ' : needed by women who are compelled to be self-supporting. If architecture can be added to the list of their occupations, so much the better. Many women hare a natural talent for this line of work, and if some of them desire to cultivate it and make a living out of it they should be given the chance. It shonld be the policy of society and the State to encourage, aid and equip women for all proper breadwinning occupations, and they should not be barred out by the senseless preju dices of those who do not appreciate the dignity of labor.?Atlanta Constitution. \ FASHION NOTES. Dainty capes, hats and muffs of velvet, fur, lace and ribbon are worn en suite. Jackets of livery cloth, having * short, foil cape, open both back and front. Bonnets are shaped in three points of jet, gold, steel or muli-colored embroidery. Lord Vandykes of jet are used for trimming sleeves from the shoulders to the elbows. Large collarettes of white net, top gnipnre lace have over points of jet beads and spangles. Cherry-colored cloth capes are trimmed with white Angora fleece and collarette of white cloth. Short, black velvet jackets are* trimmed with jet, a ruche ana a.couarette of black ostrich tips. Evening waists show a Frenchy mix* ture of Nile green velvet, cream guipure lace and pink chiffon. Girls' cloaks of light-colored ladies* cloth are trimmed with a velvet collarette and edging of ermine tails. Long Angora mousquetaire gloves are suitable to wear over evening gloves in place of using a muff. Many full capes of tan livery cloth are simply made of fine goods and having a turn-over velvet collar. Black house ties and slippers are decorated with rosettes or bowa of cherry or bluet chiffon or ribbonElbow length capes of blackvelvet have a jet collar and yoke and long "stole" ends in front covered with jet. For a young girl a toreador shape in black felt, with colored velvet : twist, pompons and bandeau is suitable. Tiny bonnets of steel embroidery, . ditto wings and pins, with large bow and narrow ties of colored velvet are 1seen. Children's wide felt hats are trimmed with wings, bows and long strings to tie nnder the chin of satin ribbon. A black silk beaver of a large size has two erect bows in front of cherrycolored satin ribbon, each held by a jet pin, and three black pins at the back. A white oloth toque, with folds of golden brown velvet, is caaght on the left side with a bow of black satin ribbon and airgrettes, an edging of sable for famished the edge. Short jacket styles will continue through the season, with the muchliked variation of making them doublebreasted, looped far to the left and t fastened bv rather large buttons. A pretty walking costume of periwinkle blue cloth has a plain full skirt, braided around the bottom and up each side to the waist with braid of a darker shade, which has a touch of cream white in it. Many gowns are made in combination with some striking color, such as brown with a crude green, blue with fawn, tan and mauve and dark blue with red, which must be a bright shade or the effect is not good. Comfortables and becoming morning' wrappers for chilly weather are made < of soft, clinging materials, such as French flannel, cashmere, eiderdown, flannelette, etc. The garniture consists of satin ribbon accessories of fancy needlework. Great spears of jet are used on the felt hats, and some of these are run through the thick fold of velvet on the side of the hat, or are crossed sword fashion iq the front of the low crown. This is done by having the spear run through the broad Alaatiaa bow so much used as a trimming. There are a great many persons who do not think black becoming, but this is entirely owing to the way they wear it. Dead black, enlivened by a color, is suitable for uny person of any age or condition. Collars, cuffs, a vest or fichu of some becoming color and material, will improve any black dress and always looks pretty. Periwinkle, or hvacintfy blue, in ft variety of shades is doubtless the most fashionable color of the season and is used in cloth, moire and velvet. The only objection to this lovely color is that it is very tryiifg to most women, and only those who are the possessors of a clear, fresh complexion can wear it with certainty that it will be becoming. A Great Well. At Bourne, in Lincolnshire, England, at a depth of sixty-six feet, water impregnated with iron was encountered, but this chalybeate liquid was excluded as the tubes were carried deeper. Some twelve feet lower the main spring was tapped, and the water rose | very slowly up the tube, and it was twenty-four hours before tne water overflowed. As the depth increased, so did the volume of the ascending current; and by the time the well had reached the depth of 100 feet the flow was 1300 gallons per minute, or 1,872,000 gallons per daj. Although this was an enormous flow, yet the engineers thought that by going a little deeper a still larger supply would be available. Numerous cases are on record where, under similar circumstances, the deepening of the well has resulted in complete failure. It will be readily understood that in such instances increased boring has carried the well through the non-porous rock upon which the water bearing layer rested, thus allowing the water to escape, wun tne JDourne well, however, the deepening of the bore hole had the desired effect, for at a depth of 120 feet the outflow increased to 1800 gallons per minute, or no leas than 2,592,000 galloas per day. ?Chambers'* Journal. I