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R. v> >?? ? REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Subjcct; "Wholesale Divorce." Text: "What, therefore. God hath joined together let not man put asunder."?Matthew ? tix., 6. That there are hundreds and thousands of 1 "*** infelicitous homes in America no one will ioubt. If there were only oae skeleton in the closet, that miffht he looked up and *i?tuuoaua, out m m?u> uvutu .. Jkeleton in the hallway and a skeleton in all i :he apartments. < ''Unhappily married" are two words de- ! icriptive of many a homestead. It needs no i >rthodox minister to prove to a badly mated pair that there is a hell. They are there now. I sometimes a grand and gracious woman will < !>e thus incarcerated, and her life will be a 1 sniciflxion. S3 was the ease with Mrs. Sigour- 1 aey, the great poetess and the great soul. 1 Sometimes a consecrated man will be united i ;o a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a 1 rlxem, as was John Milton. Sometimes, and < generally, both parties are to blame, and t Thomas Carlyle was an intolerable scold, and 1 lis wife smoked and swore, and Froude, the < ttistorian, pulled aside the curtain from the 1 lifelong squabble at Craigenputtock and Five, < Dheyne Row. t Some say that for the alleviation of all t Ihese domestic disorders of which we hear 1 >asy divorce is a good prescription. God 1 Jometimes authorizes divorce as certainly as : He authorizes marriago. I have just as much ( Regard for one lawfully divorced as I have t for one lawfully married. But you know t ?nd I know that wholesale divorce is one of i !>ur National scourges. I am not surprised \ It this when 1 think of the influences which have been abroad militating against the mar- ( riaae relation. i For many years the platforms of the country rang with talk about a free love millennium. There were meetings of this kind held In the Cooper Institute, New York; Tremont L . Temple, Boston, and all over the land. Some of the women who were most prominent in that movement have since been distinguished for great promiscuosity of affec' ~ tion. Popular thems for such occasions were the tyranny of man, the oppression of the marriage relation, women's rights and the affinities. Prominent speakers were women with short curls and short dress, and very long tongue, everlastingly at war with God because they were created women, while on the platform sat meek men with soft accent and oowed demeanor, apologetic for masculinity, and. holding the parasols while the .. termagant orators went on preaching the doctrine of free love. That campaign of about twenty years set more devils into the marriage relation than will be exorcised in the next fifty. Hon and women went home from such "meetings so permanently confused aa to who were their wives and husbands that they never got out ' 01 weir perplexity, ?na ia? criminal auu iuo civil courts tried to disentangle the "Iliad" of woee, and this one got alimony, and that one got a limited divorce, and this mother kept the children on condition that the father could sometimes come and look at them, and these went into poorhouses, and those went into an insane asylum, and those went into dissolute public life, and all went to destruction. The mightiest war ever made against the marriage institution was that free love campaign, sometimes under one name and sometimes under another. Another influence that has warred upon the marriage relation has been polygamy in Utah. That was a stereotyped caricature of the marriage relation and has poisoned the whole land. You might as well think that Sou can have an arm in a state of mortiflcaion and yet the whole body not be sickened as to have these Territories polygamized and yet the body of the Nation not feel the putrefaction. Hear it, good men and women of America, that so long ago as 1862 a law was passed by Congress forbidding polygamy in i ; the Territories and in all the places where ' they had jurisdiction. Twenty-four years j passed along and five administrations before / -- the first brick was knocked from that fortress of libertinism. i Every new President in his inaugural tickled that monster with the straw of condemnation, and every Congress stultified itself in proposing sonio plan that would not - worK. Jfoiygany stood more lmrencnea, t and more brazen, and more puissant, and ] more braggart, and more infernal. James i Buchannan, a much abused man of liis d-?y, j did more for the extirpation of this villainy than most of the subsequent administra- < tions. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army, and 1 although it was halted in its work still he t accomplished more than some of the admin- i , istratloDS which did nothing but talk, talk, j talk. At last, but not until It had poisoned j generations, polygamy has received its death- < blow. I Polygamy in Utah warred against the mar- 1 riage relation throughout the land. It was < impossible to have such an awful sewer of j Iniquity sending up its miasma, which was wafted by the winds North, South, East and j West, without the whole land being affected i by it. i Another influence that has warred against < the marriage relation in this country has < ' been a pustulous literature, with its millions I of sheets every week choked with stories of ] domestic wrongs and Infidelities and massa- i cres and outrages, until it is a wonder to me j that there are any decencies or any common j t sense left on the subject of marriage. One half of the newsstands of all our cities reek. . ing with the filth. "Now," say some, "we admit all these i f evils, and the only way to clear them out or j correct them is by easy divorce." Well, be- i fore we yield to that cry let us And out how < i easy it is now. I have looked over the laws of all the States, j ; and I find that, while in some States it is / easier than in others, in every State it is easy. The State of Illinois, through its Leg- i ; islature, recites a long list of proper causes l for divorce and then closes up by giving to ( the courts the right to make the decree of ; divorce in any case where they deem it ex- ] pedient. After that you are not surprised j at the announcement that in one county of , the State of Illinois, in one year, there wore ; 833 divorces. If vou want to" tnnw hnw pnsv I It Is, you have only to look over the records of the 8tates. In the city of San Francisco 333 . divorces in one year, and in twenty years i in New England 20,000. Is that not easy j enough? If the same ratio continue?the ratio of multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of divorce?we are not far from the time when our courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will have to prove against a man will be that he left his newspaper in the middle of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a woman will be that her husband's overcoat is button less. Causes of divorce double in a few yearsdoubled in France, doubled in England and i doubled in the United States. To show you how very easy it is I have to tell you that in ** Western Reserve. Ohio, the proportion of divorces to marriages celebrated is one to eleven, in Rhode Island is one to thirteen, in Vermont one to fourteen. Is not that easy enough? I want you to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dissoluteness of society. Rome for 500 years had not one case of divorce. Those were her Hats r>f clnrp and virtue- Than ruirm r.. I . vice began, and divorce became epidemic. If you want to know how rupidly the empire V went down, ask Gibbon. What we want in this country and in all lands is that divorce be made more and more and more difficult. Then peopie before they enter that relation will be pergauded that there will probably be no escape from it except through the door of the sepulcher. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation until they are fully satisfied that it is best, and that it is right, and that it is happiest. Then we shall have no more marriage in fun. Then men and women will not enter the relation with the idea it is only a trial trip, and if they do not like it they can get out at the first landing. Then this whole question will be taken out of the frivolous into the tremendous, and there will be j no more joking about the blossoms in a bride's hair than about the cypress on a coffin. What we want is that the Congress of the United States change the National Constitution so that a law can be passed which shall j ' be uniform all over the country, and what I shall be right in cue state shall be right in jail the States, and what is wrong in one State Pwill be wrong in all the States. How is It now? If a party in the marriage relation gets dissatisfied, it is only necessary to move to another State to achieve liberation from the domestic tie, and divorce is effected so easy that the flrat one party knows of it is by seeing in the newspaper that Rev. Dr. Somebody on March 17, 1895, introduced In a new marriage relation a member of the household who went off on a pleasure excuriion to Newpert or a business excursion to * V ." Chicago. Marrieil at the bride's house. No cards. There are States of the Union which practically put a premium upon the disintegration of the marriage relation, whils there are other State;;, like our own New York State, that had for a long time the pre-eminent idiocy of making marriage lawful at twelve and fourteen years of age. The Congress of the United State3 needs to move for a change of the National Constitution and to appoint a committee?not made up of single gentlemen, but of men of families, and their families in Washington? who shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, comprehensive. uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hook to the Golden Horn. That will put an end to broken ties in marriages. That will send divorce lawyers into a decent business. That will set people agitated for many years on the question of how shall they get away from each sthor to planning how they can adjust themselves to the more or less unfavorable circumstances. More difficult divorce will put an estoppel to a great extent upon marriage as a financial speculation. There are men who go into the relation just as they go into Wall street nn rohooa ehnroa The fomaleto be invited Into the partnership of wedlock is utterly unattractive and in disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows it but this masculine candidate for matrimonial orders, :hrough the commercial agency or through :he county records, finds out how muoh estate is to be inherited, and he calculates it. Fie thinks out how long it will be before the >ld man will die, and whether he can stand he refractory temper until he does die. and hen he enters the relation, for he says, "It [ cannot stand it, then through the divorce aw I'll back out." That process is going on ill the time, and men enter the relation with>ut any moral principle, without any affecion,and it is as much a matter of stook specllation as anything that transpired yesterday n Union Pacific. Illinois Central or Dela-, vare and Lackawanna. Now, suppose a man understood, as he >ught to understand, that if he goes into that elation there is no possibility of his getting >ut, or no probability, he would be more slow o put his neck in the yoke. He would say ;o himself, ''Rather than a Caribbean whirlwind with a whole fleet of shipping in its irms give me a zephyr off fields of sunshine md gardens of peace." Rigorous divorce law will also hinder wocen from the fatal mistake of marrying men :o reform them. If a young man by twentyive years of age or thirty years of age have ;he habit of strong drink fixed on him, he is is certainly bound for a drunkard's grave as Ko?- n <rajri afnrtinc nnf frnm O-rand Central Depot at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning is jound for Albany. The train may not reach Ubany, for it may be thrown off the track, rhe young man may not reach a drunkard's ?rave, for something may throw him off the ron track of evil habit, but the probability is :hat the train that starts to-morrow morning it 8 o'clock for Albany will get there, and he probability is that the young man who ias the habit of strong drink fixed on him sefore twenty-flve or thirty years of age will irrive at a drunkard's grave. She knows he irinks, although he tries to hide it by chewing cloves. Everybody knows he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors and friends wtirn. She will marry him; she will reform him. If she is unsuccessful in the experiment, why, :hen the divorce law will emancipate her bejause habitual drunkenness is a cause for dirorce in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Conaecticut and nearly all the States. So the poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifloe. If fou will show mo the poverty struck streets in any city, I will show you the homos of the women who married men to reform them. In 5ne case out of 10,000 it may be a successful jxperiment. I never saw the successful experiment. But have a rigorous divorce law. ind that woman will say. "If I am afflancea :o that mau, it is for life." A rigorous divorce law will also do much to hinder liasty and inconsiderate marriages. Under the impression that one can be easily released people enter the relation without Inquiry and without reflection. Rnmanne and imnulse rule the day. Per baps the only ground for tho marriage compact is that she likes his looks, and he admires the graceful way she passes around :he ice cream at the picnic! It is all they know about each other. It is all the prepara:ion for life. A woman that could not make i loaf of bread to savo her life will swear to jherish and obey. A Christian will marry in atheist, and that always makes conjoined wretchedness, for if a man does not relieve there is a God he is neither to be :rusted with a dollar nor with your lifelong Happiness. Having read much about love in a cottage, people brought up in ease will jo and starve in a hove!. By the wreck of 10,000 homes, by the holocaust of 10,000 saeriflced men and women, jy the hearthstone of tne family, which is ;he cornerstone of the State, and iu the name of that God who hath set up the family institution, and who hath made the breaking of the martial oath the most appalling sf all perjuries, I implore the Congress of the United States to make some righteous, uniform law for all the States, and from 5cean to ocean, on this subject of marriaga ind divorce. . Let me say to the hundreds of young people in this house this aiternoon, before you .jive your heart and hand in holy alliance use ill cautious. Inquire outside as to habits, jxplore the disposition, scrutinize the taste, question the ancestry and find out the ambitions. Do not take the heroes and the heroines of cheap novels for a model. Do aot put your lifetime happiness In the keeping of a mau who has a reputation for being i little loose in morals or in the keeping of a woman who dresses fast. Remember that, while good looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles or acoident may despoil them. Remember that Byron was no more celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity. Remember that Absalom's hair was not more splendid than his habits were despioable. Hear it, hear it! The only foundation for happy marriage that has ever been or ?ver will be la good character. Ask God whom you shall marry if you marry at all. A union formed in prayer will be a happy union, though sickness pale the cheek, and poverty empty the bread tray, and death open the small"graves, and all the path of life bo strewn with thorns from the marriage altar with its wedding march and orange blossoms clear on down to the last farewell at that gate where Isaac and Rebecca, Abraham and Sarah. Adam and Eve parted. In the ''Farm Ballads" our American poet puts into the lips of a repentant husband after a life of married perturbation thesesug? Restive words: And when she dies I wish that she would be laid by me. And lyine: together in silence perhaps we will agree. And if ever we meet in heaven I would not think it queer If we love each other bettor because we quarreled here. And let me say to those of you who are in happy married union avoid first quarrels; have no unexplained correspondence witb former admirers; cultivate no suspicions: in a moment of bad temper do not rush out and tell the neighbors; do not lot any of those gad-abouts of society unload in your house their baggage of ?ab and tittle tattle; do not stand on your rights; learn how to apologize; do not be so proud, or so stubborn, 01 so devilish that you will not make up. Remember that the worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce cases started from little infelicities. The whole piled ujs train of ten rail cars telescoped and smashed at the foot of an embankment 100 feet down came to that catastrophe by getting two 01 inree incnes on tne tracK. some 01 tne grea?estj domestic misfortunes and the wide resounding divorce cases have started from little misunderstandings that were allowed tc go on and go on until homo and respectabilt ity and religion and immortal soul wendown in the crash, crash! And, follow citizens as well as felJowChristians, let us have a divine rage against anything that wars on the marriage state. Blessed institution! Instead of two arms tc light the battle of life, four; instead of two eyes to scrutinize the patli of life, four; i*-> stead of two shoulders to lift tho burden ol life, four. Twice the energy, twice the courage, twice the holy ambition, twico tho probability of worldly success, twice the prospects of heaven. * Into the matrimonial bower room for ull contentions, and all bickerings, anil all controversies, but inside the bower there is room for only out) guest?the angel of love. Let that angel stand at the floral doorway of this Edenic bower with drawn sword to how down the worst foe ol that bower?easy divorce. And for every paradise lost may there be a paradise regained. And after wo quit our homo here may we have a brighter homo in heaven at the windows of which this inomout are fa. miliar faces watching for our arrival and wondering why so long we tarry. Killed by an Icicle. At Hohenelbo. Bohemiu, a man was killed by an icicle falling from an eave and penetrating his brain. I SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR APRIL 7. Lesson Text: "The Triumphal Entry," Mark xi., 1-tl-C.oIdcn Text: Mark xl., 9? Commentary. 1. "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethpaore and Bethany, at the mount of Olives. He sendeth forth two of His disciples." This so called triumphal entry of to-day's lesson is recorded by each of the four evangelists. It is probable that the order of events as given in John xii. is the real order, as very often events are grouped together not in the order of their occurrence, but to prove or show that which the Spirit, through the writer, had in view. After being received by Zaccheus, Jesus seems to have come to Bethany and to have tarried and supped with Martha and Mary and Lazarus, at which time Mary anointed Him beforehand for His burial (Mark xiv.. 8). That supper may have been after the Sabbath, or. as we would say, on Saturday evening. If so, then this entry would be on the first day of the week, now called Palm Sunday. '2. "And saith unto them. Go yoilr way into tho village over against you, and as soon as ye be entered into it ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat. Loose him and bring him." We are not to suppose that the ass and the colt were there by any prearrangement of the Lord with any one, but being there the Lord knew it, as He knows all things, and the owner was all unwittingly accomplishing the Lord's pleasure. 3. "And if any man say unto you. Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him, and straightway he will send him hither." I have no doubt but that the owner of the colt was a disciple of Christ, for it is not His way to make U6e of the property of an euomy. Neither would He have His followers have any alliance with or seek any aid from those who are not His, for the friendship of the world is enmity with God (James iv., 4), aud He does not need Ihc help of HLs enemies. 4. "And they went their way and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met, and they loose him." They found it iust as Jesus said thev would. So did the man who believed the word that Jesus had spoken concerning his son in John iv., 50, 53. It is perfectly safe for us to say concerning all that God has spoken, "I believe God that it shall be even as it was told ine" (Acts xxvii., 25). To believe is the way of peace and rest and joy; to obey is the way of prosperity and victory. The willing and obedient cannot fall to eat the good of the land (Isa. i.. 19). All the affairs of the kingdom are His, and He will see well to them all. It is the privilege of all His people to know and enjoy His peace, quietness and as surance forever (Isa. xxxii., 17). 5. "And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the oolt?" Luke says that the owners asked the question. We need have no fear of people or their questions if only we are sent of God, for He is the possessor of heaven and earth and doeth according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay His hand or say unto Him. What doest Thou? (Gen. xlv.. 10; Dan. iv.. 35). 6. "And they said unto them even iis Jesus had commanded, and they let them go." When the Lord Jesus sends His messengers, He always tells them what to say. When those who profess to be His messengers have .a message of their own and not His, it is safe to conclude that He did not send them. He Himself spake only what the Father told Him to say (John xii.. 4'J; xiv., 10), and both propneis ana aposues were unaer oraers- 10 apeak only what they were commanded to say (Jer. 1., 7; Ezek. iii., 10; Jonah iii., 2), David says that his psalms were not his own composition, but that "the Spirit of the Lord spake by him. and His word was in David's tongue" (II Sam. xxiii., 2). 7. "Ana they brought the colt to Jesus and cast their garments on him, and He sat upon him.". It is written in Math. xxi., 4, 5; John xii., 11. 15, that all this was done to fulfill the prophecy recorded in Zech. ix., 9, another illustration of the fait that everything that God has said shall bo literally fulfilled, and since Israel's Messiah actually rodo upon an ass' colt, as the prophet said he would, we may be perfectly sure that His feet will actually stand again on the very same hill from which He ascended, as the same prophet has said in chapter xiv., 4; that Ho shall yet be King over all the earth, and that all Nations shall go up from year to year to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, as it is written in the same chapter. 8. ''And many spread their garments in the way. and others cut down branches off the trees and strewed them in the way." if all believers would cast themselves at Jesus's feet for His service ks readily as these people cast their garment under Him, how quickly the kingdom might come! What a kingdom it will be when all things animate and inanimate shall be under Him, "for He must reign till He hath put all enemies under his feet, for all things shall be subdued unto Him, and in all things Ho shall have the pre-eminence" (I Cor. xv.. 25, 28; Col. 1.18). 9. "And they that went before and they that followed cried, Baying: Hosanna! Blessed is He that cometh iu the name of the Lord!" This is from Ps. cxviii and is associated with Israel's joy because of the salvation of Jehovah. Some of the words of the psalm are found in the song of Israel at the Red Sea, and also in Israel's millennial song, which shall be sung when Christ shall come again in power and glory to bring the kingdom. 10. "Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!" Hosanna is simply an untranslated Hebrew word, or two words, which you will find in Ps. cxviii., 25, translated ns "save now." The kingdom they expected was the restoration of David's kingdom, the kingdom of Israel (Acta i., 6), and they were right in expecting it. 11. "Aud Jesus entered into Jeruselem and into tne tempie, anu wnen ne naa jooxea round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, He went out unto Bethany with the twelve." Luke says that before He entered the city Ho wept over it because it knew not the time of its visitation. He would gladly havesaved them. Ho would have set up the kingdom if they had received Him. but they received Him not. On the contrary, -thdy wero ready to crucify Him. Consequently the kingdom is postponed, while Jesus Christ, by His Spirit, gathers out of all nations His church, after which He will return to build again the tabernacle of David and restore all things of which the prophets have spoken (Acts xv.. 14-17; iii., 19-21). Never was anything more plainly written by the Spirit.?Lesson Helper PICTURES SENT BY WIRE. rpitu That Show Thl? Proccas to Be NearInjf Perfection. TV. W. Lowd. train dispatcher of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has given a successful exhibition of his invention for transmitting pictures by telegraph. The test was made at Duluth in the presence of a number of railroad officials. A rough drawing was made of a house. Owing to an error in arranging the meohanism the first attempt whs only partly successful, but at a repetition the house was accurately reproduced at the other end of the wire. The second picture sent over the wire, a distance of only a few hundred feet, wan that of a boy, and the reproduction was exact. Later developments showed that the finest details can be transmitted, <:ven to the shading of the features of the person, a smile or a scowl. A cut was sent over the wiro. showing the collision of the Elbe and the Crathie. Mr. Lowd now has his dev'ce in the Patent Office, and until the patentis secured he does not intend to explain tho methods ol his iv r volition. AMan of Strong Conviction*. A New York man asked to be excused from serving on jury duty on the ground that h<i way incompetent through his conviction that ho should not judge the guilt or inuo* cence of his fellow man. Ilia plea wad granted. Our Gold Production. Between '49 and '94 this country produced $1,939,300,000 worth of gold. The Size of Korea. Korea is as large as Kansas, but all Japan is smaller than California. TEMPERANCE. TOT AT, ABSTIXESCK THE OXLT CUr.K. Anent cures for inebriety. T. Morton. M.D.. in a recent letter to the London Chron icle says: "There is no known drug, ant' probably no unknown one. that can restore tne integrity or the brain-calls damaged dj prolonged drinking habits, though naturf can do much if alcohol is entirely and permanently withdrawn.'' HOW THE DRUNKARD BEGAN. A man was once sitting iu a saloon. lit.' had an old battered hat on his head, short black pipe in his mouth, a dirty shirt and ragged clothes and downtrodden shoes on. But he had not always been like that; he had seen better days once. As. he looked out of the saloon door he saw two tidy, olean little children come for their father's beer. As soon as they were outside the door the little girl took a drink from the jug, while her little m-other waited patiently for his turn. The poor drunkard looked at thom very sadly, and then he said, with a sigh, "Ah. that's how I began, and I can't leave it oft now.'"?Irish World. WHAT DBI.N'KINO DOES. No other evil existing among us threatens so boldly the peace, prosperity, happiness and moral and religious welfare of our people as the evil of excessive drinking. No other social evil disturbs the family relation and renders tho domestic life of men, women and children so inhuman and hopeless as the evil .of excessive and habitual indulgence in strong drink. Intemperance unfits husband and wife for the duties of parentage, the most sacred and solemn in the entire catalogue of human obligations. It destroys the sense of decency and honor, silences conscience and deadens the best instincts of the human heart. There is no bright side to the picture of strong drink in the home. TU*.. U-..4.1J-! ?1 1 1 JLuia uvucuua ftuu uruiunAiii>j VIUO I'ftUUUl uu condemned too severely, and those who have experienced much suffering from its influence miiy be pardoned if they are unsparing against every effort that tends to widen the way for the spread of habitual drinking among us.?Archbishop Ireland. AX OLU-TIME LIQUOR BILI.. For the benefit of those who sometimes assert that no progress Is made in the temperance reform, we clip the following excerpt from the Bostonian. In speaking of the expenses of funerals, the author says: "The bill for liquor consumed was sometimes greater than the cost of the burial itself. As a sample of the proportion this item bore to the general expenses, I quote the funeral bill of a man who was drowned in 1678: By a pint of liquor for those who dived for him, ' 1 shilling. By a quart for those who brought him home, 2 shilling?. By two quarts of wine and one gallon of cider for the jury, 5 shillings. By eight gallons and three quarts of wino for the funeral, ?1. 15 shillings. By one barrel of cider for friends, 16 shillings. By one cofHn, 12 shillings. By one wynding sheet, 18 shillings. By which it appears that the liquor bill at the funeral was just about double the other expenses. JUUMilMi HD8BASUN ASD FATHERS. I have studied the laws of heredity practically, and with hundieds of living illustrations, for twenty-two years, and I have reached a firm conviction that no mui is worthy to become a husband or father who is not always sober asid clean. By sober I mean a man who is not familiar with the red cup; by clean, one whose body is pure and healthful. We are at present developing a race of drunkards. Statistics show that, leaving out the children, there is one drunkard to every forty-two persons. This means that nearly one-half the adult people in the United States drink something else than water. I have sufficient evidence to encourage me in my belief that any man who tipples cannot be a good father; not that the greatest wrong is to himself, but because of the wrong done his children. I find that nine out of every ten men who drink had drinking fathers or a drinking family beforo them. The father says: "Oh. I only drink a little, you know; it nevor affects me!" But the father never knows what terrible effects of just drinking "a little" may be revealed in bis offspring; what awful infltiHiice it mayhave upon the. mind and habits of his child. You cannot enervate the mind and body and have strength and intellect remain. If you are a father, as you sow strength and intellect in yourself, so shall you reRp strength and intellect in your children, if drunkenness and licentiousness go hand in hand, if we are generating a drunken race, thon we are producing at the same time an unclean race. Let thinking men and women consider these cruel, hard facts; and, above all, let the wives bring all their loving influence to bear upon their husbands to restrain their husbands from drinking.? Anthony Comstock, in Our Gospel Letter. THE EFFECT OS HEALTH. It is not unusual for dissectors in medical colleges to find the liver greatly enlarged (congested) in subjects who perish from habitual use of liquor. In such cases sometimes the liver is found to weigh fifteen or twenty pounds. In a healthy state tho liver weighs ( only three or four pounds. Again, tho condition of the blood becomes impure from the aotion of alcohol, and thereby causes direct tendency towards disease of the lungs, Have you ever noticed the fetid breath of a drunkard? And when tho functions of the lungs in purifying the blood are impaired by disease. the blood becomes still more impure aaa stm less able to supply the lungs with nourishment. Physicians And that pneumonia, or inflammation of the lungs, is nearly incurable and most frequently fatal in those who have been addicted to alcoholic drinks. From impurity of the blood slight wounds prove serious, fester, mortify, and often prove fatal. Sir Astley Cooper, M. D., relates the case of n powerful, healthy-looking drayman, who had suffered an injury in his finger from a small splinter. The wound appeared of a trifling nature but he died from it. Speaking of the danger attending surgical opperations upon those who habitually use liquor, Dr. Edwards says they can never undergo the most trilling operation with the seourlty of the temperate. They almost invariably die under it. Life insurance tables show that a temperate person's chance of living at 20 is 44.2 years, at 30 is 36.5 years, etc., while an intemperate person's chance of living at 20 i.? io.o years, at ou is ia.o years, en;. For some years past there has been an inclination to give up the use of whisky and other strong alcoholic drinks and to use beer and other compounds as substitutes. This is evidently founded on the idea that beer is not harmful and contaialns a largo amount of nutriment; also that bitters may have certain medical properties which will neutralize the alcohol It conocals. These theories are not conflrme l by the observations of physicians and chemists in cases where either of these substitutes had bc^n used for a length of time. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND X0TB3. The Supromo Court of Indiana has decided that no woman in that State can bold n saloon license legally. The liquor traffic ia to- lay tiio heaviest clog upon the progress, and the deepest disgrace of the nineteenth catury. ?New York Tribune. The Pueblo Indians are said to l?e the only tribe that have resisted the traders' efforts to introduce "fin-water" ;ia'! in ::i-n communities. What real estate aijent, if is;; wants to ??;ii a lioasH, will say: -It is luiely located within one hundred feet of three corner saloons?" And if not. why not? The total wages paid l.? working people in the United States iu 18!)0 was 82,283,216.52'.). It would take every dollar ??f it to pay the direct and indirect cost ol the liquor trafll:* for the same ye:ir. Ohio has 10,183 saloons, thr? revenue from which is 81,285.1)05.34. This money wax distributed as follows: To the State general revenue, $250,248.49; local police funds. 8344.753.75; municipal general revenue, *400,014: poor fund. 8295.88y.34. In Scotland there are lunatics of on;: kind or another, an increase of one hundred and sixteen percent, since 1858, while the populations shows an increase of thirty-soven per cent. The per cent, of ''drink lunatics" Is larger than that of any other kind. It is authoratively stated tliat England has 80,000 barmaids. RELIGIOUS READING. I EEPENTASC E. 1 God now commandeth all men everywhere i to repent. 1 lay this command across your j path : you cannot proceed one stop farther in a sinful course without treading it under ? foot.?You are urged to the performance of this duty by a regard to your own interest. You are urgod to'it by all the blessed angels, who are waiting with desire to rejoice in your own conversion. Above all you are most wonderfully urjjed to it by the blessed Redeemer,whom you are under the strongest possible obligations to love and obey. He has done and buffered much for you. For voa he has toiled, bled ami died. For you he cheerfully endured the scoffs and cruelties of men; the rage and malice of devils and the overwhelming weight of his Father's wrath. In return for all this he asks of you one small favor. He merely requests you to repent and be happy. If you comply with this request, he will see of the travail of his sniil nnri ha satisfied. O. then, be nor suaded to give joy to God, to his Son. and to the blessed angels; to make this day a festival in heaven,by repenting. Even now, your heavenly Fatheris waiting for your return, and the redeemer stands ready with expanded arms to receive you. Even now the white robes and the rinj: are provided, and the fatted calf is made ready to feast returning prodigals. Even now, angels and archangels are ready to pour forth their most joyful songs to celebrate your return. Will you then, by per- | sisting in impenitence, seal up their lips? Will you say. There shall be no joy in heaven this day, on your account? God shall not I be glorified, Christ shall not be gratified, angels shall not rejoice, if we can prevent it? If there be any of us, whose feelings and conduct is such, this is the language, i soiemDly, but reluctantly declare unto you, in tho name of Jehovah that *God and his Son shall be glorified, and there , shall be joy over you in heaven, notwithstanding all your endeavors to prevent it ( Never shall any of his creatures rob God of i his glory; and, if you will not consent that j his grace shall be glorified in your salvation, bo will be compelled to gloi ify his justice, in your everlasting destruction. If you will not allow the inhabitants of heaven to rejoice j in your repentance their love of justice, truth j and holiness will constrain them to rejoice in your condemnation. THE SCSS'HINE OF RELIGION. Our Lord when on earth was not a friend only for dark days. Hb could stand by the grave 01 i-iazarus auu wrep wuu mo oonw**- i ing sisters, but could as well be present at the wedding at Caua of Galilee, an honored and welcome euest. In our deep realization 1 of the solemn mission of our Lord to this < sinful world, we are too apt to forget that He ' < came as an image and expression and em- . bodimeut of the God of Love. The morose reformer is not likely to be bidden to feasts ' where his presence is only a gloomy shadow, and his countcnance as a threatening cloud. ] We may be sure that even in His holy purity , this was not the impression made by Him whose ''compassions are new every morn- J ing." There wao sunshine about Him, or ] the mothers would not have thronged around ( Him with their little ones, the despised sufferers would not have looked trustfully to ' Him for help, the outcast sinner would not I have turned to Him for pardon. We ssem to < fancy that God made our eyes for tears, and that from some other power , came their glad twinkle of merriment, or their expression of innocent < joy, in the midst of social converse. Who j wreathed the mouth with smiles that answer to smiles? Who made the dimples to come i and go in the baby's face? Who'llt the glad, 1 loving light in its eyes, as it begin'' to be, aware of th3 tender care of its mother? Why j will we not_ remembf r that jo> is as much the gift of lioa as sorrow, ana ro d? as ireoiy accepted in His presence? We will bold fast to the heathen idea of the Most High, and think we must "cut ourselves before Him," and rob ourselves of light and hope, to be His acceptable worshippers. In the beginning of His earthly ministry our Lord gave an i-pen protest against this (onceptionof the Friend of Sinners, while at the same lime He stamped His approval on the glad honoring of the institution that sets men in families. Later, He was not slow to express plainly His sense of the permanence of the marriage tie. Our Saviour sanctified the mutual duties aud tho sacred joys of home.? Watchman. THE 8T0HV OK AN OLD BIBLE. ( During the war I served on the United States ship Cherokee and other ships. When off the coast of Wilmington, just before the battle, a missionary ciirne on board the ship and gave a number of Bibb 9 to the sailors. < Many did not care for them, but I took one ( and kept it for a kind of pocket book, a , place to keep my money in. After the cap- J ture of a prize I had a Hood many greenbacks < between the leaves of that old Bible. It was \ a cheap one, with leather cover, which served a very good purpose, for not many thieves J would look into a Bible for greenbacks; but ? eomehow that old book remained with me t until the close of the war and has ever since. Although it has been wet with salt water many times, and the covers sewed on with black thread, it is still in mv possession. But the most remarkable feature of that Bible la that at the close of the war some of God's full-blooded Christians got after me, and I was soundly converted. Then it was that I found something more precious than greenbacks in that old Bible. The next day after my conversion I bunted it up and read thirty-eight chapters without stopping, amid teare of joy surpassing all. yea, ten thousand times more than the greenbacks had brought me. Although we were obliged to eat much hird-tack down South, with the money I could buy"soft tack," as the sailors called it; but when the Lord opened my eyes and soul, I could feed upon the bread of heaven. Now I do not know who that missionary wa9 or what church he represented. If I did I would write him. telling him that the casting bread upon the waters proved the blessing of my soul, indeed.?Rev. A. A. Wilcor in Word-Wide Missions. INFLUENCE 07 BOOKS. A Puritan divine named Slbbs wrote a booklet oalled "The Bruised Reed." A copy of tbis was given by a humble layman to a little boy at whose father's house he bad been entertained over night. The boy was Richard Baxter, and the book wuS tho means of his conversion. Baxter wrote his "Call to the Unconverted," and among the multitudes led to it by Christ was Philip Doddridge. Dod dridge wrote tfe "lllse and JPro?ress 01 ?eligion in the Soul," and "the time would fail us to tell" its blessed influence. By it Wilberforoe wa9 converted. and about bis life and labors volumes could be written. Wilberforce wrote hfa "Practical View of Christianity," and this led not only Dr. Chalmers into the truth, but Leigh Richmond to Christ. Richmond wrote "The Dairyman's Daughter." which has been published in a hundred languages and over Ave million copies have been sold. Carey's compassion forbenighted men was llrst awakened by reading Cook's "Voyage Around the World." Buchanan's "Star of the East" lea Juilson to be a missionary, and untold has been the influence of the apostle of Burma in 1 heathen lands and at home. Some one'has said, "The debt of literature to Christ is that of vegetation to light," and so we may say that all helpful and religious books derivo c their potency from the Rook of Books, the s Holy Bible, which is abl?s to make us wise t unto Salvation?Rev. John Gordon. ' nv KtLLKl) THE OUl LINK FtTI.L." Christ came, not to dtstroy. but to develop 1 the old eeonon:y. He tilled the old outline full. The rude sketch beeaire the express 1 itnat"' >if Gud. Tin? root, out of the dry ground, beenme a fruitful olive. The dead- v eni'd. dwarfed bran?!ns were eut oiT and east away, that a new .- ion u i>?ht be < ingrafted ' upon the ancient >iock. Now t!ie (le.itiles , constitute the irr? at <)iiuntity of the tree of life. It- spirit end geuius i.? Hebraic?Northwestern Congregationalism J i Beggared Herself for Chirity. v The Duchess of Sautouna, who died ?i recently in the deepest poverty at Ma- ?i drid, spent a fortune in charity, her gifts for half a century back being tof the most generous description. On 1j one occasion, hearing that a noble c Spanish lady was about to sell her ' jewels to pay a debt, the Duchess sent t her a check for $200,000. She died in want, and none of those to whom she had given abundantly thought enough of her to see that her days were end^d In comfort?Montreal Gazette. 2 Greatest ot Diamonds. According to a cablegram the Pope ias received from the President of the rraDsvaal Republic a diamond weighng 971 carats. The stone was found n the Jagersfontein mines and is deslared to be the largest known. The cablegram states that the mon1/ Si ( ft ^ll F : \ f Alf . LARGEST DIAMOND IN THE WORLD. (Reproduced at Its exact size.) iter diamond is of a bluish-white cast ind practically perfect, its only blemish being a tiny spot in the centre, invisible to the naked eye. Why the President of the Transvaal Republic has sent it to the Pope is not made clear. It is not made clear, says bhc New York World, that he has made a present to His Holiness of a *tone valued at $1,000,000. Probably bis object was to get a free advertisement for his little republic and tne big diamond found there. The Jewelers' Circular prints a picture of the diamond, showing its actual size. This was received from a correspondent in South Africa. The Circular presumes that the diamond referred to is the one known as the r ? a _ n 1 jagersioniein jLxceis^jor. It was pioked up by a native while be was loading a truck. Although a white overseer was standing near him be managed to hide it and keep it on bis person for some time. It turned out, however, that he did not wish to steal it, for he delivered it personally to the manager. As a reward he reseived $750 and a horse and saddle. Thf exact weight of the diamond is 371J carats, or about seven and onequarter ounces avoirdupois. It therefore weighs uncut nearly half a pound. h. diamond of fair size for a ring tveighs one carat. In its present condition it measures three inches in length, one and a half inches in thickness, two and a half inches at its greatest breadth and one ?nd a third inches at its least breadth, ft is of a beautiful bluish color and is rfmnad like the broken-off end of an ioicle. The flaw in it is believed to be more serious than is stated in the cable despatch. It is a black spot near the niddle. It could be cut in two, however, so as to leave out the blemish, tt would then make two of the largest diamonds in existence. Atthetimeof ts discovery it was valued at $1,000,)00. The Boring Woodpecker. The drawing shows part of a oedar lel^graph pole from near Phoenix, Dregon, which has been bored full of loles by woodpeckers for the purpose )f storing away acorns for their >? ?1? Ti.n rViULOl D ouppijr. JLUC UllUO gCUDiOUJ ise large pine trees for this purpose, jut they have discovered that occasiondly a telegraph pole serves their purIpose admirably, as the drawing shows. The woodpecker first digs a hole in the pole about large enough for an acorn to fit in, then he flies off and soon returns with an acorn which he jams into the hole. He hammers away at it with his bill until only the head of the acorn is visible. So tightly iv/yiiP| are tnese acorns fawBfjp ju'/WM I driven in, that th0yare 1 MnriSn 1 Rrea^e8^ difficulty iTflrnllfiUrilII ff extracted. In such ?t?SaiEfffl 1 numbera do they H ImMfiil 8tore ^he*11 that InlSltfSn ^e of a lftrSe C'mlJmfflifflf pi?e forty or fifty | pg|Ml feet high will pre ffll11 sent ^e flPPeftr" ^11 ance of being J'VjKl nu 11 studded with brass nails. The birds ^\l| j [ Mji I'] I also store acorns I Irllli *n hollow Hi Ifitf | etalks of dead rlilm PlaDt8? notably *\'i| Hi the ceQtary pla?t, the flowering stalk * ' fl IMlllllfll of which is often I rilW found completely W I tilled with the telegraph pole acorns. Some* bored by the times the oak trees woodpecker. are thirty miles tway from the birds' place of storage, o that the storing and collecting of ach acorn requires a flight of sixty uiles. In times of famine all this good rork shows to advantage, for not only )irds but many kinds of beasts feed ipon the acorns which the woodpeckkra V?a\'t> art nnra fnllv hoarded. If it vere not for the industry of the wood>eckers, they would have to die of tarvation. ?Scientific American. Conversation Killers. How discouraging it is to get off a lertinent quotation only to have your nterlocutor inquire iu a stereotyped iay, "What's that?" For instance, in a cold, bracing morning you renark quite glibly, "It is an eager and nibbling air." ''What's that?" asks he dull-cared idiot, and then you lave to content yourself with some ommonplace as, "It's a cold day,*' or 'Is this cold enough for you?" Some- I imes it really seems as though there * no use in being bright and intellient.?Boston Transcript. By the last census Missouri had 34,869 citizens of foreign birth. &||H HOUSEHOLD MATTIES. LEMON FOB CLEANING SILVER. , .n^ A valuable assistant on silver cleaxpi? ing day is a lemon. If silver, after it is cleaned, is robbed with a piece of lemon and then washed and well dried, it gets a white brilliancy which it seldom has otherwise and will keep clean longer than with the ordinary cleans ing.?New York Times. TO BOIL EGOS. & . I'jfflg Pat them in a saucepan, and pour boiling water over ihem, cover the dish tight and set back where the water will keep hot, but not boil. Let it stand ten minutes. The effect is quite different from that produced by boiling, both the flavor and texture of the egg being vastly superior to an. egg boiled in the usual manner.?Boston Cultivator. % SALT FOB SOILED CAKPBTS. For soiled carpets at the time of * ^ spring cleaning salt is a wonderful re- x v. storer of faded color; the coarsest kind is the best and should be spread i -Sim without stmt. Let it lie on the car- . , pet for a few hours, then brush it off with a hard broom; the result is most satisfactory. A pinch of salt dropped in the receiver of a lamp where kero? , sene is burned gives the light a wonderful brilliancy. , J '7 *J0 CLEAN THE HAIK BRUSHES. \ The comb and brush should be as atrictly kept for individual use as the tooth brush. For this exolusiveneas ' there is excellent reasoD, as both brush and comb, particularly the first, are deadly disease carriers. A, hairbrush cau communicate diphtheria, chicken pox, scarlet fever, smallpox or any contagious disease, also scald head, tetter, and under cer. .... li..3 : rr.t cam conditions dioou poisoning. xu? hairbrush is a prolific germ transmitter, as the exterior of the human head is a fertile field for bacterial life. One brushing on the head of a diseased person, or one who has been in a contagious atmosphere, will transmit as many as 1000 germs to the brush from v>j the hair, which by general use will be conveyed to many others, until tha disease is sown broadcast. Brushes should be often washed first in water to which a little ammonia has beea added, then cleansed and disinfected with a mild solution of carbolic acid. . \' ?American Agriculturist. a chapter on pastry. In making pastry mix it quickly, avoid unnecessary handling, and bake immediately; unless it gets into the oven at once it will be tongh and heavy. Never use the hands to mix pastry, if you want it short and flaky. Use, instead, a broad-bladed knife. It in better, when making pies, to use half and half, or one-third lard and two-thirds butter, but puff paste should be made of butter alone. Use good, sweet butter, and if possible use home rendered leaf lard. Always sift the flour before using, add the salt and thoroughly chop the a^a*lartin/v in ttaa qt1 atiffk UVi VCUIU^ AM VUU UVW4t ?# **> ice-cold water to hold all together, handling as little as possible. Pinch off enough dough for one crust j roll lightly and roll from von. Use only flour enough on the rolling-pin tind . board to keep the dough from stioking. Never grease the pie tin, but dust slightly with flour. Pies should be baked in a moderate- y ' ly hot oven to a light brown. Have the greater heat on the bottom, that the under crust may be well baked. A pie that is properly baked will slip from the tin with careful handling, and if placed on a wire frame where the air can pass under it, will cool without becoming moist. If the pie is inclined to stick to the pie-tin, give the tin a few careful "flops" when you first take it from the oven. In making a juicy pie, pin an inchwide strip of white cloth around the edge of the pie. This will prevent the jdjce from cooking over the idge.? ' v. New England Homestead. BECIPES. Crullers?Three eggs, six tablespoonfuls white sugar, butter size of a small egg, one-half teaspoonful of saleratus dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of milk, flour to thickeu. Vanilla Wafers?One cup of sugar, two-thirds cup butter, four tablespoonfuls milk, one tablespoonfol vinilla, one egg, one and one-half teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, two-third* teaspoonful of soda, flour enough to roll out well; roll very thin. Dressing for Cabbage and LettuceFour tablespoonfuls vinegar, one tablespoonful salt, one tablespoonful mustard, one tablespoonful sugar. Put into dish of boiling water and add piece of butter size of an egg. Beat one egg and stir into this, which makes it thick; add cream to thin it a little and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Sponge Cake?One cup of sugar (not heaping), one cup flour, the grated rind and juice of one lemon, three fresh eggs beaten well; beat whites and yolke separately ntteen or twenty minutes. After stirring in the flour put into oven as soon as possible. One small loaf, bake in deep pan, and break the cake instead of cutting. Minnehaha Cake?One cup, sugar, one-half cup butter, yolks of two eggs and whole of one, two cups floar, onehalf cup milk, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda. This makes three layers. Filling: Boil one cup sugar with little cold water until it will crack when dropped into cold water, then remove from the stove and stir into the white of one egg beaten to a stiff froth, then stir in one cup of raisins chopped and stoned. Jellied Oranges ? Four large oranges, juice of two lemons. Cut tho oranges into halves aud be carefulnot to break the peel when you remove the juice. Soak one-third box of gelntine in cold water for nu hour, add the juice of the lemons and oranges. One cup sugar, one-half pint boiling water, strain and pour in the peels, >vhieh should bo put in so that they 1 A lo rrnfnn may ue uprigui.. -? .*> *w? this purpose. Servo with whipped cream 011 top when it is ready for the table.? New England Homestead. In London alone there are upward of 170 pianoforte factories. Over 1300 shops and factories in the metropolis are devoted to the supplying of musical goods of all sort-j. Throughout the provinces thete 5 'W musical establishments o. nds.