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\ | REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Subject: "Easter Jubilee." Text: "Death is swallowed up in vicj/ory."?I Corinthians x\\, 54. About 1SG1 Easter mornings have wakaned the earth. In France for three centuries the almanacs made the year begin at Easter until Charles IX made the year begin at Jan. 1. In the Tower of London there is a royal pay roll of Edward I. on which there is an entry of eighteen pence for 400 colored and pictured Easter eggs, with which the people sported. In Russia slaves were fed and alms yere distributed on Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus. at Gaul, at Home, at Achaia, to decide the particular day. and after a controversy more animated than gracious decided it, and now ^ through all Christendom in some way the first Sunday after tho full moon which happens upon or next after March 21 is filled with Easter rejoicing. The royal court of the Sabbaths is made up of flfty-two. Fiftyone are princes in tho royal household, but Easter is queen. She wears a richer diadem onH ?r?v? a more i^weled sceoter: and in her smile nations nro irradiated. We welcome this queenly day, holding high up in Iher right hand the wrenched off bolt ol Christ's sepuleher and holding high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries in * Christendom. ? My text is an ejaculation. It is spun out of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection and observed all the laws of logic, but when he (Came to write the wordB of the text his Angers and his pen and the parchment on which he wrote took lire, and he cried out, ;"Death is swallowed up in victory!" It is n dreadful Bight to see an army routed and flying. They scatter everything valuable on the track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoof 01 horse on breast of wounded and dying man. You have reatl of the French falling back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track ol 90,000 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, or of the five kings tumbling over the rocks ol Bethoran with their armies, while the hailstorms of heaven and the swords of Joshua's hosts struck them with their fury. But in my text is a worse discomfiture. It seems that a black giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathered for his host all the aches and pains and maladies and distempers and epidemics of the ages. He marched them down, drilling them in the northeast wind, amid the slush of tempests. He threw up barricades of grave mound. He pitched tent of charnel house. Some of the troops marched with slow tread, commanded by consumptions; some in double quick, commanded by pneumonias. Some he took by long besiegement of evil habit and some by one stroke of the battleax of casualty. "With bony hand he pounded at the doors ol hospitals and sickrooms and won all the victories in alt the great battlefields of all the five continents. Forward, march! the conqueror of conquerors, and all the generals and commanders-in-chief, and ;J1 presidents and kings and sultans and czais drop under the feet of his war charger. ' But one Christmas night his antagonist was born. As most of the plagues and sicknesses and deeDotisms came out of the east it was appropriate that the new conqueror should if oome out of the same quarter. Power it given Him to awaken all the fallen of all the centuries and of all lands and Marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won. but the last day will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth His two brigades, the brigade of the risec dead and the brigade of the celestial host, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from the riven sepulchers will take him frotr beneath, and the brigade of descending im mortals will take him from above, and "death shall be swallowed up in victory.' The old braggart that threatened the con quest and demolition of the planet has lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has lost hi< palace, has lost his prestige, and the <JB< word written over all the gatesof mausoleun and catacomb and necropolis, on cenotapt and sarcophagus, ont he lonely cairn of th< Arctic explorer and o* the catafalque o great cathedral, wrirtea in capitals of azalei and calla lily, written in musical cadence written in doxology of great assemblages written on the sculptured door of the famil; vault, is "Victory. Coronal word, eniban nered word, apocalyptic word, chief word o triumphal arch under which conquerors re turn. Victory! Word shouted at Cullodei and Balaklava and Blenheim; a on/1 finlfarinn. n> Marn+hnn when iUQ^IUUV OUU wvuvwuv, ?*? j ? the Athenians drove back the Medea; a Poictiers, where Charles Martel broke thi ran^s of the Saracens; at Salamis, when Themistocles in the great sea figut coufOUH^ ed the Persians, and at the door of the east era cavern of chiseled rock, where Chris ? came out through a recess and throttled th king of terrors aud put him back in th niche from which the celestial conquero had just emerged. Aha, when the jaws o the eastern mausoleum took down the blacl giant, "death was swallowed up in victory! I proclaim the abolition of death. The ol( antagonist is driven back into mytholog with all the lore about Stygian ferry ani Charon with oar and boat. We shall hav no more to do with death than we have witl the cloakroom at a governor's or presidents levee. We stop at such cloakroom and leavi In charge of the servant our overcoat, ou overshoes, our outward apparel that we ma; not be impeded in the brilliant round of thi drawing room. Well, my friends, when w< go out of this world we are going to a king' banquet, and to a reception of monarchs, an< at the door of the tomb, wo leave the cloal of flesh and the wrappings with which w meet the storms of the world. At the clos 1 of our earthly reception, under the brush an< broom of the porter, the coat or hat may b handed to us better than when we resignei it, and the cloak of humanity will finally b< returned to us improved and brightened an< purified and gjoritled. You and I do no want our bodies returned to us as they ar< now. We want to get rid of all their weak nesses, and all their susceptibilities to fa tigue, and all their slowness of locomotion They will be put through a chemistry of soi and "heat and cold and changing seasons ou of which God will reconstruct them a3 mucl better than they are now as the body of tht rosiest and healthiest child that bounds ovei the lawn is better than the sickest patient ii the hospital. But as to our soul, we will cross right over not waiting for obsequies, independent o1 obituary, into a state in every way better with wider room and velocities beyond computation; the dullest of as into companion ship with the very best spirits in their verj best moods, in the very best room of the universe, the four walls furnished and paneleci and pictured and glorified with all the splendors that the infinite God in all ages ha3 beer able to invent. Victory! This view of course makes it of but littl< importance whether we are cremated 01 sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, th< former is allies to ashes. If any prefer in cineration, let them have it without carica ture. The world may become so crowdec that cremation may bo universally adoptee by law as well as by general consent. Man; of the mightiest and l<est of earth have gont through this process. Thousands aud ten of thousands of God's children have beei oremated. P. P. Bliss and wife, the evange list singers, cremated by accident at Ashta bula bridge; John Rogers cremated by perse cution, Latimer and Ridley cremated at Ox ford, Pothinus and Blondina, a slave, am Alexander, a physician, and their comrades cremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius At least a hundred'thousand of Christ's dis ciples cremated, and there can b? no doub about the resurrection of their bodies. If th< world lasts a? much longer as it has already been built, there perhaps may be no roon for tne large acreage set apart for the rent in; places, but that time has not coine. Plenty of room yet. and the race need not pass thai bridge of fire until it comes to it. The mosl of us prefer the old way. But whether oui of natural disintegration or cremation \v< shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome transcendent, magnificent, inexplicable strue ture called the resurrecetion body you wil have it, I will have it. 1 say to you to-daj us FauI said to Agrippa, "Why should it b< thought a thing incredible with you that Got Should raise the dead?" That far up cloud, higher than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is il made of? Drops of water from the Hudson, ' other drops from the East Uiver, other drop: from a stagnant pool out on Newark flats, .Up yonder there, embodied in a cloud, and the sun kindles it. If God can make such o lustrous cloud out of water drops, many ol them soiled and impure and fetched from miles away, can He not transport the fragments of a human body from the earth and lout of them build a radiant body? Cannot food, who owns all the material out of which bones and muscle and flesh are made, set Ibem up again if they hare fallen? If a manufacturer of telescopes drops a telescope on the floor, and it breaks, can he not mend it again so you can see through it? And il God drops the human oyo into the dust, the oyo which He originally fashioned, can Ha not restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer of the telescope, by a change of the glass and a change of focus, can make a better glass than that which was originally constructed and actually improve it, do you not think the fashioner of the human eye may improve its sight and multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold additional forces of the resurrection eye? ''Why should it be thought with you an incredible thing that God should raise the dead?" Thingsall aroundussuggest it. Out of what grow all these flowers? Out of the mold and earth. Resurrected. Resurected. The radiant butterfly, where did it come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smites the tempest with its wing, where did it como from? A senseless shell. Near Bergeijic, France, in a Celtic tomb, under a block, were found flower seeds that had been buried 2000 years. The explorer took the flower seed and planted it, and it cam? up. It blomed in bluebell and heliotrope. 1 Two thousand years ago buried, yet resur i-?3 A aovo bta f/Minsi in ft mil IT* rtJULCU. XL UUY OICl ."7?J o UV ?u W ; my pit in Egypt garden peas that had been buried there 3000 years ago. He brought ' them out, and on June 4, 1844, he planted them, and in thirty days they sprang up. Buried 3000 years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the ; dead?" Where did all this silk come from? the silk that adorns your persons and your 1 homes? In the hollow of a staft a Greek missionary brought from China to Europe the progenitors of those worms that now supply the silk markets of many Nations. 1 The pageantry of banuered hosts and the luxurious articles of commercial emporium 1 blazing out from the silk worms! And who shall be surprised if, out of this insignificant earthly life, our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eternities? Put silver ' into diluted niter, and it dissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No. Put in some pieces | of copper, and the silver reappears. If one force dissolves, another force reorganizes. ; "Why should it be thought a thing ini credible with you that God should raise the dead?" The "insects flew and the worm? 1 crawled last autumn feebler and feebler and then stopped. They hive taken no food; they want none. They lfe dormant and insensible, but soon the south wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and the air and the earth will be full of them. Do you not think i that God can do as much for our bodies as Ho does for the wasps, and the sp ders, and th# snails? This morning at half past 4 o'clock' 1 there was a resurrection. Out of the night, 1 the day. In a few weeks there will be a re3surrection in all our gardens. Why not some | day a resurrection amid all the graves? " J 4-1 ~ Inofftnoaa r\f man JEjVCr RI1U ciLlULl tiiorc tiiu iiuinuvw; v* wvm and women entranced. A trance is death, followod by resurrection after a few days?total suspension of mental power and voluntary' action. Rev. William Tennent, a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms?Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. His spirit seemed to have departed. People came in day after day and said, '"He is dead; he is dead." But the soul returned, and William Tennent lived to write out experiences of what he had seen while his soul was gone. It may be found some time what is called suspended animation or comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next world, from which it comes back?a furlough of a fow hours granted from the conflict of life to which it must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance and this waking up of grains buried 3000 years ago make it easier for you to believe that your body and mine, after the vacation of the grave, shall rouse and rally, though there be 3000 years between our last breath and the sounding of thearchangelic reveille? Physiologists tell us that, while the most of } our bodies are built with such wonderful tKut iro mti unnrn nnthincr. and the " loss of a finger is a hindrance, and the injury of a toe joint makes lis lame, still we ' have two or three apparently useless physi! 5 cal apparati. and no anatomist or physiolog1 1st has ever been able to tell what they are | good for. Perhaps they are the foundation : of the resurrection body, worth nothing to us in this state, to be indispensibly valuable 1 iu the next state. The Jewish rabbis appear ? to have had a hint of this suggestion when > they said that in the human frame thore was ^ a small bone which was to bo the basis of the resurrection body. That may have been a 1 delusion. But this thing is certain, the Christian scientists of our day have found out J that there are two or three superfluities of 1 the body that are something gloriously sug? gestive of another state. 1 I called at my friend's house one summer ? day. I found the yard.fvU.pUeiJJipjijitfc.nit)'Qarpaater's aiicl masoi'3 work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the " floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. ? All the pictures were gone, and the paper ? hangers do^ng their work. All the modern ? improvements wore being introduced into < that dwelling. There was not a room in the [ house fit to live in at that time, although a I; month before, when I visited that house, , everything was so beautiful I could not have * suggested an improvement. My friend had i gone with his family to the Holy Land, ex^ pecting to come back at the end of six months, when the building was to be done. And, oh, what was his joy when at the ? end of six months he returned apd the old r house was enlarged and improved and glo v rifled! That 13 your boay: it looots wen ^ now. All the rooms filled with health, and 3 we could hardly make a suggestion. But 3 after awhile your soul will go to the Holy ? Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely reconc structed from cellar to attic, every nerve, 0 muscle and bone and tissue and artery ? must be hauled over, and the old 1 structure will be burnished and adorned ? and raised and coupolaed and enlarged, 1 and all the improvements of heaven intro? duced. and you will move into it on resurrec: tionday. "For we know that, if our earthly * house of this tabernacle were dissolved, wo 3 have a building of God, a house not made " with hands, eternal in the heavens." Oh. what a day when body and soul meet again! : They are very fond of each other. Did f your body ever have a pain and your * soul not re-echo it? Or, changing the J question, did your soul ever have any ' trouble and your body not sympathize r with it. growing wan and weak under 1 the depressing influence? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step. Surely God never intended two such good friends to be very long separated. And so when the world's last Easter morning shall come the soul will descend, crying, "Where is my body?" And the body will ascend, saying. "Where is my soul?" And the Lord of the resurrection will bring them luxuiiicr* IUIU 11 \>m uu ? sum iu u 1 perfect body, introduced by ft perfect Christ into a perfect heaven. Victory! Only the bad disapprove of the resurrec\ tion. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. ' Moffat, the missionary, preach about the resurrection, and he said to the missionary, j '-Will my father rise in the last day?" "Yes," j said the missionary. "Will all the dead in battle rise?" said the cruel chieftain. "Yes," ' said the missionary. ' Then." said the war, rior, "let mo hear no more about the resurrection, there can be no resurrection, there shall be no resurrection. I [ have slain thousands in battle. Will they * rise?" Ah, there will be more to rise on that " day than thoso want to see whose crimes j have never been repented of. But for all others who allowed Christ to be * their pardou and life and resurrec* tion it will bo a day of victory. The I thunders of the last day will be the salve that greets you into harbor. The lightnings . will be only the torches of triumphant pro' cession inarching down to escort you home. , The burning worlds flashing through imJ mensity will be the rockets celebrating your t coronation on thrones where you will reign , forever and forever and forever. Where is , death? What have wo to do with death? As your reunited body and soul swing oil' from this planet on the last day you will see deep ' gashes all up and down the hills, deep j gashes all through the valleys, and they . will be the emptied graves, they will bo the abandoned sepulchres, with rough j ground tossed on either side of them, and slabs will be uneven on the rent hillocks, and ?il I Me 1 ill I'Ul lUUJiUIUCUlS <1.11 U VV UWtajibs, and tiieu for the llrst time you will appreciate the full exhilaration of the text, ' He will swallow up death in victory." Hall the Lord of earth and heavenl Praise to Thee by both be given; Thee we greet triumphant now Hail the resurrection Thou! Beef and Petroleum Dearer. Beef is higher than in twenty years and Pennsylvania petroleum higher than In seven, teen. SABBATH SCHOOL. IR] INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR 31 AY 5. . A I who Lesson Text: "The Agony In Geth- ?v?r hpriq acmane," Mark xlv., ?'i2-413 crca( ?Golden Text: John xvlll., picki 11?Commentary. tor v little said 32. 'And they came to a place which wa% ^esu named Gethsomane, and Hesaith to Hiadis- * ciplos. Sit ye here while I shall pray." On their way to the mount of Olives He told w'101 them that, according to the Scriptures, He Per ? would be smitten and thoy would forsake ^im. Him. He said also that Teter would deny tlem; Him, upon which Teter and all the others wou^ ,-ta id that they would never do such a thing (verses 27 to 31). They then come to Geth- can] - ? ?*?"? Uvea .semane, wiucii alanines uu uu prrisa, eugges- ----tive of the bruising which He was here to un- P0'" dergo that He might give to us the anointing told of the Holy Spirit. For the trials of Geth- P"1831 semane special strength was needed, concern- "ow ing which He must talk with His Father, but ?rou into this and many other communions His kn0^ disciples cannot eDter, so He Roes alone to caV pray. *38. "And He taketh with Him Peter and ? ( James and John and began to be sore amazed ^inc and to be very heavy." Matthew says i "sorrowful and very heavy." It could not u _ be anything He did not know about before- u hand," for He know all things, but the powers h of darkness were about to do their worst, ... the great crisis to which. He had looked for- ? d ward from eternity was at hand, and it ? might be said that satan was about to en-' gage Him in a hand to hand conflict. i d 34. *'And sayeth unto them, My soul is ex- [h ? ceeding sorrowful unto death. Tarry ye miaa here ami watch." In Math, xxvi., 28, it is, 'Watch .with Me." His humanity craved their sympathy, but how little He found! He was truly the lonely man as weil as the ? man of sorrows, and even the favored three, _j0 of whom the beloved John was nearest to {ual| Him, could not enter into His experiences. jac If ever a sense of heaviness and darkness ' comes over you in your Christian life, when ? t you know in your heart that you desire d . abovo all things to serve the Lord and do only His will, think upon Isa. 1., 10, and y4,, I RaJ t~- trio 1 piuiao uuu icnywaui^ vvttu Aiia wuu il Jesus Christ. ' 35. "And He went forward a little and v>e fell on the ground and prayed that if it were mi possible the hour might pass from Him." w He seems tc have left eight of the disciples .. just inside the garden, to have taken the h * three a little farther, and then to have gone alone about a stone's cast (Luke xxit., 41), itt and to have kneeled down, then fallen upon ^ . His face. He certainly did not shrink from the cross and the atonement which He came ^ to make, but a careful study of Heb. v., 7. J will show that the agony was so great that ? He feared lest He might die under it and not . reach the cross to finish the great atone- J"?,, ment. r ,4, 36. "And He said: Abba, Father, all things . ^ are possible unto Thee. Take away this cup !?? from Me. Nevertheless not what I will, but what Thou wilt." We read elsewhere that He prayed earnestly, with strong crying and tears, and sweat as it were drops of blood, .c*r and that an angel strengthened Him. Ho !v?' was willing to die in the garden and leave r??His srreat work unfinished if it should please . * the Father to have it so, but the passage in S" Hebrews says that/He was heard, and there- reo fore delivered from this premature death. This is the best light I have upon it, and i present it a3 such, but let each search for jt himself in reliance upon the Holy Spirit, tito There are mysteries in the atonement which thei we cannot comprehend. 8hoi 37. "And He cometh and flndeth them the sleeping and saith unto Peter: Simon, To ] sleepest thou? Couldst not thou watch one stjn hour?" The great glory of the Transflgura- ca9( tion as well as the great sorrow of Oeth- the semane was too much for the flesh, for thoy flDcj seem to have slept in the former (Luke ix., eat 32) as well as in the latter. 31 38. "Watch ye and pray lest ye entor into forc temptation. The spirit truly is ready, bin the the flpsh is weak." Like as a father nitictii ki?? his children, so the Lord pitieth them tha gg^ fear Him, for He knoweth our frame (P.:\ Dari ciii.; 13). What a comfort it is! But let u.< not pity ourselves as satan through Peter an(j ad vised" Jesus to do (Math, xvi., 22, margin). tj0E Though our Lord recognizes and pities our 8t>iv weakness He Himself has provided that H tjjo will be our strength so that we may sing, tjj0j ' The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my ^ song" (L*a. xii., 2). Wo are to realizs our brll weakness and never to rely upon ourselves, tj0E for His strength is made periect in weak- jjon ness. fiQd to them that have no might He in- jg n creaseth strength (II Cor. xii., 9; Isa. ~fini 3D. "And again Me went away and prayed ,en and spake the same words." We heed not ^uc fear the repetition of the same words in our stj_ prayers provided they are from the heart, nor uj need we fear to ask many times for the same thing, for Paul also besought the Lord thrice to remove his thorn fin the flesh, and Jesus Himself has taught us to be importunate in prayer (II Cor. xii., 8; Luke xi., 8). At the 8 same time Ho has put us on our guard against hea vain repetitions for the sake of much speak- thei ing (Math, vJ., 7). Y 40. ''And when He returned He found them asleep again (for their eyes were Yoi heavy). Neither wist they what to answer le9S Him. We think of the ten virgins going so I out to meet the bridegroom,yet all slumbered he i and slept. We think of Jonah asleep in Yoi the storm, while the sailors eallod upon their gods and put forth every effort. We think Yoi of the multitudes of Christians who now mal seem to be asleep through one or other of feri satan's many soporific doses, and of the loni preachers who seem te be asleep, too, and His cry peace to the people when they ought to V sound an alarm because of thegreat apostasy thai and the manifest nearness of the end of this woi age. her 41. "And He cometh the third time and moi saith unto them: Sleep on now and take your sevi rest. It is enough. The hour is oome. Be- war hold the Son of Man Is betrayed into the mig hands of sinners." He had gone away ttn? a tt third time and prayed, saying the sam? Yoii words (Math. xxvi.. 44), aud returning find? so r them still asleep. Then He says these word?, in c Contrast the rest which He here calls "you wot rest," as He thus addresses them, and tl> so 1 rest which He has provided by these vei just sufferings of His (Math, xi., 28), but to whi< ?A tho majority of believers are so lndifferen fortboy seem to know notning 01 n. uu g will not cease from their own works eithi j,j9 as to salvation or service (Heb. iv., 1.; x.. 11 cor Rom. iv., 5; Eph. ii., 10),and therefore canno. p know His rest. porj 42. "Rise up. Let us go. Lo, he that be- an ( traycth Me is at hand." And so, being rajj strengthened, He Roes forth to meet His ene- jw miesandto give Himself into their bands, 9t0'( for His hour to die had come, and He was ceD ready for thesacriflce. No man took His life u_ , from Him. He laid it down of Himself (John a? (1 * ? 18>- run proi IMMIGRANTS FROM CANADA Jhe' mot 110 Families Leave Quebec in One deli Week on One Kailroad. ma, The United States are busy with their annual annexation of Canadians, the daily ex- pe_ odus from the Province of Quebec alone to jj0, the New England States being very heavy at ' present. It is not uncommon this spring tc buj! find two to three car loads of French Caua- nf)t( dinn peasants aDd workingmen in one train, jllC( on their way to seek in the United States ne9S that bread which they find it so difficult to oneobtain in their own country. The Quebec hip! Central Railway in one week took out of the 0~" Country no fewer than 110 full families, averaging five persons each, besides seventj unmarried men and women. Some of the unmarried may work in the summer seasoc .? abroad and return to! Canada in the winter, crf1.,t but of the families, almost all will bo pertnanent settlers, many of them having either P " sold or deserted their farms. In some parti '*V of the rural districts of Quebec there ard ' ' quite a number of these deserted farms. '. whose former occupants are now citizens of .. the United States. Many of the present ira- ~ l migrants from Canada are ?;oing to join | friends who are already established in the Eastern States and doinn well, but some are r simply in search of employment in factories ,1 | and brick yards. The Grand Trunk Kail way , carries away even more immigrants than the Quebec Central, especially of thoso bound for the manufacturing districts of New Hamj)- _ shire, and it is estimated that the exodus from the Montreal and Throe Rivers districts . this spring is even larger than that from :ere Quebec and the East. It very rarely hap- Uvo pensthat any of those immigrants return to Canada to settle. Unique Feature Dropped. The New York Mail and Express appeared . : without its biblical text, which was iaaugu- f ' rated bv Elliott F. SheDard. tak 5LIGI0US READING. PERFECT FAITH. TH1 1 jtory is told of u street boy In London fin( had both legs broken by n dray passing cot them. He was laid away in one of the 80U of the hospital to die, and another little ta|( ture of tho samo class was laid near by fr0 jd up sick with famine fever. The lati as allowed to lie down by the side of the 0U1 crushed boy. He crept up to liim aud vat : "Bobby, "did you ever he;ir about tj0] s?" "No I never heard of him." "Bobwent to mission school once, and they g0i; us thnt Jesus would take you to heaven soc l you died, and you'd never have hun- ^ my more, and no more pain if you axed eat " "I couldn't ask such a great big gen- wh an as ho is to do anything for me. He for Idn't stop to speak to a boy like me. cjp t he'll do all that if you nx him." "How bai [ ax him if I don't know where he jjj, , and how could I got there when 0jf my legs is broke?" "Bobby, they wj, me at the mission school as how Jesus an, 3s by. Teacher says he goes around, by do you know but what ho might come CO( nd to this hospital this very night? You'd mi] v him if you was to see him." "But I bit : keep my eyes open. My legs feel so t,qj il bad. Doctor says I will die." "Bobby, j up your hand, and he'll know what you p6! t when he passes by." They got the 0f lup. It dropped. Tried again. It siowly afr jack. Three times he got up the little i, only to let it fall. Bursting into tears, pe] lid: I give Hup. ' Bobby, lendmeyer the I; put yer elbow on my pillew; I can do rer out it."' So one hand was propped up. go, when they came in the morning the boy lead, his hand still held up for Jesus. c0| may search tho world and you cannot bai a grander illustration of simple trust ]or i that of the little boy who had been to an< Ion school but once. blc THE KINO AND THE BABBI. great and wealthy king once said to a _' s Jew, named liabbi Jeshu : "Do you acly ask me to believe that God is in all K es at the same moment, and that he is in this place?in this very hall? lean- ? believe it to be true, I must continue to bt it, until I have seen bim with my own rLr .) ' J ew L'e.?, God is everywhere present," replied Jjj] rabbi, "but he is invisible: no one has ^ anan Vilm nn hnmnn evfl TVOlllrJ fiver be to bear the sight of such dazzling glory." jD le king smiled, as if stiil unable to be3 this, and Joshua went on to say: '-Well, jr' >u do not believe this, try and look the ild and ambassador of this great God in J face." He then asked the monarch to go i him to the large window of the hall. It *1 :ed towards the south, over an open ire. Look out from this window great king," the rabbi, "upon the sun now shining at , * uday in all the fulness of his strength; ? gaze for one single moment into his ?? ant face." t cannot," replied the king; "if I were to Jj" : on anything so dazzling I should run risk of losing my sight." How," exclaimed the other, "your eyes not endure even the brightness of the , iture, and yet you think yourself able to old tne Creator face to face. Surely we uld both of us be destroyed at once by the htness of his presence, if we saw him 1 the mortal eyes we have now."?Young pie's Paper. JESIRE FOR WORK BORN OF COMMUNION. j?j is profltle g to attempt to force an appe- yc when natural conditions are wanting. If e is not a healthy desire to eat, the body ^ uld be regaled with air and exercise, and Cn regimen adapted to its abnormal state, pi prepare dainty dishes, and to administer th iulants, are methods only fit for extreme tb ?8, and in those they generally fail. To to invalid loathing food, we say, You will to . an appetite best by doing anything but be against your inclinnation. !any Christians are unwise enough to th o themselves to work, when they have not th spiritual desire which makes work palata- di They are driven by conscience to attempt be lething, but the soul revolts. They pre- It b for themselves some sphere of effort h< ch has a spice of worldly attraction in it, "| drink of the stimulus of personal ambi- "] i, if. perchance, they may cheat them- bi es by some kind of religious activity. But sa work does not agree with them, and L Ir efforts soon cease. he only help for this state of thing3 is to >g the soul into healthy spiritual condii. No man is fit to do work who is not at ij< ao with the Great Worker. The soul that ^ Qt exercised in prayer cannot partake ol ja food which sustained the Master, cannot p, in doing the will of Hiin that ta tit. The fre|^ipQf communion pro- 3? es^real bung-J^ tt rt answered, "0, how many ^3 re are." w our hard bargain with that foreigner, the tt 9r day, was a thing not fit for God to see. r( i got him to saw your wood for a shilling qi than the regular price, because he was tt >oor, and could And so little work, that fr >vas glad of the job at the smallest pay. qi i had no pity for him in his misfortune. ; oven took advantage of his necessity, i would have blushed for it, had a brother l been a witness to your unworthy chaf- ft ng for a few moments which rightly be- 0, ;ed to the needy laborer. God suw it b] generous eye beheld it aj 'hen you, prosperous business inan, gave U; t large bundle of work to the sickly, care- a] n, and broken-hearted widow and told si that you copld not afford to give any ol re tbnh eight cents for the shirts, and tc sn for the overalls, because so many ited employment that you thought you ;ht get them done for even less?was that ling for a bountiful-giving God by behold? V) t would be ashamed of it if there"were not cany others who do the like to keep you ^ ountenance. I heard the noor needle nan fay, that when she did so much for ittle money, she felt that you were un- pi . Her heart went up to God against you. merican Messenger. _ [on. Chauncey M. Dcpew tells the story oi visit to the mechanical department of nell University. He found at the head of ., rofeFSor Morris, who claimed him as a su- .1 lor officer giving as u reason that bad was >ld time worker on the New York Central w road. "How did you get here?" asked >ew. ,-I fired on the New York Central. I j >d on the footboard as an engineer on the 1* itral. While a locomotive engineer I made my mind to get an education. I studied ? ight and fitted myself for Union College ning all the time with tny locomotive. 1 jured books and attended as far as pose the lectures and recitation. I kept up class and at graduation I left my loco- *11 ive, washed up, put on thegown and cap, a vered my thesis, and recoived my dlplo- <*< put the gown and cap in the closet, put r-' ny working shirt, got on my engiue, and & le my usual run tbatday." "Then," says " lew, "I knew how he became Professor J* ri8." That spirit willcause a man to rise J* where and in any calling. It is ambition, jj it is ambition wisely directed, aiming, " at the goal?for such an ambition proes envy, scheming, discontent, and weak1?but bravely and cheerily aim ng at s self, seeking to mnkeone's self flited for icr work. When this is accomplshed the 31 Drtunity for higher work is sure to como w JU V nilVf7lOi^ll <.11 eiu IliSl^llllK-aUl j of aborigines every morning stalks out j>' is hovel, bids tlio sun good-morrow, and if its out to him with bis linger the path he take for the day. Is this arrogance sa i> contemptible than ours when wo would of ite to God the course of his providence di question the wisdom of his dealings with tli .M in few Hampshire Legislators Angry. 111 he adjournment of the New Hampshire fislature was accompanied by many ex- Jo ng incidents. The Governor drove iegis- " >rs wild by vetoing all extraordinary sa isures carrying heavy appropriations. > Itepublican leader of the House en- tli ?d the Senate Chamber and declared thai ta -th-r&s of the Senators r.re liars. The use passed a resolution calling the Sen* ol the "House of " y. ti< Tl ord Brougham was called Blunder- th Brougham, from a political mis- lo e. . . , . 3t! TEMPERANCE. E 80CBCE OF POVEBTY AND rAUrEBISM. 'he mystery is solved, how It is that we 1 in America pauperism and want. No intry on tho glotie is as rich as ours in reirces and rewards so liberally toil and snt. There should be no poor, except m unforeseen accidents, in America. Yet i plague of pauperism has broken out in r cities past seeming cure; waifs and grants line streets and highways; instituds rear In all directions their massive ea; economists are alarmed. Tho prime irce of pauperism and of all its attendant ial ovils is the saloon. Thither the orer and the mechanic bring their hardTied dimes, to be afterwards penniless en demand for work slackens; their tunes are wrecked, the ruin of which preitates embezzlements and fraudulent lkruptcies, their energy is paralyzed and eness is consecrated. In a saloon men toss their money to purchase shume, while res and children at home cry for bread^ I when tho wretches have been murdered the poisonous draughts, the doors of the infw nnnrhniiw or of the orDhan asvlum ist open to shelter their familios from the ing'blast of winter, to save them from the ngs of <?ruel hanger. * Jishop Ht'ndrickson, of Providence, apilinc for chal.'-ity in favor of the hundreds Inmates of RlS^orphan asylum, was not aid to say that thfiSf-helpless children, in s far greater number-of cases, are deident upon alms beoause^^aloons murder.< sir parents." A similar verdict will idered by those who examine JntoJjjgjT;. irces of all forms of poverty in AinMm} re-sixths of the poverty in this cotatfOEj nes from intemperance, and mere i?^ bblo are all discussions of social reform s&l ig as alcohol retains its present sovereignty d despotically exacts in tribute the life>od of the people.?Archbishop Ireland. FACTS AND FIOUBES. rudge Kimball, of the Washington (D. C.) lice Court, in a recent temperance address, ve some suggestive facts and figures, as lows: For the fiscal year 1894, the United States iMmmnnt laauad 228 000 liouor licenses. lich is equivalent to one licensed saloon for ch 298 people, not to mention the unlicensed tUor sellers. In Washington there are 605 ensed barrooms, one for each 445 people, (ducting women and children and temperce people, and there are leas than 100 inkers to. support each saloon. The estixted annual consumption of intoxicating [nor in the United States is per capita: lisky, four gallons; wine, one gallon, and er forty-six gallons. This at the lowest lolesale price amounts to 8833,000,000, ent directly, but the indirect oost by loss of iges, loss of health, position and life, is far eater. ''We are all, said Judge Kimball, ndividually and collectively responsible r this state of affairs, and we must not irk the responsibility, but fight the battle temperance until we win, always rememrin>? that we have God on our side, and at God and one is a large majority in any rht. The temperance organizations ore ?ing a great work and will be victorious in e end. I may not be here to see it, but I ill wait for the glad tidings at the gates to ve," A WIFE'S SAX) MISTAKE. ?? --- ?- * nr n T rr irirs. L/QapiD, OllOUl IUO 11. \J. A. v. .TUin.s, was once entertained in Mississippi at e homo of a young married couple, and e wife said to her: "Now, Mrs. Chapin, 3i willing to entertain you, but I don't'want >u to talk temperance, for if you should invert my husband then Fd have to banish ine from our tr.ble. and all my friends would ,11 me a crank." Mrs. Chapin spoke at the lblic meeting and then made her way rough the audience trying togot signers to e pledge. She begged the young husband sign, and he was reaching for the pencil do so when his wife objected, and with a ailo he shook his head and said, "No." 8ix years afterward Mrs. Chapin passed irough tho same place. She was the" guest lis time of another family, but arterher ad:ess was over a weeping woman and a gibjring drunkon man came up to greet her. was the same couple who had entertained ir six years before. "Oh," said tho wife, ;ry to get my husband to sign the pledge." kT- " '? ~ -a T ho ootraH nnno .to, lit) CI1UU, i nnuicu uu .jt. . it you wouldn't let me. Now no one can ,ve me, not even God in heaven!"?St. ouis Globe-Democrat. WOMEN ARE MORE INTEMPEBATE. Intemperance among women is increasing, he metropolitan police returns show that lere has been a decided advance during the st two years in the number of women aprehended Tor drunkenness. In 1889 the to,1 was less than 3000. In 1891 it was nearly 00. There was a corresponding growth in le number of "drunk and disorderly" cases iring the same period. Last year 8373 iruea wae 'take^ i^to custody on this rateSj clerks, joiners, misora the bench are corroborated, iiarters.? London Telegraph. NOTHINO BEMARRABLE. An item is going the rounds of the press to te effect that whisky is now manufactured it .of old rags. We see nothing remarkale about this. Every one knows that nearly 1 the old rags now in this country are man(actured out of whisky, and there is no sparent reason why the process of converon may not work as well one way ns an:her; from whisky to rags, and from rags ' whisky. What a beautiful business it is. A REACTION AOAIN8T ALCOHOL. otoHatina rtf Inqfc fr.hirfcv.f-wn vuuipuililg Okuviduivg v. -J . ... jars, the London Lancet cornea to the conuaion that there appears to bo "a distinct ad steady reaction setting in against gen:al alcoholic imbibition?a fact which lends ipport to the view that the evil of intem9rato drinking, as its wretched consequences jcome more aud more painfully manifest, ill finally work out its own remedy." VBZ Ttffria ABUSE. A man can not use what is called the best ! wino doily for ten years and be free from Iseaso. Whatever is In the least harmful to le human economy, when taken internally, hether it irritates'the nerves, or only rend s them more sensitive to external lmpresons, or accelerates the degeneration of cellssue, is incompatible with healthy growth, id therefore its use is abuse.?Journal of ygiene. ALL THRODOH DRINK. At Liverpool lately a young man drowned imsolf, and in one of his pockets was found paper on which he had written: "I have ane this myself. Don't tell my name tr iy one. It is nil through drink." Within short time, on the matter becoming put' cly known, the coroner received lettori O Art niranta n f vmllin" mHIl who llllt I jen lost, ntiil who thought that possibly vis young man might be their son.?Chrisan Standard. TEMPERANCE NEWS AXT) NOTES. Sirs. Henerietta Skeleton has organized ght new \V. C. T. Unions in Ohio, when* 10 has been for several weeks engaged in ork. A peculiarity of all good machines is that iey can not bo managed by drunken men.' y a process of artificial selection, all tlnj v)d places in tiiu world are naturally passg into tlie litiuds or the sober m m. J The .-.ale of drink is the sale of disas); the | ,!e of drink is the sale of poverty; the sale drink is thesah of insanity; the sale ot ink is 1 ho sale of crime: til:1 sal" of drink i.i e sih of death.?Sir 15. W. Biehardson, . P. Five fllstingi'.isiieil physiologists of Gov any. ;>rs. Bunge, Gaiile, HolYman, Forel, id Fiek, are total abstainers. The home salon" started by Bishop Falws. in Chicago, is succeeding so well that is the iutontion to open three others on the me plan. Omaha, Neb., is i>eing supplied ?y ? W. C. T. U. with ilfteen automatic founins for penny temperance urinks. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union sent it during the Lsnten .season nearly 500,000 icred Thirst cards, to encourage the {inicjc of total abstinence during Lent. Saloons are the devil's toboggan slidos. ley start on earth and land in hell; and all e way down their speed Increases, and' the nger the slide the less the possibility of opping.?Chrisiian Nation. IS COLONIAL STYLE. , ( The Picturesque Houses of Our An- ] cestors Again In Vogue. I (Copyright 1895.) J In building to-day the wise home : seekers consult the best architects, not only as to the bare plans for their ' houses, but to learn what kind of structures will look best in different ' localities. It is a hopeful sign that taste is running largely toward Co- ' lonial hou3ep, the most artistic style of building that has ever found a lodg- 1 meut in this country. There are three J main variations in Colonial designs*? t.hfl FntriiRh. the Dutch and the Snan: ish, although the first two are the only kind built to any extent in the United States. The English Colonial house is dignified, large and commodious, as the illustration in this article will give some faint idea. It has a substantial lo<Jk, which fits it admirably for a city house?its stately pcrtioo opening into a broad and hospitable hall, that is not u mere entrance place crampcd ap with steep aDd forbid(^^^SS^J The rooms are all square, roomy aa*&3 light; the generul design of the house, in fact, making a most impoPl ing appearance. The Dutch style of Colonial architecture gives as a more qnaint and picturesque appearance, befitting the suburb or the quiet, rioh, rural country. Its broad and airy porohes are always inviting, and there is no sacrifice of comfort forahowinesa. A brief description of the English Colonial house is as follows: Width, 32 feet 6 inches; depth, including portico, 38 feet 6 inches. Height of stories: Cellar, 7 feet; first story, 9 feet; second story, 8 feet; attic, 8 feet. Exterior material: Foundation, stone; first and second stories, clapboards; balcony floor covered with canvas; deck and extension roofs, tin; main roof, shingles. Tnton'nr finish ; The entrance hall and living room finished in oak; the rest of the house hard whit? plaster, colored to sait owner's taste; oak floor in the living room, and staircase. Booms throughout are trimmed with soft wood finished in natural colors. An open timber ceiling in the hall, living room and dining room, with the dining room wainscotted, at a cost of about $500, would much improve appearance, as would also finishing the parlor and one or more of the main rooms upstairs in white enamel and gold, at an average expense of ?150 a room. , The first floor contains large hall and living room thrown in one. 13x 19:8, with dining room in the oack connected by sliding doors. On the left, parlor opening into the hali? sliding doors or portiere. Kitchen in the back. Open firep laces in all these rooms, feeding into two chimneys*as shown in the perspective view. Four large rooms with bath ?n the second floor; open fireplaces in the two front CoWBU/ 'LO/N$ J S/Pcsr/ recrs /V? A DESIGN IN DUTCH COLONIAL STYLE. chambers. Two rooms may be finish'ed off in the attic, or the attic may be finished off handsomely in hard wood as a billiard room. Fall set of plumbing throughout. In the vicinity of New York this design, well built, without extravagance ir> details, wouH cost $5000. Much; 1 smaller than this example as illuatrat I ed would not look well, but enlarging the design enhances its appearance. A feasible modification would be to throw the kitchen in a two-story extension in tbe back, with up-stairs divided into two servants' bedrooms. Additional cost would not be more than $400. Regarded as a pure example of the best Colonial style, the exterior characteristics of which are a iarge square structure, with a portico having fluted columns with carved caps, a belvidere on the roof, circular head windows and delicate details of classic origin. The Dutch design as illustrated is ' aiva Iiaiioo imi f fVtA rlo. UUUUl l/HO oniuc DI/iU uiruov., uuv WUW v.? sign itself admits of a much smailer dwelling without destroying the artistic appearance-. We give a brief description : Depth, including veranda, 40 feet; width, not including side porch, 34 feet. Height of stories: Cellar, 7 feet; first story, 9 feet G inches; second story 8 feet G inches. Foundation, stone; first story, clap1 1 Tr?tfh ooaras; games uiunmsuiwi papier-mache and shingles; pediments of dormers and frieze of large dormer ornamented with papier-mache. Main roof, shingles; balcony floor, tin. Interior finish: Hard white plaster throughout, colored to suit owner's taste; softwood flooring and trim; main staircase ash ; kitchen and bathroom wainscotted. All interior woodwork grain-tilled, stained to suit owner and finished in hard oil. Colore: All clapboards, Colonial yellow; trim, white; all shingles left natural for weather stain; veranda and porch floors and ceiliug oiled. The accommodations on the first floor give a dining and sittiug room oc the right, with open fireplaces; large hall, 7x18:6; parlor and kitchen on the left, separated by side hall and x I V * V# '.'i 5AS! v jntry; fonr large rooms on the sec* 3ud floor, besides servants rooms and? t>ath, with full set of plumbing. Opett ,, Sreplaces may be introduced ini k; . ^ two of y?e upstairs bedroom*^ Double sliding or folding doors may be used between parlor and hall and sitting room and hall instead of por- " <v' tiere openings. Bay winflow may planned at side of dining room andfc ^ ^ the side porch may be entireijj" V. omitted.' . . This design is capable of various ' modifications, but as described would} oost about 84500, not including mantels, range and heater, this estimate being babed on New York prices for materials and labor. In many eec- ' >$ tions of the country the cost shouldl - : 1 > ' f be less. , I In conclusion it may be said thai our ancestors of the Colonial period} ' * cftvft architecture. as they gave state* craft and the general affairs of life ai wise direction that was in every wayf admirable. It is fitting indeed that ' we should keep them in grateful remembrance. . * Bark a Fael iu the Northwest I >./ I jgBl Bark is a favorite fuel in the North- ? | west. The evergreens of the regionj consume quickly in the open fireplaeel and leave nothing but light ashes, but \j the bark of these same trees, very- ; thick and heavy, burns more slowly} . and falls into embers that give out at ' satisfying heat for many honrs.?Chi-' ... . cago Times-Herald. * Making Shot. In the shot tower of the present day, , the molten lead, with a slight addition of arsenic for hardening purposes, is allowed to fall through a colander '>>|j from a consid^rable^height into a tank} j fa. The lead, in falling , forms it.Wointo globules which are partially ^ Mttin rushing through the air,. jBHHk hardened by entering thai ^^^Rk^^^^the size shot,^ feet. The are wrought-' iron bowlspBj^H^MHth smooth/ holes varying i^HBMfl^Abe desired! /%?? description of from! 'y the water bath are on a hot metal plate, feet ones are sorted shaking the whole lot oi^NPughtlyj ( . 1 V inclined plate, when only xhfcl per-t ' IN A SHOT TOWKB. * v. T"|! fectly spherical ones roll down, the others remaining, being what are ... >. -K termed "lazy." Polishing in revolv- .*> .^3 ing cylinders, sorting as to size, and ' t ^ packing in bags for the market finish up the history of manufaotare.? Cassier's Magazine. ^ A Peculiar Fruit Tree, The papaw tree. an illustration or : jjjtfcgh is given, is known also as >the tree- ^ attains a growth wMNHnfeet in height and yields a ! w -< m j ' ^ ' ;^|f . v?? - ^4^5, BREAD FRUIT TREE. ? ? -'fit netual and prolific fruit bearer and one of its remarkable qualities is that the toughest meat miy be made perfectly tender by steeping it in the milky juice of the papaw. The scientilic name of the fruit is carica papaya, ?Florida Monthly. What "Lile" Considers "Something (Jiu'iirious." * ^ . ' , * . / :<