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jfi fc \ ; ' I i J j,REY. DR. TALMAGR SUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW j YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. I Subject: " Wins: and Hand." Text: "The likeness of the hands of ) man was under their wings."?Ezekiel x., 21 While tossed on the sea between Australii and Ceylon I first particularly noticed thi: text, of which then and there I made memo randum. This chapter is all aflutter witl cherubim. Who are the cherubim? An or der of angels radiant, mighty, all knowing adoring, worshipful. When painter or sculp tor tried in temple at Jerusalem or in mar hie of Egypt to represent the cherubim hi made them part lion or part ox or par eagle. But much of that is an unintendec burlesque of the cherubim whose majest; and speed and splendor we will never kno^ until lifted into their presence we*beholt them for ourselves, as I pray by the pardon ing grace of God we all may. But all the ac counts Biblical and all the" suppositions hu ? ~ ? ?A?\?iOOAr?> A Akaat>?K?m TT?l' CTO Uiail ic^ivooai tuu ^uciuuim .mu r? each wing about seven feet long, vaster more imposing than any plumage that evei floated in earthly atmosphere. Condor in flight above Chitnborazo, oi Bocky Mountain eagle aiming for the noon day sun. or albatross in play with oceai tempests, presents no such glory. We car get an imperfect idea of the wing of cheru bim by the only wing wo see?the bird's pinion?which is the arm of the bird, but it some respects more wondrous than the human arm: with power of making itself moto light or more heavy, of expansion and contraction; defying all altitudes and all abysms the bird looking down with pity upon boasting man as he tiils up the sides of the Adirondacks, while the wing with a few strokeputs the highest crags far beneath claw and Beak. But the bird's wing is only a feeble Buggestion of cherubim's wing. The greatness of that, the rapidity of that, the radiance of that, the Bible a train and again Bets forth. My attention 13 not more attracted by those wings than by what they reveal when lifted. In two places in Ezekiel we are told there were hands under the wings?human hands, bands like ours. "'The likeness of the handf of a man was under the wings." We have all noticed the wing of the cherubim, but no ono seems yet to have noticed the human hand under "the wing. There are whole sermons, whole anthems, whole doxologies, whole millennix ms in that combination of hand and wing. If this world is ever brought to God, it will be by appreciation of the fact that supernatural ana human agcncies are to go together?that which soars and that which practically works, that which ascends the heavens and that which reaches forth to earth, the joining of the terrestrial and the celestrial, the hand and the wing. We see this union in the construction ol the Bible. The wing of inspiration is in every chapter. What realms of the ransomed earth did Isaiah fly over! Over what battlefields for righteousness, what coronation?, what dominions of gladness, what rainbows around the throne did St. John hover! But in every book of the Bible you just as certainly see the human hand that wrote it. Closes, the lawyer, showing his hand in the Tea Commandments, the foundation 01 au good legislation; Amos, the herdsman, showing his hand in similes drawn from fields and flocics: the fishermen apostles showing their hand when writing about Gospel nets Luke, the physician; showing his hand bj giving especial attention to.diseases cured: raul showing his scholarly hand by quoting from heathen poets, ahd making argument* about the resurrection that stand as firmly as on the day he planted them, and St. John shows his hand by taking his imagery from the appearance of the bright waters spread around the Island ol JPatmos at hour of sunset, when he speaks ol the sea of glass mingled with Are; scores ol hands writing the parables, the miracles, the promises, the hosannas, the raptures, the consolations, the woes of ages. Oh, the Bible is so human, so full of heartbeats, so sympathetic, so wet with tears, so triumphant with palm branches, that it takes hold of the human race as nothing else ever car take hold of It. each writer in his own style ?Job, the scientific; Solomon, the royal blooded; Jeremiah, the despondent; Daniel, the abstemious and heroic?why, we know their style so well that we need not look tc the top of the page to see who is the author, No more conspicuous the uplifting wing ol Inspiration than the hand, the warm hand, the flexible hand, the skillful hand of hu man instrumentality. "The likeness 01 the hands of a man was under tho wings." Again, behold this combination of mytexl In all successful Christian work. We stand or kneel in our pulpits and social meetings and reformatory associations offering prayer, Now, if anything has wings, it is prayer. II can fly farther and faster than anything ] can now think of. In one second of time from where you sit it can fly to the throne oi God and alight in England. In one second of time from where you sit it can fly to th? throne of God and alight in India. It car girdle the earth in ashorter time than you car peal a letter, or clasp a belt, or hook an eye. Wings, whether that prayer starts from ac Infant s tongue or the trembling lip of a centenarian, rising from the heart of a farmer's Wife standing at the dashing churn, or before the hot breath of a country oven, they soar away and pick out of atl the shipping of tho earth on all the seas the craft on which her sailor boy Is voyaging. Yea, prayer can fly clear down Into the future. When the father of Queen Victoria was dying, he asked that the infant Victoria might be brought while he sat up in bed, and the babe was brought, and the father prayed, "If this child should live tc AP T? nolnri/^ 1A i Y, fcvjuuio yucca \j i uu^inuu, uaaj o uv IUIO IU the fear of God!" Having ended his prayer, he said, "Take the child away.' But all who know the history of England for the last flfty years know that the prayer for that infant more than seventy years ago has been answered, and with what emphasis and affection millions of the Queen's subjects have this day in chapels and cathedrals, and sea, supplicated, "God save the Queen!" Prayer flie? not only across continents, but across centuries. If prayer had only feet, it might run here and there and do wonders. But it has wings, nnd they are as radiant ol plume and as swift to rise or swoop or dart or circle as the cherubim's wings which Bwept through Ezekiel's vision. But, oh, my friends, the prayer must have the hand under the wing, or it may amount to nothing. The mother's hand, or the father's hand, must write to the wayward boy as soon as you can hear how to address him. Christian souls must contribute to the evangelism ot that far off land for which they have beeii praying. Stop singing "Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel," unless you are willing to give something of your own means to make It fly. Have you been praying for the salvation of a young man's soul? That is right, but also extend the hand of invitation to come to a religious meeting. It always excites our sympathy to see a man with his hand in sling. Wo ask him: "What is the matter? Hope it is not ? felon;" or, "Have your fingers been orushed?" But nine out of ten of all Christians are going their life long with theii hflnrt In a slinc. Thev h?vn hi>(?n hurt hvln difference or wrong ideas of what is best, or it i3 injured of conventioualties, and they never put forth that hand to lift or help 0*1 rescue any one. They pray, and their prayei has wings, but there is no haud under th( wings. From the very structure of the hand we might make up our mind as to some o1 ihe things it was made for?to hold fast, tc lift, to push, to pull, to help and to rescue, A.nd endowed with two hands, we might takf the broad hint that for others as well as foi ourselves we were to hold fast, to lift, tc Eush, to pull, to help, to rescue. Wondrous and! You know something of the "Bridgewater Treatises." When Bev. Francis Henry Bridgewater in his will left ?40,000 for es4avs oa "The Power, Wisdom aud Goodness of God, as Manifested iu the Creation." ant Davis Gilbert, the President of the Society shoso eight persons to write eight books, Sii Charles Bell, the scientist, phose as the sub |ect of his great book, "The Hand: Its Me chanism and Vital Endowments as Evincin: Design." Oh, the hand! Its machinery be ginning at the shoulder, and workin; through shafts of bone, upper arm and fore ann, down to the eight bones of the wrist nnd the five bonfs of the palm, and the four teen bones of the lingers aud thumb, anc r, InKi^winik nf rrxicstlu Q n C\ HPfVI uuuxpvocu VI ft Ki^JUUlU '-?4 UiUOVtv % *?%_ ?? . and artery and flesh, which no one but Al Sighty God could have planned or executed at how suggestive when it reached down t< us from under the wings of the cherubim ' Tae likeness of the hands of a man was un derthe wings." This idea is combined in Christ. When Hi jrose from Mount Olivet, lie took wing. Al up and down His life you see the upliftinj dfvinty. It flashed in His eyes. Its cadency were heard lu His vole* But He was al* very human. It was the hand tinder tt wing that touched the woe9 of the worl and took hold of the sympathies of the cei r turies. Watch His hand before it was spikei There was a dead girl in a governor's nousi and Christ comes into the room and tak< her pale, cold hand In His warm grasp, an she opens her eyes on the weeping hous< hold and says: "Father, what are you cryin about? Mother, what are you crying about? The book says, "He took her Dy the ham * and the maid arose." A follower, angere at an insult offered Christ, drew the swor i from sheath and struck at a man with tt s sharp edge, aiming, I think, at his for< - head. But the weapon glanced aside an i took off the right ear at its roots. Chit - with His hand reconstructed that wonderfi , organ of sound, that whispering gallery < - the soul, that collector of vibrations, th? - arched way to the auditory nerve, that tui 9 nel without which all the musical instrument t of earth would be of no avail. Thebooksayf 1 "He touched his ear and healed him." Meel f lng a full grown man who had never seen r sunrise, or a sunset, or a flower, or the fac I of his own father or mother, Christ moisten - llio UUSl II'JLU nis Uttll LV-rui^ua CI mi DU1S tu - dust into an eye salve, and with His ow - hands applies the strange medicament, an , suddenly all the colors of earth and sky rus , in upon the newly created optic nerve and r the instantaneous noon drove out the Ion night. r While Thomas Chalmers occupied tt ? chair of moral philosophy in St, Andrew l University he had at the same time a Sabbat l school class of poor boys down in the slum of Edinburgh. While Lord Fitzgerald wa 3 traveling in Canada he saw a poor India t squaw carrying a crushing load, and he too! - the burden on his own shoulders. That wa ) Christlike. That was "a hand under th wine." The highest type of religion say ; little about itself, but is busy for God and i: helping to the heavenly shore the crew an< passengers of this shipwrecked planet. Sue! ! people are busy now up the dark lanes c i this city, and all through the mountai: > glens, and down in the quarries where th sunlight has never visited, and ami > the ragging, helping to take in anothe i reef before the Caribbean whirlwind A friend was telling me of an exquisit > thing about Seattle, then of Washing ton Territory, now of Washington State > The people of Seattle had raised a generou cum nf mnnev for the Johnstown sufferer i from the flood. A few dayB after Seattl i was destroyed by Are. I saw it while th ' whole city was living in tents. In a publi i meeting some one proposed that the mone; raised for Johnstown be used for the relie i of their own city, and the cry was No! Nc i No! Send the money to Johnstown, and b; > acclamation the money was so sent. Notb ; ing more beautiful or sublime than thai ' Under the wing of Are that smote Seattl i the sympathetic hand, tbe helping hand, th mighty hand of Christian relief for peopl > thousands of miles away. > In our time it is the habit to denounce th cities and to speak of them as the perditioi ! of all wickedness. Is it not time for som i one to tell the other side of the story and t saythat the city is the heaven of practlca : helpfulness? Look at tbejembowered an fountained parks, where the invalids ma come and be refreshed; the Bowery mission ! through which annually over 100,000 com i to get bread for this lite and bread for th life to come; all the pillows of that institu > tion under the blessing of Him who had no 1 where to lay His head; the free schools where the most impoverished are educated i the hospitals for broken bones; the home ! for the restoration of intellects astraj ! the Orphan House, father and mother to al r who come under its benediction; the mid ; night missions, which pour mianoon upo; ' the darkened; the Prison Reform Assocla ? tion; the houses of mercy; the infirmaries ) the sheltering arms; the-aid societies; th i Industrial schools; the Sailor's Snug Harboi ! the foundling asylums; the free dispensaries > where greatest scientific skill feels the puis ' of wan pauper: the ambulance, the startlini | stroke of its bell clearing the way to th ' place of casualty, and good souls liketh . mother who came to the Howard Mission > with its crowd of friendless boys picked u; i frnm the streets, and savincr. "If vou have i 1 crippled boy, give him to me; my dear bo; * died with the spinal complaint," and such i I one she found and took him home am i nursed him till he was well. It would tak > a sermon three weeks long to do justice t [ the mighty things which our cities are dolnj i for the unfortunate and the lost. Do no r say that Christianity in our cities Is all sho^ ? and talk and genuflexion and sacred noise ; You have been so long looking at the ham of cruelty, and the hand of theft, and th > hand of fraud, and the band of outrage that you have not sufficiently appreciatei > the hand of help stretched forth from th doore and windows of churches and frot _ merciful institutions, the Christlike hand I" the cherubic hand, "the hand under th ? wing." There is also in my subject the suggestloi t of rewarded work for God and righteousness [ When the wing went the hand went. Whei > the wing ascended the hand ascended; an* f for every useful and Christian handther t will be elevation celestial and eternal. Ex ? pect no human gratitude, for It will no 1 come. That was a wise thing Fenelon wrot t to his friend: "I nm very glad, my deal ffood fellow, that you are pleased with on of my letters which has been shown to you You are right in saying and believing that ask little of men in general. I try to d much for them and to expect nothing in re turn. I find a decided advantage in thes terms. On these terms I defy them to dis ' appoint me." But, my hearers, the da; ' cometh when your work, which perhaps n one has noticed or rewarded or honored will rise to heavenly recognition. While have been telling you that the hand was un der the wing of the cherubim I want you ti realize that the wing was over the hand Perhaps reward may not come to you righ away. Washington lost more battles than h won, but he triumpned at the last. Walte: 8cott. in boyhood, was called "the Greel blockhead," but what height of renown die he not afterward tread? And I promise you victory farther yet ant higher up, if not in this world then in thi next. Oh, the heavenly rest when you: lifted hand shall be gloved with what honors ' its finger enrlnged with what jewels, it wrists clasped with what splendors! Conn : up and take it you Christian woman wh( ; served at the washtub! Come up and taki it. you Christian shoemaker, who poundet the shoe last! Come up and take it, yo\ : professional nurse, whose compensatioi ; never fully paid for broken nights and tb< whims and struggles of delirious siokrooms Come up and take it, you firemen, besweated far down amid tho greasy machinery of oceai steamer:*, auu \o \.uuuuuiui3 auu uu^iuuci, i on railroads, that knew no Sunday, an< ; whose ringing bells and loud whistle neve warned off your own anxieties! 1 Come up "and take it, you mothers, wh< rocked and lullabied the family brood unti 1 they took win? for other nests and never ap ! preciated what you had done and sufferei for them. Your hand was well favorei when you were young, and it was a beauti ' ful hand, so well rounded, so graceful tha many admired and eulogized it, but har< work calloused it and twisted it, and sel 1 sacrificing toil for others paled it, and man; 1 household griefs thinned it, and the rin| 1 which went on only with a push at the mar riage altar now i3 too large and falls off. am again and again you have lo3t it. Poor hand Weary hand! Wornout hand! But God wil > reconstruct it, reanimate it, readorn it, am all heaven will know the story o that hand. What fallen ones it lifted up What tears it wiped away! What wounds i ! bandaged! What lighthouses it kindled ' What storm tossed ships it brought into th f pearl beached haroor! Oh, I am so glad tha ' in the vision of my text Ez9kiel saw th wing above the hand. Roll on that everlast 5 ing rest for all the toiling and misunderstooi : and suffering and weary children of God, am > know right well that to join your hand, a > last emancinated from the strucsrle. will b the soft hand, the gentle hand, the trium r f)hant hand, of Him who wipeth away al tears from all faces. That will be the palac 5 of the King of which the poet sung in some 1 what Scotch dialect: It's a bonnie, bonnie warl that we're livir in tho noo, ) An suuny is tho lan we aften traivel thro', ^ But in vain we look ior something to whlc! ' oor hearts can clinj;. 1 For its beauty is as naething to the palace c 2 the King. > We see oor frien's await us ower yondar a " His gate. * Then let us a' be ready, for, ye ken, it's gel tin late. Lot oor lamps be brichtly burnin; let's rais oor voice and sing. ' Soon we'll meet, to part nae mair, i' the pa ace of the King. ? Immigration to Canada Drops. 1 The total number of immigrants arrivic ; in Canada last year was only 27,911. a deolii 9 of flf?y-eix per cent, from 1893. Only 20,(X o Intended to settle In Canada. 81 SABBATH SCHOOL. L b, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR ? JUNE 9. a 2 $ Lesson Text: "The Walk to Emmaua," j tLuke xxlr., 13-32?Golden Text: id Luke xxlv., 32?Comd mentary. le 3 4 19. This lesson, like the lost, refers to the lay on which He rose from the dead. Jtio lJ appeared first to Mary Magdalene; then to the other women; next, probably, to these lt ;wo; afterward to Peter; and In the evening to ten In the upper room in Jerusalem with a others who were with them. 14. As they walked they talked, and Jesus was the topic of thoir conversation, but it a was not a risen Christ they talked of. The 10 one whom they had loved and followed as s the Messiah of Israel was dead, and they 0 knew not what to think. ? 15. As they communed and reasoned He of ? whom they spake joined them nnd walked h with them. It is still true that He takes a '? special interest in all who speak of Him g (Mai. iii., 16, 17). If we knew Him better, we would be always talking of Him. How sareful we would be of our words if we believed that we should have to give account of " every idle word (Math, xii., 36). B 16. Ho is often with us, and we do not a know it. He has said, "Lo. I am with you all Q the days" (Math, xxviii., 20. R. V. margin). * He often seeks to get our attention that He 3 may speak to us or show us somewhat, but, 0 unlike Moses and John, we are too busy to 3 turn aside to see the burning bush or hear & the voice that speaks. ? 17. He is grieved when we are sad and & would have us tell Him all our own troubles. He desires to fill us with joy and peace. See Q the way in Rom. xv.. 13. He overhears every 0 conversation and reads all our thoughts (Ps. 11 sxxxlx., 1-4; Ezdk. xi.. 5. * #18. "They do not recognize Him and ^ think He must surely be a stranger in the 0 city if He does not know what had taken place during the last two days. Mary took ' Him for the cardener. They think Him a 3 stranger. His enemies counted Him a glut ? ton ana a wmeotDoer. now udkqowu wu 8 misunderstood Ho consented to be! e IS). He knew, but He would have them tell 8 Him. He likes to have us tell Him all, as y His disciples did when they had been out * teaching (Mark vL. 30). They had evidently been talking of the mighty deeds and words y of Jesus of Nazareth, and now God had ap- i proved Him, and the people had received Him and looked upon Him as the longprom9 ised Deliverer. 0 20, 21. But the strangest thing was that 8 the chief priests and rulers had crucified Him, and now He was dead and had been 9 for three days, and the redemption of Israel a which they had expected He would accom- , 0 plish was now as unlikely and as far off as , ? it ever had been. They evidently had their i Jj heart upon the redemption rather thau the 11 Redeemer and upon their thoughts rather y than His words. '? 22, 23. They had heard the report of the 0 women who had been at the tomb, and that 0 angels had said that He was alive, but they " did not quite receive it?at least they could j ' not understand it?and it was all a great [? mystery to them. They were in great perl5 plexity, I ? 24. Some had even gone to the tomb to ane: if [J the story of the women was correct and had p found it as the women said, but they had not l" seen Him, and If He was alive where was tt He, and why had He not come to them? So ^ they did not know what to think. '' 25. Now He speaks to them and shows 9 them their error. If they had only believed r? the prophets?that is. all that they had said, '? thev would have understood everything and e would have saved themselves from all this 8 1 unnecessary darkness. But, not believing, A I 41 ? J -i-J ? .?u_v iney uau ticieu ua iuuuou (jusuiu. vuwiuoi e some other fools in Pa. xiv., 1; Pro v. xiv., 9; l? I Sam. xxvi., 21; Luke xii.. 30; I Cor. xv., P 35, 36.. a 26. The prophets hod In their own personal ; 7 history as well as in their writings plainly , * foretold that the Messiah of Israel would suf3 fer und die and rise again. All is clearly a written in Isa. 1111., and His death is stated 0 also in Dan. ix., 26. '-Messiah shall be cut | off, but not for Himself," or, as in the mar- 1 1 gin, ''Shall have nothing." * 27. He wont back to Moses, without saying j one word about the supposod mistakes of 11 Moses or that Moses did not write this or 0 that. He took up portions In all the Scrip- j tures and made no reference to two Isaiahs a or any such wonderful knowledge as many ( 0 wise (?) men seem to have to-day. Ana f1 doubtless from the coats of skins of Gen. ill., , '? 21, down to the fountain and shepherd of 0 Zech. xiii., 1, 7, He taught how His sufferingg had been foretold. All our Sunday-school . a scholars should be made to understand that ' when a teacher or a preacher makes light of ? any portion of Scripture, such as the story 1 of Jonah, or seems to be wiser than our Lord, ? 0 that such people are no followers of Christ . ' and must not bo listened to. J 28. Having arrived at their destination, He f made as though He would have gone further, i ' for He will not intrude Himself upon any. If e we prefer not to have His company, we need !: not fear that He will come where He is not 1 wanted. His word_is "Ye shall seek Me and 0 find Me when ye shall search for Me with all * your heart" (Jer. xxix., 13;. 29. It is not difficult to constrain the Lord or His angels to abide if we really mean s ' it. See Gen. xviii., 5; xix., 3; Judg. vi., 18. ' 0 'Contrast the Lord's "abide" in John xv., 4, 1 3 7; John ii., 28, and see I Sam. xxii., 23. Think < 1 how Peter took Him home from the syna- ? * /lfn.l* i oq\ ??/! ar*it whafhor vnil f . BUgUC liUCUB. I., *.?) out. J-- T 3 want Him always with you, or do you get ( ; enough of Him at church and prayer meet- < a lDR? * " SO. What He did in that house He has i r been ever doing; giving us His broken body, i ? saying, "I am the bread of life." "He that ! eateth Me, even he shall live by Me." . Therefore make Me your dully food and life i * and all, and so live till I come again. While < He breaks to us the bread we shall surely i r have enough and of the best, and be "satis- < ' fled with favor and full with the blessing of i ? the Lord" (T)aut. xxxiii., 23). I ? 31. For tne first time since He joined them ' that day they know who He is. "He was \ known of them in the breaking of bread" ~ {verses 35). Let us open our Bibles and have I ; Him break to us the bread of life, and < J quickly He will open our eyes that we may ( . see (Rev. iii., 18). As He walked and talked and vanished, so shall we do in our resur- i rection bodies, for we shall be like Him even j Z as to our bodies. (I John iii.. 2; Phil, iii., | I 21.) j QO Tf nri\ Tr-ill lpt TTim r>nfin fn us the Serin- I tures, we, like them, will have such a burning at our hearts that we shall be constrained I to tell it out, even though we walk many a mile to do it (Ps. xxxix., 3; Jer. xx.. 9; Job I xxxii., 18-2 ') Let us avoid their folly and j give good heed to all that the prophets havo spoken, lest we walk in the dark, ignorant I of coming events and Fuacquainted with the | j great restoration soon to come upon earth I fll Pet i.. 19: Act* 'M.. 19-21).?Lesson y EUROPEAN WHEAT CROP. ^ la Some Countrlea It Will Be Poor; In | Others Good. '< II Reports to the Agricultural Department 3 from its European agents indicate that the * i area of winter wheat in France Is consider- ' ! ably smaller than last year and sprng sowt ings are curtailed. In Groat Britain the < ! prospect for grazers is considered excellent, j e while in Germany the agrarian interests are ,t supposed to be despondent, owin? to the in- ' e jury to rye and wheat caused by unfavora- 1 uiu wearner, u^uwiu^ ? iai^;o iu i Belgium and Holland kept the farmers there i i busy during March. Winter sowings have i t suffered in most of the continental countries < e and considerable damage is admitted in I - Spain and Hungary. Sorinjr field work was 11 iu arrears throughout Italy, but good crops e are expected. Excellent harvests are also i- promised in Algeria and Smyrna. HYPNOTISM IN^A WILL CASE. A Daughter Accuses Hor Stepfather of b Hypnotizing His Wife. , The charge of hypnotic influence is brought into the courts of Cook County, 111., for the first time in a suit to break the will of Mrs. ' Mary Bennett, who died last December, leav- ] ing an estate valued at $10,000 to her hus- 1 band, C. M. Bennett. Her daughter, by a ( e former husband, alleges that Bennett, who < was forty years younger than his wife, exert- ( L. ed his hypnotic power to induce her infirm i and aged mother to marry him and four days i afterward to make her will in his favor. It < is said the servant in the home of the deceased, who was Mrs. Murray before her ig marriage to the alleged hypnotist, will swear ii that she saw frequent instances of Bennett's X mesmerio control over her mistress during 1 his visits to the house. 1 RELIGIOUS READLN COMMUNION OF BA.INTC. It means sympathy, support, sugeesi co-operation, and that peculiar inspirs whim is due to numbers and mutual terest and enthusiasm. It means ail t as afforded not only by our fellow ch: members, but also in a real .-ense bv fellow Christians throughout the world, means that the redeemed and the anj hosts in heaven take a real, sincere int( in Christ's earthly followers, and in s manner and to some extent are able glad to be of service to us. It mean this day by day and week after week over. The value of such communion is gested by its meaning. It nerves and enc ages us. It revives flagging energies, drives away despair and fear. It cheer hours of loneliness. It brings heaven c and renders the cultivation of the heav spirit more easy. It shows us how muc Jesus Christ there is in his earthly disci) It turns our thoughts more appreciative! lltrt\ no ? ,1 a.i. h? "Mil CW lltU OUUIUU UUU Ll'UlCl KJI UUi liO nes9 and hope. Tt teaches us the 9ubs tial unity of Christianity in spite of its < sions. SANCTIFIED MUSICAL TALENT. The church wants the best sanctified a cal talent in the world. How cnn it b< cured? It roust be wiilln? to pay fori the same principle that it pays for pi talent. "When tnechurch calls for sancti musical talent.it will have it WhenChris men and women endowed with great mus talent learn that the church wants them Is willing to compensate them, they will < themselves. If our missionary boards c< send out with their missionaries sancti musical talent of a high order?men women who could,with their single voices with great choruses, accompany aud phasize the word preached?greater res In the conversion of souls would fol Those who have seen the effect of 3ankey's music may, perhaps, compreb what the effect would be if a great sii like Jenny Lind or Melba could stand by side with our evangelists, our pi divines, our missionaries and preach the pel in song. God speed the day when church universal shall wake to an appre tion of one of the grandest agencies in work of uplifting and saving men. COMMUNION SUNDAY. It is not enough that we have a g Teacher to tell us how to walk; it is enough that we have a great Exemplar puts footprints in the sand and let us where our footsteps should go. We r have a Life-givor who will lay down His for us; and the love must be so great nothing is counted In the balance again; But it is the love that saves. And the bl Baves because it is the life and the love poi out into hearts that need it. Christ is the ( through which the divine life en into the world. Christ's cross is witnes the divine lite that is saving the wc Christ lays dc ?;n his life for us. We an lay down our lives for one another. Thi the simple lesson of communion Sunc Life poured out from one full heart into other empty heart; from one joyous hear to an aching heart; from one pure heart a sinful and shameful heart.?Lyman bott, D. D. CONSOLATIONS OF OOD. "Are the consolations of God small i thee?" wa3 a question hard to bear w It was asked. Nevertheless, it is a searcl question for us. A wealth of consolal comes when a soul, under the pressure crreat sorrow or bewildered under plexitiea and trials can say "Ik. that J am having the very best that HeaveDly Father has for me to< Were there anything better he would 1 Siren it to me." There is an affluent ivine revelations touching God's pity, ! and tenderness that enables one to give f K' when brought into the presence of son ae serenity which eomes from the I trust that Go<l knows what is best bri with it a fine discernment of the real sor of another, and the consequent exprea of it becomes most grateful to the burde one. Tb^ comforts that come from God 1 self we can well pass on. NOT VANITT BUT DEVOTION. Professor Blackie frequently stayed at house when lecturing in Glasgow. He always at his best when one had him nl< One night we were sitting up together, -J J J- UU ?.A.. . lIlUKnfmmn sm 1UIU 1U il 1-9 uruoijuo WOJ . uuabotu v faults I have I am free from vanity." An ?redulous smile on my face roused him. " ion't believethat.crive mo an instance." B< thuschallonjiedl said : "Why do you v lbout flourishing a plaid continually?" ' jive you the history of that sir. When I i poor man, and when my wife and I had JifHculties, she one day drew my attentio the thrfadbare character of my surtout, i iske<l me to order a new one. I told h sould not afford it just then, when she w like a noble woman, and put her own p shawl on my shoulders, and I huve woi plaid ever since in memory of her loi ieed."?Good Words. HAPPIE8T LIFE. Do you ask which is the happiest life' say, from my heart, a consecrated one; I "in the world" (30 called) or out of il linhway or byway, as God wills, still a :onsecrated to a service better, hig sweeter than that of self enjoyment or 1 success. We all want to be happy. We seek personal joy as an instinct. 8u jod meant it to be thus when he made fet no less he has set the deepest sou: of joy outside of self-indulgence?in 1 obedience, devotion, duty. It may se? hard word, the last; it has a chilly sot Yet no less it claims and possesses us n and more as our days go on. Impulse, jire, idolatry, aggressive selfhood?one one we iay them down. We drop our wei| is we go upward. Lo! the cross that :all duty changes to our crown.?Mary CI mer Ames. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. pAneMonHnnQnoca mnv rpnrlor ifaalf tensely disagreeable and' repellent. It so manifest itself that, even if people i cede that it deserves a certain respect, i make the concession reluctantly and are drawn to imitate the virtue. Jesus alv made clear in his own conduct the dist tlon between the conscientiousness wl is pure and unmixed and that whicl blended with selfishness and the disposi to domineer. Nobody ever Suspected af merely wanting to carry his point, to 1 his own way. Of how many of us is true? A tactless, overbering conscienti ness may be genuine, but it sometimes c more harm than good. Let us praj be kept humble and made wise as well as ibled to be loyal to our 6ense of duty. the Loan's supper. The character of the Lord's Supper n ae determined by the language of Cbrisl Instituting it and by the attendant circ stances. There are no other sources of lencft in the case. As to the ianguag< 2hrist, we are dependent upon accounts ;hree of the evangelists and by P Matthew was an eye-witness of the insl tion of the supper, and Paul says tha bad his account of it from Jesus him What, now, on this testimony is the cha ter and office of the Lord's Supper? 8in that of a memorial. "This do in rem brance of me," said Christ. These are supreme and decisive words in the case, is a memorial of Christ as the Bread of md the institutor of the new covenant ic blood. We have only to bo patient, to pray an do his will, according to our present 1: and strength, and the growth of the soul ro on. The plant grows in the mist and der clouds as truly as undersunshine. So < the heavenly principle within.?W. H. CI uin^'. Seized a Mlnslnj Man'* Land. .Tnnntliiin K"irL-n*ar a 1_1.niliq iisappeared from Davton, Ivy., twelve yt igo, leaving behind realty worth $20,( S'ot a word has been heard from him sit tie had no known heirs, and, strnns ?nough. no attempt has ever been mad? sollect the taxes on it. Councilman Alf Clarke procured a horse and plow, turne urrow on the land and squatted on it. leighbor came in and claimed a half. r. Jourts will take up the case. Indian* Dispossessed. The Calispel Indians, of Idaho, are nandlng protection from white men, v ire taking their lands. a [ AGRICULTURAL J t TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE r TO FARM AND GARDEN. S tioa, a ition + [ in- FERTILIZER FOB COBN AND POTATOES. * urch The Massachusetts Experiment Sta- a our tion recommends 500 pounds dissolved It bone black, 200 pounds nitrate of p pile a0(ja ana 250 pounds muriate of potash _ 3ome Per acre? *or For potatoes, 500 _ and pounds dissolved bone black, 200 19 all pounds nitrate of soda and 250 pounds high grade sulphate of potash. The . _ ?fnnHar/1 Viran^n r?f i?nrn and nnfn.tr> our- w. ?w It fertilizers (complete manures) will 3 in also famish these elements in equally enly as or better f?rms-?American ih of Agriculturist. pies. y HOW MUCH DHT FODDEB? ,ppitan The quantity of dry fodder given to iivi- r cow may be fifteen to twenty pounds daily. It depends on what other feed is giveD, as if part of the feed is enlusi silage, or roots, or much grain is j so- given, less hay will be needed. But if t1?? hay and grain alone are used, the feed i may be twenty pounds of each, or twotian thirds of hay and one-third meal. It jicai jg best to have the grain'ground as )ffer finel7 aa possible, and the food is best suld digested when the hay is cut into Hied chaff and wetted and the meal is an^ mixed with it. The food is then better gjjj. masticated; and this first digestive suits process, when best done, aids the low. other digestive organs to do their iend wor^*?American Farmer. ? iger c Side PRUNING GRAPEVINES. All the lower portions of the main ^ tho shoots are comparatively naked, and ^ icia- the few stronger branches grow from a tho the upper portion of the vine, but a a well-pruned vine will be covered with f( strong branches from the base to tho _ summit. This is really the leading j( rnot obieot *n 8'rflPevine pruning but not g. wj,0 one in a hundred knows how to bring see it about. It is wholly accomplished v nu9t by summer pruning. The upper j that branc^es are usually the strongest, ^ it it. and if let to run they will draw the fl lood nourishment from all the rest. The ^ ired well-instrnoted grape pruner watches B t?^ his vines during the season of growth, ^ s of and whenever any one branch is in- j, rid. clined to grow stronger than its r ? neighbor, it iB either pinched back in c lay. order to check its ambition or elae a an- broken off entirely. The sooial prob- r t in- iem 0f the "rich becoming richer and 0 the poor poorer" applies here. We t-| check the strong branch, and the ^ weaker is strengthened thereby.?Mee- j, han's Monthly. with hen ^ llDg A MHiKPAECi TROLLEI. Q lion I have a wire stretohed from my o ' stable to the dairyhouse for carrying I milk. The wire is seventy-five yards c my long and of quarter-inch steel. A ii iay- trolley wheel was made from an old Singer sewing maohine. A pair of g omall Klrtnto Krinlr nn tn tVin frftllotr t [OVe BU10AA l/AVVUW MVVM V? WW VMV - V..VJ , r ree- V firm - M j, lAgs ^=3 ^ 1 r?w ~ J . t 3ion ?=r I q ?WI | 'he ~W I / ther 1 I 3in<f ?ii- 1 n <ril also a hook underneath for the milk was can. The wire is drawn taut to clear the gronnd in the centre, where a wire ? naturally sags. A boy ten years old 13 er I oan thus care for fifteen to twenty galent. Ions of milk with ease. My wire has ^ n a keen in ase four years, and has been h ring worn more by the children riding it than dispatching milk.?Farm and si Home. c r< SHALLOW CULTURE FOR COBN. t) )G it t, in I would advise fall plowing in case life the land was stubble or meadow. Plow fi six to 6even inches deep in the fall, li ail but in the spring five inches is suffi- b rely cient. The rougher the surface of n ^ fall-plowed ground the better. PulqCv^ verize, compact and level the seed-bed. fc im a Plant any time between May 1 and 23. i? ind. As far as yield is concerned, there is C( very littlo difference between hill and je by drill planting, but it is usually advis- ai ght? able to oheok the corn, as it can then we be kept clean easier. The thiokneas ^ of planting will depend upon the use. je In drilling where grain alone is de-' C( sired, plant in rows three and twoln* third feet apart, one kernel to every R foot. If the corn is to be fed as fod thoy der, plant thicker, putting in one ker- P not nel to every six or nine inches. In rayp hill planting endeavor to get four ker- " nels in each hill. Harrow immediate- w i is ly before planting, as this destroys all tion weeds and enables the plants to get u him good start before cultivation is necesthis 6ftry' Cultivate the ground, begin- " otf.,. ning with a slant-toothed harrow, and loes keep the ground free from weeds dur- bl t0 ing the entire season, using a shallow fo en" cultivator. Experiments made at the m Illinois station for a number of years tt show that an increased yieid of almost b? lug( six bushels per acre has resulted from fo t in shallow cultivation. The crossing of in um- varieties has increased the yield. This di evi- niay be accomplished by planting dif3 ? ferent kinds in alternate rows. Al- in aui thohgh corn has been grown at the te ;itu- station on one plot continuously for es t nineteen years with fair results, a ro- of tation is absolutely necessary for corn of iplv raising. The following five-year ro- tl em- tation is desirable: Beginning with a cl lIjJ meadow or clover soct, piam xo corn i>( two years, then seefl to oats or wheat en i his for one year, following with grass or nj clover for two years, ami then pat again in corn.?New England Home1KbI Bt0Rd Will hi un- xrrr, TERiuniiE bcffalo c.xat. The buffalo guat and its relative, C( the turkey gnat, are rightly feared by tl the owners of stock in the Mississippi a valley, where they have in the past ^ :en crcateu great havoe. These gnats are l(J tar.s related to the black fly of tbo North, tl )0?- and the Hungarian gnat. The buffalo al lefv 6nat Se*a lts name not from any m 3 to spocial fondness for the buffalo, but Cc rod because of a fancied resemblance to ni d? that unimal, which can easily be per- pi ceived upon looking at the insect side [I ways. It has an imraeuse thorax which forms a hump on the neck; its head is depressed, as if in the act <?f ti< de- buttiug, and is equipped with two wi rho short, horn-like antennae. The turkey pi . ' v *V :nat derives ito appellation from act that it usually appears at ime turkeys are setting. These gn anpe over the valley from Bed Rive: It. Louis, infesting the rivers, bay< nd low lands. South of Bed Bi hey are comparatively scarce. The first comers of the swarm ctive and bloodthirsty, but theysc eorease in numbers, and gradua eg out; 4hen another swarm is apt ut in an appearance. The durat: THE BUFFALO GNAT. f the visitation is from a few day ve or six weeks. Daring rain, o: ool spell they are dormant; ] eatber kills them. Blood suckii rhich is their only occupation, fine estroys them. Low, moist grot nd thickets are their hannts; tl void sunny spots. The favorite ti or attack is a dark, cloudy day, wl ain is threatened. Then let the jets of their rapacity beware; w arprising activity and suddenc hey swoop down upon ar. anil rhich may approach their ambusca o their sanguinary work and retr rith equal rapidity. "While showii ingular preference for mule bio hey will attack horses, cows, oati heep, fowls?in fact, all domestic e rild animals?which become frai rom pain and rush about seeking id themselves of the pestifen a ml. -a**--a_ - e al. v. repiures. ine enema o' iuu u re much the same as the symptomi attlesnake poisoning. It has b< bserved that where the bitten anin lo not die from early attacks u] hem they do not suffer so mnch h ater assaults. The attacks of the buffalo gnat lot confined to animole. There >n record instances of the destruct: if hnman life by their bites. Jrumby, of Louisiana, reported a c if death of a woman in Madison P sh, in 1883, from this canse. H. Winter, while passing along 1 [round near Helena, Ark., in 18 7as the victim of a large swarm >uffalo gnats, and is said to have d n a few minutes from the pois rhe extent of damage wrought heso little fiends is shown by tatement that in 1866 400 horses i aules were killed in the parishei tladison, Tensas and Concordia. 871 stock to the estimated value 1500,000 was destroyed in South* Tennessee.?New Orleans Picayune FABM AND GABDEN NOTES. A cockerel or pullet becomes a o >r lien when over a year old. Jf your hens don't lay by this t hop their heads off and start in agi Don't forget to give the hens a di apply of grass. They have been j ag for it all winter. It is a good plan to thoroug 'hitewash the interior of your ! ouse. It is a good lice killer. Salt for cattle is more important ammer than in winter. When ows are on grass ealt will be hig slished by them, as it serves to k< hem in health. Do not be afraid to thin out :uit. Trees that are loaded down i able to be injured. The largest i est fruit is grown on trees that ot permitted to overbear. There is nothing like a clover pal >r the pigs. They will not only ki i better health on clover than wl ? Vinl mill fa of. an/1 A JLLULtCU, UUV rr AAA 5* wr r, ? ? v as than when they are fed on gr ad require feeding three times a di Do not be too economical with ] ito seed. When cutting the s< ave large pieces to the eyes. It msidered an advantage to use wh jtatoes, or cut them in half by sor 0 not cut the potatoes into sh ieces. Cut straw can be more evenly c ibuted as bedding for cattle th hole straw, and it will serve better 1 absorbent when added to the mant 5ap. The labor required to. cut il Dt as great an expense as the l om manure when the starw is unci Good farming pays because it ei les the land to bear better crops in 1 iture. Hundreds of farmers w ay have lost money one year fi tat they have made a profit the n< jcause their efforts did not bri rth fruit until later. There is weal . the soil that is stored up for t iring successive seasons. May is an excellent month for hate g chickcns. The eggs will give b r results, and the chicks will be mc isily raised, owing to the advantag ' the wurm season and less liabili f loss from cold aud exposure. I te hens hatch out a large lot as there will be amte n lin jr that will die from Tarious causi its, hawks, and other enemies thi ing them out. Dcmauil lor Anliquc Coins. Jewelers say that a curious dema is sprung up for antique coins. 2 ao in whoso breast this desire 1: )mo is content with copies. T ling is the roil coin. This is set hollow rim of gold or silver a ountec! na clasps, charms, peudai sleeve buttons. The dealers icse give lists of tho coins. Soi e more valuable than others. T ost beau til ul are the silver Gre ins, coined 600 B. 0. The drac as aud didrachmas are used for scj us and charms.?Chicago Tiini erald. Th9 Boston Society for the Prevc ,>n of Cruelty to Animals gn sekly lectures to coachmen on t roper way to treat dumb auixuals. i " 'v^wy^: j7m s ' ">. '^xh &! EARDY TREES. J iata i? r to THEY SUE VIVE HACKING, BURJF* 0U8 ING AND UPROOTING, vet The Nullah Tree an Example?Whaafare Uprooted It GrowsJMore Koota Elsewhere?1OtherV?getable Wonders. ; to ion . ? r~>" OME trees and plants it is exceedingly difflcalt to kilL An. ^ J example is a tree found in ' ; v) South Africa called the baobab y tree, that ifi most useful to the native*) J No matter what sort of treatment it * reoeives it never seems to be the worse for it. The natives mafce a strong cord that lasts for years oat of tne nores con tained in the poanded bark, and for this purpose the whole of the trunk, mi far as they can possibly reach it, n barked, a coarse of treatment which if applied to any other tree would undoubtedly rain if not kill it. The only effect, however, upon the extraordinary baobab tree is to make it throw, out a new bark, apparently as capable* of answering the natives' purposes a? ^ the old one. No external injury, not even fir?, appears to be able to injure this tough tree to any extent If an axe be driven in with a hard blow, it can only, with great difficulty be extracted, on : : ^ acoount of the soft, spongy woodclos~T" ing upon it. Neither can any injury1 8 be done to the tree from within, and! F ? even cutting it down does not exterminate it; it continues to grow after aJf' it is lying on the ground. , ! k 1 T The nullah tree of the East Indies is also almost impossible to kill. It can . e- be cut and haeked in any shape, and j_me although uprooted and allowed to lie on the sandy plains for months an upright branch or new trunk will grow. less ^ Bengal, India, there u , a large tree that, has- had an experience. ( '. i it It is situated on the cammnc-oTonnd Hp r o o . r ' used for regiments passing through Umballa, or for the infantry regiments which come down from the hiH ,?j ' stations in winter for drill on the ej plains. The oanteen tent is pitched k.. near it, and the soldiers derive a great i |benefit from this onrioos tree as the ? prostrate portion answers the purLted Pose ?' two l?nK Bea*a an<* the upright of part serves as a shade from the hot een BUn* la Another strange plant, belonging ' , A somewhat to this species, is the deyil f plant, fonnd near the Lake of Nicaragua. It is of sach a deadly nature that it destroys all insects and vegetable life in its vicinity. Nothing seems to be able to kill it, and though T:-/' Dr it has been burned down several timee, it springs up again in vigorous life, lftr. without any loss of vitality* . ^ . In Jamaica there is to be found the ^ow life-plant, also almost impossible to ; kill. The writer knows it to be a fact ? that when a leaf is cut off and hang ied UP by a string to dry or wither, it on sends out white threadlike rooti^ b ' gathers moisture from the air, and be^ gins to grow new leaves. And still aQ(j further, when it is pressed and packed s of away in a botanist's herbarium it has y-J. In really been known to outgrow the leaves of the book in whioh it was' rest placed. The only way known to kill , it is by applying a red-hot iron to it, or by steeping it in boiling water. These few examples give some idea > ' , of the extraordia&ry creations of the 00K vegetable world, many of which must appear incredible to the unsoientiflc. ime They do not realize that there is' an lin.. infinitely greater variety of species in , *, ailj the vegetable world than in that pari ?in- of the animal world visible to thei* eyes.?New York World. hlj ? hen A Musical Mocking-BIrd* Maxime Caspari is the name of in handsome young Creole who drives a the delivery wagon for one of the proshly perous New Orleans green grocers, eop Maxime is a musician considerably above the ordinary, and in the early the mornings the quiet street is gay with are the merry sound of his sweet voice, or md the music of his French harp, which are he always carries about with him. It is charming to see what pleasure he tch gi^9 as he drives down the street, aep smiling and bowing to right and ieft ien as he goes, like a hero in triumphal 031 prooession. It gladdens the heart of ajc every woman on the street to hare Maxime deliver a package at her door and to receive one of his scintillating smiles, and a bow like a court gentle* ^ man's. oje Entirely in harmony with Maxime's Qe affable natnre is the little pet and companion which accompanies him'al1 ways in his daily rounds. This is nothing more nor less than a fine "s" mocking-bird named Beauregard, lSQ which is, beyond a doubt, a perfeotly 8,9 exquisite musician. Maxime has lra trained him to whistle the most diffi'18 cult airs with a grace and finish that no instrument can equal, and the litat* tie fellow seems to take infinite deaa* light in exhibiting his accompliah;he ment. He and Maxime whistle ho concert, the bird usually carrying the nd air and his master adding a fine, clear 3xt second which is exquisitely harmoning one. Ith Beauregard has a cage in one corner ise of the cart under the roof, but he usually sits upon Maxime's shoulder, >h- or occupies a perch just above his et- master's head. .? - - .. i >re When Maxime is very busy and fes hasn't time to dismount and linger at ty the door for a pleasant word, a smile jet or a bow, Beauregard gives three of round sharp whistles that serve to in- bring a servant out to the gate for $ es, the packaga. / in- I Maxime has frequently refused r large sums of money for his fine bird. Only last week a museum oompany oflered $250 for him. Q(j "But no," Maxime always says, "gol' can nod buy mey Beauregar*. ias He is nod for sale; he never will be. k0 He is ruy ver^- soul, that Beauregar'," ?Philadelphia Times. ?tg The Xew American. There is no question but the Amerine can people are becoming an outdoor he people. The introduction of the bie'i cyle has had much to do with this, but the numerous outdoor sports, like lff baseball, boating, tennis, etc., have es- also helped along the tendcnoy. This habit of life is already apparent in the sturdier physique and more vigorous In" health. The narrow-breasted, bloodres less, debilitated type of American ia he comjng to be a thing of the past.? Boston Globe.