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KEY. DR. TATilAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TIIE NOTED DIVINE. Subject; "Man Overboard." Text: '"So the shipmaster cam** to him and said unto hira: 'What meanest thou, 0 sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God. it so be that God will think upon us, that wo perish not.'"?Jonah i., 6. ^ God told Jonah to cro to Nineveh on an unpleasant errand. He would not go. He thought to eet away from his duty by putting to sea. With pack under his arm I find him on his way to Joppa, a seaport. Ho goes down among the shipping ami savs to the men lying around on the docks. ''Which of these vessels sails to-day?" The sailors answer, "Yonder is a vessel going to Tarshish. I think if vou hurry you may get on board her." Jonah steps "on board the rough craft, asks how much the fare is. and pays It. Anchor is weighed, sails are hoisted, and the rigging besrins to rattle in the strong breeze of the Mediterranean. Joppa is an exposed KovK/\t> nn,1 if rlooo r\rvf toL'fl Innrt frvi* fhfl VAO. sei to get on the broad sea. The sailors like what they call a "spanking breeze," and the plunge of the vessel from the crest of a tall wave is exhilarating to those at home on the deep. But the strong breeze becomes a gale, the gale a hurricane. The affrighted passengers ask thu captain if he ever saw anything like this before. "Oh. yes," he says. "This is nothing." Mariners are slow to admit danger to landsmen. But after awhile crash goes tha mast, and the vessel pitches so far "abeam's end" there is a fear she will not bo righted. The captain answers few questions, and orders the throwing out of boxes and bundles and of so much of the cargo as they can get at. The captain at last confesses there is but little hope and tells the passengers that they had better go to praying. It is seldom that a sea captain is an atheist. He knows that there is a God. for he has seen Htm at every point of latitude between Sandy Hook and Queenstown. Captain Moody, commanding the Cuba of the Cunard line, at Sunday sorvice led the music and sang like a Methodist. The captain of this Mediterranean craft, having set the passengers to praying, goes around examining the vessel at every point. He descends into the cabin to see whether in the strong wroatling of the waves the vessel had sprung aleak, and he finds Jonah asleep. Jonah had had a wearisome tramp and had spent many sleepless nights about questions of duty, and he is so sound asleep that all nnrl flio o/iraomlnff luuuuor vi iun oiviui ^.^-, of the passengers does not disturb him. The captain lays hold of him and begins to shake him out of his unconsciousness with the cry: "Don't you see that we are all going to the bottom? Wake up and go to praying If you have any God to go to. What mean?8t thou. 0 sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, If so be that God will think upon u.? that we perish not." The rest of the story I will not rehearse, for you know It well. To appease the sea, they threw Jonah overboard. I Learn thnt the devil takes a man's money and then sets him down In a poor landing 5lace. The Bible says he paid his fare to 'arshish. But see him get out. The sailors bring him to the side of the ship, lift him over the guards and let him drop with a loud , splash into the waves. He paid his fare all the way to Tarshisb, but did not get the worth of his money. Neither does any one who turns bis back on his duty and does that Which is not right. There is a young man who during the past year has spent a large part of his salary in carousal. What has he gained by it? A "> soiled reputation, a hnlf starved purse, a dissipated look, a petulant temper, a disturbed conscience. The manacles of one or two bad habits that are pressing tighter and tighter will keep on until they wear to the bone. You paid your fare to Tarshish, bat you have been set down in the midst of a sea rof disquietude and perplexity. One hundred dollars for Sunday horse hire. One hundred dollars for wine suppers. One hundred dollars for clears. One hundred dollars for frolics that shall be nameless. Making four hundred dollars for his damnation! Instead of being in Tarshish now he is in U?e middle of the Mediterranean. " Here is a literary man tired of the faith of his father who resolves to launch out iuto what is called freethinking. He buys Theodore Parker's works for $12, Kenan's "Life pf Christ" for 31.50, Andrew Jackson Davis's works for 820. Goes to hear infidels talk at the clubs and to see spiritualism at the table rapping. Talks glibly of David, the psalmist, as an old libertine, of Paul as a wild enthusiast and of Christ as a decent kind of a man, a little weak in some respects, but almost as good as himself. Talks smilingly of Sunday as a good day to put a little extra blacking on one's boot3 and of Christians as, for the most part, hypocrites of eternity as "the great to be," "the everlasting now" pr "the infinite what is it." Some day he gets his feet very wet and finds himself that pight chilly; the next morning has a hot mouth and is headachy; sends word over to the store that be will not be there to-day; (lathes his feet: has mustard plasters; call3 the doctor. The medical man says aside, "This is going to be a bad case of congestion bf the lungs." Voice fails. Children must be kept down stairs or ser.t to the neighbors to keep the house quiet. You say, "Send for the minister." But no. Ho does not believe in ministers, f You say, "Read the Bible to him." No; he does not believe in the Bible. A lawr' _ yer comes in, and sitting by his bedside writes a document that begins: "In the name of God. amen. I, being of sound mind, do make this my last will and testament. It is certain where the sick man's body will be in less than a week. It is quite certain who will get his property. But what will become of his soul? It will go into "the great to be," or "the everlasting now," or "the infinite what is it." His soul is in deep : Waters, and the wind is "blowing great guns, Death cries. "Overboard with the unbeliever!" A splash. He goes to the bottom. He paid $5 for his ticket to Tarshish when he bought the infidel books. He landed in perdition. Every farthing you spend in sin satan will ? "**?.31/^ *?AII Af UQ nenTniooa rrrn o}in 11 L PWU1UIC JAHIVUk Vii A-fcV JV%? ?MM.. I . hare thirty per ceat. or a great dividend. I Pe lies. He will sink all the capital. You 3 may pay full fare to some sinful success, but you will never got to Tarshish. Learn how soundly men will sleep in the midst of danerer. The worst sinner on shipboard, considering the light he had, was ~' Jonah. He was a member of the church, while they were heathen. The sailors were engaged in their lawful calling, following the sea. The merchants on board, I suppose, were going down to Tarshish to barter, but Jonah, notwithstanding his Christian profession, was flying from duty. He was sound asleep in the cabin. He has been motionless for hours?his arms and feet in the same posture as when he lay down?his breast heaving with deep respiration. Oh. how could he sleep? Whitf if the ship struck a rock? What if it sprang aleak? What if the clumsy oriental craft should capsize? What would become of Jonah? 80 men sleep soundiy now amid perils Infinite. In almost mif place, I suppose, the Mediterranean might be sounded, but no line is long enough to fathom the profound beneath every impenitent man. Plunging a thousand fathoms down, you cannot touch bottom. Eternity beneath him, before him, around him! Rocks close by and whirlpools and hot breathed Levanters. Yet sound asleep! We try to wake him up, but fail. The great surges of warning break over the hurricane deck, the gong of warning sounds throueh the cabin, tlie bell rings. "Awake!" cry a hundred voices. Yet sound asleep in the cabin. In the year 1775 the captain of a Greenland whaling vessel found himself at night surrounded by icebergs and "lay to" until morning, expectin? every moment to bo ground to pieces. In the morning he looked about and saw a 6hip near by Ho hailed it. No answer. Getting into a boat with some of the crew, ho pushed out for the mysterious craft. Getting near by, he saw through the porthole a man at a stand, as though keeping a logbook. He hailed him. 'No answer. He went on board the vessel pnd found the man sitting at the logbook, .frozen to death. The logbook was dated 1762, showing that the vessel had been wan3 dering for thirteen years among the ice. I The sailors were found frozen among the ?-~"v hammocks and others in the cabin. For fj thirteen years this ship had been carrying its I burden of corpses. ^ So from this gospel craft to-day I descry Hk foyagers for eternity. I cry: "Ship ahoy! Ship ahoy!" No answer. They float about, W tossed and ground by the Icebergs of sin, \ hoisting no sail for heaven. I go on board. I J find all asleep. It Js a frozen sleep. Oh, I that my Lord Jesqs would come aboard and lay hold of the wheel and steer the ( down into the warm gulf stream of mercy! Awake, thou that sleepest! i from the dead, and Christ shall give life. Attain, notice that men are arou?ed l>3 most unexpected means. If Jonah had 1 told one year before that a heathen captain would ever awaken him to a s of danger, he would have scoffed at the i but here it is done. So now men in strati ways are aroused from spiritual stupor profane man is brought to conviction bj shocking blasphemy of a comrade. A attending church and hearin? a sermon 1 the text, "The ox knoweth his owner," goes home impressed, but, crossing bis b yard, an ox come up and licks his haud, he says: "There it is now. 'The ox knov hie r.Tvnnr nnd tho ass his master's crib,' I do not know God." Tho careless ren of a teamster has led a man to though! ness and heaven. The child's rem "Father, they have prayers at uncle's ho Why don't we have them?" has broughtsa tion to the dwelling. By strangest ways and in the most ni pected manner men are awakened. The j dener of the Countess of Huntingdon convicted of sin by hearing the countea the opposite sideof the wall talk about Je John Hardoak was aroused by a dream which he saw the last day, and the judge ting, and heard his own name called ^ terrible emphasis, "John Hardoak, com judgment!" The Lord has a thousand w of waking up Jonah. Would that the r sengers or mercy might now And their ' down into the sides of the ship, and that m who are unconsciously rocking in the a* tempest of their sin might hear the warn "What meanest thou, 0 sleeper? Arise call upon thy God!" Again: Learn that a man may wake too late. If, instead of sleeping, Jonah been on his knees confessing his sins fi the time he went on board the craft, I th that God would have saved him from b? thrown overboard. But he woke up too li The tempest i3 in full blast, and the sea convulsion, is lashing itself, and nothing' stop it now but the overthrow of Jonah. So men sometimes wake up too late. 1 last hour has come. The man has no ra idea of dying than I have of dropping dc this moment. The rigging is all white v the foam of death. How chill the night "I must die," he says, "yet not ready must push out upon this awful sea, but h nothing with which to pay my fj Tho white caps! The darkness! ' hurricane! How long have I been sic 1 ing? Whole days and months and years, am quite awake now. I see everything, 1 it is too late." Invisible hands takeAim He struggles to get loose. In vain. T bring his soul to the verge. They le down over the side. The winds howL sea opens its frothing jaws to swallow, has gone forever. And while the can cracked, and the yards rattled, and thero thumped, the sea took up the funeral dlj playing with open diapason of mldni storm, "Because I nave cauea, aua ye fused, I Save stretched out My hand, and man regarded, but ye have set at naught My counsel and would none of my repr* I also will laugh at your calamity, 11 mock when your fear oometh." Now, lest any of you should make I mistake, I address you in the words of Mediterranean sea captain: "What me est thou, 0, sleeper? Arise, call upon God, if so be that God will think upon that we perish not." If you have a G you had better call upon Him. Do you t "I have no God?" Then you had better * upon your father's God. When your fat was in trouble, whom did he fly to? 1 heard him in his old days tell about sc terrible exposure in a snowstorm, or at i or in battle, or among midnight garrot and how he escaped. Perhaps twe years before you were born y father made sweet acquaintance v, God. There is something in worn pages of tho Bible he used to read wh makes you think your father had a God. the old religious books lying around house, here are passages marked wit: lead penoil?passages that make you th your father was not a godless man. but th on that dark day when he lay in the bi room dying he was ready?all ready. ] perhaps your father was a bad man?praj les3 and a blasphemer?and you never th of him now without a shudder. He w shiped the world or his own appetites, not then, I beg of you, call upon vour fa ers God, but oall on your mother s God. think she was good. You remember wl your father came home drunk late on a c night, how patient your mother v You often heard her pray. She used to by the hour meditating as though Bhe w thinking of somo good, warm place, wh it nerer gets cold, and where the bread d not fall, and staggering steps never coi You remember her now ns she sat in cap < spectacles reading her Bible Sunday aft noon. What good advice she used to g you! How black and terrible the hole In ground looked to you wh9n with two ro; they let her down to rest in the graveya Ah, I think from your look that I am on right track. Awake, 0 sleeper, and < upon thy mother's God. But perhaps both your father and mot were depraved. Perhaps your cradle i rocked by sin and shame, and it is a won that from such a starting you have come respectability. Then don't call upon God of either of your parents I beg of yot But you have children. You know ( kindled those bright eyes and rounded th healthy limbs and set beating within tb breast an immortality. Perhaps in the lief that somehow it would be for the b you have taueht them to say an even prayer, and when they kneel beside you < fold their little hands and look up, tl faces all innocence and love, you know tl there is a God somewhere about in room. I think I am on the right track at li Awake, 0 sleeper, and call upon the God thy children! May Ho set these little ones pulling at thy heart until they charm the< the same God to whom-to-night they will their little prayers. But, alas, alas, some of these men and1 men are unmoved by the fact that tt father had a God. that their mother ha God, and their children have a God, but t! have no God. All the divine goodness nothing. All warning for nothing. Tljpy sound asleep in the side of the ship, thoi the sea and sky are in mad wrestle. Many years ago a mau, leaving his fan in Massachusetts, sailed from Boston China to trade there. On the coast of Ch ih the midst of a night of storm he me shipwreck. The adventurer was washed on the beach senseless?all hia money go Ho had to beg in the streets of Cantoc keep from starving. For two years th was no communication between himself t family. They supposed him dead. He ki not but that his family were dead. Ho 1 gone out as a captain. He was too prout come back as a private sailor. But afte while he choked down hia pride i sailed for Boston. Arriving tt he took an evening train the center of the State, where he had left family. Taking the stage from the de and riding a score of miles, he got ho He says that, going up in front of the i tage in the bright moonlight, the pi looked to him like heaven. He rapped the window, and the affrighted set van! him in. Ho went to the room wtiere wife and child were sleeping. Ho did dare to wake them for fear of tho sh( Bending over to kiss his child's cheek, a ( fell upon the wife's face, and she wakoi and he said: "Mary!" aud she knew voice, and there was an indescribable sc of welcome and joy and thanksgiving God. To-day 1 know that many of you are tossed and driven by sin in a worse st than that which eamo down on the coas China, and yet I pray God that you may, I1?ia fa Immn Tn flid Iiaik LUC Still VI, ino IV uvtuv. xu uvu. many mansions your friend3 are waitin meet you. They are wondering why vo not come. Escaped from the shipwrecl earth, may you at last go in! It will a bright night?a very bright nighl you put your thamb on the latch of door. 0uc9 in you will find the old fai faces sweeter than when you la=t saw th an i there it will bo found that He who your father's God, and your mother's ( and your children's God, is your own i blessed Redeemer, to whom be glory dominion throughout all ages, world ^ out end. Amen. Spent Ninety Years In the Poorhow Phebe Walton, of Bristol, Penn.. who ninety years of age, died at the Bucks Coi Poorhouse the other day. All of her life, with the exception of five weeks, spent in the poorhouse where she died, was well known to almost every perse Bucks County. Getting Ready for Next Time. It is reported from Shanghai that C has placed orders for two ironclads of tons, and two cruisers of 4000 tons each, firms in England and Germany. j RELIGIOUS READING. Lrise thee A GOODLY HERITAGE. rtha "Thou maintainest my lot." God put the been people down iu Canaan, and God kept them sea there. They did not need horses or chariots, ense and though all around them were their dea, 'nighty foes, yet they dwelt secure because igest God maintained their position. I have often . A looked up to those mountain sides so far ' tho a way. as it were in mid-air, at the little chaman lets and farm places of tho Norwegian poas!rom ;uit?. hard by some little plot of almost iuetc., 3.\hau?til>le pasture land, and I have felt am- that all Europo might bo in tumult, and naand tions rise against nation, and political reth changes sweep through our society?why but Norway itself might change hands?but away there upou their heights, with their tful- pasture lands and orchards around ark: them, they could almost defy anarchy and use. face chaos. So is it with the soul that hiis ,lva- made God its portion. It can look upon the unrest of the political world, and upon the iex? strife of man about money, and upon the gar- shuttering of colossal fortunes, and the was breaking up of great societies in which the - ? wia tho QAtll nrhl/ih llflfl 3 UU ?* ? iu*iiaivu, v..v - .? sua. lounii its pasture laud, its harvest, its vin? in tage, it> ore, iu Goii's nature, His friendship, i sit- find His presence, that soul can look up and vlth say, "1 have a goodly heritage, for the Qod e to who gave it maintains it, and the God who raya is my inheritance keeps It for me." It is b nes- goodly heritage.?Rev. B. Meyer. way any Vful OBIOISALITY. 'QS* To differ from others does not make one original. That may be mere divergence of opinion, a falling out to the right hand or .aP the left. Originality is that difference of the had 01U) fcom many which can be measured rom on u .straight line toward the truth. Origi^al? nality is not remoteness from men. it is near"fB ness'to reality. It declares itself with ate> unmistakable genuineness in the invest!J? gator, who forces bis way through traditions aDd theories into the" presnce of facts which have been waiting his coming; in the ri10 poet, who lives at the heart of tne common l0re humanity and uncovers the glory of that inner ii'fe: in the profit, whose conscience clarities lii? mental vision and gives him the : advantage among men immersed in time of 1 the everlasting certainties; in any master of ave men who can divine motives, interpret events and organize for results accordiug to his inih? -sicht ? President Tucker of Dartmouth Col :efj lego. but . A LliJAIj tDUCAHUri. up. hey That mnn, 1 think, has had a liberal educa^ tion who has been 90 trained in youth that his The body is the ready sen-ant of his will, and Ha does with ease aud pleasure all the work vaa that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose Ipog inteleit is a clear, cold, loaric engine, with all .g0j its warts of equal strength and in smooth ght working order, ready, like a steam engine, re. to be turned to any kind of work and no spin the gossamers as will a forge all the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with the great and fundamental truths jpil] of nature and the laws ef her operations ;one who, not stunted ascetic, is full of life and this Aret but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a lan. tender conscience; who has learned to love thy a" beauty, whether of nature or of art, to 03^ hat ) ail vilen'ss and to respect others as wel) od, ils himself.?The late Professor Huxley. 5& . ? THE HOLY 8FIBIT. fou Considering the great mystery of the death una of our Lord, we face also the mjstery of the sea Holy Spirit at the time of the agony on the are,' rross. Uufathomable as this is to us, there jxty is one incident recorded which has its preour cious and impressive lesson. There was loft rtth to the dying Redeemer but ono comfort, and the that was?to save one more. The Holy ich Spirit wrought upon the wretched man ?_ UT Ilia ei?ln until ha shoulii SOB his J.U ? ? the uee'l and his Saviour, and thus minh a i-tered to the lonely Sufferer the enly allele viation possible. No human aid shared in At, this. It brings to us the grand icality of the iok power now in touch with every human But uo nt?, however seemingly hopeless. 'l'his r6r. same liolv Spirit dwelling in you s.ud in me ink has the same eagerness to glorify the risen or- Lord while he must needs be restrained by Do our slowness of heart to realize it all. th I jj6n WOItK IS GRACE OF OOD. old The teaching of the Scriptures that.whatras. ever this experience of outer lif*\ the growth sit and enrichment of the inner life should never ere bo interrupted or hindered. Provision is ere made for this continuous work in the grace oes of God. There is nothing that touches us in ne. any way that may or _ay not be made to md minister good to us. Losses of earthly ;er- things may be gains in the spiritual ive life. Sickness of the body may rethe suit in new .health and vigor of the inner pea min. It is the privilege and duty of the rd! chiM of God to move upwanl and forward the day by day. This is the meaning of the 3 all promises of peace which are found so frei tpieutly in the Bible. We have 110 assurance her of a life without strife, trialftrouhle and loss, yaa but we arc assured that we may have under n t.n;iee within while the outer life is > to thus beset.? J. K. Miller. the t. }0d OUAI5DIXG THE TKOCGIITH. A m st hopeful habit to lead on to rich and j?" deep >oul experience is that of carefully h0* guarding the thoughts when one's head is I?3' laid 011 the pillow lor the night. If these though'.* are kept steadfastly to uplilting tliemi s there seems to be a holy atmosphere J * about the soul during sleep, for the first ^ thoughts on awaking are usually the continualion of the last scul effort before passing into slumber. Think over these beautiful words in Jeremiah. "For I have satiated the n* ' ?' 1 1-1 1 - weary SOUl UllU I IftUVU n-^irui?Jiru aui' rowful toul. Upon this I awaked and be3to held, aud my sleep was sweet unto me." say To awake to find the good night thoughts hovi-ring like angels who have been keeping guard while we slept is a bright outlook for l?" the new day. d a hey for DESCRIPTION OF PRA.YEB. are This is a beautiful description of prayer: lgh "And the Lord weut his way as soou as be had left communing with Abraham: and lily Abraham returned to his place." Do we. to leave the place of being alone with God contna .-ciously richer than when we entered and ide shut, the door? Was there such distinctness up of our persoual touch with our Heavenly ne. Father that we can think of him as remeinL to bering the interview? There is another beauere tiful description of possible realization even md while we are here below. ''Jesus taketh lew with him 1'eier and James and John, and had lendeth them into a high mountain apart by 1 to themselves; and he was transllgured before >r a them." S. B. C. and l?re No difficulties in your case can baffle Him. [9r So dwartlugof your growth in years that are past, n<? apparent dryness of 'your inward 'Pot springs oT life, no crookedness or deformity in auy of vour past development can in the [if le:i8t mar for,ect work that he will, aeon couiplish. if you will only put yourselves 1,2 absolutely into His hands and lot Him have His own way with you.?H. W. S. not >ck. Tho lowest and the humblest in endow tear meats is just as important ia his place as the led, moat brilliantly gifted. The great life in his God's sight is uot the conspicuous one. but :ene the life that fills the, pla?*e which it was made : to to fill, aud does th?; work it was made to do. God asks not great things; he asks only sea ^mplo faithfulness, the quiet doing of what orm he allots.?J. It. Miller. it of like se of n is comparatively ea?y under duty's lead 8 to to brace the will and go forward, dreading, u<*? but unflinching, to some large self-sacrifice; ts of but harder far through sickness as iu health, ; be thuugh tiro : ? well as rest, through the anx'ot^ ,ls through quiets of life, to be sure to lift a mere cup of water even to a brother's nt?y lips.?Ilev. W. C. Gannett, em, A Novel l'r'ze. nost ^ novel prize has been of.erod by the Groat and Northern Steamship Company, whose vessels rith- oa great lakes. The official announpftmftnf had hoAn rr?orltt fttof nrtm pany will give a prize of 4250 in gold to every ie, baby bora this season aboard of either of its was two palatial steamers, Northland and Northwest. Five hundred dollars is the prize for lone twins and $1000 for triplets. The only oondition is that the officers ef the company g^e shall name the babies. in in ' " ' First Electric Sawmill. The first electrio sawmill on the Pacific coast is now building at Tacoma, Wash. It hina la an experiment, whioh, if successful, will 800<) mean much for the greater development of with the lumber-region about Puget Sound. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON F< AUGUST 25. Lesson Text: "Crossing the Jordan Joshua HI., H-17 ? Goldeu Text: Isa. xllii., 2?Commentary. 5. "And Joshua said unto tho poop Sanctify yourselves, for to-morrow the L< will do wondejs among you." Closes dii and his body was burled. Joshua succei ed him. aud having led the people to t River Jordan they are now about to pi over into the heart of tho land of promi but how? for it was harvest time, and J< dan overflowed his banks (verse 15). Wb th? Lord leads His people into a difflcul ll is Tnat no iuny suow ma puwnr ?uu glorified in them. The one thing for 1 people is to sanctify themselves, or put a^v everv semblance of evil, as on the nig when they came out of Egypt they put aw all leaven out of their houses. 6. "Take up the ark of the covenant a pass over before the people." The ark mentioned ten times in this chapter. It v the symbol of His presence, and His presei was everything. Instead of journeying the midst of them, as ordinarily, it now w< ahead of them, and there was to be abc half a mile between it and them, that th might know the way to go for "they had r passed this was heretofore" (verse 4). 1 must take care to follow Jesus closely a fully, for it may truly be said of each di "Ye have not passed this way heretofore.' 7. "That all Israel may know that as I w with Moses so I will be with thee." The fore He would magnify Joshua and He < (chapter iv., 14), and Joshua, was honoi because of God with him. It was God tl was magnified, but Joshua was the chos earthen vessel. The same thing was se in Gal. i., 16, 24, when in Paul Christ ^ revealed, and God wasglorifled. Paul's a bitiou was that Christ should be magnifl in His body whether by life or by de? (Phil, i., 20). 8. "Stand still in Jordan." The prie bearing the ark were to step into the wa ore it would divide (verses 13, 15), not as the Red Sea when the'waters divided ere t people came close to them. He guides us i ten one step at a time, and we must take o step ere we see the next one, and sometin we must step right into the waters. "Wh thou passest through the waters, I will with thee." 9. Come hither, and hear the words the Lord your God." This is the great a fundamental thing?to hear what God 1 spoken. Whatever mouth or hand the Lc may use, it is God Himself who speaks a works. It was so in Christ (John xiv.. 1 it was so in the prophets (HeD. i., 1. 2; IIP I., 21); it will be so still in every vessel tl is wholly His (Matb. x., 20; Phil, ii., 13). 10. "The living God is among you, and will without fail drive out from before y the Canaanites," etc. All other Natic worshiped idols, the works of men's han but the peculiarity of Israel was that th Lord was the true God, the living God. ( King of eternity (Jer. x., 10). The divldi of Jordan and every other mighty work God in Israel was that Israel first and tb all the people of the earth might know t hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, and f< the Lord God forever (chapter iv., 24). 11. "Behold the ark of tne covenant of i Lord of all the earth passeth over bof( you Into Jordan." I think this is the fl time that in connection with the ark t Lord is called "the Lord of all the eartl But He is frequently called by this name we go on in the book (Ps. lxxvii., 5; Iaa. li 5; Mic. iv., 18; Zech. iv., 14; vL, 5). In Gi xix., 19, 22, He is the "Most High God, 1 possessor of heaven and earth." Hispurpo of grace ore worldwide, and they are wor wide in connection with Israel, for see I xxvii., 6; Num. xiv., 20, 21. 12. "Now, therefore, take you twelve rr out of the tribes of Israel out of every trj a man." The story of these twelve men found in the first nine verses of the nt chapter. Their commission was to tn each man a stone out of the midst of Jord and set them up in the first resting place the land. This they did at Gilgal, a Joshua also set up twelve stones in the mi of Jordan, where the feet of the priests stc (chapter iv., 9, 20). The twelve under I waters of Jordan and the twelve at Gil| are verv suggestive of our union with Chi in death and resurrection. Old thii passed away; all things Decome new (II C v., 17). 13. "It shall come to pass." This ve gives the promise and assurance. The d< three give the fulfillment. To make 1 promise as reai as puasiuio wo uu? iuia6 ourselves on the margin of a rushing rivet the time of a freahet, and as we gaze up the mighty waters one among us says tl as soon aa the feet of certain men, duly i pointed, shall touch the waters the river \ divide, the upper waters piling up in a ht and the rest flowing away, leaving the 1 of the river dry. Could you believe a w< like that? 14-16. "And it came to pass." W] God says is aa good as done, for "the L( of Hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely a have thought, so shall it come to pass, r as I have purposed, so it shall stand" (I xlv., 24). And see Jer. xxxii., in rel ence to nothing being too hard or wond ful for the Lord. It came to pass exac as the Lord said it would, and the peo passed over right against Jericho. 1 people of Jericho had heard how the L< had divided the Red Sea for Israel (chap ii? 10). but now they saw for themsel the mighty power of the God of Jac Yet, Rahab and her house were the o ones who profited by the lesson. Some p Kle talk about the laws of nature as if G ound Himself always to be subject to a work only under control of these laws. 1 by what law will a river cease to flow i pile its waters up in a heap and stay so a time? Instead of laws let us consider E who controls and is superior to all laws; v does as He pleases In heaven, earth and (Ps. exxxv., 6), and has perfect contro lire, air, earth and sea. Say Lord conl me, too, for Thy glory. 17. "The priests that bear the ark of covenant of the Lord stood Arm on i ground in the midst of Jordan." They this until all were clean passei over, ? everything was finished that the Lord 1 said (iv., 10, 11). Even if they marchec hundred abreast there would be over : miles of them to pass over, and even thot they hasted (iv., 10) it would take mi hours. Observe the words, "Until evt thing was finished," and compare the doul "Not one thing hath failed,'' of chaj xxiii., 14. Our High Priest will finish that concerns us, and not one thing can of all that He has spoken. Jordan twice divided after this (II Kingj ii., 8, ; and the Lord did for two men, and for man, what He had done for a nation, not afraid. Only believe.?Lesson Helpe THE NAVAL MILITIA. Assistant .Secretarv Mc.ldoo Pleased TV the Ilesult of His Inspection. Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdo( very muou pleased with the condition of naval militia in the various States as sho by his recent inspection. The Assistant 8 retary has just returned to Washington fr a four weeks' cruise iu the Dolphin, dur which he made an inspection of the Na Reserve in all the States along the Atlai coast, from South Carolina to Maine, was particularly phased with the condit of the reserve in New York, New Jers Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Conuecti and Massachusetts. In fact, he says that of the States visited show nu interest in service that is encouraging. Mr. McA< was impressed with the excellent person of the reserve and the >rood equipment of service. The State oflljials take a prids the reserve and they do everything possi to keep it up to a High standard. The New York reserve is especially v drilled and thoroughly disciplined, so t in ease of an emergency it ooul-1 go into tive service on call. The Massachusetts and Rhode Island serves are also in splendid condition. Massachusetts, Mr. MeAdoo says, the rose is made up principally of bright. intelliR young fellows who are thoroughly at he aboard of a ship, and many of them (pialifleijto assist in the building of ship! necessary. All along the New Engli coast, he says, it seems like second uat for the young men to take to the water Bhipping, not only for a living, but forsp Economical Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam estimates a savins; of $210.00 year by cutting ofT the fre?i see I division the Department of Agriculture. AGRICULTURAL )R TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATE TO FARM AND GARDEN. MOUNTAIN* ASH TREES. ' Orcliard growers in taking tlieir i nual Jook through the trees of th orchards for the apple tree bori hhould not forget to pay the mounti nsh a visit. These beautiful ori tie. mental trees are favorite hiding pla< >r(1 for the borers. As these trees i often planted by roadsides, and :he ceive little care, hundreds of bor< ass may be bred in them and afterwci s0, make their way into the orchards. r>r- ? . en .b'oBton uuiuvator. ty, J36 CATTLE TIE. :he ay There are a great many Kinds jht cattle ties, for which various mer Ry are claimed, but one of the eimpl n(j and most convenient we have met w is 7as __ ice -?- ^ ? ; 'en / 611 3 1 ras JL A ne CATTLE TIE. ies ? ?n is shown in onr illustration. JThe cc e are stabled two in a stall with a shall of gutter in the rear, to which the inr nd floor should slope a couple of inch affording ample drainage and keepi n(j the cattle ckan. The chain slides 0); the rod fastened to the side of t et- stall by bolts, which, passing throng fasten another rod to the other side He the partition.?New York World. ou lD8 HOT DJ TOMATOES. OS, . eir The rot of tomatoes is due to a ft :he gas which grows in the whole pla and matures in the fruit. It is re ten ted to the potato rot, and is to he treated in the same way, by the B< 3ar deaux mixture. The disease appen he first as a small spot on the bloss< >re end of the fruit, then spreads rapic rat all through it. It is prevented or i j,? rested as soon as it appears by Bpn a3 ing the liquid, made as follows, on v., the plante, leaves, and young fru Dissolve four pounds of sulphate ges copper (bluestone) in five gallons Id- water, and six pounds of lime in fc sa- gallons of water. Mix the two liqu [0n and stir them well, then strain a [be add forty gallons of water. A 1 11.? quantity may be made by proportit ately less material. This preparati is used for preventing all kinds i la rusts and rots on all sorts of plants, nd the black rot of the vine, the rnst ^ strawberries, raspberries, ana bla< the berries, the potato rot, and the sc ?al rot of apples.?New York Times. 1st SOWING TUBNIFS. There are few crops grown that quire as little work as turnips and ii tho favorable season there are few crc ine that yield as well. While in wl 'ln may be termed a fair season they : oat tluirQ but a comparatively short si ap- son for growth, yet taking one yt rill with another the better plan is to si reasonably early. From the midc ard to the latter part of July is a go fcimn to sow. the exact time bei largely determined by the season h 3 J the condition of the soil. md One item is essential and that is sa. have the soil prepared in a tine til [?? in order to first secure a good gem tiy nation of the seed and then a go pie start of the plants to grow. The soil should be reasonably ric ^ new gronndlis best when it can be i ves cured readily, but old ground can ob. used i f it has been manured with rott manure thoroughly incorporated wi tod the soil. Too coarse fresh manure md always objectionable with this crc 3u*j Plow well and harrow until the s is in a fine' tilth. The seeds are lim small that to sow on rough, cloddy rho illy-prepared land is to lose a cons s?? erablo portion of them. Genera :r0i rather low moist ground will give b ter results in every way than hi the drier land. ^ At this time, when it can be doi md it will be best to sow just after a n lad in order to t-ecure a good germinati of the seed. Use plenty of seed a ich sow ft9 evenly as possible. A v? good plan is to mix the seed with cle :ry- wood ashes and then sow, as by tl jtl?j plan there is less danger of gotti all them too tmcK. fai. One of the best varieties is tLe < standard purple top strap leaved. 'I 0q,' white egg, and alao the yellow glol B? are good varieties. They make a go r? feed for sheep or cattle ho that that cannot be marketed to good i vantage can always be fed to the str with benefit, and thero is very lit dangor of growing too many.?Far Field and Fireside. > is the WU r.t7ili>ing a stack. Rain is tho arch ouemy of stacks ins bay or grain, and the chief aim o val skillful stack builder is to secure outer coating which will carry ioa moisture even when the stack ha^ s iey, tied. To keep the shed water lY Cljt rotting the bottom of the stack t'h? foumlafcion may be made or rails loo poles, laid side by side and supporl ?el upon larger cross timbers. Start 1 base narrow?about eight feet wi ibia lor hay and ton foot, wide tor .qrait making the siilca Hj>read about t^ third* us junt'h as is li'tally liesire!. that they will have thj proper b'.t ai'ter settling and slipping o.utwa re- Much skill is v^piired so to ?!iap3 f bulge that the stack will be rt 1 eil( name ticae. waterproof uad eymuiet >mo cal. arH. Tho ccntre "of the stack bolds 1 iiu!l !n"*t weight aaJ will settle most, sr. ure should bo kept we'd tramped for I rwi'J and full and bifih for grniu. If t ort* most essential feature of a gooil sta is not present, the settling of the m will leave the stems on the edges sl< l()a ing inward nml cot oulwa.'J, as tl ot [ ought tn slant. Tbns tuo raiu vro' I fulluv tbo iu-nrard slope to the v> heart of the stack and spoil it co pietely. To avoid packing the edj so much that they will not settle 8 ficientlv the stacker should stand near the middle as possible. The mi careful attention must be paid to 1 hay and grain in the outside cours With sheaves of grain that 6ido whi was toward the outside of the she ^ir should be placed underneath on 1 edge of the stack, so that the rain v lin be shed by the slant of the butt. tta" Hay may be kept either in roti ces stacks or in long ricks; the latter i are generally the easier cured and 1 sre" more convenient. The rick may built a section at a time, a gc length for each 'section being abi Uht. ' "Rtt 4 I/-UO icu^iu KJL a 1UQU Ui XXaj v method the balk of the rick is not 1 open to sadden raios, the short, unl ished section being more quia ,?* rounded up. Before joining on ei new section, a part of the olosed sti es' top should be forked down the t ^ which was purposely left rongh more easy extension, or, in g< weather, the upper part of the nexl """* the last section may be left untopi until the last section is built up. Tl * the sections will be closely joined felted together. ^ In threatening weather 'the mid of a stack should always be kept v< full so that it can be roughly top] ? " out at a moment's warning of 1 coming shower. The stacking may ~ on again as soon aa the field haj dry enough to keep, if the wet top the stack be tossed to the ground _ dry, or be carried to the ridge ol partially settled stack to shapen its crest. The top of a haysti ^ should be tramped until it is th oughly packed and finished to a shi ridge or a point with long, flexi hay. The ridge may be weighted w a heavy pole, but it is usually best employ a light pole, and weight 1 top of the stack with twine hangc lWS held down by stones or sticks. Af 0w each autumn storm the stack eho ier bp retopped and the side raked do\ e9i Hay thus treated will cure and keej Qg well as in the barn, and may be fed on racks to stock, or hauled to ' ihe stables, cutting off only a short s rh, tion at a time. A grain staok is b of topped with the cap-sheaves, lay: them aside from the last few loads New York Independent. ln. THE BANANA APPLE. .nt At the recent annual meeting of 1 la- New Jersey State Horticultural So< be ty,an apple called by the exhibitor Dr- Banana apple waa shown. This vai irs tyis a seedling, originating on 1 )m farm of C. E. Blackwell, of TitusviJ lly Mercer County, N. J., about twei ar- years ago, and it has in the meanti: ?y- become quite well known in that s to tion. It is thus described: Larj it: roundish conical with a deep cal of pa THE BANANA APPLE. lafc re- basin, -which ia somewhat irreguli aa- calyx closed, some russet patches sar basin. In color when ripe it is a y ow lowish green, a pale copperish bit lie on snnny side and fainter splashii od of the same color, and sparsely mark ng over the snrfoce with minute do nd Stem a half inch, sometimes a lit more in length, in a basin of avera to size, rather-deep and a little uregai th Sweet, good for family or mark li- season January to March. The tri od are said to bo excellent bearers. American Agriculturist. h; 3e- FARM AND GABDEX JT0TE3. be a good shepherd h careful to 'coi e(* his flock every time he sees it. ^ In the frozen winters of the No 'ls green hemlook boughs are a good v >P; mifuge for sheep. 0" r,, .1 . . g0 Sheep ure the greatest weed < or stroyers in the world. They are ve jjj. fond of a change of diet, and vi 11^ hunt out weeds for this purpose, et- Remember that young lamb ste^i gh and green peas go well together; tl push the former along with gr io, i'eed to be in readiness for the latt iin Grain fed to sucking latnbe desigi on for the butcher at an early day p nu at the rate of $2 a bushel for c< >ry anywhere in the Eastern and Mid an States. Cross-breeding of cattle and sh< is tolerably, and is largely practic because, though the progeny may lacking in trueness to type and n "e be very rough specimens, the m JS> value is always a considerable ass 10 i A misfit in hor3e-breoding is howev j an absolute loss. )Ck Good clover hay contains a mi tle perfect food ration than anyfchi m else grown. Less corn, less whe ' less cotton and more clover is a refo many an American farmer may w decide upon for the coming year p I the decided advantage both of 011 stock and his land. ? ft I o I There is always one excellent si stitute for clover or timothy h i whoa the crop is short, and that ' j m-'Ilet. It is seldom that millet la ' I nnd it yields a large supply on r or , land. Being a summer crop, it grc te i j rapidly and destroys weeds by crov the 'n'' ^etu anr^ keeping the land shad* id- 1 The majority of farmers should i i j pend upon raising their own da vo-; sfcoclc. This should be done m< c() J cheaply than cows couia ue uuuy |,ve ; especially at the present time. A r'd. i the advantage is tbnt the heifers c j be raised in a proper manner a thc ! adapted to the farm, which could 1 v[. couie from frequent chunges in ov ership. he It is groat gain that heifers are ui is ally as good at two vears old as th my formerly were at three. To reach t his they must be well cared for from 1 iclc first; kept healthy and growing; : ass ; such things as will foster grovrth up- bone and muscle, rather than fat, ley meoibering that milk is the natu aid ! food for the you ay; calf. They ahoi ary j be milkerb at two. ? -? "< ^s? A - jfa ii , \ ,Ai . . V ? . i ' : .x -v jg T-~ ,m? WORDS OF WISDOM. jes uf- Art is nature concentrated. as Merry larks are plowmen's clocks.' v Command is anxiety; obedience# 'ue ease. jrti! ! A true believer is one who thinks as >ck yo^dothe No wise man ever wished to be rill younger. There never was a house big enough md for two families. are wj(jow j3 nofc always u mournk? ful as she is dressed. )0)j The passion of acquiring riches in 3ut order to support a vain expense coring rapts the purest souls. eft When the spirit leads, it is step by in- step, but the flesh always wants to do kly things on the run and jump. ich Nothing suits a cross man more than 10k to find a button off his coat when his >nd wife has not time to sew it on. The letter you expeoted did not >?d come because it was never written. 1The postoffice department is all light. *? It is remarkable how many sensible appearing men take a pride inputting on uniforms and carrying around tin die 3Woras2ry ..Wise kings have generally wise sed oo^QBelors, as he mast be a wise man the himself who is oapable of distinguishg0 ing one. r is Qood men hare the fewest fears. He of who fears to do wrong has bat one to great fear; he has a thousand who has f a overcome it. up About the wisest looking thing in 10k the world is a boy who has been boardor? ing in town and stadying law three or irp foar months. Ne Present time and fatare may be 1*tl sonsidered as rivals, and he who ao' lioits the one mnst be expected to be tl10 iiscountenanoed by the other. ?rs, M ter Normal Brains Vigorous to the Last. ^ Persons who think have often won YU* iered why brain-workers, great statesf. men and others, should continue to ' ?Q work with almost unimpaired mental e activity and energy up to a period! ec" when most of the organs and functions 00 af the body are in a condition of ad^ ?anced senile decay. There is a physiological reason for this, says the Medical Record, and then qnotea from a recent work on the "senile heart" by Dr. Balfour: the ' 'The normal brain remains vigorous jie- to the last, and that because its nutrithe tion is especially provided for. About rie- middle life or a little later, the gen* tne sral arteries of the body began to loss le, their elasticity and to slowly but sureity ly dilate. They become, therefore, me much less effioient carriers of the nueo trient blood to the oapillary areas. je, But this is not the case with the inyx ternal carotips, which supply the ca__ pillary areas of the brain. On the 3oitrary, those large vessels oontinua to retain their prestine elasticity, so that the blood pressure remains normally higher than within the capillary i irea of any other organ in the body. | The cerebral blood-paths being thus M iept open, the brain tissue is kept |8 better nourished than the other tisines of the body." va Who is there among those who have reached or passed middle age, com* <2 ments the Record, that will not ba,ref ioioed to find such admirable physio- , logical warrant for the belief that the brain may continue to work, and evea >- '/-? imnrAira almnat f.rt thfl TCTV 1(U)t aour of life? A Bace lor Life With a Bear. ir William Marphy, of Juneau, had tn exciting venture with a bear near ej. Lynn Canal, Alaska. He saw brain [S]t )n a hillside, and rifle in hand, ha lf(g jave him a hot chase. Jast as he e(j reached the summit he unexpectedly ?a net the bear coming around a hugs bowlder. The animal was too clone ?e for action, and before Murphy could ^ ire the gun was knocked out of his et" hand witb one stroke of the bear's 363 huge paw. Murphy realized the perilous situation and made for a tree. The bear reached out and caught his trousers. Then a race for life began around the . , tree, with Marphy in the lead and the lnt bear a olose second. Splendid time was made, when the rth bear reversed his direction and met or- Murphy face to face. With one blow the man was knocked dewn, and toie gether they rolled down the hillside try into an embankment of snow at the rill bottom of the gulch. The bear appeared surprised and ?ecj aomewhat dazed, and hurriedly galien loped up the hill. Murphy, though ajn badly torn and bleeding, made his er (ray down to where his boat lay and 1 pulled over to his camp. Later he went to Junean for medical treatment. ft^8 Sis injuries are not serious, but are lr,n very painful.?San Francisco Examiner. ;ep Rattlesnake Interrupts the Supper, ed, Hipe Williams, a hunter and woocfabe man who lives near Brovenville, Brax,QT7 ^rtnnt? Virginia, had ao twu WUUVT| .. w eat exciting experience a few evenings ago et. with a tremendous rattlesnake. Wilier, iam? and his family were eating sapper ia their kitchen, when a rattleare snake thrust his head through a ratng hole in the floor. One of the children, at, a little ten-year-old girl, who was rm sitting near the spot, happened to look ell down and saw the snake near her feet, to She screamed and feel from her chait hia in a swood, almost within reach of the reptile, which fortunately had not yet drawn its entire length out of the v hole and could not coil to strike. Williams, seizing the child, snatchecf jig it out of the range of the reptile, and, . jJ after ordering the rest of the family >ws to keeP seized an axe and cat ^ the snake in two at the first blow. The reptile was six feet long and had seventeen rattles.?Cincinnati Ea . quirer. iry ? 3re Muck Land ou Fir p. For three months a Blackford County (Indiana) farm has been burn!an ing underground, and it has been im,at^ possible to extinguish it. The farm is owned by Frank Williams, auditor of m* Wabash County. Williams's farm contains sixty-six acres of muck, 9U which, when dry, will burn like sawley dust. Three months ago fire started hi* in the muck land. Little attention ;he was paid to it until within the last fed week, when it was discovered that the of fire was burning under ten acres and re- was still spreading. Within the last ,ral few days the ten acre patoh has been lid a glowing furnace. ?Scientific American.