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REV. DR. TALMAGE, SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY kTH NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Chieftain." Text: "The chiofest among ten tho Band."?Canticles v., 10. The most conspicuous character of histo f steps out upon the platform. The flap which, diamond with light, pointed down Him from the Bethlehem skv was only a ra fication of the finger of prophecy, the flng of genealogy, the flnsrer of chronology, t finger of eTeuts?all five fingers pointing one direction. Christ is the overtoppi figure of all time. He is the "vox human in all music, the gracefulest line in : sculpture, the most exquisite mingling lights and shades in nil painting, the aci of all climaxes, the dome of all cathedral grandeur and the peroration of all languas The Greek alphabet is made up of tweni four letters, and when Christ compared Hii self to the first letter and the last letter.the pha and the Omega. He appropriated to Hii self all the splendors that you can spell o either with those two letters or all the It ters between them. "I am the Alpha a; the Omega, the beginning and the enii." What does that Scripture mean which pa / >f Phi-ict ''Ha fhnti-rimpth from .ibove above all?" It means that after you have pil up all Alpine and Himalayan altitudes, t glory of Christ would have to spread ! wlntrs and descend a thousand leagues touch those summits. Pelion. a hitrh mcu tain of Thessaly: Ossa. a hi?h mountai and Olympus, a"hich mountain; but mythc ogy tells us when the giants warred again the gods they piled up those three mou tains, and from the top of them proposed scale the heavens: but the height was n great enough, and there was a complete fa ure. And after all the giants?Isaiah ai Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants, Eap ael and "Michael Angelo. artistic giant cherubim and seraphim and archangel, c lestial giants?have failed to climb to thet( of Christ's glory they might all well unite the words of Paul, and cry out, ''Aboi all!" "Above all!" But Solomon in n text prefers to call Christ "the Chieftain ^ and so to-dav I hail Him. First, Christ must be chief in our preael Ing. There are so many books on homil tics scattered through the country that i laymen, as well as all clergymen, have mac up their minds what sermons ought to b That sermon is the most effectual whit most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pa don of all sin "and the correction of all evil individual, social, political, national, Thei is no reason why we should ring tl endless changes " on a few phrase Thoro a po thncA -whr> think that if an exho lation or a discourse have frequent mentic of justification, sanctiflcation. covenant < works and covenant of grace, therefore must be profoundly evangelical, while the are suspicious of a discourse which presen the same truth, but under different phrasi ology. Now, 1 say there is nothing in a the opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism; of a the word treasures that we inherited fro: the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-Eun pean, but we have a right to marshal it i religious discussion. Christ sets the exan pie. His illustrations were from the gras th-; dowers, the barnyard fowl, the crj*3ta of &tU, as well as from the seas and the star and we do not propose in our Sunday-scho< teaching and in our pulpit address to be pi on the limits. I know that there is a great deal said i our day against words, as though they wei nothing. They may be misused, but the have an imperial power. They are tt bridge between soul and soul, betwec Almighty God and the human race. Whi did God write upon the tables of ston< "Words. What did Christ utter on Moui Olivet? Words. Out of what did Chri: strike the spark for the illumination of tt universe? Out of words. "Let there 1 light." and light was. Of course thougi is the cargo and words are only tt ship, hut how fast would your cargo gi on without the ship? What you need, m friends, in all your work, in your Sa! bath-school class, in your reformatory inst tutions. and what we" all need, is to enlars our vocabulary when we come to speii about God and Christ and heaven. We ric a few old words to death, when there issue illimitable resource. Shakespeare employe 15,000 different words for dramatic purpose Milton employed f000 different words f< poetic purposes: Rufus Choate employe over 11.000 different words for legal pu poses, but the most of us have less than thousand words that we can manage, an that makes us so stupid. When we come to set forth the love < Christ, we are going to take the tendere: Ehraseology wherever we And it, and if as never been used in that direction befoi all toe more shall we use it. When we com to speak of Ihe glory of Christ the conque or, we are going 10 araw our muuiics irui triumphal arch and oratorio ami everythin grand and stupendous. The French nav have eighteen flags by which they give sij nal. but those eighteen flacrs they can pi Into 66,000 different combinations. Aud have to tell you that these standards of th cross maybe lifted into combinations inflnil end varieties everlasting. And let me say 1 the young men who come from the theolbg cal seminaries into our services, and are aft* awhile going to preach Jesus Christ, you wi have the largest liberty aud unlimited r source. You only have to present Christ i your own way. Brighter than the light, fresher than tt fountains, deeper than the seas, are all the! gospel themes. Song has no melody, flov ers no sweetness, sunset sky no color con Eared with these glorious themes. Tnei arvests of grace spring tip quicker than v can sickle them. Kindling pulpits wit their Are, and producing revolutions wii their power, lighting up dying beds wii their glory, they are the sweetest thougl for the poet, and'they are the most thrillic illustration for the orator, and they offer tl most intense scene for the artist, and tht are to the embassador of the sky all enthi siasm. Complete pardon for "direst guil Sweetest comfort for ghastliest agon Brightest hope for grimmest death. Gran est resurrection for darkest sepulcher. O what a gospel to preach! Christ tl Chief. His birth, His suffering, His mi; acles, His parables. His sweat. His tears, H blood, His atonement.His intercession?wh glorious themes! Do we exercise faitl Christ is its object. Do we love? It faslei on Jesus. Have we a fondness for tl church? It is because Christ died for i Have we a hope of heaven? It is becauOesus went there, the herald and the for runner. The royal robe of Demetrius w so costly, so beautiful, that after ho had pi it off no one ever dared to put it on. but tb robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorfi and the weakest, and the worst may wea Where sin abounded, grace may mu< more abound." "Oh, my sins, mysins!"said Martin Luth ? to Staupitz, "iny sins, my sins!" The fact that the brawny German student had foui a Latin Bible"that made him quake, ai nothing else ever did make him quake, ai when he found how, through Christ, he w pardoned and saved he wrote to a frien saying, "Come over and join us great ai awful sinners saved by the grace of Go You seem to be only'a slender sinner, ai you don't much extol the mercy of God, b < -^e that have been such very "awful sinnc praiSM HIS urracc mc muic uun iuui 1 Lave been redeemed." Can it be that y< are so desperately egotistical that y< feel yourself in first rate spiritual trii and that from the root of the hair to t! tip of the toe you are scarless aud i: maculate? What you need is a lookii glass, and here it is in the Bible. Po and wretched and miserable an 1 blind ai naked from the crown of the head to t sole of the foot, full of wounds and putref ing sores. No health in us. An 1 then ta the fact that Christ gathered up all t notes against us and paid them and th-m < fered us th* receipt! And h<->w much ' need Him in oursorrowV We are indepe <lent of circumstances if we have His gra< ? Why, IIo made Paul sing in the dungec ?ud"under that grace St. John from desolf Patoios heard the blast of the apocalvi trumpets. After all other candles ha been snufTed out, this is the light that g< brighter and brighter unto the perfect <ls and after, under the hard hoofs of ealamil Oil tlm ?nnle .if tr.-irl llv f.ninvmiMlt ha been trampled into deep ruin- at the foot the eternal roelc the Chri.-atisiu. from cups pranit'* lilv-rimmed, puts o::t the thirst his soul. Again, I remark that Christ is chief in (' iag alleviations. I have not any sympat with tho morbidity abroad about our deini: The Emperor of Constantinople arrausj that on the day of his coronation the stoi mason should come and consult him abo the tombstone that after awhile he wot need. And there are men who are mo: maniacal on tho subject of departure from i this life by death, and the more they think of it the less they are prepared to go. This is an unmaaliness not worthy of you, not ^ worthy of me. Saladin, the great conqueror of his day. while dying, ordered that the tunic ho had on him be carried after his death on his spear at the head of his army, and that then the soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say: "Behold all that is left of Saladin, the u- emperor and conqueror! Of all tho states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumurv lated, nothing did he retain but this e"r shroud." I have no sympathy with such beto havior, or such absurd demonstration, or t j. with much that wo hear uttered in regard to ,er departure from this life to tho next. There 'he is a commonsen?lcal idea on this subject jn that you need to consider?there are only n?r two styles of departure. A thousand feet a" underground, by lis?ht of torch, toilincr aU in a miner's shaft, a ledge of roek may fall 0f upon us, and we may die a miner's death. ne Far out at sea, falling from the slippery rated lines and broken on the halliards, we may re- die a sailor's death. On mission of mercy > * I ?_ omi.l h?v>L-?n hnnM anri ranK-int? \*? UVSJ/4kOI| UU4IU /? vuvu wvwvw 1 " ? " - ?Q leprosies .and raging fevers, we may die a philanthropist's death. On the field of m. battle, serving God and our country, slugs ut through the heart, the gun carriage may ,t_ roll over us, and we may die a patriot's ad death. But, after nil, there are only two styles of depart ure?the deat h of the righteous yg and the death of the wicked?and we all jS want to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you he may bo at home. You want the hand of [ts your kindred in your hand. You want your to children to surround you. You want the n. light on your pillow from eyes that have c long reflected your iove. You want your )ll room still. You do not want any curious LSt strangers standing around watching you. n. You want your kindred from afar to hear t0 your last prayer. I think that is tho wish 0t of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly il_ friends hold us up when tho billows of death ^ come up to the girdle? Can human voice h. charm open heaven's gate? Can human s. hand pilot us through the narrows of death into heaven's harbor? Can any earthjp ly friendship shield us from the ia arrow* of death and in the re hour when satan shall practice upon us his iv infernal archery? No. no, no, no! Alas, ? poor soul, if that is all! Better die In the ' wilderness far from tree shadow and from h. fountain, alone, vultures circling through e_ the air waiting for our body, unknown to ii men. and to have no burial, if only Christ le could say through the solitudes. "I will I never leave thee. I will never forsake thee." ' , From that pillow of stone a ladder would r. soar heavenward, ancels coming and going, _ and across the solitude and the barrenness re would come the sweet notes of heavenly ie minstrelsy. ( Si Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in door of a heathen temple, said: ''Glory to Thee, |Q 0 God:" What did dying Wilberforce say to jf his wife? "Come and sit beside me. and let it us talk of heaven. I never knew what hapv piness was until I found Christ." What did dying Hannah More say? "To go to heaven, think what that is! To go to Christ, who U died that I might live! Oh. glorious grave! 11 Oh, what a glorious thing it is to die! Oh, n the love of Christ, the love of Christ!" What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymn maker, say a in his last houre? "Who can measure the , depths of the third heaven? Oh, the sunPi shine that fills my soul! I shall soon bo , jg gone, for surely no one can live in this 3: world after such clories as God has mani- , jl fested to my soul!" lt What did the dying Janeway say? "I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my j n head in sleep. Before a few hours have .e passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with the , ly one hundred and forty and four thousand and ie with the just men made perfect, and we shall a" ascribe riche3, and honor, and glory, and majesty, and dominion unto God and the , Lamb." Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at it the stake, on his 'wav thither broke away 11 - - j ' A irom tUQ gUiirUbiHCU, auu noui uvuuuiu^ ,e and leaping and jumping toward the Are, )e glad to go to Jesus, and to die for Him. j Sir Charle3 Hare, in his last moments, ie had such rapturous vision that he cried, j "Upward, upward, upward!" And so .] y great was the peace of one of Christ's . disciples that he put his finger upon the j i_ pulse in his wrist and counted it and ob- . ,e served it; and so great was his placidity that f 'j- after awhile he said. "Stopped!"' and his life [e had ended here to begin in heaven. But , ih grander than that was the testimony of the [j worn out first missionary, when, in the ! s. Mamertine dungeon, he cried, "I am now jr ready to be offered, and the time of my de- . ,<1 parture is at hand; I have fought the good ( r. fight. I have finished my course, I have kept a the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me j d a crown of righteousness which the Lord, ( the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearing!" Do you not see that , ^ Christ is chief in dying alleviations? e Toward the last " hour of our earthly resi- , j [e dence we are speeding. When X see the j r_ sunset. I say, "One day less to live." When m I see the spring blossoms scattered, I say, I g "Another season gone forever." When I 1 y close the Bible on Sabbath night, I say. I "Another Sabbath departed." When I bury it a friend, I say. "Another earthly attraction l I gone forever." What nimble feet the years i e have! The roebucks and the lightnings run 1 e not so fast. From decade to decade, from 1 0 sky to sky, they go at a bound. There ] j. is a place for us, whether marked oi s ?r not, where you and I will sleep the i "ll last sleep, and the men are now liv- t j. ing who will, with solemn tread, carry us < n to our resting place. Aye, it is known in i heaven whether our departure will be a cor- s ie onation or a banishment. Brighter than a i 5e banqueting hall through which the light fe??t 1 r. of the dancers go up and down to the sound < a. of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through i ;e whose rifts the holy light of heaven stream- s ro eth. God will watch you. He will send His i k angels to guard your slumbering dust until, i h at Christ's behest, they shall roll away the 1 h stone. i So, also, Christ is chief of heaven. The i , l!f Bible distinctly says that Christ is the ehiel | jq tneme 01 tne ceiesuai usuripuwu, uu iuc ,y thrones facing His throne, all the palms j?_ waved before His face, all the crowns down at His feet. Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim y[ to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall recite the Saviour's earthly j b sacrifice. je Stand on some nigh hill of heaven, | r. and in all the radiant sweep the most ( j3 glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads i at gazing on the scars of His suffering, in silence first, afterward breaking forth ji- into acclamation. The martyrs, all the ie purer for the flame through which they ( t passed, will say. "This is the Jesus for whom we died." The apostles, all the happier for e_ tbo shipwreck and the scourging through ^ which they went, will say, "This is the Jesus at whom we preache l at Corinth, and CappajS docia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.' Little cnildren clad in white will say, "This r is the Jesus who took us in His arms and Ijj' blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud brought us into this er beautiful place." The multitude of the jS bereft will say, "This is the Jesus who com1(j forted us when our hearts broke." Many who wandered clear off from God and Q(j plunged into vagabondism, but were save] ^ by grace, will say "This is the Jesus who j pardoned us. We were lost on the mountains, and He brought us home. We were l(j guilty, and He has made us white as snow." .Alerev boundless, grace unparalleled. And ut then, after each one has recited his peculiar (rs deliverances and peculiar mercies, netted v0 them as by solo, ail th? voices will come toJU trether into a great chorus, which will make JU the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal m reverberation of triumph. b' Edward I was so anxious to go to the _ Holy Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathed ?160,000 to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in l(j Asia Jlinor, and his request was complied l10 with. But there are hundreds to-day whos s v* hearts are already in the Holy Lan l of Heaven. W here your treasures are. there jie are your hearts also. Quaint John Eunyan ,f. cau.C'ht a glimpse of that place, and iu liis nuaint way lie said "And I heard in mj ,u. ! dream. aa?l, lo! the bells of the city ranc aijain for joy, anil as they opened the gate.;D I i" let in tiie* men I looked ia after them, and j hi! the city shone like the sun. ami there were Lj0 streets of gold, and men walked on them ve ! harps in their hands, to ring praises with all j and after that tiiey shut up the gates, which ' " ! when I had seen, I wished myself among them!" ve of C)e Qu?er Obntructlon to Traffic. of An army of potato bugs. having flnishoc their stasDn's work among the Long Island Iv- farmers, have recently swarmed on the track: hy of the Long Island Railroad in such num?e. hers as to impede traffic. On a recent day ii ed took one train twenty minutes to go three , le- | miles. Brooms are now being attached tc mt j the cow-catchers of the locomotives in suet lid | a manner as to sweep the rails, and the ex id- j periment is said to work well. RELIGIOUS READING. THE SENSE OF SI>". What a strange, subtle, inextinguishable thing it is?man's sense of sin! How keen, how just, its distinctions; how prompt and sure Its judgements; how sharp and bitter its punishments! It is quick in the child before the little mind and heart have been trained to the first and simplest of ethics; and the gray-haired man, who has tested every ex perience me nasto oner, pernaps in aeuauce of principle or virtue, cannot throw oil that clinging, accusing consciousness of sin In thought or deed. How insignificant is the universatility and persistence of this thing we cull conscience! It means that there is, somewhere in the universe, a clear note, like the tone of the keybell in a chime, to which all must correspond a note of Right, far-sounding, r.weet perpetual. At the heart of it all, this medley and discord and jangle of life, sounds the keynote of truth. And this truth is not a mere chance harmony of visible things, but a deep spiritual principle, underlying all, breathing out into all, unifying and pervading alL It is the mind and will and thought of God. Everything that is in accord with that personal will is right. Everything that works against it is wrong. The sin-consciousness is the consciousness of enmity with God. Its present and future and eternal punishment is that it antagonizes the universal nrrlor. and lives In its own little reckless and unordered chaos. The whole world and the whole race arc permeated with this knowledge of right and wrong. It is born in a man like a sixth and inner sense. He may fight against it: he mayweave all sorts of sophistries between it and the eye of mental discernment; he may outrage and defy and deny it, but it shall hold him relentlessly to the never-ending end. We cannot annihilate conscience any more than we can annihilate personality. As long as the soul exists it will hear that clear, insistent tone of Right?either in condemning discord with its own will, or as the sweet, eternal note to which its personal life is keyed. PLACE AXD FITNESS. One of the most pitiful things in the world is to see nine hundred and ninety-nine persons contriving, laboring, competing for place, and only one man in a thousand concerning himself with the vastly more important and pertinent and essential matter of fitness. As if fitness did not always and inevitably come before place, preparation before performance, equipment before assumption, merit before desert. Yet who in these days thinks first of making himself worthy and then of the honor which his worth deserves? Who abases himself that he may be exalted? Who goes to school to humility that he may rule with honorable pride? The tendency, most unfortunately, is all the other way. Men seek first the place, under the reckless and vain delusion that fltnes9 will follow as a kind of mirculous and spontaneous result of presumption! A young man leaves school, or breaks off his technical education, dazzled by the offer of a position which seems as high as he had ever Hnt-Aii tn nsnirp. Hfi pets the nlace but eel dom keeps it, and still more seldom rises above it?because he has not been content to wait and fit himself for the demands and responsibilities of his profession. Very soon those who have equipped themselves more thoroughly than be will overtake and pass him. It is like running a long race over rough roads. The rider who stops to have his horse thoroughly shod will win over him who pushes frantically ahead with a loose shoe to gain time. If there is any lesson of more importance than another to a young man and woman of this hasteful and wasteful age, it is the lesson of the true relation of place and fltuess. Everywhere ana in all things consider first personal worth. Whether in religion, in business, in education, in professional life, or In social life, seek first the solid.genuine, noble qualities which entitle one to respect and honor. Never mind the emolument or the place. Do not think about them; certainlv jo not give them preference in your thought. Ihese things will surely follow if you deserve them. And if you aspire to and snatch at them without desert, thev will just as surely escape and defy you. Aim first to be fit for the honors and responsibilities of life. Ihou, it you are truly worthy, ycu will not need to sigh "and struggle and madly grasp for these things. They will JOIKt' to you as eilMJV nun uuiuiuin 0.0 ucauvj ind fragrance come to the flower in its unfolding. The truly great men and women c>f the world are they who have toiled humbly ind patiently, waited without repining, aoped without ceasing, striving always not :o grasp, but to gain, the prizes and honors of life. And their reward has come when it came, with all the richness and stability of :he good which falls to the lot of true desert. VTORKIXG FOR GOOD. When we have a willing mind, everything ;ood and beautiful and true, conspires to :ielp us. All uature then becomes pervaded ivith a diviner beauty, and wesee God everywhere p-esent in the advancing or receding rear. He smiles upon us in the sunrise or sunset. He seems to hold us iu His embracng arms in the long summer days. Our life :hen grows more full of God. Ail its jvents have a providential meaning. None irrive by blind chance or stern necessity. Our friends come to us from God; vlien they leave us, they go to Him. Thus, javing nothing, we possess all things. Iu mesense, ncthing is ours; in another, all :h;ns;s are ours. Of ourselves aud by ourselves we are nothing, but in God we have ill things. For all things are tending inevtably toward that great consummation of jeiug which we desire. All things are work ,ng together for gooil whl.e we love uoa.? lames Freeman Clarke. a six oa Dun. Everything is either a sin or a duty. It is cveii to have the truth put sharply sometimes, [t is uecessarv that our callousness be pricked, and our easy-going laziness overtimed. Shocks are wholesome. Nothing is morally indifferent. We are doing or avoiding some ndnute point of God's vriii all the time. The guilt of our disobedience is lessened or removed if we are more or less necessarily unaware what that will is. But the fact remains that the will divine was not done. Few people have their power of spiritual discernment sufficiently cultivated to note the little deviations. Few are in close enough touch with God to apprehend in small matters what He would have them do. Nevertheless it is possible to attain very great proficiency in this matter. To continually increase one's proficiency is a duty oi large magnitude. THINGS NEEDFUL. For every need of the spiritual life this. <3 tho one thing needful: the Holy Spirit. All the fuiuesS is in Jesus: the fulness of grace and truth, o t of which we receive grace for grace. If we but yield ourselves entirely to the disposal of the spirit, and let him "have his way with us. he will manifest the life of Christ within us. He will do this with a divine power maintain^R the life of Christ in us iu uninterrupted continuity. Surely if there is one prayer that should draw us to the Father's throne and keep us tnere it is tnis> lor the Holy Spirit, whom we as children have receiwd.to stream into us and out from us Id greater fulness.?Andrew iiurray. To l*e at work, to do things for the world to turn the currents of things nbout us nt our will, to make our existence a positive elean-nt, even though it be no bi.-ger thau s grain <>f sand in this creat system where we live?thai 2* a new joy of winch the idle man knows no m>re thau the mole knows of.r-unshin<\ or the serpent ol the eagle's triumphant High: into the upper air. The man who know-, in.}eed, what it i- to act. to work, : " This alone is to live."?Phillips Brooks. A l'lnjtte of Caterpillars. Caterpillars aro planum? cities, t??Tvn.c and villages all over the eastern part of the country, stripping the foliai?o from the sha le trees along th<* streets an'! making havoc in the parks. New York City and Brooklyn hnve had a fair share of * the unpleasant pests, anil the newspapers of many towns all the way from Maine to South Carolina complain loudly of theirnumlM?r nti-l destructiveness. Killed l>y a Yellow Jacket. A yellow jacket stunj; John Horner upon the lip while he was working in a fte.'d on his farm, Bellefonte, Penn. That was 9 o'clock In the mornincr, anl immediately the lin began to swell, Horn'-r suiTerins; awful pain. He crew worse rapidly until 0 o'clock j p. :n., when he expired.' SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOE SEPTEMBER 22. Lespon Text: "Joshua Renewlns the Covenant," Joshua xxlv., 14-23? Golden Text: Joshua xxlv., 24?Commentary. 14. "Now. therefore, fear the L^H. and serve Hira in sincerity and in truth." Joshua had fulfilled his mission and had now come to the pad of his sojourn in t tin mortal bodv, LAU,. nkA?i 11ft ...X~ -1.3 On\ TJ MtruiK nwui ilu )rars uiu i^trrstr n*7 assembled the people at Rhechem, and callins for the elders and judges and officers he reminded them of all the Lord's goo'lness and faithfulness and earnestly exhorted them to serve Him sincerely. "Serve" is the key word to this address. It is found in some form at least twelve times In our lesson, and suggests very strongly to us that we are saved in order to serve Him who saves us. See Ex. iv., 22. 23; I Thess. i.. 9: II Chron. xxix., 11. We are also to serve always in the fear of the Lord, which includes a practical acquaintance with Him and a profound reverence and cordial affection for Him (Prow i., 7: ix.. 10). 15. "As for me and my house we will servo the Lord." It is evident from this and the preceding verse that their ancestors hsyond the river (R. V.) wero idolaters. From "such as these Abram was called out. God does not compel, but He sets before u? the ri<rht and the wron<r. drawincr us stroncrlv to the right by His Holy Spirit, vet leaving us to choose. The leaders. like Joshua, must make the choice first, for the oeorle cannot be expected to choose the good if the leaders do not. If all teaeh?rs and preachers were as decided and whole hearted for God as Joshua there might be less worldliness in many places. We are all too apt to consider what others do and follow them. We should have Joshua's spirit of whole heartedness for God regardless of others. The race is to bo run "looking unto Jesus," which implies looking away from all else (Heb. xll., 1, 2\ 1G-18. "Therefore will we also serve the Lord, for He is our God. This is the conclusion of the people's replv to Joshua's words. They acknowledge that the Lord their God brousht them out of Egypt. preserved them in all the way and brought them into the land. Therefore they should certainly serve Him. and not other cods. Their fathers had. however, made as pood resolutions as these at Horeb when they said. "All that the Lord hath spoken will we do" (Ex. xix., 8). but they broke their promises in a few weeks and were found worshiping a golden calf. The law which is holy and just and good cannot help us because the flesh is so weak (Rom. viii.. 3). 19, 20. "And Joshua said unto the people. Ye cannot serve the Lor 1, for H" is a Holy God. He is a jealous God." Th?y could not serve Him in their own strength. They could not serve him and others, too (Math, vi., 24). The people of a Holy God must bo a holv people (Lev. six., 2; xx.. 7, 26; xxi., 8; I Pet. i., 15,16: I?a. viM 8; Rev. iv.. 8). Just seven times is God called a jealous God. Besides this verse see Ex. xx.. 5; xxxiv., 14; Deut. iv., 24; v.. 9; vi., 15; Nah. i.. 2. Compare Jas. iv.. 5, R. Y.. margin. The word translated''jealous" is the same word that is also translated ''bought" or "purchased;" so that the thought in "jealous" i? simply that of claiming what is rightfully His own. We are not our own, but bought with a price, that He mnv be glorified in as. We are a people for His own possession (I Cor. vi., 19. 20; Titus ii., 14. R. Y.). We are to serve Him with a perfect or whole heart (I C'iron. xxviii.. 9), witn humility (Acts xx., 19), with gladness (Ps. c.. 2), with the Spirit (Rom. i., 9), and continually (Dan. vi., 16, 20). Of ourselves we cannot do this, but Christ can. and a Christian should be able to say truthfully. "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (GaL ii.. 20). It is written of Him, "The Son of Man came to minister." "I am among you a? He that perveth," "If any man serve Me, him will My Father honor" (Math. xx.. 23; Luka xxii., 27; John xii., 26). When we are fully yielded to Him according to Rom. xil., 1, 2, He will work in us both to will and to do (Phil, ii., 13; Heb. xiii., 21). 21. "And the people said unto Joshua, Nay. but wo will serve the Lord." They seem very sincere and determined by His grace to serve Him, find we find that they did serve Him all the days of Joshua, and of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen the great works of the Lord that He df d for Israel (verse 31: Judg. ii.,7). 22. "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord to serve Him." When we take a stand for the Lord, it must of necessity be against ourselves, for we are, by nature aeainst God, "The carnal mind is enmity against God. for it is not subject tc the la^v of God. neither indeed can be" (R:>m. viii.. 7). Our Lord also said, "If any man will come after Me. let him deny himself" (Math, xvi,, 24). From beginning to end of the Christian life it is a continued stand against self for God. "'Even Christ pleased not H'mself" (R)m. xv., 3). He never sought His own will, nor His own glory (John vi., 38: viii., 50), nor did He ever take credit to Himself for either words or work? (John xii., I 49; xiv., 10). Paul's mottoes were "Not I, but Christ." "Not I. but the grace of God" (Gal. ii.. 20; I Cor. xv., 10.) See also II Cor. iv.. 11. 23. "Now, therefore, put away the strange gods which are among you and incline your heart unto the Lord of Israel." The idol.", the old man, the weights an 1 besotting sins, are to be put away, put off and laid aside (Eph. iv.. 22; Heb. xii.. 1. 2), and eyes and heart must be ever unto Him. We must be very sincere an I truthful through and through, for He desireth truth in the iuward parts and uuderstan leth all the imaginations of the thoughts of the heart (Ps. li., (l; I Chron. xxvlii.. 9; I Sam. xvi., 7). Here again we are helpless and must pray "Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies." 24. "And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and His voice will we obey." The faitnful servant has only to be willing and obedient" (Isa. i., 19; in order to be pleasing unto his Master. It is ours to be wise enough to hear only His commands and faithful enough to do them; He will see to all the results, and success, us He counts it, is sure. There are many voices to-day, but we must take pood heed" to hear only His voice 23. "So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Sheohani." Then he set up a stoQi for a witness. Compare Gen. xxviii., 18; Ex. xxiv.. 4: Joshua iv., 8, 9; then see Deut. xxxii., 1; Isa. i, 2, etc., as to inanimate nature being a witness to words and actions. But best of all remember the ".Stone of Israel.' who is the "faithful and true Witness" ^Gen. xlix., 24: Rev. ii., 14), and live wholly and always unto Him.? Lesson Helper. RICORS OF ALASKAN LIFE. Reports Brought by Priests Who Work Among the Eskimos. The Rov. Father Losi, Prefect Apostolic of the Roman Catholic missions in Alaska, and a colleague, Father Earnem, are uow at Vancouver, British Columbia, for a visit. Their work is among the Eskimo Indians, where they have the aid of about tweuty-flve other priests and nuns, in the country lying about three hundred and fifty miles north of the Skiene, where the climatic and other conditions are so rigorous as to try the strongest of constitutions and the most indomitable religious zeal. They report the Eskimos as kind and peaceable to a degree, uud readily amenable to relijrious influences. Lately the number of the Eskimos of Northern Alaska have, as regards the children, been sadly diminished by a severe form of whuoj i:r,'coui;h. Th? reindeer introduced by Uie I TTr?in?.l Cr.if.ic mirltnrlHi>? hnvn failed to thrive, oil uecouut of the savageness nf tho Eskimo docs. Only nt Fort Clarenc<\ where the reindeer are carefully protected lro:n the dogs. is a her?l keeping up its mituhers. Father Earnern is compiling an Eskimo dictionary. Father Earnern deems the gold-fields of the Yukon creatly overestimated iu worth, nnd difficult to work with profit. It is hopeless lor young men of inexperience to attempt to work profitably this lieM, and even old miners carry their lives in their hands, so hard is the climate. They must also, it they hope to succeed, have available at least $suO wherewith to exist during preliminary operations rather I* 74, Mother Joseph Layden, of Maiden, Kanawha County, \V. Va., is seventy-four years of age. His wife is flfty-flve. R?-entlv Mrs. Lay leu gave birtli to a male Hiild. The newcomer is the twenty-eighth cliilJ i born to Mr. and Mrs. Layden. [ AGRICULTURAL. ? p TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE ti TO FARM AND GARDEN. W ci a: crimson clover. ?] Sow crimson clover, ten pounds of ei jeed per acre, at the last cultivating ai >f corn, tobacco and other hoed crops, tl Ct will make a fine catch, and can be tl ;ut early next summer or plowed un- si ier as a green crop. Crimson clover r< is a great gatherer of nitrogen from ti the air, and therefore a great aid to ft jheap manure. It won't cost much to si ?ive this plant a trial.?American fi igriculturifit. eap.lt plowing for winter wheat. tl Most winter wheat now is sown after 0 some spring grain, as the price ot wheat has for years been too low to warrant keeping the land in use two 8< pears for one crop. But the earlier ^ the land can be plowed after the ^ spring grain ia ofl the better will be a its condition for fall seeding. The barley crop ripens in July, and some- ^ times so early that it can be got off Bi and the ground plowed before the hi month closes. That leaves sis to seven r< weeks for surface cultivation and com- 01 pacting the seed bed before wheatsowing time. After the plowing every 11 light shower sinks into the mellow ? soil and is retained by it. So long as the land is unplowed the rains do little good, as th9 water remains near the surface and is soon evaporated. The longer after harvest the plowing is delayed the harder will the plowing be. The weeds which always spring up among grain suck the moisture from the soil after harvest, and make it very hard to plow.?Boston Cultivator. DIPPING SHEEP. Recent complaints from abroad of the shipping of sheep affected with tscab serve to emphasize the necessity for dipping sheep. The Australian sulphur and lime dip is made as follows: Take of flowers of sulphur 100 pounds, quicklime 150 pound?, water 100 gallons. Mix and stir, while boiliDg, for ten minutes, until the mixture assumes a bright red color, then add three gallons of water. Hold the sheep in the mixture until the scabs are thoroughly 6oaked. Immerse the head at least once. Use the dip at 100 to 110 degrees. This is probably the _ cheapest dip, but the lime is apt to injure the staple. g( Another good dip for sheep may be p made by steeping four pounds of tobacco stems in twenty gallons of water, rj-i at boiling heat; to this add, by stir- ej rincr one nnnnd nf flnnr snlnhnr. Din t - w r r r q, with the liquid at about 120 degrees, meanwhile stirring the mixture. Care ^ must be taken to keep the liquid out ^ of the eyes, nose and mouth of the sheep, as it is apt to make them sick for a short time, but without any jj permanent bad effects. Old sheep a should be dipped just after shearing, a and as the ticks will be apt to find ! their way to the unshorn lambs, they, ^ too, should be subjected to an immer- 8j 6ion. The old ones should be dipped 0j again in the fall.?New York World. Q t) EARLY APPLES FOR SOIJIER AND FALL. c Early apples may never become 6i profitable for market, but are alto- el gether too good to do without since o they are so easily grown. Besides the b common Early Harvest and Sweet w Bough, we have the Primate, says I. tl D. Cook, a Western New York expert, d The tree is a hardy, strong, stocky grower, forms a beautiful head and is very productive; fruit greenish white, with a crimson blush on exposed side; ci flesh white, very tender, slightly re- p freshing, and mildly subacid. Truly ^ a mosl excellent dessert and cooking apple. It ripens with us the last of . August. Another comparatively new 11 variety is the Yellow Transparent, a Cl Russian variety imported from St. ^ Petersburg in 1870 by the Department of Agriculture. The tree is hardy, vigorous, upright, an early and good u bearer; fruit medium; skin clear A white at first, becoming a pale yellow w when fully ripe; flesh white, tender, juicy and subacid; quality more than g ordinarily good. Season middle of tl August. Then we have the Tetofsky, tl another Russian summer apple, very S hardy; fruit of medium size, some- g; times nearly round; smooth, with a yellow ground beautifully striped with ^ red, and, like most apples of that p country, covered with ft whitish bloom ^1 under which is ft shining skin; flesh n white, juicy and agreeable. At the C) best in August. For later we have the Chenango and Gravenstein, both valuable 6orts. Of the latter too much 61 cannot be said in its favor. A superb ^ and fine looking German apple, m thought to be one of the finest apples ^ in Northern Europe. It fully sustains ^ its reputation here, is unquestionably a fruit of the best quality, and should have a place on the grounds of every 01 one having a vacant space for ''one more tree." The tree is vigorous, c< spreading, forming a large, broad " head, very productive and an early w bearer; fruit large; skin greenish vel- 9V low and beautifully dashed and pen cilled and marbled with light red, deep red and orange; flesh tender and *c crisp, with a highly flavored aromatic taste. A valuable apple for dessert, fc cooking or market, and one that sue- ic ceeds admirably wherever grown. No ci mistake can be made in planting one ir or more trees of this exceptionably hi cnnrl annle. CI m ?JC A U] NEW ORCHARD PEST. tl A comparatively now pest of fruit trees is the insect called the cigar-case bearer, which last year probably v? ranked next to the bud-moth in Xesr ej York destructiveness. Owing to its al: small size and peculiar habits, the in- rc sect iu any stage w ill be rarely noticed | en by a fruit-grower, nnd yet the second | w: nne of the curious suits or cases which ! m the littie caterpillar wears is cou- su spicuous enough to roveol its presence ot to the casual observer. It appears as be a moth from about the middle of June he until about the middle of July, and lays its ?>ggs on the leaves of fruit tu trees. After a couple of weeks these js hatch to minute caterpillars, which at S(J once eat through the skin of the leaf tb and mine in the tissue, leaving a tiny j>, transprrent line behind them. After us a couple of weeks or more they cut tb small bit3 out of the leaves and roll It them into minute tubes or cases within to which they pass the winter. They j m ccabo to feed about the middle of Sep-1 o: # imber and do not begin again nntil f bout the middle of April, having asyed the winter attached to the Tigs of the tree. After feeding a hile they make a second and larger ^ ise, shaped like a diminutive cigar, ad from which they can stretch forth ae forward part of the body and, f< iting a circular hole large enough to imit the body, commence to eat out & ie substance of the leaves, leaving le lower and upper skins intact. It si ill retains its cigar-shaped home and itires into it when at rest or dis- ~ lrbed. ?. In Jane they cease to feed, isten themselves to the leaf and in a ,, jort time enter the chrysalis stage, om which the moths issue. These cigar-like objects can be seen a loving over the leaf of a plant, alhough scarcely more than one-fifth n f an inch in length, and when dis- ti lrbed the little creatures retreat into lem. The first indication of the in- p jet's presence occurs on the swelling f, ads of apple, pear or plum trees, wo or three have often been seen on single bud busily at work eating ^ oles into them no larger than a pin. he work on the expanded foliage is ;en in skeletonized dead areas', whioh ave near their oentres a clean-cut ^ )and hole through one sfein, usually a the tinder side of the leaf. The iterpillars also often attack the grow- ti ig fruit. ti ^ ^ H ; CIOAK-CASE BZABEB. ? c The Cornell station says that the in- ^ set can probably be kept in check by | ^ ans green, if used at the rate of one a ound to two hundred gallons of water. ^ he first application, which may be ^ ffectively combined with the Bor- n eaus mixture for the apple-scab fun* ^ as, should be made as soon as the lite cases are seen on the opening buds. ' second, and perhaps a third, appli* 0 ition may be necessary at intervals 11 f from four to seven days on badly j P lfested trees. These sprayings will ^ Iso check the bud-moth. It has been h Iso found in Canada that a kerosene mulsion spray applied at the same ^ ime as directed for Paris green is a 0 till more effective check upon the 81 ase-bearer, and will probably be so d n the bud-moth. In pear orchards o bis insect and the psylla can be P hecked by a spray of the same emul* B' ion when the leaves are opening. It h tiould be remembered that a fruit tree ^ ught never to be fsprayed when in t] lossom, and that success in any case ? ill depend almost entirely upon the e aoroughness with which the work is tl one. j j o FAKAI AND GAB DEN NOTES. j & Try the pigs at least once a day with a lear fresh water, and you will be sur- ? rised to find how much they wiU " rink of it. j " * P Few, if any, things can be done well 1 a hurry. Handling bees certainly ' ?, annot. Yon will always do better if j on take plenty of time. j a A wagon with wide-tired wheels 2} t] set in diameter is one of the most n sefal things to be found in any hay* i 3: eld, and is without a peer for use 1 g hen filling a silo. | li Farmers in Northern Illinois are be< 1 inning to experiment with alfalfa, r lough previously it has been supposed 1 u le conditions in that part of the | H tate were unfavorable to its successful h rowth. 3 Buckwheat north of the latitude of orth Carolina may be a good forage* *1 I lant; DUt sousn 11 is perxeuu^ uuxcji- i ble. It will secrete an abundance of i ri ectar only when the atmosphere is w sol and moist. There is not a great deal of differ* '? ace in the price of meat and poultry, hich is easily digested, and ought to e more on farmers' tables than it is. ' he staple meat product used on the . irm is pork. That is always hard to igest. 6( No animal suffers more from neglect ^ E something to drink than does the a] og. The slop and milk which are tJ >mmonly given to pigs confined in le pin are not good substitutes for ri ater. The slop thrown into the fcj veil barrel from the table has too ,uch salt to make a good drink, and ^ le milk is too solid to be a substitte c, ir water, t] Lj6ol may prove to be the drug for rt ?ul bee brood, in Gravenhorst's opin- m m. It is cheip, and is more like it rude than refined carbolic acid, and i his experience crude carbolic acid ti is proved good as preventive and tl ire, while the refined article has been hi asatisfactory. Ho thinks perhaps ti le coal tar that is in the crude, and pi so in lysol, may oe important, a After many years of experience wilh ^ irious plans to prevent swarming, an " :pert has decided them all unprofit-, " )le to common bee-keepers. He has - < fy solved to labor lor one swarm irom ? ch colony. These new swarms he 38 ill hire in hives contracted to not CI! ore than 800 inches of comb surface; ch hives to be enlarged at the end the wnite honey tlow, to give the ;es room to store plenty of dark >ney for winter stores. ;.c There is reason for the practice of ht caking down onion tops, though it ar not to make the onions larger, as is me times tnougnr. mo growtn ot e oniuu continues iu either case. ^ at breaking down the top, which is ;ually done by passing a roller over ^ e rows, makes the crop ripen evenly. is, therefore, a great convenience ?c the grower in harvesting, as it is uch better to have the work done at rl' ice thnu to make several jobs of it. -1: r ; '-yJ'ViftV, WORDS OF WISDOM. To bear is to conquer our faith. Life is half spent before we know hat it is. Self love is not so great a sin as self>rgetting. , He who hath most of heart knows lost of sorrow. Night brings out stars as sorrow lows us truths. Rigid jnstice toward men is the reateat injustice. One-half the world knows not how le other half lives. Everyone complains of his memory ad none of his judgment. Who hath not known ill-fortune ever knew himself or his own naare. He who is most slow in making a romise is most faithful in its persrmance. .Liong is the night to mm wno is wake; long is a mile to him who is [red; long is a life to the foolish. There is very little influence where here is not great sympathy. Hence 'e are seldom influenced much by [lose who are our seniors in age. Let a wise man blow off the impuriies of his self, as a smith blows off lie impurities of silver, one by one, Ittle by little and from time to ime. Never hold anyone by the button or he hand in order to be heard out; or if people are unwilling to hear ou, you had better hold your tongue han them. Look not mournfully int > the past; t comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go orthto meet the shadowy future within * foor arid wifh a monlr ViPArt. He that wants good sense is uniappy in having learning, for he has hereby only more ways of exposing iimself; and he that has sense knows hat learning is not knowledge, bat ather the art of using it As the lily will jjrow full of sweet erfume and delight upon a heap of ubbish, thus the disciple of the truly nlightened shines forth by his wisom among those who are like rubish among the people that walk in ar knees. Prince ot Wales Fort. Explorers who recently returned to }uebeo, Canada, from Hudson's Bay are revived interest in a half-for goten bit of history regarding the ruins t the mouth of the Churchill Biver. 'he rnins are the remains of the old 'rince of Wales fort, erected in the liddle of the last century by the Hudson's Bay Company. It took jrty years to build the fort, and the 'all was constructed of heavy blocks f dressed granite, prepared by worklen brought from England for the urpose. On each of its four sides the 'alls are 300 feet long and twenty feet ^ A i. it. 1 At igtu ill iutJ vm fcuejr wetu nuix^jr > set thick, tapering to twenty feet at tie summit. Within were commodius stone buildings containing large applies of goods and stores of every escription, and immense quantities f valuable furs, gathered from every art of the Northwest, even from the bores of the Polar Sea. Forty-two eavy cannon defended the fort. On .ngust 8, 1782, there advanced toward lie fort three French war vessels, two f which carried forty-two cannon aoh, and the third seventy-four. Aa here were only thirty-nine men in tie fort the position was yielded withut fighting. All the furs were taken o France, the goods were either reloved or destroyed, and an effort was lade to demolish the fort, but owing 3 the strength of the masonry the 'ork of destruction was not comleted. Much of the ruin, which is the largst in North America, still remains, 'he explorers report that the old canon are partly or wholly covered with lie great stones that have fallen or ere thrown frcm the walls. The anient wells ^still contain water. The. reat guns and large iron balls that 9 around are objects of interest 4o le skin-clad Indians, who sometimes isit the forsaken fortress. England .orJo TTronno r\av Troll fnr thfl fllPS Rlld tauo AXM.UVW r>v?? ? le damage done, bat the old strongold has not beenrebnilt.?JJew York an. The Result of Orer Caution. The distressing accident. near Noristown, Penn., the other day, bj hich Thomas Hovenden, the famous rtist, and a little girl lost their lives, i a striking illustration of the danger f over caution. It seems that at the point where the ccident occurred there was a grade rossing, and a trolley company's racks came up to the tracks of the ulway without crossing them. Pasjngers were compelled to leave the :olley car on one side of the railroad ad walk across the track to take a rolley car on the other side. This is one in order to avoid the danger ot inning a car across the track at a me when an engine might strike it We see now how this precaution orked. A little girl left the trolley ir and stood paralyzed with terror on le track when she saw an engine ishing toward her. Mr. Hovenden ;ade a heroic eftort to save her, but i vain, and the two lost their lives. It would have been better if the olley car had been allowed to cross le railway, because there would then ive been a watchman stationed at tat point, and gates would have been rovided to prevent the possibility of collision, iiivea wunoui gaies auu a atchman, it would have been ten mes less dangerous for a car to cross le track than for twenty-five or lirty persons to straargle across it om one trolley car to the other. This d affair shows the danger of over lution or misdirected caution.?Atnta Constitution. Sir Robert's Hat. The following story is told to ac;unt for the late Sir Robert Peel's ibit of wearing his hat at a rakish lgle: Sir Robert, while on board a eawboat in Table Bay many years ;o, jumped overboard to save a owuing man, and was struck on the ?ad by one of the paddle-wheels, je blow left a wound on one side of - onil ftir PAIiai*!; mill never bear the weight of auyini upon the ecar, which he cared to the end of his life.?San Fran=co Chronicle. i