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wfmvwz? y ? 1 ' I f REV. DR. TALMAGE [; * SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE ( NOTED DIVINE. Subject: 4,A Point Blank Question." < Texts "Is thine heart right?"?II Kings i t, 15. i TTTjil -i.il-.5 L. .??f full cnno,l T/\~ Via ( 1T11U IlieillUU UUISCS (U lull opv.<i, ?VA nv was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu, the ' i warrior and kins, returns from battle. But | seeing Jehonadab. an acquaintance, by the J wayside, he shouts. "Whoa! Whoa!" to the j lathered span. Th^n leaning over to Jehon- ' adab Jehu salutes him in the words of the 1 text?words not more appropriate for that 1 liour and that place than for this hour and ! place. "Is thine heart right?" I should like to hear of your physical 1 health. Well myself. I like to have every- 1 body else well, and so might ask. Is your ' eyesight right. your bearing right, your ' nerves right, your lungs right, your entire 1 body right? But I am busy to-day taking diagnosis of the more important spiritual 1 conditions. I should like to hear of your ( financial welfare. I want everybody to have ? plenty of money, ample apparei, largo store- ' house and comfortable residence, and I might ' ask. Is your business right, your income 1 righr, your worldly surroundings right? But 1 what are these financial questions compared 1 with the inquiry as to whether you have I beon able to pay your debts to God; as to ? whether you are insured for eternity: as to ' whether you are ruining yourself by the long 1 credit system of the soul? I have known 1 men to have no more than one loaf of bread J at a time, and yet to own a government bond of heaven worth more than the whole ( material universe. 1 The question I ask you to-day is not in regard to your habits. I make no Inquiry 1 about your integrity or your chastity or r your sobriety. I do not mean to stand on 3 the outside of the gate and ring the bell, but ' coming ud the steps, I open the door and * come to the private apartment of the soul, i and with the earnestness of a man that must {rive an account for this day's work I cry out, 5 Oh. man, oh, woman immortal,Is thine heart * right? J I will not insult you by an argument to | prove that we are by nature all wrong. If ' there be a factory explosion and the smoke- J stack be upset, and the wheels be broken in * two, and the engine unjointed. and the c ponderous bars be twisted, and a man should J look in and say that nothing was the matter, J you would pronounce him u fool. Well, it needs no acumen to discover that our nature F is all atwist and askew and unjointed. The v thing doesn't work right. The biggest ? trouble we have in the world is with our ' souls. Men sometimes say that though * their lives may not be just right, their heart * is all right. Impossible. A farmer never 81 puts the poorest apples on top of his barrel; y nor does the merchant place the meanest 11 goods in his show window. The best part of a us is our outward life. I do not stop to discuss whether we all fell in Adam, for we 3' have been our own Adam, and have all eaten P of the forbidden fruit, and have beer turned b out of the paradise of holiness and peace, ? and though the flaming sword that stood at f the gate to keep us out has changed position tf and comes behind to drive us in, we will y not go. P The Bible account of us is not exaggerated P . when it says that we are poor and wretched " and miserable and blind and naked. Poor! a1 The wretch that "stands shivering on our 61 doorstep on a cold day is not so much in need of bread as we are of spiritual help, f1 Blind! Why, the man whose eyes perished In the powder blast, and who for these ten Tears has gone feeling his way from street *c to street, is not in such utter darkness as we. Naked! Why, there is not one rag of tl holiness left to hide the shame of our sin. c< Sick! Why, the leprosy has eaten into the w head and the heart and the hands and the R1 feet, and the marasmus of an everlasting xraQt-inc axcfir has .n.1 read v seized on some " of US. d' First we need a repenting heart. If for the last ten, twenty or forty years of life we Q have been going on in the wrong way, it is time that we turned around and started in y the opposite direction. If we offend our d( friends, we are glad to apologize. God is ^ our beat friend, and yet how many of us " have never apologized for the wrongs we Vl have done Hi ml w There is nothing that we so much need to 01 get rid of as sin. It is a horrible black mon- 8( Bter. It polluted Eden. It killed Christ. It w has blasted the world, Men keep dogs in ,c kennels, and rabbits in a warren, and cattle P! In a pen. What a man that would be who # would shut them up in his parlor. But this st foul dog of sin and these herds of transgres- ^ sion we have entertained for many a long ?j year in our heart, which should be the cleanest, brightest room in all our nature. Is Out with the vile herd! Begone, ye befoulere of an immortal nature! u Turn out the beasts and let Christ come &1 lni A heathen came to an early Christian >' who had the reputation of curing diseases. o: The Christian said,^'You must have all your 01 Idols destroyed." The heathen save to the Christian the key to his house, that he might J' go in and destroy the idols. He battered to ^ pieces all he saw, but still the man did not * get well. The Christian said to him. "There 'r must be some idol in your house not yet de- w stroyeci." The heathen confessed that there P was one idol of beaten gold thas he could tl not bear to give up. After awhile, when that was destroyed, in answer to the prayer T of the Christian, the sick man got well. h Many a man has awakened in his dying d hour to find his sins all about him. They a clambered up on the right side of the bed, v and on the left side, and over the headboard, and over the footboard, and horribly do- c< Toured the-soul. b Repent, the voice celestial cries, Nor longer dare delay. 1* The wretch that scorns tho mandate dies ? And meets a fiery day. Again, we need a believing heart. A good y ? many years ago a weary one went up one of p the hi'ls of Asia Minor, and with two logs Ci on his back cried out to all the world, offer- a ing to carry their sins and sorrows. Tfcey v, pursued Hiro. Th?y slapped Him in the face, o They mocked Him. When He groaned, they c groaned. They shook their lists at Him. y They spat on Him. They hounded Him as si though He were a wild beast. His healing tl of the sick. His sight giving to the blind, His 1< mercy to the outcast, silenced not the re- n venge of the world. His prayers uud benedic- j< tlons were lost in that whirlwind of execra- si tion: "Away with Him! Away with Him!" si Ah, it was not merely the two pieces of ti wood that He carried; it was the trausgress- ti Ions of the race, the auguish of the ages, the wrath of God, the sorrows of hell, the stu- tl pen'inous interests of an unending eternity! o No wonder His back bent. No wonder the ]) blood started from every pore. No wonder y that He crouched under a lorture that made o the sun faint, and the everlasting hills train- u ble. and the dead rush up in their windiutf v sheets as He cried. "If it be possible, let this y cup pass from Me." But the cup did not n pass. None to comfort. b There He hangs! What has that hand done li that it should be thus crushed in the palm? o It has been healing the lame and wiping away tears. What has that foot been doing p that it should be so lacerated ? It has been r going about doiocr good. Of what has the 'J victim been guilty V Guilty of saving a I world. Tell me. ye heavens and earth, was c there ever such another criminal ? Was there t ever such a crime? On that hill of carnage, v that sunless day, amid those howling riot- s , <(rs, may not your sins and mine have per- d ished? I believe it. Oh, tho ransom has v hafln tmirl. Those arms of Jesus were a stretched out so wide that when He brought k them together again they might embraco the n world. Oh, that I might, out of the bios- t soma of the spring or the flaming foliage of u the autumn make one wreath for my Lord! f Oh, that all the triumphal arches of the n world could be sung in one gateway, where t .the King of Glory might oome in! Oh, that j all the harps ana trumpets and organs of J ' earthly music migu; in one anthem speak ( His praise' I Again, to have aright heart it must be a i forgiving heart. An old writer says. "To t return good for evil is Godlike; good for I good is manlike; evil for good devillike." i Which of these natures have we? Christ will | have nothing to do with us as long as we j keep any old gruJjje. We have all been 1 cheated and lied about. There are people 1 who dislike us so much that if we should < come down to poverty and disgrace they 1 .. <i/~. 1 t? i T 4-all ' "WOUlUSay: uuuu iur mm; j/iuu i *. you.so?" They do not undsrstand us. Un- < snnctillei bumaD nature says: Walt till you I get a good cracli at him, and when at last < you tlnd liim in a tight place give it to him. 1 Flay him alive. No quarter. Leave not a rag of reputation. Jump on him with both feet. Pay him In his own coin?sarcasm for sarcasm, scorn for scorn, abuse for abuse." But, my friend*, that Is not the right kind of ; heait No mna ever did so mean a thing si t v. , bSL toward as as we have done toward God. Al4 If we cannot forgive others how can we expect God to forgive us? Thousands of men aave been'kept out of heaven by an unior?iving|heart. Here issomeone who Bays: ''I will forgive .hat man the wrong he did me about that house and lot; I will forgive that man who sverreacaed me in a bargain: I will forgive !hat man who sold me a shoddy overcoat; I forgive them?all but one. That man I cannot forgive. The villain?I can hardly keep my hands off him. If my going to heaven iepends on my forgiving him, then I will tay out." Wrong feeling. If a man lie to ne once I am not called to trust him again. n i% iuuii uciriij nit? uuut) x urn nui whcu iu put confidence in him attain. But I would lave no rest if I could not offer a sincere prayer for the temporal and everlasting ivelfare of all men, whatever meannesses ind outrage they have inflicted upon me. If fOU want to pet your heart right, strike a natch and burn up all your old grudges, and )low the ashes away. "If you forgive not nen their trespasses, neither will your Seavenly Father forgive you your trespasses." An old Christian black woman was going ilong the streets of New York with a basket >f apples that she had for sale. A rouuh >ailor run against her and upset the basket, md stood back expecting to hear her scold rightfully, but she stooped down and picked jp the apples, and siid: "God forgive you, ny son. as I do." The sailor saw the meanless of what he had done, aud felt in his )ocket for his money, and insisted that she ihould take it all. Though she was black le called her mother, and said: "Forgive ne, mother, I will never do anything so nean again." Ah! there is a power in a forriving spirit to overcome all hardness, ["here is no way of conquering men like that )f bestowing "upon them your pardon, vhether they will accept it or not. Acrain, a right heart is an expectant heart. It s a poor business to be building castles in the tir. Enjoy what you have now. Don'tspoil four comfort in the small house because you - xpect a larger one. Don't fret about your ncome when it is 83 or 64 per day because rou expect to have after awhile $10 per (Jay, >r $10,000 a year because you expeot it to be WO noo a vflir But about heavenlv things. he more we think the better. Those castles tre not in the air, but on the hills, and we lave a deed of them in our possession. I ike to see a man all fall of heaveD. He alks heaven. He sings heaven. He prays leavon. He dreams heaven. Some of us in >ur sleep have had the good place open to is. We saw the pinnacles in the sky. We teard the click of the hoofs of the white lorses on which victors rode, and the clapilng of the cymbals of eternal triumph. And rhile in our sleep we were glad that all our orrows were over and burdens done with, he throne of God grew whiter and whiter nd whiter, till we opened our eyes and saw bat it was only the sun of earthly morning hining on our pillow. To havea right heart ou need to be filled with this expectancy, t would make your privations and annoynces more bearable. In the midst of the city of Paris stands a Jatue of the good but broken hearted Josehine. I never imagined that marble could e smitten into such tenderness. It seems ot lifeless. If the spirit of Josephine be isentabernacled, the soul of the empress has iken possession of this figure. I ana not et satisfied that it is stone. The puff of the ress on the arm seems to need but the resstire of the finger to indent it. The gures at the bottom of the robes, the ruffle t the neck, the fur lining on the dress, the mbroidery of the satin, the oluster of lily ad leaf and rose in her hand, the poise of er body as she seems to come sailing out of le sky, her face calm, humble, beautiful, ut yet sad?attest the genius of the sculp>r and the beauty of the heroine he celerates. Looking up through the rifls of le coronet that encircles her brow, I >uld see the sky beyond, the great heavens here all woman's wrong3 shall be righted, ad the story of endurance and resignation lall be told to all the ages. The rose and le lily in the hand of Josephine will never rop their petals. Believe not the recent anders upon her memory. The ohildren of | od, whether they suffer on earth in palaoes j r in hovels, shall come to that glorious rest. ! heaven, swe?t heaven, at thy gate we set own all our burdens and griefs! The place ill be full. Here there are vacant chairs at le hearth and at the table, but there are no icant chaiis in heaven. The crowns all orn; the thrones all mounted. Some talk j r heaven as though it were a very nana>me churoh. where a few favored spirits ould come in and sit down on finely cashined seats all by themselves and sing 3alms to all eternity. No, no! "I saw a reat multitude that no man oould number J an ding before the throne. He that talked Ith me had a golden reed to measure the j ityf and it was 12,000 furlongs"?that is, 500 miles?in circumference. Ah! heaven i not a little colony at one corner of God's ominion, where a man's entrance depends pon what kind of clothes he has on his back nd how much money he has in his purse, at a vast empire. God grant that the light f that blessed world may shine upon us in ur last moment! The first time I crossed the Atlantic the )ughest time we had was at the mouth of iverpool harbor. We arrived at nightfall ad were obliged to lie there till the mornig, wailing for the rising of the tide, before e could go up to the city. How the vessel Itched and writhed in the water! So somemes the last illness of the Christian is a ;ru?Kle. He is almost through the voyage, he waves of temptation toss his 90ul. but e waits for the mornintr. At last the light awns, and (he tides of joy rise iu his soul, nd he sails up and casts anchor within thu nlo. Is thy heart risht? What question can ampare with this in importance? It is a usiness question. Do you not realize that ou will soon have to go out of that store, lat you will soon have to resijrn that artnershlp, that soon among all the lilllons of dollars' worth of goods that are aid you will not have tho handling of a ard of cloth, or a pound of sugar, or a enny worth of anything; that soon, If a onflagration should start at Central Park nd sweep everything to the Battery, it rould not disturb you; that soon, if every ashier should abscond and every insurance ompany should fail. V would not afifect ou? What are the qcslicns that stop this Ide the grave, compare.' w'th the questions lat reach beyond it? /.re you making >sses that are to be ewr.'astiiig? Are you taking purchases for eternity? Are you )bbintf for time when you might be wholeiling foreternity? What question of the tore is so broad at tho base, and so alti11 linous. and so overwhelming as the que3ion, "Is thy heart right?" Or is it a domestic question? Is it someliing about father or mothev o^ companion r son or daughter, that you think is cornarable with this question in importance? Do ou not realize that bv universal andinexrable law all these relations will be broken ip? Your father will be ;?one, your mother rill be gone, your companions will be gone, our child wiil be Rone, you will be cone, nd then this supernal question will begin to .arvest its chief ?aios, or deplore its worst Dsses, roll up into its mightiest magnitude r sweep its vast circles. What difference now does it make to Nafoleon III. whether he triumphed or sureudered at Sedan, whether he lived at the ?uileries or at Chisel hurst, whether he was Jmperor or exile? They laid him out in his offln in the dress of a field marshal. Did hat trlve him any better chance for the next rorld than if be had been laid out lu a plain hroud? And soon to us what will be the lifference, whether in this world we rode or ralked. were bowed to or maltreated, were .pplauded or hl9sed at, were welcomed Id or :icked out, while laylug hold of every moaent of the great future, and burning in all he splendor or grief, and overarching and indergoing all time and all eternity, is the lain, simple, practical, thrilling, gonizinsr, overwhelming question, "Is liy heart right?" Have you within o"u a repenting heart, an expectant heart? f not, I must write upon your soul what leorge Whitefleld wrote upon the window >ane with his diamond ring. He tarried in in elegant house over night, but found .hat there was no God recognized in that louse. B;i'ore he left his room in the morung, with his ring he wroto upon the window pane, "One thing thou le/jkest.'' After the {uest was gone the housewife came and looked at the window, and saw the inscription, and called ber husband and her cnilIren, and God, through that ministry of the window glass, brought them all to Jesus. Though you may to-day be surrounded by comforts and luxuries, and feel that you have need of nothing, it you Are not tha jhildren of God, with the sigSfet ring ol Christ's love, let me inscribe upon your eoula. "One thing thou lackest!" A Mid-Continental Exposition. Indianapolis is preparing for a mid-con' liueatal exposition in 1900. RELIGIOUS EE ADM THE CROWNING CENTURY. We are living in the closing decade of tl greatest century of our era. Faith and u laith have contended in the arena for the pi cedence. Faltu has au immense backing! her greac post. That past forms a presum lion in her favor. The system which can 11' through the changes and storms of eighte< centuries must be presumed to have in it tl seeds of immortality. What is more remar able than this is the continuous growth of t! cause through so many aires. In our own ce lury the increase has been more than iu sev ral earlier ones. It is the missionary oentur The doors of the nations have opened. Tl area of Christendom has vastly expande The Dark Continent and the isles of tl seas are extending their hands to the Loi Jesus. All has not been accomplished, bi a noble beginning has been made towai the world s evangelization. In the.se grei h?.stiiL-pn unon itself to Dr claim ft pessimistic Gospel an>l the deci and failure of Christianity. These me have often called themselves scientists at philosopher:-. Their misconception of tl Gospel discredits their assumptions of \vi dom. Not to know the advanceof the Gosp is to assert their own blindness and narro understanding. The age of miracles in new form has been renewed. In its matori interests and moral enterprises the world h made greater advances in ours than in tl eighteen preceeding centuries, and all tb has been the creation of Christian thoug and enterprise. Christianity is the leverai which is lifting the world to" a higher plan Who ever speaks a word against such scheme is speaking against truth and reaso Christianity speaks for itself, and furnish its own best evidence. The Gospel hj never failed to rebuke those who have ris< against it. THINK CALMLY AND CLE A SLY. It is easy to think of our neighbor dyin but the vital instinct within us steadily r pels the prospect from ourselves; and it often necessary to summon reason to 01 rescue, and to think calmly and clearly aboi it, if we would actually face the thought th the wings of the Angel of Death are hove ing over our bed, even ours. The young ai sometimes impatient to die; the old are ofte content to die; but men in the prime of li mostly wish to live. And even the Christia may desire to live, without in any wise di honoring the Master, who says, when I sends for Him. "Come up hither It is not that he doubts that heave once gained would be a sufflcie; recompense, that Christ once seen at adored would be worth more to his soul tha or*r1 frinn/lc Rllfc flA VI WJI? ttLKi t'uiiuicu nuu grow older our sense of the preclousness < life crows. There are plans we wish to a complish, or books we wish to write, < friends we wish to influence, or children v wish to rear. To many of us health is cap tal. To all of us life is a talent never to I regained. It is true that, if we are to g willingness to go is mercifully given to us; also true that, when we are spared, our loi of life,as well as our love of God, fills us wil thankful joy. There will be blessed servii in heaven, but there will be no more goir out after lost sheep in the wilderness, so fi as we know; the brightness of the crown wl be won, and our work here over, when ot feet have once been planted within the par disc of God.?Bishop Thorold, iu il0n Beir III." TOO MUCH BELIOIOK ? The Rev. Sydney Srmilh, in his celebrate article on Methodism, in the Edinburgh R view says, among other things: "Tl Methodists are always more desirous of mal ing men more religious than it is possibi from the constitution of human nature, I 1? .1?? >> uhnnM i?rant that th LUilKt? IUC1U. utuu ouvu.v. ..w0. charge were true,we could notregard it as b ing a very grave evil. The desire for makir men superlatively religious, or even exti superlatively, must certainly be a virtue, peoplo in general tad this desire, the wjr) would without doubt be a better place to li\ in. We fear that, in these days at least, tt charge is not sufficiently true. Would thi there were a more eager desire on the part i Methodists to press men on to the extren limits of religiousness! What those limits ai we think it would be hard to define. We hai an idea that there has never been any one < mortal men who ha* touched the topmost rouii of conceivable attainment, never anyone, e: oept Jesus, so good but that he might ha) been a little better. Sidney Smith had c apprehension that people would be drive insane by too much piety. As we look at tt matter, the danger is altogether on tt other side. At least ninr times out of ten is too little religion rather than too muc that renders people crazy. Our civilizatic can safely stand a very much larger infusic of Methodism thun it ba3 at present, at) Methodism can safely stand a very muc larger infusion of burning enthusiasm. bedekhek's love. Water may cleanse your fine linen froi stain, but it has never the same whiteness i before it was soiled. The injured pictui may be repaired, and show the artist's ski in its renewal, but it is not the same pictui as before. The vase may be broken at cleverly mended, but it is a crackod vase I the end of time. And although through tt love and power, of God, a life of sin cleanse and renewed is used by Him for great an noble work?calling out praise at his gra< which can thus put together shattered broke lives, able to hold heavenly treasure, yet i can never be to all eternity the same for usfor any one?as if we had* not sinned. T1 [ cleansed, forgiven, full grown soul is a pro< | in spite of sin. of the Redeemer's love, ar power, and grace; but the virgin soul has beauty all its own beyond the beauty of at other, however restored,and such souls alor are privileged to "follow the Lamb where soever he goeth."?ltev. J. Hooker. beach into otheb lives. Every one's real life consists in bis reac into other lives. Whoever is completely is* lated is like an uprooted plant, dying or dew Whoever shares in the experiences of othei helps them to be true and to make the best < what they have, strengthens their faith i God and love to men, lives and grows. Baa ing one another's burdens is the law of Chris He touched those who needed him. E taught theignorant. He fed, healed, cheerc< loved and inspired those with whom he live* His law wrote itself into the lives of his di ciples. See it in their words: "Look m every man on his own things, but every nifi on the things of others." See it in the deeds. Silver and gold they had none, bi such as they had they gave. Wealth aboundt where they went because they gave then selves. They were rewarded with a hundrt fold more in this present life. To such mc life is rich and they are always in demand. sunlight at last. Do not believe that (rod offers hims?Mf as guide in his providence und a guide toward holy life by hia spirit, and yet will leave tl mind alone which soberly explores the dm places of truth in the hope of his aid. Ho he can aid it is useless to a*k; but that 1 can aid, who is truth itself, and bas sure a ce s to mind-t and hearts you must not douli He may move In ad silence, he may act c the soul and so on the mind indirectly, I may cause?as often happens?extern thinj?9 to illustrate truth iu some remarkab manner. B it be assured of this, that if. i obedience and hope you wait on him, ho w brinp; you to sunlight at last. And then tl rest, the peace of having passed through at left behind you tho wilderness of doubt w be a life-long enjoyineat.?T. I). Wools-'y. \? w .inumu uiiu ??ua<:r7 ?* \>V?U imbue ourselves with this thought?tha*. v are here solely to accomplish the will God, that that will is accomplished from di to day, and that he who dies leaving h work tin finished is just as far advanced thw eves of Supreme Justice as lie who h leisure to accomplish it fudv ? Ozauatn. The German Fieef. The German fleet now comprises ninet; one ships of war. of which four are flrst-cla ironclads, three second-class ironclads, sev* third-class ironclads, and eight fourtli-cla ironclads. The number of officers an surgeons is 1021; the crews comprise alt' getber 21,487 men. The Germau Goveri rnent is building three swift cruisers to I fitted with engines of 900 ) horse power. Retribution for Cruelty. A Wilcox ("Arizona) man used his shotgi as a club to beat his horse with while o hunting. He took the gun by the muzz and hit the horse with the butt of it, ai the foroe of the blow discharged the weapo The charge af shot tore away the man's si< and exposed his heart and lungs to vie1 He Uvea about a day. }. SABBATH SCHOOL inteknation au lesson for october 27u . Lesson Text: "The Child Samuel," p. I Samuel ill., 1-13 ? Golden; ve Text: I Samuel Hi., if? Commentary. k Lie n_ 1. "And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord." We have set forth in this book v the blessings of submission and obedience :' and the opposite. Hannah, in the bitterness - I * - - * 3 A- J.L - T J J TT~ j 01 ner soui, iookou uutu mo jjijru. uuu .no ^ beard her and gave her this child. Therfr,j fore she called his name Samuel, which mean3 "ask of God" (chapter i., 50, margin). r,j When she had weaned him, she returned lt him to the Lord (chapter i., 28; margin). 0. Then she praised God in the beautiful woras lv of chapter ii., 1-10. In this song we have the first use of the word "Messiah," transuj lated "His anointed" (verso 10; see also ,e verse 35). We have also in chapter J., 8, 11, g_ the title of "Lord of Hosts" for the first |el time. Both of these titles suggest many lW things concerning the kingdom, and in this a book, sometimes called "the first book of ttl Kings," we have the story of the first two ^3 kings, one a man after the people's heart, ie the other a man after the Lord's heart, is 2,3. "Ere the lamp of God went out in tho h't temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was." Eli was now old and was not walking p before God in the matter of his sons, and a very early in the morning the Lord came to ^ talk with this child, Samuel, of whom it is e3 written that he ministered unto the Lord, grew before the Lord, the Lord was with him >and revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord (chapters ii., 11, 18, 21. 26; iii., 19, 21). See how even a child may minister unto the Lord and have place in the Lord's house and receive messages from the s> Lord while older ones are passed by. Many ?" things are still hidden from the wise and 19 prudent and revealed unto babes (Math, xi., ar 25). The thing that greatly pleases God is to live "before Him" and "unto Him," seekat ing in all things "His glory." r" 4. "The Lord called Samuel, and he anre swered, Here am I." It is evident from !n verse 10 that He called him by name. This fe makes us think of that beautiful verse in l_a Isa. xliii., 1; "Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have caned ttiee Dy tny name; rnou ,? 'art Mine." And also of Isa. vl., 8, wher? the Lord says, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for usV" And the prophet anQJ swers, "'Here am I; send rae." How beautild ful to be ready for His every call, an ear alia ways open to Him! 5. "And he ran unto Ell and said, Here of am I, for thou calledst me." But Ell did c" not recognize that it was the Lord calling 5r him and so told him to He down again. l'e Eii had not the ear for God which he should have had, and God saw it, and that He }e could communicate with him only through Samuel. Jt was a rare thing to get a word " from the Lord in those days, and visions such as those granted to Abram and Jacob, 'Q Moses and Joshua were unknown. See verse 1, R. V., margin. lt? 6. "And the Lord called yet again, Sam^ uel." Behold the patience of the Lord. 11 Samuel's readiness and Ell's continued dullir nese. How difficult it often is for the Lord to get our ear and make known to us His will! What a contrast lo "watching to see what He will say unto us," or "watching daily at His gates" (Hab. ii., 1; Prov. viii., 34). >d 7. "Now, Samuel did not yet know the e- Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet le revealed unto him." He must have known 1c- the Lord through Moses and Joshua, but not e, yet by direct communication. Known means to to perceive, understand, acknowledge, so is there may easily be many degrees in knowle edge. When Paul said, "That I may know ig Him" (Phil, ili., 10), he certainly knew Him a as Saviour and Lord, His wisdom and His If righteousness, but he longed to know Him Id better. e 8. "And the Lord called Samuel agtrin ?e the third time. And Eli perceived that the it Lord had called the child. The third time if did Samuel rise and, promptly go to Eli, beie lievlng that he called him. What unwearied re obedience! 'What a blessed son! When he e would tell his mother of his experience and >f how he had acted, how glad she would be! id I think this is the only instance or God k- speaking directly to a little boy, but all, re ;voung and old, may hear His voice in His in written word (John vi., 63). :n 0. "If He call thee, say, 8peak, Lord, for ?e Thy servant heareth." Eli is by this time 10 wide awake and also wide awake to the fact it 'that the Lord has something to say, but not ih ;directly to him. It is probable that he re>n mained awake till he heard the tidings, and ?n then he would be more awake than ever, d /'Awake, thou that sleepest," Is a good word for many of us. It would be wise also to say. -'Speak, Lord, for Thyservant heareth." whenever we open our Bibles, and it would also be appropriate to add the prayer in Ps. cxix., 18. m 10. "And the Lord came and stood and is called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel!" re This is the fourth time that He came and 11 called, suggesting the questioD, How often re has He called us? And have we as yet subid mlssively said, "Speak, for Thy "servant to heareth?" The attitude of a servant is well le described in these words: "Heady to do d whatsoever my lord, the king, shall apid point." "For any manner of service, wholly :e at Thy commandment" (II Sara, xv., 15; * r\I ?? Ol \ >n | x on run. Ainu., at. j. it 11, 14. "And the Lord aatd to Samuel. Be I hold, I will do a thing in Israel at which te both the ears of every one that heareth it )f shall tingle." And.then follows the thing id that He will do?a judgment upon the house a of EU, hs told to Ell by a man of God some ly time before and fully recorded in cbapterii., 10 27-3C. Mercy always precedes judgment, for >. God is slow to anger and plenteous In mercy. He had given Eli fair wp.rning, but Ell had honored his sons abova God (ii., 29). The law was very severe, but vary plain concerning rebellious sons (Deut. xxl., 18-21). and :h the ruler who refused to sea the law carried J" out because the transgressors happened to be his sons certainly thought more of his sons ^ than of God. Only those can truly serve the Lord who serve Him In sincerity and in truth 111 (Jishua xxiv., 14), or, as our Lord Jesus r" said, "He that loveth father or molher, son or daughter, more than Me Is not worthy of |e Me" (Math, x., 37). In 'he morning Eli I' called Samuel and begged him to hide nothing from him that the Lord bad said, so 9" Samuel told him every whit and hid nothing. Ell certainly answered In the right in spirit, for he said, "It is tho Lord; let Him ir do what seemeth Him good" (verse 18). He ll| makes us think of Job, who under his great affliction said: "The Lord gave and the a" Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." It may l?e that the faithfulv ness of Samuel In this hard matter to Eli was a step on the way to his being established as a prophet (verse 20). See in chapter iv., 17, 18. the judgment fallen.?Lesson Helper. J NOTHING BUT BLOOMERS. ie k Dr. Mary Walker Starts a Farm and Colw ony for the New Woman. 10 Dr. Mary Walker, who forty years ago preacnea lae gospel 01 uresa rciurm tt? inu lC- women of this country, and who was arrestlU ed in muny cities for dressing and appearing 16 in public in male attire, is the apostle of a a' scheme for the bloomer girls. Through Law'e yer Henry C. Benedict. of Oswogo, N. Y., u Dr. Mary bas bought a farm containing 135 acres of land seven miles we3t of the city and "J proposes to form a colony iii which man J? shall have no part. Only females who will i" bind themselves to a life of celibacy while members of the community, and to wear bloomers for life, are to be eligible. They .. will work the .farm in all its details, plant ' and harvst the crops, dispose of them in market ar.d take care of the stock. She has drawn up an elaborate plan as to the manner 17 of conducting the farm. is in as NEW BANK NOTES. They Ilat'o Keen Designed by Tiro Fa? y,m mou* American Artlstn. ss Some new hank notes will be in circulasu tion soon. The new designs have been in ss course of preparation for nearly a year, and 'd are hanlly ready to issue. The 45 bills are 0- promised within thirty days. Only four de1 nominations will be issued at present?iJ. 10 $2, $5 and 810. Sherlow. the designer of the new 55 bill, is one of the noted designers and decorators of New York, where ho hu3 done not only a great deal of designing, in but painting as well. One of his best known ut pictures is "Sheep Shearing in Scotland." ;le Lowe and Basbfleld are both among the arid tists now employed in the interior decoran. tion of the new Congressional Library buildie ing, and may be expected to produce somew, thing worthy of the occasion in the decoration of the new notes. TEMPERANCE. TA.KZ YOUR CHOICE. A grain of corn a handful grew; A glass of rum the handful brewed; A being in God's Image drank if. For reeling steps he had to thank it. In rags he tottered to his home; The children shrieked to see him come; The wlfo with pale face ope'd the door, He struck her, felled her to the floor, A ft Ion, in a cell he lay. And cursed himself, his natal uav. His children to the almshouse went. When he by crime to death was sent. Another grain a handful Lor?\ The farmer in his corn-crib stored: Between the two stones of the mill 'Twas turned to food his mouth to fill. He fed hi? children, served the land. To God. the Giver, stretche l his haud. His goodly sons to honor irrew; His comely daughters virtue knew. And thus the ble?3ing God had given. When used aright. made earth a heavei But when to poison drink 'twas turned It lighted fires of hell to burn. ?Youth's Temperance Banne FEEE LUNCH IX SALOONS. "Froo lunches!" exclaimed Chauncey Depew to a New York Sun reporter. ''V [ did say somet hingabout free lunches, dl I? And if I'm not mistaken, I referred them as ingenious preparations too. V> they are. Now, seriously, although tl poor people have twisted my remarks ; all sorts of shapes, I meant all that I ! about young men becoming slaves to dxl It's a terrible thing, and I think the lunch is largely responsible for it. It' most ingenious contrivance, and do know that it's simply put in a place to m a man thirsty? Yes,"sir, I tell you that free lunch is composed of food of sue sharacter that it keeps a man thirsty, forces him to buyliquorto keep himseif e fortable. It is made up of pickled herri corned beef, fish cakes, salted potat pretzels, cheese, smoked beef, potato sai and dozens of other dishes the main ingi lent of which is salt. And as sure as a r eats free lunch, just so sure will he b drinking man. unless he is possessed of i self-control. Why, I tell you the free lu is more to blame for thenumberofdrunkj around than anything else. A man taki drink and a bite. The bite makes him thli and the drink makes him hungry, and m a man who would leave a saloon after b ing imbibed one drink will stick all day long aa the free lunch is there. It isn't drink that keeps him. but the ingeni make-up of the free lunch, and that's wl say it's a blotch on civilization and shouli wiped out. "Perhaps you wonder how I know all t I'll tell you. I travel a great deal, wherever I go I always make it a point talk with the man next to me. I ask him business and make him tell mn all about Now. among others, I have talked with m hotel men and liquor dealers, keepers of fi ionable cafes as well as German saloon ki era. and as the tree lunch is a sort of he of mine. I always make them tell me at what they spread out for their customer the eating; line. I used to wonder how t could afford to spread a free lunch, but liquor dealers tell me that it's the most i ing Investment they mate, and I beiiev is." WHAT THE DOCTORS SAT. The National Temperance Hospital issued a leaflet, entitled "Alcohol in M cine; What Physicians Say," which cont! some interesting information. Daring the summer of 1894, a olalm made that alcohol was necessary as'asoh for medicines and to ''prepare the floli operations in capital surgical cases." letter was authorized by the Board of T tees of the National Temperance Hosp and addressed to a number of surgeons physicians of high repute in the city of < cago, asking whether they so considcrt necessary, and what they used as a septics. The following are culled fron plies received: Dr. S.?Prepares medicine without a hoi; does not use it as a preserving ag having found it unnecessary. Dr. E.?Is unalterabiy opposed to the of alcohol; can cover the field pretty without it Dr. B. ?Sees no great need of alcohc surgery. Dr. if.?"I never use any of the prep, tions of alcohol as an antiseptic; rarely? prescribe a tincture; the tablet form is m more valuable and certain." Dr. 8.?Doe3 not consider it indispensa Has found It possible to have medli properly compounded without it. Dr. W. (Pharmaoist)? '-Should a t sioian choose to practice medicine witb alcoholic preparations, I do L.ol think task so very great if the question is gtvt little study." Dr. T.?Does not use alcohol. '* patient cannot possibly get any toxic medicinal effect from aloohol." Dr. 8arah Hackett Stevenson, Presic of the hospital staff, says: ''I do not tt it neceosary to use alcohol. Tablet tritur are better than tinctures." THE BEST OF TESTIMONY. Judge Noah Davis says that his flxy: ence for a score of years on the bench is I eighty per centum of all (he crimes i came before him would not have come it not been for the traffic in alcoholic liqi Doctor Willanl Parker, one of the at physioians *New York has ever had. in preface to the lectures of Doctor B. W. R ardson, said that the liquor traffic is sponsible for thirty-five per centum of idi< forty-five per centum of lunacy, eighty centum of crime, ninety per centum pauperism, and ten per centum of all dea Apply that to New York City and it m< that last year the liquor traffic isrespons for the birth of scores of Idiots, 400 lunal the sending of 76,000 men and women to the pauperizing of 10,000 families, and 4000 deaths.?Rev. Dr. I. K. Funk. TRUE IK ALL COMMUNITIES. When temperance advocates want f and figures to use in their warfare thej not need to go far to find them. The a; ments against themuny-sided traffic are i too abundant. The Ohio State Boarr Pardons has lately recommended that al nonce from the use of intoxicating llquoi a condition of pardon. The Board learued that "in nearly every case oC ci agiinst the person the offender was ei under the influence of liquor, or becami volved in nn affair by reason of being place where intoxicating liquor was so What is true of criminals in Ohio is tru criminals in all liquor communities. SUNDAY IN TWO CITIES. According to the New York Evening W Brooklyn saloon side-doors are open on ! days, ami its jail is overcrowded. NewY< salooD.s are closed on Sundays, and the York Dally News says: '-The nurabe; prisoners at Jefferson Market has been duced from 120, the average, to eigh with no woman prisoners in the penitenti Bellevue Hospital prison ward for the time in its history has been two d vacant." THE WAY TO THE FOORHOUSE. John Reeve, the <v iedian, was once costed in the Kensington road by an eh! female with a small bottle of gin iu hand. "Pray, sir, I beg your pardon, is The way to the poorhouseV" John cave a look of clerical dignity, and pointing ti bottle, gravely said: "No. ma'am: but 13.''?Charleston Messenger. TEMPERANCE NEWS A.V;> NOTES. A W. 0. 1'. U. pump in Blenheim, On said to tie the most appreciated iustltu in that lively town. When drinking leaJs a man lo con crime it is a serious question whether dr ing itself be not a crime. TIih mimon deslrovs th?* happiness o] individual, the sacreduess of tha home the peace of the commuuity. A carloa 1 of whisky t;ot ou (Ire the o day at Peoria, and when they threw vi on it a terrific explosion fo lowed. The authorities at Atlanta have refuse cjrant the saloon keepers the privile^ keeping their saloons open after ten o'c at night. The Government of Canada has orohib the sale of intoxicants amoasr the Indian Hudson Bay territory, and punishes sevf any violation of this law. "If it were not for drunkenness t would be no crime in Ireland at all. As there is no crime which does not arise 01 that evil," says Archbishop Croki of country. i .) V - . ' CENERAL MAHONE DEAD. Ex-United States Senator from Virginia Expires in Washington. General William Mahone died at ChamberIain's Hotel, Washington City, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. He had been totally unconscious for more than fortyeight hours previous to death and passed away seemingly without pain. Mrs. Mahone, Butler and William Mahone, Jr., his sons; Mrs. 0. M. McGill,hls daughter; L. L. Maury, of Southampton County, Virginia, a nephew, and Captain Rogers. Secretary of the Virginia Str.ta Republican Committee, and former Secretary to General Mahone,were at the bedside when the end came. The remains were taken to Petersburg, Va., by the train for interment. rar,e GENEBAL WILLIAM KAHON'E, nch William Mahone was born December 1. . 1826, the son of an Irishman who came to this*country just before the War of 1812 and tv- sett1?1! ^ Southampton County, Virginia. ~ When William saved a little money and had th? 8ot together knowledge enough, he socured the appointment to a free soholar' ? j ship in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. He was g^da- I ated in three years, at the ai?e of twenty. hi For a while he was a teacher of mathematics ' J In Rappahannock Academy, Port Boyal, rT? Va. Tne dull life there bored him, and he ihiii resigned and became civil engineer of the . ,J Orange and Alexandria Railroad. At the ' opening of the war he was wealthy and President of the road. He entered the " Confederate Army as a volunteer. He rose rapidly and was soon ono of Lee's t most trusted aides. He was Lee's adviser j and consoler through the last disastrous v campaign, and it was with him that Lee con21 suited finally before the surrender of Appo3a? mattox. He then engaged in the railroad jl business again, and in 1869, when Virginia rose against the carpet-baggers, Mahone was the leader. When he wanted to beoome Governor the Demoorats refused him the nomination. He then declared has war upon the Democratic party, edi- General Mahone brought forward the tins famous readjustment plan, by which Virginia was to practically repudiate a good was part of her debt Then he organized a porent Iltical party of his own?the Mahone BeadI of Juster party. He won the election, secured ' A control of the Legislature and was elected ras- tTnitnd 8tates Senator for the term DeItal, ginnlngln 1881. Mahone acted with the Reand publicans and gave them the organization of Chi- the Senate. A few years after he left the ** Vi/? irtoKho mAftf rtf hia fni+nno trhlnh JU 11 DCUDK7 UO 1V91 luu UtVBl. V? MM* fww ,ntl- bad been at one time about $400,000. He lost t re- -even his house in Petersburg. During the past few years he has been one of the famous loo- Washington collection of "has beens"?of ent, that col lection perhaps the most notable. His personal appearance always attracted attenuse tion. His diminutive stature and size and well his tiny feet, on whioh he wore a woman's boots with abnormally lofty heels, rendered >1 In him especially conspicuous. "5 THE HOVA CAPITAL TAKEN. uch The Flight of the Queen of Madagascar ble. and Her Court. 3ine The news comes both from Vatomandry, >hy- on the east coast ot Madagascar, and from lout Port Louis, Mauritius, that the Frenoh forces }^h? In Madagascar have captured Antananario, the oapltal. The The Queen, with the i or iS members of her household and the lent /Wlfj/A'V Ministers of State, link JaYvIi/Xv made their escape ate3 /7?v ' /m\ Ra<* fled to Ambois( SL rfl tra* T^e news ?' tbe fall of the Malagasy capital reached kjflwBWwV. Vatomandry on September 30. * a _ The cable despatch toat ^ *3 i\M frnm Pnrt Louis savfc !!frd t . h\U that the" Queen of ?lest \ /WM Madagascar, with hlq A. -* / \AU her husband, RainJnti WlA ilairivony, Prime " /I. Minister, has taken ?T V\!T""\>y /Vt refuge in AmboslsnJr 1 tra?,n the district of of f^sSSi^m Betsiieos, the capitha . tal, Antananarivo, ?a,LS /* having been cap.'ihio tured by the French, tic/ The Government had not yet reoeived ofJflcial information of hw queen of madaqas- the captur0 0f Ancab. tananario by the French expeditionary force, but it expected to receive confirmation of the report any acta moment. Advices received from Tamatave ' do say that the French troops bombarded the rgu- Hova position at Farafatra on October 3 and only captured it on October 4. A despatch to the 1 of Figaro says General Duchesne left Andriba Mtl- on September 21 with 2500 troops. 3 be The offloials of the London Missionary Sobas ciety express no anxiety for the safety of the Ime missionaries who were fhor ctatfnnnri nt Antanan 1 in- arivo, and who are in a doubtless out of dan- if Id." ger. The sooiety has tey e of reoeived communica- jJSSj "JSC*tions from the Mada- y1 j y) gascar missionaries 1 J regularly. The wo- Vj&lgfcw / meu of the mission / left the capital some JT./ylS. t,* time ago and took tML ?rf' refuge in Tamatave * { and othor plaoes on ff \\ v rA the coast, and it was* Lw? tt? f the Intention of the - II iff nr\ men remaining to pbime shxibikr of flrai 'eare tije place as madaoascab. I soon as the French made their appearance and retire to some distant village. Foes Worthy of the Japs. I flC' lerjj The Formosans do not seem to be ol l her Chinese blood by the way they fight. More iU1' * * 1 - -t... nlrniidr. nuts tnan 3'iiuu daps ttro 1U iuc iiuoj/i.i" ? jhei That is four times as many as wore hart La 3 the the Chinese war. that Death ot W. XV. Story. William Wetmore Story, the distinguished ti'oj, American sculptor and poet, died suddenly .and painlessly at the country house of his lVtlit. daughter, the Marquise Peruzi, at Vallomil brosn. Italy, Mr. Story was born at Salem, Mass., on February 12,1319. lin(j Louisiana'* Su?ar Output. The official report of the sugar production thei of Louisiana, issued, shows thut the crop Is ater 710.427.S33 pounds, or 335.334 tons, as compared with 297.737 tons last year. This if is the largest crop ever produced in Louisln(v iaua. and would call for $14,210,558 ol bounty for Louisiana, if the Bouvity Lawstill prevailed. As it is plantera will get. under utO'l {[jy act pH330j by [agt Congress, about oneli third of that amount, or about two-thirds of :re'y a oeut a pound bounty. The yield also inoludes 28,334,513 gallons of niolas?es. Thn here yield per acre was 2143 pounds foi the old it is process and 2999 for the new. Only 449 it of sugar houses were in operation, a decrease that of tlfty. M8&8RBIM a WORDS OF WISD03T. Borrowed troubles are the heaviest. | In the eyes of a male short ears art a deformity. . We may shape our friendship, but not our love. Nothing can kill self respeot; everything wounds it. If there were no difficulties ther? would be no men. A bald-headed man parts his hair oa the what-is-left side. When men lie they most always , yawn wearily afterward. A good man will hate a lie, no matter how white it may look. There are people who have a great deal of religion, but no love. In nine cases oat of ten the man who has riches paid too much for them. There are some people who couldn't ;!? be made interesting even as characters j > js in a novel. We may be near sighted, bat we can always tell a check for two dollars from a poem. No man is ever thoroughly introduced to himself who spends most of his time alone. The father should fear to walk where it would hot be safe for his * children to travel. When you go into the closet for 'K>. M secret prayer be sure to take the key of your safe along. If we love muoh we are much, no matter whether we have any gold oa deposit or not.?The South-West. A Campaign Trick. The following story is told by Edward J. McDermott in an article entitled "Fun on the Stump," in the Ceatury: A few years ago a plain oountry doctor and a Mr. May who was fond of , |u jewelry and wore a valuable diamond stud in his shirt bosom were running for the Legislature in one of our counties. The race was close and hot. 7 fWi At one speaking the dootor made the '4 following fierce and dangerous thrust at his opponent: "Fellow citizens, don't you want an honest man in tha % \% Legislature? Of oourse you do. 'Now what sort of man is my opponent? Why, gentlemen, look at that magnificent diamond he wears t It is almost as big and bright as the head-light oa . . a locomotive. Your eyes oan hardly stand its glare. It is worth hundreds ?may be thousands?of dollars. At "S what valuation do you suppose he hw put it for . taxation in his return to the State assessor? Why, at the pitiful sum of twenty dollars1" The crowd Xtm yelled for the doctor. Three days . later the two met again in joint de * -a?? tnnlr nn hi* i a^atu tuo uuuwi. ? f telling theme, and held forth elo- ' '-j quently and passionately in denunoia tion of dishonesty and diamonds, and ' false statements; and then he again / .yjl told of May's false retnrn to the as- ? sessor. "Look at that gorgeoas pin, /?? gentlemen! My eyes can hardly endure its dazzling rays. Solomon in all his glory?" I ' S'S "Hold on there, doctor!" said May. "Do yon mean to say this pin is worth x! W more than twenty dollars?" "Yes, I do?twenty times or fifty times twenty dollars!" "Would yon give twenty dollars for it, doctor ?" . ?f "Of course 1 would." "Well, you oan have it for that." "All right t" said the doctor, and he hurriedly counted out the money and took the pin. Then May rose to speak, and the crowd cheered him. He was undoubtedly "game" and honest. He was willing to take what ha said the pin was worth. He was elected. A week after the election ha rlnnk/\* nn/1 Quid ? "DOO UB1XUU UU VUO uvuvv* ? tor, I don't want to rob you of your money. Here's your twenty dollars. That pin you bought was paste. I got it in Louisville after your first speech. , '$ Here is my real diamond. If I o&a ever serve you, let me know." The Water Tree. M. Duoharte recently made known to the French Academy ol Soiences the results of an experiment made bj M. Maxime Lecompte in Congo upon '} a tree of the genus Musenga. Upon making incisions in the trunk of it ? and placing a pail at the foot of the tree, more than ten quarts of pure water collected in thirteen hours. The gorillas, it seem*, are in the habit of slaking their thirst at these hidden; fountains, and regulate the flow off liquid at will by pulling off differentsized branches. Many years ago Dr. Wallich found in the province of. Martaban, Africa, a plant belonging to the same natural order, whose soft and porous wood discharged, when wounded, a very large quantity of m pure and tasteless fluid, whioh waa quite wholesome, and was used as ? beverage by the natives. This plant was named by Dr. Wallich the water vine, and has been placed in the genus Phytocrene, which signifies "plant fountain." These plants form are- vi ""onUnn thn nanul fthfir UlEir&UUlU CAUQf/VAVu vv acter of the order, which embraces species that produce a milky juice? such, for example, as the celebrated cow tree, of South America, which. yields a copious supply of a rioh and. wholesome milk, as good as that of the cow, and used for the same purpose. ?Public Opinion. ? Shot Lon? Ago. "While cutting down an old oak tree at the residence ou the Encina or* chard north of town yesterday, says the Visalia (Gal.) Times, C. 8. Riley found a leaden bullet imbedded in the body of the tree four feot from the ./vj ground. The bullet must have been *? 'V shot into the tree many years ago, ior there were twenty-four rings of wood growth over it and no sign of the path of the bullet in tlio.se rings. The lead showed a powerlul impact, and it was over eleven inches from the outside of the tree. Sacred, But J*ead. There has just beeu placed on exhibition in the Third Egyptian Room, British Museum, an unrolled specimen oc ihe embalmed sacred crocodile. "fhe mummy measures over eighteen feet in length, and is beautifully preserved. The eves, as with human mummies, appear to have been removed previous to embalming, but the teeth, of which four are plainly visible, are still intaot.?Westminster Bu IgeC, 4 i v'tgi ' .> K.K-Cr'-VidH