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j REV. DR. TALMAGE SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject- "All Heaven Looking On." Tne subject of Dr. Talmage's opening sertnon in Washington was: ''All Heaven Looking On," the text selected being the famous passage from Hebrews xii.. 1: "See Ing we also aro compared about with so great a cloud of witnesses." * 5 In this my op?ning sermon in the National Capital I give you heartiest Christian salutary tion. I bethink myself or the privilege of .Standing in this historic churcb, so lone: pre jsidea over by one or tno mos: remaricaoie tnien of the century. Thero are plenty oi good ministers beside Dr. Sunderland. but I do not know of any man except himself with ienough brain to have stood successfully and jtriumphantlv forty-three years in this conjspicuous puljur. Lorn: distant ho tho year ! when that gospel chieftain shall put down the silver trumpet with which he has marshaled the hosts of Israel or 'sheatho the sword with which he has 'struck such mighty blows for Gol and righteousness. I com? to you with the same fgospel that he has preached and to join >ou tin all kinds of work for making the world [better, and I hope tose^ you all in your own homes and have yon all "come and see me, | jbuc don't ail conieat once. And without any [preliminary discourses as to what I propose i to do I begin here and now to cheer you with , the thought that all heaven is sympathetii cally looking on. "Seeing we also are comj passed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." ! Crossing the Alps by the Mont Oais pass, i or through the Mont Cents tunnel, you are in a few hours set down at Verona, Italy, and in.a few minutes begin examining one | of the* grandest ruins in the world?the ; amphitheater. The whole building sweeps . aroupd you in a circle. You stand in the arena where the combat was once l fought or the race run, and on all sides the , eeats rise tier above tieruntil you count forty j elevations or galleries?as I shall see fit to call them?in which sat the senators, the kings and the 25,000 excited spectai tors. At the sidei of the arena and un3er f ; the galleries are the cages in which the lions F and tigers are kept without food until, ' frenzied with hunger and thirst, they are let , out upon some poor victim, who, with his . sword and alone, is condemned to meet i them. I think that Paul himself once s^ood j In such a place, and that it was not only ' figuratively, bur literally, that he had : "fought with beasts at Ephesus." j The gala day has come. From all the , world the people are pouring into . Verona. Men, women and children, orators and senators, great men and ; email, thousands upon thousands come, until the first gallery is full, and the | second, the third, the fourth, the fifthall the way up to the twentieth, all the j way up to"the thirtieth, all the way up ! to the fortieth. Every place is filled. < ! Immensity of audience sweeping the ' great circle. Silence! The time for the oontest has come. A Roman official leads i forth the victim into the arena. Let him get his swor.l, with firm grip, into his right band. The 25,000 sit breathlessly watching. I hear the door at tne siae 01 tae arena creak open. Out plunges the half starved lion, his tongue athirst for blood, and with a roar that brings all the galleries to their feet he rushes against the sword ox the com, foatant. Do you know how strong a stroke a man will strike when his life depends upon the first thrust of his blade? The : wild beast, lame and bleeJing, slinks back toward the side of the arena. Then, rallying his wasting strength, he comes up with V - j fiercer eye and more terrible roar than ever, only to be driven back with a fatal wounil, while the combatant comes in with stroke after stroke, until the monster is dead at his I leet> and the 25,000 people clap their hands and utter a shout that makes the city tremi, ble. Sometimes the audience came to see a race, sometimes to see gladiators ngni eacn other, until the people, compassionate for the fallen, turned their thumbs up as nn appeal that the vanquished be spared, and sometimes the combat was with wild beasts. To an amphitheatrical audience Paul refers when he says, "We are compassed about with so great a clov.d of witnesses." The fact is, that every Christian man has a lion to light. Yours is a bad temper. The gates of the arena have been opened, and this tiger has come out to destroy your soul. It ha3 lacerated you with many a : wound. You have been "thrown by it time ; and again, but in the strength of God you have arisen to drive it back. I verily bsi lieve you will conquer. I think that the temptatianis getting weaker and weaker. You have given it so many wounds that the : prospect is that it will die, and you shall be : victor, through Christ. Courage, brother! Do not let the sands of the areua drink the Wood of your soul! Your lion is the passion for strong drink. You may have contended against it twenty years, but it is strong of body and thirsty of tongue. You have tried to fight it back with broken battle or emplv wine flask. Nav, that is not the weapon! With one horrible roar he will seize thea by the throat and rend thee limb from limb. Take this weapon, sharp and keen?reach up and cot it from God's armory. The sword of the 8pirit. With that thou mayest drive him back and conquer! But why specify when every man and woman has "a lion "to light? If there be one here who has no besetting sin, let him speak i ' out, for him have I offended. If you have not fought the lion, it is because you have let the lion eat you up. This very moment the contest goes "on The Trajan celebration, where 10,000 gladiators fought and 11,(j00 wild bsasts were slain, was not so terrific a struggle a3 tnat wntcn at tms moment goes oa in many a soul. That combat was for the life of the body; this is for the life of the soul That was with wild beasts from the jungle; this is with the roaring lion of hell. Men think, when they contend against an evil habit, that they have to flght it all alone. No! They stand in the center of an immense circle of sympathy. Paul had been reciting the names of Abel. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Joseph, Gideon and Barak aud then says, "Being compassed about with so great a cioud of witnesses." Before I get through I will show you that you fight in an arena around which circle, in galleries above each other, alt the kindling ?yes and all the sympathetic hearts of the ages, and at every victory gained there comes down the thundering applause of a great multitude no man can cumber. ''Being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." On the first elevation of the ancient amphitheater, on the day of a celebration, sat Tiberius, or Augustus, or the reigning king. 80 in the great arena of spectators that watch our struggles, and in the first divine ffallery, a? I shall call it, sits our King. one Jesus. On His head are many crowns! Tne Boman emperor got his place by cold bloode;l conquests, but our King hath come to His place by the broken hearts healed, and the tears wiped away, and the souls redeemed. The Roman emperor sat, with folded anns, indifferent as to whether the swordsman or the lion beat, but our King's sympaof? all wifh na Vov iinhftsir^ nf descensions! I see Him come down from ttie * gallery into the arena to help us in the fight, shouting, until all up and down His voice is heard: "'Fearnot! I will help thee! I will strengthen thee by the right hand of My power!" They gave to the men in the arena, in the olden time, food to thicken their blood, 30 that it would flow slowly, and that for a longer time the people might gloat over the scene. But our King has no pleasure in otic wounds, for we are bone of His bone, llesh of His flesb, blood of His blood. In all the anguish of our heart, The Man of Sorrows bore a part. ' Once, in the aucient amphitheater, a lion with one paw caught the combatant's swor>!. and with the other paw caught his shield. The man took his knife fr:m his girdle and slew the beast. The kiue. sitting in the gallery, said: I'liat was not fair. The lion must be slaiu by a sword." Other lions were turned out, and the Door victim 11 V... .O! at iuu. xuu outline, suftiuu. mi such meanness. But tbe King, in this case, is our brother, and He will see that we hav? fair play. Ho will lorbid the rushing out of inoro lions than we can meet. He will not suffer us to be tempted above that l we are able. Tnauk God! The King is ia the gallery! His eyes are on u?. His heart is with us. His hand will deliver us. 'Blessed are all they who put their trust in Him." I look again, and 13eethe an;ellc gallery. There they are?the angel that swung the sword at the gate ot Eden, the same that Ezelciel saw upholding the throne ot God, and from which I look away, for the splendor la insufferable. Hers art) tha guardian A angels. That one watched a patrlaroh; this one protected a ehildfthat one has been pulling a soul out oI temptation! All those are messengers of light. Those drove the Span1 Ish armada on the rocks. This turned Sennacherib's living hosts into a heap of 185.000 corpses. Those yonder chanted the Christmas carol over Bethlehem until the chant awoke the shepherds. These, at creation, stood in the balcony of heaven and serenaded the newborn world wrapped in swaddling clothes of 1 light. And there, holier and mighter than all, is Michael, the archangel. To command ' an earthly host gives dignity, but this one is leader of "the 20.000 chariots "of God and of the ten thousand times ten thousand angels. I think God gives command to the archangel, and the archangel to the seraphim, and the seraphim to the cherubim, until all the lower orders of heaven hear the command and go forth on the high behest. Now bring on your lions! Who can fear? All the spectators in the angelic gallery are our friends. "He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest "thou dash thy foot against a stone. Though shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample underfoot." I look again and I see the gallery of the martyrs. Who is that? Hugh Latimer, sure enough! He would not apologize for the truth preached, and so ho died, the night Deiore SWinjIlUg iroiu me ueupusi 1U perieui glee at the thought of emancipation. Who are that army of 6G66':1 They are the Theban legion who (lied for the faith. Here is a larger host in magnificent array?8S4,000?who perished for Christ in the persecution of Diocletian. Yonder is a family group?Felioitas, of Rome, and her chil-" drcD. While they were dying for the faith she stood encouraging them. One son was whipped to death by thorns, another was /lung from a rock, another was beheaded. At last the mother became a martyr. There they are, together?a family group in heaven! Yonder is John Bradford, who said in the fire, "We shall hare a merry supper with the Lord to-night." Yonder is Hoary Voes, who exclaimed as he died, "If I had ten heads they should all fall off for Christ." The great throng of tlio martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats, horses were fastened to their hands and other horses to their feet, and thus they were pulled apart. They had their tongues "pulled out by redhot pinchers; they were sewed up in the skins of animals and then thrown to the dogs; they were daubed with combustibles andset on fire! If all the martyrs' stakes that hriYe been kindled could be set at proper distances, they would make the midnight all the world over bright as noonday! And now they 311 yonder in the martyrs' gallery. For them the'flres of persecution have gone out. The swords are sheathed and the mob hushed. Now they watch us with an all observing sympathy. They know all the pain, all the uarasQip, nn iat> aa^uisa, an mo uijuoui^, all the privation. Tney cannot keep still. They cry: "Courage! The fire will not consume. The floods cannot drown. The lions cannot devour! Courage, down there in the arena!" What, are they all looking? This night we answer back the salutation they give and cry, "Hail, sons and daughters of the Are!" I look again, and I see another gallery, that of eminent Christians. What strikes me strangely is the mixing in companionship of those who on earth could not agree. Thera I see Martin Luther, and beside him a Roman Catholic who looked beyond the superstitions of his church and is saved. There is Albert Barnes and around him the presbytery which tried him for hete. loxv! Yonder is Lyman Bsecher and the rhurch court that denounced him! Stranger than all. there are John Ca'.vin and James Avminius! Who would have thought they would sit so lovingly together? There aie George Whitefleld "and the bishops who would not let him come into their pulpits because they thought him a fanatic. There are the sweet singers?Toplady, Montgomery, Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts and Mrs. Sigourney. It heaven had had no music before they want up, they would have started the singing. And there the band of missionaries?David Abeel, talking of China redeemed, and John Scudder of India saved, and David Brainerd of the aborigines evan gelized, and Mrs. Adoniram Judson, whose prayers for Burma took heaven by violence! All these Christians are lookiug into the arena. Our struggle is. nothing to theirs. Do we. in Christ's <-ause, suffer from the cold? They walked Greenland's icy mountains. Do we suffer from the heat? They sweltered in tbe tropics. Do we get fatigued? They fainted with none to care for them but cannibals. Are we persecuted? They were anathematized. And as they look from their gallery and see us falter in the presence of the lions I seem to hear Isaac Watts addressing us in his old hymn, only a little changed: Must you be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prizo, Or sailed through bloody seas? Toplady shouts in his old hymn: Your harps, ye trembling saints, Down from the willows take, Loud to the praise of love divine, Bid every string awake. While Charles Wesley, the Methodist, braaks forth in his favorite words, a little varied: A charge to keep you have, A God to glorify, A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the skv! I look again, and I see the gallery ot our departed. Many of those in the other galleries we have heard of, but these we knew. Oh, how familiar their faces! They sat at our tables, and we walke:l to tho house of% God in company. Have they forgotten us? Those fathers and mothcra started us on the road of life. Are they careless as to what becomes of U3? And those children, do they look on with stolid indifference as to whether we win or lose this battle for eternity? Nay: I see that child running his hand over your brow and saying: 'Father, do notfrat." ''Mother, do not worry." They remember the day they left us. They remember the agony of the last farewell. Though yeara in heaven, they know our faces. They remember our sorrows. They speak our "names. They watch this fight for heaven. Nay; I see them rise up and lean over and wave before us their recognition and encouragement. That gallery is not full. They are keeping places for us. After we have slaiu the lion they expect the King to call us. saying, "Come up higher!" Between the hot struggles in the arena I wipe the sweat from my brow and stand on tiptoe, reaching up my right ban l to clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking, while their voices come ringing down from the gallery, crying, "Be thou faithful unto death, anl you shall have a crown!" But here I pause, overwhelmed with the majesty and the joy of the sc.?ne! Gallery of the King! Gallery of angels! Gallery of prophets and apostles! Gallery of martyrs! Gallery of saints! Gallery of friends and kindred! Ob, majestic circles of light and love! Throngs! Throngs! Throngs! How shall we stand the gaze of the universe? Myriads of eyes beaming on us! Myriads of hearts beating in sympathy for us! How shall we ever dare to sin again? How shall we ever become discouraged again? How shall we ever feel lonely again? With God for us, and angels for us, anil prophets and apostles for us, ?nd tne Rr<"at souls of the age3 for us, and our glorified kindred lor us, stiaii wo give up the nght *nd die? No. Son of God, who didst die to save us! No, ye angels, whose wings are spread forth to shelter u.s. No. ye prophets and apostles, whose warnings startlo us. No, ye loved ones, whose arms are outstretched to receive us. No, wo will never | surrender! Sure I must flgbt If I would reignBe faithful to my Lord. And bear the cross, eudure the pain, Supported by Tby word. Thy saints in all this glorious war S'uiill conquer though they die. They see the triuinoh from afar, And seiza it with their eye. Whon that illustrious day shall ris?, Auil all Thine armies shine In robes of victory through the skies, The glory shall be Thine. ! | aiy iiearers, suuu we ?.u?j lutucucMvi lisa to join our friends in th? gallery;' Through Christ we may come off more thau conqueror?. A soldier, dying in the hospital, rose up in bed the last moment and cried: "Here! Here!" His attendants put him back on his pillow and asked him why h9 9houted, "Here!" "Oh! I heard the roll call of heaven, and I was only answering to ray name!" I woni der whether, after this battle of lifo is over, : our names will be called In the muBter roll of the pardoned and glorified, and with the . joy of neaven breaking upon our souls we t ihillcry; "Here! Here!" ? I SABBATH SCHOl INTERNATIONAL LESSON NOVEMBER 17. Lesson Text: "Saul Reje Samuel xv., 10-23 ? GoI< Text: I Smnuel xv., 212 ?Commentary. ln. 11. "It repenteth Me that I hav ivuil to he king, for he is turned Dsn following Me and hath not perfor commandments." When the kingJ given to Saul, both lie and the peop r-minded by Samuel that if they wou obey the Lord and serve Him in t micrht be well (chapter xii., 14, 24 Saul had only reigned two years w proved disobedient and was told t kinsdom woul \ be given to another, man after God's own heart (chapter 13. 14). In the chapter for to-day i net of disobedience is recordod. whicl matters to a crisis. As to the Lord's ings so often referred to. we must re: that He never changes His mind, nor for anything He doas (verss 29; N*urn 19). but when He comes to a point wl seems to us to make a new denarture ntorniK- IT?? knew that ic.il] at that point. He is said to repent. S xv.. 18. 12. "He set him up a place." Or. t Sam. xviii., 18, a piUar after his owt It was not. as in chapter xiv.,35, a unto the Lord, but something to n himself. Jesus never magnified Him.' always His Father (John xvii., 4). P terminod that Christ should be maga; his body oither by life or death (Phil. 13. "Blessed be' Thou the Lord; I ha formed the commandment of the When we compare verses 3 and 9 ' chapter, we wonder how Saul could s he had performed the commandment, he misunderstood the command, or f ed it, or deliberately lied. There is eration that are pure in their own ej whos covereth his sins shall no: per (Prov. xxx.. 12; xxviii., 13). Un have a heart right with God and n seek only His pleasurethe devil will n believe that black is white (II Thess. 11). 14.- ''What meaneth then this blea the sheep In mine ears and the lowinc oxen which I hear?" It is an old wo true as God Himself, ''Be sure your i find you out" (Num. xxxii.. 23). Th was to smite Amalek and utterly dest that they had (verse 3). Dead 'she oxeu tell no tales, but these were tellii Saul had not obeyed God. 15. "The people spared the best sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice ui L.ora tnv ttoa. unaer mo piea 01 good object" Saul seeks to justify th done. That his heart is wrong, and he it, is seeu in his saying that the peo it, and it is also seen in his saying Lord thy God," instead of "the Lo; God." God wants nothing from the either for sacrifice or service. 16. ""Then Samuel said to Saul, St I will tell thee what the Lord hath me this night. And he said unto hi on." We look back to the morning Samuel said to Saul. "Stand tho awhile that I may shew thee the v, God" (chapter is., 27), but what i trast! Then it was a message of gra now one of judgment. Observe tha Samuel's childhood, so now in his ad years God still talks with him in thi season. 17. "When thou wast little in thii sight, the Lord anointed thee king c rael." See chapter ix., 21, aud c< Judges vi., 15. It is good to tn and 1 tinue little in our own estimation, better to say with Paul, "I know tha! ?that is, in my flesh?dwelleth nc thing" (Rom. vii., 18). We read tha Uzziah was marvelously helped till ! strong, but when he was strong his ? - "rt fA Klo /lacl'fiiAfinn /TT VYclS I1JICU U\J IV mo uwowiuvuvu xxvi., 15, 16). My highest place fc low at my Redeemer's feet. 18. ''The Lord sent tbo? on a jc and said, Go. and utterly destroy th ners the Am ilekites." The reason command is seen in Ex. xvii., 8-1 tho Lord's determination is in ve But He is long suffering, not willh any should perish, and so He suffere to continue for over 400 year*?sui abundant time for repentance, bu continued siuners before God. 19. "Wherefore then didst thou ni the voice of the Lord?" Being rec to God bv the precious blood of Ckr great word for all the rest of our "willing and obedient" (Isa i., 18, 19] Ex. xix., 5, 6. It is not ours to ques reason or to put our construction uf commands, but aitnpfy and cheerti obey. Consider t he obedience of the . in Ex. xxxii., 26-28, and see the comi tion in Mai. ii., 4-6. 20. "Yea. I have obeyed the voice Lord, and have gone the way whi Lord 3ent me. and have brought Ag king of Amalek." Here he confe have saved the king, who was certai eluded in the destruction, and yet that he had obeyed the Lord. It is ( story so common to-lay of perverti: ? -? t ?j /r? oz?\ word 01 me j-ioru j_??or. mii., ooj thinking that He does not mean ju; He says, but His language is genera urative or has some other meaning. 21. "But the people took of the .? sacrifice unto the Lord thy God." I puts some blame upon the people, bi acknowledges that the sheep and should have been utterly destroye opinion of our own as to how th< wants thiugs done is very dangerous, commands are very plainly stated xxvii., 8; Hab. ii., 2), andourpart is p implicit and unquestioning obedience thoughts and ways are as far abov better than ours as heaven than earth, then, question them? 22. "Behold, to obey is better thar flee and to hearken than the fat of Mercy and the knowledge of God ar desirable than sacrifice or burnt o (Hos. vi., 6). See the Saviour's ii; ment of this in Math. ix? 13; xii., 7 sacrifice and burnt offering pointed to and He was the perfection of obedien submission to His Father, wholly j-iel Him that He might do all the wor speak all the words. The command I the voice of God preceded any rei whatever to burnt offering and st (Jer. vii., 22, 23). .iM *Ua.. I 4-1. ZO. "ijOlitlUSU IUUU IJ'Ul ICjCtlCU LU of the Lord He hHth also rejected the being king." Seo abo verse 26. T the characteristic of Father, Son and Spirit, but whoever rejects tue word < makes Him a liar (I John v., 10) an I cuts himself off from all feliowshij God. Saul ?< y confesses his si acknowledges that he sought to plei people rather than God ("verse 24). T was not, however, a truly humbled seen in that he desired Samuel to lion before the people (verse 30). Sec C 10; I These, li., I. ?Lesson Helper. THi WORLD'S C3AIN CZZ .V.i Interesting Kjport Sent to Ih i Uepirtine it by Mr. Jn.ld. Consul-Gsneral M*x Jud 1, of Vieni forwarded to the Department of S Washington a report on the grain c the world for 1335, compiled from the of the annual International Grain which Mr. Jud l commeuds as trusts The abstract furnished by Mr. J a id that ttxe wheat, rye, Daney aui um ur liuropf are somewhat below tho a' while corn is exceedingly promisin it is expa-'ted that the yield will be 01 again as large this year as it has been average for tea yoars. .Caaalashowi crease of about C.OJO.OQl) meter centu wheat, while India shows a los^ of doablf that quantity, both as coniparj lHyt. Most ot ih<* Ujssiau provinces ii au iuereasa iu wheat aud rye. 'iiu A Hungary wheat crop is poor in qualil les< iu quantity thau usual. A ligtuer crop is also indicated iu the Cmte.l Ta? French wheat crop is estimal ninety-eight per cent., rye at 105 au I ninety-live per cent, of the average, wheat crop of Great Britain aud lrel put down as poor, aud is estimated a forty to fifty per cent, ot the averaee. English barley crop will be batter th wheat crop, but the quality will be lisypt will export considerable wheat it is anticipated that the loss of wfc India and tho United States will be c< sated for by the graiu iu Canada and 1 and that, taking this crop throughc world, the result for the year will be equal to the average season. lots of Olrlc in GermanyS'atislics show that in Oannanv's p t?o*< o* 51.0i0,0'i0 tho f?m<Ues outau.n males by uearly a million. 3L RELIGIOUS READ] FOt? SE1IODELINO or THE SOCI.. The artist sits at his table with his fore him, and with his llncers mod statute?the arms, the hands, the f< eted," everything. He models it from v jeu Your soul, residing within your body. your body. It models the lingers whic flexible at the piano by that which tl directs them to do; their tltnoss for se made, not by lingers working on thei without, but by a soul working on the e set up within. So the face is made 3k from soul that lies behind the fac*. 1 med My h lire which flashes from the e om was kindliness which looks out from it, i ie were cause the soul has Are or the .soul hi lid only if there are grooves of care molded ruth ail brow or in the cheek, it is uot bv an e ). But artist who shapes then: as Rogers hen he them in bis statute. You yourself, b U..4. il.~ An-11 civirif h51 I'M millripii vonr fuee. h' uui tnc v ?* ?4 .k. ^ even a is in nature u life moldlns; it: there i xiii., 1, l>ut the life resides within,not withou mother does not stand external to nature, s ti brings it with exterior hands: did not in t repeat- ative days, does,not today. Creative nember All days are creative days: today is is sorry ative day; every spring is anew ei . xxiii.. In the ground are two seeds lere He look so much alike that yoi , which iiardiy tell them apart, not at all unl< ild just are an expert; yet one will come up. 30 Acts flower with one color, and the oth eonie up another flower with auothe is in It No artist stands and with hand and i aa;ne. psiiuts the color, or with model and cla 11 altar the leaf; the vital force is in the si msrnify leaf itself. That vital force which foi ?e!f,but flower, working from within, not fror iiul de- out, is God Himself?the life of the ified in So everything in nature speaks of G i.. 20) cause God Himself is within speaking ve per- ?Lyman Abbott. D. D. Lord." of this ? avthat "love one another. Either A gentleman once said to me in tfc lervert- ence of a great grief, "Is it not a c a gen- that wo allow ourselves to think so in ^es. but ebch other, that we allow ourselves to pros- so much of affection in a Mngle hum less we or in two or three human lives, until tl onestly comes when nothing can happen to i lake us lifo,which does not undo and crush an ii., 10. tyrize our own?" And I could nc thinking how much better it is for any ting of be undone and crushed and martyrizt ; of the to go through its earthly career withe rd, but blessings in some deep and abiding f( ?.:ii l/\?-o tfr io nnhiral trt th? r>eniis man )1u l> 111 11 ?<, ?? a e word hungry for love. He wants its light it roy all body's eyes,he wants its arms about hi ep and It makes every moment of sickness at ag that ious moment," it makes every mom parting one that changes the front of the universe for somebody; but sum up nto the memories of sanctified homes, of sel "for a Being mothers and gentle fathers, of e thing tionate brothers and sisters, of maul knows and womanly daughter*, of friends thu pie did with influences of benediction, of nei . "the and feilow-eitizens who feel somew rd our each other's losses and sains?sum it i enemy aud tell me who would forego it to be the struggles and the sufferings whl ay and very depth and intensity bringi The < said to otence of the heart!?it is the divine m, Say within us which no experience can qi when it testifies of its possessor that he is u still though in the germ."?Frederic A. Hit rord of in "The Deeper Meanings. % con ce, but 33 ja intelligent beadebs. vanced The most intelligent reader i9 the on e night knows how to "skip" judiciously. are still a few conscientious souls wh ao own sider it a breach of morals to pass ovi iver Is- read a single paragraph ia a volume )mpare they have undertaken to ma?ter. Bi to con- person who can glean what he wishes It is book and ignore the rest will soon aci t in me literary judgment which the other cl > good readers do not possess, and will a t King able to read more extensively, he was same principle of skipping can b? heart ouslv applied in household science. Chron. are certain garments which may 3 lying well be worn unironed, certain seara need not bo closely overcast, certain iurney, that will not suffer if the weekly swee le sin- occasionally omitted. In the realm of 1 of this relationships, too. let us learn to skip ;6. and Let us pass over vexations and reor irse 14. tions aud complaints and hurry along ig that pages that are bright with hope and d them fulness and forbearance. The best n rely an understand when to skip childish erroi t they when to make them subjects of discipli afc obey leemed encouragement to thachers. ist. the Parents who are not Christians then life is sometimes desire the best religious ii ). See tion for their enildren. Two illustrati lion or this fact came to cur knowledge at tbt ton His ing of the present school year. A mot illy to placing her daughter at a fine private; Levites remarked: "I have never felt the i nenda- going to church myself, but I think it1 a help to my daughter. I want her t< of the in contact with Jesus Christ, to make eh the part of her life." The other case was ag. the an irreligious father, who wis natural sses to pected to demur at the observance o nlv in- worship and grace at the table. But insists told that these customs were observed he old school he eagerly expressed his apj tig the Little incidents like these furaish real e and of agement to the earnest teacher, wh< >t what that her effort3 in trying to develop the illy fig- unl nature of those under her charge neutralized by home influence. :poil to le still lit nOW ANOTHER CHANGE NEEDED. oxen Do not most Christians need anothe d. An version ? Certainly this must be true 3 Lord are to reckon all the members ol His churches as Christians. For only a (Deut. part of them are doing much if anyth: rompt. Christ, are bearing witness to His po< His save are making themselves felt c e and side of righteousness, are maui Why, concern for the salvation of < Only a few put Christ and his church t sacri- the arrangement of their plans, the m rams." mont of their money, the disposition ol e more time. They have more or less fallen ffering from their first love. They surely ne< tdorse- newal. And this renowal of their pi All consecration, which has been lost sli d Him, in the rush of life, may be attende ce and so much increased light and be n Ided to by so great r.n uplift, that it mav pe ks and with propriety, be called a second :o obey version. There may be as great a eh;i "erence consequence of it. from the life th icriflce been for some time livi g, as there wa: first they found the Lord. And thee e word whatever name be given it. is utiqu e from ably demanded in the interests both ruth is fulness ami happiness. Our churches j I Holy need more members who are dead in t )f God to be wood and to do good. a thus " ) with H find peace of sobl. " /J? When you look at the believer's bi . you mav see no trace of his inward pe or^him 30u'- But you know that tae ocean 'al L hurricanes is lashed into those * * ' waves and that wild foam only upon tl face. Not very far down the waters still as an autumn noon; there is not pie or breath or motion-, and so, bad the faith we ought, though there St.xt# be ruffles upon the s.niaeeof our li should have the Inward peace of perfet in God. Amid the dreary noises la, ha? world, amid its cares and tears, amid tate at contentions, ambitions and disappoint rop of we should have an inner calm like th? report depths, to which the influence of th Fair, winds and waves above can nevar c rorthy. Graver Thoughts of a Countrv Parson, shows ops of oarage, killed with power. an! rp0 |)A fl;ied with the Holy Spirit is aa-aalf fliied with power, ft is to lie uplift* l on :iu Ueved. vitalized, so that all life and i au in* Word becomes an effectual ministry l3rf 1U gospel. We all know it. Th -re i, p<j aoout t|J0se whom the Spirit possess ?. i 1 . v tticm only?not the power of rhetc i.in-irH . . t. 11; V..,r r It a ,r,"r"r I'Nirum^ ur . , . binds a>uls.?\V. It. X.ojII ty au I VVil lilt _ _ St ItttS, :ed a( oa:.S at Emergency Uation for the Anr Taj Tiiii annual report of the Coma and is General of the United States Army sn t from under direction of the Secretary of The Board was appointed by the Comrar au til* General of each department, consi6l poor. one officer of the subsistence depa one officer of th? medical departme loat in three officers of the lino of the army >mp9n- port on the components of the erne tlussia, rations to be carried on the )ut the of iho soldier on emergent occ about where transportation Js limited or available, and it is believed that it possible to provide a ration wei#h more than thirty ounces that will iopula- sufficient nurrlm-jnt for the soldier I tot'aj 'a . [NGr. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELAT , L TO FARM AND GARDEN. clav belels the iatures, ____ ___. rithout. 13 LIKE POTATOES. models Pigs appreciate potatoes more lie^Joui mos^ ?tter animals. It is 1 rvice is nature to root and tind such thini 11 from the ground, and next to following m from natural propensity i"? the privilej 1>V the 'hnviTur Rnnh tliincs nffered thpm ve. or small amount may be profitably it is b3- raw, bnt largo quantities will no |S'l?the un^ess boiled. Put into a tub bi x tern at they are cold they should be ma shapes and mixed with milk and a little < y vour meal. The quantity should no 10 j/Jf large at first, but small and gradi t (j0j increased.?American Agriculturi Imping "Id vs"' CRACKED HOOFS. i a ore- This trouble is mostly duo to " eution. of care of the horses' feet, and ( which frequently to the standing in mai S3 vou horse's feet should be frequ* the "one washed, and then well rubbed er will pare vaseline; the floor of the si r brush 6bould be of earth, on the front v forms aQ<l the whole should be kept eil nml littered. Sawdust is the best < 'ins the kinds of litter for the horse sti "world* The horn of the hoof naturally od. be- tains nearly one-half its weigh ; forth, water, and it is this water to w the electricity of the horn is due. by any means this water is driver of the horn, either by absorptic iepn*- internal inflammation, the horn uch'of shrink, and then, unable to beai centre tension due to the pressure of an life, weight of the animal, it will ci fimfl ?.-i -x _ - .1:nr* li. V, such ""a Bnu It 18 11 U1UJCU1U IJiabici IU uot? id mar- cracks. Thus it is far easier to >t help vent the trouble than to cure it. life to frequent soaping of the hoofs, lut the *he application of vaseline or gl; ,>rm of ine, but not grease or tar, will in to be restore the condition of the hoi i some- York Times. " neck. 1 aiix^ fa0f EXPERIENCE Df POULTRI RAISING all the Noticingyour request for experi f-sacri- in poultry raising I venture to nffee- mme. I have kept poultry in a e v sons _ , , r 1 "r ii. it come ^ay about seven years. In the chbors ginning I kept account of egg9 ur bat of found that poultry keeping was a paying business. My accomm ich its tions for keeping fowls are very li jmnip- ed?fowls having no range exce spurt. very small pen. But I manage tc "acod e?8s year ro1in<^? making a spe ickJe}*, ty of eggs in winter. In winter I the fowls, mornings, on warm mac middlings two parts and bran part, at night corn only. In sua e who I give the mash with oats and wl There corn ver^ 8parjngly; al80 keep t sc un- supplied with cracked shells which plenty of water?always in wii ut the Have had a little experience with {wire a ^eren^ varieties of fowls, espec lass of Barred Plymouth Rocks, and thoi Uo be them the fowl par excellence, un Tl1? tried the White Wonder fowls. I There cured a sitting last year, hate lite as them in June. Twelve towls ' is that w intered in a pen six by six feet sq J?01"* without any other run. They b/ human to lay the first of January and ] wisely, laid constantly ever since, keeping iraiua- egg basket filled with fine brown e cheer- As egg producers they cannot be ?others celled for the table, being fine, pi s and and juicy. They are about the si; ne- the Reeks, and being pure vr'. without colored pin-feathers, are tainlv for an all-round fowl ahea iselves anything I have met. My pens on^'or weUlined with tarred paper, as I : open- that cold draughts and fowls w her. in prosper together. Gas tar is also school freely about the sides and perche will be being one of the best of insecticid< 3 came American Poultry Advocate. him a g-tOf CARRYING LIGHTS INTO BARNS. f daily Carrying a lamp or lantern it a?" the karn where there is hay is a dange jrovaL practice, however careful one maj ncour- Better cut an opening in the parti > feels wall, or in the barn door, and insi tvUl^bo Pane 6^a9S* ^ bracket under on the outside affords a place t< the lantern, whence its rays will ] np the interior. Two of suoh p' r con. can be made?one for the fee if we floor and one for the cattle quar i our Then there will be no danger fron small intr for 1 tver to . ... ( (/ SI ^ ng^.iii ['ir ?X ev had /. / \. s when J ^iiJipiiiiiiiiiiiiiH.iiiM.i.iii.iiiiBiuiiii.111111. J ?= m fa,) mj 'f ilflfT II' 1 .' ) i I lsv life I ace of under Qp8et lantern?a circumstance tha be sur- Dually causes the loss of hundrec are as barne. It is doubtless true that i : a rip- forms of lanterns are safer than ot) i Tt ^ut * kave never yet seen one that Dt. ?we no^ capable of setting fire to a h :t faith if overturned or broken near hay. of this one wiH insist on the practice o: ments' teriJK stables and barns with lantt i ocean let a cord or light chain, with a i e wild fle hook at the lower end, be susp ome.? e(j jQ a cieftr space in the feeding fl or in the cattle quarters, and let lantern be hung on this immedis on entering the bam, making tl ^to l?e rule and adhering to it. It is n everv safer, however, to use tome such * ?. J.1. -J. ill i L ,1 ? .wl of tlJO Vice as lUIll, IIIUMIUWU, nun 1CUYC iwt'r itt light oa tho outside of the buildin iml in jjew York Tribune. ri<; or which j , SPP.IX3 FLOWERS FOR THE OARDS j There is no class of plants raor I tractive, because of the rare bei it. and fragrance of their flowers itssary- their historic associations, toge ys that with their ease of culture, than indtug- Vftri?us kinds of bulbs. Conspici :ing of among these are what ard uen rtmeiit, termed Dutch bulbs, the more imjj -at and anj 0[ which are the hyacinth, ti irzenay "aiciesus and crocus, all of whio'a 1 person been successfully cultivated for :asious, past 300 years, and are yearly groi wil^brt more an<^ niore favor, and thi ins not proportion as refinement and inl ooutaln R6Dce increase. Their culture if lor one , infanoy in this country, bee * it is so little understood that fail area frequently occur, which in moat instances discourage further effort. IVE The principal cause of failure with bulbs in the garden coasists in overestimating their hardiness. While they are always classed as hardy, they are by no means so, and in Holland?the than only country where they are extensivetheir iy grown for commercial purposes;? js in tijey are 80 thoroughly protected that frost never reaches the bulbs. It is a ?e peculiarity with nearly all bulbs, and ^ with the hyacinth in particular, that all preparations for spring flowers are ' "? made in the previous fall and winter, n^ore an(j the ground is hard frozen there shed wjjj be aQ imperfeot development :orn- 0j flowerg> jS) therefore, important, ^ ^0 in planting bulbs in the open ground, aally to protect them against any possibility ity of freezing. After planting, the ground should be covcied with any mulch that will accomplish this purwant pose. The most natural protection is mite npwlv fallpti Ipiivpr- Tf n. rnvArincr of lure, six inches of leaves is put over the bed 5ntly and for about two feet beyond its with outer edges, and these are kept in table place by brush or evergreen boughs, half, protection will be complete. In Holwell land the seed that grows in the great)f all est abundance on the banks of their able, canata is employed with the best suecon cess. t of In this country we have more obhich stacles in the way of climatic influIf ences to contend against than in any i out other. Alternate freezing and thaw>n or ing after the buds appear materially will injure the bloom, and this should be r the guarded against. After the mulching the is removed?as it should be as soon as ack, the plants appear above ground?mats 1 the or other neat covering should be in pre- readiness to throw over the plants at But night whenever there is an indication with of frost. These should be kept on durfcer ing the day when the temperature is time below the freezing point. With these ? precautions, as large and fair flowers can be produced in this country as in Holland. The tulip will endure hard . froaTintr Hotter t.VmTl t.VlA llVflftinth. font ence difference in the size of bloom and give the healthfulness of plants, between maH those that have been protected and be- those that have not, will be apparent itil I to the most cat>ual observer. The same very is trne of the crocus and the snow* ,oda- drop, while the polyanthus narcissus imit- *8 more tender than the hyacinth, and jpt a must be fully protected.?New Eug, ge|; land Homestead; cialfeed FARM AND GARDEN' NOTES. ih of Save all the waste mortar for the one chickens. lmer Market all the birds that show any leat, signsof weakness. 'kenj If hens are too fat, feed less corn and more oats or wheat. iter. Clean plumage and bright red ially com^8 are indications of good health, light After a hen is three years old the itil I number of eggs will annually depro crease. hing After washing why not utilize the were hot suds by scalding out the hen uare houses? jgan The too free feeding of, alfalfa is apt aaye to have a noticeable effect on the flavor > 'k? of the milk. fex- *ay*nS ?* unusually large eggs ' " is a proof that the hens are in an over10 of audition. bite, Thorough and judicious pruning cer. each year has tendency to prolong the 0f life of the peach tree. are The Plymouth Rock attains laying find maturity earlier than the Wyandotts, 'on't but the latter is the more persistent used layer. IS. it I TKa liana nf KVia email Vtraada afarfc I ' AUW iiuuu V* vuv wavvvtw whma * in laving earlier than those of the larger breeds, but they also begin to fail earlier., As the late summer is the season for ito a budding, many a good-for-nothing roiis fruit tree may be transformed into r l36, something worth haying by the pro'ti?n cess of budding. 2^.a The fairs are good places to root out prejudice and long, deep-set ideas. r?rht '^e w*6e *armer realizes that he cani1" not afford to miss a good thing so he din 8 a^en(^B fairs. ters. *be ^e8' way *? K6* a S?od flock 18 a an to raise it. Keep the best and 6end the inferior to the butcher. Use only a thoroughbred ram, but remember that a pedigree does not make a sheep any mort than a diploma makeB a doctor. There is no doubt, if there was some \ sort of a farm study in tha country ^ -1 1- ? ? J A A f\TTTf\T Q t /*T1 1 . 1 I BCQOOlb UUU CTOU a uwnui uvu ug?.twv>.. J. ture practiced in the school house f.i yards, that there would be a great //1 pain made in the direction of a better I / love for farm life. I '>/ The size of all melons, squash and pumpkins may be increased by pinch'.il ing back the ends of the vines after I fruit haa set. It is also well to remove J J some of the latter blossoms and the J small fruit that will not get large i ... enough to use, thus diverting to what ; is larger the sap that would otherwise i go to waste. The prevailing impression is, that ' where there is an over-abundant crop of either grain, vegetables or fruit one t an- season, the next will be one of soaris of city. Acting upon this suggestion, some fruit growers in the South Atlantic iers, States are making extra efforts toj . was utilize the present unprecedented | >arn, crop, especially of apples, in the best If possible way. . ' ' ^ en" In ordering trees for planting, select j >rns, |he two-year-old apple, pear and plum ,na^" trees instead of three aud four-veareui^* old trees, as they almost invariably oori have more fine, fibrous roots in pro' portion than do the older trees. ite]v v???ti*Aac oan >>0 mnrfl readilv # i U UUQ wwvo VMU w ? 318 11 trained to any desired shape thanoldiucIi er out.a> 'X'he most extensive planters 1 (^e" prefer to plant young trees. i the g.? A Fisherman's Valuable Catch. One of the boats out trolling for salmon in Seattle (Wash.) harbor a few mornings ugo did not bring back e at- a catch of lish, iiut instead the ti6herauly man lind abourd a sack containing 100 and five-tael tins of prepared opium, which ther he had found floating in the bay, The the salmon troller will realize $150 from iious bis morning on the watei.?San Fran* tally cisco Chronicle. >ort- ?m" ilip, Scarlet Flowers al a Fuuerat. bnve A wreath of brilliant scarlet flowers the was laid upon the coffiu of a young ving lad whose recent sudden death threw a it in fashionable family into mourning. It :elli- is no longer necessary that funeral i yet flowers shall be white.?New York ause Times. J , Vy CVHIOUS FACTS. Elks are the worst tempered animals in the world. In England a pear or peach tree is trained like a vine, against the south side of a wall. The largest clock is said to be in ' J Buffalo, N. Y. Its dial plate is twentyfive feet in diameter. It is reported that a mummy of a ? '?> ^ man nine feet high has been discovered near San Diego, Cal. Five hundred and twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-seven cases of salmon were packed in British Columbia thi3 season. A dispatch from Bulawayo, in Matabeleland, South Africa, announces the discovery there of a lot of antique \ 'i jewelry and gold. * In some Southern localities the colored people believe that if a crow croaks an odd number of times, foul weather will follow; if even the day will be fine. The feathery pampas plumes that, either of their naturrl hue or gaudily colored with dyes, are used in so many ways for decorations, come largely from Southern California. George Ullrich, of Jefferson, Iowa, was about to commit suioide with * ' ^ j razor, when he was seized by a fit. Before he came to he was discovered and prevented from making away with himself. A. B. Olingman, of Gornwallis, Oregon, died the other day at the age of. ninety-eight. At his funeral was * son seventy-one, another sixty-six, a daughter sixty-eight, and a great number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A silver watch which was dropped ' in a well in Belfast, Me., twenty-five veais ago, was recovered a day or two ago. "Unlike most watches recovered ^ under such circumstances, this one wasn't running just an if nothing had happened to it. l&SBM Little Charlie Albert, of Stroads- 'V'll burg, Penn., climbed up a rod on a bridge, and ip sliding down his right leg caught in a sharp projection. He hung for some time by his flesh, which- v "fja finally gave way and he fell to the I u bridge beneath. A good-sized bear was killed in the ;r-vl city limits of Montesano, Wash., last week. The animal strayed in from re* the near-by forest and crot within four blocks of the Court House before any' ; one appeared with a gun. Then a fburteen-year-old boy killed it. Twelve years ago Charles Welkins was pardoned ont of the Arkansas , penitentiary on condition that ho would leave the State and stay away. Some time since he went baok and began to take a hand in polities. His enemies have revived the old sentence and he is again in the penitentiary. A bean has been in the ear of little Lizzie Dellioker, of Pottstown, Penn., for thirteen years. She is the daughter of William Dellicker, and when an infant she put the bean in her right . v' ear. It has recently caused her mnoh suffering, and a surgeon performed an operation which brought some relief. . An effort will now be made to remove A School-Ulrl Wile. Arrayed in her sua bonaet and * checked apron,with school satchel and lunch basket, the yoang wife of General Cassias M. Clay, the ooto* geaarian sage of White Hall, may b? seen every week day morning with the other children on her way to '' school to the little unpretentioas oneroom school hoase near her palatial home at Waco, Ky. j&M When the General married her, last spring, she was only fifteen years old, and her parents having been of the humblest olass she had no opportunity to acquire an education. In doznes* t tic economy, however, she was an ex? pert, knowing how to milk, maki butter, cook aud attend to the hous$. : Since their marriage, however, the i old General, who owns one of the most magnificent places in Kentuoky, and lives in scholarly ease with his books, ', ~'i;; pictures and papers, has been trying to wean her from her former plebeian Ip'A ways and make her a congenial com* panion. With this end in view he haa had several governesses at White Hall Al 4 Vinf onHnAfifcinff the lllti pWb Duujmo&i MM* Q last one, it is said, of trying to prejudice his wife against him by telling her that she was too young and hand* some for her gray-bearded partner, hf dismissed her, starting his wife to th? common school near by, presided J oyer by a Miss Tudor, a very'accomplished teacher. The General, it is said, is as foolish over his young wife now as when they were married, and ha3 one of hii armed retainers to accompany her to and from school. She is said to be very bright, and obeys her aged hus? band with filial submission, never going away from the house without asking his leave. Her name is Dora, but in speaking of her to his friend* he invariably calls her his "peasant wife."?St. Louis Star-Sayings, Not So Funnj Alter All. T^o little fellows strucK a mine 01 . -v. amusement one day last week and worked it for all he was worth. Their plan was to stand at the street corner, and when a pedestrian got in < -J good range they called out exoitedly, pointing to the victim's feet: "Say I You dropped your footsteps !" It was great fun for the boys. Presently an old lady approached the oorner. She was fat and looked important. The boys hugged them< selves in sheer delight. This time, to prolong the enjoyment, they began. "Sav, missus! 'Scuse us, but you dropped somethink!" "Dear me! What? Such nice little boys, I'm sure." And she stopped and picked up a silver quarter lying directly before her and tailed off.? Philadelphia Times. L'nzzard Attacks a Train. : A railroad man from Pensacola told a Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald reporter that a few nights since a buzzard hew against the headlight of an engine drawing the mail iratn on the Pensacola and Atlantic liailroad, between Bonifay and Caryville. The ~i? ?:tu jftr^U Uiru DiiuL'a mc ^insn >ntu r>uvu force as to smash it id, and the burner' was knocked off the lamp. The oil caught fire and the buzzard was nearly roasted before it was released,which had to be done with a crowbar. * ' ?vii