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"rev. dr. talmagr SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TIIE NOTED DIVINE. Snbject: "The Disabled." Text: "As his part is that proeth down to the battle, so shall his part bethattarrietli by the stuff."?I Samuel xxx., 24. It yoxt have never seen an army change quarters you have no idei of the amount of , baeKage?twenty loads, fifty loads, 100 loads of baggage. David ntid his army were about to start 011 a double quick march for the recovery of their captured families from the Amalekite.c. So they left by the brook Bosor their blankets, their knapsacks, their baggage and their carriages. Who shall be detailed to watch this stuff? There are sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers who are not able to go on swift military expedition, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed to watch the bagsjage. There is many a soldier who is not strong enough to maroii thirty miles in a day and then plunge into a ten hours' fight who is able with drawn sword lifted against his shoulder to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep oft au enemy who raiprht put the torch to the bagcage. There are 200 of those crippled and ased wounded soldiers detailed to watch the baggage. Some of them. I suppose, had bandages across th? brow, and some of tham had their arms in sliners, and some of them wa'ked on crutches. They were not cowards shirking duty. They had fought in manv a fierce battle for their country and their Goi. They are now part of the tim>i in hospital and part of the time on garrison duty. They almost cry because they cannot go with the _ other troops to thci front. While these sentinels watch the baggage the Lord watches the sentinels. There is quite a different scene beine enacted in thedistance. The Amalnkites, hav* ing ravaged and ransacked and robbed whole oountries. are celebrating their success in a roaring carousal. Some of them are dancin? ?? loTtm urifl, nrnnflnrfn! cvrfttion of heel and tew. and some of them are examining the spoils of victory?the Anger rinsjs and earring and necklaces, the wristlets, the headbands, diamond starred, and'the coffers with coronets and camelions and pearls aai sapphire' and emeralds and all the wealth of plate, and jewels and decanters, and the silver and the sold banked up on the earth in princely profusion, and the embroideries, and the robes, and the turbans, and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. The banquet has ffone on until the banqueters are maudlin and weak and stupid and indecent and loathsomely drunk. What a time it is now for David and his men to swoop on them. So the English lost the battle of Bannockburn because the niijht Before they were in wassail and bibulous celebration, while the Scotch were in prayer. So the Syrians were overthrown in their carousal by the Israelites. So Chedorlaomer and his army were overthrown in their carousal by Abraham and his men. So in onr fiivil Warmore than once the battle wa3 lost because one of the generals was druuk. Now is the time for David and his men to swoop upon these carousing Amalekites. Some of the Amalekite3 are hacked to pieoe3 on the spot, some of them are just able to so staggering and hicioughlne: off the field. some of them crawl on camels and speed off in the distance. David and his men gather together the wardrobes, the jewels, and put them upon the backs of camels and into wagons, and they gather together the sheep and cattle that had been stolen and start back toward the garrison. Yonderthey come, yonder they come. The limping men of the garrison come out and trreet them with wild huzza. The Bible says David saluted thom ?that is, he asked them how thev all were. ' How is your broken arm?" "How is your fractured jaw?" "Has the stiffened limb been unlimbered?" "Have you had another chill?" "Are you getting better.'" He saluted them. But now came a very difficult thine. t?e distribution' of the spoils of victory. Drive up those laden camels now. Who shall have the spoils? Well, some selfish soul suggests that these treasures ought all to belong to those who had been out in active service. "We did all the fighting while these men stayed at home in the garrison, and we ought to have all the treasures." Bat David looked fKa fort *a fhoau Vfltflrans whrt had stayed in the garrison, and he looked around and saw how cleanly everything had been kept, and he saw that the baggage was all safe, and he knew that the wounded and crippled men would gladly enough have buen at the front it they had been able, and the little general looks up from under his helmet and says, "No, no, let us have fair play," and he rushes up to one of these men and he say?, "Hold your hands together," and the hands are held together, and he fills them with silver! And he rushes up to another man who was sitting away back and had?no idea of getting any of the spoils, and throws a Babylonish garment over him and fills his hand with gold. And he rushes up to another man who had lost all his property in serving God and his country years before, and he drives up some of the cattle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Amalekites. and he gives two or three of the cattle aul three or four of the sheep to this poor man, so he shall always be fed and clothed. He se?3 a man so emaciated and worn out an 1 sick he nAfvU stimulants. Rnd he elves him a little of the wine that he brought from the Amalekite?. Yonder is a man who has no appetite for the rough rations of the army, and he gives him a rare morsel from the Atnalekitish banquet, and the 233 crippled and maimed and ai?ed soldiers who tarried on garrison duty get just as raucti of the spoils of battle as any of the 200 men that went to the front. "As his part is thaf goeth down to the battle, so shall hi3partba that tarrieth by the stuff." The impression is abroad that the Christian rewards are for those who do conspicuous service in distinguished places?great patriots, great preachers, crreat philanthropists. But my text sets forth the idea that there is just as much reward for a man that stays at home and miuds his own business, and who, cripple i and unable to go forth and lead in great movements andin the high places of the earth, does his whole duty just where he is. Garrison duty as important and as remunerative as service at the front. "As his part is that goetft down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." The Earl of Kintore said to me in an English railway, "Mr. Talmage, when you get back to America I want you to preach a sermon on the discharge of ordinary duty in ordinary places, and then send me a copy of it." Afterward an English clergyman, coming to this land, brought from the Earl of Kintore the same message. Aias, mat Defore I got ready to do what ho asked me to do the good Earl of Kintore had departed this life! But that man, surrounded by all palatial surroundings, and in a distinguished sphere, felt sympathetic with those who had ordinary duties to perform in ordinary places and in ordinary ways. A great many people are discouraged when they hear the story of Moses, and of Joshua, and of David, and of Luther, and of John Knox, and of Doborah. and of Florence Nightingale. They say, "Ob, that was all good and right for them, but I shall never be called to receive the law on Mount Sinai. I shall never be called to command the sun aud moon to stand still, I shall never be called to slay a giant, I shall never preach on Mars bill. I shall never defy the Diet of Worms. I shall never be called to make a queen tremble for her crimes, I shall never preside over a hospital." There are women who say, **If I had as brilliant a sphere as those people had I should be as brave and as grand, but my liuslness is to get children off to school, and to hunt up things when they are lost, and to fee that dinner is ready, and to keep account i.AiioQlinl,! flvnttiiQpe nnd tn liinlpr the children from being strangulated by the whooping cough, and to go through all the annoyances and vexations of housekeeping. Oh, my sphere is so inflnitesiaia , and so in- | significant, I am clear discourage!." Woman, God places you ou garrison duty, and your reward will be just a* great its that of Florencn Nightingale, who, moving so often night by night with a light in her hand through the hospitals. was called by the wounded the 'lady of the lamp." Your reward will be just as great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, who built and eudowed theological seminary buildings. Your reward will be just as great as that of Hannah More, who by her excellent books won for hf>r admirers Garriek and Edmund Burke and Joshua Reynolds. Rewards are not to be given according to the amount of noise you make in the world, nor even according to the amount of good you do. but according to whether you work to your full capaoity, aocordlng to whether or not you do your full duty in the sphero where God has placed you .* *' . . i 1 , % 8upposeyou give to two of your childre errands, and they are to go oft to make pu chases, and to one you give $1 andtotl other you give-S2<\ Do you reward the be that you gave $20 to for purchasing moi with that amount of money than the othi boy purchased with 31? Of course not! God give wealth or social position or eli quenee, or twenty times the faculty to a ma than He gives to the ordinary man, is He gi ing to give to the favored man a reward bi cause he has more power and more influenci On. no. In other words, if you and 1 wei to do our whole duty, Rnd you had t went times more talent than I have, you will g< no more divine reward than I will, Is Go going to reward you because He gave yo more? That would not bo fair; that woul not be right. Those 200 men of the text wh fainted hv the brook Besor did their whol duty. They watched the baggage, they too care of the stuff, and they got as much of tti spoils of victory as the men who went t the frout. "'As his part is that goeth dow to the battle, so shall his part bo that ta] rieth by the stuff." There is high encouragement in this fo all who have great responsibility and lilt! credit for what they do. You know th name3 of the great commercial houses c niflos TY-v vaii I-nnttr tho nnmac nf th confidential clerks?the men who have th key to the safe, the men who know the fom bination lock? A distinguished merchan (roes forth at the watering place, and h flashes past, anl you say, "Who is that? "Oh," replies some one, "don't you know That is the great importer; that is th great banker; that is the great manufac turer." The confidential clerk has his wee off. Nobody notices whether he comes o goes. Nobody knows him. and afte awhile his week is done, and he sit down atrain at his desk. But (rod wil reward his fidelity just as much as He recoj? nlzes the work of the merchant philanthro pist whosa investment this unknown oler so carefully guarded. Hudson River Rail road, Pennsylvania Railroad. Erie Railroad New York and New Haven Railroad?busl ness men know the name? of the President of these roaJs and of the prominent directorbut they do not know the names of the en gineers, the names of the switchmen, th names of jhe flagmen, the names of th brakemen. * These men have awful w sponsibilities, and sometimes, throug the recklessness of an enginee or the unfaithfulness of a switch man, it has brought to mind the faithfulne3 of nearly all the rest of them. Some men d not have recognition of their services. The have small wages and much complaint, very often ride upon locomotives, and I ver often ask the question, as we shoot aroun< some curve or under some ledge of rock< "How much wages do you get?" And I ai always surprised to find how little for sue vast responsibility. Do you suppose God i not going to recognize that fidelity? Thoma Scott, the President of the Pennsylvani Railroad, going up at death to receive froi God hi3 destiny, was no better known i that hour than was known last night th brakeman who. on the Erie Railroad, wc iammed to death amid the car coupling; "As his part i9 that goeth down to the ba1 tie, so shall his part be that tarrieth by tb stuff." Unce lor tnircy-six nours wo oxpocto every moment to go to the bottom of th ocean. The wave3 struck through the skj lights and rushed down into the hold of th ship and hissed against the boilers. . It wa an awful time, but by the blessing of Go and the faithfulness of the men in charge w came out of the cyclone, and we arrived t home. Each onebefore leaving the shi thanked Captain Andrews. I do not thin there was a man or woman thit went o that ship without thanking Captain Andrew: and when, years after, I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of cot dolence to his family in Liverpool. Ei erybody recognized the goodness, the coui age, the kindness of Captain Andrews, bt it occurs to me now that we never thanke the engineer. He stood away down in th darkness, amid the hissing furnaces, doin his whole duty. Nobody thanked the eng neer, but God recognized his heroism an his oontinuance and his fidelity, and thei will be just a3 high reward for the enginee who worked out of sight as the Captain wh stood on the bridgs of the ship in the midi of the howling tempest. "As his part is th! goeth down to the battle, so shall his pai be that tarrieth by the stuff." Fret not. ye aged ones. Just tarry by tV stuff and wait for your share of the spoil Yonder they are coming. I hear the blea ing of the fat lambs, and I see the jewe glint in the sun. It makes me laugh to thir how you will be surprised when they thro a ohain of gold over your neok and tell yc to go in and dine with the king. I see yc backing out because you feel unworthy. Tt shining ones comes up on the one side at the shining ones come up on the other sid and they push you on, and they pu< you up, and they say, "Here an old soldier of Jesus Christ," ar the shinine ones will rush out toward vo and say, "Yes; that man saved my soul." < they will rush out and say, "Oh, ves; si was with me in the last sickness!" Aud th? the cry will go round the circle: "Comeii come in, come in. come ud! We saw yo away down there, 6ld and sick and decrep and discouraged because you could not k to the front, but 'As his part Is that gostl down to the battle, so shall his part be th: tarrieth by the stuff.'" There is high consolation niso m tnis ic aged minister. I see some of them here t< day. They sit in pews in our churche. They used to stand in pulpits. Their ha is white with the blossoms of the tree < life, their names marked on the roll of tta peneral assembly, or of the consociatioi emeritus. They sometimes hear a text ai nouuced which brings to mind a sermon th< preached fifty years ago on the same sal ject. They preached more gospel on $400 year than some of their successors preach o 84000. Some Sunday the old minister is i a church, and near by in another pe there are a husband and a wife and row of children. And after the benedi< tion the lady comes up and says. "Do^to you don't know me, do you?" "Well," h says, "your face is familiar, but I cannc call you by namp." "Why," she says, "yo baptized me, and you married me, and yo buried my father and mother and ststers. "Ob. yes,*'he says. "My eyesight isn't c gooa as it used to be." They are in allot churches?the heroes of 1820. the heroes < 1832, the heroes of 1857. By the Ions? era\ trench that cut throuen half a century the have stood sounding the resurrection. The have been in more Balaklavas and have take more Sevastopol? than you ever heard o Sometimes they arct a little fretful becau< they cannot be at the front. They hear tti sound of the battle and the old war hor; champs his bit. But the 60,000 ministers < religion this day standing in the brnnt of th fray shall have no more reward than thos retired veterans. "My father, my fathe the chariots of Israel and the horseme thereof." "As his part is that poeth down t the battle, so shall his part be that tarriet by the stuff." Cheer up.men and women of unapnredate services. You will get your reward, if n< here, hereafter. When Charles Wesley comi up to judgment, and the thousands of sou which were wafted into glory through h sonjp shall be enumerated, he will take hi throne. Then John Wesley will coma up t judgment, and nfter his name has been mei tioned in connection with the salvation < tho millions of souls brought Goi throup the Methodism which he founde! ho wi take his throne. But between the tw thrones of Charles Wesley and John Wesk there will be a throne higher than either, < which shall sit Susannah Wesley, wh with maternal consecration in Epworth re< tory, .Lincolnshire, started those two sou on their triumphant mission of sermon ai scng through all the following ages. 0 what a clay that will be for many wl rocked Christian cradles with weary foe and who patched worn out garments ai darned socks, and out of a small incon made the children comfortable for the wii ter. What a day that will be for those whom the world gave the cold shoulder at eallei them nobodies and begrudged the tha least recognition, an I who, weary ai worn and sick, fainted by the brook B'Jsu Oh, that wilt be a mighty day when tl Sou of David shall distribute amoi them tho garlands, the crowns, the scaptei the chariots, the thrones. And then it shu be found that all who on earth served Gc in inconspicuous spheres receive just much reward as those who filled the earl with upronr of achievement. Tliea the shall understand the height, the depth, tl length, the breadth, the pillared and dom< magnificence of my text, "As his part is th Koeth down to tho battle, so shall his part i thar tarrieth by the stuff." Tlie Number of Bicycle Factories. There are now no leas than one hundr and seventy-five manufacturers of blcyc] in the Uuited States. They have made ai sold.this year over 450,003 bicycles for abo $37,003,000. "JM ABM UBS m if A Vanderbilt Heiress Weds the Du ? of Marlborough, > (ij 3 THE MARRIAGE MAGNIFICEN y it ? d n The Event Took Place la St. Thoma '' Church, New York City?Immei n q Crowd* at the Scene?A Floral Fe! k val, Gorgeous Costnmes, Rare Dei raions and a Brilliant Assemblage. ? No wedding in America was ever oele'ora cd with such elaborate and perfection of c it tails as distinguished that of Miss Consul e Vanderbilt, only daughter and eldest ch ,[ of William Kissam Vanderbilt, and Char i) Richard John Spencer Churchill, ninth Du 9 of Marlborough, which was solemniz l* with unsurpassed splendor and ce ,, mony in St. Thomas's Church, N " York City, in the presence of soi ? 3U00 to 4000 persons, who packed the chur to overflowing. Bishop Potter, of New Yoi k Eiihop Llttlejohn, of Garden City, Lo i I ~ ; ; 1 i ^ 10 FLORAL ADORNMENT OF ST. THOIL d MARLBOROUGH-V ? Island, and the Rev. Dr. John Wesl 0 Brown, pastor of St. Thomas's, officiate In the chancel were a number or oth clergymen, among them the Rev. Dr. J. : ,0 Rylance, rector of St. Mark's Churcb, kt which Mrs. Vanderbilt's family were paris p ioners; the Kev. Mr. Bridges, from t I- church at Islip, Long Island, and the Re jj Walio Burnett, of Southboro. Mass., wl ; was for several years the chaplain at Ble t' heim during the residence there of the Duk< i. grandmother, the Duchess of Marlboroug A Great Throng Near the Church. lt Public interest in the event was marke As early as 9 o'clock throngs of people beg tn o-aflinr on Fifth avenue and on Fiftv-thi ? street, and in anticipation of this200 patrc ?. men were detailed to keep order. Traffic < d Fifth avenue was practically at a standst ,0 n DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH. V? n by noon, owing to the crowds which fill the street. The police succeeded by ha r' work in keeping clear a passage for the cs l* riage?. A cordon of police established "fl >c lines" a saf9 distance above and below t! u church, and nobody was permitted to g 5} through that line who had not a good roasc for doing so. The curiosity of the cro\ ^ was kept at fever heat by the arrival eve '? few seconds of the invited guests. Eeaatiful Decorations. ^ These gue3ts found the church decorati to the perfection of the florist's art. No e 'f! pense was spared to make the interior of t: J j ^ J nj J 4JL i&WWwi lo - a i en ui m a~ THE VAXDEKBILTOIA.ll lo i'l cdiflce as beautiful asno?sihle. The intern in. which is a trifle gloomy in tone, was decoi id led with flowers and brightened with a wo r. rlerful arrangement of electric lights. T lie- vestibule, under the skillful hands of floi ig experts, was transformed into a magniflce 'Is, conservatory of the rarest tropical plants a: .11 flower.'?. TU?i walls were decorated as we >il the columns and even the ceilings. Stran as of flowers, ropes of flowers, ribbons of llo :h ers swung from every available point a sy made the interior of the church seem a see he of fragrant floral beautv. sd At a few minutes before, tho hour sot f at the ceremonies Mrs. William K. Vanberbi be the bride's mother, arrived at th? o.hurc , and as she entered it a buzz of adinirati filled the church. She wore a eiel blue goi r%f fhA lafpaf Pnriainn ihn hnrnJwfirru ed one of its kind yet seen in New York. T |eg rich effect produced by the garniturings xd Russian sable and the soft blue of the found ut tion was dazzling and tasty. The waist w e'.ose fitting, emphasizing "the graceful lii |f| of the wearer's symmetrical figure. The rest mp i\ of white mousseline de sole, embroidered in IU sea-green pearls and silver, made a most fas- olt cinating ornamentation. The skirt swept away from the waist and lip3 in empress lines and ended in a chort but royal train j ke very well held in place by its linings. Mrs. ne Vanderbilt was crowned with a Russian to- an que of the same material as her costume. un Mrs. Vanderbilt and her friends were ini shown to the seats of honor in the front of the churoh. Opposite her in the front pew J, on the other side of the aisle sat Sir Julian an Pauncefote, the British Ambassador at Wash- ba ington, and his family. With him were also djj the English guests, who came over hero for s's the wedding. de ise The wedding Jfarty Appears. wr ,u" The first of the principals to arrive was the av co- young Duke, who, clad in a suit of gray,th6 by coat of which was the regulation frock, took fr< a carriage at the Plaza Hotel at 11.40 o clock ou and was driven to the church by a coach- Tt lt~ man in white livery. There was no footman, wf le- The bride-elect, accompanied by her father, foi 3l0 and followed by carriages containing the an ... bridesmaids and ushers, reached the entrance all to the church five minutes after the Duke's wt les carriage arrived. The party stood in the flo ke vestibule of the church and there arranged na ecj the procession. ' Just at 12.15 o'clock the orchestra burst Tl r0" forth with the triumphant strains of the of ew bridal chorus from "Lohengrin." The Duke dii ne of Marlborough and his best man, the Hon. ch Ivor C. Guest, advanced from the chancel of vestry to the chancel. The Duke was at- sp k: tired in a gray frock suit. He wore patent I., eg leather shoes. He had no gloves on. His yo ?, w< Tt . . - - \ ^ > s*\ v SP \ ki A* ye V i! V j'\j I j , -Dv I ^ ' wil U5'3 CHURCH ON THE MORNING OF THE cloi ANDERBILT WEDDING. to Vft ey best man wore u black frock suit and a silk wa d. four-in-baud tie, but no gloves. At the same ter er time Bishop Littlejohn, Eishop Potter and Va H. the assisting clergymen, the Rev. Dr. J. OOC of Wesley Brown, the Rev. J. H. Rylance, the h- Rev Ralph W. Brydges and the Rev. Waldo he Burnett, took their places. They wore the 1 ?v. usual black cassock and white surplice with ? ho white stoles and their hoods. n- At 12.20 Mr. Damrosch's orchestra, in tfca 3's north gallery, began the strains of the wed:h. ding march, and at the same moment the wedding procession entered through the great east door and marched slowly up the id. centre aisle to the altar. The ushers marched aD at the head of the procession, followed by rd the bridesmaids in couples. The order in >1- which the bridesmaids went to the altar was sn as follows: Miss Katharine Duer. Miss Eisa ill Bronson, Miss May Goelet and Miss Laura ? Jay, Miss Daisy Post and Miss Evelyn Barden, Miss Morton and Miss Marie Winthrop. Last of all came Miss Consuelo Vander- 1 bilt, leaning on the arm of her father. The gowns of the bridesmaids, all of whom were dressed alike, were royal in their style and splendid materials. The , foundation was oyster shell tinted satin, the new and taking shade just out. The skirts flared according to the proper and accepted width and were ornamented by long sash ends of blue ribbon. The bodices were m of the same shimmering material as the K skirts and were covered with old fashioned k! fichus of the Marie Antoinette model. '//j The heads of the young ladles were covered ft with broad brimmed hat3. These were of ^ royal blue, ciel blue and white, and were surmounted with bunches of majestic ciel ^ blue ostrich plumes. This touch of the pic- < turesque gave the scene more color and beauty. The bevy of bridesmaids wore turquoise souvenirs presented by the Duke of Marlborough. The lirldal Gown. I The bridal sown was a poem in cream sat in, tulle, point d'Angleterre and point ap- ? plique lace. The skirt was of unusual as': 5 length, as it just cleared the floor, save ito a where tho long train, Ave yards in measure- Bri ? ment, swept the aisle. The waist was high- r ^ necked, with very full sleeves, close Th fitting below the elbow, and reach- Mr ing over the hand in the shape of a Bri gauntlet. The front of the gown was a FJ( mass of lace stripes, frills and flounces, in- ( termingled with half-hidden wreaths and Be garlands of orange blossoms. The waist was t a mass of chiffon and crepe waves, arranged we gracefully with sprays of orange bios- jfu soms. Rsvers of handsome lace fell over Bis the sleeves from the shoulders to the elbow. Wt The train was a marvel, and in itself was jje as handsome as a piece of tapestry. It (jai shimmered forth in box pleats, seed '?>h ~ pearls and silver galloon. The border was prj , an exquisite framing of silver and white, and t ra it shone with a rare splendor. It seemed to tr" ciist a circle of light about the bride. The de- ^ 5e sign within the border was bunches cf rose f1? leaves tied with a lovers' knot; The great 'et veil was of tho finest and daintiest of Brussels net and fastened to the regal coiffure oj ra a tiara of orange blooms. Pr ry * Made Man and Wife. ^ As the procession reached the chancel '10 ad rail, tho bridal party separated and forming dc( x- two lines grouped themselves about th? he bride and bridegroom, who advanced to the ; as "A an pei LEOROUGH WEDDING DELL. J"' ">r, front of the altar, where the clergyman ;ia 11- Stood. ttt: n- When everyone was in position the choru? he of fifty voices .-aag 2:irnby's hy;nu, "Ob, ral Perfect L^ve." Dr. Drown then pronounced ~y nt the exhortation, and Bishop Potter charged tu* ud the pair. Bishop Littlejohn performed tht* r? ceremony proper. Then Bishop Potter ,ds o/T'jred the prayer, ufter which Bishop Lit- at?? w- tlejohn pronounced the benediction. J nd While the wedding.parly was still kneeling ne the choir softly saug the anthem, "Deus Misereatur," from the Sixty-seventh Psalm. ~? or After a pause of a second or two the large uel It, orchestra and orsati combined pealed forth h, the march from "Tanuhaussr," and the Duke 011 and Duchess left the chancel, aad the bridesivn maids distributed flowers among the congreJst gation. t ho The brido and bridegroom ai. once went Cftr of into a side room where, with Sir Julian q8 la- Paunceforte and W. K. Vanderbllt as wit- teu as uesses, they signs i the marriage register. pr(= ies HituriLng to the body ol the cituroh tney i o ' . i ' irciie.-i down the aisle to Hie wedding ireh from "Tannhauser." The ceremony ogether lasted about forty-five minutes. At the 'Wedding: Reception. Is soon as the church service was over the w Duchess returned to her mother's home, d, with the Duke, took up her position der the floral wedding bell in the drawj-room and received congratulations, rho open space under the grand stairway is shut off from view with stands of ferns d potted plants, and there the Hungarian nd played during the reception and wedacr breakfast. The most conspicuous feature of the corations of this room was the immense iddinsr bell of lilies of the vallev. which is suspended near the Madison enue side of the house and flanked two splendid fem palms standing in >nt of the wide windows and shutting it the view from the street below, le floral boll was of open work and is so light that it seemed to sway back and rth with the slightest brsath. The ferns ,d palms were arranged in such a way that I the windows seemed to be set in a solid ill of green, in which thfl most beautiful iwers were blooming tas if they grew thera turally. The wedding presents were not shown, le gifts were arranged on the third floor rne nouse, ana inose Diaaen to ine weung had seen them before. A.t 3 o'clock p. m. the Duke and Duchess Marlborough started for Mr. Vanderbilt's lendid estate?Idle Hour, at Oakdale. L. there to spend their'honeymoon. The ung couple will sail* for Europe In a few jeks, going at once to the south of France. iey will not arrive at Blenheim until next ring. The Bride and Kridegroom. Charles Richard John Spencer Churchiil is twenty-three years of age on November; , 1894. He attained his majority just four ars after the death of his father, the late^ ike. He is the ninth Duke of Marlborough,, d bears also the titles of Marquis of Blan-I :d, Earl of Marlborough, Earl of Sunderld, Baron Spencer of Wormleighton. Baron| urchill of Sandridge. Prince of the Holy, man Empire and Prince of Mundelheim; Suabia. His mother is the daughter of j late Duke of Abercorn. She was divorced >m her husband, who subsequently married s. Hamersley, of New York. The Duke of: irlborough was educated at Trinity Colre, Cambridge, obtaining his degree about; ear ago. The first Duke of Marlborough; 3 John Churchill, the great General. Hej )d without male issue, and his title passed the second son of his daughter, the Count-! i of Sunderland. In 1703 the fourth Dukei Marlborough got permission to take the; me of Churchill, since that name had! ssed out of existence in the family. ! fhe bride, MissConsuelo Vanderbllt. is tho< lest dnughter of William K. Y^nderbilt,! d a great granddaughter of the famous* mmodore Vanderbilt. She is eighteen irs of age and is a tall, slender brunette, | th a profusion of black hair, black eyesl :1 a rich complexion. Her acquaintance j th the Duke of Marlborough began in Lon-; a eighteen months ago. The Duko came j this country in August and visited Mrs. i nderbut at Newport. The engagement; a announced on September 20. Bytho, ms of the marriage settlement William K. ; nderbilt give3 his daughter about $5,000,>. The Cost of It All. rhe cost of the wedding show in St. Thorn DCKE OF MABLBOBODGH. s is estimated at Bcariy 4700,000. The ins are as follows: ido's wedding gowns and garnents $ 6.720.35 o bride's trousseau 10,000.00 s. Vandorbilt's gown 2,000.00 idesmaid's gowns 3,000.00 )ral decoration, St. Thomas's Jhurch 15,000.00 coration of Mrs. Vandorbilt's louse 10,000.00 sdding breakiast ana servico.. o,uuu.uu isic at church and house 8,500.00 shop Littlejohn's fee 2,500.00 fdding presents 350,000.00 w gowns of Invited guests 100,000.00 tering 30.000.00e Duke's wedding outfit 15,'.00 >sents for the bridesmaids and ishers. 1,500 00 fatal $079,270.35 THANKSCIVINC PROCLAMATION. esident Cleveland's Formal Announcement of the Day. ?ho customary Thanksgiving proc!aman was issued by the President formally jlaring Thursday, November 28, to be anksgiving Day. The proclamation reads follows: Proclamation by the President of the Jnited States. The constant goodness and forbearance Almighty God which have been vouched to the American people during the u-which is just past call for their sinoere cnowledgment and devout gratitude. 'To the end, therefore, that we may with inkful hearts unite in extolling the loving o of our heavenly Father, I. Grover jveland, President of the United States, do reby appoint and set apart Thursday, the h day of the present month of November, a day thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept d observed by all our people. On that day let us forego our usual ocpations. and in our accustomed places of rship join in rendering thanks to the yer of every good and Derfect gift for the unteous returns that have rewarded out# tors in the fields and iu the busy marts of de. for the peace and order that havepreiled throughout the land, lor our proteen from pestilence and dire calamity, and the other blessings that have been showid upon us Irotn an open hand. 'And with our thanksgiving, let us hum* ' ueseech the Lord to so incline the hearts our people unto Him thai; He will not ,ve us nor forsake us as a Nation, but will utinue to us His mercy and protecting e. guiding us in the path of National prosrity and happiness, euduiug us with reotile and virtue and keeping*alive within us latriotle love for the free institutions which ve been given to us as our National heri:< . And lot us also on the day of our thnnksring especially remember the poor and jdy, and by deeds of charity let us. show ; sincerity of our gratitude. Iu witncM whereof I have hereunto set ? 1 i ? ,1 ?|%J? tho TTrtlfasI I1UDU mill ' illl.-5l.-u lui; ijvui wt. luu ites to be affixed. Signed) Grovkb Cleveland. 'Done at the city of Washington this irth day of November, iu the year of our rd 1895, and iu the 12Uh year of the Icpemlence of the (Juitcd Stales. 'By the President: T.iciiaud Olney. Secretary of State.' Interesting Birthday Present. lq interesting birthday present which ne to Captain A. M. Wilson, of Wayeross, on his seventy-ninth anniversary was a ,-pound boy baby. His wife made the isent while a dozen or more friends were the iiouse presentiug their congratulations tiir Caotaln oa his birthday : - . :;V: . - Vf RELIGIOUS READING KINDNESS OF THE ANGEL OF DEATX He comforts in bereavement by showing svhat death is to a Christian. If we co jee what dying means to our beloved one, oouid not weep. There is a beautiful at of a boy whose younjj sister was dying. hail Imnr.l tltaf if ho nAiiltl aaniira tint rt oln '.eat from the tree of life, that grew in garden of God, the illness could bo heal He set out to tlnd the garden, and impl rhe angel sentinel to let him have one 1< The angel asked ihe boy if he could proa that his fister should never be sick any m if his request were grunted, and that should never be unhappy,nor do wrong.no cold or hungry, nor be treated harshly. 'J boy said he could not promise. Then angel opened the gate a little way, bidd the child to look into tho garden for a r meat, to have one glimpse of the gard "1'h-n, if you still wish it," said tho anj "I will myself ask the King for a leaf ft th* tree of life to heal your sister." ' . hild looked in, and, after seeing all the w drous beauty and blessedness, he said so! to the angel, "I will not ask for the leaf ni There is no place in all this world so beai ful as that. There is no friend so kind as Angel of Death. I wish he would take too." If we could look in at tho gate throi which our loved ones pass, when they lei us, we should be comforted. "Absent ft the body," they are ''at home with Lord." Dying is translation. It is pass into blessed life. "Life, like a door of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Until death-tramples it to fragments." ?S. S. Timei DO YOOB WORK FOB OOD. All work is for God, in a certain sei We do our business for Him. We keep ho for Him. We drive the team or run the gine, or keep the books, or sell the goods carry the mail, or sew the 9eams, or bi the house for Him. Hence we must honest and good work always, wnate ver occupation. It is ali for God's eye. Yet i true that besides what we call our weekn work, all of us have special work to do God, our "Father's business." We are this world for Christ. Part of our dutj addition to our secular affairs is to do goo the ways that our divine Master may indii to perform the tasks of love and service that allots to us. All of our busy days, for ample, we are to be gentle, kindly, pati Christly, to every, one whose life touc ours. In the heaviest pressure of our tt work we must never fail to do the kindr that we are called to do. We must never too much occupied in this world's affair do the work of the good Samaritan, if by path we find a wounded brother. We n get into every one of our days some work Christ. We all remember the story of , king who counted that day lost in wl I some other life had not been made hapj That day is lost in a Christian life whiou no record of blessing to the world and gl to God.?J. ft filler, D. D. WHAT IS CONVERSION? Conversion is nothing more nor less ti tho enthronement of divine love in the man heart. When the love of God beco: regnant or dominant in the soul of man, t and not till then, has that soul underg the great change which we call regenerati /or thfc new birth. Thi3 is the beginning the Christian life. in no longer reigns; 1 reigns. Self takes a secondary pit God is crowned a3 monarch in stead. The life that the believer ii he lives unto God. He no loi presents his members unto sin as instrum : of righteousness, but he presents bin] unto God as alive from the dead, and members as instruments of righteous Sin no more has dominion over him; "fie freed from its rule, given power to overci its temptations at every point. Both I and Jobn matte this abundantly clear, the experience of every child of God < firms it. The phrase, "love enthroned,' not n description of the state of mature ciples only, but of all genuine disoiples, who are godly. FOB THE GOOD WE CAN DO. Sickness and limitation shut many in J _row places. "I am no longer of use to "one. "I am only in tb% way." "I cai understand how such beautiful and us persons can die while I am ieit, notning a hindrance." When ambition is sacrlfl and the most made of what we have; w those who are limited are willing to be si if God can fill a small place with th when those who are sick are wll that God should uso them as a mi for developing tenderness and hi fulness iu those who minister to them, tl according to their ability and opportui they will be saviors in holy fellowship 1 Jesus Christ. You may uot understand you may resist it, but nothing is clearer I that those who would ba happy must c to seek happiness, and ask only the privi of giving. The song w.li rise "in our he when we cease to live for ourselves and gin to live for the good that we can d Amory H. Bradford, D. D. 1 MELANCHOLY HARMONY. The leaves are thinning and chanj color; I watch them turning red on the j trees, gray on the plums, yellow on the 1 nut trees, and tingiDg the thickly-strewn with shades of re idish-brown. We are n< ing the end of the fine weather; coloring is the coloring of late autui there is no need now to keep out of the i Everything is soberer, more measured, n fugitive, less emphatic. Energy is g< youth is post, prodigality at an end, the s iner over. The year is on the wane, tends towards winter; it is once more in mony with my own a?e and position, next Sunday it will keep my birthday, these different consonances form a me choly harmony.?Henri Frederic Amiel. A3 LITTLE CHII.DKfc>. The oldest aud wisest of us may be as II children in our communion with a pra, hearing God. No errand too trivial to 1 us thither. We may connect all the iss of life with the control of that overru will. We may put our hand in that patei hand, no matter bow narrow the chRsm. look trustfully ami hopefully for th at a; ing guidance. Ah, if we could lea'rn lesson of filial trust at every stop of our v along our earthly pilgramage, no matter 1 steep or rough or obscure the path, it wo guide us aafely and surely home to father's house. BLUNDERS. There are few blun lers more irritating pitiful thau those with right motives sho be.tboughtful in their acts. There is a < torn common to some good women (and some ministers) of showing their attitude general benevolence to the world at la by addressing indiscriminately as "de the people with whom they come contact. This paragraph does not r< to the society woman so-called, but ol to tne religious society wuumu, wuu r? . to show kindness to those younger or I fortunate than herself. Undoubtedly tb are occasions when such a word does br help to a discouraged soul, but empbaticr it must be "fitly spoken." Ordinarily it best to reserve even as mild a term a- "dej for use with those who are nearest to us relation or friendship. Otherwise its use proaches dangerously near cant. A gentleman passing a weather-vane w the motto, "God is love." upon it. said to I owner. "Do you mean that the love of (i is as ilckle as the wind ?" "fly no mean was the reply. "I wan that no matter wb way the wind blows, whether the bit north, the damp east, or the warm soi wind, God is love."?N. Y. Evangelist. New I<le:? on Advertising. A merchant in the interior of Mic'iin Ins evolved a novel advertisina: scheme, I is in some doubt as to his right to use The plan is to stick a palter on a silver dol which sriys: "Henri or brim- me b ick to t store of?. wherel'mworthSl.Oa." Assist* District Attorney Wilkius received a let from the originator of the p an, asking there is any provision of the Treasury 1 partment against it. Mr. Wilkins answe; that there is no statute to prevent it. has, however, written to the Secretary the Treasuryt.o ascertain if the departtnf has any ruling which prevents the uae United States ojinj for advertising p; oosas. ~T : "/ . . * . . * V 4' a. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOBNOVEMBER 24. ; us uld we Lesson Text: "The Woes of Intern-* perance," Isaiah v., 11-23? gie Golden Text: Isaiah vM 11 the ?Commentary. ed. , ore ;a(. 11. "Woe unto them thai rise up early in lise the morning that they may follow strong ore drink." This is given to us as a temperance she lesson, but the six woes of this chanter flbrbe elude u good deal more than the' strong: * rhe drink question. The whole chapter tells of the Israel's sin and the coming judgments and ing is suggestive of the sins of the day which ar? no- found "in the church everywhere. " The house en. of Israel was the Lord's vineyard and tht* jel, men of Judah His pleasant plant. Ho did om everything possible for them and expected rhe from them the fruits of righteousness, but /\r?_ fnun/1 Anlt? AnnwusaiAn un/1 /lAnafAiionmsa nnri ft ly self indulgence (verses 7. 8). ow. 12. ' 'They regard not the work of the Lord, jti- neither consider the operations of His the hands." There is such a thing as being .me drunken, but not with wine (Isa. xxix., 9; Jl., 21). All kinds of living unto self and for lgh self make us blind and deaf to the things of ive God. As strong ilrlnk tends to produce a om false and transient exhilaration, making on? the forget sorrow for the tim6 being, so whating ever blinds us to the realities of our relations to God and man Is a kind of intemovronce and drunkenness. 13. "Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge.'* The leaders who in those days should have taught the people the knowledge and fear of the Lord were living unto themselves, and telling the people smooth things and lies (Ezek. xxxiv., 2; Jer. vL. 30, 31; vL, 18). J * Just as strong drink is a deceitful thing and makes a man's vision and mind to be all wrong, so the world and the flesh controlled *. , by the devil blind and harden men and they "Jl* believe lies and consider them truths. Thw ? knowledge of the Lord is the remedy. 14. "Therefore hell hath enlarged herself L and opened her mouth without measure." a.ay The place of the lost (not the lake of Are I which Is tne final abode of the lost/ but the r . place of departed spirits where the lost la \ , torment await the resurrection of the body) , n becomes rapidly filled by the literal and flg"?e urative drunkards who will not receive the ' knowledge of God; so that it looks as if the place might have to be enlarged to receive ehnt> all who come, so great is the multitude. :a?s 15. "And the mean man shall be brought l9K* down, and the mighty man. shall be hutnbled." Compare chapter ii.. 11,12. 17, and oe see how all that is lofty and haughty and 8 t0 proud and lifted up shall be brought down, 0UJ; and the Lord alone exalted in that day. Eveu Nebuchadnezzar testified that "those that i~r walk in pride He is able to abase," for he, t. ? when hardened in pride, was made to come ycn down (Dan. iv., 37; v., 20, margin). Jere- ' '*0r- miah testifies that Jerusalem came down ha3 wonderfully (Sam. L, 9). 0fy 16. "But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall \"i be sanctified in righteousness.*1 It is the Eur pose of God to set His King upon His holy ill of Zion (Ps. it, 6). and He has sworn, a ?ftQ saying, "Surely as I have thought so shall it hu- come to pass, and as I have purposed so shall iues it stand" (Isa. xiv.,24.) "Behold, a king hen shall reign in righteousness, and princes 0Qe shall rule in judgment" (Isa. xxrii., l), then on> shall Jesus have the pre-eminence. of 17. "Then shall the lambs feed after their ove manner." "They shall fe6d in the ways, and lce; their pastures shall be in all high places" lt3 (Tsa. xlix., 9). "David, my servant, shall Ives be kinot over them, and they all "hall have !ger one shepherd" (Ezek. xxxvii.. 24). Thea 0uts shali the upright have dominion over the iself ungodly, and the drunkards shall see, their V his folly when it is too late. esi. is "Woe Unto them tnat draw iniquity > Is with cords of vaxiitv, and sin, as it were,with. ome a cart rope." One in a oettain place tfug?aul gested that if the man they sought was in a and city they would bring. ropes and draw the !-iy :on- whole city into the river. So w? have in this 1 io tni/vrHttr < hoh OAftmQ tffc t ') I verao mat pfovauiii^ ui^ui?j dis- | carry everything and every one along with it all (18am. xvii., 13). 19. "That say. Let Him make speed and . hasten His work that we may see It." They scoff and blaspheme and dare the Almighty to His face. We think of all that was heaped aar> on our Lord in the days of His humiliation any and how He kept quiet and answered not a inot word. God is still keeping silence, and were j eful it not that we understand somewhat of His but ways we might think that there was no God. ced, But see Ps. 1. . 'hen 20. "Woe unto them that call evil good mall and good evil; that put darkness for light em; and light for darkness." There is a fearful ling amount of miscalling of things because peosans pie are not subject to the Word of God. A15 3lp- men are called children of God, and there is *. sen, a spark of the divine nature in every one. Jity, ana there are no hell and no devil and wa ivith are in the millennium now. 'All this is it, drunken talk and lack of subjection to such :han words as John viii., 44; ill., 18; Rom. viii.,7. i - 4 ease 21. "Woe unto them that are wise in their -v" lege own eyes and prudent in their own sight.'* arts From all such the things of God are hidden be- and revealed unto babes (Math, xi., 25). At o.? be3t we only know in part now (I Cor. xiii.. 12) and "If any man think that he knowetlt anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know" (I Cor. viii., 2). God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the jing humble; if, therefore, we will bumble ouriear selves to know nothing apart from the Book tval- we shall'be wise. turf 22. "Woe unto them that are mighty to ear- drink wine, and men of strength to mingle the strong drink." These are the mighty oa inn; their own behalf, fer their own pleasure and sun. benefit?mighty to enjoy self. The Christian's. V tore I ambition is to glorify God and enjoy Him; . 3tie, to be mighty for God and not ior sen. xaw um- secret Is to receive and yield to Him of whom and it is said. "The Lord thy God in the midst bar- of thee is mighty" (Zeph. iii., 17). As to th? and world's mighty ones it is written that "Not All many mighty are called" (I Cor. i., 26). and lan- that we are not to glory in wisdom or might or riches, but in understanding and knowing the Lord (Jer. is., 28, 24). 23. "Which justify the wicked for reward and take away the righteousness of therightIttie eous from him." These are the unjust judges yer- who take bribes and declare the guilty iunoead cent and the innocent guilty; they call back >ues white and white blaok, because it suits them. liuK They have cast away the law of the Lord of rnal Hosts and despised the word of the Hcly On? anj of Israel (verse 24). There is but one right rail- way and that is the way, oven Jesus Christ, tnis the Righteous One. He is the only hope for ray the drunkard or the moral man. He receives jow all who come (Isa. xlv., 22; Actsiv., 12; Joha uld vi., 37).?Lesson Helper. ? our N ' ; DEATH IN COLDEN ROD. A Wisconsin Veterinarian Decides th? or Flower Produce* an Incurable Disease. uld State Veterinarian Dr. C. F. Scott, of Wis2 us- consin, has discovered that under the shaggy to" yellow blossoms .of the golden rod flower i of there lurks the germs of the most danxerooa rj?e disease to horses which has ever been disar" covered. Like consumption it is incurable in and it affects the equine in much the same ?fer way as that disease eats away the life of man. mL . vtnmnf;inff nlant Itfll I JL ua UUlooa nuiuu wok 0 4 uts | go into a gradual decline, the blood is deess s^royed, the tissues waste away aud they die ere in from three weeks to three months. Thouiug sands of horses have perished in the pineries illy of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from is this disease. ir*' The State Veterinarians of these States in have for a long time tried in vain to discover :ip- the cause of it. Dr. Soott said: ''I am satisfled this is where the trouble lies. There no cure for it. Nothing can be done escopt ^ to destroy the leaf and roots." ;he IJerlln'j Industrial Kxlilbltlon. fo.l ,, JJ:>rlin is to'have an industrial oxiiibilion wzt year which, it is thought, will attract a forgo German attendance. Tli^rn will be an interesting feature like that of *'Old London'* at the last exhibition ?t South Keusing.... >i. ?:11 "D!fl Rerlin'' and bo IUII? 11 Will ICj/lwr-mv V - - on a lartre sca'e. One of the items will be a copy of the .-indent Rnthhans, which-was the ' scene of many historic incidents, and of not a few eseilius? episodes which were dealt */ ran with i>y the polico of that day against tha M\t bur^Uuw. _ |;lt- Tlii? T.oromntivp n? a Deep Hunter. b" Tiie headlights of the B. and A. locol,lt motives attract the deer from the lon< t'.'J; . stretches of virgin forests in Maine. through ' which the road runs, and frequently the animal ventures upon the track and is rna down. Two were killed at tho saa? tin* "'! in this manner a few days aso. A Monoier Be!I. ir- T1'** 'irge*t swinsrins; bsll in the world has !uit b32a cast In Cincinnati. ^