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Brev. dr. talmage. ^ SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY^ THE |V NOTED DIVINE. W Subject: " A Word With Women." B The text was the following letter received t>y Dr. Talmasre: 8 ''Reverend Sir?Yon delivered a discourse S In answer to a letter from six youncr men of B Fayette, 0.. requestine you to Dreach a serffij mAn on 'Advice to Youn#? Men.' Are we | Justified in askincr you to preach a sermon on 3 'Advice to Youncr Women:* "Letter Sigxed by Sir Yotog Womex." Christ, who took His text from a flock of ! birds flying overhead, saying, "Behold the ! fowls of the air,'" and from the flowers In the valley, saying. "Consider the lilies of the ' field." and from the clucking of a barnyard ' fowl, saying, "As a hen gathered her chick- 1 ?ns under her wins." and from a crystal of ' salt picked ud bv the roadside, saying. "Salt Is good," will grant us a blessing if, instead ' f takintr a text from the Bible, I take for my ' text this letter from Cincinnati, which is only ( one of many letters which I have received 1 from young women in New York. New f Orleans. San Francisco. London, Edinburgh 2 and trom the ends of the earth, all implying 1 that, havinc some nron'hs atjo preached the f sermon on "Advice to Young Men," I could j not, without neglect of duty, refuse to 1 preach a sermon on "Advice to Young Wo- ( men." { Advice the first: Get yonr soul right with 1 God and you will be in the best attitude for c everything that comes. New ways of voyag- ' ins: by sea, new ways of traveling by land, ' new wavs of thrashing the harvest, new ways j f printing books?and the patent office is 1 enough to enchant a man who has mechanl- 1 ?al ingenuity and knows a good deal of ( levers and wheels?and we hardly do anything as it used to be done: invention after invention, invention on top of invention. But In the matter of getting right with God there has not been an invention for 6000 years. It is on the same line, of repentance that David exercised about bis sins, and the same old style of Draver that the publican used when he emphasized it by an inward stroke of both hands, and the same faith iu Christ that Paul suggested to the jailer the sight the penitentiary broke down. Aye, that is the reason I have more confidence in it. It has been tried by more millions than I dare to state lest t come far short of the brilliant facts. All who through Christ earnestly tried to get right with God are right and always will be right. That gives the young woman who gets that position superiority over all rivalries, all jealousies, all v misfortunes, all health failings, all social disasters and all the combined 1 roubles of eighty years, if she shall live to be an octogenarian. If the world fails to appreciate her, she says, "God loves me, the angels in heaven are In sympathy with me. and I can afford to be patient until the day when the imperial chariot shall wheel to my door to take me iin to mv nnrnnation'' If health sops, she says, "I can endure Ihe present * distress, for I am on the way to a climate J the first breath of which will make me proof * aeainst even the slightest discomfort." If she be jostled with nerturbations of social life, she can say, "Well, when 1 begin my life among the" thrones of heaven and the kings and queens unto God shall be my associates, It will not make much difference who on earth forgot me when the invitations to that reception were made out." All right with God, you are all Mtjht with everything. Martin Luther, writing a letter of condolence to one or his friends who had lost his daughter, began by sayine. ''This is a hard world for girls." It is for those who are dependent upon their own wits, and the whims of the world, and the preferences of human favor, but those who take the Eternal God for their portion not later than fifteen years of a?e, and that is ten years ' later than It ought to be, will find that while Martin Luther's letter of condolence was true in regard to many, if not most,with respect to those who have the wisdom and promptitude and the earnestness to get right with God, I declare that this is a good world for girls. Advice the second: Make it a matter of religion to takecare of your physical health. I do not wonder that the Greeks deified health and hailed Hysreia as a goddess. I rejoice that there have been so many mode3 of maintaining and restoring young womanly health invented into our time. They , may have been known a long time back, but they have been popularized in our daylawn tennis, croquet and "golf and the bioycle. It always seemed strange and inscrutable that our human race should be so slow of locomotion, when creatures of less importance have powers of velocity, wing of bird or foot of antolope, leaving U3 far behind, aad while it seems so important that we be in many places ia a short while we wore weighed down with incapacities, and most men if they run a mile are exhausted or dead from the exhaustion. It was left unttl the last decade of the nineteenth century to give the spend wnich we see whirling through all our cities and along the country roads, ani with that speed comes health. The woman of the next decade will be healthier than at any time since the world was created, while the invalidism which has so often characterized womanhood will pass over to manhood, which by its posture on the wheel is coming to curved spine and cramped chest and a deformity for which ano;h8r fifty years will not have power to make rescue. Young man, sit up straight when you ride. Darwin says the human race is descended . irum iatj muflivoy, out me uicycie win ruru u ' f hundred thousand men of the present gener- * ation in physical condition from man to 1 monkey. For Rood womanhood, I thanic c God that this mode of recreation ha3 been c Invented. Use it wisely, modestly, Chris- s tianly. No good woman needs to be told t what attire is proper and what behavior i3 s right. If anything be doubtful, reject it. A " hoydenish. boisterous, masculine woman is ^ the detestation of all, and every revolution ? of the wheel she rides is toward depreciation s and downfall. Take care of your health, 0 t woman: of your nerves in not reading the 1 trash which makes up ninety-nine out of 100 novels, or by eating too many cornucopias of 3 confectionery! Take care of your eyes by < not reading at hours when you ouijht to be > sleeping. Take cure of your ears by stop- I pine them against the ti?tes of gossip that surge through every neighborhood. s Health! Only those know its value who > have lost it. The earth is girdled with pain, t and a vast proportion of it is the price paid < for early recklessness. 1 close this thought f with the salutation in Macbeth: s Now good digestion wait on appetite 1 And health on both. Advice the third: Appreciate your mother ( while you have her. It is the almost uni- , vereal testimony of young women who have lost mother that they did not realize what ( she was to them until after her exit from j this life. Indeed mother is in the apprecia- f tion of many a young lady a hindrance. The ( maternal inspection is often considered an ] obstacle. Mother has so many uolions about s that which is proper and that which is im- ( proper. It is astounding how much more f many girls know at eighteen than their t mothers at forty-five. With what an ela'oe- s rate argument, perhaps spiced with some g temper, the youngling tries to reverse the s opinion of the oidlintr. The sprinkle of gray , on the maternal forehead is rather an indi- , cation to the recent graduate of the female t seminary that the circumstances of to-day or ] upa nnf fnllv a r\nroni utuH --"J II What a wise boarding school that would beif the mothers were the pupils and the daughters the teachers! How well the teens could chaperon the fifties! Then mothers do not amount to much auyhow. They are in the way and are always asking questions about postage marks of letters, and asking, "Who is that Mary D.?" and "Where did you form that acquaintance. Flora?" and "Where <iid you get that ring, Myra?" For mothers have such unorece lented means of knowing everything?they say "it whs a biri in the air" that told them." Aias, for tha: bir.l in the air! Will not some one lift his gun and shoot it? it would take whole libraries to hold the wisdom which the daughter know3 more than her mother. "Why cannot I have this?" "Whycannot I do that?" And the quasiion in many a grour> has been, although not plainly stated: "What shall we ?.? ?. *V?l. mnfhuiM Thaw urn so Jar .iehia-1 the times." Permit 1 me to suggest that if the mother , had given more time to looking after herself and less time to looking after you she would have been as fu )y up to date as you, in music, in style of gait, in lesthetie tastes and in all sorts of information. I expect that while you were studying botany and chemistry and embroidery and the new opera she was studying household economics. But oue day from overwork, orsittting up of nights with a neighbor's sick child, or a bl st of the vest wind, on which D&eununiasare horjed. ftp . mjmmmm?mmmmtmmmmmanmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammm mother is siolc. Yet (he family think shs will soon be well, for she has been sick s<? often, and always has got well, and the physician comes three times a day, and there is a consultation of the doctors, and the news is gradually broken that recovery is impossible, given in the words "While there is life there is hope." And the white pillow over which are strewn the looks a little tinted with snow becomes the point around which all the family gather, some standing, some kneeling, and the pulse beats the last throb, and the bosom trembles with the last breath, and the qr.estion is asked in a whisper by all the group, "Is she gone?" And all is over. Now come the regrets. Now the datighter reviews her former criticism of maternal supervision, For the first time sho realizes what it is to have a mother and what it is to lose a mother. Tell me, men and women, young and old. did any of us appreciate how much motherwas to us until she was gone? iToung woman, you will probably never have i more disinterested friend than your mother. When she says anything is unsafe or imprudent, you had better believe it is unsafe or imprudent. When she declares it is something you ought to do, I think you had 3eirer ao ir. one nas seen mure u> mo (70rid than you have. Do you think she sould have any mercenary or contemptible notive in what she advises you? She would ?i ve her life for you if it were called for. Do rou know of anyone else who would do nore than that for you? Do you know of inyone who would do as much? Aijain ind again she has already endangered hat life during six weeks of liphtheria or scarlet fever, and she never >ncebrought up the question of whether she lad better stay, breathing day and night the :ontagion. The graveyards are full of mothers who died taking care of their children. Better appreciate your mother before your ippreciation of her will be no kindness to ler, and the post mortem regrets will be nore and more of an agouy as the years pass >n. Big headstones of polished Aberdeen, ind the best epitaphs which the family put ogether and compose, and a garland of vhitest roses from the conservatory are often he attempt to atone for the thanks we >ught to have uttered in living ears, and the cind words that would have done more good han all the calla lilies over piled up on the lilent mounds of the cemeteries. The world makes applaudltory ado over he work of mothers who have raised boys o be great men, and I could turn to my jookshelves and find the names of fifty disinguished men who had great mothers? Duvier's mother, Walter Scott's mother, St. Bernard's mother, Benjamin West's mother. 3ut who praises mothers for what they do or daughters who make the homes of Amerca? I do not know of an instance of such ecognition. I declare to you that I believe am uttering the first wori that has ever >een uttered in appreciation of the self lenial, of the fatigues and good sense ind prayers which those mothers ;o through who navigate a family of rirls from the edge of the cradle to the choolhouse door, and from the schoolhouse looruptothe marriage altar. That is an tchievement which the eternal Ood celestes high upin the heavens, though for it luman hands so seldom c ap the faintest ap>lause. My! Mv! What a time that mother iad with those youngsters, and if she had claxed care and work and advice nud solictation of heavenly help, that next generaion would hava landed in the poorhouse, diot asylum or penitentiary. It is while ihe is living. but never while she is dead, hat some girls call their mother "maternal mcestor" or "the old woman." And if you have a grief already, and some >1 the keenest sorrows of a woman's life some early, roll it over on Christ and you vill find Him more sympathetic than was Jueen Victoria, who, when her children, the >rinces and princesses, came out of the ichoolroom after the morning lesson had >eon given up by their governess and told iow her voice had trembled in the morning jraver because it wa3 the anniversary of her nother's death, and that she had put her lead down on the desk and sobbed 'Mother! Mother!" the queen went in md said to the governess: "My poor shild! I am sorry the children disturbed rou this morning. I will hear their lesson* :o-day, and to show you that I have not forfotten the sad anniversary. I bring you this fift." And the queen clasped on the girl's vrist a mourning: bracelet with a look of hor ?11 All UUUirr n Ilrtll . All JV/U. J VUUt, >iuiuyu uiw world around who mourn a like sorrow, and sometimes in yourlonoliness and sorrow and oss burst out" crying. "Mother! Mother!" jut on your wrist this golden clasp of divine lympathy, "As one whom his mother com'orteth so will I comfort you." Advice the fourth: Allow no time to pass vithout brightening some one's life. Within lve minutes' walk of you there is some one n a tragedy compared with which Shak*meare's "Kintr Lear" or Victor Hugo's 'Jean Valjean" has no power. Go out and >rlghten somebody's life with a cheering vord or smile or a flower. Take a good >ook and read a chanter to that blind man. Jo up that dark alley and make that inralid woman laugh with some good story. Jo to that house from which that child has >eeu taken by death and tell the father and nother what an escape the child has had rom the winter of earth into the springtime of leaven. For God's sake make some one happy or ten minutes if for no lODger a time. A roung woman bound on such a mission? vhat might she not accomplish. Oh. there ire thousands of these manufacturers of unshine. They are "King's Daughters" whether inside or outside that delightful >rganization. They do more cool before hey are twenty years of age than selfish yomen who live ninety, and they are so lappy just because they make others happy. Compare such a young women who feels she ias such a mission with one who lives a ound of vanities, cardcase in hand, calling m people for whom she does not care extept for sotae sooial advantage, and inufferably bored when the call is retimed, and tryinsr to look young after he is old. and living a life of insincerity md hollowness and dramatization andsham. foung woman, live to make others hippy, ind you will be happy. Live for yourself, ind vou will be miserable. There never has >eea au exception to the rule; there never trill be aa rtxceptioo. Youao: woman, draw out and decide what rou will be and do, God helping. Write it >ut in a plain hand, not like the letters vhieh Josephine received from Napoleon in laly, the writins so scrawling and scattered hat it was sometimes taken as a map of the ieat of war. Pat the plan on the wall ot rour room, or write it in the opening of a >l?nk book, or put it where you will be ;ompelle:l often to see it. A thousand lue3tions of your coming life you cannot lettle now, but there in one question you !an settle independent of man, woman, in<rel and devil, and that is that you will be Sod's womin now, henceforth and forever. Hasp hands with the Almijyhty. Pythagoras epresented life by the letter Y, because it arly divides into two ways. Look out for )pportiiniti?5 of cheering," inspiring, ressulig and saving all the people you can. Make i league with the eterniiies. I seek your jresent and everlasting safety. David Brewster said that u comet belonging to our lystem called Lex ill's comet is lost, as it >ueht to have uppeared thirteen times ind hat not appeared at all. Alas, it is lot only the lost comets, but the lost itars, and what were considered fixed [tars. Some of the most brilliant and iteady souls have disappeared. The world vonders at the charge of the Lig'it Brigade, mmort-Uized by Tennyson. Only a few of qo uuu goi uat:k iroui me uuar?c, uuuct !iOrd Cardigan, of the Muscovite guns, and ill the havoo was done in twenty-five minito.-*, the charge beginning at ten minutes >ast 11 o'clock, and closing at thirty-flve ninutes past 11, and yet nothing left on the I?ld but dying and dead men, dying and lead horses. But a smaller proportion of he men and women who into the battle >f life come out unwounded. The slaughter las been and will be terrific. an l we all need Jod and wo need Him now and we need Him ill the time. And let me say there is a new ,vo:nau. as there is a now man, and I bat is he regenerated woman madw such by the ansaabing, transforming, upbuilding, tn lmoiiaul power of the spirit who is so su,)ariov to all oth?r spirits that Ha has been janea lor as;?s the iioiy spirit, yuicicer ;hau wheal ever turned on its axis; quicker thati fleetest hoof ever struck the pavement; quicker than zigzag lightning ?ver dropped [lown the sky, the ransoming power I speak of will revolutionize your entire nature. Then you can start oat on a voyasre of life, defying both calm and cyclone, saying with Dean Alford One who has known in storms to sali 1 have ou board; Above the roaring of the gala I hear my Lord. Ho holds me when the billows 3miie; I shall not fall; If short 'tis sharp, if long 'tis light; He temoors ail. RELIGIOUS READING. LET VOCR HEARTS BURN WITHIN YOUR. We need burning heart9 to Rive U9 powe in working for Christ. It is not merely wha a man speaks or does, but the spirit in whicl he speab3 and acts, that gives him powe with men. It is the man behind the word; which gives them irresistible force, whicl throws them out with projectile power. I was said that every word of some of Webster'! great speeches weighed pounds. Ricbur< Sheridan was accustomed to say, "I often g< to hear Rowland Hill because hw ideas com< red-hot from the heart." Dr. John 31 Mason, when asked for an explanatioi of the remarkable power of Dr Chalmers, repliod, ofter taking tinv for careful consideration, -'His blood earn fatness." If our words are to move mei like an electric battery we must be saturate* with the love of the Lord Jesus. If that lov is in our hearts, it will make our word mighty over the hearts of others; if we an constrained by Christ's love, men will tak knowledce of us that we have been with tbi Lord, and they will yield to the power of hitruth embodied in our lives and preached b; out glowing words. This life will give un speakable joy in our work, and that joy o the Lord will be our strength in manifesting a true Christian character, and in declarinj by our words and acts the glorious gospel o the blessed God.?R. S. MacArthur, D. D., ii ' yuioK 'I rums m yuaia: ibxis. i-lLEXCE IS GCLDEN. There is one sin which is everywhere un derestimated, and quite too much overlooks in valuation of character. It is the sin o fretting. It is as common as air, as speech so common that, unless it rises above it usual monotone, we do not even observe it Watch any ordinary coming together of peo pie and see bow many minutes it will be be fore somebody frets; that is, makes more o less complaining statement of something o other, which, most probably, every one in th< room, or in the car, or on the street corner, i may be,knew before and which probably no body can help. Why say anything about it? 1 is cold, it is hot, it is wet, it is dry; some body has broken an appointment, ill oooket a meal; stupidity or bad faith has resulted iJ discomfort. There are plenty of things t< fret about. It is astonishing how much an noyance may be found in the course of ever day's living, even at the simplest, if one onl,1 keeps a sharp eye out on that side of things Even Holy Writ says we are prone to troubli as sparks to fly upward. But even the spark! that fly upward in the blackest of smoke there is a blue sky above; and the less timi they waste on the road the sooner they wil reach it Frettintr is all time wasted on th road?Herald of Peace. 8TFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY, ETC. God does not open paths for us in advanci ofourcoming. He does not promise to hel| before help is needed. He does not removi obstacles out of our way before we read them. Yet when we are "on the edge of ou need, God's hand is stretched out. Man; people forget this, and are forever worryinj about difficulties which they foresee in thi future. They expect that God is going tf make the way plain and open befon them, miles ana miles aneaa, wnereas jtic oa promised to do it only step by step fi they move on. There is a promise whict rends: "When thou passeth through the wa ters, I will bo with them." You must get t< the waters and into their floods before yoi can claim this promise. Many people dreac death and lament that they have not "dyin> grace." Of course they will not have dyini grace when they are in good health, in th midst of life's duties, with death far in ad vance. Why should they have it then Grace for duty is what they need lhen,livin| grace: then dying grace when they come t< die. When their feet are dipped in the briu of Jordan, the torrent will sink away.?J. H Miller. STMVE TO KEEP YOUNO. Rarely do those ''outlive their usefulness' who, not suffering their powers to fail frott indolence and luxurious pampering, lovi more and more the beauty of this beautifu world; who rejoice in all new movements l;< help man's progress, aiding them so far a! Eossible: who keep the iniud bright witi igh thoughts from *:ood books, the hear warm with the love of little children; who inaeea, cultivate a iivcijr iuiciosi. iu uumai beings generally; above all, whose souli are filled with that ever-presen consciousness of God'g love which give! ropose for this life and trust for the next The peace of God that passeth understand ing fills tboir hearts with quiet sunshine t< the Inst. The dying year wanes to a Decern ber close, only to usher in a joyous Nev Year, full of ldrger possibilities. The sui sets,but its radiant after glories hints the com ing dawn. The autumn leaf, bright to tin last, falls from the tree, but only becausi pushed off by the eager new life crowdiri) behind, the bud already formod, ready to ex pand in the temlter warmth of the quick coming springtime. ? Rev. I*. Thorne, ii Christian Register. | PLUCKED AS BBAND8 FROM THE BURNING. There is not one of us who cannot se< points in the past whore we hud almost gone and our footsteps had well-nigh slipped; precipices alonfr the brink of which we wen at nightfall, horrified in the moruing to se< how near our footprinls had been to the edge Repeatedly we have been within a hair breadth of taking some fatal step, yielding to some imperious temptation, striking i Faust-like bargain with the devil. Hov nearly we were caught iu that eddy How strangely we were plucked ou of that companionship! How marvelousl; we were saved from inat marriage, from tha investment, from embarking in thnt ship, traveling by that train, taking shares in tha! eomnanv! There is somethine to be exDlainec in the lives of men which they cannot accoun for. They describe tbeir consciousness o this anonymous element,as it has been called by the words "luck," ''fortune," "chance but these are mere subterfuges, sop throw: to silence the appeals of tbeir common sense We know better. It is God who girded us though we did not know him.?Rev. F. ? Meyer. SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF OM>. The worst part of martyrdom is not th< last agonizing moment: it is the wearin; ?laih steadfastness. There are many Chris tians who have the weight of some deep, in communicable grief pressing, cold as ice, up on their hearts, lo bear that cheerful!] and manfully is to be a martyr. There i! many a Christian bereaved and stricken ir the best hopes of life. For swell a one to saj quietlv. Father, not us I will, but as Tboi wilt," is to be a martyr.?Fredtrick W, Robertson. BE PURIFIED AS BY FIRF.. Often precious stones are put into the firt The Oriental cornelian and Brazilian topa; change color in the burning, and the blacl spots of the Amethyst and hyacinth can onlj be removed by heat. '1 hus God's jewels an purified; all that can stand the Are must pas< through it, and in the tierce neat 01 trm many a commonplace Christian begins tc p'ow with new hues of grace, &t which met greatly wonder.?W. Y. Fullerton. We often live under a cloud, and it is wel for us that wh should do so. Uninterrupted sunshine would parch our heatts; we want shade and rain to cool and refrost them. Only it behooves us to take care that whatever cloud may be spread over us, il should be a cloud of witnesses. And everj cloud may be such, if we can only look through to" the sunshine that broods behind it.?Hare. No ODe can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless* he bus himself honestly and firmly determined to do tho best he can to keep out of it.?Buskin. A G. A. It. Colony in Goorcla. D. C. McOullom. of La Porte. Ind., wel known to G. A. R. and political circle throughout the State, has become a membe of a syndicate which has purchased 100,00 acres of land in Georgia. on which will b settled an Indiana colony. The projectors o the colony have already la!d out the embryi city of Fitzgerald, which it is supposed t< buildup. It is estimated that the emiera tion from Indiana will reach 40,000 befor uext fall. European Railway Building. There were constructed in Europe durini 1894. 4190 miles of new milwavn, RussIj showing the greatest gain with 679 mile3. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR r DECEMBER 8. t Lesson Text: "David and Goliath,'* I Samuel xvll., 3.S-51?Golden Text: I Samuel xvli., 47 ?Commentary. 39. "And Saul armed David with his armor." In the intervening verses since last I lesson we see David refreshing Saul with his ' ham. ereatly loved by him. havinc become ' his armor bearer ("chapter xvi., 21, 28). He ! afterward returned to feed his father's sheep I at Bethluhem (xvii., 15). The R. V. says that I he went to and fro between Saul and Bethle" i hem. But now the armtes of Israel and of e the Philistines are face to face, and the hosts 9 of Israel are defied by the giant, Goliath, of Gath. David, having come from home to see L> how his brethren fared and observing how 0 the God of Israel w.is being dishonored, of1 fered to fight and conquer the giant. Saul, y hearing his story of trust in the Lord (verses I 34 to 37), accepts his offer and clothes him 1 with his armor. > 39. "1 cannot go with these, for I have not 5? proved them." Everything like natural 4 strength or human helps is apt to prove a 1 hindrance In the Lord's work. If it was to be a test between flesh raid flesh, armor and armor, Eaul, who was head ana shoulders above the people, should have gone forth to meet Goliath. David is but a shephered youth and If God will work through him it 1 must be apart from human devices, f 40. ''And he took his staff in his hand and ; chose him Ave smooth stones out of the s brook." Being a shepherd, he went forth as such in his true character. Moses went from keeping sheep to conquer Pharaoh. Our Lord Jesus Christ Is the good and great r and chlfif Shepherd who will yet humble all r His foes. The sling and stones David had e proved, and he may have had skill like the t 700 left handed Banjamilres of Judg. xx, 16. But the Lord was surely with him. t 41,42. ' When the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him." They 1 drew nigh to each other, the mighty man of i flesh wi:h his armor bearer before him. and j the ruddy youth of fair countenance with no awmAt> onH nn iHdhlo nr?mnoninn THa mnrtxr yr thousands of Israel and of the Philistines \f looked on In wonder, but there were unseen hosts looking on, too, and the Lord Himself a was thei'e, but not with tht Philistine, s 48, 44. "The Philistine cursdd David by f i, his god3." The flesh disdains the spirit | 9 and mocks as when Ishmael mocked Isaac. 1 But the carnal mind knows not the Lord, 9 Consider these two upon whom both earth and heaven were now intently gazing. The Philistine, nine feet six inches high, with armor weighing over two hundred pounds, a spear with a staff like a weaver's beam and a head weighing about twenty pounds, and an 3 attendant to bear his shield; David, a youth , in a shepherd's dr?ss, alone, with but his . staff and sling. The Philistine strong In his own might and cursing as he came; David in reliance upon the Lord and witli a y prayerful heart. * 45. "I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Is? rael, whom thou hast defied." Goliath repO UJ T\n-iA q roSCUl^U UlUlsnw, uui ju<j ? iu lopiujouiou uuu( As truly as Jesus Christ represented the Father when He was here on earth in a mortal body, and the Father spoke through " Him, and wrought through Him, 30 we like David and Moses and Joshua and Gideon and j the apostles may and should represent the ; Lord Jesus and the Father in our mortal ; bodies. A whole-hearted yielding to Him, ? and relying upon Him, with no aim but to honor Him will demonstrate (Jer. xxxiii., 3). ^ 48. "That all the earth may know that ; there is a God in Israel." Seeking nothing !? for himself, but only to magnify Jehovah ^ and lift His name out of the reproach resling upon it, David went forth with his heart stayed.upon Him who. had delivered him from the lion and the bear. Could outchurches get rid of the ambition to magnify themselves and their denominations, and live only to magnify the Lord, they would soon , see His power on their behalf (II Chiron. 3 xvL, 9). I 47. "The battle is the Lord's." 8ee also ) II Chron. xx., 15. It is not sword or spear, , but the Lord who shall work. "Not by j might nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith t the Lord of Hosts" (Zech. lv.,6). Consider the passage through the Red Sea, and the j Jordan, as well ti3 the deliverance from , Egypt. Consider the walls of Jericho e.lso, t and let us, like Moses and Joshua, put off 5 our shoes and keep thetn off, lest we hinder the Lord of Hosts by thinking that the work I is ours and'by making suggestions to Him I 3 as to how things ought to be done. Oh, to . keep our bands otr ana stop attempting to r steady tho ark. We must aUo studiously a avoia all the "new cart" business. 49, 49. "David hsated and ran toward the 0 army to meet the Philistine." The crisis is 9 on; all eyes are upon these two men. What y an exciting moment! A stone is quickly in f David's sling, swiftly it flies around his 3 head and is on its way with unerring aim to ~ its destination. It strikes the giant on the forehead, sinks into his bead, and be fal's upon his face to the ground. David is victor?no; the Lord of Hosts is the victor, and little David is the bappy vessel used by God, 3 because his aim was to magnify Jehovah. , 50. "So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. God {. chooses weak things and things which are 3 not to bring to naught things which are, that no flesh may glory in His presence.When Nehemiah finished the wall with the , aid of the merchants and goldsmiths and j apothecaries and women, it is written that - "his enemies perceived that the work was 1 wrought of God" fNeh. vi., 16). Had the workmen been well skilled in the art of t ' building stone walls then they would have f , had the credit. Had David been a michty t man and warrior he might nave had the < credit, but now it is clearly of God, and 1bt rael If rebuked for her lack of faith In Him. i 51. Slain by the stone from David's sling. h ' ?Aorr foiraa fhn cHnnt'fl nwn ana f | cuts off his head and brings tt in his hand to , Saul. The Philistines flee, Israel pursues. j and there is a great victory, for the Lord i hath done it. Let us become skilful in using the atones Jrom the brook, the precious . things from the word of God, for nothing will bring down the giants of pride and blasphemy like the word of God given forth in His name.?Lesion Helper. 5 EFFECT OF THE EARTHQUAKE. Natural Cait Pressure in Indiana In* created Sixty Per Cent. Reports received in Anderson, Ind,, from f all parts of the pas belt show that the earth3 quak** did not only influence the oil fields, 1 but has increased natural eras pressure from ' ten to sixty per cent, in different parts of the 1 pras belt. The pressure at Muncie increased so much as to cause alarm, as two abs.ndoned wells at West Muncie have blown out their water, and will have to be packed. At Marion oil wells are giving people trouble fr.im additional pressure. . At Hartford City the cas pressure increased t sixty per cent. At Kokomo a number of j accidents are reported from increased pre?. 3 auic. iiL i>uaaittviuc JUUCIV."CU moMmo 3 caused ail exp'osion in th<j house of Frank 1 Albright. At Westville a saloon wan blown > up from the same source. At Clerco increased pros pressure blew out a regulator i and shut off the gas. At El wood there is increase in the pressure. At Moonrille three abnndoned wells begin lo throw off water, and are flowing a good 1 pressure of gas, aud the famous Tail Holt L well at Ovid shows an increased pressure of! > 113 pounds. Additional pressure is reported > at Chesteriield, Greenfield. Gilman and Florida. On th" Indianapolis gas lines the - pressure above Njblesvllle shows a wonderful increase, but below Noblesvillo it is forty pounds less than Iho normal. Natural gas I men think that the indications are that tne earthquake will cause a general revival of gaa and will give the gas belt new life, i * ~ ' HIS EYE SAVED BY A MACNE^ i Succe8.tful Operation on a Dangeroux Cane In New York. Joseph Brown's eyesight was saved by a I magnet at tho Eye and Ear Infirmary in s New York City. Brown is a workman emr ployed at Plninfield, N. J. A few days be0 fore, while at work, a piece of steel flew from p his hammer and imbedded itself in his eye, f An examination showed that the steel had o sunk so deeply into his eya that an attempt 3 to cut it out with knives would probably re sult in loss of sight. He was taken to th? a Eye and Ear Infirmary in New York City. That institution possesses the strongest mag. net in the world." Brown's head was brought close to one of these points and his eye carefully openec'. He felt a sharp sensation of 5 pain, nn'l then on tho blood stained eyebul II appeared a smaltblt ol shining stael, and th? tye was saved. -. ' * TEMPERANCE. THE SALOON A!H> THE HOJCB. The saloon devours the money on whi wise expenditure muou 01 me nappin^ss the Iiome depends. It the wife has tolled the wash tub till every musole aohes and 1 whole being is weary, It is simply exaspe tin? to have her husband leave her and to spend in one hour in the saloon the moi that would have paid needed help. Olothea wear out. No nmount of washi or mending can keep things forever ne The rag.? will come, and when they co those who wear them will look shabby. 1 even cleanliness can be fully maiDtaii when there is a lack of changes and a lack towels, and these cost money. The salo cuts off the supply. Fuel ant? light c raoney. A smouldering Are and a dim la can not make a cheery room. The sale puts the Are that should be in the grate ii the man's stomaoh. The rations grow she The children worry, and the wife is spiritl from exhaustion. The man looks over i bare table and grumbles, "There's no co fort at home." Then he claims he is drh to the saloon because it is so bright and home so wretched, and authors, morali and divines support him in the claim. T la putting effect for cause. The fact is, tl if we could put out the saloon lights a fires?every one?empty the barrels, smi the crockery, and make the saloon dark the traffic la. those homes would soon ?rr bright. JDickens represents one of his wretcl characters showing a cup of foul water t visitor, and saying: "If you had such wat wouldn't you drink gin?" Very touchi But if that man had been willing to pay water the price of his gin, he could have h the clearest ice water to drink. The saloon becomes bright by making I home dark. Science tells us that when y light your Are of wood or coal, and the rut] flame springs up and fills the room with glow, you are simply basking in the impi oned sunlight of long ago. So. when 1 saloon throws its light across the highway blaze of splendor, you simply see concent ted Into one dazzling focus the light that has stolen from soores 'of darkened bom Yet the more of every good it suoks out o man's life, and the more hopelessly wretcl he oecome3. the fairer .the saloon seems contrast, till he grows to esteeming his < stroyer his only refuge and hope. The lo\ the saloon casts him down, the more net nary the saloon becomes to him. Bat wife and children can not flee to its gli and oblivion. Our civilization will not ; tolerate that. They must stay in the de late home. Now if this were honest pover forced upon them by hard necessity, whi the man was doing all he ooold to share a brighten, a true wife would rally all "t beauty and truth of woman's devotion" bear up and sustain her husband amid it t Bat when she knows that the husband w brought fier to it has deserted her in 1 midst of It for a selfish and swinish delif whloh will sink him?and them?lower y /%or> oUa an^nna iVJ Qo/^roH Hflflrt 1 view. WHAT WHISKY COATS. A writer who has studied the statist) side of the question furnishes the follow! figorM, truly alarming in their proportio of what whisky costs this country ev?ry ye The annual drink cost in the United Stat he says, estimated upon no certain data, to-day but little, if at all, under the en mous sum of $1,500,000,000. The econoc view of intemperance Is the lowest that c be taken of the question. Yet, how muct involves for the country! The entire si raised by taxes of all kinds, National, Sta county, city, town and school district, is i more than 1800.000.000. If all the ohur property in the United 8tates were destroj by fire, less than six months' abstinei would replace it. The London Econom estimates the cost of all the Rreat wars of t world, for twenty-flve years, from 1852 1877. inoludtnpthe Franco-German War n our own Civil War, at $20,000,000,000. 1 cost of intoxicants in the United States l the same period was, at least, $15,000,0t o:o. Alcohol is neither a food nor a medicim more, it is the chief caa.se of disease. ! Andrew Clark says: "I do not desire make out a strong case. I am speak! solemnly and carefully in the presence truth, and I tell you that I am conslderal within the mark when I say to you th going the round ot my hospital wards i day, seven out of every ten there owed th ill-health to alcohol." Doctor Hlgginbotti says: "I consider I shall do more in curi disease and preventing disease in one y< by prescribing total abstinence than I cot do in the ordinary course of an extensl practice of a hundred years." The deola: tions of prominent physioians the world 01 could be cited, all going to show that, health or disease, in old or young, in climates, the human system is injured the taking of alcohol, and the amount of {'ury done is proportionate to the quantity iquor taken. A BBAVE LITTLE JAPANESE. 4 A little Japanese lad was engaged on t occasion of a special ceremony in the ari to pour out the wine, and on being asked tbe close by the Genera'-ln-Chief totakt drink himself, as he must be tired and r.nnrl nf anmAfhinQ" rsfraqhini?. the little f low said he didn't care for any. The G< eral thought this strange, and urged him take some anyway, as it would be good 1 his health, even though he dislike 1 it ? the temperance youth persisted that didn't want any. This somewhat vexed t officer, to And anyone guilty of disobey! orders, and he said rather roughly to t lad, "Well, if you won't do as I say. y never can become a soldier in the army." One of the lower officers, who was stan ing by and heard the conversation, laughi and came up to the boy, and asked him w he was so disrespectful to the Gener threatening that if he persisted in such : subordination he woula cat him down wl his sword. (This was in old feudal day The brave little Jfellow, with tears in 1 ?yes, said he oould not drink, even If he h to disobey the General's order, and, in fa< he did not think it was necessary for a s dier to obey such orders. His own (I boy's) father, he said, had lost his 1 through drinking "sake," and when he 1 home he solemnly promised his mother tl he would never taste "sake." and he f that he must keep his word. The officer a General were bo filled with admiration the boy's simple firmness, that they fri that time showed him special kindness, a it is said that the boy became one o? t most trusted officers in the army. STIMULANTS IN THE FAB NOHTH. The experience of two Arotio explorers valuable testimony to total abstinence. Cf tain Wiggln9 has navigated the stori Siberian Seas without the aid of alcohol a has returned in safety. The Norwegian < plcrer, Dr. Nansen, crossed Greenland, a says: 'My experience leads me to take a deoid stand against the use of stimultauts and n colics of all kinds, from tea and coffee on t one hand, and tobacco and alcohol on t other. The idea that one gains by stimuli ing body and mind by artificial means I trays, in my opinion, not only ignorance the simplest physiological laws, but a want of experience, or perhaps want capacity to learn from experience and observation." DRtTNKAIlDs' RETREATS. Drunkards 'retreats have now been in < istunce in England for fifteen years. 1 principle on which they are conducted is make the i>atienrs stop drinkine at once a to make them abstain entirely for a lo period, twetve months when possib e. kei . no. th,.m hu?v darinir that time. The i tients always coino in an advanced stazu alcoholism. 'It has be-in fouud, as the Ja cetreport*, thai no harm, but good, is do by the sudden and complete disuse of al< hoi in such cases: that a large uurr.oer th? cases are permanently cured, an l tt habitual drunkenness in women is by means a hopeless di.-ease. HE TOST QUIT. A navigator of rino years and rarest was discharged by his employers for drur enuess. He had used liquor for more th thirty year?, nut ho began a new 11 "What!" sneeret an old-time eorapani< "won't take a drink? Haven't sworn t have you?" "No." was the answer; "1 just quit." To "swear oft" is to begn dreary struggle. To "just quit" is to * a quick, suro victory.?Sunday-Sohi Times. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Sims Reeves "ttributes the marrellc preservation of his voice in old aee to t fact that he is a total abstainer. He hoi that the use of stimulants will break a voi sooner or later. V . . : ;/ ".v,; . - V WOMAN'S WORLD. ' ?? i PLEASANT LITERATURE FOB < FEMININE READERS. < at 1 ler i ra- PETS*CESS MATD OF WALES A MILKMAID. < It is said that Princess Maud of r 1 J Wales, who is betrothed to Prince ^ ln<? Karl, second son of the Crown Prince , of Denmark,1 is an expert milkmaid ] and a good butter maker. She learned j the art, if that word may be employed, ^ : of in the model dairy at her father's . 011 home, Sandringham House ?New ? p York Mercury. , ion I ito a cow DOCTOB. f trf ess Mlfls Edith Oakey graduated from the the Veterinary College of Toronto, Canada, being the first woman to win ^{g a diploma. She has hung out her sts shingle at Sandoval, Ohio, in the cenhis tre of a rich grazing country. Diseases of milch cows have been Miss Oakey's special study. She has done as well and employes three male assistants, who relieve her of much of the manual labor.?New York Advertiser. :er. WHERE TITLES ABOUND. a([ Young women with fortunes to in-. vest in titles would do well to go to he Poland. In Wasaw alone, with a pop[jjy ulation of 500,000, there are 30,726 its persons belonging to the hereditary is- nobility, and 9257 "personal nobles," the people entitled to the distinction by reason of office or discovery. There it are said to be as many Princes in Poles. land as in Russia. In the latter counted are *oun(* P^y,DK every trade, by According to the last census, there are de- now living nearly 1000 Princes Galit*er zin. There are hardly sufficient names ^ in Russia to distinguish them, and ire great confnsion results. ??" MILLIONAIRE WASHERWOMEN. ty. ioh It is announced in the Russian press >nd that an old man has died at Odessa ^ leaving four millions of rubles to his til. four nieces, who have hitherto been ! ho in very humble circumstances. In oraer, nowever, 10 cnecK anycmng ^ like pride ia the fortaa&te ladies the 1 5e- uncle stipulates that previons to receiving the money they are to work for fifteen months either as chamber. maidp, washerwoman or farm servants. ^ There are three executors who are en- ( n?, joined to see thac the condition is ar. scrupulously respected. The ladies, it appears, have in consequence gone or- into domestic service. It is said that nic already they have had 863 offers of a? marriage. im ,te, FUBS IN PARIS. ? 1 Monster fur collars and short boas red with many dangling tails have taken ice the place of the long fur boas in Paris. ^ ^ The collars are comfortable-looking 1 affairs and may be turned up so high ^ ,nd about the head that they strongly re- 1 'he sembles a hood. Russian collars of fur, forming broad revere, are seen on many of the most exclusive coats, and i? high Medioi collars are also popular. Sir Necklets of fnr four inches deep are much in fashion. They are fastened of in front with a little animal's head }ly and two or three tails and finished at at- the back with a large velvet bow. A e?~ decided novelty in the way of fur am trimming this season is the use of an ng entire skin of any small animal. The paws and tails are used to form a ;v0 girdle. The small head fastens the ra- boa, and the skin of the rest of the ??r body acts as a sort of bolero jacket. ? New York World. by iu- HOW SHE BECAME A CIdJVEB COOK. That very clever, very sucoessful, y and admirable woman, Mrs. Eorer, studied and conquered many things :b0 before she learned to cook. To begin with she had a college training at Au> n, rora, and having inherited a taste for in chemistry from her father, who was el~ both physician and - chemist,. she wished to become a pharmacist. That "cr was before the way was smoothed for \ (ut women who wished to do unusual J jj? things, and she abandoned the plan Q? because the way was made 10 disa* i he greeable by fellow-students. After i ou that she learned wood-oarving, and < d. took a course in carpentering, which 1 *d, may account for the grace with which by she uses her hands and arms. She i studied cooking for the good of her Ith (U#miIy> aQd it was wiih the same 3.) ^?ought and to build up one of her children, who was delicate, that she gained that scientific knowledge of. that sinoe has made her a benefactor :he to so many other mothers. ?New York ir? Post. eft jat elt LAVENDER IN THE LINEN. nH^ The extent to which perfumes were 3m used in olden times, indeed in times nd not so old at all, would be something :he remarkable if it wore not remembered 1V..1 XI iU? il.A liltlli LUOJ U1LCU luub me piaua ui tuo absent bath. In the media# val days ^ > this was an obvious fact; but in the j ip- days of the Greek and Roman tne bath j was so universal a luxury that they B 3X_ only supplemented it in the shape of ,nd richly scented unguents. These are t as important a part of the toilet of j the oriontal women to-day as they ho were of the elegant Italians four hun:he dred years ago. But as it came to be 8 Jt_ recognized that much of this perfume . q( was used as a disguise for uncleanli- ^ iso ness, its use about the person in any 8 of strong way was regarded as a Jvulgar- c by ltv, and it was only thought fine to be 1 odorless. When this principle had been thoroughly established, and with it the ^ habit of the frequent bath also, the c j? luxury of life reasserted itself, and * a(j perfumes wore again in request, but in t ni? moderate and very dainty and delicate ^ ?P- form. There are perfumed waters now used in the orimpicg of the hair, and a in- there are little sachets to be worn is s no the corset, and French dresbmiker3 oiten shake very fiae powders between a ,iit the linings in the bodies of the gown9 p no thev make, so that they shbll give out e a mere hint and suspicion as the wear- a er passes, as if .she came from some ii Inn i of flowers and brought a mere li Ik- ilreain of remembrance of their fra- g an gr.tnce with her. Anything more than t fe- this hint would be barbarous, aud a y return to tbe crude old habit when 'vh efory one who could must have gone j uuiiut "dripping with SataoiU spice." v "Jj ?xiarper's iiaz ir. v <1 THE BEIGN Of CCrtLS BEOtJN. < severe and Madonna-like simpiicifcy t ho in nairdressing is rapidly giving way r is to ornamental coiSures, of' which ri <i~ vvavgd po'iipadour-1, puffed ohis?nonu, c dangling carls ani modified "oan.s" | j ire destined to be the ohief features} Waves are the foundation of every neirf joiffure, and earls and puf& in plenty lo their share toward producing thO' jharming effect. At the sides th?? bair is either arranged ill deep waves, which fall slightly over the tops of th?> jars, or in small, rather fiat puffs.; rhis gives the coiffare a broad effect.! which in the oase of tbe average woman is apt to be becoming, partica* ^ larly in this age, when every woman is broad-shouldered, whether made ao by nature or fashion. The American pompadour, soft and graceful in effect, litfl/i At nnno nf fhfl sfciPT ?uu ua.iuu v. ? aess peculiar to the Paris coiffure of that style, has become very popular. This fashion makes the hair look lik? i rippling mass of curly waves brushed loosely back from the forehead, with the exception of two littlejuris which seem to have escaped from the others and to have fallen carelessly over the forehead. With tho pompadour the* back hair may bearranged in any of the various new Jtyles. The pompadour, however, will notreign without a rival. This rival is % thing of waves and beauty and also a substitute for the severely plain part iffecfced so much by fashionable women last winter. It is warranted to be becoming, whioh is a strong point in its favor. The part is plainly risible, but the hair, instead of being 3rawn down with severe effect over the ears, is waved and the ends curled! i trifle, so that on either side of tho part the hair is soft and fluffy. Ia addition,to banish completely all plain sttect, a curl or two is auowea loeiray larelessly over the forehead. . There ire many new ways this season of dressing the back hair. Perhaps tho most novel is the ohignon, with a cluster of ourls dangling from th? centre. This divides the honors with the pancake ooiffore, which is a mass jf tiny braids- coiled flatly over tho - /, baok of the head. Coiffures of extreme length ate much the vogue,; One new design is twelve inohes long. It is made of small puffi and ourls and is quite narrow in effect?San ff/ancisco Chronicle. ?? FASHION NOTES. Tj Brocaded silks in dark colors are made ap into afternoon gowns for Btreet wear. The latest sleeve is moulded to the j . arm from the wrist to two inohe? above the elbow, and the puff at the toD is full, short, and drooping. Frills of cream lace hang oat from the oream -satin vest and the Medici collar is lined with chinchilla, giving a very novel effeot to the gown. Bossian collars with broad revers an! high Medici collars, of far, with narrow capes, are more fashionable than boas for those who can afford the laxary of such a trifle. Leather for dress waists is something unique in the winter fashionsi [t is tan iu color, thin enough to bepliable,.and is decorated with applique lace as if it were satin or velvet. One of the useful makeshifts of fashion is a wide collar and revers of jatin, embroidered all over with jet ind steel or gold and jet,, which can 3e worn with any evening dress. Among the fashionable oolon brown, in many shades and mixtures, (vill be the favorite, while other novelties are Bossian green, plum color* * * - :-5. i*. s: i mulberry violet, damson ana mediterranean blue. A deep-gathered raffle or bik of lace, or a cravat with two fully trimmed lace ends, is again in great favor,, and is a simple way of trimming up plaia iress, waists as well as of arranging bits of anused laoe. Chiffon of unnsnal shades?of green,. )f brown and of purplish red?is used 'or very elaborate waists. It is madelp in accordion plaits and is trimmed pith points, tabs or a collar of white md black lace and embroidered with et and rhinestones. Black satin ribbon, four or five nohes wide and elaborately jetted, is lsed for trimming silk and velvet :apes. It is sewn lengthwise at in* ;ervals all around, and the upper ends fold over in loops and are gathered in ;o partially form the rqphe. Necklets made of a band of fur four jr five inches wide, finished in front xrith little beads and at the baok with i big bow of velvet, are among the aovelties in neck protectors, while others have lace ends or velvet tabs svith velvet rosettes at the sides. One fancy with the modistes is to itilize large tailor button; by cover ng them with spangies ia oneutsi :olors. There are also lengthwise rows of the smallest pearl buttons seen inexpectedly amid rioh materials oa rests and full fronts of wool gowns. Another variety of the muoh;rimmed collar band is gained by tyng the bow in front instead of at the jack. If ribbon is used, one yard and i half is the necessary quantity. This jasses around the baok through abutlonhole, made in the ribbon at the jack, and ties in front. The newest models in capes aro haped to show the outline of the houlder, which is not completely disguised by fluffy frills as it was in th? pring; and the very daintiest thinga >n the list are short capes for evening. oade of white velvet patterned all iver with shadowy roses. Short double-breasted coati of (lack, brown, or green velvet, faced >n the revers and collar with fur, or rhite cloth edged with fur, are one of , ^ he novelties in outside garments. ' iarge fancy buttons decorate the rout. J?or more cornmou wear tuert* re coats of similar style with strapped earns and melon-shaped aleeveH. Kuffs of blaok chiffon, larger than ny we have had before, are nude very netty with tiny bits of ostrich featbrs ou the edge like a fringe, and in. ddition to these are necfc ruches of onumerable loops of velvet ribbon, a ittle more than an inch wide, oc auze ribbon with a satin edge, sewa o a satin ribbon two inches wide, fhiob ties in a bow in ;ront. Fur trimmings from one to tbrea nches wide are mora iu denaanl tliau ver, and they aro in combination /itU lace, chifTon, and dainty eu? drolleries ou the most dressy gowns. Itocl: collars revers. wide bolts, an I retelles oc fur are> seen in the clotli owns, and an entire bodies o! fur it iot unusual. Persian larao, with rea-H hoe on the waist of a black satin fovui, uiakes a wj' elegant costuoae% V*