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|*,r .01 REVrDR~TAl.MA(jE. UNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE.Subject: "The 1'hlllppian Jailer.*' II Txxt: "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" i-Acts xvt, 30. I Incarcerated in a Philipptan penitentiary, I place cold uni dark and damp and loath* lome and hideout, unillumined save by the [orch of the official who comes to see if they Lre alive yet, are two ministers of Christ, [heir feet fast in instruments of torture, their shoulders dripping from the stroke of featbern thongs, their mouths hot with inflammation of thirst, their heads faint because they may not He down. In a comfortable room of that same building and amid pleasant surroundings 1s a paid officer oi the Government whose business it is to Bupervise tho prison. It is night, and all is rttii<n tbo nnrriHrtrc r\f fha Hnnoann QftVfl I*" V* fcAAV ? ~~ Bonne murderer straggles with a horrid JreamV'or a ruffian turns over in his chains, or there is the cough of a dying consumptive Mnldthe dampness, but suddenly, crash! go the walls. The two clergymen Das.? out We. The jail keeper, although familiar with :he darkness and the horrors hoverin? wound the dungeon, is startled beyond all >ounds, and flambeau in hand he rushes ibrougb, amid the falling walls, shouting at be top of his voice, "Sirs, what must I do to >e saved?" I stand now among those who are asking he same question with more or less earnestless, and I accost you in this crisis of your oul with a message from heaven. There are hose in this audience who might be more killful in argument than I am; there are hose here who can dive into deeper depths if science or have larger knowledge; there .re in this audience those before whom I rould willingly bow as the inferior to the uperior, but I yield to no one in this assemilagein a desire to have all the people saved T.the power of an omnipotent gospel. IB I shall proceed to characterize the question of tne agitated jaii keeper. Aad first I Characterize the question as courteous. He night have rushed in and said: "Paul and Bllas, you vagabonds, are you tearing down his prison? Aren't you satisfied with disturbing the peace of the oity by your inBamoos doctrines? And are you now going Bo destroy public property? Back with you Bo your places, you vagabonds!" He said no Buch thing. The word of four letters, "sirs," ftquivalent to "lords," recognized the majesty and the honor of their mission. Sirs! If b man with a captious spirit tries to find the Iway to heaven, he will miss it. If a man loomes out and pronounces all Christians as hypocrites and the religion of Jesus Christ as ua fraud and asks irritating questions about [the mysterious and inscrutable, sjaying, f'Come, my wise man, explain this and explain that; If this be trne, how can that be true?" no such man finds the way to heaven. The question of the text was decent, courteous, gentlemanly, deferential. Sirs! i Again, I characterize this question of the agitated jail keeper by saying that It was a practical auestlon. He did not ask why God let sin come Into the world; he did not jask how Christ could be God and man in the amma nA*ann-}iA Hid not ask the dootrine of If the decrees explained or want to know whom | Cain married or what was the oause of the Earthquake. His present and everlasting welfare was involved in the question, and Was not that practical? Bat I know multitudes Qf people who are bothering thtmgelves about the nonessentials of religion, what would you think of a man who should, jwhile discussing the question of the light and heat of the sun, spend his time down in a ooal oeliar when he might come out and pee the one and feel the other? Yet there are multitudes of men who, in disoussing the chemistry of the gospel, spend their time flown in the dungeon of their unbelief when Bod all the whiiestands telling them to come put into the noonday light and warmth of Ithe sun of righteousness. The question for you, my brother, to discuss is not whether Calvin or Arminlus was right, not whether b handful of water in holy baptism or a baptistery is the better, not whether foreordihation and free agency can be harmonized. (The practical question for you to discuss and for me to discuss is, "Where will I spend eternity?" I Again, I characterize this question of the agitated jail keeper as one personal to himeai# T ham nn d<vrfht he had many friends. I and he was interested in their welfare. 1 huve.no doubt he found that there were persons In that prison who, if the earthquake had destroyed them, would have found their ease desperate. He is not questioning about them. The whole weight of his question |uro3 on the pronoun "L" "What shall I do?" Of course when a man becomes a Christian he immediately becomes anxious for the salvation or other people, but until that point is reached the most important Question is about your own salvation. J'Wh^t is to be my destiny?" "What are my prospt c.s for the future?" "Where am I go|n?j?" "'What shall I do?" The trouble is pre snuffle the responsibilitv off upon others. iVe prophesy a bad end to that inebriate, and ferriflo exposure to that defaulter, and awful catastrophe to that profligate. We are 10 busy in weighing other people we forget trarselves to get into the soales. We are so irasy watching the poor gardens of other beople that we let our own dooryard go Eo weeds. We are so busy sending off other people Into the lifeboat we sink in the pave. We cry "fire" because our neighbor's house is burning down and seem :o be uninterested although our own house a in the conflagration. Oh. wandering ihoughts, disappear to-day! Blot out this mtireaudienoe except yourself. Your sin, 3 it pardoned? Your death, is it provided 1 A ????? J? 24 nAAt??A/lO A ||fOr? IOUr UO&YOUi Id It OC^UlCU) A uu^ubm >arthquake than that which demolished the >hilippian penitentiary will rumble about 'our eare. The foundations of the earth rill give way. The earth by one tremor will ling all the American cities into the dust. Cathedrals and palaoes and prisons which lave stood for thousands of years will top>la like a child's blockhouse. The surges of he sea will submerge the land and the Atantic and Pacific Oceans above the Alps and he Andes clap their hands. What then will ?oome of me? What then will become of rou? I do not wonder at the anxiety of this nan of my text, for he was not only anxious about the falling of the prison, but the falling of a world. > Again, 1 remark, I characterize this question of the agitated jail keeper as one of incomparable importance. Men are alike, and I suppose he had scores of questions on his mind, Dut all questions for this world are pushed up, lorgotten, annihilated In this one question of the text: "What must I do I (to be saved?" And have you, my Drotner, any question of Importance compared with that question? Is it a question of business? Sour common sense tells you that you will poon cease worldly business. You know very well that you will soon pass out of that partnership. You know that, beyond a certain point, of all the millions of dollars' worth of goods sold you will not handle a yard of cloth, pr a pound of sugar, or a penny's worth. After that, if a conflagration should sweep all Washington into ashes, it {would not touch you, and would not damage you. If every cashier should abscond and every baDk suspend payment and every insurance company fail, it would not iaffect you. Oh, how insignificant is business this side the grave with business on the other side the grave! Have you made any burohase3 for eternity? Have you any securities that will, last forever? Are you job-1 ping for time when you might be wholesal- j [ng for eternity? Is there any question so broad at the base, so altitudinous, so overshadowing as the question, ''What must ido to be saved?" Or, is it a domestic question, j Is it something about father or mother or husband or wife or son or daughter that is tne more important question? You know by Imiversal and inexorable law that relation trill soon be broken up. Father will be goitt\ Bother will be gone, children will bit icon", irou will be gone, but after that t'.o question >f the text will begin to harvest i's < j>?r jains or deplore Its worst los-es or roll u*? i\? nfchtiest magnitude or sweep its vaster lircles. Some people say that they would not ring back tlielr departed friends from leaven even if taey had the opportunity. >ut if you had the opportunity you would (ring back your loved ones, and soon their eet would be sounding in the hull, and soon heir voices would be heard in the family, ind the old times wou'd come back just as he festa! days of Christmas and Thanksgivng?days gone forever. Oh, it is the earthquake that startled you to asking this queston?the earthquake of domestic misfortune. )<? th is so cruel, so devouring, so relentes8, that when it swailow.s up our loved mes we must have some one to whom we lan carry our torn and bleeding hearts. We teed a balsam better than anything that ver exuded from earthly tree to heal the pang of the soul. 'It Is pleasant to have out friends gather around us and tell us new sorry they are, and try to break up the lone, llness, but nothing but the hand of Jesu* Christ can take the bruised soul and put 11 In His bosom, hushing it with the lullaby ol heaven. 0 brother! 0 sister! The gravestone will never be lifted from your hear! until Christ lifts it. was it not the loss ol yourfrledds. or the persecution of your enemies, or the overthrow of your worldly estate?was it not an earthquake that starrtlec you out to usk this stupendous question ol my text? " * But I remark again, I characterize this question of the agitated jail keeper as hasty, urgent and immediate. He put it on the run. By the light of his torch as he goes to look for the apostles, behold his face, see the startled look and see the earnestness. No one can doubt by that look that the man is in earnest. He must have that question answered before the earth stops rocking, or [ perhaps he will never have it answered at all. Is that the way, my brother, my sister, n"u f h-Ja nnaaMr.nV To nn fhft run? isit hasty? Is^lt urgent? "is'it Immediate? If it is not, it will not be answered. That is the only kind of question that is answered. It is the urgent and immediate question of the gospel Christ answers. A great many are asking this question, but they drawl it out, and there is indifference in their manner, as if they do not mean it. Make it an urgent question and then jou will have it answered before an hour passes, before a minute passes. When a man with all the earnestness of his soul cries out for God, he finds Him, and finds Him right awav. Oh, are there not in this house to-day those who are postponing until the last hour of living the attending to the things of thoaoul? I Rive it as my opinion that ninety-nine out of the one hundred death-bed repentances amount to nothing. Of all the scores of persons mentioned as dying in the Bible, of how many do you read that they successfully repented in the last hour? Of 50? No. Of 40? No. Of 30? No. Of 2u? No. Of 10? No. Of 5? No. Of 1? Only one, barely one, as if to demonstrate the fact that there is a bare possibility of repentance in the last hour. But that is improbable, awfully improbable, terrifically improbable. One hundred to one against the man. If, my brother, my sister, you have ever seen a man try to repent in the last hour, you 1 ood Ti nnf LIU V O OCCU 0UUIO11UU5 ?V1J p??a? ? uv uvH know anything on earth so sad as to sea a man to repent on a deathbed. There is not from the moment that life begins to breathe in infancy to the last gasp such an unfavorable. completely unfavorable, hour for repentance as the death hour, the last hour. Tnere are the dootors standing 'with the medicines. There is the lawyer standing with the half written will. There is the family in consternation as to what is to become of th9m. All the bells of eternity ringing the soul out of the body. All the past rising before us and all the future. Oh, that man is an infinite fool who procrastinates to the deathbed his repentance! * My text does not answer the question. It only asks it, with deep and importunate earnestness asks It, and according to the rules of sermonizing you would say, ''Adjourn that to some other time," but I dare not. What are the rules of sermonizing to me when I am after souls?' What other time could I have when perhaps this is the only time? This might be my last time for preaching; this might be your last time for hearing. After my friend in Philadelphia died, his children gave his church Bible to me, and I read it, looked over it with much Interest. I saw in the margin, written in lead penoil, "Mr. Talmage said this morning that the most useless thing in God's universe is that any sinner should perish." I did not remember saying It. but it is true, and I say it now whether I said it then or not?tne most useless thing in ull God's universe is that any sinner should perish. Twelve gates wide open. Have you not heard how Christ bore our sorrows, and how sympathetic He is with all our woes! Have you not heard how that with all) the sorrows of heart and all the agouies of hell upon Him, He cried, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they dor" By His feet blistered of the mountain way, by His back whipDed until the skin came off, by His death couch of four spikes, two for the hands and two for the feet; by His sepulcher, in which for the first time 'for thirtythree years the cruel world let Him alone, and by the heavens from which He now bends in compassion, offering pardon and peace and life eternal to all your souls, I beg of you put down your all at His feet. I saw one banging on a tree In agony and blood. Who fixed His languid eyes on ma As near His cross I stood. Oh, never till my latest breath Will I forget that look, It seemed to charge me withHisdeath, Though not a word He spoke. In the troubled times of Scotland Sir John Cochrane was condemned to death by the King. The death warrant was on the way. Sir John Cochrane was bidding farewell to his daughter Grizel at the prison door. He paid: "Farewell, my dnrlinu child! I must die." His daughter said, "No, father, you shall not die." "But," he said, ' the King is against me. and the law is after me, ana rne aeHin warrniii to uu iu> naj, ^ must die; do not deceive yourself, my dear child." The daughter said, "Father, you shall not die," as she left the prison crate. At night, on the moors of Scotland, a disguised wayfarer ptood waiting for the horseman carrying the mailbags containing the death warrant. The disguised wayfarer, as the horse came by. clutched the bridle and shouted to the rider?to the man who carried the mailbags, "Dismount!" He felt for his arms and was about to shoot, but the wayfarer jerked him .from his saddle, and he fell flat. The wayfarer picked up the mailbags. put them on his shoulder and vanished in the darkness, and fourteen days were thus gained for the prisoner's life, during whioa the father confessor was pleading for the pardon of Sir John Ooohrane. The second time the death warrant is on its way. The disguised wayfarer Comes along and asks for a little bread and a little wine, starts on across the moors, and they say. "Poor man, to have to go out oo such a stormy night. It is dark and you will lose yourself on the moors." "Oh. no," he says, "I will not." He trudged on and stopped amid the brambles and waited for the horseman to come carrying the mailbags containing the death warrant of Sir John Oochrane. The mail carrier spurred on his steed, for he was fearful because of what had occurred on the former journey, spurred on his steed, when suddenly through the storm and through the darkness there was a flash of flrc-arms and tbe horse became unmanageable, and as the mail carrier discharged ' * * ~ - 1 *? ? ? M knvoA flunn U1S pistol III FBdp'JUSO tiiO UUIOD uuub him, aud the disg uised wayfarer put his foot on the breast of the overthrown rider and said, "Surrender now!" The mail carrier surrendered his arms, and the disguised wayfarer put upon his shoulders the mailbags, leaped upon the horse and sped r.way into the darkness, gaining fourteen more days for the poor prisoner. 8ir John Cochrane. and before the fourteen days had expired pardon had come from the King. The door of the prison swung open, and Sir John Cochrane was free. One day when ho was standing amid his friends, they congratulating him, the disguised wayfarer appeared at the crate, and he said, "Admit him right away."' The disguised wayfarer came in and said, "Here are two letters; read them, sir. and oast tliem into the fire." Sir John Coohraue read them. They were his two death warrants, and he threw them Into the fli-e. Then said 8ir John Cochrane: "To whom am I indebted? Who is this pooi wnvfarer that saved my life? Who is it?" An i the wayfarer pulled aside and pulled o!T the jerkin and the cloak and the hat, and, I !o! it was Grizel, the daughter of Sir Johr ! Co '?ra,u?. "Gracious heaven!" he cried, " \lr cYI'1, my savior, my own Grizel!" Bui n mm t'irilling ?tory. The death warranl j li i' forth from the King of heaven anc ' The death warrant read, "The sou I tint ?'.n iH;h, it shall die." The death war j r.rnf coming on the black horse of eterna I ill rlit. We must die! We must die! Bui I l)ivi!'<ting the storm aud putting outthrougt tin 'arlcness was a disguised wayfaror wlic i ^npp?u oy :ne uriciiw uuwuuuk ?*?? and flunq it back, and put His wounded ani b'eadinsj foot on the overthrown rider Mttiiuwhilo p.'irdou flashed from the throne and. Gofree! OpBn the gate! Strike off the chain! Gofree! And to-day your liberated soul stands in the presence of the disguisec wayfarer, and as He pulls off the disguise o his earthly humiliation and the disguise o His thorns and the dissruise of the seamlesi rohe, you find He is bone of your bone, flesl of your flesb, your brother, your Christ, you pardon, your eternal life. Let all earth an heaven break forth in vociferation. Victor, through our Lord Jesus Cbrist! A truilty, weak and helpless worm, On Thy kind arm I fall; Be Tbou my strength and righteousneea, My Jesus and my all. '-v* ; BOND BILL PASSED , Completion of tlxe House Progrramm ; Financial Legislation. f By a majority of thirty-four votes ' Bond bill was passed by the House of Re ? sentatives at Washington after two days been devoted to Its discussion. Forty-se : Republicans cast their votes acrninst the 1 Only one Democrat, Mr. Hutcheson, ' Texas, voted for the measure. During the first day's debate the opp ' tion on both sides or the House was chi > directed against the first section of the I 1 which contaias the provision for the tt 1 ner r-ent. coin bouds. Numerous speec ' I were miulo pro and con, and tlie discus: ' continued until the hour of adjournment 1 When the House convened for the sec ' day's consideration of the Bond bill three hours remained for debate. The i by the terms of the rule under which House was operating was to be taken ? o'clock. The attendance was lai The first speaker was Mr. Brosius (B Penn.), who argued in favor of the bill. Parker (Bep., N. J.) and Mr. Stewart (B N. J.) also spoke for the bill. Mr. MoLai (Dem., S. C.) said he should oppose Dill. Others who opposed the meas were Mr. Bartlett (Dem., N. Y.), Mr. Ba (Dem., Texas) and Mr. Marsh (Bep., ] Mr. Cannon (Bep., III.") sp at length in support of the bill and was lowed by Messrs. Tawney(Bep., Minn.), I ton (Bep., Mo.), Connolly (Bap., 111.), B kins (Bep., 111.), Payne (Bep., N. Y). Bussell (Bep., CConn.) supported the briefly, and then Mr. Crisp (Dem., C closed the debate for the Democratic si Mr. Dalzell (Bep., Penn.) closed the del for the majority. In accordance with the provisions of order of debate, Mr Johnson (Bep., Cal. three o'clock demanded a division of I question, and the vote was taken on the I I section of the bilL It .resulted: Yeas, I uays, 136. The vote was composed aa | lows: Yeas?Republicans, 169, Dei crat, 1; nays?Democrats, 82. Repu cans, 47, Populists, 6, Silverite. The announcement was received with plause. There was no division upon second section of the bill, and it was clared adopted and the bill passed at tw ty-flve minutes past three o'clock. Then Mr. Dingley, Chairman of the Ci mitteo on Ways and Means, stated the general understanding had been had which no business would be transacted fc week, so that membere who so desired eo spend New Year's at home. HEALER SCHLATTER FOUND. Discovered in a Mexican Village by Tfa Americans. E. P. Houston, Receiver of the Peo Decatur and Evansville Railroad; J. W. S der, a business man of Pari?, 111., and L, Stanley have returned to Albuquerque, 1 Mexico, from a lew clays' trip in Bearer 'Healer" Schlatter. They fo and him in obscure Mexican settlement, w?3t of Cc zon. about eighty miles from Albuquerq sitting by the fire reading a Bible. IP FRANCIS fCHLATTEK. He laid hands on Mr. Houston, who 1 sought him to cure a paralysis of the side. He neld his hands for an hour more, and Mr. Houston declares he has t greatly benefited, and hopes in time to be fectly healed. Schlatter told them that, so far as knew, the Father had directed him to g< Central America, but ho will stop some <3 at a Zuni reservation. He bade the strt eis good-bye, mounted his white hor8e, i-nrln nfp thrnitrrh the sandv Dlain to southwest. : KILLED BY A POSTMASTER. Dr. W. H. Taylor, of the Illinois Legi tare, Shot by J. H. Pace. Dr. William H. Taylor, a member of Lower House of the General Assembly o! llnols from the Thirteenth Dlstriot, was i and instantly killed by John H. ^Pace, Postmaster of Weldon, 111. Pace pleads i defence. The friends of his victim as that the shooting was premeditated and result of jealousy. Dr. Taylor practiced medicine there twenty-eight years. Pace had been sapari from his wife for over a year and aocused Dr. Taylor of being the cause ol family trouble*;. Beat on securing his it the doctor entered the postofflce. W standing at the window, it is said that he manded of Postmaster Pace an explaua of a letter which b.e had heard the latter written regarding a suit Pace wa3 prose ing against him. Pace says that he told the doctor to le and that the latter advanced upon 1 threatening an assault, whereupon he d a revolver and shot him in the haad, cau instant death. No one but the two participants were i of fha fimu I r P?*r>A mn'lfl no Afff> flee. Dr. Taylor had long been promt in political circles in the State. Among close friends were Senator Cullom and J R. Tanner. Business Failures for 189.'!. Business failures for 1895 wore 2 1-5 cent, more in number than they were in: i The Barn Katahdln Accepted. | In the House Mr. Cummings(Dem., N : called up the Senate joint resolution dl ing the Secretary of the Navy to accept > ram Katahdin and make It a part ol i navy, and, after a brief discussion, it i agreed to. i | Dried Apple* for the German Army j Knoxville (Tenn.) merchants have aeived the contract, through a Baltii I merchant, to furnish 500.000 pound (triad unnlna for thft Onrmnn Armv. i fruit will be purchased in Tennessee. ) ) 1 Killed Hl? Wife nnd Himself. Charles B. Thompson, Principal of the I ored schools of East St. Louis, 111., sho I wife, Laura H. Thompson, four times I placing the pistol to bis own foreh j blew out his brains. Thompson, ? had been living apart from b wife for the last six weeks, ci i at her home. Mrs. Thompson, it is asse j said sho would have nothing more t y with him, whereupon Thompson dre thirty-two-calibre revolver and flred. turned to go up on the front porch, b the third Are a bullet entered her head 1 above the temple, and she feil headlonf | on the poroh and expired. RELIGIOUS READING. e of THE POWER OF A OR EAT LIFE. tb? In the economy of Divine Providence pre- great lives serve the most various and imhad portant purposes. Great men are the seera and guides of humanity. In a peculiar sense v0a they are inspired men. They have been bill, lifted above their generation; they have open of vision; they survey the world as from a lofty eminence and are thus able to understand osi- many matters which remain obscure to their efly fellows. They usually understand not only bill, what to do, but how to do it, practical sense iree being joined to deep insight and extended ;hes fort sight. In some instances a single man ;ion seems to embody the wisdow ot a generation or a nation. Confucius means China, and ond Mahomet stamped his own image on ahunbut dred generations. Imperial Rome first berote came incarnate in the man Julius C?esar,who the knew his time and forecast all time, it 3 The English race lived in Alfred the Great, go. as aia moaern repuoncanism In George ep-? Washington. But great men are limited by Mr. both time and space: their fame and power op., decrease with the square of the distance. It irin js wjth the utmost difficulty that men are the able to do anything after their burial. The iure commonalty disappear under the next adiley vanciDg wave. Fortunate is the man able [11.) to build a monument high enough and strong oke enough to outlast the flood. Whatever most fol- men do they must do while living and within fur- a limited circle. Caesar's genius made Rome, [op- but was unknown in the Orient. Confucius Mr. was the man of a race; he compacted China, bill though a mere name and shadow beyond. *3.) Mahomet fell down like a thunderbolt on the Ide. earth, but his power has been narrowing )tite and diminishing with every advancing century, and the day is not far distant when the the civilization he created will have no place ) at among the nations. The elements of weakthe i,ess and decay were in the works of all first these men. 170; But, unlike them, one great life has appeared in human history, subject to none oi m0" these limitations. It is that of a World bU- Man, whose power is confined to no lattitude j or race. The light of His truth shines into aP*' the far East as into the far West, and His the message has been borne from the Arctic to de- the Antarctic regions over all the intervening r?n- lines. And what is most singular of all. the exertion of His power among men has been joi- exclusively posthumous. He organized nc lt a institution to take His name down to posterity; He provided for the erection of no mon>r * ument of brass or stone, no pillar or , pyramid, to oommemorate His deeds and virtues. His monument was a Cross, His resting-place a. borrowed tomb. His disciples were few and despised, unaided by position, wealth or learning. Hon iret unlikely that such men could aid tbeir crucified Master ! But the must stupendous miracle of history is found in this great life. "a?, Though dead, Jesus Christ still lives and ay- works miracles in every part of the earth, , h. feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and t0 bringing healing to the sick. Men may well celebrate His advent; for since the world 1 01 /was created has there been found no othei 1 an such centre of influence and beneficence as tba- that great life. His fame fills the world lue> He bus transcended the lives of His own race, religion, age and latitude; He has be? come the universal Benefactor. No part ol the world is untouched by His gracious influence. He breathes on tribes, nations, races, and they live again. If you would see what Christ is to the world, take down the map and observe thai the green spots are those touched by the influences of the Cross.' His word is thick and powerful, touching both individuals and na^* ? Iitr xaa " *.! ?AKIA* an<lanvAM IlIUUO IU Ul^UCl lOOU^O OUU UWiCi vuuvuivig. At His coming superstitions vanish, old fablei are discredited, idols are cast away, and "th< knowledge of God covert} the earth as the waters cover the great deep." Christ has brought to the nations the most important matters?a correct knowledge of the character, attributes and work of God a true view of man in his ori 1 origin, history and destination; and a revelation of the great intervention of God foi the rescue of man from his fallen condition The Gospel has the promise of the life thai now is as well as of that to come. The highest civilizations today are those created by the teachings of Christ. Enterprise, in vention, mastery of material resources, com merce, and substantial political power follow the Cro&e. The Christinn nations at this very moment, as never before, control th< destinies of the world. Christendom speaks and the world obeys. Mohammedanism one* dictated terms and threatened to capture both east and west; today its one ruler sits trembling upon, his throne 01 the Bosphorus, waiting the word of the Christian Powers to give him a little longei lease of life. Christ holds the key to the situation; Hesetsupand pulls down. Hi! word must be the ultimate law. The natior that will not obey Him shall be dashed tc pieces like a potter's vessel?broken intc fragments never to be re-joined and flt onlj for the dust heap. It is enough. There ii but one Name: it is the Name above everj name, at which every knee shall bow anc every tongue, however reluctantly, shall it the end confess Him Lord of all. lad THE IMMAXEJfCE OF JESC8. or >een We never grasp Christian truth in its per- wholeness until wo recognize a historic anc an immanent Christ?a Christ who was bori he in Bethlehem and suffered under Pontius j to Pilate, and h Christ who still lives and reign! lays among men. In the economy of grace bott mg- have place and importance; we may not ad and vocate the one to the exclusion of the other the The Christian Fathers wore not wrong in de fending the truth about the historic Christ ii His birth, life, teachings, marvelous works sufferings, death and glorious resurrection These are fundamental facts. On this evi dence the historic Gospel rests. .The] sla. show the entrance of the divine int< the human. We are not wrong in celebratinj the advent of the Divine Man, whose humat the birth marks a new stage in the progress ol t II- the race, a divine force in the evolution o: shot human society. But glorious as are thes< historic truths of the humanity, they make tbe but one hemisphere of God's gracious revela self- tion to man. The divine is set over against aert the human. You may well believe J.?suf the came, and that He will come a^ain in tbt last day; but jou haw the whole truth onlj for when you believe in an immanent Christ fited who remains a pervading Spirit and Force had among men. ! his Great as is the historic Christ who wa? lail, born and died and rose again, greater is the hile glorified Christ who remains in 80ciety and de- in the individual soul to illuminate and tc tion convict of sin, righteousness and judgment tc tiad come. Christ went away, but he is also here cut- Though unset n, His power is everywhere felt like teat of gravity and elect;icity. Herose RTe, to reign in the heavenly places, but He rulef iim, not less in rbe souls of uien on earth. The Irew Comlorter is the immanent Christ. He came sing to abide and to be in us. He is ever with the twe or three as with the great assembly. He )res- is heie to comfort, to purify and eduy rt tc Greater is the immanent then the historic nenl Christ. It was needful that He should gc his away from the visible that His power might John be realized in ihe invisible; that He should disappear from the flesh that He might live and quicken all things by the Spirit. The purpose of the Lord's coming in the flesh car be fullv realized oalv by His coming into the I V ,.# Ul'j |JV?t 0UU1. IUU llltt) bUlli& U4UOU VA <uto vvuiiu? 1894' intoJudea, without being saved; but Hif cotxiing into the soul is attend* d with savin? efficacy. To us Christ on the Cross is lest impor ant then Christ coming iuto our lives ' and experience. We have, na it were, got rect- past the historic Christ, whcse ereat record the is stored up in the archives of history and ; the stands proof against all doubters and revilers W(iJ but lor us who live in the later days God ha; provided some better thing in the abiding presence of Jesus in human society. Jesus not only came, and will again come; He i? hnre to remuin. "Lo! I am with you all th< rc- eveu unto the consummation of the age." nore ? If we are God's children we need not fem ACt I hi-developments of his providense.?Richard Newton, 1>. D. "o do /iwh}' %?un :n.iui w aeons, Postmaster Sullivan, of P.rooklyn, received ( c,.j. word from Washington that it was the in"" tentioa of the postal auth^wt'Rs'o do away t mi xvitl) mail wagons after March 1, an i n tnesand, hen^er service will be institutod. Thi? i* due iead, tie success of the trolley mail cars. xxrhn ~ ~ A MiiKnlflcJnl Library; illed ^ *s Renounced that the library thnt Anrted drew Carneprio is to tjivo to Homos!end, 0 ^ Penn., will cost $400,00a, and work will l>?IW ? gin on it at once. Second Artventlsts in KintacUy. utjUg, Followers of John Stuvins, of Knott ' Ju County, Kentucky, who preaohea the second * advent, are preparing their robes to &3cend with hiffl. ) " SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL. LESSON FOB JANUARY 10. Lesson Text: "Tlie Sllnlstry of Jolin the Baptist," Luke ill., 15-22 ?Golden Text: John 1., 29?Commentary. 15. "And as the people were in expectation and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ Or not." John was in the deserts till the day of his showing anto llsrael (chapter i.. 80). Then in God's appointed time the word of God came unto Johu in the wilderness, and he went forth to preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins (chapter iii., 2, 3). The effect upon many ot tne people was simply that of suspense and debating as to whether John i was the Christ or not. 8ee margin. Some of them asked him if he was the Christ or ?;ujan or mat-proonet. They need not have debated the question, nor have remained in i suspense, had they been subjects to the > prophets Isaiah and Malachi. nor would they have reasoned much as to who John was had they been truly expecting Him whom John preached. 16. "John answered, saying unto them all: i I iDdeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I cometh. the latche: of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. He shall , baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." John said that he was neither Elijah i nor Christ nor the prophet, but only a voice ; ?tobe heard and not seen?crying, "Make straight the way of the Lord." And so he I cried. "Behold the Lamb of God!" (John J., i 21. 23. 29, 36.) When afterward they told John that all were following Jesus, he said: [ "This my joy. therefore, is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease" (John iii., 29, 30). This beautiful spirit of John which ; seeks nothing for self, but aims only to mag[ nify the Lord, is very much to be desired and is within our reach, for it is the Spirit of , Christ Himself, who never sought His own i will nor His own glory (John v., 30; vi., 38; i vili., 50). He is ready to fill us with His . Spirit (Lukexi., 13). and He will when we \ are ready by His grace to live His life (II , Cor. iv., 10,11). . 17. "Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and will . gather the wheat into His garner,, but the chaff He will burn with Are unquenchable." The baptism of Israel with the Holy Spirit * and with Are will be at the harvest time, the end of this age (Math, xiii., 40-43; Isa. xllv., 8; MaL. lii., 2), but individual believers may r and should be filled with the Spirit now, and they may also know somewhat of the exi perience of fire, for there is much dross in us to be consumed. The unquenchable fire [ is, however, the same as the Lord Himse'.t referred to in Mark ix., 43-48; Math- xiii., 42. [ See also Rev. xiv., 9-11. 1 18. "And many other things in his exhor[ tation preached he unto the people." In . John Hi., 26-36. we find that, among the other things, John preached that Jesus is the Son of God (see also chapter i., 84): that He was sent of God; that He spake the words . of God; that whosoever receives the Son [ hath life, but he that receives not the Son hath no life, but abides under the wrath of God; that a man can receive nothing except ' it be given him from heaven, and that it is a , great honor to be a friend of the Bridget groom, even of Jesus Christ. Elsewhere He . taught that repentance is nothing unless it [ ' is proved to be real by works corresponding thereto. We may listen to preaching as sound and Christ honoring as that of John, j but we read that even the word of God will , not profit those who hear it unless they believe it (Heb. i v., 2). j 1 19. "But Herod, the tetraroh, being remr/ivori hv him fnr TTnrnriinn. n<* hrnthnr ^Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done." The particulars of this will be found in Mark vLt 17-20, where it is also written that Herod believed John to be a just and holy man, heard him gladly and did many things. Some would say, therefore, that John might have done more for Herod if he had kept his favor and been gentle with him and not rebuked his sin, but the true servant of God has no thought of pleasing men. so as to keep their favor, even though they be as great as Herod (Gal. i., 20). Oar one and constant aim must be to please Him who has given us'so great a trust as His st09pel (II These. 11.. 4). 20. "Adaed yet this above alt?that he shut up John in prison." This was no new experience for a prophet of the Lord, as a king of Judah put Hanani In prison because of the Lord's message through him. Micaiah was smitten, put in prison and fed on bread and water because he was faithful to God. Jeremiah also was smitten and iml nrisnnfirl In th? dtmiron fH Chron. xvi.. 10: j xviii., 23, 26; Jer. xxxvii., 15). The Lord , Jesus told His apostles very plainly that . they must not fear tribulation, imprison' ment oreven death (John xvi., 1. 2, 38; Rev. ; ii., 10; Math, x., 28). In Jos. v., 10, we read I that the prophets are to us an example of suffering, affliction and of patience, and in II Pet. ii., 21-23, our Lord Himself is spoken of as our example in these things. 21. "Now, when all the people were baptized, it came to pas3 that, Jesus also being baptized* and praying, the heaven was j opened." Luke is the only one who speaks I of Jesus praying at His baptism. He spent l much time in prayer. How can we do His 5 works without it? Matthew tells us that , John at first objected to baptising Him on j account of his (John's) greater need but that Jesus replied, spying. "Suffer it to be so now to fulfill all righteousness" (Math. iii.. 14, 'm 15). Jesus was and is righteousness itself and becomes our righteousness when we accept Him (Rom. x.. 4: II Cor. v., 21). See ' heaven opened in John i.; Acts vii., x ; Rev. | iv., xix.. and Ezek. i. 22 "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said: Thou art My oeloved 8on. la Thee I am well pleased." He was and is the true ark, where only the dovelike Spirit finds perfect rest. At Pentecost we read of tongues of fire in connection with the Sprit coming upon the disciples, but Christ needed no fire. He was always and in all things well pleasing to God. If we are willing to live His life. He wifl by His Spirit work in ua that which is well pleasing^n Jiis sight (II Cor. iv., 11; v.. 9; Rom. xil., 1, 2; HHb. xlil. 21). His life had but one aim?to glorify God.?Lesson Malnnr A $50,000 APPLE TREE. It Cost Mr. Smith a Fortune to Save It, t and Then He Didn't. ! An expensive apple tree stands on the Albert Smith farm, In South Strabnne Town' ship, Pennsylvania. It has cost its owner | over $45,000. In 1887, when the Smith pool? gushers commenced to break the oil market 1 and ruin speculators, the company which ; held the lease on the Smith (arm decided to : locate a well near ihe boundary line of the ' Cameron and Smith properties. ' The owner of the land objected to the location, claiming that, if made on the spot chosen, a favorite apple tree would have to ) be cut down. The manager of the drilling L company believing that the location was n ' promising one. decided to gain his end and ' get even with the troublesome landowner at i the same time. f He had the timbers hauled a few feet, 1 changed the intended position of the der> ! rick and boiler house, placed them just j across the line, on the Cameron farm, and drilled the hole wilhin a few feet of the 1 original location. The well prodcued 3000 ! barrels of oil per day. A iartce percentage 1 J of this petroleum must have come irom un> der the Smith farm, but the hole was on : r\ i??,i anh h?. cf iwnrsB. PflilHive<i L/^UIOtUU O IUUU, nuu iiv, V. ? 1 the royalty. The well is still producing oil, ' and the Camerons' sha.r?> ofthB output has * reached over $45,000. The apple tree still lives, but has been ruined by the closeness of the well. Victory for tlie CoTe~e Yell. Clifford Carson secured jud^mmt Tor S150 at Kalamazoo, Mich., against Marshall Hill and the villaee of Gaip<?burg tor false im? Erisonment. Ho was arrasted for EjivlU!? the i(?h school yell on the street there while celebrating a football victory, but was never tried. i Million*! Rides In a Jti'ticyde, John Jacob Astor, of New York City, lately took his flr.? lesson In mnnipulat!nT a horseless carriage. He guided it up Fifth avenue under the instruction of a wcn-ia, who rode beside him. The vehlele was of Victoria pattern, the motive po^er being hidden under the seat. BHSUHnHOB O yj.' ... . ' AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. ' 'S: soft butter. Overheated cream will make oily butter, sometimes bo soft as to be unworkable and of quite a bad flavor. In the absence of other means of keeping the cream cool, it may be kept in a clean pail and bung in a well, a few feet above the water. The cold. eat air is in just that part of the well, and it is quite rarely that the temperature is is as much as sixty degrees. Thus it may be a desirable thing to put a house with lattice work sides over the well and use it for oream storage in the hot weather, as well as in the winter.?New York Times. waint ttte poultry house warm. If your poultry house is not as warm as you think it ought to be, it can very easily and cheaply be made warmer, whatever the material it is made of or lined with. If you cannot afford heavy manilla paper for a lining take old newspapers and line the walls and roof of the house. Make a ' cood nanta nf flnnr and water, and put on three or more layers *of the newspapers. These will keep out wind and cold that would get in throngh unseen cracks and small knot holes or other small openings through which froBt and wind could work. When the paste is dry apply a good ooat of whitewash. If you can afford a covering of thin muslin oyer all it will make a more durable job, but if the surface is moderately smooth, the paper alone with the coat of whitewash will make a wall surface that will last one season. in the spring if the surface is somewhat broken and apt to make a harbor for vermin, the paper may be scraped off before' the spring whitewashing is done. Try a coating of paper on the inBide of your .poultry house if it is not thoroughly warm and comfortable.? Farm, Field and Fireside. CABE OF YOUNG STOCK. Nothing militates so muoh against the interest of the farmer whose busivinna ia of A/ilr vaiainrv aa 4n Iflf fkc of aaV uooo 10 inioiu^ ?o w iou DUO ovvfv/a fail off in fiesh in the fall of the year, writes A. H. Bhodes. This is done by neglecting to feed or hoase them through the cold storms which almost always prevail more or less at this time of thd year. Young cattle that were bmooth and sleek as moles are now commencing to look rough and sorry, and an expert's eye can plainly see there has been a falling off in flesh. It is very wrong to let a young creatnre of any kind commence to fall off in flesh, and sometimes it will cost quite an effort to turn the tide the other way and get them to gaining agaiu. No young creature was ever put in order for the shambles too cheaply 01 rapidly for the safety of the small profit the grower receives, and when the growth is cheoked two or three times in the shoit life of a bullock there certainly is a material loss which could and shonld be avoided by housing and feeding early, or as soon as the cold storms of fall commence. It is also crnel to let stock cringe up to a hedge or stoim fence and with theix bellowing plainly tell that they are very uncomfortable and want shelter and forage until the storm is past. Stook is about the only thing the farmer has at present that will bring nearly what it costs, and they should be cared for kindly. ?New York Witness. A WORD ABOUT FEEDING IN WINTEB. The coming -winter will find many faimers with a fair supply of feed for their stock, bat in many instances tnis will be very largely of one kind, such as corn and fodder, which will make.a ration too broad if fed as the principal food of the oows/.and others have oats, peas and possibly clover hay in excess, without a proper proportion ol the starchy foods to go with them. Animals will live on few varieties, even if the food elements in them may be broad, or narrow, but it costs too much to burn protein for fuel, 01 make energy out of staroh, or the carbohydrates. Clover hay fed alone comes quite near being a balanced ration, as the proportion of staroh tc protein is a little over five to one. Now, as a cow needs not far from two and s half pounds of protein a day, she must coneume a full 100 pounds of- corn fodder a day to get it, and would get twice too muoh starch, which is first i". '1 IL lllipubltiuie IU1 buo WW iv/ uvi BUU second, to digest, if possible To get a fall ration oat of the olover hay, she mast eat fully thirty-five to forty poundt in twenty-four hours, which is toe much tax upon the system, so it is a matter of economy for the farmer to give a part at least of this protein in the form of a pound or so of oil meal a dav, a few pounds of bran or gluten meal. Where one is feeding silage, ii an addition is made to it of ten pouudE of clover hay and five pounds of bran and two pounds of oil meal, we have a pretty well balanced ration, or if silage is out of the question, then what bright corn fodder the oow will eaf up clean answers?in a way?the demand, and then the cow is being economically fed, provided this cow is not compelled to use up the most of thitt ration to protecty herself, to withstand unneeded, and worse, unnecessary, t-xpoBure. A ration well fed to wall Vmnsprt Animals is a thirtv-three U^I cent, economy. POULTRY PAID OFF THE MOP.TGAGTC. At firHt I was discouraged. writeI Mrp. E. K., and did not nee iio v .1 could ever pay the mort^a^e u'i i f^e I and clothe my little family. At lliis critical time my mother visited iu?udiI brought a present of a browu inn u hen and rooster. They were mace..! in the empty henhouse and fed on taMe 6craps and kitchen bits. The hen laid through the winter and amply repaid for what she and her mate ate. lr April, becoming brooiy, I set twelve Brahma eggs and obtained eleven chicks. These were brought, up by hand that the hen might continue fitting. The second incubation reunited in twelve chicks. Both broods wert raised without the loss of a ohicu. Eleven Brabmas and turee Le<rnoro "roo.-ters were sold at a profit of rf9.40, With ten hens the necond wiDt>-r oe gan, and from Octobcr 1 to April 1 4 9 tfcr:, -, : /;'/ yf : ' ?* 815.79 was cleared. In April four hens set on Brahms eggs hatched thirty-eight chicks, and later oh, being reset with tyo' raore,;: hatched., r .. fifty-nine Leghorns.- Eggs and pooltry were sold to the owner of a fashionable hotel at top price* receiving' for sixty-nine,hens and chicks $43.30, and I bad forty pallets left to begin. the third winter. Divided into fotir ' flooks of ten each?as I had observed from previous experience that small , - flooks usually do better than larger' ones?they were placed in winter SINGLE OOKB BBOWN LEOHOBK COOK. quarters. The winter waa extremely cold. Eggs Bold at .high prices, so I managed to olear from the forty hens $68.70. In the spring I raised 160 Brahmas and 131 Leghorns, but, as the hotel management had changed, sent my eggs and broilers to Boston, and, although I did not get as good prices, cleared $131.58. That season I raised nineteen turkeys, my first ex- / j; ' per ience, and lost several, bat learned to care for them. The fourth winter I kept four turkeys and fifty pullets, one pen being , light Brahmas.v These were fed as were the Leghorns, which caused them hArtnmA fcnr? fat fcn lav. I havo si near ' found that by feeding very little fatty 4 if food and keeping'thetn at work they can be made to pay aa well, if not bet- ' }ter, than the boasted.Leghorns. As it was, my net proceeds were $70.11, and again I raised 221 chicks and ; forty-nine turkeys, which netted $177.47. In four years the pair of : hens that my mother gave me had been the means of paying the mortgage that had looked so discouraging, . again proving that great oaks from liti tie acorns grow. During thifl time I i had managed the farm so as to get a > i living from it and pay.-the tase%r~ Farm and Home. I FARM AHD GARDEN NOTES. Cows should be protected from th? 1 frequent changes of weather during ' the fall. More stabling and care are 1 generally demanded. ' ' : : There are degrees of mental devel opment evea among cows. The J. chances are that a nervous oow will ' give more and better milk than a dull, stolid one. | The New Hampshire law wbioh re. quires all imitation dairy products to | be colored pink has stood the test Of the oonrts and ia now being vigorously , enforced. ; In Switzerland, milkmaids who can sing get higher wages than those who cannot The reason is that a maid i who sings at her work can coax ono' fifth more milk from a oow than a aonglesa milker oan extract. i Milk is pasteurized which has been heated at 167 degrees Fahrenheit for twenty minutes, then quickly cooled; it is sterilized when it has been heated with steam or boiling water long enough to destroy the germs. A red-polled cow at Whittingham, England, has yielded milk continu- , oualy since she oeased calving, five i? j i?:? no mi i years ago, ner rwuuru uemg w,ivz i, quarts of milk of the first quality. No other esse like this is known. 'If you wish, to grow hyacinths, * tulips or other bulbous. plants indoor^ plant them now and place them in the cellar until they have .grown about an inch. They , are then ready for the > 1 window and will bloom successfully. 1 A new variety of blackberry hM ' recently been grown in California. It is pure white and is known as the ice' berg. The berries are delioious in 1 flavor and so transparent that the ' tiny seeds are perfectly visible when ' the fruit is [ripe. . 1 Eben K Rexford writes in th? * ' T - ?? T^nwnol fV?of anffl nnl JJ&UIOO UUiilD VUU&UH4 VUM? WHM? ? ? | inj are plants to any great extent . Indeed, they are of benefit in most instances, as they catch the insects, [ which if left to themselves would sooa ' . damage the plant greatly. , There is olten a great difference in. , the charning qualities of the milk of , different cows, some cream coming to , butter sooner than others. This ooi casiona considerable loss in charning , when tho cream of several cows U [ churned together. ' It is better, if possible, to chnrn each cow's cream by ' itself. i The rains will carry the soluble pori tions of the manure down if it is > spread on the ground now, and worked ' into the soil, while the solid portioos i will aecompose uanug tuo niuKi, ' rains and frost more easily decomposing it than when coarse material is not placed in the center of the heap. One advantage of spreading manure in the fall is that the labor of hauling it-can i be done with less interference with other work than to postpone the I spreading until spring, at whioh sea bon work becomes urgent. Weighing a Pencil Mark. "Scales are now made of snch a nice . rtljustment," says the Railway Re. : "trhiik tliop will weii?h anvthinar. i j to Tim smallest hair picked from the i ' ??yvl>row. Thej are triumphs of mech' auism, and are enclosed in glass 1 c-ises, as the slightest breath of air ' would impair their records. Tne glass i cases have a sliding door, aud as soon [ us the weight is placed in the balances [ the door slides down. Two pieces of i paper of equal weight can be placed. ? ju the scales, anil an autograph writi ten in pencil on either piece will causa the other side to ascend, and the needle which indicate* the division of i . weight even to the ten-millionth part :' or a pound and less will move fiom its , j perpendicular. A siguature contain- < i ! ing nine ietters has oeea weighed and , I proved to 09 two milliuratns, or the fifteen thousand five Hundredth pari , ' of an oiv?ee, troj." i" / -A.