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iREV. DR. TA1MAGE, SUNDAY'S 1MSCOURSE BY TH: NOTED DIVINE. IauDjeci; " rne Place to Besln." ; Text: "Beginning at Jerusalem."?Lul Xiiv., 47. "There it is," said the driver, and we n instantly and excitedly rose in the carriaf to catch the flrst glimpse of Jerusalem, j long the joy of the whole earth. That cit coroneted with temples and palaces an radiant, whether looked up at from tne va , ley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at from adjoli i ing hills, was the capital of a great Natioi Clouds of Incense had hovered over it. Cha lots of kings had rolled through it. Batte ing rams of enemies had thundered ag.iln; it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeramia lamented, and David reipned, and Pa' preached, and Christ was martyred. Mo: Interesting city ever built since masoni rung its flrst trowel or plumb line measure Its first wall or royalty swung its fir; r-ficepter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewis ' kingdom Washington is to our own countr ?the capital, the place to which all tb Itribe3 coma up. the great National heai whose throb sends life or death through th body politic, clear out to the geographic; extremities. What the resurrected Christ said in m textto His disciples when Ho ordered themt start on the work ot gosplization, "begit ning at Jerusalem." it seems to me God saj now in His providence to tens o! thousand of Christians in this city. Start for th evangelization of America, "beginning a Washington." America is going to be take for God. If you do not believe it, take you hat now and leave and give room to som man or woman who does believe it. A surely as God lives and He is able to do as H says He will this country will be evangelizec from the mouth of the Potomac to thi mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands o Navesink to the Golden Horn, from Baffin'. |?ay to toe truu 01 inexico, auu ^mist ?n walk every lake, whether bestormed o: placid, an'l be transfigured on every mono tain, and the night skies, whether they hove: over groves of magnolia or over Alaskai glaoier, shall be filled with the angelic over tare of "glory to God and good will l< men."' Again and agair does (he old book an nouncethat all the earth shall see the salva^ tioc of God, and as the greater includes tht lesser that takes America gloriously in. Car you not see that if America is not taken foi God by His consecrated people it will be taken for Apollyon? The forces engaged oc both sides are so tremendous that it cannol be a drawn battle. It is comiog, the Arma geddon. Either the American Sabbath will perish and this Nation be handed over tc Herods and Hildnbrands and Diocletian; and Neros of baleful power, and Alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled up throna o beer barrels, hifi mouth foaming with do mestic and National curse, and crime wili lift its unhindered knife of assassinatior and rattle keys of worst burglary and wav< torch of widest conflagration, and oui cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting foi mighty tempest of fire and brimstone and one tidal wave of abominatior Iwiu surge across tne connaeac, or oui Sabbaths will take on more sancti ty, and the !newspapers will become apocal yptio wings of benediction, and penitentiarie; will be abandoned for lack of occupants, anc holiness and happiness, twin son and daugh ter of heaven, shall walk through the lane and Christ reign oyer this Nation either ir person or by agency so glorious that the whole country will be one clear, resounding echo of heaven. It will be one or the othor By the throne of Him who liveth forever and ever I declare it will be the latter. If the Lord will help me, as He always doesblessed be Hie glorious name?I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun a) Washington would have a tendency to bring the whole continent to God. and before this century closes. Why should it "be especially advantageous If a mighty work of grace started here, ''beginning at Washington?" First, because this city is on the border between the North and the South. It is neither Northern nor Southern. It commingles the two climates. It brings together the two styles of population. It is not only right, but beautiful that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and brougnt up. With What loving accentuation the Ala'oamian speaks of his orange groves! And the man from Massachusetts is sure to let you know that he comes from the land of the Adamses Samuel and John and John Quincy. Did you ever know a Virginian ^r Ohioan whose race did not brighten when he announced plmself from the Southern or Northern Btate of Presidents? If a man does not like pis native clime, it is because while he lived there ho did not behave well. This capital ptands where, by its locality and its political influence, it stretches forth one hand toward the North and the other toward the South, tnd a mighty work of grace starting neru pould probably bo a National awakening, fcteorgia would clasp the hand of New Hampshire, and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and California the hand of New York, and say, ' Come, let us go up and worship the God of Nations, the Christ of Golgotha, the Holy Ghost of the Pentecostal thousands." It has often been said that the only way the North and the South will be brought into complete aocord is to have a war with some foreign Nation in which both seotions, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be overcome. Well, if you wait for such a foreign conflict, you will wait until all this generation is dead and perhaps wait forever. The war that will make the sections forget past controversies is a war against unrighteousness, such as a universal religious awakening would declare. What we want is a battle lor souls in which about 40,000,000 Northerners and Southerners shall be on the same aide and shoulder to shoulder. In no othei city on the continent can such a war bo declared so appropriately, for all the othei great cities are either Northern or Southern. Thisis neither, or rather it is both. Again, it would be especially advantageous if a mighty work of grace started here. be> cause more representative men are in Washingtonthanin any other city between the oceans. Of course there are accidents In politics, and occasionally there are men whe get into the Senate and House of Representatives and otlmr important places who art Inttea lor rne positions in ueuner aeaa noi heart, but this is exceptional and more exceptional now than in other dnvg. There is not a drunkard In the National Legislature although there were timps when Kentucky Virginia, Delaware, Illinois. New York aiic Massachusetts had men in the Senate 01 House of Representatives who were maudlir and staggering drunk across those higi places. Never nobler group of Diet, sat ir Senate or House of Representatives than sa .there yesterday and will sit there to-morrow while the highest judiciary, without ex caption, has now upon its bench men be yond criticism for good morals and m^uta endowment. So in all departments of offl oial position, with here and there an excep tion, are to-day the brainiest men and mo3 honorable men of America. Now, suppoat the Holy Ghost power should fall upon'thi: city, and these men from all parts of Amer ica should suddenly beoome pronounced fo Christ. Do you say the effect would be elec trical? More than that. It would be om nlpotent. Do you say that such learned am potent men are not wrought upon by relig lous influence? That shows you have no I observed what has been going on. Commodore Foote. representing the navy General Grant and Robert E. Lee, represent lng the Northern and Southern armies: Chie Justice Chase, representing the Suprem Court; the Frelinghuysens, Theodore am Frederick, representing the United State Senate; William Pennington and scores c others, representing the House of Represent atives, have surrendered to that gospel which before this winter Is on: will in thi capital of the American Nation, if we ar faithful in our prayers and exertions tun into the kiusdom oT Gcd rrse'i ol' Nation; and international power. ih?*k* tongues < eloquence becoming the tongues of lire i another Pentecost. Then; are on yondt hill those who by the grace ot God will b* come John Ktioxes and Chrysostoni and Fenolons ami Bourdei^aus. who once regenerated. There is a illusion I have heardin prayt I meetings and beard in pulpits, tbut soul is ft soul?one soul worth as much .* another. I deny it. The soul of a man w'u can bring 1000 or 10,000 other souls into tli kingdom of God is worth 100.1 times < 10,000 times more than the soul of a ma who can bring no one into the kingdom, great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in th oapital. reaohing the chief nien'of Amarici ,would be of more value to earth and heave than in any other part of the Nation becalm it would reach all the States. oitle3. towr and neighborhoods of the continent. 01 for the outstretched right arn of God AI? mighty in the 3tlvation of this capital! Some of us remember 1857, when at the , close of the worst monetary distress this country has ever felt, compared with whioh the hard times of the last three years were a boom of prosperity, right on the heels of m that complete prostration came an awakenIng In which 500,000 people were converted in different States of the Union. Do you know where one of its chief powers was ce demonstrated? In Washington. Do vou know on what street? Thi9 street. Do you ,11 know in what church? This church. I *e picked up an old book a few days ago and 10 was startled and thrilled ond enchanted to y, read some words, written at that time by the id Washington correspondent of a Now York 1- paper. He wrote: "The First Presbyterian a- Church can scarce contain the Deople. Reb. quests are daily preferred for an Interest in r. the prayers offered, and the reading of these r- forms one of thetenderest and most effective st features of the meetings. Particular pain? I ,h are taken to disclaim and exclude every- j 11 thing like sectarian foeling. General aston- i st ishment is felt at the unexpected rapiditj y with which the work has thus far proceeded, (1 and we are beginning to anticipate the nest cessity of opening smother church." Why, h my hearers, not hare that again, and more y than that? There are many thousands more te of inhabitants now than then. Besides that, :t since then are the telephone, with Its semie omnipresence, and the swift cable car for asil sembling the people. I believe that the mightiest revival of religion that this city y has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth o will tremble from Capitoline Hill to the i- boundaries on all sides vith the footsteps of pg God hs He comes to awaken and pardon and Is save these great populations. e People of Washington, meet us next Thurst day night, at half past 7 o'clock, to pray for n this coming ot tuo nuij vuusi?uui mi a r pentecostal 3090 tbat I have referred to. but e 30,000. Such a fire as that would kindle a $ light that would be seen from the sledges e crunching through the snows of Labrador to I the Caribbean Sea, whero the whirlwinds are a born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the { blank verse poet of the Bible, "O Lord, reg vive Thy work in the midst of the years, in I the midst of the years make known; in wrat h r remember mnrcy." Let the battlecry be . Washington for God, the United States for r God. America for God, the world for Godf i We are all tired of skirmishing. Let us . bring on a general engagement. We are > tirad of Ashing with hook and line. With one sweep of the gospel net let us . take in many thousands. This vast work . must begin somewhere. Why not here? . Some one must give the rallying cry, why ! may not I, one of tbe Lord's servants? By Providential arrangement, I am every week i in sermonic communication with every city. town and neighborhood of this country, and I now Rive the watchword to north and south and east and west. Hear and see it, all people?this call to a forward movement, this call to repentence and faith, this call to a continental awakening! This generation will soon be out of sight. Where are the mighty men of the past who trod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake in yonder National Legislature and decided the stupendous questions of the supreme judicatory? A.sk the sleepers in the Congressional cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all over the land. Their tongues are speechless, their eyes closed, their arms folded, their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed. How soon timo prorogues parliaments and adjourns senates and disbands cabinets and empties pulpits and dismisses generations! What we would do we must do quickly or not do at all. I call upon people who cannot come forth from their sickbeds to implore the heavens in our behalf from their midnight pillows, and I call upon the aged who cannot, even by the help of their staff, enter the churches to spend their last days on earth in supplicating the salvation of this Nation, and I call upon all men and women who have been in furnaces of trouble, as was. Shadrach, and among lions, as was Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as was Jeremiah, to join in the prayer, and let the church of God everywhere lay hold of the Almighty arm that moves Nations. Then Senators of the United i States will announce to the State legislatures that wilt thom here, and members of the i House or Representatives will report to the Congressional districts that elected them, and the many thousands of men and women ; now and here engaged in the many departments of National service will write home, . telling all sections of the country that the ) Lord is here and that He is on the march $3r t the redemption of America. Halleluiah, the i Lord is coming. I hear the rumbling of His t chariot wheels. I feel on my cheeks the breath of the white horses that draw the t Victor! I see the flash of His lanterns | through the long night of the world's sin i and sorrow. [ We want it this country, only on a larger scale, that which other centuries have seen of God's workings, as in the reformation of the sixteenth century, when Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon led on; as in the , awakening of the seventeenth century, when Bunyan and Flavel and Baxter led on; as in tho awakening of the eighteenth century, i when Tennant and Edwards and the Wesieys led on; as in the awakening of 1857, led on by Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist, and Bishop Macllvaine. the apostolic Episcopalian, and Albert Barnes, the consecrated [ Presbyterian, and others just as good in all j denominations. Oh. will not some of ' i those glorious soub of the past come down and help us? Come down ofT your i thrones. Nettleton and Finney and Daniel ' Baker and Edward Pavson and Truman Osborne and Earle and Knapp and Inskip and ! . Archibald Alexander?that Alexander the 1 ' Great of the Christian churches. Come J , down! How can you rest up there when the 1 world is dying for lack of the gospel? Come j : down and agoniro with us in prayer. Come ; . down and help ns preach in our pulpits. ' Coma down and inspire our courage ana faith. Heaven can get along without you i better than we can. Eut more than all, and ovcrwh"lraed with reverent emotion, we ask > it. come. Thou of the deeply dyed garmnnts j of Bozrah; traveling in the greatness of Thy . strength, mighty to save! Lord God of j Joshua, let the sun of this centurv stand ; , 3till above Glbeon and the moon above the j valley of Ajalon until we can whip out the ' i five tings of hell, tumbling them down the j . precipices as the other five fcin^s went over . the rocks to Bothhoron. Ha! Ha! It will } > so surely be done that I cannot restrain the laugh of triumph. ' > And now I would like to soo this hour (hat . which I have never seen, Init hope to see? * > a whole audience saved under one Hash of ( ; the Eternal Spirit. Before you go outof any 1 . of these Ooors cuter t'uo door of i , mercy. Father auJ mothar, co:ce in and 1 , bring your children with von. Newly mar- < ried folks, consecrate yom lifetime to God, 4 i and bs married for eternity as well as time. ' r Youns man. you will waut God baforo you ? i get through this wor! 1, aui you want Him 1 i now. Young woman, wilhout Goil this is a ( i hard world forwomou. One aiid all, wher- ' t ever you sit orstand. I lift my voice so that J t you can hear it, out in the corridors and on ' . the street, and say, in the words of the Med. tterrauean ship captain. "Call upon thy God, I if so be that God will think upon us, that we . Derlshnot." Ob. what nows to tell, what . news to relate to your old father aud motht er. what new3 to telegraph your friends on the other side of the mountains, what news with which to thrill your loved ones in heaven! It was of such news that a man read in a noonday meeting in Philadelphia, arose, and unrolling a manusorlpt read: r Where er we meet, you always say: "What's thH newhV What's the news? " Pray what's the order of the day? 1 What's the news? What's the nows?" Oli, I have cot good news to tell? " My Saviour hath done a'.l things well, I And triumphed over death and bell? r That's the news! That's the news! e 1 The Lamb w;is slain on Calvary? s ThatV the news! That's the news! if To set a world of sinners free? Tbat's the news! That's the news! ' The Lord has pardoned all my sin? That's the nows! That'sthe news! I feel the witness now within ? ( Tiiat's thi'isew! That's the news! 1.1 And siu Kiitouli my sins away. * | And tuu^ht m-< how to watch aud prav, I I'm hatrpy now from day 10 day? | Thai's th*.j news! Thai's the news'. - l is | And Christ the Lord can save you, too? n That's the news! That's the news! it l'our sinful heart He can renew? ;r That's the news! That's the news! a This moment, if for sins you grieve, is This moment, if you do believe, o A full acqulltal you'll receive? ie j That's the news! That's the newst >r ... ,n And now, if any one should say, A "What's the news? What's the new3?" Is Oh, tell Him you you've begun to pray? ' i, That's the news! rhai's the news! , in That you have joined the conquering band, ie And now with Joy at God's command 19 You're marching to the better land? i, TUut'a tta uews! That's the aewat SABBATH SCHOOI. INTERNATIONAL LESSON F MARCH 1. Lesson Test: "Jesus the Messlal Luke ix., 18-27?Gulden Text: Lukeix.?35? Commentary. 13. "Ami it came to pass as Ho was al praying Hi* disciples were with Him. and asked "them, saying, Whom say the pec that I am?" It "is probable that between last Uvson and this we are to think of folding of both the 5000 end the 4000, wnikiiig on the sea and His visit to the c< of Tyre and Stdon, and now He is away nc near Caisarea Philippi, or Dan. He had b hearing from home and sending word thit ?in other words, He had been praying?i then He asks this question, not that He ca what people thought of Him or whom t thought He was, but He was leading on 1 eoufession from His disciples for a purp< If we tolerate a care as to what people th or say of us or have an ambition to hav uume among men, we have not the spiri Him who emptied Himself for us and m Himself of no reputation, coming here " to be ministered unto, but to minister am give His life a ransom for many." The a sage of Jeremiah to Baruch is always fltti "Seekest thou greit things for thyself, 9 them not" (Phil, ii., 7, 8; Math. xx., 28; J xlv.. 5). 19. "Thev answering said, John tho B list, but some say Elias, and others say t one of the old prophets is risen ajrai Compare verses 7 and 8. To know Go< the greatest thing, but we cannot know C apart from Jesu3 Christ (Math, xi., 27), i when we think we know Him we mav v apply this word to ourselves, "If any n thinketh that he knoweth anything, knoweth nothing yet as he ought to kno (I Cor. viii., 2). At best we know but in p uow; not till then shall we know as we known (I Cor. xiii., 9.12). The natural n cannot know the things of God at all (I C li.,14), but even the spiritual man is < times so carnal that ho cannot discern spi ual things. 20. "He said unto them, But whom i ye that I am? Peter, answering, said, 1 Christ of God." or as in Math, xvi., 16; J( vi, U9, "The Christ, the Son of the liv God." r Matthew says that Jesus replied this, ''Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, flesh and blood hath not revealed it u thee, but Mv Father which is in Heave It it surely blessed to be taught of God "Who teacheth like Him?" (Job xxxvi., ! Before Jesus loft His disciples He said t the spirit whom He would send would te< them all things and guide them into truth (Johnxiv., 26: xvi., 18). 21. "And He straltly charged them, i commanded them to tell no man that thin In Math, xvi., 20, It is written that Ho s that they were to tell no man that He 1 Jesus the Christ. In the beginning of ministry He said very plainly to the won of Samaria that Ho was the Christ (John 25, 26), but now that they have rejec Him, the next sign that He is the Christ1 be His resurrection from the dead. We ' never know till it is too late how much have lost by not simply believing His wc We thus grieved the spirit and hinder 1 from telling us what He would like to. on the other hand, we are tilled with spirit, we shall hear His voice and ki when to be still and when to speak. 22. "Saying, The Son of Man must su many things, and be rejected of the elt and chief priests and scribes and be sh and be raised the third day." There is < dently some connection between this i His forbidding them to 3ay that He was Christ. On several different occasions told them as plainly as this that He must and rise again the third day, but they ceived it not. They did not believe that meant just what He said, and they could put any other meaning upon His wei therefore they lost it all. 23. "And He said to them all, If any n will come after Me, let htm deny himself i take up his cross daily and follow Me." ' true Christian life is the Christ life, the of .Tesus m:ide manifest in our mortal fl (II Cor. iv., 10. 11), and this means the ing unto self, alway, the constant reckon dead of tht self life, the old man, tho cat mind which must be put off and kept o not put off and on as we would our clott Christ never lived unto Himself in any w either as to His will or His glory or pleasure (John vi., 38; vii., 60; Rom. xv., To take up the cross is cot to wear sc kind of a pretty cross, for there is no si thing as a pretty cross recognized in 8cj ture, but it is just to die constantly to oi own will and way and pleasure. ''Not I, Christ." 24. "For whosoever will save his life si lose it, but whosoever will lose his life My sake, tho same shall save it." Our lire may be said to be tbat which ta up our attention, which chiefly occupies i minds and our time, that which interests most. We have to engage in many t varied forms of business, but even in thes may be our main thought to glorify G and thus God and not business will be i life. We shall be able to say, "For mo live is Christ." 25. "For what is a man advantaged if craln tho whole world and lo3e himself or ?ast away?" Let a man live for his busin< r>r his home, or for pleasure, or for hlm? In any wc,y and not receive Christ, and and all his life will be truly lost, for he t hath not i:he Son of God bath not life. rJ word "castaway"' in this verse is wholly i ferentfrom that in I Cor. Ix.t There"it (ers to service rejected (see R. V.), but h evidently to the loss of the soul. 26. "For whosoever shall be ashamed Me and My words of him shall tho Son Man be ashamed when He shall come in awn glory and in His Father's, and of hnlvjincrals." Tho cue who nrofers his o life to the daily dying to self certainly f tors self to Christ and may be said to ishamed of Christ. Such can have no p In His kingdom. His coming in glory h referred to is His coming with His saints Thess. iii., 13; Col. iii., 4), they having p Piously met Him on His way (I These. I 16-18) and received their jrewards and pc :ions In His kingdom. t 27. "But I tell you of a truth there some standing here which shall not taste ieath till they see the kingdom of God." ismuch as in Matthew, Mark and Luke t statement is immediately followed ,by i record of the transfiguration, that event x loubtlefis the fulfilling of this stateme re3us with Moses and Elijah suggest the S >f Man gloriflod, associated with all 1 saints both risen and translated, and i ipostles suggest Israel in the flesh all rig h>U3. Such will be the centre of the mill lial kingdom, at the close of which sal .rill be loosed and then completely ov htjwn.?Lesson Helper. SAVED BY THE DRUMMER BO^ Little Ofile's Drum Tap* Stopped ? Vf in a School. Offle Downs, the fourteen-year-old dr mer boy in the Dodge street school Omaha. \eb.. calmed a Are panic among children recently, and perhaps saved m lives. It was his duty twice a day to st at the bottom of the stairs and march soholars out to the step of any army ra( This was called the Are drill, and the pu from the infant class up were tSld they n never hesitate when the drum sounded. There was great consternation when gong sounded the tire alarm. Offle Do alone, apparently, of all the pupils kept head. He rapidly passed up the aisles, w down two flights of stairs on the run, got drum and. though the smoke was so d? that he could hardly see his way, took p tiou at the bottom of the stairs just as 5ti0 pupils appeared in a herd at the top. The first tap of the drum acted I magic. Superintendent Alleu pulled tt little Rirls and a boy from uuder the fefl tho rushing children an?t commanded tl to keep step to the music. Tlx- little o then remembered their les^ou, and to music calmly name down thu loni; flight they hatJ done a thousand times before, a minute every child was out of the bu ing. Youns; Downs is the hero of the he The lire started from an overhead furu I ? htr D 'i-d'J ft.. 11 WU3UJ qahuqUiouuu *jj department. Cincinnati Has u New Flap. A committee 01 artists appointsi by Mai Caldwell, selected a design for a tnuuici] flag for Cincinnati. Ohio. The flag is to pure white, while the ground or fouudati of the design Is to be red, with waving stri of blue running through it. In the centei the design is the seal of Cincinnati, while the top is a bunch of buckeye leaves, sj bollc of Ohio, The successful corapdlto; Emil Rothengatter, fifty years old, who i born in Oar many. - RELIGIOUS READING OR "the lord chasteneth whom he loveth. There are s6me of us old-fashioned Chri< tians who still believe that a loving Go creates dark nights as well as bright noon days ; that He not only permits trouble, bu sometimes sends troubles on His own chil dren for their spiritual profit. As many a He loves, He sometimes corrects an chasten*. And a trulv illial faith reeos nizes that all hi* dealings are perfect! right. "Happy is the man whom God cot one reeteth: therefore despite not thou th He chastenings of the Almighty." I have see: >ple a farmer drive his plowshare through a vol the vet greensward, and it looked like a harsh the cruel process; but the farmer's eye foresaw His the springing blades of wheat, and tho )ast within a few months that torn soil woul >rth laugh with a golden harvest. Deep sou een ploughing? bring rich fruits of the Spirit her The day is God's and the night also. Thi and is as true in the realm of grace as in th red realm of nature. God orders the withdrawa hey of the sun at evening time, yet that ver O a withdrawal reveals new glories in tho mid 3se. night sky. Then, how the creation widen ink to our view. The stars that lay concealei 0 a behind the noontide rays rush out and fll t of the spangled canopy. So in the night sea ado sons which often descend upon the Chris not tian, fresh glories of the divine love are re 1 to vealed. fresh power is given to our faith fresh victories are won. and a new develop n?i ment is made of Godly character eek Bethany had to become a dark town to tw< poor women before Jesus could flood it witl joy. Before Gethsenmne's midnight strug aP" gle Christ Himself chanted a hymn; an< hat happy is the man or woman who can go into b*," life's hard battle singing ! The ear of Got i is hears no sublimer music than a Christian' tod songs in the night.?Theodore L. Cuyler D. D. rell X SEW STATE OF OCBS. lW" It is quite common to mistake our own in iart capacity for God's unwillingness to give are We cannot take more than our hearts am ian lives can hold, not even of the free am ;or abundant grace of God. The limit of bless ing for ever}- man is the limit of capacity rit_ Even God does not put more than a pin infrt a t.int mm Tlmrufnro ftnri's rienes my blessing of enlargement. When a soul sub mits to Him he onuses it to grow, s< ,bn making room for more delight and large ing power of use in every blessing. God' to will to give may always be taken for for granted. Our will to receive is not so sure nto And when we are disposed to complain o n." our small share of spiritual blessing, may i for not be best to ask ourselves whether it ii 22.) not our will that fails and our littlenes: hat which cannot And roofh to receive ? God'i ach apparent grudging, we may be sure, is al all ways a sign of our incapacity. What w? most need, therefore, is a continual enlarge ind ment of soul which comes to men only fron g." the continual presence of God's Spirit. Go( aid Joes not offer gifts at random, much led! does Ho enlarge a soul which has no desiri His for Him. He who thinks that spiritua nan '"apacity may be picked up anywhere alonf iv., life's dusty road, and that one may set hi; ted heart upon the earth and then enjoy th< trill full measure of a disciple's happiness be (rill sides, will surely-be disappointed. HoweTe We wo may persuade ourselves to the contrary ird, the spiritual ambitions of the opening yea lim will be the measure of its growth and its de If, light. the low ood's way of TBA.ininq. We have seen God's way of training th< rrer ^vorld by a religious process; he also train.1 lers the world by a providential process, ant "O, neither is that way ours. We ask for strengtl 3V'~ and he sends us weakness; we Ask foi health?for health to be able to do our worl the ?ami He sends us sickness ; we set ou; heart on some dear thing- that we want t< d10 do. on some dear life that we want to keep ??~ and he takes it away. Iu many a home t Ho oloud is gathering, aud a fear, a horribli ?ot fear, is coming. aud a strong and earnes rds? cry is going up and saying: 0 my God. d< not take him away, Jet him live, let him liv< 3a& before Thee and me! And God does no seem to hear or seem to heed that cry. Oh no, it cannot be that, it cannot be that; tha indeed would be too hard to bear. I believi "sl1 it to be this, on every hand I learn it. fron every side I see it; we have one way, Got lnP has another wuy, and God's way is not ours IB211 In a way of His own He is training us anc leading us on and on to something bettei and more than we could find lor ourselves Though He defeats our purposes. He doej not deieat us; and all our hopes and dreams and all the bright ideals toward which w< )m0 now aspire, will be afrlast in His wav. nm not in ours, fullllled.? David H. Greer,D.D. rtP" in "From Things to God." les but : shadowy lines. In the nice work of the engraver there an r some lines so fine and shudowy that he eai make them only by the aid of magnifying ce3 glasses ; yet they are the very shadings whiel aur give perfect beauty to the finished work ^ So the characier of every man is filled in nm . finished with things which almost escape hij 0 l.r own notice and which cannot be separately distinguished by others. All the influence! ?"r which surround him with presence as subtlt t0 as the atmosphere, in babyhood, in youth hood, in manhood, are ministering to th< j*e development of the tninii. as common air ami ^be food and exercise are to that of the body. A1 Js?? the conduct of life, at home,in school, in th< chosen avocation, with a power as constan , 0 as that of light on growing plants and for esis, 1." Klvl[i)? prvpuruuu uuu uiiucwiiviu ? j1? the spiritual structure. All the aims am air" endeavors and nigged encounters and try re" iug discipline to which we are summoned erL' lifting us to the sublimities of dutv or hum 0j bling us to the place of penitence, are givof ing strength and force to the qualities of the gjg soul, as athletes attain vigor and skill by the prolonged and patient training.?Burdett WQ Hart, I). D., in ''Always Upward." tru be GIFTS FROM 001>. q nf I have seen a little plant beneath au oak J-r tree sheltered from the storm and wind and J-, rain, and it felt pleased and happy to be so [i," screened; but 1 have seen the woodman j' come with his axe and fell the oak, and the little plant has trembled with fear because . its protection was removed. "Alas! for T?- me," it said, "the hot sun will scorch me, In_ the driving rain will drown me, and the jjjs fierce wind will tear me up by the roots." Eut, instead of these dreadful resists, the ras shelter being removed, the plant ha? nt breathed freer air, drunk more of the dews lon' of heaven, received more of the light of the eun, and it has sprung up and borne flowers tjje which else had never bloomed, and seeds ht- that never else had sown themselves in the eil_ soil. Bo glad when God thus visits thee, Ian waen He lanes away wiwro iHciauiMivniin er. but dwartlng comforts, to make thee have a clear way between thee and heaven, so that heavenly gifts might come more plentifully f, to thee.?Rev. C. H. Spurgeou. knI' Oh, the joy of enjoying, with the reflection that God and all beings approve andpartakti urn of our joy!?W. E. Ohanniug. at Every now and then a man's mind is 50C stretched by a new idea or sensation, and anj nevor shrinks back to its former dimenond sions.?Oliver Wendell Holmes. th? We're only working by im-hea, any of us ; like ttte camel's-hair embroiderers in China Pl,i But it gets put together; and it is beautiful. luff and large, a?d whole somewhere.?A. I). T, .. Whitnev. th< woi hi? Thti sight of the fa -e of Jesus is. I think, renl what Is meant by his glorious apjx'aring.bul hi? it will come as a consequence of his Spirit )HS in us, not as a cau^e of that Spirit in us, osi- 1 he pure in heart will see God. The seeing the of him will bo the sign that we are like him, for only by being like him can we see hitu like as he is.? George MacDouald. tree t ol ien: Never too poor, ton ugiy. too dull,too sick, .... t.i 11..^ ?n,. LIT.-* inn w w t/lM Kate (illllll'tt Wi'lis. j ; ig - tuck of Snow Caiinen Despair, ilj. Maine folk (ire almost In despair because ,ur_ of the continued lack of snow. Such a cona0a dition of ulTairs has uot been known in very the many years. There are 50,000,000 foet of logs in the Penobscot lumbering district which cannot be moved because of the absence of snow, and fully as much more in or other districts, as well aa 50,000 cords of .);ll hemlock bark tor tanning, and all the lumj)e ber and milling industries are suffering saiga verely. The unique experience of putting pes wheels on sleds has been tried in some dis10f tricts. Every previous winter when ioe lias \ at been cut it has oeen hauled to the houses on sleds. This year there is no snow, and the r j3 ioe has been cut and wheeled away. The vu3 farmers say uow that the absence of the warm blanket of snow means short cro pa ? uext year. . TEMPERANCE. ' ^ LITTLE 8PIDEB. Ueware of a little spider, d Whose web for th) young Is spunj r He is known by the name of Cider, it And with care his work is done. I- He tempts with apple juices, a And of course appears so sweet, You scarce susoect the uses 01 a liquid so complete, v This juice-of-the-apple spider, Will politely introduce e To a web that is spread much wider, a xur nmore aisast rous use. [. He will beg to make you acquainted. ,, With the Bpiders, Wine and Beer, v 'Till with breath and morals tainted { You enter a gateway near. j 'Tis known as moderate drinking, And Its courses downward tend, As proved by the thousands sinking 3 Down to & drunkard's end. e ?T. R. Thompson, in Youth's Temperance Banner. y the ixzrnciEMc* or alcohol. s Years ago, when dram drinking was a 1 common practice among the clergy, a minIstor of the Ohurch of England called at an - inn, which according to the sign displayed - was known as tha "Green Horse." He left the manuscript for his next Suni day's sermon in the carriage while "lmbib Ing" at the bar. Some michievous lads tak lng advantage of the parson's absence, took > the liberty of examining the Important dock ument. The next Sabbath as the divine was readi ing his text, he came upon a word which 3 proved on occasion of stumbling. "The 1 righteous," he read, ''shall flourish like the s Green?Horse?Horse why. 'tis Horse," i was his astonished exclamation, while the audience was literally convulsed with laughter. The writer is not informed as to whether . or not this episode cured th.e good man of L the habit of taking his daily dram, thuscausj ing the','Green Horse to "flourish" less, but j we hope so. Until late years alcohol was supposed to be a necessary ingredient in medicine, but t science has proved the utter fallacy of this 1 i- TT.i ill- J- - ? argument, nui uiiik i3? in mioianiiiuiaui . than alcohol, and the,Temperance Hospital, j where no liquor of any kind id used, has a r smaller death rate than any other known. g If before people formed the habit of using . intoxltants. they knew of what such stuff is composed, a3 demonstrated by science, they f would certainly shrink from the vile decoct tiona with inexpressible loathing. It is ass serted that there is mor? nourishment in one s loaf of bread than in a whole barrel of beer. B A gentleman told me that his nephew, a noble young man. died of delirium tremens, j caused by brandy, given with the hope of ' tiding him over" an attack of typhoid ~ fever.?Mildred Merle, in Ram's Horn. i 3 WHAT HE LOST. s A Western secular paper, the Chase CIt? I Progress, gives the following as an almost ? verbatim report of an address made at a n temperance gathering out its way: a "1 have been thinking sinoe I came into - the meeting to-night," said the speaker of r the occasion, "about the losses I've met with , since I signed the total abstinence pledge. I r tell you there isn't a man in the society who - has lost more by stopping drink than I have. Walt a bit till I tell you what I mean. There was a nico job of work to be done in the shop to-day, and the boss oalled for me. , " '(Jive it to Law,' said he. 'He's the best hand in the shop.' i "Well, I toli my wife at supper time, and she said: "'Why, Laurie, he used to call you the worst. You've lost your bad name? haven't you?' ' 'Tnat's a fact, wife,' said I. 'And it ain't all I have lost in the last sixteen months, either. I had poverty and wretchedness, and I lost them. I had un old ragged coat and a shockin' bad hat, and some waterproof boots that let the wet out a the toes as fast as they took it in at the heel. I've lost them. I had a red face, a trembling hand, and a pair of shaky legs that gave me an awkward tumble now and then. I had n habit of cursing and swearing; and I've got rid of that. I had an aching head sometimes, and a heavy heart, and, worst than -11 o rtiilUv ThftnL* ftrtH Ull IUC iuai) O 5UIIIJ ?,vuuuiwU?%i MV?., : I've lost them all!' ? "Then I told my wife whftt she had lost. " " 'You've had an old ragged gown, Marv,' : said I. 'And you had trouble and sorrow ' and a poor, wretched home, and plenty ol ? heartacnos, for you had a miserable drunk? ard for a husband. Mary, thank the Lord 1 for all you and I have lost siuce I signed the ? temperance pledge!'" HOW ALCOHOL WABMS. The Temperance Cause relates an anecdote 3 about the oft repeated argument of the 1 warming effects of alcohol, as follows: j "But, doctor, I must have some kind of a i stimulant," cried the invalid earnestly. "I . am cold, and it warms me." 1 "Precisely," came the doctor's crusty ani swer. "Bee here; this stick is cold," taking f up a stick of wood from the box beside the 3 hearth and tossing it into the flre. "Now it i is warm, but is the stick benefited?" - ' The sick man watched the wood first send } out little puffs of smoke and then burst into 1 flame, and replied: "Of course not; it is 1 burning itself. 5 "And so are you when you warm yourself t with alcohol; you are literally burning up . the delicate tissues of your stomach and > brain." I Oh, yes, alcohol will warm you up, but - who finds the fudl? When you take food, , that is fuel, and as it burns out you keep - warm. But when you take alcohol to warm vou. vou are like a man who sets his house on Are and warms his Angers by it as it , burns. ' A TEEKANENT DAKOEIi." The scientists of France have been investigating the rapid incroase of alcoholism in that land, the historic homo of wine. As u ; result, the French Academy of Medioine, one I of the most illustrious scientific bodies in > the world, his adopted a series of resolui t'.ons. not only declaring Chat the drink evil has become a "permanont danger," attacki ing "the very life and force of the country," but laying stress on the fact that even the purest alcohol is "always and fundameni tally a poison." I ''MODERATE" DRINKING. 1 Moderate drinking for a long period ha3, 1 according to the testimony of noted scion1 tlsts, the same delertoious effect upon the 1 human system as intemperance during a ! shorter lime. Thus oven moderate tippling 1 (under conditions that rarely exist at the present day) becomes an evil, yet how dan' gerous it Is and how much better it is to abstain tota'ly. HEAR THE GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA. Governor L. C. Hughes, of Arizona- in his annual report to the Secretary of the interior, says that the cost of the liquor traffic to the Territory is 30 great that total abstinence is a necessity, and he prays Conerress for such a prohibitory law. Governor Hugkes says: "During the last thirty years there has not been a single Apache Indian outbreak in Arizona which was not the direct result of intoxicating drinks." A STARTLWO DISCLOSURE. t? milont cov.no ?haf ihn alns ot XUCIIO lO au (kUOIUUk OMJ?ug l u>?% ?MV the father are visited upou the children; of course, la the way of natural law only. Science lends it3 support to this declaration ; and presents many sad facts in corrobratlou ' of it. Thus Dr. Paul Gamier, of Paris, who ' has been making a special study of the chil; dren of habitual drunkards, comes to this ' conclusion: "There is a (law in the very nature of these youns wretches that the psyeho' logist sees clearly and notes with apprehension?the absence of affectionate emotion; and when tboy do not become lunatics, ho says, they show "insensibility and pitiless" * * rxf I1BSS. nori) IS il lElll|)niiiiiti; HSJ3UU <1 atMit iiug power.?Workman's Messenger. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Twflnty-one temperauce associations have been formed in India during the past win ter, with au enrollment of 2000 now members. Tho Chicago Inter-Ocean asserts that whisky caused the greater number of the 118 homicides that took place in its city during tho past year. The American Steamship Line has it as au invariable rule that no captain or other officer, sailor or other employe, shall use intoxicating liquor as a drink. The reason 3omo men can't make Doth enda meet Is because they are too busily engaged making one end drink, is the way one i facetious advocate of the cause states It. ' i r * I AGRICULTURAL ! i TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE ' TO FARM AND GARDEN. < ( t THE EFFECTS OF CARP.OTS ON THE MTT.g. If the milk lessens in yield when roots are fed, it is not the fault of the roots, but of something else. Carrots { are especially good food, given in ( moderate quantity?one peck a day, t for instance. This thould help the , milk, rather than dimmish it. Mangels ] are next to carrots for feeding to ( cows. Parsnips are the hest nf nil , roots for milking cows.?American < Farmer. ( ] the lettuce bed. ' I don't have a bed now, writes Ida 1 Bays. I how lettuce in a manner that 1 I like mach better. In earliest gnr- 1 dening I mix lettnce with other seeds, 1 especially with onion, beet and aim- < ilar slow-germinating varieties. Tho i lettnce oomes np soon and makes it i easy to keep the row clear of weeds i until the other seeds are up. The let- J tuoe then is pulled as space is needod. ( Lettuce and radishes, too, are sown s together the summer through, mak- 1 ing a succession of both, and hav- < ing thorn ori&p and tender. Boot t crops occupy eo little space at /first f that lettuce does not interfere at all, ? and the pulling is a benefit, loosening the earth about them. I often mix 1 other seeds, putting cabbage as I want < them to stand, with early lettuce or < radishes,' and tomato seed with later i crops that are to be pulled up. Thus ' I economize space, time and labor.? American Agriculturist. diseases of poultry. If fowls are kept clean and well sheltered from wind and wet, and not uvciicu nuu uurc ? uuu ui both soft and greeu food, and a never failing snjiply of clean water, they will usually remain free from disease, unless infected by strangers. When disease does occur among, fowls it may usually bo ascribod to our variable climate, to dampness and cold, to injudicious feeding and to an ill ventilated roosting house. We would therefore recommend, eays an authority, as a cure in chief for all the ills to which ! poultry is subject the practice of the old saw, ' 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." And a gcod ' general rule for the cure of sickness is , that it be killed without delay, for unless the bird or birds be valuable | ones, it will never pay to attempt a ' cure, and rarely en if they are. A dis- , eased fowl, as will be the result of , general obscrvatiou, is never kindly , treated by its healthy companions, . and, as most of the diseases to which they aro liable are highly contagious, ] if not killed and thus summarily dis- , posed of, it should be at once removed 1 from tho flock aud confined by itself ( for treatment.?Farmer's Voice. EXPERIENCE WITH BOUP. ( We are having it right now?ex- i perience with the roup, eays H. B. i Greer, of Nashville, Tenn. We have i just come in from treating four hens with the "swell eye" roup, the kind ' of roup that makes their oyes water, < swell up until tightly closed, and then < fester, or fill with a poisonous canker, i that poisons the whole system and 1 causes the afflicted bird to waste and I .1 4 ? ^ UWiUUiU tk YfttY IU iiUlUlU^ UUD DUUVO| J skin and featherr. I The four hens we speak of all came < from the same yard, where abont six | weeks ago wo noticed one hen afflicted < with the disease, took her out, treated < her and cured her. No more were af- < fected by it for a month, when a rainy spell, followed by cold wind and snow, caused it to break oat again, and worse than before. , Bat, we do not fear it, for we have a dry ronp ouro, that will cure it every . time, when applied at the onset of the disease. It is made up in the form of a powder, and applied by means of a 1 little blower that costs ten or fifteen cents at tho drug store. The remedy consists of powdered alum,sulphur and ] magnesia, of equal parts, all thorough- 1 ly mixed together, and applied directly to the eyes, nostrils and month of the sick fowls. It is the best rem- i edy we ever tried. Mdst roup onres are solutions tnat wet the bend when applied obd cause additional cold and inflammation in that way. Wheroas the powder we name is healing and soothing from the start. The sulphur eradicates the poison, the slum draws and heals and the magnesia soothes and modifies the effects of the othor two ingredients. This, beyond n doubt, is the best handy, eim- 1 pie and home-made remedy for roup that there is. Anyone can obtain it 1 at the local drug store."?Farm, Field 1 and Fireside. THE FARMER'S HOME. There is much about some farm 1 homes which might be improved. The ; feeling $at appearances count for little on the farm is wrong. Farmers' kitchens and homes ure as susoeptible ; to improvement as anything else on 1 the farm. The question which needs ' attention is what is best to cook, and i not what is easiest and most quickly prepared. Frying pans aro tho curse ] of the American Nation. Things are ] fried and fried until there is appar- I ently no relief. Methods in cooking I and arrangements in cooking should 1 be observed. Farmers are busy, but they do not fail to live tho best lives j in the best possible manner. Becunse , a girl lives in the couutry is not a rea- < son whv she fchould wear dowdy cloth- j * T--i -?? AH ? /.** mnr norrlnntc I , IUg. UU319U lUUjJ un u lilluiwt , I to observe the courteaioc of life, so long will that life fail to rcach a high . ! standard. ! The home maker must have a wide r | knowledge t'otn any other person on , the farm. She m?uc ho a physician, burgeon end trained nurse. Slis must be a chemist nnd kuo\? bo?/ to com- ' bine foods; an artist iO make n, pie** * ? I ? . ? nnr< ^ ttire 01 ner xnmn, .> {-wuvtv..-.- .... euado lier busbaudasd train her sous; 1 a musician to runko and ?\eoutc pious ? of harmony. Domestic tcicuco has 1 gained ground Jor twenty years. * Every furrner should giv.: fbis? irons '^t* 1 toutiou. His dau'-'htc in quite likely 1 , to have little opportunity to secure education in tlmt line. The much- i needed chan^o in farm life cannot be i brought about by au overburdened s mother. The hope which will lend the i farmers into higher unci better lives is : I -the possibilities which aro opeu to I thc'i :on.'. di'.uahters. They can 1 ? ;\, -i" - . "V ' I - ? _ ^ ye educated. Careful plaW kit laughters will afford them the opportunity of becoming queens as hotae*. wireB daring the next generation, and' ;hen will the fntore hope of the farmer be realized.?New England Homeitead, "3TAQQEKS." . . j ; Daring the late summer and fall, is . i section of Eastern North Carolina, m epidemic among horses has anna* illy occurred, amounting to a loss each pear of perhaps ten per cent.. The: natter appearing of so much-import-' mce. the consulting veterinarian of! the Experiment Station (Dr. P. P. Williamson) was sent to make a personal examination. The following das been gleaned from hi* report:' ' The symptoms as given are sudden in their development. Sore throat, water coming through nose on at;empting to drink, rapid breathing, 068 of appetite and one of three hings?the animal either walks around n a circle to one side over any objeoft n the way without apparently seeing t ("blind staggers"), or remains per-^ 'eotly still, with eyes partially or completely closed, without-taking tbb. wgntest interest in surroundings un-ess aroased ("sleepy staggers"), or lashes about furiously without regard ;o self, people, or things, ("mad stagrers"). An obstinate constipation tccompanie3 each case. The land lies very low in this diairict, there being many swamps and litchos through the farms, and on ;ach side of the road the ditches are filled with reddish brown stagnant water. The vegetation is very rank, the dews are very heavy, and do not dry off before noon the next day? The horses have very little protection, as a rule. On some farms there are no barns at all for housing stock. The unimals are simply turned in a rough shed to eat, then turned out again, exposed to wind, rain and sun. Wherever they aro stabled it is claimed thoy are never affected, as shown by the experience of one farmer who has not lost a single oase in several years. Another, who had not lost a horse in thirteen years, let his run to paature ninrhfc and dav this vear and lost them. Another had four pasturing; three of these he pat np at night, leaving one out at all times, except at feed'.?. . The one left oat died, the other three are in good condition. Many other cases might be noted, bnt this is enoogh to show that where the animals are pro* tected from the weather (the heavy dews, rain and wind storms, for this ' occurs always after a rainy, hot sea- . son) they are free frotn any sickness, rwo animals dying from the disease were found by autopsy to have died with pneumonia (complicated with pleurisy in the first case). The stag* jering gait, the sleepy, half-unconsciousness, the madness are caused by the tozine taken into the blood from the diseased lang tissue, or from want of reoxygenation of tb? blood, the brain is not properly fed, animals being affected according to individual disposition. The suggestion would be to provide better stables and take' more care of the horses. Keep ani " lo J" cloWa ut riinJit -if ftf nn nlh?v i LUOU IU OIUWIU U V u?0^? >? aav v bime. Animals already affected should; be given a bolus or a drench of Barba;loes aloes one ounoe, calomel one dram. If this remains inactive sixteen hours, follow with one quart raw, linseed oil. Every three hours should ( be given four ounces acetate of ammonia, two drams nitrate of potash, 1 two ounces sweet spirits of niter in Jrench, Food should be restricted to ;ruel, bran mash, or something easily iigested. About three or fonr buckets af drinking water should be given a Jay. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Warm barns save feed. This ad* rice is now in season. Rennet acts more slowly on pasteurized milk than on fresh milk. Pulverization of the soil is one of bhe open 6ecrets of succefsfal farming. If you have any late chicks that are peeping out a sad existence, either kill them or furnish them stockings and * warm bed. , If your nearest town imports pro duce from a distance, why not supply that market yourself? There'3 money in this hint. Break a piece of cold butter, and if the grain is perfect the broken parts will resemble the broken parts of cast iron or steal. Never disturb the bees during the winter unless absolutely necessary. Quiet is one of the essentials of successful wintering. Even if you arc cure you can guess at the temperature to within half a degree, always use a thermoireter in the cream before churning. One way of making a nice entrance to the hives for the winter is to spread sawdust over a considerable surface in front of the hives and fill up level to the entrance. Frosty nights call for a little meal in the manger and a lot of straw on the floor. If the meal be sprinkled an cut hay, it will prevent me cuw# from eating it too rapidly. The American breeds?Plymouth Rocks, Wyandcttco aud ?/avas?still bead the list as the general purpose fowls, although thef? are other varieties which are heavier, but do lay m well. The red raspberry is a good honey plant, the flowers lasting three or four ireekB, and furnishing a honey that is 3ioellent in quality, while the berriea prove better and more abundant if ueea visit thorn frequently. Snow or ice is not an egg produce, jo do not labor under the impression ;hat your hens are going to give you :mskets full of eggs if the material ;urni3hed them is cold corn moistened vitli what snow or ice they can. pick up. For trimming grape vines in the vinter, they may bo cut rapidly and veil with no splitting, by using a large md very sharp knife in quick blows, vitfcout handling the vines at all. The nnrtions will fall as neatlv aa f cut ori' more slowly by the bent ^running .shears. If farmers do nothing more than jot rid oi thoir scrub sheep it will be i blossins to them. There aro more scrubs amousf sheep thau of any other nuinials. When farmers are forced to resort to the improved breeds they will at somo day look baok upon low irices aj blosfiuge.