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I REV. DR. TAIMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THI NOTED DIVINE. Subjcct: "Gathering Around Christ. Text: "Unto Him shall the gathering of tb people be."?Genesis xlix., 10. Through a supernatural lens, or what might call a prophescope, dying Jacob loot down throuarn the corridors of the centuri* I until he sees Christ the center of all popula attraction and the greatest being in all tb world, so everywhere acknowledged. It wf not always so* The world tried hard to pc Him down and to put Him out. In the yea 1200,while excavating for antiquities fifty three miles northeast of Rome.a copper plat tablet was found containing the death war rant of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in thi wise: "In the year IT of the empire of Tiberiu CaBsar, and on the 25th of March, I, Pontiu Tilate, governor of the Prcetore, condemi Jeeus of Nazaret'a to die between two thieves Quintius Cornelius to lead him forth to th< place of execution." The death warrant was signed bv severa names. First, by Daniel, rabbi Pharisee ?econdiy, by Johannes, rabbi; thirdly, bj Baphael, fourthly, by Capet, a private citi zen. Thus capital puuishment was executed fA iatr Thft nnmA nf tho thlo I crucified on the right hand side of Chris was Dismay. The name of the thief cruci fled on tne left hand side of Christ was Ges tus. Pontius Pilate describing the tragedj says the whole world lighted candle? from noon until night. Thirty-three year; of maltreatment. A wall of the city, built about those times and recently exposed bj archs?ologists, shows a caricature of Jesu? Christ,evidencing the contempt in which He was held by many in His day, that caricature on the wall representing a cross icd a donkey nailed to it. and under it the inscription, 'This is the Christ whom che people worship." But I rejoice that that day is gone by. Our Christ is corning out from under the world's abuse. The most popular name on earth to-day i:> the name of Christ. Where Me had odp iriend Christ has a thousand friends. I no scoffers have become the worshipers. Of the twenty most celebrated infidels in Great Britain in our day sixteen have oome back to Christ, trying to undo the blatant mischief of their lives ?sixteen out of the twenty. Every man who writes a letter or signs a document. wittingly or unwittingiy, honors Jesus Christ. We date everything as B. C. I or a. v.?a. u., oeiore unnat; a. u., auno Domini, in the year of our Lord. All the ages of history on the pivot of the upright beam of the cross of the Son of God, B. C., A, D. I do not cure what you call Him? whether Conqueror or King or Morning Star or Sun of Righteousness or Balm of Gilead or Lebanon Cedar or Brother or Friend or take the name used in the verse from which I take my text and call Him Shilo, which means His Son, or the Trunquilator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. I only want to toll you that "unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." In tho llrst place, the people are gathered around Christ for pardon. Nosensible man or healthfully ambitious man is satisfied with his past life. A fool mav think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not. I do not care who the thoughtful man is the review of his lifetime behavior before God nnd man gives to bim no especial satisfaction. "Oh," he says, "there have been so I many things I have done I ougnt not to have done; there have bean so many things I have said I ought never to have said; there have been so many things I have written I ought never to have written; there have been so many things I have thought I ought never to have thought! I must somehow get things readjusted. I must somehow have the past reconstructed. There are days and months and years which cry out against me in horrible vociferation." Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts the past by obliterating it. He does not erase the record of our misdoing with a dash of ink from a register's pen, but lifting His right hani crushed, red at the palm. He puts it against His bleeding brow and then against His pierced side, and with the crimson accumulation of all those wounris He rubs out the accusatory chapter. Ho blots out ouriniquities, Oh. never be anxious about the future; better be anxious about the past! I put it not at the end of my sermon; I must put it at the front?mercy and pardon through Shiloh. the sin pardoning Christ. "Unto Him shall ths gathering of the people be." "Ob," says some man, "I have for forty years been as bad as I could be. and is there any mercy for zmT' fnr vmi "flh" eavs Bnmn Ion? " here, "I had a grand ancestry, the holiest of fathers and the tenderest of mothers, and for my perfidy there is no excuse! Do you think there is any morcy for me?" Mercy for you. '*But,"says another man. "I fear I have committed what they call the unpardonable sin, and the Bible says if a man commit that sin he is neither tobe forgiven in this world nor the world to come. Do you think there is any mercy for me?" The fact that you have any solicitude about the matter at all proves positively that vou have not committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for you? Ob, the grace of God which bringetb salvation! The grace of God! Let us take the surveyor's chain and try to measure God's mercy through Jesns Christ. Let one surveyor take that chain and go to the north, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the south, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the east, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the west, and then make a report of the square miles of that vast kingdom of God's mercy. Aye, ??Ml Untm 1 Iyuu ?? hi lwan iu an ciciuiij ivi mu report of that measurement. It cannot be measured. Paul tried to climb the height of it, and he went height over height, altitude above altitude, mountain above mountain, then sank down in discouragement and gave It up, for he saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Matter horns beyond, and waving his hands back'to us in the plains he says, ''Past finding out; unsearchable, that in all things he might have the pre-eminence." You notice that nearly all the sinners mentioned as pardoned in the Bible were great sinners?David a g*?at sinner, Paul a sreat sinner. Rahao a great sinner, Magdalene a great sinner, the prodigal son a great sinner. The world easily understood how Christ could pardon a half and half sinner, but wh.it tho'world wants to be persuaded of is that Christ will forgive the worst sinner, the hardest s liner, the oldest sinner, the most inexcusable sinner. To the sin pardoning jghiloh let all the gathering oT the people be. But. I remark again, the people will gather around Christ as a sympathizer. Oh, we all want sympathy! I hear people talk ns though they were independent of it. None of us could live without sympathy. When parts of our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all get home! But, alas, for those wno never come jhome. Sometimes it seems as if it must be impossible. What, will their feet never again come over the threshold? Will they infiviAf ofTfliri elf Trith 11a uf tho tnhluV Will I they never again kneel with us at family prayer? Shall we never again look into [their sunny faces? Shall we n?ver again on earth take counsel with tnem lor our work? Alas me. who can stand under these griefs/ Ob, Christ, Thou canst do taore for a bereft soul than any one else! It |u He who stands beside us to tell of the resurrection. It is He that came to biu peace. It is He that comes to us and breathes into us the S' Jrit of submission until we can look (up from he wreck and ruin of our brightest expectations and say: "Father not my will, but Thine, be done." Oh. ve who are bereft, ye anguish bitten come into this refuge! Tht toll of those who came for relief to Christ i: larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of oraLlpotent sympathy the gathering of the people shall be. Oh, that Christ would stand py all these empty cradlesand allthese desolated homesteads and all these broken heart.and persvv e us it is well! > The world cannot offer you anv hein a! such a time. Suppose tne world nr.'! offers you money. I'ou would rather live ot a cru-t in a cellar ami havo your departed love J ones with you thau live in palatini sur rounlinirs and they away. Suppose the I_ lO COIIW" >"? What is the Presidency to Abraham Lmcolr k?h^n little Willio lii*s dead in tho White House? Perhaps the world comes and says prime will oure't all." Ah. there are grief.that have raged on for thirty years and art raglugyet. And yet hundreds have beet feomfortel, thousands have been comforted millions have been comforted, and Christ hac done tho work. Oh. what von want is syin pathv! The world's heart of sympathy beat: pery irregularly. Plenty of sympathy when pre do not want it. and often when we avo it appalling need of it, no sympathy. There an Multitudes of people dying for sympathygympathy ih their work, sympathy In thei jitigu-js, sympathy la their tereavements sympathy jD their financial losses, sympath; in their physical ailments, sympathy in thei: spiritual anxieties, sympathy ih the time o declining years?wide, deep, high, everlast ing, almighty sympathy. We must have it and Christ gives ir. That is the cord wltl which He is going to draw all Nations t< Him. ?> At the story ot punishment a man's ey< flashes, and his teeth set, and his fig clinches, and he prepares to do battle ever ie though it be against the heavens. Yet wha heart so hard but it will suocumb to th< story of compassion! Even a man's sym I pathy is pleasant and helpful. When w< L3 have been in some hour of weakness, to hav< a a brawny man stand beside us and promise if t-n ana iia through what Rnnntra It tWwna tr i0 our heart, and what strength it gives to oui 13 arm. Still mightier is a woman's sympathy, it Let him tell the story who, when all hts forir tunes wore gone and all the world whs against him, came home and found in that e home a wife who could write on the top of - the empty flour barrel, "The Lord will pros vide." or write on the door of the empty wardrobe: 'Consider the lilies of the field, s If God <;o olothed the grass of the field, will 3 He not clothe us and ours?" i Or let that young man tell the story who . has gone the whole round of dissipation. J The shadow of tae penitentiary is upon him, and even hi* father says: "Bo off! Never 1 come home again!" The young man finds ; still his mother's arm outstretched for him, f J V. u ~ ! 11 ~ A nf nf thA ' ttUUUlMV SJIiW Will aiauu Ob lav If*vuv? - prison to whisper consolation or get down on ' ner knees before the governor begging for t pardon, hoping on her wayward boy after t all others are hopeless. Or let her tell the - story who, under villainous allurement and - impatient of parental restraint, has wan' dered off from a home of which she was tho idol intothe murky and thunderous mid' night uf abandonment, away from Ood, and : furi'uer away until some time she is tossed ' on the beach of that early home a mere ' splinter of a wreck. Who will pity her now? ? who will gather those dishonored locks into her lap? Who will wash off the blood from the gashed foreheadl Who will tell her of that Christ who came to save the lost? Who will put that weary head upon the clean white pillow and watch by day and watch by ni(?ht until the hoarse voice of the sufferer becomes the whisper, and the whisper bocomes only a faint motion of the lips, and the faint motion of the lips is exchangod for asilent look, and the cut feet are still, and tho weary eyes arc still, and the frenzied heart is still, and all is still? Who will have compassion on her when no others have compassion/ Aiotner: iuomer: Ob, thero is something: beautiful in sympathy?in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy, motherly sympathy, yea, and neighborly sympathy! Why was It that a city was aroused with excitement when a little child was kidnapped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns of the newspapers filled with tho story of a little child? It was because we are all one in sympathy, and every parent sa'd: "How if it had been my Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary? How if it had been my Maud? How if it had been my child? How if there had been one unoccupied pillow In our trundle bed to-nighf? How if my little one?bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh?were to-night carried captive into some den of vagabonds, never to come back to me? How if it had been my sorrow looking out of the window watohing and waiting?that sorrow worse than death?" Then when they found her, why did we declare tho news all through the households, and everybody that knew how to pray said, "Thank God?" Because we are all one, bound by one groat golden chain of sympathy. Oh, yes, but I have to tell you that if vmi will aecresrate all neighborly, manly. wifely, motherly sympathy, It will be found only a poor starving thing compared with the sympathy of our great Shilob, who has held in His jap the sorrows of the ages and who is ready to nurse on His holy heart the woes of all who will come to Him. Oh, what a God! What a Saviour we have! But in larger vision see the Nations in some kind of trouble ever since the world was derailed and'hurled down the embankments. The demon of sin came to the world, but other demons have gone through other worlds. The demon of conflagration, the demon of volcanic disturbance, the demon of destruction. La Place says he saw one world in tha Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burning. Tyoho Brahe said he saw another world burning. A French astronomer says that In 300 years 1500 worlds have disappeared. I do not see why infidels And it so hard to believe that two worlds stopped in Joshua's time, when the astronomers tell us that 150U worlds have stopped. Even the moon Is a world in ruin3. 8tellar. lunar, solar catastrophes innumerable. But it seems as if the most sorrows have been reserved for our world. By one toss of the world at Ticuboro, of 12,000 Inhabitants on'y twenty-six people escaped. By one shako of the world at Lisbon in Ave minutes 60,000 perished, and 200,000 before the earth ef/\vt*vaH OA/tMnn* A mAnnfnin folio In QtHf<r_ 4.uwaiu^, a wuuuhutu intioia Mntkuerlaad, burying the village of Ooldau. A mountain falls in Italy In the night, when 2000 people are asleep, and they never arouse. By a convulsion of the earth Japan broken off from China. By a convulsion of the earth the Caribbeaa Islands broken off from America. Three islands near the mouth of the Ganges, with 340,003 inhabitants?a great surge of the sea breaks over them, and 214,000 parish that day. Alas, alas, for our poor world! It has been recently discovered that a whole continent has sunk, a continent that connected Europe and] America?part of the inhabitants of that con-1 tinent going to Europe, part coming to America over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys of the Mississippi, and we arc finding now the remains of their mounds and their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and the tablelands of the West. It is a matter of demonstration that a whole continent has gone down, the Azores off the coast of Spain only the highest mountain of that sunken continent. Plato described that continent, its grandeur, the multitude of its inhabitants, its splendor and its awful de-' struction, and the world thought it was a, romance, but archffiolotrists have found out" it was history, aud the English and the Gor-^ man and the American fleets have gone forth" with archaologists, and the Challensrer, and the Dolphin, and the Gazelle have dropped' nnchrr and in dftftn sen. sonnciincrsthev have found the contour of that sunken contiuent. There are people who think Christ will come in person ana sit on a throne. Perhaps He may. I should like to see the scarred feat going up the stairs of a palace in which all the glories of the Alhambra, and the Taj Mahal, and St. Mark's, and the Windsor palace are gathered. I should like to see the world pay Christ in love for what it did to Him in maltreatment. I should like to bo one of the grooms of the chargers holding the.stirrup us the King mounts. Oh. what a glorious time it pould be on earth if Christ would break through the heavens, and right here where He has suffered and died have this prophecy fulfilled, "Unto Him shall the sathering of the people be." But failing in that I bargain to meet you at the ponderous gate of heaven on the day when our Lord 1 comes baok. Qarlanis of all Nations on His ' brow?of thp bronzed Natious of the South and the pallid Nations of the North?Europe, Asia, Africa. North ind South America and the otb-?r continents that may arise meantime from the sea lo tako the places of theirsunken predecessors; the arch of Trajan, arch of Titus, arch o* Triumph in the Champs Elysees, all too poor to welcome tnls King oT kiucrs, and Lord of lords, and Conqueror of conquerors in His august arrival. Turn out all heaven to m**et Him. Hang all along the route 1 the flags of earthly dominion, whether decorated with crescent or star or eagle or lion or coronet. Hang out heaven's brightest banner, with its one star of Bethlehem and blood striped of the cross. I hear 1 the procession now. Hark, the tramp of the > feet, the rumbling of the wheels, tho clat terim: of the hoofs and the shout of th* ? J tlw.unn.l nn.l nu?rr?. A tTH lu'jll^auu llUiraiT3U iuvur<i?a<t uuv? I thousand*orthousauds. Pot up in heaven's library, riuht beside the completed volum* of the world's ruin, the completed volume i of Shiioh's triumph. The old promise strucirsin-jj through the a^'s fulfilled at lust, ' [" ito 11.in siiall the iratuerin:; of the peo-d-J ' be." 1 Wi*il'? everlasting a^es roll Eternal love shall feu-t their soul A::.I scenes of bli.ss forever new Kise in succession to their view. Against Obsceno Matter. ; Postmaster-General Wilson has authorized > instructions to the detectives ot tno departl ment to watch tho daily paper.s in all the . large cities?New York, Boston, PhiladelI phia, Chicago, Washington, Cincinnati and - St, Louis?for violations of the laws against ; sending obsceno matter through tho mail?. This follows the successful trial of the case l against Joseph R. Dunlop, eJitor of the > Chicago Dispatch, wiiosi boldne&s in thii - line was notorious. Dunlop was lined r $2000 and sentenced to prison for Iwc , years. V SALVATION ARMY. \z | ? alu i WITH THE CORl'S THAT FIGHTS for 1 SIN ONTjY. ) ? > A Day's Campaign With Com- ^ ' mander Booth's Salvation- , Ists In the Slums < , of New York. J lik 5 *ir~T"5~riTH the coming of the np ) \ A / newa that Commander yo\ '. V V and Mrs. Ballington Booth ' were to be relieved ol ' their command of the American branoh pie 1 nf thft Salvation Army,there has arisen coi onco more a discussion, more or less me I public, in regard to the work done by poi that large organization. ' With the merits or demerits of tho alo Salvation Army it is not the purpose 4 of this article to deal. Tho matter afr has been argued and discussed pro 4 and con for the past nine years. It sna is rather the purpose to set forth I I simply and in an unbiased way what wei J is done in New York City by the mem- bui bers of the Salvation Army every one anc of the 365 days in the year. abl Recently a reporter for tho Mail anc /f~Zh THE SLUM W( and Express spent twenty-four^ hours the i ia tne salvation Army. iua u?y ua- sue , gaa in the slums. It ended there, hoti too; but the night was longer than the "V day and fuller of misery and sin and had 6haiue. The day began for the slum gar: workers while the gaslights were still the flickering and flaring in the cold, raw wer breeze that came rushing in over tho woi city from the East River. The slam out house, situated in Cherry street, has hea six workers, who live there constantly, mai Their uniform is not that of tho army, floo ; for the simple army garb was far too " j gay and fine for these women who go she I way down into tho very depths of tere human sin and tufFeiing to find those " whom.t hey would succor. the The day began with prayer. Then B a simple breakfast of tea, oatmeal and cba hash, with plenty of bread and butter, for j The workers chatted happily over The ; their breakfast. Laughter was free In e | and frequent. These women who de- the vote their livesjto this work are happy, wor Indeed, the dominant note in the est whole army is joyousness. neij It was hardly six wben the "sister" abo (they are all brother and sister in the not i army, unless they happen to be adju- caui I tant or major or colonel or captain), kno I who kindly allowed the writer to ac- " ! company her, began her day's work, she j Down Cherry street she went,past that "wi I little white house where that old hag, the i "Shakespeare," was so foully mur-1 cast dcred some years ago through an alley " way which would be dark on a sun- a y< shiny day, but which at six in the *' morning was inky in its blackness, city , Into a still darker ball and thence up son four flights of stairs. met On the third landing the woman mec stumbled and fell. A man was lying selv I asleep on the floor. moi "Have you a match ?" asked the slum is si i worker, calmly, as she rose; "please hav light it; this man may be in need of and , help." war | The flickering flame from the match " showed a huge, filthy brute lying di- the ! rectly across the Btairs. i "Will you please help me with him?" said the girl; "some one may , stumble over him and fall down 6tairs." | Then this young woman 6tooped in the darkness, and, putting her arms about the shoulders of the sodden 1 brute lying there, half dragged and half curried him out of the way. ' "Poor fellow!" she siehed to her- J self, as she continued on her way up i biiftirf. j In a email eight-by-ten room on the top floor of this rear tenement was found the object of the slum worker'* visit. The room itself was as dark as . the hall. A candle was soon lit. however, which, to a slight extent, dispelled the gloom. This room was u bare. In lieu of a carpet the floor was (J covered with filth. On a bundle of | rage, wuich, for want ot a better name, i might be called a bed, lay a woman groaning with pain. It would not be possible to tell her age. She might " have been thirty, she may have been the aixtv, she probably was forty. Her diff< face, wasted by disease and sin, was thei covered with dirt; her black, deep- 322 sunken eyes glared out from under a Thr tangled mass of gray hair. Save for pro this womnD, the lied upon which she *er lay and the lilth, the room was empty, so r As the voun<? woman lighted her to p candle, the older one half rose from twi< (he bed. "Wot dor yer want sith me?" she j growled. j T "We have come to help you," said woi .he girl, gently; "they told m*^ you cre< vere sick, so I came," she added, wor imply. to ^ "They lied," said the woman; "I of lon't want no help; wot bo ye?" she the continued, "one of them rich folks; I in aate 'em all." dov "No," replied the girl, "T am as etrc )oot as you. That's why I've como twe ;o help you. We ouyht to help each unci jther." ten The sun had begun to crawl np out I >f the eastern horizon by this time, nur ind the candle was snufied out. The and s-oman eyed the young woman and her | live npanion suspioiously for ft few is mad* autes. Finally, sbe recognized the They a m uniform of the Salvation Army, and me flhe said, surlily: are pre 'Ye're ono o' them Salvationers?" given t 'Through the grace of Christ, yes," er sort i the girl. they t 'Don't want ter know nuihin' about this kii ' said the womnn. Froo 'Of course yon don't," replied the to the mg woman, cheerfully ; "but you'd Fourt* e to have a doctor, and be cleaned centiy and have something to <;at, wouldn't was ere l? * from a 'You bet," said the woman. monunc 'Will you go back to the house, work o ase," said the slum worker to her ton Bo npanion, "and ask them to send The these things." She handed the re- story a rter a list of what was wanted. is a am 'Are you not afraid to stay here ings ar ne?" was asked. third a 'No," said the girl. "I am not torium aid." the bui 'What 'ud she be 'fraid ov, ye jay?" if devo tried the ^oman. is the ] n half an hour the things needed pnblioi re on hand. There was a single All of 1 rner oil stove, a bed comfortable in this 1 some sheets, some warm and suit- is mad e clothing for the woman, a nail bers ol 1 scrubbing brash and food. Then torial and th: floor. ^ M ? ^&&&}} jpe? )RKERS. . usual 1: ~T ' Z7~ . are &QJ young womftn set to work, i? irst ^idiDgs eent the reporter away for half an Englan ub praj 7hen he returned the sick woman inst* . been washed and dressed in olean p]ace jj ments. A bed had been made of ^oa(30 rags she had lain on, but they pray6r e covered by clean sheets. The boun(j nan's tangled hair had been combed feej. ' and braided. Water had been ??v0i t-j a?i A ICU, U11U tLLC uoi v tttiuu aimy wu- jg y^j i was on her knees scrubbing the everyb< We're getting cleaned up a little," j^fbet called cheerily, as the reporter en- <ieiioatt >d the room. of 0Qr8i Umph!" growled the woman on we are bed# evervbc y 10 o'clock the room had been Usinj ,ned and swept, the woman cared commfl and fed, and a doctor sent for. toward n the slum worker started to go. tke ^an ill the time she had been working wj1ic|1 v young woman had not spoken one voj( d of religioD, or given the slight-* trmmp] hint that she was more than a jhbor who had dropped in to help ut the place. The neighbors could ^)j,t wha: have done the work, of course, be- Procla ae none of them had probably ever wb wn the meaning of cleanliness. It is ] My whole day," said the girl, as the exa walked down the rickety stairs, ring am 11 be occupied in this way. It is "Tha only way to reach these poor out- mander ;s." Now we r-r i_ 'l_ : J t u now many sucn visits are paiu iu unci .u jar?" was asked. are not 1'bcre are three slum oorps in this As th \ LaSt year we visited 11,854 per- in the s in this way. We gave away 5318 that I a lis. You have seen what a meal God, I ins. We prepare everything our- error oi 'es, just as you saw me do this own pe rning. It is a blessed work. God "Pra o good to allow us to do it, for we timilar e helped these poor people so much, the hou our labor has been so well re- ''Goc ded!" der Bo< 'What other work has been done by the tru slum corps?" was asked. tion foj In1 W NOONDAY PRAYER MEETING OF TH] The figures mean so little," said A smi girl, "but we talked with 18,235 limped )rent people in the slum?, urging one cou n to reform. We have visited 15, am save saloons and places of evil resort, miserab ee hundred homeless persons were I am Hai vided with homos, 4208 garments now, p e procured and given away. It is again, nuch harder to get the clothes than Comma: ;ivd them away. We could use 1 rose tov :e as many us we get." ! and the CAIilNR FOH THE HAHIES. : Cr'r he reporter then left the young W*' imu to iier work and visiteil the ^ ;he, where tho children of poor For a nen who Imve to go out by the day and oli vork arc cared for. There are two tioD, tt these institutions connected with Then Salvation Army of this city?one while t the Cherry street district and one ward o m in the Fir.st Ward. The Cherry He spec :et creche has n daily attendance of some he nty-live to thirty little ones, all eloquen ler three years of age, while only the raid can be cared for in the other. turning n nil, seven young women act as his side sea, and spend the day iu coddling | utes on loving the poor little ones, whose | husbam 9 are so empty of love. No effort to see 9 to teach the babes anything. ?' re simply cared for and petted i ide much of. Toys and swings i ivided for them, and they are hree hearty meals of the propfor young children; .and how hrive and blossom out under adly care I i the oreche the reporter went ] new Memorial Building in West i 2enth street, which has only re- ' been completed. The building i icted by popular aabacription 1 11 parts of the country, and is a tent to the unfailing energy and < f Commander and Mrs* Balling- t oth. j building is practically a nine- ] tructure. On the ground floor i all meeting room, where meet- f e held nightly ; on the second, i nd fourth floors is a huge audi- ? , taking up the greater part of c tiding, although the front part t ted to offices. In the basement i printing room, where the army i itions are run from the presses. ] the work for the army is done < building. Every uniform worn a in the tailor shops by mem: the army. The War Cry edirooms, employing four editors ; ree reporters, are on the seventh Two large, light composing take up the space on the eighth ,vhile the ninth floor is occupied 1 art department of the papers. ' the illustrating work is done 1 nd done well, too. le printing room are six modern 1 i, that are kept very busy run ff an edition of 90,1)00 WarCrys A XOOSDAY MEETING. is nearly noon when the Mail Ixpress reporter reaohed the Headquarters. The crowd was r beginning to assemble in the uditorium. It was an interested and a motley. Men old and women and girls, maids and is, all crowded together, rush3 pushing in their efforts to g?}t e hall. It was the first meetwhich Mrs. Booth was to be t since her trip to the far West, le noon whistles began blowing, my band crowded up on the m; then came the officers, and Commandei and Mrs. Balling>oth. There was not a vacant the auditorium. ngton Booth, tall, commanding sence, the light of enthusiasm ig from his eye?, stands on the tho platform. Ho leans well j he assembled multitude and slowly. "It is my deep wish J is meeting be conducted on the ] ! T 1 lL-1 | _ * inea. x KUUW luaL many in juu4 j :ious to bear us speak of the sad j that have come to us from d, but this is not the time. Let J mtly every one in that huge . nelt. They did not bow their but fell upon their knees The was short. Then, with a Commander Booth was on his iin. v," he said, with a glad ring in ice, "we will sing. I want jdy to sing, and to sing out Those who are afraid to eing :ter go away. There is nothing > and refined about this faith , We are glad and happy, and not ashamed of it. Now, then, >dy sing." ; his long arm as a baton, nder Booth stood half turned the people, and half toward id, leading both in this song, ras sung with great strength, ;es rising loud and clear and bant: t a redeemer is Jesus, my Saviour, ing my sins and healing my woe: h rftrtttpmpr Iq .Ta^iis mv Saviour. Imlnff my liberty and washing me lite as saow. not possible to express in words Itation of those voices, or the d awing of that song of praise, t'a pretty fair," said the Com, but it is not good enough, i will sing it onco more, and at still again, to show that we afraid to sing." e song died away an old man i crowd rose. "I am so glad i m happy," he shouted. "Prise p was led to Jesus. I know the I my ways and now Jesus is my rsonal Saviour." ise God," "That's so," and cries come from all parts of a Lse. t >d enough," shouts Comman* t >tb. "Don't be afraid to tell j th. There is hope and salva- ? r every one." t S SALVATION ARMY*. ' s ill old man rose painfully and out into an aisle where every Id see him. "Thank God I id," ho said slowly. "I was a >le sinner till last week. JNow red. I drank for twenty years; raise Jesus, I'll never drink I ara happy." Once more ruler Booth's lonq; right arm r-ard heaven. "Slug,''he cried, | y did. thy l isnien, ?vr?ry Inir.ieu, nvn to Jesus's iWt, It- TI^'s waiting. >loubt forsaking, tf'll stoop thysjulto greet. n hour this goes on. Jfonng 1 rise and tell of their salvaleir happiness in their faith. | i a hush comes over tbe crowd, | heir leader, leaning well forver them all. begins to talk, iks very slow at first, and with citation. Then ho ^rows more it and earnest, and suddenly in die of a sentence ho stops,and, to MrB. Booth, draws her to She speaks for a few minthe same topio chosen by her .1 ? "Love and Law." It is easy how great is her influence. y When she has ended the musio begin? igain, and to strains of great, joyou? melody they sing: A wonderful Saviour is Jesua, Saving my soul, making me whol*f lai A wonderful Saviour is Je9U3; a I've proved He Is mighty to save. ^ ^ A man rises from his seat and slow-1 gj, [y, with downcast head, comes for- pn ward and kneels before the leader. p0 rhen anotherr and still another, come BO forward while the refrain is sung, each [ m( time louder and clearer than the last. jn Then a woman rises. She is richly j t0 Iressed. There can be no mistake . ibout her. Her terrible sin has left | eg ;ts seal upon her face. Half walking, j Be lalf falling, the woman makes her wa^i . ^h rorward and falls on her knees.. In* i gfl itantly by her side there is a younp, j ej, roman in tbe garb of ttie army, nei ca irm is about the Magdalen's neok, hei ^ slieek pressed close to- liers. Ther/ gC ;he two kneel during the rest of thV pC serviced the Salvationist whispering j,a ;o the repentant one gently and quiet je y. When the service ie over they gc pt >ut into the street hand in hand. j6J a NEW BIRD OF PARADISE. ar CO Magnificent Plumage of Specimen! dc Brought From New Guinea. fid A new bird of paradise has been dis- ^ covered, says the New York Journal; ne Only two- specimens are in captivity. 455 One is in the Royal Zoological Museum ;>f Dresden, and the other is afforded * conspicuous place in the Museum oJ Natural History in Paris. faThis remarkable bird is a rara avi? sii par excellence. , Strange to say, al* ar though its range is limited to New th Guinea ami the adjacent rapua isi- xi inds, the Paradiscidae occur in in- th [inite varjity. Ornithologists have he been dnmtounded by the distinction tr: in plamage and colors of the nnmer- m ous specimens that have bean brought ul from that far away region during this pi jentury. ' Fi Both sexes of these birds of para-, to lise are distinguished by the enormou I development of certain parts of theii' va plumage, bat the mates are favored ft ] urith an exceedingly beautiful varie' or ?ated covering. They are about the wl lize of the common jay. Their headd gr iDd necks are covered with short, pi ;hiok feathers, resembling velvet, of gti h bright straw color above and a m arilliant emerald green beneath: m< Prom under the shoulders on each ra side springs a dense tuft of golden di >range plumes, about two feet in sic ength, which the bird can raise at ch Measure, so as to inclose the greater be ?art of its body. The two centre tail' cr 'eathers attain a length of thirty-four Ai nches, and being destitute of webs, br lave a thin, wire-like appearance. br The females are of a dusky brown pi lolor and possess neither plumes nor Fjt engthened tail feathers. fei SU ^ 1 00 ;IJ ca ni BAREST BIRD IN' THE WORLD. RE be In the breeding seasons the males ke ssemble in numbers varying from welve to twenty on certain treeB and here disport themselves so as to dis- fo >lay their feathery charms in the pres- ?r ince of the females. The natives call . hese affairs sacaleli or dancing J7! jarties. The birds' wings are raised iai vertically over the back, the head is ca >ont down and stretched out and the ong plumes are raised up and ex* mi tanded till they form two magnificent qu [olden fans striped with deep red at an be base, and fading off into a pale da irown tint. wc It is only at this season that the tit ?irda can be captured. The native to iird catcher, having found a tree elected for the dancing party, con- no euls himself among the lower branches, jji lS soon as the male birds have begun bu heir graceful antics, he shoots them g0 ne after the other with blunt arrows ar or the purpose of stuuning them and co Tinging them to the ground without ^ rawing blood. It is almost impos- ag ible, however, to make them survive q captivity. They invariably die of broken heart after a few weeks' ab* ^ ence from the foreste. wi si: A >'ap in Church. be aj u u s L-J 1 t~" \VI /) ^"i ui; J pj ?The Waterburj. ^ dr " - V. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. TO PICKLE WALNUTS. ^ Gather them when dry* tak? ?j :ge needle and perforate them, rough in several places; strew thej ittom of a jar with best powderedf ager, crashed oloves and salt; theni it in some walnuts; then again salt,j wdered ginger, crushed cloves, and on alternately till the jar is rather are than three-quarters filled, plac-, g plenty of salt and tha spices at p; then cover them with the best uegar; quite fill the jar with vin;ar, tie a bladder over the top and t it by till November or December i. en pour the liquor off and to a half ,llon of juice add one-halfjpound of opped anchovies, two ounces of x ~ ? 1.1 1. yenne pepper, two ounces 01 uiucl ipper, one-half ounce eaoh of ginir, cloves and mace, one-quarter >und of shallots and two ounces of >y leaves; this will make an excel* ut catsup for fish and steaks; then it fresh yinegar, spices and bay. aves to the walnnte; fill the jar; in! fortnight they will be fit to eat and e far superior to those that are oked in salt and water, as ia usually; me, besides gaining a most excellent h sauce from tbe first vinegar, lose who once try this plan will iver return to the old method.?Chigo Record. SCIENTIFIC MENUS. Mrs. Eorer has lately arranged a tr menus on a scientific plan, and, nple as the breakfasts and luncheons e, she claims that they "contain all at is necessary for proper living." lese models will suggest others to , e houeewife who wishes to provide ir family with nourishing yet atactive food. The first breakfast eon consists 01 grapes, wneai grants with cream, whole wheat bread tiled, steamed eggs and a onp of rench coffee. Those who are aeonsmed to a heavy lnncheon will prob-, >ly be startled and positive that slar,tion would be the resnlt of so simple Luncheon ns fonr large mellow apples, oysters in a chafing-dish with, lole-wheat gems, or a bunch ot apes with a tew Brazilian nuts, or a nt of bouillon with bread sticks, or samed figs with cream and water ifers." Yet none of the luncheon snus consists of more than three, rely more than two, dishes. Tho nners are more elaborate, and const, in one model, of vegetable soup,: opped beef with pepper 6auce,i tked sweet potatoes, salad of water esses, wafers, cheese and cafe noir. ]other dinner begins with barley oth, followed by mutton pie with own sauco, hominy, spaghetti with do nuts, cheese souffle, celery with ench dressing, wafers and black cofi 3. Other breakfasts are made up of ch foods as warm baked apples,' ieat granules with cream, and om? 3t, a roll and a cup of French coffee, grapes, oreamed salt cod with & ,ked potato, whole-wheat rolls and ranch coffee.?New York Post. j household hints. Prunes filled with almonds, make ilicious dinner sweetmeats. Old-fashiond mutton tallow is the ry best thing for chapped lips. Eggs with very thin shells are not likely to crack in boiling if they are it on in cold water, and brought jwly to a boiL Boiling clothes, says an advanced tusekeeper belongs to a past generion. Clothes are much whiter and reeter if simply covered with boiling iter in a tub. When eggs arc to be beaten sepately, beat the yolks until creamy id light-colored, and the whites un? 1 dry, or so that they will not fall om the bowl if it is turned upside >wn. A simple remedy for -slight attacks billiousness is a little lemon juice - ' ? c* xu. id baking soaa. squeeze tue juice a small lemon into half a glass oi ild water, then stir in a pinch of soda, id drink while effervescing. For frost-bitten feat an ointment imposed of one-half dram of pare rbolic acid, one-half dram of tann, thirty dops of tincture of iodine id two ounces of simple cerate may i used with good effect, It should i applied twice a day. One of the most efficacious remedies r outward application in any chest throat trouble is camphorated oil. >u may make it at home. Pure ol9 oil put on camphor gum until the iter ceases to dissolve. Add all the mphor that the oil will take up. A good method of preserving homeide lard for family use is to fill two iart jars with the hot lard (strained) d seal as for fruit. Store in a cool, rk cellar. Lard preserved in this will be pure and sweet and enely devoid of ranaid taste common i " i i? i __ i j *? _ i: lara Kepi on uuuu iur a iuuy wmo. The perfection of a luncheon does t consist in having a great manj jhes or a multiplicity of courses, t in seeing that each is absolutely od of it& kind, and that the plates 0 quietly and swiftly changed, are Id or hot as thoy ought to be, and at the food'is apetizing and the whole air harmonious. An easy and effective mode of venation can be arranged with a piece ' wood cut a little smaller than tho dth of the window frame and about 1 inches high. Insert this at tha ittom of the frame and shut the win?w bottom down on the wood. A :?ady ventilation process will go on jm the centre of the windows. The care o! the skin is a simple pro83 once understood. To prevent a uder skin being roughened by tha Id, bitiog w inter winds, either steam 6 face over a basin of boiliug water, q^>ping a towl over both head and .siu, or olse bathe the face iu water at is more than tepid. After wipg off with a soft town), rub into the ten pores sumo p:ir? cocoa nutter, id it will keep the skin as soft auo moth a* a baby's. The air where n palm is kept should i moistened by the evaoorai h>u ol iter about the phtiit, or by tilt* ap iciition of it tr> its foliage. i'resli r must ho admit tod, to tit Ik? the place tbut whoso vitality has ura;u burnsd it ot it by the iuteuse beat. The ant must have a place near tho winiw, wuiTo direct light can exert its uolicial ellect ou tho soil. Cnr? ust bo taken to give only enough iter to keep tho soil moist. Good ainaae innst be ^rovitieii also. - . / .. .. . .