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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
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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.
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si:
A >'ap in Church. be
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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.
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