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f 'REV. DR. TALM1GE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TJIi? NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "War." Text: "Tho tower of Davi i builded for an armory, whereon there hung a thousand i buckles, all shields of mighty men."?Solomon's Song iv.. 4. The church is here compared to an armory, the walls hung with trophies of dead heroes. Walk all about this lower of David and see the dented shields, and the twisted swords and the rusted hemlets of terrible battle. So at this season, a month earlier at the south, a month later at the north, the American churches are turned into armories adorned with memories of departed braves. Blossom and bloom, O walls, with stories of self sacrifice and patriotism and prowess! By unanimous decree of the people of the United States of America the craves of all the northern and southern dead are every vear decorated. All acerbity and bitterness nave gone out of the national solemnity, and as the men ani women of the south ono month atro floralized the cemeteries and graveyards so yesterday we, the men and women of the north, put upon the tombs of our dead the kiss of patriotic affection. Bravery always appreciates bravery, though it flsrht on the other side, and if a soldier of the Federal army had been a month ago at Savannah he would not have been ashamed to march In the floral processions to the cemetery. And If yesterday a Confederate soldier was at Arlington he was glad to put s sprig of heartsease on the silent heart of oar dead. > In a battle during our last warthe Confederates were driving btck the Federals, who were in swift retreat, when a Federal officer dropped wounded. One of his men stopped at the risk of his life and put his arms around the officer to carry him from the field. Fifty Confederate muskets were aimed at the young man who was picking up the officer. But tho Confederate captain shouted, "Hold! Don't fire! That fellow Is too 1 " A nn tka forloMl nfflpAf B orrtve lO SUWl. AUU lia J held up by his private soldier, went limping I slowly off the field the Confederate soldiers I gave three cheers for the brave private, and ( just before the two disappeared behind a barn both the wounded officer and the brave private lifted their caps in gratitude to the Confederate captain. Shall the gospel be less generous than the world? Wo stack arms, the bayonet of our northern gun facing this way, the bayonet of the southern gun faciDg the other way, and as the cray of the morning melts into the blue of noon, so tke typical gray and blue of old war times have blended at last, and they quote in the language of King James's translation without any revision, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace."good will to men." Now, what do we mean by this great observance? First, we mean instruction to one whole generation. Substract 1865, when the war ended, from our 1896, and you will realize what a vast number of people were born since the war, or were so young as to have no vivid appreciation. No one under forty-one years of age has any adequate memory of tnat prolonged horror. Do you remember It? "Well," you say, "I only remember that mother swooned away while she was reading the newspaper, and that they brought my father home wrapped in the flag, and that a good many people came in the" house to pray, and mother faded away after that nntil again there were many people in the house and they told me she was dead." There are others who cannot remember the roll of a drum or the tramp of a regiment or a sigh or a tear of that tornado of woe th^t swept the nation asain and again until tlrere was one dead in each house. Now, it is the religious duty of those who do remember it to tell those who do not. My young friends, there were such partings at rail car windows and steamboat wharfs, and at front doors of comfortable homes as I pray God you may never witness. Oh, what a time it was when fathers and mothers gave up their sons, never expecting to see them asrain and never did see them again until they came back mutilated and crushed and dead! Four years of blood. Four years of hos tlie experiences. Jtvour years 01 gatisiuaess. Four years of gravedigging. Four years of funerals, coffins, shrouds, hearses, dirges. Mourning! mourning! mourning! It was hell let loose. What a time of waiting for i news! Morning paper and evening paper scrutinized for intelligence from the boys at the front. First, announcement that the battle must occur the next day. Then the news of the battle's going on. On the following day still going on. Then the news of SO,000 slain, and of the name3 of the great generals who had fallen, but no news about the private soldiers. Waiting for news! After many days a load of wounded going through the town or city, but no news from our boy. Then a long list of wounded an 1 a long list of the dead, and a long list of the missing, and among the last list our boy. When missing? How missing? Who saw him last? Missing, missing! Was he in the woods or by the stream? How was he hurt? Missing, missing! What burning prayers that he may yet be heard from! In that awful waiting for news many a life perished. The strain of anxiety was too great. That 1 wife's brain gave way that first week after I the battle, and ever and anon she walks the floor of the asylum or looks out of the window as though she expected some one to come along the path and up the steps as she soliloquizes, "Missing, missing!" What made matters worse, all thi3 might Have oeen avoiuea. anere wus no more noeu of that war than at this moment I should plunge a dagger through your heart. There were a few Christian philanthropists in those days, scoffed at both by north and south, who had the right of it. If they had been heard on both sides, we should have had no war and no slavery. It was advised by those Christian philanthropists, "Let the north pay in money for the>slaves as property and set Ihem free." The north said, "We cannot afford to pay." The south said, "We will not sell the slaves anyhow." But the north did pay in war expenses enough to purchase the slaves, and the south was compelled to give up slavery anyhow. Might not the north better have paid the money and saved the lives of 500,000 brave men, and might not the south better have sold out slavery and saved her 500,000 brave men? I swear you | by the graves of your fathers and brothers and sons to a new hatred for the champion curse of the universe?war! O Lord God, with the hottest bolt of Thine omnipotent indignation strike that monster down forever and ever! Imprison it in the i deepest dungeon of the eternal penitentiary. Bolt it in with all the iron ever forged in cannon or moulded into howitzers. Cleave it with all the sabers that ever glittered in battle and wring its soul with all the pangs which it ever caused. Let it feel all the conflagrations of the homesteads it over destroyed. Deeper down let it fall and in fiercer flame let it burn, till it has guthered into it3 heart all the suffering of eternity as well as time. In the name of the millions of graves of its victims, I denounce it. The nations need more the spirit of treaty and less of the spirit of war. War is more ghastly now than one?, not only because or tne greater aestructiveness of its weaponry, because now It takes down the best men, whereas once it chiefly took dovxn the worst. Brace, in 1717, in his "Institutions of Military Law," said of the European armies of his day, "If all infamous persons and such as have committed capita! crimes, heretics, atheists nnd all dastardly feminine men were weeded out of the army, It would soon be reduced to a pretty moderate number." Flogging and mean pay made them still more ignoble. Officers were appointed to seo that each soldier drank his ration of a pint of spirits a duv. There were I noble men in battle, but the moral character of the army was then ninety-five per cent, lower than the moral character of an ar.T.v i to-day. By so much is war now the more detestable because it destroys the picked men of the nations. Again, by this national ceremony wemi?an to honor courage. Many of these departed soldiers were volunteers, not conscript?, and many of those who were drafted might have provided a substitute or got oH c>n lurlou:;u or have deserted. The fact that they lie in their craves is proof of their bravery. Brave at the front, bravo at tho cannon's inoutb, biavo on lonely picket duty, bravo in cavalry I charge, bravo "before tho surgeon, brave in the dylatr message to the home circle. We yesterday put a garlnnd on the brow of courage. The world wants more of it. The church of God is in woeful need of men who can stand under Are. Tho Hon ot worldly derision roars and tho sheep tremble. In great reformatory movements at the first shot how many fall back! The great obstacle to tho church's advancement is the Inanity, the vacuity, the soft prettiness. the mamby pabylsm of professed Christians. \ Grent on a parade, cowards in battle. Aftald of getting thoir plumes ruffled, they carry a Earasol over their helmet. They go Into attle not with warrior's gauntlet, but with kid srloves, not clutching the sword hilt too tight less the gloves split at tho back. In all our reformatory and Christian work the great waDt is more backbone, more mettle, more daring, more prowess. We would in all our churches like to trade off n hundred lo nothings for one do everything. rvinn. hn efrnno? " ' VUU YVUL2U1 > C2 HO.V w w0. The saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die. They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. As;ain. wo moan by this national observance to honor self sacrifice for others. To all these departed men home and kindred were a.? dear as our home and kindred are to us. Do you know how they felt? Just as you and I would feel starting out to-morrow morning with nine chances out of ten against our returning aliv?, for the intelligent soldier sees not only battle ahead, but malarial sickness and exhaustion. Had these men chosen they could have spent last night in their homes and to-day have been seated where you are. They chose the camp not because they liked it better than their own house, and followed the drum and fife not because they were better music than the voices of the domestic circie. South Mountain *nd Murfreesboro and the swamps of Chickahominy were not playgrounds. Those who visited the national cemeteries at Arlington Heights and at Richmond and Gettysburg saw one inscription on soldiers' tombs oftener repeated than any other?"Unknown." When, about twenty-one years ago, I wa? called to deliver the oration at Arlington Heights, Washintrton, I was not so much impressed with the minute sruns that shook the earth or with the attendance of president and cabinet and foreign ministers and generals of the army and commodores of the navy as with the pathetic and overwhelming sujfgestiveness of that epitaph on so many craves at my feet, "Unknown!" "Unknown!' It seems to me that the time must come when the government of the United 8tates shall take off that pitapb. They are no more unknown! We have found them out at last. Thev are the beloved sons of the republic. Would it not bo well to take the statue of v.oofKnn r*/*?HHnoa nflP tho fnn of tha cani tol (for I have no faith in the morals of a 'heathen goddess) and put one great statue in alt our National csmeteries?a statue of liberty in the form of a Christian woman with her hand on an open Bible and h6r foot on tho Reek of Ages, with the other hand pointing down to the graves of tho unknown,, saying, "These are my sons who died that I, misrht live." Takeoff the misnomer. Everybody knows them. It is of comparatively little importance what was the name given them in baptism of water. In the holier and mightier baptism of blood we know them, and yesterday the Nation put both arms around them and hugged them to her heart, crying, ''Mine forever!" Again, by this national ceremony we mean tho future "defense of this nation. By every wreath of flowers on the soldiers' graves we! say, ''Those who die for tho country shall' not be forgotten." and that will give enthu-! siasm to our young men in case our nationi should in the future need to defend itself in' battle. We shall never have another war between north and south. We are floating off! farther and farther from the possibility of aooJlnnal strife. No possibility of civil war. But about foreign invasion I am not so certain. When I spoke against war, I said nothing against self defense. A.n inventor told me that he had invented a style of weapon which could be used in self defense, but not In aggressive! warfare. 1 said, ''When you get the nations to adopt that weapon, you have Introduced the millenium." I have no right to go on my, neighbor's premises and as9ault;him, but if some ruffian break into my house for the assassination of my family, and I can'borrow aj gun and load it in time and aim it straight] enough, I will shoot him. There is no room on this continent forj any other nation except Canada, and a bet-< ter neighbor no one ever had. If you don'tj think so go to Montreal and Toronto and; see how well they will treat you. Otheri than that there is absolutely no room for. any other nation. I have been across the continent again and again, and know thai we have not a half inch of ground for the couty foot of foreign despotism to stand on. But I am.not so sure that some of the arrogant nations of Europe may not some day challenge us. I do not know that those forts around New York bay are to sleep all, through the ?ext century. I do not knowj that Barnegat llghtnouse win noi yet iook: off upon a hostile navy. I do not know but that a half dozen nations, envious of our prosperity, may want to give us a wrestle.i During our civil war there Tvere two or three nations that could hardly keep their hands off us. It is very easy to pick national quarrels, and if our natior escapes much longer it will be the exception. If foreign foe should come, we want men' like those of 1812 and like those of 1862 to meet them. We want them all up and down the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter in the same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton?men who will not only know how to flght, but how to die. Wnen such a time comes, if it ever does come, the generation on the stage of action will sayi "My country will care for my tamiiy as tney did in the soldiers' asylum for the orphans in the Civil War, and my country will honor my dust as it honored those who preceded me in patriotic sacrifice, and once a year at any rate, on Decoration Day, I shall be resurrected into the remembrance of those for whom I died. Here I go for God and my country! Huzza!" If foreign foe ihoula come, the old sectional animosities would have no power. Here go our regiments Into the battlefieldFifteenth New York volunteers, Tenth Ala-' bama cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsylvania riflemen. Tenth Massachusetts artillery. Seventh South Carolina sharpshoopers. "I do not know but it may require the attack of some foreign foe to make us forget our absurd sectional wrangling. I have no faith in the cry. "No north, no south, no east, no west!" Let all four sections keep tbeir peculiarities and their preferences, each doing its own work and not interfering with each other, each of the foilr carrying its part in the great harmony?the bass, the alto, the tenor, the I ermrunn?fn thfl prnnrt marcn of Union. Onoe more, this ?reat national ceremony means the beautiflcation of the tombs, whether of those who fell In battle or accident, or who have expired in their beds, or in our arms, or on our laps. I suppose you have noticed that niftny of the families take this season as the timo for tee adornment of their family plots. This national observance has secured the arboriculture and floriculture of the cemeteries, the straightening up of many a slab planted 80 or 40 years bro, and has swung the scythe through the long grass and has brought the stonecutter to call out the half obliterated epitaph. This day is the benediction of tho restlnc place of father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister. It is all that we can do for them now. Make their resting pla-es attractive, not absurd with costljf outlay, but in quiet remembrance. You know how. If you can afford only ono flower, that will do. It shows what you would do if you could. One blossom from you may mean more than the Tlnl-a nf Woliincnnn r?ntnfn Innp. Oh. WO cannot afford to forget thorn. They were so lovely to us. Wo miss them so much. We will never Ret over it. B!e-3ed Lord j Jesus, comfort our broken hearts. From every bank of flowers breathes promise of resurrection. In olden times the Hebrews, returning from their burial place, used to pluck the grass from the field three or four times, then throw it over their heads, suggestive of the resurrection. We pick not the grass, but the Cower?, and instead of throwing th?m over our heads we place them before our oyes, ris. ht down over the silent heart that once beat with warmest love toward us, or over the still feet that ran to service, or over the lips from which we took the kiss at the anguish of the last parting. Lut stop! We are not inildels. Our bodies will soon join the bodies of our departed in Ihe tomb and our spirits shall join their spirits in the laud of the rising sun. We eannot long bo separated. Instead of crying with Jacob or Joseph, "I will go down into the grave unto my son. mourning," let us cry with David, "I shall go to him." On one of the gates of Greenwood is the quaint inscription, "A night's lodging on ttie way to tho city of New Jerusalem." (Jomlort one anottier witn taese worus. iuuy the hand of Him who shall wipe away all tears from all eyes wipe your cheek with Its softest tendernes?. The Christ or Mary and Martha and Lazarus will infold you in His arms. The white robed angel who sat at the tomb of Jesus will yet roll tho stone from the door of your dead in radiant resurrection. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and the voice of the archangel. So the "Dead March" In "3aul" shall Decome the "Halleluiah Chorua." . _ - ''T'T' WW# RELIGIOUS READING. THE HAUNTING PAST. In the last analysis there is only one thing, nftc-r all, of which a human being is afraid ?and that is his own past life. with its ac- . cruing results. I\I">t men are not really afraid of death per se, or "f pain, or of any catastrophe which is likely to befal tlietn. The.4*: facts are proven ? thousand times n day. Heedlessness and indifference are far more prevalent than cowardice and dread. But there is hardlv a man or woman in the world who does riot look hack with more or , less of appn-heusion and trembling * upon |ast !if" as registered in the ] individual <ons'-iousuess. The world j nny not understand?the world may even j account them saints from infancy; but they know how God looks upon them, and how tb-y 1< >k ut'"?n themselves. How rare? j ]'o\v alino.-t mnumaniy rare? is me muu , who has no haunting past! To every soul, , ponderiujr the problem of the future" life? whether that soul he avowedly Christian or not?the ehauce of salvation seems to rest 1 upon the righting, in some way, of a condemning past. So long as that ( hangs about a man's neck like a , millstone, there is no possible tendency for him, in time or eternity, but down, down, forever down. Somehow that incu- ' bus must be thrown off; somehow the past , must be washed out or made right before any man can l>e saved. This is the instinctive | i onvietion of the race, no matter what may ( be the form of its religious, or irreligious, belief. Superstition must even have its sacriflces made and its message sung for the soul that has already passed to its account. On all hands men are crying out, and striv- , ing, and being cried and striven for, to get rid of their own accusing past. It is to this vast, troubled, yearning multi- , tude that Jesus Christ comes, with His won- 1 derful, precious message of hope. What does He say to the sin-burdened,sin-haunted j soul? The message is strangely brief and simple, yet how marvelously sweet and sufficient : ''Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." j The invitation Is personal and direct. We are j simply to come and cast trie Duraen 01 our ( guilt upon Him. and He will personally assume it, and forever re move * it from us. The solution of j the" whole casuistical problem is so simple, when this li?ht or perfect love falls upon it! ^ By reason of His divine nature Christ has ( perfect moral right and power to assume your sin-burden and mine?just as much : fight as your creditor has to assume or re- , mit your debt to him. We have sinned , against Christ, and He, and He alone, can unsin us. Where in all the history of human , | thought, is there so sure and logical an an- . swer to the universal problem, "How shall a j man escape his condemning past V" None 1 was ever offered that brought the peace and ( assurance of Christ's personal invitation , and promise. Oh. all ye who are laboring , under the dread and discouragement , of past sin, unforgiven, come and ! tncto tlip sweet, immediate peace of the j Divide forgiveness! There is no other j escape from this haunting sense of condemnation for soul-recorded evil. There is no j other spiritual peace save the peace of God ] in Christ. In vain many men labor to atone for past ill deeds and thoughts by present J virtue. In vain may they strive to reason God, and a future, and a "judgment, out of j the universe. A thought, a consciousness, a ; premonition.will unceasingly torment them ; j and they will know that it "is not well with them unless they are forgiven. No soul ever got rid of its haunting past until it yielded it up to the loving, burden-bearing Son of 1 God. ( CONTEMPLATION. A lady sat at her window on a balmy ' spring morning. The sun was out without ! a cloud, the blooming flowers were sending 1 forth their fragrance to perfume and bless f j the earth, and the birds sang their songs of I gladness as they went forth to their daily toil. Soon the "lady saw that a little worker * had chosen a rosebush for its home and was ) very busy bringing in sticks and hair and ' feathers "and other material to make its ' house. ''Ah, you pretty little creature," 1 said the ladv, "vou are building too low. 1 ? - J : ?ill ?r,,l l.rn?L- i soon me ul'sidvlt mu i^viiiv- ?uu I ui) your sweet homo." And so it was. The days passed by: the ne9t was finished, ' and then there were eggs in the nest, ' and then four big mouths were open I whenever the low chirp of the mother an- ' nounced that that she had something for them i to eat. One day the lady sat by the window sewing. Suddenly she heard the cry of tho birds, in the deepest distress, and she 1 looked out to see what was the matter. * There was a great snake that had crawled up and was devouring the helpless little I ones, while just above them the poor heart| broken mother fluttered about in the wildest 1 distraction. But it was too late: hej children were gone, and her home was left deso- ' late, a sad reminder of her folly in building > so near the ground. So I think it is with i people who have no higher ambition than earthly pleasures, wealth or honors. They build too low. Their heart s home is in ' easy reach of death and the devil : and de- ' pend upon it. the destroyer will come, soon or late.?H. M. Wharton*. THE PERIL OF A BOOK RELIGION. A book religion such as ours?that is, a religion based on written records?has, it is well to remember, perils as well as benefits. One of the benefits is that a people with this kind of a system cannot be altogether illiterate or uncultured. They are compelled to lead and hence to think. It is necessary that they know much concerning books in general before they can properly understand one book. And from this latter truth arises the peril. Many, who have very little acquaintance with books, wholly fail to comprehend how very' easy a thing it is to misunderstand the thought and misinterpret the words of writers many ?iimv ami maiiv thousands of miles distant from their own time ami place. They do not realize how poor a medium for convey* lg thought words alone must ever be. Hence they suppose the words must have meant to the writer just what they seem to the reader: and they suppose they have the authority of prophet or apostle or of Jesus Himself." for what is wholly, or at any rate partially, the product of their imagination. It is a very grave peril to be constantly kept in mind. Tho Bible is a wonderful help if properly used?read with discrimination and discretion. I'BECIOUS RESULTS. Is it at all unreasonable to suppose that the contemplation of God will yield us greater, more precious results than the consideration of anything or of everything in this world that He has made? You are wrapt in the study of mineralogy or botany .or eonchology : and have no time to spare for th<- cultivation of your acquaintance with God. . . . You, my friend, have a 1 rtf Ikoltir* frmiwi iman quainted with a certain literature au>l think nothing of devoting whole nights to the acquisition of it; but your conscience is visited by no painful sense of your defective knowledge of hitn from whom is every good gift. Indifference and ignorance are here indissolubly linked as are also knowledge and thirst for knowledge. "Then we shall know if we follow on to know the Lord."? George Bowen. ALOSE WITH 00D. We must make time to he alone with God. The closet and the shut door are indispensable. We mu.-t escape the din of the world to become accustomed to the accents of the still, small voice. Like David we must sit before the Lord. Il.ippy aiethey who have au observatory in their heart house to which they i-aii often Retire beneath the great heart >>f eternity, turning their telescopes to tiif mighty constellation that bum beyond tiff's fev. r. and reaching regions where the breath of human applause or censure cannot follow?F. 1?. M".ver. BICYCLINC FATALITIES. Dreadful Accident"* Occurring Frequently in Englnml. At Earlswood, Surrey, England, a London evclist going at a fast paeo on a level road broke his chain, thus losing control of his machine, which was without a brake. Ho ran against a telegraph pok) by the roadside, dashing his brains out. A fnrmnr'c <1?ur*htap riilinr* npftr Cnntfir bury ran down a hill asainst a wall at a sharp turning, was thrown over it and broke her neck. She was picked up dead. A fisherman of Colwyn Bay, North Wales rode out on the sand to Ret some fishing lines. His machine got stuck and during his efforts to save It he was surrounded by tb.e Incoming tide and drowned. | SABBATH SCHOOL r.TIZIlNATIONAL LESSON FOR JUNE 21. Wesson Text: "The Risen Lord," Luke xxiv., 36-53?Golden Text: Luke xxiv., 34 ?Commentary. 36. "Feace bo unto you." ThU3 spake resus as-He stood in the midst of the disclon hi}** mftro rmtViopaH incnther in Jeru lalem on that first evening after the resurrection. He appeared first to Mary Magdaene. then to the other women, then to Simon md to the two who walked to Emmaus and low to the disciples with these comforting words. They might possibly think of His svords the night before the crucifixion, 'Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you" (John xlv., 27). "He is our peace," and a mind staid oh Him has perfect peace (Eph. ii., 14; Isa. xxvi., 3). 37,38. "Why are ye troubled, and why do ihoughts arise in your hearts? They were [rightened when they saw Him, and He isks; "Why?" for if they had believed His :>wn words, or if they had believed the women who had seen Him that day, they might have shouted for joy, saying: "Here He is! Here 13 onr .Lord'." way are we trouDiea when He says, ''Let not your heart be troubled," and "Sep that ye be not troubled?" [John xiv., 1, 27; Math, xxiv., 6). Why do thoughts arise when Hia thoughts to us are ill thoughts of peace? (Jer. xxix., 11). 89. "It is I myself." "Jesus Himself" [verses 15, 86). "This same Jesus" (Acts L, 11). "The Lord Himself" (I Thess. iv., 16). "His own self" (I Pet, ii., 24). How can we think of death, or some great event, or even the Holy Spirit, as being the same as "the Lord Himself?" What the difference was between the body of llesh and blood in which He died and this body of flesh and bones in which Ho now was we shall know some day when our bodies have become like His (PhlL lii., 21). We are sure that His resurrection body was material and tangible, and In it He jould walk and eat. Ours shall be like His. 40-43. "He showed them His hands and His feet." And there they would see the prints of the nails, evidence that He was the jame Jesus who had been crucified and that this was the same body that Joseph and Nicoiamus had carefullv laid in the tomb. It is not likely that the" resurrection body will need to eat, but we will In that, as In other matters, be able to "Do as occasion serve us" to the glory of God. 44. '*All things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Jloses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me. On the way to Emmaus He expounded onto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself (verse 27). May we remember that all the Scriptures concern Him, md that all things must be fulfilled. If one should ask in what manner the unfulfilled parts are to bo fulfilled, let the answer be, exactly after the fashion of the words already fulfilled. 45. "Then opened He their understandings :hat they might understand the Scriptures." [nasmuch as He is still the very same Lord Jesus, why not trust Him to ODen our understandings to understand the Sciiptures; ask Him to read the book with us, and by His 3ptrit instruct us? When we count upon Him, He will not disappoint us, for He has ?iven us His Spirit to guide us into all truth, and who teacheth like Him (John xiv., 26; svi., 13: Job xxxvi.. 22). "Thus it is written, and thus it be hooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day." Every detail of His sufferings and resurrection, as recorded so folly in Ps. xxll.; Isa. llii.; Pa. xvi., and elsetvhere, was fulfilled to the letter. When we stand upon what is written, as it is written, tve are on safe ground, but the least adding to, or taking from, or altering or weakening or handling deceitfully is all forbidden. 47. "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preaohed in His name among ill Nations, beginning at Jerusalem."' This is why He suffered and died and rose again that He might obtain eternal redemption for ill who will accept Him. Up to the time of His death the preaching was limited, with rare exceptions, to Israel, but after His resurrection the command is to all Nations in ill the world and to every creature. The message now is that through this Man is preached the forgiveness of sins, and by Him ill that believe are justified from all things (Acts xiii.; xxxiii.. 39; X., 43). 48. "And ye are witnesses of these things.'* k witness Is one who is sworn to tell the truth, thy whole truth and nothing but the truth, and he must tell only what he knows to be so, not what he thinks or supposes or Imagines. In Isa. xllii., 10. 12 we read, "Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am Rod." They had heard His voice, had seen His works and were qualified to bear witness that He wa3 the only true God. The Lord Je3us, bv His life and words and works, bore witness to the Father, and now we, by our lives and words and works, are to bear witness unto Him that He has served us, and hof Wo L-annc no and that He will do the 3ame for all who believe on Him. 49. "And behold I send the promise of My Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city ol Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." They had received the Spirit, they had been with the greatest of tei chers for over two years, perhaps for three y3ars, but they needed a special enducement of the Spirit for service. Therefore Ho said. "Ye snail receive the power of the Holy Soirit coming upon you, and ye shall bo witnesses unto Me" (Acts 1., 8, margin). 50, 51. "While He blessed them He was Earted from them and carried up into eaven." 8o Enoch and Elijah were taken up, body and soul, and so all the saints will be taken at His coming. When He came as a babe to Bethlehem, He brought blesslnc to the shepherds, to whom the angels tola the glad tiaings, and now, as He leaves the earth, it is with blessing upon His disciples. Wherever He went H*? brought blessing. H< Himself is the sum and substance of all blessing. Therefore we may well sing, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenliness In Christ" fEDh. I.. 8.) 52,53." '"Continually in the temple, praising and blessing God." They returned tc Jerusalem with great joy. How could thoj when they actually saw Him leave them and ascend Into heaven, remembering that wher He died they were filled with such sadnessi The secret of their joy is found in the message of the angels whom He sent back tc say, "This same Jesus which is taken uj from you into heaven shall so come in likt manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven' (Acts i., 11;. Therefore they gladly wit nessed unto a risen Christ and joyfully waited for His return.?Lesson Helper. CREAT BRITAIN'S AGRICULTURE. The Returns for 1895 Keveal Some Ite< mnrkable Facta. Great Britain's agricultural returns foi 1895 reveal some remarkuble facts. Tbt wheat acreage has diminished by 51<i,00( acres in a single year. The total dlminutior since 1875 has been just under 2,000.00( acres, of which two-thirds was in the las! five years, leaving now less than 1,500,00( acm under wheat all told. To some extenl barley and fruit have taken the place o: wheat, but the bulk of the land has gon? tc grass. Notwithstanding this, dead meat im ports continue to mount up, over G10.00C tons, of which thre--flfths was from the United States, cominc, in last year. The total annual imports of wheat and flour hav< now rnachud tho tremendous flguro of 8150, 000,00). When, however, it is realized that the British farmers are so unenterprising ju to allow 820.U0Q.00J worth of for dim eggs tc bo brought into the country year.v, simply be cause th-y will not bother with poultry, it is dim.-ult to get ua auy deep symuathy foi thein. HE GRiW WZA.T.HY ON SI.25 A DAY, Competence Aml?y u Friisrsil Laborci From the tirecn Isle. Bernard C.irville, of Now Castle, Ponti., hits solved tho problem of ui? rich on 81.23 a ilay. Thirty-three years at;o ho arrived here from Ireland without a cent, and to-day he is worth 830,0 >0. Since his arrival ho has toiled incessantly iu a mill as a laborer. Fie amassed his fortune by strict economy and by investing his savings in real estate. Until last week he lived in the most frugal manner, but. be-oming ill, his physician pointed out tho folly of a man seventy year: old sacrificing nis hid to noara treasure. Carvillo has decided to quit work and has left for Iowa to visit a sister and will travel in a palaco car. He will then rq to Ne^ York, whenee he will sail (or his native land Carville's wife is dead, but be has one aor who will inherit his wealth. . TEMPERANCE. A WOlTAV's WORDS?AN* OLD FAVORITE. Go, feel what I have felt. Go. bear what I have borne. Sink 'neath a blow father dealt And the cold, proud world's scorn. Thus strugele on from year to year. Thy sole relief the scalding tear. Go, kneol as I have knelt, Implore, beseech and pray, Strive the besotted heart to melt. The downward course to stay: ? ..... _ _ _ j ^ I Be cast with bitter curse asiu?. Thy prayers burlesqued, thy tears defied. Go, hear what I have heard? The sobs of sad despair. As memory's feeling fount hath stirred, And its revea ings there Have told him what he might have been Had he the drunkard's fate foreseen. Go, hear and see, and feel and know All that my soul hath felt and known Then look wiihin the wine-cup's glow See if its brightness can atone; Think if its flavor you would try If all proclaimed, "'Tis cMnk and dio THE FASHIONABLE WISE GLASS. Some years ago the editor of the Adv<Jif~ ?. while passing through one of the worsi uistricts of New York, saw a woman emerge from a dark, narrow alley. It was early in the morning. She looked haggard, pale and filthy; was bare-headed and almost barefooted. She was a pitiable object The night she had spent on the hard stones. She passed fcim and entered a. low grog-shop, piuninw anmo nannies on the counter, she took in her trembling hand the glass and drank, and then passed oat, and with unevon steps went down the street. A policeman on beint* spoken to said she was a common drunkard, that like as not would be in the station house ere night, and that night she slept there. And who was this degraded creature? How came she so low? Had she always been a child of poverty? Oh, no, it was drink that did it. Once that poor outcast was a beautiful, accomplished young lady; once at the head of a fashionable young lady's school; once a teacher of youth with few superiors, whose society was courted and her friendship valued. But fashionable wine drinking proved her ruin. 8he sipped, she drank, yet all went well, till one day she thA linn of nroDrietv?she entered her school-room under the influence of wine. Then the friends that had taught her to drink lifted up their false hands in holy terror, ashamed, dlseraced. She left the place, came to New York, where, giving way to the appetite, her degradation was soon complete, and to-day she sleeps in a pauper's grave. Would to God that she had bsen the last victim, but she was not. To-day the cup still flashes its light in beauty's face, to-day it yet touches female lips, it still drags its victims down to the grave.?Temperance Advocate. TWO PBOCESSIOJJS. I saw the street sweepers parade. It was a wonderfully creditable display, and I was attracted by the faces of the men. In the aggregate they represented a high type of humanity. Men who will faithfully perform humble but most useful and beneficial labor to earn an honest living are to be honored. Carlyle would have honored them. John Ruskin (wisest and most eloquent of teachers) would honor' them, for h? performed i their labor himself, in cleansing the filthy stairway of an Italian inn, which fact he relates with pride in one of his leotures. 8ome eight or nine years ago I saw another kind of parade. The liquor sellers of this town had turned out to show our citizens "their strength." It was a procession of open carriages, and the occupants lolled back in indolent ease, proud of their good clothes, their white linen, their silk bats and diamonds. The type of countenance there represented was repulsive, coarse, cunnine * * ' - * - * dfAlllH and sensual: toe iaces ui mou descend to the depths of mental and moral desrradation to make money easily and rapidly. But this procession was incomplete. The poor souls who had paid for those carriages and silk hats and .diamonds, where were they? If they had only fallen into line, what ?i procession of conviots, paupers and ragged, half starved women and children it would have been! They were not intended to form a portion of tho display of 'strength," yet every thoughtful man who witnessed it saw them with his mind's eye. ?Letter in New York Tribune. * what cubed him. "I have tried manv methods of livelihood in my time," observed a gentlemnn to a writer in Cassell's Journal the other day, "but strange as it may seem to some people the one I most abhorred was that of being wine-tastor to an Eastcheap wine merchant. I was with him for about two years, and often I would taste as many as forty samples in one dav. Of course, I did not swallow the wine. But even then, and with the additional precaution of removing the taste by the usb of water afterwards, my tasting work soon be;can to tell upon me. The effects, indeed, after about fifteen months, became 1 -j j ? frv fha rpqnlfq very marKea, uau vctj uuuiai of alcoholism. My nerves got bad, then my chest troubled mJ?seeming as though an oppressive weight were on it. Then when I retired to bed at night a strange buzzing ( and confusion In my head would banish , sleep from me. Later my appetite failed, and. as I was unable to take sufficient food, . my nerves got worse. One very remarkable ( symptom of my nervousness was the fre' quency with which I shed tears. The slight I est excitement and the "waterworks would . be turned on"?as Sam Weller would say. , Although I had a very lucrative berth I had ' to give it up; and now, when I remember my J state of health at the time, I feel that I would not become a wine-taster again for ' ten thousand a year. As I am now, I never i touch alcohol in any form. Those two years cured me." i | A GOOD BARGAIN. i At a temperance meeting, where several relate ! their experiences, a humorous Irish man who spoke, was acknowledged to be i the chief speaker. He had on a pair of fine ' new boots. Said he: ' ? T ?-vTrt/-lrra T mof nn I "A weet aneri si^iica ?. i old friend, and ne says: 'Them's a fine pair of boots you nave on.' 'They are,'says I, 1 'and by the same token 'twas the saloon > keeper who gave them to me.' ) " 'That was generous of him,' says he. 2 " 'It was,' says I, 'but I made a bargain ' with him. He was to keep his drink and I was to keep my money. My money bought r me those fine boots. I got the best of the bargain, and I'm going to stick to it.*" MOST COSTLY OF ALL. An exchange says: "Some one estimates . tha,t getting born costs the people of the United States $225,000,000 annually; Retting married, 8300,000,000 annually; getting : buried,-575,000,000." Wo might add that ? getting drunk costs the people of the United ' States more than 61,525,' 00,000 annually, or ' more than one and one-half times as much ' as ?;etting born, married and buried put to[ gethor.?Sacred Heart Review. J WHEN IT WILL BE SOLVED. ) The National Temperance Union recently said that the problem of hard times will b>? solved "when the workingmen of America , boycott the saloon and stop drinking liquor. , About 5400,000,0j0 a year go to the saloons , from tho hard earned wages of workingmen. This money, turned into the channels of industry aud commerce, would bring com. fort aud happiness and plenty to millions of households." Imagine S4C0,000,'00 n year transmuted j from drink into life insurance! T25IPEBASCE SEWS AND NOTES. Five more towns in Connecticut vote no " ? H...n iiceuse una jcai iu,w The saloon barns up ?23,003,000 of our National resources every week. 14 The deaths from alcoholism In Sweden amount to ninety per thousand. This is the 1 highest rate in the world, says the Moaical Record. [ The drink bill of the members of the EngI lish House of Commons,according to the latest returns, umounted to $32,500 in five months. 1 Dr. Prinzing, of Ulm, Germany, has shown .ill oil!. tnat more roan miriy per tcui. u> ?... i cides committed by men In the prime of life i are due to drunkenness. The vital statistics of Germany show that ' wine merchants, inn keepers and retail ven' ders of spirits have a high death rate, esr pecially after thirty years of age, when diseases of the kidneys aro very common. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. ? * COST OF EGGS AND MEAT. The nutritive value of eggs and the cheapness of their production are scarcely realized by the public. It may eeem rather improbable to state that when meat is twenty-five cents a pound, the food value of eggs is about thirty-seven and a half cents a dozen, yet this seems to be the .fact. A hen may be calculated to consume one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay twelve or eighteen pounds of e&gs. This is equivalent to saying that three and a tenth pounds of corn will produce, when fed to this hen, one pound of eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary, requires about five and a third pounds of corn lor its production. Judging from these facts, eggs must bo economical, and especially fitted for the laboring man in replacing meat. ?Scientific American. ENSILAGE FOB DAXB7 COWS. The New York Agricultural Experiment Station has recently issued a bulletin on the value of oorn ensilage for feeding milch cows from which we extract the following: The average results secured in a large number of feeding trials reported in this bulletin fcVinw t.Viftt: Prim Artqilarra i'a ft valuable food for milk production. In general there was found an increase in milk flow accompanying the use of corn ensilage in the ration, and at the same time an increase of the amount of fat, the percentage of fat in the milk not diminishing. Milk was generally produced at lower cost, and the cost of fat production was lower while corn ensilage was fed. Tabulated data show the amount of each food used in tho different rations, the chemical composition of the rations, the amount of the different constituents digestible, and also the amount and composition of milk produced. Smaller tables show the composition of each food. Attention is called to the necessity of the farmer giving more than buperuumi Hbioutiua buicuuius ui icouing trials, for local conditions are so varying that all generalizations mast be modified considerably ,to be applied with individual profit. It is important to know what standard rations mi'.y be calculated to bring out the greatest product at the greatest average profit.?American Cultivator. CALVES AND GRAZING, Grazing is ordinarily desirable foi cattle. It is not always best for calvei under the age of four months. While the dam that furnishes it milk is grazing on new tender grass, tbe calf if better dieted with bright, dry hay, ii old enough to eat anything in the way of provender. The milk in such e case is strougly permeated by the grass and the calf requires the drj food to meet the loosening effect or the bowels. Dry oats ground anc bran,* equal parts,'mixed with haj chopped into fine bits, makes an excellent ration for calves when the mill is made entirely fromjgrass in th< spring. It should be an. established rule foi the dieting of calves under thre< months old in spring, that the damt should have a daily ration of oats anc bran if grazing, or the calves musl have if they will eat the ground oate and bran mixed with hay. It is an advantage, as a rule, if botb the cows and their young are supplied with all the dry, clear hay or bnghl oats straw {hat tl^ey will eat during the entire grazing season. The amouni required will be small, as a rule. Bui the digestion will often be aided, anc a tendency to bloat, diairhoea, anc other ills will be averted. The 6traw stack in the pasture has saved a greal amount of trouble on many stoci farms. The observing stock breeder givei faithful attention to the wants of the grazing youngsters,?Farm, Field anc Fireside. THE EARLIEST SOILING CBOP. To begin soiling early in the seasoi you need to prepare the year before, either with a piece of clover to be cul early, or better still, winter rye, which is fit for cutting much earlier than clover can be cut and make good feed. Our staple soiling crop, Indian corn, cannot be planted with advantage much before the 10th of May, and it will take fully sixty days after before it is fit to feed. Millet and Hungarian grass mature more quickly than corn, but they require still hotter weather to develop rapidly in, and if planted as early as it will do to plant corn, the crop will be lessened. Winter rye can bo grown large enough to cut by the middle to 20th of May, according tc the season. But rye is a very unsatisfactory soiling crop. Its season ie very short, for, after it shoots np tc head, the straw quickly becomes nnr? nnnalfltflble. At its be8t. it is not so good feed as corn fodder when in tassel and with ears starting out from its sides. If you combine ensilage feeding in winter with soiling In summer, the best plan is to put up enoug^corn silage one season to last until June, by which time clover car be ready to cut. If there is enough clover, pieces of this can be cut ic succession until the early-planted cort is ready to take its place. On rict land four and even five cuttings o. clover may be made in a season, each one to be cat just as the clover is get ting ready to blossom. If delayec much after this, the number of cut tings may not be more than two 01 three, but the quality of the clovei for feeding will be better.?Bostor Cultivator. THE AVERAGE FARMER'S ITEX. The day ought to be forever gone by when farmers undertake a thing, as we say, on general principles. The rule in the business world is to calcii' late in cold figures the cost of an aver age undertaking, on tko ono side, ani the advantages supposed to accrue or the other. But how many farmer* have we ever heard of were eve] known to wonder even as to the prob able cost of keeping a hundred hens ? % 1 year according to ine supsnuu uieiuuu; common to the ordinary farm? Th< man who never figures on the cost ol a thing never figures either on whal he is going to get out of it. When there is no thought, no plan, no push there is very apt to be little of any thing else except lose. There is ever; ? < - 5 reason to believe that the. farm hen should be the most profitable of all hens if her efforts to do a man a good turn were only guided by an intelligent and attentive hand. Because I of a lack of any suspicion that the hen would ever be tho means of making him any money, the farmer permits her to shift for herself under all circumstances. To be sure, some farmers have a building they call a henhouse, but it generally leaks in summer and is a bleak place in winter. It is not a place for comfort nor health. Consequently the hens do not do good work. They run to the open cribs often and j ;"rj get too fat for laying eggs. A little every-day attention would remedy all these things. There is nothing like giving the hens a chance. Give the hen clean, dry quarters, plenty of good exercise regularly, the right kind of food, and make her comfortable generally, and yoa have a machine that will tarn you out more money on ' the investment than any other on the farm. The only question is will you do it??Nebraska Farmer. /jjli OUR AMERICAN BUTTER. Though America has carried off tho palm in many contests few are doubtless aware of the fact that the finest butter in the world is produced by the dairy farms of the United States. This is not a mere idle boast but a # sober statement whioh is capable of * proof. And the best part of it is that f, England, which has never been aocused of excessive fondness for this country, is forced to admit the eupe- ^ riority of the American product. Several months ago the British Board of Agriculture deoided to make; a test of all the butter imported into England, for the purpose of ascertaining which country was entitled to A the highest award of merit. This investigation continued for no less than eight months, during whioh time as many as 995 samples of butter 1 furnished by twelve different countries, were subjected to the rigid process of examination agreed upon by the Board as the best method of ob i taining the information desired. As the result of this test it was fonnd i that six oat of the twelve countries had furnished adulterated samples, while the remaining six had furnished ; absolutely pure Bamples. The countries which failed to stand the test were Belgium, Denmark, Geri many, Holland, Norway and Sweden, ! counted as one, and Russia. Of these Belgium furnished five samples, one of which was adulterated; Denmark, 182 samples, eight of whioh were adul- 9 terated, Germany 154 samples, with forty-three adulterations;Holland250 3 samples, with sixty-six adulterations ;i?j Norway and Sweden 100 samples, only jjfl . two of which were adulterated, and . "Dmnflin sftmnlfls. with five ) JLIUOOld 4VAVJ> M?MV JT [ adulterations > On the other hand, those countries, i which furnished absolutely pare butter! i were Argentina, four samples; Austria,;' r fifty-seven samples; Canada, thirty-! i nine samples; France, sixty-two sam-' 1 I pies; New Zealand, twenty-one samr pies, and the United States, sixty- I . three samples. i Of these conntries the United States , famished the greatest number of samples and is, therefore, entitled to the first place on the roll of honor. 5 From tin foregoing figures it will , be observed that thirty-four per cent. I [ of the German butter was adulterat; ed; twenty-five per cent, of the Holj land, and five per cent, of the Denmark. The last named country has ! always been the favorite market from [ which England has obtained her sup* ; ply of butter. ?Atlanta Constitution. r . /. > ; GROWING POLL LIMA BEANS. : The Lima bean as now .raised maJ ' be divided into dwarf, bash and poU ' sorts, bat dwarf and bash sorts orig? ' inated in part from the pole lima. In t Lima bean production, California leads the world, the oatpat being 17,? 500 tons in 1893 and 12,200 in 1895. 3 In the East, Lima beans are much 5 raised in New Jersey. The natural ' home of the Lima bean is in ^arm countries and tbey require a long sea' son to mature. In the North, the sea* son should be shortened by the seleci tions of earlier varieties and of soil, , and giving more attention to cultiva* ? ; tion. Light, quick soils are best, i Soils naturally sandy and loose bub t enriched with manure in previous years, are excellent, especially if theyf have a warm exposure. The soil i should also be dry. Coarse, raw manure ; should be avoided as it tends to mafce i too rank and late a growth. If fertile i izer is applied the rear in which beana are planted, it should be such as will become available very quickly and tend to hasten maturity of the crop. Concentrated fertilizers, those especially rich in potash and phosphorio i acid and with a low per cent, of nitro< gen, are best suited. Plant an inch deep in hills about three feet apaifr i and the rows about four feet apart, ' dropping seven or eight beans in eaohj i bill. When well up and danger from! bad weather and cutworms is past, 1 pull out a^l but three or four. Poles ; should not be over six feet high as on i longer poles the vines run too high ; and grow too late. Clipping back the vines is unnecessary when strong feri tilizers are withheld. The California i practice of bean growing varies greatly l in that the crop is not infrequently: i raised from planting to harvesting i without a shower. Machine planters i plant two to four rows at a time, forty t inchee apart. Instead of setting poles, i the plants grow over and completely cover the ground. The plants are cut * <-? 1 U-l 1 in late Depiemoer jutjv u?uw me om face of the ground, are forked into r piles and allowed to dry a fortnight.. : A piece of ground sixty to eighty leefc i is hardened and two or three big| wagon loads are placed in a ring.; Horses attached to light wagons. are: driven over them, the beans threshed s and the vines forked off, and more* similarly threshed. The process of ? threshing by largo steam machines . which clean up from fifty to seventy. five acres of beans per day, has mora A1 ? Uaam .1 U T? mAol A F flia [ receuuj ucuu uuu^ccu. uj mucv v?* t largo growers in the West. Such 5 machinery has been on the market but . a few seasons, and is therefore quite . expensive. While all consumers welt come cheap methods of production, 3 the average farmer should continue to ? plant a good-sized family garden.? E American Agriculturist. 3 The weather bureau uas issued aa , illustrated pamphlet, describing bo^r - to mak6 its high flying kites for th* j benefit of the boya oi the country.