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I- REV, BRTALMAQE. /SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY XHl NOTED DIVINE, Subject: "The Bitter Attila." Text: "There fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamb, and It fell upoi the third part of the rivers, and upon th .fountains of water, and the name of th star is called Wormwood."?Revelation viii. 10, U. Many commentators, like Patrick an< Lowth, Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry an< Albert Barnes agree in saying that the sta Wormwood, mentioned in Revelation, wa .Attila, king of the Huns. He was so ca'lec because he was brilliant as a star, and, iik< Wormwood, he embittered everything h< touched. We have studied the rtar o Bothlehem. and the Mornine Star of tli. ;Revelation, and the Star of Peace. but m; ? resent subject calls us to gaze at the stai Wormwood, and my themo might be callec Brilliant Bitterness. ' A more extraordinary character historj does not furnish than this man thus referrec to, Attila, the king of the Huns. One day t I wounded heifer came limping along througl / the fields, and a herdsman followed it; bloody track on the grass to see where tht heifer was wounded, and went on back fur ther and further, until he came to a swore fast in the earth, the point downward, a: thor.gh is had dropped from the heavens anc against the edges of this sword tiie heifei had been cut. The herdsman pulled up thai sword and presented it to Atti'a. Attila saic the ?w rd must have droppel frcm th? \ heavens from the grasp of the god Mars anc its beinc given to him meant that A.tills should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mightv men have been delighted al being called liberators, or the merciful or tli? good, but Attila called himself, and demanded that others call him the Scourge of God. At the head cf 700.000 troops, mounted ou . Cappadocian horses, he swept everything . Tom the Adriatic to the Black Sea. He pui his iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for mercy, which he H bestowed not. The Byzantine* castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out and divided into three classes?the first class, those who could beat 1 arms, who must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchored; the second class, the beautiful women, who were made captives to the Huns: the third class, the aged men an 1 women, who were robbed of evervthln:,' and let go back to the city to pay heavy tax. It was a common saying that the grass never grew again where the hoof of Attila's horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine, and the Moselle, and the Rhine with carnage and fcught on the Catalonian plains the fiercest battle since the world stood?300.000 dtad left on the field! i On and on until those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their face's in prayer, and. a cloud of dust seen in the distance, a bishop cri?d, "It is the aid of God!" and all the people took up the cry. "It is the aid of God! As the cloua of dust was blown aaluo iac uauuera ui rc-euiurviug uiuuro marihed in to help against Attila, th*i Scourge of God. The most unimportant occurrences he used as a supernatural resource. and after three months of failure to capture the oity of Aquileia. and his army had given up the siege the flight of a stork and her young from the tower of the city was taken by him as a sign that he w.is to capture the city, and his army, inspired by the same occurrence, resumed the siege and took the walls at a point from which the stork had emerged. So brilliant was th-? conquerer in attire that his nemies- could not look at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Ildico, who was hired for the assassination, his followers bewailed him, not with tears, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. He was put into three coffins, the first of iron, the second ^ of silver and the third of gold. He was buried i by night, and into his grave were poured the H most valuable coin and precious stones, B amounting to the wealth of a kingdom. The | gravediggers and all those who assisted at. the burial were massacred, so that it would never be known where so much wealth was antombed. The Roman empiro conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Roman empire. He was right in calling himself a scourge, but instead of being the Scourge of God he was the scourge of hell. Because of his brilliance ?nd bitterness the commentators were right in believing him to be the star Wormwood. As the regions he devastated were parts most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you soo how graphic is this reference in Revelation: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought bow many imbittered lives there are all about us, misanthropic. morbid, acrid, saturnine? The European plant from which wormwood is extracted. Artemisia absinthium, is a perennial plwnr, and all the vear round it is ready to exude its oil. And in many human lives there is a perennial distillation of acrid experiences. Yea, there are some whose whoie work is to shed a baleful influence on others. There are Attilas of the home, or Attilas o! the social circle, or Attilas of the church, or Attilas of the state, and one-third of the waters of all the world, if not two-thirds tho waters, are poisoned by the falling of the star Wormwood. It is not complimentary to human nature that most men. as soon as th?v "ft r.ntvpr become overbearing. The more power men have the better if their power be used for good. The less power men have the better if they use it for evii. Birds circle round and round and round before they swoop upon that which they are aiming for. And if my discourse so far ha? been swinging round and round this mo. ment it drops straight on your heart and asks the question, Is your life a benediction to others or an imbitterment. a blessing or a curse, a balsam or wormwoo.:? Some of you I know are morning stars, and you are making the dawning life 01 vour children bright with gracious influences, and vou are beaming upon all the opening enterprises of philanthropic an<] Christian endeavor, and you are heralds o! that day of gospehzation which will yetflooc all tne mountains and valleys of "our sir cursed earth. Hail, morning star! Keep or shining with encouragement and Chriitiai hope' Somn ot you are evening stars, and vc: are cheering the last days of old people, an<: though a cloud sometimes comes over yoi through the querulousness or unreasonable ness of your old father and mother it is onh lor a moment, ana me star soon comes om clear aj;aln and Is seen from all th? balco nles of the neighborhood. The old peopl< will forgive your occasional shortcomings for they themselves several times lost thei patience wh? n you were young and slappe< you when you aid not deserve it. Hail evening star' Hang on the darkening sk; your diamond coronet! But are any of you the star Wormwood? D< you scold and growl from the thrones pa ternal or maternal? Are your children ever lastingly pecked at? Are you always cryini ' Hush!" to the merry voices and swif: feet and their laughter, which occasicnall; trickles through at the wrong times u.nd i suppressed by them until they can bold 1 110 longer, and all the barriers "ourst ini:o un limited guffaw and cachinnation, as ia higl weather the water has trickled through i slight opening in the milldam. but after ward makes wider and wider ireacl until it carries all before it will irresistible freshet? Do not be too mucl offended nt the noise your children no\ make. It will be still enough when one o 1 it* .lrtnil rni*or* rnn trnnl/1 crivu I right hand to hear one shout from their si leat voices or one step from the still fcot You will not any of you have to wait ver long beforte vour house is stiller than vo want it. Alas, that there are50 many hoine not known to Society For the Prevention c Cruelty to Children, where childr en are pu on the limits and whacued and cuffed an ear pulled and senselessly called to orde ?nd answer sharp and surpresso I until it is wonder that under such proeessts they d not ail turn out Modoes and Nana Sahibs. What is your influence upon tae neighbor vnnri the town or the citv of vour residence II will suppose that you are a star of wi What kind of rays do you shoct forth? D you use that splendid faculty to irra-!iat the world or to rankle it? 1 bless all th apostolic college of humorists. The ma that makes me laugh is my benefactor. I d not thank anybody to make me cry? I ca do that without any assistance. We ail cr enough, and have enough to cry about. Go i ? s wrnmmmmmmmmmmmm bless all sklUfat punster?. all reparteelscs, all propounders of ingenious conum.lrums, all those who mirthfully surprise us with unusual juxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood r and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a divine mission, and so have their successors in these times. They stir into the acid beverage of life the saccharine. They make the cup of earthly existence, which is sometimes stale, effervesce and bubble. They placate animosities. They foster longevity. They slay follies and absurdities which all the sermons of all the pulpits cannot reach, j They nave for examples Elijah, who made e fun of"the Baalites when they called down s fire, and it did not come, suggesting that their heathen god had gone hunting, or was ' off ou a journey, or was asleep, and nothing but vociferation could wake him. saying, i "Cry aloud for he is a god. Either he is ?j talking or pursuing or peradventure he r sleepeth and must be awaked." They have 5 i an example in Christ, who with healthful I I sarcasm showed up the lying, hypocritical JI Pharisees by suggesting that such perfect ; j people likf themselves needed no improve 1 I meat."-, saying, "Tre whole neeU not a pnyJ j sician but they that are sick." ' But what use are you making of your wit? . I? it besmirched with profanity and unclennness? Do you employ it in amusement at . physical defects for" which the victims are not responsible? Are your powers of mimicry used to put religion in contempt? Is it a bunch of n'ettlesome invective? Is it a bolt . of unjust scorn? Is it fun at other's misfor' I tune? Is it glee at their disappointment and ' defeat? Is it bitterness put drop by drop : into a cup? Is it like the squeezing of Ar. temisia absinthium into a draught al; ready pungant? Then you are the star Wormwood. Yours is the fun of a rattlej; snake trying how weil it can sting. It is the . fun of a hawk trying how quickly it can ' strike out the eye of a dove. [ But I will change this and suppose you are t a star of Worldly Prosperity. Then you have large opportunity. You'can encourage J that artist by buying his picture. You can [ I improve the fields, the stables, the highway. . j by introducing higher style of fowl and ! horse and cow and sheep. You can bless the I | wuriu ivnu [njuiu.UKitm uvuicicuicui iu . ] orchards. You can advance arboriculture and arrest this death ful icoaoclasm of the ; American forests. You can put a piece of j sculpture into the nicho of that public ! academy. You can endow a college. You ,! can stocking a thousand bare feet from the j winter frost. You can build a church. You can put a missionary of Christ on that i foreign shore. You can help ransom a world. I A. rich man with his heart right?can you . j tell me how much good a James Lenox or a j George Peabody or a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge did while living, or is , doing now that he is dead? There is not a city, town or neighborhood that has not glorious specimens of consecrated wealth. But suppose you grind the face of the poor. Suppose when a man's wages are due you make him wait for them because he canI not help himself. Suppose that, because bis j family is sick and be has had extra expenses, he should politely ask you to raise his wages j for this year and you rousjhiy tell him if he wants a better place to go and get it. Su ppose by your manner you act as though he were nothing and you wereoverything. Sup: pose you are selfish and overbearing and ar| rogant. Your first name ought to be Attila and your last name Attila, because you are I fhrtetnrWnrmwnnl nnd vouhaveimbittored I one-third if not three-thirds of tho waters j that roll past your employes and operatives I and dependents and associates, and the Ion? ! line of carriages which the undertaker orders I for your funeral, in order to make the occa ston respectable, will be tilled with twice as many dry, tearless eves as thore are persons occupying them. There is an erroneous idea abroad that there are only a few geniuses. There are millions of them?that is, men and women | who have especial adaptation and quickness j for some one thing. It may bo great: it muy be small. The circle may be like the circumference of the earth or no larger than a thimble. There are thousands of geniuses, and in some one thing you aro a star. What kind of a star are youV i'ou will bo in this world but a few minutes. As com pared with eternity the stay of the longest life on earth is not more than a minute. What are we doinp with that minute? Are we imbittering the domestic or social or political fountains, i or are we like Moses, who, when the Israelites I in iQe wuuwrauss cuuiuiiuucu ium iuo nuras of Lake Marah were bitter and they could not drink them, cut off the branch of a certain tree and threw that branch into the water, and it became sweot and slake i the thirst of the suffering host? Are we with a branch of the Tree of Life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we can touch? ! Dear Lord, send us all out on that mission, i All around us lmbittercd lives?imbittered by prosecution, imbittered by hypercriticism, Imbittered by poverty, imbittered by pain, imbittered by injustice, imbittered by sin. Why not go forth and sweeten them by smile, by inspiring words, by benefactions, by hearty counsel, by prayer, ' bv gospelized behavior? Let us remember that if we are wormwood to others we are wormwood to ourselvos, and our life will t>o | bitt ?r and our eternity bitterer. The gospel of Jesus Christ is tho only sweetening power that is sufficient. It sweetens the disposl! tion. It sweetens the manners. I'. sweetens j life. It sweetens mysterious providences. It sweetens afflictions. It sweetens death It sweetens everything. I have heard people asked in social companv. "If you could have three wishes gratified what would your three wishes be?" If I could have three wishes met this morning, I tell you what they would be: 1. More of the grace of God. i 2. More of the grace of God. 3. More of the I ?f fL^,A T n fKii H rH r? f mv } 1 aiu vi \J\JKX* iu vuw UW?;MIV. V. . ? j brother John, missionary in Amoy, Chiriit, there was a tree called the emperor tree, the two characteristics of which are that it always grows higher than its surrounding. and its leaves take the form of a crown. If this emperor tree be planted by a rosebush, it urows a little higher ' than the bush and spreads out above it a crown. If it be planted by the side of another tree, it grows a little higher than that iree and spreads above it p. crown. Would > God that this religion of Christ, a more wonderrul emperor tree, mignt overshaiow all your lives! Are you lowly in ambition or circumstance, putting over you its crown? Are you high in talent and position, cutting over you its crownV Ob, for moro of the . saccharine in our lives and less of the wormE wood! What is true of individuals is true of na> tious. God sets them up to revolve as stars, I but they may fall wormwood. f Tyre, the atmosphere of tho desert, fra1 grant with spices, coming in caravaus to her i fairs, all seas cleft into foam by the keels ot ' her laden merchantmen, her markets rich i j with horses and camels fromTogarmah, her bazaars filled with upholstery from Dedan, i J with emerald and coral and agate from [ I Syria, with wines from Helbon, with emi I broidered work from Ashur and Chiimad. . | Where now the gleam of her towers, where r j the roar of her chariots, where the masts of t her ships? Let the fishermen who dry tneir . nets wh re once she stood, let tho sea that j rushes upon the barrenness where once she f challenged the admiration of all nations, let r the barbarians who set their rude tents i where once her palaces glittered, answer t the question. She was a star, but by her 7 own sin turned to wormwood and has fallen. Hundred gated Thebes, for all tirao to be 3 the study of the antiquariam and hierogly. phist, her stupendous ruins spread over 27 - miles, her sculptures presenting in figures of 5 warrior and chariot the victories with which t the now forgotten kings of Egypt shook the y nations, her obelisks and columns, Carnac s and Luxor, the stupendous temples of her t pride! Who can imagine the greatness of - Thebes in those days when the hippodrome ti rang with her sports and foreign royalty a bowed at her shrine and her avenues roared . with the wheels of processions in the wake i of returning conquerors? What dashed h down the vision of chariots and temples and a thrones? What hands jralled upon the v columns or her glory? wtnt rutuiessness if defaced her sculptured wall and broke ober lisics and left lier indescribable temples grunt > skeletons of granite? What spirit of destruction spread the lair ol wild beast? in y her royal sepulcbers. and i&ught the misera able cott igers of to-day to build huts in the s courts of her temples, and sent desolation ,f and ruin skulking behind the obelisks, and it dodging among the sarcophagi, and leaning d against the columns, and stooping under the r arches, ana weeping in the waters which go a mournfully by as though they were carryiug 0 111" l<-"tirs Ul Ull iUJCS.- lj<Jl IULbreak their Ion? silence and come up to . shiver in the desolation and point to fallen )! gates and shattcrod statues and defaced t. sculpture, responding: "Thebesbuilt not one o tempie of God. Thebes hated righteousness e and loved sin. Thebes was a star, but she 0 turned to wormwood and has fallen." a Babylon, with her 250 towers and her 0 brazen gates and her embattled walls, the n splendor of the earth gathered within her y j paiaces, her hanging gardens built bv d | Nebuchadnezzar to please his bride, Ainytis, 1 . 1. . W who had fcesn orougnt up tn a moun'amous J country and could not endure tne flat coun-, try round Babylon?theae hanging gardens built, terrace above terrace, till at the height of 400 feet there were woods waving and fountains playing, the verdure, the foliage, the glory lookinsr as if a mountain were on the wing. On the tiptop a kins walking with hisqueen, among statues snowy white, looi:? ing up at birds brought from distant lands. I and ddnkintr out of tankards of solid gold or looking off over rivers and lakes upon nations subdued and tributary, crying, "Is not this great Babvlon which I have built?" I k,nrT1 imofethe walls? What I plowshare upturned the gardens? What i army shattered the brazen Rates? What [ loner, fierce blast of storm put out this light i which illumined the world? What crash of . discord drove down the music that poured i from palace window and garden grove and called the banqueters to their revel and the dancers to their feet? I walk upon the scene of desolation to flni an answer and ! pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and broken pottery, the remains of Babylon, and I a? in the silence of the night I hear thesuri;ing of that billow of desolation which rolls over the scene, I hear the wild waves sayJ ing: "Qabylon was proud. Babylon was impure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and has fallen.1' From the prosecutions of. the pilgrim fathers and the Huguenots In other land3 God set upon these shores a nation. The council fires of the aborigines went out in the greater light of a free government. The sound of the warwhoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and progWic-O Tho miLl TTrlnfo* f V> ii frillffnl dim. mers, the healthful skies, charmed from other lands a race of hardv men who loved God and wanted to be free. Before the woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ihiDs' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on thebanks of lakos begin to rival cities bv the sea. The land quakes wltn the rush of the rail car and the waters are churned white with the steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of w astern wheat meet on the way fabulous tons of eastern coal. Furs from the north pass on the river fruits from the south. And trading in the same market is Maine lumberman and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylums scatter light and love and mercy and salvation upon GO,000,00:) of people. I pray that our nation may not copy the crimes of the nations that have perished and our cup of blessing turn to wormwood, and like them we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that this country will continue to advance until Christ shall cotno again. But be not deceived. Ourorly safety is in righteousness toward God and justice toward man. If we forget t-hn n?r?i-wlnncs nf thA T.nrd tn this land, and break His Sabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters that have again and a^ain come to us as a nation, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemic nor drought nor mildew nor scourge of locust and grasshopper nor cvclone nor earthquake; if the political corruption which has poisoned tho fountains of public virtue and beslimed the hish places of authority, making free government at times a hissing and a byword in all tho earth; if the drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme in the streets of our groat cities as though they were reaching after the fame of a Cvrinth and a Sodom are not repented of, we will vet s?e the smoke of our nation's ruin, the pillars of our national anc. state capitols will fall more disastrously than when Samson pulled down Dagon, and future historian will record upon the page bedewed with generous tears the story that the free nation of tho west arose in splendor which made the world stare. It had magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It bated justice. It husged its crime. It haired on its high march. It reeled under the blow of calamity. It fell. And as it was coing down all the despotisms of earth from the top of bloody thrones beg in to shout, 'Aha, so would we have it!" whilestruggling and oopressud people looked out from dungeon bars, with tears and groans and crifs of untold ajrony, the scorn of those and the woe of these uniting in tne exclamation; "Look yonder! There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood!" AN AV1IRICAN PLANT IN RUSSIA. Locomotive Works to Be Established at N.Jnl Novgorod. The proposed establishment of an extensive. locomotive building works at Nljni Novgorod, Russia, by American capitalists was announced a few days ago. Contracts for the machinery for the plant, amounting to $500,000, have already been awarded, the bulk of the orders coming to Philadelphia firms. For several years the project of establishing an American locomotive plant in Russia has been under consideration by capitaflsts in this country. The Arm of Edmund D. Smith k Co., of Philadelphia, and Walter F. Dixon, who was formerly connected with .the Rogers Locomotive Works, in PatcrsoD. N. J , became interested in the matter, and as a result of their visit to Russia a company of American capitalists has been incorporated under the title of the Russian-Americia Manufacturing Company, which will build the works. The plant is to be built in connection with the Sortnova Works, an extensive establishment in Nljni Novgorod, manufacturing cars, steamboats, steam boilers, etc., and employing 5000 hands. Engineer Dixon will have entire charge of the locomotive works, which will be controlled jointly by the Russian and American companies. The locomotive plant will have a capacity of 200 engines a year, and will employ 1000 hands. It is understood that the Czar's Government has given *rnliiuhl?A ftn/?Anrno?AniPnt fr* finfrtrOrl3B. BREAK IN PRICE OF BIKES. Hlgh-Grade Wheels May Be Reduced Twenty-live Per Ceut. The most important move tnat has been made in the bicycle business In several years was the announcement by the Yost Manufacturing Company, of Toledo, Ohio, that its $100 wheels would in the future be sold at $75 on payments, and ten per cent discount for cash. This is the first break In the socalled "high-grade" wheels, and means that sweeping reductions will take place from this time on. All the makers of $100 wheels have suffered this season from the large namber of cheap wheels that have been thrown on the market by nearly every factory that could be fitted with the'needed machinery. The Pope Company recently tried to stem the tide by a heavy cut in its Harcford grade of wheels, but it is thought that a cut will now be made in its Columbia f 100 grade since this break has come in the West. Mr. Yost said that he expects to see every *100 wheel sell in tho near future for $75; that his company is simply acting on this opinion, and the mak ers are reticent, hut nope to iiniau me j>res? ent season at high prices. A FICHT WITH TWO HYENAS. The Keeper In Victorious After a liltter Contest. The spectators of a circus street parade at Bridgeport, Conn., witnessed a thrilling fight between two hyenas and their keeper, The cage containing four beasts and Harlc Northrup, the keeper, was swinging from State into Main street when the trouble occurred. The largest of the animals bad been ugly all the morning. The brute sprang for the keeper, but ho turned in time tc meet tha beast full in the face with his loaded whip. The injured animal renewed the attack, and one of the others joined in. The two remaining beasts too* no part in the attack, but their ruuuiuj: about interfered with tho keeper, who w;i> raining blows on his assail* auts. Suddenly tho brave fellow was seen to fall to the floor, and the crowd thought he was lost. He regained his footing and finally ha 1 the beasts groveling at his feet. Th<* I--'"-. - thi. nr\ !'i? (>ntnrilRta? i ly exhausted. A Warning to Travelers. European travelers arc warned by United States Consul-General Judd, at Vienna, to obey the railroad regulations excluding certain articles from luggage, under severe penalties. He cites the case of a young American, who was lined 312 florins for having some cartridges in his truck, and says that Servia. Bulgaria. Roumania, Turkuy and Russia nave railway regulations similar to Austria in this respect. Reports from Texas state that charbrou or 1 anthrax is (mooting unci Kunuy ?u iuuus u* i domestic stock from heas to horses. RELIGIOUS READING. GOING OCT AND BRINGING IN. Going out is the indispensable preliminary to bringing in for every worker in the Master's vineyard. This holds true of the great Worker himself. It was necessary for the Saviour to go out from Heaven before lie could bring a lost world within the pale of salvation. Only the aggressive church can be the redemptive church. Dr. Chalmers. the famous preacher and reformer of Scotland, used to contend that there were two kinds of churehci. One is simply attractive, while the other is aggressive. The attractive church draws within its walls persons suited by its teaching and services, but the aggressive church goes out into the highways and hedges, taking with it the message and machinery calculated to win back to the fold those who had strayed away or carelessly kept outside. The latter is beyond doubt the type of church most in harmony with the r New Testament ideal. Ecclesiastical conventions are in the habit of spending a good < deal of time and talk over ''the secret of winning the masses," but in reality there is iiu uuuui LUI* mtutur. 11 was mauc 1 { lain long ago in the instructions given by our Lord to His disciples. ''Go ye ont, i said He, (,into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in." Going out in- { variably leads to bringing in. The marvelous success of the Salvation Army in win- i ning the unchurched multitudes is the result of its going out after them. When the church of Jesus Christ goes out after her alienated or indifferent children with full ' understanding of their needs and the open hand of hearty human fellowship, then?and not until then?will she , succeed in bringing them back. Religious indolence and selfishness are the two great obstacles in the way of going out fturtVwi 1 ??r.curl mnc-jps in nlir rfftv. Too many professing Christians content themselves with the unworthy reflection that there are plenty of churches and missionhalls in every town, and that if people who live within the sound of church bells go to ] no place of worship, the fault is their own. They forget that the ' come" from the cold iron throat of a church bell falls unheeded on ears that would be responsive to .the warm, loving, urgent "come" of Christian sympathy. The Good Samaritan has no need to get off his beast nowadays, and go to the wounded man where he lies. Least \ of all is he required to go to the sensational length of giving up his own beast, and trudging laboriously on foot. He satisfies himself with the remembrance that the inn is?close by where the wounded stranger can be attended to, and it is his own fault if be does not go to it. How the man is to get there, or whether he is in too weakened a condition to walk to the friendly shelter, does not agitato his mind. He rides on his way with the comfortable reflection that so much is being done for that class of people. The sting of this sarcastic rendering of the grand parable of philanthropy lies in its truth. We have deputed to church bells and mission agencies the work we ought to do ourselves. Nothing can be more opposed to the spirit and method of Jesus Christ than the policy of that church which has a handsome building, luxuriously cushioned, car peted and curtained for its richer adherents, and is content to keep the poor at arm's length in what it is pleased to call its ''mission." Equally fatuous is the decision of a professed follower of Jesus Christ that he does his duty by his brethren wandering in the highways if he pays a subscription to home missions while* he sits in his church or at his fireside in selfish and indolent ease. The demon of selfishness must be driven out. and the only way in which it can be driven out is by the expulsive power of a new affection for souls. Tarrying at the cross, the smouldering embers of enthusiasm will leap up into the fire on the altar of our hearts, and we shall be urged by the irresistible constraint of a Chris-tlike passion to "Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave; Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save." 8TNTKESI9 OF FAITH. In the Christian confession the centripetal and centrifugal forces need to be held in exact balance. Christianity has much in its truth and life which is permanent; but it is at the same time a religion of nrocress. Some religions have been short lived because they lacked the staying qualities. while others have far outlived their usefulness because they are so anchored to the past as to be unable to adjust themselves to a new age or to appropriate the new forces existing about them. The Gospel of Jesus, unlike these, has a great past, to the precious things of which it constantly cleaves, and a still greater future towards which it is perpetually reaching forward. Just in the measure that the forms of Christianity become corrupt they lose this admirable balance and swing to one side or the other. The sects which are today making the best success in the world are those that face the future as well as the past. They feel after and And the grand pillars of truth set up by prophets and apostles and martyrs, while at the same time they look ahead for the consummation of the evangelical work in the world. The mission bands flying to the ends of the earth are from churches which cherish and hold firmly by the faith once delivered to the saints. The conservatism which clings to what is enduring in the past is exactly balanced by the optimism and spirit of enterprise which go forth with the sharp sickle to reap the harvest of the whole world. THE GOD OF JACOB. It Is praiseworthy to want to be altogether righteous, but it will not do to be without thankfulness for those who are partly righteous. If God loved only perfect people, faultless people, He would have few indeed to loye. It b not well to forget that a man may be sound at neart tnougn tne conduct hus" flaws not a few; that he may have the root of the matter in him though the fruit is scanty. The poet does right to cheer us with the reflection concerning the saints above who sing the high praises of God around the thrcne that,? " Once they were mourners here below, And poured out cries and tears, And wrestled hard as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears. " They not only made mistakes, but fell Into temptations," being composed of ordinary flesh and blood with its weaknesses and tendencies to wander. But through the plenitude of Divine mercy they were saved. He who healed all their backslidings and brought them off conquerors at last, will have the same compassion upon us. So let us be of good cheer. We need not be altogether east down or thrown into despair if we stumble much. The God of the imperfect patriarchs and prophets is our God also, with a heart big enough to take us in too. ' Wait upon the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart. " Your own soul is a growth, not a manufacture. Accept yourself, and do not try to be some one else. Make the most out of yourself that you can : but do not repiue because you cannot make yourself into some one else. Variation is as marked a b-.atiye In the spiritual as in the natural realm. Cultivate the gift that is in thee. Hun with patience the race that is s-t before thee. We waste energies in trying to cultivate gifts we do not possess, and in trying to nm races set before other souls.?Lyman Abbott, I>. D. It is not the ?rr.alliiesji r<t your liff, I ut the quality of it. that is important. Von .-ann-.t be an oak or an elm. but if you an- a vi >jet under a map!", drinking in tl? ?i:ohin<'nii?l the dew, y>u should !?. eohtent. !' >: iti ilie iiroviili-n-"* of <? "? humMi* ln< > < !: :iv lived have in!!aito value.? lie v. Citurg?' II. Hij-worth. | Tlie G. A. It. Colony in Georgia. Farmers in Fitzgeraid, Gn., are about ready to hnrvest small grain. Not a great amount has been raised, but sufficient to convince the G. A. R. colonists that It can be successfully grown there. Fine larj?e heads of wheat, rye and oafs have been sent North to show what the country can pro? j duco. For a Mormon Colony In Mexico. Three hundred families recently converted I lo ilormonlsm In the mountains of Virginia will emigrate to Mexico, and form a colony on the Paoiflc Coast. They will practice roligamy. Many have already passed through Jllddlesboro, Ky., en route to their new homai. i TEMPERANCE. BTTIJtED TE3IPLES. Then we read of the ruined temples. Which once in their majesty grand, Vith. towers and turrets glittering, Pillars carved by a master handlow the creation of long past ages Having stood the storms of years, jie with frescoed walls all blackened, We are sadly moved to tears. Jut what of the Temples of our Lord, Bodies in His own likeness made? Ve see ruins of these on every side, In anpuish of every grade; IVrecked lives, that might have been Strong,perfect towers of strength, }nce pure and fair in lovliness, A cold world hath conquered at length 5ore troubles came, and they sank; None for their misery did care, 3/t KqII'c flftrv liiinlH A... ~ i. jv uw? a MWij kuvj Vlioiia. Their minds from torment to spar*. rhese ruined temples, behold them In every city and town; Shall we pass them by with a pitying glaace, And to pleasanter sights move on? So! For there's a day of reckoning When these temples of our Lord, Defaced and ruined by carelessnej3, Bereft of one kind word. Shall rise up to witness against us, And the cruelty of men, For greed and lack ot charity To these, our feilowmen. Children of God rise and hasten Into the fray, and fight igainst those who would lay in the dost Tbese temples of God and His light, rhe battle is not to the mighty; Gird your loins with faith round about, For the walls of Jericho fell When the people with one voice did shout, ?Mrs. C. W. Scott. WHAT CAUSED OXE SOS'S FALL. The following incident, which is related by a writer in Onward, carries its own moral with it: A story is told of a fathor who was In the habit of taking every night a glass of whisky and water. Sometimes he took a piece of sugar out of the liquor and Rave it to his little son, with the words: "Here, Jack, have a bit of sugar, boy." The boy took it willingly, and though at first the taste of the whisky was unpleasant, he soon overcame this and began to like its flavor, till at last the father wa3 persuaded by the boy to give him a sip out of tho glass. One evening a sister of tno boy was standing by, and the father offered her a piece of sugar from his glass. Fortunately at this moment the mother entered and said: "No; stop. Whatever you give to the boy, I cannot allow you to give'it to the gtrl. 8he shall not learn the taste of intoxicating drinks." Many years had passed away, ana xae father had grown old and beat, when ho was called upon to perform a most unpleasant duty. He had to visit his son in prison. How changed was the once bright, happy boy. His face haggard, his eye3 sunken, dressed in the meager dress of the convict, he was led out to see his father. He did not welcome him, but looked at him angrily. "Ah," he said, "you see me in my shame and punishment. You think me a bad son, but remember it was your fault that I am thus placed. The sips out of your glass led me to lore drink, and that love has been the cause of my crime. 1 am here oecanse I was taught by you to become a drunkard." The father felt the truth of what the son said. It AL.t _ I J TXn was an arrow taai pierccu u? ucan. *** hung his head in sorrow. He had no reply. Surely we should take warning and shun the beginning of evil SOMETHIX# FOB DEIXEEES TO TB1VT AEOtTT. A celebrated doctor of Franco has recentl> discovered something which all drinkers ought to kno w. He has found out that alcohol in every shape, whether of wine or brandy or beer, contains para-itic life called bacillus potumanias. By a powerful microscope these living things are discovered, and when you take strong drink you take them into the stomach, and then Into your blood, and then, getting Into the crimson canals of life, they go int5 every tissue of your body, and your entire organism Is taken possession of by these noxious Infinitesimals. When in delirium tremens a man sees every form of reptilian life, it is only these .parasites of the brain in exaggerated size. 'It is not a hallucination that the victim is suffering from. He only sees in the room what is actually crawling and rioting in his own brain. Every time you take strong drink you swallow these maggots, and every time the Imbiber of alcohol in anyshape feels vertigo or rheumatism or nausea, it Is only the jubilee of these maggots. Efforts are being mado for the discovery of some germicide that can kill the parasites of alcoholism, but the only thing that will ever exterminate them is abstinence from alcohol, and total abstlnance, to which I would before God swear all men, young and old. "PA FlJLT I/OSELY." A Cleveland family was In court the other day. A daughter was one of the witnesses, and she had this cheerful tale to tell of her father: "Pa was sitting In his saloon feeling lonely. He went to the barn, and putting a halter on his horse brought him Into the house, saying he wanted the animal to eat supper with him. Pa made me set a plate for the horse. Then he took hold oi the horse's front legs and lifted them up on the table. We all sat down to supper and the horse began to eat. Pa picked up a mug oi bear ana began to laugh and throw both hands in the air. The mug hit the horse on the nose. The beast pulled his feet down, dragging the tablecloth and upsetting the table. The horse backed up ana sat squarely on a redhot stove. This burned its tail so the animal kicked the stove over and ran nnt- of the door. I screamed and Da threw n Jamp at me. Tte house came near catching fire, and a policeman came in. Pa has been arrested 108 times." saloons in sax fb an ci ico. San Francisco last year outranked any city of its size in the numher of its ealoons, having G639. This year the revenue report show that the saloons have increased so that there are now a trifle over 7000, or one saloon for every fifty persons in the city. Tb? liquor license is low, and new saloons are being constantly opened, as no business promises surer profits. Nearly all the corner groceries sell beer and liquors, and the rule is that these places keep open until midnight The result Is that they are the greatest source ol misery among workingmen's families, even outside the tenement districts, for the men spend their evenings and most of their wages in the grocery barroom. Tho increase in all revenue over last year was $500,000, the total being over 52,000,000. 8tartlino temperance lesion. Dr. Paul Gamier, of Paris, who has been making a special study of the children ol habitual drunkar.ls. comes to this conclusion: "There is a Haw in the very nature ol theseyoung wretches that tho py3Chologist sees clearly anu notes wiiu u^joucitnuutlie absence of affectionate emotion; and when they do not b?come lunaties they show insensibility and pitllessness." Hero is s temperance lesson of startling power. DBOWNED IJf EEEB. Amonff the "moujiks," or peasants, who were killed at the Czar's fatal coronation feast for the multitude were several who got drowned in the big vats of beer in theii eagerness to net at the beverage. What a side light does this whole terrible business afford on the nobility of man in the civilized atmosphere of modern European monarchy1 ?Pathfinder. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND N">TE3. In the little German principality of Wal('eck a decree has been proclaimed t'nar a license to marry will not be granted to anj individual who is iu the habit of getting druuk. "Mamma," said a little girl, "you know the story in our reader about the king who never smiled again?" "Yes, dear." "Well, does it mean that he signed tho pledge:*" Doctor Speyer says that one-eighth of tht insane in public asylums were sent there alcoholism. A-bout one-half of Norway is now undci absolute prohibition: the other is likely tc become so at thf> election of this year. The solons of Piainfleld, N. J., have tie creed tnar ewer is an intoxicant w*w?Sc, anil several people havo accordingly been arrested for selling it as a noxious liquor. "Too mnch beor for the head of the familj and too little bread for the rest of the fam< ily." That Is what someone says U the cause of much of the labor trouble in thij country. i THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. ? Full Text of the Kesolutiona Adopted at [j the National Convention. St. Lonrs, June 19.?Following is the full text of the Republican platform: jj The Republicans of the United States, ti assembled by their representatives in t National Convention, appealing for the ? popular and historical justification of their claims to the matchless achievements of thirty years of Republican rule, earnestly and' confidently address a themselves to the awakened intelligence, ? experience and conscience of their country- s men in the following declaration of facts t and principles: t For the first time since the Civil War the n American people have witnessed the calami- <3 I tous consequences of tun ana uurestrictea Democratic control of the Government. It has been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster. In administraI live management it has ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue, entailed an unceasj ing deficit, ekei out ordinary current expenses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by $262,000,000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates and reversed all the measures and ? results of successful Republican rule. In 1 the broad effect of its policy it has i precipitated panic, blighted industry t and trade with prolonged depression, closed t factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American production while stimu ating foreign production forthe' ] American market. Every consideration of | public safety and individual interest de- j mauds that the Government shall be rescued ( from the hands of those who have shown themselves incapable of conducting it without disaster at home and dishonor abroad ^ iiuusuau uc irawiwi iu mu jmnv waica ior . thirty years administered it with unequalled success and prosperity. 1 The Tariff Plank. We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the ! foundation of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry; it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; it secures the American market for the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingman: it puts the factory by the side of the farm and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price; it diffuses genoral thrift and founds the strength of all on the strength of each. In its reasonable application it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favoritism. We denounce the present Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit and destructive to busluess enterprise. We demand such an equitabie tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not" only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of frnvernment. but will Drotect Amerl can labor from degradation to the wage level of other lauds. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production; the ruling and uncompromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a riarht settlement, and then it wants rest. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by the last Republican Administration was a* National calamity, and we demand their renewal and extension on such terms as will equalize our trade with other Nations, remove the restrictions whicn now obstruct the sale of American products in the ports of other countries, and secure enlarged markets for the products of our farm*, forests and factories. Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy, and go hand in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly struck down both, and both must be re-established: protection for what vro produce; free admission for the necessaries of life when we do not produce; reciprocal agreements of mutual interest which gain open markets for us in return for our open market to others. Protection builds up domestic industry and trade, aud secures our own market for ourselves; reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds j?n outlet for our surplus. We condemn the present Administration for not keeping faith with the sugar producers of this country. The Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the nrrt,illation on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use, and for which they pay other countries more than ?100,000.c00 annually. To all our products?to those of the mine and the field as well as those of the shop and factory?to hemp?to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill? we promise the most ample protection. We favor restoring the parly American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships?the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under the Stars and Stripe?, and manned, officered and owned by Americans?may regain the carry1 ing of our foreign commerce. The Gold Plunk. 1 he Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has"been as gooc. as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency i or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the tree ccina?e of sili ver except by international agreemeut with , the leading commercial Nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote. and until such agreement can be obMiu cold standard must be preserved. All our sl.ver and paper currency must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the , United States and all our money, whether > coin or paper, at the present standard, the i standard of the most enlightened Nations of the earth. Pensions. The veterans of the Union armies deserve t and should receive fair treatmeut and geni erous recognition. Whenever practicable : they should be given the preference in the ! matter of employment, and they are entitled : to the enactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfillment of the k pledges made to them in the dark days of i the country's peril. We denounce the prac: tice in the Pinsion Bureau, so recklessly and i unjustly carried on by the present Administration, of reducing pensions and arbitrarily dropping names from the rolls, as deserving tne severest condemnation of the American people. Foreign delations. Our foreign policy should be at all times ! firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our interests in the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United ' States and no foreign Power should be per, mitted to interfere with them: the Nicaragua Canal should be built, owned and operated by the United States; and by th) purchase of the Danish Islands we should secure a proper and much needed naval station in the West Indies. The massacres in Armenia have aroused the deep sympathy aud just indignation of the American people, aud we believe that i the United Slates should exercise all the influence it can properly exert to bring those i atrocities to an end. In Turkey Am-rican residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers and American property destroyed. There and everywhere American citizens and American property must be abs- dutely protected at all hazards and at auv cost. Monroe Doctrine. ,If- ?riiw> in lis full I >Yt! 111'] ... ... extent, and we reaffirm the ri^-ht of the I'ui' ted Stater? to pive the doctrine effect Uy re- j 1 spoudiuq to tlio :ipi?oai.-7 of auy American j State for friendly intervention iu case of European encroachment. We have not in terfercd, and shall n??t interfere, with the : existing possessions of any European l'ower | in this hemisphere, but those possession* j . must not, on anv pretext, be extended. We , hopefully look forward t" the eventual withdrawal of the European Powers from this hemisphere, to the ultimate union of ail of tin.* English speakiui: part of the continent by the free consent of its inhabitants, full*. j , I'From tin1 hour of achieving their own in_ (IcpiMi ieuee t!:?* |iOt;pli'of the Uuiieil States (* have r.-jranleil wi;h sympathy the stnj^uk.s . of other American peoples to fr?ethemselves ' from European domination. We watch with deep ami abiding interest the heroic t attle M \ f the Cuban patriots against cruelty and op? ression, and oar best hopes go out for the all success of their determined contest for berty. The Governmont of Spain, having lost conrol of Cuba, and being unable to protect the roperty or lives of resident American citiens or to comply with its treaty obligators, we believe that the Government of the Inited States should actively use its influnce and good offices to restore peace and :ive independence to the isiand. A The Xnvy. The peace and security of the Republic ,nd the maintenance of its rightful influnce amongthe Nations of the earth demand t naval power commensurate with its po9iion aud responsibility. We therefore favor he continued enlargement of the navy .and l complete system of harbor and sea coast lefences. Forelzn Immigration. For the protection of the equality of our Lmerican citizenship and of the wages of >ur workingmen against the fatal competiion of low-priced labor, we demand that the mmigratlon laws be thoroughly enforced ind so extended as to exclude from entrance ' o the United States those who can neither ead nor write. Civil Service. The Civil Service law was placed on the statute book by the Republican party, which las always sustained it, and we renew our epeated declarations that it shall be horoughly and honestly enforced and exended wherever practicable. Free Ballot. We demend that every citizon of the [Jnited States shall be allowed to cast fcne 'ree and unrestricted ballot, and that such jallot shall be counted and returned as Lynching*. We proclaim our unqualified condemna:iou of the uncivilized and barbarous prac;ices, well known as lynching or killing of iiuman beings, suspected or charged with :rime,.without process of law. National Arbitration. We favor tho creation of a National board of arbitration to settle and adjust differences which may arise between employers and em-*ployed engaged in interstate commerce. HomeateariA. JjrtSE We be ieve in an Immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Republican party, and urcre tke passage by Congress of the satisfactory Free Homestead measure which has already passed the House and is ' v, now pending in the Senate. Territories. , ' S-.j! We favor the admission of the remaining Territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Territories and of the United < States. All the Federal officers appointed for the Territories should be selected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practicable. Alaska. We believe the citizens of Alaska should have representation in the Congress of the United States, to the end that needful legis- , lation may be intelligently enacted. Temperance. We sympathize with all wise and legiti- , .} mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality. ' . KIgktB of Women. The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of women. Protection of American industries includes equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and protection to the home. We favor the admission of women to wider spheres of usefulness, and welcome their co-operation in rescuing the country from Democratic and Populistic mismanagement and misrule. Such are the principles and policies of the Republican partjv By these principles we will abide and these policies we wili put into execution. We ask for them the considerate judgment of the American people. Confident alike in the history of our great party and iu tde justice of our cause, we present our platform and our candidates in the full assurance that the election will bring victory to the Republican party and prosperity to the people of the United States. WORDS OF WISDOK. Mistakes are lessons of wisdc.m. Kiches have wings, bat poverty can't afford them. That man most needs our love who Spt is least loved. Some men are too selfish to be good to themselves. 0 The course of true conscience never did ran smooth. We often do more by oar sympathy than by oar labors. The smaller a boy is, the more noise he makes when playing. ? Many people do not know what they want until they can't get it. 11 So many people are not at home when a golden opportanity knocks. Talent is more valuable than genius, because a man can control it Even the most humble man gets mad when a friend forgets his name. Some men are honest enough, but too lazy to ever amount to anything. The marriage ceremony is the dividing line between romance and reality. Too many women have an idea that they must laugh at everything a man flora U-J ? If yon are bound to give advice become a doctor or a lawyer and get paid for it. Keep out of the frying pan and then you will not have to jump into the fire. The pain experienced in having a tooth pulled is made easier by a little yelling. Possibly no man can look at a tenyear-old boy eating without feeling envious. ' Don't sing unless nature has given you a voice which will not cause others pain. Probably no man knows in his case where his business ends and his neigh.* bor's begins.?The South-West. Flags juaue 01 jiciau The item of the expense of keeping "Old Glory" floating every day over public buildings or schoolhousea where the daily display of the National banner is rendered by law obligatory, is not a small one. In East St. Louis, 111., a company has been formed with a capital of 3100,000 to go into the manufacture of sheet|iron, zinc and other metal flags. The material from which the flags now in use are made is not very durable, and ia the soft coal burning States of the Union the banner lasts at best but a noal-o Qll dpnAlirhll!? on the 1CW nv?aw) Mk. v*v^ j _ weather, and after a week's use it be? comes so dirty as to almost lose ita identity. The Stars and Stripes, duly waving and apparently iiuttering, will be painted on the metal and then | enameled. When dirty the flag can be I lowered and washed. Such flags will withstand the gales which so readily whip those now in use into ribbons.? New York Journal. No More Handshaking. The French decided that kissing wag unhealthy and told us of the millions ot dreadful little microbes which were transferred by this pernicious practice. Now the Russian scientists coma along and say that it is dangerous to shake hands, as microbes are transferred that way. Handshaking, they say. is a useless and undignified custom, besides being dangerous.?London Times.