REV. DH TALMA.GE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THK NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Law of Heredity." LText : "Whose son art thou, thou younp ?I Samuel xvii., 58. Never was there a more unequal fl^ht than that between David and Goliattv David five feet high. Goliath ten; David a shepherd boy brought up amid rural scenes, Goliath a warrior by profession; Goliath a mountain of brasgadocio. David a marvel of humility; Goliath armed with an iron spear. David armed with a sling, with smooth stones from | the brook. But you are not to despise these i latter weapon?. * There was a regiment of slingers in the Assyrian army and a regiment of slingers in the Egyptian army, and they made terr.ble execution, and they could cast a stone with as much accuracy and force a3 now can be sent shot or shell. The Greeks 1n their army had slingers who would'throw leaden plummets inscribed with the irritating words. "Take this!" So it was a mighty weapon David emin fhnf farnrma A .fflwish rabbisa>s that the probability is that Goliath was in suoh contempt for David that in a paroxysm of laughter he threw his head Lack and his helmet fell off, and David saw the uncovered forehead, and his opportunity had come, and taking this sling and swinging it around his head two or three times, and aiming it at that uncovered forehead, crashed it in like an eggshell. The battle over, behold the tableau: King 8aul sitting, little David standing, his Angers clutched into the hair of decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David standing there holding in his hand the ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, evidence of the complete viotory over God's enemies, the fcinrr n?nn?lAra Trhnt nflryall prayer and Christian determination, md you are to fiud out the family frailties, ind In armint: the castle put the strongest fuard at the weakest gate. With these mooth stones from tho brook I hope to trite you, not whcro David struck Goliath, n the head, but where Natban 3truck David, a the heart. "Whoso sou art thou, thou ouni* man?" First I accost all those who aro descended t a Christian ancestry. I do not ask if your aronts were perfect. There are no perfect eoplo now, and I do not suppose there ware nv perfect people then. Perhaps there was omotimes too much blood in their eye when liey chastised you. But, from what"I know f you, you got no more tbau you deserved, nd perhaps a little more chastisement 'onld havo been salutary. But you are llling to acknowledge. I think, that they anted to do right. From what you overeard in conversations and from what you >.w at the family altar and at neighborhood bsequles you know that they had invited od into their heart and their life. There as something that sustains t thos? old eoplo "upernaturally. You have no doubt bout their destiny. Youcspectifyou ever got ij hoavcu to moet them as you expect to meet !?o Lord Jesus Christ. That oarly association has been a charm -r yo;u Th?rc was a time when you got ight up from n house of iniquity aucl walked ut into tho fresh air because you thought our mother v,-as looking at you. You have ever been very happy in sin because of a tre#?t old face that would present itself. r??mnlcus voic es Jroiii the past accostod you niii they wcro seemingly audible, and you IDOKCCJ nruuu .t wuu sj)u&v? iuwo *??o ,n est the sailor coiistini; along our rockbound shore seeks n hari?>r. now stern, how cold, how cruel the sharp ledges I washed by the waves look to him. Tliev seem like the warriors of some stern monarch who would doom him to a grave beneath the sea. Then* is no pity in their jagged points?no tenderness in their dark caverns. Eagerly the mariner s eye searches for some harbor or for some narrow way between the clifts. Ah! _ He fi catches a glimpse of the beacon light b flashing through the darkness; he I guides bis ship by the light. !lnds the nar- o ruw channel, sails in safely between tho v rocks aud at length easts anchor in the quiet A waters of the landlocked harbor. How dif- f ferent now that liue of roekbound shore t seems to the sailor! How different those s jagged cliffs ami crags look to him ! He a bears the waves dash against their outer side f ?he feels the shock of thetempestas it beats t against the rocks, and he is thankful that f they rise betweeen him and the angry sea. u The cliffs ami crags which had seemed to t him unfriendly when he was outside them s on the deep, now. that he is witnin their 3 enfolding arms, protect him from the storm. Without?in the world, wanderers I from home, sailors on the deep, the eternal s laws of God seem hard and stern. Life r seems cruel and God unkind. The sinning p soul sees death before it and the blinding \ storm of its own selfishness is driving it i upon the rocks. But within?safe at home \ all things become new. There is a changed 1 vision of God. The darkness is gone?and g Christ's truth like a beacon light reveals the ( heavenly shore. We no longer drift in the c storm?but the anchor of faith holds fast in i the strongest gales. God who seemed cruel \ and unkind when we were ouisiue uis inc. v. now, that we are within his enfolding arms, t is seen to be love and tenderness.?Cut Gems. ^ t ? "he tasted death." c The apostle Paul says, "He tasted death ^ for every man." Maybe I can explain this, s When the apostle Paul used that language it 8 had been the custom to put criminals to ? death by making them drink poison. You ( may have heard of the great and good So- ? crates. He was made to drink a cup of hem- ? lock, a deadly poison ;* hence he was said to 1 taste of death, aud all who were put to death in this manner were said to taste death. s If there were many criminals they were s all placed in a long row. The worst 1 man was placed at the head and made to . diink first. Then the cup was passed along j 1 ? 11 ? Ann /-vf nni'cnn ^ aown, llllll 1 an uau taacu a \*u?/ VI Now, in the language of the apostle Paul.all men are represented as sinners deserving death. A little boy was passing by a dark cellar. He looked down, but he could see nothing. He heard a noise. He looked again, but all was dark. He said, -Papa, is that you V" ''Yes, my son," said the well known voice of his father, "come down here." "0 Jr>apa,"said the boy. I am afraid, it is so dark I cannot see you at all!" "But, said the father, "nothing shall hurt you. I can see you plainly. Just come right along; I will catch you in my arms." After another moment the dov leaped into the arms of love. He was * glad for he was with his father, and felt that he could always trust him, in the dark or in the light, in the cellar or on the housetop. Now children that is faith. You can believe that way in your father, and why can you not believe in your Heavenly Father?in Jesus, your Savior?? Our Young Folks. portraits of christ. Every true Christian life is a portraituro of the Christ. The greatest artists uuve 1 spent themselves in striving to depict their I ideal of the face and figure of the Savior of men. And yet many a devout observer turns away from these superb fancies of "groat art" with the feeling of their insufficiency and with a wish that the attempt had never been made. What if he who turns regretfully from the painter's effort were to resolve to portray the Christ, not upon canvas, but in his own living thought, word, and deed! Here is an opportunity for everyone to show the ideal Man. Says Ruskin : "Fix this in your mind as the guiding principle of all right practical labor and source of all healthful life energy?that your art is to be the praise of something you love. It may be only the praise of a hero; it may be the praise of God. Bo you small or great, what healthy art is possible to you must be the expression of your true delight in a real thing better than your art." The living Savior is that reality which is better than the life art which shows delight in Him and bespeaks His praise. It is not required of us that we be scholars or artists, that we have wealth or station. The smallest and the weakest of us has ample power to make his life a porfravnl r.f .ariirit. of Christ bv making it tO I speak His praise and to show delight in Him.?S. S. Times. a prater. Almighty God, coming to a king, what shall we ask for ? Thou dost encourage us to open our mouth widely and thou will All it. In the time of our hunger and thirst do thou give us satisfaction, in the hour of our weariness "do thou carry us up the steep road. In our faintness and utter loneliness, when the sense of orphanage comes uponjus, and^the whole life is one bare wilderness to our eves.and let thy fatherhood come down upon us as a mighty revelation.as a complete succor, as a thorough and abiding defense, and in the Fatherhood of God, made known to us through Jesus Christ alono, may we find completeness of character, entireni-ss of rest, yea, even the peace which passeth all understanding. And when this time of trial is done, and the cold, gray twilight vanishes, may our eyes be open to behold the morning and see the king in the fullness of his beauty. Amen. s the race of life. a No man would think of maintaining ahigh 8 speed encompassed witn weignrs. me laas a who run for a prize litter the course with I u*arm?nts flung away in their eager haste. I Ther? would be little difficulty In maintain- ^ ing an intense and ardent spirit if we were t more faithful in dealing with tbe habits and indulgences which cling around us and im- r pede our steps. Thousands of Christians u are like water-logged vessels. They can- t not sink : Imt they are so saturated with in- 1consistencies and woridliness and permitted 8 evil that they can only be towed with diffl- ( Ciilty into the celestial port.?Rev. F. B. t Meyer. r el ood knows oca needs. God knows our needs before we ask. J Th<*n what is prayer for? Not to inform jhim, nor to move him, unwillingly, to have merev. as if like some nroud nrince he re quired a certain amount of recognition of C his greatness the price of his favors. I5ut to Ut our own hearts by conscious need and 1 true desire and dependence to receive the gifts which he is ever willing to give, hut which we are not always lit to receive. As ^ St. Augustine has it. the empty vessel is by y prayer carried to the full fountain.? Alexan- f, der Maclaren. c d When you get into a tight place, and n everything goes against you, til! it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, 0 never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.?Harriet ~ beech-T Stowe. - ? Your body is the dwelling-house of the * Spirit, and therefore, for the love ye carry *( to the sweet guest, give a due regard to His ^ housi> of elay, for the house is not your own. ? ?Ituthford. ^ Two little words are good for Christians ? to h-arn anil practice?pray and stay. Wait- j iiiir on the Lord imiili-s both Dravintr and k staying." ' n Ice Splinter Wag Fatal. 0 Thomas Egan, aged forty years, a wealthy 1 hotel-keeper of College Point, Long Island, b N. Y., died at his home there of blood pots- c oning. While cleaning ice his right forearm si was out by a flying fragment. He said no attention was paid to his arm until it suddenly began to swell. He soon grew violent and had to be held forcibly in bed. The doctors think that some poisonous material must have eotten into the an*. rc ol Aged Couple Commit Sutclde. tc Louis Gradke and wife, an aged couote, tired of life's struggles ana despondent over their prospects, committed suicide at Galesburg, I)L, taking morphine. A letter was left explaining that they had committed sul- a clde by mutual agreement and directing the w disposition of Gradke'a life Insurance. ti "sabbath school. INTERNATIONAL LESSOtf FOE II AUGUST 16. >esson Text: "David's Confession T uud Forgiveness," Psalm xxxll., 1*11?Golden Text: Psalm Ii., 10?Commentary. 1. "Blessed is be whose transgression f8 . Drgiven, whose sin is covered.' Oh, the t appiness of the one who has heard the I jord say, "I, even I, am He that blotteth > ut thy traugressions for Mine own sake and rill not remember thy sins" (Isa. xliii., 25). p3 l part of His name is "the Lord God, mepci- v ul and gracious, forgiving iniquity and a? ransffression and sin" (Ex. xxriv., 5-7). In- ti tead of studying the story of David's great p] in as recorded in the chapters in Samuel, u ollowing our last lesson, our attention is in his lesson called to David's penitence and orgiveness. While God nates sin and can- ei iot bok upon it, Ho is ever ready to forgive he true penitent and urges him to come in uch words as Isa. L. 18; Jer. iii., 12; Hos. e :iv., 1, 2. This Man still receiveth sinners. ( p< 2. "Blessed is the man unto whom the ld through my roaring all the day long." ai Jnconfessed sin, like a gathering wound, wells and torments. He that covereth his iius shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth ind forsaketh them shall obtain mercy p Prov. xxviii., 13). When our iniquities * separate between us and our God and our iins hide His face from us (Isa. lix., 2), it Is P ndeed dark with our souls, but what a com- gi ort there is in this word. '"If we confess our i. iins, Ho is faithful and just to forgive us onr lius and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- ?' less (I John i., 9). il 4. "For clay and night Thy hand was n leavy upon me. My moisture is turned into _ he drought of summer. Selah." It was the * oving hand of a loving God longing for the " ellowship of His child who had turned away t< rom Him. Whatever God does, it is to lead jj is to Himself, for He willeth not the death . )f a sinner (II Pet. iii.. 9). He does every- 11 hinpr possible to deliver from the pit and to 6 rive liie and ppnce (Job xxxiii.. 23, 24, 29.30). ii ["he word selah suggests that here we pause ind meditate. 5. "I acknowledge my sin unto Thee and 11 nine iniquity have I not hid. I said I will p joafess my transgressions unto the Lord, ^ ind Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. ielah." Spurcreon has said that confession ? s the lance which relieves the festering ^ vound. Confession Is deeper than merely F isking forgiveness: the latter may be a hrough fear of consequences, but the n ftti a ? a)iAmi3 f riifl nanifun/>fl Tf rnfl hnvrt tl \J i uict auunj n uw pgunv;u\.ui nw uiitu ivronged any one. confession and restitution a nust be made to them if possible, but first ind always to God and as in His sight, for ill sin is against Him. "Thou forgavest"? vhat a word to consider! Are you this mo- a nent rejoicing that God for Christ's sake has f< ,'orgivon you? (Epb. i\\, 32; John ii,, 12). t 6. "For this shall every one that is godly sray unto Thee iu a time when Thou mayest n >e found." Every rejoicing forgiven one s< jncourages others to come (Ps. 1J., 12, 13). n rhere is a time and way to And Him and a :ime when He may not be found. See Isa. v., 6: Jer. xxix., 13; Prov. i., 23, 29. In the 6 ;ity of refuge the man who otherwise might il have been put to death was perfectly safe. ^ [n Christ there is no condemnation, for He f has been delivered for our ofTenses and K raised again for our justification, and the v sins cannot be found which, by His blood, ti aave been blotted out (Rom. iv., 25; viii., 1). v 7. "Thou art my hiding place; Thou shalt . preserve me from trouble; Thou sbalt com- " pass me about with songs of deliverance, p Selah." See the three "Thous" in this 0; verse. He Is our Eefuge, Preserver, Deliv9rer. It is Himself, not anything or anyone slse. God is our refuge and strength; the ti Lord of Hosts is with us (Ps. xlvi., 1. 7). Rejoice in the Lord; bless the Lord; wait on hy God continually. My soul wait thou w inly upon God (Ps. xxxlii., 1: xxxiv., 1; a: Isil., 5; Hos. Xii., 6). il 8. "I will instruct thee and teach thee in ? :he way which thou sbalt go; I will guide n utjw witii mine vyv. xwi umy ?ro mere ? forgiveness and safety, rest and peace, for fl ill who turn to Him, but also sure guidance fl n all the affairs of life for all who are willng to be guided. Xbe marginal reading, 'I will counsel thee, Mino eye shall be upoD lc :hee," tells us that not only will He direct n is, bat He will watch us to see that we get [hi:re. See also the very precious assurances >? giiicfahce in Isa., xxx., 21;- xivlii.. 17; E viii., 11. 9. "Be ye not as the horse or as the mulo, vhich have no understanding, whose mouth Cl nust be held in with bit and bridle, lest they ri some near unto thee." The R. V. says, t] 'Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to lold them in, else they will not come near 11 into thee." As to these animals being guided t< >y bit and bridle they are often more easily 0 f aided than their masters, but the thought of *. heir coming near only as compelled by the iircumstances of bit and bridle is very sug- a restive of manv neoDle who will not come ai iear to God except as compelled by circum- fl tances. r 10. "Many sorrows shall ba to the wicked. v> >ut he that trusteth ia the Lord mercy shall o: lompass him about." This reference to the w vicked must be taken in the light of all a] Icripture, which tells us elsewhere that . ometimes the wicked prospereth in nis way ind Dringeth wicked devices to pass. Thev ti ire hot in trouble as other men; their eyes ai tand out with fatness, they have more than teart could wish (Ps. xxxvii., 7; ixxiii., 5, 7). J Jut they shall'perish, they shall be cutoff. 61 ?hen their prosperity ends and their sorrows pi >egin and shall never end. w 11. "Bo glad in the Lord and rejoice ve v ighteous, and shout for joy all ye that are i ni ipright in heart." No good thing is with- H1 teld from tkem that walk uprightly (Ps. | ^ sxxiv.. 11). He who spared not His own j Ion will with Him freely give us all things . Rom. viii., 32). It becomes us. therefore. " o say that though all else fail, "yet I will cf ejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of 0J ay salvation" (Hab. ill., 18). The Lord /. Itmself is our unchanging and unfailing nj iortion. There ij nothing that He cannot m _j in i. J- A tri?s ua will not ao ior mose w/iu irusi jji ami. pi tejolceinthe Lord alway.?Lesson Helper. ^ lOTTON MILL FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Ic w 'he Experiment of Colored Operatives to hi to Be Tried by Colored Capitalists. rc Colored capitalists are about to do what tt rhite capitalists once thought of doing a aj ear or more ago, viz.. build a cotton mill ,, ir the express purpose of manning it with " olored labor, and thus trying to settle the m isputed question of whether the colored ns of the salt solution. This is per leaieu uy miico ui imuujji 'hich the new prcssure-reduced am' lonia flows,^ n, ^ The brine is pumped and kept ir onstant circulation by a couple ol Dtary engines. The temperature oJ tie brine falls far below that of th< reezing point of water, and is bound 3 congeal anything that is immersed, in the floor are square openings, pro jcted by stout covers of oak and pine, 11 of which have a number. There re 1280 of these openings on this oor, and a similar tank room above ives 1400 more. Through each ne of these openings heavy, ater-tight sheet iron containers re lowered, open only on the m_ Thesfl are filled with the dia lied and filtered water, and as it fills atcmatically, the can sink9. The pening is then closed, and for thirtyx hours the process goes on in that articular can. In the meantime the orkman has gone to another can that as been in the brine for the requisite amber of hours, and by a peculiar inch and chain, raises the can from le freezing mixture. The water has ozen fast to the container and the in contains a finished cake of ice. At ae end of the floor is another tank lied with boiling water, and by ,eans of a mcchanical trolley the icean and its contents are dipped for a oment into the hot water. This iosens the ice, and it is emptied out here it goes by gravity to the storage [> 86. The can is then ready to be .'tilled and immersed for another lirty-six hours. All day lonsr, and 1 night Ions, the lids are never on te brine tank, as the frozen product akes room for the continuation of a iaia of manafftoture that is endless. The ammonia in the meanwhile, as has flowed through the pipes, is radually losing pressure, and is aally useless in that form. After jing driven through the circulatiug ipes in the brine it is taken in its deiseJ condition to the compressors. ; this case the compressing engines e the two enormous, towering Herlles machines, double pistoned, of emcndous girth and power. Within imr nvlinders the ammonia eras, per otlv cool but entirely expanded, is impressed again into its original :juid condition, the twin Corliss ennes keeping up a steady throb. As piece of iron if struck repeated ows by a hammer becomes not only jnser in structure, but also under )es an elevation in temperature, so le repeated blows of the pistons in le compression cylinders make the )w liquified gas extremely hot. The pipes that run from the conjnser are 60 warm that the band canit be placed in contact with thorn, id in this condition the Liquified nmonift is conducted to the coolers, erched up above the roof are a set : coils through which the liquid oil culates in and oat, until all the heat is given up. These pipes are in double banks, carefully bent, every joint packed with rubber, and if stretched 1 out in one continuous length would , extend over one mile. Over this coil ^ 300 gallons of water trickle every ( minute, it being necessary to keep it , at one steady, even, cool temperature. \ After passing through these coolers, the ammonia is ready to be used over again, and 60 it starts on its ceaseless round until the tank, through waste and leakage, is finally emptied and a new cylinder takes its place. 1 Each floor over the brine tanks has ' capacity of sixty tons per day, mean1 ing that there are 1280 blocks of ice in process of manufacture on the first story and 14Q0 on the second. Adjoining these floors are storage houses of 3000 tons, where the shining cates are piled away for fature use. Natural ice can bo packed in almost any fashion, bnt with the manufactured article more care must be used. Here it is placed in layers, separated by wooden slabs, to keep it from coming in contact except at the edges. As it comes from the freezing rooms it is so cold that unless this precaution is taken it would consolidate into one enormous mass tnat wouia ut> mipuooible to separate. The freezing of the pan ice is so timed that fonr men are , kept busy taking out full pans, re, placing them with empty ones to be refilled automatically, and turning the ice out on the skid that takes it to the storage houses. Over twenty men are employed in the manufacture, -while the handling, delivery, yard work and stable men make up a grand total of seventy.?Philadelphia Times. The Reality of Wart-Uharmlufc. The ease with which warts can be 11-L ? _ ? ?,J .man" Kir Qn ct rrAqt.i r* n Viftn I cutnuuou onoj *-rj wudQv?.vM ?? ! long been known. I will quote two . cases. The patient in the first case > was my wife, then a little girl, and the ac.'ount was written for me by her mother. "I remember it all perfectly. i It was when E? was about six years i old, just before we went to Boston to ; live. She had warts on her hands for over a year. They had spread until ; her hand was not only badly disfig* ured, but very painful, ao they were I apt to crack and bleed Two physii ciane, both relatives ot ours, had pre" - " ? L - 3 i.11 J ) scribed tor tnem, ana we naa louuweu i directions without suocess. We were i in Lawrence, at M. P.?'a. A lady i came to tea, noticed the warts, and i offered to remove them by a 'charm.' As I had once or twice been relieved in ohildhood in the same way, I was delighted at the offer. She then went through some mummery, rubbing i them and muttering something, I i think, and then announced that they would be gone in a month. They were, s every one. In a few days they began to dry up and disappear. So far as I can remember, she never had another. When I was a ohild there was a neign bor of ours who used to remove ail the warts in the neighborhood. I never heard of his falling, and I know of i many successful removals in onr i own family. He need a pieoe of thread. He would tie it around the wart?if he : could?with great solemnity, rub it ; three times and very carefully put the i piece of thread in a paper in his poo ket-book. This made a very great impression on us, I remember. It [ seemed next to a church service hav , ing your wart taken oftAppleton'a Popular Science Monthly. The First Hornless Buck, ? A oarions and exceedingly unnsnal freak ia reported by a deer hunter. ! The hunter waa up in Wexford Ooun1 ty, Michigan, and got on a deer trail 3 that had hoof marks plainly made by ' a buck. Almost all hunters of deer ' can tell a buok from a doe track. AfI railinrr tVio floor AniT (rfiih'n tT With I ?v? ? o o in a rod of i|th| fockJeaped out of a clump of brash and got knooked down i* with a bullet through the head^. jThe f aeer did not have any horns, although E two years old and weighing 150 > pounds. Further, it never had horns. 1 Does with horns, bucks with three horns, dozens of spikes, and mal formed horns have often been reported of Michigan and other American ) deer, bat this is the first hornless 4 1^? aUV/%nA?k it ensilv. Bnfcter a Rmall mold. line the bottom and sides half an inch Jeep with the rice, pack in the meat, :over cloaely with rice and steam 'orty-five minutes. Loosen it around ;he edge of the mold, turn it out upoa i platter ana poar tomato sauce over ,t [ The Good Literature Exchange, Bos 1013, Chicago, distributed last fear between 75,000 and 100,000 papers and magazines in hospitals, peniieatiaries, poor houses, missions, etc.., C