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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 nflr<intji??A wa.Q honored "by such heroism, and in my text ho asks David his pedigrpe, "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" The king saw what you and I see. that this question of heredity is a mighty one. The loDger I live the more I beliove in blood?good blood, bad blood, proud blood, humble blood, honest blcod. thieving blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood. The tendency may skip a generation or two, but It is sure to "come out, as in a little child you sometimes see a similarity to a great- : grandfather whose pieturo hangs on the i wall. That the physical and mental and , moral qualities are inheritable is patent to any one who keeps his eyes open. The sim- , ilaritv is so striking sometimes as to be ! amusing. Great families, regal or literary, j are apt to nave tne cnaractensucs an uuwu through the generations, and what is more perceptible in such families may be seen on a smaller scale in all families. A thousand years have no power to obliterate the difference. The large lip of the house of Austria is eeen in all the generations and is calle'd the Hapsburg lip. The house of Stuart always means in all generations cruelty and bigotry and sensuality. Witness Queen of Scotts. Witness Charles I and Charles II. Witness James I and James II and all the other scoundrels of that line. Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea. Indian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervid Jtw Unman hlonrl means connuest. The Jewish facility for accumulation you may trace oiear back to Abraham, of whom the Bible says, "he was rich in silver and gold and cattle," and to Isaac and Jacob, who ( had the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by longevity, and]they have ' a tenacity of life positively Methuselish. Oth- j ?rs are characterized by Goliuthian stature, and you can see it for one generation, two j generations, five generations, in all the gen- , erations. Vigorous theology runs down In j the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs ( on in the family of the Kembles. Literature runs on in the line of the Trollopes. Phil- ^ anthropy runs on in the lines of the Wilber forces. Statesmanship runs on in the line of ' the Adamses. You see these peculiarities in ( all generations. Henry and Catherine of Navarre religious, all their families religious. ( The celebrated family of Casini, all mathematicians. The celebrated family of the , Medici, grandfather, son and Catherine, all ' remarkaole for keen intellect. Thecelebrat- , ed family of Gustavus Adolphu3, all war- ' riors. This law of heredity asserts itself without reference to social or political condition, for , you sometimes And the ignoble in high place ; and the honorable in obscure place. A de- [ scendant of Edward I a toll gatherer. A descendent of Edward III a doorkeeper. A ( descendant of the Duke of Northumberland ! a trunk maker. Some of the mightiest fam llles of England are extinct, while some of those most honored in tho peerage go back to an ancestry of hard knuckles and rough ( exterior. This law of heredity is entirely independent of social or political conditions. ] Then you find avarice and jealousy and sensuality and fraud having full swing in some ; families. The violent temper of Frederick ( William is the inheritance of Frederick the ( Great. It is not a theory founded by worldly philosophy, but by divine authority. Do you not remember how the Bible speaks of a chosen generation, of tho generation of the ; righteous, of the generation of vipers, of an untoward generation, of a stubborn genera- : tion, of the iniquity of the fathers visited ; upon the children unto the third and fourth , generations? So that the text comes tc-day , with the force of a proiectile hurled from mightiest catapult. ''Whose son art thou, 1 thou young man?" ! "Well," savs some one, "'that theory dis- , charges me from all responsibility. Born of sanctified parents, we are bound to be good, ; and we cannot help ourselves. Born of unrighteous parentage, we are bound to be . evil, and we cannot help ourselves." Two ; Inaccuracies.- As much as if you should say: "The centripetal force in nature has a ten- ' dency to bring everything to the center, and therefore all come to the center. The centrifugal force in nature has a tendency to throw everything to the periphery, and therefore everything will go out to the periphery." You know as well as I know that von ran matfi tho ppntHnntAl nvArpnmn the centrifugal, and you can make the centrifugal overcome the centripetal, as when ttyre is a mighty tide of good in a family th't may be overcome by determination to evil; as in the cas6 of Aaron Burr, the libertine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as in the case of Pierrepont Edwards, the scourge of New York society flighty years ago, who hal a Christian ancestry, while, on the other hand, some of the best men and women of this day are thoso who have come of an ancestry of which It would not be courteous to speaL* in their presence. Th? practical and useful object of this sermon is to show you that if you have come of a Christian ancestry then you are solemnly bound to preserve and develop the glorious inheritance, or if you have come of a depraved ancestry then it is your duty o brace yourself against the evil tendency >yall 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 <?tato oot raenticued in the last will and eslamect, ft vnat ostato of prayor and holy xample and Christian eutreatyand plorious ueiiiorv. Tho survivors of the family gath- i (?<h1 to b?ar tho will read, and this was to ?o !?pt and that was to be sold, aud it was ?haro and ziww alike.But there was on \ unwrllten will that read something like thlsi "la the name of God. amen. I beingof sound mind, bequeath to my children all my prayers for their salvation; I bequeath to them alt the results of a lifetime's toil; I bequeath to them the Christian religion, which has been so much comfort to me, and I hope may be solace for them; I bequeath to <uem a hope oi reuniOD when the partings of life are over. 'Share and share alike.' may they inherit eternal riches. I bequeath to them the wish that they may avoid my errors and copy anything that may have been worthy. In the name of God who made me, and the Christ who redeemed me, and the Holy Ghost who sacrifices me. I make this my la3t ??n ? i *?HTSfnaca all rrrm hACta Will ilU I ICJlil UCUl. ' HUV.XJ .... JW.. of heaven. Witness time, witness eternity. Signed, sealed and delivered in thi3 our dying hour. Father and Mother." You did not get that will proved at the surrogate'3 ofBce, but I take it out to-day and I read it to you. I take it out of the alcoves of your heart. I shake the dust off it. I ask if you will accept that inheritance, or will you break the will? 0 ye of Christian ancestry, you have a responsibility vast beyond all measurement. God will not let you off with just beinc as | good as ordinary people wnen you IlttU 9UWU | extraordinary advantage. Ought not a flower planted in a hothouse be more thrifty than a flower planted outside in a storm? Ought not a factory turned by the Housatonlc do more work than a factory turned by a thin and shallow mountain stream? Ought not you of great early opportunity be better than those who had a cradle unblessed? A father sets his son up in business. He keeps an account of all the expenditures, so much for store fixture, so much for rent, so much for this, so much for that, and all the items aggregated, and the father expects the son to give an account. Your Heavenly Father charges against you all the advantages of a pious ancestry?so many prayer?, so much Christian example, so many kind entreaties?all these gracious influences, one tremendous aggregate, and he asks you tor an account of it. Ought not you to be better than those who had no such advantage? Better have been a foundling picked up off the city commons than with such magnificent inheritance of consecration to turn out in differently. Ought not you, my oroiner, to be better, having had Christian nuture, than the man who can truly say this morning: "The first word T remember my father speaking to me was an oath; the first time I remember my father taking hold of me was in wrath; I never snw a Bible till I was ten years of *ge, nud then I was told it was a pack of lies. The first twenty iyears of my life I was associated with thejvicious. I seemed to be walled in by sin and death/' Now, my brother, ought you not?I leave it as a matter of fairness with you?ought you not to bo better than those who had no early Christian influence? Standing as you do between the generation that is past and the [feneration that is to come, are you going to pass the blessing on, or are you going to have your life the gulf in which that tide of blessing shall drop out of sight forever? You aro the trustee of piety in that ancestral line, and are you going to augment or squanuor that solemn trust fund? Are you going to disinherit your sons and daughters of the heirloom which your parents left you? Ah, that cannot be possible?it cannot be possible that you are going to take such a position as that. You are very careful about life insurances, and careful about the deeds, and careful about the mortgage, and careful about the title of your property, berause when you step off the stage you want your ohitdren to get it all. Are you making no provision that they shall get grandfather's or grandmother's religion? Oh, what a last will and testament you are making, my brother! "In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mind, make this my last will and testament I bequeath to my children all the money I ever made and all the houses I own, but I disinherit them. I rob them of the anoestral grace and the Christian inflnonr-n fhnt T inherited. I have sauandered that on my own worldliness. .Shane and share alike must they In the misfortune and the everlasting tutra'ge. Signed, sealed {ind delivered in the presence of God and men and angels and devils and all the generations of earth and heaven and hell, July# L896." 0 ye of highly favored ancestry, wake up this morning to a sense of your opportunity Mid responsibility. I think there must be an old cradle or a fragment of a cradle somewhere that could tell a story of midnight supplication in your behalf. Where is the old rocking chair in which you were sung to sleep with the holy nursery rhyme? Where is the old clock that ticked away the moments of that sickness on that awful night when there were but three of you awake? you and God and mother? Is there not an old staff in some closet? We beg you to turn over a new leaf this very day. But I torn for a moment to those who had evil parentace, and I want to tell you that the highest thrones in heaven and the mightiest triumphs and the brightest crowns will h? fny Ihncn tuhrt hnrl Bvll TiArwntRire. but who by the grace of God conquered?conquered. As good, as useful, as splendid a gentleman as I ever knew had for a father a man who died blasphemiDg God until the neighbors had to put their fingers in their ears to shut out the horror. One of the most consecrated and useful Christian ministers of to-day was the son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide of evil tremendous in some families! It is like Niagara rapids, and yet men have clung to a rock and been rescued. There is a family in New York, whose wealth has rolled up into many millions, that was founded by a man who, after he had vast estates, sent back a paper of tacks because they were 2 cents more than he expected. Grip and grind and gouge in the fourth generation?I suppose it will be grip and grind and gouge in the twentieth generation. The thirst of intoxicants has burned down through the arteries of a hundred and fifty years. Pugnacity or combatiwness characterizes other families. Sometimes one form of evil, sometimes another form of evil. But it may be resisted: it has been resisted. If l-ho f n m i I xr fruiltv hr* ni-orlrto onltlvatA lin selfishness and charity and teach your children never to eat an apple without offering somebody else half of it. Is the family frailtv combativen<?3S, keep out of the company of quick tempered people and never answer an impertinent question until you have counted a hundred both ways, and after you have written ah ancry letter keep it a week before vou send it. and then burn it up. Is the family frailty timidity and cowardice, cultivate backbone; read the biography of brave men like Joshua or Paul, and see if you cannot set a little ircn in your blood. Find out what the family! frailty is and set boiy, mind and soul in battle array. Conquer you will. I thinla the genealogical table was puUn the first chapter of the New Testament not only to show our Lord's pedigree, but to show that a man may rise up ii an ancestral line and beat back "successfully all the infiueuces of bad heredity. See in that genealogical table that good King Asa was born of vile King Abia. See in that genealogical table that Joseph and Mary and the most illustrious Being that ever touched our world or ever will tnni?h it- had in th?ir nnppQfp.il Hn? scandalous Behoboam | and Ruhab and Thamar and Batbsheba. If tbis world is ever to be Edenized?and it will be?all the infected families of the earth are to be regenerated, and there will some one arise in each family line and open a new genealogical table. There will be some Joseph to arise in the line and reverse the evil influence of Behoboam, and there will be some Mary to arise in the line aud reverse the evil influence of Batfisheba. Perhaps the star of hops may point down to your manager. Perhaps you are to be tbe hero or the heroine that is to nnt down tho hraL-es and ston that long line of genealogical tendencies and switch it off on another track from that on which it has been running for a century. You do that, and I w.11 promise you as Que a palace as the architect of heaven can build, the archway inscribed with the words, "More tban conqueror." But, whatever your heredity, let me say you may be sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty. Estranged children from the homestead, come back through the open gate of adoption. There is royal blood in our veins; there are crowns on our escutcheon; our father is king; our brother is king; wo may be kings and queens unto God forevor. Come and sit down on tho ivory bench of the palace. Come and wash in the fountains that fall into tho basins of crvstal and ala baster. Come and look out of thn upholstered window upon gardens of azalea and aniarauth. Hear the full burst of the orchestra while you banquet with potentates and victors. Oh, when the test sweeps backward, let it not stop at the cradle that rocked your infaacy, but at the cradle that rocke<$ the first world, and when the text sweeps forward let it not stop at your grave, but at the throne on which you may reign tor ever and ever. "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" Son .of God! Heir of immortality! Take your inheritance! Samuel Mint urn Peck, the Alabama poet, la doing Europe oa a bicycle. . . J RELIGIOUS READING. TI1E CHANGED VISION OF OOP. 1 If in the ilarkaess of the storm or through fear of the temi>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 <j] iOrd imputeth not iniquity and in whose _ pirit theie is no guile." God was, in Christ, econciiing the world unto Himself, not im- 11 mting their trespasses unto them (II Cor. di 19). Abraham believed God ana it was 0i mputea unto Dim ror ncnteousness. ana he " ras called the Friend of God (Jas. 11., 23). .1 ?his righteousness came not through any is rood works of Abraham, but wholly of grace h Rom. lv., 3-8). Transgression Is a going leyond or doing what we should not do; sin s a coming short of what we should do, fhile iniquity la the root of the .matter, but h< ?od for Christ's sake puts away the guilt of ^ he whole business, for every true penitent rho is without guile?that is. who sincerely z, urns to Him. " 3. ''When I kept silence, my bones waxed b >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 <?} lan would make a good mill operative. The jrm colored-"capitalists" is perhaps a large ne to use, ho wever, though the leading 1C pirit In the enterprise, W. C. Coleman, of gi 'nnonivi v n <a w.ip.-h from .f25.000 to fi, 130,000, all of which he has ramie a: indue- ! , rial pursuits slnoe the war. He explains I , he scheme as follows: | P1 "I and other colored men are endeavoring i bi D secure subscriptions for enough stock to \ jr uild a mill here in Concord, which in the l econd largest mill centre in the Si ate, ai rhere the experiment of working black ci peratives in a cotton mill will be tested. If j tr lecessary. we are satisfied that our white u riends will help us out with subscriptions. . ut if possible we should like to have .ill the le tock taken by colored people, .n order to cc lake the mill essentially and in fact, a col- lj( red enterprise from beginning to euc. 'hare Is little doubt that the mill will be ? uilt and put in operation tms yeiir. i oinpany will be formed very soon. aDd I bl appose I shall be the Presidant of It." g( Not?1 C?e for Photography. t Both the Prince and Princess of Wales have .. ad their hands pictured by the Roentgen I its; the Princess seemed to show no signs o< [ flout in hers, while Wales will have to go i Hombttrg to reduce the heredttarv taint. ^ , n< ?_ w_ dnmrrnian'! vlrtoft. ( ftj AU ? - Berry, ex-hangman of England, bos recov- ai Dd 930 from a musio hall manager as a p eek's pay for the lecture on his hangings . lat he elves. _ <? ICE IN SUMMER, OW IT IS MADE ARTIFICIALLY NOWADAYS. he Industry is Comparatively New and Requires Expensive 3lachlnery?Cold Produced by Means of Ammonia. NLY in the past few years 1 has ice been manufactured on ^ y a commercial scale. The system used is the ammonia i.1 ?11 tuuc&S) wuoioujr iuu won-nuuwu tone: re frozen separately. This is in disnction from the same principle ap< lied in a totally different way when le ice is made in large sheets, and :ttrward split np into cakes. Upon itering the engine room the first lings seen are two enormous Corliss igines that drive the condensers, apularly known as the "ice malines." It is through this inetrnlentality that all the power needed i the factory is supplied. The oonsnsera are two huge, upright double plinders, whose dimensions are re < /* ftA -3 irr-OO Ti jectiveiy ioxoz anu i.not iuuuoa. n to these that the bulk of generated or?e power is applied, and it is upon lem that the heaviest work falls, hey are built to withstand a very eavj pressure and are possibly venty-tive feet in hight, rising from ponderous masonry foundation, hey are separate and independent, ut can be gearod to work in unison i one machine. This is done when le plant is at its fullest capacity. It is a well-known chemical and hvsical law that ammonia, which in pure state is a gas, can be comressed and congealed like all other ases into a liquid. Ammonia 1 light, diffusible and capable of amparatively safe transportation 1 this liquid form, which it laintained, of course, only under rodonre Whfin that nressnre is re* iased the liqaid immediately returns ) its original state, but gives off Jan itense degree of cold during that transportation back into the form< r condition. If this were brought 1 direct contact with a ves}1 . containing water it would eoessarily . freeze it, but the rooess while being a spsedy one 'ould be far from economical. Here nters another ohemical law; pure rafcer freezes at thirty-two degrees 'ahrenheit; water with any foreign dmixture at a much lower temperaare. If then we would take a tank nd fill it with a specially prepared rater whose freezing point was below aat of puro water we could immerse veseel containing the latter in the jrmer and form ice in the vessel, his is taken advantage of in the manufacture of ice on a commercial sale. The liquid that nas been touna lost suitable is a lime, a solution of lit containing eighty-six pounds to very 100 pints of water. Naturally, :M a container of pure water is suaended in this lime and the lime ie ept just above its freezing point the rater solidifying at a much highei amperature will be frozen solid if ept there long enough. This being ae theory it is most easy to put it into ractice in a way that shall be commerially valuable. The ammonia gas, liquified and nder strong pressure, is brought tc tie factory in wrought iron cylinders, eighing several hundred pounds each, nd is taken to the top of an adjoinig structure. Through a series ol eavy pipes it is conducted, still undei ressure, to the space beneath the oor of the tank room. Below thif oor, whioh covers about two acres, if tie brine tank containing many gal >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/%n<vli ' Amenuaa uuua uou, ntmvu^u ) gome Earopean deer sometimes laok i such weapon?, bnt yet are able to whip the horned ones,?New York i Journal. Battling Windows. To stop windows rattling on a windy night so as to insure steep is onen a puzzle, and few people realize that they have the remedy awaiting them on the toilet table. Take a dressing comb, wrap it in two or three thick-' nesses of soft paper and squeeze it, ' teeth downwards, between the two sashes, or where one fits into the frame. Some old and badly-fitting windows need several wedges, and nothing is better for these than a piece of toilet comb, nicely washed, wrapped in old linen, and covered in a pieoe of glazed calico. To Jthese can be attached a loop or ribbon so they can hang on a nail near the window frame and al* * PnAA ways De reauy ior use.?v?n?n noo Press. The "Old-Tiine People." In Liberia the chimpanzees, are called by the natives "old-time people." Professor 0. F. Cook states that they dip land crabs out of their barrows, and crack them on stones, and are also said to crack nuts between stones, "quite man fashion," and to grasp the python or boa by the neck and brniso its head with a stone. In a footnote in Science it is added that Major Battersby mentions that in the Barbadoes a capachin monkey capoimiln* TTT Q TT "ffifl | tu I CO UidUS jugo ntLUiiat *t uj method is to knock it about with its paw by quiet pate until it is sufficient- J ly dazed to give him a chance of < smashing its claw with a large etone." i - ( Fishing With a Buggy. * A good fish story is told in Beaver ( F-ill. Boyd Jack, of Vanport, drove 1 his buggy into the river at that place j to wash it. After working a while he ( ^aw what he thought was a largo snake ( gyrating around the buggy. Procur- ^ :ing a club, Jack waited for a good op- ^ portunity and let go, striking the supposed snake a stunning blow, which laid it on the top of the water. With the club he then landed the monster on dry land, when, to his surprise, it ] proved to be a large German carp i weighing nineteen pounds.? Pitt*- { burg Commoxoial Gazette. ^ \ 'wl-JI i~' - j v* ''. ,w HOUSEHOLD HATTERS. rJ? ? T73E FOB THE GLUE POT. Keep the glae pot handy, and when i piece of furniture shows a loose round or a shaky joint, mend it at snce with some glae and set aside for i day to harden. An excellent second to the glae pot is a varnish can and good brush. It is surprising what ft woman can accomplish in the way of garnishing up old furniture. It isn't hard work, either. If you need new cushions, beautiful art cretonnes and silkalines are selling for a song, and a few yards of these used in covering the old cushions will give your neat room quite an up-to-date air.?Washington Star. R: rros OP SALT. A little salt rubbed on the cups will remove tea stains. Salt put into whitewash will make it stick better. Salt and water make an excellent remedy for inflamed eyes. Hemorrhages of the lungs or stomaoh are often checked by small dosea of salt Ginghams and cambrics rinsed in salt and water will hold their color and look brighter. Neuralgia of the feet and limbs can be cured by bathing night and morning with salt and water as hot as oan be borne. A GOOD REFERENCE TABLE. The following table, dipped from an exchange, may be pasted in the baok of the housekeeper's cook book, and if often referred to will be found profitable, especially in planning for children's menus. It will be noticed that roast pork, roast Teal and salted beef are the trio most difficult of digestion, eaoh requiring five hour* and a half to digest; wild fowl, suet, salted and boiled pork rank next witfe four hours and a half, domestic fowl four hoars, boiled turnips three hoars And fifty minutes, and beet root three hours and forty-five minutes. On the other hand, pigs' feet, tripe and soft boiled rice are prize food in ease of digestion. H.M. Apples, sweet and ripe 1 30 Apple dumpling 3 00 Barley 2 00 Baked custard 2 15 Beans . 2 30 Beef, roast or boiled 8 00 Beef, salted * 5 30 Beet root 3 45 Bread, corn, baked .3 15 Bread, stole 2 00 Bread and milk 2 GO Butter 3 30 Cabbages 2 00 Carrots, boiled 3 15 Cheese 3 30 Codfish 2 00 Domestic fowls 4 00 Etfgs, raw 1 30 Eggs, soft boiled 3 00 Eggs, hard boiled 3 30 Goose 2 30 Milk, cold or boiled 2 00 Mutton, roast or boiled 3 00 Oysters, raw 2 30 Oysters, stewed 3 30 Parsnips, boiled : 2 30 Pigs' feet 1 00 Pork, boiled 3 30 Pork, salted and boiled 4 30 Pork, roast ....5 30 Potatoes, roasted 2 30 Potatoes, boiled 3 30 Rice, boiled soft 1 00 Sago, boiled 1 45 Suet 4 30 Tapioca 2 00 Turnips, boiled 3 50 Tripe 1 00 Turkey 2 30 Vaal, roasted 5 30 Yenjson 1 35 ? ' A Art wua xowi * au R2CTPE3. f'*'? * Sweet Potatoes?Wa9h and rub large sweet potatoes clean, boil until tender, peel, split in halves, lav in a pan, sprinkle with brown sugar and lav bits of butter over thein. Set in a very hot oven until brown. - / " Corn Muffins -One egg, one teacup of sour milk, one cup of cornmeal, one-half onp of flour, one tablepoon of sugar, one tablespoon of lard, one-half teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon of soda dissolved in one tablespoon of water. Mix and bake in gem pans in a hot oven. tS&Sfc** Lemon Dumplings?Mix half a pound of bread crumbs with a quarter of a pound of shredded and' chopped suet and qnarter of a pound of brown sugar. Beat two eggs and add a tablespoonful of lemon juice, pour these over the dry mixture, work well until all is thoroughly moistened, pack into egg oups that have been brushed with butter, stand in a steamer and steam for one hour. Turn out, dust with sugar and serve with sauce. Coffee Custard in Cups?Mix well eight egg yolks with eight ounces of sugar; dilute with six custard cups of t- Mi ?ilU -..J J ? ? Oiling mull auu a guuu uupiui ui black coffee; pass through a fine strainer, fill the cups and put them ia a low pan with boiling water to half their height; take off the froth that maj rise to the surfaoe, cover the pan, and let simmer gently for twenty minutes. When the custard is well set, let cool in the water, drain, wipe the caps and serve cold. Fried Graham Mush ?The day bo* fore using mix one cup graham flour and one level teaspoonful of satt. Make it into a thin caste with two caps of cold water. Stir it, a little at a time, into one quart of boiling, frothing water. Cook fifteen minutes, stirring often. Turn into a buttered tin with straight edges, and in the morning take out of the mold aud cut in slices. Have ready a frying-pan in which has been melted one teaspoonful of butter. Pat in the mush and fry slowly until a delicate brown. Turn and put in another teaspoonful of butter and brown. Serve with maple sirup. Enough for two mornings. Casserole of Rice and Meat?Boil one cup of rioe till tender. Chop rery fine half a pound of any oold meat; season with half a teaspoonful of salt, onesaltpoonfnl of pepper, onefourth teaspoonful of celery salt and one teaspoonful of finely chopped onion. Add one beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of fine cracker crumbs, ind moisten with enough hot water to r>A?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