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I'-m T>T7\7 T\n mirifinn SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVING. Subject: "Gates ol' C.irbunclc." Text: "And I will make thy windows of abates, and thy Rates of carbuncles."?Isa. Perhaps because r? human disease of most painful and ofttimes fatal character is named after it, the church and the world have never donejusticetothat intense and all-suggestive precious stone, the carbuncle. The pearl that Christ picked up to illustrate His sermon, and the jasper and the sapphire and the amethyst which the apocalyptic vision masoned into the wall of heaven have had .proper recoRnit ion, but this, in all the ages, it the first sermon on the carbuncle. This precious stone is found iu the East jauies, m coior is an miens? scitriei, auu hold up between your eye and i he sua it is a burning coal. The poet puts it into rhythm as he writes: Like to the burning coal whence comes its . name; f Among the Greeks 03 Anthrax known to ] fame. God sets it high up in Bible crystallography. Ho cuts it with a divine chisel, sharpens it with precise geometry, ami kinaies its lire ' into an almost supernatural flame ot beauty. ! Its law of symmetry, its law of zones, Its law of parallelism, something to excite the j amazement of the scientist, cliimo the cantos ' of the poet and arouse the adoration of the ' Christian. No one but the infinite God could 1 fashion a carbuncle as larjje as your thumb- 1 nail, and as if to make all ages appreciate ' this precious stone He ordered it to be set in 1 the first row of the high priest's breast-plate ' in olden time and higher up than the onyx ^ and the emerald and the diamond, and in ' Ezekiel's prophecies concerning the splendors ( of the Tyrian court, the carbuncle is man- 1 tioned, the brilliancies of the walls and of s the taSsellated floors suggested by the Bi!>le 1 sentence: "Thou hast walked ud and down 1 in the midst of the stones of fire!" But in 1 my text it is not a solitary specimen that I rhand you, as the keeper of a museum might 1 take down from the shelf a precious 1 stone and allow you to examine i it. Nor is it in the panel of a door that you might stand ami study for its unique carvings or broszed traceries, but there is a whole gate of ic lifted before our admiring and astounded vision, aye! two gates of it, aye! many gates of it: "I will make thy gates of carcuncles." What gates? Gates of the Church. Gates of anything worth possessing. Gates of successful enterprise. Gates of salvation. Gates of National achievement. Isaiah, who wrote this text, wrote also all that about Christ ''as the lamb of the slaughter," and spoke of Christ as saying, "I have trod the wiue press alone," and wrote, "Who is this that cometh from JEdom. with dyed garments from Bozrah?" And do you think thdt Isaiah in my text inereJy happened to rJpresent the gates as red gates, as carmine gates, as gates 'of carbuncle? No. He means that is through atonement, through blood-red struggle, through agonies we got into anything worth I getting into. Heaven's gates may well be made of pearl, a bright, pellucid, cheer ul crystalization. because all the struggles are over and there is beyond those gates notding . but raptures and cantata and triumphal pro- J cession and everlasting holiday and kiss of reunion, and so the twelve gates are twelve pearls, and could be nothing less than pearls. But Christ hoisted the gates of pardon in His owe blood, and the marks of eight fingers Aid two thumbs are on each gate, and as He lifted the gate it leaned against His forehead and took from it a crimson impress, and all those gates are deeply dyed, and Isaiah was right when he spoke cf these gates as Rates of carbuncle. What An odd thing it is, think some, this idea of vioarioua suffering or suffering for others! Not at all. The world had seim vicarious suffering millions of times before Christ came and demonstrated it on a scale that eclipsed all that went before and all that shall come after. Rachael lived only long enough after the birth of her son to give him ? name. In faint whisper she said, '"Call him Ben-oni," which means "son of my pain," and all modern travelers on the road from Jerusalem to Bethel uncover their heads and stand reverently at the tomb of Rachel who died for her boy. But in all age3 how many mothers die for their children, and in many cases Rrown up ohildren, who t?- recreancy stab clear through the mother's VtAAwf I Qnff^w!r\n #/\*? AfKatKs'J Vl/hw nrrtrM uunu. cuuviiuk, ivi vwuviai t? uj , iuu nviiu is full of it. "Jump!" said the engineer to ' the fireman on the locomotive. "One of fl us Is enough to die. Jump!" And so the 1 engineer died at his post, trying to save the S train. When this summer the two trains c crashed into each other near Atlantic City, ' among the forty-seven who lost their lives, * the engineer was found dead witb one hana on the throttle of the locomotive and the t other on the brake. Aye! there are bun- F dreds here to-day suffering for others. You ^ know and God knows it is vicarious sacrl- ? flee. But on one limestone hill about twice c the height of this churcb, Ave minutes' walk > from the fcnles of Jerusalem, was the sub- k ilmestcaseof suffering for others that the F world ever saw or ever will see. Christ the F victim, human and satanic malevolence the t executioner, the whole human race having an overwhelming interest in the spectacle, t To open a way for us sinful men and sinful I women Into glorious pardon and hlurh hope s and eternal exultation, Christ, with hand i dripping with the rush of opened arterio?, ' swuntr back the gate, and behold! it is a red ? gate, a gate of deepest hue, a gate of car- c buncle. c What Is true In spirituals is true iu tem- r porals. There ar<s young men and older . men who hope, through the settlement of Ii this acrid controversy between silver and a gold, or the oimetillic quarrel, that it will o I become easy to make a living. That limn o [ will never come._ It never has been easy to t make a living. The men who nave It very * easy now, went through hardships anil self- ii denials to which most young men would b never cons-nt. Unless they got it by inheri- t tance, vou eaDnot mention twenty-live men o who have come to honorable fortune that a dirt not fight their way, inch by inch, and a against fearful odds that again and again al- s most destroyed them. For some gooa ren- s son God ha3 arranged it for all the centuries t that the only way for most people to get a v livelihood for themselves and their families e is with both hands and all the allied forces o of body, mind and soul to push back and a push open ibe red gate, the gate of carbun- ^ cle. For the benefit of nil young men, If I h had the time, I would call the roll of those b who overcame obstacle. How munv of the n mighty men who went one way on i'ennsyl- X vaniaavenire and reached the United States a Senate, or walked the other way on Pennsyl- fl vania avenue and reached the White House, u did not have to climb over political obloquy? c Not one. How much scorn and scoff, and s brutal att?ck did Horace Mann endure be- n tween the time when he first began to fight n i for a better common school system in Massa- s chusetts, and the day when a statue in honor J I oi aim wus pmceu <mi steps ui lun oiaic ^ f House overlooking "The CommonsV" r Bead tbe biography of Robart Hall, the n Baptist preacher, who, though he had been f pronounced a dunce a sohool, lived to thrill p the world with his Christian eloquence; and t j of George Peabody, who never owned a car- t riage and denied himself all luxuries that $ he might while living and after death, t through last will and testament, de- p vote his uncounted millions to the c education ot the poor people of Eug- n land and America; and of Bishop Janus, s i who in his boyhood worked his passage from Ireland to America, and became the P, joy of Methodism and a blessing to the race. Go the biographical alcove in city. State, or j National library, and find at least every other book au illustration of overcome obstacle. and of carmine gate that had to bo . forced open. 1: What is true of individuals is true of Na- ^ tions. Was it a mild spring morning whun > the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth f L HOCK, SDU aiu iney cuifj IU ni^ii'ivu ii | gay streamers flying? No. It was iu a cold c December, and from a ship in which one c would not want to cross the Hudson or the | Potomac River. Scalping knives all ready [ to receive them, tbev landed, their only wei- s come the Indian war-whoop. Ite.l m??n on I the beach. lied men iu the forest. Red mm r on the mountains. Rod men in the valleys. Living gates of red men. Gates of car- I buncle! ( " Aboriginal hostility pushed back, surely 1 now our forefathers will have nothing to do I but to take easy possession of th>- faire3t .s continent under the sua. The skies so t genial, the soil so fertile, the rivers so pop- # ulous with Jinny life, the acreage so im- I mense. there will be nothing to do but eat, drink and be merry. No. The most powerful Nation, by army and navy, sounded its t protest aoross three thousand milm of water, t V Then came Lexington, an 1 Bunker Hill, anl Monmouth, and Long Island battles, and Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and starvation, "and widowhood, and orphanage, and the thirteen colonies went through sufferings which the historian has attempted to put upon paper, and the artist to put upon canvas, but all in vain. Engraver's knife, and reporter's skill, and telegraphic wire, and daily press, which have made us acquainted with the horrors of modern battlefield, had not yet begun their vigilance, and tho story of the American Revolution has never been told, and never will oe told. It did not take much ink to sign the Declaration of Independence, but it took a terrific amount of blood to maintain it. It was an awful gate of opposition that the men and women ?and the women as much as the menpushed back. It was a gate of self-sacrifice. It was a gate of blood. It was a gate of carbuncle. Wk nt-tt not indebted to historv for our knowledge of the greatest of* National crises. Jinny of us remember it, and fathers ami mothers now living had better Keep telling that story to their children, so that Instead of their beiug dependent upon cold type and obliged to say, "On such a page of such a book you can read that," will they rather be able to say, "My father told me 30!" "My mother' toid me so." Men and women who vividly remember 1861, and 1862, and 1863. and 1861, be yourselves the historians, telling it, not with pen, but with living tongue and voice and ce3ture. That I is the great use of Memorial Decoration Day, for the calla lilies on the grave tops soon become breathless of perfume, an l in a week turn to dust unto that which lies beneath it. But the story of courage and self-sacrifice and patriotism told on platforms and In households and by the roadside and In jhurohes and in ceme.eries by that annual recital will be kept fresh In the memory of generations as long as our American institutions are worthy of preservation. Long ifter you are dead your children will be able :o say, with tbo Psalmist: "We have heard ivith our ears, O God, our f.tthers have old us, what work Thou didst iu their lays, in the times oi old." But what * ' TV...- Krtma t time ic was; jcuui ^caio uumwlickness! Four years of brotherly tna sisterly estrangement! Four years of nartyrdom! Four years of massacre! Put hem in a long line, the conflagration of iities, and see them light up a whole contilent! Put them in long rows, the hospitals, naking a vast metropolis of pain and jaroxyism! Gather them in one vast assem>lage, the millions of bsreft from the St. jawrence to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic o the Pacific beaches! Put the tears into akes, and the blood into rivers, and the ihrieks into whirlwinds! During those four rears many good and wise men at the North mil South saw nothing ahead but unnihilaion. With such a National debt we tould never meet our obligations! With mch moral antipathies Northern and Southirn men could never come into amity! Repesentatives of Louisiana and Georgia, and he Carolinas could never again sit side by lide with the Representatives of Maine, Hassachusetts and New York at the Naional capital. Lord John Russell had deilared that we were "a bubble-bursting Naionality," and it had come true. The Naions of Europe had gathered with very reilgned spirit at the funeral of our American lepublic. They bad tolled the bells on Parliaments and Reichstags and lowered heir flags at half mast, and even the lion >n the other side of the sea bad whined for he dead eagle on this side. The deep grave lad been dug, and beside Babylon, aud I'hebes, and Tyre, and other dead Nations of he past our dead Republic was to be juried. The epitaph \vas all ready: "Here ies the American Republic. Born at Philalelphia, 4th of July, 1776. Killed at Bull iun, July 21, 1861. Aged eighty-flve years ind seventeen days. Peaoe to its ashes." Jut before the obsequies had quite closed here was an interruption of the ceremones. and our dead Nation rose from its nortuary surroundings. God had made for t a special Resurrection l>ay, and cried, 'Cpme forth, thou Republic of Washingon, and John Adams, and Thomas JefTeron, and Patriok Henry, and John Hancock, md Daniel Webster, and 8. 8. Prentiss, and lenry Clay. Come forth!" And she came orth, to be stronger than she had ever been, ler mightiest prosperities have come since hat time. Who would want to push back his country to what it was in 1860 or 1850? Jut, oh, what a high gate, what a strong rate she had to push back before she could Qake one step in advance! Gate of flame! lee Norfolk Navy Yard, and Columbia, and Jhambersburg, and Charleston on Are! Jate of bayonets! See glittering rifles and arblnes flash from the Susquehanna, aDd he James, to the Mississippi, and the Ar;ausas! Gate of heavy artillery, making he mountains of Tennessee and Kantuoky ind Virginia tremble as though the earth tself were struggling in its last agony. The jate was so flej-y and so red that I can think if nothing more appropriate than to take he suggestion of Isaiah in the text and call t a gate of carbuncles. But we must admit it is a hard gate to tush back. Millions of thin hands have .nfjV.rt/-! nt- if mil Kahf- moMnrr ottmnrr on ifa I U3ULU (VI IV nilUUUl tltuaiu^, IV WTAUk, v** *kw lard hinges. It is a pate made out of empty lour barrels, and cold Are grates, and worm mt apparel, and cheerless homes, and unaedieated sickness, and ghastliness and iorror. It is a cate of struggle. A gate of enury. A gate of wanr, A gate of disaplointment. A red gate, or what Isaiah would lave callod a gate of carbuncles. Now, as I have already suggested, as here are obstacles in all our paths, wo will 19 happier if we consent to have our life a truggle. I do not know anyone to whom t is not a strugle. Louis the Fourteenth j houzht ho had everything fixed just right ] ,nd fixed to stay, and so he bad the great j lock at Bordeaux made. Tho hour3 of that j lock were 3truck by figures In bronze repesenfing the kintrs of Europe, and at a cerain time of day William the Third of Engand and other kincrs were mado to come out nd bow to Louis the Fourteenth. But the lock got out of order on-} duy and just the | pposite of what was expectod occurred, as he clock struck a certain hour Louis the "ourtoenth was thrown to the feet of Wilisim the Third. And so the clock of destiny rings many surprises and those go down hat you expected to stand, and at the foot f disaster most regal conditions tumble. In ,11 styles of life there come disappointment ,nd struggle. God has for some good reaon arranged it so. If it is not poverty it is ickness. If it is not sickness, it is persecuion. If it is not persecution, it is contest rith some evil appetite. If it is not some vil appetite, it is bereavement. If it is not ne thing, it is another. Do not get soured nd cross and think your case is piculiar. ,rou are just like the rest of us. You will lave to take the bitter draught whether it 10 handed to you in golden chalice or powter aug. A man who has a thousand dollars a ear income sleeps sounder and has a better ppotite than the man who has i Ivo millions. If our I'16 were \ lot a struggle wp woall nev-'r consent to I :et out ol this world, and wo would want to ! tay here, and so block up the way of the ; dvancing eenerations. By the time that a nan sects to be seventy years of age, and ometiines by the time h9 gets to be fifty Hars of age, he says: ''I have had enough if this, and when the Lord wills it I am eady to emigrate to a country where there ire no taxes and the silver of the trumpet >ut to one's lips has no quarrel with the ;old of the pavement under his feet." We lave in this world more opportunitv to cuU lvate patience than to cultivate any other rrace. Let that grace be strengthened in he Royal Gymnasium of obstacle and oplositlon, ana by the help of God, having ivercome our own hindrances and worrlaents, let us go forth to help others whose truggle Is greater than our own. /IODEST HERO CRUSHED TO DEATH York Policeman Saves Two Lives and Lodes His Own. Spurring furiously after a pair of runaway lorsfs in West -Seventy-second street, New rork City, Mounted Policeman Thomas R. Iclntyro save J J. P. Robinson an I his wifo rom serious Injury, perhaps from death, and us they hailed him for the hero he was, his iwn horse threw him. Ml on him and :rush?d him fatally before their ryes. TSiuhrflvAtnun artAii iliml in RonaiiVHlt HoS >itii!. He was in the prime of IIfo ami was ooii to he promoted. H? bad thrice received lonorable* mention for bravery iu stopping unawnvs. His act was the most heroic deed f>vor perormed by a mounted policeman in New York Jity. His attempt to stop the running horses le knew meant great danger for himself, as :ho animals were plunging madly toward a ;erie.s of elevate! railway pillars. Mcluiyre ook the chance and wou, but paid the p niltv of his heroism witli his life. He was rnried with imposing honors. CaieJonia, N. Y.,is now liqhte 1 by natural ;as. The village pays one cent a d::y for ;ach o.n of its street lights. RELIGIOUS READING. AFFLICTION. There is no keyto affliction hut a key that fan unlock eternity also. This world has no compensation, but when we can take in another world, then there may be compensar tion. I can fancy if a grain of wheat had j intelligence and a soul, and found itself buried in the cold, damp earth of spring, without light and heat, it might say. "Why am I thus? It is terrible to be underground, terrible to be in the dark. I am likely to decay." But in a few weeks the sprout is evolved, the blade has spread out. th<! stalk has expanded, the (lowers are clad in beauty, the ripe grain is on the ear, ami then there is the answer. Partial darkness and sorrow, if I might use the phrase, preceded growth, expansion, beauty, and fruit. So it may be with us. It seems to be God's order that night precedes the day, Borrow the joy, darkness the light. You may be in the valley, but God has a mountain-top for you : and I believe it is true in ail lands, the deeper the valley the higher the mountain-peak. I believe it is true ia all experience also, the deeper the sorrow the richer the joy. Christ's sorrows were greater than human sorrows, and His gloryis greater than human glory. And when the revelator saw some bright spirits under the throne, and the question was asked, "Who are they up so high, who are just under the throne, and beside the fountain of glory?" the answer was, "These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Afflictions, then, become full of meaning, and to many a heart is realized the truth : "Our light | afflction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and etornal weight of glory."?Bishop Simpson. IDEAL. Teter may forsake the ideal, but tho ideal will not forsake him. The words, the deeds, the presence, the spiritual magnetism of Christ still flash and vibrate through his life in spite of himself. Out there, on the lonely sea that night, the lost ideal pursued him." The very lap of the waves called to mind how Jesus taught tho people from a little boat, and His words mingled with the murmuring waters. The darkness and tho rising wind recalled that strange scene when he had walked to Christ upon the waves; and. painted on the gloom in soft, still light, he yet seemed to see his Lord moving on the sea. That sense of Christ whieh the intimacy of long discipleship had wrought into his memory was not to be shaken off at will; it ran, like a subtle essence, through all his thoughts. He was indeed forsaking the ideal; but the ideal had not yet done with him. And as it was with Peter, so, thank God ! it may be with us. We are not allowed to sink into sordidness without many a struggle with our better self. Our ideal possesses us, and can only be driven off by violence. How often in wakeful nights, in quiet hours of reverie, in some still moment we have known by moor or sea, has our ideal come back to us. and all the old high aims and thoughts we once knew have throbbed again through our softened nature! . . . Seize 6uch hours?they are God's hours, when He is very nigh to them that seek Him. You have gone a-flshing, but God has followed you upon the barren sea, and can meet you even there, for He is not far from any one of us?ltev. W. J. Dawson. KARROW PLACE. "A narrow place !" You know that place; you have been there, you will very likely be there again ere long; some of you may be there at this very moment. For it is not merely a defile away somewhere among the mountains to the east of Moab. It is a life passage in individual experiences?a time when there is no evading or escaping responsibilities ; where we are brought face to face with some inevitable question. . . Temptation is such a "narrow place." In the serious crises of the soul's history it is alone. It is a path on which there is room only for itself, and before it there is God. Between these two always the matter has to be settled. Yes or no is the hinge on which everything turns. Shall I yield and dishonor God, or shall I resist and triumph in His might? There is no possible compromise ; for compromise with sin is itself the most insidious form of sin. ... No man can pass through these crises, and be after it precisely what ne was before it. He has met Goa face to face, and he must be either the better or the worse for that. Either like Jacob, at Peniel, he <;an say,"My life is preserved, or like Saul, after he hud thrown off his allegiance to his God. he has to exclaim,"Jehovah has departed from me, and is become mine enemy.' ?William M. Taylor, D.D. EXPECTATION. llest in expectation we may all have now if we believe in God and know we are His children. Every taste of Him that we have ever had becomes a prophecy of His perfect giving of Himself to us. It is as when a pool lies nir up 111 uiu cry ri/rKt-, aim ucuis the tide and knows that her refreshment and replenishing are coining. How patient she is! The other pools nearer the shore catch the sea ilrst. and she hears them leaping and laughing, but she waits patiently. She knows the tide will not turn back till it has reached her. And by and by the blessed moment comes. Tin- iast ridge of rock is overwashed. The stream pours in ; at lirst a tieklintc thread sent only at the surpeine effort of the larger wave; tut by and by the great sea in its fulness. It gives the waiting pool itself anil she is satisfied. So it will certainly be with us if we wait for the Lord, however He delays, and refuse to li t ourselves bo satisfied with any supply but Him.?Phillips ]?rook>. WHAT WE THINK OF CUBIST. When wo think of Christ as u being at a distance from us who bus merely done a mighty work, when we eat the bread and drink the wine in remembnuiee of an absent Friend, not as pledges of a nor and present one,the pressure of evil that crushes down our faith and hope and love seems to make the past redemption wholly unavailing for our great necessity. 15ut Christ in us, as St. Paul told the Colossians is the hope of glory. What we want is not that wo should attain some separate and selfish bliss, but that he who has been striving with us all our lives through, to deliver us from the separation and selfishness which have been our torment and curse, should effect his own purpose?that we should be his willing servants. free children of his Father, formed into one family and body by his blessed Spirit forever.?F. D. Maurice. Have you ever been in one of the great weaving factories, and seen the curious lingers pick up the threads one after the other as they are wanted?all machinery And you see iron and steel working mechanically only, yet working out the plnri which wisdom and skill devised for them beforeiwinH So llf? is a i?reat faetorv. and the forces that we call forces of nature and life are those busy fingers ; but they aro doing the work that wisdom aud love ordained beforehand they should do. and are working out a pattern that by and by will be completed in the eternal world.?Lyman Abbott, D. D. If you havo any trial that seems intolerable pray. One disabled from duty by sickness may pray for health that he may do his work ; or one' hemmed in by internal impediments may pray for utterance ; but the answer to the'prayer may be. as it was with Paul, not the removal of the thorn, but instead a growing insight into its meaning and value.?J. F. Clarke. Geneva ConcresRCA. Geneva, in Switzerland, thanks to its universal exposition, already opened, will havo this year the monopoly of international congresses. After the congress of the eioctri cinos wus nom catno tnat or tne philatelists. No more completo collection of postage stamps bas ever been gathered. The mercantile value of it is estimated at nbout $400,00U. Tho great philatelist firms of Paris, Now York, Leipsio, London, etc., have sout Splendid lots of their owu treasures. Now Vork Want* Poltcemcn. President Tioosevelt Issued another appeal for good men to apply for places en thfl police force of Now York Cicy. There am to be 800 appolnlmonta mado within foui mouths. _ _ SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 23. J 1? i' Lesson Text: "l'lie Proverbs of Solomon," Prov. 1., 1-19?<?ol(leu Text: Prov. i., 10Commeutary. 1. "The proverbs of Solomon, the son ol Oavicl, king of Israel." Wesawiu last week's stu-iy that no spake three thousand proverbs, and in this lesson we have a sample of them, or, rather, of the wisdom which he asked for and received from God. but in the wisdom of God a? here revealed we must loot beyond the son of David of our lesson to the Son of David of Math, i., 1, a greater than Solomon, who is also called ''the wisdom of God" (I Cor. i., 24). The Hebrew word translated "proverb" signifies aUo a parable or similitude and seems to be from the word "to rule or reign or have dominion." If we are ruled by "the wisdom of God," we shall be wise indeed. 2. Some one has said that wisdom uses the best means toward the best ends, that instruction is discipline or training and that understanding is discerning good and evil. All this is summed up in Christ, who is made unto us wisdom (I Cor. i., 30). 3. Justice, judgment nnd equity are attributes of uprightness, and these also are cnmmad nn in Phriat whn qllilll judgment and jastice in the earth (Jer. xxiii., 5). By His spirit in us we may day by day walk uprightly, and like L*}vl walk with God in peace and equity and turn many away from iniquity (Mai. ii., 6). 4. The simple are easily led, and if led by God all is well, but if lei by tbe devil all is <3 ill. The things of God are hidden from c those who are wise and prudent in their own t estimation and revealed unto babes (Math, a xl., 2c>). To be simple toward God is the s highest wisdom. E 5. The wise will hear and increase learn- i ing. In verso 33 observe that it is to God a they will hearken, and thus dwell safely aud " bo quiet from fear of evil. So shall they also f know "the increase of God" (Col. ii., 19). F 8uch hearing gives life and soul satisfaction t (Isa. lv? 2, 3). 6. There is one peculiar thing about the word of God that cannot be said of any other I book?if you are a child of God by faith in t Christ Jesu9, you have the Holy Spirit, the t author of the book, within you and tho e promise of Jesus Christ that He, the Spirit, c will guide you into all truth (John xlv., 17: s xvi., 18). Rely upon Him, and He will not 8 fail you. c 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning t of knowledge and wisdom (lx., 10). The fear of the Lord is wisdom (Job xxviii., 28). It i is also a fountain of life and the good man's c treasure ("chapter xiv., 27; Isa. xxxiii., 6). fc 8. Obedience to parents is the sura of the t fifth commandment, and a fearful tiling is c written Concerning such as mock or despise c father or mother in Pro v. xxx., 17. The i phrases "like as u father pitieth" and "as 1 one whom his mother comforteth." 9. No outward adorning is of any value in 8 the sight of God, but the ornament of a meek t and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of s great price (I Peter iii., 4), and this comes i Dy ine wora 01 ?ou uwciuug m us. ?uv c tify them through Thy truth. Thy .word is truth'VJohn xvii., 17). 10. Vfi must say a very decided "No" to anyone who would allure us away from God. f'ince through the transgression of Adam and Eve we have learned somewhat of the ways of the devil we are iuoxcusable if we walk therein. "Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, norstandeth in tbe way of sinners, nor sit- . teth in the seat of the scornful!" ' 11. There are always some saying, "Come i with us," but it is more often the enemies * than tbe friends of God. No words so much 1 as actions should be ever saying, "Come 1 with us." Children of God should have a ' life that will be a constant invitation to the weary, unsatisfied children of th.s world. ' The grace of God will do it in all who are 1 simple. * 12. "How easily the devil, the destroyer, ? is seen In these words. He was a murderer ( from the beginning (John vlii., 44.) He Is a liar and a counterfeiter. He said to Eve, * "Ye shall be as gods" (Gen. ill., 5.) And now J he suggests an imitation of God's judgment 1 on Korah (Num. xvi., 30.) In the last days s he will Imitate Christ in the person of ihe antichrist (Bev. xiii.). 13. He offers what he calls precious snb- 1 stance, just as he offered to our Lord all the J kingdoms of this world (Math, iv., 8, 9). He 1 is constantly suggesting to people how to be I waVi h? iinfii.iupniiQiit.su nnd ho i?atches ^ many in his net, they not considering the future, like the rich man of Luke xvl. Listen to wisdom on this point and bo wise (vlii., 19, 21). 14. "Cast in thy lot among us. Let us ail have one purse.'" And Judas- would te treasurer and help himself freely. Auother imitation of the people of God as seen iu Acts iv.. 32. 15. "My son, walk not thou in the way with them." This is the third time we have met the words "my son" in this lesson. May it suggest a voice from our loving Father, His loving Son and the loving Spirit (John Hi., 1G : Gal. it.. 20; Rom. xv., 30), constraining us by this threefold cord (Eacl. iv, 12) to abide in such love and uot turn from it. 10. "For their feet run to evil and mako basto to shed blood." The way of peace they know not. The Imagination of the ihouphts of their hearts is only evil con- < linually (Gen. vi.. 5). They would for gala t Hliel the blood of others, but our Lord Jos us i shed His blood for us and would have us lay j down our lives for others (I John ill., 16), c not loving our lives even unto death (Rev. t xii.. 11). i 17. "Surely in vain the n?;t is spread in t the eight of any bird." Tlio margin sav.", "In the eyes of everything that hath a wing." < Wings impiv power to keep away from all 3 lVi? nnt<5 nf ni<in fn F.nh. vi.. We are told of r armor und weapons by niH.in0 of which we t may resist na<l overcome tae devil. If we f uro not ignorant of bU dovico.j, we can easily t reeognizo liim and have constant vietory 1 over him. Those who walk willingly iuto t his open ra' uth deserve to be devoured by n him (I Tet. v., 8, 9). I lfi. Tho6e who lay wait for the lives of others are really desiroying (heir own iiv<w, I for Into the pt:s which they dig they are sure c to fall. Whatsoever a man ?oweth that sb/vll t ho also reap. TbedevU seeks to destroy life, ii but our Loul by inylhtf down His o-*n life r gives Hie to all who receive HJm. Believe s should be moro watohiul to gi*o life than ibo devil and ilia followers i*r? to take it. 19. "Ureedy of gain." Thin In. this world's gain, wliiab takeaaway life. "Hie Ph*tls-<w, J who were covetous, d-frtdM Chrut ?heu H? ' taught tho diaoiplea bow t< mako *i.re of ? true richea (Luke xv:, H, IB), and't is ever J bo since Gain lclllod A'.i"1 But ObrK is w's- 1 dom. and the truly ?iniple-*o?rtod do as i9 wri.ten In Prov. ti., I, (. Thoir wuy shtil r never permh, but ha'l endure forever (Ps. 8 1., G>?Lo?son Helper. * 1 i TESLA'S LATEST DISCOVERY. M:tchliio for Kcouoinlciil Production* of ltuphl Electric.il Vibrations. Nikola Tesla has succeeded in perfecting bin electrical oscillators, or machines for tho economical production of rapid eloctrical vibrations. JJy moans of these ho is eonIIdent that his lighting by g'uss bulbs, without the usual illamenc of tho iueandoseent lamp, p will become practioablu They ire, besides, n capable of developing far more powerful t Roentgen rays than was heretofore possible 9 with the old apparatus, and they lend themselves to numerous other uses, such as pho- < tography, tho production ozone and other 1 chemical combinations, and to eleetro- ? thernpoutic treatment. g Tho Eloclrical Review says of his latest t work "Tesla, since he "tartled thescientitlc c world by showing for the llrst time the pos* 3 sibility of lighting by means of phosphorus- f ccnt bulbs and tubes, hasiueossantlv labored \ to simplify and improve his methods and t apparatus, and now comes forward with perfected and extremely simple transformers, or oscillators, adapted to ovory day uso with ordinary sources of current supply. "That high-frequency currents aro dt-3- s lined to play an Important part in tho praoticai applications of electricity there can bo c no doubt. Tho old and familiar form of in- j duction coil, with its multitude of uses, can- I t cmlva rohon n nmv IndantivO I ? LlVl P'JCVUMI JT oui ti?v " ? - l apparatus is lit hand fully as simple, Init far rnoro economical, ami requiring only a minuto fraction of the wire nocdod in tUo old * form." _ Doctors Adopt a New Rule. g The doctors of Dawson, Ga.. will, after January 1, cive no more physio, except in aases of charity, to parties wno have availed themselves of their medical skill and made qo effort to pay them. *' TEMPERANCE. ONLY A WOMAJf STiAIN. It only a woman slain By the drunken frenzied hand Of one who had pledged to protect her By love's divine command. It was only an item of new3 (Who cares for the woman slain?) And the world goes on unheeding Another's sorrow or pain. It is only a home destroyed And children outcast and lost, Yet pause for a moment and thiulc What this sinful traftb cost. Three thousand women ureslain Each year in this Christian land, And the gallows claims its due By justice's stern demand. Fause as the days go by. There's a hundred thousand lives Given each year on this altar of sin? A human sacrifice. And the land is sad with broken hearts The Nation stands in dishonor, History records with shame This stain that rests upon her. Oh, Lord, hast Thou forsaken, Thou who art strong to save? Oh, touch men's hearts with pity And make them true and braveBrave to flght Thy battle Until the right they win And bear Thy cross triumphantly In every strife with sin! ?Sacred Heart Review. fOTAL ABSTINENCE THE ONLY 8AFEOUABD. There are those who say, ''Drink, but Irink temperately. Take your glass or two ?f beer or wine, but don't meddle with that iornd whiskv. Aud. whatever vou do. take .11 your drink at home. Don t enter the aloon. If you will only learn to drink in noderation. you shall be saved from drink* ng to excess. Whereas, if you never drink it all, you will find the restraint irksome ind be very apt to fall into excess, on the >rinciple of reaction. But gratify your apatite for these things, moderately and halitually, and the temptation to excess at iny time will be lessened thereby." To this there are two fatal objections: (1) t is this, that the taste for drink and tne iablts of drinking are acquired, and use of he lighter drinks (beer or wine) does not ixclude that of the stronger (gin or whlskv); >n the contrary, the one tends to the other is readily as if by a law of attraction or travitation. Drink, drank, drunk is a se[uence almost as natural to the social as to he grammatical arrangement. From little to more, from weak to strong. I few glasses of wine may do to-day, but louble the quantity will be needed by and >y. Beer or li?ht wine may satisfy now, but >randy and other strong drinks wlK be in lemand ere long. Again, this is the most jertatn of all ways of stereotyping the drinkng customs, by founding them on the daily iablts of ordinary domestio life. Some say, "Drink, but keep sober." We >ay, "'Don't <irink, and remain sober." Their rery words imply an inconsistency and a itruggle. Ours, on the other hand, imply a litural and easy sequence of events. Tney iay, "Enter unto this temptation so far, but >eware." We say, "Enter not unto this emptation at all and you will be the better ible, God helping you, to contend not >nly with this temptation, but with every emptation.?National Temperance Advo* i&te. THE QBOWTH OF TEMPEBANCK. The report presented at the annual gathernsr of the Catholio Abstinence Union of Vmerioa shows a wond&Tul increase of the >rsranlzation, says the St Louis Republic. L.ast year it established 120 societies, with * nembershlp of 5761, and in three years a /\f?1 f^flmhnrahlnnf tfl <WOhno haon AnrnllflrL This is certainly a record of which any emperance organization can feel justly jroud, and, taken in connection with the jains made by other temperance bodies, Is a itrlking testimony to the growing popularity >f the temperance cause. It is remarkable, however, that, notwithitanding the zeal of 9uch organizations as the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, the decline n the consumption of intoxicating liquors leems exceedingly small. 8ome figures are now published as to the ionsumption of certain intoxicants in the ast ten years. These show that the total mnual consumption of distilled spirits baa alien from 1.48 to 1.83 gallons a head of tbe >opulation, while in the consumption of vine there isadeoline of six percent, of a jnllon. On the other hnnd, there has been in increase in the consumption of beer and )ther malt liquors. In the period mentioned ho consumption has risen from 10.74 to 15.18 ;anons. xnese ugures wouia inuicare a shange of taste in the matter of liquors ather than any marked growth of total abitinence. If temperanco doee not spread ncre rapidly, however, the fault does not io with such organizations as the Catholic Dotal Abstinence Union, whose splendid vork is universally recognized. And it is sertaiu that, whether or not the average :onsumption of alcohol has decreased, actin.' rirunkenness has been markedly diminslied. The teroperauce societies must have it least part of the credit. "they all dbink." It is well known that at certain central igencies a record is kept of the name, posiion and standing of nearly every business nan in the country. Careful men are emjloyedtc collect this information; and it not mly includes the amount of property which he parlies are worth, but also their standHg its regards punctuality, promptness, inegrity, temperance, morals, etc. A numbor of years ago, it is stated, i firm >f four men in Boston were rated as "A 1." Chey were rich, prosperous, young and >rompt. One of them had the curiosity to ;ee how they were rated, aud found these acts on the books and was satisfied; but at he end it was written, "but they all drink." 3e thought it was a good jolce at the time; >ut a few years later two of them were dead, mother was a drunkard, and the fourth was joor and living partly on charity. That one little note at the end of their ratDg was the most important and significant >f all the facts collected and embodied in heir ratine:. Sobriety has its cash value, ind drinking costs; oh, who can tell how nuch it does costV?The Christian. A UUUU LXAJITLL. Tne Belgian Minister of Railways, Post9 md Telegraphs has forbidden the sale of Iquor, even of wine or beer, by any of the igents of his department. In explaining to he chamber his conduct, and justifying it, le said it had boeu represented to him that "There nre in your administration 1400 igents keeping taverns, and you havo been urprisud at having so often to punish ageuts vho are found drunk on duty. The evil is here in these 1400 taverns. You ars astohshed at having 803 accidents to workmen >er annum. Take the trouble of being at a ailway station at the hour when the worknan has drank. The half of the accidents lappen through the abuse of liquors, and his consumption of liquors takes place In he taverns kept by the agents who draw hither their comrades." BELIOION AND DRINK. Dr. H. K. Carrol, who Is authority on Govrnment census statistics, furnishes an estin t t\? n.) ti <4 < ? 11 on r\t fhrt AKimnkna r\9 UUlti IUQ c.\j;cuuiiun ?./? iuc v^uun.uu3 kj\ he United States for their maintenance. Ho ays: ' The grand total for all denominations ould hardly bo less than 4150,000,000, and t might be many millions larger. These lirures appear large; but compare them w th 1,810,100,000?the annual expenditure of he American Nation to sustain the National rlmo of the liquor traffic?and they aro mail. For every dollar spent by Uncle Sum or religion, twelve aro spent for drink. Wno vill say that Christian America is unwilling o pay for her vices?" TESirKUAXOE NEWS AND NOTES. It is the moderate drinkers who keep the aloons going. Drinlc stands alone as the chief destroyer >f life, character and property. Banish it. The man who begins by drinki uk som? ime, may end by having to drink ail the ime. Tho rum traffic is an unmitigated evil. Jot ono honest word can be said in its favor, lup press it. Mr. W. 9. Caine, 51. P., estimates the number of total abstainers in Groat Britain at even millions. Drink hns blasted raoro homos and broken, nore hearts than wars or famine or postieu#e. Suppress it. pT gaaasasaaaaaBsaaaBagBsaaasBaaBaaap | ^ . _~. rJSTt WHAT TO DO "WITH BHTTBAHB. ? The old roots of rhubarb may be I U1..M J1 J * J . J J 1 A fl tiitiou up uuw auu. uiviaeaana repi&uu- ~ ed in new ground with plenty of old f manure. Each root may make three E or four cuttings, which the second c year will make good plants. Some of ? the roots may be put into a cellar and planted in half b'.rrolfl, in lich soil, with plenty of manure, and by and by they will grow and make shoots that < may be used through the winter. Fre- 1 quent waterings with warm?not hot t ?water encourages the new growth. ] A few old roots should be left to bear < the next season until the dividsd roots will have made sufficient growth for ' safe cutting the second year. OFFENSIVE BREATH 15 A HOBSE. I This may be the result of imperfect digestion, or due to disorder of the lungs, or to decayed teeth. iThe cause is to be investigated and the proper treatment for the special case applied under the advice of a veterinary. If the digestion is imperfect, a dooe of a pint of raw linseed oil, repeated twice afterward at intervals of two days, and followed by tonics, of which one of the best is a mixture of equal parts of ground gentian, ginger and sulphate of iron, given daily in a bran mash. One full teaspoonful is the dose. This mill nni/Vlr Tfllifif. 7f rrin puuauijAHuv?u the teeth are at fault, these should be attended to by a veterinary.?Mew York Times. CROSS DRILLING OF WHEAT. No winter grain should be cross drilled. It is doubtful whether there are any advantages in oross drilling grain at any season. The cheok to growth in the drill farrow is only enough to save the grain from becoming too vigorous and being thereby attacked with rust. The particular objection to cro&i drilling winter grain is that half the seed is double covered and is buried under the ridge made by the second drilling. We tried this once, and found that the first drilling was entirely winter killed, or so nearly so that very little grain could be found except in the last drill rows. The checkered appearanoe of a oross drilled grain crop makes it look fine when the plants come up, butthejoro^ is never afterwards so good as that where the Beed is drilled all one way. A HANDY FEEDING ARRANGEMENT. When hens are fed in open dishes, ? ? i-i ?i.A-* tney win persist iu gmuug miu wcu food, soiling it and themselves. A handy and oleanly feeding arrangement is shown in the sketch. A board, with a rim in front, is nailed to the wall, six inohes from the floor, and to POULTRY FEEDER. this is hinged a slat work arrangement that permits the fowls to feed through it, but will not let them get into the food. It opens out from the top when one is putting food upon the board, and remains closed when shut.?New EDgland Homestead. THE BEST WAT OF PLANTING BULBS. After ordering your bulbs set abou; getting your compost ready in which * ' % ? j ii to pot tnem. as goou a sun nuv 10 one composed of ordinary garden loam, sands, and well rotted cow manure in equal parts. One-third sand may seem like "too much of a good thing," but it is not. Nowhere in the world are better bulbs grown than in Holland, whose soil is nearly all sand. Better bulbs can be grown in clear rand, properly fertilized, than in the richest of soils without sand. Mix yourcumpost well, and have it fine and mellow. It is very important i that the manure should be old. Fresh manure is harmful to all bulbous plants, out or in doors. I should advise the glowing of several bulbs in the same pot. The effect is more pleasing because of the greater mass i of color in a limited space. Three or four hyaoinths, tulips or daffodils may be grown successfully in a seven-inch i pot. Half a dozen croouses or snowdrops will be required to fill a sixinch pot. Three or four average size bulbs of the Bermuda lily can be i grown in a ten-inch pot. -Eben E. i Rovfnr/^ in TndiAs"Frome Journal. droppings over the field and n^ver fail j to enrich lands where kept. Feed ( them extra, for this additional food 1 works to the profit of the raiser in i two ways?it not only insures a good \ growth of llesh and wool, but it makes < the manure richer and more vain- ( able. i n ' i - f .1 * v ' ' ' \ 'x I I 1 1 I t J.I I r 1.1 I gg' ** MggB >ne poorly cared for. "Wool is a jroduct from feeding, the same as fat, ind many farmers lose half the profit rom neglect to feed properly. Sheep ihould have, besides good feed, dry, dean quarters, sheltered from rain ind storms. trees blown over. Many orchard trees have been blown >ver recently by high winds. Where ;he roots on one side are still intaot, moh trees can be easily saved. L. B. Rice, of St. Clair County, Michigan, iescnbes his method as follows: Dig a large hole on the side on which the roots are broken, and soma three or four feet deep. Extend this excavation under the body of the tree, an that when it is raised ud it will 8AVXN0 FALLEN TBEES. aettle about four inches lower than it 6tood before. Then trim the tree thoroughly, not by cutting off large limbs, but reduce the leaf surface by cutting away small limbs and twigs, and by taking off the ends of the longer limbs. Then raise it into its place and set a fence post in the ground at an angle so that the tree will rest against the top of it; then.fill in under the roots with sods and rioh earth mixed with manure, so as to enconrasre stroncr root growth. In A few years your trees will be as good as before. Of coarse this only applies to trees that have roots enough left intact to keep the tree from Wither* iug.?Ohio Farmer. CABK OF IMPLEMENTS. Now that the greater part of the season's work is finished, it will be a good plan to gather np afl of the implements, plows, harrows, cultivators, mowers, rakes, binders, and all suoh tools and store them away ander shelter. It is not only neoeesary to get them under Shelter, but to store them away in a good condition. If left exposed to the weather considerable damage will be done by rain, sun, wind aud snow. If proper care is not taken in storing away, considerable injury will be done to the irob and steel from rust, and to the woodwork by decay. The dirt should all be oleaned off. If allowed to remain on, as is often done, it win increase the conditions for decay. Glean of? the dirt of every kind, washing if nec* essary, and then paint well. Linseed oil and Spanish brown, red vermillion or red ochre mixed to a proper consistency makes not only a cheap paint but a durable one, and it will pay to keep the woodwork of all the implements aud the wagons covered with it. Black asphaltum paint is best fox the iron and steel except the working parts?the share and moldboards ol the plows, the sickles of the mowers and parts of this kind that need to be kept bright These should be well oiled all over or covered with unsalted grease and then covered with a thick whitewash into which a small quantity of glue haa been stirred. This will prevent rust and save much time in getting the implements in condition for work in the spring. The work of cleaning and painting can be done better now than at any other time, and the tools will be all the better for it. Some time in the spring can be saved if a little care ia taken in storing them away. Put the implements like the mower, binder and hay rake in first, and the plow, cultivator and harrow that will be needed first in the spring, last. This will save overhauling in the spring. If the """""I ? B VALUE OP SHEEP. It does not require a large farm to keep ?t email flock of sheep, which, everything considered, is the, best, says the Missouri Farmer. It should i be well fenced, so that they can be 1 kept where wanted. Many a rough, 1 wornout farm might Le brought up < and made valuable by raising sheep. There is no stock so well adapted to rugged hillsides or rough pastures, or 1 to prevent the growth of weeds ami ' bushes. Where sheep have the range 1 of a field very few weeds will go to i seed, and bashes will be so thoroughly i cropped that they will either die or 1 be kept back. When a farmer can * thus easily turn the weeds and bushes 1 ol a farm into excellent manure, and 1 at the same time have them converted 1 into mutton and wool, it is certainly a i good thing. Sheep will thrive in a ' - 1- I pasture ana gee mi waeru came almost Btarve. They also scatter their To make the most prom oui ot aneep i they should be well fed and cared for. i A bheep must be fed to make the best 1 mutton, but few conceive that a weli- ] fod &heep produces more wool than i tool shed has no floor, pat boards under the wheels and under every part of the machinery that comes directly upon the ground. Shelter for the machinery, and putting away in good condition will pay as well as good sheltering for the stock. Summer sun and rain are almost, if not quite, as injurious as winter winds and storms.?St. Louis Republic. He Reached the Highest Altitude. Sir William Martin Conway, who has departed for Spitzbergen, can boast of ha ving reached a higher altitude in the Himalayas than any other olimber has ever attained. He reached the summit of Pioneer Peak, 23,000 feet above the sea, after spending eighty-four days on enow and ice, and traversing tbe three longest of the known glaziers outside of the polar regions. He states in a recent article in the English Illustrated Magazine, that the rarity of the air at these great Hiin/lrto nnf Him sn lnnc aft UVIItUlAGO MVTV ? -Q le kept himself out of any cramped aosition, and kept the chest (free bo that the lungs might expand to th? ltmost limits. A Rich Joke. That was a rich joke?a very rich oke?which a good young man in Jhicago thought he would play, when ie moved a baby's carriage a few roda iway from the store where its mother vas shopping, just to see how scared she would be at finding her baby ;one. But its richness came out in ts fullness only when the good young nan had to pay a fine of 3'250 for his imusement?a penalty from which the ract that he was an offioial of the Y. M. C. A. did n't save him.?St. Paul Pioneer Press. 3 '