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BpBFOECHURGHGOErtS.L ESS^~ ri HF NOVEL IDEA IN CREATER NEW IV YORK'S DEVELOPMENT. a W ? Placo Where Members of a Congregation m May Gather for "Kent and Refresh3 ment" When Church is Over?A Wagon Hospital With Chapel Attachment. (Special New York Letter.) The latest development of club life in New York is what for the want of a better name one may call a club for churchgoers. mi. _ -l-.u 1 ?.:n u? AUG U1UU UUUOO win uc U^cucvi *io. the fashionable part of Fifth avenue, and "rest and refreshment" can be ob- < taiued both on Sundays and week days. The venture is certainly a bold one. An idea so novel will doubtless be followed by enterprising persons in the - neighborhood of fashionable churches in all parts of the metropolis. One may doubt, however, whether in most cases, the spiritual good done by the church service and the sermon will not be ali together effaced by the subsequent i chatter and gossip at the club. Others think it will aDDeal to cvnical j husbands (who as a rule prefer the J "Home Baptist" to accompanying their f wives to church) when they feel sure j that on coming out of the temple they j will be sure of a "little refreshment" J to offset a sermon, dull perhaps from their point of view. At any rate the results will be watched with interest. Another novel idea in the church line and one sure to be taken up here eventually, is the "wagon hospital," H which is about to be attached to railway coaches in Belgium. As the name _ implies, it will be used for invalids aud I will contain twenty-four beds, and var- is ious surgical and medical appliances, ii The first travelers to use the Belgian I r? contrivance will be the Pilgrims to s Lourdes. A little chapel is attached to o 1 the carriage, where mass will be eel- s ebrateci witn tne special i^ermissioa ox the Pope. Some clergymen, being sure of 1< heaven, want the earth, too. An ad- 1 vertisement I recently saw in a West- a ern newspaper read as follows: "A s preacher, handsome, Westerner, Pres- li J . \ 1'' 11\ 11 ,7?> I!*1 *1, ?\ '! 111 i in iiir.i, I |, I\ \ \ \p\ x\\ !' ; < i s >\ I ' I ' I I 56 ?1 11 1; 4 h i? ) 1 ;51 m J';11',.1. S:|; j.'SlO . i i. | j AN EXQUISITE GOWN IN CADET BLUE ST BROADCLOTH. Jbyterian, -wants to devote his life to tl missions, home or foreign; -wants a a wife, good-looking, consecrated, u wealthy." I On the ?ther hand the average min- h ister of religion richly deserves all the v good things of this world he ever gets, it Never was the hand of good fellowship extended more graciously than by T the commander and officers of the a Spanish battle ship Infanta Maria c: Teresa during her recent visit to New ol York. Fully one hundred and fifty fi Americans and Spanish Americans at- ii tended the reception on the great si black vessel that was anchored like a cl small mountain in the Hudson off ai Grant's mausoleum. As each ladv truest stetmed from the t,l launch, an officer extended his arm ft and escorted her up the steps to the tl deck. The men were untiring in their b efforts; and each visitor was personally n conducted over the huge craft from cl stem to stern. " p /mmk: ffl ? ; i, I1 NATTY TAILOR-MADE FROCK OF BLCTE AKD ^ * WHITE FIN CHECK. 3 U .Fourteen hundred and sixty soldiers were scattered about below decks, ' most of them playing lotto, the favor- C ite Spanish game; others sewing or " 1 * 1?AX.? ? AMA /vf ^Kam n 4- nil /lin wnuug leil/eruj UUUC ui tucui axi \jiko~ 1 turbed by the visitors rumagiug about. 1 c \ ' An elaborate luncheon was served, ad every lady preseuted with a black ibbon bearing in gold letters "Infanta laria Teresa," which she pinned cross her dress. Mme. Dupuy du hj? ^ ' .** < '\ sv\ fAt ^ *** 0*?\m.v\ C? * v \ - * v ?* re :y ^ 'W V i I f. ' t f V4 * T. y A.NDSOSTE SILK LINED COSTtTlTE IN FANr-v TH'tSTl MTXTT7RE. iome, the handsome wife of the Span>li Minister, was exquisitely gowned 1 a cadet blue broadcloth: an elegant Iton coat showing off to advantage her j uperb figure. Her beauty is of the 1 riental type, with fascinating almondhaped eyes that take in everything. Another beautiful woman present ras Mme. Emilio Lopez, one of the iaders of Spanish Society in New i 'ork, a tall statuesque creature, with complexion of cream, and eyes like tars. She was resplendent in a silk ined costume of fancy tweed mixture, J YLI8H BICYCLE SUIT OF DUST COLOR \ CHEVIOT. ie skirt hanging in graceful folds and stylish short open fronted jacket with nique revers forming the collar. Mine. iopez is. considered by good judges to ave one of the richest Mezzo-soprano oices in the country, the velvet qualy being very rare. The popular society actress Odette yler, now Mrs. R. D. Shepherd, and leader in the younger set of aristoratic matrons, has become a devotee f the wheel. She is a trim little gure and can be seen every morning 1 Central Park in the neatest bicycle lit imaginable?a dust colored heviot, with the blazer well belted in b the back. Speaking of bicycles reminds me, lat the astonished subjeots of King [enelik of Abyssinia nearly had a fit I ie other day when they saw the first icycle that was introduced into theii j lountain land. An Italian officei ] barged with a message, bestrode his Bike," hung out a white flag and ashed away at full speed. The effect i as astonishing. The mad pace of this onderful cavalier, and the unknown ppearance of his mount, swifter than tie wild asses of the Queen of Sheba, aralyzed the people. His arrival was nnounced to the General in command, s the mysterious advent of a messen;er from heaven. Here is the very latest. An Adam)88 Eden, Limited, is to be incororated in New York. A Mining Comany is to be floated and managed by omen. Although men are to be raciously permitted to take shares, rtA 4-V*ir^rrM id ho OTaIikIa^ om participation in the control. Lovely and charitable Helen Gould ) to be met with almost every afteroon wending her way towards the Fniversity Law School, where she is I ne of the closest students, When I aw her last, she was simplicity itself 1 her natty tailor made frock of blue nd white pin check. The coat hung racefully away from the neck and liowed a soft blouse of white lace and luslin. Newspaper men in London are tryig to "boom" the "Jubilee toque," in tie hope that all the women who turn j ut to pay homage to the Queen on | ubilee day will don the little hat. j Editorials are beiDg w/itten on the ex- | renie becomingnes3 of this sort of I .ead gear, when all made of flowers. ?he men are also advocating the flat j ort of 1837. Evidently "there is aethod in their madness." The costumes illustrated herewith ere designed by The National Cloak Jompany, of New York. New London, Conn., rejoices in the apture of a 600-pound swordfish. curious e^cts. The monkey colony at* Gibraltar? the only wild monkeys in Europe?include about twenty individuals at pres* ent. A hen attains her best laying capacity in her third year. She will laj in an average me nine irom auu to out' eggs. The first theatre in this country to be lighted with gas was a theatre at Philadelphia, which put in gas pipes in 1816. A contemporary portrait of Sii Thomas More, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1523, has been recently discovered. In China the man who lives nearest the scene of a murder is accused of the crime, and he must prove his innocence or stand the punishment. A ton of lead is fired for.every man killed in battle. Statistics of European wars show that from 3000 to 10,000 shots are fired for every person disabled. An ostrich will never go straight to its nest, but always approaches it with ILI&LIV WIUUIU^S rtLLU. UCI/UU19, JLU UlUOl, if possible, to conceal the locality from observation. Diebler, the public executioner of France, who is about to retire, has a record of 502 official deaths to his credit. Diebler has been au executioner for the past thirty-nine years. F. M. Grover, a blind justice of the peace, of Topeka, Kan., has a collection of more than 100 razors, each with a history, and he can identify each one and the case which belongs to it. If a strange razor is placed among them he detects it at once. A Paris lawyer ran after and overtook a thief who had snatched a watch chain from the lawyer's companion, a young actress, ana was amazed to discover that the culprit was a client whose acquittal he had secured for a similar offense committed a few months before. Living near Waterford, Ind., is a Utile girl who has a multiplicity of grandparents, but a scarcity of relatives in the younger generations. Her name is Anna Hamilton Jeffries. She has three grandfathers, four grandmothers, no uncles, aunts or first cousins, and never will have. Her father is the baby, her mother is the baby, and she is the youngest of the family. A CONCRESS OF RELICIONS. To Meet In India, and Every Nation in the World to Be Itepresented. A nail has cone forth for a err eat congress of religions, in which, every nation of the earth shall be represented, to meet at Delhi in 1898, and discuss the question of the true way of salvation according to the teachings of wise men of every race. The call emanates from a Hindu of illustrous descent, Maulana Syed Nusrat Ali Saheb, the editor and proprietor of the Moslem Chronicle, a Delhi paper that is printed in both native and foreign languages and has a wide circulation in India. In the office of the paper there are no less than 300 varieties of type, representing the printed characters of almost every known tongue in the civilized world, j and the call for the great religious congress has been printed in vari- { ous languages and scattered broadcast j over the face of the earth. The call has been sent to every min- | ister and priest of any prominence in | Af nur Vtatro ronl 1 orl that. ! ^LLUCLlVa. iUMUJ UMI w 4 v^t*vv? j they will be there. The object of the' congress is explained by the call to be: 1. To bring together the eminent i and leading representatives of all religions of the world, with a view to enabling them to expound the merits of their respective creeds. 2. To give these representatives an opportunity of acquainting themselves with the principles of every religion, and thereby enabling them to judge i how far each religion is based on true | and unimpeachable principles. 3. To ascertain what practical, social and moral effects each religion has provided upon the community professing it. ' 4. To set forth how far the doctrines of each, religion are in conformity with reason, science and the laws of nature. 5. To trace the origin of each religion, and to scrutinize the system fol- ! lowed in the preservation of its tradi- I tions. 6. To show, in an exhaustive man- j ner, the various religious teachings i common to each religion. 7. To enable the representatives of the various religions to draw conclu- j sions as to the merits or demerits of 1 the various religions, not in an an- ; tagonistic but in a truth-seeking 3pirit.?Pittsburg Dispatch. Living in Mid-Air. The highest villages in Europe hav ing a permanent population are suuair ed in Switzerland, Italy and France, says the Philadelphia Record. In the order of their altitude they are: Rery, an Italian village, south of the Monte Rosa, at an altitude of 6990 feet above sea level; its 120 inhabitants live ; there summer and winter. Their only connection ""tith the outside world leads through the Betta-Gorca Mountain pass, which is sometimes closed up by snow for weeks at a time; Inf, in the valley of Avers, in Switzerland, at an elevation of 6930 feet above sea j level, is the second; the third highest I village in Europe is Trepalle, in the j Livingo Valley, also in Italy, 6720 feet j above sea level; next comes Averol, in the French Department of Savoy, 6G15 j feet above sea level, and Veran, not far from the former, at an altitude of ) 6580 feet. . A Georgia Monopoly. It is said there are but two veins of 1 /erde antique marble in this country. One is a small vein in North Carolina. ; The other is in Cherokee County, : .Heorgin., aud a company has just been ; tormed with a liberal amount of capital i to work it. It is claimed that the supply of the stone is practically inex- ; haustible, aud that large and perfect blocks can be taken out at compara- i tively small expense.?Atlanta Consti- J tution. . _ i ah a rir 9 jwiuuuh. A peasant living near Milan, Italy, j recently bought a pig, which, when j killed was fouud to have swallowed a metal matchbox containing two notes of the value of $250. The finder took J the money to the Mayor to be held by him for the loser. ... ... j I I / J DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. I SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. A Strmon That Mostly Concerns This Life, Yet Spiritual and Physical Conditions i Are Largely Dependent Upon Each j Other?A Warning Ajrainst Dissipation. . Text: "Till a dart strikes through his liver." Proverbs vii., 23. Solomon's anatomical and physiological discoveries were so very great that he was nearly 3000 years ahead of the scientists of his day. He, more than 1000 years before Christ, seemed to know about the circulation of the blood, which Harvey discovered ioi? yoiirs niter onrisi, iur wiieu ouiuiuuxi i In Ecclesiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at the fountain he j evidently means the three canals leading j from the heart that receive the blood like 1 pitchers. When he speaks in Ecclesiastes j of the silver cord of life, he evidently means the spinal marrow, about which in our day Drs. Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Sequard have experiment- I ed. And Solomon recorded in the Bible, J thousands of years before scientists discov- j ered it,.i:hat in his time the spinal cord re- j laxed In old age, producing the tremors of hand and head, "or the sliver cord be loosed." In the text he reveals the fact that he had studied that largest gland of the bumai j system, the liver, not by the electric light i of the modern dissecting room, but by the j dim light of a comparatively dark age, and j yet had seen its important functions in the ! God built castle of the human body, its selecting and secreting power, its curious cells, its elongated branching tubes, a divine workmanship in central and right and left lobe and the hepatic artery through which flow the crimson tide3. Oh, this vital organ is like the eye of God in that it never sleeps! Solomon know of it and had noticed either in vivisection or post mortem what awful attacks sin and dissipation make upon it, until the flat of Almighty God bids tho body and soul separate, aud the one it jommends to the grave aud the other it sends to judgment. A javelin of retribution, not glancing off or making a slight wound, but piercing it from side to side "till a dart strike through his liver." Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to tho liver the most of the world's moral depression, and the wo rd melancholy means black bile. I preach to you the gospel of health. In caking a diagnosis of diseases of the soul ? ~ ??* ? Irt/* frnl'A n /JJo r?n r\ 9 {nrtn ClAn yuu LUU.1L twsu iaiv<; n uia^uunis ui uiaocww of the body. As if to recognize this, one whole book of the New Testament was written by a physician. Luke was a medical doctor, md he discourses much of the physical coalitions, and he tells of the 500a Samaritaa's medication of the wounds by pouring in oil and wine, and recognizes hunger as a hindrance to hearing the gospel, so that the 5000 were fed. He also record;) the sparse diet of the prodigal away from home and the extinguished eyesighi of the beggar by the wayside, and lets us know of the hemorrhage if the wounds of the dying Christ and the miraculous post mortem resuscitation. Any jstlmate of tho spiritual condition that ioes not include also the physical condition Is incomplete. When the doorkeeper of Congress fell dead from excessive joy because Burgoyne had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip y., of Spain, dropped dead at the news of Qis country's deieat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey faded away as the result of Henry 7T.II.'s anathema, it was demonstrated that {he body and soul are Siamese twins, and when you thrill i;he one with joy or sorrow fou thrill the other. We may as well recogalze the tremendous Pact that there are two nighty fortresses in the human body, the honrf nnH thA livpr fhf? hf>art Mia fnrtrpss 5f the graces, the liver the fortress of the furies. You may have the head filled with ill intellectualities, and the ear with all musical appreciation, and the mouth with ill eloquence, and the hands with all industries, and the heart with all generosities, ind yet "a dart strike through the liver." First, let Christian people avoid the misjake that they are all wrong with God betause they suffer from depression of spirits. JIany a consecrated man has found his jpiritual sky befogged and his hope of heaven blotted out and cluqged chja deep HTtEe slough of despondand has said: 7TMy heart is not right with God, and I think [ must have made a mistake and initead of being a child of light I am a child ?t darkness. No one can feel as gloomy as [ feel and be a Christian." And he has jone to his master for consolation, and he aaa collected Flavel's books and Cecil's ; Dooks and Baxter's books and read and i read and read and prayed and prayed and J * ? ? ?wl m/inf ! JI uyuil uuu wuut nuu rv oyc auu vtg|/i ind groaned and groaned and groaned. My brother, your trouble Is not with the heart; It is a gastric disorder or a rebellion of the Syer. You need a physician morothan you lo a clergyman. It is not sin that blots )ut your hope of heaven, but bile. It not >nly yellows your eyeballs, and furs I four tongue, and makes your head ache, j Out swoops upon your soul in dejections ' ind forebodings. The devil is after you. ! tie has failed to despoil your character, ind he does the next best thing for him? tie ruffles your peace of mind. When he lays that you are not a forgiven soul, when ae says you are not right with God, when le says that you will never get to heaven, : ae lies. If you are in Christ you are just as < i lure of heaven as though you were there ; ilreadv. But satan, finding that he cannot fceep you out of the promised land of Canaan, has determinod that the spies shall lot bring you any of the Eschol grapes beforehand, and that you.shall have nothing but prickly pear and crabapple. You are 'ust as much a Christian now under the \ ; 5loud as you were when you were accustomed to rise in the morning at 5 o'clock to J pray and sing "Halleluiah, 'tis done!" i My friend, Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Jones, of j Philadelphia, a translated spirit now,wrote ' i book entitled, "Man, Moral ?.nd Physi- j sal," in which ho shows how different the , i jame things may appear to different peo- j i pie. He says: "After the great battle on j i the Mincio in 1859, between the French and ! i the Sardinians on the one side and the Aus- | irians on the other, so disastrous to the j latter, the defeated army retreated, fol- [ lowed by the victors. A description of the [ march of each army is given by two corre- I jpondents of the London Times, one of' whom traveled with the successful host, the j sther with the defeated. The difference in riews and statements of the same place, scenes and events is remarkable. The former are said to be marching through a beautiful and luxuriant country during the < day and at night encamping where they are supplied with an abundance of the best ; provisions and all sorts of rural dainties. There is nothing of war about the proceeding except its stimulus and excitement, < On the side of the poor Austriaus it is just i :he reverse. In his letter of the same date, i describing the same places and a march i aver the same road, the writer c.in scarcely find words to set forth the suffering, im patience and disgust existing around him. I What was pleasant to the former was intolerable to the latter. What made all this difference? asks the author. 'One condition only. The French are victorious, the kustrians have been defeated.' " So, my dear brother, the road you are traveling is the same you have been traveling a long while, but the difference in your physical conditions makes it look different, and therefore the two report? you have given of yourself are as widely different as the reports in the London Times from the two correspondents. Edward Payson, sometimes so far up on the mount that it seemed is if the centripetal force of earth could no longer hold him, sometimes through a physical disorder was so far down that j it seemed as if the nether world would i clutch him. Poor William (Jowper was a most excellent Christian and will be loved ! in the Christian church as long as it sings j his hymns beginning, "There is a fouutaiu tilled with blood," "Oh, for a closer walk ! with God." "What various hindrances we meet" and "God moves in a mysterious way." Yet was he so overcome of melancholy or black bile that it was only through the mistake of the cab driver who took him to a wrong place, instead of the river bank, that he did not commit suicide. I bless God that the number of Chris- j ciau physicians is multiplying and some of the students of the medical colleges are here to-day, and I hail you auil ordain you to the tender, beautiful, heaven-descended work of a Christian physician, and when you take your diploma from the medical college to look after the perishable body be sure also to get a diploma from the akies to look after the imperishable soul. Let all Christian physicians unite with ministers of the gospel Ln persuading good nnonle that it is not because ttod Is against thom that they sometimes feel depressed, H but because of their diseased bodies. I suppose David the psalmist was no more pious when he called on everything human an rl angelic, animate and inanimate, even I from snowflake to hurricane, to praise frod than when he said, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto thee, 0 Lord," or that Jeremiah was more j pious when he wrote his prophecy than when he wrote his Lamentations, or Job when he said, "I know that mj' Redeemer livcth," than when covered over with the pustules of elephantiasis as he sat in the ashes soratoh- t ing the scabs off with a broken piece of pot- ( tei-y, or that Alexander Cruden, the con- j co.rdist, was a better man when he com- ( piled tho book that has helped 10,000 { students of the Bible than when under the ( r\ t nvittcinol Via tttoq hflnH. I cuffed and straight-waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane asylum. "Oh," says some Christian man, "no one ought to allow physical disorders to depress his soul. He ought to live so near God as to be always in the sunshine." Yes, that is good advico, but I warrant that you, the man who gives the advice, has a sound liver. Thank God for a healthful hepatic condition, for as certainly as you lose it you will sometimes, like David, and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper and like Alexander Cruden, and like 10,000 other invalids, be playing a dead march on the same organ with which now you play a staccato. My object at this point is not only to emolliate the criticisms of those in good health against those in poor health, but to show Christian people wno are atrabilloua what is the matter with them. Do not charge against the heart the crimes of another portion of your organism. Do not conclude that because the path of heaven is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or the banks beautifully snowed with exquisite chrysanthemums as once, that, therefore, you are on the wrong road. The road will brlncr vnn out at the same Grate, whether you walk with the stride of an athlete or come up on crutches. Thousands of Christians, morbid about their experiences and morbid about their business, and morbid about the present and morbid about the future, need the sermon I am now preaching. Another practical use of this subject is for the young. The theory is abroad that they must first sow their wild oats and afterward Michigan wheat. Let me break the delusion. Wild oats are generally sown in the liver, and they can never be pulled up. They so prooccupy that organ that thefre Is no room for the Implantation of a righteous crop. You see aged men about us at eighty erect, agile, splendid, grand old men. How much wild oats did they sow between eighteen years and thirty? None, absolutely none. God does not very often honor with old ag? those who have in early life sacrificed swine on the altar of the bodily temple. Remember, 0 young man, that, while in after life and after years of dissipation you may perhaps have your heart changed? religion does not change the liver. Trembling and staggering along these streets to-day are men, all bent and decayed and prematurely old for the reason that they are paying for lines they put upon their physical estate before they were thirty. By early dissipation they put on their body a "first mortgage and a second mortgage and a third mortgage to the devil, and these mortgages are now being foreclosed, and all that remains of their earthly estate the undertaker will soon put out of sight. Many years ago, In fulfillment of my text, a dart struck through their liver," and It Is there yet. God for gives, OUt UUirajJBU pujaiuai inn wo, j never, never. Solomon In my text knew what he was talking about, and he rises up on his throne of worldly splendor to shriek ( out a warning to all the centuries. Oh, my young brother, do not make the mistake that thousands are making in a opening the battle against sin too late, for , this world too late, and for the world to ? coDie too late! What brings that express | e train from St. Louis into Jersey City three J hours late? They lost fifteen minutes early on the route, and that affected them all the j wf.y, and they had to be switched off here and switched off there and detained here and detained there, and the man who Joses q time and strength in the earlier part of the journey of life will suffer for it all the way * through, the first twenty years of life damaging the following fifty years. r Some years ago a scientific lectuio'r wem ? through the country exhibiting on great ? canvas d|fterent parts o^ the h_uman body ? when healthy "afid tKe same parts when j: diseased. And whafc thejgorJd ^ants now is some eloquent scientist to go fhrough ? the country, showing to our young people ? on blazing canvas the drunkard's liver, the idler's liver, the libertine's liver, the gambler's liver. Perhaps the speotacle ' might stop some youn^ man before he j comes to tu? uatasitupuo auu uuo \*c?k?, strikes through his liver. My hearer, this is the first sermon you * have heard on the gospel health, and It ? may be the last you will ever near on that J, subject, and I charge you in the name of God and Christ and usefulness and eternal . destiny take better care of your health, When some of you die, if your friends put * on your tombstone a truthful epitaph, it will read, "Hero lies the victim of late sup- . pers," or it will be, "Behold what lobster ~ salad at midnight will do for a man," or it : will be, "Ten cigars a day closed my earthly existence," or it will be, "Thought I P could do at seventy what I did at twenty, J and I am here," or It will be, "Here is the Cl consequence of sitting a half day with wet ? feet," or it will be, "This is where I have [ stacked my harvest of wild oats," or in- f1 stead of words the stone cutter will chisel " for an epitaph on the tombstone two fig- ^ ures?namely, a dart and a liver. . JThere is a kind of sickness that is beauti- 11 ful when it comes from overwork for God, a or one's country, or one's own family. I ?. havA aflfln wounds that were srlorious. I have seen an empty sleeve that was more beautiful than the most musoular forearm. 0 I have seen a green shade over the eye, shot P out in battle, that was more beautiful than fj any two eyes that had passed without in- t] jury. I have seen an old missionary, worn ' out with the malaria of African jungles, ? who looked to me more radiant than a rubi* cund gymnast. I have seen a mother, after 55 3ix weeks' watching over a family of chil- " dren down with scarlet fever, with a glory *' around her pale and wan face that sur- ? passed the angelic. It all depends on how ~ you got your sickness and in what battle " your wounds. V1 If we must get sick and worn out, let it be in God's service and in the efTort to make f< the world good. Not in the service of sin. w No, no! One of the most pathetic scenes a that I ever witness, and I often see it, is tl that of men or women converted in the p fifties or sixties or seventies wanting to be s< useful, but they so served the world and h satan in the earlier part of their life that G they have no physical energy left for the W service of God. They sacrificed nerves, tl muscles, lungs, heart and liver on the p: wrong altar. TlJey fought on the wrong Si 3ide, and now. whon theirsword is all hack- fi 8fl up and their ammunition all gone, they, yi unlist for Emmanuel. When the high met- w tied cavalry horse, which that man spurred 1? into many a cavalry charge wihh champing bit and flaming eye ana necu cioinea wun thunder, is worn out and spavined and ring boned and springhalt, he rides up to the great Captain of our sal- C vation on the white horso and offers w his services. When such persons might w have been, through the good hab- in its of a lifetime, crashing'their battle-axe 01 through the helmeted iniquities, they are C spending their days and nights is discuss- R ing the best way of curing their indices- IS tion, and quieting their jangling nerves, i "< and rousing their laggard appetite, and j gi trying to extract the dart from their out- j ei raged liver. Better converted late than : 1, never. Oh, yes, for they will get to heaven. I But they will go afoot when they might : have wheeled up the steep hills of the sky I in Elijah's chariot. There is an old hymn j that we used to sing in the country meet- i ing house when I was a boy, aud I remem- | ber how the old folks' voices trembled with emotion while they sang it. I have for- j Kotteu all but two lines, but those lines are I " the peroration of my sermon: "TWiii uoi-.i iic Pp,->m ? thousand snares I u' To mind religion young. | * j | pi Shaker* for the Far WeBt. A colony of Shakors will probably buy 30,000 or 40,000 acres of .land in Colorado or Wyoming and settle on it. There is now p< no Shaker settlement west of Indiana. m I w Boom in Flour. ^ The flour mills of Seattle, Wash., are saio to be running night and day because of the - - J * 1 $ nuin.i I grOttC UliinitUU l*Jl uinnujiiiua uuui vumn i ami Japan. | j}l tt A new Connecticut law provides flno and I ai imprisonment for conductors who fail to 01 register a faro. .. . 1 tc f I CHE SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 13. lesson Text: "Paul's Advice to Timothy," II Tim. i., 1-7; 111., 14-17-Golden T?i. TT T1 il... Ill lit rnm. ICAli X1 1UUUU1J 1I1?| *V ^ vv*? mentary 1>y Rev. Dr. D. M. Stearns, The second epistles are all suggestive ol he last days when the world shall have jorrupted the church, and contain special nstructions to God's servants for times ol lisorders, confusions, formality, etc. The aithful witness is taught how to deal with hose who "turn away from," "err conierning" and "resist" tho truth, or "will lot endure second doctrine" (II Tim. i., 15; i., 18; iii., 8; iv., 3). 1. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by he will of God, according to the promise >f life which is in Jesus Christ." He oved to think of himself as one sent forth >y Jesus Christ and chosen for this honor >y the will of God. Why God should choose iny of us is certainly a great wonder, but f we have truly received the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, resting wholly and >nly on His finished work of atonement, ve need not fear to believe that we were shosen in Him before the foundation ol he world (Eph. iM 4); that we should be loly before Him, and that He might send is forth in His name, even as the Fathei lent Him (John xvii., 18; xx., 21). The ifethat God gives is in Christ, and apart *om Him there is no life (I John v., 12). O TlmA^ktr mw /laovltr Kalnro^ onn a, A\J xiuiubur, uuj mvav/tvu ovu( Jrace, mercy and peace from God the tether and Christ Jestfs our Lord." In I Tim. L, 2, he calls Him "My own son in the aith," and in Phil, ii., 20 (margin), He rrote that he had no man so dear unto lim as Timothy. We first read of him Ld Lets xvi,. 1, as a disciple living as Lystra, lis mother a Jewesss, his father a Greek, Lnd Paul on his second missionary toui ook him with him. It is by the grace or unleserved favor of God through Jesus Christ hat we are saved. 3 "I thank God, whom I servejfrom mj orefa,thers with pure conscience, that with' >ut ceasing I have remembrance of thee ii ny pravers night and day." Before th( louncil he also said tha't he had lived in al :ood conscience before God (Acts xxiii., 1) >r as he puts it in Acts xxvi., 5, "After th< nost straite9t 9ect of our religion I lived t Pharisee." He does not attempt to excus< lis great sins against Jesus Christ and Hi: edeemed, but says that he verily thoughl hat he ought to do these thing (Acts xxvi. ?). 4 "Greatly desiring to see thee, being nindfui of thy tears, that I may be filled vlth joy." Paul prayed much for those vhom God had given hlin, but he would )ray, especially for such a one as his son Timothy. If Paul had the Philippian and >ther believers in his heart (Phil, i., 7) and >rayed muoh for them, how much mow loes our Lord Jesus carry love and pray or His redeemed ones. We are not told he cause of Timothy's tears, but if Paul vas mindful of them how much more ii tur Lord of ours. There Is oomfort to hunan weakness in the thought that thejoj f such a one as Paul might be Increased >y Timothy, , 5. "Wfhen I call to mind the unfeigned afth that is in thee." Not In him only but n both mother and grandmother; not that aith is hereditary, but ohlldren may be sc aught and trained that from earliest inancy they maybe true believers.in the jord Jesus Christ. Blessed are the mothirs and grandmothers who so train the children. Unfeigned faith makes us thinb >f the "most sur&ly believed" and "know ho certainty" of Luke 1,1, 4. 6. "Wherefore I put thee in remembrance hat thou stir up the gift of God which U n thee by the putting on of my hands.' le refers to this also in I Tim. iv., 14. The Iplrlt bestows gifts upon people severally is He, the Spirit, will, and God places the nembers In the body as it hatn pleased lim (I Cor. ill., 11,18). He gives to every nan his work and something to work with, ad says, "Occupy till I come" (Mark xiii., ?. T - L. J ? 10\ rrkA? TT4a /lAmlnn TJc t; IjUILO A.1 A., XO) iUCU at uu i/V/iuiug mv rill reward every man according to hii rorks. ? 7. '^Jor ?rod hath not given us the spirit if fear, But of power ana of love, and of a ound mind." Judging from the portion if the epistle following, such as I., 8,12, 16; L, 8, 10, 12; ill., 12; lv., 6, 16, we would afer that the fear referred to is a fear ol rhat one might be called upon to endure >ut thoughts of the perfeot love of God cast ut all fear (I John iv., 18). 8-14. "But oontinue thou in the things rhlch thou hast learned and hast been aaured of." Our Lord said, "Continue ye in ly love,,' "If ye continue in my word, then re ye My disciples indeed" (John xv., 9; ill., 81). I like to remember that Luke aid In the beginning of his gospel that he rrote concerning the things which were most surely believed," that his friend light know the certainty" of these things Luke 1., 1, 4), and that Abraham was full; lersuaded that what God had promised He ras able to perform (Rom. lv., 20, 21). 15. "And that from a child thou! hast nown the Holy Scriptures, whioh are able 0 make thee wise unto salvation through aith which Is In Christ Jesus." These could e none other than what some despise as be Old Testament writings, in which Paul estifles there was wisdom unto salvation nd the way of faith in Christ Jesus. I think he way of salvation, God's way, is nowhere 1 all the Bible more simply set forth than l Gen. ill., 21. The Lord Himself provided lie olothing by the shedding of blood, and .dam and Eve had only to drop as useless heir own'works, the flg leaf aprons, and ccept God's provision. Blessed are the hildren who from their youth are taught iese things. 16. "All Scripture is given by inspiration f God and is profitable for doctrine, for reroof, for correction, for instruction In ighteousness." While the Bible contains tie very words of God and some of the very rnrrifl of the devil, as well as some words f good and bad men, yet the whole &ook, :om beginning to end, was written by the plrit of God, He giving the men whom he sed the very words to write, as is plain :om such texts as Ex. iv., 12; II Sam. xxlli., ; Jer. i., 7, 9; xxxvi.. 2,4, 6, 8; John xii., 49. he Spirit who wrote the book is still in the ook, and its words are spirit and life (John I., 63). 17. "That the man of God may bo per" )ct, thoroughly furnished unto all good orks." A man of God is one who is first child of God by faith in Christ Jesus, and len fully yielded to God as His purchased roperty for His service, the Lord's mesmger with the Lord's message, receiving Is orders from God and responsible to od, seeking in all things His approval. rhile we are saved freely by grace, it is lat we may walk in the works. He has repared for us (Eph. ii., 10), and the sriptures alone are sufficient to qualify illy for all good works. If we will only ield fully, God will work in us both to ill and to do His good pleasure (Phil, il., I; Heb. xiii., 21).?Lesson Helper. Oldest of Connecticut'* Daughter*. Miss Anna Maria Benton, of Windsor, onn., was one hundred years of age last eok. Her father, JJlihu Stanley Benton, as a sailor in the Kevoluttonary war, ana l view of this fact she was voted an honrary member of the Martha Washington hapter of the Daughters of the American evolution at a meeting h9ld October 20, 195. She is said to be the oldest living awn daughter" in Connecticut, and a )ld spoon, to which all own daughters are ititled, was presented to hor on January 1896. Power* Favored the Turk*. While the Turkish Government experticod no difficulty whatsoever in obtain,g all the small arms and ammunition tat it required from Germany, 200,000 auser rilies having just been dispatched leuce to Constantinople, an entirely (liferent poMcv was observed )>v the Powers iward Greece, for the Austrian authories prevented a cargo of 7,000,000 cartdges, addressed to the Greek War Deirtment, of Athens, from leaving Triest, A Monster Flag Pole. What is thought to be the largest flag oil' in the United States?over 176 feet long - I Innhaj i?% Jif fchft h,mt?? ill soon be erected at Doylestown, Penn. r. Swazlander will present it to the town. Bubonic Plague Invades China. It is reported that several cases of the nbonie plague have been discovered by le Tonkin officials on the Chinese frontier ad just within the boundaries of the colay. Special precautions am being taken > prevent the spread of the disease. n - , IN THE QUIET HOURS. I PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THI: WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. ' All Things Sing Praises?How Souls Art* 'c C.JSI t Buried?Divine Presence in All Nature-Faith Till the End-Holiness is Wholeness - Think of God's Sufferings, 1 "All Green things on the earth, bless ye the V Lord!" So sang the choir while ice-cased <L.i branches beat The fro9ty window-panes and at our feet 1 The frozen, tortured sod but mocked the word, J And seemed to cry like some poor soul in ; pain, "Lord, suffering and endurance 311 my days; ? The growing green things will their Maker praise? The happy green things, growing in warm rain!" ! "So God lacks praise while all the Lelds are white!" I said; then smiled, remembering southward far, How pampas-grass swayed green in summer i light. : Nay, God hears always from this swinging star, Decani and Cantoris, South and North, Each answering other.praises pouring forth. ?Anna C. Braekett.in Harper s Magazine. How Souls Are Buried. > Occasionally we read of living creatures being discovered In the heart of stones and i in the centre of old trees. Those living i creatures were organized for the open air, > some were made to bound freely over the i earth and others to sport on the wing over mountain and mead, but there they have been shut up for many a year; in some ' cases, it would seem, for many a long age. When the laborer with his hammer smote ? the root and the woodman with his axe cut down the tree and thus opened their ' graves, they leaped with renewed life into their native spheres, there to enjoy the litl tie heaven of their being. These creature? -'J > allowed themselves to be thus entombed. 1 Very slowly and very gradually did the ' particles in the case both of the stone and V ' > the wood build up their graves. At first, i ' it would have been easy for them to have s broken through; but as particle after pari tide gathered and consolidated, the difflt culty increased, until at last their sepulchres became so. firm that all effort on their part to liberate themselves was utterly abor; tive. These creatures typify to me the conl dition of souls in this world. Fresh from > the Almighty they come hither, organized L for the atmosphere of universal benevolence, to explore the spiritual regions of truth, to ! serve the interest of the creation, and to ' hold unbroken fellowship with the Infinite. ) But like these creatures they allow them' selves to be buried by those elements of I the world that gather around them. The i force of carnality, self-seeking, and worldlii ness begin at once silently, but unremittingly, to build up the grave of a new-born ' soul. At first it would be easy for the young immortal to break through ; but the forces go on until the grave is seated and the soul is buried. The world is filled with human bodies, but where are the morally ' living souls?souls whose every action is ? Inspired with heavenly love, directed to tha good of the universe and the glory of God? ? When, oh, when, shall the Gospel/'hammer" break these rocky graves, and Its mighty > "axe" cleave these trees asunder, to disimprison these spirits,and give them the liberty $ with which Christ makes His people free ?? David Thomas, D. D. ! God la All Nature. > i George Fox, the Quaker, says that when r he was converted to faith In the divine love, I and wen?out into the fields,the whole world [ around mm glowed with new life. The skies r were full of a divine presence, the air , breathed a divine love. The birds in their , songs seemed to say, "Let us praise God." i The same spirit in the Hebrew psalms calls i o^ijie hills to clap their hands, and the ?* waters above ana below to be thankful. ; So is nature transfigured by the soul* k and grows full of life. We see God t in nature, and our heart cjriuks peace I from sky and land. An ineffable beauty [ seems spread over the scene; Rjd [ we wist not what to say, for language can^4 - is ; not utter it. There are days which are like ; a concert or oratorio, when earth, air, trees, sunshine, blue sky, grass, are all in the same i happy mood, all in tune together,no dbcord to jar the full harmony. In such days the earth becomes a Bible?the rocky strata its U-.j Book of Genesis, the singing of the birds . 'j ; its Book of Psalms, the air full of suni light and fragrance its Gospels, and the changing lights, the advancing hours, its i Book of Revelation, showing to ua how God , * is all in all.?James Freeman Clarke. Faith Till the End. '' ^Ici 1 When I am sick and tired it is God's will; Also God's will alone is sure and best? ' So in my weariness I find my rest, 1 And so in poverty I take my AIL Therefore I see my good in midst of ill; ' Therefore in loneliness I build my nest, And through hot noon pant toward the shady west, mwsa And hope in sickening disappointment still. ; 80, when the times of restitution come, 1 The sweet times of refreshing come at last, My God shall fill my longings to the brim; Therefore I wait and look and long for Him; Not wearied, though the work is wearisome, Nor fainting, though the time is almost past. ?Christina Rossettii. Holiness is Wholeness. v xB9 Religion is simply the laying of life?each thing and thought of life as it comes?down > before the Lord. Sorrow, anguish, fear, - ; T anxiety; repentance, renunciation of evil, InnoiniT fnr plpanqini? and absolution: hOD0. motive, purpose, pleasure, success; little common annoyances or satisfactions- everything?brought to Him, laid open before Him, to help or heal, to use, to sanctify with the Divine sympathy and permission?Hi* gladness to be acknowledged in ouf v, gladness. His pity in our pain, His com- t mandment in our wish in our intent? this is all of it. This is Moses in the mountain; this it is to "fail down before : the Lord." come," the beautiful Psalm sings to us, "let us worship and fall down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Foi He is the Lord our God; and we are the peo> pie of His pasture, and the sheep of Hia Hand. 0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness," wholeness ; "let the whole earth," our whole life in the earthly, "stand in awe of Him. For He oometh, for He cometh, to judge the earth."?Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Id "Open Mystery." Think of (iod'rt Suffering*. Almighty God, comfort us by thy fullnesa, nitrctrHiiffth is but weakness.our knowiedtrd is but small, our wisdom is as naught, oui vision narrow, our life but passing away. By thine eternal wisdom, thine unshaken power, thy constant years, thy unfailing love, uphold and comfort us. When out of patience with ourselves, as oftentimes w? are ; when, weary with our work, we come to think we might as well cease from it, fo? there seems to be no fruit of all our labor, and we cry. like that sad soul of old, '"Now, 0 Lord, take away my life, for I am not bet ter than my fathers !" when the tire 0/ life is dying down, and the ashes o> tbe old lire threaten to put out what littl< there is left: when the world had no new thin$ to teach, when the lights of life are dio and when the oil of life has run out?Lore God! at these times let us think of thy long suffering, that the burdens thrown down ta dull despair we may take again with fresh courage ; that we may sing thy songs and tell one auother of tby patience and love,and ' so be strong to endure even unto the end. Amen. No man need be without comfort whilt tue gates 01 prayer are opi*u to uim. I Dorothy Drew at Windsor. Queen Victoria did a graceful tiling and! delighted Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone by summoning their granddaughter, Dorothyi Drew, to Windsor Castle. Her Majosty was/ anxious to see the child who has figure? so prominently in Mr. Gladstone's domestic! life. Dorothy left Hawardon, accompanied' by her mother, and from London to Windsor traveled with the Trincess Louise. Oa' , arriving at Windsor they were met byi Colonel the Hon. H. P. Carington, one ofj the Equerries in Ordinary, with a royalj carriage, to take them to the CastleJ Dorothy wore an oiive green costume.! A.fter luncheon with the Queen, Miss JDreii reiurnea 10 town. I * . ? . r . "IV ?a> ' o 0-. i?V '.zK