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HF NOVEL IDEA IN CREATER NEW IV
YORK'S DEVELOPMENT. a
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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.
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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
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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
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were scattered about below decks, '
most of them playing lotto, the favor- C
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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
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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,
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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. !
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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.
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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.
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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
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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
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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
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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
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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
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Boom in Flour. ^
The flour mills of Seattle, Wash., are saio
to be running night and day because of the
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grOttC UliinitUU l*Jl uinnujiiiua uuui vumn i
ami Japan. | j}l
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A new Connecticut law provides flno and I ai
imprisonment for conductors who fail to 01
register a faro. .. . 1 tc
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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.
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, 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.
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