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[ DR.. TALHAGE"S SEKMON. ; I SABBATH DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED | ' DIVINE. I n.. riirlitlin Rnmn mil W?.af Tf ShonM Be?A Powerful Test of Character? Various Meanings of Home-Can Be Made the Brightest Place on ?arth Text: "Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee," Mark v., 19. There are a great many people longing for some grand sphere In which to serve God. They admire Luther at the Diet of Worms, and only wish that they had some such great opportunity in which to display their Christian prowess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, and they only "Wish that they had some such grand occasion In which to preach righteousness, temperance and judgment to come; all thoy want Is only an opportunity to exhibit their Christian neroism. jnow toe evaugeliflt comes to us, and he practically savs: "I will show you a place where you can exhibit all that Is grand, and beautiful, and glorlousP, In Christian character, and that Is the domestic circle." If one is not faithful in an insignificant sphere he will not be faithful in a resounding sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at the gate of the temple, he will never bo able to preaob three thousand souls into the kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the way of salvation the jailer of the Philippian dungeon, he will m ver make Felix tremble. He who is not faithful in a skir' mish would not be faithful in an Armageddon. The faol is. we are all placed in just the position In whioh we can most grandly serve God; and we ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about some sphere of usefulnos which we may after a while gain, but the all-absorbing question with you and with nuarht to be: "Lord, what wilt Thou have me now and here to do?" There la one word In my text around Which the most of our thoughts will this morning revolve. That word Is "Home." Ask ten different men the meaning of that "word, and they will give you ten different j definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, It means plenty at the table, in-rdustry at the workstand, intelligence at RjUie books, devotion at the altar. To him ~ It means a greeting at the door and a smile at the ohair. Peace hovering like win^s. Joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed on the ripples sleep the shadows. Ask another man what home is, and he will tell you it is want, looking out of a cheerless fire-grate, kneading hutig9rin an empty bread tray. The damp air shivering with curses. No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers and murderers in embryo. Every faoe a picture of ruin. Want in the baokground?and sin staring from the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over that door? II TaaMKnla nf (ha nit Rh*don Of In OUI. f Wk?MU4W V4 MW r.?. fernal walls. Furnace for forging everlasting ohalns. Awful wordl It Is spelled with * cones. It weeps with rain, it chokes with woe, it sweat* with the death agony of despair. The word "Home" in the one case means everything bright. The word "Home" in the other case means everything terriflo. I shall speak to you this morning of home as a test of character, home as a refuge, home as a political safeguard, home as a school, and home as a type of heaven. And in the first place I remark, that I ' home is a powerfnl test of character. The disposition in publlo may be in Ray costome, while in private it is in dishabille. As play actors may appear in one way on the stage, and may appear in another way i behind the soenes, so private character may i be very different from poblio character.' j Private character is often public character I turned wrong side out. A man may re- i ceive you into bis parlor as though he were I a distillation of smiles, end yet his heart | may be a swamp of nettles. There are < business men who all day long are mild, ' And court eons, and genial, and good-na- ] tured Jin commercial life, damming back < their irritability, and their petulance, and j their discontent; but at night-fall the dam 1 breaks, and soolding pours forth in floods i /and freshets. < S The reason men do not display their bad j ' temper in publio is because they do not ] . want to be knocked down. There are men ] jk who hide their petulance and their irrita- < A bility Just for the same reason that they do ] W not let their notes go to protest. It does ' r not pay. Or for the same reason that they do not want a man in their stock company | I to sell his stock at less than the right price, l ' lest it depreoiate the value. As at some- < times the wind rises, so after a sunshiny there may be a tempestuous night, i There are people who in public act the i nhlUnthmnkr vhrt at hnm? lint thfl W?rn 1 with respect to their slippers and their j gown. i Now, that man who is affable in public ] and who is irritable in private is making a j fraudulent overissue of stock, and he Is as t bad as a bank that might have four or five j hundred thousand dollars of bills in circu tation with no specie in the vault. Let us i learn to show piety at home. If we have it < not there, we have it not anywhere. If we j have not genuine grace In the family circle, i all our outward and publlo plausibility i merely springs fror. a fear of tne world or t from the slimy, putrid pool of our own selflsbness. I tell you the home is a mighty < test of character. What you are at home i you are everywhere, wnetner you demonstrate It or not. Again, I remark that home is a refuge. Life is the United States army on the national road to Mexico, a long maroh with ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At eventide we pltoh our tent and fstaok the arms, we hang up the war cap and lay our head on the knapsaok, we sleep until the morning bugle calls us to marching and action. Hew pleasant it is to rehearse the victories, and :he surprises, and the attacks of the day, seated by the still camplire of the borne circle! There is the place where we may talk of -what we have done without being charged -with self-adulation. There is the place where we may lounge without being thought ungraoeful. There is the place where we may express affection without being thought silly. There is the plaoe where we may forget our annoyances, and exasperations, and troubles. Forlorn earth pilgriml no home? Theii die. That is better. The grave is brighter, t*nd grander, and more glorious than this world with no tent for marchings, with no harbor from . the storm, wltn no place or rest rrom tins , k scene of Kreed, and gouge, and loss, and ^Lgaia. God pity the man or the woman who has no home. . W Farther, I remark, that home Is a pollti| cal safeguard. The sa.'lety of the State ( I must be built on the safety of the home. " Why cannot France come to a placid re- , Sublic? Ever and anon there is a threat of ational capsize. France a9 a nation has \ not the right kind of a Christian home. \ The Christian hearthstone is the only cor- . ner-stone for a republic. The virtues cultured in the family circle are an absolute necessity for the State. If there be not enough moral prinoiple to make the family adhere, there will not be enough political ' principle to make the State adhere. "No \ home" means the Goths and Vandals, \ means the Nomads of Asia, means the Numideans of Africa, changing from place . to place, according as the pasture happens to change. Confounded be all those Babels of iniquity which would overtow.er and destroy the home. The same storm that upsets the ship in which the family sails will sink the frigate of the constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and armies and navies are not our best defense. The doorof the home is the best fortress. Farther, I remark, that home is a school. Old ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, and it must be harrowed and re- : harrowed, and then the crop will not be as large as that of the new ground with less ! culture. Now, youth and childhood are new ground, and all the influences thrown over their heart and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you hftve ; given a smile of approbation, all the good cheer of your life will come up again in the ! geniality of your children. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontrola- | ble display of indignation will be fuel to J A their disposition twenty, or thirty, or forty , A years from now?fuel for a bad fire a quur ter of a century from this. V. Oh, make your home the brightest place. ^ on earth, if you would charm your chll' dren to the high path of virtue, and rectitude, and religion. Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light which puts gold on the gentian and spots tho pansy pour into your dwellings. Do HOC expeoi iue lime icoi tu nocj) stup iu a dead march. Do not cover up your walls with suoh pictures as West's "Death on a Pale Horse," or Tintoretto's "Massacre of thq Innocents." Bather cover them, If you hare pictures, with "The Hawking Party/' ' :" i and "The Mill by the Mountain Stream." j and "The Fox Hunt." and "The Chll- | dren Amid Flowers," and "The Harvest Rcene," and "The Saturday Night Marketing." Above all, my friends, take Into your homes Christian principle. Can It be that In any of the comfortable homes of my congregation the voice of prayer is never lifted? ( What! No application at night for protection? What! No thanksgiving In the morning for oare? How, my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the Day of Judgment, with reference to your children? It is a plain question, and therefore I ask it. In the tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says He will pour out His fury upon.tbe families ( that call not upon His name. 0 parents, \ when you are dead and gone, and the moss < iscoveringthe inscription of the tombstone, will your children look back and think of f father and mother at family prayer? win s they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of tears of contrition and tears of consoling promise wept by eyes long before gone out into darkness? Oh, if you do not inculcate Christian principle in the hearts of your children, and you do not warn them against evil, and you do not invite them to holiness and to God, and they wander off into dissipation and into infidelity, and at last make shipwreck of their immortal soul, on their death-bed and in their Day of Jndjfment they will curse you. Seated by the register or the stove, what if on the wall should come out the history of your children? What a history?the mortal and immortal life of your loved ones. Every parent is writing the history of his child. He is writing It, composing It into a song or turning it into a groan. My mind runs back to one of the best of early homes. Prayer, like a roof, over it. Peace, like an atmosphere, in It. Parents, personifications of faith in trial and comfort in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly home long ago crumbled to dust, a nn* ahn.ll T?vnr forcflt that earlv home? Yes. n when the flower forgets the sun a that warms it. Yes, when the mariner for- e pets the star that guided him. Yes, when t love has gone out of the heart's altar c and memory has emptied his urn into forget- e fulness. Then, tne home of my childhood, v I will forget tnee! the family altar of a t father's importunity and a mother's tender- I ness, the voices of affection, the funerals of s our dead father and mother, with inter- t locked arms like intertwining branches of I trees making a perpetual arbor of love, h and peace, and kindness?then I will for- v get them?then and only then. You know, b my brother, that a hundred times you have o been kept out of sin by the memory b of such a scene as I have been describing. You have often had raging temptations, but you know what has held you with supernatural grasp. I tell you, a man who has had such a good home as that never 3 gets over it, and a man who has had a bad 9 early home never gets over it. 9 Again, I remark, that home is a type of D heaven. To bring us to that home 'Christ P left His home. Far up and far back in the ? history of heaven there came a period when its most illustrious citizen was about a to absent Himself. He was not going to a sail from beach to beach; we have often * done that. He was not going to put out 'J from one hemisphere to another hemis- 3 phere; many of us have done that. But ? He was to sail from world to world, the 41 spaces unexplored and the Immensities un- E traveled. No world had ever hailed heaven, J and so far as we know heaven had never * hailed any other world. I think that the | windows and the balconies were thronged, 11 and that the pearly beaoh was crowded 3 with those who had come to see Him sail c out the harbor of light into the ocean be- " yond. a Out, and out, and out, and on, and on, and ^ on, and down, and down, and down He b sped, until one night, with only one to greet Him, he arrived. His disembarka tlon, so unpretending, so qalet, that It was not known on earth until theexoitement In the eloud gave intimation that something w grand and glorious had happened! Who V ^omes there? From what port did He sail? a Why was this the place of his destination? i\ [ question the shepherds, I question the y 3amel drivers, I question the angels. I U have found out! He was an exile. But the ? world has had plenty of exiles?Abraham Is in exile from Ur of the Chaldees; John an a axile from Ephosus; Kosciusko an exile a from Poland; Mazzlnl an exile from Rome; f< Em met t an exile from Ireland; Vlotor ti Hugo an exile from Franoe; Kossuth an a jxlle from Hungary. But this one of whom (i [ speak to-day bad such resounding fare- a well and came into such chilling reception n ?for not even a hostler went out with his ti antern to help Him in?thacHe is more to g be celebrated than any other expatriated tl )ne of earth or heaven. d At our best estate we are only pilgrim? d ind strangers here. "Heaven is our home." e Death will never knock at the door of that a mansion, and in all that country there is a lot a single grave. How glad parents are r In holiday times to gather their ohildren t< home again. But I have noticed that there Is almost always a son or a daughter absent?absent from home, perhaps absent From the country, perhaps absent from the urorld. Oh, how glad our Heavenly Father 8 will be when He gets all His children home P with Him in heavenl And how delightful 11 it will be for brothers and sisters to meet * ifterlong separation! Once they parted it the door of the tomb; now they meet at ? the door of immortality. * Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, 0 thrones of dominion, do not stir my soul so 8 much as the thought of home. Once there ? let earthly sorrows howl like storms and ? roll Hke seas. Home. Let thrones rot and " 3mpires wither. Home. Let the world die ? in earthquake struggle, and be buried J imid procession of planets and dirge ot a spheres. Home. Let everlasting ages roll 8 Irresistible sweep. Home. No sorrow, no ? jrylng, no tears, no death. But home, f1 sweet home, home, beautiful home, ever- J] lasting home, home with each other, home with God. . ' b r g One night lying cm. my lounge, when very n tired, my ohiidren^iU around about me in n tull romp, and hllfpilty, and laughter?on h the lounge, half airake and half asleep, I ireamed this dreanii I was in a far country. It was not Persia, although more than Oriental luxuriance ?rowned the cities. It was not the tropics, although more than t< tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens. It 0 was not Italy, although more than Italian n softness illled the air. And I wandered ^ iround looking for thorns and nettles, but y [ found that none of them grow there, and t, [ saw the sun rise, and I watchod to see it c jet, but it sank not. And I srw the people a In holiday attire, and I said: "When will 0 they put off this and put on workmen's ^ 5arb, and again delve in the mine orswelter at the forgo?" But they never put off j. the holiday attire. ^ And I wandered in the suburbs of the j uity to find the place where the dead sleep, and I looked all along the line of the beautiful hills, the place where the dead might most blissfully sleep, and I saw towers and castles, but not a mausoleum or a monu- u ment or a white slab could I see. And I a went to the chapel of the great town, and ? I said: "Where do the poor worship, and where are the hard benches on which they D sit?" And the answer was made me: "We a have no poor in this country." And then * I wandered out to find the hovels of the 0 destitute, and I found mansions of amber 8 and ivory and gold; but not a teir could 1 S see, not a sigh oould I hear, aud I was be- P wlldered, and I sat down under the a branches of a great tree, and said: "Wnere ? am I? And whence comes all this scene?" " And then out from among the leaves, and up the flowery paths, and across the bright streams there came a beautiful group, thronging all about me, and as I saw them d come I thought I knew their step; and as h they shouted I thought I knew their voices; c bnt then they were so gloriously arrayed o in apparel such as I had never before wit- e nessed that I bowed as stranger to stranger, li But when again they clapped their hands v and shouted: "Welcome, welcome," the li mystery all vanished, and I found that time f had gone and eternity had come, and we e were all together again in ouv new home iu 3 heaven. And I looked around, and said: u "Are we all here?" and the voices of many generations responded: "All here." And while tears of gladness were raining down our cheeks, and the branches of the Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, wo all together began to leap and shout and sing "Home, home, homo, home!" New Fertilizing Material. Experiments upon a sub-stratum of swampy soil on the Myrtle Grove Farm, in Queen Anne County, Md., have developed a new fertilizing material and a new stock for a brown and durable paint. The mud, when subjected to an evaporating process, hardens into crusty blocks. This substance, when crushed, has been found available for fertilizing or as the body of a paint II the usual mixlnur fluids be added. ; u . <VGOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PREGNANT 7HOUCHTS FROM THE U/AOI rDCA TCTCT DDnDU CTC nunLu o unknik<ii i uunikig. Christianity a? Social Force?The Kingdom of God-A Prayer for PatienceNew Birth Comcn Gradually - Must Put Out Self-Light?Want of Sense. Christianity as Social Force. Christianity introduces a new force into social life. No one can come into close contact with Oriental lands, or with primitive ;ondition9 in any part of the non-Christian world, without being conscious of the overshadowing power of the dead past. To be rnre, the Orient of today is awakening, but inly in sections of its vast area, and not ;ven in these scattered localities by vir:ue of any inherent tendencies toward irnopMs hut because Christian missions ind Western enterprise are beginning to jxert tneir quickening and broadening nfluence. The change comes slowly ind the historic environment is still mighty, rherfe is no vivid consciousness of the poslibility of better things, no inspiring call to iction, movement, agitation and struggle oward reform. The law of heredity has lean working the wrong way for centuries, intil moral capacity has lost its dbre and be:ome enervated and all but lifeless in its itaenation. All things yield to the thrall of ncnl surrender. The will power lies in a iead calm, sleeping in the lotus-laden air, he tomorrow and tomorrow spirit of the )rient. Christianity, however, brings new inergies, new ideals and new hopes. Its listoric record in all ages reveals a wonlerful and subtle power to develop unflvfln unsusDected. caoacities in dividual men and to crystalize character in lociety. It can do what nothing else can iccomplish. It can make alive. It possesles the power of moral change, the ecret of a quickened conscience; it can relew and transform the man, no matter what nay have oeen his antecedents, and howiver discouraging bis surroundings. Then rhat a penetrating and transforming power here is in the quiet working of its spiritual eaven! What an intense touch, what a aried influence, what an all-round enforcenent of right principles and straight living! t is only as social activities are rallied iround recognized principles, and inspired pith Christian impulses, that the light reaks and the life comes, and society beomes a new creature in which "old things lave passed away. The Kingdom of God. Christianity is not speculation or anything peculative. "The kingdom of God is not in rord, but in power." It is not satisfied even rith abstract truth. It must be life or it is lOthing. It has, of course it must have, a ihilosophy. But the moment it is treated lerely as a philosophy the idea and meanag of it perishes in our hands. The "Kinglom of God," if it is the kingdom of God, is religion, a loyalty, a power, an influence, i service; conquering, quickening ,stimulatag, controlling man. his soul, his will, his haracter,his fate,his history. Independently f our thoughts about it,it is every day workng its work among the consciences, the aspirations, the anxieties of thousands of men. fhilo we are judging it, it is judging us. Whether we are for it or against it, whether : perplexes us.or attracts us, or irritates us, t goes on its course in a path beyond our aloulation. It has gone on for nineteen enturies. It is going on still?"not in rord, but in power ?not as a theory, but s one of the elemental forces Ln the life rhich we know?perhaps as mysterious and ^explicable beyond a fixed point as they, ut at least as much a fact. A Prayer for Patience. Almighty God, who inhabitest eternity, rbat are we that thou art mindful of us? re are filled with self-oontempt; we look pon our days and they are few, upon our trength and it is consumed before the moth; et are we great in thy sight because of thy >ve. Thou art seeking something in us rhich we have not found in ourselves. It i God that worketh in us. This we feel by iany an impulse, by many a high desire, by iany a prayer that cannot find words >r fit expression. Continue thy minisry in our hearts; lead us in thy truth nd teach us. Enable us to bear the rets and vexations, the chaflngs and disppointments of life like the sons of God, rhose vision being filled by eternity can ike but brief note of time. Magnify thy race in us, we beseech thee-, may it be more han sufficient to sustain ub under every buren and in the endurance of every pain. lrnertake for us in all conflict, difficulty, povrty,sleeplessness and danger of every name nd kiiid. Lord, into thy hands we commend our spirits. As the mountains are ound about Jerusalem, so be round our ampted souls. Amen. The New Birth Comes Gradually. Some people are oonsciously converted uddenly. They can flx the hour and the lace and all the attendant circumstances of heir new birth. They can point to the very rrow of truth that pierced the heart, and 3 the precise sermon, or prayer, or consclntious act that brought tne healing balm. Pith the majority of Christians I feel quite onfldent that their experience in converion is literally like the daybreak. A faint learn of thoughtfulness grew Into earneetess, grew into penitence, and enlarged ito a fuller, deeper sense of the soul's need f Christ; then as the soul came on towards esus, the ruddier hues of hope appeared, nd some flushes of joy kindled up; and the out discovers that the night of unbelief has an/) fKo Hav./lflTDn h QQ hp(T11 n "T ave come to the conclusion," said a very ateliigent Christian lady to her pastor, tha: it is best for me that I have never yet een able to fix the exact time of my converion; I am afraid that I should trust too juch to it if I could. Now I trust to otbing but continued faith aDd to living In appy fellowship with my Saviour." Mast Put Oat Self-Light. In looking at the stars through a great alescope, it is necessary first to put out very light until you are left in total darkess. Every light sets the air in motion,and isturbs the focus, and blurs the viBion of he stars. How often our vision of God is lurred and dimmed by the flames of selfonsciousness and sordidness that float round us! How many times we huvetoput ut the light of self-seeking, earthly amblion and false pride of position in order to ook upward, aud in the clear still air to now whither God's lights are leading us,and rhat God will have us to do.?W. H. P. 'aunce. For Want of Sense of God. It is for want of a steady, profound sense f God that the lives of so many are fitful nrl full nf fRilnrf*. Their oxnerinnce is hallow, because there is so little of God in i. He is not in their thoug its. They do ot pray without ceasing. They do not bide in Christ. But when the heart is surendered to the Lord Jesus he comes to well there, and when the new vision of His lory breaks on the soul it can never be forotten. We become as profoundly and as ermanently conscious of the Lord's presence s we are of our own existence. We live and love and have our being in Him? G. H. C. lacgregor. We Cannot Understand Cod. The peace of God, which passes all unerstanding. which baffles analysis, which as an Infinitude of depth about it. As you annot understand remote stars, nor the verhanging vault which you cannot at all xplore, but can only feel as you feel your [fe, so you cannot touch this peace of God ritii your understanding. It lies round you ike an atmosphere. It dwells in you I ke a rngrance. It goes from you like a subtle lixir vita;. "My peace 1 leave with you, Iy peace 1 give unto you : not as the world ivili tciva Iiintovnn .Thitih- Sm ut.hum scented snop vnncows. In Paris a novel apparatus has beer ixed In front of the windows of a fe^\ ;hops. pioneering the way for an Intro luction of the Invention. It consists of a small pipe laid along 'rom this through numerous holes is Lhe exterior of the shop window, anc imitied a gentle current of warm all slightly scented, which is very agree ible to the shop-window gazers, whil? It keeps the windows clear and bright :bus more effectively displaying th? sontenta. ITTTTC SAPPATTT Sf!JTnnT JLjUJJ KJJ.XAJJLJIX.J.AJ. UUHVUUi INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 28. Lessou Text: "Salutary Warnings," I Fetei lv., 1-8 (a Temperance Leggon;?Golden Text: I Peter lv., 7?Commentarj on the Lesson by Rev. D. M. Stearns Having completed our study of the Aota of the Apostles, it certainly seems fitting that we should have at least one lessor from the writings of Peter, who was ar apostle before Paul, who was used by th? Spirit to be the messenger on the greal .day of Pentecost, who was also used tc open the door to the gentiles', and with whom Paul at one time sDent fifteen days in Jerusalem (Gal. i., 17,18). But whethei we study the writings of Peter or ^aul, the same Spirit spoke through both and wrought In both, even as Paul said, "He that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the gentiles'" (Gal. ti., 8). In fact, we must bear In mind that whether we study Moses, or the prophets, or the gospels, or epistles, ox Kevelation, all were written by the very same holy Spirit of God. 1. "For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, for he that hath suffered in the flesh bath ceased from sin.." The thought here takes us back to chapter ill., 18, where he said that Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but qulck: ened by the Spirit. It seems to mo that the thought is a continuation of the beginning of his epistle, where he emphasizes the living hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead and dwells upon the inheritance thereby secured to us which ought to lift us above all present things, making us holy in all conversation. 2. "That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts oi men, but to the will of God." Or as in Rom. vi., 11, "Dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." The saved sinner is a new creature or creation in Christ, old things passed away, all things new, and he is supposed to have left in the grave of his baptism into Christ all the self life, with its aims and desires, and henceforth ever to walk in newness of life (Rom. vi., 8, 4). 3. "lor the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the gentiles, when we walked in lasclvlousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellngs, banquetlags and abominable idolatries." That is the life of many a citizen of this world today, just living to fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind (Eph. 11., 3), with no thought of God or of a future life. That, however, is not the writer's point here, but rather that those who bear the name of Christ are ofttlmes guilty of living that same old life in some measure, to their own loss and to the great dishonor of Him whose beautiful name they bear. 4. "Whdreln they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you." In our day it Is not only the people of this world who think it strange that their wives or hus v ttt 1 11 tiAf t-ma. nanus, or UrUlUCla U1 sutcig, tw.? uvrt uuquent the theatre and the ballroom any more slnue they have received Christ, but many whose names are on the church registers, and who are seen at the communion table and yet continue in this old godless life are harder to put up with In. their cruel words and conduct toward those who will walk no longer with them In their worldliness. 6. "Who shall give account to Him that is ready to judge the auiolt and the dead." As we found In the Acts, there shall be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust, but not at the same time. There shall Dq a judgment also of living and dead, just and unjust, but not all at the same time. If we are Christ's our judgment for sin la past at Calvary, where He suffered for our sins, but all who are His must appear before His judgment seat, to be judged for :helr works slnco they reoeived Him (Rom. xiv., 10; II Cor. v., 10). After that we will come with Him to judge the living nations for their treatment of Israel (Math, xxv., 31). At the end of the thousand years all tho unsaved will appear before the white throno *L? fha la Ira nt flra tft ere tuoj oid oouv tuw um - ??a?v vw have their portion with the devil and his angels (Rev. xx., 11-15). If people had any faith at all In Ood and His word, one would suppose that the statement, "Ood shall bring every worlc Into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil" (Eccl. xli., 14), would lead them to oonslder their ways, and If Christians believed what is written In I Cor. ill., 14, 15, they would surely mend their ways and quit their worldllness, lest they be saved as by fire, much to their shame. 6. "For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men In the flesh, but live according to Ood in the 8pirit." The best light I have upon chapter ill., 19, is that found in chapter 1., 11, whloh, if I understand it, teaches that the same Spirit who was in Christ was also in Noah, as well as in all the profits, and through him preaohed to the antediluvians, who, in the days of Christ's humiliation were spirits In prison. May they not be the dead here referred to who, when they were alive, had the gospel preached to them, some of whom must have believed during those 120 years, but possibly died i? .luincn? T onnfpos that the MCIV/IO WUV uviu0w. waters are deep hero, but some day we shall kuow more fully. 7. "But the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober ana watoh unto prayer." In view of the possibility of our sojourn in these mortal bodies ending any day, or the possibility of the whole church being oaught up any day, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation add godliness? Whatever gifts or graces God has bestowed upon us, let us minister t be same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God (verse 10). Let us not think trials strange, but endure all meekly, counting them a privilege, and, even if we suffer for doing well, God will be well pleased if we take it meekly (chapter 11., 20). 8. "And, above all things, have fervent love among yourselves, for love shall cover a multitude of sins." Humility before God (chapter v., 5, 6) and love to our fellows must be very pleasing in the sight of God, for both are so Cbristlike. Though He was rich (how rich we cannot Imagine), yet for our sakes He became poor that thus He might make us rich, and it was His love to us when we were dead in sins that did it? the love that shed His blood for us, that blood which alone con take away sins. This Is the love that covers sins, and it we have any love to Him worth mentioning we will not worry much over chapter ill., 19, or lv.. 6, but just hold fast and wait for light and live to get souls under the blood which cleanseth from all sin.?Lesson Helper. INDIAN HONEY SMOKE. Oiages and Delawares Gathered For Their Annual "Good Time," Overland travelers bring Information that the Osages and Delawares have gathered by the hundreds on Beaver Creek, about Bixty miles west of Chelsea, Indian Territory, to celebrate their annual honey smoke. The honey smoke Is an ancient custom among these two tribes, and has been celehratfln jinnimllv fnr Hia Inst twpntv-fivft years. It is a general meeting for a "good time," and also to offer up thanks to the Great Spirit when the meeting Is over, which generally last about two weeks. The Indians give each other pony blankets and many little trinkets, an assurance o.'. friendshlij.b.etweep tribes. Made Up For Lost Time. Ernest Wienald, of Brooklyn, married Miss Lizzie Wien and amazed tbe clergyman by heartily kissing the bride half a dozen times. He explained that she would not let him kiss her until the knot was tied. Monthly Public Debt Statement. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business October 30 the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,020,563,901, an increase foi tue inoniaoi oo. Quickly Civilized. Benin, back of'the Guinea coast whose King was turned out by the British two years ago, Is 7ying with Buluwayo in its civilized attractions. It has golf links and a fortnightly mail. A Horseless Brewery Wagon. A horseless brewery wagon was success' Jully operated In St. Louis, Mo, . \ 1 THE DC A I ju xg 1 IIIw I\L<AJUIT The accepted length for all winte garments, says May Manton, is slighi ly greater than that adopted for fall The stylish jacket here shown meas d 0 ub le - b r e a sted ?acket fob winter ares twenty-six inches from the neci to the lower edge. The material ii rough-faoed cloth, which is bouni with fur and trimmed with braid With it is worn a hat of long-hairec beaver simply banded with ribbon The coat proper consists of fronts backs, side-backs and under-arn gores. The fitting is accomplished tr means of the last and the shoulder seams. The backs and under-arn pieces are adjusted to tho figure, th< backs being finished by regulatioi coat laps below the waist line, but th< fronts are loose. The right side lapi WAIST AND FOUB-GOR] well over onto the left, where th< blosing is invisibly effected. Twc pockets, finished with overlaps, art conveniently placed. The neck is fin lshed with a straight band and higl jflaring collar. The sleeves are two peamed and show a slight fulness a the shoulder. The coat is linei throughout with plaid taffeta Bilk. To make this jacket for a ladj ii the medium size will require one an< three-fourths yards of flfty-four-incl material. Ladle*' Waist and Four-Gored Skirt. In the double-column design zibe line, in one of the rich new shades o brown, is stvlishly trimmed.with mo hair braid in a darker shade, olive decorating the cross strips that en hance the style of the rounded boleri fronts. The folded belt of bias velve widens at the under-arm seam, a hand some crilt buckle concealing the cios ing in centre-front. The constructioj of the waist is exceeding simple am very generally becoming. The ful front, being only slightly b.loused makes it particularly well adapted fo stout figures. Linings fitted with th usual seams and double darts serve a a foundation, on which the fulness o both back and fronts isdefty arranged The bolero fronts are included in th? shoulder and under-arm seams, au< join the smart, clcse-fitting collar which, with the full fronts, closes in i . visibly in centre, xne cioae-umuj sleeve i9 shaped with an upper au< under portion, the latter being narrov in the latest and most approved shape A stylish ripple circular cap trimmec with braid finishes the top of sleeve The skirt has front Kores, beini much modified in width according ti the latest modes. The back is laid ii fan plaits, two on each side, turnin; towards the centre and flaring toward the foot as the name indicates. Th handsome trimming, applied in Yai Dyke style, is supported by an under fool nf licht-weicht hair-cloth o canvas. The prominence given t( .braid for all kinds of trimming give endless possibilities as to the manne of decorating such a toilette, individu al taste deciding in nearly every in stance. This gives variation evei when designs are similar. Combina .tions that are always in order when i L'- -'--v . tV.'/r '?.U.-j * . . .yyi, ' '<<: " "v I OF FASHION. I ir i firifltnrae has to be remodeled, can he stylishly developed by making the full . fronts and Bleeves of a contrasting ma terial, or the bolero fronts and epau~ lettes can be of velvet, heavy silk, plaid or plain-faced cloth in harmonizing shades. To make this waist for a lady in the medium size will require two and onehalf yards of forty-four-inch material, and to make the skirt will require four and seven-eighths yards of the same width goods. Maffa Large and Small. i Fashion declares for the carrvincr of I y 0 a muff-aa a necessary part of the smart [ fall costume. It need not necessarily be made of for, although to be quite the thing fur should figure somewhere as its ornamentation, while the founi dation must match the color and mate| rial of the gown. The lining may be of a contrasting color. These fingerwarming affairs are equally fashionable in large or small models, though the ultra-size of the Victorian period is very wisely tabooed by the woman who would be well dressed.?Woman's Home Companion. Miasea' Blom? With Plaatron Yoke. No design is more youthful than the blouse with plastron yoke, and none 1 lends itkelf more readily to the use of & two materials. The model shown com9 bines plaid in soft wool stuff with silk 1 which matches the line of rich blue . running through the design. The I I trimming consists of the popular black . velvet ribbon and a quilling of the , bine silk abont the free edges. The i belt is of blaok velvet and the collar f of the ailk banded with blaok. The . foundation of the blouse is a fitted i lining showing the usual number of 3 seams and pieoes and whioh close at i the centre-front. The back portion of a the joke is faced onto the lining, but 3 the front is made separate and is 2D SKIBT WITH FAN BACK. 3 seamed at the right shoulder and > hooked over to the left. The blouse 3 proper has short shoulder and under arm'seams only, the slashed basque i portion being cut separate and seamed - to the blouse at the waist line. The t right front is stitched to the lining, 1 but the left hooks into place beneath the trimmed edge. The sleeves are i two-seamed and snug to the shoulder, 1 where slight puffs support the stylish i epaulettes. Cashmere and Henrietta, 1 TPS r MISSES BLOUSE. ' as -well as novelty goods of all sorts, ' are peculiarly suitable and many effec3 tive combinations of plain dark color J and plaid or striped yoke can be made, while shirred velvet and silk make * ideal yokes for plain stuffs. To make this blouse for a mi3s of 0 fourteen years will require two and one-fourth yards of forty-four inch material, or two yards of plaid with ^ one-half yard of plain goods. 8 Broun Velveteen in Vogue. r Brown velveteen is considered dressy j " this season ana win De worn even 10 " dancing school. The common house sparrow flies at r the rate of seventy-two.miles an hour. : .IK' " V"' ':'-f. A NOTED INDIAN SLAYER -? A MONTANA MAN HAS MADE FORTY REDSKINS BITE THE DUST. "... f'i He Killed Sevan in a Single Combat and Five In Another?Hates All Indian^ Became a Favorite Brother Was 8lain by Them?Wiry Lewis Wetzel's Career* "Lewis "Wetzel, who lived in th? western part of Virginia, became not* ed as an Indian fighter previous to and during the Revolutionary War," remarked an .old-timer, who was in t reminiscent mood yesterday. "lt? was a large, wiry, athletic man, who became an Indian hunter because Indians had killed all his nearest kindred in their raids into the settlements of western Virginia. He possessed a frame that it seemed impossible tc ' W tire, and he was considered the best shot with a rifle in all that country. He killed Indians out of pure revenge, and he not only killed them when on the warpath, but whenever he could engage with them. He could load his rifle running, and, therefore, was a dangerous antagonist. He wis one ^ of the few men of the West whp could flre at the edge of a knife and clothe bullet in two every time at a distance of ten yards, He enjoyed his prowess, and when in the settlements he was a companionable man, but hunting Indians he was morose and disagreeable, . J and much preferred to be alone. It is ' yv.ji said that he even killed Indian women and children, and it is well known that he killed Indians who were amVtaaaa/^AVfl In 4-Vl Q ATI riAQAofnl \ I l/nODdUU&D WV VUV TT4UWH V** |fVMVV4?M errands. If lie ever saw an Indian that lie did not kill it has not been recorded. In the npper Ohio Biver country his name has been handed down froji father to son, and many exploits have been told of him which . ' '% never appeared in print. There is a county in West Virginia named. after him, and romances have been wkt&n whose heroes have his characters* | "Montana has a man now living whose career has been something like that of Wetzel. He has not probably killed as many Indians, but that has not been his fault He is, said to have slain at least forty redskins, and he has not been particular what tribe they belonged to or where they were. He has taken as great risks in killing In- ^ dians as Wetzel ever did. The reason of his hatred for the whole Indian ^ race was the killing of a favorite J-Jy 1 brother in a family of seven or eight boys by Piegans. He was a good shot* I and used a Winchester rifle instead of the old muzzle-loading flint-lock.rifle that Wetzel carried. He is David Sjffl Warcham, of Fergus County.' "I have heard accounts of bat two of the battles, but no doubt a history of others would be just as interesting. M He encountered five bucks, evidently on the warpath, or a horse stealing ex* ' .j?' pedition. He had not his gun with . him, but he went home, which was 23 not far off, and returned with it. He ^ sought a good spot and began firing. The Indians made fight,but he dropped 'iff! thepi so fast that two started to run vw away, but he was too swift for them even, and every one was killed. ?< A nnfViai. tirna Via anil anilarrim VAM camping out, and in the night the In- v' I dians stole both their horses. They , /t ( followed the Indians, who evidently , t| did not expeot a visit from them. They crept up close to the oamp and fount, "JM | the horsea tied at the oamp. Wis-;-, oham's horse was a pet, and whinnied when it soented its master. The In- JS dians did not awake, and both horses were taken away. They oould not get their own saddles, but got two old Indian saddles, as being better than riding bareback. Then they stampeded the Indian horses, and drove them toward Fort Benton. Passing a narrow oanon, 1 A?U Irt linvrv YY arouaui WIU 1UO vuui^iamuu *v r - , along with the horses as fast as he could and he would wait for the In- '.m dians, seven in number, whom they had seen coming afar off, He ooncealed himself as well as he could and awaited their coming. When the battle was over the seven Indians had become good Indians, and Waroham had ; ( not a single scratch. After resting his horse he overtook his companion, who was nearfy soared to death and almost worn otre with the old saddle. They rested, not fearing any danger, and ^ rode leisurely into Fort Benton, where they sold their stock and remained until they had recruited. It is related that neither was able to sit down for a week after arriving in the town. "Warcham, even to this day, when he sees an Indian, fires up, gnashes his teeth, and regrets that he has not his gun with him. He has never killed any women or children, but those who know him best are certain that few Indians have ever met him on the plains and gone away alive. Wa in nnw in the vicror of life, between forty-five and fifty yecrs old, and is regarded by all his neighbors as one of the State's best oitizens. Bat he can't conceal, and doesn't try to conceal, his extreme hatred of all Indians."?Helena (Montana) Independent. Finer Than Silk. A Frenchman, M. Cachot, has solved the problem of using the web of the spider, by turning it into the finest silk of a beautiful and fairy fineness. He has contrived a delicate little machine, containing a number of tiny - ? ? bobbins wnicn are iuuuc w icrui.v continuously by light running gear. The end of the web is cr.ught while it is still attached to ihe spider, and the little machine is set in motion. The spider does not seem tomindhaving his web pulled off, tnd the movement is continued until he has completely surrendered his shining structure. It is then released, put aside and fed until it has recuperated ita powers, and a fresh spider is attaohed to the gear. M. Cachot is advertising for spiders. Cost of Saluting the Sun. The United States has Jnot a particularly large military establishment? in fact, it is regarded as meager for such an extensive territory?neither has it many posts from which the sun is saluted at morning and evening. Still it costs the gove. .iment ?20,000 annually for ammunition for the morning and evening gun, which figures out the expense at $54.79 for each oi the 365 days in the year. When apples are sold in the English ' market they are dumped entirely oat of the barrel in the presence of the buyer. V " r*