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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
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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
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.yyi, '
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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
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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.
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A NOTED INDIAN SLAYER
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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.
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