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I iiKIffiFU :|S A; LOVE ,S|C BY AMEU j 2|? (Copyright, by Roi CHAPTER VII. CONTINUED. .. v ,l\. ? ?f Then they were uoiu umu c ui jiumerine's wide-open eyes and the intelligence in them. She glanced at her confederates and then took her mother aside. "DarliDg mamma, kiss me! Bless me! I am going, mamma; oh, bless me, mamma, and kiss me again! And, mamma dear, if you can play something, and get Jamie to sing?Jamie makes everybody listen to him." A tight. clinging clasp of her child's band, a gaze full of mother-love aud blessing, and then Mrs. Brathous, trembling, almost fainting, put aside, with a strong heart, her own sorrow, and called, cheerily: "Come here, Jamie Wintoun, and sing us a song." Without purport or intention, she opened the book at "Jock o' Hazeldean," aud Jamie, smiling at the apropos sentiment, saug with charming spirit how the lovely bride of the chief of Errington wept for "Jock o' Hazeldean." Some one was looking for Katherine as the first words of the song rang through the parlors. Some one said they had seen her go into the greenhouse. She was called, but answered not. Then Jessy was missed. "They are doubtless together," said Mrs. Brathous, between verses. The little sor.gh of wonder grew, and, finally, dancing stopped in the hall, and the fiddles were quiet, and every one was asking: "Where is Katherine Janfarie and Jessy Telfair?" Mrs. Brathous prolonged the cadences and intervals, and Jauiie sang the third verse twice over, and the sense of "something wrong" flashed like thought from mind to mind. The music began to sound strange; Jamie sang as if ho had to ?j.i ?i ^ siug, ana lurs. x>raiuuun pmjcu ?im hysterical restlessness. But tbe tiresome song went tlroaing on, wbile guests wondered, and the uneasy feeling spread to the smoking-room and brought the laird out in a fuss and in flurry. And when he entered the parlor, Jamie's voice bad a telling fatefulness in it, for, as he caugbt bis uncle's glance, he involnntarily sent to his ears and consciousness tbe last singularly prophetic words of the song: "They sought her both in bower and 11a' The lady was not seen; She's o'er the border and nwa' Wi' Jock o'Hazeldean!" Brathous went angrily to his wife. "Where is Katherine?" he asked. "She is not to be found, I hear. What nonsense is this, ma'am?" "She is with Jessy, I suppose. Both are missing for a while. They have a good reason, no doubt." "I don't believe it." Tben be sent the servants flying through every room of the house. He searched tbe garden himself, the hazelwalk and tbe greenhouses. Tbe two girls were not to be found. Wintoun maa nnoofinnod ornl f?rn.qs-rmf?stioned. WHO U VO nv**vv* v* WW? ? ?. He knew nothing. He bad been singing. Katherine was present wben be began; that was all he knew. Mrs. Brathous fled to her room to avoid the sympathy and questions of the Gurious. At length Brathous said, passionately: "My ward has evidently run away, gentlemen, and I make no doubt it is ' with the Enplishman, Mowbray. I must reach the railway lines as soon *s possible. Wintoun will take the south-bound stations, I will take the north. Harribee, Canfer, Scott, Hays, you all have daughters of your owu; us you ritle homewards I will ask you to look out f8r the wicked lasses." Then there was mounting and riding and racing in every direction from Levens-hope, and the ball was at an end, and the girls and youths went home in a delightful slate of excitement. and no one had the least expec tation or even the least desire that Katherine should be overtaken. Indeed, it was but a half-hearted race with every one but the laird. Gradually his companions left him as they reached roads leading them to their own homes. For all were sure that Katherine had taken a traiu either north or eonth, and what use was there in running after a steam engine? At the railroad stations no one would acknowledge that they had seen the young Indies, aud though the strange minister was in the very act of marrying Katherine and Mowbray as the laird and his friends passed Wiutouu House, no oue had a puspieion 01 wuai was going 011 wnuin it, for the windows of the lighted parlor were shattered and draped, aud the whole building had a dark and deserted appearauce. Then lit went to the manse, and was told that Dr. Telfair was in Stirling. He would not believe it. "\Vintoun said: "You are unreasonaole, uncle," and was called in auswer, "a poor, miserable laggard of a lover," a few words which gave the young man the excuse he desired for retiring to his own house. By midnight the search had been practically abandoned. The laird was raging at every one. He had seen ?miles that were aij insult to him. None *f his friends had shown the least interest in the recovery of the runaway bride. Hays and Caufer had sneaked off at the first turning. Harribee had laughed at the lasses'pluck; and Scott had plainly told him that "the day for 'giving women away in | marriage' had gone far by. Brathous, man!"he added, "the lasses just give | themselves away these days, and a fine thing it is for good men that they should do so. I'll warrant Katherine Janfarie has taken care of herself, and the minister's clever daughter will not be far behind her. Let them alone *l>ow rt liAmo'11 all rtf I iucjt u 111 uvuiu, "?? v* which comfort Brathous felt, to belike | the words of Eliphaz and Bildad aud j Zoj>bar. _ ! .vr" - % . * V v . I oes&eotos^l ah rr^n ap ^ JWJCK vr ^ (ALA.:WATER, | ;? STORY. if A E. BARR. ^ IKBT BONNtE'S SONS.) jeeteeeteto: On Mrs. Brathous fell the residue l?;,.,Va TirvaiVi ond fpftfS Hfi ui iuo iaii u o n??vu ?? went to lier room vibrating with passion and wounded self-esteem. 'This is a shameful to-do, Helen," he cried. "This is a most outrageous insult! There never was a more illused man. I am demented with the shame that has come to me. And you, Helen! There jou sit as calm as a sucking baby, while that ungrateful girl of yours is bringing disgrace on me and mine. I always told you what Katherine Janfarie was. a little snake in the grass. Just think of your daughter running away from home and friends.and good name." "Take care, Alexander." "It is too late to take care, ma'am. I wish he may marry her! I only wish he may! I am feared he will have too much sense; a little, deceitful huzzy." Then the mother's patience failed, and she Baid, with a sincere satisfaction: "Katherine was not deceitful?not in the least! I knew all about her marriage. Jamie knew all about it. Jessy .>11 nKnnt All nf 11 a hove Violnorl AHC? Uft I UUV/U V IV, 4X14 vta uu mw ? v Katlierine and Mowbray. They were married at Jamie's house. You must have passed the door while the minister from Innerleithen was making them man and wife. Jamie is going to marry Jessy Telfair. He has been in love with Jessy for a long time, and Jessy was in love with him. Katherine and I made that match?a sweef, honest love-match as ever was. Now, Alexander, that is all about it. You never thought of any one but yourself, and you would have gladJy made four people miserable to carry out your own selfish plan for uniting two bits of laud. I would not suffer such a thing. No, air!" "I ought to have been told." "To what purpose? I would have told you if you had been a reasonable man. But to say 'No' to your 'Yes,' it would have been as wiselike as to shake a red rag in the face of a raging bull." "I do not care so much about Katheriue. She has aje been a thorn in my flesh. But Jamie! Jamie Wintoun to marry Jessy Telfair! It is beyond bearing. And it is you and that impertinent minister's lassie that have been teaching Jamie lately to set himself against me in everything?yes, even about such a small matter as the painting of his bedroom." "What had you to do with the lad's bedroom? You were ever too meddlesome. No one can stand you. I do not blame Jamie for ridding himself of you. He has chosen a clever wife, and you may make up your mind to let Jamie's affairs alone for the future." "You have deceived, me, ma'am! You have deceived mc! The whole country-side shall know of it!" "The whole country-side will take you for their laughter. Now, Alexander, you have said enough aud too much. If you do not behave yourself, I will make yon sorry that yon ever were born. I am tired, and want to go to sleep. Katherine is away o'er the border by this time. What cannot be cured must be endured.- Go to bed and sleep. You are tit for nothing else." "I will go to the minister. I will give him the plain truth." "And you will get it also. I advise you to let Doctor Telfair alone. He knew nothiug about the matter." "It is all his planning." "It is not. I planned it. There was no planning. Events just grew to ripeness day by day." "I never heard of such treatment of a husband. Never! Never! It is shameful! Shameful!" "Go to bed, sir." "I will not. I want some comfort. I will speak my mind." Ami mus me wreicueu mgui went on, fall of turmoil and reproaches, but the mother comforted herself with the thought of her child's happiness. And she boped that the morning would bring Jamie and good news, nor was she disappointed. Jamie came about noon.* He was shining with satisfaction. He had seen the minister, and his own marriage was 1 arranged for. Fortunately for him he had been delayed long enough to allow the laird to speak to the minister first. In fact, the outraged Brathous had entered the manse parlor while Jessy was smilingly pouring out her father's coffee. "How did yon get here, Miss Telfair?" asked the laird, angrily. "The minister from Innerleithea brought me home." "Humff-ff! And when did you get home, sir? Or were you biding last night from me?" "I hide from no man, laird. I got I home half an hour ago. Is it any of your business ?" "Yes, it is." Then the laird told bis story, and told it with very angry additions and interjections, and in the very midst of the passionate recital Jamie Wiutoun came in nd explained his sh are in tne matter, and tins necessitated the confession of his love for Jessy and the asking of her hand from her father. He was constantly and wrathfully interrupted by Lis uncle, but Wintoun at this hour was manly enough. He said firmly: "I love your daughter, Doctor Telfair, aud with your consent we think it best to be married this afternoon." "It is a base plot all through," cried the laird, "and you. Doctor Telfair, are at the bottom of it! A fine thing for your tocherless lass to'be latly of Wiutouu House! I datir you to beguile a lad like Jamie Wintoun into marriage! I will have a church session auent it! I will that!" "Wintoun," said the miuister, quite ignoring the laird's remarks, "you are right. Under the circumstances, it is f A*? TAn n nil Toooxr f in n rrnul iv/i jvu auu utorj ivuviuiuiu^u immediately-" "This afternoon, sir, at tliree o'clock. Will that suit yon?" "Yes. Come here to the manfe. I will myself make you man and wife." "Do you bear me, minister? I will not have it. I will put you under bonds, Jamie Wintoun. I will! I will!" "Keep your temper, laird. You will bring on an apoplectic fit, setting yourself in such alike blaze of senseless passion. Wintoun, good morning. Good morning, laird. It is not every day that a man marries his daughter, and I have friends to haste to the wedding. Jessy, my dearie, you come with me." Bat when he had taken her to his study he looked at her with anger, and said: "You have done very wrong, Jessy, and you have caused me to do wrong and to make a foolish promise that I might right you in the laird's and other people's eyes. And I will tell you, Jessy Telfair, that the whole circumstance is a shame, and no one on the earth but three foolish women would have had anything to do with it." "Except three men?three foolish men, father?Jamie and Mowbray and the minister from Innerleithen." Then Doctor Telfair shrugged his shoulders and tossed his sermon paper about; but finally he kissed Jessy, though he shook his head reproachfully ere he did so. As the laird had foreseen, the story set Gala Water in a commotion from the lonely farms in the Moorfoot Hills northward to Daikeith, and southward through all the homes of Teviotdale. But time does wonders, and the laird acted precisely as Mrs. Brathous anticipated he would. He blustered a little in public, and complained and even cried a little to his lawyer and more intimate friends; but privately he went down on his knees to his wife, and in that excellent discipline was gradually led to see things as she saw them. He was first reconciled to Doctor Telfair, and then he forgave Jamie. Contrary to all expectation, Jessy was not tocherless, and her little fortune set "Wintoun lands and Wintoun's master free. And as soon as this was the case, Brathous made a merit of forgiving Jamie. "He i9 my nephew, after an,.ueien, ho said, "and I cannot give him the back of my hand, though he well deserves it." Then he began to be curious about Mowbray and Katherine. Long and frequent letters came from various countries, and it was a trial to see his wife enjoying them all by herself. He heard her also telling visitors about Texas, California, Japan, India, Greece and Italy, etc., and he heard just enough to make him restlessly curious. One day he said: "Helen, my dear, I think I ought now to forgive Katherine and her husband. I suppose they will be home soon, and I do not approve of quarreling in families." "Mcwbrav expects to go into Parliament, and he is hurrying home for the election. I think of going to Mowbray Hall next week." "I will go with you. I know all about election business. I can give our son-in-law valuable advice. And I hope I am a good Christian, Helen, and know how to forgive a wrong. It would -be a pity for the two young things to feel my anger?though it was just anger?a shadow in their home." There was no shadow in Mowbray Hall when the laird and Mrs. Brathous reached it. There is no shadow likely to be there, for love made a constant glory in the line old mansion. And Katherine was so happy and so busy, and Mowbray Hall was so much larger and grander than Levens-hope, that Brathous felt subdued to a most AAnniliftfinrr onirit. And be really was very helpful to * Mowbray in bis electioneering. The young man was disposed to rely on bis ancient name and prestige and bis rights as a landlord. But these tbings had lost much of their influence even with the hinds and shepherds on the estate; and it was the laird's Scotch subtlety and dictatorial manner which demolished all objections. And when the victory was won the laird did not fail to take all the credit due him. "Mowbray may thank his stars and Alexander Brathous that he can write M. P. after his name," ho said complaceutly. "That is so, is it not, Helen?" "You are just a wonder, Alexander, and doubtless if you had come sooner the harvest would have been a month beforehand." She was standing at the window with a beaming face and Brathous went to her side. "You are aye jesting at me, Helen," he said. "What are you looking at so pleased like?" Then her glance directed him to Ivatherine and Mowbray. They were in the sunny garden standing together with clasped hands and uncovered heads under a large laburnum tree. Its golden rain of yellow blossoms made a glory on their faces. They were talking happily and heart was answering heart, and eyes answering eyes in love and laughter. "How happy they are, Alexander! Are you not glad they ran away to be ?o happy?" asked Mrs. Brathons. "It is an extraordinary exception, Helen! Extraordinary! I hope it may last!" answered Brathous. "For in all my sixty years I never yet knew a happy runaway marriage. Never one! And I have always seen that the girl who goes for her husband without her parents' blessings goes for dool and sorry and shame enough." "But Katharine had her parent's blessing. I gave her my blessing from the first hour. And I gave heriCharlie Janfarie's blessiug also. I knew that Charlie would approve Richard Mowbray. They are both Tories and Church of England men?at least, Charlie was and Richard is. Charlie liked fishing and fox-hunting as much as Richard does; and as for the classics aud literature of all kinds!" the lady lifted up her white dimpled hands to express the admiration that she had for Mowbray's and the deceased Janfarie's intellects. The laird was not much dashed. He continued: "I knew Charlie .Tanfarie as well as you did. He was a nice, ordinary, young man. I dare say Mowbray would be about his level. I look a litI tie above that mark. I stood by MowI bray in politics for your sake. Helen? \ ray own opinions are a good deal in advance of his?and I won bis seat for him. But for my influence he would now be biting his thumbs o'er his unprofitable elections bills. Yes?yes; he went on my shoulders to the House of Commons, and that nobody can deny! Fishing I have no opinion of at all. Any bit of a boy can put a strincr at the end of a stick and catch a trout. And I would think shame of myself if I could bear to be one of a big crowd of men and horses chasing a poor dog-fox, forbye that half the time the fox gets the better of them. As for the classics, I stood well enough in them when I was at college. There is a time and a place for the classics, and the Laird of Levens-hope knows better thau to mix his farming up with Horace anjjl Virgil. I am about two thousand years ahead of them, Helen. Charlie Janfarie was my friend. Ho left his daughter in my care." "You mean he left her money in your care." "Charlie thought a deal of my wisdom, and 1 thought a deal of Charlie'3 good, easy temper. For his sake I Virmn TTntliwine mav be hauDier than is likely." "She is happy. She is very happy." "At the present, Helen, at the present?the future?" "The future," said Mrs. Brathous, interrupting him, sharply, "the future is not in your ordering, Alexander. Look at them. They love God and each other, they have youth, beauty, health and wealth, and surely I believe that " 'Destiny wbc sees~th.era so divine Will weave theirfuture"ht?fl..silken twine.''? THE END. AY'lio Are the CarlUtu? At the death of King Ferdinand of Spain, in 1833, his three-year-old daughter, Isabella II., succeeded to the throne, though Carlos, Ferdinand's brother, claimed to be entitled to the honor under the salic law, which provided that no female should go to thte throne as fong as any male descendant of the king was living. This law, however, had been revoked by Ferdinand, who had no children at the time, but six months after his death a daughter was born and she became Queen, to the exclusion of Carlos. The latter's descendants, who are called Carlists, have since persistently insisted that, by right of succession, the throne belongs to them, and for over fifty years Spain has been subject to Carlist uprisings, whio.h have simtilv meant rr jiber of unsuccessful wars, the . ^tion of property and general public ..nrest. The Carlists have found their strength iu what are called the Basque provinces, domipated mostly by the clergy, who believe in the divine right of kings and of kingly succession. The inhabitants of the Basque region are largely shepherds and larmers. They are good fighters, and have been the main strength of the Carlist forces. A strong sentiment in favor of a republic exists in the cities, where the people have been led to independent views by education, reading and travel. It is unnecessary to say that between what are called the Republicans and the Carlists there is ? via?1<Qim d oro ii Miruii^ ttLl Ll^UlU J J K'l IUC11 oiuiu Ml V radically different. In 1873 Spain was a republic, and .the people owe to that period of popular government many of the liberties which they now enjoy.?Leslie's Weekly. Knlllng Out Gunpowder. At a receut fire in Boston, which filled the neighboring building, a gun store, with smoke, and threatened its destruction, a man quietly sat upon the powder chest near the door, until it was removed to a safe place in an adjacent block. The cool deed reculls an anecdote told in "A Good Child of Washington," about a fire in New York, in 1783, while the British were getting ready to evacuate the city. Colonel Morgan Lewis had returned to his house in the city, and with him, as guests, were Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton. Fire broke out in the arsenal, and all classes were frightened. Those Americans who had returned to their homes feared ihat the arsenal had been set on fire by the British. The British soldiers kept aloof lest they should be suspected, and become the object of popular violence. The flames continued unchecked. Colonel Lewis and Mr. Hamilton were forming the citizeus into line to pass leather buckets from hand to hand, when a soldier announced that all was lost, as the arsenal contained several barrels of gunpowder which the fire had just reached. "Come, my lads, won't you help I us?" said Colonel Lewis to the Brit- ! ish soldiers, standing idly by. "Yes, sir, willingly," they replied. Hamilton and Lewis led the way into the burning arsenal, and the soldiers followed. They rolled out through the fire the barrels of gunpowder, calling them "barrels of pork," and thus saved the city.? Youth's Companion. A Sociable Seal. The Edinburgh (Scotland) Evening Dispatch contains t,he following strange story about the remarkable conduct of a seal: A gentleman residing at Broughty Ferry, it says, who owns a yacht, took a run down the river the other day, accompanied by some friends, for the purpose of having a seal hunt. On the banks at the mouth of the estuary they saw large numbers of seals old and young. Believing that these creatures are attracted by whistling, they tried the experiment, and were surprised to observe a young seal following in the wake of the yacht. | Continuing to whistle, the creature followed up the river, disappearing for a time, aud then reappearing,with its head above the surface of the water It was not far off when the yacht reached its anchorage in West Ferry bay, and after the yachtsmen went ashore they were more than astonished to see the young seal flopping up the beach behind thetn. So tame was the creature that they bad no difficulty iu capturing it. It was carried to theii home. It was well fed aud cared for. Not having a proper place for keeping such a pet, it was resolved to restore it to its natural element, and the yachtsmen proceded down the river to the neighborhood of Broughty Castle, where it was placed in the water. So attached.however.had the seal become to its captora, that it refused to leave, I and again followed them home to I West Ferry. | t DR. TALIIAGFS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "ITold Fast to tlie Hlble"?Lessons Drawn From tlie Sword of Elenzar -? A a YTa rivi flnpfl IT is WeaDOTl SO Should We Cleave to the Oltl Gospel. Text: "And his hand clave unto the sword."?II Samuel xxili., 10. What a glorious thing to preach the Gospel! Some suppose that because I have resigned a fixed pastorate I will L*ease to preach. No, no. I expect to preach more than I ever have. It the Lord will, four times as much, though in manifold places. I would not dare to halt with such opportunity to declare the truth through the ear to audiences and to the eye through tho priDtlug press. And here we have a stirring theme put before us by the prophet. At great general of King David was Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Philistines opened battle against him, and his troops retreated. The cowards fled. Eleazar and three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for m ??"'*1* aa/j am f liaft* om a n IOUT 111011 WUU VIWU uu lulu muir i?o stronger than a whole regiment with *God aguinst them. "Fail backl" shouted the commander o( the Philistine urmy. The cry ran nloog the host,- "Full back!" Eleazar, having swept the field, throws himself on the ground to rest, but the muscles and sinews of his band had been so long bent around the hilt of his sword that the hilt was imbedded In the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the hand, and he I could not drop this sword which he hud so gallantly wielded. '"His hand clave I unto the sword." That Is what I call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel. And we want more of it. I propose to show you how Eleazar took hold of fthe sword and how the sword took bold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to the conclusion that he^took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled bad no trouble in dropping their swords. As they; fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanging in every direction. It is easy enough for them to drop their swords, but Eleazar's hand clave unto the sword. In this Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me sickHo see these Christian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go, so that the Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole sword away from them. Th,e only safe thing for us to do is to put cur .thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep our hand around the book until the New Testument comes Into the palm and keep on sweeping our hand around the book until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words "In the btginuing God created the heavens and {he earth." I like an infidel a great deal better than I do one of these namby pamby Christians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. By miracle God preserved this Blbl* just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when the sword is let loose it files back to its own sjiape. So the sword of God's truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way and that way and wound this way and that V****- nlmnva or\mac Vinr*L* tn {(a nron Wttjr, uui It tunuji" v,.u shape. Think of it! A book written nearly nineteen centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in our time the average sale of this book Is more than 20,000 copies every week and more than 1 iOOO.OOO copies a year! I say now that a book whfch is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered Is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the live books of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, anl Renau will come along and try to wrench out of your band the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates in the office or the factory or the banking house will try to wrench out of your band the entire Bible, but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar's grip hold on to it. Jfou give up the Bible, you give up any part of it, jind you give up pardon and peace and life in beaveo. Do not beashumed, young man, to havo the world know that you are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of all that is eood, nnd it is the sworn enemy or an mat is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man wUo stood in a cell of a Western prison. This criminal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows. The convict standing there at the window of the cell, this writer says, "looked out and declared, 'I am an iDfldel.' He said that to all the mon and women and children who happened to be gathered there, 1 am an inlldel.' " And the eloquont writer jays, "Every man and woman there believed him." And the writer goes 011 to say, "If he had stood there sayiug. 'I am u Christian,' every man and woman would linvo sai.l, 'He is a liar!'" This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and it is the friend of all that is ;ood. Oil, bold on it! Do not take part if it and throw the rest away. Hold on to all of it. There are so many people now who do not know. You ask them if the joul is immortal, and tbey say: "I guess it Is; I don't know. Perhaps it fc;, perhaps It isn't." Is the Biblotrne? "Well,perhaps It is, nnd perhaps it ibn't. Perhaps it may he, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all." They despise what they call the apostolic creed, but if thulr own creed were written out it would read like this: "pbelleve in nothing, the maker of heaven and enrth, 1 and in nothiug which it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing and which 1 nothing was dead and buried and descended into nothing and rose from nothing 1 and ascended to nothing and nqw sitteth 1 at the right hand of nothing, from W.llL'U 11 Will I'UIUC LUjuu^r uuiuin^, J. , lieve in tbe lioiy agnostic cbtirch and iu tbe commuulon of nothingarians and in J the forgiveness of nothing and the resurrection of notbiug and in tbe life that never 1 si a I be. Amen!" That is tiie crcod of J t' ns of thousands of people iu this daw If ' jou nav* a miucl to adopt such a theory, I ! will not. "I believe in God, the Father A!- j mighty. Maker of heaven and earth, and in j Jetua Christ and in the holy catholic ' church and in the communion of saints ' and in the iif? everlasting. Amen!" Oh, J when I see Eieazar taking such a stout J grip of the sword in the battle against sin and for righteousness, I come to the con- ' elusion that we ousht to take a stouter ' grip of God's eternal truth?the sword of righteousuess. As I look at Eieazar's hand I also notice his1 spirit ot self forgetfulness. He did not ( notice that the hilt of the sword was eating | ' through the palm of his hand. He did not ' know it hurt him. As he went out into the 1 conflict he was so anxious for tbe victory he lorgot himself, and that hiit might go never so deeply into the palm of his hand. , it could not disturb him. "His hand clave unto tlio sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go into the Christian conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who I cares whether the world praises us or do- 1 nounces us? What do -*e care for misrnp- 1 resentation or abuse or persecution iu a i conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves. < That man who is afraid of getting his hnnd J hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who ( cares whether you get hurt or not if you } get the victory? Oh. how many Christians i there are Wild are uu ine tune worryiu^ about the way the world treats ;nem! t They nro so tired, and they are so abused, i and they are so tempted, when Eleazur t did not think whether he had a hand or an c arm or a loot. All be wanted was victory, c We see l-.ow men forget themselves iu * worldly achievement. We have often seen f inen who. in order to achieve worldly sue- t cess-, will forget all physical fatigue and i all annoyance and all obstacle. Just after ' i the battle of Yorktown in the American 1 Revolution a musician, wounded, was told t Iia must have his limbs amuutated, and ( they were nbout to fasiteu him to the surgeon's table, for it was s lone before the merciful discovery of " anaesthetics. He said: "No; don't fasten iue to that table. Get me u violin.A c vioJin was brouebt to him, and he said, I "Now, go to work as I begin to play," and / for forty minutes, during the awful pang9 t of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor ? dropped a note, while he played some r sweet tune. Oh, is It not strange that with ? the music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, J and with this grand runrc!i of the church r militant on the way to become the church i triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves ^ and forget all pani* and all sorrow and all t persecution and all uerturbation? t . v? -; - ' We know wbat mon accomplish nndet worldly opposition. Men do notshrlnk back for antagonism or for hardship. You nave admired Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a history as was 1 ever written, but some of you may Dot know under wbat disadvantages it was written?tbat "Conquest of Mexico"?for Prescott was totally blind, and he had two < pieces of wood parallel to each other fast-1 eDed, and totally blind, with his pen between those pieces of wood, he wrote the stroke against one piece of wood telling bow far the pen must go in one way, the ( stroke against the other piece of wood tell- ] ing how far tho pen must go the other way. Ob, how much men will endure for worldly ' knowledge and for wordly success, and yet ] how little wo endure for Jesus Christ! How many Christians there are that go around ' saylDg, "Ob, my hand: oh, my hand, my hurt hand! Don't you sen there is blood on the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt im- 1 bedded in the flesh of his right hand, doe3 not know It. Must I be carried to the skie3 On flowery beds of ease, wnne otuers lougm to wiu mo pnzo Or sailed through bloody sens? What have we suffered In comparison with those who expired with suffocation or were burned or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much persecution going on now in various ways. In 1849, In Madagascar, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were ftc be burled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order tc make their death the more dreadful in an- | tlcipatlon, they were put in baskets and j swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in these baskets over tho rocks they sang: Jesus, lover of my 30ul, Let me to Thy bosom fly. ] While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high. Then they were dashed down to death. Ob, how much others have endured for Christ, and how little we -endure for Christl We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping car. our feet on soft plush, the bed made up earl>, so we can , gipup njijhe way, the black porter of death . to wake vPSSmj only In time to enter the golden city, we-want all the surgeons to ; fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the Ifnt and all ttie oanaages ana an me saive, for our band is hurt, while Eleaznr does not know his hand is hurt. "His nand clave unto the sword." As I look nt Eleazar's band I come toth? conclusion that be has done a great deal of bard hitting. I am not surprised when I see that these four men?Eleazar and his three companions drove back the army ol Philistines?tbat Eleazar's sword clave ta? his hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end ol the sword wounded him. When he tool) hold of the sword, the sword took hold ol bim. Oh, we have found an enemy who cannot be conquered by rosewater and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust. There is intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are 10,000 battalions of iniquity, armed Philistine iniquity. How are tbey to be captured and overthrown? Soft sermons in moroccc cases laid down in front of an exquisite audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right name. You have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacrement on Sunday and devoui widow's houses all the week. We havi got to stop our indignation against thi Hittites and the .Tebusites and the Qir gashites and let those poor wretches g( and apply our indignatton to the mod era transgressions which need to b? dragged out and slain. Ahabs here, Horods here, Jezebels here, the massacre of the infants here. Strike for God so hard that while you slay the sin the sword will adhere to your own hand. I tell you, mj friends, we want A. few John Knoxes and John Wesleys in the Christian church today. The whole tendency is to reflne on Christian work. We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity we are about to capture it. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride or white palfrey under embroidered housing, putting the spurs in only jusl onough to make the charger dance gracefully, and then we must send n c a no u n?Q/l/1{nr> no rr\ trt C lUOSJVU, UOUtQID no l? ?? uuiiiQ VW?U, -X ask the old black plant of sin if be will 1 not surrender. Women saved by the <3 gr.ice of God and on glorious mission t sent, detained from Sabbath classes be- L cause their new hat is not done. Churchej t that shook our cities with great revivals t sending around to ask some demonstrative t worshiper if he will not please to saj I "Ameu" and "bal'eluiah" a little softer. I: I seems as if in our churches we wanted n F baptism of colof? ie and bnlm of a thousand s flowers when wr actually need a baptism * of lire from th i Lord God of Pentecost. " But we are so afraid somebody will critl- c else our sermoLs cr criticise our prayers i or criticise our religious work that oui ' anxiety for the world's redemption Is losl * in the fear we will Ret our hand hurt, while Eleazar went into the conflct, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But I see in th? next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his band anc) * his sword parted. The muscles and tho ) sinews had been so long grasped around ) the sword he could not drop it when ha ? proposed to drop it, and bis three com. s rades, I suppose, came up and tried to help u him, and they bathed the back part of liii h hand, hoping the sluews and muscles would ? relax. But no. "His hand clave unto th? 'J 9word." Th?n they tried to pull open the t fingers and to pull back the thumb, but no d sooner were they pulled back than they a closed again, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But after awhile they were sue- t cessful, and then they noticed that the ? furvf' in the palm of the hand corresponded r exacuy with the curve of the hilt. "His F Imnri elavR unto the sword." v You und I Lave seen it many a time. * Iliere are in the United StRtes to-diiy 11 many aged ministers of? the Gospel. -e They are too feeble now to preacb. In ?( the church records the word standing opposite their name is "emerilus," or the words are "a minister without sbarge." They were a heroic race. They j had small salaries and but few books, j, tnd they swam saring freshetsoto meet j their appointments, but they did in their j, lay a mighty work for God. They 3 took off more of the heads of Philistine (1 iuiquity than you could count from noon ? tosuudown. You put that old minister of 1 the Gospel now into a prayer meetiog or occasional puipit or a sickroom where there is some one to be comforted, and it is ji the same old ring to his voice and the ,] ?arae oid story of pardon and peace and n Christ an l heaven. Kis band lias so long y jlutched the sword in Christian conflict lie annot drop it. "His hand clave unto the word." MISSIONARIES IM CHINA. riie Emorcss Do.THser lB*nc? an EtJIcI For Their I'rotectlon. United State? Minister Conger, at Pekio, [' as supplied the State Department at " Washington with a copy of a proclamation losted at Tien-Tsin relative to the treat- I) nent of missionaries in China. In tli?S <* sdict, issued on "27th of tenth moon," the | h Empress Dowager recite> the fact that inti-Christlan movements have taken place i] n many provinces, and declares tuat these lave all been ba*ed on a. false sentiment. She wishes the people to understand that lit* teaching o.' Christianity is permitted 11 China, and that the preachers aro to be 0 reated as good citizens. TheEmpress de- j j, lares that a good man, whether Christian i >r not, will be honest and true to others, | . vberefore she desires her people to treat j 3' orelgners as their own countrymen, and ! lvoid all misunderstanding with them. j 1' She commands the Vicerovs and official* 1 n the provinces to emphasize her sincerity j >y exerting themselves to suppress all agi- i: ation among the people before any an:i? n Christian prejudico is displayeJ. fi Seventy-filth Anniversary o! the A. S. S. U ? The American Sunday-school Union will t >n the 25th of May celebrate its seventy- ^ lfth anniversary in Philadelphia. The ji Icademy of Music has already been se t mr??i fnr thn irtt?Atinr?s Mriiv ipeakers of the country are to be there and epresentatives of the uniou from nil party }j >f the United States will be present. This j, ? the oldest and largest .Sunday-school i, nlssionary society in America, havinc for M ts Hel l of operations the whole United t) States and has organized over one liumlretl .( liousand Sunday-schools during its seven- w V-llv? veara of wnrit / - ' ' II . .*/?? /i.-vTTTir\Tr A TEJHJJMAJNUJS UULUMW. I>IE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST M IN MANY WAYS. 'JS & rhe T>runkar<l?Liquor Shops Are Jfotthft Foor Man's .Club?Are a Sorry M?Ue* shift When Recreation 1* the Object? ^ Drunkenness is a Disease. On feeble and unsteady legs He walks as if he trod on eggi. . W'bene'r he has to give or take His hands, as with the palsy, shake. ro m?et your gaze he vainly tries With dull and bleared and bloodshot eyes} Compelled to bear the sign, he shows ' V.> A swollen, coarse and crimson nose. ' HisDimDled. blue and bloated face Of manliness has not a trace. $ All people near him shun like dentil J His permeating, sickening breath. With ruined health and shattered nerves He suffers tortures he deserves. Sad children and heart-broken wife Through him endure a wretched life. Abhorred and shunned by friends once known He wanders through the world alone. 3oon losing salt respect, he goes fi-. Ln seedy, torn and alrty clothes. With raging, hot, Increasing thirst Which can't be quenched he's over cursed, J rn vain he takes the pledge to stop; With all power gone he has_no prop. Down, down he sinks, until in time V He in the gutter reeks with slime. From borrowing he begs until For drink he'd steal or even kill. Delirium tremens' horrid sights He sees. With imps and snakes he fights. \t last with tramps hi) doom Is sealed, An then he goes to Potter's Field. A.nd after that? AIns, who knows ' $ Where any slave of liquor goes? Saloons Not a Social Neccialiy. . < The argument that liquor saloons art a "social necessity" to the poor mao, or, Indeed, to nny one, is too specious to hold 'A water. At any rate, in this country there " Is-but little of the "poor man's club" per- h tainlug to them. At its best the liquor sa-^ , j loon Is but a sorry makeshift when recrea-! 1 Lion Is the object, and the instruction a U_i fforkingmnnis likely to guln lujlt Is scarce- ( > ly calculated to elevate or Improve bis. i nind. So long as he has money and Will * ipend it with alacrity his company is wcl- m :ome, but when his pockets are empty hie 1 lociety is no longer regarded with favor by * :he proprietor. The saloon keeper Is not a J nan of sentiment, but invariably keeps hie S sye on the main chance. This beiogso, the mefltion must ho faced as it taaIIv in' unrl I lot judged from an optimistic and lmaglna- J lve point of view. The truth is that the 'J iquor saloon in America is not a "poor 1 nun's club," a place in which he can give, | lis "recreative instincts" fair play, but , limply and solely a bouse for the sale of '' itrong drinks at a large profit to the pro* ' jrletor. * If the liquor saloon doessausfy the work* -y$ Dgmnn's I'reoreative instinct," all we cani 1 ay 19 that if be does not possess the bibuous instinct we are sorry for the in tell 1- , y) fence of the worklngman. The great maority of medical men nowadays are quite Lgreed that alcohol #oes no good to ai ; i'a lealtby man, and, taking into consideration { be incalculable amount of harm that has \ teen wrought by its q?oncy, it Is best that J he mutter should bo judged on its merits.' \ md that the ignoruut and careless should V >e warned of their danger. It i? right andj ust that the workingman should be af- CA orded the opportunities of mixing in con- ? ( jenial society which the rich man enjoys,!,!/"' iut be must not looic (or in the liquor, sa-; ^ 29 oon. From a consideration ot the social side of / * he saloon question to that of the abuse of * Irink Is but a step. Where, then, is the' ,^@1 emedy to be sought in order to abolish ori ; ounternct an evil which is acknowledged' 2 in all sides to be widespread and extreme-! / y pernicious? The view that habitual, Irunkenness is a disease and should be reated as sucb is the one most generally! . % leld in these days. Dr. Norman Kerr, the i test known British authority on the mat- >1 er, says: ''Dual with the inebriate as you1 - lave successfully dealt with the maniac. ^rown not on him ns a hardened criminal. ' '?(] leraember he has fallen by the power of a v ibysicai agency which has crushed to earth ome of the noblest and most Rifted. Treat * lira as a patient laboring under a baffling ,nd inveterate disease and amid many dis- J ourageraents. S'uch a measure of success \ rill follow your true curative treatment as nil gladdeniyour hearts as men, white it fill attest your skill as physicians." An Intellectual Poison. . Alcohol is an intellectual Doison. Nor ould it be otherwise, tor the bra n, wblcli, 3 the seat of memory, of thought, and of II the intellectual faculties, is affected byj Icohol, and by raason of the extreme-1 ensitivoness of its tissue is even particilarly Isensitive thereto. Hence it soon! ecomes subject to Change under the in-! iuence of liquor, and qulckl.v deteriorates^ 'ho power or thinking is affected, the in? ^ ellectual faculties are obscured, judgment; isappears andtbellnal result is that many; Icoholic subjects develop madness. For that matter," drunkenness itself? ;Jr bat temporary poisoning?is really an, phemeral madness which, by force or. epetition, becomes converted into com-l i ileto madness. It is a statistical* factj rbich shows at a glance how alcohol af-[ I ects the mind, that the increase of mad- ' e?s is in direct proportion to the conumption of intoxicating liquors in the dlf-i srent countries. Bad For Our Soldier*. The whisky and beer manufacturers and! eaiers who are trying to make the people; elieve that nothing will preserve cur sol- ' furs' health and increase their strength so meh ns the product of their breweries and istilleries. are well answered by tte exerience of the great explorer, Paul da Ihaillu, who, in a 'scter written to a younff oMier. said: "I will toil you my experience while ravelioR in mrm countries. I abstained rorn strong drinks because I found tliey id not help me?on the contrary, I felt reaker Iialf an hour alter, so I gave them P-" * Note* About The Drink Evil. While the silicon exists your own son is ever safe. . ?* A ciiampncrne trust with capital of ?50,D0.000 is reported. The House of the Utah Legislature deputed by a vote of '20 to 19 a Mil to provide )cnl option upon the liquor question. The man who deliberately destroys his ealth aud .shortens his life by drinking oimnics suieiilo as surely as if he blew out is brains or took poison. If you have got the love and taste of rink in your mouth, it will dog you and onntl you thronlire, ami your oniy nfotv is, renounce drink altogether. The House of Keys of the I-le of Man delved a bill de-isnod to opon the saloons it Sunday*. Sunday closing lias been the iw of that little Islaud for forty years. T!io Legislature of South Dakota Las ndlurued without enacting legislation to aery out the will of the people expressed y their vot? for the d!speusary system at ho last elect ion. The notfd inventor, Thomas A. Edison, < a total abstainer. When asked why be 4 ever drinks he replied. "Because I always elt that I bad a better use for my bead.". Well to do alcoholics ruin their health1 a nd their families; as for the hapless workog men who give themsejves up to drink, heir lot is even worse; they become vagaonds, cripples or criminals, thus becoming a weight on the community by fillingbe prisons and asylums. The total abstinence pledge has twofold ower for good. It benefits the abstainer, ut it aiso benefits others through him by; aduclng them to abstain. It makes him' ecomean active apostle of temperance^ nd his example encourages others to 1ml' ute bim, Illustrating, as it does, in bid ocial and domestic liie, what temperance .11 do for a ruun '