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f """"" 1 THE REALM i ' New York City (Special).?Soft blue poplin is here charmingly united "with white satin and all-over lace in a creamy tone, applique insertion to i . #ffpf i I m&m I A FAXCr WAIST. [ match providing the attractive decorar tion. \ The waist is arranged over Iining3 fitted by the usual seams aud bust darts that close in centre front. The plastron vest of satin overlaid with lace is included in the right shoulder seam, sewed to right lining front and closes over on the left. The fronts have single backward turning plaits laid at the shoulder edges that produce pretty fulness across the bust, the lower eape having the fulness also disposed in plaits to puff out slightly in the most approved TV OMAN'S WAIS style. The fronts are cut low and have prettily rounded upper edges Iai/ssI m?^V\ oafin on/1 rn. , >yuilu mo tuiu oauu auu versed to form small revers, the plas'tron vest being disclosed between the free edges. The back fits smoothly across ths shoulders and is cut away at the top to disclose the round yoke faoing that is applied over the lining. Slight fulness at the lower edge is drawn well to tho centre back at the waist line. The standing collar raised behind the ears with prettily rounded portions ;that are joined to its upper edges, stylishly completes the neck. ( The fashionable sleeves have slight puffs of the overlaid satin at the top, the material being slashed in centre, underfaced and rolled over in a style to match the fronts. This same effect is carried out in the completion of the wrist3 and a crush ribbon belt with oxidized silver buckle is suitably worn at the waist. Separate waists or those that match the skirt may be stylishly made up by this model, which suggests a variety of effective and striking combinations. Tucking, cording, shirring or., other i fashionable yoking materials may be used in place of the lace covered satin, and fine woolen, mixed or silk fabrics ^ill combine to develop attractively in this style. ' ToJ make this waist in the medium size will require one and one-half | yards of material fortv-four inches I wide. Dainty and Fashionable. As illustrated by May Manton in the I large engraving; figured organaie ' showing shades of wild rose and fern 1 green is daintily and fashionably trimmed with Valenciennes lace and insertion, green frizzed satin ribbon outlining the insertion on each aide. The pointed collar is cut from yoking of finely tucked white organdie and insertion, the edge being finished { with a frill headed by insertion and \frizzed ribbon to match lower edge cf jkirt. The waist is made over lining > 3{ 4^af-green lawn and nearsilk, ' the j skirtTfftiPS being shaped and finished . with a truKgxactly the same as the ] -ioffirf K>*^each is finished *en- I UIOOO 0^44 Vf u w ^ ? - ^ arately. The stJv^ght row of trimming shown at the t<?p can be omitted if not desired. The d^irt may also be jut off and finished ^ls >?u overskirt, the lining being faced or bojered with frills or pleating to reach above the p'oint3, thus forming a skirt antl, overjkirt. The waist is supported by livings simply fitted, with wide back a^d ander-arm portions and fronts having single bust darts. The full fronts and back are gathered top and bottom, th<3 fulD^s ,the too being ap-? : OF FASHION. | mmmmmk plied on the lining at square yoke depth. The one-3eam sleeves wrinkle in mousqueiaire style above the elbow and are arranged over smooth linings. which may be omitted. The wrists are completed by cuffs that fiare over the hand and are trimmed with lace and ribbon to correspond. A ribbon sash or crush belt is worn around the waist. The skirt is shaped with five gores, closely fitted with short darts over the hips and arranged with un derlying pleats that meet over tne i placket in centre back. The mode is desirable for gowns of foulard, India and China silk surah, challie, veiling, and other soft wool- i ens, lawns, dimity, mall, point-d'esprit, percale, gingham and other cotton fabrics. Lace embroidery or ruching3 of the material, with or without ribbon, will provide suitable garniture. To make this waist for a woman of medium size will require three and one-half yards of material thirty inches wide. To make the skirt will require four and three-quarter yards of forty-four-inch or six and one-half yards of thirty-six-inch material. Delicate Combination in Ileadgear. Black and white effects in fashionable headwear are in evidence this season, and, almost without exception, the hats and bonnets showing this delicate combination prove becoming. Black and white ostrich plumes are united on white chip, Leghorn, or coarse fancy straw hats, with or without an additional trimming of black velvet ribbon loops. The Walkiiic Hata. Turbans and walking hats arc most attractive thin season. The turban3 are quite small, with the trimmings in a big clump directly in front?this almost always of flowers. Black straw ST AND SKIRT. . turbans have flowers of any color, while in the different colored straws the flowers are supposed to somewhat match the straw. Jackets For Yoang; People. Young people will wear jackets, either short or half long, close-fitting or loose. Open fronts will be the style most seen. Exceedingly light shades of gray or drab, or in some cases bright crimson or blue, are the colors preferred. For Lo\r-?cked Summer Dresses. The two useful designs here given are particularly intended to be worn with low-necked summer dresses. They are usually made in lawn, nainsook, or wash silk prettily trimmed with embroidery or lace. No. 1, as here illustrated, is of white nainsook, trimmed with frills of embroidered edging and narrow insertion. The front and backs join in shoulder aadunder-arm seams, and are gathered at the neck. A casing, with drawstring inserted, adjusts the fulness at the waist-line. A narrow band of insertion with frill of embroidery finishes the neck, the sleeves being trimmed at the wrists to match. No. 2 is of linen batiste, trimmed with VifiHstn insertion and narrow lace edcj iug. Slight fulness is gathered at the back and front of neck, the fulness at the waist being regulated by a tape drawn through a casing. The sleeves are mounted on fitted linings and the GIRLS* OCIMrES. wrist-bands are made of insertion to match the collar, and are edged with lace. Both styles of gaimpes close in centre-back with buttons and buttonholes. To make either of the prnimpes in the medium size will require two and one-fourth ywda of thirty-six inch material, .... JW'iii-w ... ......... !. DR. TALMAGE-S SMMON. ? tt ?>t SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED O DIVINE. b< w ? d< Subject: Cliolcc of Bel'eft?Tellsloti* To!- ^ _ All Fvnflffpl iriil 7 Churches Are Good an<l Are Seeking ej the Same Praiseworthy End. b< cl [Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1S?3 1 - I fit Washington, D. C.?In this sermon Dr. ^ Talmnge discusses n topic whicli will In- sj terest domestic circles everywhere. The V( test is Genesis xiii., 3; "Let there be no j strife, I pray thee, between me and thco and between ray herdmen and tby herdmen. C( Is not the whole land before thee?" ttl Uncle and nepbew, Abram and Lot, both pious, both millionaires, and with such jt large flocks of bleating sheep and lowing 0 cattle that their berdmen got Into a light, perhaps about the best pasture or about ? the best water privilege or because the cow 0] of one got hooked by the horns of the a! others. Not their poverty of opportunity, ^ linf tiioii- wn<> the cause of con troversy becween these two men. To g, Abram, the glorious old Mesopotamian sheik, 9uch controversy seemed absard. It ^ was like two ships quarreling (or sea room j iu the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There t| was u vast reaoh ot country, corntlelds, 0 vineyards, harvests and plenty of room in 0 illimitable acreage. "Now," says Abram, ti "let us agree to differ. Het? are the moun- a tain districts, swept by the tonic sea breeze ? and with wide reaching prospect, and there 9( is the plain of tho Jordan, with tropical n luxuriance. You may have either." Lot, t| who was not as rich as Abram, and might tj have been expected to take the second ? choice, maiie the flrst selection and with a t| modesty that must have made Abram smile e said to him: c "You may have the rocks and the fine a rrosp.?ct; I will take the valley of the j] Jordan, with all its luxuriance of corn r fields and the river to witer the flocks and a the genial climate and the wealth im- j, measurable." So the controversy was forever settled and great-souled Abram s carried, out the suggestion of the text: t| "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and theo, and between my herd- a men and thy herdmen. Is not the whole e land before thee?" 0 Well, in this the last decade of the nine- ^ teenth century and In this beautiful land, ^ which was called America, after Americus g Vespucius, but should have been called 3 Columbia, after its discoverer, uoiumDus, p we have a wealth of religious privilege and ? opportunity that Is positively bewildering. n Churches of all sorts of creeds and of all c kinds of government and all forms of v worship and all styles of architecture? v what opulence of ecclesiastical opportunity! Now, while in aesolato regions e there may be only one church, in the j opulent districts of this country there is , such a profusion that there ought to be no J difficulty in making a selection. No fight t ubout vestments, or between liturgical or j nonllturglcal adherents, or as to baptismal j modes, or a handful of water as compared c with a rlverful. If Abrani prefers to dwell ? on the heights, where he can get only a * sprinkling from the clouds, let him consent d that Lot have all the Jordan in which to a immerse himself. "Let there be no strife, r I pray thee, between me and thee and be- t tween my herdsmen and thy herdsmen. Is ^ not the whole land before thee?" q Especially is It unfortunate when fami- <3 lies allow angry discussion at the break- j. fast or dining or tea table as to which is ^ the best ohuroh or denomination, one at t one end of the table saying he could never j, endure the rigid doctrines of Presbyterl- a unism, one at the other end responding E that Sue never could stand the forms of Episcopacy, and one at one side of the t table saying be did not understand bow y anybody could bear the nolseln the Metho- [ dist church, and another declaring all the ^ Baptists bip?ts. There are nunareas 01 c families hopelessly split on ecclesiastlclsm, t aud in the middle of every discusslou oq t suck subjects there is a kindling of indig- j aatloa, aud it needs some old father Abram v to come and put his foot oq tbe loaded fuse s before the explosion takes place and say: v "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, be- c tween me aud thee and betweeu my herd* t men and tby lierdnien. Is not the whole t land before thee?" I undertake a subject never undertaken j by any other pulpit, for it is an exased- n incly delicate subject, aud If not rightly , bandied might giveserious offense, but I { approach it without the slightest treplda- t tion, for I am sure I have the dtvino aireo- |j tion in tbe matters I propose to present. ? [t is a tremendous question, asked all over t Christendom, often asked with tears and c jobs and heart breaks and iavolvlng the e peace of families, the eternal happiness of c nany souls. Iq matters of church attend- 0 ance should tbe wife go with tbe husband 3 or the husband go with the wife? v First, remember that all the evangelloal 8 Jhurchei have enough truth in them to D save the soul and prepare us for bappine?s ,, on earth and In heaven. I will go with you j( Into any well selected tueoiogioai imrary, ^ and I will show you sermons from minis- ? ters in all denominations that set fortU man ? as a sinner and Christ as a deliverer from 0 ??ln aud sorrow. That is the whole Gospel. 0 Get that into your soul and you are fitted a for the iiere aud the hereafter. There are t dlffereuces, we admit, aud some deuorul- jj nations we llk? better thau others. But v suppose three or four of us make solemn agreement to n.eet each other u week from now In Chicago on important business, and p one goes by the New York Central Rail- |j road, another by the Erie Railroad, another p by the Pennsylvania Railroad, another by j, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. One v goes this way because the mountains are j grander; another takes this because the y cars are moro luxurious; another that be- ^ cause the epeed Is greater; another takes ^ the other because he has long been accus- j tomed to that route, and all the employes y are familiar. Eo far as our engagement to ^ meet is concerned It makes no difference if ,v we only get there. Now, any one of the u Innumerable evangelical denominations; if tj you practice Its teaching?although some ^ or their trains run on a Droau gauge ana s some on a narrow guage?will bring you t out at the city of tbe New Jerusalem. t It being evident that you will be safe in any of the evangelical denominations, I c proceed to remark, first, it one of the mar- v rled couple be a Christian and the other j not, the one a Christian is bound to go any- tj where to a church where the uucouverted companion is willing to go, if ho or she e will go to no other. You of the conuubial ^ partnership are a Christian. You are safe r for the skies. Then it is your first duty to t< secure tbe eternal safety of your lifetime associate. Is not the everlasting welfare j, of your wife impenitent, or your husbuud P Impenitent, of more importauce than your n church relationship? Is not the condition of your companion for the next quadrillion of years a mightier consideration to you than the gratification of your ecclesiastical taste for forty or fifty years? A man or a #. woman that would stop half tt minute to weigh preferences as to whether he or she had better go with the unconverted companion to this or that church 02 de- " nomination, has no rellglou at all, and J1 never has bad. and I fear never will have. ^ V?? 1 I ml, (J to be religion, but you are like Captain Jj Froblsher, who brought back from bis voyage of discovery a shipload of what he upposed valuable minerals, yet, Instead of * being silver and gold, were nothing but P common 8ton?9 of th9 field, to be hurled r out an finally useless. ?' Mighty God! In all Ihy realm Is there j! ne mau or woman professing religion, yet 1 so stolid, so unfitted, so far gone unto J1, death that there would be any htsitanc.y in surrendering all preferences before such an ? opportunity of salvation and heavenly re- 11 union? If you, a Christian wife, are an attendant UDon any church, and youruacon- J? verted husband does no; go there because 11 he does cot like Its preacher, or Its mu>?l>*, or Its architecture, or Its uncomfortable crowding, and goes not to any house of " worship, but would go If you would accom- 11 pany him somewhere else, change your c church relations. Take your hymnbooi: Si home with you to-day. Say pood by to your friends In the neighboring pows, and go with him to any one of a hundred churches till his 30ul is saved and he joins you in the it march to heaver.. More important than c< that ring on the third finger of your left ci hand It is that your heavenly Father com- a mand the angel of mercy, concerning your husband at bis conversion, as in the parable of old, "Put a riug on his hand." No letter of more Importance ever came to the ereat city of Corinth, situated on what was palled the'-Bridge of thoSea," ? and glistening with sculpture and gated a with a style of brass the magnificence of which the following ages have not been able to successfully imitate and overshadowed by the Acro-Corlnthus, & fortress t; ' < ; s* : rock 2000 feot high?I say no letter evel ime to that great city of more importauca uiu that letter in which Paul puts the two artiiug question*: "What knowestthou, wife, whether the.' shalt save thy husin,n iir linw l:nown?t thou. 0 man. hether thou ?halt save tin* wife?" Tba rarest sacrifice on the part cf tbe one is leap if it rescue the otber. Better go to < te smallest, weakest, most insigni?.<'ant lurch on earth anil he copartners in :ernal bliss than pass your earthly mem;rship in most gorgeously attractive lurch while your companion stays outde of evangelical privilege. Better ave the drowning saved by a scow or a oop than let him or her go down while du sail by in tbe glided cabins of aliaotic or Campania. Second remark: If both of the married suples be Christians, but one Is so naturlly constructed tbiit it is impossible tc ajoy the services o! a particular deuonilatfou, and tbe otber is not so sectarian r punctilious, let the one less particular o with the other who is very particular, s for myself, I feel as much at home in ne denomination of evangelical Christians > ?nnthpr and I think I must have been orn very neur the line. I like the solornn Ml of the Episcopal liturgy, and I like the pontaneity of the Methodists and I like ie importance Riven to the ordinance of aptism by the Baptists and I like the frfeeorn of the Congregationalism and I like ie government and the sublime doctrine f the Presbyterians and I like many of the thers just as much/as any I have menoned and I could happily live and preach nd die and be buried from any of them. . ut others are born with a liking so stout, a unbending, so inexorable for some de< omlnatlon tuat it is a positive necessity I bey have the advantage of that one. What j bey were intended to be in ecclesiasticlsm i as written in the sides of their cradle, il I he father and mother had eye* keen nough to see it. They would not stop rying until they had put In their hands as plaything a Westminster Catechism 01 he 1'hlrty-nlne Articles. The whole curent of their temperament and thought nd character runs into one sect of relig. jnists as naturally as the James Rlverintc he Chesapeake. It would be a torture to uch persons to be anywhere outside ol hat one church. Now, let the wife or husband who is not o constructed sacrlilce the milder prefernee for the one more inflexible and rigorus. Let the grapevine follow the rugosii.. ..j =ini,noitiMnf Ml; or liiekorv. I LiC3 UUU otu uu..iv,^ v . .bram, the richer in Socks of Christian ;race, should say to Lot, who is built on a mailer scale: "Let there be no strife, I ray thee, between me and thee aud beween my herdtnon and thy herdmen. Is ot tbe whole land before thee?" As you an be edifled and happy anywhere, go ?lth your companion to the church to rblch he or%he must go or be ml98iabl?. Bemurd the third: If both the marrlei] couple are very strong in thelrsectarlansm, let them attend the different churches >referred. It Is not necessary that you .ttend the same church. Bellgion is be< ween your conscience and your God, jike Abram and Lot, agree to difer. When on Sabbath morning you lome out of your home together and one ;oes one way and the other the ither, heartily wish each other a good erraon and a time of profitable devotion, nd when you meet again at the noonday epast let it be evident, each to each, and o your children, and to the hired help, hat you have both been on the Mount of Transfiguration, although you went up by llfforent paths, ana that you have both leen fed by the bread of life, though :neaded by different hands In different rays and baked in different ovens. "But tow about the children?" I am ol'ten .slied by scores of parents. Let them aiso aftke their own choice, They will grow ip with reverence for both the denomina? ions represented by father aud mother 1( ou, by holy lives, commend those delomlnaiions. If the father lives the beter life, they wilt have the more favorable ipinion of his denomination. It the nnthdr llw^a frhp hatter life, tliev wili have lie more favorable opluloa ot ber danomuatloD. And some day both the parents rill, for at least one servloe, go to the nme churcli. The neighbors will say, "I ronder what is going on to-day, for I saw iur neighbor and yts wife, who always go o different churches, going urm in arm to ha same sanctuary." Well, I will tell you what has brought hem together, arm iu arm, to the same iltar, Something very important has hap>ened. Their son is to-day uniting with he churoh. He is standing in the aisle, aklng the vows ot a Christian. He had ?een somewhat wayward, and gave father nd mother a good deal of anxiety, but heir prayers have been answered in his onverslon, and as he stands in the aisle ind the minister of religion says, "Do you sonsecrate yourself to the Qod who mad# ,nd redeemed you and do you promlso to erve Him nil your days?" an^ with manly 'oloe he answers, "I do," there is an April hower in the pew where father and aother sit and a rainbow of joy which robes both their souls, that makes alldlferencea of creed Infinitesimal. And the aughter who had been very worldly and ay and thoughtless, puts her life on the Itar ot oonsecratlon, and as the sunlight f tbat Sahbath streams through the burch window and falls upon her brow nd cheek, she looks like their other daughter, whose (ace was illumined with the Tightness of another world on the day | rhen the Lord took her into His heavenly eeping years ago. I should not wonder, If, after all, these iirents pans the evening of their life in t e aitme churoh, all differences of church reference overcome by the joy of being i the house of God where tneir children r ire prepared for usefulness and heaven, lilt I can give you a recipe for ruining cur children. Angrily contend In the ousehold that your church is right and lie churoh of your companion is wrong, irlng aneer and caricature to emphasize our opinions, aud your children will lake up their minds that religion Is a sham, nd they will have none of it. In the ortheast storm of domestic controversy lie rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley rill not arow. Fi?ht about apostolio uocessloD, fight about election and free Keni'.y, tight about baptism, fight about 1.. -1 . ?nr1 a?r- I Lit) U19UU[>n<J, UK U I IIUUUI (jV)TU UUi* Hoe, nnd the religious prospects ot your bildroa will bo left dead on the Held. You rill b6 as unfortuuate hs Clmrles, Duke of lurgundy, who lu battle lost a diamond lie value" of a kingdom, for in your light ou will lose the jewel of salvation for youc ntire ho isehold. This is nothing against he advoc a:y of your own religious theoles. Use all forcible argument, bring all ailing illustration, array all demonstrative icts, but let there be no acerbity, nostinj?. ig retort, no mean Insinuation, no superlliousness, ns though all others wer? 'roug and you Infallibly right. INSANE OVER RELIGION. [other and Daughter Driven to Madneii bj Orerotndy. Two women, mother und daughter. botb asane from overstudy In Christian Science, rere in Judge Carter's Court in Chicago a ?w days ago. They were Mrs. Ellen L. Klson and Gertrude Gilson. The head ol be family is a well-to-do gr.ila and stock irmer of Blue Island. The evidence showed that the daughtei ras twenty-one years old and employed revious to her illness a- a teacher in. a ullman kindergarten. She had made a srious study of the faith-healing doctrine, 1 wLich her mother has long been a beever, and had become possessed of the allucination that she was called upon by be Divine powers to kill and sacrifice two r three ehildreu for the benefit and sulvalon of unbelievers. The condition of Mr*. Gllion wns duo to orry about Christian Science. Her allucination was that her husband was ndeavoring to nolsou hor. To support 3is belief she exhibited to thejury a small os of corn euro which she said she had jund her liustmnd trying to put la her i^fTee. Both women were adjudged inme. licentiates May Use Tobacco. I The Presbytery of Boston lias refused to , lake total" abstinence from tobacco a > ond.tion precedent of ordination in the ! use of the young licentiates ucaor u? car* | nd ol elders-elect. Work of London Tract Society. The Loudon Tract Society has carried on ork in all parts of the world and in no >33 than 229 languages, dialects and charters. Germans and the Nicaragua Canal. Germans are said to be trying to g<jt con:ol ol the Nicaragua Canal route. | " W: GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Tho Flower Evangelists ? Tlie Crown o1 Christ'* Career?God Leads hy Stimulating Desire?The Holy Spirit in History?Turning Array from Life Giver. Who will the evangel bear Out Into the world of care? All the hearts of men are weary For the spring's sweet glow and song. Never winter was more dreary ; The unwelcome guest stays long. Who will bear the news, aud say That the spring is on hor way? This the whisper that went round In the world beneath the groundWork! of wondrous silences, W^ere they all were making ready For the summer ministries, 8tro?i' H--wers, grand llowers, swift and steady, By smtojy garden or brisk bum, \? ailing each to take his turn. Who shall be the pioneer Of the flower hosts of the year? Tulips, daffodils and roses, Put their claim in; the strong flowers Wished the honor. ^iVho disposes? He knew best their dues and powers. And He whispered in the night To the little snowdrops white! Were they fragile, wee, weak things? Nay, not they! Obedience brings Power to da. And they were gifted With a new, brave life, and rose Stem ahd leaf-sheath tense, and lifted Up from out the world of snows, Thfir pure faces, every one Nodding, smiling, to the sun! All the winter-wearied men Soon began to hope again. Birds commenced their songs of cheering, Sottly down looked skies of blue; The world, hearing spring was nearing, Knew the snowdrops message true; The evangelists were small? But that mattered not at all! ?Marianne Farningham,in Christian World. The Crown oT Christ's Career. The supreme event Jn the earthly career of our Lord was His crucifixion. But It did not complete His work upon earth. In a real sense the resurreciion was the crown of His career. It was necessary to supplement the crucifixion. Of course His death bewildered and discouraged His fol lowers. The resurrection was necessary to complete the revelation of Christian truth. Christ came to teach not merely repentance, forgiveness, and salvation, but also immortality. What need of any other lesson upon the subject. His victory over the grave is the victory, as he d.eclared, of every believer. Because He rose, we shall rise too. Because He lives forever we shall live forever,and but for His resurrection the world would never have been convinced of the solemn and glorious truth of immortality as'iijnow is. The resurrection was essential to insptre the churcb, and in respect to not merely its faith, but also Its aggressiveness. It was no loDger a conquered and despondent, but a victorious and hopeful body of believers who encircled pur Lo:-'. It was not yet as triumphant or as a .tii red of the prevalence of the Gospel among men as It afterwards became. It was not without forewarnings of the terrible trials surely to be undergone, which, by scattering the seed of truth throughout the world, should stimulate Instead of hindering Its advance. Yet it was a church upliftea and encouraged, assured that its faith rested upon solid foundations, knowing as It had not known before in whom it had. believed, and therefore inspired for faith, service and endurance as it could not have been otherwise. Truly tjie rssurtection was the srown of Christ's career. ^ God Lea<ls by Stimulating Desire. > Not always is it evident that God through His own Spiritis giving His speclalguidance, but as we look l^ack over life ana perceive Wati? r\9tcin nrn Koua ofnnd rrhorfl H1 vornronf pathways invited us, It becomes clear that atTinfluence from on hi&h has guided as into that which proved itself to be the right way, even though another, at that time, may have been more Inviting. Far more often God's Spirit leads us by enlightening our judgment and stimulating us to choose that which he desires us to choose. But. wherever or however manifested, the fact of divine guidance gradually becomes impressed upon every one who thoroughly aims to obey his Creator. Let this conviction become "fixed in the heart, and then to follow the divine leading becomes comparatively simple. We then learn to look for Its tokens, to accept it as authoritative, to yield to it in simple trustfulness, to follow it loyally and not to worry about possible consequences, confiding them calmly to the same divine wisdom and oversight which has bidd?n us face tbem if they come. Faith needs to be stimulated by opposition and exercise, rather than to be dwarfed by too complete and speedy enlightenment. But be who accepts heartily toe guidance 01 God's Spirit, and who humbly and prayerfully endeavors to pursue the path of duty which is indicated, need have no fear of being abandoned, betrayed, or even disappointed at last. The Holy Spirit in History. It is well, sometimes,to enlarge our range erf observation and^ thought, and to study human history as a whole for it has many lessons. No Christian can do this without being impressed by tokens of the presence of the Holy Spirit. To study the development of civilization and the advance of knowledge and culture, is to recognize a divine plan and divine oversight. Historic events, the significance of which was not apparent at the time, take their places in the great scheme of God for mankind, and their true meaning and use becomes evident. Thus the persecu tionofthe Christians in the early years of the church seemed to them a cruel and almost deadly calamity, but now it is evident that God used that fact, and probably ordained it. so that the seeds of Christianity micht be scattered more widely throughout tb(T world and might have opportunity to take root in fresh soil. Whatever events in the career of mankind may be examined will be found, when viewed in their larger relations, to have bad much to do with the development of humanity from a lower to a higher state of knowledge acd usefulness, from a dimmer to a more clear and efficient conception of Christian truth and service. Turning Awav froin the Life Giver. They are unwilling to become Christians because to them the Christian life seems to be a starved and stunted life. That is the mistake which young men and women are making always. They turn their back on Christ because they want to live, when al! the time He wishes to fulfil their life. Life is the one thins: we most of all desire, and the one thing which He longs to supply. " 'Tis life of which our nerves are scant; 'Tis life, not death, for which we pant; More life and fuller that wo want!' And yet we turn away from the Life Giver This is the tragedy of human history. This Is the tragedy of your life and mine. "X am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." He never destroys a single appetite or a single passion or a single aptitude or a single sympathy. He never curtails a single capadtj >r lessens the energy of a single power. He us enlarges and enriches ua. He Alls us fulloi Himself.? C. E. Jefferson, D. D. It is a plea.-ant sight to see anybody thanking God. for the air is heavy with the hum of murmuring and the roid9 are dusty with complaints and lamentation?.?Spurjeon. Motor Wagons Tor Army U?e. European military circles are evincing ihe keenest interest in the large number ol motor cnrs ordered ror trie Austrian *vai Department. The decision of the Wur Department was arrived at only aftor a serle9 jf exhaustive tests, conducted during the last seven months, had demonstrated the feasibility of the use of these vehicles for the transportation of men, provisions, ammunition and general military stores. increase ot tintigu immigrants. There has been an incroaso in the nura her of persons who have sailed from Great Britain for the United States for the pasl four months as compared with the sum? period of last year. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 2. Subject: Gracious Invitation*, Hoiea xiv., 1-9?Golden Text: "Come, and Let Us Return Unto the Lord," flosea vi., 1?Commentary. 1. "0 Israel." These words may be considered as addressed to the people then la captivity, suffering much but having still much more to suffer if they did not repent. But it seems all these evils might yet be prevented, though so positively predicted. it me peupjo wouiu repom auu cciuru; uuu the very exhortation to this repentance shows that they still had power to repent, and that God was ready to save them and avert all these evils. 2. "Take with you words." Notsacriflces and offerings, but penitent prayers and supplications. Remember your iniquity, deeply deplore it. and beg of God to take it all away. "Take away all iniquity." They were now smarting for sin under the the load of affliction, but are taught to pray not as Pharaoh did?take away this death, but take away this sin. Lift it off as a burden we are about to *ink under. "Receive us graolously." Give that good which we have forfeited, and whioh Thou hast promised, and that for which the necessity of our case calls. Give that good which will make us good and keep us from returning to iniquity again. "So will we render the calves of our lips." The sacrifices of praise, thanksgiving, gratitude and the hearty obedience which our lips have often promised. 8. "Asshur Eball not save us." We will neither trust in nor fear this rich and powerful king.- We will not look either to riches orpower for true rest and peace of mind. "We will not ride upon horses." We will no more fix our hopes on the proud Egyptian cavalry to deliver us out of the hands of enemies to .whom Thy divine lustice has delivered us. We will expect no rest or happiness in the elegancies of life and the gratification of our senses. I "We will not say to the work of our hands." A. Dromlse to turn from all Idolatry. We will not trust lu anything without us, or even in any good thing we are able to do through Thy grace, knowing we have nothing but what we have received. Wo will trust in Thy infinite mercy for our final salvation. 4. "I will heal their backsliding" * We have here an answer of peace to the prayers of returning Israel. God will be sure to met them in away of mercy who return to Him in a way of duty. "I will love them freely." A love that not only feels delight in itself, but fills them with delight who are its objects, by making them unutterably and supremely happy. 5. "I will be as the dew." This follows upon the healing of their backslldings, for pardoning mercy is always accompanied with renewing grace. What they need God will not only give them, but He will Himself be that to them all that which they need, "He shall grow as th? lily." No plant is more productive than the lily, one root often producing fifty bulbs. "Oast forth His roots as Lebanon." That is, as the trees of Lebanon, especially the cedars, ' which cast down their roots as deeply as is thnir hniffht nnward. so that thev are un movable. Spiritual growth consists most In the growth of the root, which Is out of sight. 6. "His branches." Shoots. When many are added to the charch without? when a hopeful generation rises up?then Israel's branches spread. When believers abound in good works and Increase In the knowledge of Godaad in every good gift, then their branches may b? said to spread. "Beauty as the olive tree." Which never loses its verdure. "His smell as Lebanon." Which exhaled from it the fragrance of trees and flowers. So Israel's name shall be in good savor with all. Grace is the perfume of the soul. -??? . .? 7. ""Thej under His shadow." Not only yag. Isy'd&l to regain its former prosperity, but InbjSsSalfer tribes of people that were connected with Israel and shared in its depression, which are here described as dwelling under His shadow. They shall return Kto their own country and rest safely under the protection of the Almighty. "They sball revive as the corn." After the corn had been a short time above the earth in a single spike, the blades begin to separate and the stalk to spring out of the center. The side leaves turn back tc make way for the protruding stalk, and fall bending down to the earth, assuming a withered appearance though still attached to the plant. In a. short time other leaves spring out; the former freshen and begin to stand erect, and the whole seems to revive from a vegatative death. 1 At-- -I-. n TXTUl?k i? "UrCW S3 me VU10. iiwuu ill hiuki seems dead, yet has life and sap; an emblem of the Jewish nation arising from a state of great depression and affliction, and recovering its former prosperity and dignity. "The wine of Lebanon." Celebrated for its aroma, flavor and medicinal, restorative properties. 8. "Ephriam shall say." The words "shall say" are not in the Hebrew. The clause is therefore translated thus by Bishop Horsley: "Ephraiml What have I to do anv more with idols??an oznltatlon of Jehovah over idols. Ephriam! Even he is returned to me. I have no more contest to carry on with idols. They are completely overthrown. My sole Godhead is confessed." "I have heard him." It is I, not his idols, who have heard his petitions and watched over him to preserve him. "Iam like a green flr tree." Before, Israel was compared to a tree; now God compares Himself to one. The firtrees in these countries were exceeding large and thick, and a shelter against sun and rain. Ever green, winter and summer alike, the leaves not falling off In winter. It is I who am ever-existing and have it in my power to give my people blessings at all times. There is .safety and refreshment under the protection of Jehovah. "From Me Is thy fruit found." From Me, as the root. Thou needest go no further for the supply of all thy wants. 9. "Wise." As duly to weigh and consider the duties prescribed, the blessings promised and the judgments threatened. "Shall understand." 8hall be enlightened. "Prudent." Discreet, so as to use hia knowledge aright. "The ways of the Lord." Which He Himself takes In HI? moral government of the world, and the ways of godliness which He prescribes to to man. These are right because they go straight forward to the end?the happiness of man and the glory of God. STRENGTH OF ENCLAND'S NAVY, j The Remarkable Statement Made by the German Expert on Xaval Affair*.' The Bureau of Naval Intelligence at Washington has issued a translation of a paper by Constructor Sussenguth, of the German navy, giving a comparative skoiuu of the navies of the world, with their increases during the next three years so far as provided for at present. One of the most remarkable statements . of the writer is that England, on tbe compietion of ships now under construction ror her navy, will be in position to meet the combbined navies of any two of the powers of the world. It is also stated that England has under construction, and to be completed in the next three years, vessels that alone will be more than egual to the total German navy as it will stand at the end of 1903. , > A not* by the Naval Intelligence Bureau says that this English flotilla now under construction will exceed the American navy, built and building bv over 100.000 tons disn'acement ENORMOUS COAL OUTPUT. Production in This Country In 1S9S Broke the Record. The statistics of the production of coal in the United States for 18i>8 have just been completed by Edward W. Parker, Statistician of the United States Geological Survey. The compilation shows that the total production of all kinds of coal In 1S9S reached the enormous tlgure of 219,333,993 short ton?, an increase of nearly ten per cent, over the output In 1397, which amounted in round figures to 200,220,000 tons, a record-breaking tonnage. Great Britain's product In 1393 was 22G,237.312 Mhort tons, a slight decrease from 1397. Practically all of the Increase la production in the'Uuited States was In bl? luminous coal, the output of anthracite coal In 1833 being 47,513,543 long tons, an Increase of on;y a nine over (uj.uuu iuuj ovor 1897. ; ttltcontin's Annual Clieese Product. Wisconsin produces annually an avorajg of 10.000.000 oounds ol cho:ao. . . A TEMPEEANCE COLUMN i the drink evil made manifest: in many ways. How My Boy Went Down?What CowTinced a Famous Editor That a Clear Mind and Liqnor Do Not Go Together ?A Terrible Example. ft rrraa ns\t nn fha f\a\A Kaffir It was not with a ship ?t sea, But a fate far worse than either That stole him away from me. 'Twas tbe death in the tempting dram That the reason and senses drown; He drank thealiurlng poison, And thus my boy went down. Down from tbe heights of manhood To the depths of disgrace und sin; Down to a worthless thing, From tbe hope of what might have been* For the brand of s beast besotted He bartered bis manhood's crown, Through the gate of a sinful pleasure My poor, weak boy went down. 'Tls only the same old story That mothers so often tell, With accents of Infinite sadness, \ Like the tones of a funeral bell; But I neverthought.once, when I beard it. I should learn all its meaning myself; I thought he'd be true to his mother, I thought he'd be true to himself. But alas for my hopes, all delusion! Adas for his youthful prldet Alasl who are safe when danger Is open on every side? Oh, can nothing destroy this great evil? No bar In its pathway be thrown, To save from the terrible maelstrom The thousands of boys going down? . ?National Advocate. Mast?Ts Blade Slave*. - - ' Edward W. Bole, of the Ladies' Home Journal, says: "One thing that led me to makeup my mind never to touch liquor was the ruin which I saw it bring to some of the finest minds with whioh I have ever come into contact. I have seen, even In my few years of professional life, some of the , smartest literary men dethroned from splendid positions, owing to nothing else but thelrindulgenoeinwlne. I have known men with salaries of thousands of dollars a> year come to beggarv from drink. Only recently there applied to me for any Sosltlon I could offer him one of the mojt rilliant editorial writers in the newspaper profession?a -nan who two years ago easily commanded one hundred dollars for a single editorial in bis special field, That man became so unreliable from drink that editors are now afriad of his articles, and, although he can to-day write as forolble editorials as at any time during his life, he* sits in a cellar in one of our cities writing newspaper wrappers for one dollar per thousand. That is only one instance of several I could recite. I do not hold my friend up as a 'terrible example.' He is bat one of a type of men who convinced me, and may convince others, that a clear mind and liquor do not go together. "I know it is said when one brings up such an instance as this: 'Oh! well, that man drank to excess. One glass will not hurt anyone.' How do these people Know that it will not? One drop of kerosene has been known to throw into flame an almost hopeless fire, and one glass of liquor may fan into flame a smoldering spark hidden away where we never thought it existed. The spark may be there and k may not be. Why take the risk? LiquorWlll never do a healthy boy or young man the least particle of good; it may do him barm. A. man who will wittlftgly tempt a young rrnn mhnm h? Irnnws has a nrlnolnla against liquor is a man for whom a halter is too good. M "Then, as I looked round and came to know more of people and things, I found i the always . unanswerable argument in favor 61 a yoSng man's abstinence; that is, t&at the most successful men In Amerloa % to-day are those who never lift a wineglass to their Hps. Becoming Interested in this Mbaflv W, WS tm'UH: eight o! the leading business men in the country, whose names I selected at raff-* dom, twenty-two never touoh a drop of wine. I made up my mind that there w&a some reason for this. If liquor bronght sate pleasures, why did these qien abstain from it? If, as some say, it is a stimulant to a busy man, why do not those men, directing the largest business interests in this country, resort to It? And when I saw that these were the men whose opinions In great business matters were accepted by the leading concerns of the world, I concluded that their judgment in the use of II----..1,1 Tt *ha{r itiriir. UV^UVl nvum oolWij mv> * VMW?* meat la business matters could command , the respect and attention of the leaders of trade on botn sides of the sea, their decisions as to the use of liquor was not apt to be wrong." Reformed In a Cnrlona Way. Reforms are wrought In many and curious tvays, but seldom In a stranger manner than that in.whlch a certain drunkard was iobered. This man had wandered at midnight Into a low saloon. He gave his order, and then , leaned against the bar for support. A man standing near by took from ons pocket an addressed envelop*, and from another a stamp, which he moistened with '4 tils tongue. Instead of adhering to the en- ^ relope, as the man intended, the stamp 3llpped from his fingers and fluttered to :he floor. The tippler saw it fall, and staggered forward to pick it up. Just as he was about to grasp It, the stamp darted in a zigzag sourse toward the side wall, like a scared thing. Filled with astonishment, th? drinker drew back und intently watched the bit of paper, whloh, upon reaching the wall hAffnn ro ascend. A3 it ascended, the tippler's face grew more Intent, his body more rigid. He saw nothing but the mysterious, moving thing. His mind was soggy from years of ceaseless drinking. Ha thought that the animated stamp was a warning. At the top of the wainscoting tbe stamp stopped, squatted as if for a moment's rest before ascending higher, and then made a dart toward the tippler's haggard race. The trembling sot saw it stop, saw it hesitate, and leap. He was unquestionally doomed If he continued longer to drink to excess; the stamp had been given life to warn him. So it seemed to him. With a pitiful yell of fear and determination, lie rushed from the saloon. From that eventful night until he died, in prosperous circumstances, recently, the man never swallowed a drop of liquor. The molsteued stamp had fallen upon a cockroach's back, and stuck there.?Kansas City Star. The Battle Id Ohio. 4 ? * * t annna <a molrtnr* 4foal( ioe AUU*OUlWU ijcuguoio UinaiUM tkovM strongly felt in Ohio, frast year It distributed largo quantities of temperance literature, beld thousands of temperance . ' agitation meetings, and was instrumental in closing the saloons in forty-four townships and towns. Moreover, through its Influence there are many towns in which the liquor laws are better enforced than ever before. Notea of the Crnaade. Saloons are veritable post houses, whose presence is a menace to all progress and civilization. In Navajo County. Arizona, covering an area of 10,000 square miles, there are on'.y nine saloons. Good coffee will gradually destroy a liking for alcohol. In Brazil, where coffee Is grown extensively, and the inhabitants drink It many times a day, intoxication i? rarely seen. ?So long as the Heeded saloons are permitted to sell spirits to anyone, so long will crime, disease and pauperism exist. It la cause and effect as clearly ?s uny opera* tion of nature. The drinking customs of our day are & relic of the pagan worship of their devilgods, and yet they have the legal sanction of a so-called Christian civilization Brewers and distillors are considering plans for lining beer and whisky kegs or barrels with aluminium as a preservative process. But what is the uso so long aa stomachs cannot be similarly liued? The Duchess ot Sutherland has opened a new temperance cafe and hall which the | Duke baa erected, utteu ana iurmsuea at I Helmsdale Harbor, Eogland. for tho convenience of the fishermen of that port. * According to a decision rendered by the State Treasurer of North Carolina, the dtopeDsaries which have been established in that State are allowed to 9811 llquoronlyta I the holder of 3 physician's prescription. . .