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m . ~ r DR. TALMAGES SERMON. fminiviB nif^/Mini.p oifTUC WOTPH swuun i g uuwuunac. di mi. ?>< ? DIVINE. Subject: Art a Mighty Agency For the Salvation ol Mankind ? Pictures Potent For Good or Evil as the Subjects Arc : Good or Bad?Praise For Our Artists. [Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1899.) Washinoton*. D. C.?Dr. Tnlraage shows !n tills discourse how art may become one of the mightiest agencies for the elevatjon and salvation of the human ruce. The text is Isaiah ii., 12, 16, "The day of the Lord of Hosts shall be * * * upon all pleasant pictures." Fictures are by some relegated to the realm of tbe trivial, accidental, sentimental or worldly, but mvtext shows that God scrutinizes pictures, and whether they are good or bad, whether used for right or wrong purposes, Is a matter of divine observation and arraignment. Tbe divine mission of plotures is my subject. Tbat tbe artlst'9 pencil and tbe engraver's knife have sometimes been made subject to the kingdom of the bad Is frankly admitted. After the ashes and scoria were removed from Hercuianeum ana rompmi iue nana of those cities discovered to the explorers & degradation Id art which cannot be exasperated. Satan nud ull his imps have always wanted the fingering of the easel; thev would rather have possession of that than the art of printing, for types are not so potent and quick for evil as pictures, The powers of darkness think they hav< gained a triumph, and they have, when in some respectable parlor or public art gal> ler.v they can hang a canvas embarrassing to the good but fascinating to the evil. It is not in a spirit of prudery, but backed ?... K? n.nA>a ntornol fT:lfh whftn I SftV that you have no right to bang la your nrl rooms or your dwelling houses that which "would be "offensive to good people If the r figures pictured were alive in your parlor and the guests of your household. A picture that you have to hang in a somewhat secluded place, or that in a public hall you caunot with a group of friends deliberately stand before and discuss, ought to have a knlle stabbed into it at the top and cut clear through to the bottom, and a stout Anger thrust in on the right side, ripping clear through to the left. Plluy the eldei Jost his life by going near enough to set the *nslde of Vesuvius, and the farther you can stand off from the- burning crater ol sin the better. Never till the books of the last day are opened shall we know whal has been the dire harvest of evil pictorials and unbecoming art galleries. Despoil 8 man's imagination and be becomes a mere - ? r??n?i. carcass. xne suuw wiuuvn? u> uuemu and American cities, in which the lowtbeatres have sometimes hung long lines ol brazen actors and actresses in style insulting to all propriety, have made a broad path to death for multitudes of people. But ?0 have all the other arts been at times suborned of evil. How has music been bedraggled? Is there any place so low dowt In dissoluteness that into it has not been carried David's harp, and Handel's organ and Gottscbalk's piano, and Ole Bull's violin? and the flute, which though named after so insignificant a thing as the Siclllac -eel, which has seven spots on the side likt flute holes, yet for thousands of years bus had an exalted mission? Architecture, bon In the heait of Him who made the worlds under its arches and across its floors, whal bacchanalian revelries!have been enacted It is not agaiust any of these arts that thej hsvfl hofln so l?d into eantivitv! What a poor world this would be if II wore not for what my text calls "pleasanl pictures!" I refer to your .memory and xnlue when I ask if your knowledge of the Holy Scriptures has not been mightlb augmented by the woodcuts or engravings In tbe old family Bible which father and mother read out of and laid on tbe table is the old homestead when you were boys und girls. The Bible scenes which we all carry in our minds were not gotten from the Bible typology, but from the Bible pictures. To prove the truth of it in my own case, the other day 1 took up the old family Bible which I inherited. Sure enough, what I have carried in my mind of Jacob's ladder was exactly the Bible engraving ol Jacob's ladder, aud so with Samson carrying off the gates of Qaza, Ellsha restoring tbeShunnmmite's son, the massacre of the Innocents. Christ blessing little children, the crucifixion and the last judgment. My Idea of all these is that of the old Bible engravings which I scanned before I could read a word. That is truo with nine-tenths ?f you. If I could swing open the door of your foreheads, I would find that you are wnlL-lnc nlct-iir<? pnllprips. Thfi irreat In. telhgence abroad about the Bible did not <?ome from the general reading of the book, lor the majority of the people rend It but little, if they read it ut all; but all th? sacred scenes have been put before the great masses, and aot printer's Ink, but the pictorial art, must have the credit of the achievement. First, painter's pencil for the favored few, and evei) engraver's plate or woodcut for millions on millions! What overwhelming commentary on the Bible, what re-enlorcements for patriarch's, prophets, apostles and Christ, what distribution of Scriptural knowledge of all nations, in the paintings and engravings therefrom of Holman Hunt's "Christ In the Temple," Paul Veronese's "Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ," BaEhael's "Michael the Archangel," Albert >urer's "Dragon of the Apocalypse," Michael Angelo's "Plague of the Fiery Serpents," Tintoretto's "Flight Into Egypt," Rube <s's "Descent >From the Cross," Leonardo Da Vinci's "La3t Supper," Claude's "Queen of Sheba," Bellini's "Madonna" at Milan, Orcagna's "Last Judgment," and hundreds of miles of pictures, if they were put in line, illustrating, displaying, dramatizing, lrraaianog tsiuie truthsjuntil the Scriptures are not to-day so much on paper as on canvas, not so mucn In ink ns in all the colors of the spectrum. In 1833, forth from Strassburg, Germany, there came a child that was to \ eclipse in speed and boldness anything and everything that the world had ever seen since the first color appeared on the sky at the creation, Paul GustaveDore. At eleven ?rears of age he published marvelous ithographs of his own. Saying nothing of what he did for Milton'o "Paradise Lost," emblazoning it on the attention of the world, he takes up the book of books, the monarch of literature, the Bible, and in his pictures, "The Creation of Light," "The Trial of Abraham's Faith," "The Burial of Sarah," "Joseph Sold by His Brethren," "The Brazen Serpent," "Boaz and Ruth," "David and Goliath," 'The Transfiguration," "The Marriage In Cana," "Babylon Fallen" and 205 Scriptural scenes in all, with a boldness and a grasp and almost supernatural afflatus that make the heart throb and the brain reel *nd the tears pt&rt and the cheeks blanch and the entire Dature quake with the tremendous things of God and eternity and the dead. I actually staggered down the steps of the London Art Gallery under the power of Dore's "Christ Leaving the Praetorium." Profess you to be a Christian mun or woman and see no divine mission In artand acknowledge you no obligation -w ^ltbefln thanks to Gocfor man? "?"it is no more the word of God when put before us In printer's ink than by skillful laying on of "colors or designs on metal through incision or corrosion. What a lesson in morals was presented by Hogarth, the painter, in his two pictures, "The Hake's Progress" and "The Miser's Feast," and by Thomas Cole's engravings of the "Voyage of Human Life" and the "Courst of Empire," and Turner's "Slave Ship." God in art! Christ in art! Patriarchs, prophets and apostles in art! Angels iu art! Heaven in art! The world and the church ought to come totbe hiuher appreciation of the divine mission of pictures, yet the authors ol them have Renoraliy been left to semistarvation. West, the great painter, tolled in uuapprecintion till, being a great skater wblle on the Ice he formed the acquaintance of General Howe, of tbo English army who, through coming to admire West as 8 clever skater, gradually came to appreciate as much that wbich he accomplished by bis band as by his heel. I'oussln, tht mighty painter, was pursued and had nothing with which to defend himsell against the mob but the artist's portfolio which he held over his head to keep offth? stones hurled at him. The pictures ol Richard Wilson, of England, were sold foi anrti<5 of mftnflr nfl?r his death but tlio living paiDtor was glad to get foi his "Alcyone" a pioce of Stilton cheese From 1640 to 1643 there were 4600 picture: willfully destroyed. In the reign of Queer Elizabeth it was the habit of some people to speDd much of their time in knocking pictures to piices. In the reign o) rharles I. it was ordered by par . x.ment that al> clotures of Christ bi burned. Painters were so kadly treated and humiliated in the beginning of the eighteenth century that they were lowered clear down out of the sublimity of their art and obliged to give accounts of what they did with their, colors. The oldest picture in England, a portrait of Chaucer, though now of great value, was picked out of a lumber parret. Great were the trials of Quentin Matsys, who tolled on from blacksmith's anvil till, as a painter, he won wide recognition. The first missionaries to Mexico mado the fatal mistake of destroying pictures, for the loss of which art and religion must ever lament. But why go so far back when in this year of our Lord to be a painter, except in rare occasions, means poverty and neglect, poorly fed, poorlv clad, poorly housed, because poorly appreciated? When I hear a man Is a painter, I have two feelings?one of admiration for the greatness of his soul and the other of com. --- kln miseniuoii xur mo ucous ui uo uuuy ^u?. so it has been in all departments of noble work. Somo of the mightiest havo been hardly bestead. Oliver Goldsmith bad such a big patch on the coat over his left breast that when he went anywhere be kept his hat in his hand closely pressed over the patch. The world renowned Bishop Asbury had a salary of $64 a year. Painters are Dot the only ones who haye endured the lack of appreciation. Let men of wealth take under their patronage the suffering men of art. They lift no complaint: they make no strike for higher wages. But with a keenness of nervous organization which almost always chara^terizes Reniu3 these artists suffer more than any one but God can realize. There needs be a concerted effort for the suffering artists of Amerioa, not sentimental discourse about what wo owe to artists, but contracts that will give them a livelihood; for I am in full sympathy with the Christian farmer who was very busy gathering his fall apples, and some one asked him to pray for a poor family, the father of whom nad broken bis leg, and the busy farmer said: "I cannot stop now to pray, but you can go down into the cellar and get some corned beef and butter * - * - * mi. _ ?. i. ? 11 r and eggs aaa potatoes. ium is iu x u do now." Artists may wish for our prayers, but they also want practical help from men who can give them work. You have heard scores of sermons for all other kinds o( suffering men and women, but we need sermons that make picas for the suffering men and women of American art. Thelj work is more true to nature and lite than some of the masterpieces that havo become Immortal on the other side of the sea, but it is the fashion of Americans tc mention foreign artists and to know little or nothing about our own Copley and Allston and Inman and Greenough and Kensett. Let the affluent fling out of their windows and into the backyard valueless daubs on canvas and call in these splendid but unrewarded men and tell them tc adorn your walls, not only with that which shall please the taste, but enlarge the minds and improve the morals and save the souls of those who gaze upon them. All American cities need great galleries vt art, not only open annually for a few days on exhibition, but which shall stand open all the year round, and from early morning until 10 o'clock at night andfrte to all who 1 would come and go. 1 Whflh n ncannrntlnn fnr th? wsar fl.nrl tear of the day a five minutes' look In the morning at some picture that Trill open a door into some larger realm than that in which our population dally drudge! Or what a good thing the half hour of artlstio opportunity on the way home in the evening from exhaustion tliat demands recuperatlon for mind and soul as well as bodyl Who will do for the city wnere you live what W. W. Gorcotan did for Washington aud what others have done for Boston and Philadelphia and New York? Men of wealth, if you are too modest to build and endow such a place during your llfotlmo, why not go to your iron safe and take out your last will and testament and make a codicil that shall build for the city of your residence a throne for American art? Take some of that money that would otherwise spoil your children and build an art gallery that shall associate your name forever, not only with great masters of painting who are gone, but with the great master's who are trying .to live, and also win the admiration and love of tens of thousands of people who, unable to have fine plotures of their own, would be advantaged. By your benefactions build your own monuments and not leave It to the whims of others. Some of the best peo pie sleeping m ureeuwuou uttve uu rnuuu* ments at alt, or some crumbling stones that | In a few years will let tlie rain wash oat name and epitaph, while some men whose death was the abatement of a nuisance have a pile of Aberdeen granite high enough for a king and eulogium enough to embarrass a seraph. Oh, man of large wealth, instead of leaving to the whim of others your monumental commemoration and epitaphology, to be looked at when people are going to aud fro at the burial of others, build right down in the heart of our great city, or the city where you live, an immense free reading room or a free musical conservatory or a free art gallery, the niches for sculpture abloom with the rise and fall of nations and lessons of courage for the disheartened and rest for the weary and life for the dead, and 150 years from now you will bo wielding influences in this world for good. How much better than white marble, that chills you if you put your hand on it when you touch it in the cemetery, would be a monument in colors, in beaming eyes, in living ppssession, in solendors which under tne chandelier would be glowing and warm and looked at by strolling groups with catalogue in hand, on the January night when the necropolis where the-body sleeps is all snowed under! The tower of David was hung with 1000 dented shields of battls, but you, oh man of wealth, may have a grander tower named after you. one that shall be hung not with the symbols of carnage, but with the victories of that art which was so long ago recognized In my text as "pleasant pictures." Oh, the power of pictures! I oannot deride, as some have done. Cardinal Mazarin, who, when told that he must die, took his last walk through the art gallery of his palace, saying: "Must I quit all this? Look at that Titian! Look at that Corregglo! Look at that dolnge of Caraccll Farewell, dear pictures!" A a tKfl r\t fVta r\f TTnaf c Ing to this text, will scrutinize the pictures, I Implore all parents to see that in their households they have neither in book nor newspaper nor on canvas anything that will deprave. Pictures are no longer the exclusive possession of the affluent. There is not a respectable home in these cltios that has not specimens of woodcut or steel engraving, if not of painting, and your whole family will feel the moral uplifting or depression. CURES AT A CAMP MEETINC. Allezed Miraculous Healing at a "Holiness Society" Gathering. Incidents never before witnessed In the northern section of West Virginia at a religious assemblage attracted hundreds of persons to the "holiness" camp meeting, which was iust in session at Moundsville. [ Twenty-six persons who said they had suf1 fered from bodily ills for i*any years pre, seated themselves before Elder Schell and , bis associates to be healed. i Members of the sect calling Itself the ' "Holiness Society" gathered from all parts i of the country, and with them were many i Invalids. At tbe Sunday afternoon session ' Elder Schell, who came from England to , preside at the meetings, preached from i one o'clock till four, and at the conclusion of his remarks the patients were presented for the healing ceremonies. One woman, ! Mrs. W. 11. Blaney, of Indiana, was taken [ to the auditorium in a carriage. Later ] she was seen running about the grounds I and shouting and telling her friends of her alleged recovery. She had thrown away I her crutches, which, she said, she had carried for many years. [ An old ma-i from the southern part of . tho State said he had been cured of a neu1 rulgic trouble with which he had suffered mnnir mAntlta tnrt WAllt ShfilltlniT I through the crowded grounds. The meet[ ings and strange ceremonies attracted great crowds to the camp grounds, and the ! recoveries are vouched for by persons not j members of the sect, but who watched the r meetings closely. Bibles DUtrlbuted In Mexico. During tne last twenty years the Amerl} 2?n Bible Society has put"into circulation i in Meiioo 600,370 bibles, Testament and ? portions of the Bible. f In certain Parisian restaurants s quar ter la charged for the use of the tableI ninth. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Drink For Yon an<l iW?? A Tbrilllnc Speech Deliverer! In Xn?hville l>y tli? Hot. F, 1>. 1'iiwor-isiinilu SnKueattd l>y the I'attle of Manila Buy. Did you over take a ramble Amiii flower, and bush, anil brainbio, On a sunny summer muruiug. And view th? ricH adorului; Oi the lleids? You romonilier t.'ie sweet soun-ls Ihrou^h the wood and meadow grouuu.o, From the throat of pretty bird, Or tho busy bee, you heard Iii tho Holds. But the sweetest of them all Was the tiny waterfall la tho rippliag littlo brook, Coursiug through the shady uook, la the Holds. IIow you loved its gentle voice! Aud it made your heart rejoice As it spoke of fountains bright, So beauteous to the sicht, Iu the Holds. Yes, from water springs. you see. So sparkling, pure aud free, Oa:ue the music of the brook llippliug through the shady uook Iu the fields. In those fountains sparkling bright You and I have both a right; And tho drink for you aud mo is pure water, flowing treo lu llie fields. ?Youth's Temperance Banner. YVe Must Ofuuli the Saloon. (FOU RECITATION.) The following, taken from a report of a ,hailing speech de iverod by i!ev. F. D. I'ower, of Washington, D. 0., before tho ionvention of CnristUu Endeavors at Nash . ille, will miiko uu excellent declamation: There is an awful leprosy upon us. There 8 a tyranny of one worse than the Turk, a slavery n hundred-fold more savage tbau that which bound the negro, fasteued upon our body politic. We grant the devil for a consideration absolute freedom to produce misery aud profligacy, cruelty and wickedut:s*?, disgrace and social demoralization; lo transform creatures ot heaven Into the felon, the harlot, the pauper, and tbemadmun. We have permitted an organized Satanic despotism to be reared in our midst, which has boundless resources, moves forward with gigantic str des, crushes millons of victims, inflames society with all :he passions of the pit. It is the school of inarchy, the breoding-grouud of criminals, :he nursery of woe, the sworn foe of the ;nurcu. uconomicauy, politically, reMgiou.siy, this is tbe prooiem. To meet it, the conscience of the world x.ust be uwakened. Notli eg will ilo but he total extinction of the saloon. We oust smash the enemy. You remember the battle of Manila Buy. [t was iu thy black of night when Griilley of the flagship Olymula signaled to the Admiral, ' We aro approaching the entrance." "Steam ahead!" came the Admiral's au;wer. Then the flash from the heights and the ooom of a great gun. Again the signal, 'The batteries of Cavite have opened lire." "Steam ahead!" was the Admiral's orler. On the squadron went, under batteries, Dver mines, into the heart of the bay; and, is tbe dawn broke, there stood the American fleet in battle array, flying the Stars and Stripes, facing the frowning forls and warships, the hands plnyiug the "Staripangled Banner." Then came the conflict and victory. So we must crush the saloon, smo her its jun.*. pulverize it. This is not the devil's world, and ho must know it. "The hand pierced on Calvary is on the helui of the 1 Diverse." FirinueM. No one can know, as be who hns suffered from it, the dreadful expftriauce of a jruDl:ar<i'.-t life. A New York morning paper ia :i brief paragraph showed the terrible tragedy of drink when it told of the fireman who was thrown from his truck and fearfully injured. Going at full speod iround a corner upon a paved street the nook-and-ladder department made some balk and was thrown. The fireman who had been seated upon tbu top, holding the orake, was hurlod against tin--.curbing with ;uch foroe that the bones o[ hi* legs broke and protruded through the Hesli. The companions who ph'kod him up carried liitn into the nearest pharmacy, and with tholr own notions of "first aid to the injured," proceeded to fill him up with the bust brandy, Iiut to their surprise his lips were set with a flrmne.-s tbat excluded every drop; and then it was remembered that be bad once been a drinking man and was now reformed. To his mind, tortured as ho was by pain, a broken leg was nothing to au "open bottle. No persuasion could induce him to taste the liquor that was brought, nor even to accept anfesthetics; and he bore the setting of the broken bones without stimulants or opiates rather than lucur the slightest risk of u relapse from abstinence How much that speaks for tils firmness and the terror inspired by tho past experience of drink.?Interior. A Iltillroatl Goes Out o? Saloon liualtieft*. The Southern Pacific Railroad, which hitherto has been conducting saloons for the sale of liquor in the various eatlughouses along its line, has issued an order, that went iuto effect th ? first of June, abolishing all of '.hem. The liquor business has been a considerable source of revenue to the road; but at tbe same time it has been found that it placed before its employes a constaut source of temptation, which frequently resulted in drunkenness and consequent accidents; and, as well, it had been found that patrODS of the road, after free indulgence at the bar of the restaurant, frequently met with accidents In attempting to board the train, entailing ?u!t.? for damage*. Therefore the recent action h.n been taken. The company has f.if i-niriM Hum naat hail a rule r>roliii?itinir tin) use of liquor by Its employes while ou 'luty; but tbi.H rule lias been, to a large extern, ignored, nud the company has hitherto not beon in such position en account of its own connection with the .sale of liquor as to be able readily to enforce ob servance. Chicago Alilcriumiic I'hSloiiopliy, Said the Hon. John Coughlin on one ol ilie very hot iiflernoons of last we^fc: ''When a high-stepping girl that ouirht to bo wearing a check-rein and a Mexican bit gets so she think* she can drink booze with the fellow that's keepiug her company she needs her mother, a spanking ml a life-preserver. The itrst gluss of wine for that kind of a grl, whether she's tip in G or only a workingman's daughter. is right at the top of a tobo?gan-sli.le thut has hell at the bottom."?Chicago Times-Herald. Tlio CriMiido In lirit!. Chicago has 69) caurclies and 6000 saloons. What sohernesi conceals drunkenness reveals. Nothing short of total abstinence can save the notion. Drink revenue M we: with tears and stained with drink. When liquor de.iiors are busy, the devil is slad. The most prolillc source of strife is the wine jzluss. Many n man withhold-" so Ids from his fmni.y when li*i can staud drinks for h s friend. The drink devil is still a potent factor iu politics. It is a poor race iua; starts iroaj.iuti loon. If not living for the right, we have no right to live. It is much easier to "rectify" whisky than it is to rectify the ?vii it causes. The saloons and the drink tra9L; will soon go when Christmas are in earnest. The mistake of the State Is locking up the drinker instead of the drink. . One of the most sweeping temperance campaigns which tbe North of England nas ever witnessed, is now on. Members of Parliament, Lord Mayors, members ot the nobility and prominent ministers and laymen are speaking daily. 1 THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 9. . Subject: Daniel In Babylon, Daniel 1., 881?Golden Text: Daniel 1., 8?Topic of the Lesson: [Christian Integrity and Its Reward?Commentary. 8. ".Daniel purposed In His heart." He determined what he would do, and then took the wisest possible plan for gaining his object. He does not express stubborn determination and make open resistance at first, li't makes a courteous request. Daniel was still firm in bis religion. They changed his name, but could not chaDge bis nature. Whatever they pleased to call him, he still retained the spirit of an Israelite indeed. He would apply his mind as closely as any of them to his books, but he was resolved he would not defile himselt?not out of peevishness, sullenness, or a spirit of contradiction, but from conscience. The Jews were distinguished from other nations very much by their meats. ' 9. "God had brought Daniel into favor and tendor love." The favor of others totunrrt fchfl rroHItt 4a fhfl HaIhp nf find Daniel knew that to please Ood was the best way to please Ashpenaz; not that this prince cared about Daniel's pleasing God, but because God, being pleased with his purposes and desires to be truo to Him, could if it were needful incline the heart of Ashpena2 toward Him. Danlel'3 sincerity was not affected, for when God brought him into favor with the prince, be improvod.'his opportunity to use that officer's authority to keep him from sin. 10. "I fear my lord the king." He does not positively refuse the favor which Daniel seeks, but in order to avoid the royal displeasures, he must render at least a formal and apparent obedience to the command be had received; aside from this, he shows his readiness to exercise every possible forbearance toward bis wards. 11. "Melzar." The chief butler, or steward, the one who had charge of their food. Daniel applied to him because he was the one who furnished the food. It is implied that Daniel had permission from the prince to do this; otherwise it would have been disobedience and insult, and unworthy of Daniel. 12. "Prove." Test us; experiment for a short time and watch the result. "Giveus pulse." A vegetable diet, with water instead o! wine. 13. "Then deal with thy servants." These words were spoken with quiet confidence as to the result. A number of other boys besides these four were undergoing the same training. A fair test, to place these younj? abstainers beside those who partook of the royal banquets, and see which company presented the mo3t vigorous appeal ance. 15. "Fairer and fatter."' The complexion healthier and clearer. God meant that if a man woald be Intemperate he should himself proclaim it to the world. The glutton, the drunkatd, the debauchee, carry the stamp of their deeds upon their features. A depraved character corrupt* the flesh that carries it. 17. "God gave them knowledge and skill." Some of it was direct from Him. as the visions; some was by blessing their daily studies?by opening doors to wider Knowledge, Dy aiding tneir inougnts ana judgments; also by keeping them from those vices and prejudices which weaken the mind. Whatever we may give to God of faith, or work, or trust, or love, or zeal, He gives back again with large interest, good measure, pressed down und shaken together, and running over?ten, twenty, thirty, sixty, or an hundred fold, in whatever we need most for Him. "In all learning." In science, astronomy, literature, philosophy, the Chaldeans stood at this time at the head of the world. They had the beginnings of chemistry and even of the telescope. "In all visions and dreams." God gave $ double portion to Daniel. He was endued with a prophetical spirit, by which he was enabled to converse with God and to rocelve the notices of divine things in dreams and visions. Visions were revelations to the prophets when awake, and dreams wtien asleep. By divine power the young Hebrew captive obtained a knowledge surpassing tnat of the wl3est master. 18. "End of these days." After three yoars (v. 5;, the time fixed for their trailing. 19. "The king communed with them." Talked with them, tested their progress, learning and talents. He put them through a test examination. "There stood they before the king." To be his personal advisers and among the leading officers of the kingdom. All officers and servants stood when in the presence of the monarch. 20. "He found them ten times better." Probably a high court of learning was held, at which the king presided and the nobles and sages of the land assisted. These proposed difficult questions, which the youths readily answered, and were in turn allowed to put questions which tne japes couia noi answer. They were better counselors, better Informed. 21. "Daniel continued." In influence and authority, at different times, during the whole of the seventy years of captivity. It is commonly believed that when the captives returned he remained in Chaldea, probably detained by his employment in the Persian Empire, and that he died either in Babylon or Shu9han. "The first year of King Cyru3." That is, to the end of the Chaldean Empire. Oyru9 conquered Babylon, and thus the monarchy passed from the Chaldeans to the Persians. At this time the proclamation was issued by Cyrus to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem, B. C. 584. He was one of the first captives taken to Babylon B. C. 604, lived t? see the dollverance of his people and their return to their own land. This being so remarkable a year, the text takes notice that Daniel lived to that time, but does not say how much longer; but Ban. x., 1 shows that he lived until the third year of Cyrus's reign. INVENTED A NEW AIRSHIP. One Man Claims to Ilave Solved the Problem of Aerial Navigation. Arcldas Farmer, of Evansvlllo, Ind., claims to havosolvod the problem of aerial navigation. He has been known for several yoara as aa experimenter In airship Invention. His airship is a navigable balloon. The balloon Is olgar shaped and about thirty feet long. The basket, which bontalns the propeller and steering power, Is made of steel tubing and weighs seveny-tlve pounds. It is hexagonal In shape, five feet aoross, and the basket is of stout rope netting. The propelling apparatus consists of two aluminum propellers, working at the ends of hollow shafts at the glde of the machine. The propellers are ten feet apart, and in Iront of the seat Where the man who produces the power is Seated, in a double wheel. The man can Bbange tho position of the propellers. : When both are In front of the shaft and power is applied the airship is driven forward. When reversed and thrown back of the shaft, it goes back. When the propellers are placed on top and revolved tho machine rises, and wheo placed underneath it sinks. Each propeller is independent of tho other in Its positions. By placing one in front and one behind, the maohlne can be turned around. i The airship hus bad several tests. The Inventor makes no extravagant claims for the ship. Ho does not know how fast he san drive It In a oalm or how much headway he can make In a strong wind. All he juiys Is that the maohine will move In the dlreotion he expects. i When ho gave the first tost at Evansvllie the airship made several elrcults of the Dasohau pars, wuere iua "uj made. ORDERS FOR DEWEY'S SON. lie Ilnft Done More UuglneM Than A1 Ills Fellow-Travelers Together. Admiral Dowey is not tho only member of I1I9 family who lias distinguished him3elf this year. His son, Georgo G. Dowey, who Is a traveler for a firm in New York City, is said to have made a record thl* yoar in selling goods for his employers. Ever since May 1, 1393, the young man liaii but to mention his name in order to secure a sale for whatover he carried. So far this year he has obtained more orders ltia Iiakoa fltnn oil Mo #al I/-vrrr.f rn vfll?ra put together. Tho merchants seem to vie jyith eaoh other in giving him orders. Engmn rraue or West 1'oint. "West Point is the best military establishment in the world," said Major-General Maurice, Commander of the Woolwich District, a few days oro nt tho United Servian 1 Institution la Loa&uu 1 ' ~ : & /V" "- ,V7 ''T.GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE limn. fMo nr ITCCT DDADUFTC wunuuo uncniLji r nvi ! < >? The Incomparable Christ?Character A?>. cording to Copjr?Christ's Great Uixle^p lying Truths?"The First Person PI*, ral"?Qualities for Successful Service. Tho wholo creation can afford But some faint shadows of my Lonij Nature to make His beauties known ILLUSI UllllglU uuiurs UUb UOI uwu. Is ho a rose? Not Sharon yields Such fragrancy in all her fields: Or if the lily He assume The valleys bless the rich perfume. Is He a vine? His heavenly root Supplies the boughs with life and fruit; 0, iet a lasting union join My soul to Christ, the living vine. 13 He a flre? He'll purge my dro?9; But the true gold sustains no loss; Like a refiner shall He sit And tread the refuse with His feet. Is He a rock? How firm Ha proves! The Rock of Ages never moves; Yet the sweet streams that from him flow Attena us all the desert through. Is He a sun? His beams are grace, His course is joy and righteousness; Nations rejoice when He appears To chose the clouds and dry their tears. Nor earth, nor seas, nor sun, nor stars, Nor heaven His full resemblance boars; His beauties we can never trftce, Till we behold Him face to face. ?Isaac Watts. rharact(>r According to Coov. ' The Imitation of Christ" is au inspiring and a much-misunderstood term. Jesus is the great ideal for each Christian, and we are bidden to follow the Master. B.it we are prone to fall into a mechanical method rather than to apprehend a vital process when we seek to imitate the Christ in His ideal character and work. To acquire the character of Christ is not to slavishly copy the external quality of life wLich. the Master displayed. And yet the question just now asked so generally, "What would Jesus do?" very often receives its answer in the terms of the copy-book rather than in terms of life. This is au important distinction to be made by those who are seeking so earnestly to follow "in His eteps." We need to ask not only, "What would 'Jesus do were He in my place'?" but we must seek also to " know why Jesus would have done as we decide that He would have done. That is, the supreme thing is not an imitation of externals, but such a vital union iu spirit between each soul and the risen Saviour that we shall do what Jesus would have done because we possess a common life with Him. Character according to vital uuion. which Is tLe way of Pnnl msnns that th? trnit is the necessary manifestation of tbo life within; hence it is the only true way to follow Christ. We must beware lest our high enterprise be understood to consist in a mechanical imitation of,rather than a vital union, with,the Master whom we seek to follow. Chrint'i Great Underlying; Truths. By following injudicious advice we often mistake the Spirit's teachings, for even those who enter most fully into our conditions and have the warmest desire to help, cannot see matters exactly from our point of view. The final judgment is with us individually,, and advice, however well meant or sagacious in appearance, may mislead becauso cf lack of the knowledge of something that ought to be known. We cannot avoid seeking advice and using it. Indeed we should be glad to avail ourselves of it. but it must bo weighed and pondered before being accepted. It may be the best possible in intent and yet be evil, because not th iroughly enlightened on the results to which it leads. No matter how important special occasions or events may be, they can be treated with safety only with loyalty to the great underlying truths of the gospel which Christ has declared. Sometimes we are brought face to face with emergencies wtiere for the time being it seems almost necessary to make exceptions and disregard some genera! truths. But iu the end we are almost certain to And that by such disregard we have erred. This doubtless constitutes a part of our mental and spiritual training, and the sooner we learn the lesson that loyalty to the Holy Spirit always involves lldelity to his teachings, without exception, the sooner we shall develop that measure of character and spiritual strength which will insure victory as the rule of life rather than defeat. "The Fir.it Person Plural." Many of the men and women whom the preacher meets today are or have been doubters. All are sinners. He must speak out of his own heart to theirs. His word must have the comfort which can only come from one who has been comforted,the peace which can only be declared by one has sought and found it in the experience of reconciliation with God, the sympathetic power which can only flow from one who knows both the ourden of iniquity and the blesseduess of the forgiveness through Christ. The gospel for a world of sin cannot be preached by any except those who need it for themselves. An angel could not deliver it urlght. Its language is always in the flrst person plural, drawing the speaker and the hearers into abrotherhood.of penitence and forgiveness. "God commanded his love toward us. in that, while we were vet sinners. Christ died for us." Christ Himself did not come to preach this gospel. He came to live. it. It was when the Apostles Pet.T and Paul and John had seen Him delivered for their offences and raised again for their justification that they began to understand and preach this gospel for a world of sin. ?Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. ?>., In "The Gospel for a World of Sin." Qufilitle? for Succensfal Service. In order to be successful in spiritual service the same qualities in general are required which contribute to fruitful effort anywhere else. There must be sincerity of conviction. He who doubts nev>r can illustrate or proclaim his beiief convincingly. There must bs sturdiness of faith, or opposition in argument and conduct, which is sure to be encountered. will dishearten and check, if not actually overcome it. There must be energy, the zealous activity of effort which knows no possibility of cessation but accepts its obligation to work steadily, even if silently and unobtrusively, toward its desired end. mere must do lacuumetfs, wunoui wmcu energy blunders and repels. There must be good taste, not sentimental, but in the sense of adapting one's self to peculiar conditions so as to avoid offense. Selflshneas n Spiritual Dropsy. A man whose eyes and whose thoughts ' are centered on self, comes to have for the most part, a strangely exaggerated notion of the goodness and worthiness of his mo. ; It is like a sort of spiritual dropsy that swells the soul up to twice its naturul size, and which looks, perhaps, on the surface as an increase of health and strength, but is in reality only a symptom of a sore disease. Such a one Is sufferiug from what the French 1 call La maladie du moi, and is one of the ' most fatal maladies there is.?Hannah Whitall Smith. When you oome down from the summits you do not como away from God. There is no task ia life in which you do not need Him. The work-bench needs His light as trL'ly as the cloister. ?Philipps Brooks. 1 If the earthly life is Ood's school we must expect that many of its lesaons are lo have lueir aptmviuiuu unrn;iunr. * White Girl Weds an Indian. Chester P. Cornelius, an Iadiau of the Oimlda Reservation, in Oklabomu, and Miss . L. Gertrude Smith, an accomplished white girl, of Dnrliugton, were married a few days ago at tbe Mission Church. Cornelius is a fuli-bloodod Onuidu Indian. Ho is the son of Adam P. Cornelias, one of the best ^ educated aud cultivated men of tho reser. * vation. Chester Cornells holds a good i oositlon in tbe Indian sorvloo in flldahnma. A Successful Submarine Bo;t. A successful trial was made at Cherbourg, t France, of a new submarlno boat, the invention of Captain Del Passo, which is ex pacted to take the place of the ordinnry diving methods. The beat was sunk 160 feet and filled all of the requirements of its j dttstgQ. H'E INLBV GiV G DIPLOMAS Mount Holyoke College Also Confers a Degree Upon the President, THE FIRST MAN SO HONORED, Tlie President Ihe Central Figure of Bit. Holyoke'* Comuieuceinent? He la Made a Doctor of Civil Law?Hl? NImh One of the Fair Graduate*? The. President'* Speech. Holyoke, Mass. (Special).?Mount Hoi. yoke College was honored by the presence at Its commencement exercises ot President McKlnley, and In turn it honored him by conferring upon him in the chapel of the college the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. This is the first time that such a degree has ever been conferred upon a man by Mount Holyoke, and it came as a complete surprise to the President. The President's day was given up entirely to the attendance at the graduating exercises. When the Presidential party, including Governor Wolcott and wife, reached South Hadley, the visitors immediately entered the chapel, where the exercises were to be held, The seniors followed. President McKlnley and the other gentlemen were seated on the platform, J while the ladles occupied reserved seats in oLalrs on the floor. There was special music by the college choir, and theu the Bev. Dr. Judson Smith introduced Governor Boger Wolcott, who welcomed the President to the college. Dr. Smith then announced that the President would present the diplomas tof the seniors. The President descended the stairs in company with Mrs. E. S. Mead, President of the college, who introduced the members of the class as they filed by and received their parchments. Miss Graoe McKlnley, the President's niece, shook hands with him when she received her diploma. At the close of the President's deliverance of the degrees, a beautiful purple banner, inscribed "Mount Holyoke, '99," was presented to blm by the graduating clase, which also sang the class ode. Dr. J. L. B. Trnek, of the trustees, then presented the President with the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. The President, in response to the hearty outburst of applause which followed the announcement, said: "Mrs. Meed, Ladies and Gentlemen: I cannot refrain from making acknowledge ment in the presence of the very distinguished honor which the Board of Trustees and officers of this institution have been pleased to confer upon me. I want to assure the young ladies of the graduating class that 1 am both delighted und honored to be a member of a class ot '99; Massachusetts has been and is first in many things, but In nothing more tnau in eaucational institutions. "I count myself most fortunate to have been privileged to look upon, the faces of graduates of Smith College, that splendid institution of learning for the education of women, and I count myself' most fortunate now to look upon the faces of the graduates of this gloriously historlo Institution, that has done so much for the exaltation of women, and whose influence is felt not only in Mnssachusetts, but In every part of our common country. "I am glad that we are demonstrating In the United States to-day that the b6y shall have no more advantages than the girl, and Mount Holyoke and Smith, and the halt dozen other Institutions of the land are demonstrating that fact. "An educated womanhood is an open school for citizenship every day of the year, aDd tbe home is the training school for the mother, the soldier and the statesman. I wish for this graduating class ali good things, and I want you to be'assured that all good things wait upon a pure and noble woman." Mtss Grace McKtnley spent her time, after sbe received her degree at the hands of her uncle, in entertaining Mrs. McKinley. LAUNCH OF THE CHESAPEAKE. The United Statei Practice Ship Leave* the Ways at Bath. Bath, Me. (8pecial).?The United States practice ship Chesapeake was launched from che Bath Ironworks yard. She was christened by Miss Ellse Bradford, daughter ot Rear Admiral Bradford, Chief of the.Bureau^of Equipment at Washington. UNITED STATES PBACTICE SHIP CHESAPEAKE. The launching was successful la every particular. Luncheon was afterward f jrved at the Iron works. Rear Admiral Bradford. Miss Elise Bradford, Rear Admiral Gherardl and Captain and Mrs. Benjamin being among t&e guests. Porto means Make a Protest. The Commissioners from Porto Rico to the United States who are In New York City have issued a formal protest against the treatment of their Country and the 1 .1 I- /-I _ A. rruA? 1 people Dy mis uroveruuieui. aaj they are burdened by a tariff heavier and more obnoxious than under Spanish rule; that they are treated as inferiors and dependent people, and that the liberty that was guaranteed to them is a delusion. They say they do not ask favors, but demand justice. Bank Cashier Captured, Harry Hough, who lately absconded from Dover, N. H., after having robbed the Cocheco National Bank of Dover, of which he was the assistant cashier, and the Cocheco 8avlngs Bank, of which he was the treasurer, was taken to Portsmouth, N. H., having been arrested In Boston. In default of bail he was remanded to the Portsmouth Jail. Massacre by Filipinos. Captain Johnson Spicer, of the British jhip George T. Hay, which arrived at New fork a few days ago from Manila, has received a letter from his brother, Captain 9eorgo Spicer, of the British ship Glooscap, jaying that all the adult male Spanish residents at Balabac, the extreme southivest Island of the Philippines, had been nassacred by the natives. He said that ifter killing all the Spanish men the na:ives had taken the women for themselves Alaskan Steamers Escape Injury. The steamers of the lower Yukon fleet escaped injury in the break of the lco. Prominent People. General Low Wallace says that the work n merely assisting at the dramatization >f "Ben Ilur" is as hard as was the writing >f that book. Mrs. Hetty Green has won her suit for t80 acres of valuable land in the city of jhlcago, aud has decided to subdivide it nto city lots. In the House of Commons at London a ew davs aco Lord Charles Beresford de ivered" a sharp criticism of tbe Governnent's policy of ''drifting In China." It is reported that Admiral Dewey will lecline the home for which a fund is being aiserl, and will ask that the money be ippllod to the maintenance of a sailors' re a :! j AGAINST THE EATING HABIT. dr. Rathban Starred Twenty-Eight Dift and Improved Hli Health. While others make war against the) drink habit, the tobacco habit and thai jpium habit, Milton Bathbnn, whol does business in New York City and' lives at Moant Vernon, appears as the foe of the eating habit. He is con-j einced that the human stomach is the1 source of most human ills, and shouldj therefore, be boycotted. He has recently completed a vindi3ation of his theory and an illustration of his method by fasting twentyeight days. In that time he subsisted on Croton water and his own previously accumulated resources of nutriment, with a little apollinaris on th? side when he felt that he needed ? stimulant. : Mr. Rathbun is fifty-three years old and an amateur athlete. He was: much annoyed several years ago to find that he was taking on flesh faatj He tried a series of experiments and found that by vigorous exeroise hoi . could reduce his weight with rapidity,, but that when he fasted the redaction was much hastened. 4' As soon as he resumed eating and returned to bis normal allowance of exercise, however, the fattening process would rt'nme. Mr. Bathbun at last weighed 210 pounds. Tor the first time in his life he found himself awkward and short of breath, and he began to have serious thoughts of apoplexy. On the night of April 23 he da* clared the boycott against his over^ zealous stomach. He then ate hi* usual evening meal and bade farewell to food. On the 24th hie stomach clamored loudly and threatened seri? ous trouble. Mr. Bathbun gave it . ?? Hn Ilia novf. fhJ '4 | 11U ObbGUUtUUi \yu ?u? uv*w stomach subsided and accepted the situation. Mr. Bathbun hungered not ? more. His friends remonstated with! him. They-whispered among themselves that he was going about tritb nothing in his stomach and his head full of wheels, but Mr. Bathbun persisted. He drank water copiously during the day and made a hearty meal of half a pint of apollinaris at night, and went right ou with hit business. Njj Mr. Bathbun lengthened his work* ing time two hours a day, and m sharper and more energetic than eves before. In the evenings he would > weigh himself, note a decrease of two, three or four pounds for the day} and go home in high spirits. Hf counted his losses as his gains. At the end of twenty-eight days Mrj Bathbun "weighed 168 pounds, haying lo3t?or, according to his view} gained?forty-two pounds. Then hi{ stomach woke up and began to inquiry ' if the trouble could not be amicably arranged and the boycott declared off} Mr. Bathbun had promised his friendf and doctors that he would eat agais when he felt hungry, and on May 2^ . began to eat cautiously. Now he eating as he formerly did, and says h< . never felt better in his life than h< / , % did while he was starving. ? New York Times. Tbe vmDreiit'i Biorr. The umbrella is of every ancient origin. It is found in designs on Greek and Etruscan vases, and it * ; traced back to ancient Egypt, the mother of arts. Its first use was an* donbtedly to protect from the burning 1 rays of the tropical sun; its Latin de? rivation is from umbra, a shade. The English got the umbrella from France, and the first man who carried thif rain protection in England was Jov seph Hanway, who began the practice when a young man, and continued if until his death, in 1784. Hanway was famous in his day as a philarn ? thropist, but ho is remembered no* quite as much for his persistence ix) carrying an umbrella, and beating Aown the prejudice against the use oi i;, as for any of his pnrely.;b|n^c?,n1 deeds. When Hanwa^diea all the p iople in England carried umbrellas^ and they have continued to do soevei siice. Indeed, nowadays England w mid not seem England without the ever-present umbrella. Though the umbrella came from the East, reaching first Italy, then Spain I ? J "E1-~ P.norland ttliu ?I ttUUO, BUU Miuwi nu?u and Germany, the pendulum now i4 swinging back again, and the last commercial statistics show that tit* city of Paris is exporting 600,000 umbrellas annually to Turkey, while in England in one year 819,000 umbrellas were manufactured for shipment to Burmah.?Woman's Home Com- . ^ panion. - .sj The Purist. ' "It looks like rain." "I beg your pardon." "I say it looks like rain." "What does?" "The?the weather." "The weather, my dear sir, ia a condition. Bain is water in the act of falling from the clouds. It is impoasible that they should look alike." "What I meant was that the sky looked.like rain," "Equally impossible. The sky if the blue vault above us?the seem* ing arch or dome that we mistakenly Y call the heavens. It does not resemble, falling water in the least." "Well, then, if you are so thunder* ingly particular, it looks as if it would rain." "As if what would rain?" "The weather, of course." "The weather, as before stated, ing a condition, cannot rain." "The clouds then, blame you!" "Ah, here it comes! And I have taken so mnch time in talking to yoo that I shall get wet to the skin before I can reach yonder street car. Good day." (Calling after him)?I may no! know as much about it as you do, but I've got sense enough to come in out of it, and you haven't.? Chicago Tribune. Fifty Tearg in a Workhoiue. Sarah Rebecca Warwick recently died in the workhouse of Marylebone parish, London, at the ago of ninetynine rears, having spent more than fifty years as an iumate of that insti< tution. Her father was a trunkmaker, aud sbe never was married. When he died he left her a little money and she lived upon it in a quiet way for sereral years until by a bad investment she became destitute. She applied for admission to the workhouse in 1849 . and had been there continuously evei since. Such, a thing could not happeo in America. ?...