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} load. O bell 3 of mr peaU through spaces ring; li Joy the fair / V" < l ' ?a;*th greets you Wri*/ \' j/s7- Through aJJ ? h e J * 1^^ notes o^ spring. Ripg In al! peace and gladness. Ring out alt strife ar.i tear*. A.? downward through thi ag?? You've rung th; pi53>r.g years. 00000000300000000000000000 I <3 % 0 ) f An Eastsr Reminiscence. ? f o ? o Q How the Beautiful Annual Flower Mis- O ^ ? sions in Hospitals Originated. jj| I Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo f INTER was over and it was Easter morning, so l.-ite in the spring that it seemed almost like summer itaelf. Crocuses and violets were up, and tinj new leare3 were appearing on the trees and snrubbery. The sun seemed particularly bright on this occasion, as four yonng ladies, with all the attendant glV/ of Easter bats and finery, entered a carriage. One of them carried a guitar in a green cloth case, .mother had a musio-roll, while the -other two were emotv-hauded. Down a cross street tiiey were driven tjll tliey found themselves opposite a low two-storied wooden house, sadly in need of paint, the.,door of which*bore -a plate saying^ "jflhe Good Samaritan Children's Qheap teD.efo&hto and small struggling shops were jumbled together in, a composite group which completely shut out the sunlight, and seemed to be slowly squeezing the hospital building out of shape. The arrival of the carriage brought a veritable army of small, ragged, dirty, noisy children te the hospital steps, and several of the older classes, with undisguised curiosity, watched the girls pass up the steps and disappear inside. The ringing of a very thin-voiced, cracked doorbell was responded to by a sweetfaced, plump little woman of abont fifty, who immediately exclaimed, joyously: "Ah, my dear young ladies! Have v you really come? I hardly tnouglit the association was in earnest when they said some musicians would be here to-day. Come right into our poor little parlor. Take care aud don't trip ou that doorsill. Now lay oft' your wraps, My! Won t the dear little souls be delighted to hear you've really come! I haven't told them yon were reuliy expected; I didn't want to get their littie hearts too expectant till I was sure you were coming. So I told them that sometimes, ou Easter movuing, the 3ngels saug beautifui music, and that maybe they would! hear them before bug it they kept real quiet." "And have they been particularly , quiet?" asked Grace for the sake of something to say; for the good woman's joy and whole-souled pleasure had I just a little touch of pathos in it that. was fast raising sad havoc with the i girls' desire to be cheerful. 1 "Why, bless you, yes. They've been just as quiet as mice," replied the matron. "It's pretty hard for' well children to be quiet, to say nottiii iug of little sufferers like ours. Cdloe this way, now, and we'll sooa have many a little face smiling that hasn't smiledfor weeks," Aid aha buttled off down the hailwqja&d up a flight, of very crooked, narrow, oreaky stairs, which, however^ were scrupulously clean. ~i ? They entered the ward and found four chairs; The room was dreadfully low-studded, with little stingy,.tinypaned windows. The ail was hardly endurable to the girls, who weire fresh from th? outdoor sweetness of the spring, wHi at last they started out on 'ML PREPARING THE IiTEIES F03 TLO'.VXK MISSION DAT. ' 'Sweet and Low." A dead silence followed at the end of the soil#, but "The OwlandthePuasy-Cat" followed and fared better. Several small hands Tvere clapped joyohsly, and the girls repeated the entire piece, endeavoring to speak very distinctly, so that all might understand the funny words. When they had finished auother matron appeared and handed Grace a uoto from the rector of their church, saying that another quartet had kindly offered to take the other hospital ou the girls' card. After this, the girls >ent about from bed to bed hearing y the details of each little 3*i?Terer*.s case from the nurses. As they were passing toward the 4- K sv M ntATT ahJ ( mKiln nmvfl f lion VIV/UL \J U IUCU na? V/Ul UUV^ IHVI *- VJ-LC*u one nur.se cleverly stood so as to bide from the girls view a bole in the wornout bedding, or a broken bedframe, tied up with a piece of clothesline), Grace stopped to speak to a tiny mite of a baby boy, whom she had not noticed before. He could not have been over a year old, uud his little body i was continually tossing and rolling from aide to 3ide. He kept up a steady 1 fretting and sobbing, but never cried i out good and strong, "Why, vou poor, dear little martyr," 1 said Grace, tenderly, as she leaned 1 over him. "What makes him fret so?" j she asked of the nurse. ' "We can't seem to find any way of i amusing him, or even make him ' amile," said the nurse. "He doesn't : seem to care for dolls, jumping-jacks, l rattles or any of our usual forms oi i amusement.. He's been here four ] weeks and has never stopped fretting. How I would like to see him smile once! It makes my heartache to fllia afnnnorl ahnvf and a+ara/3 oorrarlxr \ at lier tiny charge. "Why!" she exclaimed, in joyons astonishment, "he has stopped fretting! I believe?yes, I do believe he is smiling! He is; he is! Oh, you preciohs httle durliug, what is it you see that' pleases you? How hard I've tried to find something that would!" and she placed her head beside his to catch the direction of his eye.. The girls grew strangely agitated and joyous at the voung nurse's delight, and all gazed abcnt; the room iu anxious endeavors to find the cause of baby's pleasure. "Isn't it your guitar,Grace?" queried Edith. "He seems to be looking at you." fcat no. ? The instrument had no 1 fascination for hidi, even though 1 /I TTd *v\TT s*i\ A ^ Again we wi ^0^ With swell . rs ^ With flowers V 4 Unto the F J wZ^ ' In ail o?r cor '<r?ry , ? ' + ?*. Are joy and mi S&&X01 to-day, spiring arms toward her and'lftBBgifl l^atlor than before. "He wants yon to kiss huu> placet" said Nellie, decisively. ; "No, no;" interrupted the.'.har$ei "I wouldn't d$ kiss sick people. Whyf' Has he'g&t hold of yon? Well, well, little fellow:; yoa mustn't grab the lady.'. \ like'a good little??"; Another i*agls> /l.i.k?a short 'shpnfcbf ; victory, and the baby'hands' reieaaep | their hold'on the laoe pf Ctrac&^B wafitM ! scarlet carnation |?nkf '" ^r"' The girls looked|fl^anh- other;in. ber head, as if ashatx^JoZ g^B^^to which could be negligence. ^ She w^';h^ ? traded bin ' 11- 'n^tirj even strong enough . to voyer^fei *.hii; J sufferings. But, yoh sefe^hfr^de^ sadly, "our hospital is flowers, thope the sick, are ?" tmt-$l^e c^eQ'eei'ed that she was talking* Wtt^ffl^ah-'-au'v dience. In that shod i^Mfent.of baby; ; glee of securing the : "^trdDgJ;: deep-rooted resolutionJjf self in the hearts of jP^fo^^Tgtris^ ' once. When the ydang np^- fonpd' herself alone sheJ^Trried the, hallway, thene was a ritotUng of skirts duwn tw crooked, atflep. flight of creaky rta/rs, and she fo]lotoea-r aa quickly as ?ne could, reaching-'ilft reception robm in time to he^ ]Qrace< saying in'a brokeu voice to the-ina-1 tron: "Aad what street did you\ Say this is out here?" . i The name was hastily scribbled dawn on the baoks of fcrdr aueets ot m'taic (and not auy too legibly, either) b.v four girls ou the laat brink of a general tearful collapse. { "Remember, please, that the meani iugof E*steris 'Everythingbright and ; glorious.' We inteud to make this J Eaater a memorable one to yon. We I will return Tuesday to 3ee the resalts." Tuesday afternoon they did return and were met at the door by the matron, her face beaming with boundless joy. Behind her stood her corps of young nurses, ev?ry oue of them holding a delicious bouquet of wild-flowers, which they hoid aloft iu a trium- "| phal arch, uader wL.ich the girls were obliged to pass, to tl*e 3tairway. The ;! old balustrade was wpand with daisi?3 ' i I V ' and buttercups, iu a most entrancing manner, aud they entered the warcl upstairs amid a joyous hand-clapping, rr" t- _ J though a leeble oue. xne room nan been .handsomely decorated with streamers of bright-colored ribbous that fell in graceful festoons from the central gas-burner to the foot of each cot. Daisies aud buttercups, with many othjr wild-flowers of the spring, were simply everywhere, on the window-sills, on the tables, and many a little pallid fist grasped a bunch of them. The nurses and matron wore j 3prigs of maiden-hair fern3 in their hair, and daisies and violets on their ] breasts. The girls could not speak, they were so overcome with pleasure at the success of their plan. And thus originated the beautiful aunual flower mission in hospitals, in j the hearts of four yonug girls, bom into wealth and happiness, but brought unexpectedly face to face with the undeniable fact that ';one-half the world knows not how the other half lives.' ?Boston Transcript. *< * I A NEW WAY TO HAVE 2 | FUN WITH EA5TER EBBS, f *" 51 Sf/IGQiGX# HE accompanying cuts aliow four Easter eggs. * * Would you like to make some like them? It is very U A i easy. Get the , A \|/i 11 ?00^ *? GiTe 70U ,' -fl'/hiA four egt'9' a"d ~~~~ I UWlllii perhaps she will /,,^'Sys^ ) J&yd. help you "blow" . -(V' !1 them. All you Lave to do is to make a small hole at each end of the egg with a large pin, auJ then, by putting one end to your L.! tlcome Easter, J JJ*-*' ing organ chord, wJ ;, and Alleluias. /rp< Lisen Lord, ^ [vocations CV/r^" *h hway' ir , slipped from our side one day,* CJ? id along the upward way. 'Vc$Vr Aftcr the wintry coldness, mm The flush and glow of vJO^t spring. , X'J>} ^ After the wintry silence r-> > v 1 The Jubilate i Sing I Oh, heart that ached, for gladness f C L Is on the King's highway., (r/jr J jl It And we, with saints and j?. Are keeping Eaiter day. mouth and holding the eg^ lightly, you pkh easily blow out the inside. '*T(J thake the 'Chinaman, a browniah-coltfred egg is the best. His hat is made simply, by takiug a piece of stiff paper and catting oat a circle, with an inner circle fitting the top of biahead. 'His mustache and pigtail arejgade of, darning cotton and glued THE CHXXAMA>V THE DUDE. on. The face may bjs done with black The '.'dude1' is flifcdpij,outlined with ii^k, painting this- cnateka^pink. By tbe. ?ndp'togethi^the end of the egg ^q^naking hia collar. A narrow bit fcf ^lkm will do'for the necktie. The "old lady's" face may be painted" or done with ink, and her bonnet | x^e,.oVtffiie:'tiMa(r paper glued to the back of her head, leaving the ruffles to stand out tjtoauid her face. ^olowri V fade is done in ink, ^t^o-the spots. ia :rdd vpaint fused | i, ' THE OLD LAD1T. THE CLOWK. thickly). His cap can be made of ^hite'paper, and also his raffled col tar. The eggs it giuea oa to scia oaras will stand; or a ribbon may be tied through the two holes at each end of the egg and the eggs hung up. If one prefers it is very pretty to paint little flowers on the eggs. It is easy to make these Easter eggs, and children will find it great fun if they " One of the oldest hostelries in Esg>< land is the New Inn at Glotjcfater, but in spite of theceatafteif which have rolle^lJ^'lB^arit was built ib, once aRf)roprialev description clings fo it. a A * * i " I DR. TALMAGUS SERMONJUNOAY'S DISCOURSE 8/THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Home Life?It Point* Oat the Uuty of Parent* unci AdioonUhe* the Children?Don't StuS tbe Youn? j People With Kellglon. CCopyriRtit iwu.] Washington, D. C.?This discourse of Jr. Talmage will interest young men, while t Is fuil of advice and encouragement to jarentr who itre .trying to bring up tholr shlldrea aright; text, Proverbs x., 1, "A sise son marketh a glad father, bat a foolsh son is the heaviness of his mother." In this graphic way Solomon set3 forth :'.ie idea that the good or evil behavior of hildren blesses or blights the parental T trnnnr thorn sfa nnrenna who HflOm iCtllb. *. a.?W?? w :o have no especial interest In the welfare aC their children. The fatnersays: "My boy must take the risks I took la life. It iie turns out well, all right. If he turns out ill, he will have to bear the consequences. He ha3 the same chance that I aad. He must take care of himself." A shepherd might just as well thrust a lamb into a den of lions und say, "Little lamb, :akk care of yourself." Nearly all the brute; creation are kind Enough to look after their yonng. I was going through a woods, and I heard a jhrill cry in u nest. I climbed up to the Dlrd's nest, and I fourid- that the old oird had left the brood to'atarve. But that :s a very rare occurrence. Generally a bird will pick your eyas out rather than surrender her young to your < keeping or yourtouch. A. Hon will read you-Jf you come :oo near the whelps. Even the barnyard fowl, with its clumsy foot and heavy wing, will come at you if you approaoh Its young coo nearly, and Qod certainly intended to have fathers and mothers as; kind aa the [ orutes. , Christ comes through all otfr households to-day, and He says: "You take care of I the bodies of vour Children and the minds I - * ?i, n Hfon What nrA mn ilnlnor fop JL VUUl vu*?vuvu. V**7* J o :helr immortal sbols?V 1 read of a ship illnt foundered. A life-boat was launohed. Many of the passengers were la tlifvwaters. , A. mother, wlth^one hand beating the wave and the other hand holding, her little child out toward the lifeboat, cried out, "Save my child!" And that Impassioned cry Is the one that finds an echo id every parental heart In this land to-day. "Save my child!" '.That man oat there says: "I have !ought my own way through life, I have got along tolerably well, the world has buffeted me, and I'Huve h id many a bard-straggle, [t don't make much difference whAt happens to me, but save my child!" You see I have a subject of stupendous import, and I am going, as God may help me, to show the cause of parental solicitude and then the alleviations of that solicitude. The first cause of parental solicitude, I chink, arises from the Imperfection of parents on their own part.. Wo all somehow want our children to avoid our faults, We hope thnt if we Jiave^aay excellences they will copy thoai. Bhtu the probability is tiiey will copy our faults ;aaa omit our excellences. Childress rti'ery^t to be echoes of the parent^'JHei, flome on?;t' meets a lad in the back street, finds himffi smoking and says: "Why, lam astonished? at youl What would your father say If he - *? rrri 1 tvuew ims.' IIJBiO UIU luu HOW . "Ob, I picked it up ou the street1." "What would your father say and your mothersny if they knewtbis?" "Ob,"hereplies,"that's nothing. My father smokes!" There fs not one of U3 to-day who would like to have our children copy all our examples. And that is the cause of the solicitude on the part of all of U3. We have so mauy faults wo do not want them copied and storeotyped in the lives and characters of those who come after us.;. The solicitude arises from our conscious insufficiency and unwisdom of discipline. Out of twenty parents there may be one parent who understands how thoroughly and skillfully to discipline; perhaps not more than one out of twenty. We, nearly all of us, err on one side or'ou the other. Here is a father who says, "I am going to bring up my children right; my sons shall know nothing but religion; shnll see nothing but religion, and hear nothing but religion." Tbey are routed out at 6 o'clock In the morning to recite the Teu^Commandmenta. They are awakened up from the sofa on Sunday night to recite the Westminster Catechism. Their bedroom walls are covered with religious pictures and quotations of Scripture, aud when the boy looks tor tbo day or the month he 100ICS lor 1Z in a reuj?iou3 uiuinuui;. 11 a minister comes to the bouse, ho Is requested to take the boy aside nod tell htm what a great sinner be is. It is religion morning, noon and night. Time passes on, and the parents are waiting for tbe return of the son at night. It Is 1) o'clock, it is 10 o'lock, it is 11 o'clock, It is 12 o'clock, it is half-past 12 o'clock. Tben tbey hear a rattling of tbe nigbt key, mid George comes (n and hastens upstairs lest lie be accosted. His father says, ''George, where have you been?" He says, "I have been out." Yos, he haa been out, and be has been down, and he has started on tbe broadroad to ruin for this life and ruin for the life to come, and the father says to his wile, "Mother, the Tea Commandments are a failure; uo use of Westminster Catechism; I have done my very best for that boy; just soe now ue nas turned out." All, my friend, you stuffed thut boy with religion; you bad no syrapathey with iunocent hilarities; you bad no common sense. A man at midlife said to me, "I haven't muih desire for religion; my father was as good a man as ever lived, Out he jammed religion down my throat when I was a boy until I got disgusted with it, and I haven't wanted any of it jince." That father erred on one side. Then the discipline is an entire failure in many households because the father pulls one way and the mother pulls the Dther way. The father says, "My son, I cold you if I ever found you guilty of falselood again I would chastise you, and I am Cfoing to keep my promise." The mother says: "Don't! Let him off this time." A father says, "I have seen so many that make mistake Dy too great severity in the rearing of their children. Now, I will let my hoy do as he pleasea. Ho shall have full swing. Here, my son, are tickets to the theatre and opera. If you want to play cards, do so; if you don't want to playcards, you need not to play them. Go wht*n you want and come back when you want to. Have a good time. Go it!" Givn a boy pleuty of money and ask him not what he does with It, and you pay his way straight to perdition. But after awhile the lad thinks he ought to have a still larger supply. He has been treated, and he must treat. He must have wine supnam Thara nrf? Inrirnr lllwl liirurer ex J30OS09, After awhile one day a messenger from tbo bank oyer the.w.ay calls in and says to the father of the household of which I am speaking, "The officers of the bank would like to have you step over a minute." Tiis father steps over, and the bank officer suys, "Is that your oheck?" "No," he says; "that is not my check. I never made au 'H' in that way; I never put a curl to til'Y' in that way. That la not ray writing. That is not my signature. That is a counterfeit. Heitd for the police." "Stop!" says the bank officer, "i'our son wrote that." Now the father and mother are waiting for the sou to ccme home at night. It is 12 o'clock, it is half-past 12 o'clock, it Is 1 o'clock. The sou coiiies turough the hallway. The fHther pays: "My son, what does all this meau? I gave you every opportunity. f I gave you all the money you Ranted-, and here 111 my old days I find thai you bayg'ljecome a spendthrift, a libertine and a sot." The son j?ays: "Now, father, what is the use of your talking that way? You told tee to go ft, and I just took vour suggestion."- And so to strike the medium bstween severity and- too gfeat leniency, to strike the happy medium between the two and train our children for God and for heaven. f9 the anxiety for every intel ilgent pareut. Bat for the most part the children that live sometimes Ret cross and pick up bud words fa the 9treet or are disposed to quarrel with brother or sister and show that/ they am wicked. You see them in the bath-school cIass. They are so suj^^y and bright you would think they^ere always so, but the mother looW?g 0ror at them remembers what_&n a?ftul time she had to get tUem^pftpfy. lfine passes on. -3&?7 #?k?W>B3ldeiably older, and the son cornea la from the street from a pugilistic eooounter bearing on his appearance the marks of defeat, or the daughter practices lome little deception la the household. The mothecsnys, "I can't always bescold.Jnf and betting and finding fault, but this %a?t be stopped." So in many a house hold there Is tb? sign of sin, the sign of tha truthfulness of what the Bible says when it declares, "They go astray as soon a3 they be born, speaking lies." Home go to work aud try to correct all this, and the boy is picked at and picked at aud picked at. That aiway3 is* ruinous. There is more help in one good thunderstorm thau in five days ot cold driazle. Better the old fashioned style of chastisement, If that be necessary, than the fretting aud the scolding which have destroyed so many. There is also a cause of great solicitude sometimes because our young people are surrounded by so uiany temptations. A castloimay not bo taken by a straightforward siege, but suppose there be inside the cuatle au enemy, and in the nigjit he shoves back the bolt and swings open the door. Our young folks have foes without, aud they have foes within. Who does not understand it? Who is the man here who is not aware of the fact that the young people of this day have tremendous temptations? /M. U MtA .iA..n?( vu, uyyf miiuy act iui mr juuu^. Styles of temptation just suited to thorn. Do you 9uppos" that a man who went clear to the depths of dissipation went down in one groat plunge? Oh, no! At first it was a fashionable hotel. Marble floor. No unclean plcturos behind the counter. No drunlcen hiccough while they drink, but the click of cut glase to the elegant sentiment. You aak that youncr man now to go into some low restaurant and get a drink, and he would say, "Do you mean to insult me?" But the fashionable and the elegant hotel is not always close by, and now the yonDg man is on the down grade. Farther and (aether down until he has about struck the bottom of the depths of ruin. Now he la in the low restaurant. The cards 30 greaayryou can. Jbardly tell who has the hatband.. Gambling for drinks. Shuffle awayy shuffle away. The landlord stands in ,hls short sleeves, with Ills hands on his hips, - waiting for an order to fill up the glasses. The clock strikes twelve?the tolling of the funeral bell of a soul. The breath of eternal woe flushes tn that young man's cheeks. In the jets of the gaslight the fiery tongue of the worm that never dies. Two o'clock in the morning, and now they are sound asleep in their chalr3. Landlord comes around and says "Wake up, wake upl 1 Time to shut up!" "What!" says the young man. "Time to shut up?" Pash them all out into the night air. Now they are going home. Going home! Let the wife crouch In the corner and the chil areu uiao unaer tue waa. vruac was. iuo history of that young man? He begati lilsi dissipations la the barroom of aFiftb.avenue hotel and completed lila damnation iathe lowest grogshop. Sometimes s:ii does not baltin that way., Sometimes ^In even oomes to the drawing room. There are leprous hearts somatimes admitted in the highest circles, of ! society. He is so elegant, he is so bewitca* ing in his manner, he Is so reflned, he Is so educated, no one suspects the sinful design, but after a while the talons ot death come forth. What is the matter with that bouse? The front windows hnvo not been !N?n for six months or a year. A shadow ts come down on that domestic hearth, a iidow thicker than one woven of midjht and hurricane. The agony of that rent makes him say, "Ob, I wish I had i;ied my children when thev were smalt!" iss ot property? No. Death in the tally? No. Madness? No. Some villain, kid gloved aud diamonded, lifted that cup of domestic bliss until the sualight struck it, and all the rainbows played around the rim and then dashed it into desolation and woe, until the harpies of darkness olapped their hands aud all the voices of the pit uttered a loud "Ha, hu!" The statistician never been made up in c 030 groilt umua ui jiuw mauj' iiiiyo ycou destroyed and bow many beautiful homes, have been overthrown. It the statistic could be presented, it would freeze your blood in 11 Holid cake at your heart. Our great cities are full of temptations, and to I vast mu'titudes of parents these temptations become a matter of great solicitude. J Buf now for the alleviations. First of. j all, you save yourself a great deal af|j trouble, oh, parent, if you can early watclp the children and educate them for Gotf and heaveD! "The first five years of my ; life made mo nn infldel," said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to sea, and after it bap been five days out there comes a cyclone. The vessel springs a leak. ' The, helm #111 uoc work. What is the matter? It laribf seaworthy. It never was,sea worthy.-Can you mend it now? It is too . late. ,J)owd she goes with 250 passengers into a witter} I grave. What was the time to fix thnt ves- ; Hel? What was the time to prepare it foi j the storm? In the drydock. Ah, my ! friends, do not wait until your children | get out into the world, beyond the Nnr, j A ?..k t-U? nf llfof I ruw.1 UUU UUl UU kUO W J ???\s VI. ***w> It is too lata then to mend thetr morals and their manners. The drydock o;f the Christian homo is the place. Correct the sin now. Corrtot the evil now. Just look at the character ot your children now aud get uu iutlmation ot what they are going to be. You can tell by the way that boy divides the apple wliRt bis proclivity is and what ills' sin will be and what style of discipline you ought to bring upon him. l'ou see how he divides that apple? He takes nine-tenths of it for himself and ha gives one-tenth to. his sister. Well, let that go, aud all hi9 life he will waut tho best part of everything, aud he will bo grludlug and grusplng to the day of bis death. Begin early with your children. You stand on the banks of a river and you try to change Its course. It has been rolling now lor 100 miles. You cannot change It. But just go to the source of that river, go to wnore the water just drips down on the rock. Then with your knife make a channel this way and a channel that way, and It will take it. Come out and stand on the banks ot your cuun s are wnen it is luiny or forty years ot age, or even twenty, and try to change the oouree of that life. It is too late! It is too latel Go farthor up at tbe source of life and nearest to the mother's heart, where the character starts, and try to take tt In the right direction. But, ob, my friend, be careful to make a l|ne, a distinct line between innocent hilarity on the ono hand and vicious hilarity on the other. Do not think; your children are goin?*io ruin because ttiey mnlce a racket. All healthy children make a racket. But do not laugh at your child's sin beeau38 it U smart. If you do, you will cry after awliile because it is malicious. Remember it is what you do more tbau what you say that is golug to aiTect your children. Do you suppose Noah would have got his family to go Into tbe ark if he staid oat? No. His sons would have said, "I am not going into the boat; there's something wrong; father wou'tgoin; if father stays ont, I'll stay out." , ' Are all your children safe? I know it is a stupendous auestlon to ask, but I must ask it. Ar?" all your children 9afe? A mother, wuan the house was on Are, got out tlio household good?, many articles ot beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask till too late, "Are the children safe?" When the elements are melting with fervent heat and God shall burn the world up andiha cry ot "Fire! Fire!" shall resound amid the mountains and the valleys, will your children be safe.' 1 wouder if th* subject strikes a chord la the heart of auy man who had Christian parentage, but h?? not lived as he ought? God brought you here this mornlug to have your memory revived, you have a Christian anoestrv? "Oil, yei!" says one man. "If tiier-j evt-r wad a ?ood woman, my mother was good." How she watched you when you were sick! Others wearied. If she got weary, she nevertheless was wakelul, and tb* medicine was given at the right time, and when the pillow was hot she turned ic. And, oh, then, when yon began to go astray, what a grief it was to her heart! ' Ail the scene com?? ba.*k. Jou remember I he chairs, you remtynber the table, you re&ember tlie,tlobrsill where you played, you reaie;ftt)tt? the tones of her voloe. She calliug you now, not by the fcrmaiytie wit i which we address you, Baylugr^itfr." this or "Mr." that, or "Honthis or "Honorable" that. It is thk flraf nnmu vnnr tlrst lllittK?. she I f7UOfc * "V llku? ? , J v?. , calls you by tlila morulDg. She bids you to a better life. Soe says: "Forget not all the counsel I gave you, my wandering boy. Turn into paths of righteousness. I air. waiting fo{ you at the gate." Oh, yes, God brought yoS'liere this morning to have that memory revived, iind I 9liout upward I the tidings. Angels ol God 9eud forward the nows. Ring! Ring! The dead is alive agaii aud the lost is found! Coat Oi?cft??rfiln the Klondike. It Irsnhl tbnt Soifi bus beei; found nen. Dawsou CUy. in the Kionkike region I THE SABBATH SCHOOL j INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 15. ! ^utfject: The Daughter of J.tirufl liaised; i Murk v., 23-24: 33-43?Golden Text, Mark v., 30?memory Verso?, 39-42? Coiuuieutary on the.D.iy'j Letgon. i 99& "Ono of the rulos of the synagogue." . There were two principal officers ol tha I svuncroirue. "Fall at His faat." Thin wan giving Jesus groat honor. 23. "Besought Him greatly." Jaime must have been woll acquainted with Jesus, It was with the consent and invitation oi this ruler tbut Jesus had frequently spoken in the synagogue. Jalrus was in earnest now; 1. The case was an important, one 2. He knew that he could obtain help from j no one t?l3e. Christ was his only hope. It is well for us to be*thu9 3hut in with God; such oxpex-iences bring us to our knees in deep humility. <:JIy little daughter." An only daughter twelve yeiirs of age. "At the point of death." Why had he waited so long? Why do we wait so long befort going to Christ? "Lay thy hands on her.'Christ could heal either with or without being la personal contact with the disease, but ordinarily He touched those whom He healed. This i3 still the divine arrangement. Is any sick among you? there is ample provision made. Jas. 5:14, 15. "She shall live." Jalrus had faith. He had seen Jesu9 perform miracles many times, and he believed in His ability to heal. 24; "Jesus went with him." Jesus is always ready to go to the assistance of thoso who are suffering. "Much people." Great opposition had lately been stirred up In Capernaum by the ecclesiastical authorities, isnd the people had come together to see what He would do. There was general excitement. 35. "While He yet spake." After Jesus had started to go with the ruler a woman, who for twelve years had been seriously ill, came in thecrowd behind Him aud touched His garment. Jesus turned and spoke to lier and healed her. While He yet spake to this woman the messenger came from the ruler's house. "Thy daughter is dead." The servant who brought this news had no idea of Christ's ability to raise from the dead.. If Christ had been as other physicians it would then have been too late. But as in the case of Lazarus, so now. Jesus did not appear to hasten. God alone understands His own pur. poses. 36. "Heard the word." The news was hot carried to Jesus directly, but He heard It. "Be not afraid." -Fear would destroy tfis faith. /This is a severe test; from a human standpoint the case is hopeless. Talros might have been in doubt about ' asking Jesus, to go farther. "Only J>e, Ueve." / God sometimes deprives us of all ;other sources of help, and thus draws, us to Hlmsalf..' Faith had to be called out, tried, purified, and so perfected. The ! thing sought was, humanly speaking, unattainable, and the means employed seemingly powailess, and yet the results wore : obtained through the power ot Christ, and by the peculiar discipline to which faith was subjected. 37. "Save Peter, and James, and John." k competent number to*be witnesses of t the miracle, but not so many that His taking tbetft'might look like vainglory. "The brother ot James." John is thus d< -bribed bocaueo when Mark wrote this g<3pel, 3oon after our Lord's ascension, the memory of James, lately beheaded, was so fresh, that his name was more known than that of John Mmself. 33. "Seeth the tumult." They ware already making preparations for a grsat funeral. "That wept and walled greatly." Both real and hired mourners, wailing I womenand musicians. It i? a custom still .prevailing In theEaBt to hire walling woman. Unites the body was embalmed the ' burial would take place aimer. Immediately. ' In Jerusalem to-day burial is not g^taally delayed more than throd or four bfflxrs. 39. "Why make ye tbis ado, aud weep." Christianity moderates our grief, and . shows us a Father's hand holding the rod., This must have been very distressing tc Jesus. The apostle tells us to sorrow not as those whioh have no hope. 1 Thess 4:13. Pompous funeral ceremonies are ridiculous la themselves and entirely opugfled to tbespirit and simplicity of-the reunion Of Christ. "Not dead, but,sleepeth.' She Is not dead bcJ as to continue under the power.of death; but shall be raised ttbm it as a person from-natural sleep. There are two views taken of this case. The human '.view is, The child is dead; the divine view Is, The child is asleep. Sleep is the imago I of death. > 40. "Laughed him to scorn." Evidently I those around Jalras shared not bis faith, but all the greater was the faith of JAlrus. ! "Had put them allout." Those who scorna the Lord and His benefits were not deemed worthy to witness Hfs miracle?. "The father ana tue motaer." xi w?s oumoi/ that the parents of the child should bo preseqt, and then He desired to comfort them and strengthen their faith. "Entereth In where the damsel was , lying." Josus could havq raised her without being present, but If we assist in bringing souls dead in sin to life we will have to go where they are. Francis Murphy said to the ministers of a certain large city, "Thp reason why you gentlemen fall to reaoh 'people la beoause you do notgo where they are. It Is not enough, when you see the drunkard in ithe dltcb, to draw your broadcloth around you and say 'poor fellow;' you must take off your coat and get right down where ho is and help him up. ?ou will have to touch people in order to save i them." | "41. "Talitha-cumi." Damsel, arise. This was a common term cf endearment used by loviug mothers to wake their children. The words seem to teU us that in the glad waking, on the resurrection morning, there will be nothing startling, or unnatural, but "the old familiar love wbich has blessed us here will greet us there." I , 42. "With a great astonishment." Ttiey knew it was supernatural. There is nothing tosbow, however, that it was the moans of causing saving faith to spring up in any bear*.. If peoDle will not be led to a holy life through God's word nud the preaching of gospel truth,.neither would they bo persuaded "though one rose from the dead." 43. "That no man 9hould know It." The reasons for this were, 1. That He might prevent a great concourse of people. 2. It Would further enrage thescrlbes and Pharisees. 3. Christ's miracles were intended to I -I I ?r\ annfl?fl/<a fnlfK 4. Rfl rirtQirpd I to make disciples, a ad direct the people to His teaching. 5. It might excite their carnal and selfish expectations. It was not His miracles hut Himself that they needed. "Given her to eat." She was raised not only to life but to health. Although raised oy divine ?ower yet life was to be mainrained by the ordinary means. It is tempt' .ngGod to resort to supernatural means when the ordinary means cau bo used. Teachings.?If we desire to JJrecoiva i from God we must, 1. Come to Him. 2. flumble ourselves before Him. ?. Ba m | jarnest. 4. Ask In faith. POPULATION OF MANILA CITY. A Ceo i tin Taken by tlie Sanitary Corpf Placet It at About 150,000. A census of the city of Manila, taken by :lie 8a?itury Corps of the city, has been received at the War Department in Washing, ton. It shows the population of the city proper,' not including the suburbs or the resldeuts of houseboats, convents or somInarles; to be apprOT'raal^ly 153,023. Tue.t work of enumeration wa9 exceedingly difficult, the natives showing a strong dislike to answering questions, and the census Is thereforo not as accurate as It might be. As a basis for sanitary work, however, it is sufficient. According to the report there are 20,709 buildings in Manila, containing 42,570 rooms. The population is divided as fol lows: Men, 04,945; women, 43,058; children 29,933; aged persons, 4087; Chinese, 8352 The figures given for ttie uninose art thought to bo furbelow the actual num| her, the estimates plnciug them as high a30,000. I The population ot Tondo was reported as 25,423, with 2384 houses; of Biuondo t%5, and 3649 houses; of Santa Cruz, 20, 275, with 2663 houses, and San Nicholas 23.794. with 2013 houses. [ " ' *"'Sl?3e iJall Pay 860.000 i tfoar. I Captalu Joseph Nicholson, tor twenty I one yours warden of the Detroit House o Correction is dead. Under Ills puperluteu dence the big prison with Its GOd' Inmates Including tnauy Federul prisoners, P*l< $60,000 annually to the city. * .' .; :>. t&r&SSSr j GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATE3T PROPHETS. Drifting By?Curving tlie Beauty of Chrin* ?Studying fhrint and tlie Saints?A Prayer for Mercy?The Symphony ?# Virtuen? A ( (lunge ot' Knviromueut. Drifting by, the winter days, Drifting by, the storms and snow; Swift unto tlin.woodland ways Come thu hours wh'?n buds will UloWHnstinpr'by, the childish Iifo, Brooded o'er by mother love ; Boon will come the toil, the strife, oiuae;-i rjcnaitsn ?au ciouus ?i?ovu. Pnssing, nil our ferief aud paia, Every heartache, every care; Passing, sorrow's bitter rain ; Coming, day* soreue and fair. Drifting by, our deepest loss, Burden, anguish, drifting by : They who patient bear the cro*Hay receive the crown on high. Hurrying on. this mortal day; "Earth to oarth and dust to dual'" Over us some voice shall say, Yet the ceaseless Lore we trust Heaven shall open wide its gates, Let our pilgrim bands come-in; There for us the Master waits, There we'll drop the load of sin. Drilting, drifting, drifting far, Fast and far the fleeting days, Till we cross the moaning bar, Till we reach the endless praise. -Mar-nr^t E. Sangster, in Christian Intel!!* goncer. Carving; the Beauty of Christ. In one of the old cathedrals in Europe the juide bids tho visitor watch a certain spot, untir the light from the window falls upoa it. There he sees, carved ou a rafter, a fao? of such marvellous beauty that It is the very jem of the great building. The legend Is, that, when the architects and masters war* planning the adornment of the cathedral,an aid man came in and begged leave to do some work. Tbey felt that his tottering steps and trembling bands unfitted him for any great service; ho they sent Mm. ug co the roof and gave him permission U. rarve upon one of the rafters. He went bis way, and day by day he wrought then n the darkness. One day he was not seeo to come down, and goiug up they fonnd ' i him U'lnn> 11 fo luua n n flia onoff aMIm/* nrUU ? 'J ,u0 vu QVUUVlUJUJj, IT IbU his sightless eyes turned upward. And there they naw a (ace carved on the rafter,? face of such exceeding beauty, that architects and great man bared their beads aa they looked upon it, and recognized the Master in him who lay there still in dea$h. In the church of the living God wo are all set to carve the beauty of the face of Christ, not on the rafters or walls of any cathedral, but on our own heart and life. Be it ours to do this work with such care and skill that, wheh our eyes are closed in death, men may look with reverence upon the beauty of the faco our hands have fashioned. Home of us may feel ourselves too feeble, or too unskilled, to do any great work in this world for Christ; but none are too feeble or too r.uskilled to carve the beauty of Christ on their life. And it may be that in "the time of great revealing, it *hall appear that some trembling disciple among us, timid and shrinking whose voice '.'s not heard in our meetings, Whose work is !n some qiu..'t corner, out o! sight, has wrought the beauty of Cbristlikeness in an sxquisiteness which shall outshine all that an',- even of the greatest of us have done.? J. It. Miller, D. D. Studying Chi'iat and the Saints. Helps to the better life are at the command of every porson. The more minute lids'are these: Meditatiou on things "pure, 'ovely and of p;ood report;" study of Christ's life and of the lives of the saintly one9 whe through tho ages have been animated by the spirit of life that was in Him; association with the living epistles of that life; active membership in organizations designed to foster manly and womanly Virtues. The organization which stands above all others, instituted for the purpose of affording the most direct and affective aid to Christian living, is the ?hureb. It aims to bring to the soul an upifting and inspiring influence, an energizing ,'orce, a life current from the Fountain of all ife that creates anew all things within and presents the world in new and higher as- / .iect?; in a word, it is a means instituted by ;he Father through the Bon for helping His rhildren attain on earth that life which is the Jurest, the hanplost and the most fruitful. * A Prayer for Mercy. Lord Qod, merciful and gracious, longtutiering and abundant in goodness and ruth, keeping mercy for thorsands, for<lving iniquity and transgression and sin,and ;hat will by no meaus clear the guilty; insline thine'car and hear; for we do not prejeut our supplicatioos before thee for jur righteousness, but for thy great y nercies. From coldness to thy merits and T death, from error and misunderstanding, from the loss of our glory in thee, frnm thft nnhannv desire of becominff j;reut, from self-complacency, from unr iimely projects, from needless perplexity, from the murdering spirit and devices of 3atan. from the influence of the spirit Of ;his world, from hypocrisy and fanaticism, from the deceitfulness of sin, from all sin preserve us, gracious Lord and God. O Christ, hear us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Loril have mercy upon us. Amen. The Symphony of Virtue*. A man may take a dollar or a balf-dollai and hold it up to his eye so closely that he will hide the sun from him;-, .Or he may so focus his telescope that a fly or a bowlder oiay bo as large as a mountain. Now, let .is boware of distortion in the arrangement of tbe religious truths which we bold. It is almost impossible to get (things in their proper proportion and symmetery, but this is the thing we must be constantly aiming it. We are told in tbe Bible to "add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge balance," aatbiiword literally means balanoo. It is a word taken ftoni the orchestra?the sopranos, tbo basses, tlie iltos. the tenors and all the rest of them? anist be regulated. If you havt? too much it the bass, or too much of the soprano, .here is want of harmony. That is what I mean by the want of proper focus.?Professor Dr Jinmoad. Si>: In?t a Chnnjce of Environment. It i3 probably no abrupt shock to the one wbo appears to us to die. To himself he jnly'seems, I suppose, to be placed ia the midst of now scenes, new friends, new oeiupations. We shall be no tnoro surprised, ? imagine, at finding ourselves ia the other .vorld than we were at finding ourselves in .his world. Softly we were cradled into ox.stence here, gently we shall be lifted into ?xistenue there. There, as here, we shall oe in a world of surrounding beauty and wonder; there, as here, we shall llnd ourselves born into a home and a ssoiety; ther?\ is here, by slow degrees we shall underhand our new home and oar new work.? fames Freeman Clarke. You will find yoaraelf refreshed by tb? presence of cheerful people. Why not mak? tamest effort toi oonfer that pleasure ou itbers '.' You will find half the battle gained .1 you never aiiow youraen 10 say auym;Djj gloomy.?Lydia Maria Child. Never offer to do for another what you believe that other not only can do, but o :ght r.o do himsolf. Unnecessary bolp pa;;pi?r'.zes both character and energy. RAILROADS ON THE INCREASE. Nearly 59,000 Mile* Art to H? Built Dai Iuk the Year. The Railway Ago of Chicago snvs: A'. :hough more miles of new railroad wer oailt in the United States last your than I iny year since 1890, there Is every iudica ;lon that the prwent year will witness ev? greater activity. In the aggregate the: ire nearly 5'J,000 miles of projected road grouped by flections aa follows: New Eagland States, 447 miles; Mtldl States, 2240 miles; South Atlantic Slates, 975 niles; Oulf and Mississippi -Valley Statei 3793 miles; Central Northern Stales, 662 ailes; Northwestern States, 6197 milei Southwestern States, 21,207 miles; Paolfl States, 6377 miles; total. 53,811 miles.