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^ f-.f OR TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 8f THE NOTEDDIVINE. Subject: Lift Up the Fallen?\ Pl#? For Welcome For the Prodigal?Kindness Would Reclaim Many Unfortunates Who Have Dropped by the War. [Copyright lnuu.] Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage pleads for a hearty-reception to all those who have done wroni; and waat to get back, while the uusymnathetic and self-righteous are excoriated; text, Luke xv., 28, "And he was angry and would not go in." Many times hare T been asked to preach a sermon about the eider brother of the parable. I received a letter from Canada saying, "Is the elder son of the parable so unsympathetic and so cold that he is not worthy of recognition?" The fact i3 that we ministers nursue the younger son. l'ou onn hear the flappings of his rags In many a serraonlc breeze and the cranching of the pods for which he was an unsuccessful contestant. I confess that It has beeu -dlffloult for me to train the camera obscura upon the elder son of the parable. I could not get a negative for a photograph. There was not enough light in the gallery, or the chemicals were poor, or the sitter moved in the picture. But now I think I have him; not a side face or a three-quarters or the mere bust, but a full length {>ortralt as be appears to me. The father n the parable of the prodigal had nothing to brag of in his two sons. The one was a rake and the other a churl. I Ond nothing admirable In the dissoluteness of the one, and I find nothing attractive ia the acrid " ' ?obriety of the other. The one goes down * over the larboard side, and the other goes down over the starboard side, but they both go down. From all the windows of tae old home fy, tend bursts the minstrelsy. rne noor ' quakes with the feet of the rustics, whose dance is always vigorous and resounding. The neighbors have heard of the return of H the younger son from his wanderings, and thejf have gathered together. The house is full of oongratulator9. I suppose the tables are loaded with luxuries; not only the one kind of meat mentioned, but its E ooncomltauts. "Clap!" go the cymbals, L "Thrum!" go the harps. "Click!" go the chalices, up and down go the feet inside, while outside is a most sorry spectacle. The senior son stands at the corner of the house, a frigid phlegmatic. He.had just come in from the fields in very substantial apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations around the old mansion, he ask3 of a servant passing by with a goatskin of wine on bis shoulder what all the fuss is about. One would have thought that, on hearing that his younger brother had got back, he would have goue into the house and rejoiced and, If he were not conscientiously opposed to dancing, that he would have Iolned In the oriental schottlsh. No. There le stands. His brow lowers; his face darkens; his lip curls with contempt; he stamps the ground with indignation; he see3 nothing at nil to attract. The odors of the feast coming out on the air do no( sharpen his appetite; the lively music does not put any spring into his step. He is a terrible pout; he criticises the expense, the Injustice and the morals of the entertainment. The father rushes o&t bareheaded and coaxes him to come in. He will not go in; he scolds the father; he goes into a pasquinade against the younger brother, and be make tho most uncomely scene; he says,"Fathot, you ... put a premium on vagabond^m. I staid at home and worked on th?>farm., You never made a party for me; you didn't so 4 much as kill a kid. That wouldn't have cost half as much as a calf. But this scapegrace went off In floeclothes, and he comes back not fit to be seen, and what a time you mako over him! He breaks your heart, and yon pay him for it. That oalf, to which we have been Riving extra feed during alltheso weeks, wouldn't be so fat and sleek if I had known to what use you were going to put itl That vagabond deserves to be cowbided instead ol banqueted. Veal is too good for him!" That evening, while the younger son sat telling his father about his adventures and asking about what had occurred ou the place since bis departure, the seuior brother goes to bed disgusted and slams the door after him. That senior brother still lives. You can see him any day of the week. At a meeting of mtuiS' ters in Germany some one asked the question. "Who Is that elder son?" and Krum-' macher answered: "I know him; I saw him yesterday." And when they insisted upon' * knowing whom he meant he said: "Myself. When I saw the account of the conversion Of a most obnoxious man, I was irritated." First, to is senior brother of the text stands for the self congratulatory, self satIsiled, self worshipful man. With the same breath in which he vituperates against his younger brother he utters a panegyric for * himself. The self righteous man of my text, like every other self righteous tnuu, was full of fau'ts. He was t>u lngrate, for he did not appreciate the home blessings which he had all those vears. He was dis obedient, for when the father told him t j oome in be staid out. He was a liar, for he said that the recreant son had devoured^ his father's living when the father, so far from being reduced to penury, had a homestead left, and instruments of music, had jewels,bad a mansion and instead of being a pauper wa3 a prince. This senior brother, with so many faults of his own, was merciless in his criticism of the younger brother. The only perfect people that I have ever known were utterly obnoxious. I was never so badly cheated in my Ufo as by a perfect man. He got so far up In his devotions that he was clear up ahovo all the rules of common honesty. These men that go ubout prowling among prayer meetings and in places of business, telling how good they are?look out for them; t keep your hand on your pocketbook! I( have noticed that just in proportion as a., man gets good he gets humble. The deep Mississippi does not make as much noUe as the brawling mountnin rivulet. Thexe ^as been mmy a store that had moregoocte in the show window than Inside on the shelves. ' ! This self-righteous man of the text stood at the corner of thehous? hugging himself in admiration. We hear a croat deal in our day about the higher lite. Now, there are two kinds of higher-life men. The one is admirable,- and the other Is repulsive. The one kind of lusher-life man is very lenient in his criticism of other?, does not bore prayer meetings to death with long harangues, does not talk a groat deal about himself, but much about Christ and heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle aud more c?>ful until one day his soul spreads a-wing, and he flies away to eternal rest, and everybody mourns his departure. The other higher-life man goes around with a Bible conspicuously under his arm, goes frcm church to church, a sort o! general evangelist, is a nuisance to his own pastor when be is at home and a nuisance to other pastors when he is away from home, runs up to some man who is counting out a roll of bank bills or ruuning up a difficult line of figures and asks him how his soul is, makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha; standing in a religious meetiug making uu address, ho has a patronizing way, as though ordinary Christians were clear away down below him, so he had to.tallc at ti>e top of hiMOtaeln order to tDalce them hear, but nttfbe same time eoeouraflng them to hopjfron that by climbing many years they may after a while com? up within sight of the place where he now atanda. I tell you plainly that a roaring; roistering, bouncing sinner Is not so repulsive to me as that higher life malformation. The former may .repent; the latter never gets over his pharlsaism. The younger brother of the parabfe came back, but the senior brother stands outside entirely oblivious U<M /InCnmannHl n n 4 .1 O /-> I t , U./N iu iiib wwu uoiiu4?iouv;ics nuu uouuns, |?uaouaolng bis own eulogluro. Oh, how much easier it Is to blame others than to blame ourselves. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpeut, the seuior brother blamed the you^er brother, and uoue of them blamed themselves. Again, the senior brothsr o" my tost stands for all those who are faithless about the reformation of the dissipated and the dissolute. In the very tones ot his voice you can hear the fact that he has no faith that the reformation of the younger son Is genuine. His entire manner seems ^ to say: '"That boy has come back for more money. He got a third of the property. Now he has come bnck for another third. He will never be contented to stay on the farm. He will fall uway. I would go in, too, and rejoice with the others if I thought this thins was genuine, but it is a sham. That boy is a conflrtnod inebriate and debauchee." Alas, my friends, for the Incredulity In the church of Christ in regard to the reclamation of the recreantl You aay a man has been a strong drinker. I say, "Yes. but he has reformed " "Oh." yon snv, with a lugubrious face, "I hope you are uot mistaken; I hone yoa are not mistaken." You say. "Doa't rejoice too much over his conversion tor soon he will be unconverted, [ fear. J Don't make too big a party for that returned prodigal or strike the timbrel too loud, and If you kill a calf kill the oue that is on the common? and not the one that has been luxuriating In the paddock." That U the reason whv more prodigals do not come home to their father's house. It is the rank infidelity in the church of Gol on this subject. There is not a house on the streets.of heaven that has not in it a prodiual that returned ami staid home. Thore could be unrolled before you a scroll of 100,033 j names?the names of prodiccils who came back forever reformed. Who wis John Bunyan? A returned prodigal. Who w.is Richard Baxter? A returael proiisral. Who was George Whitefleld, the thunderer? I A returned prodigal. And I could go out in all tha aisles of this church to-day and find on either side those who, once far astray for many yeirs, have been faithful, and their eternal salvation is us sure as though they had been ten years in heaven. And yet some o; you have not enough faith In their return! You <lo not know how to shake hands with a prodigal; you do not kuow how to pray for him; you do not know how to greet him. H-* wants to sail into the wsm gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You are the iceberg against which he strike* and shivers. You say ho has been a prodigal. I know it, but you are the sour, unresponsive, censorious, saturnine, cranky elder brother, tind if you are going to heaven one would think eonae pec pie would be tempted to go to perdition to get away from you. Plenty of room for eteganc sinners, for sinners In velvet or satin and laoe, for sinners high salaried, for kid gloved and patent leathered sinners, for sinners flsed up *, by hairdresser, pomatumed andl&vendered and cologned and frlzzledand crimped and "banged" sinners?plenty of room! Such we meet elegantly at the door of our churches, and we invite them Into the best seats with Chesterfleldlan gallantries; we usher them Into the house of God and, put soft ottomans under their feet and pat a gild ed^ed prayer book In their hands , and pass the contribution bor before them with an air of apology, while they,ithe.' generous souls.take out the equlslte portsraonnnie and open it and with diamonded finger push down beyond the #10 goldpieces and delicately plok out 119 an expression of gratitude their offering to the Lord?of one cent! Forsnoh sinners plenty of room, plenty of room! Be not so hard la your criticism of the fallen lest thoa thyself also be^temptod. Do you know who.tbat man ijarSrho, Sabbath before last, staggered hp and down the aisle la a aburob, disturbing the service until the seavioe bad to stop anttl lie was taken from the room? He was a minister of the gospel ot Jesus Christ ia a sister denomination! That man had preached the gospel; that maa had broken the bread of the Hoiy Obmmunloa- for fhe people From what ?-hek;htb to wh%t a depth: Oh, I was gfia there wa* np smiling in the room whOT that , mad "WW taken out, I his poor wife following him with bis hat I in her band and-.'his ooat on her arm. H j was as solemn to me as two fanerals?the : funeral of the&ody and'the faoftral of thr soul. Beware teat thou also be tempted! An invalid went to 8o&th America, for,his health aud one (lay sut sonnlng himself on the beaoh wbeaJie saw something crawl Ing up nejtoaon wriggling toward him, and he wan affrighted. He thoaght it was ! a wild beast or 1 reptile, "and be took hi? pistol from his 'pocket. Then he saw it | was not a wild beast. .It was a map, .'an Immortal maa, a man made in God's own I luid^o, uuu i-uo (luur wrotuu ui.imvu u|> t</ < the feet of the Invalid and asked for strong drink, and the Invalid took his wine flask from bis pockatfand gave the poor wretcb something to drink, and then, nnder the j Btimulus, he.xose np and gave bis blstorr. ! He had been a merchant In Glasgow. He bad gone down nod or the power ot strong drink until he winrsb reduced in poverty that he was Uvfeife li a( boat'just off the beaob. "Why," jjpifl the invalid, "I knew a merchant in Gl&iigow once, a merohant of snob and each a name." And the poor i wretoh straightened himself and said. "J j am that man!" "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed, lest he fall." AgainI remark that the senior brother of my text standB for the spirit o? envy and jealousy. The senior, brother th<tafSj[h? tbat | all tbe honor they? did. to i^ilSturned j brother was a wron<? to him.' He said, "I have staid at bome^ and I ought to have had.the ringrand I ought,to have had the banquet, and I ought to havd biwt tho gar* Alas, for this spirit of envyand Jealousy coming down through the agftfi Oatn and ! Abel, Esau and Jacob, 9aol and. David, Hamaa and Mordecal, Orthe}ia and Iago, Orlando and Angelica, Caligula and TorquHtus," Cssar and Pompay. Oolumbu* and . the Spanish oonrtlera, Gambysej Aad tbe i brotl^er be slew because Was . a better raarksaiad, Dionysius awSB^^Hbienlus, i whom he slew becaase b$?wa? a better j slntcer. Jealousy amoMK^Mloters?UI03- j terman and Geoffrey Ki?wprtiIad*on and I Reynolds, Francla, auitowioiee a plctura > of Raphael, Raphael sendH.hifn a picture. | Francia, seeki^lt, falls la wSt.of jealousy j coatemporai^fcMgJkofeaoh o'.Uer. XiaophoQ and sfi*?i#tet' at tho same ten-, but froai^^JJ Igyfr y?u never would RoliglouMlMpB|P|fe^he Mohammedans ' praying fcuSHj Bgfi* drought; no raia 00m ^ bd^'a ^ PI,iy that the Christiana began to pray and the Lo^-d wus so dUjjfwhtd with their prayers that He seat raipjight away &o He ?vould jot hear any more of .their 6uppUo/itloua. Oh, this acwtfiisd spirit of envy andjealou3yl Let as stamp It oat from all our hearts. ' 4 . . A wtestler waa*0-envious of Theogenes/ the prinoe of Wrt^tlers, that he could not :be consoled i?v anyway, and after (Theoirenea dle^ad 6.Statue whs lifted to blm in ; a public pmoe hta envious antagonist wei^t I out eTer&hlght..?.nd wrestled with the statue until bpe night he threw It, and Ic fell on him and crushed him to death, go jealousy is; not only absurd, but It N killing to the body, aud It Is killing to thd soul. J-jf 0!t, my friends, the world Is large enough for all of ufcrpEjatjus, rejoice at the succms of others. ;rb? next best thing to owning a garden oai?el<ree is to look over the feuce and admire tnMrowers. The next be?,t thj/ii? to riding In fine ! equipage Is &y|||fid on the streets and ad- j mire the pnKKQ& span. The next be3t ' thing to bajgng a banquet given to our- j selves to hnJ09?:a banquet given to out ' prodigal ,br?Bwe that has come home to his father's hpose. Ah, the thto pouting elder soa is put bstore ufcijjl# order' tuat we might better see thq.raatjMt[C ,and forgiving face of the Father^vXtertfadts are mighty. The artist In sketching tlie field of Waterloo years after fb# bfttile put a dove in the month of thecMnon. Baphael in oae o( bis cartoons beW^e the faoe of a wretc 1 p?t thd laoe of aittppj andlnnoceut child. Aadt ao' the Mai*"faoe q? this irascible and disgusted eider brother is brought ?ut in order thaf in the ooutr.ist we might better undetAand >. the fororiving and radiant face'Of God. That la the meaning of it?that God lg ready to take back anybody that is sorry, to take him clear back, to take him back forever and 1 fc i'iIME ^ k I m Ku.il/ ml It lorevuEtuiu mtoi , ?w vt??.w u,u, ? ,WM a loving bu&tfipnt "?kls3 oa his parched lip, a ring on Uls bloated hand, an easy shoe on h& 'Chafed foot, a garland on hi* bleeding temples and heaven in his soul. Ob, I fall flat oa that mercy! Come, my brother, and It t as get down intdthe dust, resolved never to *l?e until thaFatUer'i forgiving hand shall lift us. 0!?, what a God we havel Bring yondoxologies. Come, earth and heaven, aud join in the worship. Cry aloud. Lift the palm branches. Do you not leel the Father'.? arm around your neck? Do you not feel the warm breath of your Father against your chepk? Surrender, younger son! Surrender, elder 3on! Surrender, all! Go In to-day and sit down at the banquet. Take aslice of the fatted calf, and afterward, when you are seated, with one hand in the hand of the returned brother and the other baud in tuo naau 01 ?ae rejoicing father, let your heart beat time tc the clapping of the cymbal and the mellow voice of the tiute. It is meet that we should make merry aud be glad, for thN, tlty I brother, was dead aud U aUva aguia, Hf 1 was lost aed is fouud. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Cnobnypd Order*? J'rovoktnff Each Othe* to Good Work* ? Wo Owe God the J Scut? Whosoever Will May Drink?A Prayer of Calvin?Make Life Greater. ' They told the eleven and all the rest." We are ready to tell tho,eleven, . With faces and hearts aglow, That the Lord has indeed arisen And before His owirdoth gp, . Through the old'Galilean places, To the mountain of sacred tryst; To t?l: i? fair an evangel Were a joy to be uu missed. We are eager to toll the eleven How He sat with us at meat, And we scarce could spealc for gladness, As the air grew strangely sweet; Till h?nr-A not a loaf unbroken. A cup with its wine unshed, But shall bring back the hour the Saviour Was known in the breaking of bread. And still we tell the eleven, While, unknowing and unconsoled, Vast kindreds, tongues and peoples Are heirs of a tale untold. In the white light of death and judgment. 8ufflcath it then to attest. We told the eleven. d<jar Master, But we told not ' all the rest?" ?Louise Manning Hodgkins, in Zion's Her aid. ' Provoking Each Other to Good Works. This is a favorite phrase with some people. They are very much afraid that it will be said of them that they set themselves up to be better than their neighbors. The applause of men, and to be on good terms with all about them, is the very broath of theii nostrils. So they take much satisfaction in the thought that while they are all right with . God?for do they not worship Him with all due deoorousness in the most approved style and wear becomingly the conventional marks of piety??it cannot for a moment be changed against them that they are in the least Pharisaic or interfere in the slightest degree with others' spiritual rights. Lei such folks get what comfort they can out ol all that may be good in this attitude; but let them also reflect that two very serious dan-, gers are in their pathway. They stand in great peril of moral cowardice, and thflir llirht. if nut so carefully under o bushel, will bo very likely to go out altogether. We /ire bidden to provoke one another unto love and good works. Be more pros'oking, Is a proper exhortation if we give the ri^ht meaning to the word. To thrust one's self in any shape ?action*, opinions, professions, exhortations?needlessly into public view, is rulgai and offensive; but stand with boldness, in e manly or womanly way, for truth and right when they are assailed, or to exhibit our earnest, loving interest in the highest welfare of our friends, is quite another thing. Our demotion-to Jesus .should be pushed more into view rather than less. If we have "no religion to apeak of," it may lie seriously questioned whether we really have thf genuine artiole. ' WeO?e(ti)dih? Best. We need to regard certain specific cJairae of God upon our daily life, just because He j is God. ,v First of nil He deserves our confidence. We owe Him our unswerving trust, but we often worry needlessly .nd practically doubt His power and His goodness. Nothing steadies life so much, makes it calm in the midst of great pressure and fear, as the thought that God is in His heaven, that this is a good world, and that our life moves on to happy issues. "I am persuaded," says the apostle, "that he is able to guard tbat which I have committed unto him." God deserves, just because he is God, the best that is in us. The Jews had the right idea when they brought the best of their flocks and their first fruits to the altar. "I will not oiTer to my God that which costs me nothing," said a worshipper in ancient time. And until the element of sacrifice enters into our offering to God we come short of the Christian ideal. Look over your uctiona at the close of a day and see if there be one single exertion tbat represents true subordination of your own desires and interests to the welfare of some one else. If you cannot And one. then God has been defrauded of His rightful due. He who gav< to the world in fiis Son not only His best gift, but the oue which cost Him most, expects from us a sacrificial response. Will m..?. n? I lr There wa9 a vessel that ba?l been tossed on the seas for 41 great many weeks, and been disabled, and the supply of watergave out. and the crew were dying of thirst. After many days they saw a sail against the sky. They signalled it. When the vessel came nearer, the people on tbe suffering ship said to the captain ot the other vessel: "Send us some water. We are dying for lack ol water." And tbe captain on the vessel that was hailed responded: "Dip your bucketa where you are. You are in the mouth oi the Amazon, and there are scores of miles of fresh water all around about you, and hundreds of feet deep." And then they dropped their buckets over the side of tbe vessel,and brought tip the clear, bright, fresh water, and put out the fire of their thirst. Sol hail* you'loday, after a long and perilous voyage, thirsting as you are for pardon, and thlratlDg, fot comfort, and thirsting for eternal'lite; 'and I ask you what is the use of your- going , in that death-struck state, wtdftali around^you is the deep.clear.wide, apajncling flood of God's sympathetic mercy. Q&Vdlp'/.yonr buckets and drink and live forever! "'Whosoever will, let him come and tttke of the wator of life freely."?Talmage. * A Prayer of Calvin. Grant, Almighty God. that thou ha9t given us once for all thine only begotten bon to rule us, and h^st by thy good pleasure consecrated him a King over us, that we may be perpetually s-afe and secure under his hand against all the attempts of the devil and of the whole world. 0 grant that we may suffer ourselves to be ruled by his authority and so xoouduct ourselves that he himself may everoontinue to watch for our j sniety. aud an tnou oust committed us to him."that he maybe the guardian of our salvation, so also suffer u.s neither to turn aside nor fail, but preserve us ever in his .service, un:il we at length be gathered into that blessed and everlasting kingdom which has been procured' for us by the olood of tinne only Son'. Amen. --V, . mjiWhat!, stand with slackefied bands r.nd fallen heart before {he littleness of your service! Too little Is It, to be perfect in it ? Would you, then, ir you were master, risk a greater.treaaare in the bands of such a man? OMjafefc is no man, no woman, so small cannot make their life great by high toufokror; no sick crippled child on i:s bed Qil a niche of service that . world.?The Faith that U?ay^M^ iuV?8 Jieeded.tbn rod of correction. VWKur beart is aching and your uvwu <k nvu?u wu nwu, fcu oiV|l QUU aalc.wJMrthfcrtbIs f3 not God speaking to yob in tfc&fciay, because you would not hear Id au/'bfett.^ev. J. Wilbur Chapman. Soi*H?\6f odr ohoic?st blessinpa come to us as peicondlwy results?not piunned for nor asked-TOjuorr'antieiuAted, but juBt the pweet overflbwihg "of God 8 love Irom the cup that 'althiholda ttf> to Him. v-fy.. . AU olcheniies are' ducreditcd, except that which'-transmutes the iron of disappolntatent'lnto.tbegold of character : TH? PROGRESS OF MEXICO. StatiJtlcs Showing Itt Growth In Weslll nnd'Bnalnesi In Fifteen Tear*. Statistics showing great galas in Mexl can trade and revenues have been pub lisbed. In fifteen years the gold value o> imports has risen from $23,250,000 annual!} to $51,000,000. o The exports, which ar? reckoned on a silver basis, have risen from 546,725,000 to 8148,000,000. The total Fed eral revenue has risen from $37,621,000 tc 360,276,000. The number of piecos of pos tal matter has Increased from 10,400,000 tc .111,452,000. The number of ships anc steamers entering Federal ports has Increased from 1680 to 6900. The number ol railroad Dasseugers annually has riser from 2,075,000 to 3.000.c00. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 20. Subject: The Parable of the Sower, Matt xlll., 1-8; 18-23?Golden Text: Lnk< Till.. 11?Memory Verges, 22, 23?Commentary on the Day'a Lesson. 1. "Tli? same day." The day the ser mon was preached that is recorded la the orecedlng chapter. "The house." Peter'j nouse, where ho was acoustomed to dwell in Capernaum. "Sat by the seaside." -.Bj :be sea of Galilee. Jesus sat In the boat !7ltb the multitude standing on the shore. 2. "Great multltude^yrere gathered tosethdt." The Pharisees had been laboring by base calumnies to drive the people way from Jesus, but they still nocked itter Him a3 much as ever. Christ will be ulorifled in spite ot all opposition; He will ae followed. 3. "In parables." Tills was the first of Christ's parabolic utterances. A parable is an allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for Instruction. Christ's parables area comparison of splr!tnal things with liutural Id order tbat the spiritual things may be better understood. 'A sower went forth so sow.* Whoevet joweth the word of God In the h9arts ol he people Is represented by the sower lo the parable. CI) Jesus Christ, who came to sow the good,seed In this evil worlds (2) The apostles -who scattered It over the world. (8) All who go forth, in public or in private to teach or to preach the troths Df the word of God. (4) All whoso holy example illustrates aud imprexsea thpat truths. tWe must "go forth" and And the fields and not wait for the fields to come :o us. " 4. "When he sowed." A sower would jow in the proper season. "Fell by the wayside." There are four kinds of ground mentioned. The first is the wayside, where ao plow had broken it up. "The ordinary roads or paths in the East lead often a.long the edge of the fields, which are unenjlosed." The seed that fell on this ground was not oovered, and was at once devoured oy the fowls. 5. "Upon stony places.". Luke says tliinnn u rn/?L' '' tlia rnnlra at DulaafIna unci Syria are mostly limestode, wltli rnuuy flat stretches, covered wit Li nuinctiorso 3f soli. This Is the second kind of ground. 'Forthwith they sprung up." A thin surface of soil above a shelf of rock is like a aot-bod; the stoue keeps the heat aud stimulates the growth. 6. "They withered away." Luke says 'It lacked moisture." The hot sqn soon irled up the little moisture and scorched :he grain. 7. "Among thorns." The third kind of soil waa good, and there was hope of a harvest, but the ground was fllled with pernlolous seeds. 8. "Good ground." The fourth kind of 40ll was rich and well prepared. Notice the gradation in reboot to these four kinds of soil. In the first, tho seed perishes without even springing up; In the seoond, it springs up, but withers away; in the third, it springs up aud bears fruit, but not io perfection; in the fourth,'.it yields a harvest of perfect gralu. "Some an hundredfold." This represents the highest degree of frultrulness. Other seeds only bore sixty or thirtyfold. The'return of a hundred for one is not.unheahl.of In" the East, though always montionehl as something extraordinary. 1^. "Hear ye therefore." This form of discourse seemed so>strnnge to the disciples that they asked Him why He spoke In parables. He replied that it was not given to the multitudes to understand the mysteries of His spiritual kingdom, but it was given unto them. He therefore at once proceeded to unfold the parable. 19. "Heareth the word of the kingdom." The truth of the Go#pel. All hoar; God speaks to every person. The four kinds of soli represent fpnr classes of individuals. The wayside hearers are those who do uot nnrinratAnrl hpcfuiso tliftvdo not navnrnnaf attention. Sin bus so hardened tbe heart, worldllnoss has so deadened the feelings, sinful pleasures and desires have so dulled the consolence that God's truth irtt%es no impression, more thau a passing dream, 01 a peasant song to be heard and forgotten. Evil habits, profanity, unclean thoughts nave tramped it solid. "The nicked one." Mark says "Satan," and Luke, "tbe devil.' He is always around watching bis cliuncc :o destroy any influences for good ttm' ! may exist. "Catcheth away." Careless crlfllng hearers are an easy prey to Satan his the birds pick up the seed by the way side so the devil will rob us of tbe word jnless we take oare to keep it. 20. "With joy recelveth It." The stony ground hearers go farther thau the first zlass; they not only hear, but believe, ant ' receive the truth, nnd the seed springs up They take upon themselves a profession o religion. 21. "Not root In himself." He did no: jount the cost. Luke 14:25-83. "His 60U Is not deeply convinced of its guilt and de pravlty." His emotions are touched, bu ;he truth has not entered Into bis iune. ! life. "Duretb for a while." While every | ching goe#smoothly and he is surroundec by influences that hold him up. vWhei tribulation or persecution arlsetb." Luke jays, "In the time of temptation fal away." They have no power to reaWt anj ! opposing influences. "So long as they an In the popular current nnd there is uoth' Ing to test their principles they appear ali right; but aa soon as any real test comet they tall away." "He Is offended." "Hi Is stumbled." Ho is not able to endure fos Christ. 22. "The care of this world." Tin :horny-ground hearers go farther that sither of those mentioned in the forme: Instances. They had root in themselves and were able to endure the tribulations persecutions and temptations tbat came apon them; but still they allowed otliei :bing3 to cause them to become unfruitful First, the care of this world. Anxieties about worldly success; too great attention :o the labors of daily life; the desire fox worldly goods and honors; the being ibBorbed in things that are right iu them jelv'es to a degree that is wrong. "Deceitfulness of riches." This is tho second weed that chokes the word. Riches claiir to be able to bestow blessings, and bonor and happiness, but they caunot give one Df these things. They harden the heart. I 3teal away an the nro or tioa; mi rne soui with pride, ungor and love of the world and make men enemies to self-denial and the cross of Christ. Luke mentions a thin) weed, the "pleasures of this life," and Mark u fourth, "the lusts of other things.' These four weeds, allowed to grow, are euongh to choke the word and cause the heart to become unfruitful. 23. "Into the good ground." This was ground thoroughly prepared. "Hoaretii the word." Who are they who brought forth fruit to perfection? 1. They heard the word., They diligently attended to the ministry of the word. 2. They understood It. That is, they earnestly considered am! searched out the important truths of the Gospel. 3; They kept it. Luke 8:15. The> did not allow it to slip away from them. 4 [ They brought forth fruit out of au hon'tfj I and good heart. A huurt that seeks an J i velconMK truth A /heart oieansed from sin VALUABLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND ; '' i": .? Alt Expedition DUoovers the Palace of King Mlotl'ln Crete. An archaeological expedition has dls covered uear Herakliop, Crete, the ruinsol the/palace of King MHtos, of most anclen! date. The disoovtrlM 4end to prove the ~ . ... -u-.l... rtrnrvL- . I OTHtan OlVIDZUIIOn OKlor uou iub King Minus is chiefly famous as the owner o( a- monster cailed the Minotaur, half "bull, half man, wbleh lived in * mazt and was fed once a year on seven youths ! and seven maidens, the tribute whicb I Minos exaoted annually from Athens. I One. year Tlieseus was ohosen togo-tc I Crete. Mlnos's daughter, Ariadne, rfave I him a piece of string, one end of whloh h I tied at the entrance to the maze, holding I the other in his nand as he entered. He f slew cbe Mlnotaui* and bjT means ot the I string found his way out of the maze. | Old Hoine WeeK in Maine. The week beginning August 6 has beet chosen,for Old Home Week in Maine, whet theDlrigo State will welcome with great cordiality and many festivities all the ab sent eons who may And it convenient to return to their native towns. Honey Spent on Scientific Explanation It Is estimated that between $8,000,OCX and $9,000,000 has been spent in this couu try on museum^ and arohaeological and ethnologfcul oollecttons and exploration / . , THE GKEAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. nam'* Poisoned Bovrl?Inebrlacy Is n Di?eaie Wlilcli Destroy* All That I* Good in Life?The Train of Horrors It Brings ?Maudlin Remorse. Ha! dash to the earth the poison bowl. Aod seek It not agalu? It hath a maduess for the soul? A scorching for tliebraln. Tbt- curses and the plagues of hell Are flaablug on Its brim? Woe to the victim of its spell, TUare la no Hope ror blm. ?John G. Whittier The Dranksrd'a Progresi. The really good fellow is convivial when he la sober, writes Professor David 8tarr Jordan, lithe New York Independent. It is a poor kind of good-fellowabip which cannot be found till It Is saturated with drink. Men who drink (n saloons do so for the most part for the wrench on the ner-. vous system. They drink to forget. They drink to be bappy, they drink to be drunk. Sometimes It Is a periodical attuok of madness, the disease of inebriacy. Sometimes it Is chronic thrist, which is likewise a disease. It is a disease which destroys the soundness of life; which destroys accuracy of thought and action; which destroys wisdom and virtue; which- destroys faith and hope and love. It brings a train of subjective horrors, which the terrified brain cannot interpret, and which we call delirium tremens, the tremendous madness. This Is mania, indeed, but every act which injures the faithfalness of the nervous system Is u step long or short lu this direc-' tion. A young man with money and ambition . starts out to enjov life. He Is "Hail fellow well met,'' "afraid of no man," and "nooody's enemy but bis own." He frequents the clubs, he plays the races, and he Is with, the gayest id all gay company. He thinks well of himself; he has a good time, and he knows no reason why others should not think well of him. This goes on for a year or two, when the pace begins to prove :oo rapid. The "difference In the morning" becomes disagreeable. It Interfere* with business, It spoils pleasure. The only thing to do is to go still faster. The race down the, cocktail route, helps .0 forget. Suddenly the man gets sight of himself. He catches bis face In the^lass. He sees himself as. others see him. Instead of "the jolly good fellow, whloh nobody cau denv," he gets the ellmpse of a useless, helpless sot.. He sees a man who has spent his substance, has disgraced his name, has ruined his home, bus broken the heart of his wife, has beggared hts children, has lost the respect of others, and the respect of himself. This is the shock! When it has come he is henceforth good for noth? ing, for there Is no virtue in maudlin remorse; no hope In alcoholic repentance. There is nothing that can save him but to stop, and it takes something of manhood to do this. Such tears of remorse are not "tears from the depths of some divine despair." They arise rather from the fact that alcohol irritates the lachrymal glands. A prominent lawyer of Boston once told 1 me that the great Impulse to total absti1 oence came to him when a young man from liwaring his fellow lawyers talking after dinurfrs at the dab. The most vital secrets oUthelr clients' business were made publlo property when their tongues were loosened by wine. The time will come when the only opening for the ambitious man of intemperate habits will be is polltics. It Is rapidly becoming so now. Prl-> vate employers dare .not trust their bualress to the man who drinks. Tne great corporations dare "not. He is not wanted on the railroads. The steamship lines long since cast him off. The banks dare not uso him. He uanoot keep aeoount*. Only thrfpeople, long suljferlng a,od generous, remain as his resource. Pdlrthls rea- ^ son municipal government is his specialty; and while the patience of the people lasts our cities will breed scandals as naturally, as cur swamps breed malaria.' ' vi # Stop Treating. Stella Marls, the monthly parish pftpor ot St. irrancis ae s:ues unurcn, uuanestown, bad some excellent temperance doctrine iti a recent issue. Here Is what it srtys ubout that foolish custom of "treat' Ing," which we bare so often condemned in these oolumns: "'Treating' is a curse. Many of onr young men think that they will be considered mean if they don't take their tura at treating. This is a barroom He?an idea originated by old topers and drunkards who hope in this way to get drunk sbeaply. "Don't go with fellows who have the habit ot treating; tuev are the teachers ot drunkenness. The road from treating to drunkenness is straight; there is no retreating. "Self-respect is not learned in a barroom. You doa't find the cream-of manhood before the bars of liquor paloons; you And there the dregs of humanity. A self-respecting mau will avoid touch with 3uch degraded manhood. Especially young Irish fellows have got Into this bad, deplorable bablt ot showing their generosity and friendship by 'treating* their friends. Geuerosit.v is a fine trait in the character; but do not show generosity by making drunkards. We have too many ot these already among our sous and fathers and brothers. "Stop treating." A Rum?eller'* Coiifcislon. There is a man in New York City, the proprietor and owner of a ma^nidcent bulldluK which he formerly used as a saloon, but who has retired from the accursed trade. He gave as the cause of his giving up the nefarious "legitimate" busl ess tbe following reasons: "I have sold liquor for eleven years?long enough for me to see cne beginning and the end of Its evil effects. I have seen a man jauntily (lush off Ills ilrst glass of liqnor In myplaoe, aud afterwards llll the grave of a suicide and a druukarJ. I have seen man after mun, wealthy aud educated, come into my 9aloon to drink and carouse, wbo have not uow tlie wherewith to buy a dinner and who are miserable, drunken loafers and beggars. I can recall no less than twenty customer1),worth from $100,000 to $500,000, who nre at present without money, home, friends, credit or employment?in short,, bums. After seelog alt this, can you won-' der that I got oat of the polluting traffic?" Beer In Japan. Miss Parmelee, a missionary' to. the Japanese, reported that la that country Germans hud been imported to teach the people bnw to make beer, aud that tfte huge smokestacks of now breweries could now be seen from tbe railroad trains rising U*CL (IIIIIUSI. OHIJ IUWU Ml IUU lUigilUl, and that the first beer saloon had been started In Toklo as she left, and was BG . popular that in Ave years she expected . saloous would have extended all over the empire. ,. The .Crasiile In Brief. Thestappin' stones In front of a satooa ain't the ones to success. The Young People's Temperance Federation Lias started <? movement looking toward, establishing coffee bouses as substituted (or saloons in all parts of Chicago. . ' If organised religion could extirpate alcohol, nod those things which go aloug with it, and sliure it, there would be little left to be done this side of the millennium. Medical professors in the universities and practicing physicians in Germany aw pushing the study, of alcohol problems'with a determined hp.nd. They are JInaUy thoroughly aroused.ou the subject. Olney. Ill., has had licensed saloons fot fifty years, but voted them out at the. spring election. Under Government control ot the sale ol intoxicating liquors la Russia there has beon a noticeable diminution in drunkenness. The iron workers who build the sky scrapers never go on duty when the least under the inlluence of liquor. If anyonf. of them sees or tears of a derrick or scaffold man taking a drink, it his duty to report at once. Oborlln, Ohio, has never tolerated a saloon. Frequent attempts have been made to start oue, atnl in 1S31 an alliance which secuto.l iiloilge-i to the amount ot ! $2UO.OOO was formed with the intention ot forcing liquor into the oltv. but It failed, j . .- jJ. / .' _ _ __ . ?-> j t. M CONFESSES 1UBDEB. Young Garrabrandt Killed Henry Maas For Three Dollars. LURED VICTIM TO THE CELLAR. Qnrrabrandt Poanded Toting Maas to Death With a Piece of Lead ? Discharged Froui Factory He Wanted Victim's Wages to Take Houi??<When Arreat?d He Made a Full Confession. Jersey City, N. J. (Special).?Angered becuuae he had lost his place la a lamp shade factory, and desiring to get the $3 wages for the week drawn by the boy who bad made him lose his place, young John Garrabrandt killed Henry Haas In the coal bin o( the tenement house In whloh the Garrabrandts lived in this city. Garrabrandt was traced to Nyack, N. Y., by Jersey City deteotlves, and was arrested there at the home of a relative, Mrs. Primrose* He was so frightened when the police officers routed him out of-, bed that he at once confessed having kHIed'- young Maas. As he would have related a simple story of an everyday occurrence, Garrabrandt told hoiw be had murdered his companion in cold blood. Not an angry word was spoken before the crime. "My name is John Garrabrandt," said the boy, when the police were ready to take bis confession. "I will be nineteen years old on June 13. I reside with my father and mother. I left home at six o'olock Saturday morning and went to New York City. I knew Henry Mhos. I used to work with him at Sharp & Allen's, Nos. 78 and 80 Murray street, New York City. i, whji uiscnargeu mree or tour weexs ago because the boss couldn't trust me around. He said Henry Maas told lilm I threatened to shodt a girl there.. "I was going up Murray street about half-past seven Saturday morning, when I met Mass at Sharp Sc Allen's door. I asked him If be could get'off at twelve o'clock. He Mid 'Yes.' 1 met him at five minutes past twelve a'olock. He waftv going to Canal street to deliver some 'boxes. I went with him. He delivered the boxes and we went baok to the store. "He went upstairs, and when be oame down told me he had his pay?93. We took the Barelay street ferry and walked from Hoboken to Jersey City, and went to my house. "I went down to the oellarand went into the woodahed and got a piece of lead with a laafHor at ran fn It ' hlith T naa/1 ? * siungshot, and pat It la my pocket. I made it. I "I put it la my pocket to bit Henry Maas with it. I waited down there a few minutes, when Henry came down. I told him I bad something lor him behind a barrel la the corner. "He went to reaoh (or It and I hit him with the piece of lead on his bead, near the ear. He toll down, and I hit him again on the head when towns tttwo. He struggled to get op, ' Afterths flrtit biowjie hollered^ and begged me sot to kill him. -Then I hltthlm again on the liaiul. IBfterTWlt he said1 nothing. "I then tied his bands with a piece ot tar oord that was lying on the ffoor. I took his money?IS?which, .was In an envelope, from the Inside pocket of his coat. "When Henry hollered Mrs. Coyle came down into the celler and whistled through the tube to my mother's apartments.- She said: " 'Tour cellar door is open and the key. Is. in the lock.' y "I then went upstairs, closing the cellar aoor, uut uiu uui iuuk it. x went iu my mother's rooms and .told her I bad killed Henry Haas In the woodshed. Mother and I went down to lira. Coyle's rooms on the first floor, and my mother told Mrs. Coyle I had killed Haas down In the woodshed. "Mrs. Coyle asked me what I was gblng to do, and I'sald I didn't know. Mymother told me to go away. .Un. Coyle said she muotti't tell her hiwbfttfd* ?r any one. ' 1 ' "Mrs. Coyle said I had better wait wntll eight and place the body alongside the railroad track arid people wonld think he Was killed by a train. I went down to the oellar and looked the door. * f'l wanted to Rive the key to my mother, but she wouldn't take It. I went ont and saw a policeman coming oat of a cellar at Seventeenth and Orovo streets. I got soared and went and took a train at Nyaolc, Nr Y., and went to the honse of Mrs. Primrose. 1 told Mamie Primrose that I bad killed the boy, and she told me to say nothing to her mother aboat it." "Why did you ask Henry into the cellar?" Inquired Chief Murphy. "I hadn't been working all the week. My father thought I was working aud I wanted to get some money to bting hfeme*" "Did yon assault tlm for the putjpose of getting thia money?" "I wanted to get the money without lrtlilnr* K'mt Knf ha'!r?Hia> nn theWd." After the boy bad been looked ap Chief Murphy caused the arrest of Mrs. Garrabrandt and Mrs.' Coyle as accessories after the fact. Thejr were released on ball. Mr. Sharp, of the flfm for wbloh the boys worked, says that he discharged Oarrabrandt partly because of the revolver and partly because he was a ".cigarette fiend." When be foand the boy carried a revolver he took the weapon fromvM<h, and has if still. TRAIN ROBBERY NEAR TACOMA. Passengers Forced to J amp From Mo v. log Cars and Two Are Sliot. Tacoma, Wash. (Speqlal).?Six highway, man boarded a Northern Pacific loca] train near North Yakima a few days ago. They compelled the passengers to line up with arras uplifted, after wbleh the thieves robbed them, obtaining watches, rings and nearly $000 In money. The victims were then made to jump, the robbers shooting at them and beating tbem with their weapons. Fred Booker and John Clernan were shot, but will recover. NO MINISTER AT CONSTANTINOPLE. VIr. Straus Not to Uetnrn Until Indemnity Claims are Settled.' WA8Hi!fOTOK, D. C. (Speolal).?It Is authoritatively announced that until the pending Issue relative to tbe payment of the American Indemnity claims Is settled to tho satisfaction of the State Depart.ment, no United States Minister will at.tend ac the Turkish capital, and] Mr. .Straus's leave of absence will remain as It is now, Indefinite In length. The Bislng In Bnlgsrii, The rising of peasants in the vicinity of Rustchuk. Bulgaria, assumed alarming proportions. The peasants have succeeded In disarming some troops, nnd have used rifles against .others. Two officers and fifteen men have been killed orwounded, and about the same number of peasants. Dole Named as Governor of Hawaii. Sanford B. Dole, the acting President of Hawaii, has been nominated by President McElnley to be the ? rst.Ooveraor of the lalnnds under the new law. The Labor World. By the pieoe-work system the Jersey City lathers make #3.50 for nine hourt?*work a day. .1 ' Over bait tbejob printing offices at Detrait, Mich., were tied up by ti pressmen's strike. The request of streot railway employees at Detroit, Mich., for bi#ber wages has been refused. **' The WoodsUle Cotton Mills, to work 10,090 spiudlos and 350 operatives, will be located at Gainesville,,C}n. The cutters emplp.Vtifd in the collar and otiIT factories UV'luroy,.N. Y., have applied to the American federation of Labor for a charter. ?????? SEQUOYAH TO HAVE A MONUMENT* llouor ?o the Blemorj of the Man Who Invented the Cherokee Alphabets The people of the Cherokee Indian natiou are making preparations to erect a mouument to the memory of Sequoyab, distinguished as tlie man F - '" . G ' H ?X?-r?V *?\ j \ 0> CHARACTERS IN CHBB0KEE ALPHABET. who redaced to a written language the spoken language of the Cherpkeos and invented an alphabet which, in appearance, is as unique as the Greek or Persian. Already funds for the monument have been subscribed, and the people are taking it up with muoh interest. It is proposed to erect the monument ou the public square at Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee nation. There is no authentic written history of Sequoyah's life. Thomas L. McKinney has contributed some personal reminiscences, written while Sequoyah was alive. Little is knowa of Sfequoyah outside of the work that made him famous. He led a secluded life. He oame to the West in 1834 or 1835. The house in 'which he lived is still standing, seven miles north of Sequoyah oourt house. It is said that Sequoyah, in the latter years of his life, made several journeys to the far West. In 1843 h? , visited the Pueblos in New Mexico, where he tried to correlate their language with that of the Cheyennes, and lived for several months about fifteen miles southwest of Santa Fe. Upon his return from his last journey in the West he was taken ill and died near the great bend of the Arkansas River, a few miles from the present site of Great Bend, Ean. His deatk occurre^ in 1857 or 1858. There is regulrfrly printed in the Cherokee language a weekly newspaper, the Cherokee Advocate, at Tahlequab. The Cherokee typograph. is a model of neatness and the printed pages have an attractive appearance, although their contents are hidden beneath apparently indeoipherable hieroglyphics. There are more than ? i v .i _ it _ _1 eignty separate cuaraciera in me alphabet. Many Roman letters are need for convenience, but their sonnd is unlike that given in the English language. D for instance is V, R is E, T iff t and W is La. A WoirtttTi'n Predicament. The Chicago Post describes the sad case of a wotnau who "was waiting at the "limits oar barn" for an Evanston avenue car. There were plenty of Evanston cars, but her transfer check was good only on the avenue line, and she was determined not to pay another fare. At last, as night approached, she went to a telephone and called up her husband. She told him the situation ?that no ^ranston avenue cars seemed to b^ running, that it was getting dark, a id she was afraid. What should she do? "Why, tako-an - Evanston car," he ~\ replied. Prtf T oliall liavA t.n nav another fare," she objected. . "Well, what bi it? You don't want to stay there, do yoti?" "But I can't," she said, and hesitated. "Why not?" he asked. / "Because?because, I haven't any money. I just used my last dime in the telephone to call you up." And then she wondered at the laugh which reached her ears over the wire ( Where the Stale Eggs Go. By saying stale eggs is meant those that are not striotly fresh or that have been preserved for a very long time. Many of the eggs that belong to this class are used by bakers, not only for the yolks, but for the coloring matter. It is estimated that 40,000,000 ar?j used by calico printers, and another 120,000,000 go to numerous photographic supply establishments, bookbinders, glove - manufacturers and leather finishers. This estimate may be exaggerated somewhat, but it gives an idea of the large extent to which such eggs are used. ? '\ I?*tent?d an Alrslilp. . In ft new. airship, desigued by a Haitien, a series of fans are monnted in a car partially supported by a gas balloon, the fans being nsed to drive air through adjustable pipes, which are adapted to turn toward any point to move the-ship in the opposite direction. Hm Bapg?t?f .Twenty Mile*. This big sixteen*inch gun has just been completed ftt the armory at Watervliet, N. Yv , It is the biggest gun of its kind in America. The intention is to moatrt this majestic piece of ordnance at Sandy Hook, to form a part of the poweriiu aerenaes mere. Without the carriage it weighs 126 tons. The projectile it uses weighs THE GREATEST OCX IN AMERICA. 2370 pounds, and it requires 1060 pounds of powder to start it ou its flight Every time the guu i? fired it costs 1865. The guu has a range of more than twenty miles, and to attain the maximum range the projectile mnnt risn to a heiffllt of Deafly five miles.