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r //HEN PEGGIE CROSSED THE BROOK. BY SAMl'EI. MINTUKN VKCK. A moment on the l>;iuk to view The tide with ti:nid air, And iu she tript with kirtle blao Above lior white foot bare. So fair a sight it never knew. That shy and lilio.l nook; Nor I amid The willows hid. When Peggie crossed the brook. The glistening water, loath to go. Eneiruleii rook and fern; It eddied in i's silver How With many n twist aud turn. Tlifl old mill wnite I fur below? The stream the call forsook; And hushed its trill, And tarried till Sweet I'eggie crossed the brook. Thesun sllpt through the willow loaves, And fell upon 'ier hair; 'Mid lock3 tbe hue of autumn sheaves It wove a witching snare. I Too late my beatiner heart perceive* | The peril of a look; I The spell was wrought, My heart was caugUt As Peggie crossed the brook. The mowers sang a merry lay. Haymaking on tbo hill; But down beside the brook that da/ The air was soft and still. I wished the soene might livo for nye, kike pictures in a book; But fairest things Have fleetest wings? And Peggie crossed the brook. Too soon beyond the narrow tido A grateful sigh siie drew; And in the daisies at her side I knelt to tie her shoe. t She moeked ray clumsiuess. I tried; KSl, But tiow my Angers saooK! | r All skill forgot, IggW& . Love tied the kaot K^{W Wben Peggie crossed the brook. ?Harper's Bazar. iJJBjp.aOODDODOaOOOOODOOOOOOO ffiOMBEY AND NERO. ? ' JWffr c> ^ flkXhM Story of h Pig anil a Dos, Q bt 'florence blanc-sabd. ? dodooooooooooooodooooooooo ?UK hero's name was fiombey. Nobody at the old farmhouse had ever dreamed of making a household pet of a little black pig, but before they began to think about the oddity of the undertak ... iug it had been accomplished, and the . . Jittle fellow raled the household from master to maid. ' ' It happened in this way: Dombey, with eight brothers auil sisters, was %' * born in a sunny pen one morning iu the early springtime. He closely resembled his brother aud sisters in size, in his olean cut toes, in his delicate, sharp pointed ears, in his pretty pink nose, in his short, curly, wiggling tail, and last, but not least, in his ability to squeal?perhaps the loudest and longest of them all. But there ?- - mAnlr r\ P ^iflTarAnna WUS ULiU UlSUUUb LUUia ui utuotvuvv between liim and the others?wliile they were snowy white, Dombey was jet black, with a beautiful white star on his forehead. :'iFroD\ the very fir3t his mother looked upon him with disdain. Then the disdain grew to dislike, and the dislike to a hatred which almost caused poor Dombey's death. No one knew the reason. They surmised, however, that on account of his som^ bre coat he appeared to his mother an angel of darkness rather than of light. When he was only tnree days old he was taken into the house and laid in a basket which stood in a corner of the old fashioned kitchen, near the fireplace. Then his paradise began. Ho was fed with sweet milk out of a tiny bottle. He was washed and rubbed and brushed every morning. His ears grew very soft and silky under this constant care, and everybody lovfid to rub them and fondle them. Domney took kiudiy to ail the petting he received. Why shouldn't he? The germs of love are planted in the heart of every little animal, whatever his station in life. And Dombey did more. He tried to show the family that he appreciated the love and cave bestowed upon him, and this end in view, when he played under the apple trees, in the orchard, he would briug the best apple he could flud and lay it a3 an offering at the feet of his mistress. He always waited, too, for her to pick it up, and rub his ears, and tell him what a good little pig he was! Then his curly tail would wiggle with joy and he would start out again to ? o iMUJ. One member of the family had been made unhappy by Dombey's comiug? that was Nero, the great black Newfoundland, whoso home the farm had been for two years. During all these months Nero had been the most important personage of the household, and he did not take kindly at all to the little pig. He even felt a certain amount of contempt for his mistress that she should be interested in so plebeian an object a3 a pig, aud a black pig at that. Who before had ever heard of any one ever making a household pet of a pig! He certainly never had, and no dog he knew had ever told him of such a happeniug. He soon found that his own food was served to him regularly. His favorite dishes, too, were not forgotten. He was still allowed to enjoy his afternoon nt.p by the fireplace in the kitchen. Best of all, his mistress gave him- the usual attention and caresses. Then he began to take kindly notice of the little pig, and as Dombey grew larger lie and Nero became fast friends. They bathed together in the Frog Pond behind the barn every morning. They chased the hens when they were foolish enough to stray from shelter. They playe.J- with apples under the trees in the orchard. When the fall came they worked mischief by getting into the turnip patch and pulling up row after row of plants. Dombej would only eat them when the size pleased his palate. ^ The turnip patch adjoined the orchard where the apple trees grow. No n*t,ter how often the hired men nafr>TvA<1 nn the wire fence. Dombe\ I? ? elways contrived to tear it do wo twi cr three times a week, at least. Finally, some one discovered how Nero helped. He would go to th< cpposite side of the orchard, anc running back, with full force, woulc hurl himself against the wire fence "which strained and moved from it.1 fastenings, allowed Dombey, with th< aid of his little pink nose and h;i toes, to finish the work. Contrary to all ordinary traditions J>ombey did not love dirt. When i Was rainy and muddy he and Ner< took their exercise on the wide reran da which surrounded three Hides o tlie house. The house stood upoa the stele of the hill. A flight of steps leil from the veranda to the lawn. A few feet from the steps a jagged stoue wall separated the lawn from the orchard. It grieves me to tell wliafc happened there oue stormy morning ia November. Dombey and Nero were indulging ia their rainy day romp, when the latter, coming round the corner with all the force of his many pounds, ran full tilt into Dombey, who had just reached the edge of the steps leading down to the wall. Dombey, with a pitiful cry, was hurled down the steps against the sharp stones. He struggled feebly for a few moments, then, with a moan, his little life passed away. Nero had bounded after him, and, in his dumb way, tried to rouse the little fellow. It was of no avail. Then Nero understood, and with one sharp, piercing i wail threw himself down beside D#om- j bey in an abandonment of grief. Never again would they play tag together; never again would they pull the turnips and hunt apples! The family had been busy all the ? ? i -i l.i morning ana uaa not mougui nuuu? their pets. Wnen dinner time came aud no Dombey scratched at the door, clamoring for admittance, inquiry was made for him. Some one had seen him and Nero raoiug on the veranda. Another had seen Nero run into him, and thought that the blow must have given the little fellow a hard tumble down the steps. Then Bridget (remembered to have heard an agonizing ory, ( They went to the veranda to iook, and there they found J)omb6y and poor Nero beside; Mm watching, with one paw thrown across the little pig's back. They buried him thtft afternoon just as the sun'came out of the olonds for the firsVand last time that day. .The red rays bathed in fall glory the little grava under the apple tropin the cor ner of the orehard Whiali:lfe loved sc well. When the family, leit him Nero *w 11 ' L the house!; It was his way of knocking. ?Nay Yflpk Egyld. , He is a^^l'loy^lSio likes to have the thingp fhrf he TOnts aad he is I diplomatic ajb$>at getting them. The other * day gone oat to. make ' a oall with his mamma upon an old friehd. '>vr.w . "Nnw. da**." aaid mamma, as the? *,w"i ttfim ?7? ?nT~ ' ? . stood on thev doorstep, "remember that you are not to aslt for anything." j ' "Yes, mamma," answered, the small ; boy. ; : "I have bieen bnsy "almost all the j morning making crallers," said the j friend as she entered the: room and j greeted them. A beatiffo egyessios 1 spread over the small bo?&<Sbe. "I like to hear yoa^Ulk' about crallers," he said with asinine of mort than ohildtik* innocence. j"Why, are yon fond^them?' asked the mammaVirieitffifaa pleasec tone. "Oh,', yes, very,^said the small boy, looking, if'anything, still more j innocent.. Wi'' "I didn't;ask for^hem, mamma," | he cried in a fcon$8! indignant pro | test, as the doproloiwl on ifhe oruller- ! maker, who^^^n^fto bring in 0 losc altpypnok k uiiuj. A bard tonojpl^ades most of the jokes of the" day. Periodicals that j are supposed to be published for J laughing purposes oulj are gi7eu over ; to flippaut remarks about divorce, ! heupecked husbands, maunish worn- ' en, aud cooing lovers. Iu place of ! the old-time storiea^'that illustrated odd phases of American character, the humor of the .tfay seems to revolve about ,th*ee or four subjects j that were sacred'IW the first place, and that now have been worn threadbare. No repj-huinorists have arisen to counterfaifcuice this downward 1 drift. If any young -writer shows j promise as a humorist he succumbs to | the glamour of the epigram and be- j comes cynical, or proves that he is i merely a "specialist" aud can do no more than hammer away on one uofee. | To be genuine, humor must be ! broad and kindly. It must acknowl- ! edge no literary rules and must not j know the meaning of flippancy. As ] matters stand now, Mark Twain is the . last of the real American humorists. ?Denver Republican. Twin Telescope, An interesting telescope has just been pnt in position at Potsdam, says the Scientific American. It is a du- , plicate instrument, being composed | of two tubes, side by side, the larger : one for photographic purposes and I the other is to be used visually and as! an aid to keeping the images station-1 ary upon the plate during long expo- j sures. The photographic oue has a ' diameter of thirty-two inches and o focal length of forty feet. The visual objeotive is slightlv longer in focus, j 1 being forty-one aud a half feet, and twenty inches in .diameter. For this instrumentjwhich will be employed to j 1 jdetermint the motion of the stars in ! ' /the line ioJ sight by meaus of the spec- | troscope, a special dome has been j built. t , Mineral Wealth of Siberia. Hardlv anv mineral can be named r j that is not obtainable somewhere in 11 Siberia in abundant amounts. The j mountains surrounding the Ivinghisiau ! r plains are kuowu to contain not only j gold, but also copper, silver and lead | I ore. The Altai Mountains, covering I I an area ten times as large as Switzer-1 , land, abound in copper ore, silvex | i and lead ore, gold andprecious stones. 3 In the Kusnezki Valley are beds ol' i ooal so vast as to suggest comparison with the Pennsylvania fields. The , richest and most extensive gold de- | t posits occur in Eastern Siberia, and 3 large petroleum deposits hare recently been diacoverad on the Island of Sag f halin. ^HOUSEHOLD Afiont Tuttlnc Away Stoves. "Let me give you a pointer in puttiug away your room stoves for the summer," said an accommodating stove man. "In the great majority of cases people pack away their small stoves in their cellars for the summer. Cellars are more or less damp, and the grates and stoVe lining rust and in some coaes actually consume themselves with rust, for one summer in a damp cellar does a stove more harm that its steady use during tae winter season. In suoh cases never-clean out the stove. A good qnajity of ashes in the stove is the best possible preservative of the inside of the stove. The &ahes and cinders absorb the aoisture which otherwise would attack the grate and other linings. In the siame way it is better that the bed of. cinders in the furnaces should be kept in them during the summer.' Careful housekeepers are right in most' things, that when packed away" lor the summer they should be clean. This rule, however, does not work well in the case of stoves and furnaces. This is not theory, but the result of ? amnfinnna o n wVlftn UlVbUJ JOOio .. ?w ? once observed will always be followed. It will be found, that it will pay."? Washington Star. - f* > Cozy Corners Hade of Leather. Leather cozy corners have rather a? dubious sound, yet they are oozy, comfortable and artistic; moreover, they are the newest thing in the decorative line. The leather is buckskin, of the softest finish and decorated with the mtich-favored pyrography. If you are an expert at this work j[ou may get up an elaborate effect at comparatively little cost, but if you have to pay for the decoration as well af the material it is an expensive luxury, j Tajnake a complete ' corner" the: fiuHk.Ahanld be covered with the having a conventional bordei | ?nd' mtwhed on the bottom with ' slashed leather to form a deep fringe, i 'The wall on two sides should bo ! covered to ' a depth of from two tr J four feet, according to taste, with th? : leather stamped iu some decorativc j style, a good idea being to represen! | scenes from Shakespeare or fronc some other literary source. Tht couch pillows are covered with leathei scamped with scenes to match, or witt monogram, coat of arms, floral or con ventional design. The natural coloi j of the leather is preferred for all o! ' these effects, but may be varied by i j border in olive, maroon or other con i trasting shade. The pillows arc | finished on the edge by a lacing oi j fha cirlaa fnorat.lier hv ft Ififtkhflf I atrip. No other material is to be in troduced on pain of spoiling the artis tic idea. Tlie Nursery Ventilation. The air of the nursery, which includes temperature and ventilation, is ! a matter to which the mother and j nurse should pay the strictest attention. The temperature should uevei | be above seventy degrees, and thon : only for a premature or very young 1 infant; a temperature of sixty-eighl degrees is far better and more health ful, and at night it may be mauy de grees lower. Children brought up in close, overheated nurseries are always pale, puny, over-sensitive tc: cold, and much more liable to contract pulmonary disease; babies sleep : much better at mght tf the air in thf I room is cool and fresh. During the j day the air in the nursery should bis ! changed as often as possiL^i?that is, I whenever the baby is out of the room. XjVeu 11 TU19 uappeus several nuca ;? | day, take advantage of these absences: every time and change the air. When j the baby and nurse are out for sev-1 eral hoars, let the nursery air during ' the time, closing the windows perhaps a half hour before they are ex pected to return. If, when they ar-! rive, the temperature is not quite S3 J high as it should be, it certainly is no ' colder than the outside air from which j the baby has just come. In this case, ] until the room lias its proper warmth | the baby's wraps need not be re- i moved. At night when the window j is lowered, aud the air, therefore, much cooler, protect the crib from any possible draught by drawing <3 screen about it or even pinning n j sheet about the crib.?Mariauna ! Wheeler, in Harper's Bazar. RECIPES Cre33 Butter?Mak^jJay previous and keep on ice uutil Jtangheon. Wash and pick over a cupfaV^pif watercress leaves carefully, miii'ce.ttijQm.very fin? and dry in gneadwith taeui j as much fresh as the^isrill take up (abo^%cap)^ add s bal6$*aspooii of salt,{a ini&all piqch of,white peppet and forta into Iittlepa-ts or balls. If preferittd, tjtiifl butter may. be spread upon tMK'slices of bread, sandwich style, California Snotf .7 Dessert?Soak a teacup of tapioca in just^ater enough to be absorbed. Cook in two cups of milk; it tqo thick add' another halfcup. Shortly beforb it i3 done add o half-cup of sugar and a sattspoon of salt. It shovtld be white and creamy. Season delicately with -any preferre-.? flavoring.- Serve in'dat teuce dished t 1 r 1 -1 I ana piace a naiveu .pear ^cuuuou; vu each dish and fill the cavity of tho pear with a' spoon-of whipped cream. Veal Kidneys and Mushrooms (Polish)?-Trim all t&e fat from twelve kidneys, slice thedr- lengthwise into I strips, dust with saltandpepper, flouf I tbem, dip in ogg, crnmb them, fry ia butter, browning both sides. Placo ono dozen stewed spring mushrooms in the centre of the dish; place the kidneys around, and over all pour s sauce made of two tablespoonfuls Oi mustard worked into a gill of oil and two tablaspoonfuls of tjood vinegar. DR. TALMAQE'3 SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Tlio Victor's Shout?The Joy of Overcoming Difficulties?The Satisfaction Expressed by Christ on the Outcome of Hl:i Earthly Labors. [Copyright 1900.] Washington, D. 0.?In this discourse L> r. I'llllIHlKO SUUWS 1U IIU UUU3IIUI vriljr IUU antagonisms that ChrUt overcame and finds a balsam for all wounded hearts; text, John xvil., 4, "I have flnlshod the work which Thou gavest Md to do." Tliore is a profound satisfaction in the completion of anything we have undertaken. We lift the capstone with exultation, while, on the other hand, there is uothing more disappointing than, after having tolled in a certulu direction, to ilnd that our time Is wasted and our investment profitless. Christ came to throw up a highway on whloh tho whole world might, if it chose, mount into heaven. He did It. The foul mouthed crew who attempted to tread on Him could not *xtlnguish the sublime* satisfaction which He expressed when He said: "I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me do." Alexander tho Great was wounded, and the doctors could not medicate his wounds, and be seemed to be dying, and la. his 9 dream the sick man saw a plant with a peculiar flower, and he dreamed that that plant was put upon his wound and that Immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream,, told this to the physician, and the physician wandered one .until he found just the kind bfplant which the sick man bad described, brought It to him, and the wound was healed. Well, the human race had been hurt with the ghast-. liest of ail wounds?that of sin. It was the business of Christ to bring a balm for that wofanS?the balm of divine restoration. In carrying this business to a successful Issue the difficulties were stupendous. In many of our plans we have our friends to help us; some to draw a sketch of the plan, others to help us in the execution. But Christ fought every inch of His way against bitter hostility and amid circumstances all calculated to depress and defeat XU uo uirat ?uiiuijr ui;uup;uuu "was against Him. I find tliat He earned His JJ?elttiood by the carpenter's trade, an occupattpn always to be highly regarded and ^respected. But you know as well as I do that in order to succeed In any employment one must give his entire time to it, and 1 have to declaro that the fatigues af carpentry were unfavorable to the execution of a mission which required all mental aud physical faculties. Through high, hard, dry, husky, insensate Judaism to hew a way for a new and glorious dispensation was a stupendous undertaking that was enough to domaud all the concentrated energies even of Christ. Wo have a great many romantic stories about what men with physical toil have accomplished In intellectual departments, but you know that after a man has been toiling all day with adz and saw aud hammer, plane and ax, about all he can do is to rest. A weary body Is an unfavorable adjunct to a toiling miucl. You, whose life in purely mechanical. if you were called to the upbylldiug of a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new code of morals, or the starting of a revolution which should upturn nil nations, could get some idea of the incoherence of Christ's occupation with His hoavenly mission. In His father's shop no more intercourse was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in bargaining with men that have work to do, yet Christ, with hands hard from use of joois of trade, was calied forth to besoran a Dubllc aoe.iker. to Dreach iu the (uce of mot<9, while some wept, and some shook their fists, and some gnashed upon Him with their teeth, and many wanted Him out of the way. To address orderly and respectful assemblages Is not so easy us it may seem, but it requires more energy and more force and more concentration to address an exasperated mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard the pounding of His hammer, but ail the wide reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke of His spiritual up-building. 80 also His habits of dress and diet were hpnlnst Him. The mighty men of Christ's time did not appear In apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the Caosars would have appeared In citizen's apparel. Yet here was a man, here was a professed king, who always wore the same coat. Indeod it was far from shabby, for after He had worn It a long while the gamblers thought it worth raffling about, but still it was far from being an imperial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary mau might have worn 011 an ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretension in His diet. No cupbearor with golden challco brought Hitn wine to drink. On the seashore Ho ate fish, first having broiled It Himself. No ono fetched Him water to rtriuk; but. bending over the well in Samaria, Ho begged a driuk. He sat at only one banquet, aud that not at all sumptuous, ior 10 rtmevo tuo itw&wuruness of the bost one of the guests bad to prepnre wine for tho company. Otber king3 ride in a chariot; He walked. Otber kings, us tbey advance, have beralds abend and applauding subjects behind; Christ's retinue was made up of sunburned fishermen. Otber kings sleep under embroidered canopy; this one on a shelterless bill, riding but once, as far as I now remember, on a colt, and that borrowed. His poverty was against Him. It requires money to build great enterprises. Men of means are afraid of a penniless projector lest a loan be demanded. It requires money to print books, to build institutions, to pay instructors. No wonder the wise men of Christ's time lausrbod at this penniless Christ. "Why." they said, "who is to pay for this new religion? Who is to charter tho ships to carry tht missionaries? Who is to pay tho salaries of the teachers? Shall wealthy, established religion be discomflted by a penniless Christ?" The consequence was that most of the people tbat followed Christ bad nothing to lose. Affluent Joyeph of Arimatbea buried Christ, but he risked no social positiou in doing that. It is always safe to bury a dead man. Zaccbeus risked no wealth or social position in following Christ, but took a position in u tree to look down as He passed. Nicodemus, wealthy Nicodemus, risked nothing ot social position in following Christ, for he skulked by night to flinl Him. All this whs against Christ. So the fact that He was not regularly graduated was against Him. If n man come with diplomas of colleges and schools and theological seminaries and he has been through foreign travel, the world is disposed to listen. But here was a man cvbo had graduated at no collage, had not in any Academy by ordinary meaus learned the alphabet ot the language He spoke, and yet He proposed to talk, to instruct in subjects which had confounded tint mightier intellects. John juld, "The Jews marveled, sayiug, How liath this man letters, having uover learned?" We, in our day, havo found out ' that a man without a diploma may kuow as much us a man with one and that a college cannot transform a sluggard Into a philosopher or a theological semlnarv teach a fool to preach. An empty head, after the laying on ot hands of the presbytery, is empty still. But ft shocked all existing prejudices In those olden times for a mnu with: no scholastic protenslous and no graduation from a learned institution to set Himself up for a teacher. It was agaiast Him. So also the brevity of Ills life wa9 against Him." He had not' come to what we call midlife. But very few men do anything j before thirty-three years ot age. and yet llbat was the point nt which Christ's life terminated. The llrst fifteen years you .'ake In nursery UQ'1 school; then it will take you six years to set iuto your oecu?"I? #-ool?n Thnt will liriuir veil filliua or |ifULoaoi!4u. *m... ^ B _ to twenty-oue years. Then it will take you tpn years at least to get established in your life work, correcting the mistakes you have tnade. If Any man at thirty-three years of acre C *9 fully established in his life^vork, beis . the exception. Yet that is the point at which Christ's life terminated. Men in military ltfn have done their most wonderful deeds before thirty-three years of age. There may be exceptions to it, but the most wonderful exploits in raillery prowess fcave occurred before thirtythree years of ugei- ? But. as a legislator no man becomes eminent as ? legislator until be has hail lous? J years of experience. And yet the gray beard, 3d scribes were espectel to bow down in si-1 lence bofero tliis younj? Legislator,who arraigned suulieilrius iiail accused governmenlg. Aristotle was old; Lycurgus was old: Seneca was old. The great legislators of the modern world have been oldChrist was young. All this was against Him, If a child twelve years of age should set up In your presence to discuss great questions of metaphysics or ethics or politics or gorernment.you would bo as contemptuous as these gray bearded Jscribes iu the presence of this youoj? Christ." So there bnve been men of wonderful magnetism of person. But bear me while I tell you of ft poor yonng Man who came up from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has never been excited by any other. Napoleon had around him the memories of Marengc and Austerlitz and Jena, but here was a Man who had fought no battles, who wore no-epaulets, who brandished uo sword. He had.probable never seen a prince or shaken hands with a nobleman. The only extraordinary person "we know of as being in. His company was His own mother, and sue was so poor that, in the most delicate and solomn hour that comes to a woman's soul, she was obliged to He down among drivers grooming the beasts of burden. Again, I remark, there was no organlzation in His behalf, and that was against Him. When men propose any great work, they band together, th'ey write letters of agreement, they take oaths of fealty, and the more complete the organization the more and complete the success. Here was one who went forth without any organization and alone. If men had a mind to j ".in in His company, all right; it they liaa a Slnd not to join In His company, all well, they came, they were greeted with nc lf>tt<L salutation; if they went away, they ware sent with no bitter anathema. Petei departed, and Christ turned and looked at him;'that was all. All this was against nim. Did any one ever undertake such an enterprise amid such infinite embarrassments and by such modes? And yet I am here to say it ended in a complete triumph. Notwithstanding ] His worldly occupation. His poverty, His j plain fnfce, His unpretending garb, the j fact that He was schoolless, the fact that He had a brief life, the fact that He was not accompanied by any visible organization?notwithstanding all that, In an exhilaration which shall be prolonged In everlasting chorals, He declared, "I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." In the eye Infirmary now many diseases | of that delicate organ havo been cured? i But Jesus says to one blind, "Be open!" and the light of heaven rushes through | gates that have novor before been oponed. The frost of au ax may bill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry may do mauy wonderful things, but what chemist ut a wedding, when the wine gave out, could change a pall of water Into a cask of wine? What human voice could command a school ol llsh? Yet here Is a voice that marshals the scally tribes until, in a place where they had let down the not and pulled it up with no llsh in It, they let it down again, nnd the disciples lay bold and began to pull, when, by reason of the multitude of fish, the net broke. Nature is His servant. The flowers?He twisted them into His sermons; the winds?they wore His lullaby when He slept in the boat; the rain It hung glittering on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem?it sang a Christmas carol over His cirth; the rocks ?they beat a dirge at His death. Behold His victory over the gravel The hinges ol the family vault become very rusty because they are never oponed except to take another In. Thero is a knob ou the outside of the door of the sepulcher, but none on tho inside. Here comes the Conqueror nt Tin enfpra flint r??lm and savs. "Daughter of Jairus, alt up!" aDd she sits up. To Lazarus, "Come forth!" and lie came fortb. To the widow's son He said, "Gdt up from th.it bier!" and be goes home with his mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of death and hung them to His girdle and cried until nil tne graveyards of the earth heard Hioi: "0 death, I will bo thy plaguel 0 grave, I will be thy destructionl" No man could go through all the obstacles I have described, you say, without having a nature supernatural. In that arm, amid its muscles and nerve3. and bones, were Intertwisted the energies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eterual God. That foot that walked the deck of the ship In Gennesaret shall 9tainp kingdoms of darkness into demolition. This poverty struck Christ owned Augustus. owned the sanhodrin, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beach and all the skies that looked down into its waterowned all the earth and all the heavens. To Him of the plain coat belonged the robes of ce'fastlal royalty. He whc walked the road to Emmaua the lightnings were the Ore shod steeds of His chariot. Yet there are those who look on aud see Christ tu?a water into wine, and they say, "It was sleight of handj" And they see Christ raise the dead to life, and they say: "Easily explained; not ?,\n 11 ?? n 1 n *' i n r? <^Dri H !" AnH thflv QrtC icmij U'/UU, |/iaj.uh>i?..., J Christ Riving sight to the blind man, and they say, "Clairvoyant doctor!" Oh, what shall they do on tho day wben Christ rises up in judgment aud the hills shall lock and the trumpets shall call, peal on pen!'. In the time o' Tbeodosius toe Great there was a groat assault made upon the divinity of Jesus Christ, and during that time Theorlosias tho Great called bid own son tc sit on tbe tbrouo with bim aud be a copartner In the government of the empire, aud one day the old bishop came and bowed down before Tbeodosius, tbe emperor, and passed out of the room, and the omporoi was offended, saying to the old bishop, "Why didn't :you pay the samo honor to my son, who shares with me in tho government?" Then the old bishop turned to the young man and said, "The Lord blesr thee, my young man," but still paid bim uc such honor as be bad paid to the Emperor. And the Emperor was still offended and displeased wben the old bishop turned tc fheodoslus the Great and said to bim. "You are offended with me because I don't pay tbe samo honor to your son, whom you have made copartner in the government ol this empire, the samo honor 1 pay to you, and yet you encourage multitudes of people i'u your realm tc deny the Son of God equal authority, equal power, with God the Father." My subject also reassures U3 of the fact that la all our struggles we have a sympathiser. You cannot' tell Christ anything now about hardshlo. I donot thlnlc that wide uses of eternity will take the scars from His punctured sldo and His lacerated temples and His sore bands. You will nevei have a burden weighing so many pounds as that burden Cnrlst carried up the bloody bill. You will never have any apflering worse than Ho endured when, with tongue hot and cracked and Inftnrued aad swoileu, Ho moaned, "I thirst." You will never be surrouuded by worse hostility than that which stood around Christ's feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage, howling down His prayers aud snuffing up the smell of blood. 0 ye faint hearted. 0 ye troubled, 0 ye persecuted One, hero Is a heart that can sympathize with you I Again, and lastly, I lean from all that has been said to-day that Christ wa3 awfully iu earnest. If it had riot beeu a momoutous mission, Ho would have turned back from it disgusted and discouraged. Ho saw you iu a captivity from which He was resolved to extricate you, though It cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. He carno a great way to save you. Ho came from Bechlobem here, through the place of skulls, through the charnel house, through bauisiimeut. There wn3 not among all the ranks of celestials one being who would do as much for you 1 lay His crushed heart at your feet to day. Let it not be told in heaven that you deliberately put your foot cn it. While it will take all the ages of eternity to cole ' brute Christ's triumph, I nm here to make Mi* Mfii r! lint? iinnnimoivnanf thai- Kantmac of the rejectlou of this mission ou the pari of scrue of you nil that magaiflceut work of garden aud cross aud grave is, so fai < as yon are concerned, a failure. Helenas 1 the Empress, went to the HoljT Land to find the cross 'Christ. Getting to the Holy Land, there were three crosses excavated, and the question was which of the crosses was Christ'!1 cross. Thov took a dead body, tradition says, and put it upon one o* the crossi-s, and there was no life, ac4 Ihey took the dead body and put It upjn another cross, and there was no life; ba:, tradition savs, when lite dead body was put up against the third cross It spran? into life, xiio dead man lived again. Oil. that the |jfn giving power of the Son o! God miglit dart your dead seal Into an eternal life. beginning tlii* day! "Awak#, thou and rise from ihe dead, and Chri?t uhali Hive thee life!" Liv>'uow! Aud live [of. ever I THE GREAT DESTROYER, SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. ! Coll Out-nine In?Some ol the Best and Most Experienced Generala In the World Declare That Grog U Injurious to an Aruiy'j Morale. Toll out the death knell of Liquori Ring In the temperance reign, T?'l out tbe woos of tho drankardl Ring in his fitlr hope? again. Toll out the griefs that are clinging Past to the swift-flying years! Bine In the smiles that uro hidden Deep 'neath an ocean oI tears. Toll out the sorrows ot childhood Caused by the horrors of Ram! Toll out want's shadowy spectres, Ring in the blessings of home! \ Toll out the sighs of the prls'ner! Blng in his freedom again! Toll ont the sneers ot Bum's menials! Blng in the ballots of men. ?Temperance Advocate. Liquor In the Anny. It has long beea claimed that the soldier must have his grog, but some of the best and most experienced generals, Eoglish and American, of modern times, bear a different testimony and hold that it Is injurious to the morale of an army. It is interesting, as well as profitable, to note how by precept and example tbey. hare sought to promote a temperance-re formation in the soldiery under their commands, and to educate their governments and countrymen up to the highest water-mark 3f teetotallsm in military organization and sampaigning. We give some testimonies upon this sub|ect worth pondering and acting upon. Professor James Miller says: "Experience has taught the Russian military authorities that spirits are inimical to the strength and power of endurance ol the Russian soldier." Captain Peary, wlic knew whereof he spoke, has said: "People say that ardent spirits keop tho cold out. I say,, they let it in. Few seamen have been in the cold more than I have and I know that spirits do harm." Field Marshall i<ord Napier observes: "On reviewing the recoras of soldiers' offences, all, pjraotioally.have their origin in drunkenness. Of 18,000 men under my command in India, thG total abstainers had no crimes. The temperance men had practically none. The whole body " of crime was among non-abstainers." Speaking of their observation and experience outing our Civil War, Georsre B McCieiian affirmed: "Would all the officer; unite In setting the soldiers an example ol total abstinence from intoxicating drinks it would be equal to ua addition of 50,0(K men to the urates of the United States.' General Robert E. Lee, declared: "Met need no stiiaulant. It is something, I ait persuaded, tbey can get along <vlthout.' General Stonewall Jackson, said: "I nevo use liquor; I um more afraid of it than o Yankee bullets." r To-day the two "most successful and fa mous offlceis in tbe British Army are Lore Roberts and Lord Kitchener, and yet the] believe In keeping rum out of tbe arm: and have gained their most notable Tic torles with soldiers who wexe not given iti use. It was Lord Roberts who made ex perlments in India by which bo proved tha 25,000 soldier-abstainers could put in tin field 2000 more effective troops than 50,001 non-abstainers. It was Lord Kltclieno who led a teetotul army to victory in tin Soudan, whore he established prohibltioc upon a marked scale. Lord Wdlaeloj agrees with these chieftains, and is doiuj all he can to encourage temperauco among the soldiers of Great Britain. In the light of those testimonies, there is no excuse for tho oaateeo iu the American army. Public sentiment is against it, and law ought to be. Those iu authority, win uphold and keep It there, do so at theti peril. We hope the day will come when not only it, but the drluk-oaue in. all its forms, will be banished from the army and navy of our growing repwfto.?The Pres byterian. Made a Drunkard bjr a Prescription. > A funeral took place iu Patersoa, N. J., the other day of a young wife. Tb'e physician's certificate of death was ''died of obronic alcoholism." The husband said: "Our marriage bad been a happy one until my wife was ordered to take'tvblsky. J am not toblamefor the scandal. Although I have been a temperance man for ilfly nine years I was forced to give my wif< liquor at home or suffer scandal or disgrace." The story is a lad one. On the death of ber. ehtid about a yen ago she was taken ill. Id an evil moment the attending phystolan proscribed whisky for her. She continued to use it and dl most before tbe husband knew it his young wife was a drunkard. The craving foi liquor overmastered her. For more than a half a <entr.ry her bus band had been atdtal abstainer. He has t horror of liquor. He consented to Its belnp. administered to his wlfe^aaaae tliedocto' said it was necessary. When he found that his wife had bpcomf a slave to liquor he tried to keop It'fron her. This was fmpos9ible, for if ?he coult not get it at home she wouljg .go out for it On that account the husband- gave her at she detnunaed to prevent scandal. , rruiosiur a^viiior a vibiihb* Is it not strange that, after more tban forty centuries have elapsed since tlie results of Professor Noah's exporimeuts with alcohol were first glvea to the world, evec great university professors are experimenting with that mysterious liquid, and that, too, Without having in all this time achieved any appreciable results In nd vance of those which Noah first discovered and his biographer first announced? Surely the persistency of scientific investigators of alcohol Is unconquerable! One thing, however, is pretty fully settled, namely, that however caftabU the huoiau system is of assimilating homoeputbic doses of alcohol, there is always something about the liquid thus administered which demand* at first a frequent repetition of the dose and later the consumption of it in suet allopathic quantities as tarns men first iutc i spewing Idiots, later into fiends and demons, and ultimately consigns them to the drunkard's grave and the drunkard's hell ?Free Methodist. Temperance In Frencli Army. The French army has taken a hand iu the war against alcoholism. Although the groat military organization has nbt decided upon any united action In the matter, cortaln eminent generals linve giver an example that may be later followed bj the supreme heads of the army. The steps taken by these officers are In the direction of restricting the privileges hitherto en joyed by soldiers for obtaining liquor. Notes of the Cruuade. Out of 520 towns and plantations it Maine, 437 effectually prohibit the saloon Out of a population of 661,038, there tm 406,855 who never come fn touch with a suloon. We license a saloon that makes a mnr drank; we pay .policemen to remove tb< drunken man to jail; we pay the officers ol court high fees to try the prisoner; we pay a big salary to a judge to sentence him and if he commit crime, we puy the expenses of a penitentiary to shut him up foi years. Dr..(J. Sims Woodhead,M. D., Professoi of Pathology in Cambridge University s?n; "It is now generally recognized thai ohlldren should never take alcohol, which, according to tte highest authorities, esarts an exoeedl.igly deleterious action on r&plciiy-growlug tissues, interfering wltt thelr nutrltlon, and preventing the devel AnmAnf nf tliAlr nrrtiipr funpMnn " w* - Abstinence Society has been ^jfllfUd in Vienna by 120 members. Its programme includes abstinence from alcohol In every form for the benefit of the health ind morals of the people, and to show the ibsolute us el ess a ess of alcohol. Diogenes, being presented at a fea3t with a large goblet of wine, threw it on tbe ground. When blamed for wasting so iiuch good liquor, lie said: "Had I drunk ;t there would have been double waste. I is well as the wine would have been lost." The King of Pondolainl, a couurry recently annexed to Oape Uolouy, lias until recently been one of the most r;xo!u'o opposers of Christianity in South Africa. Tiih jccaslon or the Kiug's cbangt* or ihiu:l was :he conversion of his chief otlioer, who had jcen a great drunkard. - ' !> GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. . pREONANT THOUGHTS FROU THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. In IntorcpHftion ? Cliriat Finished Hli Work ? Showing Love l>y Work* ?A Prayer for Itepentmice ? A Perioual Knowledge of liod?Pursuit of Hope. Why they have never known the way before? Why hundreds staud outside Thy mercy's ?' door? I kuow not: but I ask, dear Lord, that Thou Wouldst lead them now! Why in tho bard and thornv way they pros3 Unloved, nncomforted, with none to bless. In living death, I know not; but spare Thou, And lead theiu now! Saviour, be pitiful; their boll is here; Dull parched sorrow that can shed no tear Is theirs. They need indeed no turther loss, They bear their cross! Eternal death to live away from Thee, Eternal loss apart from Thee to be; Eternal gain to have in Thee some partTo know Thou art! Dawn for us here, thou bright undying day; io in no dark and sudden-ending way Life's timorous steps shall falter, but straight on Where Christ is gone? To wake and know tho now Ufa throbbing, llnd Doubt and disquletudo are left behind, Eyes open'd.ears attuned to heavenly sound, Is Heaven found., ?C. C. Fraser-Tytler, in Congregationalism Christ Finished His Work. He finished His work. No other servant ver did. All our work is rough-edged; and the man who comes to deal with it after ffe have left it finds almost as much lilficulty in touching it as he would have in starting a new work. But our Lord finished Hi* work. "I have finished the work which Thou hast given Mo to do." And one of His last cries from the cross was but the expression of the same truth: *'It is finished. It is finished." Up to the very end of Hia Jfe He was working, not willing to let even ".he last moments of it alio bv. Even in tha igony of His suffering on the cruel tree, Ho opened the gates of the kingdom of tieaven to a dying thief, and He made a uew home for His mother. And so all men who have learned Christ's spirit, and who have begun to serve as ' Christ served, desire to finish their work. When John Eliot lay dying a friend came into his room ana found the wonderful old man teaching a little Indian child his alphabet. And the friend said, "Don't you think /ou have earned a rest? and he replied, I don't think I bam I-prayed the Lord a :ong time ago to make me useful in my sphere, and Ho heard my prayer, and now :bat I am no longer young. He leaves ma strength enough to teach this little Indian jhild its alphabet." The old man of 80 was determined, it was a possible thing that ae would finish his work for God.?Robert E. Speer, In "Remember Jesus Christ." SlioivliiB L:?v i by Work*. Do you show your love by your works? While you have time, as you have opportunity. do you, in fact, "do good to all men," leighbors or strangers, friends or enemies, ?ood or bad? Do you do them all the good you cud, endeavoring to supply all their .vants. assisting them in body and soul, to ;he uttermost of your power? If thou art ;bus minded?may every Christian say yea -if though art bat sincerely uesirous oc it, ind following on till you a:tain. then "thy aearc Is right,as my heart is with thy heart. 'If it bo, give me thy hand." I do not mean, "Be of my opinion." You need not; I do aot expect or desire it. Neither do I mean, 'I will be of your opinion." I cannot, t does not depend on my irhoice; I can no nore think than I can see or hear a3 I will. Seep your own opinion; I'mine, and that as steadily 03 ever. You need not even enleavor to come over to me or bring me over io you. I do not desire you to dispute ;hose points, or to liaar or speak one word concerning them. Lot a'.l opinions alone jn one side and tho other; only "give marine hand." I do not mean, "embrace my nodes of worship, or, I will embrace yours." This also is a thing which does not depend >n your choice or mine. Wo must both act is each is fully persuaded in his own mind. -John H'esijy. A Priiyer for Kepcntniica. Almighty God, the fountain of all holiless. who by thy Word and Spirit dost jonduct all thy servants iu the way of peace ind righteousness, grant us so truly to reoent of our sins, so diligently to watch over ill oar acuons. so lnuusirioumy iu ill our duty that wo may never willingly '.ransgress thy holy laws, but that it may ba :heworkof our lives to obey thee, tbejoy 3f our souls to please thee, the sat'sfadtlon Df all our hopes and tbe perfection of all our desires to dwell with thee in the holiness of ;hine everlasting kingdom. Make us perfect iri Christ Jesus; out of his Cullnes3 may we all rqceire, and rest in him forevermore. May his passion bo our deliverance; his wounds be our healiagj his cross our redemp(:ion; ani his death our life. With his righteousness may we be clothed; by his Spirit may we bo sanctified: in his blood may we oo cleansed; and to his image may we be :onformed. As be died, may we also die j A to sin: as he rose again, may we rise into aewncss of life; sufloring with him here, aaay we reign with him hereafter. A man. Pergonal Knowledge of Gcd. Who of us can wait to investigate the record for ourselves before bolieviug and reseiviug the Gospal? We have tbe teachiugs Df learned men?out that is only testimony; and other learned men today are busy disproving and .correcting the teachings ot chose of former fenerations. What is needed ia personal experience of Christ, l'he weakness of the church today is in ;hat we have gotten away from the simple experiences of life in Christ, and are substituting for it Researches in archasology, manuscript?, .QidQuaieuts. and mummy slothes. Interest in sacred art, pictures and architecture, ceremony mid churchlv ritual and creeds, are faking the place of personal sxperjence of .the living Christ. Growing less spiritual we become more exactly forma!: laokiig fervor, wo multiply ceremony; with less devotion, we have mr>re elaborate music. What i9 needed.' Conversion?that which brings a sense of the Divine presence, the personal knowledge of God. Th? Ever!listing 1'nrmilt of Hope. Every single day .should be to you a day of royal discontent. You never thought as well as you ought to think. You never planned as aobly u-> you ought to plan. You never executed a3 well as you ou?ht to execute. Over the production of the scholar, over the canvas of the artist, over the task of the landscape gardener, over the pruner's knife, there oujrbt to hover perpetually his blessed ideal, telling him,"Your work is poof ?it should be better," so that every day h* should lift himself higher and higher, with an everlasting pursuit of hope which shall only end in perfection when he reaches the land beyond.?Henry Ward Beecher. John the Baptist, tho greatest of the prophets, gathered together the scattered rays of Old Testament prediction into these two sayings, which will be forever a-isolated with his nams: "Behold th? Lamb of God, that tafceth away the sins of the world!" and "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, aad with llru." The llrst is tho gospel of atonement.-, the second is tbe gospel of regeneration, and both together give a comprehensive summary of all that Jest's brings to men.?William M. Tavl-vPACO PACO RIVAL OF APIA. ilgniflcaut Mova of London Mission School in Samoa. News baS reached Washington that the London Mission School has removed from Malua on the German Inland of Upolu to :he American island of Tutulla, locating Dn Pago Pago Bay. The approaching completion of tbe American naval coaling Uatioo la B?go Pago harbor; the Inclusion n the United States Foreign Mall contracts jf a provision for stopping steamers al Pago Pago on the routo.* between San Francisco and New Zealand are a basis ol representations as to tbe State Department of tho future predominance of Page Pago over all the ports of tho Samoas group. I