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THE BIg)I?T<?> Now York City (Special'.?A pretty outdoor bodice. and at the same time one simple of construction. is always , ' welcome. In this model. reproduced from the Philadelphia Kecord. tucks dispose of slight fuluess at the waist both baek ami front, the opening iu the latter being fastened by cords, from tiny Kilt or silver buttons. The vest we should suggest making in either white satin or cloth embroidered all over with an indescribable design in gold and silver thread, a narrow applique of the san^e edging the rovers, cuffs, and that/ smart Medici collar, which is so invaluable iu imparting an outiloor air to a bodice. Black panne or satin, slightly folded. Jill BODICE FOR A WALSIKft FROCK. * fashions the corselet, which is ol?vioiisly made over a well-shaped and boned foundation. Two Elaborate mouse*. Of the two blouses shown in the: large engraving the first is of chiffon in the new tea-rose yellow coloring, over this charming foundation coming : black net embroidered in jet paillettes,;j and in its turn overlaid with a design of single flowers and leaves in ivory \ lace applique; while then at the waist there is a deep swathed band of rose-l pink silk, a twist of which?in a slight-1 ly paler shade?is drawn up between! " NOTABLY HANDS tlio flittering meshes of the n??t in frout. and finishes in flower-like rosottes beneath a yoke of shirred yellow chiffon, which gives place to a collar-band of folded chiffon decora ted "with jetted flowers arranged iu medallion form. The second blouse is of plisse chiffon in the delicate coloring of old ivory (the very latest fashionable shade this), where the soft effect of the closely clustering: pleats is considerably increased by the use of pressing instead of stitching to keep them iu place. Medallion insertions of mellow-tinted old muslin embroidered in a floral d<?"sign are edged -with black Cbantilly lace: while at the sides, as you may < see. some other lace of ivory-tint is introduced. Bands and rosettes of black velvet baby ribbon hold the lace together iu front over the fulness of the pleated chiffon, and there is a waistband to match, while the revival of the quaint old fashion in sleeves is shown in quite its prettiest form by the effective arrangement of the com billed laces which give place just below I the elbow to a big puff of the ivory chiffon, which, after being caught in closely at the wrist, is finished with a frill edged narrowly with black lace. The Newwt Leather Belt. Soft fawn-colored or pearl-colored suede leather or ooze leather forms a stylish belt for the fastidious girl in i world which is much given to wearing pulley belts of satiu or corded silk. The newer leather belt should match as nearly as possible the toue of the ""if Daoiitifn! lirvlit Kw\nM1i2 JltJlilCTojMlll JUCilUUMil Il?lll UiUHUO or gr.iys predominate. Select a chatelaine ban to match, for this is the pocketless a^e/r.Get n bag with an outside half pocket, in which you can tuck your little kerchief, so as to get it easily without opening the chatelaine ba<; in which your money is laid away. You win get a red or black and sometimes a dark blue leather belt, also a cream one. They are much less wide than formerly. The latest tapers off very much in front, where it shows decidedly more narrow than at the back. They run in sizes from eighteen to twen'.v-four inches. The narrow leather belt is certainly quite smart. New Things In Umlerwear. Now that the upper portion of the bodice is so generally cut away to sho^v I Oj= fASHtON. In chemisette or guiiupe. great attention | is bestowed up >n : his picturesque1 ar tide of dress. China silk. French lawn, liberty silk and surah, laid in tine lingerie tucks, are the fabrics most used for guimpes on everyday gowjis. Jfor more dressy wear dainty I stj^e# are formed of intersected rfobon?black velvet, for instance, crossed with colored sarin or two shades of a *olor in faille ribbon about an inch wide. A popular combination on French dresses is mauve aud a lovely tint of pale blue. A-nother variety of guimpe is made of much wider ribbon and guipure insertion. This pretty fashion admits of almost endless variation, and the rows of ribbon. tucking, fancy silk, all-over embroidery. etc., composing the guimpe are sewed to a thin foundation or to a light silk uuderwaist. which reaches to the belt# Iu any of its guises the guimpe is more than ever in vogue. It is easily made and adjusted, and it gives a charming variety to gowns of the simplest make. 1 , -I An Eait Indian 'Kerchief. A great many girls like to cover tli? top of the head wheu bathing with a silk handkerd&ief of some becoming color, instead^of Wearing one of the maclUritQsh^caps.^ The handkerchief to matchjltipl^baMing suit. If your suit is of jms sake, satin or brilliautine, or of Jtnlrn material, you can use one of tSpMHanas of glorious East Indian JHEotr:. tropical greens and orange, |Bk' 'violet and dusky . reds. G^xt theJKndana in half diagonjust the jMf' pfew Snmmer Stocking*. laftere is no silk nor design of floriated | pfiitern on the new summer stockings yiSfept foulard stockings. It is simply j Jute clever idea of a merchant who sells iSks and also hosiery. Fine lisle- ] thread stockings of colors to match | ?hgi|oulards most in demand, blues of yiklous shades, browns, gray, a few '"ffifehed raspberry." amethysts, sags j gc$>h or tans are heaped up by the 8lUf- counter. Some, but not all, have : town work meshes as decoration. They : J&' obviously meant to be worn witfc | ibiie-eut shoes. SOME BLOUSES. Popular Lace Bow*. , j A new trimming exploited this sea- j son occurs in the lace bows, made very I small aud very neatly. They do not ' appear singly, but in a series, connected with narrow satin ribbons, upon ! which they appear to be mounted. They can be used in various ways, and on a , great many materials. Their manifest destiny, however, is on organdie and lawn frocks or dainty summer gowns | nf snnio sheer woolen material. A Hat Trunk. A hat trunk or hat box. as our English cousins say. will accommodate as many as half a dozen pieces of millinery. Each hat has a stout cushion, which enters the crown and serves as u mount. The hat pins run through the cushion and fasten your big hat to the mount. Now it is firm and cannot wabble about and so get out of shape, Moltalr Outing Suit. Mohair, the most serviceable material made for summer wear, is used for the above costume, reproduced from the Chicago >rd. The tone is sand color. trimmed with tailored bauds of golden-brown silk. With it a violet silk skirt, finished with a high white satin stock, is wprn. j DR. TALMAGE7S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Mlruclc At Cana?Lei^on of CIibiicIhr Hie Water Into Wine?Christ | Teaches That We Should Not Shadow j Joys of Others With Our Own oneis[Copyright VMU. | Washington; D. C. ? A remarkable illustration of tl.e ubiquity of English speaking people is furnished by the re! quests that have reached Dr. Talmage in J Northern Europe for a sermon in out-ofthe-way places, where he did not expect to find a single person who could understand him. There, as here, he presents religion as a festivity and invites all the world to come as guests and join in its holy merri| ment; text, John ii, 10, "Thou hast kept i the good wine until now." I This chapter invites us to a marriage i celebration. If is a wedding in common j life, two plain people having pledged each i other, hand and heart, ana their friends i having come in for congratulation. The joy is not the less because there is no prej tension. In each other they find all the j future they want. The daisy in the pup ! on the table may mean as much a scorn of artistic garlands fresh from the ho.t[ house. When a daughter goes off from i home with nothing but a plain father's ! blessing and a plain mother a love, she is missed as much as though she were a princess. It seems hard, after the parents ' have sheltered her for eighteen years that j in a few short months her affections I should have been carried off by another, | but her mother remembers how it was*in I her own case when she was young, and so She braces up until the wedding has passed , and the banqueters are gone, and she has pa cry all alone. Well, we are to-day at the wedding in t ! Cana of Galilee. Jesus and His mother i.o,.o linon invited. It is evideut that there are more people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not invited or more invitations have beeff sent out than it was supposed would be ac| <apB|ed. Of course there is not a sufficient simftiy of wine. You know that there is nOT&ing more embarrassing to a housekeeper than a scant supply. Jesus seesthe embarrassment, and He comes up immediately to relieve it. He sees standing six water pots. He orders the servants ta^ jj liil them with water; then He waves Hinl hand over the water, and immediately ifcj i is wine?real wine. Taste of it and see fort yourselves; no logwood in it, no strychnine in it, but first rate wine. I will not now be diverted to the question so often discussed in my own country whether it is right to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When God makes wine He makes the vpry best wine, and 130 gallons of it standing around in these water pots?wine so good that the ruler of the least tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than anything we have had! Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should write tne best essay about the miracle in Cana. Long manuscripts were presented in the competition, ? ?? Utt 4-Uia /v?A wui a |;ucu ?vu iuc is.is uj juov i>uio vuc line descriptive of the miracle: "The conscious water saw its God and blushed." We learn from the miracle, in the first Elace, that Christ has sympathy -with ousckeepers. You might have thought that Jesus would have said: "I cannot be bothered with this household deficiency of wine. It is not for Me, Lord of heaven and of earth, to become caterer to this feast. I have vaster things than this to attend to." Not so said Jesus. The wine gave out, and Jesus, by miraculous power, came to the rescue. Doe0 here ever come * a scant supply in your household? Have you to make a very close calculation? Is it hard work for you to carry on thhngs decently and respectably? If so, don't sit down and cry. Don't go out and fret, but gg to Him who stood in the house in Cana 01 Galilee. Pray in the parlor! Pray in the kitchen! Let there be no room in all your house unconsecratcd by the voice of prayer. If you have a microscope, put under it one drop of water and see the insects floating about, and when you see that God makes them and cares for them and feeds them come to the conclusion that He will take care of you and feed you. A boy asked if he might sweep the snow from the steps of a house. The lady of the household said, "Yes; you seem very poor." He says, "I am very poor." She says, "'Don't you sometimes g2t discouraged and feel that God is going to let you starve?" The lad looked up in the worn an's face and said, "Do you think Uod will let me starve when I trust Him and then do the beat I can?" Enough theology for older people! Trust in God and do the best you can. Amid all the worri* , ments of housekeeping go to Him. He will help you control jour temper and supervise your domestics and entertain your guests and manage your home economies. There are hundreds of women weak and nervous aud exhausted with the care of housekeeping. I commend you to the Lord Jesus Christ as the best adviser and the most efficient aid?the Lord Jesus who1 performed His first miracle to relieve a housekeeper. I learn also from this miracle that Christ docs things in abundance. I think a small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency. I think certainly they must have had enough for half the guests. One gallon of wine will do; certainly live callous will be enouch: certainly ten. But Jesus goes on, and He gives them thirty gallons and forty gallons and fifty gallons and seventy gallons and 100 gallons and 130 gallons ot the very best wine. It is just like Him?doing everything on the largest and most generous scale. Does Christ, our Creator, go forth to make leaves? He makes them by the whole forest full?notched like the fern or s lvered like the aspen or broad like the palm, thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests. Does He go forth to make Mowers? He makes plenty of them. They flame from : the hedge, they hang from the top of the grapevine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets, they toss their white surf in the spiraea?enough for every child's hand a flower, enough to I make for every brow a chaplet, enough ; with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of all the grave. Docs He go forth to create water? He pours it out not by the cupj ful, but by a river full, a lake full, an ocean full, pouring it out until all the earth has enough to drink and enough with which to wash. Does Jesus provide redemption? It is not a little salvation for this one, a little for that and a little for the other, but enough for all. "Whosoever will, let him come." Each man an ocean full for himself; promises for the young, momises for the old, promises for the lowly, promises fnr fhp hlinrl fnr fhp half, fnr tho mitnnut1 I for the abandoned; pardon for all, com fort for all, mercy for all, heaven for ailnot merely a cupful of gospel supply, but 130 gallons. Ave, the teats of godly repentance are all withered up into God's bottle, and some (lay, standing before the throne, we will lift our cup of delight and ask that it be filled with the wine of heaven, and Jesus, from that bottle of tears, will begin to pour in&lhe cup, and we will cry: "Stop, Jesus; w%do not want to drink our own tears!" AorajlBsus will say. "Know ye not tKaV ttoe^tears ' of earth are the wine of heaved ?'^i||rrow r.-.ay endure for a night, bui* joy^maeth in the morning. I remark, further, Jeaus-; doej^>iot shadow the joys of others with His. oWn griefs. He might have .sat down-in tba^. wedding and said: "I, bare-so raucK" trouble, so much poverty, so much per^PCu-. ; tion, and the cross is coming. I Snail "not rejoice, and the gloom of My face and Of My sorrows shall be cast- over all this group.'' So said not Jesus. He said to,' Himself: "Here are two persons starting out i? married life. Let it be a joyfnl oc* casion. I will hide My own griefs. I will kindle their joy." There are many not so wise as that. I know a household where there are many little children, where for two year9 the musical instrument has been kept shut because there has been trouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: "We will have no Christmas tree this coming holiday because there has been trouble in the house! Hush that laughing up stairs! How can there be any joy .when there has been bo much trouble?" And so they make everything coi> liatently doleful and send their sons and 7 * r"I { - - , , /=== danphters to Mi'n with gloom they tLrow arcur.d them. Oil, l-iy dear friends, do vou not know those children will have double enough of their own after .awhileT Be glad tliev cannot apprceiatc all you*. Keep back the cup of bitterness from your daughter's lips. When your head if down in the crass of the tomb poverW may coil#! to her. betrayal to her, benghvement to her. Keep back the sorrows affiong as you can. Do you not know that mat son may. after awhile, have his heaft broken? Stand between him and all term. You may not fight his battles lonj? Fight them while you mnv. Throw net the chill of your own despondency over hi soul. Rather be like Tesus, who came /to the wedding hiding His own grief ajid kindling the joys of others. So I haye seen the* sun on a dark day struggling amid clouds, black, ragged and portentous, but after awhile the sun, with golden pry, heaved"back the black ness. and the sun laughed to the lake, and the lake laughed to the sun, and from liori zon to, horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. I leam from this miracle that Christ if not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was not necessary that they should have that wine. Hundreds of neonle have been married without any wine. We do not read that anvof thS other provisions fell short. When Christ made the wine it was not a necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that He wants us to eat hard bread and sleep on hard mattresses unlpss we like them the best. I think, if circumstances will allow, we have^i rijrht to the luxuries of dress, the luxuries of diet and the luxuries of residence. There is no more religion in an old coat than tn a new one. We can serve God drawn by golden harness as certainly as when we go afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as under a thatched roof. What is the difference between a Chinese mud hovjel and an American home? What is the difference between the ro'.isfh bearskins of the Russian boor and the outfit of an American/gentleman? Xo difference except that which the gospe! of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused. Whef^Christ shall have vanquished all the world;1' I suppose every house will be a mansion, and every- garment a robe, and every horse an arch necked courser, and every carriage a glittering vehicle, and every man a king, and every woman a miieen, and the whole earth a paradise, t'.io !lories of the natural world harmonizing nth the glories of the material world un-j [1 the very bells of the horses shall jingle be praises of the Lord. p i learn, further, from this miraclc that Christ, lias no impatience with festal jo v. I otherwise He would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. He certainly would not have done that which increased the hilarity. There may have been many in that room who were banny, bi.t tli-re was not one of them that did so much iVr the jov of the wedding, narty as Christ Himself. He was tlie chief of the banqueters. When the wine gave out, K<- supplied it. and so. I take it. He will nt deny j us the jovs that are positively festiil. I think the children of God hav? more right to lauah than any other peopV, and to clap their hands as loudly. There is not .1 single joy neniea mem mai 11 jjivch to any other people. Christianity d'ies not clip the wings of the soul. Religion does ; not frost the flowers. What is Christianity? I take it to ho simplya proclamation for all the enslaved, j and if a man accepts the ternid or that i proclamation and becomes free has he r.ut a right to be merry? Suppose a father has an elegant mansion and large grounds. To whom will iie give the first privilege of these grounds? ! Will he say: ''My children, you must not 1 walk through these paths or sit down wv I der these tr>*es or pluck this fniit. These j ire for outsiders. They may wa'k in then." No father would say anything like that. I He would say: '"The first privileges in .ill ' the grounds and all of my house shaii b> 1 for mv own children." And yet men try j to make us believe that God's children are j on the limits and the chief refreshmenls j and enjoyments of life are for outsiders J and not for Hi* own children. It is stark j atheism. There is no innocent beverage t.io rivh for God's child to drink: there is no robe i too costly for him to wear; there is no | hilarity too great for him to indulge in. and no house too splendid for him ta live j in. r remark, again, that Christ comes to* us in the hour of our extremity. He knew the wine was giving out before there was any embarrassment or mortification. Why did He not perform the miracle -sooner? Why wait until it was all gone, and no ( help could come from any source, and then come in and perform the miracle? You mourned over your sins. You could not find the way out. You sat down and said: "God will not be merciful, lie has cast me off." But in that the darkest hour of your history light broke from the throne and Jesus said: "Oh. wanderer, come home! I have seen all thy sorrows. In | this the hour of thy extremity I offer thee pardon and everlasting life!" , Trouble came. You were almost lorn to pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself up aeainst it. You said. "I will be a stoic and will not cat'9." Bur before you had got through making the resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources were gone, and tnen Jesus came. "In the fourth watch of the night," the Bible snvs, "Jpsus came walking 311 ill* sc*." Whv did He not come in the first watch or in the second watch or in l.lui third watch? I do not know. He came in the fourth and pave deliverance to His disciples. Jesus in the last extremity! I wonder if it will he so in our very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and the doctors will come, but in vain. We will trv the anodvnes and the stimu -? ^11 lants and tne Datiiirms. out an ?<> .?. Something will say, "You must go." No one to hold us back, but the hands of eternity stretched out to pull us on. What then? Jesus will come to us, and a? we say, "Lord Jesus, I am afraid of f.hat water;! cannot wade through to the other side,*' He will say. "Take hold of My arm," and we will take hold of His arm. and then He will nut His foot in the surf of the wave, taking us on down, deeper, deeper, deeper, and our soul will cry, "All Thv waves and billows have gone v*>?*er me." They cover the feet, come to the knee and pasg the girdle and come to the head, and our soul cries out, "Lord Jesus Christ, 1 cannot hold Thine arm any longer." Then Jesus will turn around, throw both His arms about us and set us on the beach far beyond the tossing of the billows. Jesus in the last extremity! That wedding scene is gone now. T'u wedding ring has been lo3t. the tankards have been broken, the house is down, but Jesus invites us to a grander wedding. You know the Bible savs that the church is the Lamb's wife, and the Lord will after awhile come to fetch her home. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky, and the trumpets of God will ravish the air with their music, and Jesus will stretch nut His hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her veil and look tin into the face of her Loru the King, and the Bridegroom will sav to the bride: "Thou hast been faithful through all these years. The mansion is ready. Come home. Thou are fair, my love!" and then He shall put upon i? t ?.u? nf dominion, and the I ItJl Ul f J ?V tile V4 U It A a ,rB ^ _ __ table will be spread, and it will reach across tlie skies, and the mighty ones of heaven will come in garlanded with beauty and striking their cympals. and the Bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, looking up. will wonder and admire and say: "That is Jesus, the Bridegroom. But the scar on His bfow is covered with the coronet, and jtfeejj^Lb in His side is covered with a robwgFand "That is the bride! The weariless ?{"her earthjy woe lost in the flush of tniii*wedding triumph!" i. Tha?.will be wine enough at that wedding^afaot coming up from the poisoned Tuts JK,"earth, but the vinevards of God will jfreM' their, ripest clusters, and the cups.and the tinkards will blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage, and then all the banqueters will drink standing. Esther, having come up from the bacchanalian revelry of Ahasuerus, where a thousand lords feasted, will be there. And the Queen of Rheba, from the banquet of Solomon, will be there. And the mother of Jesus, from the wedding in Cuna, will he there. And they all will agree that the earthly feasting was poor compared with that. Then, lifting their chalices in that ' Kht, they shall cry to the Lord of the teast. "Ibou hast kept the good wine until now." I GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.' ' PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROV1 THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The Circuit of a Year ? A Sin to Ea j -Wretched?In the Crowd?".Hake l"? Children of God!"?Budding Hutnaiu With Christ?Heaping as We Sow. Through morn ami noon and silent night, | From May around to May, j The pines upon C'hocorua's height Climb nud sing and sway. Across the fiercely flaming skies ! Their shielding arms they spread? The lire as soft as dream-light lies On the sweet-fern's bed. ! Aloft their banners far they fling To winter's icy gale: Against the storm they bencL'and sing? Oaks, a-shiver, wail. When summer burns and winter, shrouds, Beneath the sun and snow,' ~ - * ?f xL'. Steadfast auci strong tney pierce uiu clouds, ' Beckoning below. 0 pine trees brave, your banners lend, | Your shielding arm and song; i Into the storm" I'll singing bencl, Spread me and be strung. ' j Through morn and noon and silent night, ! From May around to 'May, The pines upon Chocorua's height Climb and bend and pray, 4 A Sin to Be Wretched." With all the poor and substantial^oys which Jesus offers within our reach, it is a sin and a shame for Christians to be ! wretched. Is not disobedience to God a sin? He commands, us to rejoice. No duty is more clear. "Rejoice in the Lord always, #nd again I say rejoice!" "The joy of the Lord is your strength.", i'ou I can till your soul with inspiring thoughts | and with memories of mercies; yon can 1 occupy your soul (with plans of doing ; good to others and with acts of obedience to the inward voice of Christ, such as will kindle your soul into a glow. There is a "godly sorrow" over our shortcomings, and over the woes and wrongs of others that every Christian ought t<> tVel: but such sorrow must never be allowed to drown out the deep, abounding joy ot the Lord down in the very core of our ?ouls. There is a gulf-stream of Godgiven joy that ought to send its warm . | current through the w intriest waves of trials and adversities. The coal-beds are | solidified sunshine. The love of Jesus i streaming down into your soul makes the | central nest; miii neat Kvuviuir-s nnl power. So doth the joy of Jesus heroine your perennial strength. A doubtins, ague-smitten Christian cannpt do nuteh but shake. A back-sliding Chrisj tiau is on his road to a cell in the castle of Giant Despair. But "he who is nearj est to Christ is nearest to the tire," and the contact keeps the heart aglow. Why ! not rejoice more? Count up your golden mercies, count up your opportunities to do good, count nn your exceeding great | and precious promises, count up your | joys of heirship to an Incorruptible inheritance and then march on the road heav| inward shouting! In the Crowd. I Every Christian knows that Lis life is to be spent in the crowd, and he has not learned the secret of his Master until lie has mastered the art of keeping the faith in the midst of his fellows, j There are times of special nearness in communion with God for us all, but these J are only the transient seasons when we ! are being strengthened for the long and permanent contact with men and affairs. Here comes the real test of our religion. For it is easy when we are alone to : 'ceep our ideals freshly before us. The (varm sun and the moist air of the greeuiiouse make growth swift and easy; but in the crowd where the winds whip all ? ? a?- iit I mushroom growtns to snreus too nure !?nd strength of the oak alone survives. I We Christians must learn to live here. And, excepting the few who are born to iisscnt whatever the cause, it is easy j to maintain our faith in a crowd if the crowd is all of one sort. The old faith is very reasonable among the many who bold it in common. But the crowd in which the Christian must live thinks as variously in religious as in other matters. And this is also good for the Christian. Religion has been saved from many an absurdity by the pitiless question aud the keen criticism of the crowd. ".Wake Us Cii 1 ireii of Cod!" Father of STercies and God of all Comfort, nearest when most we need thee, thou hast torn and thou wilt heal, 1 thou hast smitten and wilt bind up. I The heart that is in anguash for fear of J dearest loss, the soul that knoweth darkness for the liurlit gone out. the lift? that i sees no way for the guiding hand that failcth?these, O God. thou dost comfort, thou dost lighten, thou dost lead. In DHr afflictions let us see the shining of i thy face, let us feel thy hand in tenderI ness leading unto thee, let us know thy I heart suffering with out grief, yearning I for our comforting, giving infinite love, i And thus do thou, even revealing thy I rhildrcu of ("iod, able to comfort those | that arc in any a miction through the j comfort wherewith wo ourselves an; comforted of <?nd: and this we ask in the name of him who was himself por, pocted through suffering am! intercedeth j for us ever at the right hand of the j Ma.iostv on High, thy Sou, Jesus Christ ; our Lord. Amen. t 1!u(Miii| Humans with ClirlU. Once there was a brier growing in a ditch, ami there came along a .gardener with his spade. As lie dug round it. and lifted if out. (lie brier said to itself, I "What is he doing that LorV Doesn't h<> know that I am only an old. worthless I brier?" But the gardener took it into ! the garden and planted it amid his flowi ors, while the brier said, "What a mistake he has made, planting an old brier like myself among such rose-trees as these!" But the gardener came once 1 more with his keen-edged knife, made ' a slit in the brier, and "budded" it with a rose, and by and by, when summer | old brier. Then tin* gardener said. "Your ; beauty is not due to Ihnt which eniue j out. but to that which 1 put into you." This is just what Christ is doing nil the ime with poor human lives.?Forward. Reitping us Wo Sow. To every seed belongs its own body. To the wheat, wheat, and to each seed ! after its kind. Although the body is wonj derfnlly above the seed that was sown, : yet it bears an exact relation to it. If I we take, pains to plant tlis? right seed we { may be sure :tf what to etpect. We i want wheat, so we plant a wheat seed. | It seems clear that a pure spirit will emanate from a pure body, and a loving spirit from a loving body. If we have been full of charity, helpful, kindly, and j easier to speak tender, pitying words? ; thought n<? evil, believed all things, hoped i nil things, and endured all things?can I ?nv olio 11 >11111 vvllrlf ||||> tVllit vli.ill tip ; Till' ronii-s first, mill aft:?r tlli'.t , tin' spirit mil. But "as is the natural, so ! is tin- spiritual." It is far more glorious, but, after all?th'- same! fiod not only forgives imperfect good things but perfects tbi'in. MILLIONS MOVED IN WAGONS. Transfer of Freshly Coined Dollars to Philadelphia's new Mint. Seventy-one million silver dollars have been transferred from the old Mint on Chestnut street to the new building at Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets, in Philadelphia. The dollars were coined as security for the last issue of silver certificates. The money was put in 71,000 canvas bags, which were placed in as many small Eine boxes. Express wagons conveyed the oxes from the old Mint to the new. The iiilver vaults at the new Mint have a c^? nacitv of 110.000.000 silver Hollars. SABBATH SCHOOL.! INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 22. Subject: Peter's Confession and Christ's ltebuke, Matt, xvl., 13-2G ? Golden Text: Matt, xvl., 24?Memory Verses,242G?Commentary on the Day's Lesion. 13. "Caesarea Philippi." A citv three or four miles east of Dan, near tlie eastern source of the Jordan River. "Whom do men say?" Christ did not ask this question (1) for information, or (2) because He desired the applause of men, or (3) because He intended to form His course according to the reply, but (4) because "He desired 1 TT* .1' * 1 * i.L. J a. uu KiuuiMi nw uiscmies in trie deepest faith." "The Son of Man." This was a title He frequently applied to Himself, but it %vaa never applied to Him by the aoostles. It expressed His human, v;sible side. 14. "Some say," etc. Pecyple held different. opinions concerning Christ. Some said John the Baptist returned to life. Some. Elias. who was to be the forerunner ot the Messiah; others, Jeremias, "in accordance with the tradition that Jeremiah was to come and reveal the place where the sacred vessels were concealed;" and others, one of the prophets. 15. "Whom say ye." This was the decisive moment in which the separation of the New Testament from the Old Testament theocracy was to be made. The hour had come for the utterance of a distinct Christian confession. 16. "Simon Peter answered." He spoke for all the apostles. "Thou art the Christ." 'ihe Messiah. The Anointed One. Messiah is the Hebrew and Christ is the Greek for "anointed." Jesus was the One who was anointed by the Father is Prophet, Priest and King. "Son of the living God." "God ja here styled the Jiving God, because He is the author of all life and existence; hence, self-existent, eternal." 17.. "Blessed art thou." Peter and the apostles were blessed because they had broken away from Jewish prejudices and had really accepted Jesus as the Christ. "Bar-Jonah" (R. V.) The son of Jonah. Bar means son. "Flesh and blood." No human being hath revealed it unto thee. Such knowledge does not originate in the human mind. "But My Father." God I only can reveal Himself. j 1&. "Thou art Peter." "Petro3," the I Greek word for stone, or a piece of rock. | This name had been given him by Jesus when Jesus first met him. John 142. "And upon this rock." 'In the Greek this 'petra." or rock in mass. This verse has incited much discussion. Regarding it there are four principal views, all of tnem supported by good authorities. 1. That Peter was the rock on which Christ was | to build His church. 2. "That Peter and I all true believers are the rock. 3. That | the confession Peter had just made was ! i the rock. 4. That Christ had reference I | to Himself when He said "upon this j rock." It seems to me that the true view j is the last one stated. Christ is the foun- | dation of His church. He is the tried stone, the precious cornerstone, the "sure j foundation. Isa. 28:10. "For other , foundation can no man lay than that is j laid, which is. Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 3:11. I * .* /-ii t t j __?j mi l it was as inougn unnsi naa saiu, xnou art "Petros," a stone, a fragment of a rock; but upon this "petra, this :|)lid rock, which is Myself?the Christ, I will buna My church. In support of the other views the fol- j lowing quotation may be cited: 1. "Peter as one of the apostles and a representa- : tive of all, filled with living experience 1 and faith in Jesus as the Messiah, is a rock, one of the great foundation stones on which Christ is rearing His building, His enduring and glorious church. Com. Eph. 2:20; Rev. 21:14."?Peloubet. 2. 'Every one who possesses a like faith is, according to the measure of his faith, a J Peter, that is, a rock; and Christ builds His church on this rock, that is, on the living experience of faith in the Christ, inspired in the hearts of men by the Spirit of God."?Abbott. 3. "Upon this very rock?this true confession of thine? that I am the Messiah, who is come to reveal and communicate the living God, that the dead, lost world may be saved?upon this very rock, Myself, thus confessed, will I build My church.**?Adam Clarke. "My church." xne word for church properly denoted a congregation or assemblage of people called out.?Morison. "The gates Df hell." "The kingdom of Fatan."?Lange. The gates are the entrance into Hades ' (R. v.), the realm of death; but Hades? the "underworld" (Lanze), or death, shall have no power over My church; it [ shall stand forever. ; 19. "The keys of the kingdom of heaven." Keys are a symbol of power and authority. Peter and the other apostles were to be the representatives of Christ's :hurch on earth, and they were given power and authority to organize and estabish His church after His death. Peter actually unlocked the kingdom of heaven to the Jews on the day of~Pentecost when three thousand were converted, and a little later to the Gentiles. Acts 10:34-48. They also received the key to the interpretation of the Old Testament scriptures. "Shalt bind." This is an explanation of the gift of the keys. To bind meant to forbid or to declare forbidden; to loose meant to allow, or to declare allowable. "Bound in heaven." Shall receive the authority and sanction and approbation of God. They were to be guided in the organization of oKtifnK ktr PKriaf and fhp Tfnlv Snirit. The apostles had knowledge and authority which no one after them needs or can rightly claim. i 20. "Tell no man." The time had not come yet to proclaim Him publicly. 21. "Jesus began to show." Heretofore He had spoken obscurely, but He now speaks plainly. '"Of the elders." The <le- J tailed enumeration of these parties proves that there was a general conspiracy on the part of all the Jewish authorities. 22. "Peter took Him." Aside.anart from ! the rest. "Rebuke Him." He only began; ; he was soon interrupted. This shows Pe- i ter's boldness, and his liability to be in ) the wrong. "Tins shall never be unto! Thee." (R. V.) This was so contrary to the j commonly accepted idea of the^ Messiah I and the coming kingdom tnat reier wag not ready to accept it. 23. "Get thee benind Me, Satan." Satan means adversary. Jesus did not call His I apostle a devil, but He saw in this suggestion a repetition of the old temptation by whicn He was offered the glorv of the kingdoms of the world without His coming to the cross. "Thou art a stumblingblock unto Me." (R. V.) A hindrance instead of a help. "Thou mindest not." (R, V. Thou dost not understand or discern the things of God; thou art wholly taken up with the thought that My kingdom ia ot this world. 24. "Will come after Me." Will follow My directions and be My disciple. "Deny Himself." Christ show-< the apostles the nature of His kingdom. They must "abstain from all indulgences which stand in the way of, duty." "Take up His cross." Whoever would follow Christ must be ready to endure affliction and even death for Hi? sake. - " ?.-jry 26. "What is a man profited." The question implies that there -:"i0 no profit. ?' a A "TUo train. OUttCCU 1U uutaiwu^. xuv. . whole world." Its honor, wealth and the enjoyment of all its pleases. i a deer goes to church. It Follows I'ottmUtreis Smith and Startle* tlie Congregation. A deer followed Mrs. James Smith, the Postmistress at South Sandisfield,- Mass., to church the other Sunday evening. As the Eev. Mr. Bliss was concluding his sermon his congregation was astonished to see a deer peeping through an open window. Some were frightened, but such was not the case with Jlrs. Smith, who, rising in her seat, said, "It is only a deer." Before services were resumed the congregation went out and viewed the pretty animal, which earlier in the day had been seen playing around Mrs. Smith's postofficc. SUFFERINGS OF THE WOUNDED. I Startling Tale of Hardships by English ! Soldiers in South Africa. The Times, of London,, publishes a com- j munieation from William A. P. ButdettC'outts. M. 1'.. who is now in Cape Town, charging the Government with inadequate | provision for the sick and wounded. The writer paints a painful picture tell- . ing of 1500 patients who lay in lield hospitals for seven weeks without beds. He j says that typhoid victims were stretched ! upon the ground in the rain, when the 1 mud was three inches deep, and that the poor wretches had practically no nursing. THE GREAT DESTROYER: SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOU7 THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Our Coining Banner ? Poverty Can B? Traced to Liquor In at Least Ttveniy. five Per Coiit. of Cane*?Evil of Drunkunites* Decreasing In Till* Country. 0 say! do you see on our star-spangled Flag X, The red stains of a crime that dishonor^ ' ihe nation, ^ Which su.on in its courso would to infamy '""a. drag And make of our land one vast desolation? See Ihc woe and despair! hark! what cries till the air As the wide flood of ruin pours on everywhere!? "lis the curse of the demon that fain would enslave Ail the free, and defile all the good and ^ .i.~ tut; mi ate. Long?lonz doth the tyrant his iron sway wield In paths drenched in blood, law and order defying, tTill thousands of homes of the drunkards are filled With viiin oraycrs for help or the groans of the dying; Yet the lava-tide Hows, amid shrieks, wails and throes Of victims that know not relief nor repose. And still the striped banner in mockery nitres Over millions of souls rushing on to their graves. 0! then, let us rise in our God-given might To drive out the foe and all his pollution With prayers and with ballots, to urge on the fight, And courage that never will know diminution. So, with victory blest, in pcace we shall rest, Assured of our birthright of Freedom possessed. While the Star-spangled Banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free?the pure?and the brave! ?National Advocate. Llqnor-Drlnkinc: In Atncrlca. In a very interesting and instructive book written by a John Koren, some results are given of the inouirv of the "Com mittee of Fifty" into the liouor problem, or drinking customs, of the United States. Among those who come under the notice of the charity organization societies poverty can he traced to liquor in at least 25 ner cent, of the cases. Of those in almshouses 37 of every 100 would not be there but for drink. The committee investigated into the cases of no less than 13.400 convicts, and found that in one-half of the cases the crimo was chiefly due to intemperance; it was a leading cause in 31 per cent., and a sole cause in 16 per cent. o? the cases. Some, however, can only be made to view intemperance through the pocket, and even in this aspect it is something awful. The value of the liquor produced annually in this country is over $200,000,000. Not less than $1,000,000,000 of capital is emfiloyed'in tlie business. A revenue of neary $200,000,000 is collected ,annually from the business. To cap all, no less than 1,800,000 persons directly derive their support from this nefarious business, whiclf, is 'ruining the lives here of their fellowbeings and destroving their hop^ of happiness hereafter. Most sincerely might all wish that both persons and money might far otherwise be emnloyed. Notwithstanding the undenfhblestatistics adduced it is asserted by some that poverty is not so much an effect of intemperance as it is a cause of intemperance. This is simply a baseless assertion scarcely wonny ot serious consideration, mere must in the first place be something radically wrong with the man or woman who "flies to drink" to drown sorrow or other trouble. There must not only be a weakness, but an inherent desire in the individual for liquor, otherwise he would not adont that mode of dulling his memory in preference to another, or rather than fight against it as becomes a man. In those who thus "take to drink" we think there can be traced not only a weakness, but a decided tendency to insanity, which is simnly stimulated and hastened by liquor. He has but the semblauce of man who would thus seek oblivion from trouble in unconsciousness. He is worse than the poor ostrich that seeks to evade its pursuers bv simplv hiding its head in the sand while all the "rest of its bodv is exoosed to view. The man's troubles like the bird's pursuers are still there, and his evil, of whatever nature it may dc. is simmy an? gravated and made worse by drink. By drowning his consciousness and acquiring a drinking habit a man is hut removing the brake which prevents his going rapidly down hill to destruction. ! The committee say that in their oninion the evil of drunkenness is decreasing in this countrv, and there are few outside * the "trade" who will not rejoice to hear it. In some measure the decrease is doubtless due t,o the fact that the complicated nature of modern industries necessitates perfect sobriety in the employes?numerous processes requiring to be performed with the utmost exactness and precision. It . would seem likely that with the rush and hurry of modern life the habit of drinking to excess will be driven out by sheer necessity.?Presbyterian Banner. Tfltil Ahallnenre nml Soldlflr*. According to official reports nearly 4000 of the men who have gone to South Africa on active service are members of the Army Temperance Association. Lord Roberts, in commenting on this report, added that he had been struck by the returns from India, which showed a remarkable difference between the convictions recorded in IS98 among abstainers and nonabstainers. Among the former only 4.12 in 1000 had been court-martialed, while among the non-abstainers the figures were .'}0.8 in 1000. In 1897 the figures were much the same. The admissions into hospitals were also largely in excess in the case of non-abstainers. It appeared that during the Tirah war 2000 men went through the whole campaign without* taking a drop of alcohol. This new and significant tendency in the army appears to be the result not so much of any religious or moral enterprise as of a growing conviction that a free use of alcohol interferes with the efficiency of the troons. General Kitchener prohibited all drinks containing alcohol in the Sudan campaign, except the few that were prescribed by the medical officers, and after a little preliminary grumbling the men discovered for themselves that the Commnntvns riihfc wliptt hp pmntied out into the desert a cart of Scotch whisky that had been smuggled into Berber for sale to the troops. In the Ashanti war and the Ka^ir war the good health of the troons was also ascribed to the suspensiotS of the rurn ration.?Independent. , ?*?. ? ? The Ciu*aiIo In Brief. Respect yourself, your parents, brother* tyid sisters, shun tne company of topers, and never darken the door of a saloon. One- immutable truth is that, whether alcohol be fuel food or not. it is so dangerous that it would be better to live most abstemiously than to depend on it for any portion of sustenance where anything else can be obtained. An Ohio woman has just been given a. rcrdict for $6000 against two saloon keepers who sold liquor to her husband, which caused him to" become helpless, and he lay outside and was badly frozen. His hand had to be amputated. The case was bitJ. i- ; i.i. 1 iL. icriy- uy tuc sutwu mvu. A leading brewer has testified before the Senate Committee on Manufactures that salicylic is used in making beer. The use of tliis adulteration, he said, 'is a necessity to stay the natural decay of the component parts of beer.'' It also helps to begin and carry on the decay of the stomach of the man who drinks beer. This the brewer forgot to add. The Delaware State Sunday School Association at its recent annual session, after expressing its "'eternal hatred" of the linuor traffic, says: "Wo respectfully submit that tiio time is now at hand when all ]5ibl.> school workers and all Christians should take sides with voice and pen and prayee and vote to crush this liquor demon. whose profaning touch wither.* the very llowcr cf our land."