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THE SlS)I?T? Now York City.?Shallow square yokes make the feature of the latest imported gowns. The chic May Man;on bodice illustrated shows its use to woman's fancy -waist. advantage, and also the smart effect obtained by bands of narrow black* v&vet The design, which is suitable jiiifcp to costumes and odd waists, is taken frpm a model of white, taffeta Vlth Arabe lace, but would* be effcct. ive in any of the pastel sttta ofrftn veil-, lng and similar, wool materials.,, The foundation'Is a perfectly fitted lining, including the usual pieces. The yolk portion is faced onto the back, 'bat made separate in the front, where it, Is seamed to the right shoulder neck and hooked over into place. The. waist pseper is gathered at the front, beneath the collar and again at. the waist, but it is plain across the shoulders at the back and drawn down at the waist. The shaped collar is laid over the seam and closes invisibly at the left side; the full wiMst closer at , the centre front, as does the lining, bat the edges are concealed by the. folds. r The high stock is fitted \?lth a dart and curves into the throat. The -vSleevea are in one piece, tiffin outer seam reaching only to the eibojr. .and the lace Is faced on to elbow depth. - To cnt this waist for a woman of medium size four and one&tiwvttr yard^ o? materia! twenty-one'Wcbeg wide,, or two and thr#^&lf& yards torijp-four inches wldWTwffi be re*** Iwar Papnlar Sklrti. The five-gored skirt holds a permanent place. It suits many materials MISSES' FIVE-GORED SKiRT. ?" as do other does, and Is always reliable. The May Mauton model, shown In the large engraving, fits sntJgly over the hips, and can be arranged in inverted pleats or the back as preferred. It can tirade the cirniil.ii. Hnnnmi nr l?n loft Tllnln. hilt the design, as shown, is sin excellent one. All heavy washable stuffs, such as 3uck pique and linen, are suitable, as well as cheviots ami all the range of early fall materials. To cut this skirt l'or a miss of fourteen years of aye, three yards of material fifty inches wi<le. rive ami onehalf thirty-two inches wide, or six and three-quarters twenty-one inches wide will be required. The other pretty skirt shown in the large cut is of dotted swiss and is daintily trimmed with a straight gathered frill of the material, edged with Valenciennes lace and insertion that gives the fluffy effect now so fashionable. The frill is attached to tiie skirt by a band of the insertion, machine stitched on each edge, a second row being applied at an evenly spaced distance above. The material may be cut from underneath if a lacey effect Is desired. The skirt comprises four gore*.. In the medium size the skirt measures nearly two. and three-quarter yards at the lower edge, and will require two and one-quarter yards of material thirty-two Inches wide, or one and one-quarter yards fifty inches wide, if made without rhe ruffle. From one-half to three-quarters of a yard extra must be allowed for the rullle. which is cut four and one-half inches wide. If t^mmed as illustrated nine yards of insertion and four aud a half yards of lace edging will be required for the medium size. The Chi Hon Neck Scarf. The neck scarf of filmy chiffon, or soft silk, which was introduced so successfully last winter for evening wear, lias become more aud more favored, and now fashionable women have them for almost every thin gown. They are charming adjuncts to any eveuing gown, and of real, utility in addition. The scarf costs a good (Jeal when bought at the modish establishments that alone have had I hem, but It may be made at home for a compar Of f ntive trifle. Three yards of chiffon, chiffonette, niousselinc de soio or Lib erty satin, edged entirely with a knife pleated rutHe of the s:inie, with or without lace, is all thac is required. The Persian or floral designs iu silk gauze -re especially eliic. Lace Sluiw'.'m Kcturn. The long itisont lace shawl has boon ; pulled from its liidiug place and is used, not only iu sections i'or trimmings, but in all i$s original character as a wrap. The unprecedented hot weather In Loudon during the opera season made opera cloaks a fh&g not to be thought of, and some of the social leaders adopted llie idea of winding lace shawls about theni when they entered their carriages. That was all that was needed to start a fashion, and straightway lace shawls became the approved thing once uiorc. The idea has leached the Continental watering places, but it isn't every woman who can miftke herself picturesque in a lace shawl. % 1 , Trlrathlny of Oflentnl Cloth. Squared of Oriental cloth make stylish and inexpensive trimming for cloth gowns, if artistically used in combination with gold bbttons, buckles or j braid. These squares of Oriental embroidery, on coarse ecru cloth, can be bought for two or three dollars, apiece, and' ha7e until now been used only for house decoration, but this fall they will figure in .vests, waistcoats, hats, revere and all the coloi^ouchcs of a The with i'.s which bt>Mi the handkerchief, purse and trifling matters of that kind. They ccme in gold, silver, gun metal and imitations of all. , 1 .* ' The Bead Dosr Collar. Tlfe old-fashioned bead dog collar has been revived. It is from one to two' inches high, and is fashioned over the stock by a ribbon or velvet bow r.t the back. Ideal Traveling Oonm, Modest gray and fawn tints in wool and mohair batiste are used for making b^au' ideal traveling gowns. ? ;U|ht Wrap For a Child. '"Without a light wrap that can be slippedvOC at ?ease no child's wardrobe is compete. The hottest days mean cool ^eaings, and changes iu temyeraturi* must be expected and find on!*prepared.. The very charming little May Manton reei'er illustrated, is made of heavy pique in a pretty shade hbj GIUL'S FOUR-GORED SKIRT. of tan.aud is trimmed with needlework. For all ordinary weather it supplies just the necessary warmth, and can be laundered at need; but the same model is adapted to broadcloth, cheviot and all wool goods, and can be relied upon as up-to-date for fall wear. The loose double-breasted fronts are seamed directly to the back, so ensuring a graceful tit. The sleeves are two-seamed and in coat stylo, with turned-up cuffs. The big collar, which is a feature in the pique, is cut on the sailor model at the back, but fits the throat at the front. The closing is effected with big. handsome pearl buttons and button-holes. If desired, the sailor collar can be omitted, however, and the simple turnover oue, shown in the outline, used. To make the reefer as represented, with sailor collar, two and one-eighth yards of material thirty-two inches wide, or one ana one-eignui nicy incut's wide, will be required iu the medium size. Without sailor collar, one and tive-eighths yards of thirty-two inch child's reefer. inch material, with two and ono-half yards of Insertion and three and onehalf yards of embroidery, for trimming, will be required. DB.TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 9Y THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: SptrltnnI Value*?Korllily niche* Are Transitory, But the Glorl** of Heaven'Are Kverlanllnc?Compnro* the Priceless Soul With the Valueless Body fCopyriRht 1W0U.I Washington', D. C. ? From Berlin, where he preached in the American church to a congregation comprising many of iiis. countrymen who are traveling through Europe, Dr. Talmage sends this discourse, in which, by original methods, he calculates spiritual values and urges Iiieber appreciation of things religious. The text is Mark viii, 36: "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Men of nil occupations are to he found in the assemblies of the house of God, but in these days of extensive business operations a large proportion are engaged from Monday morning to Saturday night in bargain makinc. In many of the families across the breakfast table and the tea table are discussed questions of loss and pain. You are every dav askintr yourself: "What is the value of this? What is the value of that?" You would not think of giving something of greater value for that which is of lesser value. You would not think of selling thai which cost you $10 for $5. If you had a property that was worth vl5,000, you would not sell it for $4000. You are intelligent in all matters of bargain making. Are you as wise in the thines that pertain to the matters of the ?oul? Christ adapted His instructions to the circumstances of those to whom-He spoke. When He talked to ftshermen, He spoke of the gosnel net. Whefo He talked to the farmers, He said: "A sower went forth to sow." When He talked to the shepherds. He told the parable of the lost sheep. And am I not right when speaking to an audience made up of bargain makers that I address them in the fovf nel-inir "Wliftfc shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole World and lose his own soul?" I propose, as far as possible, to estimate and :ompare the value of the two properties. ' First, I have to say that the world is a very grand property. Its flowers are God's thoughts in bloom. Its rocks are God's thoughts in stone. Its dewdrops are God's thoughts in pearl. This world is God's cnild?a wayward child, indeed; it has wandered off through the heavens. But about 190) years ago, one Christmas night. God sent out a sister world to call that wanderer back, and it hung over Bethlehjm only long enough to get the promise of the wanderer's return, and now that lost world, with soft feet of ; light, comes tread'ng back through the heavens. The hills, hmv beautiful they billow up, the edge of the wave whiag with the foam of crocuses! How beautU^ the rainbow, the arched bridge on which,! heaven land earth come and talk to eacM other in tears after the storm is overt! How nimble the feet of lamplighters thju in a few minutes set all the dome of twl night ablaze with brackets of fire! Howl bright the oar of the saffron cloud that ] rows across the deeD sea of heaven! How beautiful the spring, with bridal' blcssoma in her hair! I wonder who it is that beata time on a .Tune morning for the bird orchestra. How gently the harebell tolls ita fragrance on the air! There may be grander worlds, larrer worlds than this, but I think that this is- a most exquisite world?a mignonette on the bosom of immensity! "Oh," you say, "take my soul; give me that world! I am willing to take it in exchange. I am ready now for the bargain. It is so beautiful a world, so sweet a world, so grand a world!" But let us look more minutely into the value of this weld. You will not buy property unless you car. get a good title to it. After you have looked at the property and found out that it suits you you send an attorney to the public office, and he examines the book of deeds and the book of mortgages and the book of judgments and the book of liens, and he decides whether the title is good before you will i- J- UL iVl :?.U4. nave anvining to uo wnn it. xucic Lingua be a splendia property and- in every way exactly suited to your want, but if you cannot get a good title you will not tike it. Now, I am here to say that it is imEossible to get a good title to this world. ? I settle aown unon it, in the very year I so settle down upon it as a permatfent possession, I may be driven away from it. Aye, in five minutes afterward I give up my soul for the world I may have to part with the world, anu what kind of a title do you call that? There is only one way in which I can hold an earthly possession, and that is through the senses. All beautiful sights through the eye, but the eye may be blotucd out; all captivating sounds through the car, but my ear may be deafened; all Iusciousness of fruits.and viands through mv taste, but my taste may be destroyed; all appreciation of culture and of art throuch my mind, but I may lose my mind. What a frail hold, then, I have upon anv earthly possession! In courts of law, if you want to get a man off a property you must perve upon him a writ of ejectment, giving him a certain time to vacate the premises, but when aeatn comes to U3 ana serves a wru of ejectment he does not give us one second of forewarning. He says: "OH of this place! You have no right any longer to the possession." We might cry out, "I gave you $100,000 for that property;" the plea would be of no avail. We might say, "We have a warrantee deed for that property;" the plea would be of no avail. We might say, "We have a lien on that storehouse;" that would do us no good. l)et\th is blind, and he cannot see a seal and cannot read an indeuiure. So that, when you propose that I give up my soul first and last, I want to tell you that for the world you cannot give me the lirst item of title. Having examined the title of a property pour next question is about insurance. You would not be silly enough to buy a large warehouse that could not possibly be insured. You would not have anything to do with such a property. Now, I ask you what assurance can you give me that this world is not going to be burned up? Absolutely none. Geologists tell us that it is already on fire; that the heart of the world is on> great living coal; that it is just like a ship on fire at sea, the flames not bursting out because the hatches are kept down. And yet you propose to palm off on me, in return for my soul, a world for which, in the first place, you give no title, and, in the second place, for which you can give no insurance. "Oh," you say, "the water of the oceans will wash over all the land and put out the fire." zi - i-l- -l uii, no. mere are inucinnuuuie cicuicuu in the water, hydrogen and oxygen. Call off the hydrogen, and then the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans wonld blaze like heaps of shavings. You want me to take this world, for which you can give no possible insurance. Astronomers havg swept their telescopes through the sky. and have found out that there have been fifteen worlds, in the last two centuries, that have disappeared. At first they looked just like other worlds. Then they got deeply red?they were on fire. Then they got ashen, showing they were burned down. Then they disappeared, showing that even the asheR were scattered. And, if the qeoiogist be right in his prophecy, the n our world is to go in the same way. And yet you want me to exchange my soul for it. Ah, no; it is a ...?f it, hurnlnir nnw. SuDDOBe VOU brought an insurance agent to look at your property for the purpose of giving you a policy unon it and while he stood in front of the nouse he should say, "That house is on fire now in the basement," you could not get any insurance upon it. Yet you talk about this world as though it were a safe investment, as though you could get some insurance upon it, when down in the basement it is on fire. Here is a man who has had a large estate for forty or fifty years. He lies down to die. You say: "That man is worth millions and millions of dollars." Is he? You call up a surveyor, with his compass and chains, and you say: "There is a property extending three miles in one direction and three miles in another direction." Is that the way to measure that man's property? Xo! You do not want any surveyor, with compass and chains. That is not the way to measure that man's property now. It is an undertaker you need, who will come and put his finger in his vest pocket and take out a tape line, rn.l he will measure five feet nine inches m:i;. >vav and two feet and a half the other war. That to the man's property. Oh. no. I forgot. Ncjt so much as that, for he doeg not own" evpn the nlace in which he lies in the cemetery. The deed to that belongs to the executors and heirs. Oh, what a property you pronose to give me for my soul! If you sell a bill of goods you go into the counting room and sar to your partner: "Do vou think that man is good for this bill? Can he give proper security? Will he meet this payment?" Now. when you are offcre 1 this world as .1 possession I,want you to test the matter. I do not Want you to go into this bargain blindly. T want you to ask about the title, about the insurance, about whether men have ever had any trouble with it, about whether you can keep it. .about whether you can get all or the ten thousandth or one hundred thousandth part of it.? There is the world now. I shall say no more about it. i.(ake up your'mind for yourself, as I shall, before God, have to make un my mind for myself, ah'out the value of this world. I cannot afford to make a mistake for my sou,!. and you canhot afford to make a mistalce for your soul. Now, let us look at the other property ?the soul. We cannot make a barirain ' 1:? withoyt seeing tnc conniarnurc mure, The soul! How shall I estimate the value of it? Well, by its exqt>" 'fce organization. It is the most wonderful niece of mechanism ever put together. Machinery is of value in nroportion as it is mighty and silent at the same time. You look at the engine and the machinery in the Philadelphia mint, and as you see it performing its wonderful work you will be surprised to find how silently it goes. Machinery that roars and tears soon destroys itself, but silent machinery is often most effective. Now, so it is with the soul of man, [ with all its tremendous faculties; it moves in silence. Judgment, without any racket, lifting its scales: memory, without any noise, bringing down all its treasures; conscience, taking its judgment seat without any excitement: the understanding and the will, all doing their work Velocity, majesty, might, but silence?silence. You listen at the dojr of your heart. You can hear no sound. The soul is all ouiet. It is so delicate an instrument that no human hand can touch it. You break a bone, and with splinters and bandages the surgeon sets it: the eye becomes inflamed, and the apothecary's wash cools it, but a soul oil the track, unbalanced?no human power can readjust it. With one sweep of its wing it circles the univerw and overvaulta the throne of God. Why, in,the. hour of death the soul is so mighty it throws aside the body as thougn it were a toy*. It dnves^b?^k medWed^onefi who^ stand around cornea upon ^he rda*#0*m< ' He has one arm iix a sling, ana' tne other arm holds a crutch.' As he mounts the platform, oh, the enthusiasm of the: audience! They gay. "That man fought for us and imperiled his' life for us," and how wild the hum that follow* huzza. When the'vL6rd Jesus Christ shall at last stand out before the multitudes of the redeemed of heaven and we meet Him face to face and feel tnat He was wounded in the head and wounded in the hands, and wounded in the feet and wounded in the side "for us, methinka we will be overwhelmed. : We will sifc some time razing in silence until some leader amid the white robed choir shall lift the baton of light and give , the signal that it is time to wake the song of jubilee, and all heaven then will break "TT ?l 1 WnrtKtf rorr.u into nuaanuit: iiwiua^ , is the Lamb that was slain." ' I calculate further th? value of the soul by the price that has been paid for it. In St. Petersburg there1 is a diamond that the Government paid $200,000 for. "Well," you say, "it must have been very valuable or the Government would not have paid $200,000 for it." I want to see what the soul is worth and what your soul is worth by seeing phat has been paid for it. Fpr that immortal soul tha richest blood that was ever , shed, the deepest groan that was ever -ut>tered, all thfe griefs of earth comnre*sed into one tear, all the sufferings of earth gathered into one rapier of pain and stuck through His holy heart. Does it not imply tremendous value? I-argue, also, the value of the soul from the home that has been fitted up for it ?n tne future. One would have though I that a street of adamant would have done. No, it is a street of gold. One would have thought that a wall of granite would have done. No, it is the flame of sar/donyx, mingling with the green of emerald. 1 If a man sell a bill of goods worth $.5000. and he is cheated out of it, he may get $5000 somewhere else, but a man who invests his soul invests all. Saving that, he saves all. In the light of ,my text, it seems to me as if you were offering your soul to the hirhest bidder, and I hear you say, "What is bid for it, my deathless SDirit? What is bid for it?" Satan says, > > ?> xr? "I will Did tne worm. xuu Bay, i?kuuc, that is no equivalent! Sell my soul for the world? No! Begone!" Well, there are a great many people who say, "I will not sell my soul for the world. I find the world is an unsatisfying portion." What, then, will you do with your soul? Son.e one whispers here, "I will give my soul to Christ." Will you? That is the wisest resolution you ever made. \Vill you give it to Christ? When? Tomorrow? No, now. I congratulate you if you have come to such a decision. Oh, if the eternal Spirit of'God would no% comc down upon you and tnow you the vanity of this world and the immense importance of Christ's religion and the infinite value of your own immortal souls, what a- hour this would be! What a moment this would be! Do you know that Christ has bought your soul? Do you know that He has paid an infinite price for it? Do you know that He is worthy of it? Will you give it to Him now? I was reading lately of a sailor who had just get ashore and was telling ab.^ut his last experience at sea. He Baid: "The last time I crossed the ocean we had a terrific time. After we had been out three or four days the machinery got disarranged, and the steam began to escape, and the cap- I tain, gathering the people and the crew on deck, said, 'Unless some one will go (Ioa i and shut ott that steam ana arrange that machinery at th? peril of his life Ave niu3t all be destroyed.' He was not willing to go down himself. No one seemed willing to go. The passengers gathered at one end of the steamer waiting for their fate. The captain said: "I give you a last warning. If there is no one hero willing to imperil his life and go' down and fix that machinery wc must all be lost.' A plain sailor . "-.id. 'I'll go, sir.' and he wrapped himself in a coarse piece of canvas and went down and was gone but a few moments when the escaping steam stopped. The captain cried out to the passengers: 'All saved! Let us go' down below and see what has become of the poor fellow.' They went down. There he lav dead." Vicarious suffering! Died for all! Oh, dj you suppose that those people oo the si p ever forgot, ever can forget, that poor fellow? "No." they say. "It was through his sacrifice that I got ashore." The time came when our whole race must die unless some one should endure tortu-e and sorrow and shame. Who shall come to the rescue? Shall it be one of the seraphim? Not pne. Shall it be one of the cherubim? Not one. Shall it be an inhabitant of some pure and unfallen wofld? Not one. Tnen Christ said, "Lo, Income to do Thy will, 0 God!" and lie wetit down the dark stairs of our sin a.nd wretchedness and misery and woe, and He -stopped, the peril, and He died that you and I might be free.. Oh, the love; oh, the endurance; oh, the horrors of the 8tcvitice! Shall not our souls go out toward Him, saying: "Lord Jesus Christ take mv soul. Thou are worthy to have it. Thou hast died to save it." God help you rightly to cipher out this sum in gospel arithmetic: "What shall it profit a inar. if he shall eain the whola world and lose his Qivn soul?" THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Drink is England'! Cane, Sayi the Rev Chnrle* JI. Sheldon?TYrlt?*? That Hi Hti) to Get Off the Sidewalk* to Glv? the Toper* Koorn. Th; Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, who has just returned from England, contributes the following article to the Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital, which paper he last spring edited for a week as no believed Jesus would have done it: "It may interest Kansas people to learn that they are living in paradise, so far aa the ciii-se of the liquor business is cor. cerned, when they compare their condition as a prcuibitorv State with Scotland and England. From the day of our landing in Liverpool up to the present we have seen the effects of the curse of drink almost without a day's exception, and in terms of emphatic disgust we are ready to declare our astonishment that English people will endure the sights and results that to with the drink traffic. "Mrs. Sheldon and I have been insulted in the cars by drunken soldiers, one of whom threatened to do us personal injury, and not a soul in the train offered any remonstrance, such is the love of the British for their military heroes; we have had to get off the sidewalk and go in the street to (five the drunkards room; ,we have been jostled on railway platforms by drunken men and women; we have had intoxicating drink offered us at the houses of English people, with the exception of a few families of Nonconformists in Scotland and London; we have seen the evils of the public house on almost every corner. with barmaids behind the bar and little children crowding eVery inch of room in every public house in every town and city we have visited, and it is the wonder of bewilderment to us that such conditions can be faced with indifference, for it seems to me that the worst that can be said about intemperance over here in the light and easy way in which it is all received. "The sights that have made my blood boil in the slums and in view of the big saloons have not caused more than a shrug of th^ shoulders from Englishmen who saw them with me. "I want to say to the people of Kansas, you don't know what you have to be thankful for in your prohibitory law. Stand up for it and believe in it, and bless God that your children don't see the things thtt this drunken nation looks upon every day. If England goes to deo+rnrt-.inn in thp nert PPtitlirv it will not be because of outside war or dangers from other nations, but because she has drunk herself into destruction. Men and women of Kansas, as yoil believe in God and home and the souls of your children, never let the whisky power have dominion over the btate we all love!" Drinking in Gr?*t BrUijn. Dr. Cunningham Geikie gives the following saddening reoort of the prevalence of drinking habits in England: "Temperance has done much in the last | generation to oppose this had passion, but even in America victory is still far ahead. Here in England the woes of in- / temperance may be judge by .its sad commonness, for the consumption of strong . drink in the btates is not much more than half ner head of that with us. Were our outlay in alcohol no higher than yours, it would save us no less than $285,000,000 a year?and how many Avoes would thpt heal? "Our drink bill for 1888 was nearly $772,- , 500,000. which comes to nearly $33 for every living creature old enough to crave such drink. In my parish I found many workmen who drank over $7 a week out of a wage of $10. Workingmen are threefmrrt-.hs of our nonulation. and it i8 be-' lieved they spend $500,000,000 yearly on worse than useless drink. An American in' ray congregation told me he had to close a factory opened by him at Wolverhampton, from his workmen never making a whole week, some coming to work only on Wednesday, and even then they would get boys to smuggle beer into the factory. I 'No wonder we have 120,000 public houses in the United Kingdom, with a capital of $1,150,000,000!"?Missionary Review of the World. v. Wreclcer?. {A Recitation for Small Boy or Girl). There u:ed to be a class of people who lived on'the coast of England, called "Wreckers." In the dark, stormy nights many richly laden ships were dashed to pieces upon the rocks, and these wreckers would seiz? as much of the goods as they could for their own. and, selling them for a large price, they often became quite wealthy. \ Now, it is a terrible thing to wreck ships and destroy human lives, but it is m I- 1. l ?? mucn more lerrioie 10 wrec* uumau suuu. Are there any soul wreckers? Yes, an infidel is one. I hope we shall not grow up infidels. A rumseller is another wrecker. By the poison he sells to many a human being with brilliant talents he destroys botn body and soul. Can we not coax some of these wreckers to take up a better business? Suppose we try what persuasion can'do. Llqnor Drinking in Franc*. The extent to whicii the consumption of liquor enters into the problem of the social life of France may be seen from the statement that a member of the French commission for the study of questions affecting the working classes declared a short time ago that ne and his colleagues, in the conscientious discharge of their duties, took a number of meals at different restaurants in Paris and other cities fre nuented by laboring men, and tuev norea that fully two-thirds of the money paid for meals by the customers of these establishments was paid for liquor. Paris has now at least twice as many public houses as before the war of 1870, and probably the same proportionate increase holds with reference to other sections of France.?Christian Advocate. Health and Wvallh. A gentleman, writing to us. says: ' My health has improved a hundredfold, and my purse, though scanty, has augmented fifty per cent, from the day I forsook j wine and beer." | Does not this show you that the man i who docs not drink can have both health and wealt.i in larger measure than he who is in the habit of using strong drink? An Anlnnndlng Assertion. A prominent Rhode Island lawyer said a short time ago that there could be no wholesale conviction of those rumsellers who are breaking the State liquor laws, because the State institutions are so crowded with criminals, insane and paupers whom the rumsellers have sent there, that there is no room far them to follow. The Crn??<te In Rrlef. The best way to keep cool is to keep soI bcr. Uncle Sam will not have tipplers in his if A lpt-f-pr nnrripr in eiUJHOy II lie Miuno lb. *?. ------ ... . Chelsea, Mass., was discharged recently for intoxication. One of the most striking things about some of the papers published in Ireland is the number of cases of drunkenness that are reported in them. A drink that is said to be, unfortunately. spreading in popularity through Kurope is a mixture of etiier and slightly diluted alcohol, a concoction highly injurious to the nervous system. In Sweden the Government is waging a strong and serious tight against drunkenness. Northern Europe contains the following estimated number of total abstainers: Sweden, -260,000; Norway, 200.000; Denmark, 100.000, and Finland, 'JO.OOO, an aggregate 580,000 adherents. 1 f^,3 /In rrronf flnmn?o ljUllg-mCCU II V 1VV.O to the cause of temperance. He honest with yourself and with the world. Make no pretence to being a total abstainer if you are a tippler on the sly. A fireman who had seen nine years of service was dismissed from the Hoston Fire Department recently by Fire Commissioner Russell, who adjudged him zuiuy of entering a saloon while in Uniterm. . y GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. i PRECNANT THOUCHT3 FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS His Comine?Love Make* tlio Cro*? Glo? rlouit?Your Own Foundation??lJow (? Find ClirUU'lbank God for H'orU? Good Ezamplea I'or LTm?Your Duty. Art thou comfortless, forsaken? ( fNerer?while these wpyjfr endure: THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 9. Subject : The Good Suinarltan, Lake 25-37 ? Golden Text: Lev. xlx.. 18Meinorv Verse*, 33-33 ? Commentary on tlie Day's Lesson. 25. "A certain lawyer." A teacher of the law. A modern theologian. "Stood up." Jesus must have been in some building, discoursing on some subject that suggested the question asked by the lawyer. "Tempted Him." Or tested Him. , The question w,t8 not asked from any desire to know his own duty, but for the puroose of f Quf inrr tlio L'nrttt/lorlrro r%t .Toana ''M nufnr " vvoiiuig vitv nuuirivugv wi u v^uo> muowi Or teacher, the same aa rabbi. "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" The question is highly important. Eternal life is the true spiritual.life of the soul?that which is natural to it in its highest state, and of ajl things in this world is most worthy the seeking. His question waa, How, can I become a child of God and a possessor of that true spiritual life that will endure forever? 26. "What is written." As a teacher of the law He should be able to tell, and He was able, as His answer shows. "How readest Thou." What we gain from the Bible depends upon how we read it. 27. "He answering said." He replied by quoting the great summary of man's duty toward God in Deuteronomy 0: 5, and a statement of the law of love from Leviticus 19: 18. "Thou shalt love." The religion, of the Bible does not consist in ?;ooa external acts, in prayers;,.in our zeal or Christ, in performing the deeds of the law, or in being made happy, but in love to Cod and man. "With all thy heart." This is supreme affection to God. The heart is the seat of the affections, desires, motives and will. It is the centre of all physical and spiritual life, the central focus from which all the rays of the moral . life go forth. "VVith all thy soul." He loves God with all his soul, or rather, with all his life, who is ready to give up life for His sake ? to endure ana nuffer rather than dishonor God. "With all thy strenjztn." To the extent of giving all of our physical powers in His service. "With all thy mind." The intellect belong to God. This embraces the whole man. A persons who thus loves God will be wholly and unreservedlv given to God and will w satisfied with Him. He will admire andobey God. There will be no looking to this vain world for delight and happiness, for all our joy will be in Him. "Thy neighbor as tnyself." This is nothing short of the goluen rule. Matt. 7: 12. 1. We will have no ill will for our neighbor. .; 2. We will recognize his rights. 3. Protect his interests. 4. Actually love hiin. We are even required to love our enemies. 28. "This do, and thou shalt live.",, Shalt have already eternal life, the life of heaven^ for this heart of love is eternal life. It is the life of saints and angels in paradise. It makes heaven what it is. 29. "Desiring to justify himself." (R. V.) The conscience of this learned lawyer was touched and he saw that he was destitute of the love he had just declared to be necessary in order to inherit eternal life. "Who is my neighbor?" The degree in which he had kept the law of love would depend on the answer to this question. How wide a circle does "neighbor" embrace? Unwind tnat wor^ neighbor, and it measures off the whole of our 'earthly life, it covers all our practical, everyday duties. But to the Jewish riugd "neighbor" was simply 'iJew." The Samaritans and Gentiles were,%f course, excluded. 30. "Jesus answering said." Here it was that Christ could, in a parable, show how far Judaism was from even a true underjtanding, much more from such perfect ob: jervance of the law, as would gam heaven. "From Jerusalem to Jericho. It was a very dangerous road, lying much of the way in a deep ravine through soft rocks in which caves abound, affording shelter to miscreants who sallied forth to prey upon travelers. 31. "Certain priest." A large number of priests and Levites dwelt at Jericho. This priest might have been passing to or from the temple service at Jerusalem. "He saw him. And knew that a fellow man was suffering and in need. "On the other side." He no doubt could frame many excuses for not stopping. 32. "Likewise a Levite. A Levite was one of the tribe of Levi; a priest was of the family of Aaron in that tribel The Levites performed the humble services of the temple, as cleaning, carrying fuel and j acting as choristers. The scribes and law- | yers were frequently of this tribe, which, in fact, was set apart by Moses as the intellectual body in the nation. "Passed by." T"T' J A ~ ?a nriouf'fl niS COnUUUt WiW luc oauic aa vuv w had been. These two men would naturally be exnected to befriend the man. Being in the line of religious work does not necessarily make a man religious. 33. "A certain Samaritan." The Samaritans were a half-heathen people, greatly despised and bated by the Jews. "Had t compassion." Although they had no ' right to expect auy help from a Samaritan yet he hastened to assist the suffering man. 34. "Bound^up his wounds." He aid the very best be could for the man with the remedies he had at hand. "On his own beast." This all took time and effort, but be did not hesitate and make excuses. Real love does not ask how little, but how much it may do. , "To an inn." This was a public house where all comers were received. 35. "On the morrow." He evidently remained with him that night. * Two pence." A pence or Roman denarius is worth about sixteen cents, but it would be equivalent to eight or ten times as much in our day. 36. "Which?thinkest thou." This question almost compelled the lawyer to speak highly of the Samaritan. "Was neighbor unto him." The parable implies not a mere enlargement of Jewish ideas, but a "nrnnlcts chancre of them. It is truly a pros pel-parable, for the whole old relationship of mere duty is changed into one of love. The question now is not, Who is my neighbor, but, Whose neighbor am I? The gospel answer the aucstion of duty by pointing us to love. Wouldst thou know who is thy neighbor? Become a neighbor to all by the utmost service thou canst do them in their need. The parable points up to Him who, in our great need, became neighbor to us, even at the cost of all He had. 37. "Do thou likewise." He to whom vou ought thus to show mercy in order to become his neighbor is your neighbor. I should be ready to help every person who needs my assistance. The command is imperative, "Go and do thou likewise." I should "go" wherever a human soul is to be found and, with a heart filled with love, carry the gospel of Christ. There are burdened ana sorrowful hearts who need a word of cheer; hearts crushed under the load of sin who need to be pointed to the, Saviour, and it is my duty to use my best endeavor to do this even though thev may live on the other side of the globe. To the extent of my ability I am responsible for the salvation of the world. LEFT STRANDED AT CAPE TOWN,' Consul-General Stowe Complain* About the Beguiling ol American Muleteer*. The Department of State. Washington! is in receipt of a dispatch from the Consul-General of the United Slates at Cape Town, dated July 9, 1900, further relating to the shipment of American citizens a* muleteers at New Orleans on British transports. In this instance Mr. Stowe remarks that he sends home free all who apply to him, but adds: "I no sooner clear one vessel than another comes into port with more Americans who have been so foolish as to ship with mules for this country. Over 500 have ^rrived, and further shipments of these muleteers ought to he prevented. The means used to obtain men at New Orleans, as told me by the men, are simply disgraceful." AMERICANS STRANDED ABROAD. Tourlata Unable to Return Owing: to Lack of Ocean Transportation. An American official states that a great many Americans of small means, mainly Christian TCndeavorers. are stranded in Paris and London, because all the berths on the transatlantic liners within their means are taken, and they only had sufficient funds to keep them in Europe a certain time, which has now expired. The difficuUv in transportation is largely caused Jbf the fact that both the Oer"\nn nnd yrench liners have been requisitioned fon^jhinese transports ? j. wtu cuuic lu juur-poNHHu; This the promise, ever Inire. IIo is coming, onr Redeemer/. Coming over to His own; Wheresoe'er Hifc people gather, Where they "dwell .apart"?alone. Where they plod the. dusty highway. Whore they throf$fi?the busy street. Where they struggle" In the darkness, Where they nestle at His feet Coming in the mists o? morning, Coming in the midnight gloom, Comiug in the twilight shadows, Coming to "the upper room." Unseen, noiseless, still He cometh Whresoe'cr we shut the door, With His wondrous power to comfort, With His "Peace!" forevermore. r Yes, He's coming, ever coming, Wiping tears from longing eyes, On the wings of faith and piomise * Lifting souls to Paradise. ?"Harriet E. Banniug iu Zion's Herald. >v Love Make* the Cross Glorious. 'Can anything make the bearings of a cross glorious? Many, things can make a cross endurable; patience can, pride can, despair itself can. But can uuything make it a glory? I know of only one thinfg that can?love! It has been often said that love will go through fire and water for its object. But I'aul says a great deal more than that. He says that / love courts the fire aud water. I think j he is right. I believe the morning stage uf of all loVe is a craving for the cries,f "Bid me that I come to Thee on the wa/ ter!" He hus been charged with tfco love of display; it was really the love of Jesus. All lose, secular and sacred begins with the cry for martyrdom. The earliost imagination in the heart of love is not that of a gilded- palate; it is that A# A V>1 SV (rki HrlJ'nk ? C/?k4_ vi a ici ituiu uaiur, ?u IL is u^ui* ing for its objects'life aud joy." Ita morning7 picture is the-den of lions; it's opening fancy is the .fiery furnace; ita primitive, desire is to'brave the Sea of Galilee. Its birth-cry is the cry for privation. Its morning hote is always everyjyben^a aeutusujnt which has been clothed- in words by a Scottish poet and set to the music -of a German master:? N**'" * "Oh. wert thou in the cauld blast, Oaryonder lea, on yonder lea, My plttdii 'to the angry airt, I'd shatter thee, I'd shelter thee; Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy field should be my bosom, ^ To share it a', to share it a'." " Your Own Foundation. It is told of a great-English preache# that when he was once approached with propositions from two fields of pastoral service, he declined one and accepted the other, saying: "If I go to one I shall" be somebody's successor; but if I go ta the other I shall be somebody's predecessor." He was only repeating in substance the principle of Faul, who longed to build upon his own foundations. And the ambition is a noble one. The modern church is full of first-rate imitators. / They are willing to be set to work, and they will do what they are told to do with a commendable show of fidelity. But something more is needed in the activites of the church. If we were tb. i?yi point out one of the gravest faults in tho' '* whole matter of religious training of<the& young it would be just here. They are1 - not trained to independent religious^ac-'-A v tion, and to the eager readiness to begjnand carry out definite lines of ncceaAri'jr Christian service in the church. Ev?iy *r member of a church has some pipe* of work to do which can be planned and executed by him alone. Find and ?pa' this thing. Be somebody's predecessor. How to find Christ. The way to Christ as taught by Christ and Paul is to put within every man the Christ-spirit and the Ohrist-life, "?<1 then by th?s inner illumination guide film into nil the truth. Men are to learn the mind of the Master by being filled with the ? Spirit of the 'Master. With the Christ living within, there are vast stretches of spiritual truth open to us upon which we have never looked. The truths of Christ are not all comprehended, and if we may only have Christ-filled^? men think and investigate for themselves, de- 1 termined only to find the mind of the Master, whether their findings conform to the Westminster Confession or the Thirty-nine Articles or not, then Christian truth is sure to conquer doubt and skepticism. With an ever-growing personal revelat'on there will be a continual growth in Christian experience. The divine life wilhin will unfold itself according to our human capacities. The ever enlarging vision of truth and the over expanding life- are for every follower of Jesus Christ. Thank God for Work. Wc may overcome depression by duty. l> w .1 hipssod thinir to have souiethiug to do. Some disaster overtakes us or ? great sorrow swoops down ou our spirit, and it seems as though life can have nothing in store that is desirable. But life still has its wants, it still has its humble duties, and wo take them up almost mechanically at first, but before long we find that they are medicinal. Thank Gad for something to do! The depression of an active spirit frequently arises from enforced idleness. It was after John the Baptist was shut ii|) in prison that he sent his disciple to say to Jesus, "Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?" Jesus did not roproach the prophet of the wilderness for asking stuff a question. His forerunner had not Ii>sf his faith, but his active spirit was depressed by the confinement within tl"' black wall oi the mountain fortress of. Machaerus.?Advance. Good Example* for U*. I n?ai glad to have God as on example and Christ as an example, but I am just as glad to have-Moses and .Paul aud John. They are nearer to fne than God and. Christ. They serve for 'tne a purpose which God and Christ do not. They are greatness nnd success rising own. They show me how near like God mid Christ I can become. God and Christ as ideals frighten me;'but when in Moses and Paul and John I behold how much of (iod nnd Christ a sinful man can incarnate, I take courage and press on to the goal of Christ-likeness. There is a tremendous inspiration in one good man. His hand is the hand of God taking hold of his fellow-man aud lifting him up. -Duvid Gregg, I). D. It is your duty not only to hp jrooil, but to shine: and of nil the light which you kindle on tin? faro, joy will reach furthest out to sea whore troubled mariners arc seekiiu; the shore.?II. XV. Boecher. TVould Clinnsrfl Munorl*) Day. Commander-in-Chief A. D. Shaw, of the Crand Army of th> Republic. r..?vs vhat at the comine cnoamnment in Chicago a resolution will nrobablv bo passed ohnnire tho date of Momoria 1 Day from Mav 30 to th? last Snndav in Mav. He says that the members fool I bat as it is now the day is liirsre'v devoted to sports and amusement, ami that the real significance of the oeca?ion is in a cro.it measure ovcrloolred. It is thought tint tho change would result in a more faithful obwrvane? of tlv? day. Siberl* Filling I'll. Tho population of Siberia is now estimated at cloce to 8.000.000.