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f THS EldlOTS New York City.?No outer garment I is more popular nor winter wear mau tlie blouse Eton that can be worn open or closed as occasion requires. Clotli of all sorts, cheviots and the rough surface zibellnes are all used, and velvet costumes are promised in unusual numbers. The smart May Manton design illustrated Is suited to"< all materials and Is especially be-' coming to all slight and moderate figures. It is a mistake to suppose that only slender women look well io a garment of the sort, for its lines are tapering and its slight fulness i ladies* blouse bton. v-J . tends to coriceal any faults wather' than to intensify them. As Mfuftrated. the Eton to of satin-faced etoth in ~ nnrl molroa nMibJtf J a SOU (IMia UUi aiAKA. a costume, tBrtklrt of which cuUir. The trtihming is made WF stitched bands of cloth and the n^rs ami cuffs are faced with heary^Bjilfefr white' silk. Beneathnthe jflflCKSK worn a peasant waist,%^ a jiS3tW white chiffon and'itocft colUr j^ftce. The back the Eton Is 'wlftfRLas ' and fits smoothly and. snngly. The full fronts pouch aliglJJU^ and are stitched from shoulder to the garment is fitted by OBtos of shoulder and - under arm sean?',boly. The' collar,'which is a feature^ Is tiMAnt t'hn jape. Toeeth LADIES' SHI er with the fronts it is faced with white silk and rolls over to form revers. At the waist is a belt of material. also stitched. The sleeves are two-seamed and snug, but not over tight, and are finished with flare cuffs, headed by a stitched baud. The closing is accomplished by meaus -of loops of braid and handsome buttons. To cut the blouse Eton for a woman of medium size four yards of material twenty-one inches wide, two and onei ' fourth yards forty-four inches wide, or two yards fifty inches wide, will be required, with one and threeeighth yards or silk to face revers, collar and cuffs. Laaicn * BOCJ OHIU ?? ??OM Simple, useful waists of flannel, cashmere, Henrietta and soft taffeta have become a necessity. Many women seek some variation from the 6evere shirt waist, yet will tolerate nothing fussy, as it must be worn beneath a jacket that requires to be slipped on and off with ease. At the moment embroidered woolen goods are much in demand, and soft pastel shades predominate, although vivid .*ed holds a conspicuous place. The smart model illustrated by May Manton in the large engraving is chic at the same time that it is eminently practicable. As shown, the material is cashmere in a pastel reseda embroidered in white, with revers and chemisette and bolt of stitched black taffeta, and buttons and belt clasp of cut steel. The foundation for the waist is a. lining fitted with single darts and suoumer auu uuut'i-iirui scams, im this are arranged the slightly full back anil the pouched fronts. The lining closes at rhe centre front, the left front proper extends to the centre only, but the rijrht extends over the left and is buttoned diagonally into place. The tiny chemisette and stock collar are permanently attached to the right lining front, and hook over into the left. The neck of the waist is finished with a shaped collar that greatly adds to the effect. The sleeves are cut in one piece each, the outer seams extending to the elbows only, and flare becomingly over the hands. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size four yards of material twenty-one inches wivle, three and one-half yards twen'v^seven inches \ri<L. tlirw yards' tii.-^v-two inches op FAMION. ~ i wide, or two and one-fourth yards forty-four inches wide, will be required. Fotnta on Cloth Oonn'i The tints in fashionable cloth gowns grow lighter and lighter; Ice color, t^e faintest pqach, a green which can hartll^ be distinguished from blue, are the most fashionable, and the cloth Itself is of the very lightest ! make. in lieu or me perpenuicuiar iucksou i the hips some of these have horizontal | folds below the waist, which give n t pannierlike aspect. and form part of i the girdle, to which they are apparently attached by clasps of silver, the bodice opening over a vest. Every fashionable dress now entails a great amount of work, but materials can be had tucked and corded, which saves a great deal of labor. Boleros accompanying cloth dresses are sometimes all guipure or have lace Insertions and vefy often show diagonal insertions of lace. New Picturesque Sleeves. Of the making of new picturesque sleeves there seems to be no end this season. Special designs are constantly appearing on fancy waists, tea-gownrf aftprnoen toilets, simple morning Ageaes. negligees, and dain<y lltjfe yfea-frock6d jackets. The tjc aovei cnecis iu weuves, bora long, short, and elbow-length, has eeached the dignity of a fine art Paris, and ?a number of ateliers IMke this business a specialty. Box-Plaited Skirt*. i Mjfcuplaited skirts are more fashionaWtfjthan ever, but there is a growing ten<renfcy In favor of gathering the lalness equally right round the figure instead of taking it all to the back, like a housemaid's skirt. u Becoming: to Llttls Girls. Long coats are almost universally becoming to little girls in addition to providing them with the warmth essential to cold weather, health and comfort. The box model is a favorite one of the season, and is never more appropriate or stylish than when worn by children. As a rule, the | materials are cneviot, meuon ana | broadcloth, and the colors brown or RT WAIST. tan; black, although much liked for their elders, is held too gloomy and ^ -....J?TJlo AfflV i 01(1 I or tuuuiru o "<.?? ? , .Manton model illustrated includes all the latest features and is made from tan colored melton, with collars and cuffs of brown velvet, and handsome , smoked pearl buttons, down the front. I The coat is cut in three-pieces and is fitted with shoulder and under- ! arm seams, the latter being left Dpen for a slight distance at the bottom and the stitching carried round. The little shoulder cape is circular and i curves up at the back. The fronts are , faced with cloth, the collar with vel vet to an inch from the edge, to which point cloth is applied, and the two roll back and form revers. The ] sleeves are two-seamed and well fit* ted. and are finished with roll-over cuffs "curved and flaring at the outer edge and faced with velvet to match 1 the collar. To cut this c^at for a girl of two girls' long box coat. years of ape, two anil one-eighth yards of material tifty Inches wide will be required, with one-fourth yard of velvet for collar and cuffs. DR TALMAGPS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THIS NOTED DIVINE. Sabjiwt: Nation* Are .Indeed?Ood R?wards and PnnUhen Tliem on ??rtb? Ood'i JadpoeDtl Likened to tliB Swift Sweep of t Razor. [Copyright l'.MKU Washington", D. 0.?Dr. Talmage, in hia journey westward through Europe, has recently visited scenes of thrilling historic events. He sends this Bermon, in which he shows that nations are judged in this world, and that God rewards them for their virtues and punishes .them for their crimes. The text is Isaiah vii. 20, "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that 13 hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria.'* The Bible is the oldest book ever written. There are no similitudes in Ossian or the Iliad or the Odyssey so daring. Its imagery sometimes seems on the verge of the reckless, but only seems so. The fact is that God would Btartle and arouse and [>ropel men and nations. A tame and imping, similitude would fail to accomplish the object. While there are times when He employs in the Bible the gentle dew, and the morning cloud, and the dove and the daybreak in the presentation of truth, we often find the iron chariot, the lightning, the earthquake, the spray, the sword and in my text the razor. This keen bladed instrument has advanced in usefulness with the ages. In Bible times and lands the beard remained uncut save in the seasons of mourning and. humiliation, but the razor was always a suggestive symbol. David said of Doeg, his antagonist, "Thy tongue is a sharp razor working deceitfully' ?that is, it pretends to elear the face, but is really used for deadly incision. In this striking text this weapon of the toilet appears under the following circumstances: Jndea needed to have some of its prosperities cut off, and God sends against it three Assyrian kings?first Sennacherib, then Esarhaddon and afterward Nebuchadnezzar. These three sharp invasions that cut down the glory of Judea are compared to so many sweeps of the razor across the face of the land. And these devastations were called a hired razor because God took the kings of Assyria. with whom He bad no sympathy, to do the work, and paid them in palaces and spoilt and annexations. These kings were nirtd to execute the divine behests. And now the text, which on its first reading may have seemed trivial or inapt, is charged with momentous import, "In the game day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the I.ing of Assyria." Well, if Godjudgments are razors, we had better be careful how we use them on other people. In careful sheath these domestic weapons are put away, where no one by accident may touch them and where the hands of children may not reach them, Such instruments must be carefully handled or not handled at all. But how recklessly some people wield the judgment of God! If a man meets with business misfortune, how many there are rtady to cry out: "That is a judgment of God upon him because he was unscrupurtror.roipk 1 n rr /vr m IC 1VUO VI Olll/^auv Kit. VfVi 1VUV.U.UQ w* erlv. I thought he Would get cut down! What a clean sweep of everything! His city house and country house gone. His stables emptied of all the fine bays and sorrels ana grays that used to prance by, his door. All his resources overthrown, and all that he prided himself on tumbled into demolition. Good for him!" Stop, my brother. Don't sling around too freely the judgments of God, for they are razors. Some of the most wicked business men succeed, and they live and die in prosperity, and some of the most honest and conscientious are driven into bankruptcy. Perhaps the unsuccessful man's manner was unfortunate and he was not really as proud as he looked to be. Some of those who carry their heads erect and look imperial are humble as a child, while many a man in seedy coat and slouch hat and unblackened shoes is as proud as Lucifer. You cannot tell by a man's look. Perhaps he was not unscrupulous in business, e? i.1 i (or mere mc uvu oiuca w c> wij onyi/, u.m everybody that accomplishes anything for himself or others jjets industriously lied about. Perhaps his business misfortune was not a punishment, but the fatherly discipline to prepare him .for heaven, and God may love him far more than He loves you, who can pay dollar for dollar and ore put down in the commercial catalogue as Al." Whom the Lord loveth I^e gives $400,000 and lets die on! embroidered pillows? No; whom the. Lord loveth He chasteneth. Better keep your hand ofl' the Lord's razors lest they cut and wound people that do not deserve it. If you want to shave Qff some of the bristling pride of your own heart, do so, but be very careful how you put the sharp edge on others. How I do dislike the behavior of those persons who, when people are unfortunate, say, "I told you so; getting punished; served him right." If' those I told you ?o's got their desert they would long ago have been pitched over the battlements. The mote in their neighbor's eyes, so small that it takes a microscope to find it, gives them nioi;e trouble than the beam which ob9Cures their own optics. With air sometimes supercilious and some times Pharisaical and always blasphemous they take the razor of divine judgment and sharpen it on the bone of their own hard hearts, and then go to work on men sprawled out at fulllength under disaster, cutting mercilessly. They begin by soft expressions of sympathy and pity, and half praise and'lather the victim all over before they put on the sharp edge. Let us be careful how we shoot at others, lest we take down the wrong one, remembering the servant of King William Rufus who shot at a.deer, but the arrow danced against a tree and killed the king. Instead or going out with shafts, to pierce and razors to cut, we had better imitate the friend of Richard Coeur de Lion. Richard, in the war of the Cru?ides, was captured and imprisoned, but nohe of his friends knew where, so his loyal friend went arouud the land from stronghold to stronghold and sang at^ each window a snatch of a song that Kichard L'oeur ac Lion had taught him in other days. And one day coming before a jail where he suspected his king might be incarcerated, he sang two lines of song and immediately King Richard responded from his cell with the other two lines, and so his whereabouts were discovered, and a successful movement was at once made for his liberation. So let us go up and down the world with the music of kind words and sympathetic hearts, serenading the unfortunate and trying to get out of trouble men who had noble natures, but by unforeseen circumstances have been incarcerated, thus liberating kings. More hymn-book and less razor. Especially ought we to be apologetic and merciful toward those who while they have great faults have also great virtues. Some people are barren of virtues; no weeds verilv, but no flowers. I must not be too much enraged at a nettle along the fence if it be in a field containing forty acres of ripe Michigan whiC-t. Some time ago naturalists told us there was on the sun a spot 20,000 miles long, but from the brightness and warmth T concluded it was a good deal of a sun still. The sun can afford to have a very large spot upon it, though it be 20,000 miles long, ana I am very apologetic for those men who have great faults while at the same time they have magnificent virtues. | Again, when I read in my text that the Lord shaves with the hired razor of Assy| ria the land of Judea I think myself of the precision of God's providence. A rnj zor swung the tenth part of an inch out | of the right line means either failure or laceration, but Clod's dealings never slip, and they do not miss by the thousandth part of an inch the right direction. People talk as though things in this world were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo, a.id we watch anxiously. Will the epidemic sweep Europe and America? People say: "That will entirely depend on whether the inoculation is a successful experiment; that will depend entirely on quarantine regulation; tnat will depend on the early or late appearance of frost; that epidemic is pitched into the world, and it goes blundering across the continents, and it is all guesswork and all appalling perhaps." 1 think perhaps that God had something to do witn it and that His meroy may have in some way protected us, that He may have done as much for us as the quaraa line and the health officers. It was right and a necessity that all caution should b? used, but tHere have come enough macaroni from Italy and enough (trapes from the south of France and enough rags from tatterdermalions and hidden in these articles of transportation enough cholera^ germs to have left by this time all th? cities mourning in the cemeteries. I tharfk all the doctors and quarantines, but I mnra Hian nil ,mr1 first of all and last of all and aii the time I thank God. In all the 6000 years of the world's existence there has not one thing merely "happened so." God i<* not an anarchist, but a King, a Father. When little Tad, the son of President Lincoln, died, all America evmpathiz^d with the sorrow jn the White House. .He U3ed to rush into the room where the Cabinet was in session and while the most eminent men of the land were discussing the questions of national existence. But the child had no care about those questions. No. God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are in per| petual session in resrard to this world and kindred worlds. Shall you, His child, rush in to criticise or arraicm or condemn the divine government? No. The cabinet of the eternal three can govern and will govern in the wisest and best way, and there never will be a mistake and, like raaor skillfully swung, shall cut that which ought to be avoided. Precision to the very hairbreadth. Earthly timepieces may go out of order and strike wrong, saying it is 1 o'clock when it Is 2 or 2 when it is 3. God's clock is always riccht, and when it is 1 it strikes 1, and when it is 12 it strikes 12, and the second hand is as accurate as the minute hand. Further, my 'text .tells us that God sometimes shaves nations: "In the Bame day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired." With one sharp sweep He went across Judea, and down went its pride and its power. In 1861 God shaved the American nation. We had allowed to grow Sabbath desecration and oppression and blasphemy and fraud and impurity and all aorta of ftigri?vd&r-. The South had its sins and the North had its sins and the East its sina and the West its sins. We had been warned again and again, and we did not heed. .At length the sword of war cut from the St. Xilwrence to the Gulf and from Atlantic se&Laard to Pacific seaboard. The pride of the land, not the cowards, bnt the heroes, on both sides went down. Aad that wfeich we took for the sword of war was the Lord razor. In 1862c again it went across the land; in 1865 again: in 1834 again. Then the sharp instrument, waeiacased and put away. Never. ia< thf Sistory of the ages was any land apre thoroughly shaved than during thos&Jour-'years of civil combat, and my bre^ven, if we do. not quit some of our, individual and. national sins the Lord will again take'us'in hjand. He has other razors within reSch besides war. Epidemics, droughts, deluges, plaguesgrasshopper and locust?or our overtowering success may so far excite the jealousy of other lands that under some pretext the great nations may combine to p^t us down. Our natioz), so easily approached on north and south and from both oceans, might have on hand at once more hostilitilities than were ever arrayed against any one'power. I hope no such combination against us shall ever be formed, but I want to show that as Assyria was the hired razor against Judea and Cyrus the hired razor against Babylon and the Huns the hired', razor against the Goths there are now many razors that the Lord could hire if because of our national sin* He should undertake to shave us. In 1870 Germany wale the razor with which the Lord phased France. Japan, waa the -razor with Which He shaved China, and American the razor with which He shaved arrogant, bppresaive and Bible-hating Spain. But nations are to repent in. a day. May a speedy and worldwide coming to God hinder on both aides the sea all national calamity. But do not let us as a nation either by unrighteous law at Washington or bad lives among ourselves defy the Almighty. One Vould think that our national symbol of the eagle might sometimes suggest another eagle, that which. ancient Kome carried. In the talons of that eagle were clutched at one Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Dalmatia, Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia, Dacia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine, Egypt and all northern Africa and all the islands of the Mediter -**11 fUft TTflfl ItLUCUU LUUCCU au vuc n *MW? .'WW worth having; 120,000,000 of people under the wings of that one eagle! Where ia she now? Ask Gibbon, the historian, in his prose poem, the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Ask her gigantic ruins, bemoaning their sadness through the agea. the acreech ,^wl at windows out of which worldwide conquerers looked. Ask the day of judgment, when her crowned debauchees, Commodus and Pertinax and-Caligula and Diocletian, shall answer for their infamy. As man and as nations let us repent and have our trust in a pardoning God rather than depend on former'successes for immunity. Out of thirteen of the greatest battles of the world Napoleon had lost but one before Waterloo. Pride and destruction often rode in the same saddle. But notice once more and more than all in my text that Qpd is so kind and. loving that when it is necessary for Him to cut He has to go to others for the sharp edged weapon. "In. the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor' that is hired." God is love. God is pity. God is. help. God ia shelter. God is rescue. There are no sham edges about Him, no thrusting points, no instruments of laceration. It you want Ijalm for wounds, He has that. I? you want divine salve for eyesight, He has that. But if there is sharp and cutting work to do which requires a razor, that He hires. God has nothing about Him that hurts save when dire necessity demands, and then He has to go clear off to some one else to get the instrument. This divine clemency rwill he no novelty to those who have pondered the Calvarean massacre, w^sre God submerged Himself jn human tears and crimsoned Himself from punctured ' arteries and let thfe terrestrial and infernal worlds maul Him until the chandeliers of the sky had to be turned out because the universe could not endure the outrage. Illustrious for love He must have been to take all that as our substitute, paying out of. His own heart the price of our admission at the gates of heaven. King Henry II. of England crowned his son as king, and on the day of coronation put on a servant's garb and waited, he, the king, at the son^ table, to the astonishment of all the princes. But we know of a more wondrous scene, the King of heaven and earth offering to put on you, His child, the crown of life and in the form of a servant waiting on you with blessing. Extol that love, all painting, all sculpture, all music, all architecture, all worship! In Dresdenian gallery let Raphael hold Him up as a child, and in Antwerp cathedral let Rubens hand Him down from the cross as a martyr and Handel make all his oratorio vibrate around that one chord?"He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities." Hut not uniii aii the redeemed get home a:id from the countenances in all the galleries of the ransomed shall be revealed the wonders of redemption shall either man or seraph or archangel know the height and depth and breadth of the love of God. At our national capital a monument in honor of him who did more than any one to achieve our American independence was for scores of years in building, and most of us were discouraged and said it never would be eomnleted. And how clad we all were when in the presence of the \ highest officials of the nation the work w.-is done! But will the monument to Him who died for the eternal liberation of the human race ever be completed? For ages tho work has been going up. Evangelists and apostles and martyrs hate been adding to the heavenly pile, and every one ol the millions of redeemed going up from earth has made to it contribution of gladness, and weight of glory is swung to th top of other weight of glory, higner and higher as the whole millenniums roll, sapphire on the top of jasper, sardonyx on the top of chalcedony and chrysonrasuj above topaz, until far beneath shall be the walls and towers and domes of our earthly capitol, a monument forever and for ever rising and yet never done: "Unto Him who has loved us and washed ui from our sins in His own blood and made us kings and priests forever." Alleluia, amen. The chance of two finger prints being alike is not one in tifty-four billion. \ TIE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER, 7, ??? I ' Subject: Jecaa Dining With t Phnrlse* JLuko *! ., 1-14? Golden Tut: I>ak< xlv., 11?Memory Verier, 12-14?Commentary on the l>a>'s Luito. Recapitulation.?The following are the principal events in the Life of Christ during the last quarter, continued from Lesson I. of the third quarter: 46. Discourse on the bread of life. 47. At the borders of Tyre and Sidon ,He restored the demoniac daughter of a Syrophoenician woman. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. , v PRECNANT THOUCHT3 FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS, The Word in Nature?Take What Is Given?Prayer Mean* Spiritual Knriclimont ? ?itpi*cially CoinmUtloned of God?Be Occupied With Good Tiling, In holy books wj read how God hath 1 spoken \> To holy men ij. niany different ways; But hath the present worked uo sigu or token? y Is God quite silent in these latter days ? The word were but a blank, a hollow , ouuuut If Ho that spake it.were not speaking still, If all the light and all the share around Were aught but issues of Almighty will. So, then, believe that every bird that siugs, Any every flower that stars the elastic sod, , . : And every thought each happy season brings To a pure spirit is a word of God. ?Hartley Colerid0e in Universalis' Leader. Take What la Given. How few of us recognize and receive Into our hearts all the lesser daily blessings which God pours down upon usl How many of us are like Hainan, to whom the Persian King's favor, and the real sovereignty over his empire, and everything that gratified ambition could expect, all turned to ashes in his mouth becausc one poor Jew sat there, and would not get up when he passed. "All this availeth me nothing, as long as Mordccai sits at the gate." Ah! we all' have our Mordecais, and we say to our solves, "God has given me this mercy, that blessing, and the other one; but it all turns to bitterness because I cannot get th? other thing that I want. It is a little one, hut I want it, for without it everything else is nothing." There are some of us, who, if there is the faintest suspicion of a cloud away down on the horizon shiver and complain as if there were no sunshine. One sorrow can blot | out, a thousand joys. One disappointment can more than cancel a whole series of fulfilled expectations. Alas! that it should .be so. Brother, be sure^ that you take, all the blessings of your daily life that God bostows upon you, 1 and do not be one* of God's fractious children, who care for none of His gifts because they are whimpering for. the j moon, and nothing else will satisfy them. 1 Take what is given, and you will find 1 that it' is far more than you expected, and your hands and your heart will be [ full.?Alexander Jlaclaren, D. D.' ( Prayer ftleani Spiritual Enrichment. ] Most of us have' learned thit God j h*ars prayer and answers it definitely. But there are maqy who pray, who #in- ! cerely seek to know what is to be ex-''; pccted in the way of response from on high. The first and best answer to prayer , is in the form of a state of mind, a divinely inspired trunt and reasonableness ; which causes tranquility and peace with'" e\t Aicfmauu nnfi I MJ, CICU 1U UUUUIOWUVVO I discouragement. Sometimes that if the , only answer, the only one necessary! But beyond this, many a prayer receives its response in some totally unexpected, although perfectly evident, event , or ! coure of events. The Bible bids us pray 1 In reverent/faith, assured that God will | grant our prayers. It does not t6U'us, ] .nor does experience teach, that God will < give us the very things for which -we ( ..praj\ Often he does. Often he refuses , thera, btit grants what he sees to be j better for us. One of tfye most import- , ant lessons connected with prayer is ( that of simple, childlike resting in the t hands of the Almighty Father, not in- ? actively, in the sense of failing tp do as , well hs we can that which appears to be dnty. but with an entire, heartfelt ; snbmission to the guidance of the Holy ' Spirit and to the fulfillment of the divine f will concerning us. To pray thus is to ] be spiritually enriched, whatever the e form in which the prayer may receive its 5 notice at the hands of God. ,, v c V ! Especially Commissioned of God. E He who is by nature endowed with a. g special meusurc of tact, who knows him- 3 self capable more than otherg of cons^d- fl ering all sides of a question and dealing r with it discreetly, has a peculiar obliga- t tion to use that power for Christ. He ? should regard himself ad especially com- j missioned to, devise ways and oppnrtuni-' v ties of presenting to othei's the subject j of personal religion as to avoid offense r ami to Iritt interest. He may reap a I harvest impossible to other men who are I quite his equal 5n consecration, but by" 4 nature are more .blunt apd brusque, c Special gifts are not wholly natural, [ however, and ha who inherits social standing, wealth, or any external advantage, must remember equally that for his nse thereof he must give account at last. By as rinteb as he can exert u stronger influence in'favor of righteousness in private character and in social or civil life, by as much is h? blameworthy if he neglect to do so. TJiere is no finer sight than that of the man endowed with such gifts devoting himself with the fidelity and zeal of the most humble of his fellow citizens to the service of his fellow men, his God and the promotion of the ! public welfare. Ha Onminlett trit.il Onorl Tliinir*. Ij1 a temptation can be honorably ' avoided, it is far better than to meet it in u Vace-to-face fight?and less likely to result in lifetime sears. There were two ways in which the ancients keyt from yielding r<> the music and ultimate destruction of the Sirens. One was that of1 Ulysses, who fortified himself with bontls that held him fast to the inastj/l while his boat carried him, listening, by the tempting strains. The other wfi!> that of the Argonauts, who carried Orpheus with them in their boat, and whe were so engrossed in listening to his music that they never heard the soundsfrom the fatal shore. They bore through life no memory of the tcniptor's allurements, as Ulysses did. The man whe i pan keep his mind and body so occupied i with the better things that ho has no ! time for unnecessary conflict with the ! devil is going to l>e the greatest power ! for good in the Lord's service. But il j ' the fight must be fought, theu let hin: i J throw himself against the foe with all ' the strength that legions of angels can * ?ivc.?S. S. Times. { Deep stream? rut still: and why? Not ieeause there are no obstructions, hut i neoause they altogether overflow those stones or rocks round which the shallow stream hns to make its noisy way; it :s the full lifi- ihat saves us from the ; J ittle, noisy troubles of life.?George S ' Merriain. ] i When Peter was kept in prison prayer J ! ?vns made earnestly of the church foi j 1 aim. We trust there is similar inter j j session at family altars and at cliuret , j gatherings today in behalf of our mis I ; tinnofioa ?lint up in China or fleeinc foi l Mifir liro? " I i i j BELL OF THE ALAMO FOUND. | ' Offerod For Sale aa Old Iron and Will , lie IMacad In the Fort. I The original bell of the Alamo is now in i I the possession of Miss Adina De Zavalla, i I of fc'an Antonia, President of the Daugh- } a ters of the Republic of Texas. f The bell was discovered recently at Go- ( liad, when offered for sale as old iron. | t Reports of the discovery appeared in the i t newspapers, and correspondence was at r once opened with the finder by Mi6S De ] Zavalla, who purchased the bell. < The date "1772" is erK'r.r.'cd on-the bell, together with tin wot San Antonio and the Pa-iush Irrds? The bell will be Dlaced in the Ai-rito. n 48. Journey through Decapolis. 49. Healing a deaf stammerer. 50. Feeding the four thousand. 51. Sailed to Dalmanutha. 52. Sailed to Bethsaida, where He healed a blind man. Mark 8:22-26. '53. Journeys to Caesarea Philippi. 54. Peter's confession. 55. The transfiguration. 56. Healing the demoniac boy. ai. Journey to Capernaum. 58.' Tribute money taken from the mouth of a fish. 59. A lesson in hamility from "the child in the midst." 60. Discourse on the forgiTi&g spirit. ;61. Rejected by the Samaritans. Luke 9:52-56. 62. At tM feast of Tabernacles. 63. The blind man healed- at the pool of Siloam. 64. Discourse on the good shepherd. 65. Goes into Perea. 66. The Seventy sent forth. 67. Parable on tlje rich fool and discourse on the duty of watchfulness. 69. Healing a woman on the Sabbath. 70. At the Feast of Dedication. 71. Retires to Bethabafo. 72. Dines with a Pharisee. 1. "Chief of Pharisees." It .has been suggested that this man may have been a member of the Sanhedrin, with a country home in Perea. "To eat bread." Our Lord had no home and, when He was invited to dine it was as proper for Him to go on the Sabbath as on any other day. Although there seems to have been sev eral persons invited to this dinner, yet this affords no justification to visiting or making dinner parties on the Sabbath. "They were watching Him." (R. V.) Were maliciously watching Him. The Pharisee, while he professed friendship, had invited Jesus to his table for the purpose of finding an opportunity to ac? cuse Him and take away His life. 2. "A certain man before Him." The * man had probably been brought there and'1 placet; in the company by the Pharisee in order to test Christ. 3. "And Jesus answering spake." He' knew they were deceptive, and He was ready for them. "Tbe lawyers."/-The teachers of the law who were present. "Is it lawful," etc. They are in a dilemma; as lawyers, they ought to know, but if they answered in the affirmative they would endorse Christ and His work, while to answer in the negative would be to show their lack of love and lay themselves liable to a change similar to that given in :h;ipter 13; 15. 4. "They held their peace." The Pharisees taxed the conscience of the people with puerile questions, such as whether it eras lawful to eat an egg on the 8abbath, Dr of what material the wick of the Sabbath lamp should be made, but they did not forbid tjiis miracle, which thcjr should liave done had it been wrong; they were, therefore, forced to silence. "Took him. Laid His hands on him. "Let him go." He'sent him away. 5. "Fallen into a pit." Jesus silences them completely hv calling attention to she fact' that they\ on the Sabbath day would have mercy on a beast in'distress, *nd ahall not He'on rJie Sabbath dav de liver this suffering man. Read Matt. 12: 10-13; Luke 13: 14-17. 6. "Could not answer Him." Silent, but lot convinced; obstinacy and spiritual iride sealed their minds against the force >f His reasoning. 7. "A parable." Showing the impor;ance of humility. "When He marked." STothing escapes the eye of the Lord. 'How tney chose out. To take the highest place when it is not our due is public rapity; to obstinately refuse it when ofered, is another instance of the same aceK though private and concealed. Hu- ! aility takes as mu?h care to avoid the osentatiqfi of an affected refusal as the open | Peking of a superior place. "The chief 'ooins. The chief seats. (R. V.) I 8. "Bidden?to a swedding." He- speaks ( >f a "marriage feast" (R. V.) because the" j 'rules of procedure would be more care- , ully insisted upon/' VSit not down." | L'he pride that apes humility violates the ( ipirit of this teaching. There should be , ;enuine self-abasement. It ought to check . >ur high thoughts of oUrselves to think . iow many there are that are more honor- , ible than we/ > , .tnat bade." ibe noat who nas authority to deride the matter. "With J :hame."i Sooner or later pride will have j i fall. The man who humbles himBelf nerely because be is forced to do so loses ;h?j respect of both God and man. 10. "In the lowest room." "The lowest i >lace." (R. V.) "Go up higher," The vay to rise high is to oegin low. No ihame attaches to the one who take a low j )lace. What Christ commanded others le.Himself did. He humbled Himself in ( lis birth,-'in His life and in His death. 'Then shalt thou have worship." Have floury. (R. V.) This person will receive ionor?n the presence of the company. , 11. "For every one- that exalteth himlelf shall be humbled." (R. V.) The one vho is proud and seeks to be honored ibove others, shall be abased, or humbled, )oth by God and man. "He that humjleth himself." It is better to humble mrselves, for if we do not God will hum- { >le us. "Shall be exalted." God will lonor and give glory to the truly humble n heart. 12. "Call not thy friends." The second jarable is to the host. It is a sharp rejuke on account of a fault which is al* nost always committed in the choice of [uests. Our Lord certainly does not mean hat a man shall not entertain his friends, ! >ut what He inculcates here is charity to j j he poor, and what He condemns is those intertaihments which are given to the ich, either to flatter them or to procure i similar return. "Nor thy rich neigh* j )ors." "He that giveth to the rich shall iarely come to want." Prov. 22:16. "Give ;o thy friends, but let it be to thy poor riends, not to those who need thee not." , 13. "Call the poor." Feasts to the poor ire not forbidden. He that giveth to the )oor lendeth to the Lord. "What the J Saviour here commends to others He has limself fulfilled in the most illustrious j m ? ?- f a. ?_ i.L. 1_; J nanner. 10 ine ieaec in me kiusuuiu vi 3od He has invited the poor, the blind, ,'tc., in the spiritual sense of the words." 14. "Thoa shalt be blessed." The poor | vho have been fed will bless thee, and so , vill the Lord. You will be conscious of J laving acted unselfishly. "They cannot ecompense thee." Therefore God will :onsider Himself yonr debtor.?Clarke. 'The resurrection of the just." There ia ;o be a future state; we are all hastening >n toward the resurrection. At that time \ j!od will reward those who have done i ;ood, for His sake, without the hope of tuy earthly recompense. PLAIN TALK ACROSS THE SEA, tadlble Speech Conveyed eigne niuei ; Witlioat Wires. __ At the annual session of the. Physical ' Science section of the British \&i?ociation 'or the Advancement of Science, which i i\*as held at Bradford, England, Sir Will- < am Henry Preece, consulting engineer of she British PostolRce, made the interest- j ng announcement that as a result of his ( jxperiments with wireless telegraphy he ; jad found it quite possible to convey audijle spcech six to eight miles across the eea without wires. He added that it was a j practical commercial system, and might | ( 3e extended to communication between ships and between ships and the shore. I.earna to Wiilk at Serenty-one. After being confined to her bed for i orty-four years Miss Kate Metz, of Co!- : egcville, Penn., is again able to attend to icr household duties. Forty-four years | igo Miss Metz suffered four attacks of j mcumonia and other ailments, the effects ( )f wnich rendered her a helpless invalid , uul necessitated a continuous confinement j ;o her bed. My degrees she pained strength md learned over again how to walk. , Now, at seventy-one years of age, she is ( :i>joying excellent hcaith. ( JtllMnwrl'a I-arRe School Fund. ! Missouri ban t' . largest permanent ( iciioo! fund of ' "f Hi" States. , THE GREAT DESTROYEB. ' . -V SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. i * !?frr "r3 ' 1 jk. Hie Uu of Alcoholic Llwr? Produce! Moral Inutility ? Old Afe 8oflerln? For ih? 81n? of YeothVTjM Awful IW poflfllbflltr of MakMwenti. Am shadow^ folloi>r iiigt)MM? re surely nays Dr. ,T. D. C^ttimT emphatically' "The central point I wiaFto emphasize ie that moral insanity fpllowa all use pf alcohol, and is present m all inebriates to a greater or iesa degree." As surely as & hot iron will burn the fieih, so surely will alcoholics injure both body and mind of those who drink it. The boast of the young man, "Drink does not hurt me," is false?absolutely false. He does not know himself. He is reckoning without his host. So able a man as Dr. > Harlow, superintendent of the Maine Insane Hospital, wrote me a remarkable lei* ter. He atates? "It is quite a frequent occurrence to have patients brought to us, hptvwMm fit* mcrea of fiffv and apvunf.v who in earl* Ufe were riven to the use of alcoholic drinks, but nad reformed and lived temperate lives ten, twenty or thirty year* prior to the appearance of their malady, showing conclusively, to my mind, that the alcohol taken thus early left a damaged brrfin doubly susceptible to mental derangement." I have in mind a man who inherited an excellent constitution, but who in early manhood took to the cup. Later he radically reformed, and there never was ? more abstemious man for the next thirty s years, yet as age came, on he begad to turn in mind back to what he had been in the days of.his indulgence. He reacquired the same looks on his face, the same motions and actions of body, the same wonderings and hallucinations oi mind as when he used to drink. His daughter said it was pitiable to see him, it was such a painful reminder of hit for- ^ mer condition she so much witnessed ^hen^a^*^ she was a little girl. But worse than all this is the daman done through the drinker upon his offspring. They suffer to a degree beyond ?. his.own. Think-of a whole large family, to-called sons and daughters, every one made a fool or nsar it by parental drinking. Go-np-and.down tne town and observe the "ldiots.the uritifet-wita, the stunted heads and bodies, the netycua and hystei^cal 'and';;?j$erwi|S>'imaged bodies ind minds and asfe* whtU*M done it? And in almost all, cases Uqtior through their parents^, is the^pwoerjflkwer'. A school teacher investigateallv tatt of one of his scholars that bad JMtftrance of being drunk. The fa?t ?w ^Wpfoped that not the pupil, but hi* fatter aid the drinking. I personally knew a man past middle fife ; who from a young-man had the unsteady step, the broken and Aesitating speech and other nervous irregularities character* istic of the appearance of old topers. 1^. charged him with drinking. He dsnied. I then spoke to some of-his frieitfs, and was tola to my surprise that he never drank, but that these drunken symptom* were begotten in him by his drunken parentage, gunning back several generations. No, it is not safe to drink, either directly or indirectly; the mischief will leak out. Consequences must follow, though they may not be expressed till in the third or fourth generation: Can one take fire into his bosom and not be burned t "No jj more can one indulge in strong drink and escape. There is somewhere-or at some time an inevitable retribution. Drink and a j o??i, ; uc uaiuucu. uuv;u lb tu<. v-iuw ui . j alone and be safe, you and your posterity. ?E. Chenery, M. D., in the National Aa ocate. , To ait I ok nil Health In Potatoes. George Cruikshank, & well-known artist in his day, did great service for the cause of "Teetotalism." His once famous cartoon of "The Bottle" created a sensation which lasted for years after its first ap- , > pearance. At dinner when the wine went around he turned his glass upside 'down, or else he adooted another and perhaps better way. . He was lunching one dar % with Mr. C. R. Leslie, the pamter. Although aware that Cruikshank had joined the ranks of the abstainers, Lesfife asked if he iAight have the pleasure of a glass of wine with him, at the same time raising- , ^ fiis glass and passing the decanter. "My iear Leslie," said Cruikshank, "I don t irink wine, but I shall be glad to take a x>tato with you." Saying this, Cruikihank plunged his fork into a potatoy f lodded to Leslie, bit a piece on, ana ; irished him a very good health. Mr. Story, the artist,, who relates The story, nn?-ol and am lift woo au cjrcwuuooo U1 WI1C ?? ng scene.?Young People's Paper. Te?-Tee-Total. v ; About September, 1833, Dicky Turner, the converted weaver, when delivering ine of his fervid speeches in the Temperance Hotel, Preston (the cockpit), where the Earls of Derby formerly fought their ;ocks for three centuries), in favot of the new pledge, declared with emphasis that "nothing but the Tee-Tee-Total pledge would do." Mr. Joseph Livessey, upon, hearing this, immediately Cried out, amid zreat cheering: "That shall be the name." the newly coined word was taken up by the succeeding speakers, an3 was after* ? 'it. --I*.? i.?ij yard usea at an tne meeungs uum iu mc town and neighborhood. It was soon idopted in every part of Lancashire, and was eventually accepted as the true designation of total abstinence, not only in the United Kingdom, but throughout the civilized world. I had the above facts from the lips of Vlr. Joseph Livesev.?London Daily News. Drunken Lawyers and Judge*. A melancholy illustration of the effects of liquor was given in one of the citv courts not long since. A lawyer of brilliant parts, formerly Assistant DistrictAttorney in the United iStatea Court, and jccupying several other positions, appeared drunk before the Recorder, and attempted to defend a prisoner. The Reorder said to him: "\ou ai% not now in i condition to defend the prisoner, who is moused of a serious offence. I adjourn the case until to-morrow, and if you appear before this court in such a condition tgain I will take other measures in dealing tvitn you." For the same cause a distinjuished Judge was recently compelled to eave the bench. Wauts Teetotaler* Only. Some short time a go M. Menier, a frenchman, bought tne Island of Anti osti, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on vhich he has established the largest private game preserve in the world. The sland is some 140 miles lon$ by twentysight miles broad. In addition to the 'mne preserves he is developing its agri:ultural resources, and has made liberal >?fers to induce Frenchmen to settle ;here, but every settler must take the riedge to total abstinence, as he will have ione but teetotalers on the island. The Crnaade in Hrlef. t Drink is a poison. Alcohol causes indigestion and dyspep tia. : Drink causes more dissevered friendships ind the breaking up ot more ramuy cir:les than any other cause that is known. The drink business costs the Government fourfold more than that received as rev;nue, and imposes a fearful burden of taxition unon the people. A new German law places every liabitlal drunkard under an interdict involvne complete submission to the will of a luly appointed "curator." Drink weakens the centres of life and iction, viz., the heart. ' Sr.loons stein to be the headquarters for nost the devilment that breaks loose imonj; mankind. i The number of shops in Russia in which mottled liquor may dc sold is restricted - 1-?:? ?i .i.? i;_ ICCOniiriK UJ lUU pui'uuiLiuu, ami imw ?? :e?9e for public houses is so largely in :re2.sed as to reduce the umber of cuch louses one-half. A London magistrate recently stated that when he became a utipemlary, f?ir teen years ago, half the chargcs in which ii'unkciiiiees was involved were against men. Now in Marvlebone. and he be lirved at the other metropolitan police Lonrts. three-fourths of the chargcs ol drunkenness were against women.