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- - - 1 _______________ 1 THE REALM vv/vv^ vy* v-^ New York City.?Shell pink satin foulard is hi-ro stylishly combined with dark red velvet and tucked ivory niousseline do soie. The picture is reproduced from Modes. MI83ES' COSTUME. |kj Tbe^bodice is mounted on a glovefitted lining, which closes in the centre, front The back is smooth across tl^/sbtyptere and draws down close at -ralft line with tiny pleats in the centre. A perfect adjustment Is facade with an under-arm gore. % ; ' fronts are slightly double-breasted. fulness at the waist being arranged in blouse effect over a narrow velvet girdle,. The shallow plastron of tucked mousseline ^permanently attache~cKjto the right tyuing front and fastens^Ttt^lslbly on thd left 1? l?. wrrt lef side. Tne speciiu iranmuu iuia^n?>pi Is the tucfced collar, wb^l jypvldes a stylish trimn^Jng for the\tek afl?' outlines the plastron, form highroad tucked revers. It extends o^ts&ver the sleeves, giving broad effeq$?PHfe ' shouldets, that Is becoming to Sftadei | figures. *' The -sleeves are . correctly iolshed with upper and under portioag, and finished with a ruffle which full:; over i the hand. Narrow velvet ribbon is effectively applied arouud the standing ant?. j|| ' Ix ii, WOMAN'S WAIST tucked collars and on the lower edge of the sleeves. The circular skirt is fitted smooth across the front and over the hips, ? closing under an invisible placket at the centre back. It flares prettily at the sides and falls in graceful folds in the back. Plain and figured India or taffeta silks, poplinette. crepe meteor, chaise! or silk muslin are appropriate for this N mode, with ribbon, lace, tucked batinto nr volvot fnr trfni minor. To make the waist in the medium size will require two yards of figured material thirty or thirty-six inches ? wide, or one and one-half yards of forty-four inch width, one-half yard of tucking for shield and standing collar. To make the skirt in the me/dium size will require two and onequarter yards of forty-four inch ma:: terial. t A Style Generally Becoming:. No style of bodice is more generally beconiinu 'ban the bolero in its many forms. The excellent May Manton design illustrated in the large picture is /. adapted to many materials, but is never more effective than, as shown. I... in black taffeta with . pplique of Persian embroidery. The model from which the drawing was made is worn with a skirt of figured black silk and over a waist made of ready tucked mousseline in cream white. The lining is white satin, but the revers are faced with black panne, which adds greatly to the effect. The high stock, which matches the waist, is finished with an applique of heavy cream lace. Pastel tinted taffetas are admirable and exceedingly attractive for gardeit party and informal evening wear, but the latest bint from Paris tells of taffeta enriched by embroidery into which gold aud silver threads are introduced. The waist beneath may be of any contrasting material, but is most effective in such diaphanous filmy stuffs as chiffon, mousseline and Liberty gauze. To cut this bolero for a woman of I medium size three yards of material twenty-one inches wide, or one and three-eighths yards fifty inches wide, with one and three-quarter yards of tucking eighteen inches wide for the waist, and one and one-half yards of lining, will he required. TreAtiuant of tho Coat. Now that it is unsafe to go from home without wraps it is well to understand the secret of proper hanging when not in use. She is an 'inwise woman who hangs up her jacket by a loop at the back of the neck. It makes the cor' sag where the strain conies, and it gives It a drag.ccd and droopj appearance. If loops are used at all - ? OF FASHION. 1 b! . til. V slinillil hr? nut at tllC ariXlllOlCS, j j and so put ou a, to stand upright and j I iK>t stretched across au inch or two of | j space. Rut the best way to keep a | coat fresh and in good shape is to keep it. when not in active service, on a wooden ' anger. i " I Embroidered I'oatuN Now. The postal card craze has affected the needlewoman and the embroidered postal is the latest luxury for the col- j lector's album. The Swiss embroideresses have chosen flowers with which t^tflfoament these cards, and the favorite design is a spray of delicate blossoms, or one large flower, a bud and feathery foliage. The design is embroidered on the left hand side of the card. The work is done with the graduated long stitch, both straight aud slanting, in colored silks, and pricked through the card bj' hand or by machine. When thus decorated the card Is pasted on the back of an- j other card, the latter serving for the address. Violet Linen Frock. A violet linen frock is made up with a fitted flounce at the Lottom joined j to the atttt* by iwertion of Point j d'Arabe&ftoe. The girdle, instead ol being awSe of black ^vet. is of vio ' let linen, with a narrow band of lace J 'insertion at both edges. Through these bands are run the narrowest of j draw ribbons of violet velvet. The | I----" J ?- 1- ?!? hio ' | necicoanu is niaue piecisi-ij ?u fashion aid knots of the violet velvet are awin^ed down the front of the bodice. * * The Style ?>r Sleeve*. ( The double sleeve is all the rage just now. and it is as well to have it while so much in favor, as there are signs that the style is not come to stay. For one thing, it has caught on just a trifle too much. The double sleeve is becoming extremely popular it will soon be too popular. This is sad. for it Is a pretty mode, and one which gives an air to a simple muslin frock. Ore thing in its favor is Its variety. A Warm Looking Ribbon. A heavy warm looking ribbon is the beaver. In beaver colors it has the appearance of real beaver with its long nap. It is no- confined, however, ! to dull shades, but is to be seen In WITH DOLEUO. lighter colors. It comes with contrasting bacKs of satin, the beaver color, with pink or. blue backs, violet with green, or any of the contrasts that are pretty and stylish. Modifth Gowns. Next to the white cloth gowns in favor stands gowns of light blue and mushroom pink cloth and the indications arc that this is to be pre-eminently a season of pale tinted cloths for reception wear. An Esientlal For a Child. The comfortable loose wrapper that can be slipped on without delay is an essential for the child as well as for its elders. The charming May Man- i ton model shown has the merit of serv- : ing equally well for that purpose and j olanninrr rrf\TT*n tllO fnmipr ! iUl LUC PICC|/JUj5 frKS *? * w*. ?. v , service it is admirable made of French flannel or the less costly flannelette; for the latter it can be maue of cambric. long cloth, nainsook or the warmer flannelette in preparation for winter nights. The full fronts and backs are simply gathered and poined to a shallow, square yoke. Over the yoke falls the pretty round collar, with its deep frill, | and all unnecessary fulness at the j neck and shoulders is avoided. The sleeves are one-seamed and gathered ! at both arms' eyes and wrists, where j child's wrappeb. ( they terminate in wristbands and full i frills. i To cut this wrapper for a child of , four years of age three yards of ma terial twenty-two inches wide will be [ required. DR. TALMAGES SEBMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Snbji?et: Christ's Character?His Earthly Life Itoplete With Reautifnl Emnpleo? PrarlIco Self Sacrifice anrt ITnutility and Help Bear Bnrdens of Others [Copyright l'.tou.l Wastttncton', I). C.?Tn this Bertnon,. which Dr. Talmage sends from Paris, Iip analyzes the eharactcr of the Saviour, and urges all Christians to exercise the qualities which wpre conspicuous in Christ's earthly life. The text is Romans viii, 9: "Now, if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is none of His." There is nothing moro desirable than a ninncfinf icnnaition Without it we can not be happy ourselves or make others hapny. When wo have lost our temper or become impatient under some light cross, we suddenly awaken to new appreciation of proper oouipoise of nature. Wc wish we had been born with self balance, we envy those people who bear themselves through life without any perturbation, and we flatter ourselves that, however little self control we may now have, the time will come, under the process of years, when we will be mellowed and softened, and the wrong thines which are in us now will then be all right, forgetful of the fact that an evil habit in our nature will grow into larger proportion*, and that an ininuity not corrected will become the grandfather of a whole eeneration of iniquities. So that people without the grace of God in the struggle and amid the annoyances on/1 ovaanorat.inns nf life are ant to be come worse instead of better. Now, the trouble is that we have a theory abroad in the world that a roan's disposition cannot be changed. A man says, "I am irascible in temper, and I can't help it." Another man says. "I am revengeful naturally, and I can't help it" A man says. "T am impulsive, and I can't heln it." AM h? tells the truth. No man can correct his disposition. I never knew a man by forcc of resolution to change his treatment, but bv His grace God can take away that which is wrong and put in that which is right, and I know and vou kno?v peonle who. since their con version, are just the opposite of what they used to be. Tn other words, we may, by the spirit of God, have the disnosition of Jesus Christ implanted in our disnosition. and we must have it done or we will never see heaven. "Tf any man have not the disposition of Jesus Christ, he is none of His." In the first place, the spirit of Christ was a spirit of gentleness. Sometimes He made wrathful utterance against .Pharisees and hypocrites, but the most of His words were kind and gentle and loving and inoffensive and attractive. When we consider the fact that He was omnipotent. and could have torn to pieces His assailants, the wonder is greater. We often bear the persecution and abuse of the world because we cannot help it. Christ endured it when He could have helned it, Little children who alwavs shy off at' iC, rouph man rushed into H's presence and clambered on Him until the people begped <jie mothers to take them away. Invalids so sore with wounds that they could not bear to have any one'come near them begged Christ just to nut His hand upon the wound # and soothe it. # The mother with the sickest child was willing to nut the little one in Christ's arms. Self-righte."is people rushed into His presence with a woman of debased charos>fny nnA eairl. "NTnw nnnihilataiher. blast her, kill her." Jesus looked at her and saw she was sbrry and repentant, and He looked at them, and He saw they wre prouJ and arrogant and mnlignamt, and He said, "Let him that is without sin cast th'e first stone at her." A blind man sat by the wavside making a great ado about his lack of vision. They told him to hush no and "not bother the Master. Christ stooped to him and said. "What wilt thou that I do unto thee?" Gentleness of voice, gentleness of manner, gentleness of life. We all admire i* whether we have any of it or rot. Just as the rough mountain bluff and the scarred crag love to look down into the calm lake at their feet and as the- stormiest winter loves to merge into the sunshiny snring, so the most precipitate and impulsive and irascible nature loves to think of the gentleness of Christ. How little we have of it! How little natience jn treating with enemies! We l?ave so little of the gentleness of Christ we are not fit for Christian work half the time. We do not know how to comfort the bereft or to encourage the disheartened or to take caro of the poor. Even our voice of sympathy is on tne wrong pitch. My sister had her arm put out of joint, and we were in the country, and the neighbors came in, and they were all sympathetic. and they laid hold of the arm and nulled and pulled mightily until the anguish was intolerable,, but the arm did not go to its place. Then the old country doctor was sent for, and he came in, and with one touoH it was all right. He knew just where to put his finger and just how to touch the bone.. We go out to our Christian work with too rough a hand and too unsjitfpathetic a manner, and we fail in our wor&, while some Christian, in the gentleness of Christ, comes along, put his hand of sympathy on the sore spot, and the torn ligaments are healed, and tfte disturbed bones are rejoined. Oh, for this gentleness of Christ! Tho Hpw nf one summer niorht will ac eomplish more good than fifty Caribbean whirlwinds. How.important it is that in going forth to serve Christ we have something of His gentleness! Is that the way we bear ourselves when we are assaulted? The rule is an eye for an eye, a tooth ior a tooth, retort for retort, sarcasm for sarcasm. Give him as much as he sends! After awhile ycu look up into the face of Christ, and you see Hia gentleness, and you say, "Well, now, I must do differently." Then your proud heart says: "Now you have your enemy in a corner. You will never get him in a corner again. Chastise him and then let him go." So we postpone the gentleness of Christ. Did you ever know any difficulty to be healed by acerbity or hypercriticism? About forty-five years ago the Presbyterian Church was split into the new school and the old school. The chasm got wider and wider. The most outrageous personnwam in flnrwl mpn on one 3ide anathematized good men on the other side. YVider and wider the chasm got until after awhije some good people tried another tack, and they began to explain away the difficulties, ana soon all the differences were healed, and at Pittsburg they shook hands and are one now to be one forever. You say to a man with whom you had a falling out, "1 despise you." He says, "I can't bear the sight of you." You say to him, "I never want you to come to my house again." He snys, "If you come to my house again, I'll kick you out." You aay, "I'll put you down." "Oh, no," he Bays. "I'll put you down." But some day the spirit of Christ comes into you and you go over and say: "My brother, give me your hand; time is short and eternity is near, and we can't afford to quarrei. Nov: let bygone* bo bygones and let its act like Christians." Tt is all settled. How'/ By the gentleness of Christ. j Bill you ever know a drunkard re! claimed by mimicry of !<is staggering steys, his thick tongue or his hiccough.' }\o. I You only madden his brain. But you go ! to him and let him know you appreciate j what cn awful struggle he has with the evil habit and you let him know that you have been acquainted with people who were down in the 9ame deptns who, by the jr.ace of Ciod, have been rescued. lie hears year voice, he resnonds to that sympathy. and he is saved. You cannot scold the world into anything better. The stormiest wind comes from its hiding place and says, "I will arouse this sea," and it blows upon the sea. Half of the sea is aroused or a fourth of the sea is arousod, yet not the entire Atlantic. But after awhile the moon comes out calm and J r?r. nnnn fh? qoI ftflH f.liP | pittClU. ll> miucp upv?* vuw uv?*| .... I occan begins to iiit. It embraces all th? highlands, the beach is all covered. The ' heart throb of ono world beating against the heart thr-.h of another world. The j storm ccuid a-.?t rouse the whole Atlantic; the nwor- it. "And I," said Christ "if I be lifted up will draw all men untc Me." j Christ's disposition was also one of self MCriticc. No yaung tun ever started oul witk y> bright * prospect as Christ started out with if He hit! been willing to follow a worldly ambition. > In the time that He pave to the sick He mltriifr trathpred flip vnsfpsfc fortune l of His time. With His power to popularize Himself and magnetize the people Ho could have gained any official position. No orator ever won such plaudits as ne might have won from sanhcdrin and synagogue and vast audiences hy the seaside; no physician ever got such a reputation for healing powir 03 He might have obtained if He had performed His wonderful cures before the Roman aristocracy. I say these things to let you know what Paul meant when he said, "He pleased not Himself," and to show something of the wonders of His self sacrifice. All human power together could not have thrown Christ into the manger if He had not chosen to go there; all satanic strength could not have lifted Ohrist unon the cross if lie had not electcd Himself to the torture. To save our race from sin and death and hell He faced all the sorrows of this world and the sorrows of eternity. How much of that self sacrifice have we? What is self sacrifice? It ia my walking a long journov to save you from fatigue: it is my lifting a great number of pounds to save you from the awful strain: it is a subtraction from my Comfort and prosperity so that there inay Ije an addition to your comfort and prosnerity. How much of that have we? Might not* I rather say. "How little have we?" Two children, brother and sister, were passing down the road. They were both very destitute. The lad had hardly any garments at all. His sister had a coat 4+ aka nnfrrrmvn Tf. WAfl ft Vei*V cold day. She said, "Johnnie, come under this coat." "Oh," he said, "no; the coat isn't large r-.oueh." "Oh," she said, "it will stretch." ' He comes under the coat, but the coat would nqt stretchy So she took off the coat and put it oin him. Christ walked to Emmaus; Christ walked from Capernaum to Bethany; Clirist walked from Jerusalem to Golzotha. How far have yoif and I walked for Christ? His head ached; His Jieart ached: His back ached. How much nave we ached for Christ? The disposition of Jeaus was also a disposition of humility. The Lord of earth and heaven in the garb of a rustic. He wht? poured all the wateravof the earth out of His right hand?the*'Amazon and the Euphrates, and the Oregon, and the Ohio, and the Mississippi?bending over a well to ask a Samaritan woman for a drink. * He who spread the canopy nf the heavens arid set the earth for a footstool admitting that He had not where to lay His head. He whose chariot the clouds are walking witn sore feet: hushing the tempest on Gennesaret and wiping the spray of the storm from His beard, then sitting clown in the cabin beside His disciples as though He had done no more than wipe the sweat from His brow in Joseph's carpenter shop: taking the foot of death off the heart of Lazarus and breaking the chain of the grave against the marble of the tomb, and then walking out with Mary and Martha without any more pretension than a plain cibizen going out in the suburban village to spend the evening; jostled as though He were a nobody; jjursufed as though He were an outlaw; nick- , named; seated with publicans and with sinners?King of heaven and earth trailing his robes in the dust! How much of that humility have we? If we get a few more dollars than other people or gain a little higher position, oh, how we strut! We go around wanting everybody to know their place- and say, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built fjjr the honor of my kingdom and by the might of my strength?" Who has anvthine of the hnmilitv of Christ? > The disposition of Christ was also.the spirit of prayer. Prayer on the mountains, prayer on the sea, prayer among the sick?ptayer everywhere. Prayer for little children. "Father, I thank Jhee that Thou hast "hidden these things fjom the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." .Prayer for His friends. "Father, I will that they be with Me where I am." Prayer for His enemies, "Father, forgive them; they know not ,what they do." Prayer for all nations, "Thy kingdom come." , How little of that spirit you and I have! How soon our knees get tired! Where ia the vial full of odors \vhi?h are the prayers of ail the saints! Which of us can keeD our mind ten minutes on a jirayer without wandering? Not you: not I. Oh, that we might have the spirit of' prayer which was tue spirit of Christ! ,We want more prayer in the family, more prayer in the church, more prayer in the legislature hall, more prayer among the sick, more prayer among the agecf, more prayer among the young. The great advancement of the church is to bo in that direction yet. While the council of Nuremberg was signing the'edlict that gave the church ita freedom Martin Luther was away off in a room by himself praying for that accomplishment. Though there was no line of communication between the place where . the council was assembled ana the room' where Martin Luther was praying, Martin Luther suddenly rose from his knees and said: "It is accomplished! The chtirch is free! Victory, victory!" Oh, for this direct line of communication with the throne of God. so that it may be said of us, as it was s^id of Luther, "He got what he asked for!" : / I he spirit of Christ", 1 remark lastly, was a spirit of hard work. Not one lazy mbmcnt in all His life. Whether He was talking to the fishermen on the beach, or preaching to the sailors on ths dock, or administering to the rustics amid the mountains, or spending an evening in Bethanv. always busy for others. With hands, heart, head, busy for others?hewing in the Nazareth carpenter shop, teach ? _ ' ' - * ' ? ? ~ rtmi foil. ing cue ami' Iluw iu wain, mtuuuv uuw. es, curing the child's tits, providing rations for the hungry host. Busy, busy, busy! The hardy men who pulled the net out of the sea filled with nounderio^ treasures, the shepherds who hunted up grassy plots for their flocks to nibble at. the shipwrights pounding away in the dockyards, the winemakers of Engedi dipping tnc juices from the vat and pouring them into the goatskins, were not more busy than Christ. Busy, busy for others! From the moment He went out of the cara"an8ary of Bethlehem to the moment when the cross plunged into the socket on the bloody mount busy for others. Does that remind you of yourself? It does not remind me of myself. If we lift a burden it must be light; if we do work, it must be popular; if we sit in the new, it must be safe; if we move in a sphere of usefulness, it must be brilliant; if we have to take hold of a load, give us the light end of the log. In this way to >.eaven tan na rnr-L- 113. sine us to sleep. Lift us up toward heaven on the tips of your lingers under a silken sunshade. Stand out of the way, ail you martyrs who breasted the fire; stand out of the way and let this colony of tender footed modern Christians come up and get their crown.?! What has your Lord done to you, 0 I Christian, that you should betray him: I Who save you so much riches that you can aliord to despise the awards of the faithful? At this moment, when all the armies of heaven ami earth and hell are plunging into the conllict, how can you desert the standard? (,)h. backslidden Christian, is it not time for yju tn start anew for Cod and anew for heaven? .Now, 1 have shown you that the disposition of Christ was ?, spirit of gentleness, a spirit of self sacrifice, a spirit of humil j ity, a spirit of prayer, a spirit < >? hard j work?five points. Will you remember j Mint 9 ai-,. vmi readv now for the tre | inendous announcement of the text, "If i any man has not the spirit of Chri:t, he is none of His?" Are you ready for that > statement? Can we stand up and say, "Yes; we have the spirit of Christ!" Not one of us can make that answer to the full : question, yet 1 am to declare to you there ; is no discouragement in this subject foi | 1 Christian people. You have the seeds of i this character planted in your soul. "It i doth not yet appear what we shall be." ; You might as well blame an acorn foi [ not being an oak of a thousand years a9 to blame yourself because you are not equal to Christ. You have the implantation within you which will enlarge and develop into the grandest Christian cbar > acter, and there is no discouragement in ; this text for you to try to love and serve , the .Lord. Aim high. Sheathe not your ? sword until you have gained the last vie- | tory. Climb higher and higher until you i . reach the celestial hiUs. Crowns bright ; and radiant for aW the victory but death [ to cveif deserter. PpHV" ' ~"'r V # TEE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COAtti;NT$ FOR OCTOBER 14. ^ f Sol'jcct: Parable of llie Great Snpp#r, JLuIco xtv., 15-24?Golden Texl: Lube l'ir., 17 ? Memory Veraet, 21-34 ? Conuneintary on tlie Day's Lemon. Thi3 parable was spoken while they were still reclining at the table. See last lesson. 15. "One of them." One of the rich friends of the Pharisaic host, whose remark gave the Saviour occasion for delivering the parable of the great supper. "Heard these things." The recompense at the resurrection of the just (v. 14) suggested to this guest a great banquet in the kingdom of the Mesaian. "Blessed is he." He extols the greatness of the privilege. )n the parable that follows Christ warns him and the others that the privilege will by no means be so generally recognized or embraced by the Jewish people as was commonly thought. "In the kingdom of God." The kinordom of God, here, does not signify the kingdom of heaven in the highest sense, but only the kingdom of the Messiah, of which the carnal Jew" here speaks, according to the received sense of his nation, as of a glorioua temnnr.il kingdom, in which the Jews should lord it over the Gentile world, enjoy their wealth, and be provided with all temporal blessings and delights, in which they place their happiness. 10. "Then said He." He delivered the following parable to show that the Messiah's kingdom would be offered to them under the most favorable circumstances, yet they would reject it, preferring carnal to spiritual blessings, while, in the meantime, the Qentiles would embrace the gospel with cheerfulness and thereby be prepared to sit down in the abodes of the blessed. "A great supper." Representing the rich and abundant provisions of the gospel. The use of this emblem to denote spiritual blessings is rooted in Old Testament prophecy. The blessings of salvation arc compared to a feast. 1. Because of their rich variety and abundance. 2. ' Their suitableness to our spiritual wants. 3. The high satisfaction and enjoyment which they yield. "Bade many." The Jewish nation. This general announcement was made in the Old Testament institutions and prophecies." 17. "And sent his servant." The commission to all who hold office of summoning the world to- enter the kingdom of God is the same, hence but one servant is referred to. John the Baptist, Christ; the apostles and disciples all delivered the gospel message and issued a call to the Jewish' people. The same call was afterward given to the Gentiles, and such is the invitation now extended to us. "That were bidden." The Jews to whom the gospel tvas first offered, especially the scribes and Pharisees. "Come." 'lhe invitations Df the gospel are full and complete. Matt. 11:28; Rev. 22:17. "All things'are now ready." Ncfw is the accepted time. Every v E revision is made for the redemption of a ist world; not one.thing is lacking. The plan of salvation is perfect. Come, now, and be saved. 18. "They all." But few of the scribes and Pharisees responded to Christ's invitation. "Began to make excuse." In worldly affairs'people would be anxious to accept an invitation to suctv-a "supper," but in feligioufl matters it is very cimereat. men are uawmmg to the offers of salvation. ''The first said." When the time came they all refused to enter ih, cach having some excuse.- The ultimate ground of their refusal was that they felt no real, desire, and saw nothing lttractive in such a feast, and had no rev* 2rence for the host. "Have bought." The purchase may not have been unconditionally made (Lange), but probably at that very moment it depended upon the riewing of the land whether it should be made definite. "Must needs." These excuses were all trivial, and yet they appeared to those making them to be real reusons why they could not possibly attend the feast. 19. "I go to prove them." Mark the increasing rudeness of the speakers. The fifst pleads a "must needs;" the second merely states his intention?"I go;" the third says bluntly, "I cannot," and omits the courtesy of asking to be excused. The true lesson from all tfiree is tnat innocent and right things keep men away from the ?03pel feast. 20. ''Married a wife." ? He should'have said to his wife, "Come, let ud both accept the invitation to this gospel feast, at ance." "Therefore I cannot come." This was just, the reason why he should have gone. We should invite the Saviour to enter our homes and dwell with us there. I. When young people enter upon the active duties of life they need the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit. If they lean to their own understanding and trust to their own efforts for success they will ultimately fail. 2. No home is a truly happy home without Christ. It is onlv when His love fills the soul and when He controls our affairs that real joy and peace exist. 3. We ,need Christ to bear oar burdens with us and help us through the hard places. He will be a shelter in the time of storm, and a solid rock in the hour of affliction. 4. A Christian home is a power for good - in the community, while1 a Christies* home is as great a p'ow-. er for evil. 5. The influences of the home mold, to a great extent, the characters and lifes of the entire family. 21. "Go out quickly." There is no time to be lost. The feast is ready. "The streets and lanea." Extend the invitation to the publicans and sinners?the outcasts, who were despised by those to whom Jesus was speaking. 22. "It is done. God's true ministers ;arry the gospel to the worst classes. They frequently enter the slums in order to point those who are deep down in sin to i the Christ who is able to save them. "Yet there is room." The lord of the house has prepared a very great feast for very many. Provisions are made for all. "Whosoever will let him come." 23. "The highways and hedges." Out- | side of the city. By this is meant that the I gospel would be preached to the Gentiles. vVlien rejected by the Jews Paul turned to the Gentiles. "Compel them to come in.'1 Not by force, but by an earnest en' ?* ? 1? " treaty. "Tliat my nouse may ue llllCUt | How anxious the Lord i9 to save every person. No one needs to be lost. 24. 'I say unto you." Christ is here half continuing the parable and half expounding it. "None of those men." A solemn anoiincement of the coming rejection of the Jews as a nation for their unbelief. But the words apply in all their force to the multitudes now in Christian lands who despise and neglect the gospel, while converts among the heathen nation are multiplied. "Shall taste of My supper." Shall fnjoy the blessings of the gospel. They wfcre rejected because they had rejected the supper. When we reject Christ we are really closing the do?r against ourselves. * MONUMENT TO E ,RRY. A DOC VIo?t Famous St. liernanl of SnllzmiAnd With a Keeoril of Forty Liven Saved. A monument is to be erected on a mountain in .Switzerland to Barry, the most famous of St. Bernard dogs. Barry i:i ten years saved forty lives. His most creditable achievement was when he I found a child of ten years in the snow succumbing to the fatal slumber which precedes death. The dog first warmed the child with its breath and licked it until it awoke. Then by lying on his side the dog gave the child an obvious invitation to i ride. The child mounted on his back and Ihrry carried it to the convent. Light* on Banker IXi 11 Slonuinent. The Charlestown Improvement Associa tion, at lJoston, proposes to crown Hunker Hill Aiounment with a circle of electric lights in a manner similar to that in which the State House dome is illuminated. The plan for lighting the top of the monurtient contemplates a row of lights, twenty on each side, around the shaft at a distance of 220 feet from the ground. Died In Poverty and Obncurity. Colonel II. E. Peyton, sixty years old it. one time Inspector-General of the Army Df Virginia on General Robert E. Lee'i staff, djed in the City Hospital at St ?? Louis. i>lo.. irom pneumonia "v ind obscurity. t THE GREAT DESTROYER. ( SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT F I THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. < w A Story With Two Sides?The Ordeal to 1 Which a Woman Was Subjected That, Was a Dlncrace to a Civilized Community?How the Police Aid Unmiellers. A woman stood at the bar of justice, A and by her side two stalwart policemen. Her name was called and she answered. Then the judge asked the clerk to read, the L charge against her. "Disorderly conduct on the street and disturbing tne peace," read the clerk. "Who are the witnesses against the D woman?" asked the judge, ana the two policemen stepped forward to be sworn. "Now tell tne story," said the'judge,. P and one of tnem began: I ' "I arrested the woman in front of a sa- I loon on Broadway on Saturday night. She X had raised a great disturbance, was fighting and brawling with the men in the sa- , . loon, and the saloon keeper put her out. She used the foulest language, and with T an awful threat struck at the keeper with ail her force. I then arrested her and took her to the detention house and' locked her up." "The .next witness will take the stand," said the judge, and the other policeman stepped up. 'T. saw the arrest, and I know it to be <x just as stated. I saw the woman fighting f< as the saloon keeper put her out on the 9i street. I heard the vife language she used lc in the presence of the crowd that gathered ?i in the street." to "Call the saloon keeper. What do you tc know of this case?" F "I know dis vomans vas mak^p' dis- cl turbance by my saloon. She conies there J< und she makes trobles und she fight mit w me, und I puts her the door oud. I y< know her all along. She vas pad vom- tc ana." f< Turning to the trembling woman the fr judge said, "This ia a pretty clear case, in madam; have you anything to say in your gj own defense?" || "Yes, judge," she answered in a strangely calm, though trembling voice. , m "I am not guilty of the charge, and a, those men standing before you have per- g[ jured their souls to prevent me from telling the truth. It was they and not I who ?( violated the law. I was in the 3aloon last cj i Saturday night, but I'll tell you how it jj, happened. jn "My huaband did not come home from Q) work that evening and I feared he had ^ eone to the saloon. I knew he must have i: drawn his week's wages, and we needed it n 30 badly. I put the little ones to bed, and then waited all alone through the weary 2, hours until after the city clock struck twelve. Then I though the saloons will " be closed, and he will be put out on the street. Probably he will not be able to J? get home, and the police will arrest him "J and lock nim up. I must go and find him 01 1 r j ?i i CC | and bring mm norne. i wrappeu itsuuwi i -around me and started out, leaving the little ones in bed: and, judge, I have not " seen them since.". Here the tears came to the woman's eyes, and she almost broke down, but restraining herself she went on: "I went to the saloon where I thought at most likely he would be. It was about go twenty minutes after twelve,--but the sa- a, loon, ttat man's saloon"?pointing to the tfc saloon keeper, who seemed to want to fr crouch out of sight?"it was still open,. and my husband and these two police- gj men," pointing to those who had so lately a( sworn against her, "were standing at the bar with their lips still wet with drink, f( and the flecks of foam not yet settled in vv the empty glasses before them. jf "I stepped up to my husband and asked C( him to go home with me. but the men w laughed at him, and the saloon keeper ordered - lne out. I said, 'No, I want my <c husband to go with me.' Then I tried to ^ tell them how badly we needed the money l he waa spending, and again the keeper cursed me and ordered me to leave. Then j, [ confess I could not stand any more, and L I said, TTou ought to be prosecuted for !p violating the midnight closing law.' p "At tnis the saloon keeper and police* ^ man rushed upon me and put me out into | the street, and one of the policemen, ' Jv grasping my arm like a vice, hissed in my . ear. Til get you a thirty days' sentence j1' in the workhouse, and then see what you tn think about suing neople.' He.called a 01 patrol wagon, pusnea me in, and drove to 'the hous$ of detention, and, judge, you P' know the rest. All day yesterday I was w locked up, my children at home alone, 01 with no fire, no food, no mother^" UI It was well that the story was finished, w for a great sob choked her utterance, and she could sav no more. t'1 "Dismissed," said the judge in a husky voice,.-and the guilty woman who had so disturbed the peace passed out of the court room. . . . ct But what of the saloon keeper who haa 8} violated the law by keeping open after p] twelve o'clock at nizht? And what of the a, Eolicemen who violated their obligation y drinking while on duty, and who cj threatened an honest woman with a sentence in the 'workhouse if she dared to tell tr the truth! Oh, nothing at all. They K were too guilty to be prosecuted.?Cin p, cinnati Living Issue.* ! / ?~~~ s< No Lack of Lights _ If experience has ever cast the light of [} judgment upon any practice in the world n in which meit have been permitted to en- gage, and shown it up in its true charac- jj ter as a source of ruin and woe, it has cer- 6| tainly done this for the traffic in strong drink. If ever any habit of men has in- 0 fringed upon the God-given liberties of i| jhildren and wives and mothers, it is this t| home-destroying drink habit. If ever any- -j thing has been a soilrce and ally of cor- ' ruption at the ballot box, it haa been the dnnk evil. If ever any evil has worked igainst the peace and prosperity of churches and tne progress of the gospel ' '~ x'? ?1-J J* K/mn * f ma j 31 peace in me wunu, n, new m.vu i :urse of the pit. It' ever any liberty of f, man has brought him to degradation, pov- ^ arty, insanity, crime, jail or. scaffold, it r, has be$n shis liberty of drink.?Baptist ^ Courier. f, Gratifying Decrease In Drunkenness. ^ "Recent articles in the Liverpool press," 0, jays the Congregationalist, "tell of a most t, marked decline of drunkenness in that ^ maritime city where liquor haa been and still is so freely used. The number of ar- p rests for drunkenness during the five years ending 1874 were 19,193 annually. They jy were only 4768 annually during the five ^ years ending 1809. This decline in arrests ? cannot be laid to less vigilance on the part jjJ of the police, for they never made more careful inspection of their districts, and have never been more vigorous in the suppression of groggeries. The reasons given for the decline in drunkenness by the oi Liverpool journalists are the demolition' bi of rookeries, the increased interest in phys- tl ical recreation, and the more stringent is attitude of the trades unions toward, t( members who drink." ' a: gi A Long-CherMlied Delusion. n For hundreds of years the world has fa. labored under the delusion that alcohol I was a stimulant. There is not the slight-'[ [%| ! est iota of scientific proof showing its j stimulating action, anil vet there are rued-, L i ical men to-day, apparently rational oiv t most subjects, who constantly speak of . alcohol as a stimulant. On the contrary, ri it is a depressant, a paralyzer, an anesthetic, in its action lowering vitality, and from the very inception of its influence in- ni tevfering with every vital function. Scien- b< title experiments have proven conclusively p: that it is a cardiac irritant, but not a k' stimulant. a! Wliat Abstaining Will Do. An abstaining community would solve without tH slightest friction the compeni sation question, the Sunday-closing ques- ?, tion, and every other question wnich the attempt to regulate the drink traffic has raised, and which perplex politicians as much as they belittle temperance reform- p a f IS. ? v Deatli Rate From Intemperance. tl In England and Wales the death rate , from intemperance has increased during the last thirty years more than 100 per * cent., and among women since 1875?the first year for which the statistics for the k sexes were given separately?it has in- t| creased 150 per cent. ' ' Xfcj t ' iOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. 'RECNANT THOUGHTS FROVI THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. li the Lust Days?The Secret of HolpCutueftA ? ltenewiag Onr Vows ? Stick to the Spirit'? The Goldea Kulc?storing Eternal Jtirhcs?Sees Us As We Arc. ' a Wfi grow old, how softly, slowly close The tltxjiN of sense, and chut us from the world. 1 $ ike tender petals of some ling'ring rose That, of'a frosty night, have inward curled! 'im.a? the ti:rure3 in a d.-Mm now dbss .Those glitt'ring shows that atirred our .youthrul hearts. oor, hurrying shadows in a misty glass. Each hut a moment seeu era it depart*. or sight, nor sound, nor taste, of earth's delights Can longer please; these things are past and goue. he soul will put her cuiet houso to And in the upper chamber watch the dawn;. ?James Buckham. V-:?'The Secret of Helpfalnee*. To be a helper one must help. He must agin to do and coutinue to do,. year by Bflr patiently, cheerfully. Whece shall ae beginV UiRht where he is. Begin i the family and do the best that is poable to make a prosperous, happy, coa nted family. Carry the same spirit,in? the neighborhood and into society, or special work of a moral and religious laracter, the church is always open. }in the company of faithful men and omen, and do what you can to make )ur church a power for good in your iwn or city. Take an interest In re rmatory movements that are seeking oni high motives to lessen the evils and icrease the virtues that have expreson in personal and family and social fe. Help N#h your money to the e? nt of your ability. If you hare uch inonev. heln arenerouslv bv thiff leans; if but little, use it ia the helpful >irit, and in either case it will both irry and bring a blessing. Help with )ur prf^ence and your earnest, appreatlve ^owfe. Help with your sympaly and yodr. manifest- readiness to assist i all jjrays, iri 'att .places where the jed of nsslstancb .tt; wen, and \rhere It evident it would'be gratefully wel>med. Help wfth your gracious deeds. [elpers are needed everywhere. There e a large number world now. he world is coniifarti^r grftwing. The *eds of an educational kind^morai, and m-itual as well Cfr'jStellectual?are >. . anifest on every hand. Put' /ourself . line with the helpers who, by virtue ! their unselfish, Christian,services, fire (laborers with God and the Master A ir the saving of the world. Help now. dp as much as you can and as long a? >U live. ,;-v * Renewing Oar Towi. In the modern Christian world vows e less common than formerly, although me types of the Christian believer still ake occasional, or even habitual, use of lem. They used to be regarded, and by ost of those wito still take,.them thay *e regarded now, as possessing unspeakjle solemnity. Indeed they are of tea - ? ?cepted as final tend conclusive-in their Feet upon life. Yet there is a kind of jw which we all take as Christians -'.v> hi eh is no less solemn, although lest rmal. We make vows wheu- we be>me Christians. We repeat them when , e join the earthly church. We reiter:e them and refrosh our sense of their lemnity. whon we draw near to our ord at the communion table. It would ? well if they were given more promi;nca before our thought as distinct ob jatinns. pledges, agreements entered to between ourselves and our God. hey should control and color our lives, ut are vows, as such, irrevocable? ?me certainly are. When we pledge i ? irselves to be the servants of Christ M irou?hout life, that vow Should -be un?rstood to be final. But the vows of lose who enter religious sisterhoods brotherhoods, for example, may or . Vs' ay not be final. We sometimes make .'-V"; edges to ourselves, if not to others, hich have permanent influence upon ir careers and which we come to look jon almost with superstitious respect, hich prove detrimental, and possibly >th materially and spiritually. Are , . W icse pledges to be kept? 8tlck to the fplrifc. tvvT^ The obligation to be true to one's word innot be held too sacredly. Christians ?onld loyally adhere _to wnat tney mtro rofessed even at great cost or sacrifice, [id in most cases even if they prove to ave made their .pledges without suffient consideration. This is better and -. >fer than to appear to.be false or itiing. Nevertheless, miuiy cases rise j hich illustrate the old proverb,'"A bad romise is bettor broken than kept." ^questionably conditions change, and ) radically sometimes that to keep a romise to the letter is to break it to le spirit. That aa honorable mind canot endure. The vow, if he prefer to renrd it so, must be disregarded in order ':r. lat it may be kept, and, even where v>:> ich an extreme is not reached, circumtances may so alter as to prove that the romise never would have been made if le future could have been foreseen. lat the demand that it be fulfilled is un jstinanie, ami umi umy u auu arrow loyalty to the form of truth will isist upon strict obedience. The Golden Knl?. "This is not the work I would choose > do, but this is good work, and far utter do this than to do nothing." That 'presents the spirit of one of our loyal ' linisters, and it is the spirit that makes >r success. The man who is loyal to is church stands by it financially and lirituall.v, is the man who coroos into iir convention to shape our policy with a emendous backing^ he has standing, is words have weight. And when we II enter our work with that spirit we ut force into any movement that may i? instituted. When we conceive a nole project we want others to put aside icir prejudices and plans and support s; well,?the Golden Itule comes iu anmoivhoi'p Storing KiernnI Rlche*. To do a generous net for the benefit f a friend or for the public weal, is to ring to the tloer the highest satisfaeon. The compensation thus received i not like the money that one receive* >r service, as desirable and as necessary i that usually is. The return for the ood act becomes a part of one's self, lakes him stronger aud better ever rrer. It is ft repetition of these acts tat builds one up into the likeness of the ?rfect character, and makes his life a leasing to the world. The unselfish life ! the devoted mother is of this kind. very true life modeled after that of '< [ sits i:j constantly storing the eternal cites. Is it not strange that wo who could at muster courage to lay bare our souls 'fort' the eyes of men. view'with eomurative indifference am! unconcern the nowledsje that find's pure eye sees us i j (ways iust an we are? OSRA THE FASTEST BOAT AFLOAT* j ;ie MaLes Fortr-tliree Mile* an Bool I In Preliminary Trial. jj The British torpedo boat destroyer Vi? I er's marvelous record of ferty-three mile* M n liour has been eclipsed, and the fastesl I essel in the world is-now her sister ship, fie Cobra. Both have turbine engines. The contract speed of eich was thirty* >ur knots. The Viper did 37.113 knot* T..-? 11 Tl,o fnhrn in an unofficiAl^m ii UUiy x%j. auv rial over the same course at the moutj^^^^B f the Tyne, the other day, made 37 nots, or 43.5 miles, iler engineers hMDI bat she has not yet done her best. .iat they expect fully another knot.