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f ; L* 4.T | b^ TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. I "abject : Spread the Coupe'? TCftort* of tlie Churches Should !!*? Directed | Toward Ravine Slnnem_They Should | Get in Sympathy With Strangers. ^ [Copyrlj&t Mou.l ' Washington. D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmaec points to fields of usefulness ml that are not yet thoroughly cultivated, if and shows the need of more activity. The test is Romans xv, 20, "Lest l'shouIS build upon another man's foundation." In laying out the plan of his missionary jF.v > tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. lie i : goes to Corinth, a city famous for splendor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the sanhedrin were ready to lean with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feel9 he has especial work to do, and he neans to'do it. What was Hr. the result? The grandest life of usefulness that a man ever'lived.^We modern ChrisE tian workers are.jiot- apt to imitate Paul. P' We build on ofner people's foundations. fit we erect a caarca. we ici i,? hk lfc filled with fairiww&ll of "#hom ha** ween . . pious. Do we gather a Sabbath-school class, we want pood boys and giils, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church in this day is apt to be built out Df other church*.. Some ministers spend all-their tiine in fishing in other people's ponds, andvjh^y throw the line into that :hurch pond and jerk out a Methodist. i and throw, the line .into another church j[ pond and luring oat a ^Presbyterian. or there il a religious row. in n^ghhor^ ing dwch. and a .Arhole phqpl pi fis*' \ wa&faix irom that pond, Jinf wfe tan jji in with ^n^swe^t^^he net; motet- and circumference of this p!arf#wSi , did notjUkpn ^ 1S the latitawnKM t longitude ana majnecar auu ciruuiium^^ ' of want and NWe and sin that no?,fio5jSH can cal?ttl-.te. This one roiritaaT^Bng nent ot -wretchedness reaches acnH^jffl ^ , zones, and 'if I were called to graphical boutffTdry I would say bounded on thi^-sorth and south attyjT past and west ty the great heart of God's syrri-" pathy and Iov?^.?h, it is a great world! Since 6 o'clock this morning 60,800 persons have been born, and all these multiplied populations are to be reached by the g<*?pel. In England or in our Eastern American cities we are being much crowded, and an acre of ground is of great value, but in Western America 500 acres is a -?-II tm*m 9fS (VY1 nprpc ia nn linilSU.il n possesaion. There is a vast field here and everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room M more, not building on another man's foun/ dation. Kr We need as churches to stop bombard* E> ing the old iron-clad sinners that have L been proof against thirty years of ChrisJp tian assault. Alas for that church which S".'' lacks the' spirit of evangelism, spending on one chandelier enough to lisrht 500 souls to glory, and in one carved pillar Be; ' enough to have made a thousand men "pillars in the house of our God forever," and doing less good than many a log R?. . cabin meet'ng-house with tallow candles stuck in w>oden sockets and a minister who has n?ver seen a college and does not know the difference between Greek and Choctaw! We need as churches to get into sympathy with the great outside world, and let them know that none are so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. "No," savs some fastidious Christian: "I don't like to |! ' be crowded in church. Don't put any one in my pew." My brother, what will you do in heaven? When a great multitude that no man can number assembles, they will put fifty in your pew. What are the select few to-day assembled in the Christian ehurchcs com' pared with the mightier millions outside of them? Many of the churches are like a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing more than toothache or "run rounds," but no broken Bra heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for treatment moderate 85^-. sinners, velvet-coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as though a man SpjcHh. had a farm of 3000 acres and put all his Eyjja. work on one acre. He may raise ever so Kg!. large ears of corn, ever so big heads of v wheat ? he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre, and has raised splendid men jny women in that small inc'osure, but the .. i-IJ iU. ),J \Tnrth Iuem 19 me WUHU. Hi.a mciiiio ?wt?u and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and all the islands of the sea. It is as though, after a great battle, there were left 50.000 wounded and dying on the field and three surgeons gave ail their time to three patients under their charge. The major general comes in and wiys to the doctors, "Come out here and look at the jiearlv 50,000 dyinc for lack of surgical attendance." "No," say the three doctors, standing there fanning their patients, "we have three important cases here, and we are attending to them, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to keep the flies cff." In tbis awful battle or sin' and sorrow, (i ?,, where millions have fallen on millions, do not let us spend all our time in taking care of a few people, and when the comfnand comes, 'Co into the world," say practically: "No, I cannot. I have here & few choice cases, and I am busy keeping off the flies." There are multitudes to,, day who have never had any Christian | f worker look them in the eye ana wun earnestness in the accentuation say, "Come!" or they would long ago have been in the kingdom. My friends, religion is either a sham or a great reality. If it be a sham, let us disband our churches and Christian associations. If it be a reality, then great populations are ? .on the way to the bar of God unfitted for the ordeal. And what are we doing? In order to reach the multitude of outtiders we must drop all technicalities out of our religion. When we talk to people - about the hypostatic union and French encyclopediamism and Erastinianism and tComplutensianism, we are impolite and as little understood as if a physician should talk to an ordinary patient about the per? icardium and intercostal muscle and scorP", butic 6;Tnptoi"s. Many of us come out of I the theologicai seminaries so loaded up Viat we taiie the first ten years to show [v mir people how much we know and the : next ten years to get our people to know a? much as we know, and at the end we find that neither of us knows anything as, we ought to know. Here are hundreds of thousan Is of sinning, struggling and dying people who need to realize just one thing?that Jesus Christ came to save them and will save them now. But we K' " got in^o a profound and elaborate defini? tion of -That justification i8,.and after all If the work there are not, outside of the L learned professions, 10.000 people who can 9 tell what justification is. I will read you j- the definitions: "Justification is purely a ! forensic act, the act of a judge sitting in the forum, in which the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is accountable to none, and who alone knows the manner in which the ends of His universal government can best be obtained, reckons that which was done by the substitute in the same man Iner as it it naa oeen aone dv mose wno * /. believe in the substitute, and purely on I \if fccrount of this gracious method of reel:Kooning grants them the full remission of 'tbeir sins." Now, t is justification? I will tell you what justification is?when a sinner believes, God lets him off. One summer in Connecticut 1 went to a large factory, and I saw over the door written the words, "No Admittance." I entered and saw over the next door "No Admittance." Of course I entered. I got inside and found it a pin factory, and they were making pins, very serviceable, fine and useful pins. So the spirit of exclusiveness has practically written over the outside door of many a church, "No Admittance." An>d if the stranger enters he finds practically writ; \ over the second door. "Mo Admittance," while the minister stands in the pulpit hammering out his little nicetiee of belief, pounding out the technicalities of religion, making pins. In the most practical, commor-sense l way and laying aside the non essentials it?r. ' * :' and the hard definitions of refigion go out on the God given mission, telling the people what they need and when and now they can get it. Comparatively little effort as yet hns been made to save that large class of persons in our midst called skeptgrs, and he who goes to work here will not be buildinc upon another man s foundation There is a lnrcre number of them. They are afraid of us and our churches, for the reason we do not know how to treat them. One cf this class met Christ and heard j with what tenderness and pathos and ! beauty and success Christ dealt with him: ' "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and | with all thv mind, and with all thy | strength. This is the first and great | commandment, and the second is like ur.to | it?namely, 'inou shalt love thy neighbor j as thyself. There is none otner com- I mandment greater than these." And the scribe said to Ilim, "Well. Master, Thou hast said the truth, for there is one God, and to love Him with all the heart, and all the understanding, and all the soul, oil tno cfrnncrt-h is more than whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." And when | Jesus saw that he answered discreetly He j Said unto Him, "Thou art not far from t the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved in one interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold of him with the gentle hand of love we are apt to take him with the pinchers of ecclestasticism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew how he lost his faith in Chris- j tianity. 1 have known men skeptical from the fact that they grew jp in houses where religion ~s overdone. Sunday was the most awful day in the we?k. They had i religion driven into them with a trip ham- I mer; they were surfeited with prayer j me^ings; ihpjr^were scuffed and choked i v.itfiPvcateCTi'sml; tbfg were often told . that ?eyjme-the wwst bovs the parents ; evcrJfce?WesVj|e tjie* liked to ride down i tor.,lead Bunyan's "Pit- j Kher fnd mother talked of rew down the corners of j 1 rolled up their eyes. If vill send a boy or girl to a another that isit.^ If I tripped to skepticism wwsljf -vlronged by some ssed to be a Christian, ler in business wlo turned class scoundrel, though a professed Christian. Many years ago they ; lost all faith by what happened in an oil i company which was formed amid the pe- j troleum excitement. The company owned [ no land, or, if it did, there was no Bign of oil produced, but the President of the j ? . . _.j 1 ? i company was a Presbyterian erner aim mc i Treasurer was an Episcopalian vestryman, j and one director was a Methodist class j leader, and the other directors prominent I members of Baptist and Congregational I churches. Circulars were got out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this company. Innocjnt men and women who had a little money to invest, and that little their all, said: "I do not know anything about this company, but so many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent, and* taking stock in it must be almost a3 good as joining the church." So they bought the stock, and perhaps received one dividend, so as to keep them still, but after awhile they found that the Company had reorganized, and had a different president ana a different treasurer and different directors. Other engagements or ill health had caused the former officers of the companv with many regrets to resign. And all that t..e subscribers of that stock had to show for their investment was a beautifully ornamented certificate. Sometimes that man, looking over his old papers, comes across that certificate, and it is so suggestive that he vows he wants none of the religion that the president and trustees and directors of that oil company professed. Oh, skepticism is a dark land! There are men Svho would give a thousand if tHov nnsseased them, to get back to the placid faith of their fathers and motners, and it is our place to help them, and we may help them, never through their heads, but always through their hearts. These skeptics, when brought to Jesus, will be mightily effective, far more so than those who never examined the evidences of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptic, Robert Hall a skeptic, i. Robert Newton a skeptic, Christian Evans a skeptic. But when once with strong hand they took hold of the chariot of the gospel they rolled it on with what momentum! If I address such men and women to-day I throw out no scoff. I implead them by the memory of the good old days when at their mother's knee they said, "-.ow I j rlnrn lay mc aown iu siet-jj. uuu i>.> . _ , and nights of scarlet fever in which she J watched you, giving you the medicine in I just the rieht time, and turning your pil- I low when it was hot, and with hands tnat i many years ago turned to dust soothed away your nain and with voice that you will never hear again, unless you join her in the better country, told you to never mind, for you would feel better by and by, and by that dying couch where she looked so pale and talked so slowly, catchins her breath between the words, and you felt an awful loneliness coining over vour sou!?by all that I beg you to come back and take the same religion. It was good enough for her; it is good enough for you. is ay, I have a better pian than that. I plead by all ..he wounds and tears and blood and groans and agonies and death throes of the Son of God, who approaches you this moment with torn brow and lacerated hands and whipped 1 1 ' Ma 1 ll TTfl DacK ana saying, umu who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Again, lucre is a field of usefulness but little touched, occupied by those tfhd are astray in their habits. All northern nations! like those of North American and England and Scotland ? that is, in the colaer climates?are devastated by alcoholism. They take the tire to keep up the warmth. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is ao warm they are not tempted to fiery liquids. The great Roman armies never drank anything stronger than water tinged with vinegar, but under our northern climate the temptation to heating stimulants is most mighty and millions succumb. When a man's habits go wrong, the church drops him, the social circle drops him, good influences drop him?we all drop him. Of all the men who get oil the track but few even get on azain. Destitute children of the street offer a i ... ? I field of work comparatively unoccupied. Tlie uncared for children are in the majority in most of our cities. When they grow up. if unreformed, they will outvote your children, and they will govern your child re... f The whisky ring will hatch out other whisky rings, ana grog shops will kill with their horrid stenc.li public sobriety unless the church of Odd rises up with outstretched arms and iniolds this dying population in her bosom. Public schools cannot do it. Art galleries cannot do it. BlaekweH's Islano cannot do it. Almshouses cannot no it. Jails cannot do it. Church of God, wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do it! (jet somewhere, somehow to work! The Prussian cavalry mount by putting their right foot in the stirrup, while the American cavalry mount by putting their left foot into the stirrup. 1 do not care UUW yuu iiiuuuv jvut ?toi VU?&5V? ** j ^ only get into this battle for God and get i there soon, right stirrup or left stirrup or no stirrup at all. The unoccupied fields are all around us, and why should we build on another man's foundation? I have heard of what was called tiie "thundering legion." It was in 179 a part of the Roman army to which some Christians belonged, and their prayer.?, it was said, were answered by thunder and lightning and hail and temped which overthrew an invading army and saved the empire. And I would to God that our churches might be so mighty in prayer and work that they would become a thundering legion before which the forces of sin might be routed and the gates of hell might tremble. Launch the gospel ship for another voyage. Heave aw y now, lads! | Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail! Come, 0 heavenly wind, ind fill the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward. I .Te3us cn the shore will welcome ua into harb?or. J GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROVI TH: WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS Fancies?The I.'cam and The Mote-Myi tery in tiod's Dealings ? Prayers o Thomas A. Kerupis ? Wealth H'orih; of Ambition?Essence or Salvation. God spoke to me through (ho floivers am said: < "Heaven's sweetness aud purity i show In these, my cliildreu. Loye tliem wel for they Are part of 'Me." I bowed my hcadTouehed their faces with my lips. ] know They will return my soft caress souk day. God murmured low, across the sea, and said: "My love and My own constancy 1 show, -.i Through this gr^at sea that grows alway." I looked, aud lo, a wondrous light thai led As to heaveu's gate?And, by this, 1 know \ Life's rough, dark stream shall meet God's sea some day! ?Etta Wallace Wheeler in Universalis' Leader. The Uemn and Tho Mote. It is difficult to see others as they really are. Vet by taking thought enough we can form a fairly accurate conception of their characters and their abilities. It is still more difficult to see ourselves as we are. - Probably if any i.I i:_.. if n uilU ;iiiiwiiu uw i:i;uni i can/ir, n uuij ivi u moment, exactly liow he appears to others, he would be greatly surprised. The character that we think we possess, the character which others think wo possess, ami the character which we realjy possess, may be three very different "things. It should be the aim of iife to harmonize them with each other and with a fourth, the character which we ought to possess. The lesson of the fact that it is almost impossible to understand each other perfectly, even in the case of intimate friends, should promote a profound humility. How often it is that we are credited with being far better than we are. with having a quality and a degree of power, wisdom and, especially, nobility of character, which in our own hearts we know that we have not attained. It is something to be grateful for when wo know that we seem to others to illustrate high excollonee, because it encourages and helps them to believe that we are what we seem; and if we honestly try to realize, as fully a* they think we realize, our ideals, no hypocrisy is involved. But we know, even if they do not, how pitifully We often fail of being what we are supposed to b">. No one can realize this without being humbled, and with tijis lesson ef humility must be joined 4$?* son of charity. What is true of u#''!s true of others. If we need some allowance for our shortcomings, if we are a$ truly better, very often, than we seem to be, as we also sometimes are worse than wo seem to be,, so are our friends. The knowledge of our own \yeaknesses and faults shotijd make us very gentle in judging them, and, if we suspect sometimes that they may not be as' wholly admirable as they seem, we. know* of a surety that they often are far more deserving of love, trust and eVen admiration than they appear. ?. \ ^ : ' Mystery In God's Dealings. When we are oppressed by the impost uuit.v or iuuioming uou s ueaungs wiui us and are face to face with mystery, as we sometimes stand face to face with a fog, we should remind ourselves that, if there were no mystery in God's dealings with us, ire should very soon cause to be able to trust him. It is the element of mystery in every human character which sttpplies a large part of its attractiveness. You may know your friend never so well, yet you do not know him wholly. You, may have summered, and wintered him for years. You may, think that every-operation of his mind ajad every reason for hia conduct .are {perfectly un-, derstood by you, and doubtless in the main you are correct. Yet every now and then he surprises you by some unforeseen utterance or action, revealing elements in his nature which you have at least imperfectly comprehended. It is because of this elusiveness, this unfathomablene.es, this mystery, which is an uufailing element of every human character, that we do not become unendurably weary of one another: and if this be true of each of us within our 'finite and limited capabilities and natures, how much more true it must be of God. 1* - I prayers of Thomas A. Kejnpis. I beseech ihee, my most gracious God, preserve me,from the cares of this life lest I should he tool ijiuch entangled therein: and from the1' many necessities of the body, lest I should bfe ensnared by pleasure: and from whatsoever is an obstacle to the soul, lest, broken with troubles, I should lbe overthrown. Amen. 0 Thou, who hast made the earth so fair and shaped our.eyes that we might see its beauty and our ears that' we might hear its melody, we than|v thee for the gift of life" and for thy presence that is life's abiding happiness and hope. Fix our heart on heavenly things; but let us not despise the earth which thou hast made our dwelling place. In thy love let it be to us the house of God, the very gate of heaven. Let thy holy will he done iji us from day to day. Help us to be patient in life's trials; strong in its temptations, immovable in raitn and ?onrage. ever looking for the tokens of thy presence and the hope of thine appearing. For thou art not far off. but near. 0 tlion- our spiritV; Life and Joy: and thou hast given ns power to become thy children through Jesus Christ our Lord. Anleu. Wealth Worthy of Ambition. Blessed secret! to learn how to do without things. We need to learn this secret of full life in Christ in spite of nhinor deprivations, because we cannot have all the things that we want?even rich men have been known to want more things?and some of us have to do without things which, 0:1 the plane of physical life, are quite desirable. If we can gain wealth it is well to have it. if we receive' it as coming from (Jod and use it for His glory; but tf we do imt possess this wealth, which is the lowest wealth in the gift 'of (iod. we are exhorted to earnestly covet the best gifts? that wealth of heart and soul which lies open for the taking to every follower of rti?Ij Irl, V.ihIh' nf ntn. m-ir 11 nr?Uiii ...w v...? ,/, ? ... bition; .wealth whic h is . offered freely and without stint; the unsearchable riches of Christ, which will make us wealthy, to all eternity. Christ never asks us to do without thi.-: wealth, the true rielies, bat He says: "A.-k. and it shall he piven you; seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened unto j ou."?Advance. The very essence of salvation is to win the will to righteousness. When that is accomplished the work is virtually done. The work of Christ then is to do his will, is to win the frill to righteousness.?Rev. Dr. Crane. BLOW TO THE PURE FOOD LAW. Chicago Ruling That Guilty Knowledge Mast Be Shown. The new Illinois pure food law was given a death blow when Judge Smith, in the Criminal Court, at Chicago, ruled that no conviction can be made unless it is shown that the storekeeper had guiltv knowledge of the selling of impure food. Representatives of the State rure Food Commission expressed their disappointment at the result of their efforts to e?force the law, and admit that punishment can be meted out in but few cases, because it is almost impossible to show a guilty knowledge on tJ.e part of the store teener. m \ , .JTHE SABBATH SCHOOL .1 . * ' 1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 21. [ ' anu the instruction He gave. They came I to ace Jesu9 because they were penitent, . a fact which should have led the Pharisees to rcjoice rather than to murmur. 2. "The Pharisees." The leading party among the Jews; "the orthodox defenders of the law." They were very strict out* I wardly, but neglected the weightier matters of the law, such as justice, mercy, humility and purity of heart. "And Scribes." The teachers of the law, also called 'lawyers1' and "doctors of the law." Many of them were Pharisees and also members of the Sanhedrin. "Murmured." The proud murmur and condemn; the humble hear and learn. They found fault with Him (1) because He allowed outcasts and vicious persons td approach Him, and (2) because He associated with them. "Receiveth sinners." Yes, precious truth! Christ receiveth sinful men. He takes them in His arms, forgives and saves them, and admits them into the circle of disciples. They kept far from other- relii gious teachers, but were drawn to Christ. | "And eateth with them." This was conofrlprpH sranHjilous: it was contrary to the tradition of the elders. Jesus was the friend of the sinner, but not of the sin; they hated the sinner. Jesus associated with sinners for the purpose of drawine , them away from their sins to Himself. 3. "He spake this parable." In order fo ! justify His course and show the true spirit I of the gospel to the lost Ho speaks the parables of this lesson. Something like ( this parable we had in Matthew 18:12. J There it was designed to show the care . God takes for the preservation of saints, as a reason why we should not offend them; here it is designed to show the pleasure God takes in the conversion of sinners, as a reason why we should rejoice : in it. ' i 4. "What man of you." The words are I emphatic. He makes it personal and ap- ! ; peals to their ordinary human feelinsrs. j If they would pity a lost sheep ought He : to be criticised for showing pity to a lost ! ; man? "If he lo3e one of them." The j whole flock of mankind, both Jews and . Gentiles, belongs to the divine Shepherd, j The lost sheep is an emblem of a heedless, ! thoughtless sinner, one who follows the i corrupt dictates of his own heart, without ' | ever reflecting upon his conduct. Wo ! creature is more defenseless, or more in . j danger of being devoured by dogs and I wild beasts than a sheep. Who but a [ Pharisee or a devil would find fault with I the shepherd who endeavors to rescue his ! sheep from danger and ruin! "Leave the ! ninety and nine." Not that the shepherd does not have a care for the ninety and hine-'-they. are all precious to him, but -they are safe.' It is the lost one that now needs, his attention. "In the wilderness." The . plains on which the sheep were pas- I tured. All uncultivated ground- was sailed' "wilderness." "Go after that which is lost." Siitners are lost to God, lost to > holiness and., heaven. Jesus goes after them, by Hi*' spirit, by His providenc&, through His Wit ten word, by His church. He searches diligently with' a "yearning, active, trader sympathy," with a heart I ftHed with true love, bent on findujg and restoring the wanderer. 5. "Hath found it." This is not to be understood as teaching that Christ saves men independent of any action on their i oart. See on verse 7. "On His shoulders." fce bore our sins in His own body on the tree. 1 Pet. 2: 24* Isa. 53: 4-0; Heb. 9: ! 28. "Bejoicing." Love and pity explain 1 the gentleness with which the shepherd \ treats the sheep when he finds it. Mercy i for the lost one and joy within himseH j are the shepherd's feelings. . ' C. "He calleth together." The joy is so great that it needs to be imparted. Those 1 who are animated by the same1 compassion the shepherd manifested will rejoice with , him. This sheep was of no greater value than any one of the ninety and nine that had not wandered away; it was the rescue j that caused the rejoicing. 7. "Joy shall bean heaven." The angels take an interest ,in the affairs of this world. They rejoice (v. 10) when the lost return. "That, repenteth.", Sinners must repent in order to Be saved. The parable represents the shepherd as finding^ the sheep, taking it upon his shoulders^ and carrying it to the fold, the sheep having no will in the .matter; but in the applica- j tion let us remember that the sinner de cides whetner he -will accept or reject tne , love .^nd mercy of Christ. -This parable/ teaches: 1. That man is lost. (1) By ignorance-of the tmth. (2);By falling into vice. (3) By his own heedlessness. 2. That he may be found and restored. ^1) Christ-is seeking him. (2) 'He must repent. 3. That his recovery occasions joy. i (1) To himself. (2) To Christ. (3) To friends and neighbors. (4) To angels. , 8. "If she lose one piece." The same as the Greek drachma and the Roman denarius. In value about 16 cent3. This parable illustrates the preciousness of the hu- > man soul. The loss of one out of ten is a much more serious one than in the pre- I ceding parable. "Seek diligently." A new j idea is brought out in this parable. Pity i moved the shepherd, but self-interest . moved the woman to search for the coin. And so Christ teaches that man has value in the sight of God. 1. The owner of the coin as representing God is, (1) anxious to find that which is lost, (2) diligent in seek' ing.in dark places, (3) successful. (4) filled I with joy at the? recovery. 2. The coin as representing man is, (1) of real value, (2) | unconscious of loss, (3) hg'.pless. But man is different from the coin in that he is , an active, responsible beins, and must repent in order to return to God. 9. "Rejoice with me." The cause of rejoicing was that the coin had been found," not that it was of greater value than the other pieccs which had not been lost. When sinners come to Christ, God, good men and angels all rejoice. If these Pharisees had not been so blind they might have seen how little of the spirit of heaven they had within them; they found fault when Jesus received and saved the lost. 10. "Over one sinner." One soul is precious. To be associated with Christ in the work of saving men is the highest calling we can engaee in in this world. Let us all atrive to be soul winners. HEIRS OF LONC.LOST FATHER. Two New Orlenn* Boy* Own Half ol Onyx Mine In Mexico. Two New Orleans boys, August and William Peres, are heirs to a half interest in a valuable onyx mine in Puebla, Mexico. Recently Augustus Peres, father of the boys, died in Mexico, whither he went twenty years ago, leaving the two boys and their mother at New Orleans. The father did not return and the mother died. Recently the boys had a letter from the Secretary of State making inquiries for the heirs of Augustus Ptres, who had died leaving them his half interest in the onyx mine. Grand Portal Destroyed. The terrific northwester which lashed Lake Superior recently, not only did considerable damage to shipping, but also completely destroyed the Grand Fortal, the principal attraction of the Pictured Hocks and one of the great natural curiosities of the world. The crash of the Portal's fall was heard for nearly twenty miles, though the actual falling was unwitnessed by human eye. Vnln8 of Lake Erie Fisheries. In the Like Erie fisheries 3728 men are employed bjd $2,719,654 capital. Last year e catclAvas valued at $1,150,890. ' I " Subject: The Loat Sheep and the LoM ' Coin, Luke xv? 1-10?(lolden Text: 7 l>uke xv., 1C ? Memory Verse*. 4-7 ? Commentary on the Day'n Lesson. J 1. "Then drew near unto Him." They "were drawing near unto Him" (P- V-) *? [ b|ar Him. They came to His ministry j wit^ an assurance that He would receive 1 them into His kingdom. "Publicans and I sinners." The publicans were the tax gatherers. They were odious to the whole [ nation on account of their occupation and | their>unscrupulousness in carrying it on, > and were persons from whom the religious i held aloof because of their gross and sen| sua' life. "To hear Him." They did not [ co merely to see Him, or t6 solicit for | cu but to hear His excellent doctrine v! sj ' THE GREAT DESTROY?! , , SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOU THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. An Object Lcsaon From Maine?The E feet Upon the Rlalng Generation < Next to r-'o Intoxication Is Treme <Iou?? Inebriety Made Unfamiliar. Drunkenness in London is said to 1 on the increase?especially among wome j The second installment of Bashkirtse ' memoirs is summed up by more than 01 critic as the work not of an inebriate he self, perhaps, but as the natural hyster of a scion of a race of inebriates. Liter : ture and eth;.cs join hands in declarir | that the futare welfare of art no le: ! than bumanii.y depends largely upon lei | liquor being introduced into the indivii j ual. In face of all this it is interesting I read that Maine is considering the reue; ; of her far-famed Prohibition law. 'Wei j however impotent and insincere this la | may be it has worked wonders in the sin pie matter of making inebriety; unfimilis t<y' that State. Men, may object to n< j being able'to procure a glass of wine ? dinner on a.steamship off the coast < Maine; women may declare that the e , feet of a law which may be evaded by pa; ing a fine instead is, morally, just as ba as drunkenness. But the influence c next to1 no saloons amj, virtually, no ii I toxication, is not to oe gainsaid. Upo j a rising generation the effect of such i state of things muat be tremendous. T j put liquor out of reach is one thing; t ! throw the high light of the unusual upo i the effects of liquor is better than th i "awful example" that any temperance let ! turer ever felt obliged to keep tipsj j "Why, a drunken man's a curiosity here, said a Maine native. "I dunno when I'v , seen one 'round,' n<>t since the last cii cus, I guess, an' that was a good man years ago. You oughter have seen th folks stare at him. The boys and girl whose memories couldn't go as far bad as the last drunken man couldn't tak their_ eyps off'n him. They ius' follerei liim 'rnnnil 'sif hp wna nnp <v t.hp aicrtit.? So he was. Everybody was a-sayin t everybody else, 'Did you see the drunkei man?' an' 'Look at the drunken man,' an 'Come quick and have a look at th drunken man.' He was a curiosity, grea deal more than the elephant and th bearded lady and the snake charmer. I they'd charged to' look at that drunkei man, same's they did at the elephant what a pile o' mpney they'd made!"?Nen York Sun. ' " A Tragedy of Drink. It is amazing to what depths stroni drink and a> roving instinct will bring > man; There walked into my town ?thi other day a tramp printer who secure< employment at his trade. He is a younj fellow under thirty, but he tells a remark ible tale of hie ups and downs, giving am pie confirmation of all his story, whicl he related in a modest manner after som< questioning. This common tramp, nov irnrlriiYff/Hnilv flt fViP MQA iQ fhp fl<m nf ; wealthy printer and publisher, aiid ifas f luxurious home, if he would but go to it He is a graduate of Yale College, and haj ivorked on nearly all the New York paperi is a reporter. He was-once the editor ol i prosperous small town daily; he is < nachine operator, and understanding Ger nan, Frenoh and Spanish, can operate the machines in those languages, an<^ beaidef ;his he knows the printing business frotr -op to bottom. . However, with all .hb tail ?nts. strong drink lias mastered him, sod le nafc degenerated into a' tramp, ft teems a pity. The otner day I met aim just as he wa? recovering from a spree. "Why don't you jrace up and be a man?" said I. "JJrape lp," answered he, "why, how can I when very one says: 'Come and have a drink,' md a saloon confronts me at every step, t know I was once a top-notcher, and 1 lave the mental capacity to be so, again; rot I lack the strength; perhaps you call t thp moral courage. ?The Journalist. f A P?ll That Is Always Fall.' / Th^e' is 'one pail that is* perpetually ir ther oeer bucket, anjj it3 full' ies? queans fcpiptiitess for< others^ means icantjr?'wage tara even: ror tna vorkmgmaa never 1 prinks, because he money that allfaMim to make a denand /or t^prodGct-ofchiB strength arid ikill. goea. infltead^to tmr-tiU, of the saoonkeeper.' The fullness 61 the beer pail neans gaunt famine ifa the homes of drinkng meii?Starving, half-clad, half-frozen children and despairingv women, means icrimped living and harassing scantiness n the Home of the honest and sober la>orer, because of the Economic waste of nore than a billion dollars every year. American labor will never be fully emjloyed and well paid until the beer pail s empty and the door of the den where t is filled closed fast, and the political >arty that prates loudly of "prosperity," ind as well its chief opponent whose stock n trade is usually believed to be "calahity," both lovingly agree to keep the beer jail full ind the saloon wide open.?New Toice. \ ,' , . " "The Meanest Business on Earth." In one of our large cities there is a mai who keeps a first-Class restaurant, and his ;wo children, one of them an interesting x>y of about ten years of age, wait on the jable. A friend who was much attracted by the manliness and gentleness of the ad, said: "You have a splendid waiter." ''Yes," said. the proprietor, "he is my jon. I used to sell liquor. The boy came lome one day and said: 'Papa, we fellows it school had a discussion to-day about the business in which our parents were engaged, and the question was asked: 'What does your father do?' One of them said: 'My father works.' Another said, 'My father is a merchant.' Another said, 'My father is a lawyer.' I said, 'My father sells liquor.' And then one of the boys spoke up and said, 'That is the meanest business on earth.' And then h? looked around and asked, 'Father, is that so?' And I said, 'Yes, John, it is, and 1 am going to get out of it. God helping mf I wul get out of it.'" A Congestion of Public Homes. In Ireland in 1896 the total number ol licensed houses was 18,751. In that coun try the congestion of public houses was terrible. In one city (Tralee) in on? etreet. forty yards long, so narrow thai two carts cannot pass in it, there an twelve public houses. In another towr there are ten to a population of >179, ir another one house in three, in anothei one to every thirty persons. ;r:' ' . ?' Burred From the Order. In the Modern Woodmen Society the official organ announces: "A camp clerl has no right to receive du.es and asaesS ments from a person who has engaged ic the liquor business. When the membei engages in the liquor business he void: his certificate, and the local clerk does not make his certificate valid by receivinf dues and assessments from him." The Crusade in Brief. Th^re are fiitv-two official temperanc< committees in Russia, each receiving i state subvention of $25,000. ilt is personal influence and personal ex ample that count, and the moderate drink er does not reach the highest level o manhood. The Russian Government is grapplinj with the nuestion ot tne restriction 01 m< liquor traffic, and is showing some succes; in its methods. It is reported from Liverpool that, ow ing to the improvement in the tenemen houses in that city there has been i marked falling off in drunkenness. In Mobile twenty per cent, less whisk] is sold now than formerly. Many moderate drinkers wish then was some way in which they could ge moderately drunk. It is -aid that, taking the South, as < whole, there was a decrease in rum drink ing last year of about fifteen per cent., a compared with the previous years. We need to be more busy in making te< totalers and organizing tncm for uggrc: sive temperance work, keeping before u as an ideal the prohibition of the liquu trallic. In Savannah it i.s claimed that ther has been a decrease of twenty-five pe ' .liifinir thr> nn? cent, in tut; iiiibi\) uuiw, ? eight and ten years. In Atlanta the d< ^ estimated at twenty per cent V, s * i ahcisehet ,t fiyj1: '8 To TT?ih Whlt? Velli. ^ 38 3a Take a lined saucepan, and in it make a strong solution of soap and S water, put the veil into it and place lf over the flre to simmer for about twenty ty minutes; then squeeze the veil in a' warm soan and water till it ifl auite Jt clean; rinse in cold water, then again it in a little cold water to which has >? been added a few drops of blue and ? one lamp of sugar. Shake the veil d gently and pin it on a clean towel tq ,? dry. ' , . i- ^ n < Flower* In Booms. a The principal things to be considered ? in relation to pot flowers in rooms are n light, moisture and. air, with absence e of draft Judicious watering of plants :r' in rooms is, perhaps, the most impor>' tant feature in their management, a c feature that is, unfortunately, in many - cases not understood, the water being ^ givon mechanically and with no re9 gard to change, of Bt.ason. By a too k eager desire for their welfare delicate ? plants are often surfeited with water. , There are, of course, exceptions to 0 every rule, but in a general way the * following rules are applicable: 1 In winter keep plants (not growt ing fast at the time) rather dry; in & spring increase the quantity of wa? ter with their activity and the sun's 1 power?that is to say, keep the plants v In a medium state, of moJstnre; in summer water them dally,, and in autumn decrease the amount of1 water given ^ with the length of the day and the ^ returning torpidity of the plants until | the dry state of winter is again reached. All this resolves Into the folowlngj Plants when grown fast may have \ free supplies ofl water, which must ) be lessened their growths approach i 'maturity, until the return of their \ growing season. J. ' \ , ;t., Hew to Wash Dlaliea. {.v; Dish washing is more frequently \ i neglected in its details than any other ; branch of household menage. To get the dishec washed and put .'away is f( vthe only aim of the average maid, ' ?4Jttd unless the housekeeper oversees 1' s &e^ work and insists upon its being ' ddn&ypijoperly, streaky plates and i t;'.-rough cup8 with yellowed streaks t about the'handles and in the creases ! are .JSUre to appear, while broken, 1 nicked and cracked dishes will be her , despair. Better far cheap dishes with odt nicks and cricks and with dainty, : ' polishedsurfaces, than the finest ware 'FCtoWy cared for. The 'china should never be mixed with vthe cooking and kitchen utensils and dishes. The latter should be waftbfed first and put away. Then the * "soap plates should be held under runnlr?(T xcfltor nr riliincrbri lnt/% o nnn nf O f ' V? ^/<UAi^V,U ?UW U [/?IU vii cleair-water and piled together." The meat and fish plates and entree dishes should be thoroughly scraped, rinsed like the soup plates, and each kind plied together. The dessert dishes should follow the same course. Cups with fragile handles should occupy an isolated position on the dish table. Spoons with bowls all pointing one way/and knives and forks should be laid in separate heaps. Two good sized pans; one for washing and one for rinsing, and a dish drainer are all needed, and should be placed in position, with soapsuds as strong as the hands will bear in the dish washing pan. First wash the glassware, then plunge it quickly into the hot water / in the rinsing pan; place it in the drainer and dry, and put it away as soon as all are washed. Next wash and dry the cups and saucers in the flflmo irnr nn/1 nnt ft mm nnroxr Thon wash, wipe and put away the sliver, cleaning the teaspoons first. All the other dishes can be washed, rinsed and drained together. Water just below the boiling point should be poured over the china to rinse It. It wijl take determination and patience to get a maid into the habit of washing her dishes in this way, but it can be done, and in one family where this method is always used broken and nicked dishes are almost unknowc. There should be no sound from the dishes during the entire process. n ~~ rri . i -loi iseJold aeapes Silver Cake ? Beat to a cream onehalf cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar, add one-half cupful of milk, ; one teaspoonful of vanilla, the beaten whites of three eggs, two cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and one-half teaspoonful of soda. Stewed Chicken With AsparagusStew a fowl cut in joints and season when half-cooked. When done remove from the liquor, cover closely and keep , hot where it will not dry. Cook two i bunches of white asparagus in the j broth and remove to five half slices of - toast. Thicken the liquid with flour, j let simmer ten minutes, then stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs, with a t cupful of cream, seasoning if needed, and a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Tour over the asparagus and fowl? the asparagus placed in the centre of the platter, the fowl arranged about It neatly. Curried Salmon?Put In a saucepan a tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of chopped ouions and cook slowly together till the oniou changes color. Add a tablespoonful of flour and a teaspoonful of curry powder; mix with the butter, then add threea ? ? quarters or a pine or uiiik. >vneu smooth add moiv seasoning if liked; i- draw to one side and si aimer ten min* Utes. Add one pound of salmon r (ennned or boiled) freed from bones I e and skiu and broken in good-sized r pieces. Gently cook ilfteen minutes ll longer and serve with boiled rice in a | 1 4,?n^j-ate dish. ? ^r - NEGRO DIES AT THE STAKES ?| Large Crowd Wajph^tfte ^ames 43 |j/. They Consume^e Victim. Asxnnlted i.TCMto Woqwo in Alabama* ^ Wlioso Hanbana FIrfefl t|?e Pile?Wa? (t*un Down by Bloodhou ntlg, Wetumpka, Ala. (Special).?WInfleld TowDsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake In the little town of Eclectic, Qrteen miles rrom tni? placc. a few days ago. The crime with which he was charged was an ' assault upon Mrs. Lonnie Harrlng* ton, whose husband set fire to thq brands, wliich reduced Townsend'a body to ashes. The victim was a nephew of a man hanged her? a week ago for a similar crime. Mr. Harrington was engaged at a cotton gin in Eclectic and lived one mile out of town. The negro came td the house and told Mrs. Harrington that her husband had senc him to get twenty cents from hpr. She told him she had no change. Then the negro left, but returned In about ten .minutes. The woman's screams were heard by Bob' Nichols, another negro, who was passing along the <t ~ road at the time. 'He ran to t~e* house in time to see the negro escape. The news spread rapidly. All the stores In Eclectic were closed, all 'the gins and saw mills rfhut down; the people left their -wagons in the road and their plows in the field and gathered for a pursuit of the negro. The crowd divided, some scouring the woods near the scene of the crime and others went tq the penitentiary for bloodhounds. \ v. The dogs jwer?\not brought to the scene until nearly dark. They were taken to where the negro's tracks cisappeared, and an excltine chase ensued. The dog* stopped finally at a V tree In front oRfldion's "store ou the outskirts of the town. < The crowd coming up soon discovered the negro sitting on a llffcb^^e was brought down at once. T&fcfisend was confronted by Mrs. Htf^ngton, who post ? ? tlvely Identified him. i ;*>; Word was sent tPtty# ,other searching parties that the negro had been - '? found, and about ft O'clock a crowd of several hundred waS In the little village. The negro was then taken to the edge of the village. The prep^ aratlons for death were quickly made.' ,A rope was flung over the limb of a bie oak and a hundred stood ready to lend a band at the rope. Then a halt was called and the manner of death discussed by the mob. ^ To decide the matter a vote was taken and the balloting showed ft majority of the crowd to favor death at the stake. 1 The stake wag ppjjpared-and the negro was bonna to It with chains. Pine knots were piled about him. v ^ Townsen d's wild cries upon God for ; mercy and help could be heard a.long way. The crowd looked on, deaf to :: his cries, and in an hour the negro . was reduced to ashes. Townsend, before being bound, confessed the crime, and safd he was also Implicated with Alexander Floyd, who was Hanged a couple of weeks ago. He said he and Fiord bad planned . , for other crimes of like character, bnt that Floyd's execution put a stop to them. , BELGIUM'S HEIR TAKES A BRIDE. She I* the Ducheaa Elisabeth of Bavaria, Daughter of a Celebrated Ocollat. - -' V>! Munich (By Cable).?Prince Albert V of Belgium, heir presumptive to the V> throne of that country, married the Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria. The civiL ceremony took place in the throne room and was followed by a religious ' PRINCE ALBERT OF BELOrUSI. service in the Chapel Royal, after which there was a reception. Pr: ice Albert of Belgium is the son of Philippe, Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold of Be'gium. Tho prince wrs born in 1873. The Dichesn Elizabeth was born in 1S76. She is a daughter of Duke Charles Thecdore of Bavaria, the eel ebrated oculist. Big Whale In Delaware Bay. A large whale measuring probably forty feet In length was seen in Del- , aware Bay, about a hundred feet from shore, at Cape May. N. J, He dived after a few miuutes and did not reappear. _ . Bay State Democratic Ticket. The Democrats of Massachusetts have nominated a State ticket headed ' by Robert Treat Paine, Jr., of Boston. Secretary Hay Kctarna to Daty. Secretary Hay has returned to Washington from his outing in the New Hampshire hills, and resumed his official duties at the State Department somewhat improved in health, but not entirely recovered from his recent Indisposition. Woman Centenarian l>le?. Mrs. Ai:u Bryan Ilowe died at TVliItclin!1 Y oirml vr>nr? Shf? was probably the oldest person in t Northern New York. Had she lived three? mouths longer she would have lived in three centuries. Nerntjr CileHnmjja, A trust has been formed to control the output and sale of lobsters and other sea food. A northeaster has destroyed Graud Portal, one of the famous pictured rocks on Lake Superior. Paris is holding its first postage stamp exhibition and the stamps ex uiuucu are insureu ior ??uu,uw. Disorders have broken out at Sunrai, near Canton, China. Several villages have been destroyed and others i bfsi'>ir?d I