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TVR. TAT,MAGE'S SERMON I! I s f SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE oY THE NOTED \ i DIVINE. J i Subject: The Ministry of Tears ? Tf Onr {' Misfortunes Are Horue in the Fijht , l,? Spirit They May Prove to Ho Advan- j tages?Soul Chastened by Sorrow. r f[CopjTinbt 1901.] ' New York Citt. ? A vast audience 1: crowded the Academy of Music in this r city to hear Dr. Talma pre. Discoursing on ' "The Ministry of Tears" he put forth the ; misfortunes of lite in a cheerful light, * showing that if they were borne in the a right spirit they mieht orove to bp advan- e tage3. His text was Rev. vii, 17, "And 0 I God shall wipe away all tears from their ( eyes." s What a spectacle a few weeks ago when the nations were in tears! Queen Vic- ' toria ascended from the highest throne on c earth to a throne in heaven. The nraysr J more often offered than any prayer for the last sixty-four years had been answered. c and God did save the Queen. All round the world the belis were tolling, and the * minute guns were booming at the obse- ? qnies of the most honored woman of many centuries. As near four years ago the English and American nations shook hands in congratulation at the Queen's jubilee, so in these times two nations shook hands in mournful sympathy at the t Queen's departure. No neople outside * Great Britain so deenlv felt that mighty i; grief a3 our people. The cradles of mnny ? of our ancestors were rocked in Great Bri- 1 tain. Tho e ancestors plaved in ch'Hhood f on the banks of thr> Tweed, or the Thames ]' or the Shannon. Take from our veins the 1 English blood, or the Welsh blood, or the t Irish blood, or the Scotch blood, and the s stream of our life would- be a mere shal- ' low. There are over there bone of onr f bone, and flesh of our flesh. It is our Wil- ' berforce, our Coleridge, our D? Ouincsy, a our Robert Burns, our John Wesley, our * John Knox, our Thomas Chalmers, our ^ Walter Scott, our Bishop Charnock, our t Latimer, our Ridley, our Robert Emmet, a our Daniel O'Connell, our Havelock, our 1 Ruskm, our Gladstone, our good and great and glorious Victoria. J The language in which we offered the f? English nation our condolence is the same t language in which John Bunyan dreamed < and Milton sans and Shakespeare drama- * tized and Richard Baxter praved and ? George Whitefield thundered. The Prince J of Wales, now King, naid reverential visit 1 to Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, c and Longfellow's statue adorns Westmins- 1 ter Abbev, and Abraham Lincoln in * bronze looks down upon Scotland's capi- f tal. It was natural that these two na- ? tions be in tears. But I am not goine to ^ speak of national tear3, but of individual 4 tears and Bible tears. Riding across a Western prairie, wild t flowers up to the hub of the carriage [ wheel and while a long distance from any s shelter, there came a sudden shower, and t while the rain wa3 falling in torrents the s sun was shining as brightly as I ever saw a it shine, and I thoueht what a beautiful a spectacle 13 this! So the tears of the r Bible ere not midnight storm, but rain on 1 pansied prairies in God's sweet and golden a sunlighf. s You remember that bottle which David r labeled as containing tears and Mary's 1 tears and Paul's tears and Christ's tears s and the harvest of joy that is to snring c from the sowing of tears. God mixes them; 1 God rounds them; God shows them where 1 to fall; God exhales them. A census is r taken of them, and there is a record as to 1 the moment when they are born and as to J the place of their grave. < Tears of bad men are not kept. Alex- t ander in his sorrow had the hair clinpcd S from his horses and mules and made a I great ado about his grief, but in all the I vases ot heaven there is not one 01 aicx- \ ander's tears. I speak of the tears of God's children. Alas, me, they are falling t all the time! s In summer you sometimes hear the J growling thunder, and you see there is a { storm miles away, but you kno%v from the 1 drift of the clouds that it will not come ' anywhere near you; so, though it may be ( all bright around about you, there is a 1 ehower of trouble somewhere all the time. ' Tears, tears! ' What is the use of them, anyhow? Why ' not substitute laughter? Why not make s this a world where all the people are well < and eternal strangers to pains and aches? ] What is the use of an eastern storm when ' we might have a perpetual nor'wester? Why, J when a family is put together, not have ' them all stay, or. if they must be trans- ' planted to make other homes, then have 1 them all live, the family record telling a 1 story of marriages and births, but of no deaths? Why not have the harvests ' chase each otner without fatiguing toil? 1 Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the c hard struggle? It is easy enough to ex- . plain a 6inile or a success or a congratula- 1 tion, but come now and bring all your die- I tionaries and all your philosophies and all < your religions and help me explain a tear. ' A chemist will tell you that it is mad? 1 up of salt and lime and other component J W***" V? n micoac f Vi q nKIrtf i rrrn/^ ion f"C * ?the acid of a soured life, the viperine j sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of j a broken heart. I will tell you what a tear 1 is. It is agony in solution. Hear, then, 8 while I discourse of the ministry of tears ( or the practical uses of sorrow: First, it is the design of trouble to keep ( this world from being too attractive. 1 Something must be done to make us w.ill- J ing to quit this existence. If it were not ? for trouble, this world would be a good 1 enough heaven for us. You and I would f be willing to take a lease of this life for a ( hundred million years if there were no ] trouble. The earth, cushioned and up- ' holstercd and pillared and chandeliered at f such expense, no story of other worlds ( could enchant us. We would say: "Let j well enough alone. If you want to die and j have your body disintegrated in the dust ' and your soul go out on a celestial adven- 1 ture. then you can go, but this world is 1 good enough for me.' You might ns well ( go to a man who has iust entered the 1 Louvre at Paris and tell him to hasten off , to the picture galleries of Venice or Flor- j ence. Why; he would say. what is the ' use of my aoina there? There are Hem- * brandts and Kubenses and Titiuns here * that I have rot looked at yet." No man ' wants to go out of this world or out of ' any house until he has a better house. To cure this wish to stay here God must ? somehow create a disgust for our surroundings. How shall He ao it? He cannot afford to efface His horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel from the sunset, or to subtract an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette, or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to mar his St. Paul's cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own "Last Judgment," or a Handel to discord his ? "Israel in Egypt," and you cannot expect 1 God to spoil the architecture and music of a His own world. How, then, are we to be made willing to leave? Here is where 1 trouble comes in. * ? After a man has had a good deal of i trouble he says: "Well, I am ready to go. J If there is a house somewhere whose roof f does not leak, I would like to live there. J If there is an atmosphere somewhere that J does not distress the lungs, I would like to j; breathe it. If there is a society some- J where where there is no tittle tattle, I J would like to live there. If there is a 1 home circle somewhere where I can find | my lost friends. I would like to go there." He used to read the first part of the Bible | chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis for 1 Revelation? Ah, he used to be anxious v chiefly to know how this world was made ? and all aSnnf it? construction. ' Now he is chiefly anxious to know how r the next world was made, and how it looks c find who live there, and how they dress. ? He reads Revelation ten times now where j he reads Genesis once. The old story, "In 1 the beginning God created the heavens 1 and the earth," does not thrill him half I as the other story, "I saw a new heaven ' and a new earth." J I The old man's hand trembles as he turns 1 over this apocalvptical leaf, and he has v to take out his handkerchief to wipe his 0 Bpectacles. The book of Revelation is a ^ brospectus now of the country into which c tie is soon to immigrate, the country in c which he has lots already laid out and F tvenues opened and mansions built. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us 8 feel our dependence upon God. We do r not know our own weakness or God's f itrength uniil the last plank breaks. It is * contemptible in us that onlv when there 1 is nothing else to take hold, of we catch 11 pold of God. Why, do you know who the 4 Lord is? He is not an autocrat seated a ar up in a palace, from which He emerges "] ince a year, preceuea oy neraias swinging words to clear the way. No; He 13 a ather, willing at our call to utand by us . n ever/ crisis and predicament of lite. I 1 ell you what some of you business men nuke me think of. A nian is unfortunate n his business. He has to raise a good lea! of money and raise it quickly. He I lorrovvs on word and note all he can borow. After a while he puts a mortgage on lis house; after a while he puts a second nortgage on his house. Then he puts a ien on his furniture; then he makes over lis life insurance: then he assigns all his e property; then he goes to his father- f: n-'nw and asks for help. Well, v laving failed everywhere, completely t ailed, he gets down on his knees j .ml says: '"0 Lord, I have tried S( vervbody and everything: now help me [, >ut of this financial trouble!" He makes iod the last resort instead of the first re- p ore. ^ i A young man goes off from home to earn lis fortune. He goes with his mother's " onsent and benediction. She has large vealth, but he wants to make his own u ortune. He goes far away, falls sick and ets out of money. He sends for the hotel i> :eeper where he is staying, asking for lelience, and the answer h? gets is. "If you b !o not pay up Saturday nicrht you'll be re- v noved to the hospital." The young man J ends to a comrade in the same building; 10 help. He writes to a banker who was p 1 friend of his deceased father; no relief. n j... _ 1.j. 1 1.? ?,.,..1 !. >atuiua\ iiiu,tn. uumes. uuu xs? ui'/icu ov/ j he hospital. Getting here, he is frenzied c vita grief, and he borrows a sheet of >aper and a postage stamp, and he sits iown, and he writes home: "Dear mother, am sick unto death. Come." Tt is twen- " y minutes of 10 o'clock when shs gets the 8 ptter. At 10 o'clock the train starts. She a, s five minutes from the depot. She gets : here in time to have five minutes to part. She wonders why the train that o an go forty miles an hour cannot go (J ightv miles an hour. She rushes into the A io?pital. She savs: "My son, what does ti ill this mean? Why did you not send for t! ne? You sent to everybody but me. You y ;new I would and could heip you. Is this, C he reward I get for my kindness to you (j itways?" She bundles him up, takes him f, 10me and gets him well very soon. Now, some of you treat God just as that r 'oung man treated his mother." When you ret into a financial perplexity you call on P he banker, you call on the broker, you rail on your creditors, i'ou call on your . awyer for legal counsel, you call upon u sverybody, ana when you cannot get any lelp then you go to God. You say, "0 1 jord, I come to Thee! Help mo now out '< >f my perplexity." And the Lord comes, E hough it is in the eleventh hour. He L ;ays: "Why did you not send for Me beore? As one whom his mother comfort- ^ th so will I comfort you." It is to throw k is back upon God that we have this minis- is ry of tears. t Again, it is the use of trouble to capaci- t ate us for the office of sympathy. The ti >riests under the old dispensation were n iet apart by having water sprinkled upon n ;neir nanas, teec ana neaa, ana oy me a sprinkling of tears people are now set a ipart to the office of svm[tathv. When we 3, ire in prosperity we like to have a great nan.v young people around us. ana we r( &ugh when they laugh, and we romp vhen thsy romp, and we sing when they . ling, but when we have trouble we like J! )lenty of old folks around. Why? They enow how to talk. Take an aged mother, *"! eventy-five years of age, and she is almost * >mnipotent in comfort. Why? She has a jeen through it all. At 7 o'clock in the Homing she goes to comfort a young 1 nother who has just lost her babe. Grand- i< nother knows all about that trouble, ii fifty years ago she felt it. At 12 o'clock d )f that day she goes over to comfort a vidowed soul. She knows all about that. J she has been walking in that dark valley [ ;wenty years. At 4 o'clock in the after- t loon some one knocks at the door, want- u ng bread. She knows all about that. j. LVo or three times in her life she came ? ;o her last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night t ihe goes over to sit up with some one severely sick. She knows all about it. She T cnows all about fevers and pleurisies and j jroken bones. She has been doctoring all j] icr life, spreading plasters and pouring * >ut bitter drops and shaking up hot pil- J ows and contriving things to temot a poor w inpetite. Drs. Abernethy and Rush and rlosack and Ilarvey were great doctors, C jut the greatest doctor the world e%-er e :aw is an old Christian woman. Dear me, e lo we not remember her about the room Jvhen we were sick in our boyhood? Was p ;here any one who could ever so touch a f, sore without hurtinz it? -And when she ! f ifted her spectaelcs against her wrinkled ? 'orehead so she could look closer at the ^ round it was three-fourths healed. And vhen the Lord took her home, although r ou may have been men and women thirty, :orty, fifty years of age, you lay on the n :of!in lid and sobbed a? though you were c >nlv five or ten years of age. a Your troubles are educational. I go * nto the office of a lapidary, an artificer in " jrecious stones, and I see him at work on ^ >ne precious stone for a few minutes, and s le puts it aside finished. I see him take c lp another precious stone, and he works t >n that all the afternoon, and I come in p lie next day and still find him working on o t, and he is at work on it all the week. ] [ say to him, "Why did you put only t wenty minutes' work on that one precious r itone and put a whole week on this c] >t'ner?" "Oh," he says, "that one upon < vhich I put only twenty minutes' work is >f but little worth, and I soon got through * vit'n it. But this precious stone upon vhich I have put such prolonged and care- e iui work is of vast value, and it is to flash a n a king's coronet." So God lets one man a 50 through* life with only a little cutting jf misfortuneT^iftr he does not amount to C nuch, he is a smai^-Spul and of compara- ! ;ively little value, bllt-^this other is of 1: jreat worth, and it is cut of pain, and cut t >f bereavement, and cut of persecution, i: md cut of all kinds of trouble, and s ;hrough many years, and I ask, "Dear ]( 'iOrd, why ail this prolonged afid severe s process'/" and God says: "This sdul >9 of ^ nfinite value, and it is to flash in asking's j :oronet. He shall be Mine in the- day ^ vhen I make up My jewels." v V?? ? ,??11 >h? C ood becomes more delicate at the last. J -j iave fed you to-day with the bread of con- ^ ;olation. Let the table now be cleared, tnd let us set on the chalice of heaven. v >et the King's cupbearers come in. "Oh," * ;ays some critic in the audience, "the fi ^ible contradicts itself. It intimates again t md again that there are to be no tears ( n heaven, and if there be no tears in heav- t ;n how is it possible that God will wipe d tny awav?". I answer, "Have you never d ieen a child crying one moment and laughng the next and while she was laughing P ;ou saw the tears still on her face?" Ana f jerhaps you stopped her in the verv midst >f her resumed glee and wiped oft those t lelayed tears. So I think after the heav:nly raptures have come upon us there nav be the mark of some earthly grief, md while these tears are glittering in the ~ ight of the jasper sea God will wipe them d iway. How well He can do that! v Friends, if we could get any apprecia- t ion of what God has in reserve for us, it J vould make us so homesick we wutild be a mfit for our every-day work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put n my hands a meteoric stone, a stone hrown off from some other world to this. r iow suggestive it was to me! And 1 have a o tell you the best representations we iave of heaven are only aerolites flung off rom that world which rolls on, bearing he multitude of the redeemed. We anayze these aerolites and find them crystalizations of tears. No wonder, flung off rom heaven! "God shall wipe away all eats from their eyes." Do you not this moment catch a glimpse the to1 vers? Do you not hear a note of he eternal harmony? Some of you may A emember the old Crystal Palace in this . rity of New York. I came in from my ountry home a verdant lad and heard in hat Crystal Palace the first great music had ever heard. Jullien gave & concert here, and there were 3000 voices and 3000 >layers upon instruments, and I was uightily impressed with the fact that Julien controlled the harmony with the moion of his hand and foot, beating time vith the one and emphasizing with the ither. To me it was overwhelming. But 11 that was tamp pomnared with the scene nd the sound when the ransomed shall -J ome from the east, and the west, and the ( lorth, and the south, and sit down in the ( :ingdom of God, myriads above myriads. ) alleries above galleries, and Christ will ise, and all heaven will rise with Him. nd with His wounded hand and wounded 5 oot He will conduct that harmony. "Like / ^ he voice of many waters, like the voice of 1 nighty thunderings, worthy is the Lamb] 11 hat was slain to receive riches and honour ? nd glory and power, world without J [HE SABBATH SCHOOL NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 31. ieview of the First Quarter, Isaiah liii. 1-13 _ Golden Text, He is Despised and ltejeirted of Men, Isaiah lili., 3? Summary of the Twelve Lessons. Introduction.?The lessons this quarter *nhr;ice but six (lays in the life of Christ; rom Saturday eveniirg, April 1, when tie raa anointed by Mary at Simon's house, o Friday afternoon. April 7, when He ;ied on the cross and was buried by Joeph. But what great and stirring events ave occurred in that short space of time! Lesson 1. Topic: Honoring Christ. Mace: Bethany, it is six days before the 'assover, and Jesus is at the house of Siion. the leper. While sitting at meat lary anoints the head and feet of Christ, sing a pound of very precious ointment, alued at about $50. The disciples are idignant, anu think it should have been old and given to the poor. .Jesus reukes them, and commends the woman ery highly. Judas agrees to betray esus for thirty pieces of silver, or $16.98. 2. Topic: Christ announced as King, 'lace: Jerusalem. Jesus and His disciles journeying toward Jerusalem; two isciples sent to Bethphage to secure a olt; the colt is brought to Jesus; the disiples spread their garments on the anilal and set Jesus thereon; the prophecy i Zech. 9: 9 is fulfilled; a great multitude liout "Hosanna!" and spread garments nd strew branches in the way; Jesus leanses the temple; children praise Him. 3. Topic: Christ confirming the faith f the Centiles. Place: Jerusalem. The rrceks at the Passover desire to see Jesus. i 1 foil .Ioci:a -Tpftiiq inurew uuu i ww?? wvu?.?, eachcs the people; tells of His death and he glory to follow. As a grain of ;heat must die before it bears fruit, so 'hrist must die in order to save the world, 'hrist is troubled in soul; God spake ;om heaven. 4. Topic: The great commandment, 'lace: Jerusalem. Jesus still in the temle. The Herodians, Sadducees and Phar>ces ask Him hard questions, testing Him. ill are silenced. The great commandment i given by Christ. We should love God upremely. Sin, the world and the self fe must all be renounced. We should >ve our neighbor. Christ questions the 'harisees: How is Christ both the son of )avid and also David's Lord? 5. Topic: The duty of watching. Place: loant of Olives. The subjects of Christ's ingdom are likened to ten virgins. Christ ? the Bridegroom, and the oil represents he grace of God. The foolish virgins had he lamp of profession, but lacked oilrue spiritual life. They endeavored to lake good their preparation at the last loment, but it was too late. The wise re the true Christians who not only had profession, out the love of God in the oul. C. Topic: The duty and reward of faithillness. "Place: Mount of Olives. The taints are given and Che master takes his jurney. Two servant make a iarge gain, lie third buries his talent. The master's cturn, though delayed, is certain. So 'hrist will surely come again. Two servants come to their master and bring the ilcnts given them and as many more, 'hey are commended and rewarded. The lie servant has no increase, but hard sayizs and excuses. He is cast into outer arkness. 7. Topic: Christ our Passover. Place: erusaleni. It was Thursday; Jesus sent 'eter and John to Jerusalem to prepare he passover supper; they found a large pper room where they made ready; in he evening Jesus sat at the table with lis disrinles: He told tliern that one of hem should betray Him; they were sorowful and every one asked, "Lord, is it ?" Jesu3 said it would have been better 3r that man never to have been born; le then told Judas that He was the one; udas left; Jesus cats His last supper ,-ith the remaining eleven. 8. Topic: The sufferings of Christ. Place: lethsemune. Jesus and eleven disciples nter the garden; eight are left near the ntrance; Peter, James and John go with lim into the garden. Jesus agonizes in rayer; His sweat is like blood: He prays or strength; an angel is sent; three imes lie asks llis disciples to waHi with lim; three times He finds them sleeping. Vre should watch and pray. 9. Topic: The arrest of Christ. Place: lethsemane. It was in the middle of the ight; Judas and a band of Ilontan soldiers ame to arrest .lesu.s; they have torches nd weapons. What a picture is Juda? of fallen human being! For years he had istcned to the teachings of his Divine laster. He had seen the multitudes fed, ea calmed, and the dead raised.. He ould not help but know that Jesus was he Son of God; and yet, for a few paltry ieces of silver he enters the quiet retreat f the Saviour and covers His face with isses as a sign to the officers that He is he one they are seeking. What hypocisy! To what depths can a fallen man escend! Jesus shows Himself to them; hey fall backwards to the ground; Jesun sks that His disciplcs be permitted to go Iieir way; Peter cuts oft* the servants ar; Jesus tells Peter to put up his sword, nd heals the ear; Jesus arrested, bound nd taken away. 10. Topic: The accusations against Christ. I'lace: The palace of Caiaphas. esus is sent from Annas to Caiaphas the tigh priest; Peter follows afar oft and hrice denies the Saviour; the Sanhcdrin 3 hastily summoned; false witnesses are ought and are found with diiTiculty; at list two testify that Ho said He could detroy the temple and build it in three lays; Jesus is silent; Caiaphas asks Him f He is the Christ; Jesus replies that He s; Caiaphas rent his clothes; Jesus is ondemned to death. 11. Topic: Pilate seeking to release esus. Place: Pilate's judgment hall, [esus is taken to Pilate, the governor. [*{io investigates the' charges and find* h&m false: Jesus is sent to Herod, who ndsS.no fault with Christ. Pilate calls he pePP'e together and desires to release 'hrist; >bey demand that He be crucified; hree tirrt^s Pilate urges His release; they emand tfte release of Harabbas, a .mur erer; Pilafep yields; washes his hands. 12. TopicY Closing scenes in Christ's arthly life, n Place: Mount Calvary, 'hrist on the\cross; mocked by the soliers; vinegar Offered; the superscription; he two thieves frucificd with Christ; one ailed on Jesus,\the other confessed his ins and asked \ to be remembered in Christ's kingdom J _ the prayer answered; arkness from 12 fill 3 o'clock; Jesus cried '"ith a loud vojop and died; the centurion's estimony; Jo<ep?h b.-gged the body of esus; wrapped It in lii en and laid It in new sepulchre. ! Suffering Au"onK Zunl Indians. An appeal has freen scut to the Departnent of the Interior at Washington foi iid for the su?eriug Zuni Indians in Sortheastern Arizona and Northwesterr sew Mexico. A report from Apache 'ounty says tl^'at some of the tribe near iolimiih is ipi ? fearful condition from ick of food and clothing, ltations at the gency are totally inadequate, and whites lave been contributing supplies. Last ummer's ' drought destroyed the Zuni rops, an"' the Indians traded nearly all heir blankets and clothing for food. As result the unusually .severe winter has auscd /much sickness and death. i , A British War OIHce Blunder. - i i ..r AiP aiinosi unexanipieu i:usl- ui uj.iw... ,|ui'j<!ciin^ is reported from Liverpool, t appeals that the British War Ollice under the impression that the Liverc/ol Volunteers were still in South Africa, Jhd kept a new Special Service Corps on faiting orders until it could be ascer.uiucd whether the Liverpool Volunteers pjuired strengthening. The Liverpool Volunteers returned to Liverpool lour nonths ago. Sev*n-^Insted Scliooner. A seven-masted schooner will be built his year by John P. Gordon, of Franklin, >le. Tho dimensions are: Length of keel, 35 feet; beam, fifty-four feet; depth of lold, thirty-two feet; draft in light trim, igh^een feet; about 4000 tons net register. ?he estimated cost is $155,000. # . GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. 1 PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM TH= WORLO'S GREATEST PROPHETS. I Give My Heart to Thee ? The Diamond Kule ? The Power Hint Draws ?Not Wlint I Would Have Clioxen ? When Prayer* Seem UielesM?Doing the Work I give my heart to Thee, (J Jesus most desired! Ami heart for hoart tin* gift shall be, For Thou my soul hast tired: Thou hearts alone won Ms t move: Thou only hearts dost love, I would love Thee as Thou lovest me, 0 Jesus most desired! What offering can I make. Dear Lord, to love like Thine? That Thou, the (Joil. didst stooi> to take A human form like tniue! "(*ivi? me thy heart, my sou": Behold my heart?'tis done! I would love Th?e as Thou lovest t 0 Jesus most desired! Thy heart is: opened wide, It.s offered love most free. That heart to heart I may abide. Ami hide myself i:i Thee: Ah, how Thy love doth buru, Till I that love return! I would love Thee as Thou lovest me O Jesus most desired! Here finds my heart its rest. Repose that knows no shock, The strength of lova that keeps it blest: In Thee the riven Rock, My soul as girt around, Her citadel hath found. i would love Thee as Thou Iovest me, O Jesus most desired! ?From the Latin of an unknown author. Translated by Ray Palmer. The Diamond Kule. A Rule better than the Golden Rule? Yes, oae of as much more value than that as diamonds are more precious than gold. Apply the Golden Rule to the "greatest tiling in the world"?love. How would it read? "Love others as you would have them love you." How would the Diamond Its:!.* read? Let us take it from the lips of Christ: "I would that ye love one another as I have loved you." Here h a new standard, a diamond standard, for loving. Our highest conception of the love of others for us. according to the < Jolden Rule, would be love equal to that which we feel for ourselves. But, after all, how imperfect, how inadequate, how blind and limited, is the love of any one for himself! One might wish for himself a thousand good things, and after ih?m nil discover that Iii.s best and most enduring good had not been promoted. So human beneficenice as a measure for mutual human love' is very narrow aud inadequate. We should love one another iu a deeper and wiser way than that. The Golden Rule of love is only the human way of loving. The Diamond Rule of love is tit.; divine way of loving. ' The Power that Draw*. "And T, if I be lifted up," said our Lord a few hours before His death, "will draw all men unto Me." We are greatly troubled in these days over the indifference of multitudes to the services of the church, and many are the devices resorted to for the purpose of persuading the people, and especially men, to attend them. But all these devices?which we n-jed not here particularize, for they are known to all?are ephemeral in effect, because, however ingenious and pleasing at first, they soon pali upon the taste. The only attractive power that has yet never failed, and never can fail, is the uplifted Christ. The preachers who today arc niosi faithfully holding up the crnci- | lied Lord as the s:nner\s only hope are those whoso ministry is most effective in winning the attention of the people ami persuading men to be reconciled to God. This is the method prescribed by divine wisdom, and 110 device of man . an impair* upon or successfully supersede it.?Examiner. N'ot What I Would Have Chosen. My life 'is not what I would have chosen. I often long for quiet, for trading and for thought. It seems to me to be a vparadise to be able to read, to think, go into deep things, gather the glorious riches of intellectual culture. God has forbidden it in His providence. I must spend hours in receiving people to speak to me about all manner of trifles; must reply to letters about nothing; must engage in public work 0:1 , everything; employ my life on what seems uncongenial, vanishing, temporary. waste. Yet God knows me better than I know myself. He knows my gifts, my powers, my failings and weaknesses, what I can do and what I cannot do. So I desire to be led. and not to lead?to follow Him. I am quite sure that He has thus enabled me to do a great deal more, in what seemed to be almost a waste of life, in advancing His kingdom, than L would have done in any other waj'. I am sure of that.Xorniun McLeod. Wli?n Pravers Seem Useless. Wo reap as wo havo sown. We suffer where we have sinned. At such times our prayer is not literally answered. Ity the voice of the spirit, by a spiritual instinct, we become conscious that it is useless to pray further. Though we pray, not thrice, but three hundred tim\s, the thorn is not taken away. But there is a sense in which the prayer is answered. Our suffering is a lesson warning men in all after-time. We are permitted from Pisgah's height to scan the fair land we long for, and are then removed to a better. We have the answer given,to us in the aftertime, as Moses, who had his prayer gloriously fulfilled when he stood with Christ on the Transfiguration Mount.? Rc-v. l'\ It. Meyer. Poinir the Master's Work. And ns they went forth to do their Master's work, counting themselves now no longer their own, but His?how the personality of each stands out, strong arid distinct! There is no possibility of mistaking Peter for John, or John for l'aul. The Master's word is spoken by them all, but the voice of each is his own. The humble fishermen and the tent-maker have been recognized all over the world, have made themselves each separately felt by their character and their words, as no statesman or orator ever has. They lost their littleness, and found their greatness iu ChriJt.? Lucy La rcoin. When the sinner thinks: "My sins are out of measure sinful, and my heart is Juip<I " \i-tiv think .mil remember that in Christ there is mercy out of measure merciful, and grace out ?f measure powerful.?Thomas Hooker. It melts the heart to think that God i.? ns full of mercy as I am of sin: he is as free to forgive as I am to offend; he hath daily mercies for daily sius.?John Mason. The Wltconsln-Michigan Boundary. It has just been discovered that a strip of laud of 250,000 acres, near the boundaiy between Wisconsin and Michigan, lies in neither State. The discovery has been made that this strip was originally included in Michigan, but was not in the * ? oi.i. ,.r 117:...... survey wneil IIIC oiiii.e ui tviavuuaiii ??.T laid out. The; question has arisen as to whether or not official acts, such as marriages and land transfers, in the strip arc valid, and the matter will probably be laid before the Wisconsin Legislature. France Fears a Paper Famine. The scarcity of pulp wood in France is seriously interfering with the paper industry there. It is expected that paper will have to be imported. L . ' ' Ll ^ fHE GREAT DESTROYER 30WIE STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Po?ui: The Two GIjimos?The WC3re in | Kn;Ianil About Arsenic in ISeer Did (iood Work For the Cnuse of Sobriety ?Brew of the Doailly Stuff. There sat two glasses filled to the brim On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and red as blood, And one was clear as the crystal flood. Said the glass of wine to his paler brother, "Let us tell tales of the past to each other. I can tell of banquet, and. revel, and mirth, Where I was Icing; for I ruled in might. And the proudest and grandest souls on earth Fell under my touch as though struck with blight. From the heads of kings I have torn the crown, From tha heights of fame I have hurled men down. I have blasted many an honored name: I have taken virtue and given shame; I have tempted the youth with a sip or taste, Which has made his future a barren waste. Far greater than any king am I, Or than any army beneath the sky; I have made the arm of the driver fail. And sent the train from its iron rail; r 1 1 1 ,.l. /U,(.n uun I nave muut: i;uuu niitf/a gi/ uuun ?n- ov..., For they said, 'Behold how great you be!' Fame, .strength, wealth, genius, before me fall And my might and power are over all. Ho! ho! pale brother." laughed the wine, "Can you boast of deeds as great asinine?" Said the water glass: "I cannot boast Of a king dethroned, or a murdered host; But I can tell of hearts that were sad By mv crystal drops made light and glad. Of thirsts I have quenched, and brows I've laved, Of heads I've cooled, and souls I've saved. I have leaped through the valley, dashed down the mountain, Slept in the sunshine and dripped from the fountain. I have burst my cloud fetters and dropped from the sky % And everywhere gladdened the landscape eye. I have eas?!d the hot forehead of fever and pain: I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with grain. I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill That ground out the flour, and turned at my will, I can tell of manhood debased by your brew That I have uplifted and crowned anew. I cheer, I help, strengthen and aid; * 1 * 1 aM I gladden tne neari 01 man mm mam. I set the chained wine-captive free; And all are better for knowing me." These are the tales they told to each other. The glass of wine and its na!e brother. As they sat together, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. ?C. W. 0., in the Ram's Horn. Arsenic in Reer. A recent letter from a London correspondent told us how the scare in England about arsenic in beer had done more for the cause of sobriety in a week or two than the combined efforts of all the tem pcrance societies in a number of years, i'here is nothing surprising in this state ment, in view of the evidence given at some of the coroners' inquests upon victims of the poisonous liquor, and pub lished broadcast in the newspapers. One of the professors of University College, Liverpool, testified the other day that he had made a calculation of the total amount of arsenic found by the inspectors of the local Government board in the course ol their investigations during a period of thirty weeks. The result was a mass of rather more than four tons, or 300 pounds for each week, enough to kill some millions of peoole, if divided into equal doses and administered at once. Figures like these appeal to the dullest sense, and it is likely to be a long time before the great body of beer-drinkers rccover their o'.d confidence in the national tipple. The full extent of the scare and its consequences will not be known until the report of the Royal Commission is published, but some of the facts already made public by Government inspectors are sufficiently striking. In Manchester alone there were 2<>00 cases of arsenical poisoning, and at least thirty-six deaths. Some of the patients confessed to having been in the habit of drinking two gallons a day, but most of them owned I up to a daily consumption of only a gallon or so. As might have been expected, the brewers' dravmen suffered conspicuously, I in spite of the fact that the human system. with constant practice, can be trained to absorb considerable quantities of the drug. The original impression was that the deadly stuff came from only one or two breweries, but it seems that arsenic was detected in beer manufactured in no fewer than fifteen of the principal towns in the Midland counties. Small wonder that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is bemoaning a falling off of hundreds of thousands of pounds in the beer tax, or that the temperance ranks have been largely recruited. But what will the British workman do? Will he turn teetotaler, or wili he take to spirits instead of beer? In that case his last state will be worse tliaD his first.?New York Post. Responsibility of the Kitchen. It is not so much the saloon which makes drunkards, although it helos a bad cause along. The kitchen is the place where most of our drunkards are started. Parents may set to their children a good example of temperate habits; they may send them to public schools, to church and tem|>erancc lectures, and try to keep them away from saloons and out of temptation. But as long as from ignorance or shiftlessness they fail to supply their children's bodies with the proper food in well-bal* j anccd ration, refuse to them a reasonable quantity of succulent \-egetables and acid fruits, and iteglect to instill into them the main principle of hygienic living which forbids excesses in eating as well as in drinkinc, they must be primarily and chiefly held responsible if such gross mistakes result in producing blood clogged with impurities, morbid cravings and C .11.. /wor.inrllllorpnpp in alcoholic liuuujr tit i/.vi ? ... drinks.?Vegetarian Magazine. An Alarming Growth.' While the crusade against the drink traffic lias been eminently successful in one way, saving thousands from a drunken grave, preventing the formation of habits of intemperance in countless multitudes besides, and gradually building up a healthier public opinion, it yet remains true that the evil is, in another sense, increasing8teadily. Population is over-riding reformation. Alcoholism Among German Pupllg. In an investigation by the authorities at Donn, German}-, not long since upon alcoholism among the pupils in the primary schools, it was found that sixteen children out of 100 did not drink milk because it had no savor. Of 237 pupils from seven to eight years old all habitually drank beer or wine, and eight per cent, or these drank a glass of whisky daily in order to become strong. As a result of these investigations it was found that the children most accustomcd to spirituous drinks were least intelligent. Tne number of girls who took whisky with their breakfast was larger than that of boya. Wilhelmina Favors Total Abstinence. No doubt there has been much wine drunk to the health of the Queen, and the Dutchman can drain a bumper at slight pretext when he wishes to, but report na? it that Queen Wilhelmina is not only herself an abstainer, but has persuaded her friend, the Princess Pauline of Wurtemberg, to take up the same position. Queen Wilhelmina is the patroness of the tota' abstinence movement in the Low Coun tries. It is reasonably probable that she will, by a temperance regime, preserve more perfectly her health and her pretty figure than have some other of the heavydrinking feminine royalties of Europe.? The Outlook. i ' ' pESTHOUSE SET AFIRE Crowd Made Trouble For Firemen WVin Dti+ 1+ r\iii " iiv A u u n Citizens Objected to the Building;'* Site?? Mayor Ordered Work Stopped, lint Board of Health Stood Firm. Orange, N. J.?An attempt to set Are to the ^temporary smallpox hospital in Orange was made a few days ago. and John Harrington, a laborer, forty-five years of age, Is held by the police without bail. The police say they have witnesses who saw Harrington light two matches and apply them to a pile of shavings saturated with kerosene at one corner of the building. Some lumber near-by and the building itself were also soaked with kerosene. The | attempt was made at 7 o'clock while the place was being watched by two nnlirpmpn and ? tvafphor rlpfilllprl hv the Board of Health. A -big crowd was in the neighborhood, and when the firemen arived the crowd attempted to prevent the hose from being attached to hydrants. Louis Dodle. an Italian, tried to cut the hose and was arrested. Work on the hospital was begun in the morning, and it was inrended to move the two smallpox patients in the following night. The building is a cheap frame structure, and is situated on a plot of ground an entire block in extent. As soon as work was started there was opposition from people in that part of the city. Mayor Henry 'Stetson ordered Police Captain Leary to stop the carpenters. Health Officer William Scliuer immediately made a formal demand on the Mayor, as the head of the Police Department, to furnish policemen to protect the building and the workmen. The Mayor read the law and then said that as Mayor he would have the building protected. He said his directions to the police captain were given as a private citizen. Then delegations of people called on President John T. Piatt, of the Board of Health, and urged him to stop the work and secure some other site for + lincnitnl Tho pnnfp.K<ffir hfivinif received his contract from Mr. Schluer declined to recognize any one else in the matter, anu the work went on. In the afternoon a special meeting of the Board of Health was held, at which the health officers' acts were indorsed. BRITISH AHEAD IN ABYSSINIA. Their Officers to Join Forces Against Mad Mullah. London.?England is again on top In Abyssinia. This, it is said, is proven by the fact that Emperor Menelik has consented that two British officers, Major A. H. Tracy and Captain R. P. Cobbold, start for Adis Abeda, capital of Abyssinia, to act as advis EMPEF.0R MENELIK OF ABT8SINIA. ers to the Abyssinian Commnnder-iDChief. Ras Makonnen, ill his approaching expedition against the Mad Mullah, who has been causing a disturbance in Northern Somallland. ' Menelik will place 2000 men in the field, and the British will co-operate with His Majesty's army with a force from Berbera. The English had long been overshadowed by Franco-Russian activities. > "BLOOD ftAIN" IN ITALY. Phenomenon Attributed to Dnst From African Deserts?People Alarmed. Rome, Italy. ? The phenomenon known as a "blood rain," occurred in Sicily and Southern and Central Italy. It was accompanied by a violent sirocco, which brought across tin Mediterranean showers of dust from the Desert of Sahara. The atmosphere in Rome was*suffocating, and tne city was covered by j whirling clouds of sand. A mirage was seen. Tire wind felt like air from a l'urnace. The population declare that the phenomenon portends an earthquake. "Blood rain" is not infrequent, and Is due to uifferent causes. The most common of these is the lifting of red dust by storm and its fall with the rain. This would seem to be the ex planation In the present case. 'LOSSES IN SOUTHERN STORM. Tornado Crosses the Arkansas-Texas Line and Does 9500,000 Damage. Little Rock, Ark.?A heavy wind and thunder storm passed over Arkansas. John Turner, aged twelve, at Pine Prairie, was killed. The tornado wrecked everything in its path at Pine Prairie, which is in the extreme I TAO vf nf tIIP duuiiincoiciu pun. v* ? Every town in Western Arkansas /suffered to some extent, many buildings being unroofed. Tlie loss will exceed $500,000. At New Boston, Texas, one man was killed and seven seriously hurt. The .town was almost demolished. Agulnaldo'a Reported Hiding Place. Unconfirmed information coming from native sources says that Aguinaldo is In hiding in the Province of Isabela, on the northeastern coast of Luzon Island. P. I. American troops are scouting in that section of the country. Seventy-two Pilgrima Drowned. Duriug a storm on the Black Sea seventy-two pilgrims were washed overboard from a steamer and drowned. Prominent Peopie. King Edward is said to be one of the best shots iu England. Andrew Carnegie is a generous patron of orchestral music. Senator Warren, of Wyoming, is the only undertaker in tbe Senatn. Lord Roberts bad to pay $32o0 in fees for tbe bonor of being made an Earl. Henry M. Stanley is just sixty, and apparently strong enough to try tbe Dark Coutiuent again. Senator Kearns. of Utab. is one of tbe three members of tLe Senate wbo part their bair in tbe middle. - . * . . . . r ' 'SsJrt J| ?. V V# 1HBBT F08 MILLIONS 1 ' Cv Heirs to the Gilman Estate Clash in Court, | QUESTION ONE OF RESIDENCE The Heir* Aalc For tetter* of Administration at Bridgeport, Conn.?Law* of Inheritance in Two State* Involved in the Long Legal Fight ? Fortune Estimated at 875,000,000. Bridgeport. Conn.?A formal application was made in the Probate Court in this city for letters of administration to be granted to Edward L. Norton and Edward S. Percival, of New York City, on the estate of George Francis Gilman, the millionaire, of Black Rock. The hearing in the Probate Office was held by appointment. Probate Judge Nobbs holding court after the regular hour of closing. There were present in the party Attorney Charles S. Brush, Attorney McCormack. Alfred Gilman, Edward L. Norton and Edward S. Percival, the last three heirs-at-law, and George W. Smith, of this city, who. it transpires in the last minute, is not an heir at all.* The latter gentleman was present for the purpose of giving the court and the parties interested local information. The gentlemen present repretn Tndo-o Vnhha that there were llUliLCU IV V uwgv other heirs present in the city, who would be sent for if their presence were required. Attorney 3rush and McCormack represented that Mr. Gilman died without leaving any heirs in Bridgeport. and that at the present time strangers were in charge of the local property. They thereupon offered a petition asking that a proper persou be appointeo as temporary administrator to take charge of the Black Rock property. The object of the motion was to force Mrs. Blakeley Hall and her mother to give up the _ \ 1 possession of the house. Judge Nobbs denied their petition for the temporary receiver. The coun- t ) sel then formally presented an application that Edward L. Norton and Edward S. Percival be granted letters of administration on the estate. The application was signed by all the heirs-at-law, as follows: George Gilman, New York City, nenhew; George McClellan, Northamp ton, Mass., nephew; Edward 8. Fercival, New York City,' nephew; Caroline Scammon. Brooklyn, niece; Ollva Drew, Lynn. Mass., niece; Nellie Tut- y tie, Milwaukee, Wis., niece: Lydia R. Bradford, Skowhegan, Me., niece; Caroline R. Garozyuski, Brooklyn, niece; Caroline G. McClellan, Darien, Conn., niece; Edward C. Norton, New York City, grandnephew; Minnie L. Little, New York City, grandniece; Ellen A. Starr. Manila, Philippines, grandniece; Mary Ford, California. , <g grandniece: the infant children of Milford H. Norton, a grandnephew, and George Percival, Philadelphia, grandnephew. * Unless Millionaire Gilmau left a will his large fortune will be divided among persons whom he avoided, feared and hated. High and low have the searches been made for any document that could be filed in the Surrogate's office. No nook or cranny where he would have been liable to place a will to conceal it has escaped observation. Gilman's business interests were ' .# enormous. Persons who are conservative say he was worth less than S20.000.000, while others assert that his property may amount to $75,000,f\nn mm -n'mlHiv flnrl )tnv xic n a.? Itij *T vi??.v, ? figure that may be given is nothing more than a guess. His relatives assume that he has left uo will and have begun a fight over the spoils on that basis. Should a will be produced it will be attacked "* without a question. So great Is his estate that the allegations of mental unsoundness and undue influence are inevitable, with the usual raking over of every unpleasant feature of his career. The Probate Court here assumes that It has jurisdiction over the settlement of all the property of Mr. Oilman, of whatever kind or description, except real estate situated outside of the State of Connecticut. The legal representative of the half-blood relatives ' Intimated that they could prove that Mr. Oilman was a resident of New York City, and by producing such proof, would Transfer the jurisdiction of administration from Connecticut to New York. The whole blood relatives asserted that such a move would be met with ample proof to the contrary. Tlie contest will be due to the fact that the probate law of the States conflict. Under the statute of Connecticut. half-blood relatives are exnortfnfnaHnn in ciuueu emucy nuu ?- ? the distribution of intestate estates, while whole blood relatives are living. It will be a pretty fight for lawyers. anyhow, and the estate will be tied , up for months, or years until the highest courts have passed upon the questions involved. In the meantime the beautiful estate here is in the joint possession of Edward S. Perclval. of New York City, one of the heirs-at-law. and Mrs. Blakeley Hall. No Promoclon For Morgan. Gunner Charles Morgan. IT. S. N., will not go before the Naval Examining Board ior examination for the commission of ensign, as his age prevents it, he having recently passed his thirty-fifth birthday. This makes him ineligible for the commission that would go with a successful examination. A Kansas Dank Robbed. The private bank of J. P. Springer. at Argonia, Kan., was robbed by three men. who got away with $2600 ic cash and $4000 in registered Governmint thfoo nor r>nnt hrmils. The vault was entered through the brick wall, and the safe was blown open with uitro-glyceriue. The "Wisconsin to Ileplace the Oregon. The big battleship Wisconsin has been selected to replace the OregoD iu Asiatic waters, when that vessel is Relieved, in the near future. Doings of State Legislatures. The Governor of South Dakota has been given power to remove appointive State officers of all grades. Oregon has followed Illinois anc Massachusetts In providing for the Torrens system of land registration. Corporation laws in Texas have been made more liberal to foreigu corporations of large capital by a bill just passed. A new law in Oregon makes the punishment for kidnaping imprisonment for from one to twenty-five years, with a fine not exceeding $10,000. -V ; M ' * SlU- 'j , ^ - i.f rzriL. ? >T jfcj'JV /' ifeST*' ' ?"?? 1-tfv.