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Caratlre Value of Hot Water.
Even savages, whose point—not ol
civilization, but of the want of it—is fat
below the boiling-point, know the as
suaging and comforting power of hot
water. Long before America was trod
den by other feet than theirs the varioui
hot springs had been Irequented by the
Indians for the cure of their ills and
ails; and it is they who have often taught
us the whereabouts of these Bethesdas,
and there are few more interesting sights
to-day than one of these hot springs,
where the steaming stream gushes from
the mountain side, where the sick and
the lame are brought on litters and go
away dancing. It seems, in the case of
the natural outflow of hot water from
none knew what sources, as if old Mothei
Earth herself knew what was best fox
her children, and cooked at her central
fires a life-giving broth which puts to
shame that broth with which Medea
would have made the young old again.
Those who make use of such waters get
to fancy that beyond the mere thermal
benefit theie is a telluric or magnetic or
planetary force in them which makes
them of double efficacy. But for our
own part, heated though these waters be
at fires born of the sun's own sacred fire,
we doubt if the lire born of man’s in
genuity, kindled by the spark struck from
his own brain, is not equally potent, and
if the water that is boiled at home be
not of quite as much worth to the ordi
nary individual as that of these up-
gushing superheated springs. And in
the meantime we are sure that the house
hold is the healthiest and safest, as well
as the cleanliest and sweetest, where
there is always on hand a full supply of
hot water; although far be it from us to
advocate anything tending toward a sup
port of domestic differences, and con
tentions in the shape of “hot water.”—
Harper's Bazar.
REV DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S sLAfc
DAY SERMON.
Training the Memory.
Sidney Woollett, the New York elo
cutionist, says that the way memory can
be trained is by constant exercise. “I
knew thirteen of Shakespeare’s plays and
Tennyson’s ‘Idyls’ by heart, besides a
volume of miscellaneous poetry. My
process was simple. I went hard to work
and learned them by rote. Sometimes I
would read ten lines over carefully
eeveral times and then attempt to repeat
them. If I failed I would keep at them
till I knew the lines perfectly; then I
would try ten lines more. By memoriz
ing ten lines at a time thoroughly I had
little trouble to repeat an entire poem of
a thousand lines or more. My favorite
way of memoriz^pg is while I am walk
ing. Often I have walked fifteen or
twenty miles repeating long poems like
‘Miles Standish,’ ‘Enoch Arden,’ and
‘Elaine.’ It somehow comes natural to
me to memorize what I have conned.
Shakespeare’s plays are difficult to
memorize, because the author has so
aany striking lines and so many oiiginal
at is more difficult
Subject: “Two Garlands.”
Text: “I will say to the north. Give up,
and to the south, Keep not back.-'—Isaiaii
xliii., 6.
Just what my text meant by th" north
and south I cannot say, but in the United
States the two words are so point blank in
their meaning that no one can doubt. They
mean more than east and west, for although
between those last two there have been riv
alries and disturbing ambitions and infelici
ties and silver bills and World’s fair contro
versies, there have been between them no
batteries uniimbered, no intrenchments dug,
no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown
up. It has never been Massachusetts Four
teenth Regiment against Wisconsin
Zouaves; it has never been Virginia artil
lery against Mississippi rifles.
East and west are distinct words, and
sometimes may mean diversity of interest,
but there is no blood on them. They can be
pronounced without any intonation of wail
ing and death groan. But the north and the
south are words that have been surcharged
with tragedies. They are words which sug
gest that for forty years the clouds had been
gathering for a four years’ tempest which
thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook
this planet as it has never been shaken since
it swung out at the first world building. I
thank God that the words have lost some ot
the intensity which they possessed three de
cades ago: that a vast multitude of northern
people have moved south, and a vast multi
tude of southern people have moved north,
and there have been Intermarriages by the
ten thousand, and northern colonels have
married the daughters of southern captains,
and Texas rangers have united for lire with
the daughters of New York abolitionists, and
their children are half northern and half
southern and altogether patriotic.
But north and south are words that need
to be brought into still closer harmonization.
1 thought that now, when we are
half way b?tween presidential elec-
tion-, and sectional animosities are at
Mi a lowest ebb; and now, just after
a presidential journey, when our chief mag
istrates, who was chiefly elected by the north,
has been cordially received at the south and
now, just after two Memorial Days, one of
them a month ago strewing flowers on south
ern graves, end the other yesterday strewing
flowers on northern graves, it might be ap
propriate and useful tor me to preach a ser
mon which would twist two garlands—one
for the northera dead and the other for the
southern dead—and have the two interlocked
in a chain of flowers that shall bind forever
the two sections into one; and who knows
but that this may be the day when the
prophecy of the text made in regard to tt o
ancients may be fulfilled in regard to this
country, and the north give up its prejudices
and the south keep not back its confidence?
“I will say to the north. Give up, and to the
south. Keep not back.”
But before I put these garlands on the
graves I mean to put them this morning a
nttle while on the brows of the living men
and women of the north and south wno lost
husbands aud sons and brothers during the
civil strife. There is nothing more soothing
to a wound than a cool bandage, and these
two garlands are cool from the night dew.
What a morning that was on the banks of
the Hudson and the Savannah when the sou
was to stare for the war! What fatherly
and motherly counsel! What tears! What
heartbreak*! What charges to write home
often! What little keepsakes put away in
the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be
exchanged for the knapsack! The crowd
around the depot or the steamboat lauding
shouted, but father and mother and sister
the bouse seemed after
awfully va-
sristmas and
er th'^T.sktJe.
it suspense till
ll wounded were
lobso^/t, and the
iwrence, aud the
.the James, and
ibama. and the
lento there were
living yet were just as honest, and ough 1 ;
they not for the suflering they endured have
a coronal of some kind?
But we must not detain the two garlands
any longer from the pillows of those who for
a quarter of a century have been prostrate
in dreamless slumber, never oppressed by
summer heats or chilled by winter’s cold.
Both garlands are fragi ant. Both have in
them the sunshine and the shower of this
springtime. The colors of both were mixed
by Him who mixed the blue of the sky, and
the gold of the sunset, and the green of the
grass, and the whiteness oi the snow crystal.
And I do not care which you put over the
northern grave and which over the southern
grave.
These august throngs gathered this morn
ing in these pews and aisles and corridors
and galleries are insignificant compared with
the mightier throngs of heaven who mingle
in this service which we render to God and
our country while we twist the two garlands.
Hail spirits multitudinous! Hail spirits
blest! Hail martyred ones come down from
from the King’s palaces! How glad are we
that you have come back again! Take this
kiss of welcome and these garlands of remin
iscence. ye who languished in hospitals or
went down under the thunders and the
lightning of Fredericksburg and Cold Har
bor and Murfreesboio and Corinth anl
Yorktown and above the clouds on Lookout
Mountain.
Among the thousands of gatherings at
the north and at the south for Decoration
Days I am conscious that this service is
unique, and that it Is only one in which there
has bean twisted two garlands, one for the
grave of the northern dead and the other for
the grave of the southern dead. O Lord God
of the American Union, is it time that we
bury forever cur old grudges? My! My 1 Can
we not be at peace on earth when this mo
ment in heaven dwell, in perfect love,
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Will
iam T Sherman and Stonewall Jackson,
and tens of thousands of northern and
southern men who, though they once looked
askance at each other from the opposite
banks of the Potomac and the Chickahominy
and the James and the Tennessee, now are
on the same side of the river, keeping jubi
lee with some of those old angels who near
nineteen centuries ago came down one
Christmas night to chant over Bethlehem,
“Glory to God in the highest; on earth
peace, good will to men!”
I have been waiting for some years for
some one else to twist the two garlands
that I to-day twist, but, no one doing it, in
the love of God and my country I put now
my hand to the work, and next spring
about this time, if 1 am living and well. I
wm twist two more garlands for northern
and southern graves, and every springtime
until some man or woman whom I may
have cheered a little in the struggle of this
life shall come out and put a pansy or two
on my own grave. But if the time should
ever come when this land shall be given
over to sectional rancor and demagogism,
and north and south, or east and west shall
forget what the good God built this nation
for, and it shall halt on its high career of
righteousness and liberty and peace, and be
come the agent of tyranny aud wrong and
oppression, then let some young man whom
I nave baptized in infancy at these altars go
out to Greenwood and scoop up my dust aud
scatter it to the four winds of heaven, for I
do not want to sleep, and I will not sleep in
a land accursed with sectionalism or oppres
sion.
And now I hand over the two garlands,
b r th of which are wet with many tears—
tears of widowhood and orphanage and
childlessness, tears of suffering aud tears of
gratitude; and as the ceremony must be
S erformed in symbol, there not being enough
owers to cover all the graves, take the one
garland to the tomb of some northern
soldier who may yesterday have been
omitted in the distribution of the sacra
ment of flowers, and the other garland to
the tomb of some southern soldier who may
a month ago have been omitted in the distri
bution of the sacrament of the flowers, and
put both the wreaths gently down over the
nearts that have ceased to beat. God bless
the two garlands! God save the United
States of America 1
SABBATH SC TOOL
TEMPERANCE.
the drexEard s haggit wean*.
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INTERNATIONAL. DE^ON
JUNE 21.
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FOR
Lesson Text: II Kin^s |xv., 1-12—
Golden Text: HoJn vi„
1—Commentaf
Babylon,
Jerusalem,
iw in the last
Inn great re
\tively, while
isin.’ “They
despise 1
sts nntil t ie
-Bis people,
lerefore Be
t e Chalieei
Ihe month of
(Lord.” AU
Wis bated,
Ihe Word of
Te was right
all others
kd with God
onto the
liah had at
irs, for he
Miab, after
| years, and
y-t wo years
city, and
yntJaadJl
forty years
Scared for
ferith and
was not
icir backs
iem above
|e of their
jr circum-
1. “Nebnchadoezzxr, king
came, he and all his host, agaii
and pitched against it.” As we
lesson Josiah’s turning to God
vival reached but a few compaj
the nation as a whole continued
mocked the messengers of God,
His words and nasused His proj
wrath of the Lord arose again!
till there was no remedy,
brought upon them the king of)
to fulfill the word of the I ord b;
Jeremiah.
“ According to the Word of thl
though Jeremiah, the prophet]
per-ecuted and all but slam foi
the Lord which he uttered, yet
and the Lord was with him, ai
were wrong. It is grand to st
ard leave all results to Him,
2. “And the city was bcsiei
eleventh year of Zedekiah.” Jei
this time besn a prophet forty
began in the thirteenth year ot
which Josiah continued eightee*
the eleventh of Zedekiah was twei
later.
3. “The famine prevailed in t|
there was no bread for the people
The God who fed their fathers fcl
with bread from heaven, and wl
Elijah three years and a half- at
Zirephath, still lived, and His
shortened, but they had turaed
upon Him who alone could lift
their surroundings, and now beo«
sins they must be subject to
stances.
4. “ And the city was broken
men of war fled by night, and
the way toward the plain.” Abi
the city which God had chosen
name there—the city of the Groat K]
ful for situation, the joy of the
(Ps. xiviii, 1, 2; cxxxii, 13, 14).
“God had given the dearlv belo]
soul into the band of her enemii
7), just as He had said (I Kings ix]
there is sincere trust in tae Lord
Himself strong on behalf of all
power on earth or in hell can
or an individual thus encompasj
but if we forsake God, and rely u_
wisdom or any counsel of flesh
there will surely be a breaking up
ing, to the great grief and damage!
obedient.
5. “And the army of the Chaldel
after the king and overtook him lu
of Jericho, and a l his army wi
fioin him.’* This i.Iso was made ku
captives at Babylon by the propl
(Ezek. xii, 13, f. c.). Contrast tin
Hez kiah when besieged by the g:
Sennacherib, and' the wonderfiil
God wrought for him in answer U
of himself and Isaiah (If Chi on, x:
Isa. xxxvii, 36).
On the other 1 and see how Jona’i,
from the Lord, was overtaken by the
arrested, imprisoned and only released t[
might do the will of God. No one can d
God and finally prosper, but all who obej
are His special care, and no real evil c'
tall them.
6. “So they took the king and broaghtl
up to the king of Babylon toRiblah; and]
gave judgment upon him.” At the
p ace, just tweuty-two years before, the
of Egypt had put bands upon his brother]
hoahaz and took him t® Egypt, where
died (II Kings, xxui, 33, 34). But no amoi
of warning was of any avail with Zedekial
Read how ag tin and again God had warn
him by the mi nth of Jeremiah (J<r. x
1-9; xxvii, 12; xxxii, 3-5). But he only ga
Jtremjah imprisonment for his good advic
and hardened his heart yet more, prefemn
to believe the lies of the false prophets wu
prophesied smooth things.
7. “And they slew the sous of Zedekial:
before his eyes, and put out the eyes ot Z- de-
kiah, and boun t him hvith fetters of brass, 1
and earned bim to Babylon.’ Jeremiah had'
said, “Thine eves shall qehold the eyes
i> • - -
aud all the
g went
let this is
put His
ig, beauti-
~~ earth
Jut now
of His
Jer. xii,
I). When
vill sho w
and no
a people
God;
3ur own
blood,
. a spoil-
1 the dis-
fsnrsued
Y* plains
,atere 1
to tue
Ezekiel
Jafety of
irmy of
liwirano i
raver
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The Best Battles of the War.
John C. Ropes in an "article on “The
War as We See It Now,” printed in
Scrilner's, is responsible for the follow
ing:
The national instinct on this subject
is perfectly correct. It was at Gettys
burg and Chickamauga that our Ameri
can armies were at their best and did
their best. Never were they—either be
fore or after those memorable engage
ments—so strong, so well officered, so
fierce, so determined to win, so resolved
not to yield. They were then, we re
peat, at their best—containing none but
seasoned troops, under veteran officers,
inured to war, both armies confident of
victory, and pretty nearly, taking ali
things together, equally matched. And
no one can read the story of those great
battle without being proud of his coun
try and his race, for never was there
more resolute and obstinate and gallant
fighting done, nor ever were severe losses
more unshrinkingly borne. Nor can it
be truly said of either of these battles
that the beaten army did not fight as
hard and as long as its more successful
antagonist. There is glory enough for
all. Htnce it is fitting that both fields
—Gettysburg and Chickamauga—should
be dedicated to the perpetual remem
brance of the great battles so worthily
fought there.
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aud who has visited the great Buddhist
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wonderful works of art. Near the foot
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