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1 i KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: **A Poor InTcstmeat ” (Preached at Topeka, Kan.) T*xr: “P« have told yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money."—Isaiah iii., 3. The Lord’s people had gone headlong into sin, and as a punishment they had been car ried captive to Babylon. They found that Iniquity did not pay. Cyrus seized Babylon and felt so sorry for these poor captives that, without a dollar of compensation, he let them go home. So that, literally, my text was fulfilled. “Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.” There is enough Gospel in this text for fifty sermons. There are persons here who have, like the people of the text, sold out. You do not seem to belong either to your selves or to God. The title deeds have been passed over to "the world, the flesh, and the devil,” but the purcnaser never paid up. “Ye have sold yourse.ves for naught.” When a man passes himself over to the world he expects to get some adequate com pensation. He has heard the great things that the world does for a man, and he be lieves it. He wants two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That will be horses and houses, and a summer resort and jolly com panionship. To get it he parts with his physical health by overwork. He parts with his conscience. He parts with much domestic enjoyment. He parts with oppor tunities for literary culture. He parts with his soul. And so he makes over his entire nature to the world. He does it in four installments. He pays down the first installment, and one-fourth of bis nature is gone. He pays down the second Installment, and one-half of his nature is gone. He pays down the third installment, and three-quarters of his nature are gone, and after many years have gone by he pays down the fourth installment, and lo! bis en tire nature is gone. Then he comes up to the world and says: “Good morning. I have delivered to yon the goods. I have passed over to you my body, my mind and my soul, and I have come now to collect the two hun dred and fifty thousand dollars.” “Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?” says the world. “What do you mean?” "Well,” you say, “I come to collect the money you owe me, and I expect you to fulfill your part of the contract.” “But,” says the world, “I have failed. I am bankrupt. I cannot pos sibly pay that debt. I have not for a long time expected to pay it.” “Well,” you then say, “give me back the (goods.” “Oh, no,” says the world, “they are all gone. I cannot give them back to you.” And there you stand on the confines of eternity, your spirit ual character gone, staggering under the consideration that “you have sold yourself for naught.” I tell you the world is a liar. It does not keep its promises. It is a cheat, and it fleeces everything it can put its hands on. It is a bogus world. It is a six-thousand- year-old swindle. Even if it pays the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for which you contracted, it pays them in bonds that will not be worth anything in a little while. Just as a man may pay down ten thousand dollars in hard cash and get for it worthless scrip—so the world passes over to you the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in that shape which will not be worth a farthing to you a thousandth part of a sec ond after you are dead. “Oh,” you say, “it will help to bury me, anyhow.” Ob my brother 1 you need not worry about tv at. The world will bury you soon enough froo sanitary considerations. Poet mortem emoluments are of no use to you. The treasures of this world will not pass current in the future world, and if %11 the wealth of the Bank of England were pat in the pocket of your shroud and you in the midst of the Jordan of death were asked to pay three cents for your ferriage, you could not do it. There comes a moment in your _ „ existence beyond which all earthly values 1 JWrgfiThassaore. You had. Yoiir sins were fail on/1 wtonvr a i A *■% Vine* wv a w w w-k k«, I wnj-v — 1 — ■*- _ n j v mt. • aay Oh, fail, and many a man has wakened up in such a time to find that he has sold out for eternity and has nothing to show for it.' I should as soon think qf going to Cl street to buy sill sternal poises? Hare you not felt the quiver of its peeriea wing? Have you not known that after leaving the body, the first step of your soul reaches to the stars, and the next step to the farthest outposts of God’s uni verse, and that it will not die until the da] when the everlasting Jehovah expires? my brother, what possessed you that should part with your son! so cheap? “Ye have sold yourselves for naught.” But I have some good news to tell yon. I want to engage in a litigation for the recov ery of that soul of yours. I want to show that you have been cheated out of ik I want to prove, as I will, that you were crazy on that subject, and that the world, under such sircumstances, had no right to take the title deed from you; and if you will join me I shall get a decree from the High Chancery Court of Heaven reinstating you in the possession of vour souL “Oh,” you say, “I am afraid of lawsuits; they are so expensive, and I can not pay the cost.” Then have vou forgotten the last half of my text? “Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be re deemed without money.” Money is good for a great many things, but it cannot do anything in the matter of the soul. You cannot buy your way through. Dollars and pounds sterling mean nothing at the gate of mercy. If you could buy your salvation, heaven would be a great specula tion, an extension of Wall street. Bad men would go up and buy out the place, and leave us to shift for ourselves. But as money is not a lawful tender, what is? I will answer. Blood! Whose? Are we to go through the slaughter? Oh, no; it wants richer blood than ours. It wants a king’s blood. It must be poured from royal arteries. It must be a sinless torrent. But where is the king? 1 see a great many thrones and a great many occupants, yet none seem to be com ing down to the rescue. But after awhile the clock of night in Bethlehem strikes 13, and the silver pendulum of a star swings across the sky, and I see the King of Heaven rising up, and He descends and steps down from star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lower and lower, until He touches the sheep cov ered hills, and then on to another hill, this last skull shaped, and there, at the sharp stroke of persecution, a nil incarnadine trickles down, and we who could not be redeemed by monev are redeemed by precious and imperial blood. We have in this day professed Christians who are so rarefied ani etherealizsi that they do not want a religion of blood. What do you want? You seem to want a religion of brains. The Bible says, “In the Wood is the-life.” No atonement without blood. Ought not the apostle to know? What did he say? “Ye are redeemed not with cor- ruptiole things, such as silver ani gold, but by the precious blood of Christ.” You put your lauceiec mto tne arm ot our holy relig ion and withdraw the blood, ani you leave it a mere corpse, fit only for the grave. Why did God command the priests of old to strike the knife into the kid, and the goat, and the pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb? It was so that when the blood rash3d«>ut from these animals on the floor of the ancient tabernacle the people should be compelled to think of the coming carnage of the Son of God. No blood, no atonement. I think that God intended to impress us with a vividness of that color. The green of the grass, the blue of the sky, would not have startled and aroused us line this deep crimson. It is as if God had said: “Now, sinner, wake up and sea what the Saviour endured, for you. This is not water. This is not wine. This is blood. It is the blood of My Son. It is the blood of the immacu late. It is the blood of God.” Without the shedding of blood is no remission. There has been many a man who, in courts of law, has pleaded “not guilty,” who nevertheless has been condemned because there was blood found on his hands or blood found in his room, and what shall we do in the last day if it it be found that we have recrucifiei the Lord of Glory and have never repented of it? You must believe iu the blood or die. No escape. Unless you let the sacrifice of Jesus go in your stead you yourself must suffer. It is either Christ’s blood or your blood. “Oh,” says some one, “the thought of blood sickens me.” Good. God intended it to sicken yon with your sin. Do not act as though you had nothing to do with that Cal the imoleraents of torture. Those im plements were not made of steel and iron and wood so much as out of your sins. Guilty of this homicide, and thi pat in the collar of ms coat, and some m one way and some in another; but they ail got into the boat. “Now.” says the captain, “lor the shore. Pull away now, pull!” The people on the land ware afraid the lifeboat had gone down. They said: “How long the boat stays. Why, it must have beea swamped aui they have all perished together.” And there were men and wo men on the pier head sand on the beach wring ing their hands; and while they waited ani watched they saw something looming up through the mist, and it turned out to be the lifeboat. As soon as it came within speak ing distance the people on the shore cried out: “Did yon save any of them? Did you save any of them?” And as the boat swept through the boiling surf and came to the pier head the captain waved his hand over the exhausted sailors that lav flat on the bot- a tom of the boat and cried: “All savedl* Thank God! All saved!” So it may be to-day. The waves of your sin ran high, the storm is on you. but I cheer you with this Gospel hope. God grant that within the next ten minutes we may row with you into the harbor of God’s mercy. And when these Christian men gather aroand to see the result of this service, and the glorified gathering on the pier heads of Heaven to watch and to listen, may we be able to report all saved! Young and old, good and bad! AU saved! Saved for time. Saved for eternity. “And so it came to pass that they all escaped safe to land.” TEMPERANCE. SAVE THE BOYS. The National Baptist says that “recently when two hundred or more drunkards were gathered in a meeting by the Breakfast As- Kxnation, a speaker asked that all who had begun to drink after the age of twenty-one would raise their hands. Six responded. He then asked that ail who had begun to drink before twenty-one should raise their hands. A sea of hands were raised. By saving the boys from the saloon, we can go far to save the next generation. AN UNNECESSARY INDULGENCE. Dr. Maudsley says. .“If men took careful thought of the best use they could make of their bodies, they would possibly never take strong drink, except as they would a dose of medicine, in order to serve some special purpose. It is idle to say that there is any need for persons who are in good health to indulge in strong drink. At the best it is an indulgence that is not necessary; at the worse it is a vice that occasions infinite misery, sin, crime, madness, and disease.” THE CONSUMPTION OF BEER. “Do you know,” said a dyspeptic-looking man at the lunch counter in the Astor House a few days ago, “that we have no lager beer nowadays? This beverage that is sold as lager beer is turned out in ten days or two weeks’ time by the big brewers. The use of duplex air-pumps has almost completely rev olutionized the orewery business. ” “Brewers have to make their beer quickly in order to keep up with the enormously increasing de mand,” replied the dyspeptic’s friend. “lam told on the authority of a careful statistician that the increase in the manufacture of beer in this city alone in the year ended April 39 last was more than 3,000,000 barrels. New York City now consumes annually a trifle more than 30,000,000 barrels of beer. At the present rate ot increase the consumption in this city ten years from now will be 50,- 000,000 barrels.”—New York Times. IN FAVOR OF STERNER MEASURES. The Canadian Churchman takes the view that excessive drinking is a symptom of defi cient moral sense, which is in itself the root of all criminality, the cause of all crime, and further, that this deficient moral sense is largely due to the light penalties inflicted for drunkenness. “A sentence on a drunk is a matter of joke and merriment,” says our contemporary. “A few days’ confinement— just long enough to sober up—and the person is let loose on the public again. The punish ment of this crime of putting one’s self in SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LES&ON FOR AUGUST 30. Lesson Text: John vii., 31-44—Coldeiv “Cbriat at Feast,” Text: John vii., —Commentary. SI. “And many of the people Relieved on Him, and said, when Christ comet Jwill He do more miracles than these whis ‘ this man hath done? The lessons of the 1 ii chapter were based upon the incident (connected with one of the feasts of the Je ;; those in the sixth chapter were associate _ with the manna and the passover feast; iese are in connection with the feast of abernacles, which points us forward to he coming kingdom of Israel and the tim< of blessing upon all nations. It was about he midst of the feast when Jesus went up and taught. He was up to spised even by His own brethre; but He kept quietly on, seeking glory but the glory ot Him thl Many believed on Him, but th their faith would be proved tinuance. 32. “The Pharisees heard th_ murmured such things concern the Pharisees and the chief officers to take Him.” Ajwi and always seeking to kill Him? the temple iis time de- (verses 3-5), iOt His own sent Him. lincerity of their con- people £ im; and its sent lating Him, but unable ivs « to touch Him till Sis work was done. Pro fessing to be children of God and the true seed of Abraham, they made it manifest by their conduct that they were not truly of God nor of Abraham, but n.ther of their father, the devil. 33. “Then said Jesus unto ,them. Yet a little while am 1 with you, and then I go un to Him that sent Me.” Over fairty times in this Gospel He speaks of tht Father send ing Him. He says that the Father spoke through Him and did the worifs which were wrought by Sim. In all things He honored the Father, for He was the “Brightness of His Glory, and the express image of His person” (Heb. i., 3). He says’to us who be lieve in Him that as the Father sent Him so He sends us (xvii., 18). What strength is here for every true servant of Christ. 34. “Ye shall seek Me and shall not find Me. And where I am, thither ye cannot come.” Now, He had before said that “He that seketh findeth” (Math, vf, 8), but there is no contradiction. We must only take His sayings in the light of all His other sayings, “Ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart” (Jer. xxix., 13). This kind ofiseeking never fails. “They shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me” (Prov. i., 28). This is the seeking of those who hated and despised Him just like these Pharisees. 35. * ‘Then said the Jews among themselves. Whither will He go that we shall not find Him? Will Hego unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach theCGentiles?” Of the earth earthy, they underftood not heav enly things. That He cai heaven they did not believe le down from and therefore His giing to Him that sent 'Him they could not understand. That scattered abroad among th dent from the Acts of the find Paul always preaching and the epistles of Jamr written to such (see Jas That they will yet be gat nations and home to thei evident from Isa. xi prophecies. 30. “What manner o He said. Ye shall seek Me. And where I come.” If He could part of the earth, wh Him if they saw fit? been their thoughts, earth they neither about. 37. “In the last feast, Jesus stood man thirst, let drink.” For sev tinued, and m every day, but of the feast, wj 38; Num. xxix., pointed to the rection, for jy Jews were ttions is evi- istles, for we to the Jews, td Peter were [1; I Pet. i., 1). Out from the land is clearly id many other is this that f shall not find |er ye cannot way to any pot they follow ems to have hz beyond the | thought much it day of the lying. If any unto Me and the feast con- were offered day, the last day lay (Lev. xxviii., of all the days, d power of resur- the great Night gighti for tintt*. TUuminatod night sight* are now in use on the guns of many of the British warships. The front eight coneiete of u cone of pale green glass, point up, be neath which is placed a small incandes cent lamp. The rear sight is similar in principle, except that instead of the cone there is a metal crossbar with a V-notch in the middle. There is a polished un dersurface to this sight, from which light that first passes through ruby glass is reflected. In sighting the pale green point of light which constitutes the for ward sight is brought to the bottom of the Y-notch in the rear sight, and the line of ruby light is brought into coinci dence with it. The electric current for each gun is supplied by a battery of two elements, so arranged that the action may be stopped by turning the battery upside down.— Times- Democrat. Stone You Can Bend. Flexible sandstone is one of the curi osities found in North Carolina. The quarries are in the mountains of the sc nth western corner of the State and the stone is taken out more as a curiosity than for any other purpose, though it is sometimes employed in building. When cut in a thin piece, say the size and shape of a common whetstone, you can bend it into a considerable arc without its breaking, and it will resume its former straightness on the pressure being removed. Of course, if you bend it too far it will break.—Qlobe Democrat. mi-box Currency. It is said that there is no money in Iquique, Chili. Every firm issues its own currency. The currency of the country is paper, and it has depreciated to twenty-five cents on a dollar from a gold standard. Pill-box lids are a medium of circulation in luuique. A round lid is good for twenty-five cents, an oval lid goes for fifty cents. The mercantile firm issuing these stamps its name upon them and is supposed to redeem them in gold coin some time in the future, and mean while they honor them with their value in goods.—Boston Transcript. | An Operator’s Amusing Blunder. I Thirty pupils of a deaf and dumb school in Virginia started for home over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the other week. The conductor of the train telegraphed to Parkersburg: “I have thirty mutes on board. Please be pre pared to receive them.” The dispatch was received all right, but the operator read it mules instead of mutes. Two cattle cars of the most approved pattern were awaiting his train as he pulled into Parkersburg.—New York Commercial Ad vertiser. * ) Upholstered seats ir cars are the most effective cinder catchers and dirt collec tors imaginable. No car that has them can be clean. | Hundreds of Mormons are settling in the Mexican States of Sonora and Chi huahua, and more are expected from Utah. ! Dr. L. L. Gorsuch, Toledo, O., says: *T have practiced medicine for forty years, have never seen a prepar^ion that 1 could prescribe with so muen contiaence of success as 1 can Hall’s Catarrh Cure.” hold by DrugRists, 75c. A - 1 Railroad officials estimate the potato crop of Southern California at 22,500 carloads. tartwn t«af Saved —the life that is fighting against Consumption. Only—act promptly. Put it off, and nothing can save you. But, if taken in time, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will certainly cure. It must be done through the blood — and the “ Discovery ” is the most potent blood - cleanser, strength - restorer, and flesh-builder that’s known to medical science. The scrofulous affection of the lungs that’s called Consumption, and every form of Scrofula and blood-taints, all yield to it. For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Bronchitis, Asthma, and all severe, lingering Coughs, it’s an unequaled remedy. It’s the only one that’s guaranteed. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, in every case, you have your money back. We promise to cure your Ca tarrh, perfectly and permanently, no matter how had your case or of how long standing — 6r we’ll pay you $500.” That’s what the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Kemedy say to every sufferer from Catarrh. And they mean it. EvebvMoiheb Should Have 2111 The House. Dropped on Sugar, Children Love Co take Johmion’s Anodynb Likotht for Croon, Cold* Sore Throat, TomiUtl* Colic, Crampf and Pain* Ke- Ueree Summer Complaints, Cut* Brulsee like magic. THINK OF IT, In use over 40 VEARS it one fftmUy, Dr. 1. &. Johnson A Co.—It U sixty years since 1 first learned of your Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment, tor rsore than forty yrar, 1 hare used it in my family, i regard it as one o< the best and safest family remedies that can be found, used internal or external, in all case* O. H. INWALLS. Deacon 2nd Baptist Church, Bangor. Me. E xiChrXI Ci ■ 144sy rO r Prom Rheumatism, Sd* very ouirerer *tic* Neuralgia, Nei- ▼ous Headache, Diphtheria,Coughs, Catarrh, Bronchitis. Asthma, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Lameness. Soreness in Body or Limbs, Stiff Joints or Strain* will find In this old Anodyne relief and speedy cure. Pamphlet free. Sold ererywhere. Price S5 cts., by mail. S bottle* Express paid, si. 1. S. JOHNSON A CO., Boston. Mas* DADWAY’S II READ! RELIEF, INTERNALLY—A half to * teaspoonful in half a tumbler of water will in * few minutes cure CHOLERA MORBL’S. CRAMPS, t-pasma, £oiJR STOMACH, NAUSEA, VOMIT ING, HEARTBURN, DIARRHEA, Dye- entery. Summer Complaint, Colic, Flatu lency. Fainting Spells, Nervoaaness, Sleep- lesanees. Sick Headache, and all Internal pains. Malaria in Its var-ous forms cured and prev'-nted. There is not a leme-Ual agent in the world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other fevers aided bv RADWAY’S PILLS) so quickly as RADWAY’S READY RELIEF. ACHES AND PAINS. For headache (whether sick or nervous), toothache, neuralgia, nervousness and sleeplessness, rheuma tism, lumbago, pains and weakness in the back, ■pine or kidney* pains around the liver, pleurisy, swelling of the Joints and pains of all kind* tne ap plication of Radway’s Ready Relief will afford imme diateease, and its continued use for a few days effect a permanent cure. ‘German 99 Syrup For Coughs & Colds. John F. Jones, Edom,Tex.,writes' I have used German Syrup for the past six years, for Sore Throat, Cough, Colds, Pains in the Chest and Lungs, and let me say to any one wanting such a medicine— German Syrup is the best. B.W. Baldwin, Carnesville.Teun., writes: I have used your German Syrup in my family, and find it the best medicine I ever tried for coughs and colds. I recommend it to every one for these troubles. R. Schmalhausen, Druggist, of Charleston, 111.,writes: After trying scores of prescriptions and prepara tions I had on my files and shelves, without relief for a very severe cold, which had settled on my lungs, I tried your German Syrup. It gave me immediate relief and a perma nent cure. <D G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, WA'irfhtirv. New Jen^v. U. S. A. pRTQBlAs UNlMiNT UNEXCELLED! APPLIED EXTERNALLY FOB Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pains in the Limbs, Bach or Chest, Mumps, Son Throat, Colds, Sprains, Bruises, Siiugs of Insects, Mosquito Bites. TAKEN INTERNALLY It nets like a charm lor Cholera Morbus, Diarrhtra, Dysentery, Colic, Cramps, Nau sea, Sick Headache, dkc. W arranted perfectly harmless. (See oath accoinpnnying each bottle, also directions lor use. Its Southing and PENETRA TING qualities are lelt immediately. Try it and be convinced. Price ‘45 and 50 cents. S»old by all drug gists. . DEPOT. 40 MURRAY ST.. NEW YOHK. N Y N U—33 5 Ask iny agents for W. L. Douglas Shoes, f not for sale in your place ask yonr ealer to send for catalogue, secure the agency, and get them for you. B7-TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. .43 FOR,