The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 04, 1891, Image 7
! REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject:
“The Slu ot
Trouble.”
Borrowing
Text: “ Sufficient unto
ttil thereof."—Matthew vi.,
the day
34.
is the
The life of every man, woman and child is
W closely under the divine care as though
inch person were the only man, woman or
child. There are no accidents. As there is
t law of storms in the natural world, so
there is a law of trouble, a law of disaster,
a law of misfortune; but the majority of the
troubles of life are imaginary, and the most
9f those anticipated never come. At any
rate, there is no cause jf complaint against
God. See bow much He-iiath done to make
thee happy; His sunshine filling the earth
with glory, making rainbow for the storm
and halo for the mountain, greenness for the
moss, saffron for the cloud and crystal for
the billow, and procession of bannered flame
through the opening gates of the moraine,
chaffinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chent, and springs to blossom, add over
powering all other sounds with its song, and
overarching all other splendor with its tri-
oropb, covering up all other beauty with its
garlands, and outflashing all other thrones
with its dominion—deliverance for a lost
world through the Great Redeemer.
I discourse of the sin of borowing trouble.
' First, such a habit of mind and heart is
wrong, because it puts one into a despon
dency that ill fits him for duty. I planted
two rose bushes in my garden. The one
thrived beautifully, the other perished. 1
found the dead one on the shady side of the
house. Our dispositions, like our plants, need
mnshine. Expectancy of repulse is the cause
9f many secular and religious failures. Fear
of bankruptcy has uptorn many a fine busi-
>ess and sent the man dodging among the
note shavers. Fear of slander and abuse has
often invited all tb^kmg beaked vultures of
icorn and backbitingT Many qfthe misfor
tunes of-life, like hyenas, you courage
ously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious duty is
a man who sits down un ler the gloom of ex
pected misfortune! If he pray, he says, “I
.do not think I shall be answered.” If he
give, he says, “I expect they will steal the
money.” Helen Chalmers told me that her
father, Thomas Chalmers, in the darkest
hour of the history of the Free Church of
Beotian I, and when the woes of tlia land
teemed to weigh upon his heart, said to the
jhildren, “Come, let us go out and play ball
w fly kite,” and the only difficulty in the
play was that the children could not keep up
with their father. The McCheynes and the
Bummerfields of the church who did the
most good, cultivated sunlight. Away with
the horrors 1 they distill poison; they dig
graves, and if they could climb so high, they
would drown the rejoicings of heaven with
lobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune in
the future if you sedulously watch for it.
How shall a man catch the right kind of fish
If he arranges his line and hook and bait to
latch lizards and water serpents? Hunt for
bats and hawks and bats and hawks you will
find. Hunt for robin redbreasts and you will
find robin redbreasts. One night an eagle
and an owl got into a fierce battle; the eagle
unused to the night was no match for an
owl, which is most at home in the darkness,
fcnd the king of the air fell helpless; but the
morning rose, and with it rose the eagle; and
the owls and the night hawks and the bats
came a second time to the combat; now, the
eagle, in the sunlight, with a stroke of his
talons and a great cry, cleared the air, and
his enemies, with torn feathers and splashed
with blood, tumbled into the thickets. Ye are
the oljdflren of light. In the night of de-
ency you will have no chance against
vour enemies that flock up from beneath,
but, trusting in Go l and stan iing in the sun
shine ot the promises, you shall “renew your
youth like the eagle.”
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is
wrong because it has a tendency to make us
overlook present blessing. To slake maa’s
thirst, the rock is cleft, and cool waters leap
Into his brimming cup. To feed his hunger
the fields bow down with bending wheat,
~aiiu tfee cattle come down with full udders
from the tlP_ v ' er pastures to give him milk.
the orchard- yelIog..andLrin <? n, castiqij
S man
ould growl as though he were a soldier on
half rations, or a sailor on short allowance;
that a man should stand neck deep in har
vests looking forward to famine; that one
should feel the strong pmses of health march
ing with regular tread through all the ave
nues qf life and yet tremble at the expected
assault of sickness; that a man should sit in
his pleasant home, fearful that ruthless want
will some day rattle the broken window sash
with tempest, and sweep the coals from
the hearth, and pour hunger into
the bread tray; that a man fed by
Him who owns all the harvests should ex
pect to starve: that one whom God loves
and surrounds with benediction, and attends
with angelic escort, and hovers over with
more than motherly fondness, should be
looking for a heritage of tears!
Has God been hard with thee that thou
ahouldst be foreboding? Has He stinted tay
board? Has He covered thee with rags? Has
He spread traps for thy feet, and galled thy
cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee
with storm, and thundered upon thee with a
life full of calamity? If youx* father or
brother come into your bank where gold and
silver are lying about you do not watch
them, for you kfaow they are honest; but if
an entire stranger come by the safe you
keep your eye on him, for you do not know
bis designs. So some men treat God; not as
a Father, but a stranger, and act suspic
iously toward Him, as though they were
afraid He would steal something.
It is high time you began to thank God
for your px-esent blessing. Thank Him for
your children, happy, buoyant and bound
ing. Praise Him for your home, with its
fountain of song and laughter. Adore Him
for morning light and evening shadow.
Praise Hira for fresh, cool water bubbling
from the rock, leaping in the cascade, soar
ing in the mist, falling in the shower, dash
ing against the rock and clapping its hands
in the tempest. Love Him for the grass
that cushions the earth, and the clouds that
curtain the sky, and the foliage that waves
in the forest. Thank Him for a Bible to
read, and a cross to gaze upon, and a Saviour
to deli eer.
be
, -examination
is a hewing down of their brighter experi
ences. Like a boy with a new jackknife,
hacking everything he comes across, so their
uelf-examiuation is a religious cutting to
pieces of the gx-eenest things they can lay
their hands on. They imagine they are do
ing God’s service when they are going about
borrowing trouble, and borrowing it at
thirty per cent., which is always a sure pre
cursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is
wrong because the present is sufficiently
taxed with trial. God sees that we all need
a certain amount of trouble, and so He ap-
E ortions it for all the days and years of our
fe. Alas for the policy of gatuering it all
up for one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the cargo in
tended for the entire caravan. I never look
at my memorandum book to see what en
gagements and duties ars far ahead. Let
every week bear its own burdens.
The shadows of to-day are thick enough,
why implore the presence of other shadows?
Tlxe cup is already distasteful, why halloo to
disasters far distant to come and wring out
More gall into bitterness? Are we such
champions that, having won the belt in
former encounters, we can go forth to chai-
lewge all the future?
Here are business men just able to manage
affairs as they now are. They can pay their
rent, and meet their notes, and manage
affairs as they now are, but what if there
should come a panic? Go to-morrow and
write on your daybook, on your ledger, on
your money safe, “abiffccient unto the day
is tne evil tnereor." L)o not worry about
notes that are far from due. Do not pile? up
on vour counting desk the financial anxieties
of the next twenty years. The God who has
taken care of your worldly occupation,
guarding your otore from the touch of the
incendiary and the key of the burglar, will
be as faithful in 1«11 as in 1881. God’s hand
is mightier than the machinations of stock
gamblers, or the plots of political dema-
or re d nght arm of revolution,
and the darkness will fly and the storm fail
dead at His feet.
So there are persons in feeble health, and
they are worried about the future. They
make out very well now, but they are both-
®j"***£ themselves About future pleurisies &B(1
rheumatisms and neuralgias and fevers.
Their eyeeight it feeble, and they are wor-
entirely lose it. Their hearing
«IflOistanct, and they are alarmed )tst they
VU UCTAl ¥ Cl .
Many Christians think it a bad sign to 1
jubilant, and their work of self-examinatic
become entirely deaf. They felt chilly to
day, and are expecting an attack of typhoid.
They hav^ been troubled for weeks with
some perpliVy^t malady, anl dread becom
ing lifefong T g^lids. Take care of your
bealth now an Ivrust God for the future.
Be not guilty of the blasphemy of asking
Him to take care of you while you sleep with
your windoifs tignt down, or eat chicken
sala 1 at 11 o'clock at night, or sit down on a
cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent and then
be confident. Some of the sickest people
have been the most useful. It was so with
Payson, who died deaths daily, and Robert
Hall, who used to stop in the midst of his
sermon and lie down on the pulpit sofa to
rest, and then go on again. Theodore Fre-
linghuysen had a great horror of dying till
the time came, and then went peacefully.
Take care of the present an l let the future
look out for itself. “Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.”
Again, the habit of borrowing misfortune
is wrong because it unfits us for it when it
actually does come. We cannot always have
smooth sailing. Life’s path will sometimes
tumble among declivities and mount a steep
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss our
cheek and then sell us for thirty pieces of
silver. Human scorn will try to crucify us
between two thieves. We will hear the iron
gate of the sepulcher creak and grind as it
shuts in our kindred. But we cannot get
ready for these things by forebodings. They
who fight imaginary woes will come, out of
breath, into conflict with the armed disas
ters of the future. Their ammunition will
have been wasted long before they come
under the guns of real misfortune. Boys in
attempting bo jump a wall sometimes go so
far hack in order to get impetus that when
they come up they are exhausted: and these
long races in order to get spring enough to
vault trouble bring ns up at last to the
dreadful reality with our strength gone.
Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble is
wrong because it is unbelief. God has prom
ised to take care of us. The Bible blooms
with assurances. Your hunger will be fed;
your sickness will be alleviated; your sorrows
will be healed God will sandal your feet and
smooth your path, and along by frowning
crag and opening grave sound the yoices of
victory and good cheer. The summer clouds
that seem thunder charged really carry in
their bosom harvests of wheat, and shocks
of corn, and vineyards purpling for the wine
press. The wrathful wave will kiss the feet
of the great storm walker. Our gi-eat Joshua
will command, and above your soul the sun
of prosperity will stand still. Bleak and wave
struck Patmos shall have apocalyptic vision,
and you shall hear the cry of the elders, and
the sweep of wings, and trumpets of salva
tion, and the voice of Hallelujah unto God
for ever.
Your way may wind along dangerous bri
dle paths and amid wolf's howl and the
scream of the vulture, but the way still
winds upward till angels guard it, and trees
of life overarch it, and thrones line it, an 1
crystalline fountains 'eap on it, and the
pathway ends at gates that are pearl, an l
streets that are gold, and temples that are
always open, and hills that quake with per-
netual song, and a city mingling forever
Sabbath and jubilee and triumph and coro
nation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
’l is not the song for me;
To weeping it wi!l turn e’er long,
i weening 1
■oi inis is
heaven's decree.
THB PROBLEM OF IN'TEMPERAN'CE.
Intemperance is a vice of human nature.
While the liquor traffic encourages and in
creases the vicious tendency of men and
women, the vice is back of and more firmly
rooted and difficult of destruction than the
traffic.
The aim of the true temperance reformer
is to lift men to a higher manhood, to a self
eontroling spirit. The resources to effect
this end are various and ample. The order
and method of their application requires the
highest wisdom and skill. It requires the
wisdom that cometh down from above.
For these reasons we have no specific to of
fer. The solution of the problem of intem
perance must be by the act of God, who has
solved other problems of humanity, and who
will solve this. He will do it through the
people because it must be done in the people.
The manner and time of His leading us out
of Egypt do not yet appear.
To the human side of the question the peo
ple must address themselves. The question
must not be dismissed from the public mind
or thrown off the public conscience and
heart. It must continue to be talked about
in private and public, and discussed in the
periodical and on the platform and in the
pulpit. Bat more light must be prayed for.
A universal concordant waiting upon God
will unify the people, and prepare them for
action. His providence will point out the
path of duty. From ail envy and strife,
from all clamor and evil speaking, from all
undue reliance on men and measures, let us
come back to God.—A.nierieuu, Temperance
Review.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
This temperance movement is the very
bud and blossom of the Christianity of the
nineteenth century.
China now has a National V{. C. T. U.
with the necessary equipment of general
officers—fifteen Vice-Presidents and nine
Superintendents of Departments.
The Rev. John McNeil, of Lindou, assure i
an audience lately that he owed his success
in life to having become a member of the
Good Templar Lodge at Inver kip in his tif
teenth year.
“A Presbyterian church,” says Dr. Theo
dore Cuyler, “a not properly manned until
there stands in its pulpit an uncompromis
ing teetotaler. If you put a bottle oa the
pulpit it will trickle into every pew of the
congregation.”
The annual report of the British Woman's
Temnerauce Association, recently issued,
states that the past year has been the most
progressive one in its history. There are in
all 42o societies, extending throughout
twenty counties, the Isle of Man and tht! Isle
of Jersey.
The Rev. Mr. Reidenger, of Findlay, Ohio,
In harmony with his conviction of duty
preached against the saloons, and the sa-
loonists, availing themselvee of the best
arguments at their command, bombarded
his house with stones and brickbats the
other night.
The society for the abolition of strong
drink in Holland certifies that in a popula
tion of 3,500,000 there are 35,000 licansee for
the sale of liquor annually granted. Com
puting two-thirds of the total population to
b* womena'd children, there Is a saloon to
eygrj.thirtj-thrw joen; a wop/uJ condition.
SABBATH SCHOOL
Bn - there s a song tie ransomed sing,
To Jems, tbeir exalted king.
With joyful heart and tongue,
Oa. that’s the song for me!
Courage, my brother" The father does
not give to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but, as the bills for
tuition and board and clothing and books
come in, pays them. So God will not give
you grace all at once for the future, but will
meet all your exigencies as they come.
Through earnest prayer, trust Him. Put
everything in God’s hand, and leave it there.
Large interest money to pay will soon eat up
a farm, a store, an estate, and the interest
on borrowed troubles will swamp anybody.
“Sufficient unto the dav is the evil thereof.”
TEMPERANCE.
REAPING TIME.
Be temperate, my son; don’t indulge In the
enp
Avoid what’s called, “rrnnni nn -"Vf —
to lift yourself
Some day, by the straps of yonrmoote.
—New York Press.
GERMAN BEER MOURNERS.
It appears that recently some German
students, desirous of commemorating Count
Von Moltke, under the leadership of a pastor
of a local church who was master of cere
monies; drank a solemn “Trauer-Salaman-
der” in his memory. Any American min
ister who should lend himself to such a beer-
drinking ceremony in the name of mourning,
in this country, would give rise to a great
scandal. It is a striking illustration of the
backwardness of the temperance reform in
Germany, that such a ceremony could take
place and be nothing thought ot as peculiar
or exceptional in that country. The agita
tion for total abstinence on this side of the
At.antic, though it has not prevented a still
enormous consumption of intoxicants, has,
especially in religious circles, deprived social
drinking usages of much of their old-time
respectability. Let the agitation continue
ami A &
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
SEPTEMBER O.
FOR
Lesson Text: “The True Children of
God,” John viil., 31-47—
Golden Text: John i.,
1 il—Com men t ary.
31. “Then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on Him, If ye continue in My word,
then are ye My disciples indeed.” He is still
at Jerusalem, teaching in the temple (versa
2), and it is just after the feast of taber
nacles. The previous verse says that many
believed on Him; so, also say chapters iv„
39. 41; x., 42; xii., 42; but chapter vi., 66,
says that many of His disciples went back
and walked no more with Him, and after
His ascension we read of the number of the
disciples as being only about 120.
32. “And ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.” To know
the truth is to know Himself, for He is the
Truth (chap, xiv., 6), an 1 to know God and
Jesus Christ is life eternal (chap, xvii., 3).
33. ‘"They answered Him, We be AbA-
ham’s seed, and were never in bondage to
any man. How sayest Thou, ye shau be
made free.” Being only natural men, they
unuerstood not His spiritual sayings, for it
seemed foolishness to them (I Cor. ii.,14). To
be a descendant of Abraham, and to have
been circumcised, was in their eyes all that
was necessary to entitle them to eternal
happiness. (Gen. xv., 6; Rom. 4, 11; x.,
3, 4).
31. “Jesus answered them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is
the servant of sin.” As the Spirit through
Paul has said, “To whom ye yield your-; ^
selves Servants to obey, his servants ye v 'e
whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death,
or of obedience unto righteousness.”
35. “And the servant abideth not in the
house forever, but the Son abideth ever.”
We cannot become children of God by na
tural birth, nor by any works of the flesh,
but only by receiving into us something of
God, even His Son Jesus Christ as our Righ
teousness and our Salvation.
36. “If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed.” The Righteous
ness of God stood before them aud was talk
ing to them, but they knew Him not. In
Him, and in Hira only, was there Life and
Light and Righteousness**all else apart from
Him was only sin, darkness and death.
37. “I know that ye are Abraham's seed;
but ye seek to kill Me, because My Word
hath no place in you.” They were children
of Abraham by natural descent, but they
were not like Abraham spiritually, for Abra
ham rejoiced in the Christ (verse 56), but
they wanted to kill Him. Both Cain and
Abel were the natural children of Adam and
Eve, but spiritually Abel was of God while
Cain was of the devil (Heb. xi., 4; I Johhiii.,
12)-
38. “I speak that which I have seen with
My Father, and ye do that which ye have
seen with your father.” As to His Father,
He was continually speaking of Him, pro
claiming that the father sent Him, and that
He said and did only what the Father taught
Him; that the Father was with Him, and
that He always pleased the Father; that to
know Him was to know the Father (verses
16, 18, 19, 28, 29). His whole aim on this
earth was to glorify the Father, and when
about to be crucified He prayed the Father
would glorify Him that still He might glo
rify the Father.
39. “They answered and said unto Him,
Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them, If ye were Abraham’s children ye
would do the works of Abraham.” They
still cling to the idea of natural descent being
sufficient, but John the Baptist had taught
them the folly of saying, “VVe have Abra
ham to our father” (Math, iii., 9); and on a
previous occasion Jesus had taught at Ca
pernaum that many would come from east
and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob in the Kingdom, wLiile many who
thought themselves entitled to do so would
be cast into outer darkness (Matt, viii., 11,
12).
40. “But now ye seek to kill Me, a man
that hath told you the truth, which I have
heard of God. 'This did not Abraham.” The
true children of Abraham will walk in the
steps of Abraham (Rom. iv., 12), and his
great characteristic was that he believed the
: ing for a foundations he
I was content t/f dwell in the promised land
| as a sojourijgF.
■l3v^“Ye'do the deeds ot your father. Then
said they to Him, We be not born of forni
cation; we have one Father, even God.” In
Isa. Ixiii., 16; Ixiv., 8, we fia»* these words,
“Doubtless Thou art our Father, though
Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel ac
knowledge us not: Thou, O Lord, art our
Father, our Redeemer: Thy name is from
everlasting.” “O Lord, Ttou art our
Father; we are the clay, and Thou our pot
ter; and we all are the work of Thy hand.”
These are about the only places in the Old
Testament where God is directly spoken of
as Father, but if they had any reference to
such words as these the comparison of the
clay would condemn them, for they were
hard hearted as rock rather than as clay,
which could be fashioned by the potter.
42. “Jesus said unto them, If God were
your father ye would love Me, for I pro
ceeded forth and came from God; neither
came I of Myself, but He sent Me.” The |
Lord had sai l through Malachi, A son hon- |
oreth his father and a servant his master; if
then I be a father, where is mine honor (Mai.
i., 6)? And in John v., 23, Jesus had said, j
“He that honoreth not the Son, honoretb i
not the Father which hath sent Him.” These j
people profess to be children of Abraham, j
outdo not his work; they call themselves j
children of God, but they hate Him whom ]
God sent, even His only begotten Son.
43. “Why do you not understand My
speech? even because ye cannot hear My
word.” “Through fa th” is the only way to
understand (Heb. xi., 3), and if the disci
ples understood not many things till after
Pentecost, even though they believed in Him
(cha-iter xii., 16; xiv.. 9), how could these
peoph understand anything when they had
no taith in Him whatever; and here is the
reason of their blindness, and of the blind
ness and hardness of heart of all who are
like them—they will not receive the word of
God.
44. “Ye are of your father the devil, and
th^lusts of your father ye will do.” He had
tmee told them that they acted like their
(verses 33, 41), and now He says
iiliiiii\*'~*i>*jj,f i ii father is. At another time
He calls them serpents, generation of vipers
(Math, xxiii., 33),probably with reference to
that old serpent, the devil, and their likeness
to him.
4-\ “And because I tell you the truth ye
believe Me not.” Paul asks, “Am I there
fore become your enemy because I tell you
the truth?” (Gal. iv., 16). Truth is to a
heart that loves lies like salt to a wound un
healed, or like a strong light to weak eyes.
46. “Which of you convinceth Me of sin?
Aud if I say the truth, wli3 r do ye not believe
Me.” They could not convict Him of sin,
for there was no sin in Him; He knew no
sin; He did no sin; He was without sin (t
John iii., 5; II Cor. v., 21; I Pet. ii., 23*.
Even Judas had to confess tuat He was an
innocent man.
47. “He that is of God heareth God’s
words; ye therefore hear the n not, because
ye are not ot God.” Not of Goa, not ot my
sheep, neither part nor lot in the matter
(chapter x., 26; Acts viii., 21). There shah"
in no wise enter into it anything that de-
fileth, neither whatsoever worsetn abo nina
tion or maketh a lie, but they which are
written in the Lamb’s book of life (dev. xxi.,
27;. Let the questions earnestly search our
hearts: “Am I of God? Do I love to hear
His word? Are His words more to me than
any other words? Is His Book more enjoyed
than any book in the house?” If I cannot
g ve a sincere and hearty, “Yes, blessed be
is name” to such questions as these, I should
fear lest while bearing His nama 1 am still
in darkness—Lesson Helper.
RELIGIOUS REAffiNG.
“EVERY EYE SHALL SEE llll
Revelation i., 7.
When first to this polluted earth
The holy Saviour came,
So humble was II s place of birth, kj
Few cared to know Ills name.
His lowly form no comeliness
To mortal eye possessed;
No beauty in ilis grief-marred f id
Revealed the heavenly Guest.
But lo! with clouds He comes agaii !
The crown upon his brow;
Ami every eye shall sec Him then,
And everj’ knee shall bow.
Thine eye, O Thou with soldire’sfoear,
Or with more cruel dart
Of unbelief, reproach, or sneer,
Who pierced the Saviour’s heart
Thine eye, O Thou in pride who (Est
His gnat salvation scorn,
Or by neglect Thy soul has lost,
Shall look on Him and mourn.
Thine eye. O weak and trembling ^aint,
Whom sin makes often sad,
Who, though pursuing, oft are fa|it,
Shall see Him and be glad.
Thine eye, O Thou whose faith is ’might
With joy in One unseen.
Shall see Thine everlasting light,
Without a cloud between.
Ob! blessed hope, oh ! jovful tbo
For those who know His grace
That when the fight of failh is fin
They shall behold His face!
To work and wait, to watch and j
With lamps kept burning “IAii;
Bo this our service day by da“
Until the Lord appear.
—[London
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ay,
noon HOMES.
There is nothing that society
needs so much a> it does goodj
the power and charm of the hoi
all the mother. Every tendenn
to be deprecated that operatcj
woman’s maternal possibilities
it appear that she can subserv|
ju>t as well outside of domesi
within them.
I believe that it is good senj
Scripture to say that about the
that can be a s ked of a woman
should marry a man, have healtl
bear children, and mind and wl
enough to fit those children b
members of society.—[Rev. C. II.
ristian.
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Mystery of a Wreck.
The old wreck recently discovered by
the diving class of the torpedo station at
Newport, R. I., promises to become an
especial object of interest. It lies com
pletely buried in mud and stone on the
west side of the torpedo station, within a
couple of hundred feet of the island.
Diver Felies has done some excellent
work already in sending up two ancient
carronades completely carbonized. \\ ith
careful handling, Tuesday, the first was
found stamped with a cross above the
letter “A,” and under the letter the
figures 2, 23. The second cannon
showed the letter “P” above the number
21, 26. The bell of the vessel was dis
covered, and while still under water
ascending to the surface was observed to
be quite bright. But the instant it
struck the air it turned quite black.
The piece containing the name is missing
yet. The diver says the stern is very
high, and she is in a galleon. Some of
her stern timbers were brought up and
landed. The timbers were nearly two
feet thick. Three solid two-inch cannon
balls have been dug out of her starboard
timbers. Not a sign of iron or nails is
to be found, though there are the holes
where they have been. The diver de
scribes her as looking just like a house
after it had fallen down. He has worked
his way into the magazine, which is
sheathed with lead. Some of this lead
has been hauled up, and is in perfect
condition in every way. He has also
come across a number of barrels, the
upper half of which is completely eaten
away, but the remainder seems to be
solid, whatever is in them. When the
mnd in and around the old wreck is
blown away, interesting information is
looked for by the officers and men who
ire working like beavers to unravel the
mystery. Careful study estimates that
the big wreck must have lain there at
east 175 years.—Boston Transcript.
FACES TOWARD THE I.IGH|
The sick quite unive sally lie
faces toward the light. This is v
able in the wards of a large h
you pass from bed to bed, ask or
pale face* why they all are movi
common impulse. He cannot an,
reason is deeper down than his
ing. He does so naturally, he do
the reason why.
Ju>t as it is the nature of pla
toward the window and reach
light, so a law written deep t
spiritual, as well as in our ph
causes every soul to reach o
light. Human wisdom and phi
but artificial ligb’s which will n
soul in its reaching out after G.
than an electric, or any other li
bright, would adequately suhsti
giving rays of the sun in the bo:
ing plants.
What this world, sick with si
longs for today more than anyt
to have its face turned toward the
Righteousness.
It is this universal instinct
gives to preaching its succesj
Christian service its benedic
How many are today unhap? . _ .
cause in tlieir nature, deeper lown than their
understanding, there is a re^phing out after
God, and heaven and sacred t|ings, while at
the same time, in wicked re^ctien of the
Saviour, the sinner is turning
from Christ and the light.—'
server.
else.
Sun of
oulthat
every
w*rd.
y be-
is face away
utheran Ob-
REDEEMED
iftit
SINN*
Ttr
redeem ns from ali iniquity,
Himself a peculiar peopl
was His object? To redeer
back from bondage, to save
ment of a ransom price, not|
punishment of sin, but from
its pollution, from its foul a(
brace, no less than from its,
chains. It was to set us free
that Christ redeemed us; nofl
but from all sin; not that wj
main or afterward fall bacH
minion of the very tyrant fro!
He redeemed us; not that we si
exchange one bard master for al
many; no, He “gave Himself
laid down His li'e for us, He cl
cross for us, “that He might ren
all iniquity.” Nor was this deli
sin as well as punishment int
for our advantage, but for His. I
end to accomplish for himself.]
purify us, not merely that we mi|
and therefore hapi>y. but also
people for Himself. Of none bli
and holy body could be be the f
fication would have done but hi
for which Christ died ; His ciifl
have been accomplished if He
deemed us from iniquity as
denmation, if he had not purifil
for II mself, for His own use enl!
honor—a people in their measure]
seif, His exclusively. His own
inalienable right. His indefeasible]
His peculiar people.— [Dr. J. A!e^
SOME GIRLS WAYS.
It was Saturday morning in al
house kitchen. Nell was bendintf
sink picking a chicken, with a dec
on her face; Hattie was kmadil
with an expression of grim detf
suitable for a soldier scaling Li
breastworks; and Susan was ski
her pretty face spoiled by the sett|
tent about the mouth. The girls
talking—tiny never talked wl
worked—but they often spoke sl|
unkindly. Work w. s to them
state of existence in which the,
graces played no part,
••Did 1 leave my whip in there?’]
he-ita’.ing voice at the door and a
big straw hat appeared behind thej
“No.” snapped Nell, ••but’s a w<
didn’t, for you are always leaving i
around for us to tread on.”
‘•It lias fallen down under yci
Susan.” be said, coining in to pR'kl
"• Ned, you are always boiheril
body," fretted Susan, while she af
ungraciousness in every move men!
••Father called me to come qui:k\
the chicken, and I stood it in the|
replied Ned, rougnly, and gladly
escape.
That samg ^“jningin a neighbor!
house kitchen, t.ucy was hneail
bread as deftly as Hattie, but at if
time planning w ith Helen and G
to earn money for their missiol
Grace had a funny story to tell w|
washed the di.-be*: and Heie-n told
the meadow-lark she saw while pi
strawberries that she was now hu|
the strawberry short-cake for des-< |
gain came in with an armful of
threw it noisily into the woodbox.l
Grace’s curl- , made believe to diva
in Lucy’s pan of flour, snatched tf
strawberry from Helen's dish, an [
out whistling a Sunday-school hvnl
The girls smootheci out the lit
that Sam’s tactics always brought
faces, and began to sing his hyml
echoed i y Fanny, who was sweef
front stairs.
W bieh family do you belong to,
[Advocate and Guardian.
FRANCIS MURPHY TREATS.
. * A short, thick-set man, with silver streaks
m his hair and bushy mustache, stood in the
rotunda of the Grand Pacific yesterday an j
talked earnestly to a group of reporters that
encircled him. “Friends,” he said, “it is
very warpi. Let us go to my room and have
a long dnnk.* This startled the young men,
for the speaker had never said such sweet
words before. But recovering quickly, they
followed the man to his room. He rang for
a bellboy, and whan the messenger arrived
th# host said; “Bring us four nice, large
sparkling glasses of ice water.” Then all w&s
quiaL You cculd bare heard a couple of
pins drop, and each reporter had a different
expression on either side of his face. The
host was Francis Murpbv, the famous teoi
perancs J-uruT—Vhi t ago Herald. ^
▲ QUESTION THAT WILL NOT DOl
This (the drink evil) is a great pubil
lion. It appeals to every honest m&n’l
and is a reproach to every honest maj
science. It wrings the very soul of ot
mothers, who see a bell-trap set by i
every corner for the destruction of
loved. Politicians may ignore it—con vl
may keep silent about it; but this
“irrepressible.” It will not down. It
a solution, and it will have a solution!
cord with the dictates of humanity,
tianity and civilization, before the ci
its victims cease to echo through the i
chambers of our hearts—before <
sciences cease to cringe before the
it. How long, O brothers, will it bj
we will begin to be honest with ourselvJ
with each vytherl—Farmer j Allian
coin. Net.
Lightning Extinguishes Its Fire.
ie of the queerest in cidents of the
jtrical storm is reported from
where lightning struck
JJrackett, knocking
it on fire. In-
|i the fluid followed
r the building
5red the main pipe
id, making a large
‘vy pressure sent the
|*^ pole of the build-
'the fire, and then
|:ld and began to under-
Luckily the second
Jside the one injured was
fad by manipulating a few
niged over to fill the high
ftw Portland water takers
weir supply had been in
fiston (Me.) Journal.
f^Alan-Eater of the Gulf.”
‘ The region in the vicinity of the north
ern extremity of the Gulf of California
is inhabited by a rare and terrible crea-
tu,c—a member of the lizard tribe—
called the “Man-eater of the Gulf.” He
is hardly large enough to warrant his
awe inspiring name, being only about
fifteen inches long, but is one of the
most poisonous creatures known to
naturalists. As mentioned above he is
a member of the lizard family, some akin
to the famed Gila Monster, and his bodj
A Tulqae Clock.
One of tho attractions of the beauti
ful Monte Pincio gardens, at Rome, is a
really unique clock, which is usually an
object of interest to groups of possersby,
who stop to minutely inspect it. A gen
eral view and description of this curious
and artistic piece of mechanism is given
as follows by the Horological Review:
The very charming case is composed
of three branches in rustic work. It
stands upon a square stone block, sur
rounded on its four sides by beautiful leaf
plants, ivy and grasses. The stone foot
stands within a w ater basin. The upper
part of the case contains a dial covered
with glass on each of its four sides. Upon
the cupola stands a staff which carries
tht two bells for the full hour and quar
ters. At its upper eud is a small vane
in the shape of a battle ax.
The frame fer the wheel and levers of
the striking work, in which a small cen
trifugal pendulum takes the place of the
fly, is close underneath the dial. At the
back of the clock frame oscilates the
second pendulum, and before this is lo
cated a mass of rustic work, similar to a
large coral growth, from which issue
small jets of water at regular intervals.
Two of the uppermost coral branches are
water conduit pipes, from which empties
alternately, at each swing of the pendu
lum, a small quantity of water into two
leaflike spoons underneath, imparting to
them an up and down motion. The pe
culiar motive power furnished by the
water keeps the clock in motion, by a
very remarkable escapement, so that it
never requires winding. The construc
tion of the clock is due to a monk, as is
the case with so many old pieces of art
work.
AT, L. Thompson & Co., Druggists, Contlers-
rort. Pa., say Halt’s Catarrh Cure is the best
land only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell it, 75c.
San Xavier, Arizona, has a thirteen-year-
old boy who weighs 35J pounds.
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kune’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No tits after lirst day’s use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise aud 82 trial bottle
tree. Dr. Kliue. 1*31 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomp
son's Eye-water.Druggists sell at 2ac.per bottle
CjyftUP'fEciS
ISZ'
P CWE? ENJOYS*
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refresh ing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
JLiver and Bowels, cleanses the sys*
tern effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habituai
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its Kind ever j>ro
duced, pleasii^r to the fcastej
ceptable toti^tomach,
its actionlj^^Bfc benei
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The end
of woman’s peculiar troubles and
ailments comes with Dr. Pierce’s
Favori^j Prescription. It cures
them. For all the functional de
rangements, painful disorders, and
chronic weaknesses that afflict wo
mankind, it’s a certain remedy. It’s
an invigorating, restorative tonic,
soothing cordial and bracing nerv
ine—purely vegetable, non-alooholic,
and perfectly harmless.
In the cure of periodical pains,
prolapsus and other displacements,
bearing-down sensations, and all
“ female complaints ” and irregu
larities, M Favorite Prescription is
the only medicine that’s guaranteed.
If it doesn’t give satisfaction in ev
ery case, you have your money back.
You pay only for tbe good you
get. Can you ask more ?
The easiest way is the best. Reg
ulate the liver, stomach, and bowels
with Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets.
They cleanse and renovate the
system — thoroughly and naturally.
Sick Headache, Constipation, Indi
gestion, and Bilious Attacks, are
prevented, relieved, and cured.
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For Dyspepsia.
A. Bellanger, Propr., Stove Foun
dry, Montagny, Quebec, writes: “I
have used August Flower for Dys
pepsia. It gave me great relief. I
recommend it to all Dyspeptics as a
very good remedy.”
Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer,
Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, writes: ‘‘I
have used August Flower with the
best possible results for Dyspepsia.”
C. A. Barrington, Engineer and
General Smith, Sydney, Australia,
writes: “August Flower has effected
a complete cure in my case. It act
ed like a miracle.”
Geo. Gates, Corinth, Miss..writes;
** I consider your August Flower the
best remedy in the world for Dys
pepsia. I was almost dead with
that disease, but used several Dottles
of August Flower, and i »w con
sider myself a well man. I :,iucerely
ledicine to suffer-