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\ I REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN* DAY SERMON. Subject: “ Things Which Slen and 'Women May Do.” Trxr: *• The people that do know their Ood shall be strong and*do exploit*."—Dan iel xi, £2. Antiochus Epiphane®. th" old sinner, came down three times with his army to desolate the Israelites, advancing one time with a hundred and two trained elephanta,swinging their trunks this wav and that, and sixty- two thousand infantry and six thousand cavalry troops, and thev were driven back. Then, the second time, he advanced with seventy thousand armed men, and had been again defeated. But the third time he laid successful siege until the navy of Borne came in with the fla^h of their long banks of oars and demanded that the siege be lifted. And Antioch us Epipbanes said he wanted time to consult witn his friends about it,' and Popilius, one of the Roman embassadors, took a staff and made a circle on the ground around Antiochus Epipbanes, and compelled him to decide before be came out of that circle; whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of the Hebrews had submitted to the invader, but some of them resisted, valorously, as did_ Eleazer when he had swine’s flesh forced into* his mouth, spit it out, although he knew he must die for it, and did die for it; and others, as my text says, did exploits. An exploit I would define to be an heroic act, a brave feat, a great achievement. “Well,” you say, “I admire such things, but there is no chance for me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. If I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, I also could do exploits.” You are right, so far as great wars are concerned. There will probably be no op portunity to distinguish yourself in battles. The most of the brigadier generals of this country would never have been heard of had it not been for the war. Neither will you probably become a great Inventor. Nineteen bunared and ninety- nine out of every two thousand inventions found in the patent office at Washington never yielded their authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the patent. So you will probably never be a Morse or an Edison or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred who achieves extraordinary success in commercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What then? Can you have no opportunity to do exploits? I am going to show that there are three oppor tunities open that are grand, thrilling, far reaching, stupendous and overwhelming. They are before you now. In one, if not ail three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest things on earth to do are to save a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the coarse of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground between two millstones, sits on the edge of some preci pice, or in some other way comes near dem olition. It may be a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exi gency. You sometimes see it in court rooms. A young man has got into bad company anil he has offended the law, and be is arraigned. All blushing and confused he is in the presence of judge and jury and lawyers. He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced and be is almost desperate. Let the district attorney overhaul him as though he were an old offender; let the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a word for him, because he cannot afford a considerable fee; let the judge give no op portunity for presenting the mitigating circumstances, hurry up the case and hustle him up to Auburn or £ing Sing. If he live seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal, and each decade of his life will be blacker than its predecessor. In the Interregnums of prison life he can get no work, and he is glad to break a window glass or blow up a safe or play the highwayman so as to get back within the walls where he can get something to eat and hide himself from the gaze of the world. Why don’t his father come and help him? Ho father is de"^ Whv Mo rr.^ithoT- and he pected to Ova in, or go to a third rate board ing bouse, where they have tough liver and •our bread Sve mornings out of the seven. An old merchant comes in and says: “ Well, Joe, this hm been a hard season tor young merchants, and this prolonged cool weather has put many in the doldrums, and I have been thinking of you a good deal of late, for just after I started m business I once got into the same scrape. Now. if there is anything I can do to help yon out I will gladly do it. Better just put those goods out of sight for tha present, and next season we will plan something about them. I will help you to some goods that you can sell for me on commission, and I will go down to one of the wholesale houses and tell them that I know you and will back you up, aud if you want a few dollars to bridge over the present I can let you have them. Be as economical as yon can, keep a (tit/ upper Up, and remember that you have two friends, (iod and myself. Uood morn ing!” a he old merchant goes away and the young man goes behind his desk, and the tears roll down his cheeks. It is the first time be has cried. Disaster made him mad at everything, and mad at man and mad at Ood. But this kindness melts him, and the tears seem to reUeve his brain and his spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty in the shade, and he comes out of the Isis. About three years after, tuis ; spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty in tb * * ’ * crisis. About three years after, t&is young mer chant goes into the old merchant’s store and says: “Well, my oil friend, I was this morning thinking over what you did for me three years ago. You helped me out of an awful crisis iu my commercial history. I learned wisdom, prosperity has come, and che pallor Has gone out of my wife’s cheeks, and the roses that were there when I courted her in her father's house have bloomed again, and my business is splendid, and I thought 1 ought to let you know that you saved a man f” In a short time after, the old merchant, who bad been a good while shaky in his limbs and who had poor spells^ is called to leave the world, and one morning after he had read the twenty-third Psaua about “The Lord is my shepherd,” he closes his eyes on this world, and an angel who bad been for many years appointed to watch the old man’s dwelling, cries upward the news that the patriarch’s spirit is about as cending, and the twelve angels who keep tne twelve gates of heaven, unite in crying down to this approaching spirit of the old man, “Come in and welcome, for it has been told &U over these celestial lands that you saved a man.” There sometimes come exigencies in the life of a woman. One morning a few years ago I saw in the newspaper that there was a young woman in New York whose pocket- many of them. My, what lota of children l And some people have contempt for children. They are good for nothing but to wear cut the carpets and break things and keep you awake nights crying. ■ Well, your estimate of a child is quite ; different from that mother’s estimate who I lost her child this summer. They took it j to the sait air of the seashore and to the ; tonic air of the mountains, but no help came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose that life could be restored by purchase, how much would that be reaved mother give? She would take all the jewels from her fingers and neck and bureau and put them down. And if told that that was not enough she would take her bouse and make over the deed for it, and if that were not enough she would call in all her investments and put down all her mortgages and bonds, and if told that were not enougn sae womu say: "x nave maae over all my property, and if I can have that child back I will now pledge that I will toil with my own hands and carry with my own shoulders In any kind of hard work and live in a cellar and die in a garret. Only give me back that.lost darling I” I am glad that there are those who know something of a value of a child. Its possi bilities are tremendous. What will thoss hands yet do? Where will those feet yet walk? Toward what destiny will that never dying soul betake itself? Shall those lips be the throne of blasphemy or benediction? Come chronoligists,and calculate the decades on decades, the centuries on centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am I not right in putting that among the great ex ploits? But what are you going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father and mother had died the day they were born? There are tens of thousands or such. Their parentage was against them. Their name is against them. The structure of their skulls is against them. Their nerves and muscles contaminated by the inebriety or dissoluteness of their parents; they are practically at their birth laid out on a plank in the middle of the Atlantic O^ean, In an equinoctial gale, an I told to make for shore. What to do with them is the ques tion often asaed. TEMPERAWE. FRCITS OF THE LIQUOR) TRAFFIC. Poverty, crime and foul disease: Bevellings, drunkenness an 1 strife; Loss of estate and loss of life; Loss of companions kind and dear. Headaches and pains, toe !ruits of oear Loss of employment, sad uisgraoe. Blotches and pimples on the face. Brains that are softening day by day, Health that is fleeing fast awav. vounf book. containing thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, had been stolen, and she had been left without a penny at the begin ning of winter iu a strange city, and no work. And although she was a stranger, I did not allow the 9 o’clock mail to leave the lamppost on our corner without carrving the thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, and the case was proved genuine. Now, I have read all Shakespeare’s trage dies, and all yictor Hugo's tragedies, and all Alexander Smith’s tragedies, but I never read a tragedy more thrilling than that case, and similiar cases by the hun dreds and thousands in all our large cities. Young women without money and with out home and without work in the great maelstroms of metropolitan life. When such a case comes under your observation, how do you treat it? “Get out of my way. We have no room in our establishment for any more hands. I don’t believe in women anyway. They are a lazv, idle, worthless set. John, please show tRis person out of the door.” Or do you compliment her personal ap pearance and say things to her which if any man said to your sister or daughter you would kill him on the spot? That is one way, and it is tried every day in the large cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in factories and for governesses in families have proved them selves unfit to be in any place outside of hell. But there is another way. and I saw it one day in the Methodist Book Concern in New York, where a young woman ap plied for work, and the gentleman in tone und manner said in substance: “My daugh ter, we employ women here, but I do not know of any vacant place in our depart ment. You had better inquire at such and such a place, and I hope you will be success ful in getting something t^do^^^^^ynv There is another question quite as perti- ( neat, and that is, What are they going to ' do with us ? They will, ten or eleven years 1 from now, have as many votes as the same number of well born children, and they will hand this land over to the anarchy and po litical damnation just as sure as we neglect them. Suppose we each one of us save a boy or save a girl. You can do it. Will youl I will. How shall we get readv for one or all of these three exploits? We shall make a dead failure if in our own strength we try to save a man or woman or child. But my text suggests where we are to get equip ment. ‘‘The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” We must know Him through Jesus Christ in our own salvation, and then we shall have His help in the salvation of others. And while you are saving strainers von may save some of your own kin. You tuink your brothera and sisters an l children and grandchildren all safe, but they are not dead, and uo one is safe till he is dead. On the English coast there was a wild storm and a wreck in the offing, and the cry was, “Man the lifeboat!” But Harry, the usual leader of the sailor’s crew, was not to be found, and they went without him, and brought back all the shipwrecked people but one. By this time Harry, the leader of the crew, appeared and said, “Why did you leave that one?” The answer was, “He could not help himself at all, and we could not get him into the boat,” “Mnn the life boat!” shouted Harry, “and we will go for that one.” “No,” said his aged mother, standing by, “you must not go. I lost your father in a storm like this, and your brother AVill went off six years_ ago, and I have not heard a word fro n Will since he left, and I don't know where he is, poor Will, and 1 cannot lot you also go, for 1 am old and dependent on you.” His reply was, “Mother, I must go and save that one man, and if I am lost God will take care of you in your old days.” The lifeboat put out, aud after an awful struggle with the sea they pic.te i the poor ■ fellow out of t.h*' ri'-rioT just in time to I save his lire, am starce i ror tne snore. As they came within speaking distance. Harry cried out, “We saved him, and tell mother it brother Will.” Oh. xxtrcasvu vmmw • — ^ - Bruises and wounds most Ruin and death and blan‘ Hopes that are crushed ai Husbands in paupers’ coff Desolate homes, cheerlesr Women and children sta Tears and distress and la Fighting and swearing Such are the fruits we O, what a pity such thu —T. R. Thompson,™ Sa ‘ HOTELS WITHOV Commenting upon thej Maine Hotel Keepers’ ‘ prohibition, the Lewistoi When the era of proH years ago, we were infi could not be successf" power. Since prohibiti Maine hotels have hr 1 most limited and pri great and fashionable ment, especially in res 1 summer leisure. Thefl has made healthy fl Maine hotels. DECADENCE OF Tl It is no longer fashiij ciety to drink heavilyJ not think it necessary! table, and have set ttl the seal of approval a* are abstainers. Tlei is remarkable to ticj the social happenine/ in New York. It v f the reporter as weL\ was most brilliant drunk, but the habif mian are no longer , and the man of edul dresses well, is refinf steady habits and s r man at home and a-! line for promotion. The clubs, whk 1 mometer of societj* rid themselves of i been a nuisance ai>| not only with a de J! timber, but as ac el members. Society. I conclusion that excess! manly aud has a Aei j delphia Record. 1 CAUSE AN Any casual reader o not help noticing h< crimes are explained b was crazed with rum.” more than one-half (J find their way to prison agency of drink, and i j not directly traceable 11 appear in some indirect A lesson of the evil I habit was forcibly taul cently. A young man li\| sister and cousm retur.l work under the influence^ which h s aged mother him in some way explo ’ was that all in the hou man were burned 'v- portrayed the tei when told in a stat.. tragedy of which he - his reported intervie. e | he considered himself . I am a drinking man,” 1^ related how, after lean ployment, he had taken be utterly oblivious of v He staggered home, and] he had sent three souls ii I This is a lesson which! who drinks should take t| spoken of had the reput? offensive, good nature J worst enemy.” What has taught those who to bear; air; iws unpaid; Id; I bart, there: ;lothes; aer woes— _*• Buld be. \art Review. |ORS. E ction of the ion against xl says: l first set in, at a hotel i by water- naugurated, I jped from a ndition, into f entertain- >e demand of of the bar possible at HABIT, as best so- wealth do i upon tho putting aen who lrespect patched r years that avist Vuea \ae- gs, t Why Derelicts Turn Orer. Nearly every incoming vessel which leaches this port reports having passed some derelict tossing about the North Atlantic. The peculiarity of the reports lies in the fact that nearly every one of the wrecked vessels is reported as float ing bottom up. The cause which in duces a craft which is built to float keel downward, to assume the unnatural atti tude of pointing it to the skies as soon as abandoned, is a point on which sea faring people widely differ. It is easy enough to comprehend how an abandoned and helpless vessel, drift ing at the nurc of wind and wave, can be thrown on ner beam end and even entirely capsized when struck broadside on by an Atlantic wave. But why sub sequent waves do not send them back to their normal floating position appears I to be a vexed question. An old sea captain, who is too modest to have his name mentioned, accounts for the persistency with which derelicts insist on floating about bottom up with the reason that the bottoms of vessels are always watertight. When suddenly cap sized he thinks that a quantity of air is caught in the vessel’s hold, and, being confined in that space, has a tendency to keep the craft in an inverted position. An eminent naval constructor, when questioned on the subject, explained that the phenomenon is caused by the vessel filling with water, and says that any shifting cargo changes the centre of gravity of a vessel and affects its stabil ity. Experience has proved this true in colliers and grain-laden ships. Sea water is said to be worse than either, and the influence on the stability of an abandoned hulk, combined with excessive rolling in the trough of the sea, is often sufficient to carry the derelict beyond the safe angle of keel. Once beyond that point, the constructor says, it will never return.— New York Times. Roses in China. k In no other part of the world has the Inlture of roses been brought so nearly ^perfection as in China. The rose gar- of the Emperor of the Flowery ^»jdom are gorgeous in the extreme. HHuevenuc obtained yearly from the oil |||Mces and rose water is enormous, and addition to the imperial coffers. ||||||MC members of the royal family ■jj^^knohility, high military officials, etc., are allowed to have any ■HHAar of roses in their dwellings. HHN^keTc punishment is meted out ^^^^^^aary citizen in whose posses- of the precious essence \iladelphia Times. 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