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V LEV. DE. TALMAGE. IE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Jecf; “Heavenly Congratulations.’ 1 * l Likewise joy shall bo in heavon one sinner that repenteth, more than ■ninety and nine just persons who need roqpntan&e."—Luke xv., 7. lost sheep! Nothing can be more thor- »ly lout. I look through the window of Ishepherd’s house at night. The candles are [fated. The shepherd oas just placed his ^ against the mantle. He has taken off t coat, shaken out of it the dust and hung ; up. I see by the candle light that there s neighbors who have come in. The tpherd. fagged out with the long tramp, its down on a bench, and the wife and the Children and the neighbors say to him, f'Come, now. tell us how you found the poor thing.” “Well.” he says, “this morning I rent out to the yard to look at the flock. sooner had I looked over the fence than I saw something wrong. is fact was they did not count right. (Ninety* five? ninety-six, ninety-seven, I ninety-eight, ninety-nine—only ninety-nine' [McDonald, you know we had a hundred. And ijwonder which one was gone, and I [began 'again, and I counted ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eigut, nine ty-nine. Well, I whistled up the dogs, and I started on the fields and across the bridges, and I tracked the moors, and I leaped the gullies, but no bleating of the poor thing did I hear. I said to myself, •The lamb must have fallen into a ditch, or a pack of wolves from the mountain must nave torn it to pieces and sucked its life out.’ But I could not give it up. You see it was a pet lamb. It was that one with the black spot on the right shoulder that used to come and lick my hand as I crossed the field, and somehow-1 could not give it up. So 1 went on and on and on until after awhile I heard the dogs bark, and I said, ’What’s that? Then I hastened to the top of the hill, and I looked down and there I saw the poor lamb. It had fallen into the ditch and as I came where it was and bent over the ditch and stooped down to lift the poor thing out, I wish you could have seen the loving and imploring and tender way it looked at me. I lifted it out, and it weis ail covered with the slush and the mud. It was an awful thing to do, but I lifted it out, and it was so lame and so weak it could not walk alone, so I threw it over my shoulder and I started homeward, and the con dition of that lamb you may judge of from the coat which I have just huug up. But I tramped- on and on until it is safe in the yard, poor thing! Thank God, thank God!” Then the shepherd’s wife spread the table and brought out the best fare that the cabin could afford, and they sat • up very late that night, and they talked, and they laughed,and they sang, and they ate, and they drank,and they danced, and told over and over again the story of the lost sheep that was found. W ith such tenderness and rusticity of illustration does Christ represent the soul’s f oing off Emd the soul’s coming back, when [e says, “Likewise there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.” To repent is to feel that you are bad, and to be sorry about it, and to turn over a new leaf, and to pray for forgiveness and help. Just as soon as a man does that, they hear right away of it in heaven. There are no gossips in glory going around to chatter and laugh when a man fails, but there ore many souls in glory who are glad to run about and tell it when a man is saved. The news goes very quick from gate to gate, and from north wall to south wail, and from east wall to west wail, and in three minutes every citizen of heaven has heard of it, for “there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth , I can very easily understand how there should be joy in heaven over a Pentecost with three thousand souls saved in oue day —no mystery about that: I can understand how there should beJ^U in heaven over the Parish of Schott^^^^Hfour hundred souls ) saved Mr. Living ness on the everlasting hills when she hears of it. My subject also impresses me with the idea that heaven an i earth are in close sym pathy. People talk of heaven as though it were a great way off. They say it is hun dreds of thousands of miles before you reach the first star, and then you go hun dreds of thousands of miles before you get to toe second star, imd then it is millions of miles before you reach heaven. They say heaven is the center of the universe and we are on the rim of the universe. That Is not the idea of my text. I think the heart of heaven beats very close to our world. We measure distances by the time taken to traverse those distances. _ It used to be a long distance to San Fran cisco. Many weeks and months were passed before you could reach that city. Now it is six or seven days. It used to be six weeks before you could voyage from here to Liver pool. Now you can go that distance is six or seven days. And so I measure the dis tance between earth and heaven, and I find it is only a flash. It is one instant here and another instant there. It is very near to day. Do you not feel the breath of heaven on your face? Christ says in one place it is not twenty-four hours’ distance, when He says to the penitent thief, “This day, this day, shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” It is not a day, it is not an hour, it is not a minute, it is not a second. Oh, how near heaven is to earth. By oceanic cables you send a message. As it is expensive to send a message, you compress a great deal of meaning in a few words. Sometimes in two words you can put vast meaning. And it seems to me tnat the augels'of God who carry news from earth to. heaven need to taKe up this hour in re gard to your soul, only two words in order to kindle with gladness all the redeemed before the throne, onlv two words, “Father saved,” “mother saved,” “son saved,” “daughter saved.” And “there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” My subject also impresses me with the fact that the salvation of the soul is of vast importance. If you should make $200,000 this year, do you suppose that news would be carried to heaven? It would not be of enough importance or significance to be car ried heavenward. If at the next quadren nial election you are made President of the United States, do you suppose that news would be carried to'heaven? Do you sup pose that the news of a revolution in France or Spain would be carried to heaven? These things are not of enough importance, but there is one item that is sure to be carried. It is the salvation of your soul. It is your repentance before God. The flying hoofs of God’s couriers clash through the gates ani the news goes from gate to mansion, and from mansion to tem ple, and from temple to throne, and “there is joy in heaven” among the angels of (rod over one sinner forgiven. It must be of vast importance to be of any moment in heaven, ycur salvation in that land where gladnesses are the every day occurrence, in that land where the common stones of the field are jasper and emerald and chrysoprasus and carbuncle and sardonyx. And yet the news of your salvation makes ‘ joy before the throne of God. Having found in my own experience that this religion is a comfort and a joy, 1 stand here to commend it to you. In the days of mv infancy I was carried by Christian pa rents to the house of God, and consecrated in baptism to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost: but that did not save me. In after time I was taught to kneel at the Christian family altar with father and mother and brothers and sisters, the most of them now in glory; but that did not save me. In after time I read Doddridge’s "Rise and Progress” and Baxter’s “Call to the Unconverted,” and sdl the religious books arouud my father’s household, but that did not save me. But one day the voice of Christ came into my heart saying, “Repent, repent; believe, baUeve,” and I accepted the offer of mercy, tmd though no doubt there was joy in heaven over the conversion of other souls because of their far-reaching in fluence, I verily believe when I gave my heart to God there were some spirit* in heaven the gladder for the deed. “There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Turn this day to the Lord who bought you. Let this whole audience surrender themselves to Jesus Christ, jf for ten, twentyJifgLxe*«» have not prayed. bej-Luu ~~ TEMPERANCE. we're for temperance. We hope that you do not suppose, dearest friends. That our very long silence on temperance, portends A lazy or wearisome shirking: In this great, busy world we’ve a great deal to do. But we stand as a band, to our pledge, brave and true. No cowaras among us are lurking. We love our cold water in springtime’s soft showers; We love it. when brightening the summer’s sweet flowers; In autumn its pleasures are chosen; When winter comes on with its days cold and bright. It is water supplier with unbounded delight. Oh' I tell you it is glorious when frozen. So it we are silent you must never suppose That our juvenile army is lost, drowned, or froze. In this land where these dangers abound; For when swimming, or boating, or coasting we’ll steer So far from the dram-shops you need have no fear; We’re for temperance all the year ’round. —Mrs. 8. Irwin, in Temperance Banner. DIED OS A BEER-KEG. One of the recent pathetic incidents con nected with intemperance in New York City was the death of an old man in tattered gar ments, with one of his feet bare, and wearing neither hat nor coat. He was found on a recent cold morning, dead, sitting on a beer- keg. Many had passed him sitting in that position, when a policeman tried to arouse the unconscious figure and discovered that he was dead. What a pitiable end, indeed, for an old nan to come to, brought to it through the degrading agency of strong drink. How different, indeed, would have been his life and death could he have been pledged in early youth to total abstinence from intoxicants. WHISKY DOESN’T WARD OFF DISEASE. Much has been claimed for whisky as a valuable agent to ward off disease in many forms. Asked recently by a representative of the New York World as to its value arfc preventative of the prevailing grip, Dr. George F. Shrady, an eminent medical au thority of this city, is reported as saying: “Whisky is never good to ward off any thing. feood food is the best means with which to ward off disease. To dose with whisky is like adding shavings to the fire.- There is no physical, mental, or moral ex cuse for a man’s drinking whisky as a pre ventative of disease.” Dr. Shrady’s em phatic and timely testimony should be influential in helping to dispel the popular but mischievous whisky delusion.—National Advocate. THE RUM CURSE IN AFRICA. The United States Consul at Sierra Leone, Hon. B. Bowser, in a recent letter to a citi zen of Hartford, Conn., referring to the ravages of the liquor traffic in Africa, writes: I am not a missionary, nor the son of one, but I judge the present from the past. The 'Christian nations of the earth must set a better example than flooding this country with rum and gin. tnid landing it on the Sabbath day at tne wharf, within fifty yards of th& church. I stood on the wharf last Sabbath, and saw steamers come into the httrbor from Germany and England, and they commenced to land rum and gin. There were over one hundred men employed all day, and the customs officers had to be on duty. The native kings are petitioning the Government to stop the liquor traffic. It is mining their people. One king says if they continue it will cause him to leave his coun try, and go where the white man’s rum can’t reach his people. GENERAL. SCOTT AND TEMPERANCE. General Scott was in command at Rock Island when the cholera broke out there, and, after various injunctions in this order as to sobriety and cleanliness, he added this curious paragraph, which was recently printed in. the Magazine ofAmeri LAMES’ VEPiRT$lEXT. THE BAHT BffGADE. The Baby Brigade ilthe latest form of missionary ' work. ' The object of the Baby Brigade if to get poor mothers to go to chui’ch by keeping the babies awa>\ The brigade is formed of young 'bdief not averse to babies, who go oit the homes of the mothers and card for the little ones on Sunday ulr.g or evening with the mos^^Bmeiid&ble zeal, for there is no ^H[of romance about tending theseT^f# of not overcleau, teething humanity.—.pnee A Week. ADVICE 10 MATRONS. If of a matronly j‘ge, wear your " tnngs tied upder the chin or to the left. Fastn piece velvet strings on either sid'VNfith bonnet pins just under the chcks; have them longer and pin higl ijp near the bon net, or cross them litier the chin and pin them together i['p 0 back. No matter how are arranged they seem intended 0 s a kind of a throat protector, o^lgrhaps, wrinkle concealer, as a wjnan shows age around her throat ail down the sides of her neck first, am these merciful bonnet strings thus ide many blem ishes.— [N. Y. World! SEASON FO RED. Such a season as ii is for red, not dull claret, mahogan or wind shades, but the warm, rich 11 of the cardin- alis flower and the g’> bright scarlet that the soldiers we.-A Some obser- vayt soul with a nm^^memory has noted that scarlet ah'^H| the popu lar color in every lea^^^And what is the analogy? Doe ^^^wnau who means to propose she is more irresistible in cosy color that most men think she will thus charm :^^^^^^kwoos a favorable const^^^^^^khcr proposal? in^^^^^^Khc dons the dauger color she will not sue for has a chance? Or is takes four years to other colors, and tl green and blue havi day, the reds come ing to the law of Louis Republic. I THE NEI The new pot and quaint in sarily it will ta^ to become used tl appeared upon th< but it shows now i or theatre, and acceptance of a position, or sending the children to school. ‘I must first ask my wife.’ If an Indian woman makes and sells a pair of moccasins the money is hers, and she uses it as she sees fit.” In some things the In dians might teach a lesson to the more civilized race.—["Women's Journal. AN EMPRESS'S MANTLE. One of ths handsomest silver-wed ding presents received by the Em- press-of Russia is an ermine mantle, that cost over $50,000. It was pre. seated to the Czarnia by the nobility of the province of Kherson, but was made np in Paris, as the making-up of furs has been for years and re mains still a pre-eminently Parisian art. Parisian furriers are almost al ways intrusted with the manufacture of the splendid fur garments that be come heirlooms in the greatest families of Europe. Ermine, be sides being the emblem of royalty, is also that of purity and stainless ness; but it is, nevertheless, so delicate a fabric that no white fur gets so easily soiled. Very few people know how to clean white furs, and it may therefore be of interest to New York elegantes to learn the method recom mended to me a few years ago by the famous St. Petersburg furrier, Paul Cubaeus. The furs must first be washed with tallow soap and lukewarm water, and then rinsed with a weak solution of crystals of soda, all the soapsuds be ing removed from the fur with a hard brush. Should there bo dark stains, such as are made by carriage grease or other fat substances, on the fur, it will be necessary to rub them with benzine a few hours before washing it. It sometimes happens that in spite of this treatment the furs retain a yellowish hue; this can, however, be removed by bleaching them in the following manner: whilst still damp, the articles must be immersed in very cold water, in which four pounds of sulphuric acid of natron have been diluted. After an hour’s soaking, four pounds of salic acid are added to he mixture, which must be well irred. Whilst the furs are in the Jd, the vessel containing them pld be tightly covered, so as to ex- the action of the air on the Lastly the furs must be rinsed times with pure cold water.— ’s Bazar. FASHION NOTES. |cess dress is the favorite ^e coming season, rel boxes are luxurious- lith perforated silver or- IF 1 . W-AJRJSTIEIKIIEs BAKER & CONFECTIONER. AND DFALint nr DM GOODS, SHOES, 10TI0IS UD GHOCEHIES, AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. TOBICCO UD CIGARS Ii Gnat Yarietj. Top, Flreioris, ate., I> Stock. Laurens Street and Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C. The Waverly House, G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. In the Send of Kling- Street* CHARLESTON, S. C. Large and Comfortable Rooms. BATES, $2.50 FEB SAT. THREE 'ozzoiji’s POWDER: SAFE;CDRATUffi;BEAUTIFYIHG. |.2.3. bmmhm White, ) 1 f AllDrujziite THREE | Brunette- J 3 | FOZZOIMX’g | F^Store.. I TINTS WRIGHT’S HOTEL S. L MIGHT « SOXS, Props. CO LUMBIA j m m m S. , Tejle •apphedwlth tBe heat Roemj large **, -«U tintUhed. Oae of the Mo*t comfortable betel- la the South. r#/m\V ppp ’// CURES \Y HSCROFULA V ! PPP > CURES BLOOD POISON NURSERIES, JPOMOIV-A-IV. O.. Are known by thetr jynstte, a* the*, are testifying /or themselves mU through the Southern and horde** States and giving flattering reports* Every fruit that la known to sue-' ceed in the South is being added front all parts of the globe. Over* 300 acres in actual nursery stools* Some of the specialties are the Ketm Beys, Japan, Baton and Satsumm Plums. The Lucy Duke Pear and all the new fruits, as well sts the old* Evergreens, Shade Trees, Roses and everything usually kept in a. class nursery. Four larger houses. Chrysai tions and many i Rose growing a