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* \ MV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Time ot Departure.” , : ! T ty e t,me °f ”*1/ departure is at. hand."—11 Timotny it., tf. Departure! That is a word used only twice in all the Bible. But it is a word often used in the courtroom and means the d«ertion of one couasa of pleading for an- used in navigation to describe the distance between two meridians passing through the extremities of a course. ' It is a word I have recently heard applied to my departure from America to Europe for a preaching tour to last until September. In a smaller and less significant sense than that implied in the text I can say, “The time of nay departure is as hand.” • Through the printing press I address this sermon to my readers all the world over,and when they read it I will be in midocean.and unless something new happens in my ma rine experiences I will be in no condition to preach. But how unimportant the word de parture when applied to exchange of conti nents as when applied to exchange of worlds as when Paul wrote, “The time of my de parture is at hand.” Now departure implies a starting place and a place of destination. When Paul left this world, what was the starting point* It was a scene of great physical distress. It was the Tullianum, the lower dungeon of the Mamertine prison, Rome, Italy. The top dungeon was bad enough, it having no means of ingress or egress but through au opening in the top. Through that the pris oner was lowered, and through that came ail the food and air and light received. It was a terrible place, that upper dungeon, but the Tullianuru was the lower dungeon, and that was still more wretched, the only light and the only air coming through the roof, and that roof the floor of the upper dungeon. That waa Paul's last earthly res idence. I was in that lower dungeon in November, 18S9. It is made of volcanic stone. I meas ured it, and from wall to wall it was fifteen feet. The highest of the roof was seven feet from the fleor and the lowest of the roof five feet seven inches. The opening in t he roof through which Paul was let down was three feet wide. The dungeon has a seat of rock two and a half feet high and a shelf of rock four feet high. It was there that Paul spent his last days on earth, and it is there that I see him now, in the fearful dungeon, shiver ing, blue with the cold, waiting for that old overcoat which he had sent up for to Troas and which they bad not yet sent down, not withstanding that he had written for it. > If tome skillful surgeon should go into that dungeon where Paul is incarcerated we might find out what are the prospects of Paul’s living through the rough imprison ment. In the first place he is an old man, only two years short of seventy. At that very time when he most needs the warmth, ana the sunlight, and the fresh air he is shut out from the sun. What are those scars on his ankles? Why, those were got when he was fast, his feet in the stocks. Every time he turned the flesh on his ankles started. What are those scars on his back? You know he was whipped five times, each time getting thirty-nine strokes—one hundred and ninety-five bruises on the back (count them 1) mads with rods of elm wood, each one of the one hundred and ninety-five strokes bringing the blood. Look at Paul’s face and look at his arm®. Where did he get those bruises? I think It was when he was struggling ashore amid the shivered timbers of the shipwreck. I see a gash in Paul’s side. Where did he get that? I think he got that in the tussel with highwaymen, for he had been in peril of robbers and he had money of his own. He was a mechanic as well as an apostle, and I think the tents he made were as good as his sermon. Hark! what is that shuffling of feet in the tipper dungeon? Why, Paul has an invita tion to a banquet, and he is going to dine to-day with tue King. Those shuffling feet are the feet of the executioners. They come, and they cry down through the hole of the dungeon: ‘‘Hurry up, old man. Come now; get yourself ready.” Why, Paul was ready. He had nothing to pack up. He had no baggage to take. He had been ready a good while. 1 see him rising up, and straight ening out his limbs, and pushing back his white hair from his creviced forehead, and see him looking up through the hole in the roof of the dungeon into the face of his ex ecutioners, and hear him say, “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my de parture is at hand.” Then they lift him out of the dungeon, and they start with him to the place of excution. .'They say: “Hurry along, old man, or you 'will feel the weight of our spear. Hurry along.” “How tar is ir,” says Paul, “we have to travel?” “Three miles.” Three miles is a good way for an old man to travel atter he has been whipped and crippled with maltreatment. But they soon get to the place of execution—Acquae Salvia—and he is fastened to the pillar of martyrdom. It aoes not take any strength to tie him fast. He makes no resistance. O Paul! why not now strike for your life? You have a great many friends here. With vhat withered band just launch the thunderbolt of the people upon those in famous soldiers. No! Paul was not going to interfere with his own coronation. He was too glaH to go. I see him looting up in the face ;f his executioner, and, as the grim official draws the sword, Paul calmiy says, “i am uow ready to be offered, and • the rime of my departure is at band.” But • 1 iur my baud over my eyes. I want not to see tbao last struggle. One sharp, keei stroke, and Paul does go to the banquet and Paul does dine with the King. What a transition it was! From the ma lana of Rome to the finest climate in all th« universe—the zone of eternal beauty anc health. His ashes were put in the catacomb! of Rome, but in one moment the air ol heaven bathed from his soul the last ache. From shipwreck, from dungeon, from the biting pain of the elmwood rods, from the sharp sword of the headsman, he goes into the most brilliant assemblage of heaven, a king among kings, multitudes of the saint hood rushing out and stretching forth bauds of welcome, for I do really think that as on the right hand of God is Christ, so on the right hand ot Christ is Paul, the second great in heaven. He changed kings likewise. Before the hour of death and up to the last moment he was under Nero, the thick-necked, the cruel eyed, the filthy-lippei and sculptured fea tures of that man bringing down to us this very day the horrible possibilities of his nature—seated as he was among pictured marbles of Egypt, under a roof adorned with mother-of-pearl, in a dining-room which by machinery was kept whirling day and night with most bewitching magnifi cence; his horses standing in stalls of solid gold, and the grounds around his palacs lighted at night by its victims, who had been bedaubed with tar and pitch and theu set on tire to illumine the darkness. That was Paul’s king. But the next moment he goes into the realm of Him whose reigu is love, and whose courts are paved with love, aud whose throne is set on pillars of love, and whose scepter is adorned with jewels of love, and whose palace is lighted with love, and whose lifetime is an eternity of love. When Paul was leaving so much on this side the pillar of martyrdom to gain so much on the other side, do you won ler at the cheerful valedic tory of the text, “Ihe time of my departure is at hand!” Now, why cannot all the old people have the same holy glee as that aged man had? Charles I., when he was comoing his hair, found a gray hair, and he sent it to the queen as a great joke; but old age is really no joke at all. For the last forty years you have been dreading that which ought to have beeu au exhilaration. You say you most fear the struggle at the moment the soul and body part. But millions have en dure 1 that moment, and may not we as well? They got through with it and so can we. Besides this, all medical men agree in say ing that there is probably no struggle at the last moment—not so much pain as the prick of a pin, ihe seeming signs of distress being altogether involuntary. But you say. “It is the uncertainty of the future.” Now, child of God, do not play the infidel. After God has filled the Bible till it can hold no more with stories of the good things ahead, better not talk about uncertainties. I remark again, all those ought to feci this joy of the text who have a holy curios ity to know what is beyond this earthly ter minus. Aud who has not any curiosity about it? Paul, I suppose, had the most sat isfactory view of heaven, and he says, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” It is like looking through a broken telescope. “Now we see through a glass darkly." Can yon tell me anything about that heavenly place? You ask me a thousand questions about it that I cannot answer. I ask you a thousand questions about it that you cannot answer. And do you wonder that Paul was so glad when martyrdom gave him a chance to go over and make discoveries in that bleseed country? I hope some day, by the grace of God, to go over and see for myself, bat not now. No well man, no prospered man. I think, wants to go now. Hut the time will come, I think, wnen I shall go over. I want to sea what they do there and I want to see how they do it. I do not want to be looking through the gates ajar forever. I want them to swing wide open. There are ten thousand things I want explained—about you, about myself, about the government oC this world, about God, about everything. Columbus risked his life to find this con tinent, and shall we shudder to go out on a voyage of discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more brilliant country? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage between icebergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switzerland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn with alpenstock and guides and rockets and ropes, aud getting half wav up stumble and fall down in a horrible mas sacre. They just wanted to say tbey had been on the tops of those high peaks. And shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start a thousand miles beyond where stop the highest peaks of the Alps when in that ascent there is no peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy, “Now in tea min utes I will know the great secret.” One minute after the vital functions ceased, the little child that died last night knew more than Jonathan Edwards or St. Paul himself before he died. Friends, the exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it, to the Christian is glorious explanation. It is demonstraton It is illumination. It is sunburst. It is the opening of all the windows. It is shutting up the catechism of doubt and the uuroiling of all the scrolls of positive and accurate information. In stead of standing at the foot of the ladder and looking up it is standing at the top of the ladder and looking down. It is the last mystery taken out of botany and geology and astronomy and theology. I remark again, we ought to have the joy ot the text, because, leaving this world, we move into the best society of the universe. You see a great crowd of people in some street and you say: “Who is passing there? What general, what prince is going up there?” Well, I see a great throng in heaven. I say: “Who is the focus of all that admiration? Who is the centre of that glittering company?” It is Jesus, the cham pion of all the world, the favorite of al ages. Do you know what is the first question thi soul will ask when it comes through th« gate of heaven? I think the first question will be, “Where is Jesus, the Saviour that pardoned my sin, that carried my sorrows, that fought my battles, that won my victor ies?” Oh, Radiant One! how 1 would like to see Thee! Thou of the manger, but without its humiliations; Thou of the cross, but without its pangs; Thou of the grave, but without its darkness. But when I meet my Lord Jesus Christ, ol what shall I first delight to hear Him speak- Now I think what it is. I shall first want to hear the tragedy of His last hours, and then Luke’s account of the crucifixion and Mark’s account of the crucifixion, and John’s ac count of the crucifixion will be nothing, while from the living lips of Christ the story shall ba told of tha gloom that fell,and the devils that arose, and the fact that upon His endurance depended the rescue of a race; and there was darknass in the sky.and there was darkness in the soul, and tha pain became more sharp.and the burdens became more heavy, until the mob began to swim away from the dying vision of Christ, and tha cursing of tha mob came to His ear more faintly, and His hands were fastened to the horizontal piece of the cross, and His feet were fastene i to the perpendicular piece of thecross.and His head fell forward in a swoon as He uttered the last moan and cried, “It is finished!” All heaven will stop to listen until the story is done, and every harp will be put down, and every lip closed, and all eyes fixed on tbe Divine Narrator until the story is done, and then, at the tap of the baton, the eternal orenestra will rouse up finger on string of harp, and lips to the mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end!” W hat He endured, oh, who can tell. To save oar souls from death and hell! When there was between Paul and that magnificent Personage only the thinness of the sharp edge of the sword of the execu tioner, do you wonder that he wanted to go? Oh! my Lord Jesus, let one wave of that glory roll over us! Hark! I hear the wed ding bells of heaven ringing now. The marriags of the Lamb has come, ani the bride hath made herseif ready. And now for a little while good by. I have no morbid feeling about the future. But if anything should happen that we never meet again in this world, let us meet where there are no partings. Our friendships have been delight ful on earth, but they will be more delightful in heaven. And now I commend yon to God and the word of His grace, which is able to build us up and give an inheritance among all them that are sanctified. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Bering Sea is swarming with seal. There is a reduced wheat acreage in lowe. Mississippi is threatened with a plague of grassaoppers. On the first of June the pension rolls car ried 849,185 names- Philadelphia is to have a new line of steamships to Englaad. An eruption of Mount Vesuvius is causing the formation of a new cone. The cholera is spreading in tha manufac turing suburbs of Paris, France. Rich coal discoveries have been made in the ;ate of Vera Cruz, Mexico. yt;v>RT of all Russian cereals, excepting ‘ y-, has been permitted by a ukase. __ 1’he daily consumption of tin plate in the United .States is now 2,260,000 pounds. The Kansas wheat crop is being harvest ed. The yield is a fine one of good quality. The Missouri Pacific has secursd control of a direct line to Southern Colorado’s coal fields. Immigrants to the number of 92,242 ar rived in this country during May; in May, 1801, the number was 85,941. Three French workmen died after drink ing, on a wager, twelve, nine and seven quarts of water respectively. The most deplorable state of affairs exists in the San Antonio section of Texas, as scarcely a rain has fallen there for three years. John Field, a note 1 miser of Golcon ia, Indian Territory, has sold 1090 acres of tira- bor land to VV. S, Furgeson for $10,090. Field refused to accept any money except good, clem bank notes, none less than twen ty dollars in denomination and demanded soot cash. He got it. THE SHIP IN DAHOMEY. Hanging a Woman to Mate tlic Disease Disappear. The grip has at last reached Dahomey, Africa, and the people are suffering severely from the disease. It is believed in that country that disease is always the result of the wicke 1 machinations of some bad man. and King Behauzin has been busy looking ] around for the guilty person who is afflicting j so many of his subjects with this new disease. - His fetich men told him a few days before the ! last vessel sailed that a poor woman ia one of 1 the towns was a witch, and the cause of all the | trouble. The King at once condemned her to death. His sentence was immediately carried out. Her body was suspended from a tree, where it could be seen by all the people, and the fetich men declare that tha disease will now rapidly disappear. The large marble slab which was recently found in the Potomac, and which was sup posed to be the original stone sent by the Pope in 18-53 to be placed in the Washington Monument, has been stolen. When the stone was fouul and the divers had heard of its history, they decided that it might prove of some value, aud accordingly they placed it in au old ahauty in which was stored their materials. Some one entered the shanty and carried off the relic. TEMPERANCE. TH* LORD’S SIDE NEVER THE WHISHT SIDE The saloon men may rally their forcei strong, Their hideous crimes may successful!\ bide; ■' One fact still remains that is “true as th« sun,” ‘*The Lord’s side is never the whisk-? side.” You may look here and there, and stud? them well, J You may hear them temp’ran<» workers deride. For a time they may prosper, but let them beware, “Tbe Lora’s side is never the whisky side.” Woe, woe to the man who puts the wine cut red To the lips of his neighbor, and thus bat tried To ruin his manhood—’tis a baleful curse; “The Lord’s side is never tbe whisk? side.” The cries of the widows and orphans thej make. Their agonized pleadings will not be do nied. The day is at hand when this evil shal cease, “The Lord’s side is never the whisk? side.” The dealers in liquors are on the alert, Iutuiti?'e!y know they will subside; W ith redouoleO efforts they work, conscious still ‘‘The Lord’s side is never the whisky side.” Unbelievers they are, for Scripture doth teach. That lovers of wine shall not be suppliei W ith riches, but poverty of spirits is theirs, “The Lord’s side is never the whisky side.” —Susy Thistleton, in Chicago Sun. DRUNKENNESS IN FRANCE. The people of Franca have always been regarded as thrifty and temperate. It is painful therefore to learn, in the Paris cor respondence of a London newspaper, that “drunkenness has so much increased in France of late years that this country, once sc sober, is now sorely puzzled to know what to do with its habitual toper-.” The same writer adds that “the quantity of spirits consumed in France has increased enormously. The cheap bars for the work ing classes which have sprung up in all parts of Paris during the last year or so are undoubtedly doing much to increase the evil here. They are generally crowded, and the quantity of absinthe that is drunk in these places at all hours of the day is quite suffi cient to explain the alarming increase of alcoholic madness.” From this it appears that Paris, too, is menaced by the saloon question, and that the country of cheap wine is rapidly becoming demoralized by cheap bars. All of which cught to be of interest to those social re formers who would promote sobriety by in troducing a mild form of inebriety.-—New York Press. DRINK ?VASTE AMONG ?VORKERS. The Hon. Carroll O. Wright, Commis sioner ot Labor, recently transmitted to the President his annual report, which contains much valuable information collated by the Labor Bureau. Among other things the sum expended by the tamilies of working men for various pui poses are contrasted with the families of wormngmen in other countries. The comparisons on intoxicating liquors are as follows: For the families en gaged in the cotton .industry in the United States, so far as considered, the average ex penditure is given as $15.9> in the United States; in France, $15.08; in Germanv, $11.41, and in Great Britain $19.47. Ia the ?voollen imustry iu the United States, $54.94; in Belgium, $45.09; in Great Britain, $32.74. The food expenditure by the families of cotton-workers in the United States was on the average. $287.06; in France, $164.02; in Germany, $112.22, and in Great Britain, $246.50. The average cost of books and newspapers for families engaged in tbe cot ton industry in the United States was $5.35; France, 3.79; Germany. $1.48, aud in Great Britain, $5.86. The total average expendi ture for tamilies for every purpose in the United States, $610.61; France, $333.70; Germany, $282.58; Great Britain, $502,13; Switzerland, $346.68. As a general state ment it will be seen that the expenditures for intoxicating liquors in the United States are relatively less, and for books, food, news papers, etc., relatively more than among the cotton-workers ol the other countries. But the drink waste among these workers is large in each country mentioned.—National Temperance Aavocate. VHAT CAN ?? r E DO A30UT IT? Drunkenness is a great trespass upon other’.-•rights as well as a great sin in itself. No man has more right to turn himself loose drunk in the streets or public places, or in his own household, than he has to turn a filthy swine loose in these places; and if either should enjoy that privilege, the swme should have the preference. But w.iat shall we do? W hat shall the poor wife do and the chil dren, whose husband and father defiles the home w.th his drunken presence? What shall we all do who loathe and hate this curse of our land an i of all lands? O.ie thing we can do, which we do not enough—we can protest; cry out against this sin, rebuke tbe drinker, and not coddle him. It is a vile sin to get drunk; a worse than beastly sin, for no beast (but man) will get iirunk. Let us put that sin in this light, and hold it there betore anybodv, ?vhether our neighbor or nearest of km. This is oue kind of temperance work ?ve all can do, ani which we too little do. Let us not pity the drinker so much as to cover his sin, lest we become thereby partakers with him of his sin. 5N e laugh at the sight of a young man drunk. Let us rather weep; it is a case of ruin, of Meath. We should protest, cry out against the sin. Our silence is consent, and the devil laughs while t :e rum goes on. Lot lived in the midst of sin He seems not to have cried against i?; kept himself free, per haps, but dweit at ease in the midst ot sur rounding corruption-. He escaped with his bare life. Noah also lived among the wicked, but he lifted up his voice; be preached, he protested, he rebuked. Thus ne kept the evils apart from his life, an i Noah aud his house were saved.—Sacred Heart P-eview. RELIGIOUS READING. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. There were 363,935 public school teachers and 204,913 liquor dealers in the United States last year. 1 emperauee reform has been made a plauk in the platform of the Woman’s Liberal League of Englan I, and La ly Henry Somerset is a member of its Central Com mittee. At Sprague, Washington (the head quarters of the Idaho Division of the North- j ern Pacific Railway), the white-ribboners are planning to start a free reading-room for the railroad employes, there being no public library or reading-room in the town. The citizens of Fairmont, Ind., one day lately loaded the contents of a newly opened saloon on drays, put the would-be saloon keeper on top of his goods, ani ha i the whole lot hauled down to the railroad station. There has not been a saloon there in the nistory of the place. ‘•Among tnose persons selected with care I for physical soundness an i sobriety the death rate is more profoundly affected oy the use of intoxicating drinks than from any other cause apart from heredity, is the statement of the President of oue of the oldest life in surance companies in England. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Unions of Florida have received a gift ot land at Lake Helen, one of the prettiest an i healthiest towns in middle Florida, where tney will build State headquarters and hold winter encampments. Tney have decide i to call their assembly grounds Scmersct Park. Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson, Warden of the Woman’s Reformatory Prison at Sher burne, ilass., says: “Of the women who are incarcerated in this prison ninety-seven out of a hundred are here either from habitual drunkenness or for crimes com mitted under the influence of strong drink.” “How do you come to sell your red wine cheaper than your white wine?” asked a customer of the new waiter at a Broadway restaurant. “Just look at that color. Do you suppose ??e get that for nothing? Do you think chemicals aad logwood and such don’t cost money?’ replied the waiter.— Texas Siftings. RECOMPENSE. Through the long, toilsome day she went, With quiet sweethfss. everywhere; I watched her tender, tireless" hands. Caressing here, relieving there; No recompense, no answering smile. No words of cheer were hers the while. “Tell me, thou patient one,” I cried, “What secret hope sustains thy heart, That through thee a thankless ministry So gentle unto all thou art?” She turned on me her soft ever’ light: “I heed them not. He comes tonight.” Behold in all re-paying love! What matters, when the day is past. The burdens others on her laid, If in his arms she rests at last? The darkest ?vay to her is brighf, Since he who loves her comes tonight. O soul, whose hope is high as heaven. Cease thine unprofitable plaint! A watcher, waiting for thy Lord, Ho?v canst thou grieve, hovv dar’st thou faint? Work on, rejoice, while yet *tis light. Thy Bridegroom’s voice may call tonight. A day of toil—what matters it? So "short this life of tears and pain. Lift up thy face! What dost thou fear? Thou hast not given thine al! iu vain. Soon thou shall walk with him .in white. Who knoweth? It be tonight. —[Chicago Inter-Ocean. The home in its power to save. There is no place in life vyhere the real character of man’s piety is subjected to such a fierce te?t as it is in its influence and re sults o v er inmates of his own home. There his life is seen without any public disguises. There is no veneer of a counterfeit dignity upon it. The habitual temper and spirit of his life are felt as the moulding factors over the lives of bis children. We have come to believe that the estimate the children learn to place on the Christian spirit and life of their parents is just the estimate tbey place on religion itself, and largely, if not entirely, determines the attitude of their own life toward it. We believe there are compara tively very few unbelieving and unchristian men and women in the world who have gone out of a really Christian home. This belief is not the result of a theory only; it is the result of an observation that has most carefully noted the boys and girls of a whole generation of church life as they have gone out from the home into their own independ ent spheres. This we have seen, viz., that the real home-faith and home-spirit under which they were trained reproduced them selves in ’ their lives. That that life and spirit are as surely imparted and in herited as are mental and physical characteristics; not perhaps, in" the same way, but by the rule of a morai beget ting operating through the spirit and life of the parents on the spirit and life of the children in their most plastic and formative conditions. Largely this reigning life of the home is the instrumentality that directs and modifies and limits the work of the Spirit of God on the children of the home. The ultimate test and proof of all things is “fruit.” If “men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles,” neither do they gather thorns of grapes, nor thistles of tigs. Herein is that by which we “know them.” Without this, and until this is seen, all is opinion; our mere judgment of a possible quality, but when it is seen we “know them ’ Said a mother, w hose own ?vork had been in the bumbler conditions of life, a mother whose own character of genuine though un pretentious piety was an inheritance from a noble parentage of devotion, as well as a personal consecration;—said this mother, in our hearing, many years ago, “I must do my work for God and humanity iu the life of my boys. Tbey will be doing my work long after I am gone.” She inspired them with an ambition to do. She showed them by the example of her own life what a true Christian is. There was little of preach ment on her tongue, but her life was one grand and beautiful example of kindly char ities and Christian temper; and, in her of unobtrusive prayer CKn since gone. Her werk—doing it widely gnze the fact that the Mentally directed them in t at work was the the spirit of the home lowly, bumble way and song. She has “boys” are doing he; and well—ami all rei power that most to. and inspires the life of that mother from which tbev caifce oat. how a whole family was saved. A minister related the following incident: “I was holding a mission in a colliery dis trict. and in the course of the morning,when I was inviting people to the evening meet ing, I knoektd at a door and found a woman at the washtub. I said to her, ‘1 called to tell you I am holding mission services at such a chapel: will you and your family join us?’ •Chapel!’ she said," ‘I’m up to my eyes in wa>hing. I have a good deal more coming iu,and there’s that wring ing machine; I gave fifty shillings for it, and it’s broken tbe first round.’ She was in a towering passion, and I thought I would not say any more to her, so I took a look at the machine, and found it was not broken, Lut had only slipped out of its gear. I set it right, then said, ‘Now you have been hindered, so I’il just take a turn at the wiinging.’ So I went to work, turn, turn. turn. At last she looked up an 1 said, ‘I’ll tell my husband tonight, ami we’ll come.’ That woman was saved, and her husband and all tbe family; and she became the best worker in the village, and there was a blessed awakening in that place. She went from bouse to house saying, ‘come and hear the minister this evening; it’s he as mended my wringing machine for me.’” WHAT CHARITY MEANS. Tfe often use the word charity while fail ing to catch and appreciate the fulness and beauty of its meaning, use it as a synonym for beneficence, when its meaning rises higher, and has a far wider sweep. Acts of a noble and praiseworthy beneficence may not b» sot* of ehnritv.Onemar feed the hungrv andclothethe naked he may build and endow hospitals aua insmuiions of learning, and may largely relieve human suffering, and yet know nothing of the Scriptural charity. Charity means love. It is the word" used by the Master, in the days of His incarnation and suffering, to express His redeeming love for man; it is tbe word used by inspiration to express the love of the redeemed for their Redeemer— the love that prompts the song of thanks giving on earth, and the eternal ascriptions of heavenly praise. 5Ve illustrate the true meaning of Scriptural charity only when we feed the hungry, c othe the naked, minister to the wants of the sufferng, and do good to all men as we have opportunity, because we love them with the same kind" of love felt for us by’ the exalte<l Master when he died for our redemption and salvation. As tbe charity or love felt by Him for us covers our many "sins, so our charity for others should cover theirs.— [interior! WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS. As the soul must be free from sin, so it must be c ear and free from distractions. The intent of our devotion is to welcome God to our hearts. Now, where shall we entertain Him if the room* be full, thronged with cares and turbulent passions? The spirit of God will not endure to be crowded up together with the world in our strait lodgings; a holy vacuitv must make way for Him in our bosoms. T'he divine pattern ol devotion, in whom the Godhead dwelt bodily, retires into the mount to pray; He that carried heaven with Him would even thus leave the world below Him. Alas! how can we hope to mount up to heaven in our thoughts if we have the clogs of earthly cares hanging at our hsels?—[Bishop Hall. iOUL-DESTROYING POWER OF DRINK. “I once had occasion to be called to at tend a dying man. His condition was cue to excessive drink. I saw that bis days were numbered ami I beg him to listen to the words of God and prepare to die. He would not heed me. I called again and again, but could do nothing witu him. One day I called again. He had grown weaker and I saw he could no: live much longer On mv bended knees l begged him to prepare to meet bis God.” ‘You will icon face Jesus Christ* I said* Raising himsaif on his elbow, he hissed out: d would rather have a glass of liquor than Jesus Christ l’ and died with blasphemy on his lips! It ia terrible It is terrible!’—Archibishop Gross. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JULY lO. Lesson Text: “The Descent of the Spirit,” Acts II., 1-12—Golden Text- John xvl., Ill- Commentary. 1. “And when the cay of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.” Since He left them ten days be fore they continued steadfastly in prayer (i., 14 R. V.) and expectation. Fifty days after the sheaf of first fruits was presented in connection with the feast cf the passover, it was the custom to offer a new meat offer ing (Lev. xxiii, 15, 16). Three times a year all the men in Israel had to appear before God in Jerusalem; at passover, the feast of weeks of Pentecost, and the feast of ingath ering or tabernacles (Ex. xxiii., 14-17). The first typified the death and resurrection of Christ, the second the descent of the Spirit, as in to-day’s lesson, while the third still awaits its complete fulfillment. See Zech. xiv., 16-21. 2. “And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.” While they waited patiently and expectantly day by day, it is not unlikely that in view of the foregoing facts they thought this might be the day of theprom- ise; yet it was sudden when it came. It does not say that there was a wind, but a sound like a mighty wind. See the Spirit typified by ?vind in Ezek. xxvii., 9. 3. “And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.” There may be a reference to this appearance of fire in Math, iii., 11, but the fire of verse 12 is certainly yet future and probab.y also the full meaning of verse 11. When tde Spirit came upon Jesus at this baptism, there was no fire, for in Him there was no dress to consume, no purifying neces sary. 4. “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues* as the Spirit gave them utterance.” As at Babel God instantly caused people of one language to speak many languages, to their confusion and dismay, so here for their bene fit and His glory He does similarly. See in iv., 31, how they were again filled, and ob serve that when filled they spake the word of God with boldness. Jesus had them in the days of His humiliation that the Spirit would speak through them (Math, x., 20), but they had never seen it on this fashion. 5. “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation un der heaven.” God had in His providence so brought it about that they might be wit nesses of this event and m due time help make it known in all the world. It is His purpose in this dispensation to gather out of all nations a people for His name (Acts xv., 14; Rev. ▼., 9, 10), but in the next age, tne millennial. He will through the Jews fill the whole earth with His glory (Isa. xxvii., 6; Rom. xi., 15), but it will be by the same Holy Spirit and in tha name and power of the same Jesus. 6. “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were con founded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.” The R. V. says, “When this sound was heard,” the apostles did not need to send for the crowd; they came. The churches find it hard to get the people to come to hear what they call the Gospel. If there was more of the Gospel that the Holy Spirit teaches and uttered in the power of the Spirit, it is prob able that more would come to near. Yet the gathered out ones of this age who are to rule with Christ are a comparatively little flock. When the spirit shall be pioured upon Israel and the glory of the Lord rise upon her, then shall nations come to her sight and kings to the brightness of her rising (Isa. lix., 19, to lx.. 3). See also the re markable prophecy of Zech. viii., 23. 7. “Ana they were all amaz *1 and mar veled, saying one to another. Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans?” They were amazed that suen a wondrous thing should be seen iu people from despised Galilee; compare the saying of Nathaniel in Jonn i., 46. They did not remember Isa. ix., 1 (see R. V.), nor know that God’s way is tochoose the loolish and weak and base things in men’s eyes, and eveu things tnat are not to bring to nought tniugs that are, tuat no flesh should glory in His presence (I Cor. i., 27-29). They dia not know Him whose name is wonder:ul (Isa. ix., 6), who had been actually among them but had been crucified by them ouly a tew weet:s oefore. 8. “And how hear we every mau in our own tongue, w nerem we were oorn?' The Holy Spine is periecr. in knowledge (Job xxxvi., 4), all languages are familiar to Him. It was not tbe men who spoke by their own ability, but the Holy Spirit in them, who cau talk every language with equal ease, spoke througn oue language, and through another anotner. When Moses complained that he was slow of speech God asked him wuo made man’s mouth, and then said “1 will be with thy moutu and teach thee ?vnat thou saait say.” See r-x. iv., 10-12, also Jer. i., 7. 9-11. “Farthiaus aud Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, Cretes aud Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wondenu wonts of God.” I often wonder how much of the Spirit’s power we might know u our tongues were wholly given to declaring the wondenul works ol God. In tne millennium Israel shall sing this song: “Braise the Lord, pro claim His name, ueclare His doings among the people, make mention that His name is exalted. Sing unto the Lord, for He data none excellent things. This is known in all the earth” <Isa. xii., 4-3). Why not ante date that day and let many willing hearts determine to speak and sing henceforth “al ways, only of our King.” Then shall we know the Spirit’s power as never before. 12. “.And they were all amazed, and were in douot, saying one to another, What meanetb this?” The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto hirn (I Cor. ii., 14i, so some mockingly said that these men were drunken: but Feter called there attention to the words of one of their prophets with which they ought to have been familiar, and adding some other quotations from tbe law and tbe Psalms, he preache i unto them Jesus and the resurrection. With what re sult we shall see in our next lesson. Mean time lay it to heart that if it is wrong to be drunken with wine, it is also wrong not to be filled with the Spirit. See Eph. v., 18, and remember the promise iu Luke xi., 13.— Lesson Helper. RETALIATION ON CANADA Urged by the Pre-ident in a Messaijo co tiie Senate. In a State paper sent to the Unite 1 States Senate in answer to a resolution of Febru ary 24 last, calling for information relative to reciprocity negotiations with Canada, the President sounds the death knell of that project ani in effect recommends that Congress proceed t> retaliati upon the Dominion for its persistent denial of the rights of American citizens, guaranteed by the treaty of Washington, iu connection with the navigation of Canadian canals. The President, in his communication says that his answer to the resolution was de layed at the suggestion of the Secretary of State until the conference, June 3, took place between the Secretary and the British Minister and Mackenzie Bowel! and George E. Foster. John W. Foster also appeared on behalf of the Government of the United States, at the request of the Secretary of State. BEER OR BREAD. 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