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litv. UK. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject* “rhe I m menu© Cost’ (Preached in London.) Text: "Ye are bought with a vriee."— I Cor. vi., 20. Your friend takes you through his valua ble house. You examine the arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the tishponds, the conservatories, the parks of dear, andyou say within yourself or you say aloud, “What did all this cost?” You see a costly diamond flashing in an earring, or you hear a cestly dress rustling across the drawinz room, or you see a high mettle 1 span of horses har nessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of t le value. The man who owns a large estate cannot instantly tell you all it is worth. He says, “I will estimate so much for the house, so much for the furniture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so much for the barn, so much for the equip* age—adding up in all making this aggre gate.” Well, my friends, I hear so much about our mansion in heaven, about its furniture and the grand surroundings, that I want to know how much it is all worth, and what has actually been paid for it. I cannot complete in a month nor a year the mag nificent calculation, but before I get througu to-day I hope to give you the figures. “Ye are bought with a price.” With some friends I went to vour Tower to look at the crown jewels. We walked around, caught one glimpse of them, and being in the procession were compelled to pass out. I wish that I could take this au dience into the tower of God’s mercy and strength that you might walk around just once, at least, and see the crown jewels of eternity, behold their brilliancy and esti mate their value. “Ye are bought with a price.” Now if you have a large amount of money to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but you pay it by installments—so much the the first of January, so much the first of April, so much the first of July, so much the first of October, nntil the entire amount is paid, and I have to tell this audience that “you have been bought with a price,” and that that pries was paid in different installments. The first installment paid for the clear ance of our souls was the ignominious birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may never be carefully looked after afterward, our advent into the world is carefully guard ed. We come into the world amid kindly attentions. Privacy and silence are af forded when (iod launches an immortal soul into the world. Even the roughest of men know enough to stand back. But I have to tell you that in the village on the side of the hill there was a very bedlam of uproar when Jesus was born. In a village capable of accommodating only a few hundred people many thousand people were crowded, and amid hostlers and muleteers and camel drivers yelling at stupid beasts of burden ths Messiah ap peared. No silence; no privacy. Abetter adapted place hath the eaglet in the eyrie— hath the whelp in the lion’s lair. The exile of heaven lieth down upon straw. The first night out from the palace of heaveu spent in an outhouse 1 One hour after laying aside the robes of heaven, dressed in a wrap per of coarse linen. One would have sup posed that Christ would have made a more gradual descent, ccming from heaven first to a half way world of great magnitude, then to Caesar’s palace, then to a merchant’s castle in Galilee, then to a private home in Bethanv, then to a fisherman’s hut, aud last of all to a stable. No 1 It was one leap from the top to the bottom. Let us open the door of the caravansary in Bethlehem and drive away the came's. Press on through the group of idlers aud loungers. What, O Mary! no light? “No light,’’ she says, “save that which comes through the door.” What, Mary! no food? ‘•None.” she says, “only that which was brought in the sack on the journey.” Let the Bethlehem woman who has come in here With kindly attentions put back the covering from the babe that we may look upon it. Look! Look! Uncover your head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son of Marvt Son of Go il Child of a day—mon arch of eternity 1 In that eye the glance of a God. Omnipotence sheathed in that babe’s arm. That voice to be changed from the feeble plaint to the tone that snail wake the dead. Hosanna 1 Hosanna! The second Installment paid for our soul’s clearance was the scene in Quarautauia, a mountainous region, full of caravans, where there are to this day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so ttiat you must now go tberqarme l wita kuife or gun or pistol. It was there that Jesus went to think and to E rav, and it was there that this monster of elf—more sly, more terrific than anything that prowled in the country—satau himself, met Christ. The rose in the cheek of Christ—that Pub- lius Lentullus,in his letter to the Romau sen ate, ascribe l to Jesus—that rose had scat tered its petals. Abstinence from food had throwu Him into emaciation. Along absti nence from food recorded m profane history is that of the crew of the ship Juuo; for twenty-three days they had nothing to eat. But this sutierer had fasted a month aud ten days before He broke fast. Hunger must have agonized every fiber of tne body and f uawed on the stomach with teeth of death. he thought of a morsel of bread or meat must have thrilled the body with something like ferocitv. Turn out a pack of men bun- try as Christ was a-huugertd, aud if they had strength, with one yell they would de vour you as a lion a kicl. It was in that pang of hunger that Jesu"i was accosted, and satau said, “Now change these stones, which look like bread, into an actual supply of bread.” Had the tempta tion come to you and me under these cir cumstances, we would have cried, “Bread it shall be!" aud been almost impatient at the time taken for mastication. But Christ with one hand beat back the hunger, and with the other hand beat back the monarch of darkness. Oh, ye tempted ones! Christ was tempted. We are told that Napoleon ordered a coat of mail made, but he was not quite certain that it was impenetrable, so he said to the manufacturer of the coat of mail, “Put it on now yourself, aud let us try it,” and with shot after shot from his own pistol the Emperor found out that it was just what it pretended to be—a good cor.t of mail. Then the man received a large reward. I bless God that the same coat of mail that struck back the weapons of temptation from the head of Christ we may now all wear; for Jesus comes aud says: “I have been tempted, and I know what it is to be tempted. Take this robe that defended me and wear it for yourselves. I shall sei through all trials aud I snail seeyou through all temptations.” “But,” says satan still further to Jesus, “come and I will show you something worth looking at; and after a half day's journey they came to Jerusalem aud to the top of the temple. Just as one might go up iu the tower of Antwerp an 1 look off upon Belgium, so satau brought Christ to tue top of the temple. Some people at a great height feel dizzy, and a strange disposition to jump; so satau comes to Christ in that very crisis. Standing there at the top of the temple they look off. A magnificent reach of country. Grain fields, vinevards, olive groves, forests and streams, cattle in the valley, flocks on the hills and villages and cities and realms. “Now,” says satan, “I’ll make a bargain. Just jump off. I know it is a great way from the top of the temple to the vallev, but if you are divine you can fly. Jump off. It won’t hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your Father will hold you. Besides, I’ll make you a large fortune it you will. I’ll f ive you Asia Miuor, I’ll give you China, ’ll give you Ethiopia, I’ll give you Italy, PH give you Spain, I’ll give you Germany, PH give you all the world.” What a temptation it must have been l Go to-morrow morning anl get In an altercation with some wretch crawling up from a gin cellar in the lowest part of your city. “No,” you say. “I would not bemean myself by getting into such a contest.” Then think what the King of heaven and earth endured when He came down and fought the great wretch of hell, and fought him in the wilderness and on top of the temple. But I bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives us the assurance that we too shall triumph. Having Himself Lxrrmvompveo, n.e is aoieto succor an tnose who are tempted. I care not how great the height or how vast the depth, with Christ within us aud Christ beneath us and Christ above us and Christ all around ui nothing can befall us in the way of harm. Christ Himself having been in the tempest will deliver all those who put their trust in Him. Blesse I be His I glorious name forever. The third installment paid for our re- I demptioa was the Saviour’s sham trial. I | call it a sham trial—there has never been anything so inlecent or unfair in any criminal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ. Why, they hustled Him into the courtroom at 2 o’clock in the morning. They gave Him no time for counsel. They gave Him no opportunity for subpoenaing wit nesses. Tae ruffians who were wandering around through the midnight, of course they saw the arrest and went into the court room. But Jesus’s friends were sober men, were respectable men, and at that hour, 2 o’clock in the morning, of course they were at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered the courtroom with the ruffians. Oh, look at Him i No one to speak a word for Him. I lift the lantern until i can loo^ into His face, and as my haart beats in sym pathy for this, the best friend the world ever had, Himself now utterly friendless, au officer of the courtroom comes up and smites Him on the mouth, and I see the blood steal ing from gum and lip. Oh! it was a farce of a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and then the julge rises for sentence. Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless there has been an adjournment of the court between condemnation and sentence: but what cares the judge for the law? “The m»n has no frieuds—let Him die,” says the judge; and the ruffians outside the rail cry: “Aha! aha! that’s what we want. Pass Him out here to us! Away with Him! Away with Him!” Oh! I bless God that amid all the injustice that may have been inflicted upon us m this world we have a divine sympathizer. The world cannot lie about you nor abuse you as much as they did Christ, and Jesus stands to day iu every court-room, in every house, in every store, and says- “Courage! By all my hours of maltreatment and abuse, I will protect those who are trampled upon.” And when Christ forgets that two o’clock morn ing scene, and the stroke of the ruffian on the moutb, an 1 the howling of the unwashed crowd, then He will forget you and me in the injustices of life that may be inflicted upon us Further, I remark: The last great install ment paid for our redemption was the de mise of Christ. The world has seen mauv dark days. Many summers ago there was a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went to their perch, and we felt a gioom as we looked at the as tronomical wonder. It was a dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in the trenches. It was a dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank, but the darkest day since the creation of the world was when the carnage Of Calvary was enacted. It was about noon when the curtain be gan to be drawn. It was not the coming on of a night that soothes and refreshes; it was the swinging of a great gloom all around the heavens. God hung it. As when there is a dead one in the house you bow the shut ters or turn the lattice, so God in the after noon shut the windows of the world. As it is appropriate to throw a black pall upon the coffin as it passes along, so it was appro priate that everything should be somber that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the corpe of the King. The waves of a man’s hatred and of hell’s vengeance dash up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and pain and torture clutch for His holy heart. Had He not been thoroughly fastened to the cross they would have torn Him down and trampled Him with both feet. How the cavalry horses arched their necks and champed their bits, aud reared and snuffed at the blood! Had a Roman officer called out for a light his voice would not have been heard in the tu mult; but louder than the clash of spears, and the wailing of womanhood, and the neighing of the chargers, and the bellowing of the crucifiers there came a voice crashing through—loud, clear, overwhelming, ter rific. It is the groaning of the dying Son of God! Look! what a scene! Look, world, at what you have done! I lift the covering from the maltreated Christ to let you count the wounds and estimate the cost. Oh, when the nails went through Christ’s right hand and through Christ’s left hand, that bought both your hands with all their power to work and lift and write! When the nails went through Christ’s right foot and Christ’s left foot, that bought your feet, with all their power to walk or run or climb. When the thorn wenc into Christ’s temple, that bought your brain, with all its power to think and plan. When the spear cleft Christ’s side, that bought your heart, with all its power to love anu repent and pray. Ob, sinner, come, come back! If a man is in no pain, if he is prospered, if he is well, and he asks you to come, you take your time and you say: “I can’t come now. I’ll come after a while. There is no haste.” But if he is in want and trouble you say: “I must o right away. I must go now.” To-day esus stretches out before you two wounded hands and He begs you to come. Go and you live. Stay away and you die. When the Atlantic cable was lost, in 1865, do you remember that the Great Eastern, and tne Me Iway, and the Albany went out to find it! Thirty times they sank the grap nel two and a half miles deep in water. After awhile they found tbe cable and brought it to the surface. No sooner had it been brought to the surface than they lifted a shoutof exultalion, but the cable slipped back again into the water and was lost. Then for two weeks more they swept the sea with the grappling hooks, and at last they found the cable, and they brought it up in silence. They fastened it this time. Then, with great ex citement, they took one end of the cable to the electrician’s room to see if there were really any life in it, and when they saw a spark and knew that a message could be sent, then every hat was lifted, and the rockets flew and the guns sounded until all tbe vessels on the expedition knew the work was done, and the continents were lashed together. Well, my friends. Sabbath after Sabbath Gospel messengers have come searching down for your souls. We have swept the sea with the grappling hook of Christ’s Gos pel. Again and again we have thought that you were at the surface, and we began to rejoice over your redemption; but at the moment of our gladness you sank back again into the world and back again into sin. To-day we come with this Gospel searching for your- soul. We apply tht. cross of Christ first to see whether there is any life left in you, while ail around the peo ple stand, looking to see whether the work will be done and the angels of God bend down aud witness, au 1 oU! if now we could see only one spark of love and hope and faith, we would send up a shout that would be heard on the battlements of heaveu, aud two worlds would keep jubilee because com- muuicatiou is open between Christ aud the soul, aud your nature that has been sunken iu sin has been lifted into the light aud the joy of the Gospel. Blygg.vn’s Accelerator. ‘•I cordially commend to all fathers,” said Mr. Staybolt, “Blyg- gyn's clock accelerator. This useful invention has only lately been placed on the market, but it is sure to tlud a ready sale as soon as its merits be come known. “The young man who poes courting is apt to stay too late. Many and many a father has tried to remind him by winding the clock iu the next room that it was time to go, but, as a matter of fact, winding the clock has never amounted to much. It is so palpably a hint that it is generally disregarded- “Blyggyu substitutes for this and all the other old methods one in keeping with the progress and retlne- ment of the age. The accelerator can be attached to any clock. Inside the case and out of sight and is very simple in operation. It can be ad justed to accelerate the motion of the clock to any desired rate of speed. Suppose the acceleration to be set at double time aud that it started at 9 o'clock. At 9:30 the clock strikes 10, at 10 the clock strikes 11 and at 10:30 it strikes 12, and so on. There is an air of truthfulness about this that carries conviction. “The inventor of the accelerator does not guarantee that it will be ef fective in every instance, but it is be lieved that every father will buy one, hopefully, and take the chahces.”— "New York Sun. RELIGIOUS READING. A PEAYKR. Whl.'c I tre*d life’s weary ;>ath. Give me faith. O Lord, to see In tbe trials that surround me Naught but thee. Give me stjength. OLord, to lighten Tbe burdens of the weak around. And to tell the peace to others I have found. When I reach the valley dark, Give me eyes, O Lord, to see In that awful, awful darkness Round me—thee. When I touch the gloomy river, Hold me that I cannot sink; Hold me, Lord, that I may see thee On the brink. Take me to the “many mansions” That thou hast prepared for me; There I would abide forever, Lord, with thee! FROM THE GETTER. Some time about 1870, or earlier, three ministers were walking on a country road, a little north of Aberdeen. It was’ late at night, and they had been attending a meet ing in the country. As they went along they noticed a countryman in a state of intoxica tion scrambling on all fours out of the ditch. One of the ministers said, *T must go and speak to that man.” The two others tried to dissuade him, tell ing him it was of no use. and that he would get nothing but abuse. But the minister said, “The Spirit of God bids me, and I must speak him.” By this time the man had got out of the ditch. The minister began to speak to him, whereupon the fellow took off his coat and wanted to fight him. The minister said, “I can fight, but not with your weapons;” and getting down on his knees, he began to pray very earnestly for the man. As he pleaded. God touched the man’s heart, and he got down on his knees beside the minister. By the time the minister had finished his prayer, the drunkard was ready to be spoken with; and he was pointed to’ a sin-forgiving Sa viour. They stopped at the first cottage on the road, and asked the people if they could lodge the man for the night. After looking at him the cotter said: “Why, we have just been holding a prayer meeting for that very man. He is my brother. We have had a special prayer meeting to night, to ask God tor his salvation.” Five years afterward the minister was gladdened by knowing that the man was still standing a living witness to the power of God. and was being used as a great bless ing to others.— [Selected. THE WAY THAT GOD LOOKS AT SIX. During last summer a Christian lady, who was visiting a seaside place, asked some lit tle children to come to her every Lord’s day afternoon to hear about the Lord Jesus. One afternoon she wanted to tell them what God thought about sin. so she took a microscope, and gave them some very small print to look at through it. They all exclaimed, “Hew large the letters seem, and when wc look at them without the microseope they are so very small!” So then the lady told them, “That is the way God looks at sin.” You see, God thinks sin is very big, while you and 1 think it looks very small. We heed to look at it through a microscope, as the little children did at the small print, to see how big it really is, though it looks so small to us. Now, dear children, perhaps you think it is a very little thing to tell a story, or get out of temper, or be disobedient to your parents; but God docs not think it a little thing. God thinks it so big that nothing but the blood of Jesus, His own dear Son, could wash it away; and God loved the worl 1 so much, and the dear little children too, that “He gave His only begotten Son” to die on the Cross, so that His preciou« blood might wash away all their sins. A RECEIPT IX FULL. Do you remember the story of Martin Luther when Satan came to him. as he thought, with a long black roll of his sins, which truly might make a kwaddling band for the round world? To the arch enemy Luther said, “Yes, I must own to them all. Have you any more?” So the foul fiend went his way and brought another longer roll ami Martin Luther said, “Yes, I must own to them all. Have you any more?” The accuser ®f the brethren, being expert at business, soon supplied him with a further length of charges, till there seemed to he no end to it. Martin waited till no more were forthcoming, and then he cried, “Have you anv more?” “Were not these enough?” Aye, that they were. “But,” said Martin Luther, “write at the bottom of the whole account, ‘The blood of Jesus C'hri>t cleans- eth us from all sin.’ ” Brethren, this was a receipt in full, stamped in such a manner that even Satan ooulu not question the cor rectness of it.—[Selected. “DON’T STEP THERE.” A man started out for church one icy Sun day morning, and presently came to a place where a little boy was standing, who, with a choking voice, said : “Please don’t step there.” “Why not?” “Because I stepped there and fell down,” sobbed the little fellow, who had thus taken upon himself to warn the unwary passers-by of tbe danger into which he had fallen. There are many men in the world who have good reasons for giving such a warn ing as this. The man who lias trod the dark aud slippery path of intemperance, as he sees the young learning t<> take the first glass of spirits, or wine, or beer, has good reasons to sav to them, “Don’t step there, for I stepped there and fell down.” YOU WILL NEVER FIND A perfect preacher. A community without cranks. An egotist who is not offensive. A Christian who does not make mistakes. A church that died from giving too much. Au aristocratic church with much spirit ual power. A community where the gossip's tongue does not wag. A girl who has been mentally helped by reading novels. A home where the grace of forbearance is not often needed. A Christian who can do a good job of serving both God and Mammon. A consistent young Christian who does not have the respect of his worldly com panions.— [Epworth Herald. It is refreshing to know that the leader of the Progressive party iu Japan is a Presby terian elder: another leader is a trustee in the same church, and his wife an influential, cultured, Christian woman; that still an other prominent statesman is a Presbyterian elder, and another a Congregational deacon, elected against a Buddhist, while four other members of the new House of Representa tives are members of the Independent Church. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Make your home the brightest place on earth, if you would charm you children to the high path of virtue aud rectitude and re ligion. Do not always turn tbe blinds the wrong way. Let the "light, which puts gold ou the gentian and spots on the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to keen sten *o a Dead March. Kt.umaniart View <>t Canada. A Canadian editor writes home from Europe of meeting on a train a Roumanian merchant who addressed him thus: “Ah, from Canada, eh* A verr corrupt country, eh? Steal all zo public money, eh? Get into parlia ment by buy ze votes, eh? Effery- body steal from efferybody else, eh? I haf read of him iu ze London Times. I takke ze London Times.” Everything but elephant and tree trunks are gobbled in by the new trust. TEMPERANCE. NATURE’S HINT TO MAN. Observe when Mother Earth is dry. fshe drinks the droppings of the sky; And then the dewy cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives. The vapors which at evening weep Are beverage to the swelling deep; And when the rosy sun appears He drinks the ocean’s misty tears. —Thomas Moors, A CULTIVATED APPETITE. TYe don’t believe drunkenness is a disc »se, but we do believe that it is a cultivated ap petite that will ruin, degrade, and make pov erty for every man who will continue it long enough. Fill a man’s stomach with some drug, such as is used by the “drunkenness cure,” and you can make liquor disagreeable to him, but it is only a matter of time waen he can again cultivate the desire. Shut up the saloons and stop making poisonous liquor and then a sure cure will be had, whether it’s a disease or a habit.—Lacon Owl. E HE STOPPED TO THINK. A mechanic who had been in the habit of dropping into a beer saloon twice a day, and ■penuing five cents each time for a glass of beer was captivated one day by a new thought. “I am poor,” he said to himself, “my family need every cent I can earn; it is growing more and more expensive every year; soon I shall want to educate my children. Ten cents a day for beer! Let me see: that is sixty cents a week! That is thirty-one dollars and fifty cents a year! And it does me no goo j; it may do me harm. Let me see”—and here he took a piece of chalk and solved the problem on a board— “I can buy two barrels of flour, one hundred ounds of sugar, live pounds of tea, and six ushels of potatoes for that sum.” Pausing for a moment, as if to allow the grand idea to take full possession of himself, he then exclaimed: “1 will never waste another cent.” He never has, and he is to-day a prosperous man. A FATAL ERROR. Dr. N, S. Davis, an ex-President of an In ternational Medical Congress, and tor .orty years an active practitioner of Chicago, says: “There is no greater or more destructive error existing iu the public mind than the belief that the use of fermented and distilled drinks does no harm so long as they do not intoxicate. \it is not the temperate use, tut the abuse of alcoholic drinks that does harm.’ is tbe often-repeated popular phrase tnat embodies the error which helps to rob more than ICO,000 persons of Irom five to twenty years of life in the United States, through tue gradual developement of chronic structural dis-ases, induced by the daily use of Deer, ale, wine or distilled spirits in quantities so moderate as at no time to produce intoxication. No more true or im portant remark was made in the noted dis cussion in the London Pathological Society than the one by Dr. George Harley, that ‘for every drunkard there are fifty others who suffer from the effects of alcohol iu one form and another.’ ” WHERE LIQUOR COMES FROM. In a survey of the imperial statistics of the consumption of alcoholic drinks in Ger many, Dr. VVm. Bode says that the produc tion of the raw material manufactured into wine, beer or spirits, occupies about one- fifteenth of the cultivated land of the em pire. On this area of farming laud enough rye might be grown to supply 3300 million? of pounds of bread more a year to every one of the fifty millions of people inhabiting Germany, or 330 pounds to an average fami ly of five persons, which is the entire food needed by the family for nearly fifty days, or about one-eighth more of food than they can enjoy at present. One-fourteenth of all the productive forces of Germany is engaged in this pernicious industry. The amount of money spent on drink has been estimated at about $120,000,000 a year, or $2.40 to each inhabitant, or $12 to each average family of five. Prolessor Schmoller, the economist, says: “Among our working people th« conditions of domestic life, of education, of prosperity, of progress or degradation, are all dependent on the proportion of income which flows down the father’s throat. The who.e condition of our lower and middle classes—one may. even without exaggera tion, say the future of the Nation—depends on this que-ition. If f*-5s true that half oui paupers Decome so thypugh drink, it gives us some estimate of the costly burden w« tolerate. No other! of our vices bean comparison with this.f’ SELLING HIS OWN CHILD FOP. BEER. A recent number of the London Temper ance Chronicie had a striking cartoon, a picture of a father and mother eager for drink accompanied by a little boy whom they were trying to sell for a drink of beer, saying: “Give us a pot and you shall have ’im.” This man and woman were charged at one of the London polici courts with beg ging, and thus came out this dreadful fact of their offering to sell a little boy for a pot of beer. The poor child, it is stated, was in a dreadful condition, his head and body was literally covered with cuts, bruises and scars; a shivering, starved, ill treated, im- eared for, unioved atom of humanity. The Chronicle, referring to the incident, says: “What a revelation of the power of driuk, a father selling his own child for a pot of beer to be used as a decoy in robbing the public. Such conduct makes the blood tingle in one’s veins that such things should hap pen in a Christian land. But such is the power of drink that a little child is offered up in sacrifice to satisfy the unholy desire for more liquor.” Thus is furnished in modern times Uie parallel to the words of the Prophet Joel, “Tney have sold a girl for wine that they might have drink.” In view of such awful extremities and such unutterable degradation as the driuk habit is thus shown to induce, how funda mentally important the total abstinence movement which teaches the wisdom and duty on the part of all to avoid strong drink altogether. Both in this country and in England there is urgent need for increased and more effective total abstinence pro- pagandism. Such shocking cruelty ana in humanity as this London incident reveals, should be a stimulant to all to enlist heartily and earnestly iu the total abstinence crusade. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Australia is said to be the best customer Eugland has for beer. Eight measures relating to temperance have been introduced into the British Par liament during the present session. An excellent scientific temperance educa tion law lias just been passed by the Legis lature of Nova Scotia. This is the first one for Canada. The Geneseo (III.) Woman’s Christian Temperance Union has recently established headquarters aud coffee rooms, with a saloon ou eitner side and one directly opposite. Miss Mary Allen West has been commis sioned by the W. C. T. U. as superintendent of its School of Methods, and is going to the Sandwich Islan Is and Japan to teach and train workers by means of schools held for a few days in each place. Frank Turner, the white proprietor of a “blind tiger.” iu Lancaster, a local-ootion town of Kentucky, has been fined in 577 cases, the penalty amounting to $57,700. John Smith, a colored man, who was en gaged in the business with Turner, con fessed in 1585 cases, or $155.50J worth of fines. At Saginaw, Mich., on a recent Sun lay, a decided stir was created by the distribution at the doors of the prominent churches of folders on which were printed the names of all saloonkeepers, with the names of their bondsmen. This was done by the Mmiste- rial Association lor tbe purpose, as stated in the folder, “that all may know with whom they have to deal.” The King of Samoa is determined that his subjects shall be sooer. The following or der is bis own proclamation, any breach of which is to be visited by heavy penalties: “No spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, or intoxicating driuks whatever shad bs sold, given or offers i to be bought or bar tered by any native Samoan or Pacific Islander resident in Samoa.” Gumming Stamps by Machine. An apparatus for affixing stampa on envelopes is tbe invention of an Australian. The stamp receiver is supported by a pair of pivoted arms, while another pair ofj arms carry a damping roller. By pressing a handle the stamps within the holder are forced hy a plunger upon the envel ope, the stamps being at the same moment moistened by the damping rallar. . _ i SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY 17. FOR Lesson Text: “The First Christian Church,” Acts ii., 37-47— Golden Text; Acts ii., 4 7—Com nieutary. 37. “Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and breth ren, what shall we do? ’ \Vhen the people accused the Spirit-filled apostles with being drunken. Peter arose, and from Joel ii. 28- 32; Ps. xvi.; 8-11; II. Sam. vii., 12, 13,’and otfcer Scriptures, Drenched unto them Jesus and the resurrection in such power that the results were as described in this lesson. Jesus had said that the Spirit would reprove or convince of sin, righteousness and judg ment (John xvi., 8-11), and already on the m'st day of His coming behold how mightily He works (Gal. ii., 8). But observe that He wrought conviction by the word spoken by the prophets, and as Jesus crucified and risen was therein presented to the people. 38. ’Then Peter said unto them. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sin, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” They had thought Jesus to be a deceiver and’impostor; heter proved fb*® by the miracles and wonders which God did by Him and by raising Him from the dead Uod had testified that He was in deed Israel’s Lord and Christ of whom all the prophets had spoken. The one thing, therefore, for the people now to do was to change their minds about Jesus of Naza reth, accept Him as their Messiah, confess the same by baptism and thus be forgiven and receive the Spirit that tfiey too might become witnesses unto Him. 39. “For the promise is unto you, and to your children and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall cal'.” Peter again referred to the promise in Joel ii., 28, which he had alreaoy quoted (verse 17), and probably to such promises as Isa. xliv., 3, “I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine off spring.” See also Isa. 1, 21. That it is the pleasure ot God to bless and save whole households is evident from the stories of Noah, Abram, Lot and Rahab (Gen. vii., 1; xviii,, 19; xix., 12; Joshua ii., 18), and also from such instances as that in Acts xvi., 34. 40. “And with many other words did He testify and exhort, saying. Save yourselves from this untoward "generation.” Not in His own woras, but in the words of the Holy Spirit He must have continued to speak unto them, tor being filled with the spirit the Spirit would speak through Him according to Math, x., 2j. We can easily imagine Him using such encouragements as Isa. i., IS; xliii., 25; lv., 3, 4; Ezek. xxxvi., 26, and many otners. 41. “Then they that gladly received His word were baptized, aud the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souis.” It is not enough to hear or know ibout Jesus; we must hear and then believe 3r receive His word (i. e.. Himself, John v., ?4; vi., 63). Believing means receiving (John L, 12), and if we ao not receive Him we cannot ue said to believe Him. It is aaviug or not having Him that decides whether we baveiite or not (I. John v., 12). - There is nothing saving either in baptism or the communion, but being saved hy receiv ing Him them we confess our deatn, burial ind resurrection wita Him by the rite of baptism, and rejoice in tae communion to show forth His death “tilt He come.” 42. "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, aud in breaking of bread and in prayers.” These were the outward evidences of the sincerity of their faith m Christ. Through the apos tles they were turther instructed aud thus built up and established, and continuing in prayer, and commemorating from time to time His death, they rejoiced in Jesus as their Saviour aud King, and daily expected His return to restore to Israel the kingdom (iii., 21). 43. “And fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done oy the apostles.” As it is written in Mark xvi., 2U, “They went forth and preached every- wnere, the Lord working with them aud confirming the word with signs following.” The signs are mentioned in Mark xvi., 15-18, and 1 do not know wny such signs should not be seen to this day, for it is nowhere said that these signs snould continue until a certain time and then cease. We want more whole heai ted loj-alty to Christ and utter abandonment to Him, that so He by His same Spirit may still work in us to His glory. 44! “And all that believed were together and had all things common.” They were now children of one Father, brothers and sisters in one great household of taith; they haa a whole heart tor Him who haa given Himself for them, so having received the Hoiy Spirit they counted nothing their own any more, but rejoiced in miuistering to all 01 their substance as each had need. See chapter iv., 32, 34. 45. "Auu sold their possessions and goods ana parted them to all men, as every man had need.” Thus they set their affections on things above and laid up treasure iu heaven, waiting in the footsteps of Him who thougU He was ricn became poor lor us tnat we turougn His poverty might become rich (Col. ai., 2; Math, vi., 20: 11. Cor. vfii., 9). 46. "And they continuing daily witu one accord hi the temple, aud breaking bread trow house to house, did eat their meat with giauuess and singleness of heart.” There was no self seeking aud no boasting in man. ■•‘rhey knew no name but Jesus, aud were compiete.y carried captive by Him. They had not ministered to Him tvheu He was among tbem in the flesh, but thev did most earnestly minister to Him now in the per sons of their feliow believers. 47. “Praising God, aud having favor with all the people. And the Lori added to the church daily such as could be saved.” Such lives and testimony in the power of the Holy Spirit would be the most powerful preach ing even in our day, but where is it seen? instead of pouring ourselves out for others, is it not largely each one’s own interest and welfare that seems to be uppermosa? There vas no strife in those days as to which so called church would get the new members, for there was but one church, of which Jesus Christ was the one head. It is so still before God, but it seems impossible for some to see it. The Lord open our eyes.—Lesson Helper. A >30lltt >iive* it*ailrou«l l-*a.<** The Silverton Baihoa l and rhe Bio Grande Southern Companies, of which Otto Meats is President, has a com bined mileage of 223 miles. Mr. Meats issu> the most beautiful an nual passes used on any r* ad in i ,,e “orld. This year the pass is a highly polished, solid silver plate, made of Colorado silver by native workmen. The border is in artistic Mexican fila gree silver work. The name of the recipient is engraved on the central plate. There arc no sordid, caution ary “conditions” on the reverse side of this dainty pass warning the holder that in accepting this he “releases the company from ail liability for personal injury.” This invitation to travel is as generous and free as the winds of the Colorado mountains through which the road raus.--S«. Louis Republic. A Brief Record. 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