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"N REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject t •Tne Great Quest lon.’> (Preacbeti in England.) 'Tvrt’ ^Wheit shall I do with Jesus.' 1 —Matthew xxvii., 22. Pilate was an unprincipled politician. He had sympathies, convictions of rizht and desires to be honest; but all these were submerged by a wish to be popular an 1 to please- the people. Two distinguished prisoners were in the grasp of government and theproposition was made to free one of them. There stands Barabbas, the murderer* there stands Christ, the Sa\ iour of the worldL At the demand of the people the renegade is set free, but Jesus is held. As the hard visaged and cruel eyel Barabbas goes among his sympathizers, receiving their coarse congratulations, Pilate turns to his other distinguished prisoner—mild, meek, inoffen sive, loving, self sacrificing—and he is con founded as to what course he had better take, so he impanels the mob as a jury to decide, saying to them, “What shall I do then, with Jesus?” ’ Ob, it is no dried or withered question, but one that throbs with warm and quick pulse in the heart of every man and woman here. We must do something with Jesus. He is here.. It ou and I are not so certainly here as He is, for He fills all this place—the loving, living, dying Christ—and each one of us will have to ask and answer for himself the question, “What shall I do, then, with JesusWell, my friends, there are three or four things you cm do with Him. \ ou can, in the first place, let Him stand without a word ot recognition; but I do not think your sense of common courtesy will allow that. He comes walking on such a long journey, you will certainly give Him a chair on which He may sit. Ho is so weary, you would not let Him stand without some recognition. If a beggar comes to your door, you recognize hiru and say, “Whatdo you want?” If you meet a stranger faint in the street, you say, “W hat is the matter with you?” and your common humanity, and your common symp&fh ^ and your common sense of propriety will not allow you to let him stand without recognition—the wounded one of the hills. You will ask, What makes him weep? where was he hurt? who wounded him? whence came he? whither goes he? I know there have been men who nave with outrageous indifference hated Christ, but I know very well that is not what you will do with J esus. Another thing you can do with Him—vou can thrust Him back from your heart and tell Him to stand aside. If an inoffensive person comes and persists in standing close up to you, and you have in various ways given him to understand that vou do not want his presence or his society, then vou ask the reason of bis impertinence and bid him away, \\ ell, that is what we can do with Jesus. Ho has stood close by us a great while- ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. He has stood close by you three times & day break* ing bread for your household, all night watching by your pillow. Ha has been in the nursery amoug your children, He has been in the store among your goods, Ha has been in the factory amid the Hying wheels, and now if you do not liite H is society you can bid Him away; aye, if He will not go you can take Him by tne throat and tell Him you do not want His interlerence, that you do not want His breath on your cheek, that you do not want His eye on your be havior. You can bid Him away; or if He will not go in that way, then you can stamp your foot as you would at a dog and cry “Begone!’’ Yet I know you will not treat Jesus that way. When Pilate could not do that, you could not. Desperadoes and outlaws might do so, but I know that that is not the way you will treat Him, that that is not wbat you will do with Jesus. There is another thing you can do with Him—you can look on Him merely as an optician to cure blind eyas, or an aurist to tune deaf ears, a friend, a good triend, a helpful companion, a cheerful passenger ou shipboard; but that will amount to nothing. You can look upon Him as a God and ba abashed while He rouses the storm, or blasts a fig tree, or heaves a rock down the moun tain side. That will not do you any good- no more save your soul than the admiration you have for John Milton or William tioakes- peace, I can think ot only one more thing vou can do with Jesus, and that is to take Him into your hearts. That is the best thing you can do with Him, that is the only safe thing you can do witn Hem, and may the Lord omnipotent by His spirit help me to persuade you to do that. A minister of Christ was speaking to some children and said: “I will point you to Christ.” A little child rose up in the audience and came up and put her hand in the hand of the pastor and said: “Please, sir, take me to Jesus now, I want to go now.” Oh, that it might be now with such simplicity of experience that you and I join hanus and seek after Christ and get an expression of His benefaction and His mercy? You may take Christ into your confidence. If you cannot truss Him. wnom can you trust? 1 do not offer you a dry. theological technicality. I simply as.t yen to come and put both feet ou the “Rock of Ages.” Take hold of Christ’s hands and draw Him to your soul with perfect abandonment and hurl yourself into the deep sea ot His mercy. He comes and says, “i will save you.” If you do not thinx He is a hypocrite and a liar when He says that, believe Him ani say; “Lord Jesus, I believe; here is my heart. Wash it. tJave it. Do it now. Aye, it Is done; for I obey Thy promise and com* 1 . I can do no more. That is all Thou base asked. I come. Christ is mine. Par don is mine. Heaven is mine.” Why, my friends, you put more trust in everybody than you do in Christ, and in everything; more trust in the bridge cross ing the stream, in the ladder up to the loft; more trust in the stove that confines the fire; more trust in the cook that prepares your food; more trust in the clerk tnat writes your books, in the druggist that makes the medicine, in the bargain maker with whom you trade—more trust in all these things than in Christ, although He stands this mo ment offering without limit and without mistake and without exception universal pardon to all who want it. Now is not that cheap enough—all things for nothing? This is the whole of the Gospel as I under stand it—that if you believe that Christ died to save you, you are saved. When? f low. No more doubt about it thau that you it there. No more doubt about it than that ou have a right hand. No more doubt bout it than that there is a God. If you had committed five thousand transgressions Christ would forgive you just as freely as if you had never committed one^ though you had gone through the whole catalogue of crime—arson and blasphemy and murder— Christ would forgive you just as freely, you coming to Him as though you had committed only the slightest smot the tongue. Why, when Christ comes to pardon a soul He stops for nothing. Heigut is nothing. Depth is nothing. Enormity is nothing. Protractedness is nothing. O’er sins like mountains for their size. The seas to sovereign grace expan a. The seas of sovereign grace arise. Lord Jesus, I give up all other props, give up all other expectations. Ruined and un> done, 1 lay hold Thee. I plead Thy promises. I fly to Thy arms. “Lord, save me: I perish!” When the Christian commission went into the army during the war there were a great multitude of hungry men and only a few loaves of bread, and the delegate of the com mission was cutting the bread and giving it out to wounded and dying men. Some one came up and said, “Cut those slices thinner, or there will not be enough to go around.” And then the delegate cut the slices very thin and handed the bread around uutil they all had some, but not much. But, blessed be God, there is no need of economy in this Gospel. Bread for all; bread enough and to spare Why perish with hunger? Again, x auvise you, as one of the best things you can do with Christ, to take Him into your love. Now there are two things whicu make us love auy one—inherent at tractiveness. and then what he does in the way of kindness toward us. Now Christ is in Ixith these positions^ Inherent attrac- ti veness, fairer than the children of men, the luster of the morning in His eye, the glow of the setting sun in His cheek, myrrn and frankincense in the breath of His lip. In a heaven of holy beings, the best- In a neaven ot mighty ones, the strongest. In a heaven of great hearts, the tenderest and most sympatneti'*. Why, sculpture has never yet been able to chisel His torn nor painting to present the flush of His cheek nor music to strike His charmstmad the greatest surprise of eternity will be tne first moment when we rush into His presence and with uplifted hands an l streaming eyes and heart bounding wit> rapture we cry out, “Tnis is Jesus l” All over glorious is my Lord. jue mast oe loved sad yet adored; Bis worth, if all the nations knew. Bore, tne whole ear:a would love Him, too. Has He not done enough to win our affec tions? Peter the Great, laying aside royal authority, went down among the ship car penters to help them, but Russia got the chief advantage of that condescension. John Howard turned his back upon che refine ments and went around prisons to spy out their sorrows and to relieve their wrongs, but English criminals got the chief advan tage of that ministry. But when Christ comes it is f oryou and me. The sacrifice for you and me. The tears for you and me. The crucifixion for you and me. If I were hopelessly in debt and some on? came and paid my debts, and gave me a re ceipt in full, and called off the pacit of hounding creditors; if l were on a founder ing ship, and you came in a lifeboat and took me off, could I ever forget your kind ness? Would I ever allow au opportunity to pass without rendering you a service or at testing my gratitude and love? Oh, how ought we to feel toward Christ,who plunge-i into the depth of our siu and plucked us out! Ought it not to set the very best emo tions of our heart into the warmest, aye, a red hot g:ow? The story is so old tnat peo ple almost get asleep when they are hearing it And yet there He hangs—Jesus the man, Jesus the God. VV as there anything before or since, any thing to be compared to this spectacle of generosity and woe? Did heart strings ever snap withe worse torture? Were tears ever charged with a heavier grief? Did blood ever gash, in each globule the price of a soul? The wave of earthly malice dashed its bloody foam against one foot, the wave of infernal malice dashed against His other foot, while the storm of God’s wrath against siu beat on His thorn-pierced brow, and all the hosts of darkness with gleaming lances rampages through His holy soul. Oh, see the dethronement of heaven’s King! the conqueror fallen from the white horse! the massacre of a GodiJ Weep, ye who have tears, over the loneliness of His exile and the horrors of His darkness. Christ sacrificed on the funeral pyre of a world’s transgression; the good for the bad, the great lor the mean; the infinite for the finite, the God for the man: Oh, if there be in all this audience one person untouched by this story of the Saviour’s love, show me where he is that I may mark the monster of ingratitude and crime If you could see Christ as He is you would rise from your seat and flmg, yourselves down at His feet, crying, “My Lord, my light, my love, my joy, my peace, my strength, my expecta - lion, my heaven, my all! Jesus! Jesus!” Oh, can you not love Him? Do you want more of His tears? Why, He has shed them all for you. He has no more. Do you want more of his blood? His arteries were emptied dry ani the iron hand of agony could press out nothing more. Would you put Him to worse excruciation? Then drive another nail into His haul, and plunge another spear into His side, and twist an other thorn into His crown, and lash Him with another flame of infernal torture. “No,” says some one; “stop! stop! He shall not be smitten again. Enough the tears. Enough the blood. Enough the torture. Enough the agony." “Enough,” cries earth. “Enough,” cries heaven. Aye, “Enough,” cries hell. At last enough. Oh, look at Him, thy butchered Lord, un- sbrouJed and ghascly as they flung Him from the tree, His wounds gaping for a Dan lage. Are there no hands to close these eyes? Then let the sun go out and there be midnight. Howl, ye winds, and howl, ye seas, for your Lord is dead. Oh, what more could He have done for you and for me thau He has done? Could He pay a bigger price? Could He drink a more bitter cup? Could He plunge into a worst catastrophe? And can you not love Him? Groan again, O blessed Jesus, thet they may feel Thy sacrifice! Groan again, t'ut the four fingers ani the thumb of Thy wounded hand upon them, that the gash in tne palm may strike their souls and Thy warm life may bleed into them. Groan again,,0 Jesus, and see if they will not feel. Oh, what will you do witn such a Christ as that? You have got to do something witn Him this morning. What will you do with Jesus?* Will you slay Him again by your sin? Will you spit upon Him again? Will you crucify Him again? What will you do with Him who has loved you with more than a brother’s love, more than a fatuer’s love, yea, more than a mother’s love, through all these years. Oh, is it not enough to make the hard heart of the rock break? Jesus! Jesus! What shall we do with Thee? I have to say that the question will after awhile change, and it will not be whit shall we do with Christ, but what will Christ do with us? Ring ail the bells of eternity at the burning oi a world, lu that day what do you think Christ will do with us? Why, Christ will say: “There is that man whom I callei. Thtre is that woman whose soul 1 importuned. But they would not any of my ways. I gave them innumerable opportu nities of salvation. They rejected them all, Depart; I never knew you.” Blessed be God, that day has not come. Halt, ye des- tiuies of eternity, and give us one more chance. One more chance, and this is it. Some travelers in the wilderness of Aus tralia a few years ago found the skeleton of a man and some of bis garments, and a rusty kettle on which the man had written or scratched with his ringer nail these words: “O God, I am dying of thirst. My brain is on file. My tongue is hot. GoJ help me in the wilderness.” Oh, how suggestive of the cou iition of tnose who die in tne wilderness of sin through tairst! We take hold of them to-day. VV e try to bring the cool water of the rock to their lips. We say, “Ho, every one that thirsteth!” God, thy Father, awaits thee. Ministering spirits who watch the ways of the soul bend now this moment over this immortal aulitory to see what wi will do with Jesus. MODERATE USE OF ALCOHOL. The way in which persons often besoms the unconscious victims of alcohol is stated by the Feuille de Hygiene et de Police Sani tate, of Neufchatel, Switzerland, as follows: “The small doses frequently reoeatel, small glasses of liquor regularly taken each day, are what make of an honest citizen a victim of alcoholism without his ever having, per haps, passed through a state of complete in toxication, and without his having suspected the danger to which he was exposed.” It Is tliis habitual moderate use of alcohol which not only thus establishes the habit of drink ing as a personal bondage for those who in dulge in it, but which is also often attended with most disastrous after-effects in accord ance with the law of heredity as shown in the descendants of such drunkards. Many who would be shocked at the tnought of be ing helplessly drunk, do not sea any harm or any danger in the “.noderate” use of alco holic bavarages, and thus baeonie, without suspicion, a prey to the overmastering alco hol habit.—National Advocate. A XATlOXAL DISGRACE. A beer ‘‘canteen” has been in operation about five mouths at West Point. It is lo cated in a Government bail ling formerly known as a cavalry barracks, is in charge of a Lieutenant of the Quartermasters’s De partment, and thJ barten ler is an endstei man. The receipts of this “canteen” is is re ported, says the New York Herald, “nave reached ’^I'idO in a single month.’’ The Herald adds: “It is said the* *c inteen.’ in stead of lessening the consumption of intoxi cants, as many thought it would, has in creased the amount of drinking among the soldiers at the Dost.” The soldiers are given credit at the “canteen,” an l each pay-Jay they ban 1 over wnat the barten ier’s slate calls M*. or tbiy are “blacklisted” until the old scjre is paid off. Such beer-saloons, officially couneetei with the United States Army, are not only inimical to the best welfare of the individual soldier, but are a National disgrace. They ought to be forth with abolished.—National Temperance Ad vocate . Cold Weather Ones Not Kill Them. Animaleukp in drinking water art not killed by the cold weather. Ac examination by a high-power micro scope of a drop of water drawn from the hydrant, even at a temperature almost freezing, will show that there are numerous creatur* s of different kinds floating about in a state ol very aggravating liveliness. Ol course they are not numerous, nor dc they look so vicious as when thf water has been heated by a July tem perature, but for all that there are too many of them to make unflltered water a pleasant drink, especially after one has examined it with a high-power gla.is.—Globe Democrat RELIGIOUS READING. “walk ix the iic.nT,’' John 1:3, T. “Walk in the liiht,” O. Father, make this true of me,— That sin’s dark night May never hide thy child from thee. Thus did 1 pray. And said: “Tomorrow will be bright.” But on that day I plunged into a rayless night. My only boy. As he was walking by my side, My life, my joy. Was stricken with disease, and died. At first I said: “My prayer of faith had not been heard— My boy is dead.” But then there came to me this word; “Walk In the light, And fellowship with God will be Thy chief delight.” My eyes were opened; now I see. My pain and woe. g When from iny arms my son was torn, Have made me know What God in his Son’s death has borne. And that for me! Why should I. then, in grief repine? Lord, let it lie In everything: “Thy will, not mine.” —[J. E. Hurlbut. SEPARATION FROM TH-E WORLD. “They are dead fish which are carried down the stream,” says Manton. Living fish may go with the stream at times, but dead fish must always do so. There are plenty of such in all w aters—dead souls, so far as the truest life is concerned, and these are always drifting, drifting, as the eurrent takes them. Their first inquiry is: What is customary? God’s law is of small account to them, but the unwritten rules of society have a power over them which they never think of resisting. They stand in awe of a fool’s banter, and ask of their neighbor leave to breathe. Good men have generally been called on to walk by themselves. We can sin abundantly by passively yielding to the course of this world; hut"to be holy and gracious needs many a struggle, many a tear. Come, my heart, canst th >u go against stream? It is the way of life. The opposing waters will but wash and cleanse thee, and thou shall ascend to the eternal river-head, and be near and like thy God. O Thou who art the Lord of the straight and narrow way, aid me to force a passage to glory and immortality!— [Spurgeon. LINCOLN AT PRAYER. I had once been spending three weeks h, the White House with Mr. Lincoln, as his guest. One night—it was just after the bat tle of Bull Run—I was restless and could not sleep. I was repeating the part which I was »o take in a public performance. The hour was past midnight. Indeed, it was coming near to the dawn, when I heard low tones proceeding from a private room near where the President slept. The door was partly open. I instinctively walked in, and there I saw a sight which I shall never for get. It was the President kneeling beside na open Bible. The light was turned low in the room. His back was toward me. For a moment I was silent, as I stood looking in amazement and wonder. Then he cried out in tones so pleading and sorrowful: “O Thou God that heard Solomon in the night when be prayed for wisdom, near me; I cannot lead this people, I cannot guide the affairs of this na tion without Thy help. I am poor, and weak, and sinful." O God, who didst hear Solomon when he cried for wisdom, hear me. and save this nation!’’—[James E. Mur dock. SPOTLESS OR SPOTTED. Suppose we should go through one of our large cities and visit all the places of in iquity, taverns, saloons, gambling dens and brothels, and submit to every one of the un godly this question : “Do vou think a Chris tian "ought to be entirely pure, spotless or spotted?” what answer would be given? Why, the whole crowd throughout the realm of iniquity, one and all, would exclaim, “Spotted! nay, nav; a Christian should be entirely pure—spots belong to us.” This would he the universal verdict. And yet how many Christian professors there are who plead for a little sin—and lor a few* spots. Is it not strange? We would think that a taste of the new life given in regeneration would put within them an insatiate longing for entire purity. But, alas many do not retain the sweetness of regenerate life! They lose it out of their souls, am: they do not"want to hear about holiness.—[Guide to Holiness. TRUE BRAVERY. Between twenty and thirty years ago three little English boys were amusing themselves together in a wood-lodge one summer forenoon. Suddenly one of them looked grave, and left off' playing. “I have forgotten something,” he said; “I forgot to say my prayers this morning. You must wait for tne.” He went quietly into a cor ner of the place they* were in. knelt down, and reverently repeated bis morning pray er. Then he returned to the others, and was soon merrily engaged in play again. This brave boy grew upjo be a brave man. He was the gallant Captain Hammond, who nobly served his queen and country, till he fell headlong leading on his men to the at tack on the Redan, at the siege of Sebasto pol. He was a faithful soldier to his earthly sovereign; but better still, a good soldier of Jesus Christ, never ashamed of His service, ever ready to fight His battle. A GOOD NAME. “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” Even unscrupulous men know the worth of good principles that can not be moved. A gentleman turned off a man in his em ploy at the bank, because he refused to write for him on Sunday. When asked afterward to name some reliable person he might know as suitable for a cashier in another bank, he mentioned this same man. “You can depend upon him,” he said, “for he refused to work for me on the Sab bath.” A gentleman, who employed many persons in his large establishment, said: “When I see one of my young men riding for pleas ure on Sunday. I dismiss him on Monday; I know such an one cannot he trusted. Nor will I employ any one who even occasionally drinks liquor of any kind.” Boys, honor the Lord’s Day and all the teaching of the Bible, and you will not fail to find favor with God and with man also. KEY TO THE BIBLE. The Bible is a large book or a small one, a dark or a bright one, according to the spirit in which men read it. AVranglers and first- class men will not understand it unless their hearts are right as well as their heads. The highest critical and grammatical knowledge will find it a sealed book without the teach ing of the Holy Ghost. Its contents are often “hid to the wise and prudent and re vealed to babes.” Reader, remember this, and say always, when vou open your Bible, “O God, for Christ’s sake, give me the teach ing of the Spirit,”—[Ryie. Our fireside conversations, our thoughts as we pass along the streets, our spirit in tne transaction of business, all have some amount —small though it be—of moral value.— [Goulbourn. Insurance men are departing from their former position that it was no part of their business to concern themselves with methods of building- construction, but only to accept risks from whoever was willing to pay the price. This policy has brought so many companies to bankruptcy, how ever, that insurers are now beginning to recognize that the most important element in their business Is to secure the adoption of the safest possible methods in building. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY 24. FOR Lesson Text; “The Lame Man Healed,” Acts iil., 1-10—Gold en Tex*: Acts ill., 16— Commentary. . b “Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.” . This was probaoly at the time of the evening sacrifice, about three o’clock in the afternoon. It was the hour at which Jesus died on Calvary (Math, xxvii., 46-50). We are reminded that prayer can be acceptable only through the merits of Jesus our sacrifice. See Rev. viii., 3. 4 Compare David ani Daniel praying threi times a day (Pa lv., 19; Dan. vi„ 10). 2. “And a certain man. lame from his mothers womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple.” This man. over forty years of age (chapter iv , 22), had apparently no thought of ever be ing healed, but desired only the alms of the worshipers, that thus he might eke out a living. We wonder why, when Jesus healed the man born blind (John ix., 1>, probably at the same gate. He passed by this man, who was also afflicted from his birth. Did He purposely leave this man for Peter and John to heal 4 3. “Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms.” How many there are who ara spiritually Tame, and like Mephibosheth, lame on both feet through the fault of another—Adam and bis sin (II Sam. iv., 4; ix„ 13); who know nothing of the King’s table, but desire only temporal gifts. 4. “And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with John said, Look on us.” Tbey must have passed him many a time before, for he was there every day, but now they are by the Spirit in them led to give heed to him. If we were always fillel with the Spirit then God would worn in us (Phil, ii., 13; Heb. xiii., 21) aud we would see many au opportunity of making Him known to the people whom we meet and pass unnoticed every day. 5. “And he gave heed unto them expect ing to receive something of therr.” It was money he wanted, ani for money reached out his hand, as almost any one will. He little thought of the durable riches and righteousness (Prov. viii., 18) which were within his reach. 6. “Then Peter said, ‘Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I theo; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.’ ” Thereis something more than money which can be had without money (Isa. iv., 1). Money for which all people toil cannot give health of body at all times, and never health of soul (Ps. xlix., «, 7i. But Jesus, who is heaven’s riches for body and soul, may be had by all (John i., 12; vi„ 37; iii., IE; Rev. xxii., 17). 7. “And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up; and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.” God in Peter reached out the hand to him, and wrought through Peter in the name of Jesus on behalf of the lame man, according to Mark xvi., 20. Why may not every be liever believing Isa., xli.,13,be used at least in lome measure in the same way. According to your faith (Math, ix., 29), 8. “And he, leaping up, stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walk ing and leaping and praising God.” Long before had the prophet said that such things as this would come to pass (Isa. xxxv. t». But who can tell the feelings of this man under this sevenfold manifestation of the power of Jesus’s name? What do we know of the power of this name? 9. “And all the people saw him walking and praising God.” When God works mightily people must see it; and if there are no works of God manifest in us, where is the evidence that Goi is in us? If people glorified God in Paul (Gal. i., 24) why not in us also? Perhaps we have not Paul’s am bition (Phil, i., 20; iii.. 8-14.) 10. “And ttiey knew that it was he; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which happened unto him.” The change was marked and unmistakable. Per haps some of them would think of the man born blind, whose eyes Jesus had opened and be compelled to conclude that this Jesus althougn crucified ws wbat believers are ni the mighty works of J them and Jesus thus iv.. 11). 11. “And as the healed held Pet-r ami ran together unto d Lard and Snuff. A mixture of larc and snuff is the California remedy ipr lice on stock. This ointment does not need to be applied to the entire annimal, but a ring of it, two or Ihree inches wide made completely around the neck, will have the desirel effect- lyet alive. That is I jyon eartli for, that l oi may ba seen in '*ide known (II Cor. 'U’a man which was /obn, all the people !m, greatly wonder ing." The healed nfan naturally c.ung to his deliverers, and the crowd ran to see the healed and the healers. There being but little of the power of God in the church to day, the crowd have to be drawn by enter tainments and suppers and concerts; but let some of the power that was seen ou this occa sion be again manifest and the things which now disgrace the church shall speedily vanish. 12. “Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this, or why look ye so earnestly on us?” Thus Peter spoke to the people as with won der they gazed first at tne healed man and then at the apostles. Not knowing God the invisible, people will gaze upon and wonder at the visible instruments whom God is graciously pleased to use. And as soon as the instrument is willing to be magnified the power ceases (I Cor. i., 29). 13. “The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, had glorified His Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up.” With the power of the risen, ascended and glorified Jesus manifest in the healed man, Peter now preaches unto them Jesus and the resurrection according to the Scrip tures of the prophets (verse 18), urging them to repentance and to look for the return of Christ to restore all things (verses 19-21). 14. “Ikit ye denied the Holy One and the Just, anu desired a murderer to be granted unto you!” He faithfully and fearlessly charges home upon them their sin. not only of preferring a murderer to the Holy One, but of actually murdering the Holy One. Consider the testimony of men and demons to the holiness of Jesus, (Mark i. t 23, 24; Math, xxvii., 4, 19, 54). 15. “And killed the Prince of Life, whom Goi hath raisel from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.” Man crucified the Son of God, but God raised Him from the dead and and gave Him glory (Eph. i., 20; I Pet. i., 21), saying, “Sit Thou at My right hand un til I make Thine en ^mies Thy footstool” (Ps. cx., 1; Actsii., 34-36). 16. “And His name, through faith in His name, hath made this man strong.” The faith of Peter and John in the name of Jesus brought perfect soundness to this man who had been for over forty years a cripple. What has ou:* faith in Jesus ever accom plished for others? Consider the faith of the four in Mark ii., 3, 5. I do believe that the very same J sus whesi name is won derful, and for waom nothing is too wonder ful (Isa. ix., 6; Jor. xxxii., 17) is alive to day.—Lesson Heloer. Hops in Alaska. Those who are accustomed to think of Alaska as a land of snow and ice will be surprised at the proposed plan of turning it into a large hop planta tion. This enterprise is projected by j a syndicate of Oregon hop dealers. They have bought considerable terri tory near Fort Wrangel. aud expect it to be the coming hop market. The reasons which encourage the syndicate to hope for success are many: The summer, though short, is almost tropically hot, and it is be lieved the season is long enough for ripening the hops; land is very cheap, to be had almost for the asking: labor costs but a trifle; the soil requires lit tle preparation: the hops could be gathered for half the price paid in Oregon: the freightage would all be in sailing vessels, which is cheapness itself. These are strong inducements, and if the llrst is trie, the prospect, certainly, has every’hing in its favor. Hop growers will witch the uew ex periment with interest TEMTEKANCE. TOUCH IT NOT Sanctioned by custom, licensed by the Stab*, Worshiped by rich and poor, by small ani great; Sung of by poets, praised by doctors too, Caressed alike by pulpit and by pew: The demon Drink reigns proudly o’er the land. And few indeed his cunning wiles withstand. The yellow barley bends to the light winds. And grapes in clusters load the trembling vines. God’s preciofis gifts for man to love and use. And not to wildly squander and abuse! W from a king the mandate stiould go forth. From east to west, from sunny south to nortb, That all the bariey waving in the field. And all the grapes the well-kept vineyards yield. Should in the ocean recklelssly be thrown. There would arise one universal groan, •And men would execrate the tyrant’s name. And pile his memory with undying saame. But man, a tyrant to himself, does worse: Turns a rich blessing to a frightful curse! Crushes the grapes and barley till the life. Once filled with comfort, is with ruin rife, God made the barley, but man made the beer; A truth which to the youngest child is clear. Oh. for His sake, who came to save the lost, “Rescue the perishing” at whatever cost. And lift your voice in palace or in cot, A voice of warning, crying—“Touch it not!” -—AV. A. Eaton, in Temperance Advocate. MONEY WORSE THAN WASTED. The six thousand saloons in Chicago are said to have sold the past year 2,034,696 bar rels of beer, at the cost to the consumer of somewhat over $40,000,000. Had that money, so much worse than waste!, been saved"and judiciously used, the labor ques tion might have begun to wear a very dif ferent face. Forty millions would go a long way toward better homes, better schooling, better social advantages, and a brighter out look for the future. A TEMPERANCE TOWN. In Mendocino County, Wis., there is a lumbering village of 1100 population, and there are thirteen saloons. Tne pay-roll of the mill company amounts to #9090 a month. And of this sum it is estimated that #5'900, or more than one-half is spent at the sa loons. On the other hand, at another vil lage a few miles distant, the pay-roll is $1,- 200 a month and not a cent of it is known to go for liquor. The mill company own the town site and allow no saloons,and they have erected a church building and largely sup port a minister. The responsibility of cor porations and companies for s&fe-guarding as much as possible the men in their employ, though obvious enough, is too little re garded. —Advance GREAT BRITAIN’S DRINK BILL. While the annual drink bill of tha United States is appallingly large, it does not repre sent such a great degree of addiction to in toxicants as the annual rum expen iiture of some other countries. Great Britain is far worse in this respect than ourselves. The population of the United Kingdom, by the census of 1891. was 37,883,153; ours, in 1893, was 62,623.250. Our annual drink bill is, in round numbers, $930,003,000; the total sum spent for beer and spirits in the United Kingdom during the year 1891 was $706,559,- 000—or about $16 per head, including women and children. Hence, bad as our case is. Great Britain’s is worse. There was an in crease during 1891 of about $6,003,000 in the total amount spent for intoxicants; but the friends of temperance over there find ground for hope in the fact that there has been a de cided decrease in the amount of distilled liquors used, and au increase in the quantity of beer. They are hopeful also because they find a decrease in the extent of violent drunkenness. The total amount spent for beer alone last vear was £78,003,000—nearly $390,000,000. The most hopeful sign, however, of an amelioratiou of the drink evil in Great Britain is the fact that heavy drinking is be coming unfashionable in that country. This may seem a faint hope to some, but it is more thau that. A century or so ago heavy drinking was common in the best American society. We all know the vast cnange for the better that has been worked in this mat ter among our own people. Great Britain isf a little slower than we are, that is all.—To ledo Blade. IMPRESSIVE PROTEST AGAINST ALCOHOL. The Catholic Review, of New York City, publishes a most earnest and impressive temperance address, delivered in St. Pat rick’s Church, Montreal, during a recent mission, by the Rev. H. P. Doyle, C.S.P., from wnich we quote the following: “Of all the evils that have cursed man kind. crushed woman’s heart, sent youth to destruction, driven virtue to the resort of shame, and smoothed the pathway of hell, none can compare with the evil of intoxi cating orink. Astonishing it is that more of our upright Catholic citizens do not attempt to wipe out this plague. It is pleasant to address the young and intelligent men of this vast city, the men who are to be the formers of public opinion for tbe next gen eration, and to lay before them the fearful havoc of this terrible enemy. If a disease, small-pox or fever, broke out so that a hun dred would be laid low, how medical aid would be called in, how every expedient would be tried, how the eases would be is olated; yet this disease is destroying daily thousands, and where are the citizens that seek the remedies? Were a mad dog abroad, you would raise a hue and cry, seize any weapon to stop him in his murderous career; yet worse thau a hundred rabid dogs is the demon of drink, and you are not up in arms against the monster. “This demon ot drink grapples with a man in his physical, civil, ani spiritual life. It is a good thing to have health; glorious to be strong—without it there is ue real hap piness in life; yet nothing ruins the health or saps the strength like alcohol. It is never necessary, no matter how tired one may be. A young man can woric longer, better, and with less fatigue when he is a total abstain er. “Alcohol is a poison; infused into the veins it produces instant death; taken into the stomach it courses throug.i the system and puts all its parts out of order. If a stranger intrude! into a politi family cir cle, he would receive gentle or pointed hints that he was out of place. Yout* system is a family composed of its organs and mem bers; let alcohol intrude, the headache, the bad stomach, the abnormal pulse, all these are hints that tne presence o’ the stranger is hurttul. But let the intruier be a madman who proceeds to smash the /urniture and you seize him and eject him. Too much alcohol, what is called being drunk, abuses the members of the system, and they all rebel and strive to fire out the intruder. That self-preservation so instinctive in every organ of man, rebels against the presence of alcohol.” TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The wine production of France for 1891 amounted to 653,358,030 gallons. The London Temperance Hospital has re cently opened a uew wing for children. Canada receives some $7,000,090 revenue in return for $35.0 >9,009 expendel iu drink. Auburn, Me., a city o: 10,00) inhabitants, employs three policemen, one lor day service, and two at night. Prohibition proaibits iu Auburn. The National Carriage and Harness Retail Dealers - Association have put tkems Ives iu the advance lin? by banishing intoxicants from their banquets. There has been a tremendous increase of drunkenness in France since the destruction of the vines by the pnylloxera. But wini is thougnt to be largely to blame. The Journal of Inebriety calls attention to the fact that the use of tobacco and alco hol by railway employes is liable, unconsci ously to themselves, to produce c >lor blind ness. Representative Davis, of Kansas, claims to have discovered a law upon the o* 1 statute books of Illinois prooibiting the sale of liquor within two miles of a county fair. That law might perhaps be sufficient to pre vent the sale of liquor at the big fair. The new excise law in the State of New York practically gives more privileges to the saloon business than it has ever before enjoyed. The liquor capitalist is givea absolute power, and can taka out as many licenses and open as many salooas as he de sires, employing men to run thorn. Harriman, Tenn., though founded upon the basis of Prohibition title deeds, is already confronted with the opposition of a law- defying “gang” of liquor men. A book dealer was recently fined $2’) and costs for giving away liquor in his bo ok store. An appeal was 'nkeu to tho Circuit Court, and thus Harriman will have its first teat case as to the legality of its prohibition. 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