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BAOOKLYN DIVINE’S SON
JI»AY SERMON.
dat^ject: “Our Fo—e—ionu” Preached
in Ijondon.
Text: **AU are j/oure.”—I Corinthians
ML, 2*.
The. impression is abroad that reiigion
S ts a man cn short allowance; that when
• ship sailing bearenwari comes to the
shining wharf it will bo found out that all
the passengers had the hardest kind of sea
fare; that the soldiers in Christ’s army
inarch most of the time with an empty hav
ersack; in a word, that only those peop e
hare a good time in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
I want to-day to find out woether this is
-so. and I am going to take account of stock;
I am going to show what are the Christian’s
liabilities, and what is his income,and what
•are his warrantee deeds, aud what ara his
bonds and mortgages, and I shall find on:
before I finish just now much he is worth,
•and I shall spread before you the balance
sheet in time to warn you ail against the re
ligion of Jesus Christ if indeed it be a fail
ure, and in time for you oil to accept it if
indeed it be a success. 1 turn first to the
-assets, and I find there what seems to be a
roll of Government securities—the empire of
heaven promising all things to the possessor.
The three small words of ray text are a war
rantee deed to the whole universe when it
says “All are yours.”
In making an inventory of the Christian’s
possessions I remark in the first place that
be owns this world. My text implies it and
the preceding verse asserts it—“whether
Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world.'’
Now it would be an absurd thing to sup
pose that God would give to strangers
privileges and advantages which He would
deny His own children. If you have a large
park, a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and statuary, to whom will
you give the first right to all these posses
sions? To outsiders? No, to your own
children. You will say, “It will bo very
well for outsiders to come in aud walk these
paths and enjoy this landscape, but the first
right to my house, aud the first right to my
statuary, the first right to my gardens shall
be in the possession of my owu children.
Now this world is God’s park, and whila
He allows those who are not His children,
.and who refuse His authority, tho privilege
walking through the gardens, the possession
of all this grandeur of park aud mansion is
in the right of the Christiau—the flowers,
the diamonds, the silver, the gold, the morn
ing brightness and the evening shadow. The
Christian may net have the title deed to one
acre of land as recorded in the clerk’s office,
he may never have paid one dollar of taxes,
but he can go up on a mountain and look off
upon fifty miles of gram field and say, “Ail
this ia mine; my Father gave it to me.” “Ail
are yours.”
A lawyer is sometimes required to search
titles, and the client who thinks he has a
good right to an estate puts tho papers in
bis hands, and the lawyer goes into the
publio records and finds everything right
for three or four or five years back; but
after awhile he comes to a break in the
title, to a deficit, to a diversion of the
property; so he finds out that the man who
supposed he owned it owns not au acre of
the ground, while somebody else has the full
right to the entire estate. Now I examine
the title to all earthly possessions. I eo ’
back a little way, and I find that men of the
world-—bad men, selfish men, wicked men—
think they have a right to all these
possessions; but I go further back, and I
trace the title from year to year and from
century to century, until I find the whole
right vested in God. Now to whom did He
give it? To His own children 1 “All are
yours.”
The simple fact is, that in the last days of
the world all the architecture, all the cities,
all the mountains, all the villages will be in
the possession of the church of Christ. “The
meek shall iuherit the earth.” Ships of
Tarshish shall bring presents. “The earth
is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” “All
are yours.” “But," you say, “what satis
faction is there in that when l haven’t pos
session of them?” These things will come
^be Supreme Judge of the universe
l will regulate the title, and He will
fisgFStjoatter* fipbn the ^ropesty-tbstr ^
does not belong to them, and it shall be
found that “All are yours.”
So, again, the refinements of life are the
Christian’s right. He has a right to as good
apparel, to as beautiful adornments, to as
commodious a residence as the worldling.
Show me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people of the world they have privil
eges, they have glittering spheres, they have
befitting apparel that are denied the Chris
tian. There is no one who has so much a
right to laugh, none so much a right to
everything that is beautiful aud grand and
sublime in life as the Christian. “All ara
yours." Can it be possible that one who is
reckless and sinful and has no treasures laid
up in heaven is to be allowed pleasures which
the sons and daughters of God, the owners
of the whole universe, are denied?
So I remark that all the sweet sounds of
the world are in the Christian’s right. There
are people who have an idea that instru
ments of music are inappropriate for the
Christian’s parlor. When did the house of
sin or the bacchanal get tne right to music?
They have no right to it. God, in my text^
makes over to Christian people all the pi
anos, all the harps, all the drums, all the
cornets, all the flutes, all the organs. Peo
ple of the world may borrow them, but they
only borrow them; they have no right or
title to them. God gave them to Christian
people in my text, wueu He said, “AU ara
yours,”
David no more certainly owned the harp
with which he thrummed the praise of God
than the church of Christ owns now all
chants, all anthems, all ivory keyboards, all
organ diapasons, and God will gather up
these sweet sounds after awhile, aud He will
mingle them in one great harmony, aud the
Mendelsshoos and the Beethovens aud the
Mozarts of earth will join their voices and
their musical instruments, the soft south
wind and the loud-lunged euroclydon will
sweep the great organ pipes, and you shall
see Clod’s baud striking the keys and God’*
foot tramping the pedals in the great ora
torio of the ages I
fcfo all artistic aud literary advantages are
in the Christian’s right. I do not care on
whose wall the picture hangs, or on whose
pedestal the sculpture stands, it belongs to
Christians. The Bierstadts an i the churches
are all working for us. ’’All are yours.”
The Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gal
leries of Naples and Rome and Venice—they
are all to come into the possession of the
church of Jesus Christ. We may not now
have them ou our walls, but the time will
come when the writ of ejectment will be
served and the church will possess every -
thing. All parks, all fishponds, all colors,
all harvests—all, “all are yours.”
Secondly, I remark that the right to full
temporal support is in the Christian’s name.
It is a great affair to feed the world. Just
think of the fact that this morning sixteen
hundred millions of our race breakfasted at
God’s table l The commissary department
of ahundrei thousand man in any army
will engage scores of people, but just think
of the commissary department o* a world!
Think of the gathering up from the rice
swamps, and the tea fields, and the orchards,
and the fisheries 1 No one but God could
tell how many bushels it would take to feed
five continents.
Then, to clothe all these people, how mauy
furs must be captured and how much flax
broken and how much cotton picked. Just
think o: the infinite wardrobe where sixteen
hundred millions of people get their clothes’.
God spreads the table first of all for His chil
dren. Of course that wou d be a very sel
fish man who would not allow other people
to come and sit at the table sometimes; but
first of all, the right is given to Christian
people, and therefore it is extreme folly for
them ever to fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out of whose hand
did the cormorant pick its food? Whose
loom wove the butterfly’s wing? Who hears
the hawk’s cry? If God takes care of a wal
rus, and a Siberian dog. and a wasp, will He
not take care of you? Will a father have
more regard for reptdes than for his sons
and daughters? If God clothes the grizzly
bear, and the panther, and the hyena, will
He not clothe His own children? Come. then,
this morning, and get the key of the infinite
storehouse. Come and get the key of the in
finite wardrobe. Here they are—all the
keys. “All are yours."
So all the vicissitudes of this Ufa, so far as
they have any religious profit, are in the
right of the Christian. If you should stand
among the Alleghany Mountains, especially
near what is called the “Horseshoe,” you
would find a train of oars almost doubling
on itself, and sitting ia the book oar yon see
a locomotive coming as you look oat of the
window, and you think it is another train
when it is only the front of the train in
which you are riding; and sometimes you
can hardly tell whether the train is going
toward Pittsburg or toward Philadelphia,
but it is on the track, and it will reach the
depot for which it started, and aU the pas
sengers will be discharged at the right
place. Now there are a great many sharp
carves in life. Sometimes we seem to be
going this way and sometimes we seem to be
going ttusl way, but if we are Christians we
are on the right track and we are going to
come out at the right place. Do not get
worried, then, about the sharp curve.
A filing vessel starts from New York for
Glasgow. Does it go in a straight Uri6?”
Oh. no. It changes its track every little
while. Now you say, “This vawel, instead
of going to Glasgow, must be going to
Havre, or it is going to Hamburg,or it is go
ing to Marseilles.” No, no It is going to
Glasgow. And in this voyage of life we
often have to change our tack. One storm
blows us this way, and another storm blows
us that way; but He who holds the winds in
His fist will bring us iuto a haven of ever
lasting rest just at the right time. Do not
worry, then, if you have to change tack.
One of the beet things that ever happened
to Paul was being thrown off his horse. One
of the best things that ever happened to
Joseph was being thrown into the pit. The
losing of his physical eyesight helped John
Milton to see the battle of the angels. One
of the best things that ever happened to
Ignatius was being thrown to the wild beasts
ia the Coliseum, and while eighty thousand
people were jeering at his religion he
walked up to cue nercast oi an tue nous and
looked him in the eye, as much as to say.
“Here I am, ready to be dovoui-ed for
Christ's sake.”
All things work together for your good.
If you walk the desert, the manna will fall
and the sea will part. If the feverish torch
of sickness is kindled over your pillow, by
its light you caa read the promises. If the
waves of trouble dash high above your
girdle, across the blast and across the surge
you can hear the promise, “When thou pass-
eth through the waters I will be with thee.”
You never owned a glove, or a shoe, or a
hat, or a a coat more certainly than you own
all the frets and annoyances and exaspera
tions of this life, and they are bound to work
out your present and your eternal good.
They are the saws, the hammers, the files by
which you are to be hewn and cut and
smoothed for your eternal well being.
Hers is a vessel that goes along the coast;
it hugs the coast. The captain of that
vessel seems chiefly anxious to keep the
paiut on his ship from being marred or the
sails from being torn. When that vessel
comes to port, nobody looks on it with any
interest. But here is a vessel that went
across the sea with vast product and comes
in with vast importation—sails patched,
masts spliced, pumps all working to keep
out the water: it has come through the
hurricane which has sunk twenty steamers.
The bronzed men are cheering among the
rigging. Now the men-of-war anchored in
the harbor boom forth their welcome
through the portholes.
So there are some Christians who are hav
ing au easy tiC.e. It seems to them smooth
sailing all t^/s way. When they get into
heaven thereVwill be no excitement, there
will be very'few people who will ever find
out they are there; but those Christians who
have gone through a hundred midnight hur
ricanes—storm to the right of them, storm
to the left of them, storm all the way—when
they come up the harbor of heaven, all the
redeemed will turn out to greet them, and
bid them hail and welcome.
I go further, and tell you that the
Christian owns not only this world, but he
owns the next world. No chasm to be
leaped, no desert to be crossed. There is the
wall; there is the gate of heaven. He owns
all ou this side. Now, I am going to show
you that he owns all on the other side
Death is not a ruffian that comes down to
burn us out of bouse and home, destroying
the bouse of the tabernacle, so that we
should be homeless forever. Oh, no I He is
only a black messenger who comes to tell us
it is time t o move, to tell us to get out of
this hut and go up into the palace.
^ The Christian owns all heaven. “All are
yours.” Its palaces of beauty, its towers of
strength, its castles of love. He will not
walk in the eternal oity as a foreigner in a
strange city, but as a farmer walks over his
owu premises. “All are yours.” All the
rrtarisious yours. Angels ydur companions.
Trees of life your shade. H ills of glory your
lookout. 'thrones of heaven the place
where you will shout the triumph. Jesus is
yours. God is yours. You look up into the
face of God and say, “My Father." You
look up into the face of Jesus aud say, “My
brother.”
Walk out upon the battlements of heaven
and look off upon the city of the sun. No
tears. No sorrow. No death. No smoke of toil
ing warehouse curling on the air. No voice
of blasphemy thrilling through that bright,
clear Sabbath morning. No din of strife jar
ring the air. Then take out your deed and
remember that from throne to throne, and
from wall to wall, and from horizon to hori-
son “All are yours."
Then get up into the temple of the sun,
worshipers in white, each with a palm
branch, and from high gallery of that tem
ple look down the thousands of thousands,
and the ten thousand times ten thousand,
and the one hundred and forty and four
thousand, and the great “multitude that no
man can number,” and louder than the rush
of the wheels, louder than She tramp of the
redeemed, hear a voice saying, “All are
yours!”
See the great procession marching around
the throne of God. Martyrs who went up
on wtugs of flame. Invalids who went up
from couches of distress. Toilers who went
up from the workhouse, and the factory,
and the mine. All the suffering and the
bruised children of God. See tne cnanots ot
salvation; in them those who were more
t-h«n conquerors. See them marching around
about the throne of God forever aud for
ever, and know that “all are yours!"
O ye who have pains of body that exhaust
f our strength and wear out your patience
hold before you this morning the laud of
eternal health and of imperishable beauty,
and “all is yours!” O ye who have hard
work to get your daily bread, hard work to
shelter your children from the storm, I lift
before you the vision of that land where they
never hunger, and they never thirst, and
God feeds them, and robes cover them, and
tba warmth of eternal love fills them, and all
that is yours!
Oh. if there be any present who are yet
enemies of the Cross of Christ, I beseech
them at once to be reconciled to God 1 Re
member if you are not found among that
white robed army who follow the Saviour in
His victorious march, your part must be
with those concerning whom it is said, “The
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in
flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that
know not God and obey not the Gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the pres
ence of the Lord and from the glory of His
power when He shall come to be glorified in
His saints, and to be admired in all them
that believe.”
PAYS TO BE A PROPHET.
Young Sitting Bull’s Rich Haul iu
the Indian Territory.
Sitting Bull. Jr., of the Cheyenne tribe in
Northern Dakota, who went among the In
dians of the Indian Territory a year ago as
the prophet of the coming Messiah, has just
left the Comancue tribe to return to his
Northern home. The Cornancaes gave a
trioe dance in his honor before ue ie:t.
Young Bull has round tne propnec busi
ness very profitable, ne was presented with
100 horses, OOU head of cattle and nearly a
ear.oad o: blankets aud costly trinkets. He
married two of the Comanche girls,although
already having tour wives in North Dakota.
STORM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Three Persons Fatally Hurt ami
Crops and Buildings Destroyed.
A severe wind aud electric storm swept
over South Dakota, doing great damage to
crops an 1 property. The town of Gettys
burg, the county seat of Potter County; was
almost destroyed.
Twenty houses aud the Methodist and Bap
tist churches were blown down. A Mrs.
Herron was killed and throe persons were
fatally hurt.
Elevators and warehouses and many dwell
ings at points on the Chicago and North
western and Great Northern railways were
destroyed.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LRSSON FOR
AUGUST T.
Le<*»on Text: “The Apostle*’ Confi
dence in God,” Acts »▼., 19-31—
Golden Text: Acts iv., 31—
Commentary.
IS. “But Peter and Joan answered and
said unto them, whether it be right in the
sight of God to hearken unto you more than
unto God. judge ye.” Remember that these
are two Galilean fishermen, unlearned and
ignorant men (verse IJi, standing in the
S resence of the greatest dignitu-ies of the
ews’ religion, even in the presence of at
least two of the very men who had Jesas
put to death (verse 6), but they have no
tear. They are like the friends of Daniel in
the presence of the kin? of Babylon and see
only one thing to do (Dan. iii., 16-18), and
are ready to do it. The presence of Jesus
is more to them than the presence of any or
all of these men. and by His grace they will
do right in His sight.
20. “For we cannot but speak the things
which we have seen and heard.” When
Jeremiah was reproached for the Word of
God be said hastily that he would speak it
no more, but it was a fire in his bones, and
he could not keep quiet (Jer. xx . 8,!)). So
it was with these men and with Paul (I
Jotrai., 1-3; Acts xxi?., 15). If then we can
easily keep quiet, the question is have we
seen in Jesus nothing wortn mentioning? If
so, bow different trom that man of Gadera,
woo published through the whole city how
great things Jesus had done unto him (Luke
viii., 31).
21. “feio when they had further threatened
them they let them go, finding nothing how
they might punish them, because of the peo
ple—for all men glorified God for that
which was done.” How often the people
are ready to believe but are kept back by
tbe rulers. There would be many more be
lievers in a full Gospel to-dav if they were
not kept back by the blindness and false
teachings of many preachers. As in Jer
emiah’s day the prophets lied in the name of
the Lord and perverted His words, so it is
now (Jer. xxiii., 16. 21, 35, 36). And like
those rulers they would fain shut up these
who speaK the whole truth.
22. “For the man was above forty years
old on whom this miracle o£ healing was
shewed.” Jesus healed people who had been
affl'cted twelve, eighteen and thirty-eight
years (Luke viii., 43; xiii., 16; John v„ 5),
but this notable case He lett for Peter and
John; a handful on purpose for these glean
ers in His field (Ruth ii., Ifi). There is noth
ing too hard for the Lord (Jer. xxxii., 17),
and when we meet a special difficulty let us
see in it a great opportunity for God to work
and glorify Himself.
33. “And being let go they want to their
owu company, and reported all that the
chief priests and ciders had said unto them.”
They knew just whera to find their friends,
and without hesitation they seek those who
were gathered in Jesus’s name,and who were
perhaps praying for the prisoners. Think
of Jesus at the age of twelve, not found
with the other boys, but with the learned
men in the temple, and probably asking
some wonderful questions (Luke ii., 46).
34. “Aud when they heard that thev
lifted up ttoeir voice to God with one accorii
and said. Lord, Thou art God, which hast
made heaven and earth and the sea, and all
tnat in them is.” They think at once of
their great and faithful Creator to whom
Peter in one of his epistles teaches us to
commit our souls (I Peter iv , 16».Compare
Isa. xxxvii., 16; xl., 36; xdi., 5, 6; Jer.
xxxii., 17. They evidently oelieved that
their Cod had power to d» as He pleased
both in heaven and on earth (Dan iv., 35).
25. “Who by the mouth of thy servant
David hast said. Why did the heathen rage,
and the people imagine vain things?" Ob
serve that it was David’s mouth but
not David’s words. The words were
the words of God. Compare Ex. iv.,
12; II Sam. xxiii., 2; Jer. i., 2; John xii.,
49, and be foolish enough in the eyes of
earth’s wise men to believe in verbal in
spiration.
36. “The kings of the earth stood up and
the rulers were gathered together against
the Lord and against His Christ.” See in
the third verse of this second psalm from
which we are quoting how He that sitteth
ip the heavens laughs at all man’s vain aud
puny efforts against Him. Coaip&ra Isa.
▼iii., 9, 10; xxxvii., 33-35; Ex. xiv., 3L
When will men learn that all thoughts
against God are vain thoughts and must
perish? Surely it is very evident “the
carnal mind is enmity against God” (Rom
viii., 7).
27. “For a truth against Thy holy child,
Jesus, whom Thou bast anointed, both Herod
and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the
people of Israel, were gathered together.”
There was a fulfillment of part of Ps. ii. in
the treatment of Jesus by Jews and Gentiles
at His crucifixion. So surely shau verse 6
be fulfilled when Jesus shall sit ou David’s
throne at Jerusalem (Luke i., 32, 33<, and
verses 8, 9 shall also be fulfilled when He
comes iu glory, bringing all His saints with
Him (Rev. ii., 26, 27).
28. “For to do whatsoever Thy hand and
Thy counsel determined before to be done.”
“God declares the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times the things that are
not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand,
anck I will do all my pleasure”(Isa. xlvi., 10).
And yet men are free to accept or refuse
His gracious invitations of mercy (John v.,
40; Luke xiv., 18; John iii. 16). As surely as
Christ suffered, so surely shall He reign, but
only such as suffer with Him shall reign with
Him (II Tim. ii. Id.
29. “And now. Lord, behold their threat
enings, aud grant unto Thy servants, that
with all boldness they may speak Thy
word!” It is the Word of the Lord that
shall do the work, for it is the same wore
that made the heavens (Ps. xxxiii., 6). Tho
Word of Godin the power of the Spirit is
the Fire and Hammer that breaks the rock
in pieces (Jer. xxiii., ^9/. As to all threat
ening words or letters, we have only to say.
Lord, behold them: Just spread them be
fore Him, and let Him see to it (Isa. xxxvii.,
14; Ps. xxxvii5).
30. “By stretching forth Thine hand to
heai; and that signs and wonders may be
done by the name of Thy Holy Child Jesus.”
They remembered His prom iso concerning
signs and wonders in Mark xvi., 17, 18.
31. "And when they had prayed, the
place was shaken where they were assembled
together, aud they were all tilled with the
Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of
Goo with boldness.” An immediate answer
to their prayer, as in the case of Daniel and
Elijah (Dan. ix., 21; I Kings xviii., 37.38).
The topic upon waich they spake is given
iu verse 33, and makes us long to know
Him and the power of His resurrection. Out
it cannot be apart from the fellowship of
His sufferings (Phil. iii-. 19). Yet tremble
not at the thought, for tbe glory will far
exceed the sufferings (Rom. viii., 18), and
where His love leadetii we surely cannot
fear to follow.—Lesson Helper.
RIVALS FOR THE BAR-ROOMS.
A glance at the bar-rooms of the great
hotels of tae city will convince the most
skeptical that the saloon of to-day spares no
pains or exoense in catering to the finer
tastes of its patrons, say* H 9V - , Thomas
Dixon, Jr., in Frank Leslie’s Weekly. Men
become drunkards often under protest.
Thousands of young men go to the devil be
cause there seems to be nowhere else to go.
Suppose the ten thofisan i saloons in New
York were opposed by five thousand coffee
houses on the stylo of the English establish
ments. Suppose they were fitted up as
handsomely and situated as well, and filled
with good cheer, would not drinking be re
duce! to a minimum''
I do not mean so many dingy stores where
coffee and other temperance drinks, creams,
and the like, are serve). What I mean is
that they should be fitted in handsome style
as social centres, wita free reading rooms,
lunch rooms, smoking rooms ani
assembly rooms. In other words,
only supoose we snould put fortn
tne same labor and outlay toward sav
ing and elevating men as is now put forth
to'damn them with alcohol. It would be a
big job I grant. The decorations alone in
fitting up of the Vendooie barroom cost
about $40,900. There are single paintings
am on' the rich treasures of art that adorn
the Hoffman House bar valued as high as
$60 000.
I*have yet to hear of theevery-iay young
Tnqn who buys a keg of beer or whisky,
takes it up to his cheerless room, sits down
over it, aud drinks merely for the sake of
drinking- The recent census of the tene
ment bouse population of New York taken
the Board of Health shows that 1,230,000
of our 1,600,000 inhabitants live in second
and third class tenements—that is, they are
homeless. Ia it not time that we recognize
the fact that the saloon has built itself into
taa sociM structure of modern life, and that
we must seek here for one of the most im
portant secrets of its power?
TEMPERANCE.
IT'S my treat.
Three young men were walking along on the
street;
“Come, fellows!” said Tom with the best
of intent,
“Let’s all have a drink—if s my pleasure to
treat;”
And into a bar-room they merrily went—
For sons will treat and mothers must weep
And habits be sown that will misery reap
At the gilded bar a-groaning.
Three young mun whose thirst had been
quenched by one glass
And wanted no more linger ad still at the
bar;
“Now take one with me," exclaimed Dick,
for, alas.
He thought it tbe way to keep honor at
par—
For men will treat for no reason at all
Except from a fear to look stingy or smalt
At the tempting bar a-moaoing.
Three young men who hated the liquor they
quaffed
Stood yet at the bar though they wanted
to go;
“It’s my turn to treat,” “fill ’em up,” Harry
laughed
And down their throats slid the demon of
woe—
For men will treat ani be treated until
They love what at first was a nauseating ill
At the deadly bar a-groaning.
If young men would sensibly sit down aud
think
How foolish this custom of treating be
comes
And how it induces the habit of drink
That ruins their lives and destroys their
sweet homes.
Wives, mothers and sisters no longer would
weep,
For those, bsyng tempted, long agonies
reap
At the hear tlesf bar a-moaning.
Or, if from good nature, young persons must
treat
Then let them give what will be good to
the end,
A book or a paper or something to eat
Will neither be harmful to thjui or a
friend—
For long as men treat fellow-men to the
worst
Themselves aud their dear ones will ever
be cursed
At the devil’s bar a-groaning.
—H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Sun.
oatmeal vs. beer.
Beer as a sustaining beverage for work
men has received a severe blow from oat
meal water. Five thousand men employed
in reducing 200 miles of English broad-
guage track to narrow guage were given
oatmeal water only to quench their thirst,
and the work was completed in thirty-four
hours. It was thought impossible to ac
complish the feat without giving the men
their regular allowance of beer.
SOME UQUOR STATISTICS.
The “drink question” is a huge one, and it
confronts every Nation. In Germany it is
discussed under the title of “Die Deutsche
Alcohole Frage,” and the Englishman who
knows no language can make a pretty good
guess at what the German words mean. The
discussion of the question has brought out
some statistics which are altogether startling
and depressin^^ “^‘ne quarter of the pro
ductive energ^Btf the country is devoted to
making some^nnd of intoxicated drink.
That is one fa^K,Another is that the pro
duction of rna^B: ! manufactured into beer,
wine and sp^H in Germany occupied in
1889-90 just a|^V. one-fifteenth oi the culti
vated land of tVountry. As a consequence
“bread riots” out occasionally, and the
“food question®) seen to be intimately re
lated to the H^ink question,” and both to
the stability o^Vle Government aud good
order through.® the Empire.
The Sunc
cent valuable
View of Tota
“To-day itj
ger in wine i
of food and I
invite to exc<|
user is exp
indulge in
bis appetite
control. As a I
it is mauifestl
drinking thaf
involves. Nc
temptation orl
for if he will'
TEMPERANCE YEWS ANT) NOTES.
Nine counties of California are success
fully enforcing prohibitory and restrictive
ordinances against the liquor traffic.
The Joliet (III.) Woman s Christian Tem
perance Union distributed 1590 bouquets at
the penitentiary ou flower mission day.
The trust distilleries of Illinois are short
ening their output of whisky, but they say
it is uot to shorten the supply, and that
prices will not be affected.
John E. Thornton, sixty-five years old.
was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., recently
for the murder of his dau ghcer, wnile drunk.
Before his execution he appealed to the
spectators to abstain from the use of liquor.
The Louisiana Women’s C hristian Tem oer
ance L nion has had a successful year and is
enlarging its borders in every direction.
Strong and earnest workers have been en
gaged ani wili spare no p>ains to advance
white-riboon interests in New Orleans and
the State generally.
The Secretary of the Navy has approve*!
the finding of tae court martial, which re
cently tried Chief Engineer Burdette C.
Gowing, at New Yorx, upon tae charge of
drunkuess whils ou duty. Tbe court found
him guilty and imposed a sentence of two
years’ suspension rrom duty.
A Deer saloon on wheels is the latest in
vention in Portland. Me. A hack stands by
the curb, as it waiting for a passenger. A
man who is in the secret, gets in, and the
back starts on a trip around the block. The-
occupant lifts tbe front seat, finds a bottle
and a glass, takes a drink, and puts tbe
money in a box and closes the trap. When
the vehicle gets back at tbe starting place
the men gets out, and the hack is ready for
the next customer.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
IE TO ABSTAIN.
:hqol Times concludes a re-
;ile, entitled “A Sensible
ttinence,” as follows:
ivient that there is a dan-
ikig. Unlike other articles
•in alcoholic beverages so
■fcr;their very use that their
peculiar temptation to
L-oro and more freely, until
lopeiessiy subject to their
[ter of prudence, therefore,
’£r to abstain from wine
run the special risks that it
ibn can say that he is above
|oq4 peril in this matter;
.top and look at the facts
in the case, h.Mvll see that men fully his
equal iu int^Lptual power, in personal
character, i^® e ;rength of will, in social
standing, ai® m spiritual attainments,
have alread^MMCCuoibed to the tempta
tion to to excess, while no
meu who wa^^B)tal abstainer ever became
a drunkard.^^®’eover, in view of the dan
gers to oth^^^Hbo are under the influence
of his exam^^Vn his family or in the out
side eommu^® r , the man who can abstain
from wine i^^King ought to do it for the
sake of those^Bbo Took to him for wise lead
ing. Granted .for example, in another
sphere, that there be no sin in the thing itself,
in the making of oiye’s home, with one’s*fami-
ly, in a house whei-e poisonous sewer gases
find their way through the drain pipes into
the living roo a*; ( granted, also, that some
dwellers in that house have remaiued alive,
while others had ' died from the poisonous
laden atmosphere, would it be wise or right
to seek a home there for one’s self, or one’s
loved one’s, with tie risk involved, while
another house, of i ze advantages, and of no
higher cost, that 'S wholly free irom such
perils, is open to his cnoice 1 ’
“In short, even though the Bible does not
explicitly command total abstinence as the
duty of every child of God, the Bible evi
dently leaves it free to every child of God
to be a total abstainer if he wishes to be;
and therefore it is for the Christiau believer
to do, and to deem it his duty to do, that
which, in tbe light of all that he sees and
knows, is the best and safest thing to do.
Looking around him every man sees tim
better men than himself have become
drunkards through attempting to be mod
erate drinkers; and he knows that there is
uo certainty t,.at he wili uot drink to excess
if he drinks at all, while be is perfectly safe
so long as he remains a total abstainer—as
he is privileged to remain. Every man sees,
moreover, that his example in this matter
is sure to influence some who are obviously
weaker than himself, therefore that, if De
drinks at all, he may lead these persons to
drink to excess. Having the choice between
drinking and abstaining, and knowing that
by drinking ha imperils himself and imperils
others, while by abstaining he secure safety
for himself and for others, how can he
choose drinking without sinning?”
The Missouri. FVn«n and Texas Railroad
Company offend a reward of *0,000 for the
capture of tbe Dalton robbers who held up
an express train ia tbe Indian Territory.
Appreciation waite on contrast.
Hope mast find root in s moderate
degree of expectation.
Friends are not subject to barter,
transference or exchange.
In its gentle service for civilization
tbe heart hat done more than tbe
bead.
The morbid mind is general y one
wdich lacks e. good memory for for
getfulness.
There are only two beautiful things
ia the world, women and roses; aud
only two sweet things, women aud
melon.
One can, to an almost laughable
degree, infer what a man’s wife is
like from his opinion about women in
general.
Chieftainship, the divine right of
kings, which had its very natural or
igin in the superiority of the few,
will as naturally disappear with the
growing equality of the many.
The divine right of beauty is the
only divine right a man can acknowl
edge, and a pretty woman the only
tyrant he is not authorized to resist.
A noted thinker once made the
statement that “culture does not al
ways cultivate,” and when we look
about ua in the world we arc forced to
believe that his statement, paradox
though it is, ia true. The gardener
may mellow the soil, fertilize the
ground and make every needful,
fundamental preparation, but if he
sows no seet^lhat has within it ihe
embryo of usefulness, weeds will
grow up all the more plentifully.
A Curious 1'elejthone Line,
A curious telephone line has been
working for the last ihree years be
tween two private houses in the sub
urbs of London, England.
Tho
Treed By an Elephant.
“Having iu my younger days,”
said a traveler at the Auditorium,“ac- *
quired a taste for country sports I j
carried this with me to India, where i
field recreations, in the way of extir
pating wild animals, were of a more
serious kind than [ had been accus
tomed to. Not at all daunted, I be
came expert at hunting the jackal, the
leopard and the tiger. I had fre
quently heard of elephant catching,
and resolved to enjoy that noble sport
also. Having obtained the confidence
of Tagore, one of the most expert ele
phant hunters in the country, I soon
had opportunity to gratify my wishes
in this respect. When the day ar
rived I was assigned to a female ele
phant, and when tho parly reached a
grove Tagore called my attention to a
tremendous elephant, which we im
mediately attempted to capture. Care
fully approaching and allowing our
trained elephants to attract the savage
monster’s attention, Tagore fastened
a rope around the beast’s leg and to a
large neighboring tree, when we re
treated to the rear. Our tremendous
captive struggled with great violence
and bellowed like thunder.
“Well, to make a long story short,
he broke away aud made for us. I
climbed into the nearest tree, and my
heart nearly leaped from ray breast as
the monster stood bellowing and look
ing at me; then as if studying re
venge, he surveyed the body of the
tree, and, like a battering ram, drove
his immense weight against the trunk
with such repeated violence, that I
was nearly shaken from my hold. He
paused, and then commenced tearing
the earth from the roots of the tree
with such vehemence that I saw no
possibility of esenpe when the tree
should fall. My fortitude seemed to
forsake me, and I contemplated cast-
ing„myself to tho ground, that my
u .ery might not be protracted.
Meanwhile ihe monster pursued his
attack, alternately tearing away the
earth and straining his head against
the tree. Heavens I what [felt as it
yielded to the pressure! Tho tree felt!
But, from the eagerness of the exer
tion, in a slanting direction, and its
topmost branches became entangled
with the lower limbs of a much larger
adjoining tree. I gained it with in
credible rapidity as my former perch
fell to the ground.
“I was saved, and after a night of
horrors was rescued by Tagore and
his friccds. I have not cared to hunt
elephants since.”—[Chicago Mail.
singular point about the line consists
in ihe use of an electric light circuit
for telephonic communications and
electric light purposes, either inde
pendently or simultaneously. The
interference when the two lines are
working is so slight as to be barely
noticeable, and a novice would never
guess from the slight rustling hea d
when the engine is running that a ten
or twelve ampere current was passing
along the line, and that tho vocal
sounds were being produced by a
slight variation caused by the respec
tive telephone transmitters at either
end of the line. The length of the
line is comparatively short, as the
houses between which it runs are only
a quarter of a mile apart. The wires
at either end are tapped for the tele
phone in the particular room required
by simply connecting a short length
of wire from the lead to the terminal
of the telephone. — [New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
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AND
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peculiarly benefited Dy tba wondurful tonic and
cleansing properties of P. P. P., Prickly Ajux, Poke Root
and Potassium.
F. P. P.
CURE.5 DYSPEPSIA
LIPPMAN BROS., Proprietors,
DrUCTista, Lippman’a Block, SAVAHSAfl, DA*
For Sale by
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moments only,
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