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' 11EV. DR. TALMAGE. THK BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: “Tbe Glorious March.’’ Tbxt: "fair at the moon, clear as the -•an ami terrible at an army with ban- ttert.”—fcJolomoa’s Song ri., 10. The fragrance of spikenard, the flash of Jewels, tbe fruitfulness of orchards, the luxuriance of gardens, the beauty of Hesh- bon flsh pools, the dew of the night and the splendor of tbe morning—all contribute to the richness of Solomon’s style when he •comes to speak of the glory of tae church. In contrast with his eulogium of the church, look at the denunciatory things that are •aid in our day in regard to it If one stock holder becomes a cheat, does that destroy the ‘whoiecompany? If one soldier be acoward, does that condemn the whole army? And -jet there are many in this day so unphiioso- phic, so il.ogical, so dishonest and so unfair as to denounce the entire church of Go 1 be cause there are here and there bad men be longing to it There are those who say that the church •of God is not up to the spirit of the day in which we liTe; but I have to tell you that, notwithstanding all the swift wheels and the flying shuttles and the lightning communi- cations, the world has never yet been able to keep up with the church. As high as God is above man, so high is the church of God —higher than all human institutions. From her lamp the best discoveries of the world have been lighted. The best of our inventors have believed in the Christian religion—the Pultons, the Morses, the Whitneys, the Perrys and the Livingstones. She has owned the best of the telescopes and Leyden jars, and while infidelity and atheism have gone blindfolded among the most startling dis coveries that were about to be developed the earth, and the air. and the sea have made quick and magnificent responses toChristain philosophers. The world will not be up to the Church of Christ until the day when all merchan dise has become honest merchandise, and all governments have become free governments, and all nations evangelized nations, and the last deaf ear of spintnal death shall be broken open by the million voiced shout of nations born in a day. The •church that Nebuchadnezzar tried to burn In the furnace, and Darius to tear to pieces with the lions, and Lord Claverhouse to cut with the sword, has gone on, wading the flco is and enduring the fire, until the deep est barbarism, and the fiercest cruelties, and the blackest superstitions have been compelled to look to the east, crying, ‘‘Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terri ble as an army with banners?” Yet there are people who are ashamed to belong to the churcn of Christ, and if you ask them whether they are in such associa tions they say, ‘‘Yes. I sometimes attend the churcn.” instead of realizing the fact that there is no honor compared with the honor of being a member of the caurch of God. I look back with joy to the most honored moment of my life, when in the old country meeting house the mmister of Christ announced my name as a follower of the Lord. You who are floating about in the world, seeking for better associations, why do you not join yourself to some of the churches? An old sea captain was riding in the cars toward Philadelphia, and a young man sat down beside him. rte said, ‘‘Young mau, where are you going? ’ “I am going to Poila- delphia to live,” replied the young mau. “Have you letters of introductionasirei the old captain. “Yes,” said toe young man, and he pulled some or them out. “Well.” said the eld sea captain, “ Haven’c you a churcn certificate?” “Oh, yes,” replied the young man; “I didn’t sunpose you would want to look at that.” “Yes, : ’ said the sea captain, “I want to see that. As soon as you get to Philadelphia present it to some Unrb- tian church. I am an old saimr, and 1 have been up and down in the world, and it’s my rule as soon »s 1 get mto port to fasten my ship fore and ait to the wharf, although it may cost a little wnarxage, rather than nave my ship out in the stream floating hither and thither with the tide.” Oh, rnen and women, by the tides of friv olity and worldliness swept this way and swept that way, seeking for associations and for satisfactions for the immortal sou!, come into the church, of Jesus Christ. Lash fast to her. She is the pillar and the ground of truth. I propose to speak of the threefold glory of the church as it is described in the text: First—“Fair as the moon.” Go 1, who has uetermined tha; everything siail be beautiful in its season, has not left the night without charm. The moon rules th? nigut. The stars are only set as gems in her tiara. Sometimes, before the suu has gone down, the moon mounts her throne, but it is after nightfall that fjhe sways ner undisputed sceptre over island and continent, river and sea. Under her shining the plainest maple leaves become shivering silver, the laites from shore to shore loon like shining mir rors, and the ocean, under her glance, with great tides come up panting upon the beacu, mingling, as it were, foam and fire Under the witchery of the moon tue awful steeps lose their ruggeaness and the chasms their terror. The poor man blesses God for throwing so cheap a light through the broken window pane of bis cabin, and to the sic<t it seems like a light from the other shore tnat bounds this great deep oc human pain and woe. If the sun be like a song, full and loud and poured forth Irom brazeu instruments that* fill heaven and earth with harmony, the moon is plaintive and sad, standing be neath the throne of God, sending up her'sort •weet voice of praise, while the stars listen Is, tbe church. You have beea going along a road before daybreak, an! on one side you thought you saw a lion, and on the other side you thought you saw a gobliu of the darkness, bat when the sun came out you found these were harmlesi aoparitions. And it is the great mission of tha'church of Jesus Christ to com- forth “clear as the sun,” to illumine all earthly darkness, to ex plain, as far as possible, all mystery, and to make the world radiant in its brightness- and that which you thought was an aroused lion is found out to be a slumbering lamb- and the sepulchral gates of yo ur dead turn out to be the opening gates of heaven; and that which you supposed was a flaming sword to keep you out of paradise is an angel of light to beckon you in. The lamps on her altars will cast their glow on your darkest pathway and cheer you until, far beyond the need of lantern or lighthouse, you are safely anchored within the veil. On, sun of the church, shine on until there is no sorrow to soothe, no tears to wipe away, no shackles to break, no more souls to be redeemed! Ten thousand hands Of sin have attempted to extinguish the lamps on her a.tars, but they are quenchless, and to silence ner pulpits, but tue thunder would leap aud thelightuing would flam?, The church of God will yet come to full meridian, and in that day all the mountains of the world will be sacred mountains, touched with the glory of Calvary, and all streams will flow by the mount of God like cool Siioam, and all lakes be radiant with Gospel memories like Gennesaret, and all isl ands of the sea be crowned with apocalyptic vision like Patinos, and all cities be sacred as Jerusalem, and all gardens luxurious as paradise, with God walking in the cooi of the day. Then the chorals of grace will drown out all the anthems of earth. Then the throne of Christ will overtop all earthly authority. dhen the crown of Jesus will outflame all other coronets. Sin destroyed Death dead. Hell defeated. The church triumphant. All the darknesses of sin, all the darknesses of trouble, all the darknesses of earthly mystery hieing themselves to their dens. “Clear as the sun! Clear as the sun!” “rerrible as an army with ban ners. Take one more step in this subject and say that if you were placed for the de fense of a fesble town, and a great army were seen coming over the hills with flying ensigns, then you would be able to get some idea of the terror that will strike the hearts of the enemies of God when the church at last marches on like “an army with ban ners.” You know there is nothing that excites soldiers’ enthusiasm so much as an old flag. Many a man almostdeai, catching a glimpse of the national ensign, has sprung to his feet an d started again into the battle. Now, my friends, I don’t want you to think of the church of Jesus Christ as a defeated iustitu- tion, as the victim of infl lei sarcasm—some thing to be kicked and cuffed aud tramnlei ou through ail the ages of the world. It is “an array with bauners.” It has an in scription and colors such as never stirred the hearts of an earthly soldiery. We have our bannerof recruit, and on it is inscribed, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” Our banner of defiance, anl on it is in scribed, ‘i’he gates of hell shall not prevail against us!” Our banner of triumph, and ou it is inscribed, “Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!” and we mean to plant that banner on every hilltop and wave it at the gate of heaven. With Christ to lead us we need not fear. I will not underrate the enemy. They are a tremendous host. They come on with acutesc strategy. Their weapons by all the inhab itants of darkness have been forged in fur naces of everlasting fire. We contend not witu flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places; but if God be for us who can be against us? Come ou, ye troops of the Lord! Fall into line! Close up the ranks! On, through burning sands and over frozen mountain tops, until the whole earth sur renders to God! He made it; He redeemed it; He shall have it. They shall not be trampled with hoofs, they shall not be cut with sabers, they shall not be crushed with wheels, they shall not be cloven with battle axes, but the marching, and tha onset, and the victory will be none the less decisive for that. W ith Christ to lead us, and heaven to look down upon us, and angels to guard us, and martyr spirits to bend from their thrones, and the voice of God to bid us forward into the combat; our enemies shall fly like chaff in the whirlwind, and all the towers of heaven ring because tha day is ours. I di vide this army with banners into two wings —the American wing and the European wing. The American wing will march on across the wilds of the west, over the table lands, and come to the ocean, no more stopped by the Pacific than the Israelites were stopped ny the Red sea, marching on until the remaining walls of China will fall before this army with banners, and cold Si beria will be turned to the warm heart of Christ, and over lofty Himalayan peaks shall go tnis army witu banneis until it halts at Palestine. The European wing will march out to meet it, and Spanish superstition shall be overcome, and French infidelity shall be conquered, and over the Alps, with more than Hannibal's courage, shall march that army with bauners, and up through the snows of Russia, vaster in multitude than the hosts that followed Napoleon into the conflict. And Hungary and Poland, by tha blood of their patriots and by the blood of Christ, shall at iast be free. And crossing into Asia the law shall again be proclaimed on *Sinai, and Christ in the person of His ministers will again preach on Olivet and pray in Gethsemane and exhibit His love on Calvary. And then the army will halt in front o^the other wing, the twain having conquered all tbe earth for Got. \\ heu the Prussian annv came back from their war they were received in ISfifi at the gates of Benin, and a choir stood above the gates, and as the first regiment advanced and came to the gates the choir, SABBATH SCHOOL RELIGMS READING. TEMPERANCE. INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 28. FOR Lesson Text: “The First Christian Martyr," Acts vii.. 54-BO; vli*., 1-4—Golden Text: Acts ▼ii., 60—Commentary. and the seal No mother ever more loviuglv I , t “ e , ™e choir in music, watched a «* cradle .baa toi, pale watch,. 1 ““ “ th’.'R replied, telling over the stories of their con- . . , , . pale watchet of the sky bends over the weary, heartsick, slumbering earth, singing to it a silvery music, while it is rocked in the cradle of the spheres. i Now, says my text, “Who is she, fair as the moon?” Our answer is the church. Like the moon, she is a borrowed light. Sue g athers up the glory of a Saviour’s’suffsr- igs, a Saviour’s death, a Saviour’s resurrec tion, a Saviour’s ascension, and pours that light on palace and dungeon, on squalid heathenism and elaborate skepticism, on widow’s tears and martyr’s robe of flame, on weeping penitence an i loud mouthed scorn, i She is the only institution to-day that gives any light to our world. Into her por tals the poor come and get the sympathy of a once pillowless Christ, th e bereaved come and see the bottle in which Gol saves all our tears, and the captives come, and on the sharp corners of her altars dash off their chains, and the thirsty come and put their cup under the “Rock of Ages,” which pours forth from its smitten side living water, sparkling water, crystalline water from under the throne of Gol and the Lamb. Blessed the bell that calls her worshipers to prayer. Blessed the water in which her memoers are baptized. Blessei be the wine that glows in her sacramental cups. Blessed the songs on whicn her devotions travel up and the angels of Gol travel down. As tee moon goes through the midst of the roaring storm clouds uuttusaed and un harmed, and comei out nalm and haanl-.ir'iil on tneotuer side, so tue enuren of Goi nas gone through all the storms of this world’s persecution an 1 coma out uninjured, no : worse for the fact that Robespierre cursed it, and Voltaire cirieaturei it, and Tom Paine sneered at it, and all the forces of darkness have bombarded it. Not like some baleful comet stioociug across the sky, scattering terror aud dismay among tae nations, but above the long nowling nignt of the world’s wretchedness the Christian church has made her mild way. “Fair as the moon.” I take a stert further in my subject— “Clear as th” sun.” After a season of storm or log, how you are thrilled when the suu comes out at noon lay I The mists travel up bill above hill, mountain above mountain, until they are sky lost. The forests are full of c^irp and buzz and song; honev makers on tne long, bird’s beak pounding the Dark, the chatter of the squirrel on the rail, the call of a hawk out of a clear sky makes you thankful for the sunshine wuic'a makes all the world so busy and so glad. The same sun which in tae morning kindled confla grations among the castles of cloud scoops down to paint the lily white and the butter cup vello wand the forgetmenot blue. What can resist the suu? Light for voy ager on the deep, light for shepherds guard ing tne nocks afield, light for the poor who have no lamps to burn, light for the down, cast and the weary, light for aching eyes and burning brain and consuming captive, light for the smooth brow of childhood and the dim vision of the octogenarian, light for the queen’s coronet and sewing girl’s needle. “Let there be light.” ‘ Now, says my text, “Who is she that looketh forth dear as the suu?” Oar answer flicts aua victories. Tnen they marched in, aud ail the city was lull of gladness an i triumph. But oh! the great joy wnen the army with bauners shall come up to tbe gates of our King! It will be choir to choir, music to music, hosanna to hosanna,halleluiah to halleluiah. Lift up your heads, ye everiastiug gates, and let them come in. There will be spread the banquet of eternal victory, and toe un laden ones of heaven will sit at it, and all tbe ransomed of earth will came in and cele brate the jubilee with unfading garlands on their brows telling of earthiy conquests. All tne walls of that celestial mansion will be a-glitter with shields won in victorious battle aim adorned with the banners of God that were carried in front of the host. Harp shad ted to harp the heroism in which the conquerors won their paim, and the church that uay will sit queen at tne banquet. Her wanderings over, ner victories gained, Christ shad rise no to introduce her to all the nations of ueaven, and as she pulls aside her veil and iooks up into the face of her Lord the King, Christ suad exclaim, “This is sue that iopKetn fprtn as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun an i terrible as an army wua banners!'’ st. louis enjoys tne distinction of being the first city in the world to put in operation special electric cars devoted to postal and express sul- urban service. These cars are used /on the St. Louis & Suburban Road, and do both a city and a country business in handling mail matter. The route extends from Sixth and Locust streets, St. Louis, to Flori- saut, St. Louis County, a distance of 16 miles from the city, and the mail car supplies the above places as well as the intermediate postothces, as on our steam railroads. The car is 34 feet long. 8 feet 4 inches wide, and 11 leet 4 inches high, and has two four-wheeled bogie trucks, mounted with two standard railway motors. The total weight of the car is 16,000 pounds. It not only carries the mails but baggage, express packages, and dairy products; it makes two trips per day per car. Besides the above the Southern Railway Com pany runs an express car between Sixth and Market, and the southern end of CarondeleL This car is at tached to an ordinary train and makes several trips per day. 54. “W hen they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed ou him with their teeth.” The subject of the rage of the council at this time was Stephen, one of the seven who were chosen to serve tables, in orler that the apostles might give themselves woolly to the word and prayer <vi., 2-4). But Stephen was so full of the Holy Spirit and faith and power that God wrought great wonders and miracles by him- This led to his being falsely accused and brought before the council, in whose presence he preached the sermon recorded in this chapter. He had just accused them of being the betrayers and murderers of the Just One, and it was this that cut them and made them so angry. 55. “But he being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right band of God.” He saw not their rage, but he did see Jesus. The Holy Spirit re veals Jesus aud His grace and glory to the soul that trusts in Him and relies upon Him, and enables the believers to be as one who is deaf to those that are angry because of his testimony (John xvi., 14; Ps. xxxviii., 12, 14). To look up is better than to look with in or around, lor looking within makes one miserable and looking around tends to dis traction, but looking unto Jesus will enable one to run with patience the race set before us. See Isa. xli., 10; R. V., margin, and Heb. xii., 2. Jesus on the cross for us gives eternal salvation, but Jesus at the right hand of God speaks of victory over all ene mies. Heb. ix„ 12; Rev. i„ 18. On steaiV fastness see I Cor. xv., 58; II Chron. xx., 20 1. c.; Isa. vii., 9. And said. Behold I see the heavens opened, and tbe Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.” “Son of Man” is a title that Jesus often used of Himself; it is found over eighty times in the Gospels, but elsewhere in the New Testament only here and in Heb. ii., 6; Rev. i., 13; xiv., 14. It if suggestive not only of Jesus as perfect man, but also of His complete dominion over the whole earth, as will be seen by a com parison of Ps. viii., and Heb. ii. It is found ninety times in the prophecy of Ezekiel. “Heaven opened” is found just seven times in the Bible (Ezek. i.; Math, hi., 16; John i., 51; Acts vii., 56; x., 11; Rev. iv., 1; xix., 11). 57. “Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord.” Contrast stopping one’s ears to that which is evil, as in Ps. xxxiii., 13, and to that which is good, as in this case. Compare Math. xiii.. 15. Let our prayer be, "Open Thou mine eyes.” “Cause me to hear” (Ps. cxix., 18; cxliii., 8). Contrast the “one accord” o:' the wicked, as here, and the “one accord” of the righteous in Acts ii., 1. 58. “And cast him out of the city and stoned him, and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feat, whose name was Saul.” They judged him to be guilty of blasphemy (Lev. xxiv., 16) and thought they were obeying the law, while they themselves were the guilty ones, but they were blinded by unbelief. J esus had forewarned His followers that they might expect this very treatment (Math. x.. 28; Jehu xvi., 2). As to Saul, he may possibly hav^thought of this very day years after ward when he himself was being stoned for Jesus’ sake (Acts xiv., 19;. 59. “And they stoned Stephen,calling upon God, and saying. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” When Jesus was dying He said, “Father, unto Tnine hands I commend My spirit” (Lukexxiii., 46; Ps. xxxi., 5). This does not look like the nonexistence of the person between death and resurrection, or the sleep of the soul as some teach. If any one would be established as to the consciousness ^tfuijayof the souls of believers apart from the boa j-, let him read and receive Luke xvi., 2;; xxiii., 43; II Cor. v., 8; Phil, i., 1, 23; Rev. vi., 9-11. 60. “And be kneeled down and cried with ioud voice, Lord, lay not this siu to their charge. And when he had said this he fell asleep.” Like his adorable Master, he prayed for bis murderers iLuke xxiii., 34). Our in- instructions are, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray lor them wiiich despite- luily use you aud persecute you” (Math, v., 44). This is impossible to the natural man, but if we are born from above, if we have the new heart and the new Spirit (John lii., 7, mareiu; Ezek. xxxvi., 26). He in us can no as He aid in Jesus and Stephen. One of the best daily mottoes for the Christian is “Not 1, but Christ who liveth in me” (Gal. ii., 20). Viii., 1. “And Saul was consenting unto his death.” Hear his own testimony long after as he prayed to the Lord. “When the blood of Thy martyr Stephen was shed I also was standing by aud consented unto bis death and kept the raiment of them that slew him” (Acts xxii., 20). “.?.nd at that time there was a great per secution against the church, which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.” Tne com- maua was to “Go unto all trie world.” “To be His witnesses unto the uttermost part of tne earth” (Mark xvi., 15; Acts i., 8), but up to this time they seem to have confined their testimony to Jerusalem, hence this persecu tion permitted by God to cause them more lully to obey His command. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him.” Stephen was with his Lord, “absent from the body, present with the Lord,” but his body was asleep, even as Jesus said of Lazarus when speaking of his death, “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth” (John xi.. 11-14). There was no occasion to lament/or Stephen', for to him it was a great gain, but it seemed that the church could ill afford to lose such a witness. 3. “As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into everv house, and hail ing men and women, committed them to prison.” Beyond measure he persecuted the church and wasted it, being exceedingly mad against the Christians (Gai. i„ 13; Acts xxvi., 10, 11). He little thought tnat he was ail the while fighting against God, as his own teacher, Gamaliel, had said (chap : ter v., 39). He did not know, though he at- terward learned it, that when he touched a Christian he touched the Lord Himself (Acts ix.. 5; Z^ch. ii., 8). 4. “therefore they that were scattered abroad, went everywhere preaching the word.” Observe that these were not the aposties who went everywhere evangelizing (verse 1) but all believers. It should be so now that all believers everywhere in the office and the store, in the mine and on the farm, at home and abroad, should be able and ready to tell an other of Jesus and His love. His humiliatio n, death, resurrection, intercession, return, kingdom and glory. Then would He soon be made known in all the world and His kingdom come.—Lesson Helper. An English general has Invented a bullet which is highly spoken of as a humane device. The modern mis siles of small diameter, it is found, pass through living animals without producing much pain. This is duo to their high velocity. The English man's invention consists of a small bullet having a.cap or cloak so ar ranged that it will spread open on striking an obstacle. Tha high velocity of a small diameter is thus obtained, combined with the wound ing qualities of a larger projectile. Soldiers will hereafter have the ad vantage of being wounded by large bullets that pass through them at lightning speed. The Invention bids fair to prove almost as great a for ward step in the direction of human ity as the adoption of electricity in capital punishment. Go to the ant, thou uluggard; con sider her ways and be wise; which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the har vest. A UNDER CONSCIENCE. The great ad of religious education should be to brjjj the conscience under an abiding sense oBiod'a presence. Here is a good illustration n a little chilct: “Once, In a Sabbath-school, a very little girl repeated the twenty-third Psalm very well, and so E leased a visito 1 who was present and eard ber, that he kindly took a shilling from his pocket and said, ‘This is for your little lesson, lA child.’ The child’s e3'es flashed with lytght ou what she never p*er- haps had in h»* possession before. ‘Now,’ said her frend* ‘I see a great many shops open inthis qurter, though it is God’s day; jaou nnist on no account spend that coin today, but teep it till tomorrow. You understand, I von’t be with you to see you, but there is onewho will see you and "will find out at once if 3‘ou break tbe Sabbath day.’ Tbe cbih was silent, but kept look ing up in the sp-aker’s face with her dark, thoughtful eve ‘Who will see you?’ he asked after a paise. ‘Myself will see me,’ said the child ir.an instant, and with a ges ture of pride. She did not know how noble her answer w.-s; but she gave it clearly and promptly She would disdain to lie or decei’e. even when alone. She could never di»grace her self, thouzh it yas only in her own eyes. That was the sruple answer, full of truth and honor. Ot course, the visitor expected her to say, *Gx! will see me!’ Perhaps, after all it cane to this, that God was at home in tbe po«r little heart, and she knew no difference bdweeu his eye and her own eye. Can each person who reads this say so? Is God at tome in your heart, making it so pure and h'»ly that you think it is the most solemn tlinsr to say, when tempted to sin, Myself will see me. ME I S' DAUGHTER, alleys running FARLY CONVERSIONS. The old-time hesitancy in receiving chil dren to the church is fast passing away in the light of careful study snd observation. Childish pietj-develops well under the fos tering care of a healthy church. A large part of the pastor’s work is in caring for these tender plants. They are neglected at the peril of all that is precious in the growth of the church. The strong men aud wo men today laboring in the positions of large Christian influence, began their experience in youthful days. Few are converted in middle life. The following statistics, taken at a Methodist ministers’ meeting in New York, are turilliug in their testimony to tbe value of early conversion. Of seventy-six ministers present. ) Twenty were Tftffverted under 14 years of age. * Twenty-two were converted be tween 14 and id v’ears of age. Fourteen we:e converted betweed 18 and 21 years of age. Only t (less than one-tenth) when over 21 years of age. What grander argument for earnest toil and large faith in Sunday school, and every where among the young! In tbe Central New York Conference this matter was under discussion, and in answer to the question of age at conversion, it appeared that, of 250 ministers present, the youngest at conver sion was only seven, the oldest twenty, the average fifteen; not a single man of that great company of Christian laborers being above twenty when entering the Lord’s fold. Early conviction, and early conversion, are the hope and joV of the faithful church. — [Rev. Samuel H. Virgin. THE HIGHER CALLING. A few years agq, a committee of the domi nant party in the Legislature of Virginia waited upon Rev. Dr. Plummer, then resi dent in Richmond, and pastor of one of its churches, but now professor in the Western Theological Seminary, and inquired w bether be would consent to become their candidate for the United States Senate, assuring him that he could be very easily elected, if be would permit his name to be used by tbe party. The doctor, after thanking them for the honor intended to be conferred upon him, said to them in his oracular style: ‘•Gentlemen, I believe you are in the habit when you give up one office to seek another, of aiming to go up higher; are you not?” They all replied in the affirmative. “Well, then,” said be, “it is a high honor and very honorable office to represent the State of Virginia in the United States Senate, but it is much higher one to be an ambassa dor of Christ to dying sinners, and I can’t come down from a minister of the court of Heaven to that of United States Senator/’ A Christian mother in New Hampshire had nine children, and sought their salvation more than their eartnly welfare. She taught this and tried to “live out*' her teachings. Time passed onward, ber children were men and women. In a gravy ou the north bank of the Ohio is buried one of them, who died in hope of a blessed immortality. In Pennsylvania is a son. said te be a devout elder in the church. In Ohio is another son. the pastor of a church into which he has received several hundred per sons converted under his ministry. In In diana is another son. whose gentle hut fer vent piety, whose animated and heavenly sermons have been heard in hundreds of Western churches, and whose zeal has iden tified him with the beginning and growth of many ^core- of Home Missionary churches in Indiana and Ohio. It is srid that every one of that woman's children was a hopeful ( hristian: and that it was a part of the solace of her old age to think that all her grandchildren were growing up under the hallowed influences of family piety. Do not trick yourself out in the weeds of your own repentance, much le.-s in the fig- leaves of your own resolutions, but come to God in -Jesus ('hrist in all ths nakedness of your siu and everlasting mercy will cover both you and your sins.— [Spurgeon. The growth of grace Is like the polishing of metals. There is first an opaque surface; by and by you see a spark darting out, then a strong light, ti l at lengh it sends back a perfect image of the sun that shines upon it.—[Paysou. At the present day sacred pigs roam inviolate about the Buddhist monasteries of Canton aud elsewhere in China. A revolver has "been Invented that shoots seven times in a second. It will work a revolution in the revol ver business and enrich the proprietor, and to square accounts with his con science he will probably leave a por tion of his wealth to endow a chair of theological science in some college when he dies. you are DH. IH. In one of in: alleys running off from Fountain Bridgs Edinburgh, a street crowd ed with drunkeinesa and pollution, is the low roofed bulling in which th.s good woman is spendng her life to help men and women out of tieir miseries. Her chief wmrk is with damkards, their wives and daughters. Soue of the poor women of tbe neighborhood, who have sober htis- bands, complain against her saying, “Why do you pass us? Because our husbands are good, you do not care for us. If we had married some worthless sot you would then have taken care of us in our poverty.” In the winter, when the nights are long and cold, you m y see Helen Chalmers, with her lantern, goiig through the lanes of the city, hunting upthe <lepraved and bringing tfiem out to n*r reform meetings. Insult ber. do they? Never. They would as soon think of pelting *n angel of God. Fearless and strong in the righteousness of her w ork, she goes up to a group of intoxicated men. shakes hands with them, and takes them along to hear the Thursday-night speech on temperance. One night, as she was standing in a low tenement talking with an intemperate father, and persuading him to a better life, a man kept walking up and down the room, as though uninterested in what was said; but finally, in his intoxication, staggered up to her, and remarked: “I shall get to heaven as easy as you will; do you not think so?” He en answered not a word, but opened her Bible and pointed to the passage, “No drunkard shall inerit the Kingdom ot God.” The arrow struck between tbe joints of the harness, and that little piece of Christian stratagem ended in the man’s reformation. COLD WATER. Cloudlets on the summer sky, Palaces and temples fair. Forming in the upper air, What are ye that please the eye* “Water, water, pure cold water,” All the sunny clouds reply. Meadows, lovely to the view. Spreading far along and wide. What hath given you waving pride , And your robes of verdant hue? “Water, water, pure cold water. Gentle rain and evening dew.” Giant oak. majestic tree. Lifting up thy mighty form To the lightning and the storm. Answer, what has nourished thee’ “Water, water, pure cold water," Shouts tbe kingly oak in glee. Rose, thou blush of modest spring; Lily resting like toe swan. Snowy white the waves upon. What hast given the hues ye bring? “Water, water, pure eold water,” Rose and lily sweetly sing. Little iambs upon the lea. Bounding here ^nd there away. What is it ye have drunk to-day? Rosy wine to give ye glee? * “No, ’tis water, pure cold water,” And the lamb leapt joyously. Tree and herb and living thing. All that can make glad the earth. Since your power and life and worth, And your varied beauties spring, Aided by the pure cold water. Be it in the songs we bring. Where tbe crystal waters run, Fill the bowl and fill it high. And ring out the joyous cry: “This shall be our drink alone. Sparkling water, pure cold water, Till our days of life are done.” —Temperance Banner. whisky wit.-. -,l. The confirmed whi-kv dr.iicer ,’s the vic tim of as great a mistake as he who quaffs the quicker poison and is hurried to a death of agony. Whisky will kill a man as surely as car bolic acid, if he will only stick to it, and in pretty much the same way, the factor lack ing in death by drink being the excruciating suddenness.—Atlanta Journal. A BLOOD-STAINED BEQUEST. Under the head of “Bibles and Bear,” the London Star mentions a bequest of $250,000 to foreign missions and a Biole Society by a millionaire English brewer, of West Sussex, Mr. Douglas Henty, who, lies ides his exten sive brewing property, was also tne owner of ninety “public-houses,” or, as Americans would say, saloons'. He is described as a strong Churchman, “but,” says the Star, “his inclinations were those ot a sportsman. He kept race-uorsec. and at one time cut a consiuerable figure on the turf.” He illus trates Dr. Raiustora’s ideal of the Church man and the brewer and the saloon-owner (on a large scale) combined. But wa fear, if the whole truth were known, that the burden be has added to home missions in England will far outweigh the help his blood-stained $259,090 will render V> the Bible Society aud missions in foreign lauds. —National Temperance Advocate. EVILS OF THE DRINKING HAEIT. Rev. J. D. Fulton preached last evening at the Immanuel Baptist Church. Twenrir- third street aud Michigan boulevard. His talk was mainly upon the suoject of temper ance. Among other things be said: “The might of strong drink is seen every where ip our land. It is mightier than pub lic opinion; it breaks every law of tbe dec alogue. This country might appropriately be culled a government of liquor sellers for liquor sellers. “ Total abstinence is enjoined by God’s word. I have seen even ministers in the pulpit under its baneful influence, their tongues thick aud their senses muddled. Look at Daniel Webster, one of the grandest men tbe world has ever seen. What might he not have done if the curse ofj strong drink was not upon him? ‘It biteth like an adder,’ says the Bible. How true thosayjng is. Look around our streets and in our homes. Even the women drink, and there is nothing so terrible to see as a woman drunk. A bartender once told me that his sa:oou could not keep open a month if it was uot tor the women’s drinking. When a woman is right ail is right, but when she is wrong all is wrong. Strong drink never hurts anybody that never touches it, so the best way to reform is to reform.”—Chicago Herald. DRUNKENNESS IN GLASGOW. John Burns, the labor representative, speaking in London the other day, said that he had recently been in -Scotland assisting Mr. Cunninghams Graham in his candida ture, and on the previous Saturday night, when he ouzht to have been ir. bed, alter addressing a senes of meetings during the day, he, in company wina Mr. Cunninghame Graham and one of the members of the Glasgow University, walked about the streets of Glasgow until 2 o’clock on the Sunday morning. He bad seen every phase of life -luring the years he had been a pubdc mau, but^never bad he seen such sights—no, not even in the worst parts of the east end of London—os came under his ooservation on that occasion. They estimated that dur ing the three hours they walked about the by-ways and back-ways ot Glasgow they saw some 5009 persons—men, women and children. Of this number 40o were blind, speechlessly druuK. He knew perfectly well woat he was saying, that all these unfortu nates were scrambling, tigating, cursing and swearing and making tne place a perfect hel 1 . Another 500 had hai more drink than was good for them, aui he was ashamed to say that of the drunken persons thirty were cmluren under the ags o; thirteen. Ou all sides they saw puolic houses and sheoeens, aud, as a matter of tac M in some quarters there wa?s one public bouse or sheoeen to every sixteen houses. After such a disgace- tul and deplorable state of affairs, wnat could the opponents of the direct veto say v He (Mr. Burns) was not only in favor of tha people having the direct veto, but the3' should have power to imprison puolicans wno offended. Yes, and imprisoiuent with hard labor, too. Accompau.ed by a stal wart Hignliiid policeman, tney were shown some of tne most vile dens that the mind of man could conceive. They went into brothels, and in some of these places, wuica were totall3' unfit for habitation, be saw sixteen people in a room. Upon seeing such a state of affairs ue could not nelp exciaia>»ag: “No wonder the people drink.” TEMPERANCE NEV.’S AND NOTES. The per capita consumption of intoxicants in the Cnitei Sitates was 15> gallons in Ist-i and 142 gallons in 1S92. A petition signed by 227 opium drunkards has been sent .rom Bombay to England, ask ing that the sam of opium oe stopped. On the Bowery. New York, whisky causes drunkenness; on vVali street it causes alco holism: and on Fifth avenue it causes neart failure. The judges and the magistrates of Ireland are unanmiousin their verdict that at least seventy-live per cent, of the Nation's crime is attributable to th j use of strong drink. Temperance congresses are io form a a promin-nt tea ure of the World’s Fair. Temperance reform will be advocated by both men and women, an 1 special conven tions hive been arrange 1 for eac i. Arcli- bisuop Ireland and Miss Frances K. Willard are the leader.-. (Jueen Liliuokalani, of the Sandwich Isl- aius, is an earnest patron of temperance re- lonn. She pays the license fee for a coffee house opened in her capital city by tne Women’s Temperance Union, and has ban ished wines aud spirituous liquors from her table and receptions. It is said by those within the pale that overinouigence in intoxicating beverages is lamentably on the increase among fashion able women in England. French, German and Italian women are, in spite of their wine and beer drinking propensities, really more tempei ate than Engli^n women. Dr. Robson Rose has an interesting^ article on the “Alcohoi Question 1 ' in the New Re view. in which he says: “Let us regard alco hol as a luxury for most of those who taka it, as a necessity for some persons and a poison for others; let us educate chiidren to do without it, an i let us deal with habitual drunkards as we do with lunatics.” BAKER dt CONFECTIONER. 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