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KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THR BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “Useful Suffertos.’* ft _ T*xr: "It behoved Christ to suffer Duke xxir., 46. ^There h&Te been scbolsrs who ha vs veu* toredthe assertion that the pains of onr Lord were unnecessary Indeed it was a shocking waste of tears and blood and ag ony. unless some great eni wsre to be reached. If |nen can prove that no good re- flult comes of it, taen the character of Goi is impeached, and the universe must stand abhorent and denunciatory at the fact that the Father allowed the butchery of His only begotten Son. We all admire the brave six hundred men described by Tennyson as dashing into the conflict when they knew thev must die, and knew at the same time that* -‘some one had blunder’d;” but we are abhorrent of the man who made the blunder and who caused the sacrifice of those brave men for no use. But I shaU show you, if the Lord will help me, this morning that for good reasons Christ went through the torture. In other words, “It behooved Christ to suffer.” In the first place, I remark that Christ’s lacerations were necessary, because man's rescue was an impossibility except by the payment of some great sacrifice. Outraged law had thundered against iniquity. Man must die unless a substitute can mterceot that death. Let Gabriel step forth. He re fuses. Let Michael the archangel step forth. He refuses. _No Roman citizsn, no Athe nian, no Corinthian, no reformer, no angel volunteered. Christ then bared His heart to the pang. He paid for our redemption in tears and blood and wounded feet and scourged shoulders and torn brow. “It is done.” Heaven and earth heard the snap of the i r.son bar. Sinai ceased to quake with j wrath the moment that Calvary began to rock in crucifixion. Christ had suffered. “Oh,” says some man, *T don’t like that doctrine of substitution; let every man bear his own burdens, and weep his own tears, and fight bis own battles!” Why, my brother, there is vicarious suffering all over the wond. Did not your parents suffer for you? Do you not sometimes suffer for vour children? Does not the .patriot suffer for bis country? Did riot Grace Darling suffer for tbe drowning sailors? Vicarious suffer ing on all sides 1 But how insiguificaut com pared with this scene of vicarious suffer- Was it for crimes that I had dona He groaned upon tho tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown. And love beyond degree. Christ must suffer to pay the price of our re lemption. But I remark again, the sufferings of Christ were necessary in order that the world’s sympathies might be aroused. Men are won to the right and good through their sympathies. The world must feel aright before it can act aright. So the cross was allowed to be lifted that the world’s sympa thies might be aroused. Men who have been obdurated by the cruelties they have enacted, tbe massacres they have inflicted, by the horrors of whicu they have been guilty, have become little children in the presence of this dying Saviour. What the swords could not do, what Jug gernauts could not subdue, the wounded band of Christ has accomplished. There are this moment millions of people held un der the spell of that one sacrifice. The ham mers that struck the spikes into the cross have broken the rocky neart of the world. Nothing but tbe agonies of a Saviour’s death throe could rouse the world’s sympathies. I remark again, ’’It behoved Christ to suffer,” that the strength and persistence of the divine love might be demonstrated. Was it the applause of the world that induce! Christ on that crusade from Heaven? Why, all the universe was at His feet. Could the conquest of this insignificant planet have paid Him for His career of pain if it had been a mere matter of applause? All the honors of heaven surging at His feet. Would your queen give up her throne that •he n ight rule a miserable tribe in Africa? Wouu the Lord Jesus Christ on the throne of thy universe come down to our planet if it wire a mere matter of applause and ac clamation? T or was it an expedition undertaken for the accumulation of vast wealth. What could all the harvests and the diamonds of our little world do for Him whose are the lories of infinitude and eternity? Nor was X an experiment—an attempt to show what He could do with the hard hearted race. He who wheels the stars in their courses aud bolds the pillars of the universe on the tips of His fingers needed to make no experiment to find what He could do. Oh, I will tell you, my friends, what it was. It was un disguised, unlimited, all conquering, all con suming, infinite, eternal, omnipotent love that opened the gate, that started the star in tbe east, with finger of hgnt pointing down to the manager, that arrayed the Christmas choir above Bethlehem, that opened the stable door where Christ was born, that lifted Him 09 the cross. Love thirsty at the well. Love at the sick man’s couch. Love at the cripple’s crutch. Love sweating in the garden. Love dying on the cross. Love wrapped in the grave. You cannot mistake it. The blindest eye must see it. Tbe hardest heart must feel it. The deafest ear must hear it. Parable and miracle, wayside talk and seaside interview, all the scenes of His life, all the sufferings of His death, proving beyond controversy that for our ingrate earth God has yearned with stupendous and inextinguishable love. 1 But I remark again, “It behoved Christ to suffer,” that the nature of human gull! might be demonstrated. There is not a com mon sense man in the boose to-day that will not admit that tbe machinery of society Is out of gear, that the human mini aud the human heart are disorganized, that some thing ought to be done right away for its re pair and readjustment. But the height and depth and length and breadth and hate and recklessness and infernal energy of the human heart for sin would not have been demonstrated if against the holy and inno cent one of the cross it had not baen. hurled in one bolt of fire. Christ was not the first man that had been put to death. Taera had been many before Him put to death, but they had their whims, the r follies, tueir sins, their inconsistencies. But waen the mob outside of Jerusalem howled at the Son of God it was hate against goodness, it was blasohemy against virtue, it was earth against heaven. What was it in tint innocent and loving face o; Christ that excite ! the vituperation and ths con tumely and scorn of men? if He hai ban- t-red them to come ou, if He had laughed them into derision, if He had denounced them as the vagabonds that they were, we could understand their ferocity", but it was against irioffensiveness that they brandished their soeare, and shook their hst/, aud ground their teeth, and howled and scoffed and jeered and mocked. Wh it evil had He done? Whose eyesight had He put out? None; but He given vision to the blind. Whose child hai He sliin? None; but He restore 1 the dea l damsel to her mother. What law had He broken? None; but He had inculcated obe lienee to government. What foul plot had He en acted against the happiness of the rac?? None; He had come to save a world. The only cruelty He ever enacted was to heal the sick. The only ostentation He ever dis played was to sit with publicans and sinners and wash the disciples’ feet. The only seltisdness He ever exhibited was to give His life for His enemies. An l yet all the wrath of the wor.d surge! against His holy heart, Hear the reduor scorn of the world hissing in the pools of a Saviour's blood! An 1 standing there to day let us see what an unreasonable, loath some, hateful, blasting, damning thing is the iniquity of the bum .a heart. Unloose!, what will not sin do* It will scale any height, it will fathout the very depth of hel 1 , it will revel in a!l lasciviousness. There is no blasphemy it will not utter, there are no cruelties on which it wiil not gorge itself. It will wallow in filth, it will breathe the air of charnelhouses of corruption and call the n aroma, it will quaff the blood of immortal souls and call it nectar. When sin murdered Christ on the cross it showed what it would do with the Lord God Almighty if it could get at Him. The prop!let had declared—I think it was Jere miah—had declared centuries before the truth, but not until sin shot out its forked tongue at the crucifix and tossed its sting into the soul of a martyred Jesus was 1: i - lustrated, that “the heart is dtceittui aoove ail things, and desperately wicked.” Again, “It behoved Christ to suffer,” that our affections might be excited Christ- ward. Why, sirs, the behavior of our Lord has stirred tbe affections of all those who have ever heard of It. It has been the art galienee of the world with suoh pictures as Ghirlandaio’s “ Worshio of the Magi,” Giot to’s “Baptism of Christ,” Holman Hunt’s “Christ in the Temple,” Tintorec’s “Agonv in the Garden,” Angelo's “Crucifixion," and it has called out Handel’s Messiah.” an 1 rung sweetest chimes in Young's “Night fhoughta,” and filled the psalmody of the world with the penitential notes of sorrow and the hosannas of Christian triumph. Show me any other king who has so many subjects. What is tbe most potent name to-day in the United States, in France, in England, in Scotland, in Ireland? Jesus. Other kings have had many subjects, but where is the king who has so many admir ing subjects as Christ? Show me a regi ment of a thousand men in their army and I will show you a battalion of ten chons in 1 men in Christ's army. Show me in history where one man has given his property and his life tor any ono else, aud I will show you in history hun dreds and thousands oi men who have cheer fully died that Christ might reign. Aye, there are a hundred m ?n in this house wno, if needwere^ would step out and die for Jesus. Their faith may now seem to be faint, and sometimes they may bo inconsis tent, but let the fires of martyrdom be kin dled, throw them into the pit, cover them with poisonous serpents, pouud them, flail them, crush them, and i will tell you what their last cry would be, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!” Oh, yes! the Lord Jesus has won the affec tions of many of us. Tuere are some of us who can say this morning, “Lord Jesus, my light and my song; my uope for time, my expectation for eternity.” Altogether lovely Thou art. My soul is ravished with the vision. Thou art mine. Come let me clasp Thee, Come life, come death, come scorn and pain, come whirlwind and darkness. Lord Jesus, I cannot give Thee up. I have heard Thy voice. 1 have seen Thy bleeding side. Lord Jesus, if I had some garland pluckel from heavenly gardens I would wreath it for Thy brow. If I had some gem worthy of the place I would set it in Thy crown. If I had seraphic harp I would strike it in Thy praise. But I come lo:t and ruined and undone to throw myself at Thy feet. No price I bring: Simply to Thy cross I cling. Thou knowest all things. Thou knowesx that I love Thee. But I remark again, “It behoved Christ to suffer,” that the world might learn how to suffer. Sometimes people suffer beciuse they cannot help themselves, but Christ had in His hands all the weapons to ounish His enemies, and yet in quiesconce He enOured all outrage. He might have hurlei the rocks of Golgotha uoon His pursuers: Hi might have cleft the earth until He swal lowed up His assailants; He might have called in reinforcement or taken any thun derbolt from the armory of God Omnipotent and hurled it soething and fiery among His foes, but He answerel not ■'gain. Oh, my hearers! has there ever been in the history of the world such au example of enduring patience as we find in the cross? Some of you suffer physical distresses, some of you have lifelong ailments and they make you fretful. So netimes you think that God has given you a cup too deep aud too brim ming. Sometimes you see the world laugh ing and romping on the highways of life, and you look out of the winaow while seated in invalid’s chair. I want to show you this morning one who had worse pains in the head than you have ever had, whose hack was scourged, who was wounded in the hands and wounded in tbe feet, and suffered all over; and I want that example to make you more enduring in your suffering, and to make you say, “father, not My will but Thine be done.” You never have had any bodily pain, and you will never have any bedily pain that equaled Christ’s torture. “It behoved Christ to suffer,” that He might show you how physically to suffer. Some of you are persecuted. There are those who hate you. They criticise you. They would be glad to see you stumble and fall. They have done uuaccountable mean nesses toward you. Sometimes you feel an :ry. You feel as if you would like to re tort. Stop! Look at the closed lips, look at the still hand, look at the beautiful demeanor of your Lord. Struck, not striking back again. Ob. if you could only appreciate what He endured in the way of persecution you never would complain of persecution. The words of Christ would be your words, “Father, if it he possible, let this cup pass from Me; but if not, Thy will be done.” “It behoved Christ to suffer” persecution, that He might show you how to endure persecu tion. , . Some of you are bereft. It is no random remark, because there is hardly a family nere that has not passed under the shadow. You have been berett. Your bouse is a different place from what it used to be. The tame furniture, the same books, the same pictures, but there has been a voice hushed there. The face that used to light up the whole dwelling has vanished. The patter ing of the other feet does not break up the loneliness. The wave has gone over your sou 1 and you have sometimes thought what you would tell him when he comes back, i,ut then the thought has flashed upon you, ho will never come back. , A . Ah! my brother, my sister, Christ has sounded all that depth, Jesus of the bereft soul is here to-iay. Behold Him! He knows what it is to weep at the tomb, it seems to me as if all the storms ot the world s sorrow were compressed into oue sob f and that sob were uttered ia two words, “Jesus I P close my sermon with a doxology: “Blessing and glory and honor an i pow er be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever. Amen and amen 1 THE DELUGE. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON SEPTEMBER 4. FOR Lesson Text: “Philip Preachtni? at Samaria,” Acts vili., 5-25—Golden Text: Acts viii.. 5—Com mentary. flie Tradition of the Maoris of New Zea land. According to the tradit 0:1 in the Nga- 1-tahu tribe of Maoris, men had become very numerous, and evil prevailed everywhere. The tribes quarreled, and wars were frequent. The worship of Tane was neglected, and his doctrines were openly denied. Men utterly re fused to believe the teachings of Para- whneua-mea and Tupunui-a-utarespect ing the separation of heaven and earth by Tane, and at length cursed these two devout men when they continued their teaching. Then these two teach ers were very angry', and got their stone axes and cut down totara and other trees, which they dragged together to the source of the River Tohinga (bap tism!. They bound the timber together with vines of the pinta and ropes and made a very’ wide raft. Then they ma !e incantations, and built a house on the raft, and put much food into it—fern root, kumar (sweet jotato* and dogs. Next they repeated tin ir incantations, and prayed that rain might descend in such abundance as would convince men of the power of Tane, agid prove the truth of his existence, and the necessity of the ceremonies of worship ior life and for peace, and to avert evil and death. "J hen these tea hers—with Tiu- Itete, a female named '' aipuna-Nau, and other women—got on the raft. Tiu, who was the priest on the raft, prayed that the rain might descend in great torrents, and when it had so rained for four or five days and nights he repeated his incantations that it might cease, and it ceased. The raft was lilted by the waters and floated down the River To hinga. All men and women and chil dren were drowned of those who de nied the truth of the doctrines preached by Tane. The legend then gives a de tailed account of the wanderings of the raft, and the doings and adventures of its occupants. Once they saw goddesses wandering on the face- of the ocean. These came to make a commotion in the sea. that the raft might be destroy ed ami those on it might perish. The sea was boisterous, tut the raft and its occupants were not overwhelmed. When they had floated about for seven moons Tiu spoke to his companions, and said: “We shall not die; we shall land on the earth. ” In the eighth month the rolling motion of the raft had changed; it now pitched up and down and rolled. Tiu then said that the signs of his staff in dicated that the sea was becoming less deep, and he declared that that was the month in which they could land on dry earth. They did land at Hawaiki—the place from which the Maoris, a cording to their Jj-aditions, migrated to Ne» Zealand. A lie a mile away looko a good deal like th« truth. 6. “Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.” By comparing verses 4,12, 25 with this verse we obtain considerable light as to what was preached in those days; tbe Word, the Gos pel, Christ, the things concerning the king dom; and if we compare chapters ii, 2S; x., S6, 32. 43; xvii., 18, 32. we wiil find that their preaching included repentance, forgiveness, peac;, resurrection and judgment. 6. “And the people with one accord gave heed.” Just eleven times in this bcok do we find the phrase “with one accord” (L, 14; ii., 1, 46; iv.,'24; v„ 12; vii..57; viii., 6; xii., 20; xv., 25; xviii., 12; xix., 29); and only once else where in the New Testament is the word used (Rom. xv., 6, R. V). Seven times in the Acts it is “one accord” for good, and these seven make a most profitable study. It is tbe manifest power of the Holy Spirit. 7. "Many taken with palsies and that were lame were healed.” These, in addition to the unclean spirits which were cast out. are a sample of the miracles wrought by God through Philip, which constiaiued the peo ple to cave heed to his words. 8. “And there was great joy in that city.” This is always the result of receiving Jesus. Those who believe—chat is, receive—Him (John i., 12) will be filled with joy and peace (Rom. xv., 13). aud it is His pleasure that we should be full of joy (John xv., 11; xvi., 24). 9. “But there was a certain man called Simon giving out that himself was some great one.” The adversary is al ways busy, and you can always recognize him by the prominence he gives himself This is the spirit of antichrist. See Dan. viii., 11. 25; xi., 36; Luke iv., 6, 7. The spirit of Jesus is to abase self and honor God (John viii., 28, cO: xvii., 4>. 10. “To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying. This man is the great power of God.” A great following is no proof that a man is right, nor are few followers necessarily an evidence that a man is wrong. Consider Noah. Jeremiah and •the prophets, and think of Jesus Himself (John vi., (36). 11. “He had bewitched them with sor ceries,” So it has been, is and will be till Jesus comes. Jesus speaks of signs by false teachers in the Jasc days that shall if pos sible deceive the elect (Math, xxiv., 24), and we read in Rev. xiii., 3, 8, of multitudes worshiping the beast, and in II Thess, it, 7-12 of those who prefer a lie to the truth. 12. “But when they believed Philip preach ing the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptize’, loth men and women.” The reception of tne truth is the cure for all de ception. 1 hay not only heard, but they re- ce.vei the truth, or rather they received Jesus, who is the truth (John xiv., 6; I John v., 11, 12.) The entrance of the wordgiveRi light (Ps. cxix.. 130.) 13. “Then bimon himself believed also; and when be was baptized he continued with Philip.” The power of God is able to breads the hardest heart. Some doubt whether this was a real case of true conversion or not. We shall meet him again, bn: now ob serve that he believed, was baptized and continued. 14,15. “Peter and John prayed for them, that they might receive the lloly Ghost.” Word having reached Jerusalem of the great work going ou in Samaria, Peter and John were sent to help, aud inasmuch as they had received the word, they give themselves to prayer that they may now receive the Holy Spirit. 16. “For as yet He was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in tile name of the Lord Jesus.” Having believed and been baptized they were consequently saved (Mark xvi., 16; John i., 12; iii., 16; v., 24.) But we are saved to serve an i live unto God (I Thess. i., 9; II Cor. v., 15), and for this life and service we need the special gift of the Holy Spirit, which so few care about. 17. “Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.” So also at Ephesus Paul laid his hands on tweive men who had believed and they receive i the Holy Ghost and prophesied (chapter xix., 6. 7l. There is evidently a gift of t ie Spirit for saved people for service of which we hear comparatively little; and yet there is a plain command to “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph. v., 18). See the way in Luke xi., 13. IS, 19. “Give me also this power, that ou whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost.” We now return to Simon, of whom we read in verse 13 that he believed, was baptized anl continued with Philip wondering and beholding. And now he of fers money that he may obtain this power to confer the spirit. He does not seek power to serve God in humility (xx, 19i, but rather seeks to be a great oue and have power to give. 20. “i'by money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.” He did not know Isaiah iv., 1, nor Luke xi., 13, and yet he was like a great many even now who think that by doing so much or giving so much they can obtain gifts from God. Many members of churches seem not to understand the grace of God (Rom. hi., 4; Eph. i., 6, 7) 21. “Ihou bast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the light of God.” If he had no part in Christ be was not saved; but if Peter meaut that he had no part in this gift of the Holy Spirit, he was just in the condition in which most of our church members are, and in reference to serving God his heart was not right. . 22. “Repent therefore of this thy wicked ness; and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.” Praise God for Hi4 forgiveness and merev and plenteous rede nption (Ps. exxx., 4, 7; chi.. 8). He also gives repentance (chapter v., 31). Notice that thoughts must be for given, for the thought of foolishness is sin (Prov. xxiv., 9). 23. “For 1 perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of in iquity.” If he was truly saved it would seem that he would have peace instead of bitter ness and rejoice in the blotting out of his iniquities (Isa. xxzviii., 17; xliii., 25i. 24. “Pray ye the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.” This request of Simon’s to be prayed for gives us some encouragement, out the object of bis request makes us wonder if we shall meet him. He is not a comfortable study, and a'.as! lie has many followers. It is himself from first to last. 25. “Preached the word of the Lord, preached the Gospel.” Thus did Peter and John on their wav back to Jerusalem. They have no thought of themselves, but only a consuming desire to make Jesus known. This is the mark of a true disciple.—Lesson Helper. ~TTm rxnrrcm naxiunai nans 01 tne dty of New York has Issued a neat pamphlet giving the most prominent facts connected with the production and use of gold and silver in the last four hundred years, a digest of the United States coinage act of 1792, and statistics of coinage, exports and imports, and circulation in this coun- tr w «dnce then. Also tables showing the commercial ratios of values of gold and silver. The pamphlet con- ta'us no arguments, either pro or con, but presents the material from which may be drawn the foundation of much reasoning in regard to the merits of the free coin acre Question. They Were Just Engaged.—“We had better be married to-morrow,” said he. “So soon?” “M'hm, Your father and I differ in politics, and there is no t/lling how soon we may be deadly enemies.” — Indianapolis Journal. mtmm It is announced that Sir Arthur Sullivan has so far regained his health as to be able to attend a Wagner opera. This is good evidence that Sir Arthur is not only convalescent but husky. RELIGIOUS READING. THE VALUE OK HOME TRAIXIXG. come things we learn from our parents will stay by us in later years, however much the world may encroach upon our hearts and minds. Tbe fact is. truth has a mighty force of its own when taught in love. The child mind U in a plastic state and the im pressions made by the truth spoken by father and mother are likely to endure, when love seala evey word. This fact has a pleasant il lustration in the following simple event. It waa related by a Presbyterian minister at a Sabbath convention in Binghampton, N. Y. It appears that a Christian family highly esteemed, in a Western New York village, removed about two years ago to Michigan. Guy, an industrious, conscientious lad of this family, wishing to become helpful to his parents, was hired by the publishers of a leading paper to sell the daily issues in that town. After tbe bargain bad been made, he was told that he would be expected to sell on Sundays as well as w'eek days. This he had not taken into the account, and it troubled him exceedingly. He was very anxious to have the situation, but could not see bow he could spend his Sabbat ns in that way. He appealed to his parents who very wisely told him "to think tlie matter over,” knowing that the principles which they bad inculcated would lead turn to a correct de cision. At first he thought of hiring another boy to do the Sunday work, hut after a little thought concluded tins would not be right. Final.y be determined to give up the posi tion altogether, and so informed tbe editor of the paper. “I can’t work ou Sunday,” said Guy. “Oh,” replied the editor, “I used to feel so too, but now we all work on Sun day, and you had better continue with this.’’ “No,” he firmly answered, “if I must sell papers on Sunday, I’ll stop altogether.” • This noble stai d taken by the young lad must have cause I his employer to* think of earlier days, and perhaps of his own mother, for lie soon resin tided : “You need 1 it give up your position. Keep it and I pr >mise you 1 will stop print ing a Sunday ed tion of my paper.” Guy went’aws r delighted, of course, and the editor has k ;pt his word, a.though his paper had a larg< circulation. That is what a boy may accomplish.— [Wesleyan Met! adist. ’ THE MINISTRY OF SOItROW. There is nothing from which we shrink instinctively mooe than from sorrow. We are too apt to regjurd it as a manifestation of God’s anger towAd us, and not to remember that "whom He loveth he chastenetb.” It may be in the te iderest love that he sends the sorrow, whicl for the time indeed seem- eth to be grievous. There is 110 gain, either spiritual or mat .rial, without cost. The sculptor could lot free tbe beautiful statue without repeated blows upon the rough marble block; the diamond would b nothing hut a rOugh peb ble if it were n »t polished into brilliant beauty: and tber i is much in the human heart that can on y be developed by sutfer- ing. This though; ought to help us to suf fer patiently, sinci painful though the pro cess may be, it tei ds to our higher develop ment and growth n grace. For the sake of becoming better 1 nd purer, as we shall be come if we bear sorrow ariirht, we can en dure the cloud wh eh shuts the sunshine out of our lives for tt i time. There is a higher thought than this to comfort us. however. If we suffer, and 1 ‘am through our suffering how tender ando mpassionateour Heavenly Father is when h: > children are in trouble, then we can carr the comfort wherewith we have been com forted to others in alllic- tion. and become ninistering angels to those who sorrow. “\V hoso suflereth much hath much to give.” It is not wor h while to suffer, since through that suffi ring we may be enabled to give royally to tiu se who neecl our help? It wc have learned f >r ourselves the sweet les sons of comfoit, ve can whisper them to others who have not perhaps learned to know the Saviour s love. If they know that you speak from the depths of your own heart-experience, they will listen far more readily than if the y think that you are bring ing them comfort Tom other sources. Surely the ministry of se tow is a blessed one, al though we may ^shrink from it at first. If ^od’s appointment for us, imissively and strive not but let’ it work out its vithout murmuring at its “ess. ugr we think of it asj_ we can accept it sv. to lose its blessing^ gracious ministry presence.—[A. M.l RELIGIC IN THE HOME. Home is one of Ibe relics of Paradise. It has had a place infill ages and in all nation alities. but the Ch tion of Christ. It of the dignity of cration of cbitdh man love in divi istian home is the crea- idea of personal purity, romanhood, of the conse- od, of the rooting of hu- love, of the transfiguring of human relatio iships in the light of the eternal world, is t ity. The spiritua home has made ii sweeter spot. A able gospel. It p power. It is a t> ie offspring of Christian- presence of Christ in tbe a holier, stronger and piritual home is a verit- oclaims, as no sermon can ever do, what Ch: 1st is in grace and love and ight witness for Christ. And poor Robert Burns was not far from tbe truth when b sang: To mak’ a happyj fireside clime, for weans and wife, I That’s the true pathos and sublime of human life. On the subject of “God’s Forgiveness” the Christian Union has these true words: None are excluded: “Look unto me, and lie ye saved, all the ends of the earth;” “Through his name every one that belicveth on him shall receive remission of sins.” And the voice of the Christ says, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” He not only pardons tbe sins of the past, but gives strength to resist present temptations. We not only receive mercy, but we find grace to help in time of need. Tbe promise is conditioned. We must ask forgiveness in the name of Christ, for none other will avail. We must come with humility, confessing our sins. We must prove our repentance by forsaking our sins. If we have accepted pardon through Christ, we surely ought, through him, to “offer up a sacritice of praise to Goa continually—that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.” We ought also to heed his command concerning the “blood of the covenant which is shed for many unto remission of _ sins.” “This do in remembrance of me.” And still another duty is ours. Like the starving lepers in the Syrian camp, we should realize that this is a day of good tid ings, aud we do not well to hold our peace. The “exceeding great and previous promises” are not for us alone, hut for all men. and so many have never heard even one of them. “Repentance and remission of sins should he preached in His name unto all the na tions.” We have been forgiven much; we should love much. Let us prove onr love by our efforts to make known God’s promise of forgiveness throughout the world. Luther was so afraid he might love posses sions that he prayed for poverty, saying: “I thank Thee. O God, that thou hast made tne a poor man upon earth.” When the elector sent him a valuable present he wrote back in* could not refuse what had been given by the prince, but begged him to sem’ no more, as he already possessed thirty dollars and was afraid he should be numbered with those whose portion is in this world. On tbe eve of Napoleon’s departure for tiis Russian campaign be detailed his schemes to a noble b*dy so arrogantly that she tued to check him, saving: "sir. man proposes, but God disposes.” “Madam. 1 propose, and dispose too," the emperer haughtily replied. A few month’s later the disastrous retreat irom Moscow, and the loss of his crown, armv and liberty, vindicated the power of God. An Important legal contest hiss been entered upon over the question whether a telephone can be used by the mouth only, and whether placing a sounder at the Instrument and tick ing off a message by telegraphic sig nal is an infraction of privileges. What is the name of that lady wno sneezes so much?” he asked. “I don’t know;,” replied his sister; “she seems very intense.” “I should say TEMPERANCE. THE WATER DRINKER’S DAY. In the old days total abstainers were scoffed at, and we almost bad to apologize for drinking water; now we find constantly people murmuring something like an apology for drinking wine in our presence. Tbe change is coming slowly and steadily, and when we are beginning to be disheartened in our individual effort, we must look to the change that is taking place all over the world, rake courage and thank God.—Canon Wilberforce. A STRIKING CONTRAST. In Mendocino County, Wis., there is a lumbering village of IKK) population, and there are thirteen saloons. The pay roll of the mill company amounts to i90G5 a month. And of this sum it is estimate 1 that $500), or more than one-talf, is spent at the sa loons. On the other hand, at another vil lage a few miles distant, the pay roll is $1200 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, i’here sponsibility of corporations an i companies for safe gttaraing as much as possible the men in their employ, though obvious enough, is too little regarded. INTOXICANTS, POVERTY, VICE, AND CRIME. I like to put myself on record also as say ing that all the poverty, all the crime, ani all the vice which attract publicattention in Boston among what we call the poorer closes, may be ascribed to the free use of in toxicating liquors. I have said a hundred times, and I am willing to say it again, that if anybody will take caarge of all the pov erty and crime which results from drunken ness, the South Congregational Church, of which I have the honor to be the minister, will alone take charge of all the rest of the poverty which needs “outdoor relief” in the city of Boston. If that church could satisfy its conscieuce with as small work as that, it would certainly relieve its visiting forces and its treasury of a very considerable part of the demands now made upon them.—Ed ward Everett Hale. MAN’S NATURE IN HIS CUPS. So with the popular belief that the real nature of a man comes out when he is in his cups. Sometimes it does, but quite as often the real nature of the man is not simply ob scured, but it is absolutely obliterated, or as completely changed as if the man had suddenly received a terrible injury to the brain through physical violence or disease. Nine men out of ton, when in their cups, are silly or lugubriously tedious, no matter how robust in understanding or vivacious in intellect they may be when sober. If the truth comes out in the wine, then silliness and opacity of mind is the natural state of mankind. The trutn is that the truth no more comes out in the wine than the truth comes out when any other form of transient insanity or partial paralysis of the mental powers is produced by another agent taan alcohoL—Seattle (.Wash.) Post. LIQUOR IX JACKSON PARK. “Two saloons havd already been estab lished inside of Jackson Park where the great white palaces rise so grandly, and in toxicants are openly sold to the thousands of workingmen employed on the grounds. Just 1 utsiie the entrance on Sixty-tiird street, within the sacred limits of the Hyde Park prohibition district, still other places have been opened, and all kinds of anti-pro hibitory beverages are retailed over public bars. Between five and six hundred of the men employed ou the great Manufacturers’ Building are paid off on Saturday night, and a trip through Sixty-third street grog- geries showed how easy it is to accumulate an alcoholic exhilaration and get rid of hard- earned wages at the same time. Ground has been broken for a Moorish palace two hun dred feet square. It is a reproduction of the Alhambra, it will have a capacity for one t M'isand guests, and the right 10 sell beer.” li^tse manirestations are reported to us by the Chicago press, and show that the trail of the serpent is already over the Eden of the Fair.—Chicago Union Signal. THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. The Herald of Health gives the following startling result of a study of the posterity in ten families of drinkers and ten families of non-drinkers. “The direct posterity of the ten familes of drinkers included fifty-seven children. Of these twenty-five died in the first weeks anl months of their life, six were idiots, in five children a striking backwardness of their longitudinal growth was observed, five were effected with epilepsy, five with inborn diseases. One boy was taken with cholera and became idiotic. Thus of the fiftv-seven children of drinkers only ten, or 17.5 per cent., showed a normal constitution aud de velopment. The ten sober families had sixty-one children, five only dying in the first weeks; four were affected with curable diseases of the nervous system; two only presented inborn defects. The remaining fifty—81.9 per cent.—were normal in their constitution and deve.opment.” This is a striking revelation. Out of fifty- seven children in ten families of drinkers only ten showed a normal constitution, the rest revealing epilepsy, idiocy, inborn dis eases of various kin is. while out of sixty- one children of nor-drinkers there were but eleven that did not snow a normal develop ment. Think of what this means for the nation, for the world! We do not need to assume that these statistics, gleane i from a comparison ot twenty families only, would hold precisely true if a careful investigation were made on an extensive scale; but we know that the conditions revealed in this comparison do holi true, in an appalling degree, wherever the drink habit has fixed itself. If there is a living outrage anywhere up on God’s green earth it is a child born with such a heritage. It is an affront to nature, a libel upon God. Nothing more pitiful, no injustice more cruel, is known among the among the children of men. Tne custom of the Hindoo women who threw their children into the Ganges to be devoured by croco diles was almost like a har uless c.vilizjd pastime compared to this widespread cu-- tom of transmitting epilepsy, idiocy and general constitutional depravity to the cail- dren of Christian America.—The Voice. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Elizabeth, N. J., has one saloon for every 19J persons there. It is because young men drink that there are so many old drunkards. Temperance means the right use of right things. There'can be no right use of wrong things. Toe Nova Scotia Baptists have not one church where fermented wine is used at com munion. The last vestige of the State debt of Iowa has recently been liquidate 1. Iowa, it will be remembered, is a Frohioition State. Out of the 2700 Congregational ministers mEujlan land Wales at least 16)0 are ab stainers; of 3;5l stu leuts, 32) are abstainer^. Temperance reform hss now been made a plank in the platform of the Woman's Liberal League of England, and Lady Henry Somerset is a member of its central council. “I know a man,” said Eli Perkins, “who was meaner than a dog. This man and dog went into a saloon together, but tne man got beastly drunk while the dog want ho ne like a gentleman.” The figures of the license vote of 1891 in Boston re'veal many interesting facts. Sixty precincts voted no license, and in seventy- two others the majority for license was less than ten per cent, of the registration. There is said to lie an abstinence society in Petersourg with CX) mem >ers, whose activity has consisted in establishing no le-s taan eight tea houses in that part of the city where drinking • places most abouni. An inebriates’ asy.u n is also contemplated. Tae Methodist ministers of Iowa have organized a Haddocc Temperance League with headquarters-at Jefferson, Iowa. The object is to raise funds for the enforcement of the prohioitory law, ani to apply a part •of the money to the erection of a monument to the memory of the Rev. George C. Had dock, who was murdered by saloon men at Sioux City. The great enemy or knowledge Is not error, but Inertness. All that we want Is discussion, and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its op ponent, and truth Is evolved. 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