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I" "RECREATIONS." DR. TALMAG E'S SUNDAY THPyK. The Innocent Ones Are Helpful and Advantageous. Tsxts: "They that use this world a* not abusing It."?I Corinthians ril., 31. "An<llt came to pass, wheu their hearts wero merry, that they saia, onit for 8am4on. that ho may make us sport."?Judges xvi., 25. There wero 3000 people assembled in the temple of Dagon. They had ome to make Sport of eyeless Samson. Thoy wero all ready for the entertainment. They begau to clap and pound, impatient for tho amusement to begin* and they cried, "Fetch hitn out, fetch lilm oui!* Yonder I see tho blind old giant coming, led by tbo hand of a child into the very midst of tho temple. At his first appear* ance there goes up a shout of laughter and derision. .Tho blind old giant pretends be Is tired, nud wants to rest himself against the pillars of the house. So he says to the lad who leads him, "ihow me where the main pillars are!" Tho lad does so. Then tho strong man nuts his right hand on ono pillar, and his loft hand on sunt her pillar, and with the mightiest nnsh that mortal over made, throws himself forward until the whole bouss comes down in thunderous crash, grinding the audience like grapes in a winepress. 'And so it came to pass, wheu their hearts were merry, that they said, call for 8amson. that he may make us sport. And thoy called for Samson out of the prison house, and he made them sport." # iu uiui'r worus. in(>rn are amusements that nr? destructive, and briny: down disaster nml death upon the Jiea Is of thow* who praotloo them. While they laugh and cheer, they die. The S000 who perished that day in Gnzn are as nothing compared to tho tens of thousands who have been destroyoil by siufui amusements. Cut my first text Implies that there Is a lawful use of tho world, as well as an unlawful abuse of it. and the difference between the man Christian and the man un-Chrlstian * Is that in the former case the mnu masters the world, while in tho latter ease the world masters him. For whom did Ood make this grand and beautiful world? For whotu this wonderful expenditure of color, this graceSfuluws of line, this mosaic of the ground, this fresco of the sky, this glowing fruitage of orchard and vineyard, thfs full orchestra of the tempest, in which the tree branches fluty, and the winds trumpet, nnd the thunders rirum, and all the splendor of earth and sky some clashing their cymbals? For whom did God spring the arched bridge of colors I resting uj>on buttresses of broken storm cloud? For whom did He gather the upholstery ol lire around tho window of the scttiug sun? For all men, but more especially lor His own dear children. _ If you build a large mansion nnd spread a great feast after it to celebrate tho completion of the structure, do you allow strangers to come in nnd occupy the place, while you thrust your own children iu the kitchen, or the barn, or tho fields? Oh, no! You say, "I am very glad to see strangers in my mansion. but my own sons and daughters shall have the lirst right there." Now. God iias built this graud mansion of a world, and He has spread a glorious least in it. and while those who are strangers to His graoe mnv come iu. I think that God especially intends to give the advantage to His own children? those who are the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, those who through giv.ee can look up and sav, "Abba Father." You cannot make me believe that God gives more advantages to the world than He gives to the church bought by His own blood. If. therelore, people of the world have looked with I tuoiurous .sympathy upon those who make profession of religion ami have said: ''Those new converts are going down into privation nn<l into hardship. Why did they not tarry a little longer In the world and liave Some of its enjoyments and amuse.aents and recreations?" 1 say to such men of the world, 4'You are greatly mis'.nken," and beforo I get through I will show that those people who stay out of the kingdom of God have the hardships and self denials, while those who come In have the joys and satisfactions. lu the name of the King of heaven aud oartli I serve a writ of ejectment upon all the sinful and polluted who have ?quntted on the domain of tnrthly pleasure as though it belonged to them, while I claim in behalf of the good nnd the poor and the true, the eternal inheritance which God has given them. Hitherto, Christian philanthropists,' clerical ami lay, have busied themselves1 chiefly in denouncing sinful recreations, but| I feel we liave no right to stand before men and women iu whose hearts there is a desirn for recreation amounting to positive neces-j sity, denouncing this and that and the other thing, when we do not propose to give them something better. Ood helping mo and with referenco to my last account, I shall enter upon a sphere not usual In sermonizing, but] a subject which I think ought to be presented) nt this time. 1 propose now to lay before! you some of the recreations which am not! only innocent, but positive y helpful and ad-! vaut ngeous. In the llrst place T commend, among indoor recreations, music?vocal and instrumental. Among the llrst things created wit': the bird, so that the earth might have mush j at the start. This world, which began witlj so sweet a serenade, is llnaliy to ha demol-; Islied amid the ringing blast of the nrchaiH gel's trumpet, so that as there was music nt the start, there shall he music, at the close. While litis heavenly art has often been dragged into the uses of superstition and dissipation, we all know it may bo the means of high moral culture. Oh, it is a grand thing to have our children brought up amid the sound of cultured voices and amid the melody of musical instruments. There is in this art an indescribable fascination for the household, r.et all iIkwk I families who have the means to niYord it havo lluto or harp or piano or organ. As soon as the hand is large enough to compass the keys tench it how to pick out the melody. Let nil our young men try this heavenly art upon their nature. Those who havo gone into it fully have found in it illimitable recrention nnl amusement. Dark days, stormy nights, seasons cJf sickness, business disasters, will do little toward depressing the soul which can gallop oiT over musical keys or sour in jubilant lay. It will cure pain. It will rest fatigue. It will cjuell passion. It will revive health. It will reclaim dissipation. It will strengthen the inunortnl soul. In the battle or Waterloo, Wellington saw that the Highlanders were falling back. He said: "What is the matter there?" lie was told that the band of music Itnd ceased playing, and he called up the pipers and crdeivd them to strike up nn inspiriting nir, and no sooner did they strike the nir than the Highlanders worn rallied and helped to win the day. Oh, yo who have been routed in lite conflicts of life, try by the force of music to ra !y your scattered battalions. I am glad to know thnt in our great cities there is hardly a night in which there are not concerts, where, with the best musical lustrum ants and the sweetest voices, people may llnd entertainment. Patronise such entertainments when tiioy are alTordod you. Iluy season ticke s, if you can, for the Philharmonic and tic llaiubd and Haydn societies. Feel tha. the "J 1.50 or s-'J thtp you Spend for tile purpose of hearing au artist piny or ring is a profitable invest in cut. Let your Acad< tnies of .Music roar with thn acclamation of iiporeehitive audiences assembled at the concert or the oratorio. Xull furl her, I e mine; 1, ie. worthy of their support, the gymnasium. This institution is gaining io fav -r every year, and I know of not long m fr o from dissipation or moi'e cjiIcii ati I io rectinerale the physi- I cal and mental energies. While there are n good many ]>i who l,n\ employed 11 > Institution there i a vast number vli> are iffhoruut of it-> There are Then with > : l rims'* and weak rides nn.l d-'sp- a nt spirits wiio liiroiigli ^iie gymi .".: iu a jn'ght be roii-e 1 up to the bxuberair'c an i e\ - ara'.ou of life, Tiiore are innny Can- iuri p eple despond-mi from year to your wiio might through sueh nn institution bo b.ur.i'.v-J iii their spiritual re I a mod?, mere are unr.stlan people who seem to think that It is a coot I sice to be poorly, and because Richard Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids they think that by the same sickliness they may couae to the same grandeur of character. 1 want to tell the Christian people ot my congregation that God will hold yon responsible for your Invalidism If it Is your fault Had when, through right exercise and prudence, yon might be athletic and well. The effect of the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a mau or mild disposition upon the animal diet o( which the Indian partakes, and la a little while his blood will change-Its chemical proportion*. It will become like nnto the blood of the Hon or the tiger or the bear, while his disposition will change and be -onto ilerc< and uaroleuting. The boJy **?j? a povrerfu' effect unon the souL There are good people ideas ol heaven arts all shut out with clouds of tobacco smoke. There are people who dare to shatter the physical vase in which God ha> put the jewel of eternity. There are men with great hearts and Intellects in bodies wore out by their own neglects?magnificent ma ohlnery, capable ot propelling a Majestic Across the Atlantic, yet fastened In a rickets North lllver propeller. Martin Luther was so mighty for Ood, first, because he hnd c noble soul, and, secondly, because he had ? muscular development which would havt enabled hi in to thrash ?nv five of his perse cutors If it hud been Christian so to do, rhvsioal development which merely show* itself in fabulous lifting, or in perilous ropt walking, or In pugillstio encounter, excite.* only our contempt, but we confess to greai admiration for the man who has a great sou in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle an*, oone ot wm "*n is consecrated to right uses, Oh, it seems to me outrageous that men, throughnegleot, should allow their physical health to go down beyond repair?a ship which ought, with all sail set and every man at his post, to be oarryiog a rich cargo foi eternity, employing all Its men In stopping up leakages. When you may, through th? gymnasium, work off your spleen and* youi querulousness and one-half of your physical and mental ailments, do not turn your back upon such a grnnd medicament. Still lurthor, I commend to vou n large class of parlor games and recrentlons. There Is a way of making our homes a hundredfold more attractive than they are now. Those parents o&nnot expect to keep their ohildrep away from outside dissipations unless they make the domestic circle brighter thau anything thoy cau And outside of it. Do not, then, sit in your homo surlv and unsympathetic and with a half condemnatory look becuuse of the sportfulness o! your children. You were young onco yourself; let your childruu be young. Because your eyes are dim and your ankles nro stiff do not denounce sportfulness in those upon whose eyes there is the first luster and in whose foot thero is the bounding joy of robust health. I thank Ood that iu our drawing rooms and in our parlors theroaro innumerable games and sports which have not upon them the least taint of iniquity. Light up ull your homes wilh innocent hilarities. Do not Sit down with the rheumatism, wondering how children can go on so. Rather thank Ood that their hearts are so light, and their laughtor is so free, unci their cheeks are so ruddy, und that thoir oxpecta nous are bo radiant. The night will "come soon enough, ami the heartbreak nud the pang ami the desolation?!t will come soon enough for the dear children. But when the storm actually clouds the sky it will he time enough for you to haul out your reef tackles. Carry, then, into your homes not only the innocent sports and games which are the inventions of our own day, but the games which come down with the sportfuluess of all the past ages?chess and charades and tableaux and hattledoor an J calisthenics and lawn tennis and all thos" amusements which the >oung people of our homes kuow so well how to contrive. Then there will be the parlor socialities?groups of people assembled in vour homes, with wit and mimicry aud joviality, filling the room with joy from door to mnutol and from the carpet to the ceiling. Ob, is there any exhilaration like a score of genial souls in one room, each one adding a contribution of his owu individual merriment to the aggregation of general hilarity? Suppose you want to go abroad in the city; then you will llnd the panorama aud the art gallery and the exquisite collections of pictures. You will find the museum and the historical society rooms full of rare curiosities, and scores of places which cau stand plainly the test of whnt Is right nud wrong in amusements. You will ilud the lecturing hall, which has been honored by the names of Agasslz in natural history, Doremus la ohomlstry, Boynton In geology, Mitchell in astronomy, John B. Gough in moral reform and scores and hundreds of men who have poured their wit and genius and ingenuity through that particular channel upon the hearts and consciences and imaginations of man, sotting this country fifty years farther in advance than it would have born without the lecture platform. I rejoice In the popularization of outdoor sports. I hail the croquet ground and the tlshcrmau's rod aud the snortsmuu's gun. In our cities nro is so unhealthy and unnatural that when the census taker represents a city as having 400.000 inhabitants there are only 200,000, since It tak-'s at least two men to amount to ono miia. so depleting aud unnerving an 1 exhausting is this metropolitan lifo. We want more fresh air, more sunlight, more of tho abandon of Held sports. I cry out for it in behalf of tho church of God as well as iu behalf of secular interests. I wish that our ponds and our rivers and our ca:?itoltno ground might bo all uquako with the heel and tho shout of the swift skater. I wish that when tho warm weather comes tho graceful oar might dip the stream and tho evening tido be resonant with boatman's song. tho bright prow splitting the crystalline billow, v? We shall have tho smooth and grassy lawns and wo will call out people of all occupations and professions and ask them to join in the ball player's sport. You will come back from these outdoor exercises and recreatlous with strength iu your arm and color in your cheek and a (lash in your eye and courage in your heart. In this great battle that is opening against tho kingdom of darkness wo wnnt not only a consecrated soul, but a strong arm and stout lungs and mighty tuusole. I bless God that there are so tnanr recreations thnt'have not on them tho taint of iniquity, recreation in which we may engage for the strengthening of the body, for the clearing of the intellect, for tho illumination of tho soul. There is still another form of recreation which I commend to you. and that is tho pleasure of doing good. 1 havo seen vount* men, weak and cross and sour and repelling in their disposition, who by one heavenly touch hnvo wakened up and become blessed and buoyant, the ground under their foot and tho sky over their heads breaking forth into music. "Oh," says some young man in tho house to-day, "I should like that recreation above all others but I have not the means." My dear brother, let us take an aeeouut of stock. You have a large estate if you only realize it. Two hands, two feat. You will have perhaps during the next year at least 10 for eharitablo contribution. You will liiivo i!3C0 cheerful looks if you want to employ thorn. You will have JjUOO pleasant words if you want to sneak them. Now, what an r mount that is to start with. Ycai i;o out to-morrow mornini;, and you sea a earn of real destitution l>v tho wayside. You uivi him two cents. Too blind man hears the pennies rnttlo in his hat, and h<? say-, "Thank you. sir; dad bless you!" You pa-sdawn Ihe street, trviirr to loo!; iniliiYiTent, 'oit you Ha l from tlie very?hpth o your soul a nro"oiind .satisfaction that you tua !e that man liap,?y. You on still farther and llud a po <r boy with a wheelbarrov.', trying to <n\ it tipoii the curbstone, lie fails in the attempt. You ,-ajs. "Stuud ba 'k, i; y lad; let mo try." You push it up on the euro-tone for him and pass on. Ho wonders w im that well dre?s< .1 man wnstnat helpe ! him. You did, a kindi.es- lo tho boy, lull you did a u*re.it joy to your own soul. YoU Will Hot ?el over it till the wee!;. On the street to-morrow nmruinft you will see a sick man pa-sini; uIouk- "Ah."' you Kay, "what can 1 do to ajako this nym happy? Ho certainly does not want moneyt ho is not poor, bat he is slot" Give him one of those 2500 cheerful looks that you hare garnered uo for the whole year. Look Joy i and hopefulness into hie soul. It will thrill i him through, and there will be a reaction upon your own soul! Going on a little ' farther, yon will oome to the store of a friead who is ombarrassed in business matters. You i will go In and say: "What a line store you have! I think business will brighten up, and you will have more custom after awhile. I think there is coming a great prosperity to all i the country. Good morning." You pass out. You have helped that young man, and you have helped yourself. > Golonel Gardiner, who sat with his elbow on a table, spread with all extravagant viands, looking ofT at a dog on the rug. saying. "How I would like to change places [ v.th him. I be the dog nud he be Colonel Gardiner," or those two Moravian mission, aries who wantod to go into the lazaretto for ; the sake of attending the sick, and they wore i told: "If you go in there, you will never , come out. Wo neyer allow any ono to come ont, for he would bring the contagion," ' TH?n thuv mil <1A fhftir mlllc and mani Is* fleo* to help the sioit and theu to die. Which was * the happier?Colonel Gardiner or the Mora1 vinn missionaries dying lor othorsV Was it 1 all sacrifice when the missionaries wanted to ' bring the gospel to the negroes at the Barbados, and, being dented the privilege, sold , themselves into slavery, standing side by | side and lying side by side down in the vary ditch of suffering, iu order that they might ' bring those men up to life and God' and | heaven? Oh, there Is a thrill in the joy of j doing good! It Is tho most magnificent recreation to which a man evor puis his hand or his head or his heart. But before closing I want tp impress upon j you that mere secular entertainments are not , a (it foundation for your soul to build on. I was reading of a woman who had gone all the rounds of sinful amusement, and sho oame to die. She said, "I will die to-night at 6 o'clock." "Oh," they Said. "I gue98 I not; you don't seem to be sick." "I shall die at 6 o'clock, and my soul will be lost. I know it will bo lost. I have sinned away , my day of grace.*' The noon came. Thev , desired her to seek religious counsel. "Ob, she said. "It is of no use. My dny is gone. I have been all the rounds of worldly pleasure. and it is too late. I shall die to-night nt 6 o'clock." The day wore away, and it came to 4 o'clock and to 5 o'clock, and she cried out at 5 o'clock: "Destroying spirits, ye shall not have mo yet; it is not 6. it is not 6!" Tho moments went by, and the shadows began to gathur, and the clock struck 6. and while it was striking her soul went. SYhat hour God will call for us I do not know? whether 6 o'clock to-night, or 3 o'clock this afternoon, or at 1 o'clook, or nt this moment. Hitting whom you are. falling forward, or drooping down, whore will you go to? The last hour of our life will soon be hore, and from that hour wo will review this day's proceedings. It will bo a solemn hour. If from our death pillow we have to look back and see a life spent in slntul amusement, thero will be a dart that will strike through our s<jul sharper than the dagger with which Virginius slew liis child. The memory of the past will make us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities aud rioting through which we have passed will come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg Merrllies. Death, the old Hhyiock, will demand and take the remaining pound of flesh and the remaining drop of blood, and upon our last opportuuity for repentance and our last chance for hoaren the curtain will forever dro p. PROGRESS IX DIXIE. The Southern Industrial Situation Expanding. The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record's weekly review of southern industrial progress shows the organisation of a number of important concerns In nil parts of the south. Cotton mill interost3 continue to attract the greatest attention and while two or three of the foremost cotton mills of New England are looking for sites In the south for mills southern mill companies contfnue the enlargement of plants ana the establishment of mills. A woolen mill company at Ku)x% ville has commenced work on a 6100.000 cotton mill addition to its plant, a 10.000 spindle mill has been chartered at Spartanburg, 8. C. a knitting mill hns been projected at Alcolu, and n number of established mills are increasing their equipment. Among other important enterprises reported during the week are the extensive development of timber nnd muck lauds in Floriaa at an estimated cost of J?300 000 hv PlnetnTiatl rwnnlw. a ?150,000 brewery at Tampa; the reported letting of a contract for ?1.100,000 for the construction of u canal along the coast of Texas; contracts let nt about ?1,000,000 for the deepening and general overhauling of the Dismal Swamp canal in Virginia and North Carolina; contracts for what is claimed to be the largest cotton compress ever built in the world, to be located at New Orleans; a coal company at Jelico, Tenn., will Increase its daily output from 400 to 1,500 tons; a ?30,000 stove foundry to bo established at Middlesboro; a cotton compress nt Aberdeen, Miss.; plans are being prepared for a ?60,000 government machine shop in connexion with tho dry dock nt Port lloyal; a ?59,000 ice factory at Dallas; extensive improvements, including large extensions of water power, by a street railway at Columbus, Ga The ?5.000.000 bridge which was projected to be built at New Orleans across the Mississippi river a few years ago, will, it is rej.orteu, bo shortly taken up, and active work of construction commenced. There is considerable complaiat of the scarcity of money and many manufacturers are not "disposed to oxtend their operations while financial and tariff matters are so unsettled, bu* the general industrial situation of the South seems to be expanding at a very satisfactory rate. NEW DISCOVERY IN MEDICINE. An Indlanlan Secures a Preparation That (irently Aids Cataleptic*. Superintendent Rogers, of the Northern Indiann Hospital for tho Insnne has been experimenting on cataleptic patients with u preparation made from the thyroid glands of sheep, and ho lias discovered a treatment which will sot tho medical profession to talking. Two peculiar eases of insanity came under Dr. Roger's special observation. One was a man who went into a trance three years ago, and for three years lay on his back with his eyes half upon. Usually at night he nppnraroutly slept naturilly, but ?luriug the day he was seemingly unconscious. He was fed on raw eggs and milk ..i. o ?i.I.i - (1 IUI?> J'l VJv\ ivvi HIIUUqII 1113 IIU3U Into liis stomnch. Tho other patient was known u'J over the eouutry as a cataleptic. lie was stupid most of the time, possessed the poweis of locomotion only at intervals, and wherever placed he woul'i stand in that position until ro1 loved. Six months ago l>r. Honors t?? experimenting on these two patients with tlx1 preparation. Tho medicine was giv n internally at regular intervals, and in two months both men hogan Improving, In the Inst ease mentioned the patient has cnti.ely recovered. Tnc recovery In the other case Is not so marked, stiil the patient has wonderfully improved, and his eon vale iceno is assured. F r two weeks during this special treatment l>r. lingers was unalilo t< secure a supply of his new medicine an 1 the man in a trance rapidly relapsed, only to begin recovery again as soon as a tiew supply was obtained. This fact impresses 1?r. it )gcrs ami his assistant { hy-dciuns with the value of the new discovery. President Cleveland has directed the presentation of a pair oT l-iuocular glasses tc Captain Tsofton Alexander, of tho llritisli steamship Mexican, in recognition of his humane services in rescuing the captain and crow of tho American schooner Drisko on October (J, iiis>3. ' - I I /' '*? ' # SABBATH SCHOOL INTKRXaTIOXATj liRSSuN FOR APRIL 5. Lesson Text: "W?rnineAwln?t Sin,** LuJcn xlll., 22-30?Golden Text: Luke xlll., 24 ?Commentary. When ire are having but one lesson In *a~H chapter, it seems a pitv to pass a chapter bv, but as the Resurrection is the greatest topl? in Boripture, Including all others, we feel led ?u odouk mo rosier iisson. xi any preier chapter xill.?fail not to notice the corruption suggested by the henven, nn<l tho hypocrisy whloh shall In due time find its home where there Is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Before the door is shut let nil enter who will by truly receiving Htm in whom alone is salvation. 1. "Thev came unto th? sepulcbor, bringing the sploes which they had prepared." In Mark xvl., 1, we find that it was two of the Marys and 8alome who did this. Verse 10 of our lesson mentions some others. Their sersloe was truly a loving one. but it was not a work of faith. And therefore in a measure fruitless, for "without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Heb. xl., 6). Tho order in I Thesa. 1., 8 is "Work of faith, labor of love, patlenoe of hope." If we keep Ood's order in our service all will be well. 2. "And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcber." Mark xvl , 3, says that they talked among themselves as to who should roll away the stone from the sepulcber; for Mark xv.. 46. 47. savsthat they saw the burial of His body and the stone rolled unto the door of the sepulchor. The apparent or real difllulties will vanish as we move on in love to Him constrained by His love to us. Those wotnon were ready to minister at His death, but they had ulso ministered to Him in His life (Mark xv., 40, 41). 9 llinil Iksv ln o?.l 1 ~ the body ot the Lord Jesus." They were looking for a wrong thing in a wrong plaoo through laok of knowledge booauso of lack of faith. They were as unsuccessful as were the people who looked for the body of Enoch 'or the fifty men who looked three days for the body ot Elijah (Ileb. si., 5; II Kings, 11.. 17). There will bo some more unsuccessful searchers some ot thcao days when all the 'dead in Christ shall have loft their craves |and the living saints shnll have been caught up with them to meet the Lord in the utr (I Cor. xv.. 23, 51, 62; I Thess. iv., 1C-18). I 4. "Behold two men stood by them in shining garments." From the story of tho 'angola who came with tho Lord to visit iAbraham (Gen. xviii., 2. 22: xlx.. 1), all tho jway through the Scriptures they aro always jspoken of as men and never as women. I only mention this to show how unscriptural |are our' pictures of angels. Heb. i., 14, is 'very comforting concerning the ministry of 'angels, and Ps. ciil.,20, 21, is very inspiring, making us long to bo like thorn in service and in obedience. ' 5. "Why seek ye the living among iho dead?" For "tho living" tho margin says, "film that llveth." The previous verse says they were much perplexed, and now we read that they vtoro afraid and bowed down to the earth. Unbelief always produces these things, whilo joy and peace come by believing (liom. xv., 13). Our departed friends who have died in Christ are alive and well, although tholr bodies rest in the grave. Theyaro "with Christ," "present with tho Lord," and it is a very weak faith or no iaith that clings to tho tomb as if they wore there. 6. "Ho is not hero, but is risen; remember how Ha spake unto you when He was yet iu Galilee." The words of the Lord aro very Slain words, easily understood if simply t>eeved, for "Through faith wo understand" fHeb. xi.. 31. As to both ln.w nml nronheev being very plain, see Dent, xxvli.. 8; Hub. 11., 2. Now we cunnot remember the words ofttao Lord if we h:ivo not received them, if we have not laid thein up in our hearts. J 7. ,-The Son of Man must bo dollvero 1 into the hands of sinful men und oructfled and the third day rise again." Ho had said just these words to them over and over again (Math. xvi.. 31; xvti.. S3; xx., 19), aud He had meant just what He said, and It had all come to pass exnctly as He had said, so that their whole difficulty was that they had failed to take Him at His word. 8. "And they remembered His words." So we, in the morulu? of H1b coming ngalu, will remember His words and see everything fulfilled exactly as it is written. We would thereforo do well to remember them now and hold them Inst and be ever saying for our own encouragement and for the*encouragement of others, "He of good cheer fori believe God that it shall bo even as it was told me." ' 9. "Aud returned from the scpulchcr and told all those things unto the eleven and to all the rest." Head Math xxvlll., f.-8, for further dotal s of the angel's message tp the women. You wiU se? that they departed1 quickly with fear and great joy and did run to bring Ilia disciples word. To run errands for Jesus, bringing glad tidings of His resurrection ami coming glory, is a good euro for sorrow. It was as they thus went that Jesus met them and suffered thorn to hold Him by the foot and worship Hini. He meets thoso who rejoice and work righteousness. < 10. "It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna," etc. It would seem that Mary Magdalene got somehow und for a time separated from tho other women (she will explain It all to us when wo see her) and that the Lord appeared to her the very llrst aud spoke to her, |but wouldjnot allow her to touch Him, for IIo jhadjnct then ascended to His Father in His 'resurrectlon^body (John xx., 16. 17), but before Ho met iho other women whom Ho allowed to touch Him Ho must have ascended ji\hu feturneu. Tho movements of the renloimod and Klorljjod bodios may bo as quick [as lightning (Ezek. L.TiJ^ I 11. "And tbe'r ?r;.r.6d to them as .idle tales, ana they believed tbem not.'* When Paul at Rope faithfully expounded ithe Sorlptures, sdaio believed and sbiuS bgr 'II'.-^eun'M (Acts xxvlii., 28, 24). They wore ^natural pton to whom Fdul preached tho gospel, and, as always, some received it and some did not. But these in our lesson were saved people, the apostles and others, and ot [the apostles tho Lord had said that they iwere "clean every whit" (Johu xiii., 10), yet in reference to tho fact of His resurrection Ithey wore unbelieving. | 12, "Wondering in Himself at that which | was come to pass." This is the record con'cernlng Peter oven nfter lio hud seen tho empty tomb?not ioynnd peace in behoving, but simply wonderment. So with people then nud now, there Is much wondering [(chapters iv., 22; It.,43; si., 14. etc.), but [there is no prollt apart from faith (Hub. iv , 2). It seems so simple and reasonable that wo should say as Mary did, "Jlo it unto mo according to Thy word." or as Paul, "I lio'lievo Ood." Lot us do it. and wo shall surely know His joy and peace.?Lesson Helper. It seems to be a striking compliment to fervent eloquence, or some other peculiar power of persuasion, that among the conversions made by a revivalist tit Tekonsah, Mich., recently, were two deaf and dumb persons, a man and his wife. ? Cigar-makers of San Francisco arc going to establish n strike shop. When n strike Is ordered In any factory In the city the workmen will he put at work in the strike shop, nt regular wages, instead of remaining idle and in receipt cl the strike allowance from the union. A woman in Pittsburg, Pa., sold licr husband the other day to a former sweetheart for $l>0 hi cash, a pair of diamond earrings, a diamond rjug ami u pin. A. I .-.Xitlihi lUH i-irn-KODKlH CUAUbKaa. A HyMpaU of the Proe ofBoU Houim. THE 8ENATA TtJESDAY. The Cuban resolutions were discussed in the Benate on Tuesdny. ' Benntor Mills, of Texas, uiade an eloquent speech in support of Cuban Independence. The remainder of tho day was fflven up to the consideration of the executive, legislative and judicial appropriation bill, bat no final disposition was made of it. * WEDNESDAY. A move in the direction of an early adjournment of Congress was made in the Sen ate Wednesday by Mr. Plutt. who offered a resolution to tlx the timo of final adjournment for the 2d of May next. Tho resolution took the usual course?a reference to the committee on appropriations. It will probably not be reported back uutil all the annual appropriation bills have passed both houses. After the executive, judicial and legislative appropriation bill, which has been before the 8enate for the last three days, shall have been disposed of there will bo only two others left for action by the Senate. These are the Indlau and the postofllce appropriation bills, neither of which is likely to occupy more than one day. Nearly all the discussions Wednesday was on the subject of changing the fee system of United Status district attorneys and marshals to a salary system?tho amounts proposed in the bill being assailed us extravagant by Senators Alluu and George. In all cases, however, tho propositions for the higher amounts were agreed to. A joint resolution to amend the constitution by prohibiting Congress and State Legislatures from using public moneys in aid of any institution controlled wholly or in part by auy sectarian or religious association, was introduced by Mr. Gulliuger and laid on tho tablo for the present. THURSDAY. None of tho matters that came up before the Senate Thursday was of much public interest and importance. One-third of the time was consumed ovor a joint resolution appointing Bernard It. Green successor to General Cusey in the matter of the construction of the new Library building iu Washington; nearly as much time on HQ amendment to the legislative appropriation bill allowing n third clerk to the Seuate committee on peuslons, and all the rest of the time on a motion made by Mr. Shermnu to siri te out of tho legislative bill all the sections in relation to the compensation of United States district attorneys, clerks and marshals. This latter subject was not disposed of. Tho joint resolution reported from the committee on foreign relations authorizing Dunjamin narrisou 10 accept certain medals presented to him bv the governments of Brnr.il and Spain during ids term of service as President of the United States was taken up und passed. FRIDAY. The legislative appropriation bill passed the Senate Friday. It appropriates in round numbers twenty-live and a half million dollars. No other business of importance came before Senate, and that body adjourned until Monday. THE HOUSE. TUESDAY. The unfinished business when the House met Tuesday was the bill introduced by Mr. Curtis, of New York, to reduce the number of crimes subject to capital punishment, uml it was passed. The House ngreed to the Senate request for a further conference on the Cuban resolutions. Mr. Boutoile, chairman of the committee on naval nITairs, reported the naval appropriation bill for the years lS'JO-'T, it was ordered printed. It carries an appropriation Of 181,770,188, of which $12,011.084 is for the increase of the navy. WEDNESDAY. On Wednesday the House addressed itself in committee of the whole, to the consideration of the naval appropriation bill. All of it, save the paragraph providing for new ships, was disposed of by the committe, with a single umendment, appropriating $00,003 for building the quay and wing walls of the Brooklyn dry dock. Besides a few personal matters nothing else was done. THURSDAY. The House on Thursday pnssed the naval appropriation bill, after considerable discus slon. Tho sundry civil npp ropriation bill for tlio year ending June, 30. 1807. was reported. FRIDAY. In tho House Friday only pension and pr vat* relief hills reported from the comI mi tee on Militry affairs were considered. Tao House adjourned until Monday. HERE'S ANOTHER PARTY. The New National Reform Party Which is to Meet in Convention. Tho provisional national executive committee, representing tho new National lieform party, have issued an official circular, calling a national convention of the reformers to meet in Old City Hall, Pittsburg, l'a.i May 25, 18%. The following principles and measures are recommended by the committed to the consideration of tho platform committee to bo created by that convention: First?Direct legislation through tho initiative and referendum should be tho first principle incorporated in a national platform In order to restore the ancient rights of government of the people, by the people, for the people. Second?That as the money question has become a live issqo In politics, it must therefore form A prominent feature in the platform, sciting forth thy distinctive views of the reformers ns favoring iW issuing of all monies?gold, silver and paper?by the gtytpral government and this money should bo tho legal tender for all debts, both public nhd privato, and that each shall bo exchangeable Into tho other ut par at the option of the government. Third?The abolition 6f the liquor traffic for beverago purposes witli government control of the same for all other uses. Fourth?The free or equal coinago of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, government ownership of railroads, telegraph lines, telepnones iimi other nivalis or eommuulcation. Kijoul suffrage and proper invaus to raise revvnuo for the government, immigration, public improvements and other questions that may bo deemed sufficiently important for consideration. (Signed) E. Evans, chairman, 51. F. Gray, secretary, INCH AIM N <I*M1 S S II AH TON. Turkey Will Allow Her Agents to (live Heller Directly. Secretary Oluey has received a cahlo dispatch from the United States legation at Constantinople, stating that tlie Eritish ambassador there hnd been informed by Tetvilk Pasha that relief may lie distributed freely in the interior by English and American Agents, a member of the Turkish relief committee being present at every description. Miss Clara Ear*.oil's agents are thus aide, says the dispatch, to dispatch, to distribute supplies directly with their own hands to whomsoever they think proper. ?r Carlisle to Speak in Chicago. J. G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, I will deliver a non-partisan a?Mr before the laboring people of Chicago, II.. April 15 next. Mr. Carlisle was last fai; invlt? d t.> I make an address An the silver a o t lie could not come at that tiin". (I i.<>\v sends word that he will Lc able to speak, on I the date given abovo,. m^w I . r ' latest news ! in brief! GLEANINGS FROM MANY rOOTB^ Important Happenings, Both Baa4t aud Foreign, Briefly Told*, i V?. '-? ouuiiiviu 11 ^ ?v n 11 utrrv* Florida's Mate Democratio Cobvmmi tion will meet at Ocala, June 16th. j The re-organization plan of the : Norfolk and Westorn Kail road has been completed and will be published April 1st. The Southern Railway's npset offer for the Cape Foar aud Yadkin Vallejr Railway is S1,G92,0U0, this covering the entire line. J. E. Cramlall, president of the do? funct First National Bank of Johnson City, Tenn., has been oonvicted of fraudulent entries and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Elections have been ordered in Kentucky for April 31st, to fill the seats of tho two unseated State Senators and one resigned Senntor. This is taken as an indication of an early extra session, of the Legislature. Gen. John B. Gordon has been selected by the board of directors of. the Davis Monument Association to act as chief marshal of the parade, July 2nd next at the laying of tho corner stone of tho Davis monument in Rich? moud. The Supremo Court of Tenneuiea has desided, the opinion being given bjr Chief Justice Suodgruse, that the production of o poll-tax receipt at tho polling place is a perequisite to oasting a legal vote. Snodgrass is the Judgo who shot a man in Chattanooga, and he is still on tho Bench. Governor Gates, of Alabama, who is an announced candidate for tho United States Senato to succcod Hon. James T. Pturk luiu a Inifoi* in urTiiAla ho states that he is going to vote for Hon. llichnrd M. Clarke, the sound money candidate for Governor, in ther ? party primary and that ho is going to* use his influence to carry his hom?. county for Mr. Clarke. Northern News Items. Convention of tho W. C. T. XT, will meet in St. Louis next fall. A bill has passed tho Ohio Legislature substituting electrocution fair hunging. Tho New York Republicans liavo declared for Morton, protection and "sound money." Senator Lexow's greater New York bill pussed the New York Assembly l?y n vote of yeas 91, noes 50. The measure now gooB to Governor Morton for approval. Tho Ohio House of Representa&rea has passed a bill prohibiting the wearing of an obstruction in the shape of ^ lint or headgear by women in theatres* Will it become a law? The good prohibitionists of the State of Iowa are protesting against breaking a bottle of wine in chirBtening the battle ship Iowa, named after their State. Chas. H. Cram]), at Philadelphia, said he was perfectly willing to have a bottle of water used instead, and added: "There is usu&llw mora disgust over the spilling of the wins used at tho launching of a ship among people who are not total abstainers than among those who are. The former think it is a useless waste of wine when water would answer the purpose as well." ???? Washington. The House has passed a bill remove ing Confederate soldiers' disabilities. Gen. Casey, for many years chief of engineers of the Army, died suddenly in Washington. Secretary Hoke Smith has appointed Wni. McKiuley Cobb, of Georgia, his private secretary. Tho conferrees on Cuban resolutions have agreed to accept the resolution* as passed by tho Senate. !D. F. Murphy, chief official reporter1 of tho United States Senator, died at his home in Washington City thia week A bill has been intrdauccd in eongress to i>rovido for the erection of a monumeut_to James Monroe at Fredericksburg, Va. The statue, whioh will be lifellzo, will represent him holding a scroll with tho words, "The Monrao doctrine" inscribed thereon. Foreign. President Hippolyte, of Ilayti, itt dead. Mavaroyeni Bey, Turkish minister tor the United States, has be'en recalled. Elbert Rappleye, tho correspondent in Cuba of the New York Mail and Express, has embarked for the United States from Havana, in accordance with an order issued by tho governor* general decreeing his expulsion from, tho country. A dispatch received in London fronr Cairo says that six members of ther Egyptian public dobt commission have* noti tied the Egyptian Minister of war of their assent to tho government's drawing upon tho Egyptian reserves fund to meet tho expenses of tho Nilon expedition. Something of now record was ostab-j IIhIkmI l?y thieves in Adams County; Wash., last week. They stole a big barn belonging to tho county auditor, pulling it down during the night, loading it on wagons, and hauling It Ui harts as yet unknown. " Society Courtesies. " Mrs. Parvenne 1 am thinking of go* Ing slumming to-morrow." Mrs. May fair Ah! Going to call one your relatives, 1 presume."?Pick