THE GOOD RELIGION DOES. Dr. Ts Image Preaches on (he Influence of the Gospel in Business. Chrlitlaaily sad tht Intellect-Can Yoa Oct Aloaf Without lb tVsntrroTorf, D. C In this discourse Dr. Talmage advocates the idea that the Christian religion ia as good for thia world a the next, and will help us to do any thing that ought to be done at all; I Tim othy ir, 8, "Godliness is profi table unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that whicti is to come." There is a, gloomy and passive way of waiting for event to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of gcing out to meet them, strong in God and fearing nothing. When the body of Catiline was found on the battlefield, it was found far in advance of all .lis troops and among the enemy, and the beat way is not for us to lie down and let the events of life trample over ns, but to go forth in a Christian spirit deter mined to conquer. You are expecting pros perity, and 1 am determined, so far as I . have anything to do with it, that you shall not be disappointed, and, therefore, 1 pro f)3Be, as Ood may help me, to project upon votir attention a new element of success. You have in the business firm frugality, patience, industry, perseverance, economy a very strong business firm but there needs to be one member added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner either, the one introduced by my text, "Oodline.M, which is prolitnble unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come." I suppose you are all willing to admit thnt godliness is important in its eternal relations, but perhaps some of you say, "AH I want is an opportunity to sav a prayer before 1 die, and all will be we'll." There are a great many people who sup pose that if they can finally get safely out cf this world into a better world they will have exhausted the entire advantage of our holy religion. They talk as tlioujh re ligion were a mere nod of recognition which wo arc to give to the Lord Jesus on our way to a heavenly mansion: as though it were an admission ticket, of no use ex cept to give in at the door of heaven. And there are thousands of people who have great admiration for a religion of the shroud ar.d a religion of the coffin and a religion of the cemetery who have no ap preciation of a religion for the bank, for the farm, for the factory, for the ware house, for the jeweler's shop, for the office. Now, while I would not throw any slur on a post-mortem religion, I want to day to eulogize an ante-mortem religion. A relig ion that is of no use to you while you live will he of no use to you when you die. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise o the life that now is as well as of that which ia to come." And I have always noticed that when grace is very low in a man's heart he talks a great deal in prayer meetings about deaths and about cofins and about graves and about churchyards. I have noticed that the healthy Christian, the man who is living near to God and is on the straight road to heaven, ia full of jubilant satisfaction and talks about the duties of this life, under standing well that if God helps him to live right He will help him to die right. Xow, in the first place, I remark that godliness is good for a man's physical health. I do not mean to sav that it will restore a broken down constitution or drive rheumatism from the limbs or neural gia from the temples or pleurisy from the side, but I do mean to say that it gives one g'ich habits and puts one in curb con dition as are most favorable for physical health. That I believe, and that I avow. 1 Everybody knows that buoyancy of spirit is good physical advantage. Gloom, unrest, dejection, are at war with every pulsation of the heart and with every res juration of the lungs. They lower the vi tality and slacken the circulation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm of heaven through all the currents of life. The sense of insecurity which sometimes hovers over an unregenerate man or pounces upon him with the blast of ten thousard trumpets of terror is most deplet ing and most exhausting, while the fueling that all things are working together for our good now and for our everlasting wel fare is conducive to physical health. You will observe that godliness induces industry, which ia the foundation of good health. There ia no law of hygiene that .will keep a lay man well. Pleurisy will stab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaun dice will discolor him. gout will cripp.'e him, and tha intelligent physician will not prescribe antiseptic or febrifuge or anodyne, but saws and hauimers and yardsticks and crowbars and pick axes. There is no', such thins as good physical condition without positive work of some hind, although you should sleep on down of swan or ride in carriage of softest upholstery or have on your tablo ell the luxuries that were poured from the wine vats of I-.pahan and Mhiraz. O.ir re ligion says: "Away to the bank, away to the field, away to the shop, away to the lactory! Do something that will enlist all the energies of your body, mind and soul!" 'Diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord," while upon the bare liack of the idler and the drone comes down the sharp lash of the apostle as he ays, "If anv man will not work, neither hell he eat." Oh, how important i3 this day, when so much is spid about anatomy and physio logy and therapeutics and some new style of medicine is ever and anon springing upon the world, that you Bhould under stand that the highest school of medicine is the school of Christ, which declares that "godlinesa is profitable unto all things, liaviug the promise of the lite that now is ns well as of that which is to come." So if you start out two men in the world with equal phyicul health, and then one of them shall get the religion of Christ in his lieart and the other shall not get it, the one who becomes a son of the Lord Al mighty will live the longer. "With long life will I satisfy him and show him II y salvation." I Aj:ain T remark that godliness is good for the intellect. I know some have sup posed thnt ju!t as soon a? a man enters Unto tha t'hrislian life his intellect roes into a bednarfing process. So far from that, religion will give new brilliancy to the intellect, new strength to the imagina tion, new force to the will and wider wing to all the intellectual faculties. Christianity is the preat central tire at which philosophy has lighted its brightest torch. : The religion of Christ is the fountain 'out of which learning has dipped its clear est draft. The ifelicou poured forth no ruch inspiring waters as those which flow from under the throne of Cod clear as crystal. I keligion has given new energy to poesy, weeping in Dr. Young's "Night Thoughts." teaching in Cowper's "Task," naming in jCharies Wesley's hymns and rushing with archangclic splendor through Milton's i"Paradwe Lost." The -religion of Christ has hung in studio and in gallery of art and in Vatican the best pictures Titian's "As sumption," Kuphael's "Transfiguration,'' Kubi-iu's "Descent From the Cross," Claude's "Burning Hush" and Angulo'a "Last Judgment." Religion has made tha best music of the world Hiivdn's "Crea-. tion," Handel's ""Messiah," Mozart's "Ke-' quiem.V la it possible that a religion; .jrhilfti builds such indestructible monu intents, and which lifts its ensign on the 'highest promontoreis of worldly power can have any effect upon a man's intellect iut elevation? iinw. I commend sodliness as tha best mental discipline, better than belles lettrea (to purify the taste, better than mathemat ics to harness the mind to all intricacy and 'elaboration, better than logic to marshal the intellectual forces for onset and vic tory. Again I remark that godliness ia profit able for one's disposition. Lord Ashley, hefore he went into a great battle, was lieard to ofier this prayer: "O Lord, 1 shall V very busy to day! If I forget Thee, for get me not." Willi juch a Christian dispo sition as taat n man is independent ol all circumstances. Our puily will have a line of our natural tempfuirieut. If a man be cross und sour and iictfu! jicturully, afler he becomes a 4.hrnttwn he will always have to be aimed against the rebellion of those uvil iuclina t .una. Itut religion has turned the wildest na tures. It has turned fretfulncss into grat itude, despondency into good cheer, and those who were hard and ungovernable and uncompromising have been made pli able and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend evil hab its than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger lasso than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A manufacturer cares but very little for a stream that slowly runs through the meadow; but values a torrent that leaps from rock to rock and rushea with mad energy through the valley and out toward the sen. Along; that river you will find fluttering shuttles and grinding mill and flashing water wheel. And a nature the swiftest, tha most rugged and the most tremendous that is the nature that God turns into greatest usefulness. Religion will give an equipoise of spirit. It will keep you from ebullitions of tem per, and you know a great many tine busi nesses have been blown to atoms by bad temper. It will keep you from worriment about frequent loss; it will keep you back from squandering and from dissipation; it will give you a kindness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mere store courtesy which shakes hands violent ly with you, asking about the health of your family, when there is no anxiety to know whether your child is well or sick, but the anxiety is to know how many dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs you will take and pay cash down. It will pre pare you for the practical duties of every day life. In New York City there was a merchant, hard in his dealings with his fellows, who had written over his banking house or bis counting house room, "No compromise." Then when some merchant got in a crisis and went down no fault of his, but a con junction of evil circums.anccs and all the other merchants were willing to compro mise they would take seventy-five cents on the dollar or fifty cents or twenty cen'.s coming to this man last of all, he said: "No compromise. I'll talre 10') cents on the dollir, and I can afford to sail." Well, the wheel turned, and p.fter awhile that man was in a crisis of business, and he sent out bis agent to compromise, and the agent said to the merchants, 'Will you take fifty cents on the dollar?" "No." "Will you take anything?" "We'll take ITO cents on the dollar. No compromise." And the man who wrote that inscription over his counting house door died in destitution. Oh, we want more of the kindness of the gospel and the spirit of love in our business enterprises! How many young men have found in tlie religion of Jesus Christ a practical help? How many there me to-day who could tes tify out of their omn experience that god liness is profitable for the life that now is! There were times in their business career when they went here for help and there for help anil yonder for help and got no help until they knelt before the Lord cry ing for Hi deliverance,' and the Lord res cued them. In a ban': not far from New York a village bank an officer could not balance his accounts. Ho had worked at them day after day, night afler night, and he was sick nigh unto death as a result. He knew that he had not talsn one farthing from that bank, but conn-saw, for some reason, inscrutable then, the accounts would not balance. The time rolled on and the morn ing of the day when the books should pass under the inspection of the other officers arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril, conscious of his own integrity, but unable to prove that integrity. That morning he went to the bank early, and he knelt down before God and told the whole story of mental anguish, and be said: "0 Lord, I have done right, I have preserved my in tegrity, but here I am about to be over thrown unless Thou shoaldst come to my rescue. Lord, deliver me." And for one hour he continued the prnyer before God, and then he arose and went to an old blot ter that he hail forgotten all about. He apened it, and there lay a sheet of figures which he only needed to add to another line of figure some line of figures he bad forgotten and knew not where he had laid their and the accounts were balanced, and the Lord delivered him. You are an infi del if you do not believe it. The Lord de livered him. God answered his prayer, as He will answer your prayer, oh, man of business, in every crisis when you come to H'm. Now, if this be so, then I am persuaded, ns you are, of the fact that the vast major ity of Christians do not fully test the valuo of their religion. They ure like a farmer in California with 15,003 acres of good wheat land and culturing only a quarter of an acre. Why do you not go forth and make the religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair every day of your business life and all this year, beginning now, and to-morrow morn ing putting into practical effect this holy religion and demonstrating that godliness ia profitable here as well as hereafter? How can you get along without this re ligion? Is your physical health so good you do not want this divine tonic? Is your mind so clear, so vast, so comprehensive, that you do not want this divine inspira tion? Is vour worldly business so thor- I oughly established that you have no use r i.. 1 lor nut. icjioii m iiicii nan uceu mc ui-ifj and deliverance of tens of thousands oi Ynen in crises of worldly trouble? And ii what I have said is true then you see what a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourn! to life's expiration the uses of religion. A man who postpones religion to sixty yean of age gets religion fifty years too late. He may get into the kingdom of God by final repentance, but what can compensate him for a whole lifetime unalleviated and un comforted? You want religion to-day in the training of that child. You will want religion to-morrow in dealing with that customer. You wanted religion yesterday to curb your temper. Is your arm strong enough to beat your way through the floods? Can you, without being incased in the mail of God's eternal help, go forth amid the assault of all hell's sharpshoot era? Can you walk alone across thes crumbling graves and amid there gaping earthquakes.' Can you, waterlogged and mast shivered, outlive the gale? Oh, how many there hava been who, postponing th religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged intc mistakes thev could never correct, although they lived sixty years after, and like ser pent cruiiuil under cart wheels dragging their mauled bodies under the rocks to die So these me:i have fallen under the whee of awful calamity, while a vast multitudi of others have taken the religion of Jesut Christ into everyday life, and, first, It practical business affairs, and, second, or the throne of heavenly triumph, have illus tiuted wliilo angel looked on and a uni verse approved, the glorious truth that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now ii as well us of that which is to come." Copyright, 13, L. Klopteh.) Newest Fashlouiiblo Folly, Leaders of tan fashionable sot at Monte Carlo have r.dopted the fad of wearing llvo monkeys aa boas. When you get your monkey tsk for the "oulHtltl." This la black and white, with a tall twice as big as Its body. Tbe tall la beautiful and la wound around the neck to meet the body part, which sits propped up on the left ahoulder. Ladlea train their monkeys to remain on their shoulders until in doors, when at a word they spring to the floor, unwrapping their tails as they fall. Each monkey naturally looks after Its one tall, so one doean't have to be bothered by looking after one's boa. Some ladles have silver collars, with their names on, wound rouud tbe monkey's neck. Tarn far Schoolboys. The German Navy League has ar ranged for several thousand school boys to spend two days with the fleet under expert guidance. They will be Instructed In the workings of war ships. They will come in relays beginning each September, when near ly the whole German fleet will be at Kiel. The object of . the plan is to make patriots of tht lads. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Cemrnents For u l. s inarm 6a, Subject: Teasertsce, Epa. ., 11-21 Oolscs .., i.pm. T., iff-inc story verses, IS-It Consultary a tbt Dsy'l Usses. 11. "Have ns fellowship." Have no connection with or sympathy for anything dons in the dark under cover. We may not actually commit certain aina, but if ws tolerate or encourage them, we are par takers with the transgressors. Wa should never be accessory to the sina of others, sither by commendation, counsel, consent or concealment. 8ce 2 Cor. S: 14-18. Ths gospel standard demands a complete separation from this present evil world, both in spirit and practice. 1 John 2; 10, 10; Rom. 12: 1, 2. 'Unfruitful works.' Bins are called works, not fruits (Gal. 0: 19-22); their only fruit is death (Rom. 6: 21; Gal. 0: 8), which is not fruit in a true sense. "Darkness." Sin is dark ness and its - parent ia the prince of darkness. Plants cannot bear fruit in ths absence of light. The graces of the Spirit flourish in the light. Sinful works coma from the darkness of ignorance, seek tha darkness of concealment and lead to the darkness of hell. "Reprove them." Speak against them. Take a firm definite stand against every form of sin, as did John the Baptist. Jesus and Paul. The parent of crime and pauperism in our country to day is the liquor traffic. It thrives in darkness, behind screens, It could not or n moment endure the gaze of an enlight ened people. And yet this iniquitous traffic is entrenched behind the law of the land aid public opinion. The super lative duty of the Christian citizen is to oppose and denounce this vile, soul-destroying business, by voice, by pen, by vote. 12. "It is a shame," c,tc. They are too vile to be mentioned or even thought of with but abhorrence. The only sign of their shame was that they sought the cover of secrecy. How low they must have sunk when it was a shame for the apostle to even "speak" about what they "did." But there are some subjects about which it is our duty to remain silent. It is a shame and disgrace for the publio prints to be filled with the low and nau seating details of crime. "In secret." Oh the abominations that are carried on in lecrct! No Christian should join himself in any way to those whose actions must be kept covered. Jesus said, "In secret have I said nothing." The apostle seems to speak here of the Gentile idolaters, and of their horrid mysteries which none were permitted to divulge on pain of death. 13. "That are reproved." "When they are reproved." R. V. "By the light." It is the light which discovers what was concealed before in darkness, therefore we ought to be shining lights in the world, nnd by a holy example and a godly life make light! Let us know the truth about the devastations of the liquor curse. Let it be known that it makes ninety per cent, of all our paupers and criminals, and that it costs us more than one hundred million dollars each year. Draw back the curtain and let us for one moment see the heartache and sorrow and disease and death that it brings to us; blighting, ruining, cursing wherever it touches; and then with an enlightened and awakened public conscience we will rise up and drive out this monster. 14. "Awake thou thai sleepest," etc. Sleep is un emblem of death, and bo(h sleep and death are used to represent the' soul in a sinful state. Sleep is a state of (1) unconsciousness, (2) seeming security, (3) darkness, (4) inactivity, (5) unconcern; while death includes the idea of corrup tion. From this state, tnrough the power of the Holy Ghost, we are to awake and arise. God uses means to awaken men, nnd by His power we r.re to come forth from the death of sin to a new life in Jesus Christ. Chap. 2: 4-8. "Shall shine upon thee" (R. V.). Shedding forth His love, joy and peace into our hearts, and thus bringing us into a state of rest, com fort and holiness. 15. "Circumspectly." See R. V. Watch ful and cautious in order to avoid danger. The Christian needs to be prudent. 16. "Redeeming the time." To redeem time ia to regain what is loet and to save wnat is left. "Buying up tho opportunity." R. V. margin. By eagerly seizing the mo ments, by diligence, by continued applica tion this can lie done. "Doya are evil." The present times are dangerous, and are full of troubles and temptations, and only the watchful and diligent have any reason to exDect to keep their garments clean. 17. "Be yo not foolish." (R. V.) Here is a most evident allusion to the orgies of Bacchus, in which his votaries acted like medmen, running about, tossing their heads from shoulder to shoulder, appearing to be in every sense completely frantic. 18. "Be not drunk." Do not become drunken with wine and act like fools or madmen. There were doubtless converted drunkards among the Christians to whom Paul wrote, and wine was their especiul danger. Intemperance ia a folly, a waste, a degradation, a tin. It (1) divests men of their native dignity; (2) sinks them below tho brutes; (S) injures body and mind; (4) wastes their substance; (5) de stroys the sacredness of the home; (8) is the parent of other vices: (7) is prohib ited by the Scriptures; (8) must be re nounced or the end will be destruction. "Wherein is excess." "Wherein is riot." R. V. The word here translated excess means proflgacy and debauchery of every kind, such us are generally connected with drunkenness, and especially among the worshipers of Bacchus. Paul's prohibition is positive and absolute. Wine that causes rioting is forbidden. "Filled with the Spirit." Here Parti shows the difference between the worship of the true God and of the heathen deities. After offer ing sacrifices to Bncchus, the god of wine, 't was the custom of the people to get drunk in bis honor. The jov that ia kindled by wine is degrading, that which is kindled by the Holy Spirit is edifying and soul-inspiring. To be filled with the Spirit is to bo in possession of the grace of the Spirit: it 'mplies divine guidance; it ia to be filled with God nnd to accept Ilim as the only union of the soul. 13. "Spesking," etc. Men filled with wine f'ng vile songs, but God's people sing the songs of Z'ton. Christianity is a re ligion of song; it. fidelity does not sing. "With your hearl"( R. V.). The Lord is not satisfied until He gets the heart, Christianity is a heart religion. 20. "Always." In times of adversity nnd trial as well as in times of blessing. "For all things." Rom. 8: 28; 1 Thess. 5: IS. "Unto God." Janes 1: 17. 21. "Submittiny," etc. There is a mu tual submission tli'it Christians owe one to another, condescending to bear one an other'o burdens, not advancing themselves above others, but in love serving one an other. Thought tbs Doctor Kosw. At the last annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States MaJ. John Van R. Hoff, in the course of hla speech accepting the presidency of tbe association, told the following story: "A lady was pass ing through the wards of an over crowded military boslptal when she suddenly encountered two men sawing and hammering on some boards. She lotiied at them in some surprise and wonderlngly aaked: 'What are you do ing there, my men?' They looked up at her and one of them said: 'What ars we doing? Why, we are making a coffin, that's what we are doing.' 'A coffin?' ahe asked. 'For whom are you making a coffin?' 'For that fellow over there In that bed. Don't you see him?' The lady looked In the direction Indi cated and saw a man apparently in good condition and watching the oper ation with great interest 'Why, that man is not dead, and, Indeed, he doea not look as If be were going to die. Can't you postpone this work?" 'No,' the men said, 'we can't postpone it. Tbe doctor told us to make the coffin, and he knows what he gave him.' " CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. March U "Oar Owe for Christ" Pa. Imv, I-1 J- Scripture Verses Ps. txvlll. 11; Jer. xxlll. 28: Ezek. HI. 17-21 ; Matt. x. 5-7; xxvlll. 18 20; Mark xvl. 16; Luke xxlr. 4.-48; Acts I. 8; x. 42; xxlll. 11. Lesson Thoughts. A grateful realization ot the for glveness of our sins, so many and so great. Is sure and strong impulse to missionary effort. The greatest glory any of its can hnlp to bring to dwell In our land Is that of the nation whose God is the Lord, for not only will Ood Rive right eouannss and peaca to his own people, but even muterlally "the Lord shall give that which Is good; and our land shall yield her Increase." Selections. Our country's voice is pleading, Ye men of Ood. arise, His Jrovldenoe Is leading. The land before you lies; Day-gleams are o'er Its brightening. And promise clothes the soli; Wide fields, for harvest whitening, Invite the reaper's toll. Reach the man nearest you. See the need. Pray, act as the redeemed of tho Lord. I.Ike Zlnzendorf when he renounced his estates and his reputa tion, and his family, let us say. "Hensefortti that country shall bo my home where I shall have the greatest opportunity of preaching Christ to the perishing." Wouldst thou go forth to bless, He sure of thine own ground; Fix well thy centre first, Then draw tho circle round, from thy own homo to the uttermost part of the earth. Patriotism calls on every citizen to stand between tho country and her foes. The most dangerous' foea to a sation are sin and Ignorance. The Christian church and the Christian school are the best defences against these.... Any lover of his native land must see that the nation's welfare de mands the home missionary. As goes America, so goes the world." The urgent need of our for eign work Is In earnest plea for our home work. Now as ever tho oppor tunity Is for tho unceasing personal. worker, converts are gathered one by one, and not In masses. Suggested Hymns. Jesns saves! O blessed story, Ho! reapers of life's harvest. Sowing In tho morning. My country, 'tis of thee. Stand up! stand up for Jesus. Work, for the night Is coming EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETlNd TOPICS Marcs 23 Difficulties la the Way of Evangel. Izlnr the World Jonab, L 1-3; Matt, xxlll, 37, 38; MaL ill, 8-10. These two topics very appropriately go together, so that tho regular les son and the missionary lesson may be combined. What moro natural place to begin our evangelization than at home? Our deep Interest In our friends, our close connection with them, the sympathies begotten by ties of blood, should all urgo us to work for our own and should be a great aid In helping us to reach them. Charity may well begin at home. The fallacy of the old proverb lies In lotting It end there. That Individual or that church which Insists on bestowing everything at home soon dies, so far as vital piety Is concerned.' Tho only way to keep bright, aggressive, healthy and power ful religiously Is to do all wo caa at home, and then send tho stream of our love and devotion, of our', money and our Influence, on out to join a thousand other streams until they be come a great "father of waters" ro freshing tho whole earth. The dis obedience of Chribtians. Jonah was told to go to Nineveh and ho started for Tarshlsh. The cause of Jonah's per verseness was a narrow, bigoted spirit of prejudice growing out of a wrong conception of the real plan and pur pose of God. He thought salvation was of and for the Jews, and refused to go to preach to the dlsplsed Gen tiles In Nineveh. In like manner much of the lack ot missionary zeal In the church grows out ot failure to study God's word, to understand tho plan and purpose ot Jesus and the real Bpirlt of the Gospel. The text calls attention to the fa-t, common In Israel of old, almost equal ly common to-day that men did not realize their financial obligations to the cause of God. Honest about every thing else, planning for every other debt, they are still content to let the cause of their divine Lord go at hap hazards. No senao of debt, no con science about moral obligation, no careful business planning that tho Lord may have bis due In money mat ters, leaves the Church stranded In the carrying on of he great forward movements. What we need Is an aroused conscience, a new sense of stewardship, aud an awakening to tha fact that all we have and are Is God's that all we do must be done for him. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. HE child can be long to God aa socn as he can to the devil. He who drinks much thinks little, and be who thinks much drinks little The saved soul will be found steering for heaven no matter which way the winds are blowing. To refuse a rUht responsibility may bo to reject a great reward. . When you have made a child glad you may have made a man good. He who can be trusted to do his own work will trust God to do His. The name of Jesus opens the door to the church and the gate to heaven. When you have the devil under your beol don't be scared by his bellowing. It la better to be a good man in a bad place than a bad man In a good one. It's a poor plan to promise to pray for your pastor and then to pinch on his pay. It Is better to grow Into a place of power than to be blown Into ono 'of potularlty. I', wus the brotherhood of man rath er than the sisterhood of tha saints that Chrlat revealed. The power of perfecting the present Is worth more than tha power of pro phesying the future. Th3 llxht that blesses the wise man bun? tho foollub motjj,- GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CBEATEST PROPHETS. Poemi I' rayon of ths Utile Ones Walk ing la ths lsrk-.Lson from ths Wtorr of ths Blind Man tThoss Sight ITm Restorsd. How sorely pressed ths Lord must be With all the tearful people'a woes; The weak implore for mastery Above their atrong, relentless foes; The poor cry out against the rich, The slave would ding hia chains awcy, And oft their cries must be unheard, Rut God, I know, hears every word When little children kneel to pray. Mayhap the pious Pharisee Is never heard about hia roof When he, at bedtime, crooks tho kne:. Beseeching for his own behoof; Their prayers may all be said in vain Who arm themselves and march away To fall in battle or to kill. But God, I know, must listen atill When little children kneel to pray. The grave-faced hypocrite who reads The word the Master gave to men And loudly prays and then proceeds To crush the weak for gain again May be so little that the Lord, Attending to immense affairs, Is unaware of him, but oh God still bits tiino to heed, I know. When little children say their prayer). The ones who wrangle over creeds And thnne who think, forsooth, that they Are sent to judge the people's needs And givo the word and show the way May be so little and obscure That God with all His awful cares, Is deaf to them but, filled with love, 1 know He listens from above When little children say their prayers. ti. K. Kisor, in Chicago Record-Herald. Darkened Spiritual Vision. In his first epistle John speaks of our "walking in the light," but in his Gospel, the ninth chapter, if we read carefully the miracle of the healing of the blind man as recorded there, a single clause in the seventh verse must impress us with a strange yet beautiful significance when it atKrms that "he went on his way, there fore." For him it was "walking in the dark." Tiiis man who had never seen the light of day, who could scarcely imagine what the light could be like, who could not tell how the world in all its beauty of color and form might seem to him could he look upon it; who, as yet had not understood, evidently, that any man can be possessed of power suthcient to open b.ind eyes, and who had doubtless listened with keenest interest to the conversation curried on be tween Christ and the dixciples concerning him, how little could he have comprehenu ed it all! Undoubtedly the blind man was think ing to himself something as follows: "Who is this man, a stranger, who has thus interested Himself in me; Why should I go to Siloam? Does He think it will do any good to wash there rather than elsewhere? Can there be any virtue in this clay, or has He any spceiul power? Ho has not even told me why 1 should go to Siloaui. Can it be that anything will cone of washing in the pool? Is it possible that what 1 am doing shnll uiiect my eyes in uny way? 1 will, at least, keep on tlie way." And so he goes on, uud while he reasons and queries about it all it re mains just as dark as when he began. How many perplexities he must have met? How strange that one so blind should be sent, while still blind, to a certain place to prove the efticaey of healing power! Must it not have dawned upon his spirit ual vision during the journey that certain means urc frequently required to secure certain results? It was dark for him all the way to Siloam. It as all changed, however, upon his re turn, for he came seeing. Then be under stood why he had been asked to go. By his willingness, his eff ort and his obedience his vision came. It had been necessary for him to walk awhile in the darkness be fore he could walk in the light. Even so it is with us at times. In our difficulty and need we find that Christ is near, and though we feel the touch of the Divine hand in the providence of life, we are yet left to walk awhile in the dark, as we go to our duties and triuls, only to re alize as we return from them that we are walking in the light of new joys and bless ings. We, too, come "sseaig." Baptist Standard. To Consider. To consider is the last thing that men are prepared to do in any age, und in this peculiar age it is perhaps the utmostly last thing that men can be persuaded to do to stand still. The rush of the age is so great that even the most faithful servant of God bus to acknowledge, partly with shame and partly of necessity, that men do not stand ttill, to hear God speaking. It U idle to say it cannot be done; it must be done. If our souls are to be blessed, and if we are to be vessels in any degree meet for the Master's use, it is an abso lute necessity; just as much as air is a necessity for breathing and health. In the midst of the rush in which we live, no matter how great the strain, or how se vere the distress, even the most hurried business claims frpm their masters and workers times for pause. Machinery de mands it. Balance sheets require it. Half yearly audits are known, even by the most over-pressed business men. There is not one who would dare to expect that his earthly business could prosper if there were no times for striking a balance and s.-ciiig what the remainder is that is left. So 'I is in regard to spiritual matters. Kv. ry one of us, not mad or foolish, must understand that necessity is laid upon us no; merely, as Paul said, to preach the gos pel, but to pause before (Joel, and let Him speak to us Webb Peploe. Thoughts. Let. the heart speak freely, but see also that it upeuks prudently. If we are like Christ, sorrow is on the surface an unfalhomed depth of joy. They hear the song of the angels who are wailing for the coming of the Saviour, This expresses the Christian's confidence: "If God be for us, who can be against ii?" That is the best gift of love which will in some way be helpful to the person re ceiving it. United Presbyterian. A Nation's btrenprth. The most precious things in national life are the character and the liberty of the individual. The real test in the advance of any nation is in this: Whether in the advance and in the increase of power the real strength which goes to make up the nation is still there character, individual liberty, men. Bishop William Lawrence, Episcopal, Mussu huKetls. Ths Sotting of a Hops. The setting of a great hope is like the set ting of the sun. Die brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and -he world seems but a dim reflec tionitself a broader shadow; we look for ward into the coming lonely night. Tha soul withdraws into itself. Then stars aris? and ths night is holy. H. W, Long fellow. A INstluctlon. Religion consista in helping others and heresy in forcing others to serve you. Tho Rev. Dr. George H. Hepwortb, Con gregntionalist, New York. Took Wrong ProaaaUoss, The story is told of a Boston woman who lived nearly all of her 62 years In hotel, with a constant anticipation and fear of Ore. Every night she plated on a chair betide tbe bed a thick flan nel wrapper having many deep pockets, together .with a pair of shoes, Into which the poor dear expected to slip at the first alarm. All her valuables were within hand reach, and no Are depart ment ever drilled for a hurry ull with more assiduity than this expectant woman, who was Dually drowned. COMMERCIAL, REVIEW. Ocoersl Trass Cosdllloas. E. G, Dun ft Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Unsettled weather was the most unsatisfactory feature of the busi ness situation. Preparations for an enor mous Spring trade continue undimin ished. Not only is there no improvement to be recorded in the iron and steel out look, but floods in the Pittsburg region added to the pressure by completely clon ing many plants and damaging much costly machinery. Supplies of coke failed to increase because the railways wer badly disorganized, and the net result was a week of light output when re quirements were notably heavy. Leather is wearker and hides declined anothet friction. Cotton goods are well sus tained. Less activity is reported in the market for woolens, buyers having ap parently their first round of orders. All staples steadied and some rose sharply. It was natural for grain to hold firm- when wheat receipts at the West were ,8go,344 bushels, compared with 3747,953 last year, while arrivals of corn were but 2,001,914 bushels, against 5,020,. 438 a year ago. Exports of wheat, flout included, were 4,174,894 bushels, against J. 185,03a in the previous week, and 3,715, 930 a year ago. Failures for the week numbered 176 ii? the United States, against 308 last yets, and 17 in Canada, against 26 last year. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Best Patent, $4 00; High Grade Extra, $4.40; Minnesota Baker., $3. 75a 3-85- Wheat New York No. a, 86'k: Phil adelphia No. 2, 85$4a86c; Baltimore No. a. 83KC. Corn New York No. 2, 69c ; Philadel phia No. 2, 65!4a66c; Baltimore No. 2, 57a67V$c Oats New York No. 2, Sok; Phila delphia No. 2, 51c; Baltimore No. 2, 40a 9'iC Hay No. I, timothy, large bales, $15.00,115.50; No. 2 timothy ,$14.00314.50; No. 3 do. $12.00313.00. Green Fruits and Vegetables. Apples New York, assorted, per brl., $375a 4.50; Fancy Greenings, per brl., $4. 50a 475. Cabbage New York State, per ton, domestic, $i8.ooaiQ.oo; do, large Danish, per ton, $x.ooa2i.oo; do, small Danish, per ton, $i6.ooai8.oo; do, new Florida, per crate, $i.75aa.oo. Carrots Native, per bushel box, 40a4.se ; do, per bunch, Ia2c. Celery Native, per bunch, 3a3J4c. Eggplants Florida, per irate, $3.5034.00. Grape Fruit Florida, per box, fancy, $5.ooa6.oo. Horseradish Na.tive, per box, $i.soai.75. Lettuce North Carolina, per half-barrel basket, 75c.a$i.oo; do, Florida, per half-barrel bas!tet, $1.00,12.00. Onions Maryland nd Pennsylvania, yellow, per bushel, Jl.45al.30; do, Western, yellow, per bushel, $l.25al.30. Oranges Florida, per box, as to size, $2.2533.00; do, California, leedings, per box, $1.752.25 ; do, navels, aer box, $2.5032.75. Oystcrplants Na tive, per bunch, 5a6c. Radishes Flor ida, per bunch, long, 2a21c. Spinsch Native, per bushel box, 75380c; do, Norfolk per brl., $t.ooal.so. Squash Florida, per bushel box, $1.50.12.00. Strawberries Florida, per quart, refrig :rator, 35340c; do, open crate, 25330c. Tomatoes Florida, per six-basket car tier, fancy, $2.5033.00; do, fair to good, 1. 5032.00. Turnips Native, per box, 2c 125c Potatoes. White Maryland and Penn sylvania, per bushel, No. 1, 75a8oc; do, seconds, 7oa75c; do, New York, pel bushel, best stock, 75380c ; do, seconds, Joa75c; do. Western, per bu., prime, 753 5oc. Sweets Eastern Shore, Va., Kiln dried, per brl., $2.0032.50; do, Maryland per brl., fancy, $2.0032.50. Butter Separator, 28a 29c ; gathered cream, 24325c; imitation, 2oa2ic; prints, l-lb., 28a2gc: rolls, 2-lb., 28329c; dairy prints, Md., Pa. and Va., 26327c. Eggs Western Maryland and Penn sylvania, per dox., 25326c. Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia), pel doz., 25a26c. Virginia, per dozen, 25a .16c. West Virginia, per dozen, 24325c Western, per dozen, 25a26c. Southern per dozen, 24325c. Duck, Eastern Shore, fancy, per dozen, 28a2Qc; do, Western Shore, per dozen, 27328c; do, stmll and dirty, per dozen, 26S27C. Cheese New cheese, large, 60 lbs, 12a l2jc; do, flats, 37 lbs, I2J4 to 12; pic nics, 23 lbs, I2fi to 13c. Dressed poultry Turkeys, hens, good to choice, per lb., 17318c; do, hens and roung toms, mixed, good to choice, per lb, i6ai7c; do, young toms, good to ;hoice, per lb, I5ai6c; do, old toms, good 'jo choice, per lb, 13314. Ducks, good to :hoice, per lb, 13315c. Chickens, young, jood to choice, per lb, 12314c; do, mixed, aid and young, per lb, nai2c; do, poor to medium, per lb, 10.11 ic. Geese, good !0 choice, per lb, 10313c. Capons, fancy, large, per ljb. I7ai8c; do, good to choice, per lb, I5i6c; do, small and slips, per lb, 12a 14c. Dressed Hogs Western Maryland and Pennsylvania lightweights, J'h-c per per lb ; Virginia and Southern Maryland, best stock, 7'A per lb.; medium hogs, 6'2 17c, and heavyweights irregular at from 5 to 6lAc per lb. Old boars less 5a54c. Hides. Heavy steers, association and ulters, late kill, 60 lbs. and up. close se lection, loatic; cows and light steers, 5a9. Live Stock Chicago, Cattle Good to prime steers f6.50a6.90; poor to medium, $4.0036.30; itockers and feeders. $2.2535.00; bulls, f2.25a4.85; calves, $25036.60. Hogs mixed and butchers, $5 8536.35 ; good to :hoice heavy. $6.2536.40; rough heavy f5.00a6.t5; light, $5.7536.00. Sheep Good to choice wethers, $4.6535.25; Western sheep, $460:16.00; native lambs, f4.75a6.50; Western lambs, $5.2536.60. East Buffalo. Cattle Veals, light to j-ood, $5.5037.00; choice to fsncy, $7,253 775. Hogs heavy, $6.5536.60; mixed f6.40a6.50; pigs scarce and 25c. higher; Sheep and lambs $5.0035.25 : culls to food, $3.5034.00; wethers, $5-2535 50; jrearlings, $5.5036.00; top lambs, $6,503 6.60; culls to good, $4.5034.00. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Chicago newsboys have formed a union. New York marine firemen are being organized. Cincinnati city employes enjoy the nine-hour day. Boston's building trades are likely to gain 30 cents an hour. Poughkeepsie's new $175,000 court house will be built by union labor. Norfolk journeymen palntrs were granted $2.50 a day for an, eight'hour day. ' , ...4 1 Alton, III., is the strongest labor city ; 70 per cent, of the voters are unidin men. Ninety-five per cent, of the railroad men of Vermont are in the uniuns.i Women's union label leagues, are being organized. They are for the wivfct ot unionists. Carpenters, tinners and many other unions are making demands for the eiht-hour day from May 1. , The splendid Pan-American buildings at Buffalo have been sold for $"oJ to the Chicago House Wrecking Co'r',i.iuiiy. Indianapolis labor men will b( ai sessed 1 cint per week for one ytf in order to raise funds for the proposed labgr temple. 1 rilE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT , THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Strong: Drink ths Corns of Millions la Oar Modern Civilisation Lying. Pro . rrsstlnstlon aud Self-Delusion Ars In Kvsry Glass of Spirits. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof aro the ways of death." Proverbs, xlv, 12. This is to be no sermon on teetol&ism. The desire is to discuss with young men and others, not a sentimental principle, but the interest of each individual. Strong drink is ths curse of millions in our modern civilisation. There is throughout society what may be called a "whisky level." This level exists in every great city and in every small vil lage. There are men clsssed as whisky drinkers, hard drinkers, and, whatever they may profess to believe, they are and they know : they are the pariahs of the immunity. Whisky has many apologists; there are many arguments offered in its favor. But these arguments are feeble compared with those that may be brought against it. You are told truthfully this: The drinking nations of the world are ths great and successful nations. A small handful of drinking English can subdue' ind control the temperate millions of In dia, Kgypt, etc. Perfectly true. The powerful races do drink. But the powerful individuals do not drink. The conquering armies are armies of drinking men usually but their leaders are sober, temperate men. If you want to be one of the ordinary crowd, no worse nnd no better than others, drink spirits 'moderately," as whisky's friends put it. But remember that there is no such thing is drinking whisky "moderately." Immoderate drinking makes you a brute; it clnsscs you among those in the picture; so-called moderate whisky drink ing takes the edge off your ability. It dis counts your mental activity. You can't be one of the really successful men if you ttnrt out to be a moderate drinker. What does a young man lose by not drinking spirits? In the first nlace it is necessnrv to culti vate the taste in the beginning. Why cul tivate it at all? In the second dace, admitting all the usual sophistry about moderate drinking, whisky means the loss of time, loss of money, loss of clear mental thought. There is boasting, lying, vacillation, pro toasting, , sclf-ue! crastmation lusion in every glass of spirits, How manv millions of men on their dying bed have wished fervently and mournfully that they had never tasted spiritsr Did any dying man ever regret a temper ite life? Enslnnd drinks more nin -nerhnns than any other two nations. But the gin of r.ngland is drunk by r.ngiann s tauures. The successful of England don't know the tnstc of gin. The deeper. you go into Whitcclmpel the greater tne numuer 01 gin bottles per capita. xoung men should Know ana aauy re member that whisky nnd all other spirits cheat their bodies and brains. Whisky docs for the nerves what a lash docs for a tired horse. Your system needs rest. Your bruin to compete with others ought to sleep and re cuperate. Whisky lies to you. It makes you think thnt it can give the rest and the renewed strength. It creates an appetite in the nerves, and when vou satisfy that appetite it makes you think you have lound renewed strength, whereas you nave only taken a new dose of poison. Your brain and heart are lashed by whisky into temporary activity. And you wonder that you are passed in life's race by the man of less ability. You need not wonder. He has given his brnin, body and heart normal rest, while you have given yours a beating. New York Journal. An Old, Old Story Told Again. To bo born with a good body, a pleasing countenance, quick intelligence, a tine voice and talent that wins early recogni tionthat, surely, is a heritage to be grateful for. A man who was thus endowed died in Boston on Sunday. Time was when people would crowd thea tres to hear him sing and see him dance and laugh at his fun. He made immense sums 0" money nnd might easily have retired with wealth be fore he was forty. Instead, he died penniless at fifty-six in a poor lodging house, separated from his family, anil all his friends were tired of trying to sava hnn from himself. Whisky. That one word is the epitaph of Billy Emerson, the minstrel, rich, and famous in his way not so very long ago. And ho differed from the countless wrecks whom he went to pieces only in his greater natural gifts ana tho larner oppor tunities for better things which those gifts brought him. He had plenty of brains and seemed to have good sense. But that was not so. No man with good sense will drink whisky when experience tells him that he likes it too well. . That is the lesson which Billy Emerson and all his unhanny kind bcipieatu to voung men. New York Journal. Is a Drunkard a Lunatic? Senator Trainor believes that an habit ual drunkard should be sequestered and treated in many respects the same as a lu natic. The Senator has introduced a bill in the Legislature at Albuny which per mits the commitment of a man charged with habitual drunkenness to an institu tion from which he cannot escape without an order from the Supreme Court. The bill in other forms has been introduced fo the last three years, and has always been opposed for its drastic assumption that a drunkard is unable to take rare of him self or manage his affuirs. It has been pointed out by those averse to the Trainni plan that there are so many varying de grees of drunkenness that there might b danger of wealthy man who drank free ly every day being hurried off by design ing relatives and locked up for an iudciv nite period. Das to Alsohollsm. Europe Is discovering that crime is im creasing there fur more Yupidly among tin young than among the amiltx. At thi fifth congress of criminal anthropology, re cently held in Amsterdam, the sturtling fact was brought out that there are si times us many murders committed b young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty as by adults between thirty and thirty-live. The cause is charged to the in crease of alcoholism. Ths Crusade In Brief. Mora alcoholic 1 quors are drunk in France than iu any other country. In 1880 one person in every 11515 Prus sians became insane by means of drink. Habitual drunkenness is a direct cuu for ubaulute divorce' in thirty-five Stutet of ths Union. . A great proportion of the epilopuy, idocy and mental deficiency ure also due to the diunkeu habits of-the parents or ol the afflicted themselves. From 1SS2-9I there were 41,5:50 tramps in the German labor colonies; all but twenty three per cent, of these were thus de graded through drunkenness. Experts in ths care of tha poor traca from titty to ninety per cent, of the pover ty to the drtlik customs. The Jerry JJcAuliffo mission in Now York City hud lust year an attendance ol 40,000 people at its meetings. Muny oi these are homeless men and drunkard. Ws have heard "there is little drunken ness in (ii'iiuany," but Dr. Bode stutet that "111 l'ruusia ulone 81113 cases of deli rium treinuus were treated in the hospitals iu im;' j Xo woman is compelled to live with tin worst of uil brutes u drunken brute to the peril of her hfalih ami life, but she hus a right to leave him and live torttver spurt fiuui him until he iuiuihu her iu dubituble evidence of rvlorin. I
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