"I '! 'i M ii'. V, PR, TALMAGE. L K DKI'AIITED STIMj LIVING." To I m TdU I he Story of Joscp h ami Jacob and Draw a rarallol. r,f. nii vhtt ht sate th iragon .... "r " enrrjr rim, inn Znl of .'.icon fiefr fofW retired. And C,,w 'iir 'lUienonyh: Joph, my son, t,r .. . ' uenet J'lh U-vptian rapl It,. 1.1 we nth. In i ((, ' UOUCSIS IT., -0, ital wti the foen of th nli iiM ami barge there m, I n'li I Tough! to I irom inma iraiiKiu cinnamon, and Ivory, and diamonds; - . . ... ..I.I,. a.,,1 Ifim I ,ui th .sorm, inni - rrm. urp'e and silk: from Uiwomo( he t'U''t dorses Ol llio wurm, nni wimiw iliniit chariot: anil Irom all the arth that which could bunt please tha eye, m l i i nrni me 'i ' A.r. . p. temples aflame with rail sand i,,r i -ntontl bv gateway that were guarded Jvi.ill.r lwil lering with hieroglyph!.!. hvi wound w 1th brazen serpents.and adorned J ith in I creature ih.iryes, ami Isssks, nl i i mon glittering with precious stone. I, ere were marble columns blooming Into I'.'"" r buds: there were pillar, at tl.e 4m . I.nr-t tug Into tho shape of the lotus when In full I. .Din. Along the avenue, lined with alum i.ii'l fane and ols-lisk, there were Ann . s v ho f aiiie In g. rgeouslv upholstered fcnliii! !im. carried by servant In scarlet, or Xisi.n..ie drawn by vehicle, the snow-white v, s .i den bitted, nn I mi abreast dashing l.irsi'S. ' a fun 1 . leiltl e ii. 1 Here wir lounmins iruni unw I vase rl inbing the laihlem of tha . i wonl.l henr ii bolt shnve.and a ilot.r nouldoisoi like a flash of the urn. viii I olllellllg gl.eis "I'm FnuimKii Villi . t'il I" ll vn 1.:1 i.t .1 Call,.' ...i I hut mounted the terrace, ami d trnni ti.e arlors, and burned their in the l-'gvpt nn noon, t hi Moor of tiie glouosof rharnoh were spelled i . iter of porphyry, and beryl, and I her.' were ornnincnt twisted from I of the tamarisk. mbossed with th" I . r I i. "iking into lomii. I here were root .; . in icje lit of a sinlo precious stone. 71 I" i"ii i itv U'd" Insliinni'd out or a ,i i linn in bronze. There were chair I with the sleek hnli of leop I nere were sofm funteil with the .rln wild In iit. nn. I armed with the l.iriln. A von ntniiil on the level le.-il,. l-i.-' i the on a umimer ilny, an I look ,HtlnT y, and thero are mile of lirenkor. , h:t th the 0.1-an fnam, ilashing nhore lwnr.1; it Beenied an if theiien of the world' f.iinp nn I wealth in the Kgyptmn rapitnl for ; i , 1 1 ! . unit miles Hung it.elf tip into white J I ii.iil.i.i of miirliln temple, niniiM:vum, and J 'I II - v,n tlio plnce where Joeph. the Hhep 1 1 . r.l 1 1. v. wnKi nllisI to Htand next to i'haraoh flu ln'ii-r. What a contrast between thin etii' mill In humble etnrting, and the pit t liitn w Ineh hi lirotliem threw nim. Yet ha wns ii. .t forgetful of hi; early home: ho was i lint ii.l.nmisl of where he came Irom. 'I ha I 1i-Ii.i. of Mint, ecenled from J a wheepvrlsht, covereil hi house I with 1 ;.s, and hummer, and J wh... : .. hiiiI 1 ne King of Kicily, in honor of Jlus 1.1I Iiit. who was a iotier, refimed to 1I1 ink out of 1111 thing but an earthen vessel. o .ln.i.ph wai nut iishnmoii of hi curly nr j r..iin l .iii:, or of hi olil-timo fiitlier. or of j lu 1 1 tlier. kVlien they cam" up from the j f.iiinii" stricken lund to get corn from ; the ling' corn crib, Joseph, instead i f .1.1 ling them for the wny they ) Ii i.l 11 1 lt rented and abused him, ont them I 1 k with wiigon, which I hnraoh furnishi) I, 4 l.i.ii with corn: and old Jnrob, the father, j In tln very Hume wiikoii, was brought back, tint .'ose'ph, the inn, might sec iiim, and I cive Iiim a cnnifoiatutilo home all the rest of I. is "l.IVS W . ll. I liearthowngons.theKing' wa-ion. ruinliiing down in front of the p ilw-e. On the niitsiile of the palace, to nee the wngon Ii' .'V, stands I'hnronli in rnynl rol; and li. Iiim I'rime Minister Joseph, with a eliiiin of gold around hi neck, and on his b'lti.l a ring given by 1'hiiraoh to him, so that nny time he wanted to stamp the rovil wil uihiii a iliHunient he could do no. Uncoil alter wagon roll on down from tlin palace, laden with corn am! ment, mi l change of raiment, and every thing I Imt could helu a famine-struck eople, I hie day I ea aged Jacob seated in front of his house. Ha is possibly thinUng of his absent boy ison. however old they f 't. me nevi r to a father any more than ovsi; bii I while he is seated there, lie see lut iirming, and he hear wagons rumbling, nu t lie wonders what is coming now, for the whole Inud had been smitten with tha f.iinine. and wi s in siieniv. i'.ut after a w hile the wngons have coma near enough, and he sees li sons on tho wagons, mi. I before they come ijuite up, they shout: ''Joseph is yet alive!" The old man foiut dead nwnv. I do not wonder ut it. The sys ted the story how that tho boy, the long-absent Joseph, has got to be tho first man in the Kgyptian paia.'e. While they union. I the unions, the wan and wasted creatures in the neighborhood coino up and n-k tora Imudlul of corn, and they are satis fied. 1 ine day the wngons are brought up, for Jni'oli, tint old father, is nliont logo to Sis Joseph m the Kuyutiitu pahice. You know it is not a v.'ry cu-y thinu' to truiisplaiit un old tree, uud Jucoli lins 1, 111. 1 work to get awaj from th p a 'o where hn ha lived so long, lie bil gnol-bye to the old place, ami leave his blessing with tha iieiglilii.ru, mid then his son sternly Iiim, while he, determined to help liimseif, Cets into the wagon, Ktitf, old and ile creiiiL Yonder they go, Jucoli and his son, and their wives, nnd their children, eighty two in all, followed by herds and tloi ks, which the herdsmen drive alcug. Tliev are going out from famine to luxuriance; they art going from a plain country home to tin finest palace under tha sun. Joseph, tha I'rime Minister, get lit hi chariot, and drive down to moet tho old man. Joseph's charioteer holds up the horses on one side the dust-covered wagons of the emigrants stop on the other. Joseph, instead ot waiting tor hi father to come, leap out of the chariot anil jum into the emigrants' wagon, throws his arm around the old man. and weeps aloud for past memorie and present joy. The father, Jacob, can hardly think it is his Iwy, Why, the smooth brow of childhood has become a wrinkled brow, wrinkled with the cures of state, and tha garb of the shepherd boy has becomo a robe royally bediemst! Hut as the old man liuds out it is actually Joseph, 1 see tho thill lip quiver against the toothless gum as he cries out: "Now let mo din, in. 1 have sn thy fait,: behold Joseph is yet alive!" Tho wugons rob up iu front of tho palace. Help out tlu grandchildren, and take them in out of the hot Kgypimn sun. Ueln old Jacob out of the wagon. Hum! word to I'haraoh that tho old shepherd has coma In th i royal apartment I'haraoh and Jacob meet dig nity and rusticity tha gracerulues of the -court and tha plain manners of the Held. The King, wanting to make the old countryman at ease, and seeing how whito his beard is, and how leeblo his step, looks familiarly into his face, and says to the aged mm) : "How old art thou f" tiiva the old man a seat. Unload tha wagons; drive out the cattle toward the pastures of ('OhIimu. lt the slave in scarlet kneel and wah the feet of the newly-arrived, wip ing them on the llnest linen of the palace, rrom vase of perfume let tha newly arrived I sprinkled and refreshed; let minstrel come iu with sandals of crimson, and thrum the harps, and clap the cymbals, and jingi the tambourines, while we sit dowu, at this Kreat distunee of time and apace, and learn the lifsou of the King' wagons. My friend, wo are in a world by sin famine struck; but the King is in constant communication with us, bi wagon coming and going iwriwtually ; and in the rest of my oiscoiirw I will show you what the wagon bring and what they take back. In the llrst place, like those tlmt cams from tiie r.gyptian palace, the King's wagons now bring u urn and meat, and many change raiment. We are apt to think of the Held and the orchards a feeding us; but who makes the tlax grow for tho linen, and th wheat for the broad, aud the wool ou lu nvep's back I Oh, t with we could ee through very grain field, by every iheep fold, under tha trees of every orchard, tha King wagon. 1 hey drive up three time a day morning, noon, and tiignt. They tiring fur from tue Arctic, they bring fruits from the tropic, they bring bread from the temperate tone. The King look out, nnd ha ayi "There are twelve huii.lrxi million ot ienple to ls fad and clothed. Ho many pounds of meat, so many barrel of flour, so many .vara ul cloth, and linen and flannel, so many hata, so many sock, o many shoe;" enough for ail, sava that w who are grea ly get more hoes than belong to 11, and other go barefooted. Nona but a Ood could feed and clothe tha world. Nona but a King' corn crib could appease tha world famine. Nona but a King could tell how many wagon to end,and now heavily to load them, and when they are to start. They are coming over the frown ground to-day. Do ycu not bear their rumblingi They will top at noon at your tube. ()h, trior a little wnue tnoy hould cease, hunger would come into the nation, a to L'tica when llamilcar b-sieged it, and a In Jerusalem whan Vespasian sur rounded it; and the nation would l a hollow eye. I, and fall upon each other in univer al cannibalism; and skeleton would drop upon skeleton; and there would be no one to bury the dead; and tha earth would be a field of bleached skeletons; and the birds of prey would fall dead, Hock alter Hock, with out any carcasses to devour; and the earth In silence would wheel around, one great black hearse! All life stopped because the King' wagon are Mopped. Oh, thank Ood for bread for bread! I remark again, that like those that cams from the Egyptian palace.the King' wagons bring us good news. Jacob had not heard from his wiy for a great many years, lie never thought or him but with a heart ache. Thore was in Jacob's heart a room where lay the corpse of his unhuned Joseph; nnd when the wagon came.the King' wagon,and told him that Joseph wm yet alive, he faint dead away. (Jood new for Jacob! (Jisid new for u! Thn Kinx'a wagon come down and tell n that our Joeph-.leu I yet alive: that He ha forgiven u because wa threw Him Into the pit of suffering and tha dun .'eon of shame, lleha risen from thenceto at md In a palaisa. Tho Itethh hem shepherd wore awaken-d at midnight by the rattling of the waiion that brought tho tidings, I ur Joctih-Jpus sends us a message of pardon, of lil. of heaven: corn for our hunger, rai ment for our nakvdne Joe-v .'wus is yet alive! I go to hunt up Jrsua I go to the vlllng of lethany, and say: "Where doe Alary live!" They sav: "Yonder Mary lives." I go In. 1 sea where she sat in tha sitting- room. 1 go out wnere Jtiarina worsen in the kitchen, but I find no Jesus. 1 go into 1'ilntes courtroom, and 1 find tha judge and tho p lice and tha prisoner' box, but no Jisus. I go into tho Arimathean cemetery; but tho door is gone, and the shroud is ffone. and Jesus i gone. By faith I look upto the King's nalace; and behold I have lound him ! Joseph Jesus IS still alive! morions religion, religion made not out of death' heads, and cross bones, and undertaker's screw-driver, but one bounding with life, and sympathy and glad ness. Joseph Is yet alive! ' I know thst my Itpdeemer live. Wtiit comfort this sweet sentence gives! He Uvea, He lives, who once was deuii, He lives, my ever-llvlug llcsil! M lie lives lo grsnt tun d illy tirrsth, lie lives, nnd I shall dimpier in tb. He lives my mmisliiu to nrepsre. He lives lo bring me ssful.y thore. Tie lives, all glory to Ills name; He lives, my ,ii ss, still the ssme. Oh, the sweet joy this sculer.ee niveu, I know Hist my Iddecnier lives!" Tho King's wagon will after awhile un load, and they will turn around, and they w ill go back to the Nila-e, and 1 really think that you nnd I will go with them. The King will not l'-ave, us 111 tiii famine-stricken world. The King has ordered that we be lifted into the wagons, nnd that we go over into (ioshen where there shall be pas turage for our largest Ihx-k of joy, and then we will drive up to the alhOe, where there are glories awaiting us which will molt all tha snow of Egyptian marble into forgetful ness. I think that tho King's wagons will take us up to so our lost friends. Jacob' chief anticipation wo not isiug the Nile, nor of seeing tho long lolounades of architectural beauty, nor of seeing tiie throne room. There was a focus to all hi journey nigs to all his anticipations; and that was Joseph. Well, my friends, I do not think heaven would 1st worth much if our brother Jesus was not there. If there were two heavens, tho o-ie with nil the pomp and paraphernalia of an eternal monar-hy, but no Christ, and tne otner were a plain heaven, humbly thatched, with a few daisies in the yard, aud Christ were there 1 would av: "let the King' wagons take me up to the old farm house." If Jesus were not in heaven, there would be no music! there; there would bo but few people there; they would be off looking for the lost Christ, crying through the universe: "rthero is Jesus! where is Josusf" and after they hud found him, with loving violence they would take him and bear him through the gates: and it would lie the great est day known in heaven within the memory of the oldest inhiib tant. Jesus never 'vent olf from heaven but once, and Ho wns so badly treated on that excursion they will never let Him go again. 1 di. the joy of meeting our brother. Jo-scph-JcMis! After wo have talked nlioutllim for ten, or (Illy, or seventy years, to talk with Him, and to clasp hands with the horo of the aes; not crouching us underlings In His present, but, un Jacob an I Joseph, hug each other. We w ill want some new term by which to h I.Ii. sh i.lmi. On earth e call Him Huviour. or Itedeemer, m- friend; but when we throw one urms around Him 111 everlast ing embrace, we will want some new iiuiiih of endearment. I can think of w hat we shull do through the long ag-s it eternity; but what we shall do the lirst minute I cannot guess. In the first Hush of His countenance, t'",."rMt rush of our emotions, what we shall do I cannot imagine. 1 Hi, tho over whelming glory of the lirst sixty seconds in heaven: Metiiiuks we will just stand, and look, nnd look, and look. The King's wagons took Jacob up to see hi lost I oy, and so I really think that tho King's wagons will take us up to see onr lost kin dred. How long is it sine Joseph went out of your hoiiselioldf How muny years is it now lust Christmas, or the fourteenth of next month r It was a dark night when he died, und a stormy day it was at the burial; nnd tho cloud wept with you, aud the winds sighed for the dea.L Tho bell at Hreeuwoo I a gate rang only a few moments, but your heart hu been tolling, tolling, ever since. You have been under a de lusion, lika Jacob of old. You have Y,ought that Joseph was dead. You pUt hi'i naiiirt Hint in tbo birth record uf tho family Itible, and then you put it in the death record of the family Bible, and vtm have been deceived. Joseph i yet ulivc Ho is more aliva than you are. Uf all the sixteen thousand millionsof children that stutfticiuns say have gone into the future world, there is not one of them dead, and the King's wagons will take you up to sue them- You often think how glad you will be tosoetheiu. Have you never thought, my brother, my sister, how glad they will bo to s.-e your Jacob was no more glad to sea Joseph than Joseph was to see Jacob. Every time the door in Heaven opens, they look to sea if it la you coming iu. Joseph, on e standing in the palace, burst out cry mg when ho thought of Jucob afar off. Ana tho heaven of your little one will not ba fairly begun until you get there. All tha kindnesses shown them by immortals will not make them forget you. There they are, the raidiunt throngs that wut out from your homos! 1 throw a kiss to tha woet darlings. They are all well now in the palace. The crippled child has a sound foot now. A little lame child says: "Jila, will I bo lame la heaven)1' "No, my darling, you won't bo lame in heaven." A little sick child says: "Ma, will I ba sick lu heaven. " "No, my dear, you won't b sick in heaven f" A little blind child says: "Ma, will 1 be blind iu bea ven f" "No, my dear, you won't bo bliud iu heaven." They are all well there. In my boyhood, for some time wo lived turea wile from church, and ou stormy day tha 'children staid at home, bnt father hnd mother al way went to church ; that wk a habit they had. On those stormy Hll4th when ws staid at noma, tha a'isenee ofiour parent setmeri very much protra.ted, for the roads were very I ad, and jhey coul I not get on very fast. Ho 1 we would go to the window at twflva O'clock to see if they were ronii, and then wa would go at half -psst twelfe to see if they were coming, and at ipiartr to one, and then at one o'clock. After a while, Mary, or David, or DnWitt would shout! ''ihe wagon' coming!" and then we would sea it winding out of the woods, and over the brook, and through tha lane, and up In front of the old farm-house; and then we would rush out, leaving the doors wide open, with many things to tell them, askinr them many question. Well, my dear I reth ren, I think ws are many of us in the King's wagons, and we are on the war home. Tha mad Is very bad, and wa get on slowly; but after a while we will pome winding out of the woods, and through the brook of death, and up in front of the old heavenly home stead; and our departed kindred, who have been waiting and watching for us. will ro.h out through the doors and over the lawn, cryfng: "The wagons are coining! the King's wngons are coming!" Hark! the bell of tha City Hall strikes twelve. Twelve o'clock on earth, and likewise it I high noon In heaven. Pn-s not the subject of to-day take tha gloom out of the thoughts that wou'd oth:-r-wise be struck through with midnight! Wa use I to think that when we died wo would have to go afoot, sagging down in the mire, and tha hounds ot terror might get after us, and If we got through Into Heaven at all, wa would come In torn, and wounded.and bleed ing. I rememlssr whom mv teeth chattered and my knees knockisl together when 1 heard anybody talk about death; but I have coma to think that the grave will l tho softest bod I ever slept in. and the bottom of my feet will not la wet with tho passage of t.ha Jordan. "Them that sleep in Jesus will Ood bring with Him.' 1 wa reading of Robert Houthev, who said he wished he could die far away from his friend like a dog, rrawlin? into a corner and dying unobserved. These were his words. He it ours to die on a couch sur rounded by loved ones, so that thev with u may hear the glad, sweet, jubilant announce men': "The King's wagon are coining." nark! I hear them now. Are they coming ior you or mn TEHPERANCK HEADING. An Appal I Ins: Drink IH1I. Verily, American are a thirsty people. 1 h national ilrfnk bill i simply enormous. and. er capita, fsr exceeds that of any other I staple nn earth. W'e plume ourselve over ho yearly increasing strength of the Prohi bition movement and boast of the numlsrof Mates that are tiassmg tirohihitorv laws, but Ihe bad fai t remains that we are pre-eminent for bibulous capacity. Take tins one fact alone a the startling evidence of what we mean: I hiring ls7 the average consump tion for every man over twenty-one years of ace m the I inte.t (States amounted, in rounil numbers, to sixty gallon of leer nnd six gal on or whisky, whlcU cost to tne con sumer nt retail $-4, or a grand total paid by the nianlKssi of the nation of ifl.isNl.utHt.iKMil one thousand million dollar for whisky ami beer. Kiiiii-yitr We nre paying enough for those two ilrmk alone to create one thou sand millionaires every year! This account noes not include wine, branny, rum, gin. vinei' nr bitters, American drinks, soda water, lescr.ain, etc. There is no question about ihe correctness of tho data given. Any rcIiooIIhiv can work out the calculation, and it is worth the while of all sch'Milboys land of all old bovs. too. for the matter of that) to ork it out Tho Hun an of Statistics at ashmgton give the following liiturc, which, of come, are nllicial and reliable: Malt liquors consumed riur ng 1K7 in the I lilted (State (we drop the odd llguros), V.JO, 00. 1.000 gallons; distilled spiritsof home man ufacture consumed during the same ieriod, 13.000.001) gallons. It is a fair estimate of the prices realized over the I ar to sny that lssr costs the consumer Mil cents wr gallon and whisky ft) iwr gallon. It follow.: that the drinkers of tho nation paid l,oob.O KUHXI for Iwr and home-niBde spirit (almost wholly whisky) during tho llscal year last I jibbc. j fixing tne louil ninie anuii. nopu.etiuii at about what it is, namely. J.OtKi.Ooo, it re sults that the men uf the nation are paying an average of ft per bead per annum fur the whisky and beer they drink, it Is a stu pendous nnd appalling account As a people, we put into our mouths drinks that largely steal our brains away, which cost us .i,0 hi,. Ootl during every twenty-four hours, Sunday and week day; or three times the entire revenuo ithe ot noxious surplus nnd all) col lected by the United States (loverninent. This money, if applied to rnilroad building, would, at the rate of t'J.'i.O Hi a mile, give us no less than thirteen trans continental rail roads every year. If devobxl to purposes of travel, it Mould ennb e every man in the 1'nited Stnte to en oy a two months' trip to Europe once in every three years. It would pay off all that remains of the nation's in debtedness in lil t, en months. Within lifteen ye.ira the amount of our national drink lull would sulllce to extinguish the obligations of every government on thisglolie of ours, nnd leave the nation of trieiaith free from debt (lur beer and whisky money, if saved and invested every Lull ear in (loverninent thr.n per cents, would provide a fund morn than sulllcieiil to give every child hereafter born iu tha I nited Mates a I.. it idle ot fin. (Kill upon arriving at the age of twenty one year. Then, again, our ill inking capacity is on the increase a l the time, lu 1MU wo (onsiuned 01 malt liquors, wr capita, one uud thirty sixth liuiidreiitlis gallons. 'I his consumption has gone 011 cnlm'iiu Hi nn ever increasing ratio, until, 111 lr. it reiti'hed within a I net on of twelve gallons Mr capita. Iu 1711 we were ablotodr.uk Lut. thre.i mid one tifth gallons kt capita, so that our beer drinking capa city utmost quadrupled within seventeen years, and th end is not yet. If tho con teqiieiitial or mil reel damage account were charged up iu our national drink bill, how vastly the sum total would I enlarged' Tha hours lost to productive labor through drink, the bushel of grain turned to an interior pin pose, the cost of jails, etc., who shall led! -iun tranvico Suit Letter. Danger of Contaglssn. The Quarterly Journal of Jnehrietij, -orn tho purely scientnic point of view, i-ouiii'.s this timely note of warning to young men, 1 speciully'to such as are not physically jo busl, concerning the danger involved iu tho "n nlagion ol drinking companions:" "A yi ung man with nn unstable nervous organ natiou lieioines reduced in health, und is subject to contagion of drinking com 1 ami lis, uses spirits to intoxication; the result is, his physical system Kikes a diseased tendency, which quickly develops into ine br ety. No matter what tho surrounding nuiy I e, he is under the control of diseased iini uli-es, which carry him farther from health and sanity." To all such eecially, as indeed toeverybody, total abstinence from iiii'oholic leverages is a great safeguard to ihyiicul and d health. General I.ce aa an Abstainer. The littleigh (N. C.) Christian Adroente, In giving examples of total abstinence from Intoxicants, relates the following ot Ucnerul Itobert E. lee: "Just as he wa starting to the Mexican war a lady of Virginia gave hint a Lottie ot fine old whiskey, sluting that ho would no doubt need it, aud would not I e able to ilnd any in that country. The (leneral said, years afterward, in reference to this bottle: 'I curried that bottle all through the war without having the slightest occasion to use it, and on my return home I sent it back to my good Iriend that she might ba couv need that 1 could get on without liquor.' On another occasion the (leneral Invited some friends to drink with him. The demijohn was brought out, the glusses were filled not with old 'Cognac' or bourbon 'but with fresh buttermilk, which a lady, knowing his taste, bad sent bim." in Switzerland seventy per cent of the young man are said to be unlitted by tha use of alcohol and tobacco for the military ser vice required by the Government, and upon examination have been rejected on account of this impairment of their physical con dition. -. -'' i SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON POU DECEMIlKn 10. " The Death of Sameon," Jnilgc xrl., a 1-81 Golden Teiti Job xxxll., 0 Notra, In alt the Scripture the great truth I kept before us that If we would enjoy peace ami have victory over all enemies, it must l by a mind staved upon Hod, and by an hutiibl walk with Him In cheerful and whole hearted obedience. Another truth brought Imtore ui over and over again Is that tlod ofter chooses the moat unlikey instrument! with which to accomplish His purpoe, that no flesh may glory in His presence. And everywhere we are taught (lod's readiness to forgive and to restore to favor and in ! ni nes in some measure when there is a trut turning from sin to Him, either ou the pari of a nation or an individual. Uldeon judged Israel forty Tears and wai succeeded by Al.lmeleeh, Tola an I Jalr; then they did evil again and were oppressed by the l'hllistinea and Ammonites eighteen yesr; (Jod then raised up Jephtha a their deliverer and judge, ami ho wa succeeded by lbram, Elon and Alston: then they did evil again and were delivered into the hnndi of the I hlllsilnes, who oppress.! them forty year; tlod then raised up Samson a a deliverer and judge, aud his is the Inst rule recorded in tho Iwmk of Judges, the closing chapter describing the condi tion of th ng when "every man did that which was right in h own eve." Non of the .udnes In thi liook have so lull a record as Sampson, four chapters Is-liu de voted to the account of his birth ami liienii.l death. No one of them wrought such mighty j B.-"s nun no one prove 1 nimsoii so weak. The secret of hi might is found in chapters xiii. 'J.'i; xlv, fl, l!; xv, 14; whatever mighty work he did wns by the snirlt of tic l.nl, all that wa weak and sinful iu him wa th manifestation ot the limb. It I just so with 111 to day, nnd the only sure way is to reckon one's self dead unto 'sin and alive unio tio.l; be emptied of self and tilled with the spirit. 21. "Tho I'hilistines took him, and put out his eye," Heboid him, a pnsoner.a slave, blind and helpless, and consider who be is and w hat he had Iwen. Hi birth was fore told by the Ixird, who nprd twice to his mother and once to Ids father; he wa a Naxarit to Ood fro-n hi birth, that 1. one who was fully separated unto the lord, hay Ing nothing to do wiih the vine, either a to wine or grapes, and no razor wa to coin upon his head. iNiim. vl. 1 S ; as to his mighty acts, ho had rent a lion a ho would j have rent a kid, he had '.lain a thou md men with the jawbone of an ass; when stint iu a city by thise who wanted lo kill hi 111 he aro- in the night and took the gate and the sst end the liar on his shoulders and carried them away to the top of a hill, and many other marvelous fentsof superhuman strength bad he performed, but now his power uud glory have departed from him, and he is in the power of his encmii. a oor, blind, help le prisoner. What Is the causn of thi ter rible fall, and why thi reproach upon the lord through His servant ( I'or not only 1 Samson disgraced, but tho name ot tbo lord i dishonored. The cause wa simply that, Samson lind de parted from his constcration and ha I given his time and ai ten turn to th 114 which ha Should have Uen separated from. Oelkin sny that Samson, the fool of women all hi life, set in his blindness to do a woman slave's work in turning the hand mill its tie sat on the floor, which was the very MiHrlntive of humiliation. A ho hud sown, so ho wa reaping. V!3. "The hrir of his head legnn to grow again." Not that Samson's strength lay in his hair, but In hi consecration to tlod, ol which his lock were an outward token; and as we see the outward evidence of his separa tion to (iod returning, have we not reason to believe that in his heart there is true peni tence and a sincere return to the Hod of Israel, who had so wonderfully called In in, but whom he had so grievously slandered. 'Jd. "A great saorillce unto l'agon, tho r god." flagon I mentioned ten time in I Samuel v. 2-7. and once in 1 Chronlclns x. IU. 'it wa th great national god of th i'hil.s- unes. 1 a name signilies "lisli," and ita form is said to have been the face and hand ot a man with th tail of a lish. Sacrificing unto idols is culled in th Scriptures sseri flcing unto devils" (Iv. xvii, 7: Heut xxiii, 17; i s. cvl, 37: 1 Cor. x, 'Joi, and it is worth while to rsinember that if we do not wor ship lu spirit and in truth the only living and true God, we are In some sense worship ing the devil. This is what Satan desires, and for just one act of worship from the Son of (Iod he offered to give all the kingdoms of thi world and th glory of thrum Mat t iv. H, Hi; lis had tempted and overcome Sam son and now he has all th lord of the i'lul is tines worshiping him. 24. "They praised their god." If Samson had only praised the living aud true (Iod by a wholu hearted consecration to Him, then these (jcutilcs had not had this occasion bf praise their god. If we considered thnt every act of our which does not glorify our (iod only adds to the glory of the devil, perhaps we would Iks more careful lest through us the great adversary gain any advantage. It wa when Helsha.ar and Ins lords prais-1 the gods of god und of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone, that the lingers of a man' hand were seen to write the nation's doom upon the wall, and thai very night I'ur ius took the kingdom. 1 1 111. v, -I, :iu. When people take to praising the devil their doom is certain and of I tunes verr swift 1 1 "Our (iod bath delivered into our hand our enemy." In thi und the preceding versa wa ilnd this statement, and they 110 deubt thought it true. Nebuchadne.ar probably thought that he subdued .lehoiakim, out it Is written that, "the lord gave Jshoiaklm into his hand." (Dan. I. U.) Wa would do well to rciiuunlxir that them is i God in heaven who doetti according to Hit will iu tho army of lleuveii. uud anions the Inhabitants of tho earth iDan iv., Xn, and nothing can occur except by His i ni ss.un. 'i "I 'ail for Nutnsoii, that hn may malm us sport." A great company of uiieircum cisod 1'hilistmcs praising und worshiping devils or demons, mi l a servant of the Groat (iod of Israel in their midst inakingspnrt tor them. It is trim he was 1 ol there ol his own accord nor was it by any means to bis liking; but it ho h id not of hi ow n iron will and by his own choice depart. l from being consecrated to God, ho hud never come to this most pitiful and disgraceful condition. Every Christian professes to bo called out of the world audsrtjiurutcd unto Go! for Hi SHcliil and continual serve'.., that ho may bear and honor the name of Christ his lie ileemer and giithor other unto Him, What then shall wo say if a minister of the Gospel, a Sunday-school teacher, or any profess. ng Christian Ik seen loving tho company of the ungodly, und of his own accord seeking fellowship with thoiii that he may enjoy their friendship! Will it bo any wonder if such an one becomes spiritually blind, bo coin polled to lubor to provide such food us they chooau, and bring upon him only their ridi cule Do wo need to look very fur to Ilnd even minister iu just such a cusef "Suffer me that I may feel the pillar." Tho penitent one Is seij-d with n teirible purpose, terrible to tho enemies of God, who are through him blaspheming that holy name., and now if God will only bo avenged upon His enemies ho will gladly lay down Ins poor, unworthy Ufa as a sucrilice. The pillars were the siipiirt of the houso, and tho safety of thousands of Uvea doMi'idud upon their sta bility. The church of the living Ood is the pillar and ground (or stay) of tha truth, and all tho wisdom of hell cannot prevail against It (1'J'iiu. ill., l"i; Mutt xvl., IH); but those who seem to be pillars in the church are often seen to fall, and who can toll how many live are lost through thonif 7. "The house was full of men and women." Three thousand on the roof, but bow many thousands iusido we nre not told; all beholding while Sumson muku sport. How few such gatherings are found to wor ship God; onoiu iirooklyn, 0110 in london, a few others here and thore; but how easy to gather the thousands if thore is any sport in the service ot Satan. US. "Samson called unto the lord." He doe not seem to have been raised up to load forth an army, like Otuneil, Deborah aud .A w,,s,. rr- .'"-jwW"' VtW,,,,, alt. Ulrteon or Jephthah, but rather br 1 ot personal valor to avenge Israel. W acts now see him in prayer, his last prayer, and strange a such prayer may seem to us, Ood answered it We must see Samson here on tha side of the lord desiring the oxerthrow of the enemies of the lord. Home one ba suggested that he had better sight now than before be lost hi eyes. It is not our natural sight, but the degree in which we see God or the measure of our faith which make us to have power in His service. 50, "Famson took hold of the two middle pillars." Tho people all watching, no doubt, to see what new form the sport would take, wholly unconscious that In a moment they would be lu sterility. Samson knew thnt he would die with them, but ha knew Him whom he trusted; for a moment longer they are all in the same company, for a litt; while their bodies lay In the same hem, but what about their souls, which cannot dief SO, "Ho slew at his death more thin he lew in his life." 'I hnusands out into the unseen In a moment and they ways now separata; Samson, the only one among them all who knew God, nnd ho an unfaithful wit ness; but we cannot follow. lt us rather turn from this sad story to contemplate Him who was the onlv perfect N'asritc during His whole life that this world eversiw; never for a moment did He turn aside from Issing w h uly separate unto God. Let u rejoiisj that Ho w ho wa made sin for u. i become righteous to every one that l.rlieveth. and that we are accepted in Him. .oa lletiier. RELIGIOUS READING. These Thrro il f 'or. xlll. 1.1). There are three lessons I would write Threo words as with a burning ism In tracing of ethereal light, t Js.n the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though cloud environ now, And gladness hide her face in scorn, rut tlmu the shadow from thy brow; No night but hath Its morn. Havo Faith. Where'er th v bark is driven Thn calm's disport, tho tenqM-st s mirth Know this: God rules the host uf houvou The Inhabitants of earth. Have t.ovK. Not nlouo for one, Hut man. n man, thy brother call, And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Tim grave thi so lessons nn your soul Hope, Faith and love and thou sh ilt find Strength when lire's rudest surge roll, Light when tuou else woit blind. Lead I s Not Into lciiiptutlon. It has Issui sdd thnt wo cannot tell what a banker's c edit really is until we have sin bun go through one tlnancml pmic, or what any man's moral arc tmtd wo have seen hi in exposed to one Urst-chis temptation. In fact, no man know himselt thoroughly until ho hn passed through this ordo-il. The young Christian whom Terluldnn tell us (r, thought a visit to the amphitheatre would be Uselul in deou'iiing bis horror of gladiatorial shows, but when he got thero ho was a eager to si-, and got as excited and yelled ns loudly as anybody. He, ws not so good a Christian when ho re mo away as when he went in, but bo wu betie'r acquainted with tbo secrets of his own nature. There Is n goo I story of a colonel lu the Into war, who wi.s in command at an out isist, ami mi Ide nly deserted and di I not turn up for several weeks. then eon fessti!, with shame, that ths cotton specula tors were getting so near tho breaking strain 011 his virtue, by their oll'ei s of money for permits, that he fell ho mud run away In order to avoid the greater dihgtuce. ,s,i also, il is Mild that 110 pledge can bind n cainlid ito tor ro e.ection as long a ho Ir s the control of tho olllces, no matter how sin cme he may be in making tlcm, and thnt, ns we cannot take away Ironi bim tho c m trol of the nlllces, wo musl w holly remove the temptation to prostitute them cither for In own benellt or Unit of bis party, ITua Evening I'ost. Do Not lie Afraid to Alt. Many a young Christian even if no lon ger aotu..;,y young In yenr.s lctsl "meitu d advice occasionally and I relucti k for it Tho minister is friendly, and un doubtedly would Is. glad to give the desired aid, but is believed to bo too much engrohS'-.l with his special duties, or m meeting th pressing wants of other. The older church member are ulso kind and cordial. Hut m ine of thcui are coustittitisl so differently by nature, or are situated in life so differ ently , that they hardly can ls expected to enter into the ca-o understanding!) ; and the others are us busy us tho pastor, and urn supposed to ls 111 tho b .bit of relo. riug every I hi ly to him for such suggestion us nro wanted in tiiis case. So tho inexNri enred but. anxious ( 'hi Minn hesitn'es delays, nnd Hnally gis-s without the help be needs; mid either he gets into trouble which ho might have been shown how to nvoid, or else ho escape It by bis own endeavors, but ut the co t of Very wearing und uiniercsMiry anxiety mid labor. If vim are in bis case, do not bo afraid to nsk for the help which you desire. I In not delay, but apply lor it. at once. Either tho p stor or Mime other Christian friend, whom you know to po-se-s good si tiso and cxt leiice. will give it t you gUdly. The inter view w ill be enjoyable, and it will bo worth 111010 than you oped uf it. The help that yon ss cially need will l u given you, if pus s.ble, and also relations of 11 inor.i or lcs conll lentiul, nnd thoroughly delightful and Um.IuI, liuiuio will bo cstiibl she I between you and tho In. -n l whom you accost. A mutual interest in imch other s religious his toiy and wellure will be created, which will continue nnd w ill bo full of blessing, You will do good 11 Well us secure udvicu nnd aid. I'lobubly Isith of you especially if you kuenl together Isdoro pulling in order to ask the divino favor and uid--will draw nearer than ever nut only to each other, but ulso to J. 'Mis Himself, (lo mil Ui 11 fl uid to Bsklorth0111lviceorl1elp.it any soil that you niH).l. Yu w ill be glad when j uvi buvo Sskod. !C 'llglegall.iliall.st. Tiie Saloon-Keeper's Karnlne. "Iliuve iniule 111 ar lnhil during tho lns three months, mid a run seder I o'lslfullv to n croud nf his townsmen. "You lunninudo more tin. 11 thai." quietly n marked a listener. "What is that1" wus the cluck response. "You have made wretched bonus women end children 1 nor, sit k. and weary of life. You have iniule my two sons driinUnr.!s," continued H e -pi okcr, w 11b t remblinu earn est ness, " You iniule tho younjerof the two so ill link that be lell and "in. ,ureil himself for life. S ou havo made their mother a broken I cal led women, oh, yes; you havo made much- more than I can reckon up, but you'll get the full amount sumo duy." A Worker I'rom Switzerland. Kev. Mr. Kempin, a minister of tho Evan gelicul Chun h, recently arrived from Zurich, gave a Mew York I oice reporter some inter est ng facts about the urtaniatiou of the foes of tiie liquor trallic and their methods of work iu the lb public of Swit.crlaml. Tin y have organized intototal abstinence societies, pud now number 10,o 0 members, dividod into about mi local I rani lies. I nch of these controls one or more coffee house, suppli.st with newspiqicrs und reading tables, where inen can spend pleasant evenings. Switzerland bus tin.' legislative bodies, nil now agitated by the linuor question. Each of these bodies takes a different stand. I liio advocates letting the trallic alone, another prox ses to place a high tux upon it, w hile tiie third demands its total extermination. I pon the outcome of the discussion ifeiiil tho question whether a political 1'rohibition party shull be put in the Held. Mr. heinpiu bus como lo this country with the determination of entering tho work of I'rolnbdion among the Germans. "The Ger niiins are not. the beer scakod race they are uppised to be," said he. "1 have talked with many of them, and 1 have found them generally eager toleurn about the movement. Thrro are 11 large number of Geniinns who are oiqs sod to the liquor trallic, and all that prevents tbviii from entering into this move ment with alacrity is jgnuranco ot Its DiotlioUs and objects. '' Kara, Ererj4j Esprenloai IllutraUtf. Sttibbln wa one of your short, bui Uing, business men, with a mind not above lisms, but tome pnoil-nutured traits. I lo was ordinarily reiply to lend money to his friends, and it wa tuthci a surpriso to llrown nno Liy when he did not get from stubbing the loan ha asked for. A a tuntler of fact, Stubbint refused for thn sake of making a joke, lie looked up at llrown and said : "I'd like to, but tlio fai t is I'm 'a littlo short' myself to day." Z, V"-t.V -si Crummies wa always terribly In enrn est, but also devious iu his ways taking often it roundabout rctirso even when directness would have suited his purposa butter, lie rould never be tlio tdniht forward Anlo !axon. lie, ulways 'beat about tho bush." 1 r, Some men throw away chances of fnrttiiie-mii'viii"; when fortune, is fairly within their jjrnsp. lilitlicn wns ona of this sort, lie hud n lew tlioiE-amU laid aside wh t.h lie wanted to invest. It was iust before tho late nsu in wheat that he 1111 1 So'lens, who knew ;,felty irp.'l what was iomin iu tha market and wa not averse to imparting t, is in. formation to lilithons. Yet 1 lit lion never Hindu the investment, thoubi bdii ileus "gave him 11 pointer." They told him that he hud belter not go out for his u-uiul constitutional; that the thermometer wa. falling; that tin siotiiil-scrvice 1 no 1 aniiotiiiccil 11 coming llorin, and thnt above it looked lika nil). Ho was 0110 of your obstinate fellow, tliotioli, uud shifted forth with out 1111 umbrella I lo soon hud imisu to regret it. "Tho rain foil iu sheet." (Jlduiji) Tim: Tlio Development of a Li:tigli. Horse on Snoivshoe. SnowsUoos huvu l ocn worn for yortra by horses on tho ( 'rovilln and tjuincy mail route in California dining tha winter months. It would be impossible, for them to travel over the deep snows without their nid. A horse that is ac customed to wearing them will travel live und six milu uu hour, wlicru it would bo impossible to iro that distance iu a week without tlictn. The shoes are mudu of thin steel plutc. about nine by eleven Inches, fastened on the hoofs with clamp. The horses urn shod with lonrr heel corks which k thn.uoli the mow shoes, and jiievent thoir slipping going up and down hill. A Julck Trip Arouud Ihe Horn. -Xija. I4c 1 t 1 f ; is ilk 1'- .nct-- s. - v. i.'-s:M?..
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