a rE - NE SE . DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. The Witness-Stand. “We are witnesses,” Acts 3: 15, he days of George Stephenson, cetor of the locamotive engine, scientists proved conclusively that vilway train could never be driven by steam-power successfully without peril; but the rushing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London, have made ail NATION WITNESSES of the splendid achievement. Machin- ists and navigators proved conclusively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic Ocean; but no sooner had they ALL THEI undertaking than the work was done, and the passengers on the Cunard and the Inman and the Na- tional and the White Star lines are wit- There went up a such an 1IOSSeS, wise l position to make the lightning of heav- en his errand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done; but now all the news of the wide world, by Associated Press, put in your hands every morning and nignt, has made all nations witnesses, =o in the time of Christ it was proved conclusively that it Him to rise from the shown logically that dead, he was dead, and the heart and the liver and the lungs having ceased to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigid sal, absurdity that dead. It when a man was They showed it to be an ab- the dead Christ pel of Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being “Free grace!”’ Oh, it was free grace There is a man who was for ten years a hard drinker, The dreadful appetite had sent down its roots around the palate and the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of body, mind and but he has not taken any stimulants for two years. What did that? N of societies, Not prohibitic Sion, soul 3 temperance mm laws. Not moral sua- CONVERSION DID IT. “Why.,» change said ond hom the great had Coe, sil, I though I were | upon w 4 feel Just as I'here way from and when han when he was it that danities, somebody else { is a sea-captain who swore all the from New York to Havana, and Havana to San Franciso, was in port he was worse t What | washed his tongue | and made lrim a psalm-singer? by the Holy There { thousands of people in thi to-day i who are no were { than wi morning nor Ali WIAs on Sed, HOWE] clean of pre | sion Spirit, 1Ose ee ht than the deac 3 disciples behel proved this to prove that to be true which the wise- acres of the day had proved possible; the record and of th stimony is in “Him hath God raised from whereof we are witnesses.’ Now, let me play the sceptic for a **There is no God,’ says the I have never seen Him “our Bible There to be experimer the the dead ti Lie of iif t prop 1311 the re v first ASV in The yr bear } 1] as on thus, People 3 Mae 1 years sOonaries i reached vert: but are thirt) th sand comverts in Madagas to-day. People laughed at Dr. Judson, the Bap- tist missionary, because kept preaching in Burmah five years with- put a single but there a twenty thousand Daptists in Burmah to-day. People laughed at Doctor Mor- gison, in China, for preaching there seven years without a single conversion; sbut there are fifteen tians in China to-day. People laughed the missionaries for preaching at iti for fifteen years without a single | gonversion, and at the missionaries for | preaching in Bengal seventeen years | without a single conversion; yet in all those lands there are multitudes of Christians to-day. But why go so far to find EVID) fo sive a soul? “We are witnesses,’ We were so proud that no man could bave humbled us; we were 80 hard that no earthly power could have melted us; angels of God were all around about us; they could not overcome us; but one ‘day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious | peat, or at a Presbyterian catechetical lecture, or at a burial, or on horseback, & power seized us, and made us get down, and made us tremble, and made us kneel, and made us cry for mercy, «and we tried to wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but we could not, It flung us flat, and when we arose we were as much changed as Gourgis, the seathen, who went into a prayer. meeting with a dagger and a gun, to fistuch the meeting and destroy it, but die next day was found erying: “Oh! my great sins! Oh! my great Saviour!” aud tor eleven years preached the ‘Fos lagascar | tel there he On convert; re thousand Chris- | wy ES OF THE GOSIEL'S POWER who have b there—come, all 3 this Gospel to there no power in I the worst pa i up an { : There an f comforted 5 ¥ ff oo 0 } { answer irom and child- aye, we are witnes g Again, I remark that we are wits of the fact tifat religion has power to rive composure in the moment, shall never forget the first time I death, We t went country. HES aol Yep cd FAST AC TrOSs I was le ither's hand, and we farm-<house where the BEREAVEMENT IIAD { towd of ft) (84 COM} saw the wagons and but ere Was one carriage attracted my boyish at- I said: Why those And after it was explained to me, 1 was lifted up to Jook upon the bright face of an aged Christian woman, who three days be- fore had departed in triumph. The whole scene made an impression I never forgot. , In our sermons and in our lay exhorta- tions we are very apt, when we want to bring illustrations of dying triumph, to go back to some distinguished personage ~t0 a John Knox or Harriet Newell, But 1 want you for witnesses, 1 want to know if you have ever seen anything to make you believe that the religion of Christ can give composure in the final hour Now. in the courts, attorney hat? d * jury and judge will never admit must have seen and I want to know whether | { composure in the final how “Oh, yes? say, * | father and mother depart, a great [ saw Th vOul ©re IN THEIR DEATH { Stan ‘ ling by the one we felt more vener | ation, By the tl wis 1 her, there | tenderness,’ Of { perhaps in awe. In the other ca felt vou would like to i her. How did they {| hour? ow did ti { Were they very much they take hold of this world with | hands as though they did not “Oh, no,’ you Sa) it were yesterday ind word for us all, ane Ww 1 hild as 20 ale were toes nee! among t i how i } y I, i { i il 8116 Ie i fathe we Imus no it tremt and beaming he Star of ‘hlehem eth “Deep horror then my ath-struck I oes When sud ¥ a starar It was the Star of Bethlehem vitals frow IM od the len va cried t gL $3 ot ’ : iL 18 Oh, hearers, casier { YOu DOW than it is to stay When MADAME ol tO bev istians AWAY ist and heaven, SONTAG n a8 hissed riends of I had in lecline through her dis- Y ears passed on, and one day Madame Sontag, in her glory, was rid- ing through the iis of Berlin, when she saw a kading a blind woman, and she said, “Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that you are leading by u hand?’ And the little child replied, “That's my mother : that's Amelia Steininger, She used to be a great singer, but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight.” “Give said, Madame Sontag % 1 \ DEAD Der HUSICAL CA'eer she § off the stage at Vienna by the her rival, Am already beg { : . 3 ella Steininger, who 11s tore : $3 sipation, Ww 1 tlie ie The next week in Berlin a vast as. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give to the poor blind woman, Until the day of Amelia Steininger's Sad Ler daugter after her, That was of ! § | enemy, But ill. 10Uu were { Lord away-—Christ comes now 3 | thee sight, to give thee a home, to { thee heaven, With more than He need, With mu He 34+ deliverance, oh, hear a more thrilllng Blind, immortal, poor and who, when the world and { it tl v tO Ki § Comes meet 3 iM our more ov Ear? OLIVARES 1 Ores {thy - A { MODERN PIANISTS. ing Musical Compositions. \ N Ulnerous as are the modern vet few among them have ned any extraordinary fame by as KE Xcepling | Rubinstein and Von Bulow, who stai | alone in their art, and | i on account of thisage and fame established f . id { In po ws, ina ull ©6 CARES 2 Century for thr Il extinguish all cot | hal | pe Younger generat) i we will at once examine the most pre nent of Camille t yan; he ALISO the pianists of to-day. Saint-Saens leg the Is a veri ong pian and yet, WOrns +s Wonderful New ifie with im ble with or bore of the gun is very sm ball, which is of steel and sharply pointed at one end, is said to revolve at a speed of a thousand revolutions a second, by the French government this bullet Ie Cer tain aim t Deen poss Tt hia dinary SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. —— — a——— | ! Golden Precepts, LESSON TEXT, 1-12. Memory verses, BuxoAy, Berry, 11, 1887, Matt. J SON LES Toric iy 1 King in Zim. | GOLDEN TEXT vor THE QUARTER: i Yet have I set my king upon my hotly ld | of Zion.—Pga, 2 : 6. 0} LS {fue Ly IAving, Lesson Ould Toru fudge Men, va Approach God, va, 7.1 Regulate Action, vs, 6 ¥ TEXT: er y (1. How to l. How 1 {3, How 1 rié ” GOLD) J whalsoe y 3 | 4 | to you, do ye even so Lo them. Matt. y With Caution II. With Sincerity, i $ ' IL { After Preparation Assurance | think at a distance of 500 yards; it will go through any kind of armor which can be worn by soldiers, and at a dis- tance of more than a mile will pass through a mass as easily as at ten paces. | The gun has no recoil under fire, and the powder gives out no smoke what- ever, It has been said thatthe powder used must be a type of smokeless hunt- ing powder already th the market; but { this | that he uses an entirely new compound. | The Lebel gun is, of course, a repeater {and the cartridges are so sinall that | each soldier carries 220 rounds of am- munition, as against 116 rounds, for- | merly congidered the maximam, { The French government is now mak- | Ing these guns at the rate of 500 a day | at Saint-Etienne, and is preparing to turn out double that number, Four factories, those at Chatellerault, Tulle, and Saint-Etienne, will roon be at work upon them, — a hiree cents an hour for each Jabloch- koff candle having been found insuffi. cient tO meet the running expenses after a trial lasting over five and a half years, the Company supplyl that method of electric lighting have discon tinued to employ it on the Thames | (Victoria) Embankment, London, shall your good things." The abounding bounty of an earth Father; (2) The super-abound bounty of the heavenly Father, § Vv ling i 1 HOW TO REGULATE ACTION. | L In Dispensing God's Bountios : 10t that which is holy unto the ’ 1 (rive 1 dogs (6). | He that correcteth a scorner getteth to | himself shame (Prov 9: 7). i A fool .will despise the wisdom of thy words (Prov, 23:90). Whosoever shall not receive you, . shake off the dust of yonr feet (Matt, 10 : 14). Seeing ye thrust it from you,....lo, we turn to the Gentiles (Acts 13 : 46). IL In Dealing with Men : Whatsoever ve would that men should de unto you, even so do ve (12), Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself (Matt. 19: 19) As yo would that men should do to you, do ye {Luke 6: 31). Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fultill the law of Christ (Gal, 6: 2). The royal law. ...Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself (Jas, 2: B), IL In Falling ‘s Word : This is the law and the vprovhets (12), 1 | i {mn and the Hi that filled the law these prophe loveth his worketl Worketh no / 1% . 4 (Rom. 13: 10 The whole £21 servation pressions, ov life 1 tha are commonly duce similar { Perhaps this is as far lv, but it takes { territory of the automati sition fi igible explanation possible, @! vers i ¢ happis which ps» man beings, we can go safe- beyond the ts and leaves 1 which a rati i of anim an t the causes allied t © MIKE BN \ us as ol us in a px Jt 1 int mas—— I —— Sparrows as a Diet, Sparrows are being properly app tain restaurants where reed birds are in demand. A German woman on Third avenue has three traps set every day, and she catches probably seventy-five a week. They are cooked and served to a delicacy. This German woman bastes them, leav- They are cooked with a She tempts them witl i boiled oaten meal. She sprinkles oaten meal in the back yard also, and thereby fattens the free birds, The males can be told by the circle of white feathers at the neck. The females are becomes generally known that the spar- row is a table bird their number will rapidly grow less, People don’t like to experiment, but when it is discovered that the sparrow has been declared goott by those upon whom they have n tried no boarding-house meal will be deemed in good form unless a dish of fat sparrows adorns it. Sparrow pile is a delicacy fit to sed before a King.
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