DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. Woman's Opportunity. “80 God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him ; male and female created He them. Gen. 1: 27. IN other words, God, who can make no mistake, made man and woman for a specific work, and to move ln parti- cular spheres—man to be regnant in his realm, woman to be dominant in hers. The boundary line between Italy and Switzerland, between England and Scotland, is not more thoroughly mark- ed than this distinction between the empire masculine and the EMPIRE FEMININE, So entirely dissimilar are the fields to which God called them, that you can no more compare them than you can yxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and stars, All this talk about he superiority of one sex to the other speech. A jeweler may have a scale so lelicate that he can weigh the dust of diamonds, but where are the scales so affection against affection, sentiment against sentiment, thought thought, against soul, word against a woman’s word? Y ou come out with your stereoly remark, the man is superior to woman in intellect, and then I my desk the swarthy, iron-typed, thunder- bolted writings of Harriet Martineau, and Elizabeth Browning, and George Eliot. You come on with your stereo- typed remark about woman’ ity to man in the item of affection, but [ ask you where was there more ‘ity to love than in John the soul man’s ht open ou i Supt rior- 1 api- discipie John Summert Henry Martin, I'he heart of those ) that after you had rolled into it hemispheres, room still to marshal the hosts of heaven, aud p the throne of the nal Jehovah, 1 deny to man the thi 11 yman the throne aff No human phraseology the spheres, while by which we Know Lis realm, and when a wol realm, and when either of No b Yaris] to attempt to I'his is nen 5 there was _ts I deny to wi or £ it rmerli 4 Lal Addl £ make : Liat FAAa having no hon saking their own their rights; and we know that they themselves are [it nor fit to keep house. don séems to be to humilate the two exes at the thought of what any one of 118 might become. No one would want to live under the | ing abo VEIYy Wie neither to Their mis- vote, we laws that such women would enact, or to have cast upon s the children that h women would raise, But I shall show you this orning that the best rights that wo- 'n can own, she already has in her O34OS8I00 that HER POSITION at this time is ut one of bo Ts C1 8114 Ciel 1H] n. this country { commiseration, | congrat- ulation: that the grandeur and power f her realm have never yet been ap- that sits to-day on a ne so high that all the thrones of not ong ciated; she th bil arth pil vot make for her footstool. platform which she Away down below it are the ballot-box a Here is tie on the Legislative hall, Woman always has voted and always Qur great-grandfathers thought they were by their votes put- ting Washington into the presidential chair. No. His mother, by the prin- ciples she taught him, and by the habits she inculcated, made him President. It was a Christian mother’s hand drop- ping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophized, and Alfred the Great governed, and Jona- than Edwards thundered of judgment to come, How many men there have been in high political station, who would have been insufficient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put, had it not been for a wife's voice that encouraged them todo right, and a wife’s prayer that sounded louder than the clamor of partisanship! Why, iy friends, the right of suffrage, as we men exercise it, seems to be a feeble thing. You, a Christian man, come up to the ballot-box, and you drop your vote, Right after you comes a liber- tite or a sot—the offscouring of the street—and he drops his vote; and his vote counteracts yours, But if in the guet of home life a daughter by her Christian demeanor, a wife by her in- dustry, a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote in the right direction, then nothing can resist it, and the influence of that vote will throb through the eternities, My chief anxiety then is, not that woinan have other rights accorded her ; but that she, by the grace of God, rise up to the appreciation of the GLORIOUS RIGHTS she already possesses, This morning I will vole, shall only have time to speak of one grand and all-absorbing right that every woman has, and that is to make home happu, ‘That realm no one has ever disputed with her. Men may come home at noon or at night, and they tarry a comparatively little while ; bul she, all day long, governs it, beautfies it, sanctities it, It is within her power to make it the most attractive place on earth. It is the, only calm harbor in this world. You know as well as 1 do, that this outside world and the business world is a long scene of jostle and con- tention. The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it ; the man who has it not struggles to get it, Prices up. Prices down. Losses, Gains, Misrep- resentations, Underselling. Juyers depreciating ; salesmen exag- gerating. Tenants seeking landlords demanding more, Gold fidgety, Struggles about office. Men who are in trying to keep in; men out trying to get in. Slips, tumbles. Defalcations, Panics, Catastrophes. Oh woman! Thank God you have a home, and that you MAY BE QUEEN Better be there than wear coronet, Better he there the purse of a princess, abode may be humble, but vour Iai Gougings. less | in it. toria’s | carry than Your vou can by nes h in God, and cheerfi witl Rp ndors demeanor, gild as an | ki 3 THE QUEEN. | Now man th she {to with this , can you tell me how sand miles a woman | have to travel down | the ballot-box? Compared work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, how insignificant seems all this work of voting for alder- men and common councilmen, and sheriffs, and constables, and mayors, and presidents. To make one such grand woman as I have described, how many thousand would you want of those people who go in the round of godless- ness and fashion and dissipation, dis- torting their body until in their mons- trosities they seem to outdo the drome- dary and hippopotamus! going as far toward disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so as not to be arrested of the police —stheir behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature of the vicious, and an insult to that God who made them women and not gorgons; and tramping on, down through a frivolous and dissi- pated life, to temporal and eternal dam- nation, © woman, with the lightning of your soul, strike dead at your feet all these allurements to dissipation and to fashion. Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon such garbage. God calls you up to empire ond do- minion, Will you have it? O, give to God your heart; give to God your best energies; give to God all your culture; give to God all your refinement: give yourself to Him, for THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT. Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched, and these voices will be hushed. For the last time you will look upon this fair earth, Fathers hand, mother’s hand, sister's hand, child's hand, will be no more in yours. It will | be night, and there will come up a cold like at woul before got wind from the Jordan, and you start. Wel it be a lone woman trackless moor? Ah! no, Jesus will come up in that hour and offer His hand, and He will say; *' You stood by Me when you were well; now I will not desert you when yon are sick.” One wave of His hand, and the storm will drop; and another wave of His hand, must on 1 chamberlains of God will come down from the treasure-houses of heaven, with robes lustrous, blood-washed, and heaven-glinted, in which you will array yourself for the marriage-supper of the Lamb, And then with Miriam. who struck the timbrel by the Red Sea; and with Deborah. who led the Lord’s host | into the fight: and with Hannah, who Mary. who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were angels in the air; and with Florence Nightingale, | bound up ti battle-wounds of { Crimea, you will, from the chalice God. drink to the soul's eternal light, after I had 1 children for Ole to awake, singing the Of rescue, play time, I 4 1 rest and Deed wn on the lounge and half Hom iH -— Fhe Sultan's Harem. red ciolh } 1 n f ] h a small blue tassel hanging fr t at the back of the head. It is ol of subjection like the fez of Ottoman, From the t of this harem, it is | mates are kin in the every day amusements whi I'he om the an observation made n that * TY or, cerita dly cared { they Improvise visitor at onstantinopl {0 soe t prayers 3 alert, bearing circular wooden to or co | Yildiz. These 3 3 thick le and the whole tied up in a woolen cloth, They are borne upon the bead of some stoul servitor, From them are furnished the meals of | those who depend upon the Sultan or are connected with him by blood, The | viands are delicate, and the Sultana re- ! ceives her share of them from the im- | perial kitchen at Dolma Dartche. As | the journey of the dishes is sometimes notice ath in the best condition when they arrive. Another observation about this quasi imperial harem--the Pasha who mar- ried this Sultana is never allowed to see the younger slaves of the harem. They scatter like a convoy of quail on the appearance of a hunter, So, too, when the Sultana’s brother's arrive. When the Sultan himself comes no conceal- ment is necessary. He has the supreme right of gazing at any of his subjects, a One Peculiarity of the Insane. *‘One of the peculiar freaks of insan- ity, said Keeper Henry Moest, of the Erie County Almshouse, “is the seem- ing reversal of natural tendencies, For example, we have in the male wards fine collections of potted plants and climbing vines, which grow so luxuri- antly that they curtaim the windows, The men tend these carefully, pluck away the dead leaves, stir up the dirt in the Jota, prune the vines, keep them carefully watered, and in divers other ways manifest the tenderest watchfnl- ness, Not so with the women, Every attempt to introduce plants and vines as a feature of the female wards, save in the cottage where the mildest cases are confined, has proved a flat failure, The women pull out the plants by the roots, tear down the vines and manifest other destructive tendencies entirely at variance with nature of the sex in general INDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buxpay, Beer, 18, 1847, Solemn Warnings, LESSON TEXT. | (Matt, 7: 13-20. Memory verses, 13, 14) LESSON PLAN, Toric or THE QUARTER : King itn Zion, Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion, —Psa, 2 : 6, L.rssoN Toric: the King, Lesson {1 Outline : Beware of Error, va, 18.5 2. Do God's Will, va, 2 (3, Be Wise Bullders, v GOLDEN TEXT: Every bringeth not forth good fruit {1s hewn | down and cast into the fire.—Matt, 7 : 119). | } 1 i B® DALY HoMeE READINGS: M.— Matt, 7 13-20, to meet the T.— Luke © ion of the les W.~Iga, 2 dation, I. In the Chol John 14 : Il. In the Acce Fe {1 eparation I. Lip Service Insufficient wks Insuflicient not love, He doeth 14 Rev, 13: 13). 111. Holy Obedience Essential : He that doeth the will of 1 i men that yY one 1} A 1 SaAdiil i ore grand opportunity confid reliance ; grave disappointment, 9. “But he that doeth the will of my Father,'’ 2) Man's approved obedience, (8) I never knew you: depart from me.” (1) Unknown to Christ ; (2) Banished from Christ.—(1) Expec- tant ; (2) Unrecognized ; (3) Disap- pointed ; (4) Banished. III. BE WISE BUILDERS, L On the Rock : A wise man which built his house upon the rock (24). Behald, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone (Isa. 28 : 16), Upon this rock I will build my church { Matt, 10 : 18). Digged and went deep, and laid a foun- dation upon the rock (Luke 0 : 48), Other foundation can no man lay than ++. .Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 3: 11), IL Enduring the Storms, : It fell not ; for it was found upon the rock (25). In all this Job sinned not (Job 1 : 22), He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved (Psa. b5 : 22). In all these things we are more than conquerors (Rom, 8 : 37). That he may be able to withstand in the evil day (Eph. 6:13). IL Learning of Jesns : He taught them as one having au- thority (29). Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it (John 2 : 5). Thou art a teacher come from God (John 3:9) Never man so spake (Jobii 7 : 46), ent i i which 1 command (John 15: 14). { 1. “Shall be likened unto a wise man.” i (1) Broad in his outlook ; (2) Pru- dent in his action : (3) Blessed in his outcome ; (4) Laudable in example, a structure ; | rock. (1) Two foundations; (3) buildings ; (4) Two results, ‘He taught them as one havi thority.”? (1) {2} What Christ taught, a teacher : (1) His pupils ; 3) His purposes ; lessons ; (3 J character truth a Every 5) {21} Two ng au- BLUOCCERNEN, IBLE READING, FOUNDATIONS, | 1. Material Foundations: | The basal structure (Luke 14 : | 16 it iv LESSON B <b {1 8 1. 14). 1 Of HOUSE Made of | Laid iB). Bound by cornei AL V.:do })s Spiritual Foundations y * 2] wit} Willi “oo —- 3. Hlustrations \q . y ‘ ia ce — IN SAN ANDREAS VALLEY B*ee of Lower ( Famous Damiana Plante 2 Village nilarities alifs Ihe nia. numbers here, and the mountain sheep, whose meat is sa) fous. Rabbits are very com- irds I remark only ich seem ity to be deli Of jack ravens, enough in this vici in great numbers, g about two o'clock in when I saw two rocky mesas, or rather mo the foot of which, in the 1 shi This water § t WO mouns 100 O31 i tas A On, i iaTge 14 Ahan « Wa noon giganti untains, ays of sun, ne water, 8, however, salty and these deep canyon dreas valley, 16 water i is a dead level emerald green, and the mountains of dim brown and yel- low rise to heaven searching attitudes, The mighty ridges are covered with im- mense candelabra cacti, which g the and form an emerald crown for the brow of two giants on both sides of the ravine, The entrance in the valley forced, 1 found myself on a beautiful mountain | plain, covered with a green vendure, | between which were visible a few i houses and huts, They composed the | village of San Andreas, belonging to an { English ns f rm a An- the canyon entrance y OF 11 of edges on | out of the fibrous stem of the plant. ——— sy MD AD ———s so The Handkerchief Craze. “handkerchief day,’ which is conduct- ed in this wise: A lady selects a friend to whom she would like to give a “‘ben- efit,” and send cards to mutual ac- quaintances, requesting that on a cer- tain date each one should forward a handkerchief to the given address, The result to the beneficiary is an arrival, mail by mail, of remembrance from her friends and a collection of handkerchiefs varying in number and value according to the invitations extended and the taste of the donors. The idea 18 a leasant one and we indorse it cordial , with the amendment that gentle. men should be included in the bill, It 1s absurd to indulge all kinds of excesses and vice, and imagine yoursell cunning enough to conceal it from the world. It is good for us to think no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God bas blessed some one else with it through us -y TRIBES OF ASIATIC RUSSIA. Types of Mankind Not Pleasing tc Furopean Eyes—Goldi and Gilyak. Speaking generally of the tribes of Asiatic Russia, it will be anticipated that they differ widely from one an- other in appearance, When in the tall, moderately stout Tajik, with white beard, long, archea, and slender nose, thin straight lips, and good teeth, his forehead high and wide, arched, ample eyebrows, i , one of “nature’s gentlemen,”’ 0 needs only European education to lift him high io the anthropological scale. Iis neigh- less pleasing in ap , has a darker skin, and more animal’ about him, Passing to the Kir mankind still less either ghese, we have a pleasing in Of the fore. trace: head, An He bears unmistakable of his Mongolian nativity, The not very large, but the check stand out, though not sharply as f the Mongols generally. The ng. those o -——— Farkish Usuaroer mn name nade his visits » servant, rous gratuity i would learn from his master the disease he patient of the physician, was stricken; whether it was mortal, and if so, how many days still remained to the patient. The servant disease. When the young man returned, he found the money ready, signed the note for a sum nearly double that given to him, and’ six weeks after paid the debt from the patrimony that be had just received. The Mosquitoes of Florida. We have to give it up. The tough- river. 1t is told of one o! the crew of the steamer Rockledge, that after they got into the inlet, when night came he went to sleep in a stateroom, the win- dow to which was protected by ascreen. He had scarcely fallen asleep when he was awakened by a sense of suffocation —the mosquitoes bad thronged the screen and stuck their heads into the meshes till they had excluded every particle of air. He frantically Xicked out the screen and now he does not know whether he would rather die of suffocation or mosquito bites, Another | veracious statement from below is that a young man went to work for the first time on his homestead, providing hime self with a 1 sandfly netting bar, The first night he pitched tent, hung his net, and went to bed. For three days and nights he did not stir. The mosquitoes had so thickly covered hs net on the outside that it was perfectly dark inside~he did not know when | daylight came.
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