DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON, Longevity, 01:18. Ps. Trrovan the mistake of its friends, religion has been chiefly associated with sick-beds and graveyards. The whole subject, to many people, Is odorous with ehlorine and carbolie acid. There are people who cannot pronounce the word religion without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter, It is high time that this thing were changed, and that religion, instead of being represented as a hearse to carry out the dead, should be represented as a chariot which the living are to triumph. Religion, from one’s vital tion. It is sanative, enic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When David, in an- other part of the Psalms, prays that re- ligion may dominant, he does not “With.dong life w I satisfy him." i1 ar fronl subtracting y, is a glorious addi- curative, hygi- sO 1 { it be speak of it as a mild sickness, or an emaciation, or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp; he speaks of it as *‘the i HEALTH ile God, to the } ] 1 satisfy wolnen that rel SAVIN( . Hous, saying: him." 1 iy iid ngevs i and { lived n yea 3. world in ' nt és Lime at one Line, i 3 ine in the the as pasian empire and thirty as the sixteenth died ) years of age. } YEAIS old. century, Peter Zartan alt Olt ii pering-gatlery of the human soul. "What is the eve? It is the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens, What is the band? An In- strument so wonderful that when the Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his will £40,000 for treatises to be written on the wisdom, power. and goodness of God, Sir Charles Dell, the great Eng- lish anatomist and surgeon, found his greatest illustration in the construction of the human hand, devoting his whole book to that subj:ct, 80 wonderful are these bodies that God names His own attributes after different parts of them. His omnis cience—it is God's eye. His omni-pres- ence—it is God's ear. lis omnipotence it is God’s arm. The upholstery of the midnight heavens—it is the work of God's fingers, His life-giving power it is the breath of the Almighty. His dominton—*‘the government shall be pon His shoulder.”’ A body so divine- y honored and so divinely constructed, + et us ba careful not to abuse it, When it becomes a Christian duty to | take care of our health, is not the whole | tendency toward longevity? If I toss | my watch about recklessly, and drop it { on the pavement, and w 1 ] \ 1 * fit pen to th | time of day or night 1 hi down, { of it, and often let ri you are careful with your never abuse it, and wine ne hour evers it iv I | the sat in a piace where it w | the violent change t which watch will last {| Common gense answers. | man body 1s God's watch. he hands of the watch, of the watch; but the l is the tl ! { and aark that pra a AMA Lida 38 AAA W ren " Hat . id of longevit: frie 1 noth vian longevity, but I do say the length of life will be increased. It is said in Isaiah: *‘The child shall die a hundred years old.” Now, if ac- cording to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to three hundred and five hundred? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations thal are to come. Take the African race have been under bondage for centuries, Give them a chance, and they develop a Frederick Dougli Or a 1.’ Ouverture. i shall | } dom of i hey £* Ary “yt i OUSSALIR Le ‘ we soul? Reli hed our world. vw ceuturies, and wily be the 2 Ok Sroaviort) ssrengia WwWOI prove makes the care of TV} wody, and Ile! { the Holy Er! , Or mar it is a GU He sees (God's cal ANAL I Ore RE ii "He al “(od bh f i SAYS: Or nov thirty-two : ‘ wioald } 1 i “11 ¥ 3 : bones wielded bs} y-8iX CUurnous mus and hours overcoming ances amounting to 224,000 000 pound during lungs taking in fifty-seven hogs! air, and all this mechanism not mighty than delicate and easily dist ed and demolished. The Christian man *If I hurt my nerves, brain, if I hurt any of God and call for DIRE RETRIBI Why did God tell the Levites to offer to Him in sacrifice animals imper- fect and diseased? He meant to tell us the time ti Lie Vile bik } f rer} ' of weight, sane § i ns not God our very best physicial condition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health, is not offering to God such a sacrifice, Why did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man significant as an overcoat? It was he. cause he knew that with half as much to God and the Church as «with respiration easy and foot free, An intelligent Christian man would at night and pray and ask God’s pro- thie windows of his bedroom tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of going out on the bridge between New York and Brooklys, leap- ing off and then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt, Just as long as you defer this whole subject of phy- ity or to the pastry-cook, or to the butcher, or to the baker, or to the apothecary, or to the clothier, you are not acting like a christian, Take care «of ull your physical forces—nervous, muscular, bone, brain, cellular tissue for all you must be brought to judg- ment, Smoking your nervous system :Iuto fidgets, burning out'the coating of your stowach with wine Jogwooded and strychnined, walking with thin shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinch- ed at the waist until you are nigh cut in two, and neither part worth any- thing, groaning about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, whieh you think came from God, when they cane from YOUR OWN FOLLY, What sight ® oe Rp nat or woman deface oly Ghost? hat 1s the ear? Why, it is whis. on a Whi nd for Live overl 8 ( apacity to take ’ ? And if a mar the gunwale of his rel down never to rise, { ir believing that } OCEAN L any reason has no an clear through? had kept to the id have if ik i ¥ Oi rion Capa ity to In the une case, if he steatner his body wou saved: in the other case Lis mor i 2 take the Io been he had kept y his rel ys would have been saved, There are aged poople who would wen dead twenty-five ago but for the defences and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people who in the cemeteries to-day, siain by their own The made their case as kind and pleasant as they auld, and it was called congestion of the brain, or somet else. but the snakes and the blue flies that seemed lo crawl over the pillow in the sight of the delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Chris- tian man, walked along by that une happy one until you came to the golden pillar of a Christian life. You went to the right; he went to the left. That is all the difference belween you, | if this religion is a protest against all i forms of dissipation, then it is trious friend of longevity. **With long life will I satisfy him,” Again: religion is a friend of longe- vity in the fact that IT TAKES THE WORRY OUT {of our temporalities, It is not work | that kills men, it is worry, When a man becomes a genuine Christian he gion, hava x v JAYY YEAS ie vice d a fog Ces, HOCROTs co hinge hing ~gverything. | but never worrying, because God Is | managing his affairs. How can he | worry about business when in answer to | his prayers God tells him when to buy and when to sell; and if he gain, that is best, and if he lose, that is best?" Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: ‘‘Sir, I want you to call on me in every exi- gency; I am your fast friend, 1 eould fall back ou $20,000,000; I can foresee a panie ten years; 1 hold the eontroll- ing stock in thirty of the best monetary institutions of New York; whenever you are in trouble, call on me and I will help you; you can have my money antl you can have my influence; here is my hand in pledge for it.” How nfuch would you worry about business? Why, vou would say: **I’ll do the best I can, and then I'll depend on my friend’s generosity for the rest.” Now more than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him: “I own New York and London and St, Petersburg and Pekin; and Australia and California are mine; I ean foresee a panic & million years; | nave all the resources of the universe, and 1 wm your rust friend when you get 1n business trouble v - re trouble, call on me and I will help; here is my hand in pledge of omni-po- tent deliverance.” How much should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in (his? Is there not AN ETF in this? “Oh. vou say, asked God for certain enterprise, al sand dollars in will. Yonder wheel is going north, wheel is plays lateral vertically, and | machinery 1s ac you not make all th eels go “Well,” he says, ‘‘l made them in opposite direct purpose, they produce the result, down-stairs the car- ts we are turning it in this estab- nt and y [I go down { & the carpets, i ih am obliged to conte hat tho — RNA ATION IL. VAS 18 4 man inn «@ nere who blessing 15 south, and {Oo rid iniactiure: manufacturer, youl ntradietion. Why do s wl me way?!’ to go or gO ay: 0 13 On right and ex 101 oo mine go AEE 3 181111 } i! other floo on the and I raight t “my commun hes t AS We Li my rel gion tas cannot ai me nd i= nt.” Erperimewd u leave this world {the Lad and Lh I oMHl ver erimpediate state } verted and pre. heaver “Tmpossibie.’’ you tree falleth, so it must lie postpone to an ini ' arimne- and the rainbow rose higher and higher until it seemed retreating to another heaven, and planting one column of its colors on one side of the elernal hill, and planting the other column of its colors on the other side the eternal hill it rose upward and upward “and behold vas a rainbow about the throne” Aco pt that sacrifice and QUIT WORRYING, tonic, the Iluspiration, the of this truth, Religion i that health, Religion | fresh air and pure water; they are heal- Religion is warmth; that is heal- Ask all the doctors and they will you that a quiet cor ence and anticipations are hygienic. 1 offer you perfect peace now and here- after, What do vou want in the future Tell me and you shall have it, There are the trees with there Take the . iongevity 3 i8 sunshine; iy tell nile pei i (Alii every month, Water scenery 7? is the River of Life, from throne of God, clear as crystal, fire, friv iit pele r the sea of glass mingled with want There is t don by Ad music 7 Ooratox in this state.” There is n that have heen off ev tend periment the thi world: when a man dies, Do not about : another stale future red of him. Worry are to do in thin Wii le, something that tells will not do any « ‘there is You say | me that | DEATH IS NOT THE but the preface to life; there Is some- { thing that tells me that of the grave 1 only get started, and that I shall go on forever; my power to { think says ‘forever,’ my ‘forever,’ my capacity to enjoy or suffer, ‘forever.’ Well, you defeat me in my | experiments, I bave only one more | to make, and if you defeat me in that I | am exhausted: A mighty One on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic disturb- ances, turned his pale and agonized face towards the heavens amt APPENDIX on this side I am the expiation, heaven and hell, into my own heart, | Witness earth and { 1 am the expiation.” struck him, and the spears punctured him, and heaven thundered: ‘‘The wages of sin is death!” “The soul that sinneth, it shall die !I”* “I will by no means clear the guilty I’ Then there was silence for half an hour, and the lightnings were drawn back into the scabbard of the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, and all the colors of the sky began to shift into A RAINBOW woven out of the falling tears of Jews, and there was red as of the bloodshedd- ing, and there was blue as of the bruls- ing. and there was green as of the heavenly foliage, and there was orange as of the day-dawn. And along the line of the blue [| saw the words: “1 was bruised for their iniquities.” And along the line of the rel 1 saw the words : “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from ull sin.”’ And along the line of the green 1 saw the words: “The leaves of the Tree of Life for the healing of the nations,” And along the line of the orange | saw the words: “The day-spring from on high hath visited us’ And then 1 saw thd\glorin was over by St, uthy relig dency to make world, and in the will have eterna I satisfy Him," 104. nav MVE MON to yu world ile, ih SAUBATALI SEVIS CAREEIL History of the False Messiah of the Jews of Asia Minor. $id +h Mor addrs 14 £7 MALTESE § [sraeliles, it bel 1 “ Pea ng thal inte: i ment seized upon the J sy [hey nearly Killed thems hey administered Lo one § lashes and . ti: or, an influential Jew, whose daughter pr and wrought wiracles, assisted in his work of preparat In due time Sablurta Smyrna, styling of all Petinia i sed than nd La landed at f » g Ol Revi hits. i Kin Fin the syna- sent all over the Turkish dominions to all the Jewish colonies to preach that “the true Messiah of the race of David and that to him the crown and the kingdom was given.’’ At this his trusted followers twelve princes, who were to act as generals 10 the twelve tribes on ther journey back English records, the report reached ships to assist in the transport, and heard, was at ope time inclined waver in his disbelief. frerzied excitement in Smyrna were in- and gave place to eager, fanatical wor- from all parts, until at length the Sul- tan was roused to action and summoned him to Adrianople. The story of Sevi’s interview with the Sultan is well known, and how “the holy, noble and divine Messiah’ was ordered by that potentate to choose between three things—either to work a mimele and thereby prove his identity, or to have three poisoned arrows shot at him by the Sultan himself, or to become a Mo- hammedan, *1 am a follower of Mo- hammedan,” replied Sevi to this test, and, turning to his followers, who were disinayed beyond measure at the col lapse of their hero, he added, ‘‘and he wus numbered among the transgres- sors." 8 taking It costs In the stores of Paris glass the place of wood in fleoring. more than wood but it lasts longer, and besides being easily kept clean, allows enough light to be transmitted through its roughened surface for the employes to work by in the floor below, he glass Is cast in squares and set in strong iron frames SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, God's Covenant With Israel, TELAT, Memory vo LESSON (Exod. 24 : 1-12, [LESSON Toric oF THE QUARTER: Covenant Relations with Israel PLAN. } i GOLDEN TEX1 Only be FOR THE QUART strong and very couraqeou observe to do ‘according to all the whick Moses my servant comma ruled t/ turn not from of to the right hand or the left, that thou mayest have good s cess whithersocver thou goest—Josh, 1:7 NP LESSON Covenant Iie Ratified. Toric: 1. Proposed, va, 1-4. 2. Accepled, va, . Bujoyed. va, 9-12 Ter TEX and Ley 8 fenson tie: (GOLDEN rod, . By the Lord Hi , Clear Presentation: He took the | i read {i Mesos WIA 15 Ad 8 . that I mig i Cor. 14 : 1f Deliberate Acceptance at the Lord bh ore carefully I' Speak ct others (1 ti \o (7 Nay: 24 a He forsook all, and rose u ed him (Luke 5 : IHL. Solemn Ratification Moses took the it on the people (RB). ehiold the blood of the covenant. ... made with you (Exod, 24 : R This is the blood of the « you-waurd (Heb, 9 : 20), The blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified { Hels. 10 : 29 Unto obedience and n blood (1 Pet, 1 1. “He took the book of the covenant, and read.” (1) The reader; (2) The auditors : (3) The occasion; (4) The lesson; (6) The response, 2. “All that the Lord will we do, and be obedient.’ Revelation; (2) Understanding; Consecration, 3. “The coyenant, which hath ak with you.’ (1) The parties of the covenant; (2) The purposes of the covenant, COVENANT RELATIONS EXJOYED, Nearnoss. Then went up Moses, and Aaron, ++. and seventy (0). Enoch walked with God (Gen, 5: M4), 1 have seen God face to face (Gen, 32: a1 a blood, and sprinkled ant {o Well spr 3.1 115g BAK (3) 1 In. L 30). The Lord spake unto Moses face to face (Exod, 33 : 11). Now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face (1 Cor, 13 : 12), IL. Knowledge: They saw the God of Israel (10). Lot us follow on to know the Lord (Hos. 6 : 3). They shall see God (Matt, 5 : 8). We shall see him even as he is (1 John 3:3). 1 saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it (Rev, 20 : 11). I} ¥avor - he departure, View, { six1s fay or GUring . probable date abou ie, latter The year, according reckoning (Usl me modern the date of the 1300 B. ( The ts 2 L.1 10 1491] tend Was ire ACHES fia ag Tro Ma lAD iid ex was the plain Ex rendere p oF $3 afar off. lace » worship was - Cs oo Study of the Absent Minded. Absent minde 1 and { nited f of amusement, 80 successfully them are very n editor who frisks about the « tically demanding | pen i useful article ucked behind his ear; the woman who pias her jersey to the back of ber skirt and forgets it at night, puts the skirt on In the morn- ing, hunts in vain for ber waist, dons another and hurries away, leaving the recent jersey hanging down her back; he man who complacenily irritates the wrong end of a match, and then won- ders why in the jumping juniper won't lght—all these are familar, A case never told, but true to life, was observed at a recent fire. One of thie foremen was wall ing leisurely home alter the fire had been extinguished, carrying, be fondly imagined, his : His study, hide this cannot merous. The ed aL Pw WCAG iis i8 COZLN de as trumpet was, received the absent m nd- ” Re called the forman’s attention to the fact that he was affectionately conduct- trumpet was, the forman said in amaze- ment: “I'm blessed if 1 Know.” A and then walked complacently back in- to the station, and sat down. A girl recently was in that mythical condition, “in love,” put the potatoes on to boil in the teapot, and pumped water into the coal hod. Ali these are veritable “observed phenomena,” set tee The sclentific boring in the soll of the Nile Delta has reached a depth of over 308 feet without finding the rock. A four-inch layer of blue clay bas just been penetrated, the overlying soil from a depth of 19) feel being sand. A MP on Verra Girre, or hoart frost glass, is an article now made in Paris, so called from the patlern upon it, which resem- bles the feathery forms traced by frost on the insides of the windows in col weather,
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