Dc ATI IRR DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: The Nations Curse. “Who slew all these?” 11 Kings 10: 10, toward the palace of King Jehu. I am somewhat inquisitive to find out what is in the baskets. I look in, and I find the gory heads of seventy slain princes, As the baskets arrive at the gate of the palace, the heads are thrown into two heaps, one on either side the gate. In the morning the King comes out, and he looks upon the bleeding, ghastly heads of the massacred princes. Look- ing on either side the gate, he eries out, «Who slew all these?” We have, my friends, more lived to see a FEARFVUL MASSACRE [here is no use in my takin your’ time in trying to give you ics about the devastation and ruin and the death strong drink has w rought in this country. Statistics do not seem to mean anvtiing. We hardened under these statistics fact that fifty 1 or fifty tatistice tatisticos which ore f pri s roval family; erghborh company (rod brother,” is the captive are wil when it when it stan he Aven, and from Christ, the Lord hand I think the back by THE MERBIMENT over those lain ; used to be very merr) having a 1 There was the gait of Wi 18 | Reen door r, motl ery, that tox k all ti the scene. Since th a man walking ti ing, the come dy tragedy of tears breaks. Never me about the gre ard! Alas for his home! and as wer came out, and make any fun esqueness of a drunk- IHE DRUNKARD'S I The first suffering of in theloss of his good name, so arranged it that no man ever Joses h's good name except through his own act. All thie hatred of men, and all the assaults of devils, cannotdestroy a man’s good name, if he really maintains his integrity. If a man is industrious and pure and ( hristian, God looks after him. Although he may ba bombarded for twenty or thirty years, his integrity is never lost and his good name is never sacrificed. No force on earth or in hell can capture stich a(Gibraltar. Bat when it is said of a man, ‘He drinks,” and it can be proved, then what employer wants him for a workman? what store wants him for a clerk? what church wants him for a member? who will trust him? what dying man wonld appoint him his executor? He may have been forty years in building up his reputas tion—it goes down. Letters of recom- mendation, the backing up of business firms, a brilliant ancestry, cannot save him. Why? It is whispered all through the community, “He drinks! he drinks!” That blasts him. yutation for i be at the When a man loses his re sobriety he might as wel bottorws of the sea. There are men here who have their good name as their only capital. You are now achieving your own livelihood, under God, by yourown right srm. Now look out that there is no doubt of your wobricty. Do not create nay suspicion by going in amd out of immoral pisces, or by any odor of your breath, or by any lare of your eye, or by any unnatural flush of your cheek. You caanot afford to do it, for your good name is your only capital, and when that is blasted with the repu- tation of taking strong drink, all is gone. Another loss which the inebriate , suffers is that of self respect, Just as goon as & man wakes up and finds that he is the captive of strong drink, he feels demeaned. 1 do not eare how reckless he scts. Ho may say, ‘I don’t care;’ he does care. He cannot look a ure man in the eye, unless it is with tive foree of resolution. Three. ourths of his nature is destroyed. His SELY-UESP LCT GONE, he says things he would not otherwise ANKES the drunkard is any; he does things he would not other- wise do. When a man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink, the first thing he wants to do is to persuade you that | he can stop any time he wants to. He | cannot. The Philistines have bound him hand and foot, and shorn has locks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind in the mill of great horror. Hejcannot stop. [ will prove it. He knows that his eourse is bringing dis- grace and ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he could stop, he would. He knows his course is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them would would stop if he could: He ean- not. Perhaps he could three mol Or fi Year ago; not now. Just ask to stop for a month. not, so he does not try. i I had a friend who for fifteen | was going down under this ¢ vil He had large means. He had thousands of dollars to Bible societies, and reformatory institutions ofall sorte, H. and very ed him habit, given Was Vor) nial. and very generous, i and whenever hg talk- habit would time.” But he down! down! vahl iovanie, 1 1 evil ne abont th sat hi 3 i stop Any i on, going | [ wa had delirinm and yet atte i Any time LOSS OF The may re { T% . Mawel Wen OLaer mem her trified shyy a0 his Jed ects of alchoh A i Hq bh wd Bs i ight diagrams, by which he showed | the devastation of strong drink upon | the poy gical system Flere wore thous. { ands of Pe opl that turned k from { that nleerous sketch, swearing eternal i abstinence from vthing that conld | intoxicate | God only knows what the drunkard | suffers! Pain files on every nerve, and | travels every muscle, and knaws every bone, and burns with every flame, and | stings with every poison, and pulls at | him with every torture. What reptiles | crawl over his creeping limbs! What | fiends stand by hus midnight pillow! What groans tear his ear! What horrors shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk of the | funeral pyre, gernaut!—he feels them all at | Have you ever been in the ward of the hospital where these inebriates are dying, the stench of their wounds driv- ing back the attendants, their voices sounding through the night? The keeper eames up, and says, “Hush, now bo still! Stop making all this noise!” But it is effectual only for a moment, for as soon begin again: “Oh God! oh God! H help! Rum! Give me rum! Help! 1 them off me! ‘Take them off me! them off mel Oh God!” shriek, aud. they rave! out their hair elec or Ig back ever once! sip! * and they plue by hsudfuls, snd then they groan, and they shriek, and they blasphsme, and they ask the keep- er to kill them. “Stab me! Smother me! Strangle mel Take the devils off me!” Oh, it is no fancy sketch. That thing is going on in hospitals, aye, it is going on in some of the finest residen- ces of every neighborhood on this con- tinent. It went on last night while you slept, and I tell jou further, that this is going to be the death that some of Jon will die. I know it! I see it com- ng! PESPOILA THE HOME, Oh, is thero anything that will dps- troy » man for this life, and damn him | for the life that is to come? hate | that strong drink! With ali the con. | eontrated onergies of my soul, Thate it! | Do you tell me that aman can be happy when he knows that he is breaking his wife's heart, and clothing his children with rags? Why, there are on the streets of our cities to-day little children, bare- footed, uncombeed, and unkempt; want { on every patch of their faded dress, and | on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenances, who would have been : | you are, but for the fact j troyed their parents and drove tl into the grave. O rum! thou God, thou despoiler of homes, thou re- officer of the pit, I abhor 11 | eruiting | thee! But my subject and that ' from the takes a ded per tone, is, that the inebriate suffers LOSS OF THE BOUL, The Bible intimates that in the future world, if we are unforgiven bad passions and appetites, unrestrain- ad. will go slong with us, and make our torment there, So that 1 sup) an inebriste wakes up in this lost world i he will find infinite thirst cl 1 him ha down in the world, al (MY here, our » when nn awing "Ww ministry fromatror inary cron y not change their © 1 YOATS they will, as down in drunkard’ their is, | down in a drungard’s perdition [ know that itis an thing to say, but I can’t hel} Oh Youn have not captured. As open door of your wine closet to-day, that decanter flash out upon you ware! And when you pour the bever- age into the glass, in the form at the top, mn white letters, let there be spe Hed out to your scul, “Beware!” When the books of judgment are open, and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I to-day, in the fear of God, snd m the love of your soul, told you with all affection, and with all Kindness, to be- ware of that which has already exerted its influence upon your family, blowing out some of ite Lights A PREMONXITION OF THE BLACKNESS | of darkness forever. | only hear, this moment, Intemperance, rse, wi to their raves; sonis, he swinl nit It, beware! Yet been the may Be- Me Ware ve | with drunkards bones, drumming on of & wine cup would make you shudder, you think of the blood of the soul, and the foum on the top of the cup would remind you of the froth on the manine's lip, and yon would go home from this BOTVICe ANd that, rather than your children should become oaptives of this evil habit, you would like to carry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery and put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flowers would come up all over the grave—aweet provhasies of the resurrection. God a balm for such a wound; but what flower of comfort ever grew on the basta heath of a drunkerd’s sepul- ochre A diamond with a flaw is . etter than | u 1+ ble without. Hut the tlaw adds it othiing to the value of the dinmond. | | | | i { | Mean and Women in China. BR. BE. AVERY, Formerly the poet's words “woman's position is deplorable” was true in the entire orient, but this was especially the ease in the Chinese kingdom where, at all times, woman's position was a low one, 10 finds her if she finds it at happiness all, tonishes the educated Chisese so greats y, indeed, fills them with terror, as this, that the foreign woman pOBSesses social rights and privileges which equal those ot Although the custom i to ¢ an insolvable rid taken by both in the nn. the educated Chines dle—so is the share rie asures of life, the the theatre (indeed which agitates his nervous sy highest degree. Nothing ‘ { the flowery kingdom 1 thinn more a» custom) tem in the s to the 1 ¢ i nlons the appearance ol arm o vith h Wiiili = ul} t i In P AN evening w diffie i Lhd to ition extremely 130) i CS Wisi rally fron th yas in Chinese t he most ( ene plays are pre ha rep sentation ould have the i the theatrs by 110 withstanding the subordinate which is assigned in the dom to the female sex, still it is the pc- sition of the he and of the ut most importance. Indeed t (German mother who can boast that the hmperor for her son felt the 1m- stance of her position in no greater indeed, one pays her no great er respect, than is paid the Chinese ma- tron who sees assembled around her a number of sons or grandchildren, a striking witness according to opinion that she has fulfilled her mis- sion in life factory and credible manner. % whom ore ion single f clos Not position Central king- pes fect © sisewife hie vouched Pe measnre, -— — Clinging to Old Ciothes. Mr. Gilbert's disinclination to spend money on stage clothes often caused some little annoyance to Mr. Wallack. sgenic revival of “The School for Scandal” had been got up. new things.” 1 suggested Wallack should speak to him about it. “No, no!” was his reply; "'it would hurt the dear old fellow’s feel- ings. He's something like Mrs, Ver- non, who thought her clothes were hal- lowed by antiquity, When she got through with them in regular order, she would begin all over again.” a—— A AISI, Lives of sluggish ease bring discon- tent. The more we are rocked on the stormy waves and tossed by the winds of adversity, the stronger we grow. In. deed, some natures never develop in the sunshine; like the plant that only blooms at midnight, some souls are matured in beauty only through long hours of darknoss. . HRA RISA SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUsDAY Berrespen 1, 159. David and Goliath. LESSON TEXT, { Sam. 17: 5 | | | 3-51, Memory verses, 46,448) LESSON PLAN, Toric or THE QUARTER: and Disobedience, Ohediene f i | Gorpex Text yor THE QUARTE hold, in better and to hearken than thi 11 Sam, 15 : 24 B: [e- then saerifice, fat of to oli 1/ rans, Lesson Toric umphant, If God be for us Rom. B : 81. Text (Reprint GoLpes who can be f ! 1 Sam $14 fi patience Heb. 12 : i ward 1 s wet before Anticipating: ie IN the Lord's, a wd ur hand (47) yours, but God's Hi. me all the days our boast all the Ni. mane ( Pea. 44 There is laid up for me righteousness (2 Tim. 4 : 8). 1. “1 cannot with thes Human helps proffered; (2) Human iscarded. —(1) Supposed helps, Actual hindrances ‘When the Philistine saw David, he disdained him.” conscions greatness; (2 sooming weakness; (3) Goliath's supreme contempt; (4; David's un- faltering confidence, «The battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.” (1) Divine help; (2) Assured victory. the crown 20 {1) helps dd 3 “ (1) ay (11. TRIUMPHANT IN THE BATTLE. I. Ready: David hastened, and ran the Philistine (48). Be yo also ready (Matt, 24 : 44). I am ready to preach the gospel Rome (Rom, 1 : 15). Stand therefore, having girded your loins (Eph. 6 : 14). Fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim. 6: 12) 1, Skitful: David. ...took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine (49). He teacheth my hands to war (2 Sam. 22 : 30) The Lord. ...teacheth.. to fight (Pea. 144 : 1). Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit (Zech. 4:6). them thou mayest war the Lo meet in ..my fingers That by warfare (1 Tim. 1, 18). HL, Triumphant: David... .slew him, and cut off his head... The Philistines. . . fled (51). He hath triumphed gloriously (Exod. The wall fell down Ant {Josh are more th 6H: wi yg HEeTYeTrs + 28 Js Lenint the devil, and he will flee from vot (Jas. 4 / 1. “David hastened, the antagonist; David's haste Against his 10« “8a David Philistine » + Th and ran to Philistine,” (1) David's - David's he Iper; 3) Hastening 1 + (2) With his helper prevailed : meet aver th {1 With such COT pM 14 “) By such direction; JOR THERIN (4) Under 4 With such Te ompletely such + (2 The terrific npitate flight LESSON BIBLE BEADING BOLDNESS HOLY the r t I NLeOns — RROUNI IINGS ON bir CRIN TH fi wit anointed may ner interval be assumed urnishes no data Done ; tl B.( iat De A LIS Gh Useful Plants. ) long beer d Egvptians to the diterranesn, but where secret until the the Molucea y were soon Dutch, who wera 0 alons of their new it 1s said they destroy- inn all the islands but . whery they obliged ths sw 6 certain fixed number cach of which more than were gathered os DAY ‘away cloves longs to the myrtle bright green Aowers are of a delicate som color, and grow In & t the very end of the branches. When the petals begin to fade, the calyx or en holds them, turns yellow and it is thi? which con- tains the young, unripe seed, to which give the name of clove. The Gere mans call the spice dittle nails,’ from the shape. The red cloves are beaten down from the tree anddried in the sun. as. if allowed to remain on the tree till the fruit is ripe, much of the flavor is Every part of the tree is highly scented, and the leaf-stalks have almost as strong » taste as the calyx. Pale colored. shrivelled cloves have had some of their oil squeezed out, and have lost some of their flavor in consequence. The nutmeg-tree is taller than th» clove, and bears small, white, beli- shaped flowers. The fruit is something like a small peach but more pointed at each end, and when ripe it bursts at the side, showing a black seed inside, partly covered with a sort of leafy network of a bright red color. This red sulwtance is the spice called mace, which is dried for » short time and then tightly packed in bags. The shining black sheli of the seed is larger and harder than that of a filbert, and as it could not be broken without injury to the kernal when first thered, the nuts are dried until the ernals shrink so much as to rattle, and then the shells are easily broken. The Dutch tried to prevent nutmegs from being grown in any island of the Moluccas but Banda, but it fs said that they were deeatod Iv tow swig gone x carried the frat ho onan d A har Arey leaves Pe ach-bl whic yd then red; we 3 fost
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