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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
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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
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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.
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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
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diffie
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Lhd
to
ition
extremely
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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
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3-51, Memory verses, 46,448)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER:
and Disobedience,
Ohediene f
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| 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
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(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
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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
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+ 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
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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
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fost