IRN DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: Human Wrecks. “Lest that by any means. . . . 1 myself should pe a castaway.’—1 Cor. 9 : 27, IN the presence of you who live on the Pacific coast, I who live on the At- lantie const may appropriately speak on this marine allusion of the text, for all who know about the sea know about the castaway. The text implies that miaisters of religion may help others into heaven and yet miss it themselves. The carpenters that built Noah's ark dil not get into it themselves. Gown and surplice and diplomas and canoni- sals are no security, Cardinal Wolsey, ifter having been petted by kings and having entertained foreign ambassadors at Humpton Court, DIED IN DARKNESS. One of the most eminent ministers of religion that this country has ever known plunged into sin and died; his heart, by post-mortem examination, found to have been, not figuratively, but literally, broken. We may have hands of ordination on the head, and address consecrated assemblages, but that is no reason why we shall necessar- ily reach realm celestial, I'he clergyman through the same gute of pardon as the layman. There Lisave been cases of Spw rock w here all Dora escaped excepting the cap- if, having ‘preached to 1f should be a castaway’! the must go «il tall others, I mys« God forbid it! 1 have examined some of the com- mentaries to what they thought about this word “‘castaway,” and I find they differ in regard to the figure used, while they agree in regard to the mean- ing. do I si make my own hall tion, and take it In nautical and sea- you that men Lins, Nt seloe- Hn faring sense, and show way become fs PIRITUAL CASTAWAYS, and how, finally, they drift into that calamity, You and 1 in seaboard cities. You have all stood on the beach. Many of you have erossed the Some you | managed vessels great stress of There 1s captain, and there 1s another, and der is another, and there are a goodly number of you who, though once vou did not know tl} between a brig and a bark, ane between a mond knot i and alt} tie weather Crossjnck brace, live of have in Wi a SOR- ther von- re flerence din- not, nw nat i Tl i nu i i r { yOu cond 1m the fore elev net, | i how you i Yold are Wore Lex id clear across to i without the | there is a dark night in your me: { of the sea. The vessel became unman- | ageable. You saw i i ward the shore. You heard th i BREAKERS AHEAD! bow!” The vessel | struck the rock, and you felt the deck breaking up u r your feet, and you were a castaway, as when the Hes drove on ) the Portuguese brig we ting, grinding, crashing on wins. But whether vy the sea or not, you all understand the figure when I tell yon men who, by and tempta- tions, are thrown helpless! Driven be- fore the gale! Wrecked for two worlds! Castawavs! Castaways! By talking with some have found ont ti four causes I vessel ! times « on th t was 1 ea Land on tae nde tha o i Lait ‘ ntstaving, spil the wit have | Youd +} that there are thelr sins 37: sea-cal in olden times, indeed, up and down th ashore in the lights in their pre ¢ and them, that they may despoi sack thom. All k nds of i INFERNAL i that were used to accomyj lish thi night, on the ( 308 ming in fearfully, laius took a lantern and tied a horse, anda led the bLorse up and down the beach, the lantern swinging to ti motion of the horse; and a sea-captain in the offing saw it, and made up lus | mind he was not anywhere i “Lhere’s a IRE ; rit has a i ¢ light!” and he had no apprehen- | «ion till he heard the rocks grating on toe ship's bottom, an 1 it went to pieces, and the villains on shore gathered np the packages and treasures that were | washed to the land. And I have to | tell you that there are a multitude of | souls. i EUINED BY FALSE LIGHTS on the Leach. In the dark night of man's danger, false religion goes up and down the shore shaking its lantern, and men look off and take that Hickering and expiring wick asthe signal of safety, aud the cry 1s, ““Heave the maintopsail to the mast! All is well!” when sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they stall not escape. So there are all kinds of lanterns swung on the beach philosophical lanterns, educational lan- terns, humanitarian lanterns. Men look at them and are deceived, when there is nothing but God's eternal lighthouse of the gospel that can keep them from be- coming castaways. Once on Wolf Crag Lighthouse they tried to build the copper woll with its mouth open, 80 that, the storm beating into it, the wolf would howl forth the danger to mariners that might be com- ing suywhere near the const. Of course it was a failure. And so all new inven- tions for the saving of man's soul are unavailing. What the human race wants is a light bursting forth from the eross standing on the great headlands the light of pardon, the light of corfifort, the light of heaven. You might better to-night and destroy all the great fant houses on the dangerous coasts— the Barnegat lighthouse, tue Fastnet Bock Lighthouse, the Sherryvore lighthouse, the Longship’s lighthouse, the Hollyhead lighthouse—thsn to put out God's great ocean lam p-—the gospel. Woe to those who swing lanterns on the beach till men ccash into ruin! Castaways! Castaways! By talking with sea-captains I have ard also that sometimes ships come to this calamity by : SUDDEN SWOOP OF A TEMPEST, For instance, vessel is wailing along in tbe Fast Incio, and Boro is not 8 Orns Cx w WES ¢ LA i / 1 0 HORT | i sud; | Vise } a vessel, 1 single clond on the sky; but suddenly the breeze freshens, and there are swift fect on the ratlines, and the ery is, “Way, haul away there! but before they can square the booms and tarpan- lin the hatohways, the vessel is groan. ing and creaking in the grip of a tor- nado, and falls over into the trough of piercing outery for help, Lifting the dis- tress signal for the Church's prayer, lifting the distress signal for heaven's mrdon, Pray! pray! The voice of the Ford now sounds in your ears: “In Meo beach and keels over, leaving the crew to struggle in the merciless surf. Casta- way! Castaway! And so I have to tell vou there are thousands of men destroy- ed through the sudden swoop of temp- tations. Some great inducement to worldliness, or to sensuality, or to high temper, or to some form of dissipation, comes upon them IF THEY HAD TIME to consult their friends, if they had time to deliberate, they could stand it; but the temptation came so suddenly—an euroclydon on the Mediterranean, a shirlwind of the Carribean, One awful surge of temptation and they perish. And so we often hear the old story: *‘I budn't seen my friend in a great many years. We were very glad to meet. He said the cup until the bubbles ran over the edge, and in an evil momentall my good resolutions were swept away, and to the outraging of God and my own soul, 1 fell.” Or the is: “I had hard work to support my family. I thought that by one false entry, by one decep- tion, by one embezzlement, I might spring out free fromall my trouble; and the temptation came upon me so fiercely i could not deliberate. I did wrong, and having done wrong once, I could not stop.” Oh, 1t is story THE FIRST THAT COSTS, the second 1s easier; and the third, and on to the last. Once having loose from the anchor, it is not ) : to tie the parted strands. How often it is that men are ruined for the that the temptation comes from unexpected quarter! As veese Margate Roads, from winds; but the changing northeast, they are driven helpless and go down. Oh that God iid have mercy upon those upon whom comes the sudden swoop of temptation, hey perish, beos castaways! By talking wi found out also t this calamity thro STEF reason Some i 1+ 11 is le 1n safa southwest 2 wind to the wot there est NINE CARSLAWARYS SHEER HE There are three mill the seal ra livin ¢ Average less th comes from the {ac liarity with Sen IS sive that 1 sometin the the loc nine that » So I have totell iy SHpUH ked Eiosanosas, AT danger thie captain, the stoker, the man on mes reckle in shipwrecks, it is found awfully to blame that . through sheer roc thousands who do not © xs, and me you men are her sre where they They do n i sailing, and ilks tha with hooks of snd make them ‘walk the plank.” They do not kn next momen muy bring Drifting in their theols wir habita sparitual thangs g % which wav are . bi 1 * sl the BOR C8 DIRK REIOARL £y Drifting it all the t A DANGE HH COAST them are ire with evil} burn on tossed up on the barren them with great trou t domestic trou les: Dut With shail the = the "a, . % ibhiles, they pray B’i fio SAL5R They de dances 1a: l1 n's harbor; thay com further ‘ fluences, furth heavy ont, further fr religions takino MRING 4 As USCONSCIO Arctic o moment before the Vosta orasiie d 11 Wrapped up int business of store, not thint hey must qui all their earthly poss Absorbed in their tion, not knowing that v will have sttended the last the last schottische a8 the passengers aboar i the 16T. he hie remembering GOON i SoCal poss ery soon they lovee, and Chey do not delib stately chooses to be rrined: French frigate Medusa aim for the Arguin banks, but there it went to pieces. I wish I eonld wake you up. The perils are so augmented, you will die just as certainly as you sit there unless you bestir yourself. Are you willing to become a castaway? You throw out no onr. You take no sound- ings. Yon watch no compass. You are not calenlating your bearings while the wind is abaft, and yonder is a long line of foam bounding the horizon, and you will be pushed on toward it, and thousands have perished there, and you are driving in the same direction. Man the life-boat! Pull, my lads, pull! ed, and that without remedy.” But some of you are saying within ourselves: “What shall I Vhy, my brother, do what any ship does when it is in trouble LIFT A DISTRESS SIGNAL, On the sea there is a flash and a boom. You listen and you look. A vossel is in tronble. is sounded, or a rocket is sent up, or a blanket is lifted, of a bundle of rags anything to catch the eye of the passing eraft. Bo if you want to be taken of the wreck of your sin, you must ut a distress signal, The publican lifted the distress signal when be eried, ‘God be merciful to me a sinner!” Peter lifted the distress signal when he said, ‘Lord, save me, 1 perish]” The blind man lifted the distress signal when he said, “Lord, that my eyes may be opened!” The jailer lifted the distress signal when he smd, “What must I do to be saved? And help will never come to our soul until you lift some signal. on must make some demonstration, give some sign, make some heaven. There was an old sailor thumping about in A SMALL BOAT IN A TEMPEST, He broak- “1 took The surf was ing over the boat, and he smd: off my life-belt, that it might soon be over, and I thought, somewhat indis- tinctly, about my friends on shore, and then I bid them good-bye lke, andl was about sinking back and giving it The elouds were breaking away, and there that O sinking soul, see of the storm cloud? That 18 the star Deathstruck ceased the tide to stem, When suddenly a star arose It was the star of Bethlehem! If there are any here who consider themselves castaways, let me say God is doing everything to save you. Did you ever hear of Lionel Luken? He was the inventor of the insnbmergible life boat. All honor is due to memory by seafaring men, as well as by landsmen. How many by his invention! n after days that invention was improved, and one day there was A PERFECT LIFE-BOAT, lives he saved the Northumberland, ready at Rams- The lifo-boat be ready testing, the crew came gute, Nn for out and le aped on the gunwale on one side to see if boat would upset, it upset it. Then, ami cited thor ds, th and AS ne Was H i the hu: ¢ boat was launched and come, great m of the shipw reck anve i { aunce Aven was beating on the rocks the potentates of the i Hastings, with sou tie of the lo arash o came le families here to bo save d. and saved us that child for Ch child, that other! give us the father, They must all coms wades 1 (rive the whol I claim ¥ nere wWiio have wii Foy i without any God are dead. brother; I claim all nave to pray s n Pw er of ron into vour ca rather your prayer until your chane aud the night drops, and the sei washes you out, and the appalling fact shall be announced that, notwithstanding a your magnificent opportunities, have become a castaway. when vou my than 1th You . ————_ ae What Women are Doing. A woman living near West Seneca, New York, has a well-enltivated flower farm of seventeen acres, with four greenhouses, She sometimes clears £2,000 a year from the sale of her tlow- ers and plants. She says tloriculture is a good business for women, but the west is the best field for it, and if she i | : there. BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITIES, — A slab sided, mud covered granger entered a Broadway clock store after dusk the other evening, and, with a bewil ered look, asked: “Mister, is this where a man kin git a clock?" “Yes, sir,” said the clerk “Wall,” said the granger, ‘‘what be that ticker worth?’ pointing to an or- nate and intricate piece of time record. ing mechanism on the shelf. “That, sir,” said the clerk, ‘is a wonderful time piece. 1t is worth $200 and will run 3 years without winding. "’ “Great Scott!” gasped the granger, “1hires years without winding! Say, mister, how long would the blamed thing run if she was wound up?" EC ——— [AK ELY TO PROVE USEFUL. ~Stran- er. At the counter, to bank teller 111 you please give me Canadian mon. Ffank Teller, politely — * Jan ‘eller itely - *‘So sir; but our cashier has Just left ad took all the Canada bills we bad when ue wont away.’’ THE POWEROF MUSIC, An Appeal for Melody of a Whole~ some Character, (iive the people music and let it be both popular and good. Music rouses and trains the emotions, as the gymnasium trains men in the ex- ercise Ey limbs, Inward activities long dormant or never before awakened are called up and become new powers within the breast and emotion nerves for action. The most stupid horse that goes up hill to the addy of bells, the most timid soldier who marches to battle with fife and drum, the most delicate girl who spins round and round tireless in the dance, the poorest laborer who sings at his work—any of them are good enough to prove that music rouses and sustains the emotions. But that 1s not all, It will discipline and control emo- tions; that is the explanation of the art of music ss distinguished from the mere power of musical sonnds. IT MAKES THEM BETTER, Harve vou ever noticed how men, wo door of a saloon listening to the wretch- ed version of some finemelody executed by a gutter band? Many the door will not enter who come preferring ing, dog worrving atid boys, will all stand wnt and Oy . +f . 3 about? A fiddle, te wretched cornet, and a harp of which no two in wonderm all cracked strings are in tune, trying wild “The Last Rose of Sum- » masses of the people want music i it be do them g I'he 1 11 of a suitable quality it will yod masses who attend the free neerts in the parks include many and MJOTILY Care wwually called To them t 1 with great wealth refinement, obi y ht what is 1 Yelassical”’ music ' His means something grounda eXeruon Hail Col and “Marchi hev will dis pretty mi peras { France, (Germany, and Ireland can also be the free park £ ta rin new iensant chals 3 i i BETTER THAN MED! ] » their grand concerts, and 2 Dass, Un Pleasare ¢: restraint, the is unknown; in their feelings, habits v £1 ul ng the impulses y sOROMIZIE the f Lisciplin 3 with many means 1 3 Dandinaia o order Ff real f system, i Bacnme nal 1 attracts fn, but not go 1 2 $6 ANY ti Corin of the poor do Y¢ ’ 1 emotions, t these P ana a vean- or rr, 18 As likely to cause a sob with in fustian as within ie, whether sacre d seculs preast clad one attired in milk Music will some day become a power- And Half our diseasessome Come disorder of the How from Herves of the body? Boredom makes more pa- Want of interest and excitement, stagnation of the emotional life, or the fatigue of overwrought emo- tion, lies at the root of half the ill health of our young men snd women. Can we doubt the power of music to break up that stagnation? Or can we doubt its power to soothe, to recreate an over- strained emotional life, by bending the bow the other way? of exhansted feeling in which certain kinds of mosic would act like poison, just as whip and spur which encourage last. There are other kinds of music which soothe, and, if one may use the word, lubricate the worn ways of the nervous centers. When good music ceases to be the luxury of the rich and the degradation of the poor it will open the golden gates of a wider and happier realm of recrea- ton for the masses. It will have a marked influence on orime, and it will promote thrift and increase the sum-- now lamentably small—of the people's wholesome pleasures, FLORENCE, 8 years old" Mamma, do dogs get married?’ Mother—No, my dear." “Then what right has Hark to growl at Jennie when they are eating their broakfust?" SUNDAY sCHOOL LESSON, Buspar Berrewsen 15, 1333, David Sparing Saul, LESSON TEXT, 1 Bam. 24 : 4-17. Memory verses, 11, 12) LESSON PLAN. Toric oF THE QUARTER: and Disoli diene, Obedience GoLpex Text vor THE Quanrer: Be- hold, in better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fal of rams, 1 Sam. 15 to obey « 430) Liessox Toric 1 Magnanimily of the Obedient, 1. David's { ve, 4% | » vl ring: 2 Davids Forbearance, Lussox O1 Idavid's Vie in, { fioLpEN He not overeaing of evil, Text : bud overcome Rom. 12 : 21. evil with good, Dany Hove Rreapixos : M.—1 Sam. 24 : 4-17. ity of the obedient. 1 Sam. 21 : 1-15 from Saul. 1 Bam. 22 ignant sprit T.—1 Sam, 23 sistent pursuit F. 1 Sam. 23 : 1 FoOw « Magnanim- @ T. flight David's 16 a of . 1 Sam r kindness Psa. 18