The Brooklyn livine’s Sun- day Sermon. Sultject : “A Mediterranean Voyage” Pr ached a: Prindist, italy. TEXT: “dnd 80 il cams to pass th r escaped all safe to land.” Acts hat Ged Having visited your historical city, whic wo desired to see because it was the AM of the most famous road of the ages, the Roman Appian Way, and for its mighty fortress overshadowing a city which even Haunibal's hosts county not thunder down, we must to-morrow morning leave your har- bor, and after touching at Athens and Core inth, voyage about the Mediterranean to Alexandria, Egypt. I have heen read. this morning in my New '‘estament of a Mediterranean Yoyage in an Alexandrian ship. It was this very mont The vessel was lying | from here. On distinguished passe historian, as believe; name, things, or, as they termed it, world upside down.” This convict had gained the confidence of the Captain. Indeed 1 think that Paul knew almost as much about the sen as did the Cap- tain, He lad been shi o times, already: % Shiphzecked three life amidst rd that vessel were two ngers: oue, Josephus, the we have the other, a convict, one Paul hy \ capstaps, and cables, and storms: and he was talking about equinoctial storm was coming noticing somethin, , yvardarms, and he knew what Seeding the ane rha otic 0 unseaworthy pe the vessel, he advised the Captain to stay in the harbor. But I hear the Captain and the rst mate talking together. T eysay: ‘We cannot afford to take : adsian, and he a minister aie to preach Yary we ah ht ps y¥ well, but I All aboard! headway! They had whirlwi called Euroclydo, torn sail its turban, shook cay anda Por would brandish a spear, and tossed the hulk into the heavens, Overboard with the car- go! Itisall washed with salt water and worthless now; and there are no marine in- surance companies, J ds , cut with the a! 21 Suns ahoy, nd Great consternation comes on crew and Jossengers. The sea monsters snort in the oam, and the billows clap their hands in glee of destruction. In the lull of the storm 1 hear a chain clank. It is the chain of the great apostle as he walks the deck. or holds fast to the rigging amidst the lurching of the ship the spray dripping from his long beard as he cries out to the crew “Now 1 exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no oss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God. whose I am, and whom I Ho may be y " don't believe warlinspike from a uff tackle, Cast off! Shift the helm for Who fears the Mediterranean?’ brought before Cassar; and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.” Fourteen days have passed, and there is no abaternent of the storm It is midnight Standing on the lookout, the man peers int the darkness and, by a flash of lightai the long white line, — Maem and knows —y nat ' i O 8 ; a Viitg near to some country, will be shivered on the rocks flies like chaff in a tornado. They drop the sounding line, and by the light of the lan- ing along a little the line again of the lantern the Two hundred an few feet of awful shipwreck! The farshor and soe it is they drop ba the fteen fathoms. over the side of the ship and undergird i into the small boat, expecting in eit uDe | Se the sham, and he tells spring! The timbers crack! parts in ths thu surge! Here what wild struggling for life’ leap from to plank. Here they go uw as if they would never rise, but th of them. The vessel strikes! panting on it to the beach. waves until their chins plow the sand. and on the beach called, two hundred and seventy-six people answer to their names. “And 50.” says uy ext, "it came to $s that they ! safe to land.” Bt ¥ Escaped 1 learn from this subject: First, that those who get us into troubls will not stay to help us out. Thess shipmen ot Paul out of Fats Havens into the storm; out 88 Soom as the tem dro upon them, they wanted to pr in the sual boat, caring nothing for what became of Paul and the passengers. Ah me' human nature is the same in all . They who us into trouble never stop to help us cut. hey who tempt that young man mto a life of Gimipation will be the “Hest to laugh at his imbecility, and to drop him out of decent society. Gamblers always make fun of the of gamblers. They who ou into the contest with fists, saying, back you,” will be the first to run. Look over al of your life, you into those i 3 2-1 i hin 4 ii hes : 1 Bi i : sp Sp — ——— us brow once 1a pure mother's lips, But He refused her counsel, He went wher reuroolydons have their lair. He foundered on the sea, while all hell echoed at the roar of the wreck: Lost Pacifics! Lost Pacifics! i Another lesson from the subject is that ristians are always safe, jPaul getting out of that shipwreck, did there? hey had not, in those days, rockets with {which to throw ropes over Jed ven els. Their lifeboats were of but lttle \worth, danger, ny text says that Paul esca safe. ito land. Andso it will always be with God's children. They may be plunged into dark- ness and trouble, but by the throne of the eternal God, I assert it, “they shall all es- cape safe to land.” mercial disaster, The cables break. The masts fall. The cargoes are soattersd over fhe sen. Oh! what struggling and leaping on kegs and hog sheads and cornbins and store shelves! And yet, though they may bave it { Jo very hard in commercial circles, the good, f ing in God, all come safe to land. | | Wreckers go out on the ocean's beach and | find the shattered hulks of vessels: and on the | Streets of our great cities there is many a wreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pen. | Hulks abeam’s end on insurance counters. | Vast credits sinking, having suddenly sprung i leak. Yet all of them who are God's chil- Mren shall at last, through His goodness and mercy, escape safe to land. The Scandina- vian warriors used to drink wine out of tha | skulls of the enemies they bad slain. Even ¢ so God will help us, out of the conquered illd life, to drink sweetness and and disasters o strength for our souls, You have, my friends, had illustrations in | your own life of how God delivers His peo, i Be I have had illustrations in my own | life of the same truth. I was once in what { ton your Mediterranean you call a Eurocyl- | slon, but what on the Atlantic we call a cyclone, but the same storm. The steamer (sreece, of the National line, swung out into | {the river Mersey at Liverpool, und for i (New York. We had on board seven | hundred, crew and passengers. We came | Rogether strangers—Italians, Irishmen, Eng | Ris amen, Swedes, Norwegians, Ameri. cans Two flags floated from the i joan ~British and American ensigns. We { had a new vessel, or one so thoroughly re- | modeled that the voyage had around it all | the uncertainties of a trial trip. The great | steamer felt its way cautiously out into the sea. The pilot was discharged: and commit. i ting ourselves to the care of Him who hold- rth the winds in His fist, we were fairly started on our voyage of three thousand miles | It was rough nearly all the way —the sea with | strong buffeting disputing our path’ {But one night at 11 o'clock, after | the lights had been put out, a cycione—a { wind Just made to tear ships to pieces i caught us in its clutches. It came down mo | suddenly that we had not time to take in the i sails or to fasten the hatches. You may know | that the bottom of the Atlantic is strewn | with the ghastly work of cyclones. Oh! {they are cruel winds. They have hot | breath, as though they came up from infernal furnaces. Their merriment is the ory of affrighted passengers { Their play is the foundering of steam- ers. And, when a ship goes down. they laugh i until both continents hear them, ey go in circles, or, as I describe them with my hand-—rolling cn’ rolling on! with finger of | terror writing on the white sheet of the | wave this sentence of doom. “Let all that come within this circle perish! Brigantine, go down! Clippers, go down. Steamships i go down” And the vessel, hearing the ter- | ®ble voice, evouches in the surf, and as the waters gurgle through the batches and port { holes, it lowers away, thousands of feet down, farther and farther, until at last | it strikes the bottom; and all is peace, for they have landed. Helmuman dead at the | wheel! Engineer, dead amidst the extin- guished furnaces! Captain, dead in the faguay! Passengers, dead in the cabin? | Buried in the great cemetery of dead steam. | prs, beside the City of Boston, the Lexington, the President, the Cambria—waitiag for the archangel's trumpet to split up the decks and wrench open the cabin doorsand unfast en the hatches, I thought that [ had seen storms on the sea before; but all of them together might have | come under one wing of that cyclone. We were only eight or nine hundred miles from home, and in high expectation of soon seein our friends for there was no one on boar | 80 poor as not to have a friend. Bat it seemed as if we were to be disappointed. The most of us expected then and there to dis There were nons who made light of the peril, | save two, One was an Englishman, and he was drunk, and the other was an Ameri can, and he was a fool! Oh! what a time it was! A night to make one's hair turn white. We came out of the berths, | and stood In the gangway, and looked into the steerage. and sat in the cabin, While seated there, we heard overhead something like minute guns, It was the bursting of the sails We held on with hoth hands to keep our places. Those who attempied to cross the floor came back bruised and | gushed, Cups and glasses were dashed to fragments; pieces of the table gettin joose, swung across the saloon. It se od as if the hurricane took that great ship of thousands of tons and stood I wink And then it came it on end, and said “Shall i it, or let it go this once™ | down with such force tha. the billows tram. over it, each mounted of a fory, We alt that ~~ ryuung depended on the pro- | poiling screw. If that stopped for an in- stant we knew the vessel would fall off into the trough of theses and sink, and so we prayed that the screw, which three times since leay- ing Liverpool had already stopped, might not now, Oh! how anxiously we lar thump of the ma upon which our lives seemed After a while some one I" No; overpowersd » and we n when we heard the reo gular pulsations of the overtasked machinery Joing Thump, thump. thump. At 3 o'clock n the morning the water covered the ship from way! The deluge prow to stern, and the lights gave rushed in, we {elt that one or two mors waves like that must swamp us forever, As the water rolled back and for- ward in the abn, and dashed against the wall, it way up to 3 . sprang pd P ng lights as it with such roar, there up from the cabin a shriek of horror God I may never hear again. ) oe Again, ear i chinery, to ! Myc uy wife shall be now into eternity | two minutes I meet my God” There were about five hundred and i fe i 1 i : Ry a thousand shi doom of this vessel! Theres was a m the utorm, but aly that it | might gain additional fury, Crash! went | the lifeboat on one side, ! went the | lifeboat on the other side. The great booms | [ok loose, and, as with the heft o a thunder- | Balt, Pinded the.deck and beat the mast | the {ib boom, studding sail boom, and square sail m, with their strong arms, beating ' time to the awful march and music of ths | burricane, Meanwhile the ocean became phosphoresd est. The whole scene looked like fire. The water dripping from the rigging, thers were ropes of fire; and thers were masts of fire; and there was a deck of fire. A ship of fire, walling on a sea of fire, through a night of fire, May I never see anythiug lke ita oat Everybody prayed. lad of twelve jars of age got down and prayed for is mother. “If I should give up” he said, ‘I do not know what would be- come of mother.” There were men who, I think, had not prayed for thirty YOars, who then got down on their knees, When a man who has neglected God all his life feels that he has come to his last time, it makes a very busy night, All of our #ins and shortcomings passed through our minds, My own life seemed utterly un- satisfactory, Icouldonlysay. ‘Here, Lord, take me as I am, I cannot mend matters now, Lord Jems, Thou didst dis for the chief of sinners. That's me! It seems, lord, as if my work is done, and poorly done, and upon Thy infinite mercy I cast myself, and in this hour of shipwreck and darkness commit myself and her whom I hold by the hand to Thee, O Lord Jesus! praying that it may be a short struggle in the water, and that at the same instant we may both arrive in glory ™ Oh! I tell you a man prays straight to the mark when he has a eye one above him, an ocean beneath him and sternity so close to him that be can fee its breath on his cheek, The night was long. At last we saw the dawn looking through the port holes. Asin the alden time, in the fourth watch of the now: the ull rocks, I sw wave cliff to wave cliff; and when He puts His foot upon a billow, though it may be tossed up with might it goes down. He cried to the winds, Hush! They knew His voice, The waves knew His foot, They died away, theses letters on scrolls of foam and fire: “The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sen.” The ocean calmed. The path of the steamer became more and more mild; until, on the last morning out, the sun threw round about us a glory wich as [ never witnessed before, God made & pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon to horizon, for all the splendors of earth and heaven to walk upon-—a pavement bright enough for the foot of a seraph—bright enough for the wheels of the srchangel's As a parent embraces a child, and kisses away its grief so over that sea, that had been writhing in agony in the tempest, the morning threw its arms of beauty and of benediction, and the lips of earth and heaven met, As I came on deck—it was very sarily, Lad wo were nearing the shore —1 saw a fow sails wgainst the sky, They seemed like the spirits of the night walking the billows. [ leaned sver the taffrail of the vessel, and said: “Thy way, O God, is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters.” It grew lighter. The clouds were hung in purple clusters along the sky; and, as if those purple clusters wore pressed into red wine | and poured out upon the sea, every wave | turned into crimson. Yonder, fire cleft wood opposite to fire cleft; and here, a cloud, rent and tinged with light seemed like a palace, with os bursting from the win. | dows. The whole scene lighted up une Hl it seemned ax if the » of God were ascending and descending upon stairs of fire, and the wave<crests es into jasper. and crystal, and ame | thyst, as they were flung toward the beach, wade me think of the crowns of heaven osst before the throne of the great Jehovah. I | leaned over the taffrail again, and said, with | God, is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters ™ So, I thought, will be the going off of the storm and night of the Christian's life. The | darkness will fold its tents and away! The golden feet of the rising morn will come skipping upon the mountains and all the wrathful flows of the worlds woe break into the splendor of eternal joy. And 0 we come into the harbor ! eycione behind us Our friends be | fore us, God, who ia always good all around ne. And if the roll of the crew and the passengers had been called seven hundred souls would have answered to their names. "And so it came to pass that we all seaped sale to land.” And may God grant | that, when all our Sabbaths on earth are nded, we may find that through the rich mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, we all have weathered the gale! Into the hath of # heaven now we glides, Home at ian Sofily we drift on the bright sl.ver 0 Hose at las | Glory to God AR our dangers are o'er We stand secure an the glorified shore Glory to God ' we will shoul evermore Home at last floene at leat] ATI Hindoa Tonsorial Artists The Indian barber travels from house io house to do his shaving. He carries sll his tools under his arm, wrapped up in a cloth, and when he shaves his custom ¢r., he makes him squat down on his heels and bend over his head. He then squats down on his own heels in front of him, and the two, without a chair or stool, do the business in the most primi- tive manner. He usually shaves with cold water, and he is a manicure as well ss a barber. No Hindoo shaves himself, and few Hindoos pare their own nsils, The barber is expected to take the gray bairs out of your head, eyebrows and mustache, and like his brother he pays attention to cleaning the cars and to shav- ing the face, even to the comers of the Ae from $1.25 to $2 a month per family, An ordinary shave costs from one to two cents, and a first-class haircut is given from one cent to a nickel. It is quite | customary in the East for the families to | shave their heads when they go into { mourning, and in Siam when a King dies { all the people in the country are supposed i to cut off their hair so close that their | pates are as clean as a billiard ball. The | of the corpse is shaved in India, ng a body being cre- | mated at Benagps, saw about half a | steps, not far from the fire. I asked | where it came from and my guide told {me it had just been cut from the heads | of the friends and relatives of the de. ‘ gensed. The Indian barber is a surgeon Foe well as a shaver. He bores the holes in the girls’ ears, and pierces their noses for the nose-ring. He often acts as a essional match-maker, und his wife 18 a ladies’ hair-dressor. She trims the nails of the bride for we di.ge, and takes of" the fine clothes of the widow, and dresses her in her funeral garments, I | had these Hindoo barbers meet me at | every station in India, and they were al. | ways within call at the hotels. — Courier. | Jounal, | Owing to the spread of foot and mouth ' chief milk establishments in Berlin are now forced by law to boil their milk be. fore selling 1% to sho public. i : i FER 8 Eo SE a a ————— £7 Her Work. How mueh one person can accom- plish when in real earnest is beautifull ly shown in an article from 2% Youth's Companion which we copy. About thirty years ago a young girl in a Western city was given charge of a Bunday school class of rough boys, usually known as ‘river rats,” who had never been in any school before. When she entered the room she found them lounging on the desks and benches, wearing their hats, puffing vile cigars, 8 deflant leer on every face. They greeted her with a lond Se and one of them exclaimed: ‘, Well. sis, you goin’ to teach us She stood silent until the laugh was over, and then said, quietly, “Do 1 look like a lady?” An astonished stare was the only reply which they gave. ‘“‘Because,” she continued, gently, “‘gentlemen, when a lady enters the room, take off their hats and throwaway their cigars.” The lowest American sceretly be- lieves himself to be a gentleman, and in a moment every hat was off, and the lads were ranged in orderly attention. So remarkable was the success of this girl in managing and influencing men of the roughest sort, that she made it the work of her life. Bhe established clean | and respectable boarding houses for sailors and boatmen, and reading and coffee-rooms for laborers, and founded an Order of Honor, the members of which strove to lead sober, Christian lives themselves, and to help their fel- lows to do the same. Some of the members of her first were her efficient helpers for twenty years in all her work, It was a favorite saying with them, “Once let en Ge class Miss get her hold upon a man, and she never lets him go.” i She never did let go, but followed | him to sea, to the most distant parts of | the world, or evento prison, with letters | and little gifts. With all the tender pity of a mother, she strove, as many a mother does not strive, to bring the | wanderer back to the faith and inno- | cence of his childhood. Thousands of men passed under this | single woman's influence, and learned | something of her Master through her | wonderful purity and strong faith in | Him. : Such instances of helpfulness are not | rare in this country. With every year | the zeal of educated Christian men and | women finds new and practical methods of reaching and elevating the ignorant people. Singularly, these cfforts are more common in cities than in the smaller | towns and villages, where everybody | knows everybody, and where the grada- | tions of caste are, perhaps, fixed by | more Many a young lad or girl who reads | ifles leads an die life in such a | sional vague visions of going to India or Africa to teach the heathen how to | while the wharves or | taverns of their own native village are | filled with heathen for whose souls no | man has cared. ! Let every Christian ask himself as the day closes, “Have 1 stood idle in Has not my Master Of bne thing we may be sure, God | It is here, | We negli cf | it at our peril. . - Mrs. Eliza B. Burnz, The great increase of stenographie work in this country is partly due to “hiding her light under This modest, though Mrs. Eliza B. Burnz, the « ] and § Seventeen vears ago Mrs, | foresaw that short-hand would | been . ie a i bushel. +4 Rie niy § Peter ( ver ard lad her Mr. Cooper offered ints ny condition that she mstruction gratuil- This she at once agreed to do, fres, on institute. Miss Emma Parish, a pupil uf hers, teaches the day classes, Mrs jurnz herselt instructs a similar class at the Young Women's Christian Asso- She has held the position at the association for nine years. Mrs. Burnz has probably fitted more yonng men and women for business than any other one teacher. Her sue | cess in that “particnlar has been re- markable. The Phonographic World ranks her foremost Along women en- gaged and interested in the canse of shorthand, The “Burnz Method” is the one used at all the schools over which Mre. Burnz has jurisdiction. Mrs. Burnz was born in England, but came bere at the early age of 13, She 1s intensely American in all her ideas, and is nothing if not original. She 1s a thorough advocate of phonetic spelling, preferring ‘‘Burnz’ to' Burns” “helth” to “health,” also, wil, shal, hav, and giv, to Webster's old style. Al- though over 60 years of age, she de- votes her time to the study of Volapuk, the proposed international language, whose spelling is said to be strictly pho- netic. hile not a pronounced Vege- tarian, she is a rigid geist, an ardent advocate of the ballot for women and a strong believer in cremation. She isa stock holder in the Mt. Olivet Crema- tory at Fresh Pond, Long Island. In character she is high-minded, unsel- fish and anxious to do good, as oppor- tunity presents itself. Mrs. Burnzis a delioate ing woman, with the lofty sims o r life imprinted on her countenance. From the New York Press, Oct, 20, 1889, A545 RRR New York 8 shop Girls. There are 12,000 shop girlsin the area do-it th rota al ds trade in 18 great rog estimate given, by ome R.. knows, and yet wath observer w evening, noted infl the thousands who of their daily life be oo this number three of the larger have an even thousand girls in employ.—New York Letter, i A A Bonnowine is the canker SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Susoay Decemsen L 1333, The Temple Dedicated. LESSON TEXT. (Kings 8 : 54-63 Memory vorses, 02, 63) LESSON PLAN, Toric ov THE QUARTER : and Adverzity. Gorpex Texr vor tae Quanren: As long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.—2 Chron. 26: b, Prosperity Lessox Tovic : The Joys of a Full Consecration. f 1. Praise, vs. 54.06. LESSOR OUTLINE: 4 2 Prayer, vs, 07400, | 3. Offerings, vs 61473, Govven Text: The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the carth keep wil- ence before him.--Heb, 2 : 20, a Day Home Reavixoes : M.—1 Kings 8 : 54-63, Joys of a full consecration. T,~2 Sam. 71-17. to build the t mple. W.—1 Chron. 29 : 1-19. David's preparation for the temple. 1 Kings 5: 1-18. on the temple. F.—1 Kings 6 : 1-22. temple, 8.1 Kings 6 : 23-38 temple. 8.1 Kings the temple. Solomon 8B : 1-21. r————— LESSON ANALYSIS, 1. i. The Dedication Completed: He arose from before the altar of the Lord (54). Moses finished the cloud covered the 33, 34). PRAISE. work. Then the tent brought up the ark... with shouting (2 Sam. 6 : 15). upon his knees (2 Chron. 6 : 18). And the glory of the Lord filled the house (2 Chron. 7 : 1). Il. The Poaople Blessed: He stood, and blessed all the con- Moses. . . {DPent. 33 : 1). blessed the people in name of the Lord (2 Sam. 6 : 18), The king blessed all the congrega- tion (1 Kings 8B : 14). sch: Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest (56). Praising and thanking the Chron. 5:18). They worshiped, and gave thanks unto the Lord (2 Chron. 7: 3). Whoso offereth. . fieth me (Psa. 50: 28), It is good to sing praises;....praise is comely (Psa. 147: 1). Lord (2 pe wr He ehall offer it without blemish (Lev. 3: 1). Neither will 1 offer burnt offerings. . . . which cost me nothing (2 Sam. 24: 24). With precious blood, as of a lamb with- out blemish (1 Pet. 1: 19), 1. ““Let your hearts therefore be per- feet with the Lord our God.” Heart culture: (1) Its necessity; (2) Its standard; (3) Its helps. 2. “As at this day.” (1) Beeson de- votion recognized; (2) Continuous devotion sought. “So the king dedicated the house of the Lord.” (1) The giv- ers; (2) The giving; @ ‘The gift. — Dedieated (1) To whom? (2) By whom? (8) How? (4) Why? LESSON BIBLE READING, BOLOMON'S TEMPLE Location (1 Chron. 21 : 28-80 ;22 :1 ; 2 Chron. 3 : 1). Proposed by David (28am. 7:2; 1 1 ny 22:7). Prepared for by David (1 Chron. 3-5, 14 ; 29 : 4.5) 3uilt by Solomon (2 Bam, Chron. 22 : 6,7, 11). Work in progress (1 Kings 5 : Chron. 3 : 2 -~y a. 95 » a ” i 23 3) 1:7:12 ;: 1a DOT). {1 Kings 6:12, 18 :8:10 : 2 Chron. 7:3). Symbolism (John 2 : 19-21 ; 16 ;6 : 19 ; ph, 2 : 20-22), 1 Cor. 3 : LESSON SURROUNDINGS, ’ Int: The ment {1 Kings 3 Evexts. of Bolomon” RYEXING Leg fraadd ‘ 16-28) lesson, and is parrated as an evi dence that God had given him wisdom. of the wisdom of Solomon. The compact between Hiram, 1 le 4 ff To ’ Ol @, 0 + Bled, king I'yre, and Solomon, is narrat ing the temple (chap. 5), followed in construction of the edifice. By auti- houses is next 4 A escribed (1 Kings 7 : 1- cunning artificer in brass, 3 : 14), and prepared brazen ing.” (1) The great occasion; (2) felt prayer. (1 gregation.” mon’s utterance, . “There hath not failed one word of all his good promises.” (1) promises; (2) Gods fidelity.— (1) il. PRAYER, I. For God's Presence: Let him not leave us ad » I will not leave the until I have done we] He will not fail tl (Deut. 31: 6, Yet have I not seen the righteous for- saken (Psa, 37: 25 ant i, thee (Heb. 13: 56 i. For God's Help: The entire coghth chapter is devoted connection with the dedication of the temple. The lesson is an account of the closing solemnities. The leading men sssemble; the ark is brought to its final resting-place; the glory of the Lord fills the house (vs. 1-11). Solomon speaks to the people, formally blessing them (vs. 12-21); he then offers a remarkable prayer, full of adoration, supplication, and humble devotion, recorded in verses 23-53. Prace.—Mount Moriah inJerusalem, “before the altar of the Lord," at the y. The king stood on a scaffold elevated above the court where the assembly of the people were {2 Chron. 6 : 13). Tux. —In the twelfth year of Solo- mon's reign (B. C. 1004, or 1008 eccord- Prrsoxs, Solomon and the congregation. INCIDENTS. - great The king rises from numerous sacrifices, thus dedicating the house of the Lord. Panarrer Passace. ~ i, 46. 2 Chronicles 7 : OUR SCRAP BASKET. The latest Parisian novelty in gloves, wherein women can carry their railway tickets and small coins. An Eiffel tower in diamonds which expected in America soon. I$ bas been purchased for exhibition in this coun- vant (59), Hear thou in heaven, their cause {1 Kings 8: 45). Pe ople (2 Chron. 6: 39), Thon hast maintained my right and my cause (Psa, 9: 4), Ex-Empress Eugenie, will spend the winter at Naples Isabella the Ex-Queen of Spain, has entered her 60th year, in good health A home is never perfectly furnished afflicted (Psa. 140: 12). ii. For God's Glory: That all the peoples... may know that the Lord, he is God (60). That all may know the hand of the Lord (Josh. 4: 24). That all... may know that there is a God in Israel (1 Sam. 17: 46), That ail thee (1 Kings 8: 43). That he might make his mighty power to be known (Psa. 106: 8), 1. “The Lord onr God be with us, as he was with our fathers’. (1) Ex- pune as a basis for prayer; (2) rayer as an onteome of experience. wf 1} God and our fathers; (2) God and ourselves, 2. “That he may incline our hearts unto him,” 0 The heart's natural inclination; (2) The heart's spiritual inclination. (1) Human hearts; (2) Divine helps. 3. “He is God; there is none else.” (1) The personal God; (2) The gracious God; (3) The only God. Lil OFFERINGK, I. Perfect Hearts: Let your hearts therefore be perfect with the Lord (61). (Gen. 17: 1). He walked. .. .in uprightness of heart with thee (1 Kings 3: 6). His hott waa Sot petinets,, at wus the heart of David (1 Kings 11: 4). The beart of Asa was ect with the Lord all his days (1 Kings 156: 14). il. Godly Lives: Walk | inatatiten, .- .. Kogp bis eum Bn od with God (Geb. 5: M4). Ye Keep the Ti ways (Dent. 8: 6). I will... cause to walk in my stat- Ce 1. : ‘ 3 iia He offered unto the Lord, two and and the death of overy man's estate. is rising six weeks, —Southey. NOTHING XEW UXDER THE SUX.—The slot” machine was in use in the ancient Egyptian temples confirms the saying sun.” 1t appears that in those days the holy water was not free to all, but was kept in a closed vessel. When the sum of five drachmese was droj into lowed a flow out, after which it automatically closed to wait the arrival of the next customer. This device was first refer- red to in the “Spiritalia” of Hierc, published in the Seventeenth century. Never dispute with a man over seventy years of age, nor a woman nor an enthusiast, The first assisted Italian Mmmigrant to this country was a person named Christ r Columbas. — Puck. By the aid of the artist's brush sash curtains of serim are made very effec tive. Nasturtiums are showy, and con- volvuli lovely upon these inexpensive hangings. Worns Dirrenexriy Usep, — English- Americans use many words
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