"REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The DBroeokiym Divine’s Sune
day Sermeop.
Subject: «Kind Words Never Die, Cherished
and Blessed.”
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bone.” — Prov, hei 15. aketh the
When Solomon said this he drove a whole
volmne into one phrase. You of
will not beso silly as to take the words ot
the $ext in a literal sense. They si
mean to set forth the fact that there boa
Seemed power na kind word, Al
thoug may seem very insignificant,
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foul heart. Try the soft tongue
th the bone.” Have you
your life known acerbity and acrimonious
dispute to settlo n quarrel? Did they not al-
ways make matters worse and worse and
worse?
Many years ago there was a t 1
in the Presbyterian family, ee ianzre]
Christ were thought orthodox in proportion
that
ever in all
the new school Presbyterian church and the
old school Presbyterian church became one
and the oosan ns to rise. It comes up to
high water mark. It embraves the great
headlands. It subm: the beaches of all
the continonts, It i+ the heart throb of ona
world against th: lisart throb of another
world, And I havo to tell you that while all
your storms of ri licule aud storms of sarcasm
may rouse 1) the passion of an immortal na«
ture, nothing low than the attractive power
of Christian kindness can ever raise tho death
loss spirit to happiness and to God. I have
more faith in the prayer of a child five years
old, in the way of bringing an infidel back to
Christ and to heaven, than I have in all the
hissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical contro-
vorsy.
You cannot overcoms men with religious
argumentation. If you come at a skeptical
man with an argument on behalf of the
Christian religion, you put tho man on his
mettle. He says: ‘'l soo that man has a car-
bine. I'l use my carbine,
argument with my argument.”
come to that man persuading him that you
desire his happiness on earth and his eternal
welfare fn the world to come, he cannot an-
What Lhave saidis Just 84.4 ve 12 the 70.
clamal 0 opsaly vicious,
ever know a dranbind to be mved Ea
the caricature of a drunkard? Your
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soul as firmly ae ia bis have been delivered,
then a ray of light will flash across his
vision, and it will prom as i a ral
Kind words are so cheap itis a wonder wo
do not use them ofteasr. There are tens of
thousands of people who are d for the
lack of one kind word. There ing business
man who bas fought against trouble until he
is perfectly exhausted. Ha has been think-
ing about forgery, about robbery, about suj-
cide. Go to that business man. Tell him
that better times are coming, and tell him
that you yourself were in a
to pat his trust in God. Tell him that Jesus
Christ stands beside every business man in
That man is dying for
Here
is a soul has Swemped in sin, He
wants to find the Hght of the Gospal. He
foals like a shipwrecked mariner looking ous
over the beach, watching for a sail ainst
the sky. Ob, bear down on him. Tell him
that the Lord waits to pe gracious to him,
and, though he has been a great sinner
there is a great Saviour provided, Tell
him that though his sins are as scarlet they
shall be as snow; though they are red
like crimson they shall be as wool. That
hammer, that the iph i
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You have a dispute with your neighbor
You say to him, “I you." He re-
plies, “1 can't bear the sight of you" You
say to him, “Never enter my house
put you down.” He says to you, “You are
mistaken, I'll put you down.” And mo the
contest rages, aud year after year act
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There used to be sung at a great many of
the piancs all through the country a Ong
that has almost died out. I wish somebody
would start it again in our social eircies
There may have not been very exquisite art
glorious sentiment:
Kind words never die, never dig;
Cheddabed snd essed,
can never drive men, women or children into
the kin of God. A March northeaster
will bring out more bonoysuckles than fret
fulness and scolding will out Christian
s work
a Cr n Surnad arvand 1] the Jnnteor and
+ “No, no; t until they
Him down.” yh at
Oh, it is the story of a Baviour's suffering
kindness that is to eapture the world. When
the bones of that great Behemoth of §
which has trampled all nations
broken and shattered, it will be found ou
that the work was not done by the hammer
of the iocomociast, or by the sword of the
conqueror, or by the torch of tion,
but by the plain, simple, overwhelming
force of “the soft tongue that breaketh the
ne.”
And now | ask the blessing of God to come
down u you in matters of heal in mat-
ters of busioess: that the Lord deliver
from all your financial ties; that
a will give you a good livelihood, large sal-
aries, healthiul wages sufficient income, 1
pray God that He may give you the oppor
tanity of educating your children for thie
york, and thre h, she rich grace of our
word Jesus soning them rect
for the world that is to coma, prapm
Above all, I look for the mercy of God
upon your immortal souls; and lest | stand
bafore some who bavenot yet attended to the
things of their eternal interest, in this the
closing part of my discourse, I implore
hove and now to seok after God and be at
peace with Him. Oh, we want to be gathered
Jogether or jas in the bright and | blessad as
sembiage 4 Skies, our wi done, our
orrows ail ended. od bles you, and your
children, and your children's children, And
now 1 commend to God and to the word
is able to build you up
and give you an inheritance among ol
that are sanctified,
A SOS 300
A Pomrritax Pio.—There is little
reason to doubt that the citizens of an.
cient Pompeii knew what was good.
They were fond of roast pig. One of
the first families of Pompeii were about
to dine on that succulent dasinty when
the Yoloanie om Sverwhdlaed the
city. pig was nearly pro-
bably, when the shower of red-hot ashes
it, This is all true, for a mass
of indurated lava and ashes has been
found in a stew which was on a
hod -stove in kitchen of a dis-
n
A QUEER LITTLE ISLAND.
The political relations of England
{ and Germany have recently made the
little island of Heligoland not only
famons but a place of importance 1 in-
sernational polities. Bome of the facts
about Heligoland, which are found in
the “Enoyclopmdia Britannica,” and
given in the recent issua of the Cliris-
tian Unic are peculiarly interesting.
Heligoland he in the North Bea
about thirty-six miles from the mouth
of the Elbe. There are in reality two
1slets, one of the sand and one of rock,
lying about a quarter of a mile apart.
“The Rock Island 1s pearly trian-
gular in shape, surrounded on every
side by steep cliffs, the only beach be-
ing the sandy spit where the landing-
place is situated, near the south-east
point. On this islet there are some
five hundred houses, divided into a
lower town or Unteriand, on the spit,
and an upper town or Oberland sit-
uated on the cliff above, and connected
with the lower town by a wooden stair
of 190 steps, the only possible mode of
commuuication between the two sec-
tions. The portion of the flat-topped
rock not occupied by the houses, the
few cabbage gardens, potato patches,
snd a powder magszine atthe north
end of the route,
cabbage
tato-peelings and halmas,
the Heligolanders the ‘Landwae’ or
high road, but better known to visitors
tato Walk.) There is alsoa hghthouse;
hind a rude earthwork, there are no
fortifications except the inaccessible
cliffs of the island, and no garrison of
any kind unless a few coast-guardsmen
be considered as such. The greatest
length of the island which slopes some-
what from west to east, is five thousand
eight hundred and eighty feet, and the
greatest breadth eighteen hundred
and forty-five feet, its ciroumference
thirteen thousand five hundred feet,
one hundred and
minety-eight feet, and the highest
point two hundred and fifteen feet.
fhe Dune or Sand Island is
scanty herbage, and imperfectly bound
together by bent-grass, and carices, It
is only sbeut two hundred feet above
the sea at its hightest point, but the
drifting sands and the constant inroads
———
arrested for stealing a dozen pewter
spoons. This event created tremend.
ous excitement, and was talked of for
years, The ecrimisal wus convieted
snd was sentenced to imprisonment at
hard labor in prison dress for, I think,
two weeks. ‘he dress consisted of a
fine new suit of clothes, much better
than he had ever worn in his life. They
had to be procured from the tailors
especially for him, by the way, since
there never before bad been used
such a thing. The labor consisted in
shovelling sand at the pier for eight
hours a day. As for the imprisonment
it meant that the convict had to sleep
every night in the guest chamber of
the Governor's house, There was no
other lock-up. And he took his meals
at the table d’hote of the very iun from
which he had stolen the spoons.”
The bh story of Heligoland, notwith-
standing its quaintness, renness, and
limited size, is interesting. ‘Here
Hertha had her great Temple, and
hit.er came from the main-land the
Angles to worship at her shrine. Here
lived King Radbod, a pagan, and on
this isle St. Willebrod, 1,2
first preached Christianity; and for ite
HED TAPE.
An energetic and skillful business
man will keep his eye open lest red
such wasteful entanglements may de-
velop is shown by three anecdotes
which “Chatter” quotes from a Paris-
ian paper:
“The patrol. which, since 1871, has
bean marching four times a day—or
rather every evening—from the Mount
Valerian tort to the Buresnes railway
now only goes once. The
change bas been made recently. The
story of this patrol is a curious one. In
Mount-Valerien.
the Suresnes station to the citadel
officers were
treated,
insulted and roughly
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY, BEPTEMBER 7, 1800,
Jasus and Zacchmus the Publican.
1:K88SON TEXT.
(Luke 19 : 1.10, Memory verdes: 7-103
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER!
Saviour of Men,
Jesus the
GorLpen Texr von
He is able to save to the
Heb. 7 : 25.
TE (JUARTER :
uttermost, —
Lesson Toric: Welcoming the Sin-
cere Seeker,
Yh,
r 1. Beeking Jesus,
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LEsSON OUTLINE By 2. hecelving Jesus, vs
i 57.
| 2 Confessing Jesus, ve
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Geoes Text: The Son of man is
Danny Hove READINGS ©
M. Luke 19 : 1-10. Welcome the
sincero secker,
T.—~Mstt, 8 :5-13, Sincere seek-
ing.
W.—Matt. 15: 21.28, Sincere seek-
ng.
T.—Mark 5 : 22-24, 35-43, Bincere
seeking.
F.—Mark 5 : 25-34. Sincere seek-
ne
8. ark 10: 46-52. Sincere seek-
ing.
Luke 7
ing.
B. : 86-50, Bincere seek-
LESSON ANALYSIS,
1. BREKING JESUS,
Zaocheus. . . . was a chief publican (2).
cans? (Matt. 9 : 11).
the publi-
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can (Matt, 158 :
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him (Matt, 21 : 32).
render assistance to officers in case of
need and to enforee the respect due to
their epaulets. So, for the last seventeen
years the corporal and his men; lantern
ble. The sea-bathing establishment is
situated here; but, with the exception
of the restaurant keepers and waiters,
and the sttondants who drag the bath-
residents. A shelving beach of white
sand presents excellent ficilities for
bathing: everything is
which the bathers cross in the morning
Approached
red-tiled houses, perched mn a little
cluster on the red cliff ‘Am Falm,' as
it is called—-looks véry picturesque,
and even the marrow brick paved or
saudy lanes of the town are not defici
ent in & certain degree of quaintness.
There are--with the exception of a
wheel-barrow or a perambulator—mno
wheeled carriages in the Island, and no
horses or other beasts of burden. Even
the two cows kept in the Unterland for
the use of invalid visitors, and whose
milk is sold at the apothecary's shop,
are removed st the end of the bathing
season to Ouxhaven, the Island not
supplying food for both man and beast.
Mud 1s unknown on the streets, the
rain only serving to wash their sloping
the housewives’ kitchens. Most of the
houses are built—tne lower half at
least—of brick, but some are of wood.
There are a theater, a ‘conversation
out to ‘baadegaster’—visitors for sea-
bathing forming the great source of the
islanders’ prosperity. In both
numbers of shops; but the articles
for sale seem to be chiefly intend-
ed for the summer ‘bathing guests,
the natives getting most By
supplies from Ham
The
™w
dwellings of the fisher-folks are
the population.
have ttle gardens with flowers, cuonm-
bers, ete, in front of them; and in
places protected by the sea breezes
they are looked upon by the Hecligo-
landers as objects of national ve.
So buthing.
Hamburg, Engiish or other guns
being rare. There are no English resi-
dents, the officials, the governor ex-
cepted, being either natives orGermans.
OI these officials a correspondent of
the New York ‘“T'ribune” gives an
amusing account in a recent letter,
“There is a good deal of government
here, too, ere is a Colonial Gov-
ernor and the before-mentioned Secre-
or's House. There isa ‘I'reasurer,
and a Pooh-Bah. The latter is a war-
yuat officer of the British Navy. He is
if there are any other hittle
be dune on those
them.
station every night, winter and sum-
mer alike, whether moonlight or pitch
dark It is the legend of the sentry
over again, who had been posted by
the side of 8 newly painted seat in a
public garden, to warn the public
against sitting on it, and who was kept
there for twenty years.
“The Hussian army has a similar tra
dition, more poetic but less known. An
officer of the guard bad fallen in love
to tell her the fact. One day
to examine a little flower which was
growing between the stones of the
pavement. Cstherine understood and
of the court to mount guard over the
flower. Seventy-five
sentinel was therestill, The Emperor
Nicholas had him removed.
-—
Scholastic Hints.
are always at sa premium.
an oconsional reading exercise,
you are directly in front of the class.
cation of his tendency to think or not
to think for hamself.
Have the courage to be independent
ou are right,
The high school should establish the
habits and train in the methods followed
in the highest inquiries after scientific
truth.
The principles of thinking, which are
to common life what axioms are to ma-
thoroughly appreciated.
In the news of the day, the news of the
the vital and the sensatio
this publican (Luke 18 : 11),
i1. A Pralsaworthy Desire:
He sought to see Jesus who he was
31.
Come, see a man, which told me all
(John 4 : 20;
Who is be, Lord, that I may believe?
John B¥ : 36).
Sir, we would see Jesus (John 12 : 21.
That I may gain Christ, and be found
in him (Phil. 8: 8 9),
Hi. ACommendable Effort:
He climbed up to a,
-
. . free tw
If I do but touch his garment, 1 shall
be made whole (Matt. 9: 21).
might
only toncn his garment (Matt. 14:
363,
| There ran one to him, and kneeled to
him (Mark 10:17
He went unto him, and besought him
(dohn 4: 47).
I. “He entered and wae
through Jericho.” (1) A needy
city; (2) A helpful vimtor; (3) A
passing opportunity. Jericho's op-
portumty (1) Improved by some;
(2) Rejected by many.
2. “‘He sought to see Jesus who he
was.” (1; His motive; (2) His
action; (3) His success, —
passing
cess attained,
“He could not for the crowd, be-
cause he was little of stature.” (1)
Personal defimency; (2; Adverse
surroundings; (3) Skilfal eflort; (4)
Splendid success.
II. RECRIVING JESUS,
I. Jesus Calling:
Zaocheus, make haste,
down (5).
I came not to call the righteous,
sinners { Matt, 9: 13).
Come unto me, all ye that labor (Matt,
11: 28.
Be of good cheer; rise, he calleth thee
(Mark 10:49.
if any man thirst, let him oome unto
me, aud drink (John 7: 37).
I. Willing Ones Responding:
He made haste, and came down, and
and come
but
sins (Matt. 3: 6).
baptized (Acts 2: 41),
should
on the part of the class,
It is not often that good results are
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make it serviceable for discipline and
inspiration, but they are rare.
Strawberry Leaf-Bligth,
It 18s known that this disease usually
onuses the greatest injury by attacking
rvested. A
numerable spores, sud it is these that
infect the young leaves. To prevent
this the practice of burning over the
plants just after the fruit is gathered
as been followed with success, the
young plants usually starting up and
rowing thrifty after the treatment.
he complete destruction of the old
leaves is usually effected by first mow-
mine the effect of spraying the fo
with a strong soiution of sulphurio
Several rows of strawberry plants,
infested with leaf-blight, were
8: HN).
He is gone in to lodge with a man that
is a sinner (7).
{ This man. . . .would have perceived. ...
| that she is a sinner (Luke 7: 89).
This man receiveth sinners (Luke 15:
2
2)
y i] are filled with new wine (Acts 2:
13).
a)
They opposed themselves, and blas-
phemed (Acts 18:6).
1. “Zaocheus, make haste, and come
down.” Christ's call (1) Personal;
(2) Prawiug} (8) Peremptory.—(1)
approach emanded; (2) Haste re-
quired.
2. “He made haste, and came down,
and received him joyfully.” (1)
Prompt action; (2) Joyous action;
3) istward action.—(1) Zaec-
ochous welcomes the Lord; (2) The
Lord blesses Zaccheus,
3. “He is gone into lodge with a man
that is & sinner.” (1) A ground of
Pharisaic complaint; (2) A ground
of penitential consolation,
IL. CONFRSSING JESUS,
1. Cpen Confession:
Zaoccheus stood, and said unto the
Lord (8),
1 will confess transgressions unto
tbe Lord (Pea. 82: 0).
conf ....him will T
un-
onto
111. Realized Redemption:
The Son of man cawe....to save
that which was lost (10).
He shall see of the travail of his soul,
sud shall be satistied (lea, 58: 11).
I was vot s=nt but unto the lost sheep
(Matt, 15: 24).
He layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing
(Lake 15; 5).
Muke merry: for this my son was dead,
and is alive (Luke 15: 23, 24).
1. “Zacchens st od, and said unto
the Lord.” (1; 1a public position;
(2) Before the penetrating eye; (3)
With oroeptod avowals, 1 His
position; (2; His declaration.
2, "To-day is salvation come to this
house.” (1) A prompt salvation
(2) A happy home. Salvation in
the Lome: (1) Ready; (2) Rich; (3)
Eterual.
8. “To seek and to save,” (1)Seek-
ing, Where? How? Why? (2; Sav-
ing, From what? To what? By
what?—(1) The Lord's double mis-
sion; (2) The sinner's double en
coursgement.
LESBON BIBLE READING.
THE
Collectors of taxes (Luke 5:
PUBLICANA,
27).
G ilty of extortion (Luke 19 : ¥),
Becured large wealth (Luke 19 : 2).
Despised by the Phar:sees (Luke 18 :
11).
Classed with the infamous (Matt 11 :
19; 21 : B82).
Christ befriended
Luke 15 : 1, 2).
Responsive to religions effort (Mark 2 :
16 ; Luke IR : 14; 19:5, 6),
them (Matt. 9 : 11 ;
LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
IntervExisG EvesTts. —In the account
of Matthew, the parable of the laborers
Some harmonists also insert the raising
Another pre-
32-34; Luke 18 : 31-34) seems
to have followed immediately the para-
est
fatt.
The heal-
blind
2a
ambitions re
« 35-45).
20-28: Mark 10
neighborhood of Jericho, the differ-
Mark 10
This lesson is
33 3 0
A) 29-04;
S0-43).
Prace.—As our Lord was passin
| through Jericho; then at the house of
{ Zaccheus, probably in the court or at
| the entrance of the house. The city,
{ in New Testament times, was situated
south-east of the site of the more an-
| cient Jericho, about two miles east of
| the present village of Er-Rika. It was
{ st the opening of the valley of Achor
| into the valley of the Jordan, some six
| miles north of the Dead Sea.
Time, — According to the usual view,
| about a week before the last passover,
| though opinions differ as to the exact
day. Andrews, however, fixes the date
of the lesson on Thursday, the Tth of
| Nisan (March 30), 783 A. U. C.; that is,
1A. D. 30. He thinks that our Lord re-
| mained at the house of Zaccheus over
| night, departing for Bethany the next
| day.
Prrsoxs. — Our Lord, a crowd follow-
| ing him; Zaccheus.
| NCOIDENTS, The journey through
Jericho; Zaccheus, his attempt to see
| Jesus; our Lord's recognition of him
| and proposal to be his guest; the mur-
muring of the multitude; the confession
of Zaochens: the respouse of Jesus.
A Diabolical Plant.
Mr. Dunstan, naturalist, who bas re-
| where he spent nearly two years in the
study of the flora and fauna of the
country. relutes the finding of a singn-
lar growth in one of the swamps which
surround the great lake of Nicaragua.
He was engaged 1 hunting for botani-
cal and entomologiecal specimens, when
he heard his dog ery out, as if in ago-
ny, from a distance. Running to the
spot whenoe the animal's cries came,
Mr Dunstan found him enveloped in a
perfect network of what seemed to be a
fine rope-like tissue of roots or fibres,
| The plant or vine seemed composed en-
i tirely of bare interlacing stems, resem-
| bling, more than anything else, the
| branches of the weeeping willow de-
| nuded of all foliage, but of a dark, near-
ly black hue, and covered with a thick
| viscid gum that exuded from the pores,
| Drawing his knife, Mr. Donstan en-
| deavored to cut the a imal free, but it
{ was only with the greatest difficulty
| that he succeeded in severing the fleshy
| musenlar fibre. To his horror and
| the dog's body was bloodstained, while
his skin appeared to have been actually
sucked or puckered into spots, and the
animal stag, as if from exhaustion,
In cutting the vine the twigsenurled like
living, sinuous fingers about Mr. Dun-
stan’s band, and it required no slight
force to free the member from its cling-
ing grasp, which left the flesh red and
blistered. The gun exuding from the
vine was a greyish dark tinge, remark.
ably adhesive, and of a disagreeable
animal odor, ul and
to inhale. T
even of 3
Dunston could ascertain, its wer
of suction is contained ins liv
nitesimal I suckers,