REV. DR. TALMAGR
he Brookiyn ivine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject. “In the Lion's Den.”
TexT: “Then the King commanded, and
"Whey brought Daniel arg cast him into
den of Nes" Danie 16, ns Ba
Darius was King of Babylon, and the
Babylon. The the cedar
it is to be riven of the lightning.
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body that made a petition
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rolling up from the deep darkness a voice
which says: “'O King! live forever. My God
has sent His angel to shut the lions’ mouths
that they have not hurt me.”
Then Daniel is brought out from the den.
The demagogues are huried into it, and no
sooner have they struck the bottom of the
den than their flesh was rent, and their
bones cracked, and their blood spurted
through the rifts of the rock, and as the
lions make the rocks tremble with their
roar they announce to all ages that while
God will defend His people the way of the
ungodiy shall perish
Learn first from this subject that the
greatest crime that you can commit in the
eyes of many isthe crime of success. What
bad Daniel done that he should be flung to
the lions? He got to be prime minister,
They could not forgive him for that, and be-
hoid mn that a touch of unsanctified human
nature assesn in all ages of the world, Bo
long as you are pinched in poverty, so long
there are le who will say, “Poor man,
am sorry for him; he ought to succeed, poor
wan
But after a while the tide turns in your
favor. That was a table investment
men who used to sym.
with you stand alo the street,
and they scowl at you from the rim
of their hats, ou have more money
or more influence than they have
and you t to be scowled st from under
“the rim of their hats. You catch a word or
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occupy six men. All the affairs of state
were in his hand-questions of nance
questions of war, of peace, all internationa
questions wero for his settlement or ad-
justment. He must have had a corre
spondence vast beyond all computation,
here was not a man in all the earth who
converted in Scripture busy at the
. Matthew attending
to his custom house duties; the Prodigal Son
swine; Lydia selling purple; Bimon
uling in the net from the sea; Saul
spurring his horse toward Damascus, going
down on his law business. Busy! wy !
Daniel with all the affairs of state weighing
down upon his soul, and yet three a day
worshiping the God of Heaven.
Again, I learn from this subject that a man
may take religion into his politics Daniel
all the affairs of state on band, yet a
Christian He could not have kept his ele.
vated position unless he had been a thorough
politician; and yet all the thrusts of officials
and all the danger of disgrace did not make
him yield one iota of his high toned religious
principle. He stood before that age he
ands before all ages, a specimen of a Chris
tian politician.
So there have been in our day and in the
days of our fathers men aseminent in the
service of God as they have been eminent in
the service of the State. Sach was Benja-
min F. Butler, Attorney-General of New
York, in the time of your fathers. Buch
was John Mclean, of Ohio. Buch was Geo,
Briggs, of Massachusetts. Such was Theo-
dore Fring yn of New Jersey. Man
faithful to the State, at the same time faith.
ful to God.
It is absurd to expect that men who have
been immersed in political wickedness for
thirty or forty years shall come to refarma-
tion; and our hope is in the young men who
are coming up, that they have
principle and Christian principle side b
when they come to the ballot box cost
their first vote, and that they swear allegi-
ance to the government of heaven as well ae
to the Government of the United States. We
would have Bunker Hill mean less to them
leheom.
But because there are bad men around the
ballot box is no reason why Chrtetian te
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rt a good man, No
got into worse company than
io When be was thrown in
could not have clunbed into a niche beyond
reach of their paw or the snatch of their
tooth. They came pleased all around about
him as a hunter's hounds at the well knowr
whistle come bounding to his feet,
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HORSE, MULE, BULL AND FPAN-
THER.
“Jen" Oould Kick---A Ounning Bull--
Washing & Panther.
Last winter a Scranton, Pa., man
owned a lauk bay horse that stood
nearly nineteen hands high. The long-
legged animal devoured great quanti-
ties of food, and after the Scranton
man had made several unsuccessful
efforts to sell him or trade him off he
got a Waverly farmer to winter the
horse at a stated price. In the course
of six weeks the voracious horse ha'
devoured a whole stack of hay, and
the Waverly man became frantic. He
straightway came to Scranton and told
the owner of the horse that the greedy
beast would ruin him financially be-
fore spring, and he begged the man to
take the horse away at once, agreeing
to take $5 a ton for all the hay the
horse had eaten and say no more
sbout it. There was a good deal
of the milk of human kindness in the
owner of the horse, and he made the
discouraged farmer feel happy by re-
moving the horse the next day.
The bay mag was an elephant on the
Scranton man's hands for a while, but
vventually he traded it off for a pair of
mare mules that he didn’t know any-
®.ng about. One of the mules proved
to be a very gentle and docile creature,
while the other soon convinced her
owner that she had been foaled and
raised right in the centre of the village
ot Kickerville, as he expressed it. The
man quickly concluded that it wouldn't
do to keep the mules together, and so
he sold the gentle mule for $175. The
bad mule, whose name was Jen, was
as big an elephant on his hands as the
tall horse had been, and how to dispose
of her honorably racked his brain for
months, he said.
Along in the summer an unusually
active young chap offered to bet Jen's
| owner that he could ride the mule five
| blocks on one of the business avenues.
“I'll bet you $5 you can’t,” the man
told the spry
was put up st once. All that the
| young man wanted on Jen when he
{ didn't get very near her heels. The
| athletic chap seized the bridle reins in
| his left hand, grasped the surcingle on
| Jen's back with his right, and spoke
| kindly to the mule.
Jen was standing still then, but the
| expression in her moving ears, her
owner said, told him as plainly as
words that the old Harry would soon
{be to par. With a spring the young
{ man leaped to Jen's back, and at the
| same instant Jen's hind legs began to
| play like drum sticks, while be- head
| went down, and the athlete was astride
{of her neck. Between kicks
| circle of twenty feet, and tuen made a
| over the sidewalk. Her would-be rider
{ saw his danger, and grabbed the eaves
of the awning with both hands, and
Jen kited into the grocery and began
to eat apples out of a barrel. He was
the last person who tried to ride her,
Last summer a wealthy coal mine
owned a six-year-old Holstein bull that
was cross and vicious, Generally the
bull was tied witha rope in a yard by
himself, but occasionally he was allowed
to run loose in a yard with s lot of idle
mine mules. The two yards joined,
snd one day four or five of the mules
got in the yard where the bull was tied
up and began to act mischievously
around him. The barn keeper saw
one of them nip the bull on the flank
and cut up other playful capers. The
bull didn’t like to be played with, but
ome mule in seemed to take
delight in teasing him. After a while
the old bull got bellowing mad, and
the barn keeper drove the mules out
| and put up the bars.
A few days after that the bull was
jet loose in the mule yard He began
to nose around a manure heap, appar-
ently as contented as could be, while
several of the mules nibbled straw on
either side of him. At his right stood
the mule that bad teased him a few
days before. The barn man was
watching them. All at once, without
a bit of warning, the bull made a vi-
cious lunge at the mule on his right,
and thrust one of his horns deep into
its left side. The mule died in no
time, and when they cut it open they
found that the bull's horn had pierced
| the centre of its heart. After that the
bull tried to kill two men, and he got
to be so dangerous that the owner had
him shot.
While driving through the Stony
Creek ravine recently, Mr. H. M.
Hanor, who lives in the Elk Creek val-
ley, four miles from Skinner's Creek,
Pa., bad a remarkable experience. Mr.
buggy with a canopy top, and he was
alone. The horse was on a slow walk,
when suddenly it shied to the right,
snd Mr. Hanor saw a quick movement
among the bushes to his left. What
the flash-like motion was he didn't
know, he said, because his whole at-
tention was directed to the skittish
horse at the instant, and when he
reined the horse back into the road he
crept along and made several moves as
if it meant to spring’ into the carriage.
It constantly eyed the fluttering top
and seemed to be afraid to make the
spring, snarling a little as it kept
alongside of the wagon. Seeing that
the beast was bent on following him,
Mr. Hanor picked wp his whip snd
dealt it two cuts wi'h the lash, think-
ing that it would then clear out.
When the lash cut it on the head
the second time, the animal gave
vent to three ear-piercing screams,
snd Mr. Hanor then reslized that he
was dealing with & panther. He had
the horse well under control, with the
lines in his left hand, and, as the pan-
ther followed and kept screaming, he
lasned it again, and it darted to tne
roar of the buggy snd leaped t» the
right side, where Mr. Hanor lasted it
half a dozen times. Again it soted as
if it wonld spring upon him if the top
wasn’t there, and fearing that it would
do #0 before , Mr, Hanor threw
down his whip, pulled off his right
mitten, unbutt his overcoat, pull-
ed out his sixshiooter, snd fired four
times at the panther. Each bullet took
effect, and the beast rolled into the
ditch and died.
It was a female panther nearly seven
feet in longth, and it is supposed that
it was the mate of a huge male panther
which a party of Wilkesbarre deer
hunters ran down and killed in Dead
Pine Mountain in Rey, ber, after
they had followed its w« scks in the
snow for more than eight miles. Mr.
Hanor said he felt certain that the
panther would have killed him if there
had been no top to the buggy.
A Story of *‘0Old Hutch.”
A story told of “Old Hutch” is
apropos now. It is his custom to get
down town very early in the morning.
He thinks balf-past seven is late
enough for any man to go to work;
and his son, who is as courteous and
refined as the great operator is rough,
asked as a favor to himself of one of
the clerks in the Corn Exchange Bank
One dav the clerk was a few
most affects. Next day the young
until
came down to
ck. He
become president of the Corn
illionaire filled the room,
business at 8 o'cl
Iately
if he
his clerks he
he re.
that he held that office, and
not like the actions of
could find a desk elsewhere;
clerks
When the
change for many weeks.
up as president of the Chicago Bomd
urged his election, “because the cub
has the spunk to boss me.”
ae —~
A Thoreughly Americanized German,
Richard Guenther of Oshkosh, who
been mnominsted consul
general in Mexico, ought to bring back
ject of speculation. Said Mr. Guen-
ther—
After passing through the crucible
of naturalization, we are no longer
we are Americans. Our
attachment to Americas cannot be meas.
ured by the length of our residence
here. We are Americans from the
moment we touch the American shore
until we are laid in American graves.
We will fight for America whenever
necessary. America first, last and all
the time; America against Germany;
America against the world; America,
or wrong; always America
© are Americans.
A Wonderfully Prolific Novelist.
The fertility of Rider Haggard is
almost beyond belief. A New York
newspaper has begun the serial publi-
cation of his Iatest novel. How does
Haggard find the time for the mere
mechanical production of four or five
novels a year, while, in the same time,
he does a vast amount of travelling?
No one who has ever written s story
has failed to observe that a prolonged
effort of the imagination begets a de-
pressing nervous reaction. The imag-
inative quality of Haggard's stories
forms their leading characteristic. He
must have a constitution of irom, to
withstand the nervous exhaustion in-
cident to the production of gigantic
lies. It would a'most seem that he
must have surrounded himself with
young men who finish his uncompleted
work, as the pupils of Rubens used to
polish off the paintings of their master.
I. A
An Intrepid Woman Explorer.
One of the most intrepid explorers
of the day is a Persian lady, Mme. le
Ray, mother of the Duke d’Abrantes,
who has been for several months en.
in Eastern travel. After hav-
ing visited Babylon and Nineveh, she
traversed the Persian deserts, amid
terrible privations, in order to reach
India. For five days and five nights
her little caravan had to encamp in the
wilds without meeting a living soul,
or even discovering the slightest trace
of & human being. During all this
time the cold was so intense Mme.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1590,
Parable of the Pounds,
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 19 : 11.27. Memory verses: 12-13)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Gorpex Texr ror THE QUARTER:
He is able to save to the uttermost, —
Heb. 7:25.
Jesus the
Lennox Toric:
ful Servant.
Rewarding the Faith
1. Testing all Bervants, vs.
2. Rewarding Faithful Ser-
9, 24%,
vant, vs. y
8 Punishing Unfaithful
DU, 7.
Bervanls, ve.
Goroex Text: Unto every one which
hath shall be given.—Luke 19 : 26.
Lessor OUTLINE:
Danny Home READINGS :
M.—Luke 19 : 11-27. Rewarding
faithful service.
T.—Matt. 25 : 14-80. Rewarding
faithful service.
W.—Rev. 2 : 1-10, Faithful service
enjoined.
T.—2 Tim. 4 :1-18 Faithful ser-
vice reviewed.
F.—Deut. 34 :1-12,
vice ended.
8.—Matt. 14 :1-12
vice ended.
8.—1 Cor. 8:1-28,
ed.
Faithful ser-
Faithful ser-
Bervice test-
A ———
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I TESTING ALL SERVANTS,
i. The Absent Lord:
A eertsin nobleman went into a far
country (12).
I go to prepare a place for you (John
14 : 2).
Now I go unto him thst sent me (John
16 : 5).
him (Acts 1 : 9).
Christ entered. .
(Heb, 9 : 24).
| 11. The Trusted Servants:
He called ten servants, ....snd gave
| them ten pounds (13).
| Called his own servants, and delivered
unto them his goods (Matt, 25 : 14).
. .10 profit withal
into heaven itself
| To each one is given
| (1Cor. 12:7).
He ascended on high,
| unto men (Eph. 4 : §),
| As each bath received as gift, minister-
ing it (1 Pet. 4 : 10).
i 111. The Final Reckoning:
Called to him, that he might koow
what they had gained (15),
{ Unto every man according to his deeds
(Matt, 16: 27).
| Cometh, and maketh a reckoning with
them (Matt. 25: 19
and gave gifts
{Luke 16: 2).
in the body (2 Cor. 5: 10).
1. “They supposed that the kingdom
of God was immedistely to appear.”
(1) The assured coming; (2) The
misjudged tame; (3) The corrective
teachings.
. “Trade ye herewith till 1 come.”
(1) The master; (2) The servants;
The absence; (6; The return.
had gained by trading.” (1) The
trust committed; (2) The trading
ordered; (8) The report required;
(4) The results involved.
Il. REWARDING FAITHFUL SERVANTS,
i. Diligence:
Lord, thy pound hath made ten
yands more (16).
hand of the diligent maketh rich
{ Prov. 10: 4).
Seest thou a man diligent?... he shall
stand before kings (Prov. 22: 29)
Lo, I have gained other five te
(Matt. 25: 20).
Adding... .all diligence, in your faith
supply virtue (2 Pet. 1: 5).
il. Commendation:
Well done, thou good servant (17).
Well done, good and faithful servant
(Matt. 25: 21).
Faithful in a very little. . . . faithful also
in much (Luke 16: 10).
They shall walk with me in white; for
they are worthy (Rev. 3: 4).
washed their robes, and made
them white (Rev. 7: 14).
itl. Advancement:
Unto every one that hath shall be
ven (26).
= ot thee over many things (Matt,
: 38).
Give it unto him that hath the ten tal-
ents (Matt. 25: 28).
He shall have abundance (Matt. 25: 20),
He counted me fmthfal, appointing me
Nereis LY,
. “Well done, thon servant.”
(1) The conduct commended; (2)
The commendation bestowed; (3)
The rewards added.
2, “(live it unto him that hath ten
pounds.” (1) Ability demonstra.
ted; (2) Oppertunily enlarged.
8. “Unto every one that hath shall
be given.” God's law for human
advancement: (1) Opportanity be-
stowed; 2) linprovehent noted;
(3) Opportunity extended; (4) Pos-
sibilities limited.
11. PUNISHING UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS,
pound, which I kept laid up in »
(20).
He said, { go, sir; and went not (Matt,
21: 50).
X.... thy talent in the earth; lo,
thou hast thine own (Matt. 25: 25).
Thou wicked and slothful servant
(Matt. 256: 26),
doers,
\ading your own selves dy
Take ye away therefore the talent from
him (Matt. 25: 28). »
Even that which he hath shall be taken
sway (Matt, 25: 29).
Cast ye out the unprofitable servant
(Matt. 25: 30),
If any man’s work shall be burned, he
shall sufler loss (1 Cor, 3: 15),
1. “Lord, behold, there is thy pound,
which 1 have kept. . insnapkin.”
(1) The master's inspection; (2)
The servant's report.—(1) The
pound preserved; (2) The pound
returned; (8) The pound unpro-
ductive,
2. “Out of thine own mouth wil I
judge thee,” (1) Expressed con-
vietions; (2) Conf, actions; (3)
Manifest inconmstency; (4) De-
served doom,
8. ‘These mine enemies,....slay.”
(2) Their hatred of their lord; (2)
Their protest against their lord;
43) Their fate before their lord
LESSON BIBLE READING,
YAITHPUL SERVIJE ILLUSTRATED,
By Abraham (Neh 9 :7, 8; Gal. 8 : 9).
By Joseph (Gen. 89 : 3-6, 21-23).
By Moses (Num. 12 : 7 ; Heb. 8 : 2, 5).
By David (1 Sam. 22 : 14).
By Daniel (Dan, 6 : 4).
By Paul (Acts 20:20, 26, 27 ;2 Tim.
4: 7
By Timothy (1 Cor. 4 : 17).
By Antipas (Rev. 2 : 18).
By a nameless multitude (Heb. 11
J.
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
Ixtenvexine Evesrts. — There
none recorded.
Prarz.—In Jericho, per still at
the entrance to the house ER
possibly within the house.
Truxm. —As before, probably on Thurs-
day evening, 7th of Nisan, March 30,
780 A, U.C.; that is, A. D. 30. Some
think the lesson should be assigned to
the next morping, just before the de-
are
parture for Bethan
Persons, —Our Lord, with a crowd
| of hearers, not further described. In
| the parable, s nobleman snd ten of his
| servants, three of whom are mentioned
| particularly; citizens of the nobieman’s
Rt pir: fom standing by when the
reckoning was made.
ixcroexts, —The occasion of the par-
| able; the journey of the nobleman; the
trust committed to his servants; the
| rebellious embassy of the citizens; the
reckoning with the servants when the
| nobleman had received the kingdom;
the answer of the first faithful servant,
and the reward promised him; that of
| the second followea also by a reward;
then the answer of the wicked servant,
| with the reply of his master and the
| judgment pronounced upon him; the
objection of those that stood by; the
reward of faithfulness and the punish-
ment of unfaithfulness; the judgment
of the rebellious citizens.
Pararrer Passaces. —The parable of
| the talents (Matt, 25 : 14-30) resembles
this one, but is not strictly parallel
ss st A A—
Mound-Buliding Birds.
MISS H, KE, SMITH.
The Maleo (Megacephalon Maleo)
is » kind of fowl which it is rather sur-
| prising no one has been at the pains to
omesticate and introduce into civil
ized countries, for its flesh and its eggs
are both excellent and the bird would
| apparently be easily tamed. The maleo
en to the family of Megapodes
| or mound-builders which is abundant
| in the Australian region, but itself is
peculiar to the island of Celebes. Itis
| about the size of a small turkey, being
twenty-four inches in length and having
su average weight of nearly four
ands. For a wonder the male and
emale are so nearly alike in plumage
that it is difficult to distinguish the one
from the other. They are of an entire
brownish black with the exception of
the breast and under parts, which are
watch them at work, the sand
thrown up in perfect fountains st each
stroke. e ostrich is soclimatized in
southern California, and there is no
apparent reason why the maleo should
not be similarly introduced. — American
Agriculturist,
Remarkable Temperance Campaign.
Russias i= at present in the throes of
a temperance campaign, which the con-
tral Government does not apppear to
be seconding to any great extent, if one
may judge by the news from the De-
partment of Kiew. In that section
thirty-six villages sent petitions to
Petersburg demanding the abolition of
all liquor selling establishments within
their boundaries. Thirty-five of these
petitions were rejected, but the thirty-
sixth being scoepted, the inhabitants
of the village thus deprived of its drink
turned out and beat to death the man
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