1- REV. DR. TALMAGE. Toe Brookiym Divine’s Suns day Sermon. Subject : “Faith Without Works,” Text: “Faith without works is dead Jas. ii. 20, The Roman Catholic Church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith, | charge Protestantism with putting not enough stress upon good works as conneoted with salvation, Good works will never save a man, but if a man have not good works he has no real faith and no genuine religion There » who depend upon the fact that they are ail right inside, while eonduct is wrong outside, Thelr religi be most part is made up of talk ! talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will entertain vou by the honor in telling you how gi ‘they are. They come up to such a higher life that we have no patience with ordinary Christians in the plain discharge of their duty. As pear as J can tell, this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little tonnage, Foretopmast staysails, foretopmast studding sail, maintopsail mig gentopsail—everything from flying 3b te mizzen spanker, but making no uselul voy. age. Now the world has got tired of this and st wants a religion that will work into all the circumstances of life, We do not want a new religion, but the old religion applied in al possible directions, ' Yonder isa river with steep and rocky banks, and it roars like a young Niagara as it rolls on over its rough bed. Te does noth ing t lk about itself all the way from § ara th och out ia source in the mountain to the place wh empties into the sea. The banks s teep the cattle cannot come down to « t does not run fertilizia d joining field. It bas not on gctory on either side. It weather with chilling fogs. when that river is born among and no one cares when it dies But yonder is another its banks with the war with floral lullaby ti its It invit flocks of sheep, and there and drink. It hast ona and six coti ather, is the miles luxuriant heaven chanted when mountains, and the ocean shippin in from t sea to hail it as it o the Atlantic coast. The on i for himse if, r others, t know how the site of the ancient gity of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had a I'he one brother bad a large ther bad no family. The bre rge family said, “There y brother with no family; be must be lonely, and 1s cheer him up, apd I will take sheaves from my field in the night tim set them over on his farm and say a tit.” The other brother said brother has a large family, and it $< 1, belp hima wit for him to support . * 3 : } ong, and I will take sheaves fr them one r rill into E bosom. Covers side it of wealth farms it Uves bo lives { S01 mmy own farm in th n his farm an 3 w is af OVer ¢ a = eC 45 gaEPpOwsPoronD we ve ) Pal drops of ont the | ISAT adulteration of amazement to man of woman in ven only koows what they sugars, and the apothecary Bi AnAiTEIS ang the microscope have made wonderful revels tioms. The board of health in Massachusetts analyzed a great amougt of what was enlied pure coffee and found in it not one particle of in England there is a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The publie authorities examined fifty-one pack. sages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician, writing a prescrip tion, does not know but that it may bring death instead health to his patient, be eatuse there may be one of the drugs weak. ened by a cheaper article, and another drug may be in full foree, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. il of wormwood, warranted pure, from Boston, was found to have forty-one pes cent, of resin and aleoliol and chloroform, Beammony is one of the most valnable meds cinal drugs. It is very rare, very precious it is the sap or the gum of a tree or bush in Byria. The root of the tree is ex ocd, an incision is wade into the root, and then shells are placed at this inclslon to cateh the say or the gum as it exudes, It is very precious, this scammony, Bat the peasant mixes it with cheaper materialy ive t AN mis is a healthy #, ana mt and into COMTI into drug oc flee of BULVOR Wiln PNe 100A That the Lord would be 0 ig with the gift He would forget the swindle, Now, as such a man may not have any liturgy in which to say his yors, 1 will compose for him one which he practi. cally is making: **O Lord, we, by getting » ‘corner’ in breadstuffs, swindled the people of the United States out of ten million dol land, and we would like to compromise this matter with Thee, Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart. Now, here we compromise it. Take one per cent, the profits, and with that one per cent. you Iwill take a amen Ah, my friends, if a man bath gotten his 18 cannot atone for it. After a while this {nan who has getting a “corner” in wheat dies, and then Satan gots a “corner” on him. He goes intoa great, long Black There is a *‘break” in the market, Avcording to Wall street parlance, he w iped and now he is himself wiped out rals on which to make a spiritual wnal defaloation! But this tical rectify all me nd all te Worx been others out, ion will not only « it will also rectify il, A time will come as faithfully by the You say when a thing is slightingly done, “Oh, that was done by the § You can tell by t swift. ness or slo with which a hackman drives wi er he is hired by the hour or by the excursion. If be ed by t! - sion he whips up the horses, so wand and get another oustomer, { nave to ve ins t prac 5 man will 48 ar i800 18 6XCur- as to gst All Ships inery in- irnevman, ad | , horses Boss to Capitalist coming watch thes b sounding the ins inspec te i, spected, watch the 58, pune B28 A pass hat us practi al religion will also go into ure, i which is proverbially honest but t : f and It will keen r to the Ne York rect oe Ww : i after a wi flushed, and xeraciating hen y offer ww h ren she is hel; In at falls into fi about yeok is he ! nothing ckening flattaries, te how well be looks 134 into the carriage, and by get to her hom t and coachman to get ip the stairs The report ia Bhe was ta mddsnly {ll at a german Ah! no much champagne, and Phat was all. fos, this practical religion will have %o nes mix Amerioa There are members of churches who have too many wives and too many hus Boclety needs to be axpurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized dreet, in New York, Bedford street, Phila lsiphia, and Bnoreditoh, Londm, and the I o* comes on to the wholes don or New York, and he mixes it. with a cheaper material; then it comes to the re. tail druggist, and he mixesit with a cheaper material and by the time the sok man gots it ito bis bottie it is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what bas been called mre scammony after analysis bas beep rir to be no seammony at sll, Now, practical religion will yet rectify all tha It will go to those hypoeritieal profes sors of religion who got a “corner” in corn and wheat in Chicago and New York, send ing prices up and up until they were beyond thereach of the poor, keeping these breads stufls in their own bands, or controlling them until, the prices going up and up and they were after awhile to sell, and they sold out, making themselves millionaires in one or two yesrs—trying to fix the mate ter up with the Lord by a church, or auniversity, ora : thew ¥ i i i ganization to reform much that is going on mn Beacon street and Madison square and West End and Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We want this practical religion not only to take hold of what are called the lower classes, but to take hold of what are ocalied the aigher classes. The trouble is that people aave an idea they can do all their religion on Sunday with hymn book and prayer book and liturgy, and some of them sit in church rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is | bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life, and whils you are expecting to come out from | ander their arms the wings of an angel, thers | some out from their forehead the horns of a | Yeast, ] There bas got to be a new departure in religion. 1 do not say a new religon. Oh, no; but the old brought to new appliances, In our time we have had the daguerreotype, and the ambrotypes, and the these arts are only new applianses of the old | sunlight. Bo this glorious Gospel fs just | what wo want to photograph the image of | God on one soul, daguerreotype iton another | soul. Not a new Gospel, but the old Gospel | Jus to new work. In our time we have had | 6 telegraphic invention, and the telephonic | invention, and the electria light Invention, | but they are all the children of old ello tricity, an element that the philosophers have a long while known much about, 8 this electric Gospel neads to flash its light on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and became a telephonic medium to make the deat y 8 lo madium to dart Ine vi and Aa all nations; an eleo ern pemispheros, Not a new Gospel, but the { old Gospel doing a new work, | Now Ion say, “That isa very beautiful | theory, | fon into all the avocations and business of | life? Yea and I will give you a fow specie | mens, Medionl doctors who took their re i liglon into everyday life: Dr. John Aber. { physician of the day, his book on “Diseases { derful than his book on “The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings.” and often ny av | the bodside of his patients to commend them to God lu prayer. Dr. John Brown, of inburgh, immortal as an author, dying under i myself remembering him as he sat in study in Edinburgh talking to me about | Christ and his hope of heaven, And a score of Christian family physicians {a Brooklyn Just as good as they were : Lawyers who carrie | their religion their profession: The Lord Quean's adviser for many vears, fhe hig { legal auth in Gre Britain—Lord Cairns every summer in hiz vacation, preach. { Ing as an Evangelist among the poor of his country John McLean, Judge of the So. | preme Court of the United os and Pi dent of the American Sunday Hehool Union, fesling more satisfaction in the latter office than in the former. And scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in the church of God as they are eminent at the bar, Merchants who their religion into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in he established that system une to find out ti I standing of tn men, s : stem, derided for it th 8% I knew him well, 10 moral ch Monday mornings inviting t wp of his storeh into lato Cairns, the ost rity it i. YOK his day because by which we « f ¢ a Come isi ness WracLer } & room in Ut} ase the clerks o f his es the i ishment asking ntares giving o ng thas # em wh minh, wi my ! ippan, ons Wwnesl apple, ip among the Ber anid ¢ ls umid the m mnks of ti { knew ti with t HBNOL somplete « deep, adds ymaciation, NeRKness wo 80 “* 2 { sleeplessn sneral often t, writes Dr, iam C. Cathell, of Baltimore Phys y teaches that in the body there is + perpetual disintegration of tissue, leeping waking: it ogical to believe that the supply of sourishment should be somewhat con. tinuous, especially in those who are below par, if we would counteract their emacia- tion and lowered degree of vitality, and us bodily exercise is suspended during sleep, with wear and tear correspondingly diminished, while digestion, assimilation and nutritive activity continued as usual, the food furnished during this period adds more than is destroyed, and in. creased weight and improved general vigor Is the resalt. I am fully satisfied that were the | weakly, the emaciated and the sleepless to nightly take a light lunch or meal of simple, nutritious food before going to | bed for a prolonged period, nine in tea of them would be thereby lifted into a | better standard of health, i a — The Deepest Hole in the World. The deepest bore hole in the world, og meg 3 ? or 13, therefore, of places, is, according to latest accounts, at Schladebach, a small German village near leipzig. It measures 1748.4 meters, or about 5735 feet. expended in boring to this depth amounted to six years, at a cost of §52,. 500. A peculiar experience encountered in connection with this and other deep holes in different parts of Germany is, that the observed temperatures, while steadily Increasing with the depth, show a smaller ratio of increase in the lowes strata. — New York Dispatch. ’ BELECTED RECIPES. : | CREAM BALMON, | One ean of salmon minced flue, drain | off the liquor and throw awav., Fe: the dressing, boil one pint of milk, two tablespoonsful of butter, salt and pep- per to taste. Have ready one pint of fine bread erumbs, place a layer in the bottom of the dish, then a layer of fish, then a layer of dressing and so on, hav. ing crumbs for the last layer. Bake | until brown. ir CROQUETTES, Take three cupsful of mealy, mashed, baked sweet potatoes, and while beat- ( ing with a four pronged fork as yon would whip eggs, add slowly a ta spoonful of melted butter, a teas poon ful of lemon juice, salt and pepper, and a gill of cream. d into cord shaped eroqu erumbs, and pings. sondl ties, dip in egg 1 and bread fry in lard Or arip- CHICKEN T¢ T, Chicken toast is delicious as a break- fast dish, or is ; fine two table boil in suflicies cup of the whol t corn ter HICREen ted butt toasted slarch in me » iy bread, pour over dl nicely ®Il of serve hot, CHIC] Put nse I'h ap t two BD frying ALMATY for advertised an | as “pure,” “strictly mre.” o alos lately pur wo reg important lowing Housckeeper's Test 1c Mix one heaping teaspoonful of ing powder with one teaspoonful water, ina tin eup: boil thoroughly for a few moments, stir burning, and if ammonia is present you can smell it in the rising steam. Norm As baking powder, when first thrown in'o the water, will effervesce, do not mistake bubbling for boiling. Try it. It will take but a moment, a — Po © yO #3 r Baki is w Pow f i An Amusing Incident of the War. “One of the funniest incidents that happened under my observation during the late war,” said Col. Mosby, ‘‘o0- curfed in a cavalry fight in the Shenan- In the midst of a sharp cavalry engagement with Sheridan's men, in a charge near Berryville, there came crushing like a whirlwind into our lines a Yankee sol- dier on a big black horse. A score of men tried to stop horse and rider, but the old black’s blood was up, and he went on clean through the lines before he was under control. The rider was sent to Libby Prison, and we mustered the black charger into the Confederate service, A few days later we charged some of Custer’s men, and I'll be if that old horse didn’t return the enmpli- ment by carrying a ‘red’ into the fed- eral lines, and never sare Wek "ee Mow Yok Tridung SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY MARCH L 1831, The Shunammite's Son. Sd Y ‘ih LESSON TEXT, (A Kings 4 Memory verses: 8-340 [LESS or SON PLAN, Toro THE Quanrer: Sinning Texr Clodliness is profitalile 1 fim. 4 (FoLpEN FoR THE unto QUARTER: all things. . 1.0 Tor: ing the Dead, rvant Ka ON (Gorn Text det 1, crrick anda, his bk 11 2 nj Exod. 17: walters, » hangs 2: 8). is on them, and iy Ghost (Acts Israel) ik Elisah ware divi he and they they received Hi 8:17. il. Helplessness: But there was nei 31) There was neither voices, answer (1 Kings 18: 20), se child is not awaked (2 Kings 4: 31 Not by might, nor by power (Zech. 4: f ther voice, nor nor any to T an.» {John AL 2) 1. “Lay my staff apon the face of the child.” (1) The dead child; (2) The obedient servant; (3) The prophet’s stall, 2. “I will not leave thee" mother's grief; (2) faith; (8) The The mother’s trinmph. 8. “I'he child is not awaked"” (1) Death a sleep; {2) Resurrection an (1) The sad acknowledgment. IL, THE EFFECTIVE PROPHET. 1. Prevailing Praver: He went in, ....and prayed unto the Lord (33). Moses prayed... .and the fire abate {Nuam. 11: 2). Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the meek (Psa. 10: 17). If any man....do his will, him he heareth (John 9: 81) The supplication of a righteous man availeth (Jas. 16). ; 11. Complete Restoration: And the child opened his eyes (35). Who healeth all thy diseases (Psa. 103: faith hath made thee whole (Matt, 3 7%. 2. Rebold, thou art made whole (John 5: J —- er ————— | Zneas, Jesus Christ healoth thee (Acts aq. ct v.98 { I11. Sincere Gratitude; Now I know that thon God (1 Kings 17: 245. ! Bless the Lord. O my soul, sud forget | not (Psa, 10% 2 } Rejoice with me, for | sheep (Luke 15: 6 q fils x # 4 § | again (Luke 15 i 1. **He went in and shut the door upo in, and prayed.” The Prayer prophet; (2) The ecret appeal; art man of 3 Bhe went in, and fell at his feet (37). i a 1 have found my and is alive 1 id waxed 11 ’ YY arm; hem, awaked, Lim- WAN. upon the and us his ayes, iden 1 call the mot! Tr, who receives her son, and after bowing to the ground before Elisha, takes her SOL AWAY. ays sas AAI AAA THE LAST SWEETHEART. locks are wi @ wt Lye Gram pa's Those Ghosts of © ot Eh Wraith of yhood s tresses, Ww oerh ie as show, 4 & =. IE ARO | Time has bent his form ssith years, And lis legs are 1} or i And less comely than the shears Jsed by any ti Lusty was he once and gay, Fu'l of manhoond's graces, But of that jong vanished day, There are now few traces. yer ! Yet he In his youthiul pride Pleased the {alr sex greatly Many ladies stately. Hearts once throbbed and ached for him. Tears wel silken lashes, But those syes in death are dim, And those hearts are ashes, Gran'pa has one sweetheart yet, Yalntliest of crea: ures, Whose two eyes of deepest jet sll approve his {entares, Nelile is her name, you see, What od iH 1 remember thes HT ARE =, 510 WARS Bome Lime last Deccmberl Oft her hand, so chubby fair, er hin face she passes Tenderly, and with great care Nol to touch his glasses, oy AT nd I've eas x Tindsome maa a ner AA Jy Ay?
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