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HEY, OR TALKAGE'S SERMON
Tbe Brooklyn Divire's Sunday
Sermon,
Subject; «The Plague of Dad Do0Oks."”
F YEXT: “And the frogs came up and cov
ered the land of Kaupt. And the magician
did so with their enchantment: ane
brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.’
RM
fix vill +: 0, 9
There is almost a universal aversion te
froge, and vet with the Ezyptian they were
honored, they wers sacred, and they were
objects of worship while alive, und afga
death they were
remains may be found among ths sen
of The These creatures. so ait
once to the Egyptians, at divine behest be
came obnoxious and loathsome, and they
went croaking and hopping and leaning int
ne palace of the Ring, and foto the uread
taays and the couches of the people, and ever
jthe Ovens, walch now are upiiited above the
ear’ kh and on the side of chimneys but th
were rmall holes in the earth, with sun ces
pottery, were filled with frogs when the
DE rs cama to look at them, If a man
gat down to eata frog alighted on his plate
If he attempted to put on a shoe it was pre
occupied by a frog. If he attempted to put
*his head upon a pillow it bad been taken pos
session of by a frog.
Frogs high and low and everywhere:
rome 1rogs, slimy frogs, besieging Ir
numcrable frogs, great pia: of [
What wade tas matter worss the ma Ho
gaid there was no m race in t and t
could by sl hand produ the sams
thing, and they i to succeed, for by
sleigut of hand wo may bs wrought
Alter Moses had thrown down his staff and
by miracle it became a then he
took hoid of it and by mira in be
came a staff, the serpent cha imitated
the same thing, and knowing t there wore
sarpents in Egypt whica by a pe r pres
fure on the necs would | ne as rigilias a
*k of wood, they seemed to change the ser
aff, and then, throwing it
became t arpent,
tried to
perhaps
num
ying th
Bs
¢
t
an
Joath
ie
ey
Sr Le and
it ag
is
110 the
t si
he staff
HKewise theses magicians
5, and
ing a at er
by si
ym a hid \
w seamed to ac
en |
has coma
back
~,a Rs
become
gress of
forbidding
tere wers
hn owhizy
« ANd the law was
of 1863. But in
sed by the Congres
198 the transmission
thirough the mailiea
mt law, a Christian law
Mw muaitithides tance
e Deon are od, tusir property
they themselves thrown fato
tentiaries, where they belonged,
friends, how are to war
this corrupt liters 6, and how are
tis frogs of ths Egy plagues to be
gigin? Firet of all ie prompt and inex.
orabis execution law. Let all good
postaastors, and United States distriel at.
torneys, and detectives, and reformers cone
pert in their action to st wp this plagne,
WW hen Sir Rowland vill spent his life in trv.
ing to secure cheap pussage wot only for
England, b_t for all the word, and to open
tie blessing of the postolfics to all honess
business, and to all mevages of charity,
and kindness, and affection, for all health
ful intercommuuaication, he did not mean ta
make vice easy or to lll the mail bags of the
United States with the scabs of such a
leprosy, i
t ought not to Le in the power of every
bad man who can raise a one-vent stamp for
& circiiar or a two-cent stamp for a letter to
biast a mgn or destroy a home. The postal
service of this country must be cies n, rust
be kept clean, and we must all understand
that the swilt retributions of the United
btates Government hover over every viola
tion of the latter box,
There are thousan is of men and women in
this country, some for personal gain, some
through innate depravity, some through 8
spirit of revenge, who wish to use this great
avenue of convenience and fntelligence for
rpoies revengeiul, salacious and disbolia
Fake up the law. Wake up the penalties,
Lat every court room on this Dien ba a
Binal thunderous and aflame. 1.t the con
Heted offenders be sent for the full term w«
g Bing or rg
1am not talking about what cannot In
foe. 1am talking now about what is being
fous. A great many o! the printing presse
:
iia
1 law,
tinier
of
my wa
against
of 3
83,
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That gave themseslves entirely to the mihlioa
tion of vile literature have heen stopped om
have gone in‘o business less oonoxions
What bas thrown off, what bas kent off ti
rail trains of this country for some time
hack nearly all the leprous periodion ls
Those of us who have been on the rail train
have notice | a great chan # in tae last fon
monthsand the last year or two, \Vhvy have
near.v all those v. le perindicals bean ant off
tha rail trains for some time back? Woo ef
fecte! it? Thess soc eties for the purificat ot
of railroad Hteraturs gave warn ne to the
pubighers and warning to railroad com Hn
ex, and
ing to new sboys, 10 Keep toe infernal stuf
olf the trains,
Many of the eitiae hava suscessfully pre
hihited tas most of that literature ave
going on the news sian Te
unon the publishers and tan dealer
literature, from the fact that over a ta ni
sand arrests have besn made, and the azere
gate time for which toe convicted have heer
sentenced to the prison
and ninsty years, and
about two millidus of
been destroyed, and the business is not a
profitable as it used to be.
How have 8) many of the pews stan 's of
our great rifled? How has sc
much of this imquity ben baiked? By
moral suasion? You might as wel
£0 Into the jungle of tas East Indies and pat
& cobra on the neck, and with profound ar
gument try to persuade it that it is moraliy
wrong to bite ani to sting and to pois a
anvihimg., The only 2 wer to your argu
ment would be uniifted head aad a his
aud a sharp r nT wth sira into your
ARrlories, 408 ORY Rrzument (or a cobra 1
i an the only argument for taew
10mm urs i
an the hean =
‘he law! The)
the wort
ther way
‘n {roms
IRR Riad
5 YR
ig imuopure
IR Over one nundred
from the tact thal
their circalars have
citios been
Oh, no,
an
i
a Clute
in x
aw! | YOu
andly i
i Wane
ra a of
peaitens
& 10 Con
i
i ini
i MI
¥
un!
to drive
pian frogs is by
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Ano wa
back t
dug t
plug
min { ar out
% this
1" E psOie with
& hesithial iter I do not mean to say
i in our
an
be
it 10
I have
mage the
"USA de
od mud girl
But there
inac
£
minds
there wii m
and
fina
aly tiled
ie
than
GRATE
higan
tas ¥
bushel
wita
is aa i Mi
1 criminals in
'
United
of
hom Eng
rr, stood in bh ras
sic: ““Tweniy-five
fo me an infamous
an it only fifteen min.
1 I had to give it back, but that
munted me like a specter ever
I have in azony of soul, on my knees
yelore God, prayed that he would obliterate
rom my soul the memory of it, but I shall
}arry the damage of it uatil the day of my
leath,™ Tae awmagsin of Sir William Ruse
wll declared (hat he got the inspiration for
sis orime by reading what was then a new
ind popular novel, “Jack Sheppard.”
Homer's “Iliad” made Alexander the war.
gor. Alexander said so. The story of
Alexander made Juifus Crosar and Charles
AIL both mei of blood. Have you in yout
oot, OF in your tru.k, or in your desk ar
susiness a bad bool, ¢ bad piotare, a bad |
pamphlet? lu God's name I wara you to de
froy it.
Another way in which wa shall fight back
this corrupt literature and kill the frogs of
Ezypt is by rolling over them the Christian
winting press, wiich shall give plenty of
tealthful reading to ali adults, All theses
men and women are reading men and wo
nen. What are you reading® Abstain from
vil thosa books which, while they bad somes
food things about them, bad also an admix.
mre of evil. You have read books that had
Iwo plaments jo them the ood and the bad,
Which stuoc vo you! The bad! The heart
opie is like a sieve, which lets tha
particies of gold fall through, bul
teops the great cinders. Onos in a while
ders is a mind like a loadatons, which,
plunged amid steel and brass filings, gather
ip the stool and repels the brass, But itis
generally the opposite. If you attempt to
plunges through a fence of burrs to get one
slackberry, you will get more burrs than
slackbarries,
You cannot afford to read a bad book,
however good you are You say, “The in. |
fluence is insignificant.” 1 tell you that the |
wratch of a 5 has sometimes produced lock.
jaw. Alas if through Edriosisy, as many |
you pry into an evil book, your curl i
as dangeroty as that of the man who would |
take sn h into a gunpowder mill merely |
to seo whether it would really blow up or
and
It onoe.
MIST mins
tat Bir am and
Fears avo a lad |} sod
wok. He would
ites, and the
ook
Gnce
pi
50
Just stroked
monster pelzed him, and he draw forth a hand
born and mangled and blesding
Oh, touci not the evil even with ths fain
est stroke! Though it may be glossy and
beautiful, touch it not less von pull forta
your sou. torn and blee line na der the clutea
of the biack eopard, “But” vousay, “how
san I find ont whether a book is good or bad
wit out reading i There is always some-
thing susnleic about a bad book, [ nevar
knew an excontion-—soymething susoicions in
ths index or stvieof illustration. This vee
nous repllle almost always carries a warns
ng ratte
Ihe clock strikes midnight. A falr form
hends aver a romance, The eves flusa
ire. The breath and irreruiar,
| Decasionaliy the color dashes to the cheeses,
and then di The haasds tremble as
though a irit wars trying 1o
shage the de wk out of the grassy, Hou
ars fall, tas with a shrill voor
its own T
tue sunray dashed un
The ciock
8 rosy sawn soon alter begins to
ook through t upor the pale form
bat looks dike detained specter
nigat.
yer ringl
aer white
ison, and
2% thourh
#1
in quick
® out
Hem ¢
if
tha
tweat is
trom the river of deata,
four, an t
Grops
Ooh ner Ow
Striges
ae iattice
®
WE Serpeants, and thrass
a The Lm 3
r head, rubbing it bacg
» seman from the sin
ihriekine: brain! my brain! 0
tani off f that! Why will von go
ounding your wav a nid tha
ng buoys, w is su~h
1 Whica You may vovag
We sesso manv bos
and woat a b
Measure it-
rom
reels and wa
i
sail se
a not
en thera Vast OoCean
% Rid at
swe nader
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aepta o
WEABLO 8 On
*ees, and (ron
and from papyr
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facts
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rom toe hy
fe i
Ties, »
AR iniant s soa wail
| Examine the ty
"eo
we 1
3 me woen Solon's laws w
ME pangs, and Hesiod
mn tatiies of lead and tas Sin
* W ten
it on tables
i wa the evi
for the devil
ny fin
sody, and
wriainty
and
rors and t
gors ani th
y
fail
of
of t
den and a delus
Fas romance, and there was £0
thers was thrilling expectation is
Ah, my friends, we need po enrt ¥ 3
reys groomed and saddled and bridled and
saparisoned for our Lowd whea He shall
wine, The horse is ready in the equerry of
waven, and the imperial rider is ready to
nount “And | saw, and behold a white
worse, and he that sat on him had a bow;
wd a crown was given unto him: and he
went forth conquering and to congusr, And
fio armies which were in beavea followed
dim on white horses ard on His vesture and
m His thigh were written, King of kings,
ind Lord of lords” Horse mon of Heaven,
nount! Cavalry of God, ride on! Charge!
tharge! until they shall be hurled back oa
heir baunches--the bisck borse of famine
snd the red horse of carnage, and the pale
worse of death. Jemus forever!
Electricity Catehes Elephants.
fie
A novel application of electricity bas
recently been made in elephant eatching,
At a recent capture of forty of thess
animals, when the last of their unwieldy
bodies had passed the entrance into the
Khedda, the signal for barring their exit
was given, instantaneously and withouta
word spoken, by mesns of an electro
wire. It is only ashort time since pe-
troleum superseded native vegsatable oils
for lighting throughout the "bazars and
villages of India. Electricity is now
taking the place both of petroleum or
coal gas in the great spinning factories,
for which it is peculiarly suited in a hot
The number of good hairdressors’
aces where women go in Boston, Mass, ,
tly increased. Perfect care of
the hair and scalp, skilful trimming of
bangs aud good coiffing are as utostat y
learned their tras,
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THE LESSON QF THE RO:
They blossomed on every side,
Great trails of Gloire de Dijon” flnng
with pinky bunds and pes rly bloom
with hearts of delieate gold, eoiled 1
like shells. Clusters of {fragile
ones, whose tiny buds flushed
eager auticipation of full fle deed
preped in oat the wi ne
among their thick folinge, St
wh
li
thog
Aras
'
OWS,
ill
1 somewhat formal; and, 1n the borders
i
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binshes of
fushioned erimpon and wh to an | pin
and moss roses made the sammer an
he Witu rare frugrinee of bud
blown flower. Beneath them trnile |
massed
i wide-spread
and
gate,
BK
1
4, among prickles
ges while, near the
sweet briar th out its
flowers an oug
The raden
read oul over
wl lane, un
ble and
briar, where wreaths might toss thems
the
rew
its
or
fumed leaves, §
hedge and rn
Te]
in th
enan i
epeedwell and daisy
rt and veteh
Petals of those
Iny, wafted s :
hable from
utterflies that sg
6 wings t » dry in
could
the
soft breeze,
14d
Iw
i flunted
hardly
1
which
1
OWN
then
iten for a
{fragrance
“They
1 in whe;
almost su
a basket fu
yi enter the
ide W
Ive
“er
noment,
Is
a8
BE it
r, to remnrk npon
who
illest encoursgeme
he country is
servis %
YOur go
arden lid
ers from
nid
liday mak maunfactn
riets, and should vou cut a few
some pallid bord worked man or w
you will i with such
§ pelo far to pr
cur benefaction has been the crowning
joy of an unirequent pleasure.
Has all this no tele to tell, no simple
The wealth of roses
comes but once a year—gather them
while ye may-~'‘old time is still a fly
ing.” Yes, gather them. The power
but seldom
too, yet the life that gives no pleasure
would be as incomplete as the year in
no roses bloom. Mengre in-
must be that existence which
a
Ve
bar reps
84 goes
*
ure; but it must seize the opportumty
when it can, for “old time is still a fly.
ing.” There is nothing more sad than
to rtand by the grave of one who will
never be missed by those he has loft
behind; who leaves no one the poorer,
no ona the drearier, no one the less
happy for his loss, to whom has been
said the solemn words “Cat it down,
why eambreth it the ground?’ Far
less sad the streaming eye, the heaving
breast, the wail, “How oan I live with-
oat him!”
If our existence in blessed like the
rose-tree, with health and beauty and
vigor and admiration, will you hug all
these deligh's to your own bosoms, nor
give out the fragrance of your enjoy:
mont far and wide to those who cannot
share in it, nor own the like?
A. 5150
Osn_ secret aot of self-denial, one
sacrifice of inclination fo duty, ia
worth all the mere good thonghts,
warm feelings, passionate prayers, in
which idle people indulge themselves
wf. MH. Newman.
The fastes. English trains are those
running between Euston and Edinburgh,
wh eh average forly-seven to iles an hour,
while the speed of the fast trairs between
Berlin and Hamburg averages forty-lve
miles,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
BUNDAY, MARCH 22 181.
Elisha’'s Defenders.
LESSON TE
C Kings 8.18
Th
a
Memory verses (13.1%
LE
aor
SON PLAN.
Toro
and Neri
THE Quarter: Singing
nef,
Text
Cradliness ix
1 %un. 4
GoLpes FOR THER
COuanyen:
profilaiile wido all thi 7
Livssox Torio: God's Servant De
Glornnrs
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Le with Lien.
Dany Hour
Heb. 11
Shrewd Stratezy:
mmandment
il.
Taey came by night, and com;
the city about (14).
Set thee an ambush for the eity behir
it 8: 2.
The pe ple gat them by stealth
the city (2 Sam. 19: 3).
When they come ont, we shal
them alive (2 Kings 7: 12
he ambushment was behind
Chron. 13: 13).
Hi. Mighty Hosts:
An host with horses and
was round about (15).
Ben-hadad gathered all his host to-
gether (1 Kings 20: 1).
The king of Assyria sent
army unto Jerusalem (2
175
Ii was a great host, like
God (1 Chron. 22).
There is no king saved by the multi.
tude of an host (Pea. 33: 16,
1. “Go and see whore he is,
may send and feteh him.” (1)
The prophets offense; (2) The
king's wrath; (3) The soldiers’ pur-
suit; (4) The Lord's legions,
2. "They enme by night, and ocom-
passed the eity about.™ (1) Ade
vancing hosts; (2) Favoring dark.
noss; (31 Deleaguered citizens: (4)
Unsven defenders.
8 “Alas, my master! how shall we
do?” (1) Lamentation; (2) Inquiry.
(1) A visible peril; (2) A serious
alarm; (3) A hopeless inquiry.
Ii, DIVINE DEFERGR ILLUSTRATED,
I. Dafanse Assured: .
Fear not: for they that be with us
are more (16).
There is a greater with us than with
him (2 Chron, 32: T.
Throngh the waters, I will be with
thee (len. 43: 2).
Lo, I am with you alway (Matt, 28520),
Ii
‘A
Josh
them
chariois
n
Kings
great
18;
of
the host
3.
es
that 1
God ia for us, who is against ua?
Row, 8:
31).
a
Seo
ll, Defense Displayed:
He saw: and, behold, the mouniafs
wan full (17
It come between the caw p of Egyp
ud the cup of lsrasl (Exod, 14
20;
Lord hind n
nde the Fyrians
e (2 Kings 7
iF mon
6).
in the midst o
: Lid,
‘hii,
pray thee...
o
¥
orionsly (Exod
igh tower, the God of my
99.17).
t the lions’ mouthy
nis
y God with
« "They that bh Are mors
thau they t at be with them.” (1
Visih i: Again "7 3 In
i i Cirent hosts
hosts fon
y see.”
1 a
: “-
iritng
horses
34d sb ti
BOLRAYE
1: De
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108%
servant
eir de-
1%; he
the
Hil
beautiful, fragrant
18 POE.
Thi v have a
i fragrance which
) EVEry . Among
ranges that have
i from Japan
tries, there 18 one dwarf
; variety which is suitable
y, and which will with
we one of the most desira-
te 1t 1s possible to possess,
to the Japanese Otaheite.
will grow three or four feet
flowers it
ERORE,
On
thing to Little cutting
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of bloom and even bearing one or two
medium size oranges. The fruit at
their best are not more than half the
bright and beautifal in color acd de.
licious in quality, but it is for its
flowers more than its frait which com.
mends it to general caltivation. When
it blooms it 18 so full that it seems to be
all flowers. The pure, waxy white
blossoms, emitting a delicate, yet pow-
erful fragrance, which is surpassed by
no other flower.
The plant is of the easiest culture,
rays the Mayflower, and will always
thrive well in any decent situation if
given an ordina y size pot of good
soil. It is not liable to be attacked by
insects, except by the scale, which isa
very rare pest among house plants, and
one of the easiest to get rid of, as a
slight sponging of soapand water, or a
little Pe with an old tooth.
brash, will free the plant of them. One
of the best evidences of the walne of
the Otabeite Orange is the great de-
mand for fi. It has been sold ns a
pot plant only a very few years, and
now it is diffioult to grow plants enough
to supply the deman
In onr schools at the present, day we
use *Eaclid’s Elements of ”
written by Euclid 220) years ago,
a 82 wrote on music and
ing wuch which we think we