KEV DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn invine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: “One Week's Work.” Text: “And the evening and the morne Sng were the sixth day." —Genesis i, 81. From Monday morning to Saturday nicht ves us a week's work, at week with successes wo are haupy. Bus weak, Cosmogony, geolozy, astronomy, or orthology, ichihyvology, botany, anatomy are such vast subjects that no human Jife is long enough to explore or compreuend any one of them. But I have thourht [ might fn an unusual way tell you a littie of wnat God did in one week, And whether vou make it a week of days or a week of ayes, I eare not, for I shall reach the same practi- eal resuit of reversace and worship. The first Monday morning found swinging fn space the piled up lumber of rocks and earth was to be builded. God mads un his mind to create a human family, and they must bave a house to live in. Bat where? room was fit for human occupancy. Park or an extinet volcano in Honolulu so ppropriate for human residences as was globe at that early period. Moreover, was no human architect to draw a pian, mo quarryman to blast the foundation stones, Bo carpenter to hew out a beam, and no mason to trowel a wall, The first thing needed was light. It was not neaded for God to work by, for He can work as well in thedarkness. But light may be necessary, for angelic intelligences are to soe in itsfull glory the process of world baild- . But where are the candles, wheres are she candelabra, where isthe chandelier* No ¥ising sun will roll in the morning, for if the sun is already created its light will not yet reach the earth in three days. Nor moon po™ stars can brighten this darkness, The moon and stars are not born yet, or it created their light will not reach the earth for some titae yet. But there is need of im- mediate light, Where shall it come from? The record makes me think that, standin over this earth that spring morning Go looked upon the darkness that palied the heights of this world, and the chasms of it, and the awful reaches of if, and uttered, whetosr in the Helrew of earth or soma agecelestial I know not, and all pervading fluid, that word whic thrills and garlands and lifts every thing is touches, that word the full meaning of which all the chemists of the ages have busied suggests a force that flies one handred and minety thousand miles ina second, and by unduistions seven hundred and twenty-seven trillions in a second, that one word that God utters—Light! And instantly the darkness began toshim- mer, and ths thick folds of blackness to lilt and thers were scintillations and o tions and flashes and biliow dence, and in at morthwanrd, so and a radian lod the atmosphers until it could bold no more of the brithance. Light Bow to work Ly whila supernatural intelli gences look oO the first d CED nt, y of JELLY is Overs Himself with light with a gar ment, Ob, blessed Ligh I am so glad this was the first thing er ed that week. For lack of it the body stu ww. O thou Father of Lights giv t Now itis T A and tremendous undert : this day. There was eat supera dance of water. God, by the wave of hand, this morning gathers part of it in sus pended reservoirs, and part of down into the rivers and lakes and seas How to bang whole Atlantic oceans loads without their spilling over except in right quantities and at right times was underiakiog that po one but Omnipotence would have dared. But God doesit as essily | as you would It a glass of water, hoists two clouds, each thirty miles wide and five miles high, and balances them. Here Hae lifts the cirrous clouds and spreads them out in great white banks as though it had been snowing in heaven. And the cirro- stratus clouds in long parallel lines, ® as s set apart for drawn them. Clouds which are from which thunder storms pete of fire, Clouds the wing. No wonder, lon the armory get their bayo- which are oceans on Job with the question, *'Dost thou know the balancing of the clouds?’ Half of this Tuesday work done, the other balf is the work of compelling the waters to the five elevations, which are the comti- nents, With his finger he makes deep de- pressions in them, and these are the lak while at the piliog up of the Alleghanies a Bierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alps and Himalayas the rest of the waters stars by the law of gravitation to the lower places, and in their run down hill becoms the rivers, and then all around the earth these rivers come into convention and become oceans beneath, as the clouds are cosans above. Now it is Wednesday morning of thy world's first week. GaPdening and hortienl- sure will be born to-day. hills Jook, snd so unaitractive they seem Something starta out of the and goes higher up, higher and higher, out Fhe fi: if Bi =4 E E I our sarth; a mighty furonoe, ite heat Oo a a worlds ! ! ; i i } i § 3 h 5 fir i f Hi } i : : | i i sd = i ; : | and others quiet in da~k nools Ile shadows, { Everything, from spotted trout to bshemoth | all colored, all shansd, the ancwstors of finny tribes that shall by thelr wonders of onnatruction oonfound the Avassizes, the Cuviars ani the Linnmuases and the ichthyo- lorists of the more than six thousand years following this Friday of the first wask, And while Istandon the banks of thess Paradisaloal rivers watohing theses flany { tribes, I hear a whire in tha airantllook ap {and bahold wings—vwinzs of larks.robias, inves, eazles, lami yom, alhatromes, hrowa { throsters, Crartaras of all color - 3118 A% ¢ dippalin ths skins: flary, as if thy hal | 1awn out of ths sunssta: eillen, as if they Laad ta'tan thair moralnz hath ia bhattarcao, | And whils I am sta lying the esrlors thav be. | gin to carol and shirp and eos and twitter | and rua up and down ths scales of a music i that thay must have haar! at heaven's gate, Friday afternoon of thas world’s existence, And Isit down on ths bank of the Eaph- rates, and the murmur of tha river, to- gether with tha chant of birdsin thasky, puts me into a state of somnolsnos, “And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Now it is Saturday morning of the world's But, oh, what a climacteric day! The alr has its population and the water its popula. tion. Yet the land has not one inhabitant, But hare they coms, by the voice of God ore- Horses grandsr than thoss which in after time Job will desoriba as having neck Cattle enough to Sheep shepherded tures. Cattle supsrior to the Aldernsys and Ayershires and Devonshires of after times, Leopards so beautiful we are glad they ean. not changa their spots, Lions without thelr flarceness and all the quadruped world so gentle, so sleek, so perfect, But something is wanted in Paradise and the week is almost done, Who is there to slack the flowers of this Edenio lawn? Who there to command these worlds of quadro- ped and fish and bird? For whom has God put back the curtain from the face of sun and moon and star? The world wants an emperor and ampress, noon. Noone but the Lord Almighty can originate a human being. In the world where there are in the latter part of the Nineteenth century over fourteen hundred million people, s human being is not a curd osity. and yet immortal beings constructed, urday afternoon. Becanss a deep sleep fell of another ation, it has been supposed tween the masculine and feminine creations, Jat no! Adam was not three hours un mated, God breathed into this cold senlpture of a man the breath of life, and the heart bee and the lungs to inhale and eyes to open, and the form to thrill, with th { of a lifes prostrate be bent tae and just be his § saps LO fort Fe it the scene of his Saturday is no - 8, OWEY ! riow it not for t because I would have you joinin David's ] “Great and marvelous are Thy ord God Almighty” because I want what a homestead Fathar hildren at the start, though sia has despoiled it, and becanss I want you to know hew the world will look again when Christ shall have restored if, swinging now between two Edens: beonuse | want you © realize something of what a mighty God Hails, and the utter folly of trying to war against Him; because I want you to make peace with this Chief of the universe, ths Christ who mediates between off etided Omnipotencs and human retwilion; because I want you to know how fearfully and wonderfully you are made, your body as wall as your soul an because 1 waat you to realize that order refigns throughout the universe, and that God's watches tick and that His clocks strike regularly, though they strike once in a thousand years, our ——————— In Prussia it has been recommended to abolish the use of guopowder and slow explosives In flery but that dynamite should be used. —————— --——— met— What if I choose to mit alone And scan these printed pages, Or gossip with your chaperon, Who nearer to my age is Than you. whose laughter fills the ca And reaches me as from salar, By slow and easy stages? The belles and beaux of "02, Though doubtless wise and witty, Of thealre parties never knew, Bound for the Quaker City. And 1, a relic of the past, For qeeming them a trifle fast, No doubt have earned your pity. Although quite out of place I seem, Don't think that | regret 18; Just jet me sit in peace and droeamy-— Somehow we grate; and yet it 1s not Because you seem too gay, But that I'm growing old and gray And cannot quite forget it. Fond girl, that flitting by my seat, Some joke no doubt intending, Gives me a smile as bright, as sweet, Her way then onward wending: 1 see within her pretty ayes The image of her mother rise, And just above me bending. It brings me back the long ago, And when and where | met her, In 511 her girlish blush and plows Ah, how | still regret her But she «as rich and [ was poor, While time and absence bring a cure, 1 never shall forget her. The youth who in yon eushioned chair A yawn attempts to smother, No donvt considers you as fal As 1 once thought your mother. But you are rich and so is be, Between you peed no paiting be, And you may love each other. RBachange OUT IN THE WOODS. 1 There's a musical drip that the chil A spink, span 4 spink, A siivery tink As the waters down from the great trees flow, weet are the waters that trickle down rough the t trees, afar from the town, § Spink, spank, spin Till the tough raphe nk k, it peers through A Hough Dawn trongh is the ¢ for And its nomemade “spile” i ha maple tree, For the spink, apank, 18 a silvery tink That dwells like a song In the memory. Ihe asad leaves rusting the feat ] gathered from sun and the spink, Jpank, spink, TSE oe | MEE Ev THE RICHEST OF PLANTS. it Is Ramle, Formerly Used for Shrouding Mummies. i What is ramie? It wus formerly | placed by the botanists in the class of Jrtiea, but iv now called Boch. | meria, or speerless nettle. I will eall it by no scientific name, 1 is { plants, ol | growth, for it possesses wealth wenlth of development. and | wealth of fiber, says Jules Juvenet. In | ordinary light ground, with a little | watering now and then by rain or irri. | gation, no plant will grow so rapidly, { no plant will multiply more quickly | and produce more stalks; no vegetable | fiber is handsomer, richer or more { silky than ramie, It is a perennial plant, and when omce put in the ground it grows for Jver twenty vears without replanting: giving, according to climate, two and | three crops a year; it is easy of culti- vation, requiring only a soil clean aud loose; it is planted in straight rows three feet apart, in a small up-hill form; the plants must be kept very close, in order to shoot forth straight stalks, without any branches; it grows | about like willow, an average of fil- | teen to twenty switches, from six to { eight and ten feet high, covered on the {upper part with large green leaves, white underneath. Through its leaves ramie takes its nourishment from the ozone of the air. This developed part of nourish- | ment of the plant, added to the large | extensive propensity of the mother | root, from which runs horizontally and {down a lot of rhizomes and smaller roots, explain the extraordinary vital- ity of the plant and its three and fowr crops & vear in some countries. The Chinese alone for 1,000 have were snrouding - inns dead in magnificent winding ramnie, i which to this day are found in the bandages of their mummies. em ———————— gn No Nickels For Nevada. “This talk their sheats of about introducing coppe: atlempis pie 0s City,’ Qin € ¥ i is 4 yOu the - esi nl complained id jear at you.” Something About Indian Names. The Indians have a neat way of fix- ing it This Rain-in-the-Face, Spotted Man-Afraid-ol-lis Horses, is good another name the First he is named mother's gens family. There only half a dozen each Snake, Woll, Turtle, Bear, Eagle, and #0 on. You remember how, in “The Jast of the Mohicans" the young Delaware chiel was found to have a tortoise tatoood on his breast, that gave his family. He was a Turtle, just as the bulk of the Scotch are divided into a few clans, the Stowarts, Campbells, Camerons, McGregors nad others. To the Indian's family name is attached another. Bat it would bad medicine to have i$ spoken out- side the family circle, and give some of his enemies a chance to work spelis and hoodoo him. The Spotted Tail business gets hitched on in ialer life. ~ Washington Post. each Indian has his are or ay Natlve Old English, Du Chaillu has forgotten or neglect. ed the evidence of language, writes Professor F. A. Marsh in the Epoch. We have abundant written documenta in what is now called Anglo-Saxon, big books of all sorts, which are cer- tainly known to have been writlen by nafives of England in their native tongue. They reach back to an ear- lier date than any manuscripts of the Northmen. This native old Eaglish is as plainly not Norse or other Seand- inavian as the present Eaglish, and I% is as plainly German Saxon as the Big. low papers are English. It is inored. ible that those who spoke it should not be mainly of German Saxon descent. Doubtless notable traits of the Viking are to be seen in the Eaglish speaking peoples. Bat these are easily explain. ed from the well-known mixture of Danish and of Norman blood in the latter periods. We do not need to deny or forget our Saxon blood to feel the liveliost interest in our cousins of the North. Nl a ES ——————————————— fn a Cuban Paper, Cuban papers are always very oaro- ful what they say, and very precise in their languagd. That's the reason we put faith in a statement in a Havana daily that a shark measuring forty. poven feot and five inches was seen in that harbor the other day, and that he had a mouth large enough Ww swallow a horse. The “head editor” no doubt measured the fish himself. Reward of Industey, A counterfeiter captured in Balti. more stated that he had been STRANGE HYSTERIA, How It Often Puzzles Even the Skillful Doctor... One of the most remarkabls testimo- nies as to the power of the hysterical fact that at a leading London hospital over fifty cases of one fatal dise have been sent in by medical men snd in teria only. A patient comes, at times a walter in a loss of voice are very interesting. hotel, who has lost his voice and place in consequence; al others a governess, some delicate young lady. None ol them can speak above a very soft whisper; and yet, without knowing it, they will very audibly. ‘The history is nearly always the same. The disease did not begin with hysteria. a severe cold at first, and did lose her voice. This has. however, long since been cured, but the voiceless state per sists, and would do so till the end of time. A careful examination reveals that everything is normal And then, by the skiliful use of judi. cious means, the voiceless condition, that has persisted for sometimes years, gradually is cured. These patients occasionally actually have siates to write on and cannot speak at all And yet, alter treatment, in five minutes they say “Oh!” with wonaer- ful vigor. In five minutes more they can count, and in hall an hour can’ shout out every letter of the alphabet 80 a8 to be heard fifty yards ofl. Sometimes, of course, they look puze gled at the rapidily of the cure, and sometimes dubious whether they are not, alter all, impostors; but they are not, seed by their very CRUNG #8 18 avViaet ations [from this alone, extremely grateful at red. case they are being so ral idly ¢ of n would 3 fs exeondg ir eclio curs CASE nervous of Ix as physical remed] in the latter class lassica be chiefly found of cases Medical ( . stl eomo—— Tapalle’ Story of His Broth Senator Ingalls tells a story of his Dr. Ingalls, {a the bead of an educational institute in Missouri. Dr. Ingalls has puzzled the community of which he is a member by a lonely state of single not only puzzled, bul in some degree, offended, for the doctor is a most sgrecable man, and thers are in the community some very agreo- able women. The msiter was dis- cussed a3 many sewing circles, and finally one old maid volunteered to convey the sense of the community on the subject to the offender. When she called on the doclor she put the question rather bluntly “Doctor.” she said, “the ladies are very anxious to know why you have never married in these many years you have been among us.” “Madame,” said Dr. Ingalls, with all the suavity of manner which he could muster up for the occasion, “you may inform the ladies that at least it has not been for lack of oppor- tunity.” And it is said that the doctor is not nearly #0 popular now among the ladies of his socquaintesecs as he was before the inquiry was instituted. —N. YX. Tribune. sta———— or. who brother, at remaining in blessed nows; The man who undertakes to educate 4 horse labors under some disadvan- tages that do not arise in the educa- tion of a child, says the Horseman. A tutor is commonly supposed to be the superior of his pupil physically, men- tally and morally, and generally has the immonss advantage of using a language common to both. The teach- er of the horse knows nothing of his language if he has one, while he has to deal with an animal far surpassing him in physical power and whose special senses are all more efficient than his own. The esr of a horse eoatohes sounds too faint or too distant to be heard by man; his eye enables him to lop on a track that his rider could hardly seo on his hands and knees, or to travel safely in the dark- ness of night. His taste and smell di- rects him unerringly in the choice of herbage or in the rejection of water from a contaminated vessel, while his sensitive muzzle is the oracle he ape peals to as superior to all other pow- erful senses in deciding upon the dane gor or safety of any suspectad object Hig Brains Do Not Count. The man with the biggest brain isn't SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, JUNE 10L Hezekiah the Good King. LESSON TEXT. @ Chron, 29 : 1-11. Memory verses: 10-11) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUanren: »Sinning GoLpex Trxr ror tar QUARTER: Godliness is profitable unio Lressox Toric: Renewing God's 1. Hezekiah's Good Begin. [ ning, ve, 1.5 2. Hezekiah's LESSON OUTLINE 1 Bee vs. 64, 8 Hezekishs Wise peal, vs. 10, 1L fad Confes- Ap- Coupes Text: Them that honour Dany Hove READINGS : M.—2 Chron. 20 : 1-11 the good king. T.—2 Chron. 29 : 12-36. The great rejoicing. W.—2 Chron. 30 1-12, Hezekiah's proclamation. T.—2 Chron, 30: 13.27, tion's response, ¥.—2 Chron. 31 : 1.21. serving. B.—2 Chron. 82: 1-28, trinmph, 8.2 Chron. inh's end. Hezekiah The na- Bincere 82 : 24-83, Hezek- ————————— Ey LESSON ANALYSIS, 1. AEZEEIAN'S GOOD BEGINNING, which was right He did that If thon does! accepted ws Gen, 4 : 7 id that wha of the Lord AIDES 1D “a 1: learn to do well (Isa }: 17) ita urn away Lie arose and went and sancti- YOR » .and be ye holy t sanciily lsrael qother’s name was Abijah.” (1) Whosa name 1s hon- ored of God; (2) Whose infinence is productive of good; (3) decendants are helpful to human- ity. . “He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord.” (1) Beneficent among men; (2) Ap- proved of God.—C« nduct (1) He oaiving God's inspection; (2) Gain- ing God’s spproval. 8. “Hear me, ye Levites; now sanch- fy yourselves.” (1) Direct address; (2) Imperative appeal. I. HEZEKIAR'S SAD CONFESSION, iI. The Lord Forsaken: Our fathers have... forsaken him, and... turned their backs (6). (Deut. 32 : 15). God forbid that we should forsake the Lord (Josh. 24 : 16), If ye forsake him, he will forsake you {2 Chron. 15 : 2). They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters (Jer. 2: 13). il. The Sanctuary Abandoned: They have shut up the doors of the poreh (7). Ahaz. ...shut np the doors of the house of the Lord (2 Chron. 28 : 24). Why is the house of God forsaken (Neh, 13: 11). The people .... shall destroy .... the sanctuary (Dan. 9 : 26). The sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste (Amos 7 : 9). iif. The Penalty Incurred: Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah (8). His wrath is against all them that for- sake him (Ezra 8 : 22), There 18 grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way (Prov. 15 : 10, They that forsake the Lord shall be consumed (Isa. 1 : 28), All that forsake thee shall be ashamed (Jer. 17 : 18). 1. “Our fathers have Caen and have forsaken him." (1) Tres. ng against the Lord: (2) Tarn- away from the Lord.—(1) Tres passing; (2) Forsaking. 2. “They have shut up the doors. ... and put out the lamps.” (1) Access to the temple denied; (2) Order in the service abandoned. 8* “The wrath of the Lord was upon Judah.” Jehovah's wrath: (1) Its nature; (2) Its objects; (3) its ef- feoin, 1, BRZERIAN'S WISE APPEAL 1. To make a Covenant! It is in mine heart to make a cove- pant with the Lord (10). . te The king. . . made a covenant before Lord (2 Kings 23 : 3). Remember B Sovamant for ever (1 Chron. 1 10) Wo make a shite Sovenap, and write it © 3 : forsook the covenant of the Lord their God (Jer. 22 : 9). il. To Avert Wrath: That his flerce anger may turn away from us (10). . his anger (Josh. 7: 26. : 80:5. - Many a time turned he his anger awsy (Pua. 78 : BK), Wilt thou be sugry with us for ever? (Pen, 85 : 5), li. To Perform Duty: My sons, be not now negligent (11), Diligently obey the the Lord your God (Zech, 6 : 15). Neglect not the gift that is in thee (1 Tim. 3 id), How shai we {Heb 2: voice ol escape, if we neglect? Adding on your vart all diligence (2 Pet. 1: 5). 1. It is in mire heart to make a eov- enant with the Lord,” (1{ The parties to the covenant; (2) The terms of the covenant; (3) The pur. pose of the king.—Purposed in the heart: (2) Performed in the act, . “That this fierce anger may turn away from us.” (1) Anger directed aysinst Israel; (2) Anger turned away from Isresel. — (1) Anger aroused; (2) Anger allaved. “Be not now negligent.” (1) The eanses of negligence; (2) The con- sequences of negligence: (3) The er:minality of negligence; (4) The cure of negligence, A SI BIBLE READING. RIGHT LESSON DOING, Characteristic of God (Gen. 18 Neh, 9:83). +25; :18;12: : : 9) lowed by the holy (Psa. 1:1,2; Prov. 21 : 8B). Abandoned by the wicked (Dent, 12: B;lea 50:7. 8B) Beriptures teach it (Psa. 18:7, 119: 9). Good men teach Psa. 834 : 11). Hequires decision (Josh. 24 : 14 it (1 Sam. : 18-20 {Dan. 12 : aesiny o A mic mcs LESSON SURHOUNDINGS, of Je arial, who was to be stoned. king, inva © Was gisin by buried in His son he ilietime { RR chal RCV Was ih (or ug, probably IE ZIAL WAS Risin. re Pe re d, but ale sancti. n with leprosy. His me king while Uzziah Hence ti hough nse 10 the H he long reign of reckoned for Uzzish 1g a period in the mn of kings. Jotham was pious i ved. ftv-two vears “ od * 5 1 does 1 1 HYe 80 101 ENNCPs PROT A gecaaence of Ahaz, his son the in his wars with {Davis holds that his father In unsuoccesssiul and Israel A remarkable Chronicles : 8.15. in connection with the wvio- Oded the proplet for- bade the host of lsrael to keep the cap~ grandfather Uzziah.) Ahaz, however, pureiincd the help of (1L) of Assyria, but to little profit, He copied the altar and worship of Damascus, and “provoked to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers” (2 Chron. 28: 25). He too Hezekiah was his ers of the kings. : Davis thinks that son and SUCCEssOr, for two years, and some infer that Ahaz during this time was deranged, and therefore not buried in the royal sepuloher. Praoe. —Jernsa em; the temple court, particularly the platiorm on the east- ern side, ‘Trun, The first year of Hezekiah's reign. This was B. O. 726, accordin, to the usual chromology. Bat B. Samaria is placed in B. C. 722, —sixth year of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18: 10). Prnsoxs — Hezekiah, one of the most the Old Testament; namely, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah. The priests and Levites were assembled by the king. Ixcromxrs.—The beginning of Heze- kiah's reign; his character. He re- irs the doors of the temple, which been shut up by Ahaz, He gathers the priests and Levites, and admonishes them to purify themselves aud house of Lord, reminding them of the trespasses of the fathers the neglect of the temple worship, and the judg. ment of God for these sins. He thea announces his purpose to make & cove- nant with the rd. telling them of their duty as the ministers of Jehovah. Parasrey Passaon.—2 Kings 18:1-8 A Natural Compass. The City Council has ordered o stands
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