REV DR. TALMAGE, The Brooklyn nvines Sunday Sermon. Subject : “The Sword of Eleazar,” Text: “And His hand clave unto fhe sword.” 11 Samuel xxiil., 10. A great general of King David was Eleazar, the hero of the text, The Philis. tines opened battle against him, and his troops retreated. The cowards fled. Eleasar ‘and three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for four men ith God on their side are stronger than a whole battalion with God against them, “Fall back shouted the commander of the Philistine army. The ory ran along the host, “Fall back!” Eleazar having swept the fleld throws himsell on the ground to but the muscles and sinews of his d had been so long bent around the hilt the sword that the hilt was embeddied in broken through the skin of the palm of the hand, and he could not drop his sword which he bad so gallantly wielded, jand clave unto the sword.” call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel. And we want more of it, pose to show you this morning how gar took hold of the sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar., I look at Bloazar's hand, and 1 come to the conelu- sion that be took the sword wth a very tight grip. The cowards who fled bad no tfouble in dropping their swords. As they fly over the rocks I hear their swords elang- ing in every direction. It is easy enotvgh fon them to drop their swords, But Elcazar's! band clave unto the sword. Ob, my friends, in this Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weap4 obs, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword the truth. It makes me sad to see these ristian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go, so thats the Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole sword away from them.| The only safe thing for us to do is to put oun thumb on the book Gonesis and swoepl our band around the antil the New Testament comes the palm, and i our hand arou he book until the of the fingers cluteh at “In the beginning God! created the and the earth.” I like an id better than I do of HAD amby Christians who hold a part of the ti and let the rest By mira i this Bible just as 1% The severest n a sword fact around a gun barrel hen when tha gword + t # ack to its own shape, 1th hast fully t th vy and t Way, and una 3 WAY at it aiw t t own sh m 4 0ir bo WK into ng on RGE, test to ws put 1 a9 wav, inl Rf; this | copies whic iy an in i ina on nal had ¢ and be was there Me conviot stan w of the th t and declared, 'l an hat to all the men and happened to be and the eloquent man and woman thers FP WTiler goes on to MY, saying, ‘I am a Chris. oall, 1 there, ‘I am writer sav believed hun itl “If he had stood there tian.' every man WOMman said, ‘He is a liar This Bible fs the sworn enemy of all this wrong, and it is the friend of all that is good Oh, hold on to it. Donot take part of it and throw the rest pway. Hold on to all of it There are $0 many people now who do not know. You ask them if the soul is immortal, and they say, ‘I guess it is, don’t know; srhaps i% is, perbaps =r't Is the Bible true’ =, perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't; perbaps it may be figuratively, and perhaps it may le partly, and perbape it may not be at all” They despise what they call the Apostolic or but if their own creed were written out it would read like this: “I be Heve in gothing, the Maker of heaven and earth. and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing, and which noting was dead and buried and dew | , nothing, and arose from ovothing, and\ascended to nothing, and now sittet right hand of nothing, from il Come to judge noth in the holy agnostic communion of forgiveness of nothing, if nothing, and in shall be. Amen” That ia gs of thousands of people in this ds i have a mind to adopt such a theory I nest I believe in ihe Father heaven and aarti and in the holy catholic chur and in the communion of saints, and in the life everlasting Amen Oh, when 1 se eazar taking such a stout grip of th rif in the battle against and for righteousness, | sion that we ought (30d os eternal truth nex As 1 look at An and it © noes fh at tf which t ing I burch ani in arians, and the resurre life that the creed of will believe the s the ton ar never ten frewi maker of Christ an come to the conclu to take a stouter grip the sword of righteous I also notices nis spirit He did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating thromagh the palm of his band, He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the sonflict he was so anxious for the victory he forgot Ww deaply into the palm of his hand it could oot disturb him. “His band clave unto the sword.” Ob, my brothers and sisters, let us go into Christian conflict with the spirit of lf abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us of denounces us® What do we care for misrepresentalion, or abuse or persecution in a conflict like this? Let us torget ourselves, That man who is afraid of getting his hand hart will never kill a Philis- time. Who cures whether you get hurt or aot if you get the victory?! Oh, how many Christians there are who are all the time worrying about the way the world treats hem ihey are mo tired, and they are sn sbused, and they are so tempted, Eleszer did not think whether he had a hand, roan arm ora foot, All he wanted was vic- ory We see bow men forget themselves in wordly achievement, We have often sean nen who in order to achisve worldly suo. ress will forget ali physical fatigue and all innoyance and all obstacles. Just after ihe battle of Yorktown, io the American Revolution, s musiclén, wounded, was told te prust have his limbs amputated, and hey wore about to fasten him to the sur: won's table~for it was loug ore the asrcifal discovery o dos. He aid, “No, don't fasten me to that table; tet me a violin.” A violin wag brought to tim and he said, ‘Now go to work as | be [nto play and for forty we awful pangs la wesle nor Eleagsr's hand of self forgetfulness, ¥ dronded | i i i i i } i 1 i played some sweet tune. Oh, fs i¢ of Jesus Christ and with this grand mare of the church militant on the way to wo some the church triumphant, we eanno forget ourselves and forget all pang and all sorrow and all persecution smd all pers turbation? We know what men accomplish under wordly opposition. Men de not shrink baclk from antagonism or for hardship. You have admired Prescott’s ‘Conquest of Mexico,” as brilliant and beautiful a history as was ever written; but some of you may not know uns der what disadvantages it was written —thaf “Conquest of Mexico’ "for Prescott was toy tally blind, and he had two pieces of wood arallel to each other fastened, and totally slind, with his pen between those pleces of wood he wrote, the stroke against one piecd af wood telling how far the pen must go ig one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood telling how far the pen must go the other way, Oh, how much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for worldly suo- sess, and vet how little we endure for Jesus ‘hrist. How many Christians there are that go around saying, “Ob, my kwnad, my hand, my hurt hand; don't you ses there is while KEleazar, with the hiit im. bodded in the flesh of his right hand, does pot kaow it Must I be earried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, White others fought to win the prize Or sailed throagh bloody seas? What have we suffered in comparison the truth’s sake? Wo taik of the persecution of olden times. Toero is just as much perso pution going on now in various wa va, in 1844, in Madagascar, sighteen mon wers pus o death for Christ's sake, They were to be over the rooks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their leath the mors dreadful in anticipation, they were put in baskets and swung to and 'ro over the precipice that they mizht ses W0wW many hun ired feet toey would have to w dashed down, and whoile they were swing. ng in these baskets over the rocks they mang: lover of my son! me to Thy bosom fly, ae b ¥8 near mo roll, bile the tempest still Then they were Dh, bow much « high. dashed down to death! thers have endured for Christ and bow little wa endure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven ina Fullman sleep. ng-car, our feet on soft plush, the bad made ap early so we oan all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only in @ to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the ling and all the bandages, and all the saive, for our hand is hart, while Eleazer does not know his hand is hart, “His hand clave As 1 look at Eleazar's hand [ coms to the l nth es done a great deal of sloop @ unto the sword ew John K ‘hris ferry oy tian is to refine on an refining on it word nity wa DOY } aD ure it. And we ma shased and press ted must ride on wh yasing, ti SPUrs ugh to make the charger dance grace . and then we must send a missive, deli. black aD to ind it or ladi under 8, And we asmbrotd- only Just ay giant of sin if he will not surrender Women saved by the grace of God and on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath is not done revivals sending around to ask some demon. strative worshiper if he will not please to sa “amen” and “hallelujah” a Hitle softer, Ta seems as if in our churches we wanted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand flowers, when we actaally need a baptism of fire from the Lord God of Pentecost. Bat world's redemption is lost ia the fear we will get our hand hart, while Eleszar went into the conflict, "And his hand clave unto the sword.” But | see in the next place what a bard ews had been so long grasped around the to drop it, and his three comrades, | suppose, bathed the back part of the band, hoping the sinews and muscles would relaz But BO, “His hand clave unto the sword ™ Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pu'l back the thumb; but no sooner wera they pulled back than they closed agsin, “and bis hand clave unto the sword But after a while they were successi al, then they noticed that the curve in the palm » hand ‘His hand clave unto the sword.” You and I have seen it many a time. bere ars in the United States to-day many They are to feable now to preach. In the church racordl the word opposite their name is “amor. tus” or the words are, “A minister without charge.” They were an heroic race They had small salaries and they swam spring freshets to meet their ap- pointments. Bat they did in thelr day a mighty work for God. They took off more of the heads of Philistine iniquity then you could count from noon to sundown. You put that old minister of the Gos meeting, or oveasional pulpit, or a sick room where there issome one to be comfort. od, and it is the same old ring to his voice and the same old story of on and peace and Christ and heaven is hand has so long clutched the sword in Christian conflict ba cannot drop it “His hand clave unto the sword.” I had in m aged man, who in his ear! companion and adviser o denta, Msdison and iife bad been the the early Presi Monroa. He asa very aged man, around a pillar of the church, and though his mind was partially gone his love for spect and profound admiration, and were moved when he spoke. | war called to see him die. I entered the room, and he sak “Mr. Talmage, 1 cannot speak to you now.” He was in a very pleasant delirium, as imagined he had an audience before hide, He said, “1 momst tell thes to fitted, this enched Christ and wor aC Srigh and prepares for von" Rot of world to “a fn AE, TL this nt delirium, both arias on i dying pillow, his his ye Joshua, Soldiers coms back from battle have the names of the battles on their flags, showing where they distinguished! thems selves, and [t is a very aporooriate Inscrip- tion, Tmok at the flag of old General Joshua! On it Jericho, Gibeon, Hasar, City of Al, and insteal of the stars sprinkled on | the flag the sun and the moon which stood still, There he is, one hun ired and ten years old. Hels lying flat on his back but he is preaching. His dying words ars a battle ‘charge against idolatry and a rallvine ery for the Lord of Hosts as he says, ‘Behold, this day I go the way of all the earth, and God hath not failed to fulfill his promise voncerning Israel.” unto the sword. There is the headless body of Paul on the road to Ostea. His great brain and his great heart have heen severed, The elmwood rods bad stoog him fearfully, When the com ship broke up he swam ashore, coming up drenched with the brine. Every day since that day when the horse reared under him in the suburbs of Damasous, as the superna- tural light fell, down to this day when he is sixty-eight years of age and old and decrepit {19m the prison call of the Mamertine he has beon outrageously treated, and he is waiting to ie, How doss he spend his last hours? Telling the world how badly he feels, ani de- soribing the rheumatism that he got in | prison, the rheumatism afflicting his limbs, or the neuralgia plercing his temples, or the thirst that fevers his tongue? Ob, no. His inst words are the battle shout for Christen. dom: “I am now ready to bs offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good fight.” And so his dying hand clave unto the sword. It was in the front room on the second floor that my father lay a-dying. It was Saturday morning, four o'clock, Just three years before that day my mother had aft him for the skies, and he had been homesick to join her sompuny. He was eoighty-threo years of age, Ministers of the Gospel camo in to comfort him, but forted them, How wonderfally the unded out from his dying pillow, *' sy been young and now am old, ot Ver see the righteous forsaken, or } sod bog bread.” They , they batt i s foot and ti f $a i his hands, | succeeds out the fee he © wor. [1 nix 0 . ng bathed his br od and t bathe straightening | they did not wool in bathing oper { hand so it w stay open. They bathe the hand but it carne shut They bathed it again, but it came shut What was the matter with the the flogers of that old hand? s0 Jong clutched the sword of Ci flict that “his hand clave I preach this sermon as you to hold the truth wit vi I want you to strike will react and sword, the sword will tak You noticed that the ern army a fe Denver, and ve ¢ thar 8 Southe hey i300 ald open, open $Hyus evi} Sum VERrs " the my 3 enuff w be glorified with Ma the great organs of fake up bant and St. John “These are they who came out of great tribulation and had thei bes washad | and rondo white in the blood of the Lamb” i But what will your chagrin and mine be {if it shall be told that day on the strects of | heaven that on earth we shrank back from all toll and sacrifice and hardstin: No soars to show the heavenly soidiery, Notso much as one ridge on the palm of the band to show | that just onos in the battle for God and the | truth, we just once gwasped the sword wo firmly, and struck so hard that the sword and the hand stuck together, and the hand : slave to the sword, OU my Lord Jesus, rou 38 to Thy service Thy saints in al this glorioas war Shall congaer thoagh they die They see the irtamph from afer, And seize It with the ere. ered i then tha o FF» When that illustrious day shall ries, And all Thy armies shine In robes of victory through the skiss, The glory shail be Thine. sein, Suicide Statisties. Ths grim subject of stantly being forced upon the attention of New Yorkers. The uaily papers fre. quently report as many as a dozen cases of suicide or attempted suicide within | twenty fours snd the num ber of reported cases no means represent the number of cases that | occur. There is a law on the statute books which makes attempted suicide a felony. On referring to stalis- tics I find that the maximum rate of suicides in New York during the last eighty years was in 1808 when there was one suicide to every 3017 inhabitants, The minimum ratio was in 1864, when there was one suicide in every 28 827 inhabitants. The largest number of | suicides among males occurred between the ages of thirty-five and forty, and among females between thirty and thirty. five. About one-third of the whole | number of suicides use poison.—New York Telegram. A Fading Race. The recently completed census of the i Sandwich Islands shows the same decline in the population that has been mani | fested in the past. When the islands were first discovered, in 1778, by Cap- tain Cook, he estimated the population at 400,000. The first official censas was taken more than fifty years afterward, and showed a population then of 130,. 513. In 1853 there were but TL 019; and the present number is 34,436. In less than sixty years the population has asen reduced seventy-five per cent. flothe have laid this decrease to the Ld iting wars that have raged on the | islands; others to the vices that eiviliza- t is suicide if. i hours by true causes of the decline of a ‘the fact fa a most remarka | Now Ortearm Picayune. % American bicyolists ha % Mount Ararat eid ' one, we od It wp } THE FLOWER GARDEN. EARLY AUTUMN, O'er hill and fiald October's glories fade ; { O'er nill and field the binckbirds southward ly « The brown leaves rustle down the forest i Whors aakhd branches make a fitfulshade And the last blooms of antumn withered ih ARNGLY ! Now in this glorious antumn weacher | is the time to gather treasures of wood and fleld for winter decoration. Gold. on oars ‘of wheat mixed with dried grasses from marsh and woodland, green feathery tufts and drooping brown fringes bringing back memories of the hazy sweetness of the autumnal day and the breezy companionship of natare, Cather the bittersweet with its gay seedvessels and the scarlet hipe of thorn and sweetbrier; tall, reeds catt:ils with their waving leave thisties to make feathery pompons, and long sprays of clematis with their wealth of spid rv whorls, Golden rod and sa mach if gathered at the right time and properly treated make beantiful orna ments for shelves and corners, odd iwige and lichens and and fashion them into shelves and bracket mosses, too, and broad, gl which may be pressed and wvarni and woven Into wreaths which will brighten uo wonderfnl {he pods or “wild cotton’ make lov or tas the delicate ments cushions of mented as or Pre $ in many ranged i tinted card CONer tied 5 ord Eacl and date of (iather cones i Os8Y leaves and bare 1x £5, gel and FER 5° sed te A SUT ¥ dal 0 {ii HEARN easier ut selling ground : trenching « or twelve with well.-r n wood ashes, or any good 3 In setting ont Por-Gro LANTS, press the soil firmly aboot pisnts and scarcely will fail grow. If the weather is hot and dry, wet the soil thoroughly and mulch with some coarse material until the plants are established; keep well enltivated and free from weeds. When the planta begin to thow out runners, they should be out off, to establish strong plants. When the ground freezes in the early winter, cover the entire bed with salt meadow hay to the depth of one or two inches, If this cannot be had, straw, which maproved by being cut; cornstalks, long manure, leaves, shavings or other material that will not pack and sm ther the plant, will answer the parpose. In the esrly spring remove part of the covering, and place as much as possible under the foliage of the plant to keep the fruit clean and the weeds from grow. ing. Below we also give a list of some of the newer varieties with their descrip- iions Bomba is of the pistillate variety and must be planted near some of the jer. fect bowering sorts 18 order to insure fruit. It is a strong grower with large size fruit of a rich erimson color. Bubach is another similar warety bearing large berries which ripen ear- ly. " Michel's early is an extra early sort, moderately productive and of excel lent quality and color. Gandy is a strong, healthy plant be- ing especially valuable on sccount of iis ripening very late in the season. Haverland is a pistillate variety and has the especial merits of being ex- tremely early, prolific and showy though somewhat insipid in favor, Eureka, Middlefield and Jessie are new berries, each having some special {merit of their own to recommend | them. The Sharpless, Comberland Tri- umph and Kentueky are old and stand- ard sorts always reliable and popu. iar snd a large bed should always con- tain one or more of these varieties, Pot-grown plants may be procured at an average price of 60 ots. per dozen or a little more for the newest varieties while layer plants come st about hal these rates with still lower prices by | the 100 and 1000, | wIn the reign of Willlam III. ali child stealers apprehended were brand od with a red-hot R for rogue on the : M for for manslaughter on hand, and T for thief on the tied anv ine R i shoulders | the right : left one, Sram pi have been made in Eng. | land oi. g fhe ramie fibre. "This - terial is subjected to tremendous hy- pressure. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, EUNDAY, NOVEMEER 1. 1¥1, Christ the True Vine, LEBSON TEXT. tiahn 1 1-14 Memory verses, 4 LESSON PLAN. Tore op THE the Son of God, JUARTER Jess Gorpex Texr 7 hese are written, FOR THY that ye and that through af (fod, have life 20 : 81. believing Nix ye mn ight rie, John 1.3 Tovic: The witfidnes ON J 1 Finijoining Fs The Vine and bandman, v, } The Branch Fruit, vs, 2 F¥ The Baviour Friends, vs, 2 Herein ix Lea wi Father Fi Fries fruit, John $i joining fruitfnlness [en He that sbideth i beareth much fruit (He found "8. I chose you that ye should go and bear fruit (John 15: 16. Fruits, . ,. . which are through Christ (Phil. 11). LIV. Out of Christ is Destruction They east them into the fire they are burned (8), Hewn down, and oast (Matt. 3 : 10). Bind them in bundles to ( Matt. 13 hy, He that disbelieveth demned (Mark 16 Vv. Jesus and into the fire barn them shall 16}. be con By Frutfuiness God is Gloritied Herein is my Father glorified, that y& bear much fruit (8), That they may cee your good works, and glorify your Father (Matt. 5 : 16 i 80 he will fall down (God (1 Cor. 14 ihe cions fruit (Jas. 5 : 7) and worship . dle 11, THE SAYIOUR AND HIS FRIENDS, iI. Abiding in his Love: Ye shall abide in my love Abide ve in my love (John 15 Even as | abide in his ldve 15 : 10. 10. bE | (1 John 4 : 16), 1 11. Partaking of his Joy: { your joy may be fulfilled (11). | Enter thou into the joy of thy lord : {Matt 23). | Ask, {John 16 0a" “td 1 24). 3:1. I 111. Imitating his Example: Love one another, i loved you (12 “ly you (John 13 : 343, | one another ¢1 Thess 4 : 9). | That he who lovethUod love his brother also [1 John 4 : 21), i IV. Enloving his Friendship { 1 have called you friends (15. | The Lord spake unto Moses, at A man windr th unto his friend (Exod. | 83:11 | Behold, a friend of publicans and { minner! (Matt. 11 : 19, He was ealled the friend of God (Jas. 2 23. Vv. Baaring his Fruit: 1....appointed you, that ye should go and bear feast (165 He oleanseth it, that it may bear wore | { uit (John 15 : 2), That we might bring forth froit un to God (Rom. 7 : 4). . The fruit of the Spirit 1s peace (Gal, 5 : 22) . deine love, jov, and {15 sm the true vine, the husbandman.” Father a hus- bandman.—{1; The Fathers's concern for the Bon; (2) The Son's yield to the Father. Verse 4.— “Abide in me, and I in on.” (1) Believers abiding in Christ; )) Christ abiding in believers.—{1) ” {2) “In you.” “Apart from me ye can do nothing.” (1) Apart from Christ; (2) Destitute of power.—11) Christian in ability; (2) Christian power. Verse 7.— "If ve abide in me and, shall be done.” (1) An unlimited proffer; (2; An absolute condition. --11) Abiding; (2; Asking; (2) Heceoiving. Verse © “Abide 1; The believer's abiding-place; The believer's abiding. —(1} Enter Al ide in his love, These things have i that my joy may be in you, your j be Hed, ‘s gracious desires; (2) Christ's hely 1} The words of The joy of believer another ven 1} The new com he perfect example. Example re my friends, 3f I command yon. ule requirement, you vants: (2; bat bestowed ; 12 wledged you, that i} The re Verse 1.--'/] rey father is “) ‘In me; Verse 5, ‘a nuk it ye ‘n my love ¥ into his love Verse spoken, and that 15 Chri abundant Christ Ov fuifi rik ine ve CE Hed rm tad FORTE discipl th There is no dialogue, as in the previous lesson. Christthe true vine; his relation to the Father, to the branches: only by abiding in him ean they bear fruit, The awful result of not abiding in him; the blessed resuit of thus abiding. The proof! of abiding in Christ's love is keeping his com mandments. The chiel commandment like Christ's self sacrificing love. His disciples are no longer servants, but friends, chosen by him to bear fruit; that too in answer to prayer unto the Father in the name TLIXKE, There is no parallel passage. —_-_— Ratural Sand Blasts The sand blast has made the etching of glass a matter of easy performance. with wax, in which on which the sand is thrown by the The friction soou wears Away the smooth surface, the wax is remov- ed, and the door plate, or whatever the blast. the fumes of hydrofluoric evenness of the result and the uncer tainty when the exposure had reached i i i \ | ! i i i % i Nature herself does a little ia this line occasionally. Upon the ex- wind gsthers up the sand and hurls it with such force upon the windows of the life-saving stations that when iW fury has been spent the panes look as if they had been ground, and are, pers force, replaced at once by a new sash. It is unnecessary to add that if the oo cupantis are obliged to veniure forth at such times, their faces, upon their re turn, look as if they had besa pricked by a thousand needles. a I AO NDA A Capitalist, “Where did you spend your vaca tion, anyway, Smith?” asked Jones, casually. “Spent it at home,” replied Smith. “ couldnt afford to go anywhere this year.” “fa that so?” said Smith, promptly. “You're in luck, old man. Lend me five dollars, will you?! Somerville Journal.