REV. DR. TALMACE. day Sermon. - Subject: * Heavenly Congratulations.” Texr: “Likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.” —lauke xv,, 7 i A loat sheep! Nothing can ba more thor- oughly lost. | look through the window of a shepherd's house at night, The candles ara lighted. The shepherd has just placed his staff against the rnantle, He has taken off hig coat, shaken out of it the dust and hung it up. seo by the candle light that there are veichbors who have come in. The shepherd. fagged out with the long tramo, sits down on a benen, and the wife and the children and the neighbors say to him, “Come, now, tell us how you found the poor thing." *‘Well,” be say», “this morning [ went out to the yard to look at the flock. No sooner had I looksd over the fence than I saw something wrong. The fact was they did not count right. Ninety-five, ninety.six, ninety-saven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine-—-only ninetv-nine* McDonald, you know we had a hundred, And 1 wonder which one was gone, and [ began again, and I connted ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety -sight, nine- ty-nive. Weil, I whistled up the dogs, and Istarted on the fields and across the bridges, and [ tracked ths moors, and ieaped the gullies, but no bleating of the poor thing did I near. Isaid to myself, ‘The lamb must have fallen into a ditch, or a pack of wolves from the mountain must pave torn it to pieces and sucked its life out.” But I could not give it up. You see it was a pet lamb, It was that one with the black spot on the right shoulder that used to come and lick my hand as [ erossad the flald, and somehow | could not give it up. Sol went on and on and on until after awhile { heard tue dogs bar: and 1 said, ‘What's that? Then [ hastened to the top of the ail), and I loosed down and thers 1 saw the poor lamo. It bad fallen into the ditch and as | came where it was and bent over the ditch and stooped down to lift the poor thing out, I wish you could have seen the loving and imploring and tender way it looked at me. | liftel it out, and it was all covered with the siush and the mud, I: was an awlul thing todo, but I lifted it out, and a was so lame and so weak it could not walk alone, so I threw it over my shoulde: and [ started homeward, and the con- dition of that lamb you may judge of from the coat which | have just huag ap. 3ut I tramped on and on until it is safe in the yard, roorthing! Thank God, thank God™ ‘Then the shepherd's wife spread the table and brought out tbe best fare that the eabin could afford, and they sat up very Iate that night, and they talked, and they laughed and they sang, and they ate, and they drank and they danced, and teld over and over agzsin the story of the lost sheep that was found, With such tenderness and rusticity of illustration does Christ represent the soul's going off and the soul's comming back, when e says, “Likewise there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteta, more than over ninety and mine just persons that need no repentance.” To repent is to feel that you are bad, and to be sorry about it, and to turn over a new leaf, and to pray for forgiveness and help, Just as soon as a man does that, taney hear right away of it in heaven, There are in glory going around to chatter and laugh when a man fails, but there are many souls in glory who are glad to ran about and tell is when a man Is saved. The news goes very quick from gate to gate, and from north wail to south wall, and from east wall to west wall, and in thrée minutes every citizyn of heavea has beard “there is joy in heavea is of God over one sinner no gossips of bow thers Ponmtooost understand heaven over a e Thousand souls saved F acount that ; wid De joy In : waoaen I easily JOY In in Ouse day I can understand NERY en over Los bundred souls of Mr. Living stand now there saouid be the great awakening in f Hariar Page, when in one year seventy-three thousand to God in the Unit rstand very easily ¥ in heaven over five hu dred thousand souls converted in this country; but mark vy my nounces there angels of God were s U One sermon son; JOY in heaven ov the time four hun SOUR Were States: [ can there snouid t repenteth Nome cathedrals have ons tow catheorals have two, threes, for Did you ever hear them all ring at am toid that the bedi in the cat Paul rings only on rare ocoasi stance, at the death or the Lirta Have you seen a cathedral with {our and have you heard them al strike into one great chime of gladness? Here is a man who Is moral. 3 an ex arple to a great many professors of religion in some things; never did a mean thing in his life: he pays all his debts, and is a good citizen and a good aeighbor, but he says he ix not a Chistian Some day the Holy Spirit coms into his heart and ne sees toat he cannot depend apon his morality for salvation, He says: "0 Lord God | nave been depending upon my good works: I find] am a sinner, ani 1 want Thy saivation. Lord, for Jesus's sake, have mercy on me™ And God pardons him, and inumediately one of the towers of heaven strikes a silvery cbime, for thers are four towers to the heavenly temple. Here is a man who is bad; he knows he is bad, and everybody eles knows he is bad, but he is not an outoast-=far from being an ont- cast, He moves in reipectable circles. ut one dav, by the pswer of the Holy Ghost he rous sup to s3» his sinfulness ana he aye: “0 Lord, have mercy! | am a wander , and without Thee [ perish. Have mercy!” God hears him, andimma liately two of ths towers 0 heaven strike a silvery chime, But here is an outeast. He was sicked us last night out of the gutter and carried tn the police station. He has been in the peni- tentiary three times. He is covered and soaked with loathsomeness and abomination, Arousing from his debauch, he cries out: “0 God, have mercy onme. Thou whn didast pardon the penitent thief, hear ras cry for mercy.” And the Lord listens and par- dons, and no sooner is the poor wreteh par doned than three of the great towers of heaven strike up a silvery chime. But hers isa waif of the street. Nhe passes under ths gaslight, and Kur soul shu lders with a great horror. No pity for her. No com. miseration for her, As she passes down the street she hears a song in a midnight mission, and ske listens to that song she hears: All may come, whoever will, This Man receives poor sinners still Bhe puts into that harbor, she knesls by ths rough bench pear ths door; she says: “0 Lord! Thou who didst have mercy on Mary Magdalen, take my bilstered feet off the rod hot pavement of hell.” God says, "My daughter, thy sins are forgiven thee: go in pesca” Now, all the four towers of heivon strike a silvery chime, and they was pass through the celastial streets say: “Whats that? Why, the worst sinner must have bean saved, Hear all thy four towers ring and ring and ring!” “And there is joy in ven among the angels of God over ons sinver that repenteth.” you, 1 think, with for us to aug People think fied this house to-day who could go out witha torch and kindle a new bonfire of victory on thé hills of heaven. If you would this day repent and come to God, the news of your salvation would reaca heaven, and the good land, While she was here you Sometimes you came home at nightfall with your pockets full of gifts for her, and i night key into tne later than she began at you, saying, “Father, waat have you orouzht me?’ She is now befora the throns of God, Can you Coming the tidings to Christ and repenting of sin, child wiil hear of it. On, what a gift for her She wil skin with new glad S09 Loars it. My subject also impressss ms with thy jdea that heaven an | earth ars in cose sym- pathy. Peopla talk of hoaven as though it were & great way off. Taay say it is hun- dreds of thousands of miles before you reaca the first star, and thea you go hun. dreds of thousands of miles befors you get to toe second star, and then it is millions of miles beJore you reach hsaven, They say heaven is the center of tone universe aud we are on the rim of the universs, Tuat Is nos the idea of my text. [ think the haart of heaven beats very close to our world. Wa measure distances by the tims taken to traverse thoss distances, It used to be a long distance to San Fran- cisco, Many weeks and months ware passa | before you could reach taat city. Now it is six or seven days. tg usad to be six bafore you coud voy age from here to Liver. pool. Now you can go that distance is six or seven days, And so I measure the dis. tance between earth and heaven, and I find it is only a flash, It is one instant here and another instant thers, It is very near to- day. Do you not feel the breath of heaven on your face? Christ says in one placa it is not twenty-four hours’ aistance, when He says to the penitent thief, ‘his day, this day, shalt thou be with Ms in paradise” It isnot aday, itis not an hour, it ix not a minute, it is not a secoad Oh, iow near heaven is to oceanic cables you send a message. As it is exp msive to send a message, you Compress w great deal of meaning in a few words Somastimes ia two words you oan put vast meaning. And it sms to me taal os sugeis of God woo carry news from earcs 10 heaven neal to tale up tails hour in re red to vour soul, only twa words in order » kindle with gladness all the redsansd before the thirons only tws wor 1x “Father saved” “anatase saval saved ” “Jaaghtsr savad And heaven among the anzels of God Sinner Tuas r My sunjact fact that weedy earth. By aon there je over ny } $47 one Denlel ale Luoresssy the salvation of thes muportances, If you should mks this year, do vou saonsss that nawe would be carried to heaven® It would not ba of enough importance or significanos to bs car ried heavenward fat the next quudes nmi eisction youare male President of ths United States. do vou supposs that news wotlld be earriel to heaven? Ds vou sun Poses that the news of a revolution in Fran oy or Spain would be carcisd to heaven?’ things are not of esough fmoortar there is one item that ie sure to | It is the salvation of your soul. It repentance before God. the ning hools of Wiol's crariers clasa through the gates and She new: goes from gate to mansion and from manson to tem. ple, and from temple to throne, and “thers is joy in heaven” among the angels of God over one sioner forgiven. It must be of vast importanes to be of any moment in heaven, your salvation in that land where gladness are the every day occurrence, in that land where the common of the fleld are nsper and em id and chrysoprasus and carouncis and sardonyx Ani yet the news of your salvation makes before the thr of Cro, Having found 1m my own experience that is religion is a comiort and a joy, | stand yamend it to In the days of infancy 1 was carried by Caristian ps rents to the house of God and cons ated in baptism to the Father, and the Soa, and the Holy Ghost, but that did not save me time [ wax taught to kneel iristian family altar with father ther and brothers and sisters this mos but tha ms with ths yal is af vas $2310) 3 i Thos is your stones ny es i here t yon, mv is in aut th nnd ani rerted.” and all t sronind my father’s household not sve me. Dulone day Christ came into my hears . FE ove ™ offer of re OPilevs, merece, ani tH Was JOovV in heaven py verily believa heart t Goad th heaven the gz adder ra Wor for the dead the an that reponteth ™ yznt yon © the x 1, twenty, fit prayve il bain now vou say, “iean't p “AS rod be merciful to me, 8 slaaer? “I can’ say that.” Then y ths throne Of erey’ il yin SFY int De 3 Bin one sinnes tie Lord who bx ih SUrren oe ie FOU Say, you not look w« vou sav, ‘I ean't look up. C not give signal that which given by the lad in the hospdial? He vs i and suffering and dying, and wan speedily to go away from all saffaring pain, and he said to his comrades in the | pital, “it ie strange to me that Jesus dosen't see me when He goes throagh hers nig and takes others to Himself He goes through here and He acest seems. | must be asleep and He dosen't kgow | want to go “Now, 1 tell you how I'l¥ arrange it. I'l #0 to sieep with my hands up, and then when Jesus comes through the pospital by night He will see my hand jifte:, and He will know that | want to go with Him.” Seo it was done. For that night Jesus went through the hospital and took the suffering iad, and ths next morning the nurs: passing through the wards of the hospital saw a dead hand lifted braced on one side against the pitlow, and the left hand holling the elbow of tae right arm. Jesus had seen the signal and answered it, Ob, siek soul, wounded soul, dying soul, cans: thou not give sone signal? Wilt tuou not lift one hand or one prayer God grant that this day there may OTE like over your soul forgiven! The Counterfeiting Business, Speaking of counterfeit money, a detective sald that there was very lit. tie of it in circulation these days. He sald: “The time was ten years ago when a man received a counterfeit bill on an average of once a week. Itis rare of money runs across a counterfeit bill Most of the ex- pert counterfeiters are in prison, and have little chance to work. talent in the counterfeiting line is bee tection are so numerous and eertain his abilities in other directions. Now and then a clever counterfeit ap- pears, but the secret service men run it down so quickly that it does not a, currency factory of their own. silver pieces carried on, but the work is 80 base that it rarely gets into gen eral elreulution, only the ignorant people being deceived by it. Couns terfeiting will be one of the lost arte THE LAND OF THIRST, a A Featura of the Great American Desert in California, The most fatally famous part of the Great American Desert is Death Valley, fu Californin. There is on nll the globe no other spot more forbidding, more desolate, more deadly. It isa concen tration of the horrors of that hideous area; and it has a bitter history. of the most interesting und graphic stories 1 over listened to was that related to me, several years ago, by one of the survivorsof the famous Death Valley party of 1849 J. W. Brier, an aged Methodist clergyman now living in California. A party of five hundred emigrants started ou the last day of September, 1849, from the southern end of Utah to cross the desert to the, then new, mines of California. There were one hundred and five ean as-topped whole {he the Hev. wagons, drawn by sturdy oxen, beside which trudged the : rile in hand, while canvas awnings rode the women children. short ti there + division of opinion as to the proper route shaggy men, the and under In a mo wns neross that pathless waste in front; and ; next day five wagons und their peopl went east to reach Santas Fe there wore dim Mexican trails to Los Au , and the rest plung ad The party whi Fe ed Californian December, after vast safforings larger company traveled in « whienco peices Lo into KF this way of suante Gly desert, went his renc { wnfort for about tthe ¥ entered Phirst und for more than lost in that 1 a few davs until they ched where Pieche now is he the Land of three of horror It was rit months wander to furrowed ndoned almost imp warons through a country with: cations s they soon their vehicles, the rrr ied on to ogg They nk 5, Cl packing what thes Won backs of the oxen glittering y to find them deadly poison, of but a mirage on barren sands Now andl then no woe i ounfains gave them new og. 2 the Young men w by dar ho separated 1s bed i stuiwart ar I ih Vi Jost HBINes, reached ‘ the other wore fot Hang were y ind many or Blaisdell and hi Death Valley The valley its name ix about one miles at its southern end northern Iti fuiaow thie i Arey where r to too weak to hs he whole A Covel ‘ jay. R Niate polioe-in periment sot where had been for fifteen urawing the dreds tt contnined a ber he thy] ¥ king aovster an inch otf in size. It i= said the location, k Ha Kott's Point Sand, was once a thris r bed, destroved about of shells, and attached to each was 4 more OW % ing ovel but was TUS = whi i came here to buy for planting The bed had not OTH years, and it is said that if other ovster grounds in the ( waapeanke Ray fifteen years ago to s IY purposes been disturbed for : ia period, results will follow are let alone for a similar same favorable { Baltimore San A Beautiful Island Plantation, Jose ph JoeHeorson's plantation in New Iberia, Louisiana, where Mr. Cleveland rocenily passed a brief o iting, i=, from winter homes in the South, The planta- the scented with the fragrance of every variety of tropical Hower, while wild fowl abound and the waters are alive house remodelled mo the stele of an Ital ian villa and furnished in great laxory, It commands a superb view from the hill Gulf beyond. — [Harper's Weekly. “According to Gunter,** The plirase ‘ ‘According to Gunter’ ro. mains our lnigange as a perpetual memory of Gunter, the English mathe. matician, who was born in 1581 and died Almost to the present time the works of Gunter were considered stun. dard. 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