The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's San.
day Sermon.
Subject: * Religion's Refuge”
Text: “A adodly eedar, and under it
shall dwell all Fowl of every wing." — Eze
kiel xvii. 23,
The cedar of Lebanon ‘is a royal tree. It
stands six thousand feeet above the level of
the ses. A missionary counted the concen.
tric circles and found one tree thirty-five
hundred years old — long root:d, broad
branches, all the year in luxuriant foliage.
The same branches that bent in the hurr.
cane that David saw sweeping over Leb-
anon, rock to-day over the head the
American traveler. This monarch of the
forest, with its leafy flugers, plucks the hon-
ors of a thousand years and sprinkles them
upon its own uplifted brow, as though some
great hallelujah of heaven had been planted
upon Lebanon and it were rising up with all
its long armed strength to take hold of the
hills whence it came,
Oh, what a fine p.ace for birds to nest inl
In hot days they come thither—the eagle,
the dove, the swallow, the sparrow and the
raven. Thereis to many of us a complete
fascination in the structure and habits of
birds. They seem not more o! earth than
heaven—ever vacillating between the two.
No wonder that Audubon, with his gun,
tramped through all of the American fur-
ests in search of new specimens. Geologists
have spent years in finding the track o. a
bird's claw in the new red sandstone. There
is enough of God's architecture in a snipes
bill or a grouss's foot to confouna all the
universities, Musicians bave, with clefs and
bars tried to catch the sound of the nightin-
gale aud robin. Among the first things that
a child notices is a swallow at the eaves, and
grandfather go's out with a handful
crumbs to feed the snow birds,
The Bible is full of ornithological
sions. The birds of the Bible are not dead
and stuffed, like those of the museum, but
living birds, with fluttering wings ant pla-
mage, “Behold the fowls of ths air”
Christ. “Though thou exalt thyseir as the
eagle, and though thou set thy nest among
the stars, thence will I bring thee down.”
exclaims Obadiab. “Gavest Thou the goodly
wings unto the peacock” says Job, David
describes bis desolation by saviag, “lam
like a pelican of tha wilderness; [I am like
an owl of the desert: | watch and am
sparrow alone upon the housstop.” “Yea,
the stork in the heaven knowetli her ap-
pointed time; and the turtle, and the crane,
and the swaliow observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the judg-
ment of the Lord" —so says Jeremiab,
Ezekiel in my text intimates that Christ
is the cedar, and the people from all quar-
ters are the birds that lodge among the
branches. “It shall be a goouiy cedar, and
under it shall dwell all fowi of every wing.”
As in Ezekiel's time, now—{"hrist is a
goodly cedar and to Him are flying all kinds
of peopie—young and old, rich and poor,
men high soaring as ths eagle, those
as the raven, and thoss gentlo as th
“All fowl of every wing "
First, the young may come. Of the sigh.
teen hundred and ninety-two years that
have passed since Christ came, about six-
teen hundred have been wasted by the good
in misdirected efforts. Until Robert Raikes
came there was no organized effort for sav.
ing the young. We spend all our streagth
trying to bend old trees, when a little pr
ure would have beea sufficient for the )
ling. We let men go down to the very bot-
tom of sin before we try to lift them us, It
is a great deal easier to keep a train on
the track than to g ton when itis off,
The experienced reinsman checks the flery
steed at the first jump, for n he gets in
full swing, the swilt hoo! 1z fire from
the pavement and the bit betwean his teeth,
his mot irras.stibie
It is said that the young must
to sow their “‘wild oats” |
that those who sow their wild
try to raise any other kind
are two opposite distin
to heaven, you had
road, and not try to;
New Orleans, What is
this muititade of young
to-day? I will ta
show you }
whine atx
but come,
wants vou,
od
music, His smile
no handcuffs «
your feet, no
1 went thr
have ever kn
cheek on the piilo
on the casement,
not lost its laste
all arcund ¢ ba
Her mother could not
pearer to her than sith
was frantic with griaf,
how do you ; sh
happy! Mr
folks that r in
As I came « i the ro }
the sobs and wailings of grief, I
clear, swest, glad ve tae dying
“(ood nizht; we shall n again
other side of tae river The next Sabbath
we buriedber We broucht w
and laid them on the ooilia
all that crowded church bat one really happy
and delighted face, and that was the {ace of
Fanny. Oh, I wish thas now my Lord Jesus
would go through this audience and take sil
these flowers of youta and gariand thea: on
His brow. The cedar isa fit refuge for biras
of brizhtest pilamarze and swiltest wing,
See, they fly! they flyl “All fowl of every
winz.”’
Again, I remark that theold may come,
You say, “Suppose 8 man has to go on
-
Lv
of
allu-
ERY
wo
tierce
a dove,
a cli
nium is
eT te
Talmage,
or than ali
heard
Hea ol girs,
5 the
on
i “
a flowers
Thera was in
deal; suppose that nine-teaths of his life has
been wasted.” Then answer: Come with
crutches, Come, old men, blind and dea’,
come to Jesus, If you would sweep vour
hand around before yoar blind eyes, the fires
thing you would touch would be the cross.
It is hard for an azel man or we nan to hava
grown old without religion. There taste is
gone, The peach and ths grape have lost
their flavor,
does not taste as it used to, Their bearing
gots defective, and they miss a great
that is said in their presence,
Their friends have all gone and evervhody
seems 80 strangs, The world seems to go
away from them and they are left all alone.
They bezin to feel in the way when vou
come into the room wheres they ars, and they
move their chair nervodsly and say, “I hose
1am not in the way.” Alas! toast rather ani
mother should ever bs in the way. When
you were sick and they sat up all night rock-
ing you, singing to you, administering to
you, did they think shat you were in the
way? Are you tired ol the old peopie? Do
you soap them up quick and sharp? You
will be cursed to the bone for your ingrat..
tude and unkindness!
On, how many dear old folks Jesus has
put to sleep! How sweetly He bas closad
their eyes! How gently folded their arms!
How He has put His hand on their silent
hearts and said: “Rest now, tired pilgrim.
It is all over, tears will never start
again. Hush! bush™ So He gives His be
loved sleep. 1 think the most beautifui ob
on earth is an old Caristing-—the hair
white, not with ths frosts of winter, but the
blossoms of the treo of life, I never fesl
sorry for a Christian old man, Whe feel
sorry for those upon whom tae glories of
the eternal world are about to burst? The
are going to the goodiy cedar. Thoug
Shair Wikies Are hea wih eid God shall
rene strength like , and t
shall make their nest i The edar, -
$wwi of every wing.”
Again the very the out
tinful, may come. Men talk of the
point to our own cass and “if God
us He can save anybody.” There RT
thoss here who never had one earnest word
said to them about their souls. Consider
me us putting my hand ou your shouller
and looking in your eye. (God has been good
toyou. You ask, “How do you know
that! He has been very hard on me”
“Where did you come from? “Home"
“Then you have a home, Have vou ever
thanked God for your home! Have you
children? “Yes ‘Have vou ever thanked
Who keeps them
Were you ever sick?’ “Yes” ‘Who
Have you been feed every
Put your hand oa
it throb? Liston
to the respiration oJ your lungs, \Vho heips
you to breaths? Have you a Bible in ths
house, spreading baiore yon tha future life?
Who gave you that Bible’
Oh, it has been « story of goodness and
merey all the way through. You have been
Who fondled you
Who feeds yon?
Who makes
you went astray and wanted to come back,
did He ever refuse? I know of a father who,
after his son came back the fourth time,
said, No: I forgave you three times, but 1
will never forgive you again.” Aud the
But God takes back
His children the thousandth time as cheer.
fully as the first, As easily as with my
handkerchief I strike the dust off a book,
Again, ali the dying will fiat their nr « in
this goodly cedar, It is cruel to destroy a
bird's nest, but death doss not hesitate to
destroy one, There was a beautiful nest in
the next street, Loviugly the parents
brooded over it. There were two or three
little robins in the nest, The scarlet fever
thrust its hands into the nest, and the bivds
are gone, Oaoly those are safe who have
their nests in the geo ily cedar. They have
over them “the feathers of the Almighty.”
Ob, to have those soft, wara, eternal wings
stretoched over us! Let the storms beat and
the branches of the cedar toss on the wind
no danger. When a storm comes, you can
see the birds flying to the woods, E&re the
storm of death comes down, let us fly to the
goodly cedar.
Of what great varieties heaven will be
made up. There come men who once were
bard and eruel and desperate in wickedness,
yet now, soft and changad by grace, taey
come into glory, “All fowl of every wing.”
And here they come, the children who wera
reared in loving home circles flocking through
the gates of life, “All fowl of every wing.”
These are white and came from northern
homes: these were black and ascended trom
southern plantations ; these Were copper
wed and went un Indi
tions —""All fowl
gathers them wu: aston ¢ bow
easy it is for a good soul to enter heaven,
A prominent man in Philadelphia
went home one ¢ sraoon, lay down o
lounge and said: tis times for
He was very aged His dat
him, “Are you sicx™ H
] said
is time for ms to go
onl from AN FOSErvas
No God
is
Ousinsss
ae
$
Have John pu. it
two of the morning papers, that my frien is
may know that I am gone. Good-by;” and
as quick as that God had taken him
It is to go when the tine comes
There are no ropes thrown out to pull us
ashore; there are no ladders let down to null
us up. ww and takes us by the
hand and says, * 1 have bad enough of
nigher.” Do vou hurt a lily
when you pluck i Is there any rudences
when Jesus touches the chesk, and the red
ross of health whitens into the lily of im-
moral purity and gladness?
When autumn comes and the giant of the
woods smites his anvil and the leafy sparks
fly on the autumnal gale, then th will be
thousands of birds gatoeriang ie tres at
the « or of fled, jus leparting
to warmer climes and will call and
sing until the branc with tl
melody, There is a better
by and by we shall migrats,
the branches of tae i
aration for deoar
voice in the opan
them 1n the ©
bad, volees happy,
every wing "
If all th
will ha, | soe th
have had it hh
Nome were brill
easy
t
+
Christ ¢
tals; come uo
the
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of is save ld
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of won
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China's Universal Pig.
First is
3
popaiar «
. Whit
He,
the {6 tls and,
tor
Ton
yestie
Or
She, sleeps in
the ho “a
i18¢ is too si
this lis
fa THOR
luxery, in ing
Te Cogn TOR
FRIREIET als
er
' the
Hen interested
Nhe litters twice
the
and sent to the market and the
ure or kept for breeding
The pig is fed at every meal
the rest of the day it for.
itwell in the streets, fields, drains
At low tide hundreds
ouring seaweed, dead
jetsam the
a gather drift.
fungus and
centuries of training.
offspring moles are
: ing,
1
sold
purposes
of the family;
spas | )
snd on the beach.
ire olten seen
fish uw .d the flotsam and
The wife and childs
won, edible SON
or
dey
¢
LEY
sen
moss, sen
or bean, mushrooms and tree mushrooms,
aromatic leaves for flavoring purposes,
grass roots, cow dung and animal drop-
pings.
vegetables. In this manger a woman and
for a rainy day. Children four years of
age will bunt up the pig when he is lost,
lead the water buffalo or tend a herd of
sheep with almost the same success as a
grown man. They work jn the garden,
bring water from the wells, destroy
locusts, caterpillars and slugs, pull out
the weeds, and in every way show them.
selves excellent horticulturists in mina
ture. Washington Star.
Tur Italians, finding Argentine does
not welcome linmigrants from their coun.
try and the United States manifesting a
disposition to close its doors to them,
ure now spying out the ground in Aus
tralin with n view of ing that con.
tinent with Italy's surplus population.
Recout discussions in the Australian
press do not encourage the idea,
FACTS AND FIGURES OF A GREAT
NEW YORK INDUSTRY,
Hundreds of Tons of Frail and Gro.
coeries Dally Turned into Palat:
Tickling Piles, ~The Business.
New pie. So
like fond aro
150.000) pies disappear
orkoers
\
down over half a million throais eve
] in the year.
any
In New York alone there are
ry
twelve
facture of this commodity, and so great
is their that in year New
Yorkers 5,000 miles pie, and in
five yoenrs 10 muke a
bolt around the earth, if the pies were
laid sid: vy side in a straight line, Ifa
‘ top of the
1, HOw
output one
ent of
comsumoe enough
He on
other they would muke a tower
This
be worth over
be
would pale into iasigoificance.
and its weight would
of the earth at a single sitting,
In the establishments
which 1 visited it was surprising to note
ane o great
the rea
every branch Of
automatic precision with which
Dusiniess was con
is divided
Iu ono the
arried
prepared,
the
I'he entire building
ate depar
: is:
is
the
i Miss Cafirey,
Hnmaonse
quantity of dongh use
5 v
for this establish
With
He She Devs Be
WHO pares the appies
i i
EI Wonder
arts of the
malgamation takes
room where
on
whi
ig MW sid may be ony i nx thie
In the
and
wagon
Pend of the Dusiness
stables
many h
greasers and
are sigtv-five wagons ne
hostleras,
their da.
In all
F'o feed the
horses one month takes 1.500 bushels of
hay.
got to work at 2 o'clock in
the moraine, and the drivers leave
shortly after 4, and ma er their
routes by noon. They collect the money
and tara it in on their retura, credit be-
ing given to large houses only.
Piea havo their seasons of triamph
and defeat Jike overvihing colse, but
apple is always a standard. In Dacem.
ber, Janaary, and February mince pie is
monarch. Itisas jnare meal in itself,
irae, where
others each fulfill
£ whole
part of the great
tics ns 0 2
HK) persons are « nploy ed
oats and 200 bales of
All hands
COs
for the timid and brandy for the thirsty.
On the diy before last
company used ten tons of mince meat
for the Christmas trade. In March,
snd riaubarb,
August berry pies are largely in demand.
In the ed fullness of the year the
ublic taste yoarns for the luscious yel.
Fr pumpkin, and there is niso a brief
run on peach. All the
irregular digestion may suggest. {New
York Press,
The Iron Duke's Presonce of Mind.
EE ———
One day, as the Duke of Wellington
» “Your life.”
“Yes; I want to kill you.”
“Well, what do you want?
“My lio?”
the intruder
“Not at all, for I am Dionysius,” said
stranger; “and 1 mast put you to
death, ‘Are obliged to perform
this duty to-day?” asked the commander-
in-chiot; “*1 am vary busy just now, and
You
wave un large number of letters to write
It would be very inconvenient to-day?
The visitor looked hard fn
moment's paose, “Call again,” continued
the duke, “or write and make un uppaint
“You'll be ready?’ “Without
fuil,” the reply. The maniac,
awed, doubtless, by the stern old soldier,
baeked out of the rooin without further
words, and half an hour later was safe in
3 Argonaut.
during
mont,
was
dedlam
Only One Residence on Broad way.
From Bowling Green to Contral Park,
as Broadway rous, is a distance of nearly
Yet, in all this
distanee along the greatest thoroughfare
four and one-half miles
in America, there stands but one build-
ing which
family r
fsoelet
is distinctively and solely a
sidonce i the old
northeast coroner
refar to
homestead on the
h
of Broadway and Nineteoath street
Neveral vears azo there wus
old-time
down,
Hotel,
h ise,
i
residence on Broadway
nearly opposite the Unit
It was known the
But that has nt last passed away
Hoe
Ke
oid
ns Ulnlolosse
sland alton
aud the Goel
i Inst
stead
desolation !
in its he TORa oO)
summer,
, across Bros
th Lox i
4
Onposite
I'l it
Opmile
the
Nizht
enthor
3 Fr
FAIKS up and
down the the basiness section
ity and 2 1} his being t J
nt killers nt
work When he sees four black shadows
cut through and
hears the dying squeak he knows that
his self.imposed mission bas been for.
Inasmuch
as he has been killing rats in this fashion
for several years, it may readily be seen
that his record is up in the thousands.
He is a tall, powerfully.built man
middle age, and habitually wears a faded
black cap, the visor of which he pulls
down quite over his blue eyes, He takes
as much pride and enjoyvmout in his
work as his four assistants do in the ag.
gregate and vows that he will keep it up
until he has killed 100,00) of
dents. {Kansas Uity Times,
Of the ¢ 0
¥
fui « mtemplation af hs
swiftly the riness
warded somewhat to success
of
Inventor of the Grand Plano,
$100 Reward. $100.
| learn that there is at lenst one dreaded disense
{ that science has been able to cure inal] its
stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
| Cure isthe only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a cone
stitativnal disease, requires a constitutional
treatment.
terually, acting directly upon the Liood and
ucous surfaces of the system, thereby de.
ing the foundation of the disease and
the patient strength by ballding
Hution aid assisting nature in «
The proprietors La
its curative p re that
dred Dolinrs for an
Bend for f
¥.d
$F" Sold by Dr
Choss mate
lar in Englrud,
ve so much faith in
they offer One Huns
case that {1 falls 10 cure,
moninis, Address
Cnesey & Co, iuledo, O.
guiote, Ti
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1 t .
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i
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, shouid
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
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and refreshing to the taste, and acts
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itt many excellent qualities come
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gny substituta,
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Mus, Lenoy G, CoviLre,
tion believing it will interest many
sullering from Hheamatism,
(From the Chenango Union Norwich. N. ¥§
Mel enough, { lie nan 70 Co., Y. Y.
Dr. Kilmer, Binghamton, YX.
I had troubled for
years with that terrible disease Rueuma-
! a year ago, 1 was
N.
Kind Sir:- been
lism and last Spring,
7
or lar, Could not bear to have any one
ik across the re make any ‘noise
troubled with
completely
with the
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Was
ikness and
1 had doctored
also
wns
[ was
4 single
complaints,
I had taken
1 now believe
ana re
God bles au snd yours,
Mrs
great respec
Leroy G. Coville.
ing testimonial was set up io this
riginal letter written by Mrs,
i 10 any
wma of this
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kins, an Englishman, the inventor of
for his instrament, which
1
Hawkins “portable grands” in 1800,
while visiting Phijadelphia,
“A very ingenious, modest
and poor young man in Hilde) phn has
invented one of the prettiest improve.
without a knock or announcement of any
i
for Monticel's, His strings are perpen.
stood before the commander.in-chief
with his hat on and a savage expression
of countenance. The
course, a little annoyed nt such an un.
ceremonious interruption, and, lookiog
up, he asked: “Who are you?” “lI am
ysius,” was the singular auswor.
i
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height to give his strings the same length
as in a grand pianoforte, and fixes the
scarcely gets out of tune at all, and then,
for the most part, the threo unisons are
tuned at once.”’—{ New Orleans Pica.
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