> HUNTING SEA OTTERS. ! One of the Most Valuable of Fars— Keen Marksmenship and Great) Perseverance Necessary 10 Success. | It ayven not generally known, of is a fact among the residents State of Washington. that off the coast along the ede of the | Pacifie Ocean, and almost in the shadow 4 of the majestic Olympio range of moun tains, is found, in numbers now rivalling the product of the Aleutian Islands, the much-prized sea otter, an animal which furnishes the most expensive far known to the commercial world. The sea otter fur requires no dyeing to fit it for use, like the seal fur, and in its natural state it is worth ten or twenty times the figure that the sealskin sells for. It is not usually made into cloaks or sacques, be- cause too heavy, as well as too expensive, | to suit the tastes many, and it is so rare that the fur is not often seen except | as trimming for garments made of skin. [tis very interesting to see the man ner in which the highly prized sea olters are secured hereon the Wash- | ington If it were an easy task to get a i sea otter there would no longer be any of them lef in these waters, for they have been hunted here for twenty vears by white men and a hundred or more by the Indians. The Indians hunt the a otter from long, heavy canoes, in which | they go out through the surf, and, cruis. ing along a mile or two, shoot the animal as he lies sleeping in the water, with only his head in sigl Ow - ing to his extremo wariness, it is hard to approach and difficult to hit the after it is found. Itis only after long wractice that an tho! of seul const ol St ar ‘spear animal noecustomed as ne is to the use of a is tor meet with any sur for it takes great skill to shoot or spear a oating ob- ject in a choppy sea from an uncertain canoe. Very often a hunter remainsout five or six day & without result. It i= not, however, the Indians who =e pure the there wot many natives left, and the pursuit is a hazardous one It is the white hunter, nr ‘Boston the Him. who has devised a fur vy in a canoe at sea. Indian, Canoe, able y ‘Coss at all, most sea otters, for ore mun,’ as Indians § 0 tt ROL risking hi Alonz this stretel Was the coveted thout s li beach fron Grav's Harb teranville, are seven or eich from huge skeleton p towers, that look she with ao rade box at the top hese i LOWErs are cal 41 a0 they are erecied a1 bro: Ter * being beach at o dist the water is only two or three feet deep From the hunters pie it is not unusual shoot and kill his game at a 1.000 vards. But tho are excellent riflemen are very bost hundred ti son good shots they must patience A al ter d 8 far out rs as practicabl tin Wasi 1 is smooth and AWav. : that sliioTe 80 nearly ines of 1,000 feet ks the # the wary sea otter Ws 0 dere i * t 1 aril nN iis thing izh these honters md their weapons the ine : otter, so dition to being possess unusaal In spite of the apparent lack the i © aon liveliness io sport is rh inte wots into it 8 Jldom abandons i In the locality that | have these derricks, formu feature of the 1 2 tered from two to | na mostatiracti ned fF who Cost yf these lookouts time. Un tall trees on the an y is bai a rock som cabin on p being rea ladder built of tied together. derricks on the sand down eo but they are easily reb great quantities of driftwood handy no lnck of standing timber within a rods of the breakers ors build a derric iis use A hese derric ke are f at the base arc thn one the poles a lade bailt, and the three poles are braced to gether by cross pices nailed on at dif. ferent points. Upon the top, or at the apex is built a box, nearly as high as a man's head, open atthe top and partially open at the side toward the sea. The ends of the poles are sawed off and =n board is nailed on top, making a seat for the hunter, who sits in this wind. pro. tected coop snd, with his rifle resting on SHOT piece Sarvore sto winter, tilt, as there ory nr { Sumy two b 'k together unl sl wrfy fent hig! twenty-four feet w » — i : OL Fae ier and watches for the game. He learns the habits of the sea otter, and can tell by the wind and the tide and the currents where to look for the first ap- pearance of the stubby little head abore the water Not one sea otter in a dozen sinks when it is killed by a bullet, and the next flood tide throws the carcass on the beach. When a number of hunters are shooting wach one marks his bullets, so that the owner may be known when the animal is found. The hunters have implicit faith in each other, and would not think of taking skins that did not belong to them. The ans going up and down the beach are employed by somo of the hunters to ok out for their expected carcasses. If they find the dead animals easily they are allowed a small sum, bnough to pay them well for their time and labor. If, for some reason, an ani. mal that has been shot fails to come in when or where it is expected, and a whole day has gone by in fruitless search, then the Indian who finds it is given 210; two days after the Indian gets #30 for bring- ing it in, and if a week slipses from the time the hunter shoots a son otter to the time it is found he gives half its value to the Indian, for he has then nearly de. spaired of ever seeing it. A full grown sen otter is from four to five feet long and perhaps a foot or more wide. When a hunter secures one he foosens the hide from the nose and head, and, without cutting it lengthwise at all, he pulls the skin down over the body, the hide being so elas:ic that this is not a difficult job. It is then stretched over a smooth six and one-half feet long, nine inches wide at one end and ten at the other end. Each end of this board in to a point. Another board etactly the samo size is then inserted, LH] i : » and the skin is stretched a foot or eigh-! inches longer than its oniginal A third board half the length of the others, is wedged in and the skin | lightly tacked at the ends to hold it in place. If any flesh adheres to the skin it is then cut off, and the hide is cured end dried in this condition. In a few days it 1s taken of of the boards and turned fur side out, whon it is ready for the market. The most valuable fur darkest color. fur with long is that of the A rich, nearly jet black silver hairs scattered such pelts bring the hunter from $150 The clear black comes next in value, and the brown is the cheapest of Theso | prices do not indicate the true value of | the skins, for the locality is u long dis- | any kind from this out-of-the-way beach. A skin that the hunter sells for 2150 y the time it goes through several hands and reach- es a good market.—[Nan Francisco Tha explanation 18 ns follows: A corpse is nothing more than inert matter. unde the immedinte control of physical lnws which cause all liquids Leated to a cer tain temperature to become steam; the epidermis was ruised, the blister pro. duced, it breaks with a little noise and Bat if, in spite of appearances, there is any remnant of life, the organic mechanism continues to be governed by physiological laws and the blister will contain serous matter, as in the case of any ordinary burns. The test is as simple as the proof is conclu give, Dry blister: death, Liquid blis ter: life. Anyone may try it; there is no error possible. (Public Opinion, THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. Nervous Heapacag The simplest remedy known for nervous headache is # pinch of salt taken on the tongue und allowed to dissolve slowly, tol lowed in about ten minutes with n drink of water. Salt,in its puro state, has virtues not to be scoroed because the humblest Resovixag Insects roy tee Ean, Snake Dance of the Mogui Indians in the Southwest, The place where the daneo is held is a small open court, with the three-story houses crowding it on the west, and the brink of the elitf bounding it on the east At the south end of the court stands the sacred Dauvce rock-—a pillar about fourteen feet high, loft by water wearing upon the rock oor of the mesa's natural top Midway from this to the north end of the court has been constructed the koes} branches, its + + cottonwood bry iis on 81, or sacred booth of opening closed i » front fn cur. in shallow cavity has been dug, snd then covered with a strong and ancient plank with a tt . Hoe In . 4 ain o st of one side, This covered cavity represents Shi-pa-pu, the Great Black Lake of Tears —a name sacred that few Indinns will speak it aloud whence, according to the eo f southwestern first came (hi the dn wy ¥ snmon belief of all Indians, the human race v of the dance the Captain we Suake-men places all the snakes ina larg: tl in the other active participants bs Al their their m rion . » i an ie | MALY, and deposits this i oth i are sti room, going through 1% preparations Just he fore invariable time the danc \t now {hrdor wom in a moment 1 announces the eo of th i iin in the ppety hop the next Snake forth a snake from the is joined by the nest Ante- lope-man as a partner; an mtil the Snaike.mon i deadly snake oN draws « Bnd each of in his mou number of Antelope-men are ac ing them the dancers hop in pairs thus from the the Dance.rock. thenes north, and cirele toward the booth again When they reach a certain point, which comp.etes about , three quariers of the CFC ench booth to Spnake-man gives his head a sharp snap to the right. and thereby throws hi« snake to the rock Hoor of the court, the ring of dancers, nnd dances on to the booth again, to estract a fresh snake and make another round. Phere three more Antelope.-men than Suake men. and these three have no partners in the dance, and are intrusted with the doty of gathering up the sunkes thus set free and putting them back into The snakes some. imes run n ticklish affair for those jammed upon the brink of the precipice In case they run, the three official gatherers snatch’ them ap without ado: but if they coil and show fight, these Antelope-non tickle them with the snake-whips until they uneoil and try to glide away, amd then seize them with the rapidity of lightning. Froquently thes n-aage nre hands at once. The reptiles are as dondly tracted! —-[8:, Nicholas. A ———————— A Sare Sign of Death, Co BAO learning that some person has been buried alive, after assurances have been given of death. Under those circum. stances the opinion of a rising French physician upon the subject becomes of world-wide interest, for, since the tes s which have been in use for yoars have boen dund unreliable, no means should be left untried to prove beyond a doubt that life is actunily extinct before con. veying our loved ones to the grave. Dr. Martinot asserts that an unfailing test may be made by producing a blister on the hand or foot of the body by hold. ing the flame of a candle to the same for a few scconds, ar until the blister is formed, which will always occur. If the blister. contains any fluid it is evidence of life, nnd the plinatoniy that produced by an ordinary burn. If, on the con. trary, the blister contains only steam, it may bo asserted that tife is extinet. into the external auditory canal, Dr. directs, in Popular Science ar should be turned to a bright light, an endeavor being thus made to induce the in triuder to back out, in virtue of the attraction which the light has for these creatures, This falling, the car should be filled with sweet oil or glycerine which will Kill the insect by its breathing pores, and float it out. Sometim we syringe and warm wa y remove it, in Mus Are not at when hunting, blowing to ar directly thie moutn wi and pro- it will Kill the and insects which may enter the ear. untonce f it occluding | generally however, ter are CASES WwW hand, as bacco smoke te “ e frow the stem being placed tected from or stupefy Nnecess<n by the hand Carwiy Excessive Muscvran DEVELOPMENT When great muscular strength or agility follos s wake ofphysical exercise these sh regarded as ntical and entirely su body which Toexerel DOdina fXere ie 10 he 150 § the los ench 1.000 Lat {is number the 1 prop are Iw United States of the records of the that in 1880 this Of each 100,000 where NOW RO0 of old people, in to the total popaiat found living iu the An examination « tenth consus shows was in New England white persons there were then living and over 20 years old iu Connecticut cin Maive, 1.147 ; in Massachuseits #00: in New Hampshire, 1478; Ir Bhode Island, 827, and in Vermont 1,22 These are higher figures than are shown for any other State, In New York the corresponding proper. tion was : in Pennsylvania, 411 in Maryland. 347, and in Delaware, 400, In Ohio it was 412; in ladiana, 251; in Illinois, 215; in Iowa, 218; in Mich igan, 319; in Minnesota, 139, in Ken. tucky, 238, in Tennessee, M7 :in Vig srinia, 501; in North Carolina, 607; in South Caroling, 441; in Florida, 204 ; 401: in Alabama, 341; in Mississippi, 245; in Louisiana, 161, and in Texas, 111. ‘In Montana it was only 27; in Nevada, 36 in Wyo- ming, 35; in Idaho, 40: in; Dakotas, 67 nn Arizona, 53. and in Colorado, 81, Life ix shorter in the South than in the North, and in the flat, low-lying grounds than among the hills and mountains, WT, Vu 3 B® ile. AROUND THE A s—— Cut fresh or hot bread with a warm kuife and it will not be sodden, HOUSE, If any nickel-plated article becomes oil or srease for a few days. Then rub briskly with smmionia. This will re. move the rust, When dry, polish with whiting or tripoli. To remove the odor from any glass vial, fill it with clear cold water, and Jet it stand in an airy place uncorked for three days, change the water every day, and the odor will depart, To get a broken cork out of a bottle tim a long loop in a bit of twine and put it foto the bottle. Hold the bottle 80 as to bring the broken cork up pear to the lower part of the neck, eateh tin the loop so as to hold it stationary, and then either pull it up with the twine or use a corkscrew, gL OD ABA MB S30 HO The oldest li naval officer in the world is Com re Honry Bruce, of the United States Navy. He is 00. | | cons RE V. DR. TALMAGE | day Sermon. Bubject: “Evils of Idleness.” Texr: “The slothful man roasteth sof that whieh he took in hunting”——Frov- eros xii, +o “ iy David and Jeremiah and Ezokel and Micah end Bolomon of the text showed that some time they had been out on a hunting ex- pedition, Spears, lances, swords and nets were employed inthis service. A deep pit- f2ll would be digzed. In the center of it there was some raised ground with a pole on which alamb would be fastened, and the wild beast not seeing the pitfall, but only seeing the lamb wonld plunge for its prey and dash down, itself captured. Birds wera cauzht in gins or pierced with arrows. The bunters in olden time had two missions — one to clear the land of ferocious beasts, and the other to obtain meat for themselves and their families, The occupation ani habit of hunters ars a favorite Bible simile. David said he was hunted by his enemy Jike a par- tridge upon the mountain. My text n bunting scone A sportsman arrayed in a garb appropri ate to the wild chase leis slip the bloo | tairsty bounds from their kennels, and mounting bis fleet horse, with a hallo» and | the yell of the greyhound pack they are off and away, throuzh brake and dell, over marsh and INOOr, ACTroSds CASSIE Wher: a misstep would hurl horses and rider to death, plunging into mire up to the haunches or in. | to swift streams up to the bit, till the gam» | is tracked by dripping foam and blood, and the antlers crack oun the and the hunier has just time to be in at the death Yet, after all the haste and peril of the | chase, my text represents this sporisman as being too indolent to dras the game and prepare it for food, He lets lie in the | deoryard of his home and becom a p for vermin and beaks of prey. Thu: by master stroke lsriness, wien be say roasteth not tual whic tu The most have the game shot or entrapped coo (od the mime evening | or the next day, but not so with this laggard of the text inzy to rip off ths h Too lazy to kindle the fire and put the gry iron on Lhe coals. The first ple graving of Thorwaidsen's is POCiE, it one Solomon siothiul 0% in hunting, “The he of bunters ide, d. Tox ’ Dotirht was an on Autumn,” 1 ever ture homesiead, and toe returned hounds, p ing from the chase, are lyiog on the doorsiil and the hunter is unssouldering the while the housewife abost to sake =» portion of it and prepare it for the evening meni 1 nlike the person of text was enough industrious at which had been taken in hunting. Bat the world has had many a spaimen snes n time of those whose lnssitude and improv dence and alsurdity were depicted in my text The most of made a dead failure of life and wheti A opened, bu id not They fas Wise a { rallways ce he re pu i the aut $3 fo rossi th POLO " those who back riunity “an great £nnw 3% ys Goon wok td Linn Rienhen «a, when at WV eS Aan ApDoint ninng Ted Gol gives n nt en % oat nade man lo “Hat nerai Oh go 1 Oppo tunity was mel Dv a 2 if ¥ ou want Jdand If you waht seod I will soo that vou gel it nae in idleness people an oppori depressed circumstar fn us a hateed mace those animals fish appar isatheome n le those which are fleot bas clothed with fhe tortoise. the unity » tn al are our As if indolence bas sug eyes, act ive wicca altractives the mil, 1D short h 8 Cron and the fleet. and birds © set © we Lhe thoy are n oer sme fron vd 4 3 imerable gold « Besides all this the the vies of the idler ond all buman instr th it. tho ous Ling order Lu setae 10 shen * f he = from hws d Ww the assertion, “i i be on of Iaziness [ knew a man sdefied impossible engagemes p rises] the train take on the habits of EARIWATYTE TOO Row He had a lethargy iol be did not seem responsible. No iondolence olen aries from the patursl temperament i do not know but there is a constitutional tendency to this vies in every man, However active YOM may ger erally be have vou not on some tee JEes who ver ug it a him 10 mee was 10 Le Marte walcth owner, and constitutional His eel 10 its we for wi on you, although you may have shaken it off as you would a reptile But powerfully tempted to this by their bodily constitution that all the work of their has been mplished with this letharzy hanging on their back or treading on their hesis You sometimes behold it in childhood The child moping and longing within doors while his brothers and sisters are at play, or are and beaten iu every game muscles, his bones are smilten with palsy, © He vegetates rather than lives, creeps rather than walks, yawns rather than treathes I'he anima! in bis naturs is stronger than the intellectual. He is erally n great he cannot digest what he has eaten. It re uthers to run. Languor and drowsiness are his natural inheritance. He ie built for a slow sailing vesse'!, a heavy bulk and an mn- sufficient culwal.a Piace an active man in such a bodiiy structure and the latter would be shacken to pieces in ons day. Every law of physiology demands that ne be supine, . Bucha one is not responsible for this poweriul tendency o. hiz nature. His great duty is resistance. When 1 see a man fighting an unfortunate teraperament all my sympathies are aroused, and | think of Victor Hugo's account of a scene on a warship, where, in the midst of a storm at ses, a great cannon got loose, and it was crashing This way and that and would have destroved tne ship, and the chief gun- per, at the almost certain destruction of his own life, rushed at it with a bandspike to thrust between the spokes of the wheel of the rolling cannon, and by a fortunate leverage arrested the gun till it could be lsshed fast, Bot that struggle did not seem so dishearten. ing as that man ewers upon who atiempts to fight his natural temperament, whether it be too fast of too slow, 100 BErvous or too lymphatic. God help him, for God only can, Furthermore, indolence is o'ten the result of circumstances, Hough e in earlier Jile sooms to be necessary to make a man active and enterprising. Mountaineers are nearly always swarthy, and those who have toiled among mountains of troutle get the most nerve and muscle and brain. Those who have become the as. costly Ja may do well enough on the smooth, glassy bay, but cannot live an hour amid a chopped sea, Another cause of indolencs couragement, There are those around us who started life with the most sanguine expectation, Their enterprises excited the remark of all compeers. But some sudden i and overwhelming misfortune met them, | | is severs dis and henceforth they have been inactive, Trouble, instead of making them more de- termined, have overthrown them. They have lost all self-reliance. They imagine that all men and all occurrences are against them They bang their heads when ones they | walked upright. They never look you up in the eves. hey becoms misanthropic ani sronouncs all men liars ani scouadrals, Chey go melancholic and thraaibars wo ter graves, You cannot rouse them to action by the most glittering offer, 1 In most cases thes persons nave been hon orable and upright all their lives, for rozues nevar get discouraged, as thers is always some o her plot they have not laid and some other trap they have not sorainz. Thera are | but few sadder sights than a man of talent and tact and undoubtel capacity giving up life as a failure, lize a line of maznifizant steamers rottinz azainst wharves, from | which they ouzht to have heen carrying tae | exports of a nation, Every great flospcial | panic pro luce a large cropof suvh men, in the great establishments where they were pariners in businss they ars now weighers or draymen or cleris on small sziary, Reverie is alsh a causes of tndolente. There are multitudes of men who ex sect to achieve great suc in ile, who are entirely un- physical. moral o Dave a great mas ifhsy are all the something to turn up. ‘hey have read in lizot literature how men siiddenly and unexpectslly cams w large or foun ia pot of burisd gol l at the the rainbow of Good Lua had great off sr mate then, They have passed their lives in reverie Notwithstanding he is pinchasl with erty, and any ctaes man would bs downs at the forlorn prososcs, he is always cheer. fu! and sanguine ani jovia he doss n he may bs within a day or two of astounding suc as You cannot but be entertaineg | with his caesriulness of tem All the word him wall, for he r aid anyoo At ast he dies in SA T6 ( when be jive must ignve fhe ong-thougn! ssf 11! itis wit og 4 They eloquen®, tasories of Jif wile “Xin ng “4, OF pov- for ot wishes new arm ust the in he only because Abt ran OH De pC Lt noy revarie hard something Indolence bad luck. about on No with 8 Deal Cage was “Better motiier While be with one way that lifetime is ‘Wait a i“ nou! sin sm ppiishe § Do not in idleness ex pect turn up, It WICES Deas wars 0 will ra down, Av8 make 16 of reverie are aiways hey say, “Wait a child who had sa nw peo i in the ittle.™ Me containin . and the gow of the open and a cat was in the room shut the door of thy cage, “Wait a minute” sald the waiting the feline sprog the sald the LOY. creature took BOArY 1 many loses the ong s of mans profits { in » Fars my ora the ex i Lear Bios ted nr pliovers i neaght OoCAsionn wasnt) Nome of the best workmen and most skill ful artisans have this 100 je sonducting themaelves, but as tae time rolis on the se: dissipation becom mors protracted and the setson of steadiness and sobriety more limited, until the employer: becomes di steed and the re up tos 0 tinual and ruinous When that : bas arrived he festruction itn astonishing velocity. When a man strong prociivities of appstite has noth ing to do, no formes ¢ moral od can aint man who son of % 160 ors 11ienen: rushe 2a] given nt wr the hessec] a yment PMIGAY isan Was realion Bor emp re an De in wis and the entirely There are many men who protracted | i They ols mstan ad, for SeR 8 ol ta ble and uncontrolabie dues dienes, and habits, The probability pars of ¥oml 24 st es Ki them intra habits pro- prodoces bad that you will Wen a idiones is or elas give your occupation. Bin will all sothusasm out of your word and make yousick of life's drudgery, and though up pations you may rouse up to a sudden i Be activity and start again in toe chass of the game you will sink back into slothiuiness before you have ruastad that which you took fn hunting. Bad habits uafit a man for any thing but politics Now, what are the results of indolence® A marked consequence of this vice is physica The vealthiness of the whole natu upon activity The in endless cironits scattering the ists {rom ths mountains, and scooping out death damp: from the caves and blasting the missma of swamps, and hurling back the feud atinosphere of groat cities, are healthy just because of their world depends after awhile, the wind falls and the it, and when the leaves are sill and the grain flel is bend not once all day long, then pestilence smites its All the bealtay beauty of that whica wo goe and hear in the natural world is depend ent upon activity and unrest, Men will be healthy —intellectually, morally and physi industry. | know moan dis every day ol over. © work. They drop down in coal pits and among the spindies of Northern factories, and on the cotton plantations of the South. In every city and town and village you find men groaning under burdens as, in the East, the camels stagger wnder their loads between Aleppo and Damascus. Life is crushad out every day at counters and workbenches and anvils. But there are other multitudes who die from mers inertia. Induigences every 3 g disease beyond the catholicon of allopathy and homeopathy and | hydropathy and eclecticism. Rather than work they rush upon lanosts and soaipeis, Nature has provided for thus) wao violate | her laws by inactivity —~what rheum for the | eyes, and what gout for the fest, and what | curvature for the spine, and what strictures for the chest, and what tubercles for the ha and what rheumatism for ths muscles, and what seuralgias for the nerves. Nature | such culprit at her exertion it demands, and would not have their children enter any employment whers their hands may be soiled, forgetting that a laborer's overalls are just as honorable as a priest's robesan! an anvil i= just as re- Health flies from the bel of down snd says. “I cannot sleep hers." and from the table spread with ptarmiges and epicurean viands, saving, “I cannot eat here” and from the vehicle of soft cushions and easy sorings, mying, “1 ride hers; and from houses warme! and upholelerad, say- ing, “1 eannot Live here” il sons day you walking in the plows furrow, or Furthermore the notics that jndolence en- Batan makes his chief who either have noth- ing 10 do, or, il they have, refuse to dn it Thera is a legeni that St. Thomas years Christ's resurrection, began again to doubt, and he went 10 the Asosties and told them about his doubts. Each Aoostle looked at him with surpriss and then said be must be excused, for he ha 1 no time to listen aay lonzer. Toen 8t. Thomas went to the de- his time and expresssd his They said they were sorry, but they had no time to Jisten Theu Bt Thomas concluded that it was because they wers so busy that the Avosties snd tae de vout women had no doubts ldiensss not only leads a man into ass. ciations which harm his nforals, but often thrusts upon him the worst kind of skep- ticistn, loalers are almost always infidels, or fast getting tv be. Consummaste idlers never read the Bible, and if they appear in church can be distinzuished in an andienss of a thousand by toelr listlessness, for they are inzy hesr., It is not so much among occupied merchants, industrious me- chanics and professional men always busy vou hear the religion of Jesus maiizned, asin public lounging places, given up to profanity and dissoluteness. They have no sympathy with the Book that says, “Let him that stools steal no more; bul rather jet him labor. working with his bands the thing which is good, that he may have 10 give to him wnat nesdeth sou Loo to I never knew a man given upto thorough idleness that was couverted., Simon and Andrew were converted while fishing, and Liydia while selling purple, and the shepherds of Bethlehem watching their flocks heard the voices of angels, and Gideon was thrash. thrashing floor, but no one was mverted with bis hands in his pockets Lot me tell the idler that there is no hops for him either in this world or in ths word whica is ne, If the Son of Gad, who owned the whnols universe, worked in the carpenter shop of Joseph, surely we, who own so little, yoi want so mucas, ought 10 be busy she redesmed in heaven are pever idie. What exciting sougs they sing! On what messages of love they fly through sll the universe, fulfilling God's high behests and taking worlds irsuit; rushing with infinite ferceness against sin and crusity and opps gn, and making the f hell ¢ the overthrow of and in the An pack to Mies with the ol nners re- The River of Life is ever Sowing, ever wa s hallelu- ever sound- the golden of salva- ought you ing on the ever « tO oo 0 one © Jn gute weipalities of dar same twinkie of thet THOME, reer Ln {4 30 Lh pa rg GL Bn iri eT an Ip Ai rsng. MIDIe BIiWaYs “aw YNTS, © th ot ¥44 you UDaeEs that in this world there loungers and so few into the vineyard of the groan under faerarers BO MALY We EO and we hear the art of ths vines and the clusters hang- avn, large and thick and ripe, ciuster jaster, iairer than the buaches of | and Engedi, and at a tou~h they will wine more ruddy than that of and Heibon. But wheres are the the vintage and tread the There comes to yYOUr ear a sound of a thousand wheat fields ready for the wi The grain is ready. Itis tall it i olden. It waves in the sunlight It would the s EATDOTS After mildew and the turn ato Libanus men to gather Wine Dress die “oi sad ri tO bind the sol are mar- glitter of their busk- sar the pawing of their chargers, ng the line of battie is heard the net great capt , ani at the the living God th huri their de- fancy They « not in numbers like the { Ssaunacherio, but their iititude is the leavesof the forest. ani the sound of * voices like toe thuasder of th: soa Matied in hell's impenetrable armor, they advances with the waving of their banners and tae dancing of plumes. Their ranks ars not easily to broken, for the batter jes of bell will open to help them and ten thousand angels of darkness mingie in toe fight, Where are the chosen few who will throw themseives into the jaws of this sii or » King James gav: to Sir John Scott, for his courage. a charter of arms with a num- ber of spears for toe crest and the moltbo “Peady! ave, ready! and yet, when oRiis us to the work and the cause demands our espousal and mterests dreadful as the ju igment and solemn as eternity tremble in woe balance, how few of us are willing to throw ourssives into ths breach, crying, “Ready! aye, ready ™ Uh, 1 should like to ses Gol arise for the defense of His own cause and the disenthral- ent of a world in bondage! How the fet- ters would snap and bow toe darkness would fiy, and bow heaven would sing. You have never seen an army like that which God shall gather from the four winds of heaven to fight His battles. They shall cover every hilitop and stretch through every valley and man the vessels on every sea. There shall neither be uproar nor wrath nor smoke nor bloodshed. Harvests shall not lie waste in the track nor cities be consumed. Instead of the groans of captives shall come the song of thos: redeemed. Yet the conquest shall be none the lems complete, for i in that hour when all should be vigilant the church of God shoud neglect to seize the prize and the cause should seem to fall from the graveyards and ceme. teries of ail Christendom the good and faith. ful of the past would ing to their fest in time to save the cause, ani though the sun might not again stand still above Gibeon, ar the moon in the valley of Ajalon, the day would be long enough to gain a decisive vic: tory for Goa and the truth but my text is descriptive also of those rabbit they lim ne esemies | on see the Arm He, hosts Hye 4 the ear bs oo for weeks uncooked in the dooryard. deer that they brought down after exhausting pursuit mn the an the doorsill undressed, and the savory venison becotes a malodorous carces. roast pot that which they took in hunting. Opportunities laborously captured, yot use less, and that which came in invitingly, liken a string of plover and quail dnd duck Sug oer 2 unter Aue sider, tarns to some. i i HH] sai
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