————————————— SA BEY. DR. TALMAGE. day Sermon. Subject: “Half a Planet.” } TexT: Deuteronomy iit., Ro God said to Moses in Bible times, and fc He said to Cristoforo Colombo, the son of a wool comber of Genos, more than four hundred yearsago. looking chiefly towar i the east, But while Columbus called after it was Latiniz»d, stood studying maps and examining globe: and reading cos. mography, God said to bim, “Lift up thine eves toward the west.” The fact was it must a ts scissors with one blade, like a sack on one side of a camel, needing a sack on ths other side to balances it. world with no bridegroom, I donot wonder that Columbus was not satisfied with half a world, and so went to work to find the other half, The pieces of carved wood that were floated to the shores of Europe by a wasteriy gale, and two dead human faces, unlike anvthing he had seen before, likewise floated from the west, wera to him the voice of God saying, “Lift up thine eyes toward the west.” Old navigators said to younz Columbus, ‘It can't be done.” The republic of Genoa said, “It can't be done.” Alphonso V, said, “It can’t be done.” A comm ttee on mari- time affairs, to whom the subject was sub. mitted, declared, ‘It can’t be dona,” Vene. tians said, *'It can't be done After awhile the story of this poor but ambitious Colum- bus reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and she pays eighty dollars to buy him a decant suit of clothes, so that he may be fit to ap- pear before loyaity The interview in the palace was ful. Money enouzh was borrowed to fit out the expedition. There they are, the threes ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain. If you ask me which bave been the most famous boats of the world, | would, say, first Noah's ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat: sec- ond, the boat of buirushes, in which Moses floated the Nile: thir !, the Mayflower, that nut out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim Fathers, and now theses thres vessels that on this the Friday morning, August 3, 1492 are rocking on the ripples, There is the Santa Maria, only ninety fest long, with four masts ani eight anclors, ‘The captain walking the dec’t is fifty-seven vears old, his hair white, for at thicty-live he was gray, and his face is round, his nose aquiline and his stature a little taller than the average. There are two doctors in this flset of ships and a few landsmnen, adventurers wao are ready to risk their necks in a wild expe. dition. There are en>uzh provisions for a year. ‘(Captain Colu nbus, where are you sailing for™ do not know.” ‘How lon before you will g»t there? *'I cannot say. “All ashore that are going!” is heard, anl those who wish to remain go to the laud, For sixteen days the wind is dead east and that pleas:s the captain becauswit blows them farther and farther away from the Eurupean coast ani farther on toward the shore ol another country, if there is any. To add interest to the voyage on the twentieth dav out a violent stora: sweeps the sea, and the Atlantic ocean trie: what it can do with the Santa Maria, the Vinla and the Nina. The mutinous crew woull nave killed Columbus had it not Leen foi the gen- eral opinion on shipboard that ne was th» only one that could take them back home in safety, The promise of a silk walstcoatand forty dollars in money to the man woo should first discover land appeasal them somewnat, but the indignation and blasphemy and threats of assassination must have been awlal, On Friday morning at 2 o'clock, just long enough after Thursday to make it sure that it was Friday, and so gives another blow at the world’s idea of unlucky days—on Fri. day morning. October 12, 149, a gun from the Vinta signaled “land ahead Then the ships lay to and the boats were lowered, and Captain Chr.stopher Columbus first stepped upon the shore amid the song birds and the air a surge of redolence anil took pos session in the name of the Father, aad the Son and the Holy Ghost, So the voyage that began with ths swra- ment ended with **Jloria in Excelsis Ds” From that day onward yeu say there can be nothing for Columbas but honors re wards, rapasodies, palaces and world wide applavse, No! nol! On his way back to Spain the ship was so wren~hed by the terpast and so threatenel with destruction that he wrote a brief account of his discov ery and put it in a cask and threw it over. board that the world might not lose the ad- vantage of his adventures. Honors awaited him on the beach but be undertool a se oni voyage, and with it came all maligning and persecution and denunciaJion and poverty. He was called a land grabber, « liar, a cheat, a fraud, a deciiver of Natioas, Speculators roubei hia of his good name, courtiers depreciated his discoveries, and there came to him ruined health and im- prisonment and caains, of which he said while he rattled thom on his wrists, *'l will wear them as a mement) of the grati- tude of princes.” Amid k2en appreciation of the world's abuss and cruelty, and with body writhing in the tortures of gout, he groaned out his last words, “In manus tuas Domine commendo spiritum meun” ~*fnto Thy bands, O Lord, 1 commend my spirit.” Of course he had regal obsequies, That is the way the world tries to atone for its mean treatment of great benefactors, First buried in the church of Santa Maria, Seven years afterward removed to Saville, Twen- ty-three years afterward removed to Ban Domingo. Finaay removed to Cuba, Four postmortem journeys irom fepuicher to sepulcher. What most impresses me in all that wonarous jife, which for the next twelve months we will be commemorating by ser- mon and song and military paraile and World's Fair and congress: of Nations, is something 1 have never heard stated, and that is that the discovery ol Americ: wasa religious discovery and in the name of Goo. Columbus, by the study of the proph. ecies, and by wnat Zechariah and Micah and David and Isiab bad said about the “ends of the earth,” was persuade | to gooutani find the “ends of the earth,” and be feit himeelt called by God to carry Christianity to thy “envls 01 the earth.” Atheisin has no right here; infidelity has no right here; vagabondis.n has no right here. And as God is pot apt to fail in any of His undertakings (at any rates | have naver heard of His having anything ty do within failure), America is gos to be Gospelizad, and from the Golden fornia to the Narrows of New York harvor, SOAS Le foot of Bouth America, from Bering straits land, A divine influence will yet sweap the cone tinent that will wake {aquity drop liks slacked lime, and mato the most bistant ine Adelity ducinre it was only fouling when it wa atheism announce that it always did be lieve in the God of Nations It would not do for our world in ite lost and ruined state to have communication with other worlde, Tt would il their morals, But wait until this world ix fully redeemed, as it will be, and then perbaos interstellar correspondence mav be opened, The great Italian navigator also impresses me with the idea that when one does a good thing he cavnot appreciate its ramifi- entions, To the moment of his death Co- Jumbus never knew that he had discovered Ameriea, but thought that Cuba was a part of Asia. He thonght the Island Hie paniola was the Oolir of Solomon, He thought he had only ovened a new way to old Asia. Had he known what North and Routh America were and are, and that he had found a country thres mi thousand wide, ten flew Jong, of seventeen miles Jong, million square miles and four times too much for mortal man to endure, He had no idea that the time would come intelligent Nations on the other side the sea for the most part of a year reciting his won- 1t tno’ centuries to reveal the When Manbattan Island was sold to the foreseen America, that now stands on it, Can a man who distributes tracts, or a teacher who instructs a clase, or a passerby who utters encourag- result? insignificant in your own eyes or in the eyes of others, touches worlds larzer the one Columbus discovere 1. important things? There are no unimoor- tant things, Infinity'is made up of infini- tesmals, After the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson, the Admira', went into a hospital an 1 halted at the bed of a woundel sailor wuo had loss his arm and sald, “Well, Jacs, what is ths matter with you?’ and the sailor revlied, “Lost my right arm, your honor,” and Nel- son looked down at his own empty slesve and said: “Well Jack, then vou and I are both spoiled for fisherman, Cheer up, my brava fellow!” and that sympathetic worl cheered the entire hospital, While studying the life of this Italian nav. while wo are diligently looking thing we find another, Columbus starcl to find India, but found Americas, Go and do your duty diligently asd prayeciuily, and if you do not find what you lookel you will find something better, Hargreaves, by the upsettinz of a ma. chines and the motion of its wheels while uo. pet, discoverel the spinning jenny. So, my friend, go on faithfully an! prompt'y witi your work, ant if you do not gat the sucess vou seek, and your plans upss, vou will get something jus as goo ian {i prrhaocs htt Another look at that caresr the ad. miral of ths Santa Maria persuy les me that it is not to be expected that this world will do 1ts bard workers fu'l jas ica. If any mn ouzht to have bem teeatad well from firss to last it was Co umbus He had his fauits, #t others depct them. fat a greater soul the esntures have nod promos, Thais continent ouziht to bhava bam Columbia, after tha her> wad covered it, or Isabelliana, after the who furoished the means for the tion. No. The worid did not do tice while he was alive, anl wav shoud it be exoected to do him justices after he was dead? Columbus in a dungeon! Wagoat a thought?! Columbus in irons! Whaat a spectacle! In one of the last letters which CoHlunbus sent to bis son, he wrota this lamsatation: “[ receive nothing of the revenues dus me. Ilive by borrowing. Little have I profit by twenty years of sarvics wita suc Tolls and perils, since at prewat [ do not own a roof in Spain, 1¢ 1 desira to oat or siesp, | have no recourse but the inn, andl for ths most times hive not wheraw thal to pay my bill,” Be not surprise], my hearar, it you suffer inju tics, [.»t us be suras that wa hava the right pilot, ani the right chart, and the righ captain and that we stars 1a tas rizat di~ rection. It will be to ev2i of us wh lov the Lord a voyage more woadarial for die covery than that waich Columbus tos Aye, fellow mariners, over the roigh sea of this life, through thy fogs and mists of earth, §2 you not already the outlina of the better country? Land ahead! Land ahead! Near. or and nearer wa come to heavenly waw age. Thorow out the p ants, and step asaors into the arms of your kindred, wao have been waiting and watching for the hour o your disembarkation. Tarouzh the ric graces of Christ, our Lord, may we all have such blissful arrivail for one on 104 of calle l dis. queen expe Li him jus On a Cattle Ranch. man the East a ranch comprising six ired thousand 1 how the inderstand he from on ACTes cattle range are He steers here, a by annot wandering at large over 1 tod tos the ected ogether SOPs ncn of and a single steer or i" { and hey disappear : 1 4 . #1 eyen as 1 ding might away at i But le problem to the ranch- the Hs tha ranch this is iperintendent of receives an order call one thousand head of cattle The breed of cattle the firm wants is grazing in a corner of the range fenced in by barbed wire, and marked pale-blue for convenience on a beau- tiful map blocked out in colors, like a patch-work quilt, which hangs in the superintendent's office. When the order is received he sends a Mexi- can on a pony to wll the men near that particular pale-blue pasture to round up a thousand head of cattle, and at the same time directs his su- perintendent to send in a few days as many cowboys to that pasture as are needed to “hold” a thousand head of cattle on the way to the railroad sta- tion The boys on the pasture, which we will suppose is ten miles square, will take ten of their number and five extra ponies apiece, which one man leads, and from one to another of which they shift their saddles as men do in polo, and go directly to the water tanks in the ten square miles of land. A cow will not often wander more than two and a half miles from water, and so with the water tank or a dammed canyon full of rain water as a rendezvous, the finding of the cattle is compara- tively easy, and ten men can round up a thousand head in a day or two. When they have them all together, the cowboys who are to drive them to the station have arrived and taken ing for of the firm and the superintendent of the ranch ride through the herd together, the fitness of any one or more of the attle, an outsider is called in, and his decision is final. The cattle are then driven onto the cars, and the ER — a — —— A Man with Three Wiwes. Tn Richafelder township, in Ohio, lives a man named Adam Roundy, who recently moved there with his wife and two other women, who, he sald, were his daughters, It finally became known to the neighbors that all three were Roundy's wives, Fie nally one explained matters and sald they were all much in love with him, and, being unable to agree which should marry him, determined to all three elope with him. They seem contented with their lot. Cremation In America. The advocates of cremation have that “dust is irrevocable, inevitable: that it: we nay say the mandate return to dust” is Since the the process Js delayed tne the living, cremation is a beneficent Its growth in Europes has been surprising, and Italy there are large numbers crema- tories, and in this country the preju- dice against the movement is de- creasing. It is only eleven years since the formation of the New York Cremation Society, the first institu- vion of the kind in the United States, und not until the year 1885 was the first operative crematory Iinaugu- rated, vet there are now in various parts of the States nearly a score of Yhese incinerators in more or gontinuous service. The number cremations which have been con- tiucted each year in one of these temples in Buffalo gives a falr idea of the progress which the sentiment in favor of this method maxing. During 1886 eight bodies were incin erated. and in each successive year to the end of 1891 the numbers were re- spectively, 15, 16, 23, 20 and 47. in this temple everything possible has been done to mitigate the sadness of the last ritual, The temple built dark-brown sandstone, tower in of 1 as of is is and its and deep slanting rool and surrounds chancel and det f of (uare fare covered with ivy v The arved by sloping lawns and nave are artistic: orated and the windows are o stained glass. Th place privately alter vice, and the the undertaker 10 lispo the family may dircet, or he left crematory. the “ely vear 1885 ALY rica ration funeral are geliver asnies he the “at ai formed after organization v I ioneer so has reduced the ince tl unward bodies, wit at one of their principal tempies follows: is of fire | The Process As CArried The furnace is of throughout and scparated distinct but similiar The body is placed in a chamber di rectly above that ir the foe is consumed. The toms of retorts are but the an ends are pierced with holes, throug! which the pas direct the flames are not proach it. The neat soon liberates cverything v the body and conducted through heated chamtl doriess and absolute into comparmet which solid, heated furnace while permitted to ap of the retort latile ir ions are NIgniy Si t ficress these and ndere 18 hoe they pass through the chimney forms their Jo the air The tin sluciog a body to what the person when nace it is about others The {1 six res egrest upon the : 4 y “ is a sol sainal Hel Used hours from a tcumperatur grees to CL, O00 Gel be ootained Swellings Fus The neek., or Gol. (re, caused mo terrible loving. and I spent an oi fo ou us S&mount for medicines, take ia and f ftir fo . fovy works swelling ver Mra. Digeiow, He BRE a Dreath with Pevieet Fase which 1 had tot done for years ot with Moaod's Saresapariiia snd am Permanently f ured.” Mas J. 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Let us send you an inter. esting book on CAREFUL LIV- ING; free, & Chemie Louth sth Avenue, SEB Commas Sorh tli THE BODY AND ITS HEALTIL Der sy Weram Doctor Pavy, per- wmps the highest authority on diet, says hat the average man in a state ute rest can live on sixtesn i a man doing ordinary light vork can live on twenty-three ounces, nd a man doing laborious work needs rom twenty-six and three-quarter sunces to thirty ounces, This is food of nhso in ounces of ood a day: se remembered that everything we eat sontains more or less water, so that from ‘orty-cight to sixty ounces to healthy existence, weording to the work in which a man is mgaged, Bir Lyon Playfair, another wthority, gives the following as all that s necessary for a healthy man to cat in a week. Three pounds of meat, with one wound of fat, two ordinary of read, one ounce of salt and five pints of nilk: or for the meat, five or six pounds f oatmeal may be substituted, of ordinary ‘aod Are Necessary laaves Tue Favrr ov OVEREATING It is, perhaps, true that most Americans eat too much, The person who eats much, vet s hungry and grows thin, is not suffering rom lack of food, but from lack of pow r to digest the food taken into the stom why, from waste should consult hi or an abnormal and NOrY one puts into his stomach more ood than is digested by but in many 1s08 a great deal of the mats LO pot do its full sh i We live by the oxidation finatism, bs prot Lato histo philos phic Tr. mineralogist, among brain-work intellectua brains of adult Seotchmen by Dr. Pea thers found some of which ranged ron Gloz. to 6! 3402. who wer: a Wy ar abounds hae superiority mere little to do Of 15% welghed very with ock wen ently of the artisan class; the occapatior being sailor, printer and tailor, resp tively, Turner reeords the case of a boy of fifteen whose 10 Ghoz Madness itself does not appear to be incompatible with big brains. Backnill record«< a male ¢ pile ¥ tic whose brain weiched 64% oz. just the weight of but in such cades as this it is considered that the con ditions point to an aver-growth of the rth tise of the brain, producing both tt} epileptic state and the great weigh The heaviest cord «1 female brain is momtionsd by Dr. | skae, the weight being 61 1-2 02. This was an asylum patient who hibored un Even idiocy, |! whica is generally characterized by small ness of brain, may be the mental state of large-brained i.divideals, Take lately | met with a male idiot, thirty. seven years | of age, whose brain weighed 60oz., and | Langdon Davis ohserved another male | idiot, aged twenty-two, whose brain weighed 50 1.202. At the other ex | treme, very low hrainoweights are only | consistent with idiocy. The very small est brain met with was that of a male | idiot, of twelve years of age which | weighed only 8 1-207. much less than | the average weight of the new-born male infant, which ie given by Dr. Bovd ne 11.6702. Other idiots are recorded with weights of from 1002. to 150m. The average weight of the brain of the adult male Earopaan is 49 to 59. bat, as has been seen, both sane and insane, may greatly exceed or fall below this withom any connection being possibly established between the size of their brain and their mental state. But it is definitely certain in the opinion of experts, that if even in the most uncultivated peoples the brain. weight falls below 800: , and in the most cultivated below 87ors, ur sa, the limit of intelligence is reached, ’ of three of them weighed Cuvier's: in A Difficulty Solved, mir Frederick Goldsmid tells amusing anecdote about the construc telegraph line from Bagdad, Minor, to the Persian heran, The frontier line between Turkey and Persia was so undeflnable that a tract of no less than seventeen miles of land over which the telegraph would have to be carried was in dis- pute, each of the two countries claim- ing the right wo its possession, Now, the engineering stores which our Government supplied to the Turkish Government differed to those supplied to the Persian Government. 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