El — r —————————— REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Sublect: “Mavtime Thoughts” Tex: Sclomon's Song {v,, 15. Bome of the finest gardens of olden times the top of the mountain. Then when the warm spring weather came the snows melted «nd poured down the side of the mountain, the foot, and you see now the allusion of my dens and streams from Lebanon. and it is a figure specially suggestive at this season of the year, when the parks and the orchards are about to put forth their blossom and the air is filled with bird voices, after the ground had been garden, she took a handful of flower seeds and scattered these seeds in shape of letters all acrossthe bed of the garden. Weeks passed by, and the rains and the sunshine had snd said, ‘Mother, come quickly to the gar- den--come now.” The mother followed th “Look here, mother. See! It is spelled all aver the ground in flowers, ‘God is Love.'"” Oh, my friends, if we only had faith rough we could see Gospel lessons all sround and about us—lessons in shells on the beach, lessons in sparkles on the wave, all over the earth, there have treated, some ro been beautiful gardens There wus the garden of Charle- ordered gardens laid out all through realm and decided by decree of government what kind of flowers should be planted in those gardens. Henry IV. at Montpellier fecreed that there should be flowers planted iroughout his realmn and gardens laid out, and he specially decreed that there should ba Alpine pyrana and French plants. Shen- stone, the poet, was more celebrated for his gardens than for his poetry. His poetry pas faded from the ages for the most part, sat his gardens are immortal, To all the beauty of his piace he added perfection of art. Palisade and arch and arbor and fountain and rustic temple had nost wonderful specimens, and the osk, and the hazel, and the richest woods of ta lorest were planted in that garden, He had renius, and he had industry, and all his gen- us and all his industry he applied to the seautification of that garden. He gave tor t £1500, and he sold it at last for 85.000, or what was equal to that number of dollars, it was an expensive garden, Iaid out with reat elaboration. And yet I haveto tell you wow of a garden of vaster expanse-—-the Kar. len spoken of in my text—a fountain of gare dens with the streams from Lebanon, Walter Scott had the great ambition of his life to Build Abbotsford and lay out extensive gardens round about it. It Lroke his heart that he could not completes the work as he fesired it, At his last payment of £100,000, after laying out these gardens and building that palace of Abbotsford, at that time his heart broke, his health falled, and he died almost an imbecile, A few years ago, when I walked through those gardens and I thought at what vast ex pense they had been laid out—at the expense of that man's lifo—it seemed I could see in the crimson flowers the blood of the old man's broken heart. But I bave to tell you now of a garden laid out st vaster expense, Who can calculate that vast expense? Tell me, ye women who watehed Him hang ; tell me, ye exacutioners who lifted and let Him down ; tell me, thou sun that didst hide and this garden cost. This moming, amid the aroma and brightness of the springtime, it 1» of Christ is a garden. I remark fiest it is a garden becacse cf the rare plants in it. That would be a strange garden in which there were no flowers, If you cannot find them anywhere else, you will find them along the paths, and you will find them at the gateway. If there be no es taste and no ea postal means, you will find there the holly. k, and the daffodil, and the dahlia 1 there be no cial taste and no especial means, you will find the Mexican cactus, and the bluebell, and the arbutus, and the clus sary of oleanders, owers there must be in ev den, and I have to tell -y a church are you will find the violet, inconspicuous, but sweet as heaven Christian souls with no pre. tense, but of vast usefulness, comparatively unknown on auth but to be glorious in celestial spheres, Violets and violets all the time. You eannot tell where these Christians have been save by the brightening face of the invalid, or the steaming tureen of the stand near the sick pillow, or the new curtain that keeps out the glare of te sun from the poor man's cot. Such characters are per ter typified by the manunculus whic & man has thought that life before him was a path can cactus, loveliness within, thorns with. out, men with great of behavior and manner, but within them the peace of They are hard men to handle, ugl touch, very apt to strike back wh and attraction, while outside so completely unfortunate. Mexiean cactus all the time, Said a placid elder to a Christian minister, temper.” “Ah” said the minister to the placid elder, “1 control more temper in five minutes than you do in five years.” These people, gifted men, who have great exaspers- tion of manner and seem to be very different from what they should be, really have in their souls that which commends them to the Lord. Mexican cactus all the time, So a man said to me yearsago ‘Do you think I ought to become a member of the church? 1 have such a violent temper, “Yesterday XI was crossing Jersey City ferry. It was very early in the morning, snd 1 saw a milkman putting a large quantity of water into his can, and I sald ‘That is enough, sir,” and he got off the eart and in- ited me, and I knocked him down, Well,” said he, “do you think I could ever become a Christian?” That man had in his soul the ws of the Lord Jesus, but outside he was il of thorns, and full of brambles, and full of exasperations, but he could not hear the etory of a Baviours m told without hav. ing the tears roll down his cheek, There was loveliness within, but roughoess outside, Mexican cactus all the time, But I remember in boyhood that we had in out iathers garden what we ailled the Sant Battle, a peculiar rose, very very flery, Suggestive flower, it was called the Giant of Battle, And so {n the garden of the ford we find that kind of flower—the Pauls Martin Luthory , the Wyelifs, the John of Christ at this time?’ I answer you another, “Why have battle, They the snowdrop 18 very pure—pure ae the snowdrop, beautiful as the snowdrop and as cold as the snowdrop. No special sympathy, That kind of man never loses | his patience; he never weeps, he never | lashes with anger: he never utters a rush | word. Always cold, always precise, nlways | passive—beautiful snowdrop, but 1 don’t lke | fm I would rather have one Giant of Bat- | tie than 5000 snowdrops, Give me a man who may make some mis. takes in his ardor for the Lord's service | rather than that kind of natere which spends | {ts whole life in doing but one thing. and | that i8 keeping equilibrium. There are snow- drops in all the churches—men without any sympathy, Very good; they are in the i ayn of the Lord; therafore (I know they | ought to be there, but always snowdrops. century plant. Ido not suppose there is a person in this house who has ever seen more | than one century plant in full hioom, and when you see the century plant your emo- | tions are stirred, You look at it and say, “This flower has been gathering up its beauty | for a whole century, and it will not bloom | again for another hundred years,” Well, I tury Ic ages of eternity, and 19 centuries ago ft pw forth its glory. plant. * Christ, a crimson flower, blood at the root Jesus, the century plant of eternity. Comes, south, and winds from the east, this flower through all Nations, Tits worth, if all the Nations knew, fare the whole earth would love Him too, Thou, the Christ of all the ages, hast gar- sia cut of the ivory palaces. * wo further and say the church of Christ is appropriately compared to a garden be- cause of its thorough irrigation, here be i water, desert amid the Rocky mountains “How is it possible you have 80 flowers, so much rich fruit, in a desert for miles around?” seen those gardens, ‘ell, they told me they hills, and the snows Nevada and the Rocky mountains and then and it kept the flelds in great luxurianoce. And I thought to myself—how like the gar- den of Christ! All around it the barrenness of sin and the barrenness of the world, but our eyes are eometn our help. There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of our God, the fountain of gardens and streams from Lebanon. Water to slake the thirst, water to refresh the fainting, water to wash the unclean, water to toss up in fountains see the rainbow around the throne, I wandered in a garden of Brazilian cashew nut, and I saw the luxuriance of those gare dens was helped by the abundant supply of water. I came to it on a day wher strangers were not admitted, but by a strange coined. dence, at the moment 1 got in, the king's chariot passed, and the gardener went up on the hill and turned on the water, and it came flashing down the broad stairs of stone until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tum- bled at my feet, And so it is with this garden of Lhirist. Everything oomes from above pardon from above, peace from above, com- fort from above, sanctification from above, Streams from Lebanon, Oh, the consolation in this thought! Would God that the gardens ers turned on the fountain of salvation until the place where we sit and stand might become Elim with twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees, But 1 hear His sound at the garden gate, 1 hear the lifting of the latch of the gate, Who comes there? It is the Gardener, who passes in through the garden gate. He comes through this path of the garden. and He comes to the aged man, and He says. “OM man, I come to help thew; I come to strengthen thee, Down to hoary hairs I will shelter thee : I will give thee strength at the time of old age. I will not leave; I will never forsake thee. Peace, broken hearted old man ; I will be thy consolation forever.” And then Christ, the Gardener, comes up another path of the garden, and He sees a soul in great trouble, and he says, ‘‘Hush, troubled spirit ; the sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night; the Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, the Lord | shall preserve thy soul.” And then the Car. dener comes up another path of the garden, and He comes where there are some beautiful buds, and I say, “Stop, O Gardener ; do not broak them off.” Bat He breaks them off, the beautiful bude, and I see a great Sutter doing, and He saysr'l do not coms to destroy these flowers. 1 am only gulag to i plant them in a higher terrace in the garden arcund My pal ace. 1 have come into My garden to gather lilies. I must take back a whole cluster of rosebuds., Peace, troubled soul ; ali shall be i well. Suffer the little children to come unto | Me and forbid them not, for of such is the | kingdom of heaven.” Oh, glorious Gardener ! of the church! Christ comes to it now, and He has a right to come. We look . see of the Gardener as He breaks off the bud, and we say - ‘Thou art worthy to have them, | Thy will be done.” The hardest prayer a bereaved father or mother ever uttered “Thy will be done.” But you have noticed that around every king's garden there is a high wall. Youmas have stood at the wall of a king's court an thought, “How I would lke to see that ga - den” and while you were watching the equipage swept through it, and you esught | & glim for then the gates closed. 1 bless God that this garden of Christ has may come in, satisfaction which they can never find’ | all nations laugh while be was living. And midst of his revelry he caught a glimpse of | his own face and his own apparel in the mirror, sald: “That is true | And so it was with Shenstone about his #seTINONn., | my way to bapjénens ; I am frantic; I hate | everything; I myself as & mad man ought to.” Alas, so many in the gardens of this world are looking for that flowsr they Substantial comfort will nol grow in natare’s barren soul Ali we can boast Lil Ourisl we know 1s vanity snd toll. How many have tried all the fountains of this world’s How many have re ! i i POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, ———— Bes or tae Pacivic OcEAN,—8cien. tists say that if the bed of the Pacifie Ocean could be seen it would disclose to view several mountains, with truncated tops scattered over it. These mountaing would be perfectly bare at their bases and all around their tops they would be covered with beautiful vegetation of coral polypi. Aut Harpexs 1x A Secoxp.—A sec ond is the smallest division of time ip general use, and when we consider that in one year there are about 31,565%,000 of these periods it would certainly seem as if it was small enough for all practical purposes. But, after all, a good deal can happen even in the fraction of a second, A light wave, for instance, passes through a distance of about 185,00) miles in this length of time. A current of electricity has probably an even greater speed. The our in itself moves in its orbit at a rate of about 20 miles a second thus far exceeding the fastest railroad trains on its surface. A tuning fork of the French standard vibrates 870 times per second to produce the note A on the treble staff. —{ Popular Science News, Srorace oF Hear.—We commented some time ago on the use of water for storing the heat of exhaust steam from non-condensing engines where the steam is used for dye-tubs which are operated intermittently. The use of water fors similar purpose has recently been sug gested by Dr. Druit Halpin, and referred to in a lecture by Prof, Unwin, of Lon don, for electric-power stations and other plants where the work is of an ex tremely varying character, and the pro sed system possesses novel features ” most electric stations the boiler ca pacity must be sich as to supply the de mand for steam waen the maximuu amount of current is being generated aoc the time which this lasts bears but @ small proportion to the total time i which the plant is in operation. The av erage work for the whole time is far be low the maximum noted. A single boiler | might possibly be sufficient to supply the steam for a large portion of the time while for the short period referred to it might require three aud four boilers 4 do the During much of the time the are either worked at an extremely low rate of capacity yr the fires in a portion of the boilers banked, snd under it stances the steam is gen of fuel, which the prop wed to ercome + suggestion is to employ only a suffi number boilers r AV OrRY of the day, and in connection therewill a large st i der a pressure nsiderably higher that of the steam supplied to the The i 1 heating the water contained in the age tank, and the steam this water would be the steam emp in the work. When more gired at the engines than of the work. boilers 4 by pesmi ATE thes ov made ent senting the sage tank conte ing water un gines boilers would De used generated sleatn was re heat supplied by the boil i J tan pressure in the storage the heat stored Inrge water would be called upon, and a sufll cient amount would be re-evaporated t supply the demand. When the required a less supply than the Lollers furnished, the heat would the storage tank and the pressure would gradually rise The large body of water | would by this means store and restore heat drive the engines, and the boliers would thus | pnabled to work at a uniform and | onomical rate. We do not understand | that this system has been subjected to » | practical test. It possesses interesting | features, and it is hoped that it may be | put to trial —{ Engineering Record. in the engines | : S cumuaiste i iiternately he required to Tricks of Memory. “A man never realizes how mach ol everything is stored up in the humar mind until he begins to draw on it for a continuous period of time,” said Marvin Temple. *‘‘And these two things come | back to one when entirely forgotten, and | one really imagines that now here is | something new and original until one | learns better, This is especially true | with old songs. Airs that at one lime | filled in moments of loneliness and gloom, but with 100 other little details have long since passed out of mind, return One stops and wonders at the beauty of | them, and not having heard them be. fore, according to memory, one takes | eredit for originality. I did this once One morning | awoke with something pretty running through my brain. framed in my mind a jingle, and I could | hear it just as plain, but to save me I | could not give it sound. Finally, after fretting about an hour and having com. pleted my toilet, [ sat down before the fire and began to rock. “Then all at once the power came, and I hummed my new air over and over again with extreme delight. Visiting an old chum that evening, I brought up the subject of music. Then I whistled my new tune and asked him if he did not think it pretty. ‘llike that tune espe cially because my sister, who has been dead some 13 years, sang it for me when I was still a schoolboy.’ I eyed him with astonishment. ‘You never heard that before,” 1 said. ‘Why that’s origi- nal.’ ‘Original nothing,” came the re. joinder; ‘I've got the piece in my trunk.’ And, sure enough, after rummaging through a great stock of useless treasure he produced a faded piece of sheet mu. sie—my very tune, and with words to it. Then I gave myself up to reflection, and eventually recalled the song as 1 bad known it years before.”—(St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The B lue Book. There are something like 20,000 clerks in Washington, and the number increases every year. The Blue Book, which con. taine their pames, holds as much type as a dictionary, and it gives every salary in the government service. Blue k is for private circalation, Fach Benator and each Re tative has two, and there is one in the hands of each govern. ment official. Aside from these, there are only about 2,000 extra ospies printed, Tie book is one of the costliest volumes in existence. It costs over $16,000 to set the type, and it would take a good typesetter ton years to set it. Danjel Lambert, the fattest man evo known, weighed 789 pounds, - ® Horned Cattie of the United miaies, The greatest number of horned enttle i of all kinde ‘n one State is 7,279,218, | wand are in Texans, The next Jorg: st | body of cattle is fonnd in Towns, which | has 8,000,484, Five Biates have each | pver 2,000,000 head, Kansas leads | with 2,685,815; Missouri, 2,666,793; | Hlinois, 2,681,815; New York, 2,924,- | 914 and Nebraske with 2,081,27] head. Eight States and one Territory | have over 1,000,000 head. Pennsyl- | canis has 1,781,848; Indiens, 1,725, 149; Ohio, 1,618,247; Wisconsin, i 1,686,045; Minner “ta, 1,210,846 ; | Montana, 1,072,646; Arkansas, 1,000,- 141: California, 1,215,651 and New | Mexico with 1,267,987. The following fourteen States and one Territory have | each less than 1,000,000 and more | than 500,000 head of cattle: Virginia, | 686,348: North Carolina, 654,710; Georgia, 899,615; Florids, 594 281 ; | Alabama, 750,099; Mississippi, 720,- | 689: Tennessee, 530,164; Kentucky, | 767.566: Michigan, 927,204; South | Dakota, 613,000; Wyoming, 792.7568 ; Colorado, 893,688; Oregon, BBS, 203 ; | Washington, 581,217 and Arizonn w ith | £889,081, The following thirteen States | HOO, 000 and more than 100,000 head of | horned cattle: Maine, 819,151; New| Hampshire, 218,508; Vermont, 399, 578: Mussachusetts , 274,607; Con-| necticut, 280,991 ; New Jersey, 260,776; Maryland, 268,850; South Carolins, 850,109; Louisiana, 467,287; West | Virginia, 467,607; North Dakota, ! 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