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Subfeot: “Moses and Miriam on the Banks of the Red Sea” Texr “And Miriam, the prophetess the sis- ter of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels And Miriam answered them, ‘Sing ye lo the Lord, for He hath tri- loriously; the horse and his rider a - info the sea." —~Exodus xv, 20, 21. Sermonizers are naturally so busy in get- ting the Israclites safely through the parted dinarily given to what the Lord's people did after they got well up high and i on the beach. That was the beach of the Red sea, which is at its greatest width 200 miles and Why is the ad- jective “rod” used in describing this water? t is called the Red sea because the moun- seaweed and bas red soophyte and red coral. This sea was cut by the keels of Egyptian, Pheenician and Arabic shipping. insignificant pond or pan strument of music made out of a circular hoop, with of it, which made a jingling which hoop a piece of the knuckles of the performer. The Israelites, standing on the beach of hear the Israclitish men with their deep bass lively instruments, vousay, for religious ser- vice, the timbre! or tambourine. But [think into our religious services and drive out the dolorous and funereal, and the day may come when the timbrei will resume its place in the sanctuary. But that which occupied their victory. triumphed. They were free, hosts of Saladin at Azotus, than Bannockburn Beotland was set free; than when the Earl of Northumberiand was iriven back at Branham Moor, than when at the battle of Wakefield York was slain, than when at Bosworth Field Richard was left dead, than when the Athenians under Mil tiades at Marathon put the Persians to flight, for this victory of my text was gained with. out sword or eatapuit or spear. Tha weapon was a lifted and prostrated sea, “And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the with dances. And Miriam answered them Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day feels much oa Moses and Miriam did when they stood on Red sea alter their safe smergence from the waters, Hy the help of God and the generosity of our friends here and elsewhere our #140000 of floating church debt is forever gone, and this house, which, with the ground upon which I stands, represents $410,000, 1 this day recon- seorate to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost A stranger might ask how could this church get into delt to an amount that would build several large churches? My answer is, Waves of destruo- tion, stout as any that ever rolled across the led sea of my text, Examine all the pages of church history and all the pages of the worid s history and show me an organization, sacred or seoninr, that ever had to build three great stractures, two of them destroyed by fire. Take any of your biggest life insurance companies, or your biggest storehouses, or your biggest banks, or your biggest newspaper establish ments and let them have to build three times on the same foundation, and it would cost them a struggle if not demolition. My text speaks of the Red sea once crossed, but one Bad sea would not have so much overcome us. It was with us Had sec after Hed sen Three Red seas! Yet to-day, thanks be to God, we stand on the shore, and with organ and cornet in absence of a timbre] we chant “Sing ye unto the Lord, for He bath tri hath He thrown into the sec.” But why the great expense of this structure? My answer is the immensity of it and the firmness of it. It cost over $34 000 to dig the sellar before one stone was laid, reaching as the foundation does from street 10 street, and then the building of the house was oon- structed io a way, we are told by experienced builders who had nothing to do with #8, for durability of foundation and wall sdch as characterizes hardly any other building of this city. To the day of your death and mine, and for our children and grandchildren after gate of heaven, For me personally this is a time of gladness more than tongue or pen ortypeean ever tall For twenty-four years I had been building churches in Brooklyn and seeing them burn down until I felt I could endure the strain forever, 1 felt that my chief work was to But God" has interfered, and the way is clear, and I am here and expect to be here until my work on sarth is done, My thanks must be first to God and then to fon. and sometimes helped with self sacrifice that letters that have ave sold my bleyele and now send you the oung been led to send it to you,” writes a mother in Rhode Island. As a church we from this day make new departure, We will bh more instractive We will offer more faithful pray- ers. We will do better work in all - Clear the track for “Sing yo to the a hath He t 4 : i : il i i i lant note is the moment the last Israelite puts his foot on the sand on the parted inland ocean, Alas, that when God & mercies have such swift wings our praises should have such leaden feet ! Notice that Miriam's song ‘n my text had for its burden the overthrown cavalry, It was not so much the infantry or the men on foot over whose defeat she rejoiced with ringing timbrel, but over the men on horse- back the mounted troops! “The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” Tre. mendous arm of war is the cavalry ! Josephus says that in that host that crossed the Hed sen there were 50,000 cavalrymen, Epamin- ondas rode into battle with 5000 cavalrymen and Alexander with 7000, Marlborough do- winded on his cavalry for the triumph at Hlenheim. It was not alone the snow that despoiled the French armies in retreat from Moscow, but the mounted Cossacks, Cav- alrymen decided the battles of Leuthen and Leipsic and Winchester and Hanover Court House and Five Forks. Some of you may have been in the relentiess raids led on by Forrest or Chalmers or Morgan or Btuart of the southern side, or Pleasanton or Wilson or Kilpatrick or Bheridan of the northern side, battle. Hurricanes in stirrups are alrymen, No wonder that Miriam was chiefly grateful the cav- ————————. A—————————————————— Israelites down to midway the Hed sea, were unsaddied, unstirruped, unhorsed. And I have to tell you, O child of God, that ever, has at His disposal and under His com time and all eternity, face while I utter me to speak to you, “No weapon formed Don't throw away your tambourine, You will want it as THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. assertion seems to bi. borne out by recent investigations, viz., thst the average weight of the brn of a man has a definite relation to the climate in which found in cold than in warm countries, then come the Swedes, Germans, French and Italians, In the Arab, the head is found to be smaller than any of those named. From observations of the mulatto extending over a period of more thirty years, Dr. W. A. Dixon states that tuberculosis exists to an excessive race, high rate of mortality. He has found it {ie thrown into the ses.” 1 expect to have a good ough heaven, for the Bible says with you in Luke, sixth that weep now, for ye shall laugh.” We shall not spend all eternity psalm singing, but sometimes in review of the past, as Christ says, we shall laugh. Theres is nothing wrong in laughter, on what you laugh at, snd when you laugh, Nothing, # seems, will more thoroughly kindle our heavenly hilarities after we have inside the pearly gate than to ses how In is world we got scared at things which ought not to have frightened us at all, How often we work ourselves up into a stew about nothing! The Red ses bee ore may bé deep, and the Egyptian cavalry behind us may be well mounted, but if we hurt by the water than when in boyhood we rolled our garments to the knee and bare. foot ero 4d the meadow brook on the old homestead. The odds may seem to be all against you, but I guess it will be all right with you if you have God on your side and angelic kingdoms. “If God be for you, who ean be against you?" But let me criticise Miriam s fade much sooner, with the additional fact, mulatto breeding, practically all the children born are girls. Dr. Dixon re other races that human hybridity cannot be maintained without reversion or fresh supply from parental blood. The possi strumous diseases may be increased in the United States by the large mixture ing on—the immunity of the Jews and ug quite in point, of food, the digestibility on milk is de. clared to exceed that of all other ali vine service on the sandy beach, Why not take some other instrument? The harp as a sacred instrument. Why did she not wake that? The cymbal was a sacred Instrument, Why did she not take that? The trampet was 8 sacred instrument, Why did she not take that? Amid that great host there must have been musical lostruments more used in religious service, No. EBhe took that which she llked the best and on which she could best express her gratulation over a nation's resoue, first through the retreat of the waves of the Red sea, and then through the clap. ping of the hands of their destruction. Bo | withdraw my oriticiem of Miriam, Letevery one take her or his best mode of divine wor. ship and celebration, My idea of heaven is that #t is a place where we can do as we please and have everything we want Of course we will do nothing wrong and want nothing harmful How much of the material and physioal will finally make up the heavenly world | know not, but I think Gabriel will have his trumpet, and David his harp, and Handel his organ, and Thalberg his plano, and the great Norwegian performer his violin, and Miriam her timbrel, and as | cannot make music on any of them I think I will move around among all of them and listen. Bat there are our friends of the Beoteh Covenanter church who do not like musical instraments at all in divine worship, and they need not have them, What a day it will be when we stand on the beach of heaven and look back on the Bead sem of this world's sin and trouble and evlabirate the fact that we have got through and got over and got up, our sins and our troubles attempting to follow gone clear down Oh, erimson floods roll drown them, and drown them forever! over them and Mm am looking forward to eternal socialities, To be with God and never sin agsinst Him, To be with Christ and forever feel His love, To walk together in robes of white with those with whom on sarth we walked together In black miment of mourning. To gather up the brace them with no embarrassment, though all heaven be looking on. A mine in Scotland caved in and caught amid the rocks a young man who in a few days was to have been united in holy mar. riage. No one could get heart to tell his some one made ber believe that he had Fifty years passed on, one day the miners delving in the {ung man, which had all those years been ept from the air and looked just as it was the day of the ealamity, Strong, manly, noble youth, he sat there jooking as on the day he died. But no one recognized the silent form. After awhile they called the oldest inhab- ognize him. A woman with bent form and her hair snowy white with years came last, and looking upon the silent form that had been so completely preserved gave a bitter ery and fell into nlongswoon. It was the one to whom half a century before she was to have been wedded, looking then just as when in the days of their youth their affeo- tions had commingled. But the emotion of her soul was too great for mortal endurance, fore were to have joined hands in wedlock were at last married in the tomb, and side by side they wait for the resurrection. My friends, we shall come at last upon those of our loved ones who long ago haited in the journey of life, They will be as fair and beautifal--yea, fairer snd more beauti- ful than when we parted from them, I soe them now--the glorified-assembled for n celebration mightier and more jubilant than that on the banks of the Red sea, and from all lands and ages, on beach of light above beach of light, gallery above gallery and thrones above thrones, in ciroling v of Jo, 000 miles ¢ of surrounding ad uphegvel w standing before them on of mines mingled with fire” Michael, the arch. angel, with swinging scepter beats time the maultitudinous chorus, crying: * ! the Lord, fof He hath Sing! Bing to jiumphed r the horse and his rider Bath He thrown into the sea.” NAA Shakespeare In German, During the year 1802 twenty-four framas of Shakspeare were produced in Germany by 120 companies in 640 formances. Among them the Merchant of Venice” seemed to en- oy the greatest popularity with 77 performances, succeeded by “Hamlet” snd “Othello” with 76 and 71, and with 31 and 50, espectively. Corio. lanus” was only produced twice and *Henry 1V.” once. isto be found in It appears probable, M. Richet remarks, that milk contains seme principle not yet isolated by chemists, the action of which is very similar to that of pepsin, and adds its influence to that of the latter milk also supplying, at the same time, during this function, a certain amount of lactic acid which co-operates with the acid of the gastric juice. Further the milk of the cow is, during the function of digestion, precipitated in coarse clots of caseine, while that of woman and mares’ milk are precipitated in much easier to digest; hence the inappiica bility of cow's milk to the nutrition of very young children, and also the advan. tage of mares’ milk or asses’ milk for cases of dyspepsia in persons of delicate constitution. authorities agree that the mother’s can be replaced by nothing. Tae Cavess of IxvrLoEszAa. — There is an interesting contribution on this sub ject in the March number of the Zeits chrift fur Hygiene by Dr, R. Pleifler, of the Institute for Infections Diseases at Berlin. After describing the bacillus of influenza, the best methods of staining and the mauner in which he overcame the difficulties, hitherto insurmountable, in cultivating this enemy of mankind, ous investigations and points out the deductions to from them able soil, but no growth takes place at a (100.4 In water at ordinary tem peratures (60 degrees F.) the bseilius dies rapidly (in eight hours). Hence sputum, ete. clothing, ete. The bacillus posed to dry air at a temperature of 37 than than eight hours twenty. dried, was quite sterile thirty-four to forty hours. Pfeifer draws the following more never more Dr. the nose, whereas in cases of simple catarrh the secretion is almost sterile and certainly contains no bacterium to be mistaken for influenza bacillus. During the acute stage the bacillus is present in the expectoration in large numbers. It sometimes persists in it for weeks, or even months, thus explaining those cases of prolonged convalescence which have been noted especially among the tubercu- lous individuals. The general symptoms are to be regarded as the result of the absorbtion of influenza toxine. The ba- cillus may reach the pleura and there excite a pleuritis. No animal is known to be spontaneously affected by influenza. Guinea pigs are very susceptible to the influenza toxine, exhibiting symptoms of fever, dyspnoea, and extreme muscular weakness, strikingly resembling the olini- cal a yentancas n man, In conclusion, Dr. Pleiffer points out the importance of ventilation in all places where many people are assembled, such as the- schools and barracks, since every or sneeze expels infectious ma- terial into the air. He further suggests the use of disinfecting washes for the flove ud mouth wad the ininiation of wn. tise vapors, concludes ex. ng the hope that the knowledge of cause of this remarkable disease lead to the discovery of remedy. ~{ Lancet, Victoria's crown is worth $1, 200.000. = ' Of Importance to All Whe De Husiness, | Send a check or a postal or express money ore der for 88.75 to The Trade Co,, 200 Devonshire bt., Boston, and you will receive by prepaid express a copy of a handsomely printed and securely bound book telling you how to in. crease business; how to decorate your store windows; how to advertise in newspapers; about circulars, ecards and posters; the cost ! and use of engraving of every class, the ex. | pense of lithographs and their value: how to | produce effective billbeads, cards and other munagement of employes and everything per. taining: (0 business publicity —the only work Written by Nath'l Fowler, Jr., the ex. pert at business and advertieing, 516 large You take no Wanied to Amuse the Boys, George Butler, Canon of Winchester of Harrow. 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