REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Subject: * Lessons Learned From the Story of Ehud,” Text: “But when the children tle, a man eft handed." Judges iii., 15, Ehud was a ruler in Iarael, tribe of Benjamin, to which he belonged use of the left hand that the Bible says they could sling stones at a hair's broadth and not miss, Wall, there was a king of the name of Eglon who was an oppressor of Israel, imposed upon them a most outrageous tax, Ehud, the man of whom 1 first spoke, had a divine commission to destroy that oppressor, He came, pretending that he was going te pay the tax, and asked tosee King Eglon, He was told he was in the summer house, the place to which the king retired when it was too hot to sit in the palace. This summer house was a place surrounded by flowers and trees and springing fountains and warbling birds. to King Eglon that he had go secret errand with him, were waved out of the royal presence, King Eglon rises up to receive the messenger, Ehud, the left handed man, puts his left hand to his right side, pulls out a dagger and thrusts Eglon through until the haft went in after the blade, Eglon falls. Ehud comes forth to blow a trumpet of recruit amid the mountains of Ephraim, and a great host is marshaled, and proud Moab submits to the conqueror, and Israel is free. So, O Lord, let all Thy enemies perish! Bo, O Lord, let all Thy friends triumph! I learn first from this subject the power of left handed men. There are some men who by physical organization have much strength in their left hand as in their rig t hand, but there is something in the writing of this text which implies that Ehud had some defect in his right hand which com. elled him to use the left. Oh, the power of eft handed men! Genius is otten self obser. vant, careful of itself, not given to much toll, burning incense to its own aggrandizement, while many a man with no natural endow ments, actually defective in physical and mental organization, has an earnestness for the right, a patient indu 7, an all consum- ing perseverance whicl marvels for the kingdom of Christ, gh lel bh as Ehud, they can strike down a sin and imperial as Eglon. I have seen men of wealth gath them all their treas of a world lving ordering Lazarus their dogs, not to | him off their pres 1g all the pure rain of God's blessing into the stagnant, ropy, frog-inhabited poo he VY +1 fis} —right-handed Mm, w ¢ n while many a man with large heart and little purse has of his limited means made poverty leap for joy and started an influence that overspans the grave and will round and roan: » throne of Go without end, Ah, me, it is high time that vou left handed men who have been Ie for tl it and that eloquence and the other wealth should take your left hand out of your pook- et. Who made all these milroads? Whosst up all these cities? Who started all churches and schools and asylums? Who has done all the tugging and running and pulling? Men of no wonderful endowments, thousands of them acknowledging themselves to be leit handed, and yet they were earnest, and yet they were determined, and were triumpinant, But I do not suppose that Ehud the time he took a sling in his hand could throw 8 stone a hair's breadth and not miss, | suppose it was practice that gave him the wonderful dexterity. Go forth your spheres of duty and be not discouraged if in your first attempts you miss the mark. Ehud pissed it. Take another stone, put it care. fully into the sling, swing it around your head, take better alm, and the next time you will strike the center. The first time that a mason rings his trowsl upon the brick he does not expect to put up a perfect wall The first time a carpenter sends a plane over a board or drives a bit through a beam ha does not expect to make perfect execution. The first time a boy attempts a rhyme he does not expect to chimea ‘Lalla Rookh" ora “Lady of the Lake." Do not be sur- prised if in your first efforts at doing good you are not very largely successful. Under- stand that usefulness is an art, a science, a trade, There was an oculist performing a very difficult operation <n the human eye. A young doctor stood by and said : “How easily you do that. It doesn’t seem to cause you any trouble at all.” “Ah.” sald the old ocu- ‘ist, *“it is very easy now, but I spoiled a hat- ful of eyes to iearn that,” Be not surprised it it takes some practice before we can help men to moral eyesight and bring them to a vision of the cross, Left handed men to the work! Take the gospel for a sling and faith and repentance for the smooth stone from the brook, take sure aim, God direct the weapon, and great Goliaths will tumble be- fore you, I learn also from this subject the dange of worldly elevation. This Eglon was what the world called a great man. There were hundreds of men who would have considered ft the greatest honor of their life just to have him span? to them, Yet, although he 1s sq high up in worldly position, be is not beyond the reach of Ehud’s dagger. I see a great many people trying to climb up in social position, having an idea that there is a sufs place somewhers far above, rot knowing that the mountain of fame has a top like Mount Blane, coverad with perpetu ul snow. We laugh at the children of Shinar for try. ing to build a tower that could reach to the heavens, but I think if our eyesight wore | AR pe h lad ho lad as great wing avout , suuffing at the cause wickedness, roughly irstep, sen ting but to hound 2 HR] ee low ned out these yet they pd ire to only good enough we could see a Babel in| many a dooryard, Oh, the struggieis flerce! | It is store againet store, house agains! house, street against street, Nation against Nation. The goal for which en are rn. ning is chairs and chandeliers and mirrors and houses and lands and presidential equip. ments, If they get what they anticipate, | what have they got? Men are not ssfs from | ealumny while they live, and, worse than that, they are not safe after they are dead, for I have seen swine root up graveyards, Une day a man goes up into publieity, | and the world does him honor, an people olimb up into syeamors trees ‘to watch him as he passes, and as he goes along on the shouiders of the peoples thers is a waving of hats and a wild haga, To-morrow the same man is caught between the jaws of the Jrinting press and mangled and bruised, and the very same persons who applauded him before ory traitor! Down with him I" Belshazzar sits at the feast, the mighty men of Babylon sitting all sround him. Wit sparkles lke the wine and the wine like tha wit. Musie rolls up among the chandeliers ; the chandeliers flash down on the decanters, The breath of hanging gardens floats in on night air ; the voice of revelry floats out, Amid wreaths and tapestry and folded ban. “Down with the is richer hued than the wine on the table, The kingdom has departed, wis no worse perhaps than hun- Babylon, but his Jr general 1 learn further from this subject that death comes to the summer house Eglon did not window , in the tinkle and dash of thé foun- tains : in the sound of a thousand leaves flut. tering on one tree branah ; in the cool broeze that eame up to shake feverish troubles out of In the and when winter, the our easant when the snow Is a shroud, mortality, but when the weather is difficult it is for us to appreciate the truth that we are mortal! And yet my text teaches mer house, He is blind and cannot see the leaves, Is deaf and cannot hear the fountains, rejoice to have him come. Push door of that hovel. Look at that little child cold and sick and hungry. It has never straw bed. thee! Up with it into the light! Before them rest, Here is an aged man, work. He has He has done it gloriously, The com- dren dead. He longs to be at rest, wearily the days and the nights pass. He Oh, death, there is a mark for thee Take from him the staff and give him the sceptre! Up with him into the light, where eyes never the long years of eternity, Ah, death will not do that, Death turns back from the straw bed and from the aged man ready for the skies and comes to the summer house, What doest thou here, thou bony, ghastly monster, amid this waving grass and under this sunlight sifting through the tree branches? Children are at play. How quickly their feet go and thelr locks toss in the wind! Father and mother stand at the side of the room looking on, enjoying their glee. It does not seem possible that the wolf should ever break into that fold and carry off a lamb, Meanwhile an old archer stands look- ing through thethicket, He points his arrow at the brightest of the group--he is & sure marksman-the bow bends, the arrow speeds! Hush, now! The quick feet have stopped, and the locks toss no more in the wind. Laughter has gone out of the hall, Death in the summer house ! Hexo is a father in midlife, His coming hom= at night is the signal for mirth, The children rush to the door and there are books on the evening stand, and the hours pass away on glad feet, There is nothing want. ing in that home. Religions there and sacrifices on the altar morning and night, You look in that household and say © *‘I can- not think of anything happier. Ido not reaily believe the world is so sad a place as some people describe it The scens changes. Father is sick. The doors must be kept shut, The deathwatch fully on the hearth, and walk Passing the house late at night, quick glancing of ligh It is all over. Dent} ¢ summer hose, y {8 an aged mothe aged, but © You think you will have the j her wants a good while y Roes rom house to house, grandehildren, her coming sunlight in the dwe 2. her comin he lane, sand they Care {or you i with back burdens, to be" chirps dole. The children whisper where once they rom wt in- & through t “Grandmother's ¢ marked up wrinkle, and rying your very quiet, ery, "18 her deep at the architectur comes in, not & Walt to examine the pictures 1, or bending . tina before hie tering we have ur = & hore sn the wall Goes not top lors not t GYEr YU £0 8s WhHetl or in the cheek, or gv in the brow 1 for ever mon i Xo! Noy i i cages of birds to the nt the raves of our dead opie in Bengal bring graves of their dead and then th cages, and the birds go sincing heavenwanrd, Bo [ woul » ol om all bright the mgrataintions and bid and redemption, 1 st the grave, and it and glo - Ly Tan #y open the i bring to the graves of ughis mnd o hem think of victory bottom of you np on the regis thr heaven The ancients used to think that the straits entering the liad sea were very dangerous places, ns they supposed that every ship that went through those would be de stroyed, and they were in the habit of pute tine on weeds of mourning for thoss who bad gone on that vovage, as though they iy dead. Do vou know what they alied ti straits? They eall them the “Gate of Tears,” Oh, | stand to-day at gate of tears through which many of your loved ones have gone, and | want to tall you that all are not shipwrecked that have gone thr those stralts into sigh Into the light ry of straits ann nIns stretehing out beyond, The sound that comes that shore on still nights when we are wrapped in prayer makes me think that the departed are not dead. We are the dead we who toil, we who weep, we who sin--we are the dead. How my heart aches for human sor. row! This sound of breaking hearts that I hear all about me! This last look of faces that will never brighten again! This last kiss of lips that never will spsak again’ This widowhood and orphanage! Oh, when will the day of sorrow be gone? After the sharpest winter the spring dis. mounts from the shoulder of a southern gale the great ocean from other in its palm there comes the grass, and there flowers, and God reads over the poetry of bird and brook and bloom and What, my friends, night its day, and every gloom its glow, and every bitter now iis sweet hereafter? 1 you passes in the night, there is a phosphorescent track left behind §t, and as the waters roll u they toss with unimaginable splendor. Well, across this great ocean of human trouble Jesus walks, Oh, that in the phosphorescent track of His feet we might all follow and he fllumined ! : There was a gentleman in the rail ear whe gaw in that same car three passengers of very different cirsumstances, The first was as maniac, He was carefully guarded by his attendants ; his mind, lke a ship dismasted, was beating net a dark, desolate coast, from which no help eonid come, The train stopped, and the man w.J taken out into the nsylum to waste away perhaps through years of gloom, The second passenger was A eulprit, The outraged law had seized on him, As the cars jolted the chains rattled. On his face were crime, depravity and despair. The train halted, and he was taken out to the penitentiary, to which he bad been .be demned, There was the third passenga, on- der far different circumstances, Hho was a bride. E hour was as a marriage bell, Lifagitiored and toe od, Her come THE TWISTING VERSES, in Verse and Sense, Dr. John Wallis was BSavilian Pro- fessor of Geometry at Oxford in 1649. word “Twister” in Dr. Johnson's Dic- tionary which the author ealls remark- able, and says that they explain the word in all its senses. A very learned French. man conversing with Dr. Wallis toward | the copiousness of his native language, and its richness in derivatives and | of verse on rope making which he ap- years to have composed for the purpose, They are the following, and though | technically framed are admirably smooth | and expressive: une corde: | Pour sa corde corder trois cordons il ac- corde, | Mais si un des cordon de la corde de- corde, Le cordon corde, To show that the English language was at least equally rich and copious, Dr. Wallis immediately translated the verses into English, word for word, and of equal syilables, taking the word *‘twist for the Frenchman's worde *‘corde.” decordant fait decorder Wa When the twister a twisting will twist him a twist, the twisting of his twist he twines doth intwist; if one of the twines of the twist doth untwist, The twines that the twist. Here were nouns, verbs, participles and synonymes precisely equal to those of the Frenchman innumber, quantity force; but to show that the richness his language was not exhausted, ndded the four following continued the subject: the For three But untwisteth untwisteth and of lines which Untwisting twine that untwisted between, He twirls with his twister the twine: Then twice having twisted tl thie twine, He twisted the twine he wain, The Fron hausted no two in a : twines hman being attempt find a parallel over, was still uld still be Wallis cd The the twine As tWines untwine; Twist made between, twirlin of the were intwisted he the twain intertwining He, gz his twine. How New York Was Laid Ont, The erookedness of he city, south of the «1 north of the ander scale In this » straight $ th Fresh Fresh sires were groups, al bat the gron g YARN will en ANCe ever their was lose its confusion was that each group had base-the shore arious parts of the island, dif. ferent angles of the line of the and the lines of Broadway and Chris topher street—and thence had extended until, quite at hazard, they had come to. gether, but had set joined However, some part of this tangle still was only on paper—many of the plotted streets remaining unopened -—and therelore could be corrected before it became a reality; and all of the island north of the present Fourteenth street practically was virgin territory which could be treated in what. ever way seemed most comducive to the public good. These facts being consid- ered, the wise conclusion was reached | very early in the present century to cor- rect (so far as this was possible) the ex- isting City Plan, which bad been created i by a mere patching together of scat- tered parts for the benefit of private in- terests, and to make a larger plan—so comprehensive that the growth of the i city for a century or more would be pro vided for-—in the interest of the com. munity as a whole. Unfortunately, the promise of this far. righted undertaking was far from being fulfilled in its performance, The mag. nificent opportunity which was given to | the Commissioners to create a beautiful city simply was wasted and thrown | away. Having to deal with a region edges came together there a tancie fit to make a t way; WIRE which the Mm turesq jo fact MIT A v tue to started fr separats lines of ¥ Lens & Bowery, | sified by watercourses—where the con- { tours of the land suggested curving ' roads, and its unequal surface reserva | tions for besuty’s sake alone — these worthy men decided that the forests should be cut away, the hills levelled, | the hollows filled in, the streams buried ; | and upon the flat surface thus created | they clapped down a ruler and com. | pleted their Beeotian programme by cre- ating a city in which all was right angles and Magazine. ————— A New Raln Compeller, temperature on & cload of vapor will be shown in the precipitation of rain. Act ing on this knowledge, a European liv. ing in the tropical regions of India has invented a novel rain producer, tising to a height of a mile, containing a reservoir of ether. In its descent a para- chute-like attachment opens out, causing the apparatus to descend slowly, At the same time the cther is thrown out in a fine spray. The absorption of heat by the ether is said to lower the temper: ature of the surrounding air sufficient to condense the vapor, and hence cause min. This being true, a iarge number of rockets would probably be required to cause a prolonged shower, —{ Philadelphia Dame Fashion declares that not less * eushions sliutl be tound ou every n her realm, W8 [ADY More as ] will allow. : ? i ys igh Hallway Spesd, Westinghouse, the inventor and electrician says: ‘There 1s no ques tion about the development of a much higher rate of speed than that which even the fastest service on the rail- roads of to-day maintain. 1 presume that a speed of from ninety to one- hundred miles an hour could be se- cured with modern locomotives which are sure to come. But I am inclined to think that other influences may operate to prevent in the next cen- tury the running of railway trains at such a speed 1 have seen mentioned in some of the newspapers. Itisnota question of attaining speed, buta ques- tion of the control of the train after great speed has been secured. 1am in- clined to think that the development of rallway travel in the next century along the present lines will be not so much great, speed as uliiform speed. The ideal speed, I about forty miles an hour and steadily one terminal to the arrival at desti- nation. That will give most satis factory results. Iam also satisfled that the immense cost of furnishing power for electric rallways, which gome persons seem to think cure and maintain a speed a development commercially unprofit- able, although there is no doubt that electricity as a motive power for pas senger traffic will be extensively use in the next century.” — srr nA Where Is “The Silent Clty?” Many stories have been written about mirages and delusions, but pone more interesting and curious than that of the Silent City illusion, which makes its appearance near the Pacific Glacier, Alaska The discovery of this wonderful mirage was made by the Indians, who often tell of the city which was built in the clouds. The mirage can be seen in the early part of July from btn 6 pm. it rises from the side of the Pacific glacier, It appears soon bec ir in like a heavy clearer, and on t1 ae spe ‘tre MICS distinctly see Jefioed st huge and odd-shaped which appear to Le ancient and cathedrals It is a city large enocug OO or SO rects and trees, spires, ings, Mosques one has aithough The Lg iid mirace was gi the name of ven nt { tty ’ . art o like a dead ati ti it tion of an inbal Rates of Postage In ac for An old alan lowing as Lhe ing at that t and 0 miles, 10 x 124 cents: mies, 20 E00 miles (140) . be Eve the said tripple: ounoe, - 300 miles, 15 cents, and for more th 25 cents No allowance t made for intermediate miles ry double letter is to pay doubi rates: every triple letter, every packet weighing 1 at the rate of 4 single each ounce. 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During the most violent gales the soa is distu to a depth of 500 feet, am with sore eyes use Dr. leans son's Eye-water, Draggiste sell at So, per The man who will not improve his talents steals from himself, Sindy in Toes, A study of the small toe in man has been made in Germany by Herr Pfitzner. 1n 36 per cent. of the per- sons examined—the porportion being greater among women than men-- this toe was found to have only two joints instead of three supposed to belong to it. That tight shoes have not caused the union of two bones was shown by the fact that the pro. portion having the peculiarity was about the same among small children as among aduits. The Investigator concludes the small toe 8 In course of degeneration, and fs inclined to believe that man may eveutually be. come four-toed, Ir am——— IT 18 a very good thing for a man that his friends don’t have time to 1n- In a Paris Pawnshop, The number of pledged articles at the Mont de Plete, the national pawnshop in Paris, that have heen renewed during the year is 307,310. The term renewed indicates that a small sum has been paid in order that the objects may not be sold, but re. main in pawn for a further term. There is a timepiece which was pledged for £6 in 1835, and which has been paldjannually ever since. A silver dish-cover has been pledgen for seventy years, and a piece of lace, upon which only 121. was lent for seventy-five years. 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