ARE TOYS TOO GOOD? A Buggestion That the Toys of Our Child- hood Were Better, Men are, after all, only overgrown children. Give your little boy money, and the sweetshop and the toyshop will, too probably, eclipse the mute appeal of the missionary box. And, when athe buy grows up, phys. ically, if his income also grows, he will spend at sweetshop and toyshop. Instead of acid drops he will purchase rare wines and order elaborate din- oughbreds and a steam yacht. sweets and toys? Some of us have it; some lose it by over-indulg- ence during youth. ed, are toys and sweets ever wholly without attractions? He is ashamed almonds and chocolate creams, and looking in vain longing at lead sol. diers and clockwork trains; but the old delight is not dead. best of toys, unrolls before his mental harbors, railway gardens, and all the ingenious con- structions of the voung drchitect, half blocks and half “make-believe.” When I look into the toy-shop win- ——— tO ANA———. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Subject: “Re-enforcement.” Text: ‘‘Lord, increase our faith,"—Luke xvil., 5. “What a pity he is going there!” said my friend, a most distinguished general of the army, when he was told that the reason for my not being present on a celebrated day in Brooklyn was that on that day I bad safled for tha Holy Land. “Why do you say that?" inquirad some one, My military friend re- scenes of Palestine, and his faith will Case, in all I can give you a recipe for its obliteration, tead infidel with skeptics, attend the lectures of those antagonistic to religion, give full swing to your faith will be completely gone that you will laugh at the jdea that you ever had any. If you want to ruin your faith, you ean do it more easily than vou can do anything else, After believing the Bible all my life I can see “0 that children are losing the poetic imagination that transformed a dingy play room into a fairyland. Toys are becoming daily more elab- orate. more realistic: less room is left for fiction and romance. Lead sol- diers are no longer flat simulacra of humanity, but big, broad, solid and expansive. Cavalrymen sit plumply astride bulging horses: artillery trains, pontoon trains, complete in every detail, replace the improvised substitutes in which I once reveled. Yet, can the model 8l-ton gun give as much satisfaction to the boyish possessor as the fortress artillery I used to contrive out of an old brass cannon, three bricks and the tender of a tin train?—The Sketch. + cer inst The Neck of the House, ‘There are husbands who, among their male companions, like to have it supposed that they are just a little tyrannical at home. One such man, who had two or three trie at home one remarked, as they were cha sther comfortably at a rat! ate hour: Yes, do what 1 ¢ My wife, she has to bend to my will, I can teil vou In my own i'm a regular Julius Caesar.” His wile into the mom thie to hear this last sentence tyrant of his household looked a tie uneasy, but wife neither frown d arently, paid any at- tention to But, alter a moment, very tively: — “Gentlemen, it Caesar has got is f1i8 like at home. house came v nis nor, app the remark remarked she posi- is late, and Julius to go to bed.” Whereupon the husband arose, stammered his excuses, and retired, leaving his guests to tind their way out as best could, It was in another household that the husband ounce remarked to his wife: ““You know, my dear, that I'm the head of the house.” “You may be the head as you like," the neck.’ “Tne neck? is hey much as said wile, but I'm the Oh, yes, you may be the neck if you want to, my ders.” “Very well It’s the neck that turns the head whichever way it pleases, isn't it?’ THE WAR I was taken ill with sii 1 disse ine and rheuma- t went home ald onfined to my bed, J to help myseil months, fier misery a Om. advis. WHILE IN - ears of fpan on machinist *Jed me to take Ho d's ~ar-apariia I got bottle aad could guck!y note a change for ! 3 4 better. A.ter taking 7 Mr. Wheeler. bottles 1 was wedd and have not since troubled with my old comsiants™ JAS Whesrer, 12 0 D.vision 5, Baltimore, Md. Hood’ss==Cures SHEFraa2 ano RA The Best for Either Heating or Cookin 1. Excel in Style, Comfort and Durability. 26 KINDS AND 8S ZBY. EVERY ONE WARRANTED agatvsy DEF CIS, ASK YOUR STOVE DEALER To show you SHEPPARD'S LATEST CATALOGUE. i no dealer near you write to ISAAC A, SHEPPARD & CO., BALTIMORE, MD, LARGEST MasUFACTURERR IN THE SOUTH been A. Best inthe World! Get the seine GREASE Sold Everywhere! Epis Pan i A TREE onion Ea; eniist my voles and pen and heart and head and entire nature in the bombardment of the Seriptures and the church and all I now hold sacred, That it is easy to banish soon and forever all respect for the Bible I prove by the fact that so many have done it. They brainy nor had special force of will, but they so thoroughly ace lished the overthrow of their faith that they Pa no more idea that the Bible is true, or that Christianity amounts to anything, than they have in the truth ofthe “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” or the of Don Quixote's “windmills.” They have destroyed existence have a return of it, Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over the city, the town, the neighborhood wi they live, and they will silent or expressed disgust, There are per- sons in this house to-day who 20 years ago gave up their faith, and they will never re. yo it. The black and deep toned bell of u hangs over . : of that bell y i ¥ feel nothing 1 sun door hammer , and I strike it three might, and It But my wish, prayer all woe! woe! wos o! most of vou, SOUnas, sxnresaad by wrist in the words of th." the disciples of Jesus ( t needs to be in order that it in ns and absurdities, and if you will ses infers wat ior ng so Bible for you will pages wi ments, and the & pronoun ION MANY YYArs age 1 to spend the t before retiring j we way, “I supp to read the Bible bere is my Bible fron nig At nignt MO YOU Are ao re going to y which to read.” then told me what tions he would like have me read, and n or thoss portions on which he tious, ual oned rH bef bed, & foe You know you can make thing. 1 suppose you ter your father or m something in or the tremor which to be derisively eritical, evidence of the trutl 8 of the Bivle is so mighty that no one man out of the 1,600,000, . 000 of the world's present population or the vaster millions of past ever read Bible in course, and read it prayerfully and carefully, but was led to believe if, John Murray, the famous of Edinburgh, and the intimate Bouthey, Coleridge, Walter Scoft, and Washington Irving, bought the poet, the *‘Memoirs of Lord they were to be published death. But they ware not lished, although Murray had paid for them #£10.000, That was a solemn conclave when sight of the prominent literary those times assembled in Albemarle street after Byron's doath to decide what should be done with the “Memoirs,” which were charged and surcharged with defamations and indelicacies. The “Memoirs” were read and pondered, and the decision came that i it any- uidtakethe jast leg. ther ever wrote and find grammar of the penmanship the or the spelling about i The interna the book publisher friend of Canning of Mo Te, Jyron,” and after Byron's fit to bw pub people of the Bible, which is the last will and testa ment of our Heavenly Father, and these memoirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be live? them live, though all else burn,” Then put together on the other hand all the debanchees Bible would be, “Let it burn.” Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are graces and scoundrels of the universes agree required to believe the Bible, Beripture and then put all his money into an treasures were buried from the looks ofa fo ot water dipped from the Hudson iver, The internal evidence of the anthenticity of the Seriptures is so exact and so vivid that no man, honest sod sane, can thurcughty and continuously and prayeriuily read them without entering their discipleship, So I put that internal evidence paramount, How are you led to believe in a letter re- ootved from husband or wife or or friend? You know the handwriting. You know the style, You recognize the senti- ment, When the letter comes, you do not summon the master who stamped ft, and the postmaster who received it, and the let- ter carrier who brought ft to your door to prove that it is a genuine letter, The internal evidence settles it, and by the same process on oan forever settle the fact that the Bible h the handwriting and communication of the infinite God. Furthermore, as I have already intimated, we may increase our faith by the testimony of others, Perbaps we of lesser brain may have been overcome by or sajoled into an acceptance of a hollow pre- tension. 80 I will this morning turn this house into a courtroom and summon wit- neases, and you shall be the jury, and I now | impanel you for that purpose, and I will put upon the witness stand men whom all the world acknowladge to bastrong intellectually and whose evidenee in any other courtroom would be incontrovertible, I will 90t cali to the witness stand any minister of the Gospel, for he might be prejudiced, Thers are two ways of taking an oath in a courtroom. One is by putting the lipsto the | Bible and the other is by holding up the right hand toward heaven, Now, 2a in this caso it is the Bible that is on trial, we will not ask the witness to put tha book to his lips, for that would imply that the sanctity and divinity of the book is settied, and that would bo begging the question. So shall nsk each witness to lift his hand toward heaven in affirmation, Salmon P, Chase, chief justice of the su. reme court of the United Rtates appointed yw President Lincoln, will take the witness stand. “Chief Justice Chase, upon your | oath, pleases state what you have to say about Bible." The | witness replies : “There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Berip- | I would try the book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against, It was a long and serious and pro- found study, and using the same principles | as I al the decision that the Bible is a supernatural book, that it has come from God, and that 3. that “Jadge, will do, Next I put upon the witness stand a -rosl- dent of the United States Jobe Adams, President Adams, what have you to sgy about the Bible and Christianity?’ The President replies: “I have MANY Years made it a practics to read through the Bible My cust to read four or chapters every morning immediately after arising from It employs nix an hour of my most suitable manner of beginning the Aay, regard the Bible ation Quincey for i five time light so reference {0 reve rally, It Is an inexhaustible mine of} ywiedge nn Next I put upon ti Isanc Newton, the author and the greatest irs] philosop world has ever seen tanip 1 § 1144 to sav flosopher's forvorton wilnes of the °F nat “R00 enn reply of xoriptures Crd phil mophy, Next [ put upor chantment of when I ask him that our g sr books . and that i Next 1 put ee { of Dr. Gr 3 LOOK acted ¢ a Levee i wi yi Bist . MITRD if all testiiv io t ton yrian docan and DBehis vh Bt Of 1 up of if Bibie histo oats that wl 1 lid to lid wi inclent city dine far into the ns it already rolled the nineteenth an infidel will man does not believe his own senses, and the inmes now eritieal and denun the Bible, if pot entirely devastated by the book-worms, w taken do from the shell as curiosit igno or idiocy H stcoess to the plokaxes and crowbars and powder biasting of those aposties of archmeo- iogienl exploration, 1 like the ringing fiance of the old Huguenots to the assaliants of Christianity : “Pound away, you Your hammers break, word stands.” hins be a iatory of ii be oe f de. rebels fit og o wil ¥# : but the anvil of God's How wonderful the old book hangs to- gether, It is a library made up of 65 books and written by at least 39 authors, It Js a supernatural thing that they have stuck to gether, Take the writings of any other 39 authors, or any 10 authors, or any 5 authors, and put them together, and how would they stay together? Books ol “'elegant ex- tracts” complied from many authors are proverbially short lived, I never knew one stich book which, to uss the publishers phrase, ‘had life in it” for five years, Why is it that the Bible, made up of the writings of at loast 39 authors, has kept to- gether fora long line of centuries when the natural tendency fee would have been to fly | of wind blows upon them? It is because God stuck them together and keeps them to- But for that Joshua would have wandered off in one direction, and Paul into bakkuk into another, and the 39 authors in- to 39 directions, Put the writings of Shakespeare and Ten | nysoni and Longfellow, or any part of them, How long would they siay to- No book bindery could keep them But the eannon of the Beripture | with which prophet and apostie loaded it, Bring me all the Bibles of the earth into | one pile, and blindfold me so that I cannot teil | the difference between day and night, and | on the last page of Genesis and let me know | it, and I can tell you what is on the next page | ~—namely, the first chapter of Exodus; or while thus blindfolded put my finger on the last ahapter of Matthew and lot me know it, and I will tell you wnat is on the next page «namely, the first chapter of Mark. In the pile of 000,000 Bibles there will be no exception, In other words, the book gives me confidence by ite supernatural adhesion of writing to writing. Even the stoutest ship sometimes shifts its eargo, and that is what made our i the of in the ship Greecs of the National ine when the cyclone struck us off the const of Newfoundland, and the eargo of iron had shifted as the ship swa to starboard, and from to larboard, this old Bible ship thousands of years of gold and being there until the heavens and the earth, the erention of which is deseribed in the first dust in universal demolition. By mendous fact my faith is re-enforeoed, those books of the Bible ealled ancients, None wrote the of them Pentateuch, and wrote it. difficult thing to understand, and lawyers, ani men of dictate neariy all their letters ; they sign them after they are dictated, prophet and evangelist and apostle were Jehovah's stenographers or typewriters, The editors signed it afterward, He has bho name upon it all through the n writing his vicissitudes of But I come to the helght of my subject when I say the way to re-enforee our faith is to pray for it, fn my text got their abounding faith, ‘Lord, increase our faith.” suggests, ‘Do you really think that prayer amounts to any * 1 might as well ask vou, is there a line of telegraphis poles from New York to Washington, is there a line of telegraphie wires from Manchester to London, Cologne to Berlin? All the psopie and received messages « thoso know of thelr existence 20 there 80 the disciples Boma ons irom who have sent lines are mill. fons of souls who have been in constant come munication with the capital of the with the throne of Almighty, great God Himsalf, for years and years, univers: with thas years and the There has not been a day supplies. did not flash did not # ramus, sont « tions up ash down, Will son who has never racaived a telegram or ne, come and tell us the such thing Will ns tele if communiestion } svar ON ered a prawer that was hegrd and answ 1 coma and tell us that theres i8 nothi Othe one whi OTe A8 Wo eX Dead Wt prayer goa me down. the Li “no i Durir 3 “re prostrated ¥ WAVY oO . increase our fs persons ransom in catastrophe Fou beh * wd wil or F pelghbors aii ih WITTOW, and then began t i he Ol into those vounnin and r Were t with en she Reps i she ts all fa and assets than ed, “Bring 1 ame, “There a n i 1 ua take what oll of faith we have and use it tears ion yey ied e yol he Answer Ors Hos o sntil 1 y shall be © ied, Bring "8 Of TYHUr emmy yesses r of the Lord God tisha they + filled until they can hold no more of , all inspiring and trinmphant What a frightful time we had a few fown on the oo and beens pping. archaogel sweat which, with i= 1 wings, swe Atlantic mat from Fl ia to News {id not spare oar region A Tow f Routhampton, I saw the tunes om the storm had aisin and sen had cast up. As | stood there am dead bodies | sald to mysai! ‘ men represent b mother and father anid wife i know this * oh of the faith days where of have wiv § the ng the and I said aloud What will hildren say a Hr men w These JIT ana © victims wre first name of two was found out Charley and William, tered then and I wonder now if they will remain unknown and if some kindred far away may be waiting tor their coming and never hear of the rough way of their going. 1 saw also one of the three wi 4 same in alive, but more dead The ship had become helpless wave swept the deck and went down on the furnaces till they hissed and went out the cry was, “Ob, my God, we are lost!” Then the crew put unknown, Only ‘ the one to the other, “We will meet again on the shore, and, if not, well, we must all go some Of the twenty-three men who put on the lite preservers, only three Hyed to reach the But what a scenes it was as the good and kind people of Bouthampton, led on by Dr. Thomas, the great and good surgeon of New York, stood watching the sailors strug gling in the breakers, *'Are you still alive?” the breakers, and he signaled ves and then went into unconsciousness, up and down the beach at Southampton, How the men and women on the shorestood then they were lifted up and earried indoors and walted on with as mueh kindness and wrapped as warmly as though they had been the princes of the earth. *‘Are they alive?” “Are they breathing?” “Do you think the will Hve?”’ “What can we do for them?" were the Taps and intense questions asked, money was sent for the cloth- ing and equipment of the unfortunstes that Dr, Thomas had to makea proclamation that no more money was nee led, In other words, all that day it was resusoitation. And this is the appropriate word for us this morning as we stand and look off u this awful sea of doubt and unbelisf on which hundreds are this moment being wrecked, Home of them were launched by Christian jardatage on smooth seas and with promise OF Pros voyage, but a Voltaire cyclone strack them onone side, and a Tom Paine cyclone struck them on the other side, and a bad Habit @ strack them on all sides, and they have foundered far away from shore, far away from God, and they have down or are washed ashore with no spiritual life many here to. Highest of all in Baking Powder I —— A ————————— Si 14 Hung Chang. 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