——— THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject + “Strangers Within the Gates,” Texr: “J was a stranger and ye took Me in. "Matthew xxv., 35. It is a mora! disaster that jocosity has de- Spotled so many passages of Seripture, and Iny text is one that has suffered from irrever- ent and misapplisd quotation. It shows great poverty of wit and humor when people take the sword of divine truth for a game at cess ns that, Drop thelr aeqaaintanee, They will cheat you belore you get through, They will send vou a style of goods different from that which you bought by sample, They will give you under weight, Thera will be in the package half un dozen less pairs of sus- pender< than you Jd for, They will rob you, Oh, you feel in your pockets and say, L Is my money gone?" They have robbed can never give you compensation, When one of these Western merchants has been dragged by one of those commercial fgents through the slums of the city, he is not fit to go home, The mere memory of what he has seen will be moral pollution, I think you had better let the city missionary and tha poliea attend to the exploration of New York and underground life. You do not go to nn smallpox hospital for the par pose of exploration, You do not £0 there beacause you are afraid of contagion. And fencing or ship off from the Kohinoor dix- mond of inspiration a #parkle to decorate a | fool's eap. My text is the salutation in the | last judgment to be given to those who have | shown hospitality and kindness and Chris tinn helpfulness to strangers, By railroad and steamboat the population of the earth | are all the time in motion, and from one | Year's end to another our cities are crowded | with visitors, Every morning on the tracks of the Had- son River, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Long Island Railroads there come passenger trains more than I can number, that all the dapots and the wharves are a-rumble and a-elang with the coming in of a great | immigration of strangers, Some of them come for purposes of barter, some for mech. anism, some for artistio gratification. some for sightseeine. A great many of them go aut on the evening traine, and consequently the city makes but little impression upon them, but there are multitudes who in the hotels and boarding houses make temporary residence, They tarry here for three or four days, or as many weeks, They spend the | days in the stores and the evenings in sight. | seeing. Their temporary stay will either | make or break them not only financially, but morally, for this world and the world that is to come, Mauititudes of them come into oar morning and evening services. I am con- scious that I stand in the presence of many this moment. 1 desire more especially to speak to them, May God give me the right word and help me to utter it in the right Way, There have glided into nnknown to others whose would ds more thrillin tragedy, more exciting more bright than & spring morning, more awful than a wintry midnight, If they could stand up here and tell the story of their escapes, and their temptations, and their bereavements, and their disasters, and their victories, and their defeats, there would be in this house such & commingling of groans and acclamations as would make the place unendurable, There is a man who. in infancy, lay in a eradie satin lined, Out ¥ man who was picked up a foundling on Boston Common. Here is a man who is coolly ob- serving this religious service, expecting no advantage and earnng ior no advantage for himself, while yonder is a man who has bean for ten years in an awful conf igation of evil habits, and he is n mers cinder of a destroyed nature, and he is wondering if thers shail be in this service any escape or heip for his ime mortal soul. Mesting you only o pore baps face to face, I strike h ands with you in an earnest talk aliout your present condition and your eternal weil being. St. Paul's ship at Melita went to pieces where two seas meet, but we stand to-day ata point where a thousand seas converge, and eternity alone can tell the issue of the hour. The hotels o { this country, for bes elegance, are not surpassed by the hotels in any other land, but those that are most brated for brilllan. ¥ of tapestry and mirror cannot give to the guest any costly apart- ment unless he ean afford a parior in addi. tion to his lo lging. The stranger, therefore, will generally find assigned to him ao room without any pictures and perhaps any roc ing chair. He will find a box of mat a bureau and an old newspaper by previous occupant, and that will be about all the ornamentation. At 7 o'clo kK in the even. ing, after having taken his repast, he will look over his meme randum book of the day's work, he will write a letter to and then a desperation will seize upon him to get* out, You hear ti y thundering under vour wind , 81 you sav, “I most join that procession.” and in ten minutes you have joined ft. Wi are are you going? Oh." Jou say, “I havent made up my Better make up your mind Perhaps the ve IY way you go now you will always go. Twenty years ago there were two young men who eame down the Astor Houses steps and started oat in a wrong tion where they have been going ave “Well, where you going?” man, “I am gotng to iemy some music" I would like to join Jou at the door. Atthe tap of the orl baton all the gates of Barmony and b will open before my soul, |e sngratyls You. Where are vou going? “Well.” say, “I am going up to ses some pletures.” Good. | should like to With you and look over the same carslogas and study with yon Kensstt an and Church and Moran, No elevating than good pictures, you going? ‘“‘Weil," say, i up to the Young Men's Christian Asso rooms." You will find there gymuaastios to strengthen the es, and books to improve the min i, and Christian influence to save the soul, wish every oity in the United States had as fine a pace for its Youne Meas Christian Associstion a8 New York bas. Wher are going? “Well,” you say, “I am going to take a long walk up Broadway and so turn around into | the Bowery. I am going to stu iy human He." Good. A walk through Broadway at 8 o'cloek at nigot is interesting, sducating, fascinating, appalling, exnilarating to the last degree, Stop in front of that theatre | and see who goes fn, Stop at that saloon and see who comes out, See the great tides of life surging backwari and forward and beating against the marble ol the curbstons and eddying down into the saloons. Waar is that mark on the face of that debauches? It ia the hectic flesh of eternal death, What | 8 that woman's laughter? It is the shriek of a lost soul, Who is that Christian with a vial of anodyae on Elm street? Who fs that belated! man on the way to a prayer mesting? Who is | that city missionary going to take a box in | which to bury a child? Who are all thess clusters of bright and beautiful faces? They are going to some interesting piace of amuse | ment, Who is that man That is the man who fortune on Wall stroet, dose of belladonna, and before morning it | 80 this house those history if told | & than the deepest than Patti's sone, mder is a uty and ot cole. ae 08 on infr the 18 home, nind vet,” nf Ore 1 at pd iors you start. wire fr wines are : Good, astra Tuy vou Good, mus» you man going along | to the dying pauper | yesterday lost all his stocks are up ordown. I tell you that Broad. | Way. between 7 and 12 o'clock at night, be. tween the Battery and Central Park, is an Austeriitz, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where ms are lost or won and three worlds mingle in the strife, Steps, and I say, “Where are fou going?" You say : “I am going with a merchant of New York who has promise to show me the underground life of the city, I am his sus. tomer, and he 18 going to oblige me very , much.” Stop! A business house that tries to of keep your custom through such a proces as that is not worthy of you, There business establishments in our olties ‘which have for years been sending to de- struction hundred and thousands of mer. They have a secret drawer in the where money Is kept, and the clerk and it when he wants take these Eoitors 1c he oity through the low slums of ‘Bhall I mention the names of gome of these commerce 87 I bave om on my lips. Shall I? Perhaps I had iter leave it to the young men who in that 1 have been | t : havo been destroying otheys, I Samm Rr igh sin Th” name» fot customers oF 10 keep them by such a pro- La rosy that is ns much more dangerous to you as the death of the soul Is worse than death of the body. I will undertake to say that iina-tenths of the men who have been ruined nour cities have been ruined by simply | pating. The fact is that underground eity life that looks at it. In the reign of terror in 1792 in Paris people escap- the sewers of the city and erawled and walked through miles of that awlul labyrinth, stifled | with the atmosphere and almost dead, some of them, when they came oat to the river again breathed the fresh alr, Bat I have to | on the work of exploration through the un- | come out at any Seine River where they can wash off the pollution of the moral sewerage, Stranger. if one of the represen tatives of a commercial establishment pro- | poses to take you and show you the “sights” of the town and un ferground New York, say to him, ‘Please, sir, what part do you pro- posa to show me?” About sixteen years ago as a minister of religion I felt I had a divine commissson to explore the iniquities of our cities. I did not ask counsel of my session or my preshytery er of the newspapers, but asking the com- panionship of three prominent police oMofals and two of the elders of my chureh Iun-| rolled my commission, and it said : ‘Son of ; man, dig into the wall, And when I had | digged into the wall behold a door, and He said go in and see the wicked abominations that are done here, And I went in and saw and behold I drought up in the country | and surrounded by much paternal care, I had not until that time seen the haunts of | iniquity. By the grace of God defended, I! had never sowed my “wild oats,” I had somehow been able to tell from various sources something about the iniqui. ties of the great cities and to preach against them, but I saw in the destruction of A great multitude of the people that there must be an infatuation and a temptation that had never been spoken about, and 1 satd, “I will explore.” I saw thousands of men going down, and if there had been a spiritual por- Hision answering to the physical pereu sion | the whole air would have been full of the | rumble and roar and ermck and thunder of demolition, and this moment, if we should pause in our service, we should hear the crash, orash! Just as in the sickly sen beil at the gate of the cemetery ringing almost in wasantly, $0 I found that the bell at the gate of the cemetery where ruined souls are buried was tolling by day and tolling by night, I said, “I will explore.’ the Son You sometimes hear the I went as a physician into a Iazareto to see what practical and useful in. { ys I cht get. That would be a h doctor who would stand outside the ! an invalid writing a Latin pres rip. When the lecturer in a medic done with his he takes the udents into the dissecting room, and he Ws them the reality. I went and saw and come forth to my pulpit to report a plagus and to tell how sin dissects the bo iy ind dissects the mind and dissects the soul, “Ob,” say you, not afraid that in fonsequence of such exploration of the ini the city other persons might make ration and do themselves damage?’ 1 “Il in company with the commis. of police, and the captain of or, and the inspector of and the he pany of two Christian gentlemen, and not with the spirit of riosity, but that you may see 8in in order the better to comba in the name of the eternal God, go? not, then stay away.” Wellington, standing in the Wateriooo when the bullets wers saw s civilian on the field. Oo him “Sir, what are you doing e off I” “Why,” replied the civilian no more danger here for me than we is for you.” Then Wellington fusied ip and said, “God and my rountry demand that I be here, but you have no errand here,’ Now I, as an officer in the army of Jesus Christ, went on that exploration and on to that battlefield, If you bear a like commis. sing, . If not, stay sway. But youn say, “Don’t you think that somehow the descrip. tion of those places induces people to go and I answer ves, just as much as the deseription of yellew fover in some scourged city would indaes people to go down thers and got the postilenon, But I may be addressing some stranger already destroyed. Where is he, that 1 may pointedly yet kindly address him? Come back and wash in the deep fountain of a Saviour's mercy, I do not give vou a eup, or 4 chalice, or a pitcher with & limited piy to efieet your ablutions, | point you to | the five oceans of God's merey. Oh, that the | Atlantic and Pacific surges of divine forgive. ness might roll over your soul! As the glori- ous sun of God's forgiveness rides on toward the mid heavens ready to submerge you in warmth and lieht and love | bid you good | morning, Morning of peace for all your | troubles, Morning of liberation for all your | Morning of resurrestion for buried in sin, Good morning! resuscitated household that has been walting for your return. Morning ROS faver 1 al eol. lege is lsture, “are von jititieows of XD re SOner HS po poli on @ it, then, Bat, if battle of buzzing around his head, see for themaslyea I's child, Morn- ing for the daughter that has trudged off to hard work hecauss you did not take care of home. Morning for the wife who at forty | or fifty years has the wrinkied face, and the | wooped shoulder, and the white hate, Morn. | Morning for all, Good morn- | ing! In God's name, good morning ! In our Inst dreadful war the Pederals and ped on opposite Rappahannook, and one morn- ing the brass band of the northern troops pinyed the national air, and all the northern troops cheorad and chesrsd, Then on the nnd” and “Dixie,” and then all the south. ern troops cheered and cheersd. But after awhile one of the bunds struck up “Home, Hweot Home," and the band on the opposite side of the river took up the strain, and when the tune was done the Confederates huzeza, haves ' Well, my friends, heaven comes very near to-day. It is oniy a stream that divides us, the narrow strenm of death, and the voloss there and the vojees hors seam 10 commin- gle, and we join trumpets and hosinnahs and halleiujahs, and the chorus of of earth and heaven is ‘Home, Home of domestic clrele Home of forgiveness in the gront God, Home of sternal mst in heaven, Home! Home! each of his shoulders and pushes him off Society says it is evil proclivity on the part of that young man, Ob, no!” He was sir. 1 covery, A young man comes in from He knows about all the tricks of city life, “Why,” he says, “did not I receive a cirou. lar in the country telling me they found out I was a sharp and it I would only send a certain of money by mail or express, pan they would send a package with whiok could make a fortune in t did not believe it, did not, Why, no man eould take money. Iearryit in a pocket inside vest. No man could take ir. cheat me at the faro table, about the cus hox, and the cards stuck together as though they wero one, and when to hand in my checks? Oh, they can't cheat me. I know what 1 am about,” while at the same time, moment, such men are succumbing to the worst satanic Influsnoes | that théy are going to t my No man could observe, Now, if a of iniquity for the purpose of re telligently to warn people against such rerils ; if, as did John Howard or Elizabeth ‘ry or Thomas Chalmers, they go down among the abandoned for the sake of saving than But if you go on this work of purpose of satis. fying a morbid curiosity I will take twent per cont, off your moral character, Babbath morning comes, You wake up in hotel, You have had a longer sleep usual. You say: “Where am 17 A I have no fame lly to take to church to-day, My pastor will Bot expect my presence, I think prot look MeMOoran. Then 1 will write a fow business Stop! You cannot afford to do it, “But,” you say. “I am worth $500,000," You cannot afford to do it. You say, ‘I am worth $1,000,000." You cannot afford to do it. All you gain by breaking the Sabbath you will lose, You will lose one of three things--your intelleet, your morals or your property —and you cannot pointin the whole earth to a single exception to this rule. God mseif, Now, if wetry to get the seventh, He will upset the work of all the other six. I remember going u beforethe railroad had been bulit, Tip-Top House, and the guide would oom around to our horses and op us when we Were crossing a very steep and dangerous place, and he would tighten the girth of the Face, and straighten the saddle, And I have to tell you that this road of life is so stoop and fail of peril we must at lsast one dav in iife read. The seven basi ness : ane his 10 the justed and our souls re-equipped, days of the week are like seven partners, and you must give to aged share, or the business will be broken up. God is so generous with us-—He bas given you six days to His one. Now, here is a father who has seven apples, and he six to his greedy boy, proposing to keep one for himsel’. The gree iy boy grate the other one and loses all the six How few men thers are who kn yw how to Keep the Lord's day away from home! A ETHal many who are consistent on the banks of the St, Lawrenoe, or the Alabama, or the Mississippi are not consistent when they get I repeat though it Is putting it a low ground you eannot Hoanelally afford to Lreak the Lord's day. It is only another way of tear. ing up your Government securities and put. ting down the price of goods and blowin your store, 1 have friends who are all time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath, They ut a little of the Sabbath off that end and a little of the Sabbath off thisend. They 40 not keep the twenty-four | ne 1 he ible says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to kesp it holy." I have good friends who are quite acous. tomad to leaving Albany by the midnight train on Saturday night and getting home before chureh, Now, there may be cocasion when it is right, but generally it is wrong. How if the train shoald ran off the track inte the North River? | bope your friends will not send 10 me to preach your funers! ser mon. It would be an awkward thing for me to stand up by your side apd preach, you, a Christian man, killed on a rafl train trave inr on a Sunday moming. “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it hoiy.” What dows that mean? It means twenty-four hours A man owes you a dollar. You don't want him to pay you ninety cents, You want the dollar, If God demands of hours out of the week Rives for on 0 BP the hat He means twenty-four hours, and not nineteen. Ob, we want to keep vigilantly in this cqguntry the American Sabbath and not have trans. planted here the European Sabbath which for the most part is no Sabbath at all. If any of you have been in Paris, vou know that on Sabbath morning the vast population rush out toward the country with baskets and bundles, and toward night they come bask fagged out, cross and intoxionted. May God preserve to us oar glorious, quiet American Sabbaths, Oh, strangers, welcome to May you find Christ here, and not any physi. cal or moral damage, iand, from distant cities, God and found Him in our service, May that be your ease to-day. You thought you wore hrought to this merely for the purpose of sightseeing. Perhaps God brought you to this roaring city for the purpose of work. Go back to Your homes and tell them how you met have Lere found and sympathetic Christ, Who knows but the city which has been the destruction of so many may be your eternal redemption? A good many years ago the English commander, with his regiment, Edward Stanley came close fard thrast at him with the spear, and the Spaniard, in nitamptie to jerk the spear away from Stanley, lifte Aim up into the battlements, ‘No sooner had Stanley taken his position on the battlements his whole reg. the fort waa + O stranger, destroyed so many and dashed them down forever shall be the means of lifting you up into the tower of God's mercy and strength, your sou! more than conquered through the grace of Him who has promised an especial benediction to those who shall treat you wall, Was a stranger, and ye took Me in.” i II Tommy’s Opinions, Little Tommy had heard that his sister, who sings in the choir, had a sweet voice ; but when she scolded him for not doing as he was told he said : “They say you have a sweet voice ; I think it is a sour voice sometimes.’ At another time his father had ex- platted to him the difference between ard and pine woed. Of course he was anxions to display his knowledge, #0 being in the with his younger sister, he took up a piece of oak and hid: “That ae hard wood po the ing up a piece of pine, b onsy wood. Et Transeeipt. taken, Ho It may be with you - —- a resul in favor of the machines. It was found that 1000 machine Ton Magnetic for Bafety, The story that a deviation of her cotipass, 1esul’ing from the presence of steel in a cork leg worn by the man at the wheel, caused the steamer Susan E. Peck to strand near Bar Point, Lake Erie, in September last, with a4 loss to the unaerwriters of upward of $20,000, has brought out another quite funny one. According to the narrator, on one of the trips of the fine steel steamer Castalia down Lake Huron the past season, the second mate reported to Capt. Allen that the compass had suddenly gone wrong: that the needle would swing three or four points to the right or left at intervals, and that because of these erratic move- ments it had become utterly fm possi- ble to steer a course—In fact. he had lost track of the course of the steamer altogether. Capt. Allen accompanied the mate to the pilot house and found matters just as they had been reported. Besides the man at the wheel two lady passengers were in the pilot house when Capt. Alien en- tered. Turning to them, after medi- wore steel corsets, A reply in the affirmative ied to a further question as to where they had been, and this elicited the information that the in des had paid a visit to the engine room, and that while there the engineer had afforded them an oppor- tunity to inspect the dynamo which suppilied the electric lights steamer. “That settles it: vou must get out of here!” next greeted the ears of the ladies as Capt. Allen opened the pilot house door for their exit. ¢ Oi in 8a maze of suprise and astonish- ment at Capt Allen's exhibition of blufl, sailor-like authority, that com- pass got right down to stald business again and showed the man at the wheel the way with its usual precision. It is hardly necessary to explain that the dynamo had magnetized the £teel corsets worn by the ladies. and that thus the corsets became respon- sible for the crazy race the needle of the compass ran as the wearers moved to and fro in the pilot house ~Milwaukee Wisconsin. csi ccs. His Consent. A fond parent, living in the south- ern part of Missouri, who has his own ideas al the sent the recorder his cong marriage of a little out of the ord jolivar Free Press) batim “Mr. Cleark man that wants to daughter i giv her to } eis will do out marriage question, fis aaugh aitn ie QUAINT old customs still survive in wany of England In Ely piace, Holborn, a wachman cries the hours nightly with the same formula in use for centuries past: “Past one o'clock, and a cold, wet morning.” parts CEES EF EN ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO The Dower Chest, In Holland the dower chect formed a part of every bride's equip ly than the “Saratoga” trunk, it ful- filled its purpose with grace and dig- nity, passing down as an heirloom from generation 10 generation. The modern chest is an easy thing to se- cure, but these the up-to-date girl holds in disdain; her chest must be really antique. of carved cak of En- glish or Flemish make, or elaborately inlaid with marqueterie of colored woods and dated or initialed with figures and characters eloquent of other times and manners. There are very few of the genuine old-fashioned “dower chests” to be seen on this side of the Atlantic One of them in this isa very affair, weigh. ing several hundred pounds. — Buffalo Commercial City massive NigoLA TesLA, the famous elec. trician, has Invented an engine which crossheads does away with fiy-wheels, ana eccentrics, with evervthing, in fa but the piston and cylinder, all the control mechanism be ng electro magnetic er —— I ——— Mahogany Pavement, is trying a wood pavement mahogany. % + * wy Paris nade of ZR in ry ( The subject of the above ait is a minent and much v citizen, Mr, Robets Manson, of West vy N. H. 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