REV. DR. TALMAGE The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sua- day Sermon. Subject: “A Snowy Day." Text: “He went down and slew a fonin a Pit in a snowy day." I Chronicles xi., 22. Have you evor heard of him? His name was Benalah., He was aman of stout muscle and of great avoirdupois, His ‘ather was a hero, and he inherited prowe:s. He was athletic, and there was fron ia his blond, and the strongest bone in his body was back- bone, He is known for other wonders be- sides that the text. An Egyptian flve | cubits in stature, or out seven feet nine | inches . was moving around in braggza- | docio flourishing a great spear, careless | as to whom he killed, and Benaiah of my text, with nothing but a walking stick, came upon him, snate he spear from the Egyptian, and with one thrust of its sharp edge put an | and t blatant which makes us | think of the st in our Greek lesson, too | hard for us if the smarter boy on the same | bench bh } ann y the bully, Ma olonian and Dioxippnus the an fought in the presencs of Alexan- Macadonian armed with shield and and javelin and the Athenian with 1 a club, The Mar~edonian hurled | in, but the Athenian successfully | it, and the Macedonian lifted the | ut the Athenian with the { the Macolonian drew the sword, but nian tripped him up before hea could | and then the Athenian with his | aten the life out of the | len a his usele xander had not commande dodged club broke nong of the text is will eclipse eve all the neighbe ofl. } ba ff in the night, and children ven- | y a little way from their father found mangled ad d infested ns, SETiZELY | white surface of the gr wild t Perilous of the text, irearms, Benaiah yvded on the and the wed the track wy have bean a ja ¥ a knife, But ons he will make upinstren stroke. But where ust not ge £ iS The pits, for own @ lion as he folie Bnow. It or have been lacks in we arm and skill of lion. We 1 the snow, or nse or of the in aisterns, catching rain, rainfall being very scarce at certain seas and hence resarvoirs, digged here and there and y have an ins 't which r 'n they are pursued, of which I speak ristarng which thesa cisterns, or retreats into « rpened to » panting ir Te ng a wit after r ws alter a reg the nd tres vd “He went snowy day.’ Fr put it { io w 0! many for vou and for this subject for all those eoniunction of it things ware against Bensi the moment of & mb er in are in | Three of my text now that {m- | environed . with open | hear the | hostile ciro: peded his movemsat, the im in a small space, and the | Jaws aad uolifted paw. 3 shout of Benaiah's ry. h, men and | women of three troubles, you say, “I could | stand one, and I think I could stand two, | but three are are least one too many.” There is a man in business parplexity and | who has sickness in his family, and old age | is coming on. Threa troubles—a lion, a pit and snowy day. There is a good woman | with failing health and a dissipated husband and a wayward boy—threa troubles, There is a young man, salary eut down, bad cough, frownine future—three troubles, There is a maiden with difflenlt school lessons she cannot get, a face that is not as attractive as some. of her schoolmates’, a prospect that through hard times she must quit school before she graduates —thres trou bles. There is an a%thor, his manuseript re- jected, his power of origination in decadence, A numbness in forefinger and thumb, which threatens paralysis—three troubles, There is a reporter of fine taste sent to report a ugilism instead of an oratorio. the copy #8 hands in rejected because the paper Is full, a mother to support on small income-—three troubles, I could march right off these seats and across this fAatform, if they would ome at my call, 500 people with tires troubles. This is the opportunity to play ths horo or the heroine, not on a small stage, with a few hundred people to clap their aporoval, but with allthe gallaries of heaven filled with sympathetic and ap- Iauding spectators, for we are “surrounded wy a great cloud of witnesses,” My brother, my sister, my father. my mother, what a chance you have! While you are in the struggle, if you only have the grace of Christ to listen, a voles parts the heavens, sawing, ‘My grace is sufficient for thee,” “Whom the Lord loveth He chast- eneth.” “You shall be more than conquerors,” And that reminds me of a Istter on my table written by some one whom I supposs to be at this moment present, saying, “My dear, dear doetor, you will please pardon the writer for asking that at some time when you feel like it you kindly preach from the thirtieth Psalm, fifth verse, ‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning,’ and much oblige a downtown business man." Bo to all downtown business men and to all uptown business men I say: If you have on hand goods that you cannot sell and debtors who will not or cannot pay, and you aro also suffering from uncertainty as to what the imbecile American Congress will do about the tariff, you have three troubles, and enough to bring you within the range of the vonsolation of my text, where you find the trinmph of Benalah over a lion, and a pit and a snowy day. If you have only one trouble I cannot spend any time with you to-day. You must have at least three, jaa then remember how many have trie mphed over such a triad of misfortune, Paul had thres troubles: Sanhedrin de- mounocing him that was one eal infirmity, which he called “a thorn flesh,” although we know not what 6 thorn was, we do know from tife figure used that it must have been something stuck him-—that was the second trouble; viet trouble; approaching martyrdom-~that made the three troubles, Yet hear what he says, “If I had only one misfortune, I could stand that, but three are two too many?" No. I misinterpret. Poor, yot making many rich, ing, vot possessing all things,” Having noth- “Thanks be our Lord Jesus Christ." to dissoluteness and What does he say? temptation ment, “God is time of trouble, Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though aon." John Wesley had lof three troubles from more sermons preached and more miles traveled than almost any man of his time, What does he say? ¢ is with us." And when his wes brother, rd were to giveeme wings, I'd fly.” John's reply was, “Brother Charles, if the Lord told me to fiy, I'd do it and leave Him Goorge Whitefield had three troubles—ra. he was too dramatio—that was one trouble; strabismus, or the crossing of his eyes, that ubjected him to the caricature ; vermin and dead ani- 1three troubles, Never thelase, his sermons were so buoyant that a little child, dying soon after hearing him preach, sald in the intervals of pain, me zo to Mr. Whitefleld's God," Ob, I fam only one who triumphed on a snowy day. Notice in my text a victory wmther, It was a snowy day, over a lion in a pit over bad 3 wh spirits undertak Jenaiahh rubs ng a great enterprise, friction, or trashes his to revive coiroulatic of 1d then goes at the lon, flarco and ravenou ' sharp weather, Inspiration hers admits spherie hindrance The snowy day at Forge i it an end to the for Am ar 4 re , because of rches, many a coast the rocks the do sands of Christians o v the depres f ree weat I whieved his 1088 and let us by the gram vietor wv day al: in the despair f of text over influences atm y when the wir lear northwe ro freezing poin OWS tha 3 and the sky is an in- oured all ns, it is a religion 95 per . Thank God there are Christians who, though their whole life through sickness has been a snowy day, have killed every llon of desp 1 that dared to put its cruel paw against their suffering pillow, It wus a snowy day when tho Pilgrim Fathers set foot not on a bank of flowers, but on the cold New England rock. and hat might have been more ap- Hed after a December hu oer dash against each other Hke two thunders bolts of colliding stormelouds, and with jaws like the erush of avalanches, and with a re- side to side until it i too much for human which has cons gquersd erawls away lacarated and gashoed and lame and eyeless to bleed to death in an adjoining jungle, jut if you and 1 feel enough our tie of temptation and ask for the divine help vouring monster that shall go reoling back into a Benaiah lion on a snowy day. fathers and mothers who have lost children, that is the drive back the lion of the thought got from gravedigger, who was always planting white clover and the sweetest flowers on the cometery, asked why he did so replied: “Surely, sir, I canna make ower fino the bed a little innocent sleeper thal's there till it's God's time to waken But bereavement with it, here, I think the Saviour that soo the Do ve noo think counts clover sheet spread ower it. 80, too, sir?’ Cheer up The best work for God and humanity has bean done the snowy day. Marine Terrace, island of Jersey Yietor Hugo, wrought the achievements of his pen. and bereft and an invalid hill, on the banks of Chebar, momentous vision of the wheels within wheels, By ti dungeon window at ( hn Bunyan the “Dal il alns,’ Mil- writes the g Wt DO of all time without Michael J y carved a ull | “6 gazed in f snow, an of on the at C had his chernbim and the dim light of a ri sketches @eves, it their lark sasivo the pnarola n ny the resurrecti enough. wy day gaiz hip and trout alted and inspired and glorified an again thelr and i. The bush itself has m And 8 Well, we have hs the nast r WO9 Past I ny snowy days withir nth, 2d to the chill of Lhe weather was the chilling may at nonarrival er Gascog: given | wiul we } , Whose piny sported being ip romp wn the Al. The ocean a few day before had dis ns ADXION re up wildest lantic, us mor ai was to travel, Teutonie, saved efforts stnneos hing NALD Las rontinent ’ yuntains of wt in th nth are what you eall it And if es of perdition should ir soul by that weapon ti'ean thrust them back and stab them thr ¥ powariess at your feet, Y¢ good resolution wielded against the powers which assault you is a toy pistol against an Armstrong gun; isa penknife held out against the brandished sabers of a Go into the sin cn your own strength, and the result will he Snoirit.” face, and his front paws one on each lung. Alas! for the man not fully armed down in lion! All my hearers and roaders have a big fight of some sort on hand, bat the “biggest and the wrathiest lion which vou have to fight is what the Bible calls “the roaring lon who walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” Now, you have never seen a mal lion unless you have seen him in India or Africa, fust after capture, Long caging breaks his spirit, and the eon- stant presence of human beings tames him. But you ought to see him spring against the iron bars in the zoologioal gardens of Calcutta and hear him roar for the prey. It makes one’s blood curdle, and you shrink back, although you know there {8s no peril, Plenty of lions in olden tims, Six hundred of them were slaughterad on one oocasion in the presence of Pompey in the Roman amphitheater, Lions came out and de- #troyed the camasls which carried the bag. gage of Xerxes’ army. In Dible times there were 80 many lons that they are fre. quenfly alluded to in the Soriptures, Jool, the prophet, describes the “cheek teeth” of a great lion, and [salah mentions among the attractions of heaven that “no Hon shall be there” and Amos speaks of a shepherd taking a lamb's ear out of the mouth of a lon, and Solomon deseribes the righteous and Daniel was a great lon tamer, and David and Jeremiah and St, John often speak of this creature, But most am I impressad by what I have auoted from the Apostls Peter when he calls the devil a lion. That moans strength, That means bloodthirstiness, That means eruelty. That means destruction. Soma of you have folt the strength of his paw, and the sharpness of his tooth, and the horror of his rage. Yes, ho {a a savage devil, He roared at everything good when Lord Claverhouse assailed the Covenanters, and Bartholomew against the Hague. nots one August night when the bell tolled for the butchery to begin, and the ghastly jos in the street was, ‘Blood letting is good n August,” and 50,000 assassin knives wore plunged {ato the viotims, and this monater wns had under his paw many of the dost souls of all time, and fattened with spoils of centuries he comes for you, But I am glad to say to all of you who have got the worst in such a struggle that there is a lion gn our side if you went him, Revela. tion v., 8, “The lion of Judah's tribe,” A Lamb to us, but a lion to meet that other lion, and you ean easily guess who will beat in that ight, and who will be ‘beaten. When two opposing Hons meet ina jungle in India, you cannot tell which will overcome and which will be overcome. flare at each other for a moment, with fall strength of muscle an they the the a 5 the barat huzza that lifted be eres into exaltation. The flakes of 1 the “extra” as we of 0 particulars, Wall, it will be better than that wh u are entering the b a have had a rough vovage, Snowy day after sno again the machinery rage down, and the opened it o » get the latest seen mistak birdie iptation have swept clearoverthe + #0 that you were often coms waves and ¥ have gove over me,” the trough mi were down in of that sea and down in the trough safe arrival, But the great who must come off from some Yilot, not one Atlantie, comes for the havens aad now walks the wintry on board and heals you when no sooner have narrows of death than you flad all the banks lined with immortals celebrating your arrival, and while some break off palm branches ing on one side will chant, “There shall be no more sea.’ made white in the blood of the Lamb." son into the smooth harbor, Out of lsonine struggle in the pit to guidance by the Lamb, who shall load you to lving fountains of water, soverities into the gardens flora and into orchards of eternal fruitage, the fall of their white blossoms the only snow in heaven. Insanity in Connecticut, The report of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane just fssued contains memoranda of the first quarter-century of the existence of the institution, from which can be de duced striking indications of the increase of insanity in the State, A report of a legisla. tive commission in the year 1885 showed that in that year there were 706 insane persons in the Btate, of whom 202 were in a private re. treat at Hartford, 204 in the almshouses and 800 outside of both. At that time the popu- lation of the State was approximately 40 800. Now, with a population in the State of approximately 790,000, thers are 1580 pa- tients in the State Hospital alone. During the last fifteen years, while the population of the State has risen from 622,700 to about 790,000, the number of patients in the hoapi- tal has risen from 608 to 1580, and it is now greatly overcrowded, > Cherokee Strip Romance, A novel “Cherokee Strip” romance was endod by the nntrings the other day of Al- bert Jones and Miss Clara L. George, at Ark- nuns City, Kan. Both Mr, Jones and Miss George the same piecs of land and were prepared to Afthe for it until doomsday, when Jones fell fll. Miss George, woman- like, wont over to his eabin to look him up and stayed to nurse him back to health. By: this time they had decided to divide the claim between them, but it was not long bo. fore they solved the problem in a better way | and resorted to matrimony instead of the land office. The O11 Output, Pennsylvania produced 80,000,000 barrels of oll last year, and the price was t cents a barrel better than it was in oo | RICHARD MANSFIELD. An American Actor of Energy and Resource. about immigrants There is one characteristic distinguished theatrical to this country which has attracted the attention of veteran theatergoers in New York,and thatis the extraord- inary repertory which English players present in the Complaints of Ameri- can actors about the financial success of Henry Beerbohm Tree and the Kendals very bitter, and as a 1 that there something in patronizing English players so I ishly and treating our comed character actors with indifler the COUrse of a short season. i Such players as is has been poi ted out time ti and y Visit heater when alien actors are pla ire entirely different fre nary attendants when ng hold the boards. numerous which Mr it the sort of peopl wh ray in aii the Irving as the Siberian fur cased mammoth their own. To the mis cated West the grove of Lebanon tu strongly nat Sierra Nevada; could not ion outweich of the other. notions of Eastern tree makes a dire: for respact, but jor worship. ever departs from the ordi course of nature strikes t of God. anc hem as mmediate work {i one which necessarily preserves some- thing of the divine. Such, for ex- ample, is the holy pine of Japan with its double pictures of which are presented to every bride and bridegroom on the marriage day ; and this claim to worship is shared potentially in the East by every great tree that is fellows. stem, seen to overtop its Marriage. In Germany it is customary for young couples when they hecome engaged to announce the moment. ous event to the world by a simple advertisement in the newspapers. Hans Meyer and Grete Schmidt are “veriobt,”’ ‘and that is usually the whole story. A popular Viennese actress, however, has been moved to public announcement of her matri- monial projects. The notice runs thus: friends and nequaintances that I am on the eve of appearing in a new role, which I have never hitherto ven- tured to assume. The play is enti. tiled ‘Marriage.” The part of first gentleman has been Intrusted to Mr. . It is upon his interpretation pend. According as he may wish, it will be either a comedy or a tragedy. In any case, however, it will not de- generate into a farce. for we are both of us sincere and serious. Moreover. all my married friends assure me that there is really nothing ian ‘Mar- rage’ to laugh about,” HOW DUTCHMEN SKATE Not Only a Nationa! Pastime but a Business. Skating 1s nart of the winter Hollan i fis 11 pastime. this season and quickes villages el towns, party 1 persevere A suQaer i totheexperiment, when t ard night there "Eh Id he chile sunds o tween the r i crept through be t a chair where the space was entirely too narrow fora g man to foll He had to acknowledge himself beat Ww ¢ lat § iv iasi. Whetl inked grandfather No doubt th w the story not gory t agus however, the baby’s mother he did. Cape Morn Indians. imme are cal The Indians of the cinity of Cape Horn Yahe- Darwin summed up de- { all previous observers he called them 80 gans the descriptions 0 of this race w of the lowest grade they have seemed to be t casual observers who have followed him. But when in 1870 an English missionary came to live among them permanently the facts which he i about them were found so as- tonishing as to almost belief. When he had completed a lexicon of the language he found it contained forty thousand items, or ten thou sand more than the highest estimate of the number in any Iroquois tongue, They had orators, historians, poets and novelists in spite of their lack of a written language The folk lore was of the greatest interest, and | their poetry was delightful, but the most remarkable part of their litera | ture was in their tales, of which the | point was found in what the listener was pretty sure to think of and not | directly in what the speaker said. Crazy on Checkers, hen Savages o all other lansnad learned DHSS An Atlanta (Gu.) man is so fond of | checkers that he plays the game three hours a night six nights in the week. He has kept this up for years, sometimes paying a partner, whose | time is valuable, to play with him Buttons were used in Troy. Schlie | mann found over 1,800 of gold. LLS ARE CAST. Visit to the Foundry That a Paul Ro- vere Founded. Jy invitation of Mr. Lane a smal party met at the Blake foundry a few days ago to see poured last bell of the ten which Will COmpose the chimes forthe Unitariar : mbridge. up many lines of the Bell,” 1 : 1 cnurch in Ca The s called Song *h marks nen has been Boston. The for the use of and will be ence in street car © $ introduced recently new cars are designed socalled trolley parties run only when especially chartered. It is thought that t will prove very popular for carrying theater parties or parties for other entertain- ts. The bodies of the cars are 20 feet long by 7 feet 4 inches wide and the motors are 25 horse power The outside covering in black and gold, with crimson panels, and the true gear are painted a dark green. The wood- work of the interiors is of polished mahogany and the upholstering is of peacock blue brocaded plush. Each car will be supplied with twenty chairs of an elegant pattern and these are to be supplied with wire hat holders beneath them. I'he brass finishings, the frescoing and the electrical apparatus are all in keep- ing with the geweral elegance of the other furnishings These cars will also be equipped with electric head- lights, which are also a new depart are Other palace similar in design to the ones described are in course of construction, and are to be run from the suburbs of Boston to the ciiy on Sundays for the com- fort and convenience of churchgoers. on # ney men each 18 K§ and ronning CATS How Volcanoes are Made. Voleanoes and how they are made was the subject ofa lecture by Prof. J. 8. Diller, of the geological survey, at Washington seminary. The lect urer discussed first the history of these burning mountains. Experi- ment had demonstrated that at a depth of fifty miles the temperature of the earth would be about 3,000 de grees, or hot enough to melt iron. The earth at this depth was kept solid only by reason of the immense pressure on it. When a fissure or other exit was opened up the ma- terial boiled forth as a voleanie product.
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