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.