Sn A REV. DR. TALMAGE The Eminent New York Divine's Sun- day Sermon. Subject: “Shamgar's Oxgoad.'® Text: “After him was Shamgar, which slew of the Philistines 600 men with an ox- goad." Judges iii., 31. One day while Shamgar, the farmer, was plowing with a yoke of oxen, his command of whoa haw gee was changed to 1 of battle, Philistines, always ready to m treuble, march up with sword and spe Shamgar, the plowman, had would not probably have known | wield it if he had possessed one. he must go down under the Philistines, He had an used to urge on the lazy pbout eight feet long, one end to iron chise wl plowshare, f the tha no swo puncture end ther it + cnn ali empl turies, good in SAY fluen " niront t tell a Sund boy and one of t a may bes start influences that the other a Florence Nigh fllumine battlefields covered with and the d-ad, That was a tough land where a voung lady Babbath-school class, was intendent she would ha of the street. The worst of the ol from the street was one Bob. He was fitted out with respectable clothing by the tendent. But after two disappeared, He was found with his clothes in tatters, for he had been flighting, ond time Bob was well clad for school. coming once or twice he again disappeared, and was found in rags, consequent upon a girs ease ir ve superin- The s60- was provided him. be was converted, and joined the chareh, and lating the Beriptures, ealied Bob? rison, great on earth and greater in heaven. Who is teacher was I know not, but she used the opportunity opened and great has been her reward. You: Armstrong gun: you may not be able to hurl a Hotchkiss shell: you may not be able to shoulder a glittering musket: thing you ean lay vour hands on. blacksmith’'s hammer or a stick or a mason’s trowel plane or a housewife’s broom or a oxgoad, simple means. Matthias Joyce, the vile man, became a great apostle of righteousness, not from hearing John Wesley preach, but from seeing him kiss a little child on the pulpit stairs, Again, my subject springs upon us the thought that in calculating the prospects of religious attempt we must take omnipotence and omniscience and omnipresence and all the other attributes of God into the ealouls- tion. Whom do you see on that plowed flald of my text? One hearer sayr, “I see Sham- gar.” Another hearer says, “I sea 600 Phil- istines.” My hearer, you have missed the chief personage on that battlefield of plowed ground. 1 also see Bhamgar and 600 Phills- tines; but, more than all and mightier than all and more overwhelming than all, I see God. Shamgar with his unaided arm, hows ever muscular, and with that humble {nstru- ment made for cultural pu s and never constructed for combat, could not have wrought such a victory. It was omnipo- tence above and beneath and back of and at the point of the oxgoad, Before that battle was over the plowman realized this, and all the 600 Philistines realized it, and all who visited the battlefield afterward appro- ciated it. I want in heaven to hear the story, for it ean never be fully told on earth ~ perhaps some day may beset apart for the renearsad, while all heaven listens—the story of how blessed awkward and humble in- strumentalities, Many an evangelist has come into a town given up to worldliness, The pastors say to the evangelist: “We are glad you have come, but it is a hard field, and we feel porry for you, The mem- bers of our churches play progressive euchre and go to (he theatre and bet at the horse races, andl gavety and fashion have taken possession of the town. We have advertised your meetings, but are not very hopeful. God bless you.” or pulpit. He never gras of the best universities. He never took one lesson in elocution, and there are before kim twenty trained orators, giggle, Amid the general chill that pre- Wg opens bis Bible and takes for histext, “Lord, that my eyes may be opened.” Opera glneses in the gallery curiously serutinize speaker. He tells in a plain way the story of and the ral gens A classien! hearer wno took the first hon at Yale and who is a prince of p his spectacles becoming dim moisture tive of Mrs, A mother, who had ng up her 1 dan ors in Ir BR 1kar with a Suge RONS is her OVas and begins to weep Highly edue and plek to pieces and find fault bow old-headed ennes, What fs that sound y under the gallery? It is a and obs are catching, and all along the wall and the there y at the o s invited 1, they con Hn and in ap dark al.eys saying t} 3 ss tha f wi saving deed, the ag- rk overpowering the their rl ambitious statistics, In the grand review of heaven, regiments when the pass the Lord of Hosts, thers will of nurses aad Babbath- and tract distributots and rkers, before whom as they #thool teachers unpretending w will lift flashing coronet and bow in recognition and reverence, The f the Christian work for nation and salvation will be done by people of one talent and two talents, while the ten talent people are up in the astronom- feal observatories studying other worlds, though they do little or nothing for the re. or are up inthe ‘higher criticism’ trying to find out that Moses did not write the Pentateuch or to prove that the whale was not iarge enough to swallow the minister who declined the eall to Nine vah and apologizing for the Almighty for certain inexplicable things they have found in the Scriptures. It will be found out at the last that the Krupp guns have not done so much to capture this world for God as the oxgoads, rarefied realms of dacks, and my wealthy friend. who was a going to the Adirondacks this season, and you can take my equipment and I will send it up to Paul Smith's.” Well, it was there when I arrived in the Adirondacks, a splen- did outfit, that cost many hundreds of dole lars, a gorgeous tent, and such elaborate fishing apparatus; such guns of all styles of exquisite make and reels and pouches and bait and torches and lunch baskets and many more things that I could not even guess the use of. And my friend of the big soul had even writ. ten on and engaged men who should ae Sampany me into the forest and carry home” the deer and the trout, If the mountains could have seen and understood it at the time thers would have been panie among the antlers and the fins through all the “John Brown's Tract.” Well, I am no hunter, and not a roebuck or & game fish did I injure, But there were hunters there that season who had nothing but a plain gun and a rug to sleep on and a coll of fish. ing line and a box of ammunition and bait, who came in ever and anon with as many of the captives of forest and stream ast ay and two or three attendants could carry. Now, I fear that many Chris tian workers who have most slabo. rate educational and theologionl and profes sional equipment, and most wonderful wea- ponry, sufficient, you would think, to cap- ture a whole community or a whole Nation for God, will In the last day have but little exoopt their fine tackling to show, while some who had no advantage oxoept that whieh they got in prayer and consecration will, by the souls they have brought to the shore of eternal safety, ve that they have been gloriously successful aa fishers of men, and in taking many who, like the hart, wore panting after the water brooks, + What made the Amalekites run before Gideon's nemy? Each one of the army knew how much racket the breaking of one piteher would make. Bo 300 men that night took 800 pitchers and a lamp inside the pitcher and ata given signal the lamps were lifted and the pitehers were violently dashed down. The flesh of Heght and the racket of the 800 demolished pitchers sent the enemy into wild flight, Not much of a weapon, would #ay, is a broken piwher, but Lord made that awful erash the means of triumph for His Aud there i8 yet to be a battle with the pitchers, The night of world’s dissipation may get darker and darker, but after awhile, in what wateh of the night I know not, all the ale pitchers, crockery people, will be inebri a of the earth onverted and the whisky pitehs demolition Christian reform infernal o of pauperism i quarrel and or will fly the eart) weapon you can David echo went at Golia him? Brought other boy and kitish host sination first did ha int nee a sling. m, but the 16 helmet was of with the And the ting on Saul’'s arm k Eiah, the b SAW It Al i the nl irnishe with whi 1 ! COLD DUST IN I" hila- delphia Institation, with ®n u turned it over t DO AWAY WITH TYPEWRITERS. Louisville Men Take Dispatches From the Wire on a Linotype. A unique and sucoesaful experiment BY... hen the i the wire perator, pewriter into the Jslegea) Kr ¢ faci teiogrn Ld news was taken fr mad of the ty esetting Lion means of if the fo fating the transmission newspapers of | nected with the VURISVIIIe ox Evening Post and the Asso- with a view to doing away with the type writer and substituting the linotype chine, thus setting the pews for the paper directly from the wire. On a recent morning one of the Associated the Evening Post composing room, and B. G. Boyle, managing editor of the Post, and Richard Cogan, chief operator of the Associated Press, who are both telegraph and linotype operators, suc. conded in receiving dispatches and putting them in type directly from the wire, The experiment made proves that the tele. graph can be worked successfully with the typesetting machine and a maximum rate of In an hour's work an average speed of thirty words a minutes was malntained, STRANCE FISHES IN A CAVE, OQuarrymen Discover an Interesting Sub. terranean Cavern, Starruca, Penn. a little village on the Erie Rallway, between Deposit and Susquehanna, is interested in the discovery made of a subterranean cavern. Some yuarrymen, in removing a layer of flagstones, found the cavern, through which ran a stream of water of greenish hue containing speckled green fishes. The fishes are without eyes and propel themselves by their tail, oy in. variably swim backward and have a motion not unlike that of a fresh-water orab, Several have been sent to the Pennsylvania Pish Commissioners as curiosities. The quarry waa located in a bed of limestone rock in an unfrequented place, When the layer had been removed it was further observed that the internal walls of the cavern were lined with translucent stalactites and stalagmites imperfectly formed. People there are discussing tho possibility of its being another “mammoth” CAVE, THE CATCH OF CAVIAR. The World's Record Beaten at the Put-In- Bay Hatchery. A report from Put-In Bay, Ohio, says that the hatch at the fish hatohery at that place beats the world's record in the number of ogee taken in one season at one station, Dur ing the season, which has just ended, there have been taken at this station 115,000,00¢ whitefish egg, 11,000,000 ciscos or Inke her ring, 404,000,000 pike perch, besides Inke trout, grass pike, yellow perch and othe: varieties. Besides the eggs and fry shipped away, 8,400,000 whitefish, 11,000,000 ot and $00,000,000 pike perch fry have been turned into the waters of Lake Erie, With fish eggs so plentiful, there should be fie scarcity of Russian caviar this season | OUR DIPLOMATS IN JAPAM, They Idve Much Better than Those in Europe—8Balaries Good, Japan is now considered quite as de- sirable a country by our diplomatic agents as Eugland or the continent, The salaries of the consuls are high, and oar diplomats live much better in Nearly than those appointed to the Lig cities of Europe. The Consul General at Yokohama is one of the ablest men His and he is Nicholas W,. Iowa man of name nn capacity, Mclvor, is (yeneral is Mr. H. Betdmore, ween for years connected with and George who has gerviee has considerable atic ability. At Osaka and Hio great commercial centers Western Japan, the who wented by Enoch. : Pr - Cott Se, oF ett el So , ESE LE : a a Miia oe p i. resides, Wi tvs § od sil i is knighted ‘ of g y O00 55 RA OF ILION. JEFFERSON MM, CLOUGH REFUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FRON THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, A Great Sufferer for Many Years But Has Now Hecovered, (From the Springfleld, Mass., Union.) tion to Business, There ien't a gun manufacturer in United Btates who does not know Jefe M. Clough, and why? mn Docause he has been velopment of the two best American rifles, the Remington and Winchester, & Bona’ great factory at Ilion, N. Y. leaving there he refused » tempting offer of the Chinese Government to go to China to superintend thelr government factories, - the Winchester-Arms Co,, at New Haven, a* a salary of 87.500 a vege. It was after this long term of active labor as a business man that he found himself in- capacitated for further service by the em. bargo which rheumatism bad laid upon him and resigned his position mo.e than two years ago, and returned to Belchertown, Mase, where he now lHves and owns the Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has five hunared acres of land, Being a man of means he did not spare the cost and was treated by leauin physicians and by baths at celebrated springs without receiving any benefit worth notice. During the summer of 1803 and the winter of 1804 Mr. Clough was confined to his house in Belchertown, being unable to rise from hie bed without assistance, and suifering cone tinually with acute pains and with no taste or desire for food, nor was he abie to obtain sufMetent sloep, Early in the year 1804 Mr. Clough heard of Dr. Willlams' Piok Pille for Pale People He began taking these pills about the first of March, 1884, and continued to do so until the first part of Beptember following. The firet effect noticed was a better appetite and he began to note more ability to h P himself off the bed and to be better generally. Last August (1804) he was able to go alone to his summer residence and farm of 168 acres on Grenadier Island, the Thousand Islands, in the river St wrence, where from the highest land of his farm he com- mands a view for 18 miles down the river, and 60 of the Thousand Islands can be seen, Instead of being confined to his bed Mr. Clough is now and has been for some time able to be about the farm to direct the men emplo, there and he is thankful for what Dr. Willlams' Pink Pills have done for him, Theso pills are manufactored by the Dr, Williams® Medicine Company, Bohenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for 82.50, and are never sold in bulk. They may be had of all Araggiate or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Cine Company. Baking Powder HIB OWN DEATH WARRANT. Gotham Judge Napping. How a Was Caaght A prominent Ne tells that w Jersey lawyer 0 story local PUSBORSCS Lore than interest, It is a tru 4 olie man, about 40 ir stituted himself of one and in a sh ingenious 1 cated an evil frie His Honor hurriedly There was a sputter and a s« $1 TYP aper and ink and signed his own death 1s or 5 iy 3 . plunged in the rawl warrant Judge Irving had a word the lawyer the ’ Without i it do nt and put His compan. 1 the performance be took away who had watel with bated brea feve his eyes. 1 went to a could scarcely hat night the social gathering, which Late in the evening he found himself in a cor. opportunity had come to serve his war. rant “Judge.” he began, “I was watching n't for the life of me understand how you could read them all. Do you real. ly read them?” “Why, certainly. It's a matter of habit, you know. I have acquired it by years of practice. 1 can at a glance detect the really important sentence or word.” “Don’t you think that rather a dan gerous practice? Mightn't you put your name to something you ought not to? “Oh, my, no!” “You don't think the dollar foe is an incentive to a man to do the work a little more hurriedly than he ought? “1 can't answer for other men, but 1 am sure in my own case the money makes no difference.” “Well,” sald the lawyer, producing the death warrant and folding it In such a manner that the name of Judge Irving only was visible, “is that your signature?” “It looks like It.” “Examine it closely and tell me If It is your handwriting.” The judge put on his glasses, stared at the paper an instant, and then de clared it was his signature. The Inw. yer then unfolded the paper and hand. ed It to the judge. The latter read it and turned crimson, “When did you get that paper? he “I gave it to you this morning and you signed it. 1 told Lawyer Blank you would sign it, and you did.” After that the signing of papers In Judge Irving's court was as long and tedious a process as it had been rapid and careless before. 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