————— The Eminent Washington Divine's Suoday Sermon. Subject: “The Prodigal's Return.” Tex» “I will arise and go to my father.’ Luke xv,, 18. There is nothing like hunger to take the faery out of a man. A hungry man oan toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot, 80 much for lack of ammunition of bread. out of this youug man of the text, Storm and exposure will wear out any man’s life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The mos: awful cry ever heard on earth ery for bread, A traveler tells us that in Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit ns time, It is called the carob. the people, reduced to destitution, would eat these carobs, but generally the carobs beans spoken of h in the text thrown only to the swine, and they erunched them with avidity, But this young man of my text ild not even get them without stealing them. So one day, amid the swine trouchs, he begins to soliloqu oe, He says ‘“‘I'hese are no clothes for a rien man's son to wear. This {8 no kind of ness for a Jew to be enguged feeding swine, I'll go home. I'l go home, I will arise and go to my father,” I know there are a great many people who to throw a fascination, a nwithstan slo, about gin: bat, n } n and George Sand h a I d Pe were grreat of busi- in ling ail that ave sald ia low, coatemptible i ant fodder into ) ities that root wonl of man iss very poor it and women intended ns and daushiers an { when this young homs it was a very » and the only questi low him. Satan pron will serve him, but with rags, and he pinehes and wh ! after thema to us f 1g Vv IY war to business noi Comes uries and emo him. Liar, down withthe wages of sin is d Oh, th { the text was “1 will s {ime al hh." + hy “I don’ do vou have your know I know to meet that medi am territly eons to v in bod in soul, pone i have of ain Ch, th the go and death by death passe all men, fc ! sitoed.”’ you say, * 1 whlling to acknowledge t but why sl « particular rescus that you pt » the reason. ""Ex- cept 8 man be born a he cannot ses the kingdom God.” Fhis is the reason “There is one name given under heaven Among men whereby they may be saved,” Then there are a thousand voices hers ready to say: “Well, I am ready to accept this help of the gospel. I would like this diviae cure, Ist ine sv that a mere whim, an undefined longing, mmounis to nothing. You must at, ¢ of this youog mao of the text when he said, <I wil arise an ' go to my father,” me? How dol know if I go back I would be received?” “Oh.” says some man, “you don’t know where I have bees. You don't know how far I have wanderss, You wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew all the Iniquities I have committed,” dispatch? It is news! bas found the lost, Nor apgvis can their joy contain, But kindle with cow fire, The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike toe sounding lyre, Whea Napoleon talked of going into Italy, they said: ‘You can’t get there, If yun knew what the Alps were, you wouldn't talk about it or think about it You can’t get your ammunition wagons over the Alps,” Then Napoleon 10s in his stirrups, and, waving his hand toward the mountains, he said: “There shall be no Alps) That won derful pass was sid out which has been the wonderment of all the years since—the won. derment of all engines 8, And you tell me there are such mountains of sin between ‘our soul and God there Is no merey, Then see Christ waving His hand toward the mountains. I near Him say, “1 will come overthe mouniains of thy sin snd the hills of thine iniquity,” There snall be no Pyre- Dees; there shall be no Alps, Again, I notice that this resolution of the it is news! Christ young man of my text was founded in sor. row a' his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight, | maltreated his father. It {2 a sad thing after have that enfld ungrateful, How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child, { That is Shakespeare, i heaviness of his mother,” That is the Bible | Well, my friends, have not some of us been { eruel prodiguls? Have we not maltreated our { Father? And sueh a Father! Thres times a | day has He fed thee, He has poured sunlight { into thy day, and at night kindled up all the i #troet lamps of heaven, With what varieties “ons. Whose ave watches thee? Whos hand defends thee? Whose heart sympathizes with | thee? Who gave you vour ~hildren? Who is guarding your loved ones departed? Buch a | Father! Bo loving, so kind, If He had been # stranger, if He had forsaken us, if He had flagellated us, {f He had pounded us and | turned us out of doors on the commons, ft { would pot have been wonderfale—our treatment of Him-—buat He is « Father, & | loving, so kind, and yet how many of us {« our wanderings have never apo'ogized! | we say anything that hurts our frisnd’s fesl. | ings, if we do auvthing that hurts the ings of those in whom we are Interested, how quiskly we apologize! wait until we got pen nnd paper to write a | letter of apology. How easy is it for any one who is intelligent, righ: hearted, to write an | Apology or make an ap y! We apologize for wrongs done to on yw, but some of us perhaps have ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized, I remark still further that this of the text was foun sliekneas, [I do young man, how hal but there is methin ab of my text ma ho ie NOMmes) . “0 mitted resolution ded in a feeling of homes not ww long this mat MINS, how many ' his futl “rs the years, h ut think house, reading Was tht feelin times or his father he thought « “Now perhag " We read nothing nothing about she was broken t heart he had wx that AvVimi . * ne into ha sryiel ’ he + $0 passing snd th ind the and the father rdered the But and arrived in 3 mourning arrived, | nocke { he father was ov ¥ 4 rr vor) friends, Havev 1 waded fron When rags « the the her AS youd 8 ie hs XK? coma in ths ne robe in the 1 belisve the latter to-day, He iz waitin Jat I remark the lation was, The eo his fath and ninety-nit hat our WORULe We make them | ne If 1 resol & be vie 8 Christian fioxt , that amon hing at all, If] re day to pecoms a . disian sive at the sere Christian, that an its ton I rescive after [ neart to God, that & I'he only kind of reso anything is the resciut iy put into execution, here is a man who had the typhoid fever, He anid: “Oh, if I could get over this tortie bie distress, if this fever should deonrt, {1 1 could be restored to healt bh, I would ali the rest of my life serve God” The lever de. | parte]. He got well enough to walk around i the block. He got well snough to go over to business, He is well to-day —as well as he ever was, Wherv is the broken vow’ There thinz at a { to the year 1896, by that time I will have my { business matters all arranged, and 1 wiil have time to attend to religion, and I will be a good, thorough, consecrated Christian.’ I'he your 1506 has come, | Where is your brokem vow? “Oh ™ i some man, “I'll attend to that get my character fixed up: i wet over my evil habits, aM now give en to strong drink.” Or, says the man, “| am given to uncleanliness.”” Or, says the man, “I am given to dishonesty, When i (got over my present habits, then I'libe a | thorough Christian.” My brother, you will set worse and worse until Christ takes you in hand, “Not the righteous, sinners Jesus came to esil.” Oh, but you say, “I agree with you in all that, but I must put it off a littie jouger.” you know there were | many who came just as near as you are to thes kingdom of God and never entered it? | was ut Essthamp on, and I went into the cemetory to look around, and in that came tory thers are twelve graves side by side the graves of sailors. This erew, some years says when 1 when I ean Amagansett, about three miles away, My brother, then preaching at Easthampton, bad been at the burial, These men of the crew eames very near being saved. The Jeopie from saw the vessel and they shot rockets and they sent from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the boat and they pulled mightily for the shore, but just before they got to th- shore the rope snapped and the boat capsized, and they were lost, their bodies afterward washed up- on the beach, Oh, what a solewn day it was | | i § i i i 8] 3 theses twelve men lay at the foot of the pm pit, and he read over them the funernl ser. vice, They came very near shore——ayithin shonting distance of the shore--yet did not arrive on solid land, There are some men who come almost to the shore of God's merey, but not quite, not quite, To be almost saved is to he lost, I will tell you of two prodiguls—the ons that got back and the other that did not get back, In Richmond thers {8 a very prosper ous an! beautiful home in many respects, A wing man wandered off from that home, I» wandered vary far into sin, They heard # fer, but he wis always on the Ha would not go home, At the door of that beautiful home night thers was a grew! oatery, The man of the house ran down to open the matter, It was midnight, The rest of the family were asleep, There were the wife and ehildron prodigal young man, The fact was he had come home nnd driven them out, He sald: “Out of this housd' Away with ehlidren! I will dnsh their brains ont! Oat into tas storm!” The mother gathered them up and fle Tae Young man went out to find this and he came to where he was and saw the voune man wan- dering up and down in front of the planes wheres he had been staying, and the young man who had kept his integrity said to the older “Hore, what does all tiis mean al 18 he matter with Why in this way?" pid “Who wrong trues, one voung daar to f of this these who had staid at home, brother do you take ma to ba?" my brother,” va, I ane I a ything of my wife and chil. Are they dead? [drove them out last I um a brute, you think there is any heip for ¢ think I will evar get He sald, “John, this." The his throat an not, in the storm, aver this | tions" t will stop thes 1 have been pursue his Kissed u the sar. frees jaa rime has hae sasay you have committed a erime pod, against your own » Bn ust low man, against your far the day of judgment, against the whatevrsr your erime full par ton, and t take that pardon ¥ throws against rose of Christ been, here is pardon, ¥ ¥ nent you Hen y Father His about you and says: “My son, I tors It is all right, You are as 1 w as if you hai nev fied s aart? 5 3 PANS J arind er git is joy take the Father's em race? saver win Win FICHT BITwW LOZS. Park Lose: the Its Herd, The National Zoolag eal Oldest Bisaa he Nation we of Wan 2 uavle her in i r six! ing been £1 fed ins insporale i sions, The “Lo fio i# one of the Laest in at the kiting will be bard to re brit Mme f was Killed was one of the largest and oldest ia the serd, and for a tithe was the tyrant and monareh of all the others at the “Zoo.” A year Or two ago be had a very desperate fight with a younger bull, and sinew that tine has been Kept away from the rest of the berd and conflped in a pea in which there was al<o a young bull, who ap- parently was eatireiy peaceful, Oa the day of the fight the oid teliow amused himself by teasing the younger bali and pokiag at nim as they walked around the pea, The young bulidid not like this and began to show fight, A dozen times the bewsts rushed at each other and eame together with shoeks that startled the other animals and brought to the enciosure all the keepers, who endeavored to The fits oe the 00 great reg in felt them, as sufficientiy to prevent the animals from es- The buffaloes fought until both of then were so nearly exhausted that they could hardly stand. Then the young one was driven away and the oid ons enticed in- to the buffalo house, whers the surgeon in charge of the “Zoo" and his assistants labored to save his jife The iast blow that he had received from the young buffalo, however, had doue its work, and the animal Hved but a little time after the fight was over. The post mortem showed that he was frightfuilly gored and nearly all the bones of his body broken, It is mater of surprise to the sur- geons that he stood up and fought as long as he did. ‘Lhe young buffalo was not seriously injured, Greater New York's Population, Dr. Roger 8. Tracy, Register of Vital Statistics, bas made the following estimate of the population of the Greater New York, from the weekly reports of the of Health of New York and Brooklyn, and from the Federal census of the Jopdistian of Long Island City, Newiown, Flushing, Ja vaiea, Richmond Couuty and the part of Hemp stead that is ascexed: Total population, 3,165,059; population of New York, 1,916,668; Brookiy. an. Ki County, 1,106,000; Island City, 42,578; Newtown, 24,067; Flush« J 17,785; Coun potend One Disadvantage of Whiskers. There was a time when Senator Da. con, of Georgia, wore an ornate and lavigh hirsute adornment, and pletures tnken at the time he was president of the Georgian Senate so represent him Naw he contents himself with a simple mustache. How he happened to shear beard was told by the Senator him self recently ii “It was,” he began, “when the roller broke out and invaded the families in the Bouth It struck Macon, and somehow it found a viotim in Everybody to the skating rink, and consequently 1 went, 1 soon skating craze best ie, Wis aing ncequired a remarkable of grace gliding aver the floor to the | ulsation of exhil and 3 mpany by ladie were somewhat distrustful of th sk0L 1 l il as the degree in dre amy "Hiv Miy Ccinting waltz strains demand who rr oOwad I never forget, 1 guardian angel one ever of a lady whose main support | her feeble efforts to pi with the and tremulously gliding the « skates approached us from t floor nmong rowd, when direction. 1 saw at nd lost rothing but } Yifis IR Compu blind ian bh vidence wis gtroyed as Na Wa ngersus Than Cuns Cleveland Moffett, ww! still lower TORY the 1 nade lighter. In high-pros« | sure guns, the “factor of safety” is of ten as grea. as twenty, which means | that the guns are made twenty times 1s | tirong as ig theoretically nevessary or the strain they must bear. In ordinary yong the “factor of safety” is twelve, in boilers it is about six, in bridges it is vanally five, and in almost every con struction or machine it is at least four, tuese wide margins of extra strength iwing considered necessary ag an offset to errors in theoretical computations, er defects in construction and mater.ai as 1 are The Proper Food for Thin and Stout. Tall, thin persons, if they take suf. cient exercise to digest it, should eal starchy foods—plenty of bread and corcala-sweet frujts, cream, all moa‘s but pork and veal, and drink an abun. dence of milk and pure water. Fleshy jpoople must avoid all breads and gralne, sweet foods, pastries, cakes, ete, cream and milk, and confine their diet to rare beef, well-cooked mutton, joultry, fish, a few green vegetables, and sour fruits, drinking only sufficient water to aid digestion. Lettuce, celery, and watercress, though possessing ¥'¢- tle nutriment, have great dietetic and ebemical value, and their free use 8 commended to all. They are specially portant in the diet of persons en- puged in sedentary occupations, and these should also eat an abundance of fruit. Almost all kinds are of value to them, but aranges, apples, grape fra't, Gigs and dates are most important The Campal tn of Friedland, | The campaign of Friedland either less geulus or than other of Napoleon's victories, accord AN INTERESTING ing to the standpoint from which it is | YOUNG LADIES’ COLLEGE judged, If he is to be regarded through out its duration merely as a il then his conduct shows compn Hitthe ability He on where he did not expect a though he had ni nnd his that less, shows mare any Hace Between the came The race dle ti execute an ndmirable trifling me jogs wns compare with | ove tdies BI are of Friedland affair, his oppone: was fa incomplete It abandon Hellsberg, but it annihilate Lim or fentury commonpi compelled foe 10 ot necessarily the war When Traveling, Whether on pleasure bent. or i118 ness an every trip a bottle of Syrup of Pig acts most pleasantly kidneys, liver and bowels, 1 neadaches ani other forms sale in 9 cent and $1 battles by drugeists, Manufactnred Fig} rig vyrup Company only. 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