Sr ~ Kul. DR TALMAGE The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: Texe: “Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it." Luke xv., 23, In all ages of the world it has been custome ary te owviebrate joyful events by festivity. The signing of treaties, the proclamation of peace, the inauguration of presidents, the esoronation of kings, the Christmas, the mar- riage. However much on other days of the pear cur table may have stinted supply, on hanksgiving Day there must be something bounteous, And all the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some time cele- brated joyful events by banquet and fes. Mvity, Something bas happened on the old homestead greater than anything that has sever happened before, A favorite son whom the worid supposed would become a vaga- bond and outiaw forever has got tired of sightseeing and has returned to his father's home, The world said he would never come back. The old man always said his son would eoms back, him day after day and year after yoar, He knew he would come back. Now having re- claims celebration, There is in the paddock a ealf that has been kept up and fed to ut- most eapacity, as to be ne occasion of joy that migt Ab, there never w i 80 wild be oid homestead than t ars do their bring into the t. musicians will take ther groups will move up 1 d All the friends wighbors in and an extr 1ipply 18 sent out to table of t he yer presides at the table that his Oh, how to have him t Ons brocher r and saya nothing. chastised good for him!” ing is good en wi housekeepors ing meat, The ww, and the gay yw'n the } are gath the sery a again! He was hh bold imagery merrvmaking + was dead an lost and he is does the Bible when a s t First o ; It is no tame thing The most tremend life is when he The grandest time Is when the great throng wh professed Christ who néxt mor: said GR es in servis y prodign u have seen | his temporal iaw after bh afterward y times a man and give his his experio of two el ehureh in ia A " neaven experience vot DOsSe peop le in this house sw the joys Christian religi wonld all g into the kingdom of God the pext When Daniel Sandeman era, his attendant said, pain?” “Oh. he replied, “sines T round the Lor Ye never bad any pain except sin!” Th sald to him, “Would you like to se ge to your friends? Stop, Lord, enough On ligion! Just pass o in which vou are indulging, world, into the maptur=s of the gospel, world cannot satisfy you. You bave found that out, Alexander longing for other worlds to conquer and tie; Byron whipped by disquietudes around the world: Voltaire cursing his own soul while ali the streets of Pars were applaud- ing him; Henry 11 consuming with Dd against poor Thomas a Becket — all illustrations of the fact that this world cannot make a man happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of 3 a0 : tog J 4 this Ch ver from those tame io th ame j joys of this shouted in the street, **God save the Queen!” One moment the world applauds, and the next moment the world anathematizes, Oh, come over into this greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude! The night after the Lattie of Shiloh, and there were thousands of wounded on the fleid, and the ambulances had not come, one Christian soldier lying there a-dying under the star- light began to sing: There ia a land of pure delight, And when he came to the next line there were scores of volees singing: Where saints immortal reign, The song was caught up all thrcugh the flelds among the wounded until #t was said there were at least 10,000 wounded men unfi- ing their voices as they came to the verse: There everlasting spring abides And never withering flowers, "Tis but a parrow stream divides This heavenly lund from ours, Oh, it is a great religion to live by and a great religion to die by! There is only one eart throb between Loe and that religion, ast look into the face of Jom pardoning and surrender yourself for time and for elsgnity, ana He is yours and heaven is Jou sad all is yours, Bomeof you, like man of the text, bave gone far astray. know not the history, but you know it, you know it. When a young man went forth into life, the legend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him into a fleld, the guardian angel owept a circle around where the young man stood. It was a circle of virtues and honor and he must not step beyond that circle, armed foes camo down, bul were obliged to halt at that clrele. They could not Fass. But one day a temptress, with dia. monded hand, stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tompted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the eirele and died, Some of you have stepped beyond ‘that oirele, Would you not fice this day, by the grace of God, to step back? This, I say to you, is your hour of salvation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anns what is called the clock scone, Fiat down on the pillow in helpless sickness, she could not move her head or move her hand, Bho was walling for the hour when the ministers of state should gather in angry contest and worried and worn out by the come ing hour, and In momentary absence of the nurse, in the power, the strange power, which delirium sometimes gives one, sha arose and stood in front of the clock and stood there watching the tlock when the nurse returned. The nurse said, “Do you ses anything peculiar about that clook?” She made no answer, but soon died. There Is a clock scone in every his- { tory. If some of you would rise from the | ved of lethargy and come out from your de- { lHirium of sin and look on the clook of your | destiny this moment, you would ses and i hear something you have not seen or heard before, and every tick of the minute, und every stroke of the hour and every swing of the pendulum would say, “Now, now, now, now!" Oh, come home to your house! Come home, O prodigal, from the | wilderness! Comehome, come home! But I noties that when the prodigal came, there was the father’s joy. He did not greet bim with any formal “How do you do?’ He did not come out and say: “You enter, Go and wash wall, and then you can in had enough trouble with you Ww he proprieto [ that i+ i Ome We have Ah, no! estate tion of Go Were na ipathelie, an of His ! AW lands a 1d two men worn reed the other he king sald, "Then nation find Aud he was sialn, soonn Our Bn ne he in king in altercation with having eaten ern and or hig rice like that despot, but ving-—and sultan, not a Ini » f - nNVIing, OTR Nor angels oan their joy contain, But kindle with new fire, The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre, At the banquet of Luoullus sat Cicero the orator, at the Macedonian festival sat Philip the conqueror, at the Greelan banquet ant Socrates the philosopher, but at our Father's table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors, Tho table is so wide its leaves reach across seas and lands, Its guests are the radeemed of earth and the glorified of heaven, The ring of God's for- giveness on every hand, The robe of a Baviour's righteousness adroop from every shoulder, The wine that glows in the cups i% from the bowls of 10,000 sneraments, Let all the redeemed of earth and all the glorified of heaven rise and with gleaming chalices drink to tho return of a thousand prodigals, Bing, sing, sing! “Worthy isthe Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end.” ‘That scene of jubllencse comes out be- fora me this moment as in a sort of picture gallery. All heaven in pletures, Look! Look! There is Christ. Cuyp painted Him for earthly galleries, and Cor- regio and Tintoretto and Benjamin West i | | but all those pletures are eclipsed by this masterpiece of heaven, Christ! Christ! There is Paul, the hero of the Banhedrim, and of Agrippa's courtroom, and of Mars hill, and Nero's infamy, shaking his chained fist in the very face of teeth chattering roy- ality. Hore is Joshua, the thter of and Gibeon, the man that sundown, . And hore fs Vashti, rsian court unadvieto or lift nd it this pioture athoron wtponed } the profligacy of the Ps we her vell of modesty or tf. And al ng the corridors of eat heroes and heroines ~David w and Miriam with the ( ls, an rinh with the scroll, and John with the seven vials, and the resur n trumps On farther i and : f our loved I I r noise, Ke red with the wo the sorridors 8 gone from the eye, Le 1p and embs All may ing and if no », what a scene 19%W the great In home there is the gion. 'e tice also that when a prodigal eo joy of the wninisters of Oh, it is a grand thing to preash this gospel I know there has been a great deal said about the trials ana the hardships ¢ the Christian ministry, I wish somebody ld write a good rousing f the Christian ministry, fession I have seen nore of tha vd than T will able to cele. eternity. 1 know some boast lithrinm, and they do not ise into enth wm, and they do not break {down with but I confess to you plainly that when I ses a man coming to God iand giving up bis sin I feel in body, mind and soul a transport. When I see a man bound hand and foot in evil { pated, I rejolos over it as though it were my | own emancipation, I notice also when the prodigal comes back i all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood | on Montauk point and thers was a hurricane | at saa, and it was blowing toward the shore, | and a vessel erashed into the roeks, and you { saw people got ashore in tae lifeboals, and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not control your joy. And itisa glad time when the church of God sees men who arm tossed on the ocean of their sine pliant their feet on the rook Christ Jesus. Oh, when prodigals come home, just hear the Christians sing, Just hear the Christians pray. It is not a stereo. typed suppliontion we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the bands of God with an impor. tunate pleading. No long prayer. en never pray at great length uuless they have nothing to say and their hearts are hard and eold. All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers. “God be mercitul to me asinner.” "Lord, that I may receive my sight.” “Lord, save me, or | perish.” Onoe mora I remark that when ths prod. igal gets back the inhabitants of heaven keep festa!, Iam very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraph chart you Save no idea how many cities are connected to. gether, nnd how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem reticulated, and news flies from city to city and from continent te sontinent. But more rapidly go the tidings from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it is announced be. fore the throne of God. And if these souls now present should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the heavenly kingdom to say: “That's my father,” “That's ¥ mother,” “That's my son,” “That's the ona I used to pray for,” “That's the one for whom I wept so many tears,” and one soul would say *“Hosanoa!” and another soul would say “Hallelujah!” Pleased with the naws, the saints below oma the tongues employ, 4d he oa be ROout their emotion, skies the tidings go, heaven is filled with joy. MORE FOOLISH MUR NO A Measure fo Protect the Sea ¥irds on the Farrallones. years bh dined the aMant recent fesred th { rest nveatigatl meASUre wen enacted, +B As high as 20.000 an freer exonllogt fifteen t the hae 1.4 $a . they sold at reiall fwanty- During have hosa driven i cunts per dozen, or five seasons the Greeks off, and the bean industry has carried Farral- eRR on by the lighthouse keepers of lones, the VOLCANO IN CREAT SALT LAKE, | | i i { and a Quarter From the Shore, The rather frequent shocks of earthquake which the section of the country about Salt form ofa voleano, which has burst out of the Great Salt Lake, a short distance sout of Promontory Station, on the Central Pa- cific Railroad, The voleano is right in the lake, about a mile and a quarter from the shore, and par- ties residing in the neighborhood say that the cloud of smoke rushes ap into the alr so high that it may be seen at a good distanes, and the water in the vicinity boils and surges into a sen of foros. Ths voleano is situated in the big arm of the lake, on the west side of the long range of mountains, visible from Brigham City. It has been in action several days. It began with asmall cloud and slight disturbances of the water, and has inereased until now it it a most formidable looking phenemenon and has had the eflect of creating fear and consternation among the farmers in {hat vicinity, ——— A AS RICH IN COLD, New Discoveries in the Wichita Mounn~ taine, in Oklahoma, Advices from the Wichita Mountains, in Oklahoma, are that new discoveries of both gold and silver have caused a fresh outbreak of excitement among the prospectors who for months have been campwd on the border, and renewed saergy has bean adopted by the United States authorities to prevent digging for gold, The marshals arrest any man thoy find on these lands. Old miners say that there is an area A0ty miles long wud half that wide as rich as any gold mines in the West, California not excepted, Atonetime twanty men were arrested by United Btates troops hustled off to Fort 8iil and put in the guard honse, Many miners are camped on the border and many are hiding in caves in the mountains, The Wichita Mountains are in he Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reservations, 100 ils 2 40uthiont of Perry. There are now no a thousand prospectors in the mountaine, ee Idle Money in New York, It is New York banks hold near) $05,000,000 10 <2o0ms of legal requirements, SUFFERINGS AT THE FRONT. “errible Scenes That Followed the Eat. tle of Cold Harbor, “Campaigning With Grant,” eral Horace Porter, running as in The Century, reaches the battle Cold in the March General Porter savs by Gen a nerlal of Harbor number that he sickly portion of bh ghly Chica all the The general-in-chief realized Wis the na swampy and country The malaria the dreaded by productive o lin ¢ and fever who had a if iis ravages when they campaigned in that soction of the I'he Pres uantions hominy troops recollection « country two voars | operations had been so act against sickness essarily been much neglected general was anxious, whi men some rest ims iy din camps Were of fre Bear Meat. fact bring {rom $20 50 each in the San Fraacisco meat he that bears io 8 lively here in t market and that there ia a mand all that moved many men who live hilis of all the mountain ranges 1 the hills for them and ship them hence Cubs are taken alive, kept in pits and fedd until they attain several hundred pounds in weight, when they are mar- ketable, The carcasses usually displayed by butchers during the holiday season are of domesticated bears, as the wild bears at that season of the year are hi- bernating. A stall fed bear deaigned for the market is treated in about the same way as a hog. He will eat the same food a hog will eat and about the same quan- tity, and his flesh tastes very much like pork, except for a gamy flavor which it possesses, Agide from this the bear's blubbar makes tha finest lard, his hind- quarters furnish superior hams and his ribs yield the best of bacon.—8an Fran- cisco Chronicle. —— w— AO The Schreckhorn is one of the most difficult Swiss mountains, having been ascended only three times so far. The third ascent was made a few weeks ago by an Englishman and two Swiss guides. Moose and deer have been given pro- tection in all parts of New Hampshire at all seasons of the year until the year 1901, for gent are 3 i {Oo scour i i With Might as well try that as 10 attempt the « Totter, Kegema, Ringworm snd other cutaneous affections with blood medicine Fetterine is the only absolutely safe aud cortaln remedy, Wit ILoeure {5 sure. 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