“REV. DR TALMAGR The Eminent Washington Divise's Sunday Sermon. Interesting to All Who Are Trying to Achieve a Livellhood—The Ravens of God That Brought Bread and Flesh. ' Text: “Aad the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening.” I Kings xvil., 6. The ornithology of the Bible is a very in- teresting study—the stork which knoweth foe appointed time; the common sparrows eaching the lesson of God's providence; the ostriches of the desert, by careless in- cubation, {llustrating the recklessness of Justnts who do not take enough pains with heir children; the eagle symbolizing riches which take wings and fly away; the lican emblemizing solitude; the bat, a ake of the darkness; the night hawk, the ossifrage, the cuckoo, the lapwing, the os- prey, by the command of God, in Leviticus, ung out of the world's bill of fare, I would like to have been with Audubon as he went through the woods, with gun and pencil, bringing down and sketching the fowls of heaven, his unfolded portfolio thrilling all Christendom. What wonder- ful creatures of God the birds are, Some of them this morning, ltke the songs of heaven let loose, bursting through the gates of heaven. Consider their feathers, which are clothing and conveyance at the same time; the nine vertebrme of the neck, the three eyelids to each eye, the third eyelid an extra curtain for graduating the light of the sun. Some of these birds seav- engers and some of them orchestra. Thank God for quail's whistle, and lark’s carol, And the twitter of the wren, called by the ancients the king of birds, because the fowls of heaven went into a contest as to who should fly the highest, and the eagle swung nearest the sun, & wren on back of the eagle, after the eagle was exhausted, Sprang up much higher and so was called by the ancients the king of birds, C« those of them that have crests, showing them t perials. And listen to the serenade in the ear of § Oo be the honeysuckle, dart from sky to water. Listen to voice of the owl, giving the keynote to all eroakers, And behold the esndor among do not know whether aviary is the best aliar worship God, There is an incident baffles ‘all the ornitholog the world. The an aquarium from which or to in my text that al wonders © in erop has been cu off. Famine was in the land. In acave b; the brook Cheritl ninister of God Elijah, waiting for something to eat. Why did he not go to the neighbors? The: were no neighbors, It was a wilderness Why did he not pic of the There were none. would have morning at the mouth of prophet sees a flock of birds approa Oh, if they were only partri , or if only had an arrow wit} *h to bring them down! But as they co nearer finds that they are not comestible, but un- clean, and the eating of them would spiritual death. The strength of their beak. the length of their wis the blackness of their color, their | h, “eruek, eruck!” prove them t They whir around head, and then they wing and pause on the level one of the ravens brings bread. and another te KE some I dried up. Seated the cave been be on i of } fluttering charged their tiny cargo prophet has encugh, and these black ser- vants of the wilderness table are gone, For six months, and some say a whole year, morning and evening, a breakfast and a supper bell sounded as these ravens rang out on the air their “‘cruck, eruck!” Guess where they got the food from. The old rabbins say they got it from the kitchen of King Ahab. Others say that the ravens got the habit of feeding the persecuted, 8 me their young inthe trees had only to climb up en that the whole story i these were carnivorous that Elijah Some say beasts, and therefore clean, or it wae ecarri and would have been fit for the yp phat. Bome they were not ravers st all, word translated “ri ens” in my ought to have been translated “Arabs.” so it would have read, “The Arabs brought not sav and flesh in the evening.” Anything but admit the Bible to be trus, miracle is gone. Go on with the depleting are robbing only the man-—and that is your- ful, pathetic and triumphant lessons in all ages. 1 can tell you who these purveyors were—they were ravens. I can tell you who freighted them with provisions—God, 1 can tell you who launched them ean tell you who taught them whieh wi By—-God. I can tell you what cave to swoop —God. I ean tell you ¥ 7 het to raven—God. will whisper in your ear, for I would not want to utter it aloud, one should est some shall take away from the words of the pro- phecy of this book, art out of the book of life and oly City.” While, then, we watch the ravens feeding Elijab, let the swift dove of #weep down the sky with on oulspread wing pause a soul hungering for comfort. On the banks of what rivers have the great battles of the world? are looking over the map of the world to sat of the ivine food, and been Hudson, on the Mississippi, on the Thames, on the Bavannah, on the Eine, on the Nile, on the Ganges, on the Hoang-Ho. battle that has been going on for 6000 Jan The troops engaged in it are 1,600 - L000, and those who have fallen by the WAY are vastor in number than those who march. It is a battle for bread. Bentimentalists sit in a cushioned chair a their pletured study, with their slippered eet on a damask ottoman, and say that Sthis world 1s a great scene of avaries and ed. It does not seem so to me. If it B not for the absolutes necessities of the » , nine-tenths of the stores, factories, hops, banking houses of the land would be 8d to-morrow. Who is that man dely- Hog in the Colorado hills, or toiling in a New England factory, or going through a oll of bills in the bank, or measuring a fabric on the counter? He is a champion forth in behalf of some home eircle has to be eared for, in behalf of some sh of God that has to be supported, in of some asylum of mercy that has to . Who is that woman bending or the sewing machine, or carrying the or sweeping the room, or mending garment, or sweltering at the washtub? [ is Deborah, one of the Lord's hero- nes, battling against. Amalekitish want, ih comes down with iron chariot to sh her and hers. The great question th the vast majority of people to-day is pt home rule, but whether there shall be home to rule; not one of tariff, but pether there shall be anything to tax. Be great questions with the vast majority the @ are: “How shall I support my ily ow shall I meet my notes? How all I pay my rent? How shall I give food, : and education to th who are nt upon me?’ Oh, if God would ip me to-day to assist you in the solution bat problem, the happiest man im this ise would be your preacher, have out on a cold morning with expert men to hunt for pigeons, I have gone of £4 fail quail, I have gone out on the marsh to hunt for reodbirds, but to-day I am out for ravens Notioe, in the first place in the story of my text, that these winged caterers came to Elijah direct from God. “I have commanded the ravens that the feed thee,” we find God Saying in an ad- Joining passage: They did not eome out of some other cave, They did not jast hap- en fo alight there, God freighted them, God launched them and God told them by what cave to swoop. That is the same God that is going to supply you. He Is your Father. You would have to make an elab- orate caleulation before you could tell me how many pounds of food and how many yards of clothing would be necessary for you and your family, but God knows with- out any calculation. You have a plate at his table, and you are going to be waited on, unless you act like a naughty child and kick and scramble and pound sauclly the plate and try to upset things, God has a vast family, and everything Is methodized, and you are going to be served if you will only wait your turn. God has already ordered all the suits of clothes you will ever need, down to the last suit in which you will be laid out. God has already ordered all the food you will ever eat, down to the last crumb that will be put in your mouth in the dying sacrament. It may not be just the kind of food or apparel we would | piles The sensible parent depends on | 18 own judgment as to what ought to be the apparel and the food of the minor in the family. The child would say, “Give me | sugars and confections.” “Oh, no!” says the parent. “You must have something plainer first.” The child would say, “Oh, give me these great blotches of color in the garment!” “No,” says the parent; *‘that wouldn't be suitable.” Now, God is our Father, and we are min- ors, and He is going to clothe us and feed us, although He may not always yield to Here Is where we all make our mistake and that is In regard to the color of God's providence. A white providence comes to us, and we say, “Oh, it is mercy!” Then a black providenos somes toward us, and we say, ‘Oh, that is disaster!” The white pro. vidence comes to you, and you have great business success, and you have $100,000, and you get Jou and you get independent of God, and you begin to feel that the prayer, “Give me this day my daily bread,” is ioe appropriate for you, for you have made provision i for 100 years, Then a black providence comes, and it sweeps everything away, and then you begin to pray, and you begin to feel your dependence, fand begin to be NOE Ears God, and you ory out for treasures in heaven. The Diack provi- dence brought you salvation. The whits providence L2ought you ruin, That which seemed to be harsh and flerco and disson- ant was your greatest mercy, It was a raven. There was a child born in your house, All your friends congratulated you, The other children of the family stood amazed, look- ing at the neweomer and asked a great many questions, [genealogical and chrono. logical. You sald —and you sald truthfully ~that a white angel flow through the room and left the little one there, That little one stood with its two feet in the very sanc- tuary of your affection, and with its two hands it took hold of the altar of your soul. But one day there came one of the three scourges of chlldren—soarlet fever, or croup, or diphtheria—and all that bright scene vanished. The chattering, the strange questions, the pulling at the dresses as you erossed the floor—all ceased, As the great friend of children stooped down and leaned toward that eradie, and took the littis one in His arms and walked away with it into the bower of eternal sum- mer, your eye began to follow Him, and you Jollowed the treasure He carried, and yon have been following them ever since, and instead of thinking of heaven LO only on hese ravens of the text did not bring | pomegranates from the glittering platter | of King Ahab. They brought bread and milk. God had all the heavens and the He sends this plain food, becansas it was best for Elije it. Oh, be strong, my hearer, in the fact that the same God {is RO- ing to supply vou. It 18 never “hard times® with Him, hips never break on the His never fall. He has the supply for you, and He has the means for sending it. He Gas not only the eargo, but | ship. Ifit were necessary, He would | or om the heavens a floek of m His gate to yours un . tes nd the akv y talon + dave » “ down talon t that y of the tex jah to hoard ng snough They did not » iast until the | up aon week, as formerly, you are thinking o all the time, and you are mors pure and tender hearted than you used to be, and you are patiently waiting for the daybreak, It is not sel! righteousness in you to ac- knowledge that you are a better man than you used to be—you are a better woman han you used to What was it that vaght you the sanctifying blessing? Ob, was the dark shadow nursery, it was the dark shadow on the soft grave, it a3 the dark shadow on your broken hes was the brooding of a great black tr was a raven—it was a raven! Dear rople that white providences do ament and that aiways fan be — 5 E i the € % Fe ev ee advan do Pav not yo f afl ¥ one time, You! that the great fret of the irplus, we want | } for fifty vears, os Wash the wngland than v of Heaven, | wiie, but you may | ne the gold | rontent with ing your fam- re is in the house, and say, “I don't | alistocome from rair bs ou RK in the m ing will ack a will hearthe flap { Edgar A. Poe's chamber door re.” you will of fon two | Wing, and inst iQ I raven 1 “only this and nothing m find Elijah’s two ravens, or two ravens the Lord, the one nging bread aad the other bringing 1: iumed buteher and baker. God is source, When the oity f Mose ( was besieged and the inhabi- | were dying of the famine, the tides washed up on the Ii a8 never before and as never since, enough shellfish to the whole city. God {a good. There is ne mistake about that. History tells us that in England there was The crops failed, but In Essex. | rocks, in a place wheres they had r 1 teed on the neither sown nor cultured, a great er ap of | peas grew until they fliled 100 measures, and there were bloss ning vines eacugh, pre sing as much more Et why go 50 [vwr? I can give you a family incident. Some generat 4 there was a great drought in C New England. The water disappeared from he hills, and the farmers living on the hills drove their eattie down toward the valleys and bad them supplied at the wells and | fountains of the neighbors. But these after | awhile began to fail, and the neighbors said | Mr. Birdseye, of whom I shall speak ‘You must not send your *flocks rnd herds | Our wells are giving | out.” Mr. Birdseye, the old Christian man, | gathered his family at the altar, and with his family he gathered the slaves of the | household-—~for bondage was then in vogue | in Connecticut —and on thelr knees before | God they cried for water, and the family | story is that thers was weeping and great | iat the family might not perish for lack of water, and that the i herds and flocks might not perish i The family the altar. Mr Birdseye, the , book his stall and walked out over the hills, and in a place where he had seen scores of times, without noticing anything particular, he saw the ground was very dark. and took his the ground, the water he started, and he bv and they eame brought pails and | buckets until all family and all the flocks and the herds were cared for, and then they made tr reaching from use and barn, and it is a living and tha + op Ye aa 1208 Now I eall that old grandfather Elijah, and I call that brook that began to roll is, when you are in great stress of eircum- pray and dig. How does that passage go? “The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, bus My loving kindness shall not fail.” If your merchandise, {f your mechanism, if your husbandry fail, look out for ravens. If you have in your despond- ency put God on trial and condemned Him as guilty of eruelty, I move to-day for a new trial. II the biography of your life is ever written, I will tell you what ths first chapter and the middle chapter and the last chapter will be about if it is writ. ten accurately, The first chapter about mercy, the middle chapter about merey, the ast chapter about merey, The mercy that hovered over your eradle. The mercy that will hover over your grave. The meroy that will cover all between, Again, this story of the text impresses me that relief came to this prophet with the mnst unexpected and with seemingly im- possible conveyance, If it had been a robin redbreast, or a musical meadow lark, or a meek turtledove, or a sublime albs- tross that had brought the food to Elijah, it would not have been so surprising. But no. It was a bird so flerce and fnnuspioate that we have fashioned one of our most foreeful and repulsive words out of ft— ravenous. That bird has a passion for pleking out the eyes of men and of ani- mals. It loves to maul the sick and the dying. It swallows with vulturous gussie ov ing it ean put its beak on, and yet ail the food Elajah gets for six motiths or 8 year is from ravens. So your supply is from an unexpected source, You think some great-hearted, generous man will come along and give you his name on the packlof your note, or he will go se- curity for you in some great enterprise, No, he will not. God will open the heart of: some Bhyloek toward you. Your relief will come from the most unexpected quarter, The providence which seemed ominous will be to you more than that which seemed auspicious. It will not be a shafMuch with breast and wing dashed with white and brown and chestnut. It will be a black raven. him. ir for in the Ask God want and you shall have it 11 it 1s ’ » wells oft by her lollar and i an had ¥ ago 10 support il svary day saked God fo led in the h was ast which God that woman, ten One day, rising servant sald, ml, and the coal is od and prayed for the coal, er that the servant threw "The coal has whose name I cou give never before and never You eannot under Care all that was nes garvant even n with iad ers of pen nl i 1.4 the jife you are liviog and that whic} avery tick of the wateh and every stroke o elook informs you is approaching. dread for your immortal soul comes to-day. Sea, They alight on the pistform. They alight on the backs of all the pews. They swing among the arches, lavens! iavens! “Blessed fare they that hunger after righteousness, for they shall be filled To all the sinning, and the sorrow- ing, and the tempted, deliverance comes this hour. Look down, and you see noth. ing but your spiritual deformities. Look back, and you see notl t wasted ap- portunity Cast your forward, and ¥ have a fearfal looking for judgment a flery indignation which shall devour dat look up, and you be the he ng ou oye nd God, and the irradiation I hear the whir you not the rush 2%? Ravens! Ravens! There is only one question I want to How many of this an fience are trust God for the supply ef their bod and trust the Lord Jesus Christ for the {f their immortal souls? A of the hoofs and the clang of «is of the judgment chariot the w matter will be demonstrated of an opening of their wings foes] of air on your 1 3 agemption clatter LIONS IN THE CELLAR. Strange Discovery of a Farmer in the California Hills, In the hills near Bunol, Alameda County, Cal., Antonio Nunez, a farmer, moved two weeks ago from his old house into another that had not yet been occupied. For sev. eral days after that the family heard strange sounds coming apparently from the cellar, Antonio ealled in a few friends to his as- sistance, and, armed with shotguns, they made their way into the cellar. They had hardly reached the side of tha stone wall when from beneath the stairway bounded a splendid California lioness, Before a shot could be fired the animal escaped through the open door, A second later ths lion, a big ugly beast, made a jump for the stairway. his time Antonio was ready and killed the animal at the first fire. While his friends stood guard at the doorway Antonio made a searc derneath the stalrway and found four cubs, They were as comfortable as kittens, having lioness did not return, AAA SA Watercresses in Plenty, A New York man named Kretchmar fs re- ported to have leased the sunken meadows on the Greenhills, Kingston, N. Y., from where he will furnish the New York market with watercresses. The water at this place is ico cold all summer, and acres of water. creases of the finest varisty grow there, some of them with stems four feet in length. The cresses are to be picked and shipped every evening in crates to New York. There is an inexhaustible supply at the jase mentioned of the spicy plant which makes such a favorite tab A Baby With Three Eyes, | Mrs. John Higgs, of Glenham, N. Y., gave birth to triplets. What is more extraor. di #till, one of the bables has thres eyes, two in the Plas naturally reserved for them, and the third just over the bridge of the nose, a MP os al None to Waste, The suthor of *‘Campaigning in Bouth Africa and Egypy’' gives a pertinent illustration of the virtne there is in necessity. He had been asked by a friendly Boer in Africa to go out shooting. Accordingly, he writes, he took a rifle and a bag of cartridges and set out for the appointed spot. When I met my friend, he said, — “What have you got in that bag your dinner?” ‘“No,” I answered, ‘‘cartridges.” Whereupon he roared with laughter, ‘You Englishmen must be very rieb,” said he. ‘They cost sixpence apiece here.” “Where are yours?’ I asked, “In this.” he answered, tapping his double-barrelled rifle. ‘You don’t intend to shoot much?” “Two spring bucks are all I can carry.” “Suppose you miss?" ‘Nobody misses when a cartridge cost sixpence.” There was something instructive in the remark. It perhaps proved why the Boers had, in 1881, beaten the Euglish, for the Boer, unwilling to waste his ammunition, will aim and take down his rifle a dozen times, until Le is satisfied that he is going to get something for his cartridge. On the occasion in five cartridges and got one. - i ———— do With What to in the fireplace or simply throw them with their soles down, snywhere out of the WAY. The former method does barm to the boots, aud the latter to the wearer. near a fire. should be set at a two feet away, with toward fire; they will then dry gradeally. trees sre available, put them in when the bools are about hall dry; bat it is of no use trecing boots that are sod den if day. too distance 1 ROLES the De Many regard themselves as disinterested, truthful and gentle that others shall be so mn IIo A SCIENTIST SAVED. Fre«ident Barnaby, of Hartsville College Barvives a Serious iiness Through Ald of Dr. Williams’ Pink Fillies for Fale People, the Ind Harte uhiican, Joao rnin situated at College liana, was founded years ago i tof the United Brethren Church when the Blals was and mostly o wilderness colleges were scarce ihe ' PROF. ALVIN PF, BARNAMY, A reporter recently called at this famous into of the President, Prof. Alvin P. Bar When last sean by the reporter Prof geal of learning and was shown room naby. Barnaby was in delicate health. To-day he It waz apparently in the best of health response to an inquiry the professor Oh, yes, I am much better than fors time I am now in perfect health; but my recovery was brought about in rather a pe culiar way.” “Tell me about It, Weil to said the reporter begin at the beginning.” said “1 studied too hard when at wool, endeavoring to educate myself After ¢ came professor, the profession mpleting the com mon course | here, and graduated from the theological course. I entered the and sited Brethren Church at a small place in Kent County, Mich nature, I applied mysell diligentiy to my In time I noticed that # ministry, accepted the charge of a Being of an ambitions work and studies my health was failing. My trouble was in aud brought on nervousness “My physician prescribed [for some Lime, and advised me to take a change of climate, 1 did as he requested and was some improved. Soon alter. 1 came here as professor in physics and chemistry, and later was financial agent of this college. The change agreed with me and for awhile my health was better, but my duties were heavy, and again I found my trouble returning. This time it was more severe, and in the winter 1 became completely vrostrated. I tried various medicines and different physicians. Finally, 1 was able to return to my duties. Last spring 1 was elected President of the eol lege. Again I had considerable work, and the trouble, which had not boen entirely cured, began to aeel me, and last fall 1 collapsed, 1 had different doctors, but gone did ma any good. Professor Bowman, who is professor of natural science, told me of his experience with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and urged me to ive them a trial, because the bene. fted bim in a similar case, and I concluded to try them, “The first box helped me, and the sesens gave great relief, such as I never had ex. perienced from the treatment of any physi. cian, After using six boxes of the medi cine 1 was entirely cured. To-day I am perfectly well. I feel better and than for years. 1 certainly recommend this medicine.” “To ailay all doubt Professor Barnaby cheerfully made an aMdavit before Lysax J. Scopes, A Publis, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post. paid on receipt of price, 50 conts a box or #ix boxes for $2.50 (they are sold in bulk, of RY sha 100), by ad esaing Dr. Wili- fame’ cine Co., Schenectady, N. 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