E—— —————— A REV. DR. TALMAGE. 3 y Sunday Sermon. He Discusses From an Moral and Neliglious Standpoint the Welfare of All the Towns and Cltles of Our Country Points the Way to Municipal Purity. Texr: “0, thou that art situate at the entry of the sea.” Ezokiol xxvil., 3. This is a part of an impassioned apos- trophe to the eity of Tyre. It was a beau- tiful eity-—a majestio ety, At the east end of the Mediterranean it sat, with one hand beckoning the inland trade and with the other the commerce of foreign nations, It gwung a monstrous boom across {ts harbor to shut out foreign enemies, and then swung back that boom to lot tn its friends, The air of the desert was fragrant with the spices brought by caravans to her fairs, and all seas were cleft into foam by the keels her inden merchantmen. Her markets were rich with horses and mules and camels from Togarmah, with uphol- stery and ebony and ivory from Dedan, with emeralds and agate and coral from Syria, with wine from Helbon, with needlework from Ashur and Chilma 1. Talk about the splendid Cunard and Inman and White Star Ilr international steamers—why, the bench of the staterooms in those Tyrian ships were all ivory, and instead of canvas on the masts of had the finest linen, quilted together and fnwrought with embroideries almost mirac- ulous for beauty. Its columns hadowed all nati Distant em beat. Majestic city, *' of the sea.” But where now towers, the ros of her dry thelr net sto let the sea ren ! miration of who build the her palace Blotted out Go t eities of staterooms of ¥ Our COArsH ns. ing O It is affairs ni sipal ; DOW the ei I hav Jegisiat: the m ous go cities deemed different prog cipal suprems Officials that fraud, and that her arraignment for glittering always weaken the pulse of honor. Every every store, bazaar, every factory in the cities feels the moral character of the eity hall, If in any wink have neit] cOnsure 1 shop, unprineipled ec susceptible t be unlimited H and sin, while, on the other hand, eials are faithful to their oath the laws are promptly executed vigilance in regard tothe yon council or a coum if outbranchings o all bargain making. A merchant may stand in his store and say: ‘Now, I'll have nothing to do with city polities. I will not soil my hands with the siush.” Nevertheless the most Insig- nificant trial in the police court will affect that merchant directly or indirectly. What style of clerk issues the writ; what style of constable makes the arrest; what style of attorney issues the plea; what style of judge charges the jury; what styles of sheriff execentes the sentence—these are questions that strike your counting rooms to the center. You may not throw it off. In the city of New York Christian merchants for a great while said, “We'll have nothing to do with the management of public affairs,” and they allowed every- thing to go at loose ends until there rolled up in that city a debt of nearly $120,000, , The municipal government became a8 hissing and a by-word in the whole earth, and then the Christian merchants saw their folly, and they wont and took pos- session of the ballot boxes, 1 wish all com- mercial men to understand that they are not independent of the moral character of the men who raise over them, but must be thoronghly, mightily affected by them. 80 also of the educational interests of a eity. Do you know that thers are in this eountry about 70,000 common schools, snd that there are over 8,000,000 pupils, and that the majority of those schools and the ma. ority of those pupils are in our eitiesl , this great multitude of chdidren will i i | — bo affected by the Intelligence or ignorance, the virtue or the vice, of boards of eduen tion and boards of control. There are oities where educational affairs are gottled in the low caucus in the abandoned partd of the eities by men full of ignorance and rum. It ought not to be so, but in many olties {t ta so. I hear the tramp of coming generations, What that great multitude of youth shall be for this world and the next will be affected very much by the character of your public schools, You had better multiply the moral and religious influences about the common schools rath- er than subtract from them, Instead of driving the Bible out you had better drive the Bible farther in, May (God defend our glorfons common school system and send into rout and confusion all its sworn ene- mies! I have also to say that the character of ofMoials in a ecofty affects the domestio elrele, In a city whers grogshops have thelr own Wav, and gambling hells aro not interferad with, and for fear of losing p Jitionl influence offi sinls close thelr ayes to abominations—in all those oities the home interests nee i to make im- The circles of the city must inevitably sated by the moral harscter or immoral character of those who rule over them, I will go further and say that eity ara thus affected, to-day has to o« nd with wils that the efvil jaw ought to smite, and while T wonld not have the eivil govern- wont in any wise relax {ts energy in tho ar. and punishment of erime I would have usandfold more energy put forth in up of the fountains of iniquity. fostaring the religl- yus interests of a The ehurch inte a th the drying {rom political p vddition to all the evils we must nec vontend against we shall not have to also municipal negligene Oh yar eities Christian AOD and that they wot nssarily fight that in all rise have giving so pire ship! y national h in where death e vigilant whi pers ating mn to seize, lent, i want our great cities are to-day gh character as that t! New York addressed to | whom there cama letters from London ask- letters addressed to “Jacob Hayes, High Constable of New York.” Your police need your appreciation, your sympathy, your gratitude, and, above all, your prayers. Yea I want you to go further and pray every day for prison inspectors and jail kespers—work awfal and beneficent, Bough men, ernel men, impatient men, are not fit for those places, They have ander their care men who were once ad Bad company, Or strange conjunction of eclrcumstances flung thom headlong. Godown that prison esrridor and ask them how they got in, and about their families and what their early prospects in life were, and you will find that they are very much like yourself, ex- cept in this, that God kept you, while He did not restrain them. Just one {alse step made the difference between them and you. They want mors than prison bars, more than jail fare, mote than handenfls and hopples, more than a vermin aoverad couch, to re form them. Pray God day by day that the men who have these unfortunates in charge may be merciful, Christianly strategie, and the means of reformation and rescue, Some years ago a city pastorin New York was called to the eity prison to attend a funeral. A young woman had committed a erime and was inearcerated, and her mother eame to visit her, and died on the visit, The mother, having no home, was buried from her daughter's prison cell. After the service was over the imprigoned daughter came up to the minister of Christ dn’t you like to ses my poor mother?” And while they stood at the soffin the minister of Christ said to that fmprisoned soul, “Don’t you fel to-day fn the presence ol vour mother's dead body, as if you ought to make a vow befors God that you will do differently and live a better life?’ She stood for a few moments, and then the tears rolled down her cheeks, and she pulled from strong drink, or sho had put on in honor of tho obasquies and, having bared her right hand, she put it upon the chill brow of her dead mother, and said: “By the help of God I swenr I will do differently! God help mal” And she kept her vow. And yoars after, when she was told of the incident, she sald: “When that minister of the gospel sald, ‘God bless you and help you to keep tho vBw that yon have made.’ I erled out, and sald: “You bless mel Do you bless mo? Why, that's the first kind word I've heard in ten years,’ and it thrilled through my soul, and it was the means of my reforination, and ever since, by the grace of God, I've tried to live a Christian life.” Oh, yes, there are many amid the oriminal classes that may be reformed: Pray for the mon who have these nnfortunates in charge, and who knows that when you ars leaving the world you may hear the voles of Christ dropping to vour dylug pillow, saying, “I was slok and in prison, and you visited ma.” Yen, I take the suggestion of the Apostle Paul and ask you to pray for all who are in authority, that we may lead quiet and poaceful®lives in godliness and honesty, My word now 18 to all who may come to hold any publie position of trust in any eity. You ars God's representatives, God, the King and Buler and Judge, sets y I His placa. Oh, be faithful in the dise of all your duties, so that when all « olties are in ashos and the world itself red soroll of flame you may be inthe mercy and grace of Christ rewarded for your faithfulness, It was that feeling which gave such eminent qualifications for cfllce her right band the worn out glove tha fo Neal Dow, Mayor of P rtiand, and to Judge MoLean, of Ohio, and to Benja- min FP. Batler, Attornsy (ieneral of New and to George Governor of Massachusetts, and to Thoodore Fro- Sanator of the [United nd to William Wilberfo 1 n be yo British Parliament, You make the of eternity ments of yo 3 drigas, the en on you yet ot ¥O pubile and all the years | and then the tribur tore which youand I n i #0 faithful now Pieasad with the news, Bo Kor angels ean the But kindle with whe sinner lost is fo And strike the souns 1 bea been a month; im oa WIL “Do all the boys | repaorier, #0 us him? asked the “Yeu alr: when they ain't got no job 3 themselves and Jim gets one, they turn in and help "im; for he ain't strong yet, au : “How m you? asked the reportes “The boy smiled: ‘1 don’t keep none of All the boye give up what they get on his job. I'd like to catch any feller sneak. ing on a sick boy, 1 would.’ “The reporter gave him a twenty-five cent piece, and said, ‘You keep ten cents for yourself, and give the rest to Jim’ “Can't do it, sir; 1's bis customer, Here, Jim.” soe,’ 10h 1a $4 oie ich perce niage does ho give it. 1 ain't no such sneak as that, The rirst Laflcvad in America, Gridley Bryant, a civil engineer, in 1826, projected the first rajiroad in the United States. 1t was built for the pur pose of carrying granite from the quar ries of Quincey, Mass, to the nearest tidewater, Its length was four miles, including branches, and its first cost £50,000. The sleepers were of stone and wore laid across the track eight feet apart. Upon rails of wood, six inches thick, wrought-iron pintes, three inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick, were spiked, At the crossings stone ralls were used, and as the wooden pails became unserviceable they were placed by others of stone. ~ Ladies’ Cila Monsters Venomous, Professor John Van Denburg deliv- ered an interesting lecture at the Academy of Beiences, Ban Francisco, recently, upon the Gila monster. He HATH “It has become a common supposi tion for the “that the bite of a Gila monster was Af POISONOUS BH that of a rattlesnake, but many of the scientists denied this Numerous scientific men stated that from actual experience they hal demonstrated that the bite harmless, One of these Dr. Sehu fert) had himself been bitten by one of the reptiles, years,” said lecturer, eminent Wie and, besides the pain animal, no ill results followed.” The then stated, the San Francisco Call, he had dem that the the Gila monster wa poi Its almost every case the teeth of the BKInD lecturer BAYH that snl onstrated iva of LONOKE, would in if CRNRE death, the lower aw je netrated wank the n per jaw of the reptile Sehind into + where that glands pigeons, from # injected the victim has He showed ten by I} : n a short time hh are bit {ome Journal, ed poultry market o . and Mr. Spreckel ’ neal 1s much amaller than it w as,’ Tests in Fuel Consumption. A greater variation in locom tive i i 1el consump n resnits from a varia- the than from a variaty the tran, constant, tion in number of cars per train i in the weight of number of cars being according to experiments P. Bush, superinten- notive power, Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg. The experi- ments noted consisted in taking a large number of observations on trains running between Chicago, Iii, and Logansport, Ind., 115 miles, {1} on trains of equal weight but a varving anmber of cars, (2) on trains of an equal number of cars, but varying weight. In the first case, that is with a constant weight and a variable num- ber of cars, the records show that the fuel consumption increases very uni- formly as the number of cars in the train increased. In the second case, the records give rather irregular re- sults in individual cases, but show quite clearly that with a given num- ber of ears in the train very little variation in fuel consumption results, whether these cars be lightly or heav- ily loaded. For example, in one train of thirty-two cars the increase in fuel consumption was only about 400 pounds between # weight of 750 tons the conducted by 8 of dent Are We n Natton of Bwenrers! 1 a recent sermon on swearing Rev. ¥. M. Goodchild, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, New York, says: “There 8 no vice more prevalent than that of profane swearing. men swear, the women swear, children with the lisp hardly out of thetr speech swear, I suppose the name er as ln blasphemy. prohibition. It may at least be sald too often and far too lightly. Iles are told In any custom sink the place. What strange verdicts juries render; but they are under oath, What singular charges judges oath. 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