REV. DR. TALMAGE,
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
the
Secret
of
Comes
Mighty Influence Yor
World's GoodIt
Piaces—=The Christinn Home the Foun-
Prayer
From
the
vil.
tain of Pious and Gracious Influences.
answered thee
“I
of thunder, Pralms
in
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‘EXT:
pince
st midnight, and 2 o'clock in the
morning: far enough from sunset and sun-
rise to make the darkness very thiok, and
the Egyptian army in pursuit of the eseap-
ing Israelites ars on the bottom of the
its waters having been set up on either
in masonry of sapphire, for God oan
on wall as solid out of water as out
suite, and the trowels with which
walls were built were none the less
woerful because invisible, Such walls
had never before been lifted When 1 saw
the waters of the Red Sea rolling through
the Suez Canal they were blue and beauti-
ful and flowing other waters, but as
tue Egyptians them built into
walls, now one and now on the
otaer, they have bean frowning wa-
tars. for it was probable that the same
or that lifted them up might suddenly
rostrate. A great lantern of
wv this chasm between the
door of that lantern
Bea
Blue
Max
these
like
look up to
aide
on
must
POWs
fling them }
cloud hung ov
tN walls, 1
1
t { the back of the lantern
yward the Egyptians, and it growled
abled and jarred with thunder; not
ke that whish earth
er a drought, promising the refreshing
sharged and surcharged with
1 [he Egyptian captains
mind, and the horses
und would not answer
hariot wheels got
1 Hght,
nn
WwW t
¥ ra
ler sheers the
in
sharioteers
Dad no in
Wf money
gl will
to part with his bonds
wortgages.” One day he wrote {0
minister: “Please to call immediately.
have a matter of great importance about
which I want to see you.” When the pastor
eame in the man could not speak for emo-
tion, but after awhile he gathered seif-con
trol enough to say
[ have lived for this world too long. 1
want to know if you think I can he saved,
and, if so, I wish yon w sid tell me how.”
Upon his soul the light soon dawned, and
the old miser, not only revolutionized in
heart but in life, began to scatter bene
A ue
have, wi
ROD
e he
oh
2
LY
tins of the day he became a cheerfu
bountiful almoner,
| and
What was the cause of
this change everybody asked; and no one
was capable of giving an intelligent
answer, In another part of that
church sat Sabbath by Sabbath a beautifal
and talented woman, who was a great
society leader. Bhe went to church be
cause that was a respectable thing to do,
and in the neighborhood where oho lived
jt was hardly respectable nes 0 go.
Worldly was she to the last degree. and all
her family worldly. She had at her house
the finest germans that were ever danced
and the costliest favors that were ever
given, and though she attended church
she never liked to hear any story of pathos
and as to religious emotion of any Kind
she thought it positively vulgar. Wines,
ecards, theaters, rounds of costly gayety
were to her the highest satisfaction. One
day a neighbor sent in a visiting ecard and
this lady came down the stairs in tears,
and told the whole story how she had not
glept for several nights, and she feared she
was going to lose her soul, and sho won-
dered if some one would not come around
and pray with her, From that time her
entire demeanor was changed, and though
| hor amenities of life, she consecrated her
| beauty, her social position, her family, her
all to God and the church and usefulness.
Everybody sald in regard to her “Huve
you noticed the change, and what in the
| world caused it?” And no one could make
satisfactory explanation, In the course of
| two vears, though there was no general
awakening in that church, many such {so
| lated cases of unexpected and unac
countable conversions took place. The
| very people whom no one thought would
| bo affected by such considerations were
converted, The pastor and the officers of
| the church were on the lookout for the
solution of this religious phenomenon
and what is it?"
| At last the discovery was
| was explained A poor old
man standing in the vestibu
one Sunday morning trying to get her
breath again before 1s wont upstairs to
the gallery, heard the inquiry and told the
st, For years had been in the
habit of concentrating all her prayers for
particular persons in that church, She
would ses some man or woman present,
and, though she might not know tha per
| son's name, she would pray for that pe
until he or she was © i to God,
her prayers were for that one person
that one, She waited and waited for com
munion days to an the andidates
| for memberfhip yd up whether her pray
ers had been effectual It turned that
marvel instances of of
were the result of that old
made and all
le of the ahuroh
#
jeore sie
avert
out
thesn His
WOmAan's pray
itiead,
}
wr and unnd
rated |
That
place of the thun fer. There
den, unknown, yslerious #
most all the moral an sl
} Not
vr strikos
bent and wirzenad and po
A little aloud of ¢
ering in the galleries
‘
ns imanity hov-
the seo
was tae
is
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18 p
ten
gome
for
IWOTr (
mitlio
Tal
nstrated,
ITAVErs ev
Bi
bie cloth and a
is world and |
much at- |
old folks r
re they are in
industry and pi
farmer, ar
mechanie,
minister of
ie d
arnations
Th
other a merchant,
another a physician
the Gospel, useful,
admired, honored. Whet a
good thosa seven sons and |
Where did they get the power?
wa ty.
| haps ne a
{ another a
another a
consistent,
power for
{ daughters!
| the eolleges? Oh, no, those these may have
helped. From their superior mental
| dowment? No;Ido not think they had un- |
{ usual men aliber
| rumstances? No, they had nothing of what
fs called good Ine
i I think we will
ef
take n train and ride to |
tha depot nearest to the homestead from
| which those men and women starte i. The
| train halts, Let us stop a few minutes at |
| village graveyard and see the tomb-
{ stones of the parents, Yea, the one was |
seventy-four years of age and the other
{ seventy-two, and the epitaph says '‘that
{ after a useful life they died a Christian |
death.” On over the country road we ride
the road a little rough, and once down in
a rut it is hard to get the wheels out again
the
| without breaking the shafts,
{| we come to the
| house,
i Let me get ont of the wagon and open
| the gates while you drive through, Here
| girls many years ago used to play, but
{in other hands, Yonder is the orchard,
| ripe. There js the mob, where thay hunted
i for exps befors Easter. There ia the door-
i ill upon which they used to sit, There is
{ the room in which they had family pray-
{ ers, and where they all knelt—the father
i giris there,
i
{
{
:
There la the place that decided thous gaven
earthly and fmmortal destinies ahold!
Behold! That is the secret place of thunder,
The ronson wo ministers do not aecoms
plish more is because others do not pray
for us enough, and we do not pray for ours
solves enough, Every minister could toll
vou a thrilling story of sermons, sermons
hasty and impromptu, because of funerals
and stek beds, annoyances in the parish,
those sermons directing many
gouis to God, And then of ser-
mons prepared with great care, and
rosearch and toll uninterrupted; yet those
sermons falling flat or powerless. The
difference was probably in the amount of
private prayer offered for the success of
those services,
Oh! pray for Poor sermons in the
pulpit are the curse of God on a prayerioss
parish People ‘What is the matter
many
of them seem dissatisfied with the Bible,
and they are trying to help Moses and Paul
and Christ out of inconsistencies nnd con-
tradietions by fixing np the Bible,” As
well let t! fefnns go to irk to fix up
Haydn's or Hand “Tarnel in
Egypt,” or let the painters go to fixing up
Raphael figuration,” or architects
: } Wren's Bt,
8 “Transl
ing up Christopher
t 1 will tell you what is the mat-
unconverted
are too many
Thelr hearts have never bean
{God, A in-
tne deadest fall
perdition, Alans
From apol-
dogmatios,
trying to
the.
us!
BAY,
tors
changed nero
ire
for cles!
% and
YY Are
1 trans
ind exegesis
¢ hairs between north and
fron rendental
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"A A N Y
a Solution of the §
Be Oered in
Prizes Vor roblem to
taly.
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girigis
artmen ft
n next April at Ts
nilar kind are expected |
$3
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{il be offered for
prot and t
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th states
em the {
nited
CUT HIS CORN AT NICHT,
Pennsylvania Farmers Pleasantly Sur.
prise a Siek Neighbor,
mense fal
&,
ITE Wa
xin
and this w
All day Friday Mr. Bands worked as hard
as his poor health permitted, and quit very
After the moon had risen
about thirty neighbors gathered in his corn
field and industriously worked until after
midnight, when the corn was all in shocks,
Next morning, when Mr. Sands went to the
field. he was astonished to find his task
completed.
A. R.
In 1895 a number of Indiana Grand Army
men resolved to colonize In Irwin County,
Georgia, upon the spot where Jefferson
Davis was arrested as he was trying to es.
cape. They founded the town of Fitzgerald,
Within two years they have grown so strong
8 county site
from its old place, Irwinviles, to Fitzgerald,
The owinind valuation of the county in
1805 was something more than $1,000,000,
which has been increased in the last two
years to nearly $3,000,000,
Georgia's Prosperous OG. Colony,
Series of Shocking Crimes,
Gustave Muller surrendered himself to
Asp
proof of the truth of his confession he pre-
duced from his pocket four human ears,
found two bodies, Muller subsequently
jan
and fourteen wives whom he had
Sheep Ralsing Booming.
Sheep raising in eastern Oregon has im-
sroved to such an extent that whereas
ambs in any quantity could be bought a
anxious to sell at that price,
4
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
URAL TOPICS,
Planting Peach Pits--Have
for Enforcing Plants, Eto. Etc.
PLANTING PEACH PITS
Peach
planted s¢
they should bs
place. It is
shell hardens
that the
stones ought either Lo
tlie
kept
on after peach 1s
Of in a mo
that
LO
commonly sald
by exposure
or
germinating power
The real
the hell
geed is 1m trouble
that the in
y
!
that w vith
plenty o
meat from
nachs
¢
Push the pigs as
and sell them when they weig
rough feed
idly
way from 15 to
the defnan 0
market caref
wanted
the
and
eat u
250 pounds
to a {f buvers
and furnish
ening h
what
drop
four
n
In fatt
during the aat
OFS out
giop wopks
them all the cor will
give they
p clean twice
clean cold
M. C. Thomas,
Agriculturist
walter
of i in American
BLACK VS. WHITE OATS
The popular prejudice in this conn-
try is for white oats, as is generally
explained because the black oatls have
much thicker and harsher chaff But
ths ia not always the The
block oats sre generally heavier, and
for this reason they are mostly grown
in northern Burope It is
moister European climate, rather than
in our dry and hot American summers,
that the oat attains its highest excel-
lence. The tendency of oats ia to run
out in this country, though if only
heavy oats are used for seed, and the
seed is sown early, #0 that it will tiller,
CARe,
before the seed needs renewing. When
pew seed is secmad, it Is usoally
ealled by some high-sounding rame,
| Black
| wo be
Iris
geed oats
Norway, Russian or h
¢ as good can
grown in Maine as any where, and
pay more Southern farmers
procure Maine oats for seed wl
their home
teriorate
If heavy on
quantity ed
grown oats beg
It never pays to use
are f
peed alone a
graaller will be su
{ clent
Boston C
as the plants will spread more
SPREADING
' Farmers often Keep
he barnvard, under
it only
iwn
manure
face of the
more frequent
¥
th 0
should be need t i FA ETOW
some fertilizing crop.—Farm and Fire-
gide
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES
chickens
will
The number of motheriess
increases each year, and the hen
soon bejfinown as aspecialist-—a layer
of eggs only.
The man who markets his poultry in
a thin condition loses a good oppor
tunity to make a paying investment
| {n a small amount of grain.
A flock of turkeys will clean out the
should be cut
!
before throwing |
“x
kly de
bedding
h condi it i185 an
on
t
on
Crow?
F i nex
wih ©
una
a
1
f
i
i
.l
las
lvoe
ck
Temperature of Food
a iempe rat
legrees Fahre
at extremely high or exp
low temperatures, may do 0
has whe
Drinking water
Oh degrees,
anid vr most
swallowed rapidly
best gelitzers a
WArm
whould not be conled to mo
red wine is best
wine at 50: chan
which it
temperature allowed, b
shou taken colder than
degre Coffee and tea should not
taken hotter than from 105 to 120
milk is considered cold at
taken at
ia water should be slightly
and Ix
than 0 degrees;
degrees white
pagn¢
LY
one liquor
at owes
1.4
iG
not be
| fn short order. In the large tobacco
| service.
Markets can be found in the swall
towne as well as in the large cities,
| At present many small towns get eggs
| from Philadelphia, prices Deing
higher in the towns than in that city.
| This fact should induce farmers to sell
| nearer home if possible and save
| transportation charges.
| Siraw may be added to the barnyard
| manure becanse it is plentiful, but it is
| better to utilize the straw in some
| manner before it reaches the heap. It
A A HTS
best aroma.
No Crouse Shooting at Paimoral
Neither the members of her famf
on the Queen's preserves
The supply is so small th
only Her Majesty's keepers now show
st Balmoral, although in the oid da
the Prince Consort used to go out
ularly. and it was for his convenien
that the luncheon hour on Deeside
fixed at 2 o'clock, at which it still j
mains. —New York Journal
Among the newest jackets are
with straight fronts slightly
away from the waist line,