WEEKLY SERMONS. AN IMPRESSIVE DISCOURSE BY REY. DR, TALNAGE, Subject: “The Gallows For Haman From the Life and Death of This Persian Courticr Living Lessons of Warning and Instruction Are Drawn, Text: “So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Morde- cal. "Esther vil., 186, Here is an Oriential eourtier, abont the most offensive man im Hebrew history, Haman by name, He plotted for the de- etruction of the Israelitish nation, and I wonder not that in some of the Hebrew synagogues to this day when Haman's name is mentioned, the congregation clench their fists and stamp their feet and ory, “Let his name be blotted out!” Ha- man was Prime Minister in the magnificent court of Persia, Thoroughly appreciative of the honor conferred, he expects every- body that he James to be obsequious. Coming in one day at the gate of the pal- ace, the servants eo their heads in honor of his office; but a Hebrew, named Morde- | cal, gazes upon the passing dignitary | without bending his head or taking off his hat. He was a good man, and would not have been negligent in the ordinary court. esies of life, but he felt no respect either | for Haman or the nation from which he | had come. So he could not be hypoeriti- cal; and while others made Oriental salaam, getting clear down before this Prime Minister when he passed, Mordeoal, the Hebrew, relaxed not a muscle of his neck, and kept his chin clear up. Because of that affront Haman gets a orec from Ahasuerus, the dastardly king, for the massacre of all the Israelites, and that, of course, will include Mordeoal To make a long story short, through ! Queen Esther this whole plot was revealed to her husband, Ahasuerns. One fight Alasuerus, who was afflicted with in- | somnia, in his sleepless hours calls for his | sacretary to read him a few passages of | Persian history, and so while away the | night. Ian the book read that night to the | king an account was given of a conspi- racy, from which Mordecai, the Hebrew, had saved the king's life and for which | kindness Mordecai had never received any | reward. Haman, who had been fixing up | a nice gallows to hang Mordecal on, was | wa.king outside the door of the king's | slesping apartment and was called in. The | king told him that he had just had read to him the account of some one who had | saved his, the king's life, and he asked what reward ought to be given to such a one. Sell-copceited Haman, supposing that | he himself was to get the honor, and not | imagining for a moment that the deliv. erer of the king's life was Mordeecal, says: | “Why, your majesty ought to makea tri- umph for him, and put & crown on him and set him on a splendid horse, high-step- ping and full-blooded, and then have one | of your princes lead the horse through | the streets, crying, ‘Bow the knee, here comes a man who has saved the king's Ife!’ ” Then sald Ahasuerus in severs tones | to Haman: “I know all about yourseoun- drelism. Now you go out and make al triumph for Mordecai, the Hebrew, whom you hate. Put the best saddle on the finest horse, and you, the prince, hold the stirrup while Mordeeal gets on, and then lead his horse through the street. Make | hasta!” { What a spectacle! A comedy and tragedy at one and the same time, There they go! | Mordecal, who had been despised, now starred and robed, in the stirrups. Haman, the chancellor, afoot, holding the prane- {ng, rearing, champing stallion. Mordecai bepds his neck at last, but it is to look down at the degraded Prime Minister walking beneath him. Huzza for Mor- decal! Alas for Haman! Bat what a pity to have the gallows, recently bulit, tirely wasted! Itis fifty cubits high, and | builit with care, Haman had erected it for Mordeeal, by whose stirrups he now walks as groom, Stranger and more start. ling than any romance, there go up the steps of the scaffolding, side by side, the hangman and Haman the ex-chancellor “80 they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordeeal Although many years have since cowardly Ahasuerus re beautiful Esther answerad and Persia perished, yet from death of Haman we may draw living | sons of warning and instruction. Aad first, we come to the practical suggestion that, when the heart is wrong, things ve ry insignificant will destroy our comfort. Who would have thought that a great Prime Minister, admired and applauded 1 ¥ | millions of Persians, would have been so nettied and harassed by anything trivial? What more could the great dignitary have wanted than bis chariots and attendants, | and palaces and banquets? If affluence of elreumstances CAN MARS & man contented and happy, surely Haman should have been contentea and happy. No; Morde- eal’s refnsal of a bow takes the glitter from | the gold, and the richness from the pur. ple, and the speed from the chariots, With | a heart puffed up with every infiat of | vanity and revenge, it waa impossible for him to be happy. The silence of Mordeeai | at the gate was louder than the braying of i trumpets in the palace. Thus shall it al- ways be If the heart is not right. Clreum- | stances the most trivial will disturb the | spirit, It is not the great calamities of life that | sroate the moet worriment., [I Lave seen | men, felled by repeated blows of misfor- tune, arising from the dust, never despond- | ing. Bat the most of the disquiet which | men suffer {s from (nsignificant causes; as | 8 lion attacked by some beast of prey turns | easily around and slays him, yet runs roar- | ing through the forests at the aliehting on | his brawny neck of a few insects. You | meet some great loss in business with com- | parative composure; but you ean think of | petty triokerins inflicted upon you, which | arouse all your capacity for wrath, and re- r/inin your heart an unbearable annoy- ance. If you look back upon your life, you will find that the most of the vexations and disturbances of spirit, which you feit, were produced by circumstances that were not worthy of notices. If you want to be Lappy, you must not care for trifles, Do not be too minute in your insghotion of the treatment you receive from others, Who cares whether Mordecal bows when yon ass, or stands ereet and stiff as a codar? hat woodman would not make much clearing in the forest who should stop to bind up every little bruise and serateh he received in the thiaket; nor will that man sccomplish mush for the world or the enurch who is too watchful and apprecia- tive of petty annoyances, There are mui- titudes of jsopls in the world constantly harrowed because they pass their lives not in searching out those things which are at- tractive and deserving, but in spying out with all their powers of vision to see whether they cannot find a Mordeoal, Again: Ilearn from ths life of the man nader our notide that worldly vanity and sin are very anxious to have plety bow be- fore them, Haman was a fair emblem of entire worldliness, and Mordeeal the repre- sentative of unflinching godliness, Euech were the usuages of society in ancient times that, had this Israelite bowed to the Prime Minister, it would have been an ac. knowledgment of respect for his eharacter and nation. Mordecal would, therefore, have sinned against bis religion had he made any obeisance or dro his ehin half an inch befors Haman, en, there. Jore, proud Haman hitomptod to compnl $n bomage which was not felt, he only did i/hat the world ever since has tried to do, when it would force our holy n in any way to yield to its dictates. Daniel, it he had been a man of religious com- , would never have been thrown nto the den of lions. He might have made tome arrangement with 8 Darius whereby he could have retained part of form of religion without making himself be idolat af And #0 passed rigned, and ti to whims, th t 1e life and | a his fon hls #0 {om jetely obnoxious to t ers, ant have retained the favor of his x ralers and esonped martyrdom {f he had only been willing to mix up his Christian fulth with 4 few errors, His unbending Christian character was taken as an in- suit, Fagot and rack and halter in all ages have been only the different ways in which the world has demanded obelsance, It was once, awayup onthetop of the Temple, that Satan commanded the Holy One of Naza- roth to kneel before him, But it is not now so much on the top of churches as dower in the alsle and the pew and the pul. pit that Satan tempts the espousers of the Christian faith to kneel before him, Why was it that the Platonie philosophers of enrly times, as well as Toland, Spinoza and Bolingbroke of later days, were so madly opposed to Christianity? Certalnly not he- cause it favored immoralities, or arrested eivilization, or dwarfed the Intellect, genuine reason, whether admitted or not, respect to thelr intellectusl vanities, Blount and Boyle, and the hosts of (nfidals hatehed out by the vile reign of Charles the Second, as reptiles crawl out of a marsh of slime, could not keep their patience, be. cause, as they passed along, there were sit- ting in the gate of the church such men as Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and John who would not bend an ineh lo respect to their philosophies, Satan told our first parents that they | would become as gods if they would only reach up and take a taste of the fruit, They tried it and failed, but their descend. ants are not yet satisfled with the experi- ment. We have now many desiring to be reaching up after vet another Reason, scornful of God's Word, | may foam and strut with the proud wrath of a Haman, and attempt to compel the homage of the good, but in the presence of | men and angels it shall be confounded. ‘God shall smite thee, thou whited wall.” When science began to make its brilliant discoveries thera wore great facts brought | to light that seemed to overthrow the truth of the Bible, The archmologist with crowbar, and the with his chemist with his bat. | teries, charged upon the Bible, Moss's | account of the creation seemed denied by the very structure of the earth The astronomer wheeled around his telesecop until the heavenly bodies seemed to mar. against the Bible ran looist 2e0oist as the Observatories and universities rejoleed at what they considered the extinetion of Christianity. They gathered new courage at what they considersd past victory, and pressed on thelr conquest into the kingdom of nature until, alas for them! they dis. God's Word had only lying in ambush that, in some un- guarded moment, with a sudden pound, it might tear Infldelity to plecas, It was as when Joshua attacked the eity of Al. He selected thirty thousand men, st of them; then with a | few men he assalled the city, which poured its pumbers and strength upon Joshua's little band. According to previ- ous plan, they fell back In seeming defeat, | but, after all the proud inhabitants of the city had been brought out of thelr homes, and had joined In the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that brave man halted in his flight, and with his spear pointing toward city, thirty thousand men bounded from the thickets as panthers spring to been » ® to pleces, whilethe hosts of Joshua pressed up to the city, and with their lighted torches tossed it into flame. Thas It was that the discoveries of science sesame give temporary tory against Go the Bible, and for a while the church as if she were on a retreat: but the opposers of God and truth in the pursuit, and vi wars sure turning, they drove back shame, Thera was found tagonism ty H between natu The universe aud the B be the work of the same } f the same pen, their autho God, Again: Learn the jes before a fall as Ham Was any u n, whot y thing Against their ides man trip into # wmbies proud « Yery iestruetion is usally arroganc i ft their gr e be a man in ¥ maffed up with worl it to stand a little while {im eon lown. You allows that man others’ heads and maki: tions of power. There is it. Haman has not Prid a nmander, well eaparisoned, but it leads fortha Jd frowning host, We have the best t ity for saying that "Pride gosth bef: struction and a haughty spirit before a! fall.” The arrows from the Almighty's quiver ara apt to strike a mas when wing. Goliath shakes his great spear in deflance, but the small stones from th made him stagger and fall like an ox under the butcher's bludegson. | He who is down cannot fall, Vesssis seud- ios do not feel the toree those with all sails set if the temp- | matt * » omens ol a rod a is on the 1d us o of the storm. but ant, Again: this Oriental tale reminds us of the fact that wrongs we prepare for others | return upon ourselves, The gallows that | Haman built for Mordecal became the Prime Minister's strangulation. Robe. tine, had his own head chopped off by the | horrid instrament. The evil you practice on others will recoil upon your own ps Slanders Oppressions come | nome, Crueities come home, i You will yet be a lackey walking beside the very charger on which vou expected to ride others down. When Charles the First, i who had destroyed Strafford, was about to | be beheaded, he sald, “I basely ratified an | nnjust sentence, and the similar injustions | I am now to undergo is a sensible retriba- | wa for the punishment I fuflicted on an | funocent man.” Lord Jeffries, after in- csarcerating many innocent and good peo- | ple in London Tower, was himself impris- | oned in the same place, where the shades cf those whom he had maltreated seemed to haunt him, so that he kept erying to his attendants: ‘Keep them off, gentlemen, for God's sake, keep them off!” The ehiok- ens had come home to roost, The body of Bradshaw, the English judge, who had been ruthless and erael in his decisions, was taken from his splendid tomb {n West. minster Abbey, and at Tyburn hung ona gallows from morning until night in the presence of jeering multitudes, Haman’'s gallows came a little late, but it came, Opportunities fiy in a straight line, and Just touch us as thoy pass from eternity to sternity, but the wrongs we do others fly in a circle, and however the circle may widen out, they are sure to come back to the point from whieh they started, There are guns that kick! Furthermore, let the story of Haman teach us how quickly turns the wheel of fortune, One day, excepting the king, Haman was the mightiest man in Persia; but the next day, a lackey. So we go up and so we come down, You seldom find any man twenty years in the same circum. stances, Of those who, In politieal life twenty years wore most prominent how few remain in conspicuity, Politienl parties make certain men do their hard work, and then, after using them as hacks, turn them out on the commons to die. Every four years thers is a complete revo. lution, and about five thousand men who some home flokle things in the world, fortune is the most flokle, Again: this Haman’s history shows us that outward possessions and eclrcume stances cannot make a man happy. While yet fully vested in authority and the chief adviser of the Persian monarch, and every. thing that equipage and pomp and splen- dor of residenee could do were his, he (as an object lesson of wretchedness, There are to-day more aching sorrows under crowns of royalty than under the raggod onps of the houseless. Much of the world's afMluence and galety Is only misery in colors, Many a woman seated in the street at her apple-stand is happler than the great bank« ers, The mountains of worldly honor are covered with perpetual snow, Tamerlane conquered half the world, but eould subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to bed, sfok, because Naboth wili not sell him his Horod is in agony because a it. tie child {8 born down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trembles beaause a poor minister will reach righteousness, temperance and Judgment to come, From the time of Louls the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth wns there a straw-bottomed chair In France that did not sit moresolidiy than the great throne on which the French kings reigned? Were I oalled to sketeh misery la its worst form, I would pot go up the dark alloy of the poor, but up the highway over which prancing Bucephall strike the or pewter mag,” If there ple here who are looking tion and that circumstance bring peaco to soul, let them shatter the delusion, not what we get, it is what v ial among the Hons is happier than King Darius on his throne, And ' are for wher irr wiil be no solace, De is sees no difference bet weer between the Nazarene betwesan a book national library, In olden time the the quired to spend armed, and with and down dead, Throu night his stead t morning dawned, an the mnd of knighthood were bo with the goo fore heaven. and sword and walt until ing break, 1 harpings the heaven ami robes sn honors of the “ rie burst be sapphire, Mordecal will onl day of triun trials to mak after suconsses, makes aii the mo aaque t the i he twisted his fie fing. You want at hard as flint, long continued signs of good many have y bene ‘ " led wonderful harvests and energy t a long while snowed under, a good many hard falls walk straight, It is in trouble that hammer tunes Borrows (ake shoulders and ent! ied | OCHRE EG L We m re We the biac valence, oer men nearly alwavs bit are barren knives, T ter for the 1 iarkness and dream, It : TF. 3 fodt at Valls Delawars ree, Washi HAL, R Late News Paragraphed, five * wa! CARL i The University weed Innovs shool of Agricu By the operation ment law Acting soon become a Two hundred and v-three pris of war, the passengers and rows f vessels, were paroled at Key West The Woman's A wakes, Wis, i tovidea elo childrea to enable th It fa eatimated 220 000 000 would ners Sehool em to attend seh Francisco that od from Dawson the next two in San be shipg Mrs, Betsy Trout, wh her home, in Earl, Penn., August jast, is dead. t is announced officially that the Gov. sinnteer (ro ye for the time between the dates of enlistment and muster, A Chinaman Santa Ana, Cal, and cisco are contributing Cross Roelety, enlisted in the army at Chinese in San Fran. funds to the Red beavers in the National Washington have con- structed threes large dams, one of which is four feet high. The Benate passed a bill conferring American register on the steamship China, whish has been charterad as a transport for the Manila expedition, Thirty-nine of the crew of the Spanish steamer Rita, captured off Porto Rico, were taken to New York to be sent to Spain by the Austro-Hungarian Consul, A sheet containing war news, condensed from the newspapers each morning and rinted at the printing-office at Joliet, Iil., 8 passed Into the bell of each prisoner at two o'clock every afternoon. J. W. Howard, son of General 0. O, How. ard, obtained his commission as Major of volunteer enginesrs in the army without the aid or influencs of any one, He was appointed on merit after having passed a rigid examination. A pamphlet jssued by the State Depart. ment containing information as to the re- sources of the Philippines shows the isi ands to contain valuable deposits of gold which ean be easily mined, The natives are highly spoken of. A citizen of West Newton, Mase, who was reported to have made some slighting re- marks about the Stars and Stripes, found his doorsteps painted red, white and blue wien he woke up the other morning, and small bits of red, white and blue paper scattered all over his Jawn, A Ballway's Mage lee BIL, Among the many expenses borne by raliroad companies the ice bili figures quite prominently. For instance, on the Balti. more and Obfo Raliroad it is expected it will take over 50,000 tons of lee this year to meet the Uirements of the service. The The colony of ' WEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. NINE TOPICS. TO BECOME VERY MUSCULAR. Walk a great deal, carrying somes {thing always in the hands. This velopes the arms. To roll a hoop fmight good if one were brave | enough to do 80 in public. Practice Hrting a little every day. Never strain or tire yourself, Eat meat, drink milk and tice bending backward, for- ward and sideways every day. de- be pra LADIES’ AND MISSES’ WAIST. alist is so designed that it can doped with low neck and no r as shown in the main {llus- f recom- BLOUSE Its extreme in fitted is made ch contains the and required, it either lining ms and pleces, should design be and the li the ed ning cut out +3 wil the . t n amall wala is nd the fa tHa1 4 small waist is date as the hoops, and is very : tanirove tha en la jestroys the conto! % vi) hips and is thi ruinous digestive organs hin wo Then LoORe and comp ext man 8 ind watery eyes a lined to be stout, her yaiet makeg the hips like and uneven lumps fiesh driven {rgm one part of vy must seek another, The waist Venus de Medici, that accepted 1 of feminine love iness, is twenty two inches, though she is just a trifle above five feet in height. Our grand- mammas boasted of their eighteens inch waists, but the girl of the period, oven if she is dainty enough “to step ipon a lily leaf and not bend it,” never allows per waist measurement to fall below twenty-two inches . Wi roll in shelf THE CURLY BANG. f suppression, sut rather luxuriously again, in a row of coguetti sar to ear over the it runs forehead, tensive spread of brow are adopting a very clever modification of the old- style water wave, Instead of plaster. ing wisps of soapy hair flat to the fore head, a broad bandeau is drawn down, 1 half-inch of the evebrows, and then deeply fluted by ths irons. This is one of the softest frames a face can be set in, and when the waves are properly made and adjusted they give the face 1 peculiar tender and plaintive expres. sion. Women whose locks are unde niably turning and who are too courag- sous to yield to the blandishments of the hairdresser, adopt for the evening a pretty fantalsie coiffure called the Princess de Lamballe. For this the bair is lightly flaked with white pow. | a Httle and then gathered into a cluster or pale green shell comb. A fringe is permitted to crop out un and noisette roses ERB, To dye” feathers black, first wash them in a pint of boiling water in which half a teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved; then rinse and put in dissolved dye as prepared for silk, holding by the tips of the stems and moving in the bolling water, Rinse in cold water, dry between soft cloths and over they may waved in the warm air, If the feathers come out too light a black add dye, Curl back of drawn under or three flues at after heating iron whict Lr wy hiite a stove where be with the two time warm of the 1 makes feather a slightly over a it curl qu may niar cording to the plan dyed feathers.—Ladi Home Journal = VAPOR B. Teco much cay the tion solely, i » XK in { n will the morning a man is fui. He will iui te be late disagree usually un t of YORK DIY, able and hate bye slaven His breath will tobacco smoke night's powers, be reminiscen slajs and, 1 last His libations conversational USUALLY yoke in the back. and full body portion. A fitted lining is provided for so that the fuiness may be kept in place The ling may be omitted for warm weather. A separate standing collar is rrovided for and the box plait in the center is nade of the same material as the col- lar. The sleeves are of the one seam- ed shirt waist order, finished at the | wrist by a neat cuff. It may be devel- : oped, as illustrated, in figured foulard | or a gingham or in batiste or cham- | bray. Lawn, musiin and the transpar- | ent materials are attractively develop. SUMMER MILLL.ERY. The principal noveity this year is in! the different weaves of straw that are | used in the construction of the hats. The soft satin-finished brald is used in all kinds of hats. Some of the weaves are open work: others are! quite close together, There are even many in what used to be called Nea- politan straw, a very fine weave that looks like horse-hair, aad often black and white are put together in these Neapolitan straw hats, in which there i= an exquisite shade of a very pale gray. Using these different. weaves, and straw by the yard, the milliners are able to secure a much better and more distinctive style for their indi- — Ike a toque. At the back is an encr- mous double bow, the straw tied Just as ribbon would be tiled, Back of the bow of straw are quantities of shaded tea-roses, and the whole hat is veiled It is indescribably soft in coloring and general effect, iright red hats are no longer fash- ionable, and there are very few purple seen; but all concelvable ghadey of green and blue are greatly in evi- dence. On the hats there are trimmings of different shades of blue, #0 that there will be the deepest navy blue and the lightest turquoise, with all the intervening shades. —Harper's Bazar, ones blue FEMININE BAVAGERY. European craze for tattooing at the moment They cause themselves to be decorated with drag- rpents, griffing and such things, and call the figures tattoographs, The had pome small n, hearing titer and bh women have a One, ge Queen of Greece is sald to have her with figure, and a Parisian went her web ankle tattooed Yad ma of this Oni ad a houlder, tattooed her gt ¥ h spider del the re- full dress the » claims to be ighted wit for she says when in attoograph” rv. nA atten ry, and attr the mouse r ® * satin fin- sali un colion slik and iffles of 1 OF by the yard mings hite net edged with ruf sv hh rucain gs of chiffon with frill Fashion New York An Aged Scottish Order. Scottish Order of the Thistle is another age least 370 years younger than the Order of St Constantine. With commendable dis- it says it dates only from 787. by Soivath- who died in that i i order, it it is at n have been founded ius. King of Scotland vear, or by King of Scotland, who ascended the throne in that year, At all 900 years afterward, in 1087, James § g of Scotland, re. established it. It only one of the higher orders of knighthood that has at present among its members a person not a noble; this person is John D. 8S. Campbell, commonly called the Mar. quis of Lorne, son of the Duke of Ar. gyiL Besides these iwo ancient orders even the Spanish military orders of St. James of the Sword, 1175, of Alcantara, 1156, and of Calatrava, 1138, seem young, and the Danish Order of Danne- brog, 1219; the Portuguese Order of events Seraphim, and the English Order of the 1350, seem quite childish. tm— A Municipality's Restaurant. The city of Grenoble, France, has been running a restaurant and kitchen for fifty years. Meals are supplied at cost in the restaurant, or delivered at residences, as may be desired. The food is of the best quality, the cooks are as skillful as any in Paris, and the gervice is excellent. The dining-rooms are of several grades, according 6 the attendance, so that all classes ang tastes may be suited. One may dine, there for three cents on bread and soup, and have his hunger thoroughly appeased, or one can pay twelve cents and enjoy a full course dinner. The best rooms are marbie-floored and pret. tily Secartted, Thats is no financial profit whatever to the city of Grenoble in operating this huge ant, which serves from 15000 to 20,00 meals a day. The ‘are based and keeping utensils and buildings repair.—American Kitchen Magasine,
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