DR. TALMAGE'S SERON. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subjects “Self-Slaughter”—A Terrible Denunciation of SalcidewAssassinaticn of Others a Mild Crime Compared With Assassination of Yourself, Text: “Do thyseit 16; 28. Hero Is a would-be sulelde arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and, according to the Roman law, a bailiff him- self must suffer the punishment due an es- caped prisoner; and if the prisoner break. ing jail was sentenced to be endungeonsd for three or four years, then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years, and {f tho prisoner breaking jail was to have suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment, The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not much confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and supernatural, Sure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, wakiug out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and real- izing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner’s axe on the morrow and suffer public disgrace, resolves to precipitate hisown decease. But before the sharp. glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the un- loosened prisoners arrests the blade by the | command, “Do thyself no harm " In olden times, and where Christianity had interfered with it, suicide was considered honorabls and a sign of eour- age. Demosthenes poisoned himsel! when told that Alexander's ambassador had de- manded the surrender of the Athenian orator. Isocrates killed himself rather | than surrender to Philip of Maeedon. Cato, rather than submit to Jalius Cesar, took his own life, and three times after his wounds had been dressed, tore them open and perished. Mithridates killed himself, rather than submit to Pompey, the ocon- queror. Hannibal destroyed his life by his ring, ribg lite un- Lycurgus a suleide, Brutus a After the disaster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a prep- aration of poison, and one’ night his servant heard the ux.emperor arise, put something a glass and drink ft, and soon after the groans aroused all the at- | tendants, and it was only through utmost medical skill that he was resuscitated, | Times have changed, vot the American | conscience needs to be toned up, on the subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the | yassage out of by one's own behest? | Jefaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, | quit lite precipitately. Men losing large | fortunes go out of the world because they | cannot endure earthly existence. Frus. | fafelicity, dys- remorss, envy, | misanthropy, are | no barm,"”-—Acts sean not On ir “ ite peptic impatience, ang jealousy, destitution, considerad suffolent causes for abscond- | fng from this life by Paris green, by lauda- pum, by belladonna by halter, by leap fron bridge, by firearms de se in tne last two years of the w in the last mont! mon The ¢ m add 1 ing. A pulpit doubt as to 1 thing wro it beecan & found in getie for the arrested, befors I get through 1a worst of all | erimes, and i lit raing unmis- | takalb'e, mon I wish Christians mitted mentia, and : m loubt 3 at their eotern falleity | than I have bis bed Whi great, Christ step oll th no deubt Lord tool and fren r Othello’s dagger, | 1 abutment of a | More cases of felo | han in any two | and re any twaive 10re spread. xprossad some | really any- yer ire Ar | ap i 1 lin the text | table trime whi respe ir y admit that » it have aver lived lestruction, but always in de Have no of the best have som sell re iT fies in far at barrati {a1 rebral aberrati bis life, the way Gadaras ar ry r wi « of intellectual iad none grander than Hugh Miller, | or selence and great for God. He | elder St. John's Presbyterian | He came, of the best Highland and was a descendant of Donald | Hoy, 4 man eminent for piety and the rare gift of sopd sight. His attainments, elimbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stone ason, drow the astonished admira of Buckiand and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chal- | mers, the theglogian, and held nniversities spelibound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God (in “The Old Red Sandstone.” That man did more than any | other being that ever lived to show that | the God of the hills ig the God of the Bible, and he stuck his tuniag-fork on the rocks | of Cromarty until he brought geology and | theology accordant in divine worship, His | too books, entitied “Footprints of the | Creator” and *T Testimony of the Rocks,” proclaimed the baans of an aver. | jJasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this latter book toiled day and night through love of nature and love of God, until he could not sieep and his brain gave way, and he was found | dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel fnstrument having had two hullets—one for him and the other for the gunsmith, who at the coroner's Inquest was examin. | ing it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Milier alter his bot brain had ceased throbbing that | winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of heaven. No ons doubted the plety of Willlam Cow- | per, the author of those three great hymns, “Oh, For a Closer Walk With God,” | “What Various Hindrances We Meet,” “There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood” Wililam Cowper, who shares with Isaac | Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors | sf Christian hymnology. In hypochon- dria he resolved to take his own life, aud | rode to the River Thames, but found a man | seated on some goods at that vary point from which he expected to spring, and | rode back to his home, and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the | biads broke; and then he hanged himself | to the celling, but the rope broke. While we make this merciful and right- eous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, I declare that the man who, in the use of hils reason, by his own act, snaps the bond between his ody and his soul, goes straight into perdf- tion, Saoall I proveit? Revelation 21,8 ““Surderers shall bave their part io the lake which burneth with fire and brim- stone.” Bavelation 22, 15-"Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers.” You do not believe the New Testament? Then, perhaps, you be- lieve the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not kill.” Do you say that all these passages refer to the taking of the life of others? Then ask you if you are not as zespousible for Jou: own life as for the iife of others? gave you a special trust in fife, and made you the custodian of your jife, and He made you the custodian of no other Itfe., He gave you as weapons with svhich to defend it two arms to strike down assailants, two eyes to watch for invasion, and a natural love of life which ought ever 10 be on the alert, Assassination of others nel rol 1 Prost 1 in in forth ie he 3« 8 mild erime compared with the assus- sination of yourself, Rae ‘in the iatter is the surrender of a castle you were os. pecially sppolpted to keep; It (s treason t © a natural law, and It is treason to God add” ed to ordinary murdor, To show how God of the Bible looked upon this orime, I point you to the rogues’ ploeture gallery in some parts of the Bible, the pletures of the people who have com- mitted this unnatural crime, Hers 18 the headless trunk of Baul on the walls of Bath. shan, Here Is the map who chased little David-—ten feet in stature chasing four, Here isthe man who consulted a clalrvoy- ant, Witoh of Endor, Here ls a man who, whipped {o battle, instead of surrendering his sword w'th dignity, as many a man has done, asks ois servant to slay him, and when that servant dealined, then the glant plants the hit of his sword In the earth, the sharp poi it sticking upward, and he throws his body oa ft and expires the cows ard, the safetde! Here {8 Ahltophel, the Machiavelll of olden times, betraving his best fifend, David, in order that he may be- come prime minister of Absalom, and jolu- ing that fellow in his attempt at parrioide, politics, he takes a short cut out of a dis. graceful Ife Into the sulclde’s eternity. There he {s, the Ingrate! Here is Ablmelech, pratically a sulelde, He is with an army, bombarding a tower, head, and with what life he has left (o his cracked skull he commands his armor- bearer: “Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me,” There is nis post-mortem photograph {a the Book of Samuel, But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was a mar- tyr, and we have in our day apologists for him. And what wonder, in this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue of George benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Corist on the part of some of His pretended apostles—a betrayal so black it mukes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his hand hung up for the execration all ages, Judas Iscariot of left to God the decisi nm of termious, and they could the earthly 1 have sald any man ever had, what with his destroyed property anl his body all aflame with in from his home except the chief curse of it, a pestiferous wile and four garrulous peo- ple pelting him with comiortiess talk while he «its on a heap of ashes scratching his soabs with a pieces of br orying oat in triumph: “All the en lays of my chan omes."”’ Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil, and the aversion which it the loathsome and ghastly spectacle of out life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it and the arguments and t ful lives and the {iliustrious deaths of disciples, it is a that ie is on the (noreass, What is the cause? I charge upon (ufldelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there b no hereafter, or {f that hereafter be bliss. ful without reference to how we live and die, why not move back the fold wre between this world and And when our existence here troublesome why not pass » Elysium? Pat this dows wt solemn reflect & case of was not su “" ing next? comes over int your m r been operator fore irresponsibi univ TE appreciation of h fact that that mn ous or wretched according as he Sra, ee] ne of salfd iness tro currents You say it is a bus say it is sleotrical the is th i teaching o i! © 1 ilfe got ot y . hers reason « in annlh tha . ig anni thera are no bo for logetie fo “ARS will i Palne's and sreasa of ssif-glaaghte in London heard Mr infidel lecture on sociall went home, sat down, and words: “Jesus Christ is o characters in history, and the Bit greatest possible deception,” and then sho himself, David Hume wrote thes } “It would be noerima for me to div Nile or the Danube from {ts natural Where, than, cao be thecrime In my divert ing a few drops of blood from their ordin- ary channel?” And having written nan or his wrots ne tha read it, wrote a letter of thanks and admir. ation, and shot himself, Appendix to the same book, touss=an, Volt aire, Gibbon, Montaigne gotie for sell-immolation, In delity puts up no bar to people rushing out from this world into the next, They teach us It does not make any difference how yon live here or go out of this world; you land either in an oblivious nowhere glorious somewhers, Ww a and aims the pistol with which a m blows his brains out, and mixes the siry for the swallow, [I del sould carry the day and persuade the m jority of people in this country that it does fn n Inat of this world wili land safely, the woul so fall boats would bs impeded In thelr progress, you d 1 Pe De yi be po more alarming thao the rumbie of a street car, I have sometimes heard it discussed or not, He was a Christian. In bis iast will and testament he commends bis soul to God through the sacrifice of Jesus Would God that the coroners would be brave in rendering the right verdict, and when in a ease of irresponsibility they say “While this man was demented he took his “Having read infidel books and attended Infidel lectures, which obliterated from this man’s mind all appreciation of future retribution, he com- mitted sell-slnughtar!” Hava nothing to do with an infidelity se cruel, so debasing. Come oft of that bad company into the company of those who believe the Bible, Benjamin Franklin “Of this Jesus of Nazareth [ have to say that the system of morals He left, and the religion He has given us are the best things the world has ever soon or is likely to see.” Patrick Henry, the slectrie champion of liberty, says: “The book worth all other books put together fs the Bible.” Benjamin Rash, the lending phys- fologist and anatomist of hisday, the great medical scientist -what aid he say? “The only trus and perfect religion {s Christiani- tv.” Isaac Newton, the leading philoso. pher of his time—what did he say? “The sublimest philosophy on earth is the philos- ophy of the Gospel,” David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whote name every soalentist the world over bows his head David Brewster, saying: "Oh, this religion has been a great light to mo, a very great Hght all my days.” President Thiers, the great Frenoh statesman, acknowledging that he prayed when he sald: “I lavoke the Lord God, in whom I am glad to be- lieve.” David Livingstone, able to con. quer the llon, able to conquer the panther able to conquer the savags, yet con uered by this rel #0 when they find him dead they find him on his knees, Balmon P. Chase, Ohlef Justice of the Su- prems Court of the United States, appoint ad by President Lincoln, will take the wit- ness stand, “Chief Justice Chase, please to commonly called the Bible.” The witness roplies: *“There came a time In my life when I doubted tha divinity of the Beripts ures, and I resolved as a lawyérand judge I would try the book ss I would try every. thing else In the eourt-room, taking evi. dence for and against, It was a long and serious and profound study, and using the same principles of evidence inthis religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow Its teachings.” ‘‘Judge, | that will do. Go out back again to your | pillow of dust on the banks of the Ohio.” | Next I put upon the witness stand a Presi dent of the United States--John Quincy Adams, “President Adams, what have you to say about the Bible and Ohris- tinnity?”’ The President replies: “I have for many years made {t a practice to read through the Bible once a year. My cus. tom is to read four or flve chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bad, t employs about an hourof my time, and seems to me the most suitable manner | of beginniog the day In what light so- | aver we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history or to morality, it is an {(nvaluable and inex- haustible mine of knowledge and virtue, “Chancellor Kent, what do you think of the Bible?" Answer “No other book ever addressed itself so authoritatively and pathetically to the judgment and moral sense of mankind.” ‘Edmund Burke, what do you think of the Bible?" Answer “I have read the Bible morning, noon and night, and have aver sines the happier and the better man for reading.” Young men of America, come out circle of infldels—mostly made eranks and inbeciles—into the intellectual giants, and on an infidelity which {| soul {i Ah! Infidelity { sentence! In {| and men, stand ug | blasted with blaspl BO beso such up of mpany of turn you ; siroys body r back and thy angels Thy lip arrad ith the stand up prosencs +h 1d take God, the Af of a onster itht 16 heycheask a | with uncleanness, thy breath! i f the ages stand , buzzard of thet ne renturies! St Part drag uw Satyr, ip, with the | which thou hast waded {| thy senten Down w | and sup on the sobs and groar | thou hast destroyed, and lot thy overiasting missrore of ti ya hast damned! I brand th f infidelity with all the ¢ ation for the last cent ho had their re if aver your its m bearable, ur ns rimmson lestations Larou . had’ and you are tempt wn behest, do n worse than was tempted to the roof { { ed to qui y ¥ onsider vy ‘hrist Hin aif from {oe resisted qraelt others. Hi Yasl $0 resist ve vine all wounds s songlully (hod keer W hy hy just at midnight angel atrg tran frea fr Israniitos andred and t yoioek that nigit thirty years were o * would X ’ ithe f ® p frea ur wl nw et Darates rrows to greater sore ofl summ f Bangali Mere is er in n tigers Heavens to whall banners INOMers As the ant to take i si tri 3 itand reasons for t wa will never got aoiation or impeni sinin by Christ who t thing we w to i livinely arran vinaly spread, and sapulchral gates be averpowerad by the clang »f the solid pearl before Whatever nay choose, give ‘haristian’s istian’s death, a burial, Christian's immor- and I have ten % | there either by self. { tency All sina wes oe ’ ye a Oh a | TO RENEW THE LOBSTER SUPPLY. | The Government's Effort to Propagate This Kind of Shellfish, I The United States Government is maki great efforts, by sclentifio propagati | resto k the coast walers of Maine wi { stars, ‘The United States Fish Con sionara’ achooner Grampus, which haa at work along the coast forseveral months hans collected 1750 sead lobsters from which 18.000 000 eggs have hesn obtained and hatehed out at Gloucester, Mass, Of these fry about 5,000,000 have been released in Casco Bay and the others are to be dis- tributed at various places [rom Portland eastward. ng bean perfectly formed lobster, with the eyes a. - pecially prominent, Constant changes of waler are necessary to keep them alive, It is likely that a lobater hatebery will soon be established on the Maine coast, and be- fore many years these shellfish will be as plentiful and cheap as ever they were, ANTISEPTIC SURCERY RESULTS. Gratifying Reports From the Surgeons of the Navy. * Bargeon-Genersl Van Reypen, United States, Navy has received a report from the Surgeons with the fleet, showing that io the many oases of wounded, some or an accumulation of pus has appeared in any case, rom a madical standpoint this is said to be a marked advance {rom the conditions during the Cisll War, and is attributed to thes introduction of antiseptic treatment of wounds, It shows that no fever follows the wounds, and that with the absence of pus the wounds heal rapidly without com- plications. Considering the great number of wounds to ba , now and hereafter, this is regarded as a most satiafaot showing not only in medical science, but in the lle viation of suffering. Brothers in Arms, First Heavy Artillery ol from the’ shoe ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Tramplog Garden Ground White Clover as Pasture--Crops for Fall Feeding Caring for Hoaey-+Etc., Bic, TRAMPING GARDEN GROUND. There should never be any in garden when the soll pecially if it is a heavy soll in it. No implement more surely cts around rooted weed than does the human foot, relied the is wet, os with some clay com? mellow soll an up wenther ns time to and If wet is a upon good hoe out the weds In a large proportion of then time be found more than ever, 0 DESTR Oy : OF STRAWBERRIES k done in the strawberry of season depends rop next ar. quantit of small berries brought into the mar. kets each year come mainly from lack + of the plants after fruiting, rather than from “runout” plantations Practicaily the crop for the next year ; made the previous after | fruiting. All weeds should be kept out ' of the plantation by the constant use the cultivat if planis are grown part the ¢ 0 he The lar f ¥ & of culture iw Refi of in hills or ridges. all runners not feed ed for the extension of the plantation { should be kept cut off, If new beds are to be set this fall, one runner from each plant should be allowed to roof and one only, for any additional not only weakens the vitality of the par- | ent plant, but of each runner. When the narrow row system is practiced, the same rule of allowing but a sin gle runner from each plant to set, { ahhould be followed, ag closely as pos- sible. Clean, thorough culture after fruiting, cutting runners, in the fall i enriching the plantation, and later cov. ‘ ering the plants with a mulch of hay or straw will probably insure a liberal crop of large berries the next year. “ COWS ON A POOR FARM. or; oi i may well view with disfavor, but if it must be dope the only chance for suc- is by “soiling.” Karly in the spring sow two or three acres of bar to be cut as soon us it head, The stubble should under and the ground sown Hun garian grass, using barn yard manure or commercial fertilizer as Hberally can be afforded {ORM ley begins to turned . [A to ns As early as pos f ible Nn two acres more o This stubble under and hefore onts one roe to Hungarian fertilizing as liberally Of turned Deas, should also sOWNH gras > HK almost a necessd 1 in ly nly JW with green food, } of ii or ten a hould pasture, and eight res large d In feel corn yariety o drills, the plie Corn and apat both Hungat 4 lw be ETARS 1 a fig farm FessinR farm d. A dairyman attend to thi 8 Ospe to make winter butts possibl with rich succnlent from duce grass cut early enough winter Matter almost rance aud flavor il ay wit and color of June hay and that determine the quality of our but a large extent, and it find adequate substitutes Good hay made from eariy cut butter. It 's the grass ier {0 is danpos ait ¥ He to 3 ihem, make better winter butter than of the prepared foods, ensilage These latter will help, asfid are essential to the health of the animals, Dut after all the right kind of hay is thie foundation of it all The true principle then evolved from stich experience seems to be that proper time to cut grass is when it reaches its fullest growth, but before the animals fail to relish it. Usually this means that the grass must be cut has headed. To many this may seem like inviting waste, for the erop would certainly not weigh as much per acre; but on the other hand all that is cut j& nutriment. It is doubtful {f the plants add anything more after this period that is at all beneficial ~W. E. Farmer in American Sitk and Gold, Until the sixth century of our era all silk imported from the east to the west was vaload at its weight in gold rosie, {gl iki before it _ PORTRAITS ON PLUSKIN, | A Scoteh Tanner Believes He Has as [den That Will Interest Chicago. Beotland COmes and banks anda a proposition that ix ple conception, startling ia brilllant In andacity. I'he proposition alms at sothing short if elevating the humble but pecessary | pig worth and vied In brief n lenth From | braes is furesqgue in | suggeston, and to a position of artistic i mn and alluringly man- Note prominence { ufacturer of plgsk {land writes temptingly ff the advantages and glittering sibilitic of { trait painting. “Oar [rs tanned pigskin If por- manufac Bie { ture of pigs hore With copy HO icy ave Long Terms of French Premiers died 1 * £ twenty (Ae M always § & ¢ firs bactine # hat of Minister « He tsa i pore Af presided over the des Foreign umnler four offi lasting and fifteen Frescinet, he has il M. de Ministry cised the fun years oq Orsay ol oe ons Ri months A the served inet has been in the tines o of hi onth in fions 116e "i oli } six 8 amd seven days Minister for M. Con months for New | Jules Ferry was five ths, mon | stans for three year four { and six days and M and two lourgois | three months i York years Times, An Old Marriage Custom, Many modern marriage customs are relics of methods employed In primitive times. Until the middle of ! the sixteenth century a Christian mar | riage consisted of two distinct cere monies, the betrothal espousal which was followed at an extended in terval. frequently of two years, by the or Several of the modern customs are relics of the marriage by capture of mediaeval times, such a8 throwing olf ghees after the newly martisd pair when originally the bride's relatives shrew stones and other missiles after the valiant knight as he rode off with his captured bride. The honeymoon ix the enforced seclusion in which the captive and his stolen bride lived, and the groomsmen were the bride's body guard when she was pursued hy the knight and his friends. Later on they formed] a part of the bridal procession and carried lances and torches. — New York Tribune. Tt costs about 31.00 to build ac electric cab of the kind now in use in Paris. : :
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