a "REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. —— Subject: “God's Second Gift"’=The World is Too Much With Us—The Hotter Life and the Advantages of Religion The Story of Caleb and Othniel. Text: “Thou hast given me a south land; give mo also springs of water, And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.”-—Joshua xv., 19, The eity of Debir was the Bostun of an- tiquity—a great plase for brain and books. Caleb wanted it, and he offered his daugh- ter Achsah as a prize to any one who would capture that city, It was a strange thing for Caleb to do, and yet the man who could take the city would have, at any rate, two elements of manhood—bravery and patriot. ism. Besides, I do not think that Caleb was as foolish in offering his daughter to the conqueror of Debir as thousands in this day who seck alliances for thelr chil- dren with those who have large means without any reference to moral or mental acquirements. Of two evil I would rather measure BupPlieds by the length of the sword than by the length of the pocket- book, In one case there is sure to be one good element of character; in the other there may be none at all. With Caleb's daughter as a prize to fight for, General Othniel rode into the battle. The gates of Debir were thundered into the dust, and the city of books lay at the feet of the con- querors. The work done, Othniel comes back to claim his bride, Having conquered the city, it is no great job for him to con- quer the girl's heart, for however faint- hearted a woman herself may be she al- ways loves courage in a man. I neversaw an exception to that, The wedding festivity having gone by, Othniel and Achsah are about to go fo their own home. However loudly the cym- bals may clash and the laughter ring, par- ents are always sad when a fondly Pos ished daughter goes off to stay, and Ach- sah, the daughter of Caleb, knows that now is the time to ask almost anything she wants of her father. It seems that Caleb, the good old man, had given as a wedding present a piece of land that was mountain- ous, and, sloping southward toward the deserts of Arabia, swept with some very hot winds. It was called “a south land.” But Achsah wants an addition of property; she want a plece of land that is well watered and fertile, Now it is no wonder that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party, bis eyes so fnll of tears becaude she was going away that that he could hardly see er at all, gives her more than she asks, Bhe said to him: “Thou hast given me a south land; give me aiso springs of water, And be gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.” The fact is that as Caleb, the father, gave Achsah, the daughter, a south land, #0 God gives to us His world. I am very thankful He has given it to us. But I am like Achsah in the fact that I am not satis- fled with the Jottion. Trees and flowers and grass and blue skies are very well in their places, but he who has nothing but this world for a portion has no portion at all. It is a mountainous land, sloping off toward the desert of sorrow, swept by flery siroecos; it is “a south land,” a poor portion for any man that tries to put his trust in it. What has been your experi- ence? What has been the experience of every man, of every woman, that has tried this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth, amid the surroundings of pomp, is unhappy because the painter sketches too minutely the wrinkles on her face, and she indig- nantly eries out, “You must strike off my likeness without any shadows!" at the very height of his arcistio triumph, eause the painting he bad dedicated to the king does not seem to be acceptable, for George II. ence.” Brinsley Sheridan thrilled the earth with “I am absolutely undone,” write, says to his daughter rate only second in wealth, says: thelife of a galley slave. When I arise in night.” gallery at the play? There are now good plays to laugh at from the boxes." But why go so far as that? farther than tion of what I am saying. Pick me out tea successful worldlings— and you know what I mean by thoroughly successful worldliogs—pick ma oud more than one that looks happy. Care drags him to business; care drags him back, Take your stand at 2 o'clock at the corner of the streets and see the agonized physiog- nomies, your insurance men, your importers, your wholesalers and your retailers as a class as a class, are they happy? No. Caredogs their steps, and making no appeal to God for belp or comfort many of them are tossed every whither. iow has it been with you, my hearer? Are you more contented in the house of fourteen rooms than you were in the two rooms you had in a house when you started? Have you not had more care and worriment since you won that $50,000 than yon did before? Bome of the poorest men I have ever known have been those of great fortune. A man of small means may be put in great business straits, but the ghastiiest of all embarrassments is that of the man who has large estates. The men who commit suleide because of monetary losses are those who canaot bear the bur- den any more because they have only 850,- 000 left, On Bowling Green, New York, there is a house where Talleyrand used to go. Heo was a favored man. All the world knew him, and le had wealth almost unlimited. Yet at the close of his life he says: ‘Behold, eighty-three years have passed without any practical result, rave fatigue of body and fatigue of mind, great discouragement for the future and great disgust for the ast.” Oh, ny friends, this is a “south and,” and it slopes off toward deserts of sorrows, and the prayer which Achsah made to her father Caleb we make this day to our Father God: “Thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. Ana he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.” Blessed be God, we have more advan. tages given us than we can really a preo- elate! We have spiritual blessings offered us in this world which I shall eall the nether ApHings and glories in the world to some which I shall eall the upper springs, Where shall 1 find words enough threaded with ligit to set forth the pleasure of religion. David, unable to describe it in words, played it on a harp, Mrs, Homans, not Snding snough power in prose, sings that praise in a canto. Ohris- topher Wren, unable to deseribe it (n lan- gua oe, sprung it foto the arches of St, aul’s. John Bunyan, nonable to present it in Sidinary phraseology, takes all the fas. eination of allegory. Handel, with ordi. Bary music unable to reach the height of the theme, rouses it up to an oratorio, Oh, there Is no life on earth so happy as a really Christian life! I do not mean a ham Christian life, but a real Christian Where thers is a thorn there whole garland of roses, Where there Is the groan there are three doxologies, here there is one day of oloud there is whole season of sunshine. Take the mblest Christian man that you whit. os he ° Are his armed aill ght Jord, picking out for b ris his bodyguard, If he lle down to sleep, ladders of light, angel blossoming, are let into his dreams. If he be thirsty, the otentates of heaven are his cupbearers, tf he sit down to food, his plain table blooms into the King's banquet. Men say: “Look at that odd fellow with the wornout coat.” The angels of God ory “Lift up im come in!" © Fastidious people ery, “Got off my front steps!” Thedoorkeepers of heaven ery, “Come, ve blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom!” comes to die, though he may be carried out in a pine box to that potter's fleld, to that potter's fleld the chariots of Christ will come down, nnd the cavalcade will crowd all the boulevards of heaven, of religion, It makes a man all right with reference to the past; it makes a man all right with reference to the future, Ob, these nether springs of comfort! They are perennial, The foundation of Godstapdseth sure having this seal, “The Lord knoweth them that are His,” “The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord, who hath merey upon thee.” Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnished gold! Oh, nether springs of comfort bursting through all the valleys of trial and tribulation! When you see, you of the world, what A there is on earth in religion, do you not thirst after it as the daughter of Caleb thirsted after the water springs? Itis po stagnant pond, scummed over with malaria, but springs of water leaping from the Rook of Ages! Take up one cup of that spring water and across the top of the cbalice will float the delicate shadows of the heavenly wall, the yellow of jasper; the green of emerald, the blue of sardonyx, the fire of jacinth. I wish I could make you understand the joy religion is to some of us. It makes a man happy while he lives and glad when he dies. With two feet upon a chalr and bursting with dropsies, I heard an old man in the poorhouse ery out, “Bless the Lord, oh, my soul!” I looked around and said, It makes the lame man leap as a harp, and the dumb sing. They say that the old Puritan religion is a julceless and joyless religion, but I remember reading of Dr. Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who in my bow abides in strength! I am swal- lowed up in God!” ‘Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths gre peacs.” Ob, you who have been tryiog to satisfy yourselves with the “south land” world, do you not feel that you would, this morning, {lke to have acoess to the nether springs of spiritual comfort? Would you not like to have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle and bless your table and heal your wounds and strew flowers of consolation all up and down the graves of your deagh "Tis religion that can give Sweetest | leasures while we liva, "Tis religion can supply "Sweetest comfort when we die, But I have something better to tell you, suggested by this text. It seems that oid Father Caleb on the wedding day of bis daughter wanted to make ber just as happy as possible, Though Othnlel was taking her away and his heart was almost broken because she was golog, yet he gives ber a “south land:” springs; not springs, only that, bat ths yper itual comfort in this world; but, morethan all, I thank Thee for the upper springs in heaven! It is very fortunate that wa eannot see heaven until we get into it. O Chris. tian man, if you could see what a place it is we would never get you back again to the office, or store, or shop aud thy duties you ought to perform would go ne- Iam glad I shall not see that world until } enter it. Sappose we were allowed to go on an excursion in- to that good land with the idea of re. turning. When we got there and heard 3 the song and looked at their raptured we would ery out; “Let We are coming here anyhow. the trouble of going back oid world? We are here now. Lot us stay!” And it would take angelic vio- lence to put us out of that world {f once we got there, but as people who cannot afford to pay for an ents riainment soure. times come around it and look through { the door ajar, or through' the openings in the fence, 80 we come and look through the crevices into that good land which God has provided for us. We oan just eatch a glimpse of it. We come near enough to E~ar the rumbling of the eter. nal orchestra, though not near enough to know who blows the cornet or who fingers | the harp. My soulspreads out both wings and claps them in triumph at the thought of those upper springs. One of them | breaks from beneath the throne, Another breaks forth from beneath the altar of the | temple, Another at the door of “the houss of many mansions.” Upper springs of gladness! Upper springs of light! Upper springs of love! It is no fancy of mise, “The Lamb which is in the midst of the throna shall lead them to living foun tains of water.” O Saviour divine, roll in upon our souls one of those anticipated raptures! Pour around the roots of the parched tongus one drop of that liquid life]! Toss before our vision those fountains of God, rainbowed with eternal victory! Hear it! They are never sick there; not so muchas aheadnche or twinge rheumatie or thrust neuraigle. The inhabitant never says, “I am sick.” They are never tired there. Flight to farthest world is only the play of a holiday, They never sin there, It {s as easy for them to be holy as it is for us to sla. They never dle there, You might go through all the ontskirts of this great city and find not one place where the ground was broken for a grave, The eyesight of the redeemed is never blurred with tears, There Is health inevery cheek. There is spring ln every foot, There is majesty on every brow. There is joy in every heart. There is hosanna on avery lip. How they must pity us as they look over and look down and see us and say: “Poor things away down in that world” Aud when some Christian is buried Into a fatal accident, they ery: “Good!” Ho is coming!” And when we stand around the couch of some loved one whose strength is going away and we shake our heads fore- bodingly they ery: “I'm glad he is worse, Heo has been down there long enough, There, he is dead! Come home! Come home!” Oh, if we could only get our ideas about that future world untwisted, our thought of transfer from here to there would be as pleasant to us as it was to a little child that was 4¥iog. She sald: “Papa, when will I go home?’ And he sald: "To-day, Floreace.” “To-day? So soon? Iam so glad?’ I wish I could stimulate you with these thoughts, O Christinn man, to the highest possible exiliaration! The day of your deliverance Is coming—1is coming, rollin on with the shining wheels of the day, an the jet wheals of the night, Every thump of the heart is only a bammer stroke striking off another chain of clay. Better scour the deck and coil the rope, for harbor is only six miles away. Jesus will come down the Narrows to meet you, “Now is your salvation nearer than whea you believed.” Man of the world, will you not to-day meke a choles between these two portions, ween the *‘south land” of this world, which slopes to the desert, and this glori- ous jang Whish thy Father offers thee, run. ning with eternal watercourses y let our tongue be consumed of thirst when hers are the nether springs and the up per Speings~—eomfort here and glory here. us stay! Why take again to that Utility of Diamond Circular Saw. cumin sae AChR wri 0 on the Paris Exposition dings. The dia Eitan SAE hf a fixed in o steel Also over six feet’ in diame . RAILROADING IN CHINA. Riots. Mr, Cox, who was recently assault | ed near Peking, China, has had many ! the Chihli Provinee, and has ouly ex- He has practically for years carried his life in his hand. 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There have, of ludicrous well dangerous incl dents on the North China Line. When it was first opened Chinese would come to the booking office and for tickets. When told offer half and bid. nuch not, a busi {to uean tween been course, many as as try to bargain fare would their gusted that they sl ness spirit, be One day a country the they raise dis inet gentleman on his first ride in midway train seeing his house between two stations past deliberately opened the door and stepped out Inte the train was would certainly 1 the supple Colest himself and clothes, and set fieids—muoch cut and the wheel carriage.” An equally plea 4 conse uifortunate ignorant of chanics, did not get ing trucks ming at a pace down a «idis } on the rail tonishment laws of wm off so well. a two snails learned. like Stephenson momentum 's made well as velocity, But of are bound to prosper where traveling Is and difficult, the and never doing m in Spite otherwise so Oo carts and pounle boats in the coutl than thirty to forty miles between dawn and dark. The Klondike of the South. 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Almost similar conditions exist at the washings on the island of Na varino and elsewhere, From what 1 cnn learn here there are only a few places where gold bas been found in any quantity, and these are nothing in comparison of the great gold de- posits of our western states, ‘There are two or three companies which work sluice boxes with machinery, pumping the water from the sea and gathering the gold dust with machin. ery on copper plates. The most of the mining, however, is spasmodic and un. certain, The territory is extremely difficult to reach and the prospecting is coupled with such hardships and expenses In the way of getting sup plies that I would advise the Ameri can miner to stay at home. A 1 oo A Burglar Caiching Kodak. W. E. Travers, an Oakland (Cal) photographer, is determined to take a flash-light picture of the next burglar that breaks into his house. 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