W—— THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON, Subject: “The Birthplace of Sewing Societies.” (Preached at Joppa.) TeXT: “And all the widows stood bg him weeping, and showing the coats and gar. ments which Dorcas made while she was with them "Acts ix. 89 Christians of Joppa! Impressed as I am with your mosque, the first I ever saw, and | stirred as I am with the fact that your har. bor once floated the great rafts of Lebanon cedar from which the temples at Jerusalem were builded, Solomon's oxen drawing the logs through this very town on way to Jerusalem, nothing can me forget that this Joppa was the birthplace of the sewing society that has Dlesuad the poor of all succeeding ages in all lands The disasters to your town when Judas Maccabaus set it ‘on fire and Napoleon had five hundred prisoners massacred in your neigaborhood, cannot make me forget that one of the most magnificent charities of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman with her needle embroider ing her name ineffaceahly in the benefi of the world, 1 see her sitting in ye home, In the doorway, and around the and in the room whe she t the pale poor, She listens their pities their woe, makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufatured arti to suit the bent form of this invalid woman, and to the cripple that comes crawl ing on his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one she gives sandals to that one. With the gifts she mingles prayers and tears and Christian encouragement Then oes out to be greeted on the street > those whom she blessed, and all tha the street the cry is heard Dorea ing The sick look up gratefully face as hand or ing brow, and the lost and the aban start up with hope as they hear gentle v though an angel addressed them; and as she goes out lane, eves half put out with sin think see a halo of light about her br . of glory in her pathway peid shipwright ome, and ses SAYS Wher And they tell In anothe lamp piace, a f make ner about auding i are faces of the plant, she to she cles she Corners ugh om m the | she ur loned oer had the oe ney climbs th % his ‘oreas the lamented If I had not that word disciple in my text, I would have known this woman was a Such sic as that never came not ch i Before f this woman egenerated heart, the and of all Christian charit wiv and mothers a isters earth w Before y beef and tris andi] stian fn wedded nd I sh I want to yO MHRIrOe of a pure } ish daug nmitats Toss the Chr hold of th ontey ters & in ber discipleship WRIA re 3 temptation of to-morrow I charge you, in the and by the turmoil and the Judgment day, oh men that attend to first last and greatest duty of your life—the seeking for God and bing ot peace with Him When the tr k sound. thers will roa Rin ntinent can A rs icdat dead Int -" of name romd ¢ tumalt of wi you the umpet be an up and and help you and am and amidst the flying we vk of mount human arm the rising of the the bolling of yonder leaping thunders calm and placid heart who hath calm notwithetand the live, heavens will every waoinan's put her tr n Christ ing all the tumult, as though the fire in the heavens were only the gildings of an sutum nal sunset, as though the peal of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as though the awful ve of the sky were but a group of friends bursting through a gate Way at eventime with laughter, and shout ing ""Darcas, the disciple ™ Would God that every Mary and every Martha would this day sit down at the feet of Jesus! Further, we soe Durons the benefactress History hax told the story of the crown: the op ung of the sword, the pastoral poet, with his verses full of "the redolence of pe, and a-rostle with the silk of the orn, has sung the praises of the plow I tell you the praises of the needle. From the fig leat robe prepared in the garden of Eden to the inst stitcn taken on the garment for the poor, the needle has wrought wonders of Findon generosity and benefaction, It adorned the girdle of the high priest: it fash loned the curtains in the ancient tabernacle: it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon; it provided the robes of Queen Elizabeth and in high places and in low places, by the fire of the plioneer’s back log and under the flash of the chandelier, everywhere, it has clothed nakedness, it has preached the Gos pel, It has overcome hosts of penury and want with the war ery of “Stitch, stitch, stitch ™ The operatives have found a Hvell hood by if, and through it the mansions of the employer have been constructed, Amidst the greatest triumphs in ages and lands, I set down the oon quests of the needle, I admit its crimes. | admit its croelties, It has had more martyrs than the fire: it has punctured the eye; it has ’ ne LE poet has Cover t REY. DR. TALMAGE. | the | Ie | can i £0 into the asylums of the suffering and des titute bearing that Gospel which is sight for the blind, and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man lnap like a hart, and brings the dead to life, immortal | health bounding in their pulses. What a j contrast between the practical benevolence | of this woman and a great deal of the char- {ity of this day! This woman did not spend | her time idly planning how the poor {of your eity of Joppa were to be re- { Heved; she took her needle and relieved them. | She was not like those persons who sym- | pathize with imaginary sorrows, and go out | In the street and laugh at the boy who has { upset his basket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the benevolent platform, and goesout to kick the | beggar from the step, crying: ‘Hush your | miserable howling” The sufferers of the { world want not so much theory as practice; not so much tears as dollars: not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so much smiles as shoes: not s0 much “God bless yous!” as jackets and frocks I will put one earnest Christian man, hard working, against five thousand mers theorists on the subject of char.ty. There are a great many who have fine ideas about church archi tecture who never in their life helped to build a church. There are men who can give you the history of Buddhism and Mo hammedanism, who never sent a farthing for their evangelizsntion. There are women who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world, who never had the courage like Dorcas to take tho needle and assauit it I nm glad that there is not a page of the world's history which is not a record of fe. male benavolence, God says to all lands and ple, Come now and hear the widow's mite rattle down into the poor box. The Princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the famine stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife of Louis VIII, of France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly in erated in the prisons went out amidst the rabble and took a stick and struck the door as a sigual that they might all strike it, and down went the prison door and out the prisoners Queen Maud, the Henry IL, went down amidst the and washed their sores and ad stered to them cordiale. Mrs. Retson, Matagorda, on the battlefield le the death were flying nd, and cared for the wounded. Is aman or woman who has ever heard vil War America who has not heard of the women of the Sanitary and Christian comm or the fact that, be fore the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South Mountain, wometh of the t on the CARI wil appeared nisciles of IN an the the South na _ that were that os Tg tears Irymais have AY I» may b= she was and said In what a short put that Nhe sat me there must have been the apostle brought How the What clap What Sound it all win that dark Dorcas is res wi. when anong her i friends of have started there must have singing What laughter! through that lane! Shout it 4 alley Lot all Joppa hear it urrected Oy mist pang of hands tery You and 1 have seen the sams thing many a Hime; not a dead body resuscitat«d, but the deceased coming up again after death i the good accomplished fa man labocs ug to fifty years of age, serving God. and then dies, we are apt to think that his earthly work is done. No. His influence on earth will continoe Ull the world censes. Services rendered for Christ never stop. A Christian woman tolls for the upbuilding of a church through MANY an Xietion through many denials with prayers and tears, and then she dies. It is fifteen years since she went away Now the spirit of God descends upon that church: hundreds of souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ, Has that Christian women, who went away fifteen years ago, nothing to do with these things’ | see the Sowering out of her noble heart. 1 hear the echo of her foot stops in all the songs over sins forgiven. in all the prosperity of the church, | good that seerned to be buried bas come up again Doreas Is resurrected After a while all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle foreve: After making garments for others, some one will make a garment for them: the last robe we ever wear the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy, do not know where you will sleep, nor what your epitaph will be; but there will be a lamp burning at that tomb and an angel of God guarding it, and through all the long night no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on! Soft bed pleasant shadows, undistnrbed repose! Sleep on! sell Asleep in Jesus’ Messed hong 4 From which nape ever wakes to weep, Then one day there will be a sky rending, and a whirl of wheels, and the flash of a fhgsant; armies marching, chains clanking, ners waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, plored the side; it has struck weakness into | she the ju it has sent madness into the brain: it bas filled the potter's field; it has whole armies of the suffering into wretohedness and woe, But now that of Doress and her ministries shall speak only of charities Hh AE Fe §EEE } | 5 : i : 8 £ : : i i Parliament and the royal family to sit in There was a great andilenion to witness the distribution of the medals, A Colonel who had Jost both feet in the battle of Inkerman was pulled In on a wheel chixir; others came in limpingon their crutches, Then the Queen Arose ort them in the name hor overnment, and uttered words of commen. tion to the officers and men, and distrib. uted theses medals, inscribed with the four great battlefields, Alma, Balaklava, Inker- man and Sebastopol. As the Queen gave these to the wounded men and the wounded officers, the bands of music struck up the na- tional! air, mud the people with streaming eyes Joined in the song: God save our gracious Queen’ Long live our noble Queen! God save the Queen! And then they shouted “Huszza! huss? Oh, it was a proud day for those returned warriors! But a brighter, better snd glad. der day will come when Christ shall gather those who have tolled in His service, good soldiers of Jesus Christ. He shall rise be- fore them, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven He will say: “Well done, good and faithful servant” and then He will distribute the medals of eternal victory, not Inscribed with works of righteousness which we have done, but with thos: four great bat- tieflieds, dear to earth and dear to heaven, Bethlehem! Nazareth! Gethsemane! Cal. vary! Courage in Battle, James M. Thompson, of St, Louis, says in the Globe. Demorrad: +The quality of courage in battle I regard as being to a large extent a physical attri- bute. 1 have hoard a8 good deal of talk Colonel first gun had been fired, but 1 took much stock in it the war in the army, and it was my for- tune to be in a portion of the service in Virginia where there was a good deal of hard fighting to do, and there was no creditable way to get out of it, either. 1 saw service in twenty-eight | and [ can truly say that I for never got ‘used to it)’ I neve never sities, one went into a fight without an all pervading sense of danger, | and was always glad when Of triotism and the military spirit majority of mark, but there were not Was over, high pa- kept the to the Cours Ira moral courage great men rig un n whose physical n was for Army went sway died prominent away and in a few weeks, | another officer whose er Cosls What Wal articie on New 3 carriage ved track intry iiwenty miles long will extend around the and a border indred feet ls eared all around the eds ontamination of sakes, safety mar three h will be prevent any This sa Wot ude a carriage road. » wale all As spread wider nd wil t « 1 and der will in the rest will be laid down to grass the dam rises, the wi : i : ana wider over Mais Every tres carried AWAY Every building will be carted off. : and the cellars burned out and filled with clean soil to prevent any possibility of injury to the water. Fortunately there is no cemetery within the limits of the land taken for the reservoir Had there been have completely re moved before the water should cover the Fifty-eight persons and « orpora hundred be dispossessed ne it would been ground tions, holding one pare els of land, will in order to clear the land for lakes and the dams, roads, and safety bord. ers.” and eleven the two - mE ———— The Phonortograph A machine has been patented that promises to make ducks and drakes of typewriters, phonographs, graphophoues and all previous inventions The new invention, which is named the ‘‘phonortograph,” is about the size of a large cigar box and weighs By pounds, There are two immense advan tages possessed by the ‘‘phonortograph.” First, it will reproduce sound with per fect accuracy upon a flat surface, and, | | second, it can be produced and sold for i185. The Edison phonograph { eorrespondence, In Edison's invention | the impression of the words spoken into it is made upon a cylinder, which is in. convenient to send through the post. In | the photog rapiit the impression is made upon a flat sheet of paper, which can be doubled up and sent through the post like an ordinary letter in any ordinary envelope--the paper, of course, having to be spec. inlly prepared for the pu The very highest hopes are entertained . | a8 to the universal success of the ‘‘pho- nortograph,” full descriptions of which will, no doubt, shortly appear in the technical journals. Its prospects may, when it Is remembered I went through | [ oss— | has this | { disadvantage as 8 means of « onducting oo NAVD Origin of the Diamond. 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Newton believed it to have been a coagulated, unctuous sub- stance, of vegetable origin, and was sus- | tained in the theory by many eminent ! philosophers, including Sir David Brew- | ster, who believed the diamond was once 8 mass of gum, derived from certain species of wood, and that it subsequently assumed a crystaline form, Dana and others advance the opinion that it may have been produced by the and even from animal matter, Barton says it is younger than gold and sug- gests the possibility that it may still be in process of formation, with capacity of growth, Specimens of the diamond have been found to inclose particles of gold —an evidence, he thinks, that its i formation was more recent than that of : the precious metal, about the nonchalance of men in action, | and their ease and composure after the | The theory that the diamond was formed immediately from carbon by the action of heat is opposed | by another, maintaining that it could not have been produced in this way, otherwise it would have been consumed. 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