‘REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subject: “The Importance of Sacred Music.” ——————— Text: “His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all suoh as handle the harp and organ.” —Genesis iv, 21. Lamech had two boys, the one a herdsman and the other a musician. Jubal, the younger son, was the first organ builder, He started the first sound that rolled from the wondrous instrument which has had so much to do with the worship of the ages, But what improvement has Dok made un- der the hands of organ builders such as Bernhard, Sebastian Bach and George Hogarth and Joseph Booth and Thomas Robjohn, clear on down to George and Ed- ward Jardine of our own day, I do not wonder that when the first organ, that we read of as given in 757 by an emperor of the east toa king of France, sounded forth fits full grandeur a woman fell into a delirium from which her reason was never restored. The majesty of a great organ skillfully played is almost too much for human endur- ance, but how much the instrument has done in the reenforcement of divine service it will take all time and all eternity to cele- brate. Last April when wo dedicated this chureh to the service of Almighty God our organ was not more than half done. It has now come so near completion that this morn. | ing I preach a sermon dedicatory of this mighty throne of sacred sound. It greets the eye as well as the ear. Behold this moun- tain of anthems! This forest of hosannahs! Its history is peculiar. The late Mr. George Jardine recently made a tour of the organs of Europe, He gath- ered up in his portfolio an account of all the excellences of the renowned instru nents of music on the other side of the Atlantic and all the new improvements, and brought back that portfolio to America, declaring that Brooklyn Tabernacle should have the full ad- vantage of all he had obtained, and although he did not live to carry out his idea. his son, Mr. Edward Jardine, has introduced into this great organ all improvements and grandeurs, and while you hear this organ You hear all that is notable in the organs of acerne and Fribourg and Haarlem and St. Faul and Westminster Abbey, and other great organs that have enraptured the world, In it are banked up more harmonies than I can describe, and all for God and the lighting of the soul toward Him, Its four banks of kevs its one hundred and ten stops and appliances, its four thousand five hundred and ten pipes, its chime of thirty-seven bells, its cathedral diapson and pedal double diapson, its song trumpet and night horn and vox humana, all, all, we dedicate to God and the soul. It will, I believe, under thedivine blessing lead uncounted thousands into the kingdom. Its wedding marches, its thanksgiving anthems, ts requiems will sound after all the volces that follow it to-day shall have sung their last song. To God the Father, (iol the Son and God the Holy Ghost wo dedicate it! There has been much where music was born those discussion as to \ I think that at the benoning. when the morning stars sang to- gether, and all the suns of God shouted for Joy, that the earth heard the echo. The cloud on which the angels stood to celebrate the creation was the birthplace of song Inanimate nature is full of God's stringed and wind iustruments, Silence itself per fect silen only a musical rest in God's great anthem of worship. Wind among the leaves, inscts humming in the summer air, the rush of billow upon beach, the ocean far out sounding its everiasting psalm, the bob- olink on the edge of the forest, the quail whistiing up from the grass, are masic. On Blackwell's Island I beard coming from a window in the lunatic asylum a very sweet song. It was sung by one who had lost her reason, and [ have coms to believe that even the deranged and disorded ele. ments of nature would make music to our ear, if we only had scuteness enough to listen. 1 suppose that even the sofnds in nature that are discordant and repulsive make harmony in God's ear. You know that you may come so near to an orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of pleas urable, and I think we stand so near dova- stating storm and frightful whirlwind we cannot hear that which makes to God's ear and the ear of the spirits above us 4 music as complete as it is tremendous, The day of judgment, which will be a day of uproar and tumult, I suppose will bring no dissonance to the ears of those who can calmly listen; although it be as when some great performer is executing a boisterous plece of music, he sometimes breaks down the instrument on which he plays so it may be on that last day that the grand march of God, played by the fingers of thunder and earthquake and conflagration, may break down the world upon which the music is ex. ecuted, Not only is inanimate nature ful of music, but God has wonderfully organized the human voices, so that in the plainest throat and Jungs there are fourteen direct muscles which can make over sixteen thoy. sand different sounds, and there are thirty indirect muscles which can make, it has been estimated, more than one hundred and seventy-three millions of sounds! Now, [ say, when God has so constructed the human voice, and when he has Sled the —i% whole earth with harmony; and when he | recognized it in the ancient temple, I havea right to come w the conclusion that God loved music I proposes this morning, in setting apart this organ for sacred use, to speak about sa ered music; first showing you its importance and then stating some of the obsta advancement, I draw the first argument for the Im. portance of sacred music from the fact that tod commanded it. Through Paul He tells us to admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and through David He cries out, “Sing ye to God, all ye kingdoms of the earth.” And there are hundreds of other passages I might name proving that it is as much a man’s duty to sing as it is his duty to pray. Indeed, I think there are more commands in te Bible to sing than there are to pray. God not only asks for the human voice but for instruments of music, He asks for the cymbal, and the harp, and the Srumpet, ne well as the organ. And I suppose that in the last days of the church, harp, the lute, the trumpet and all the instruments of | music, whether they have been in the service | of righteousness or sin will be brought by their masters and laid down at the feel of instruments and with organs, 1 draw another argument for the import. ance of this exercise from the impressiveness | femur of criticism, | wise to hear thern sing | ing for somebody else to do his duty. to its | A TR AAR AT 1 OR, mother, daar Jerusalem, Whoen shail [ come to thee! He sanz it to the tune of “Dundee,” and overybody in Seotland knows that: and as he begun to sing the dying soldier turned over on his pillow, and said to the minister: “Where did you learn that? *Why," re. plied the minister, “my mother tauzht me that” “So did mine,” said thedying Scotch sold er; and the very foundation of his heart was unturned, and then and thers he yielded himself to Christ. Oh, it has an irresistible power. Luther's sermons have bean forgot. ten, but his “Judgment Hymn" sings on through the ages, and will keop on singing until the blast of the archangels trumpst shall bring about that very day which the hymn celebrates. | wouid to God that those who hear me to-day would take these songs of salvation as messages from heaven; for | just as certainly as the birds brouzht food to { Elijah by the brook Cherith, so theses winged | harmonies, God sent, are fying to your soul with the bread of life | and take it, O hungry Elijahs! | In addition to the inspiring musle of our | own day we have a glorious inheritance of { church psalmody which has come down fra- grant with the devotions of other genera | tions—tunes no mors worn out than they | were when our great-grandfathers climbed { up on them from the church pew to glory, | Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When they wars cheerful, our grandfathers and grandmothers used to sing “Colchester.” When they were very meditative, then the board meeting-houss rang with “South Street” and “St. Edmonds” Were they struck through with great tegderness they sang Woodstock.” Were they wrapped in visions of the glory of the church, they sang Zion." Were they overborue with the love and glory of Christ, they sang “Ariel.” And in those days there were certain tunes mar. ried to certain hymns, and they have lived in peace a great while, these two old people, an we have no right to divorces them, “What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.” But how hard-hearted wo must be if all the sacred music pf the past, and all the sacred music of the present does not start us heavenwarl [ have also noticed the song to soothe pertubation. You may have come in here this morning with a many worriments and anxieties haps, in the singing of the first hymn, 3 lost all those worriments and anxietios, have read in the Bible of Saul and how he was sad and angry, and how the boy David cams in and playe! the evil spirit out of him. A Spanish king was melancholy. The windows were all closed. He sat in the darkness. Nothing could bring him forth until Faraneli came and discoursed music three or four days to him. On the fourth day he looked up and wept and rejolead, and the windows wore thrown open, and that which all the splendors of the court could not do the power of song accomplished, If you have anxieties and worriments try this heavenly clarm upon them Do not sit down on the bank of the hymn, but plunge in, that the devil of care may be brought out of you, It also arouses to action. A singing church is always a triumphant church! If a congre. gation is silent during the exercise or par. tially silent, it is the silence of death, If when the hymn is given « You hear the faint hum of here and father and power of sacred there a mother in lsrasl while the vast majority are silent, that minister of Christ who is preside. ing neads to have a very strong constitution if he does not get the chills, He needs not only the grace of God, but nerves like whale. bone. It is amazing bow some people, who have voloe esough to discharge all their | duties in the world, when they come into the house of God have no voice to discharge this duty. I really helleve that if the church of Christ could rise up and sing as it ought | to sing, that where we have 8 hundred sculs brought into the kingdom of Christ there | would be a thousand. i But I must now speak of some of the ob | stacles in the way of the advancement of this | sacred music, and the first is that it has been | impressed into the service of superstition I | am far from believing that music ought alo | ways to be positively religious. “Refined art | has opened places where music has been seo. vlarizad, and lawfully so. The drawing room, the musical club, the orchestra, the concert, by the gratification of pure taste and the production of harmless amusement, and the improvement of talent, have become great forces in the advancement of our civil ation. Music has as much right to laugh in Surrey gardens as it has to pray in St Paul's, In the kingdom of nature we have the glas fifing of the wind as well as the long meter psalm of the thunder; but while all this is #0, every observer has noticed that this art, | which God intended for the improvement of | the ear, and the voloe, and the head, and the heart, has often been impressed into the ser | vice of false religions alse religions have | depeoded more upon the hymning of their congregations than upon the pulpit prociam | ation of thelr dogmas, Tartind, the musioal | composer, dreamed ome night that Satan | snatched from his band an instrument and played upon it something very sweet.-q | dream that has often been fulfilled in ows | day, the voice and ths instruments that ought %o have been devoted to Christ, cap | tared from the church and applied to pur | poses of superstition, ! Another obstacle has been an inordinate The vast majority of peo. | ple singing in church never want anybody | | i Everybody is walt | If we! all sang, then the inaccuracies that are evi | dent when only a few sing would not Ix heard at all; they would be drowned out | God only asks you to do as well as you can, | and then, if you get the wrong pitch, or keep wrong time, He will forgive any deficiency of the ear and imperfection of the voice Angels will not laugh if you should lose your | place in the musica , Or come In at the | close a bar behind, There are three schools of singing, [ am | told-—the German school, the Italian school | and the French school of singing. Now, |} would like to add a fourth a and that | Is the school of Christ, The voice of a con | trite, broken heart, although it may nots { able to stand human criticism, makes better ' music to God's ear than the most artist ormance when the heart is wanting. ) now it is easiar to preach on this than iti | to practice, but I sing for two reasons—first, because I lke it, and next, because [ wan! to encourage those who do not know how, | | have but very little faculty in that direction yot I am resolved to sing. God has oom manded it, and [dare not be silent, He call on the beasts, on the eattle, on the d to praise Him, and we ought not be behin¢ the cattle and the dragons, Another obstacle that has been in the way of the advancement of this holy art has been the fact that thers has been so much { angry discussion on the subject of music, i There are those who would have this exer | else conducted by musical instruments, In the same church there are those who do not like musionl instruments, and so it is organ organ, and there is a fight, In Open your mouths | of Israel” | or ! choirsare made up of our ! popee | our church send forth the voles of prays and | praise, pouring it into the great tide of pu 1] this art has been the erroneous notion that this of the services could bs conducted by delegation, Churches have said: “Oh, what an easy time we shall have, This min. ister will do the preaching, the choir will do the singing and we will have nothing to do.” And you know as well as I that there ares reat multitude of churches all through this and, where the people are not expectsd to sing, the wholework is done by delegation of four or six or ten prrsons and the audience are silent, In such a church in Syracuse an old elder persistod in singing, and so the choir ap- winted a committee to go and ask the squire f he would not stop. You know that in a great multitude of churches the choir are ex- pected to do all the singing, and the great mass of the people are expectad to be silent, and if you utter your voice you are interfer- ing. here they stand, the four, with opera glass dangling at their side, singing, "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me,” with the same spirit that ‘the night before, on the stage, they took their part in the “Grand Duchess” or “Don Glovanni.” My Christian friends, have we a right to delegate to others the discharge of this duty which God demands of us? Suppose that four wood thrushes should propose to do all the singing some bright day when the woods are ringing with bird voloes, It is decided that four wood thrushes shall do all the singing of the forest, Lot all the other voices keep silent. How beautifully the four warble! It is really fine music, Hut how Jong will you keep the forest still! Why, Chet would come into that forest and bok ap as He looked through the olives, and Ho would wave His hand and say, ‘Let everything that hath breath prais the Lord,” and, keeping time with the stroksof lonumerable wings, there would be five thou. sand bird voices leaping into the harmony Suppose this delegation of musical per- formers were tried in heaven; suppose that four choles spirits should try to do the sing- ing of toe upper temple Hush, now, thrones and dowinions and principalities. David! be still, th mgh you were “the sweet singer Paul! keep quiet, though you have come to that crown of rejoicing. Hich- ard Baxter! keep still, though this is the “Saint's Everlasting Rest.” Four spirits now do all the singing But how Jong would heaven be quiet? How long? “Hallelujah would ery some glorified Methodist from un- der the altar. “Praise the Lord!” would sing the martyrs from amo.:Z the thrones “Thanks be unto God who giveth us the vie- tory I a great multitude of redeemed spirits would ery Myriads of coming mony, and the one hundred four thousand breaking forth mation, Stop that loud singin the har forty and ne A VOI in . ia Stop! On no, they cannot hear me. You might as well try to drown the thandes the sky, or back the roar of t ry heaven bas resolved t Alas! that we should bave tried on earth that which thoy ea t do in and instead of joining all our voloss in the praise of the mo h God, delegating perhaps this most and most delightiul ser- vies, N in this of beat for eve go its De son, soul in own singing heaven, vt hig pemn church, we have resolved upon the plan of conducting the music by or. gan and cornet. Wa do it for two reavons— one is that by throwing the whole responsi. bility upon the mass the people, making the great multitude the choir, we might rouss more heartiness. The congregation coming on the Sabbath day feel that they cannot delegate this part of the great serv ioe to any one els, and so they neste it We have had a glorious CONEY gational singing hare. People bave come many miles to hear it. They are not sure about the pro ng. but they ean alwars depend on g We bave heard the sound coming ike “the voles of many waters,” but it will be done at & better rate after awhile, when we shall realize the height, and the depth, and the immensity of this privilege, I forgot to state the other reason why we adopted this plan, That is, we do not want any choir quarrels, You know wery weil that in scores of churches there has been perpetual contention in that direction, The ow, theme] ves the singing up { oniy church fight that ever occurred under my ministry was over a melodeon, in mv first settlement, Have you pever been in church on the Sabbath day and beard the | choir sing, and you sald, “That is splendid music.” The next Sabbath, that church, and there was no choir at all Why' The leader was mad, his assistants were mad or they ware all mad together, Some of the best Christian Some of the warmest frieuds | have ever bad stood up in them, Sabbath after Habbath, conscientiously and succewfully You ware in | leading the praises of God. But the majority of the choirs throughout the land are not made up of Christian people, and three fourths of the church fights originate in the organ Joft, 1 take that back and say nine tenths, A great many of our churches are dying of choirs We want to rouse all our families to the duty of sacred song. We want sach family | of our cungregation to be a singing school. Childish petulance, obduracy and intracta- bility would be soothed if we had more sing- ing in the household, and then our little ones would be prepared for the great congrega- tion on the Babbath day, their voloes uniting with our voloes in the prajees of the Lord After a shower there are scores of streams that come down the mountain side with | volows rippling and silvery, pouring in one river and then rolling in united strength to thesen. So i would have all the families in bie worship that rolls on and on to empty into the great, wide heart of God, Never can we have our church sing as it ought until our families sing as they ought There will be a great revolution on this subject in all our churches. God will come down by His spirit and rouse up the oid hymns and tunes that have not more than hail a wake since the time of our grand. fathers. The silent pews in the church will break forth into music, and when the cone ductor takes his place on the Sabbath day there will be a great host of voloes rush into the harmony, My Christian friends, wa have no taste for this service on earth, what will we do in heaven, where they all sing, and sing forever? | want to souse you to a unanimity in Christian song that has never yet been ex- hibited. Come, now! clear your throats and get ready for this duty or you will never hear the end of this, I never shall forget bearing a Frenchman sing the *Marseil Inise” on the Champs Elysees, Paris just before the battle of Sedan in 1570. | never saw such an enthusiasm before or wines, As ho ming that national alr, oh! how the Frenchmen shouted ! | “God Save the Queen? know something about the " aatiouit alr, Now, | tell you that thess songs we si Habbath by Sabbath are the national airs Jesus Christ and of the k of heaven, and if you do not learn how do you ever Moses and the frivolity, battle, of them one day, ith,” mud that great alton, Jott In the RE rsa ORT | Rye—State ....... i | Corn—Ungraded Mixed, .... | Oate~No, 1 White......cvu i | Lard-City | Cheese Ntate AA Sr A ——— THE NATIONAL GAME, Cc AGo bas won the pennant, Prrewen Nicow bas been released by Chi. CBgo, Tur mrmy of disengaged grows larger dally, Deasv-smure Hoy is now leading run getter fon the Bt. 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Mr. Harris, a London | tained the Emperor of Germany dur | Station in that city without stop and ron | ing his scent visit: and the Lord From that point to | | ealled the “City” is made baron for his Conductor Rockwell had the | a ts —— —— I SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 27, Lesson Text: Second Quartenly Re view—Golden Text: Hebrews, xiii, 8, REVIEW SXERCIEE, Buperintendent—What does Joh of the Word? on Ss say Behool—In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, Bupt.—What is next said of the Word? Behool—All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made, Bupt.— What testimony did John the Bap. tist bear to Jesus? Behool—Behold the Lamb of Go 1. Bupt.—~What did Andrew do when he Behool-—He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found easiah,....And he brought him to Supt. What did Jesus say to the servants when they had filled the waterpots with water? Behool—Draw out now and bear unto the governor of the feast Supt.—What did the governor say to the bridegroom? SBchool—Thou hast kept the good wine un- [| : til now, Boston, Balt). | Supt.~What did Jesus first say to Nico | Bebool—Verily, verily, 1 say unto thee, the kingdom of God, Bupt.—~What did Jecus say to the woman | at the well? Behool—If thou knowest the gift of God, drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, Supt. — What did He further say of this ilving water? School Whosoever drinketh of the water rive him shall never thirst Bupt.—W hy did the Jews kill Jesus? Bebool-—Because He said that God was His | Father, making Himself equal with God Bupt, What authority bas the Father given to the Son? Bebool—He hath committed all judgment unto the 5 that all men should hovor the Son, even as they honor the Father, Supt. How much remained after Jesus bad ted the five thousand? Bebool—They filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Bupt.— What did those wh miracle say’ Behool—This sof a truth that Prophet that should come into the world Supt. --What did Jesus say to thos who followed Him to Capernaum? Bchool--Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everiasting ile Bupt.— What did His bearers then say to Jesus! School—Lord, brea Supt, — What did Jesus reply? Bchool—-Jesus said unto them, bread of life: he that cometh to never hunger, Bupt — What did Jesus say on the last day of the feast? Bebool—1f any man thirsts, let Sook to HL had seen the evermors give us this I am the Mo shall him eome | unto Me and drink Supt. What did Jesus say to those who | believed Him? Scbool—11 ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed: and ye shall know the truth, and the trath shall make you free | Bupt.~What did Jesus do to the blind man’ i School—He spat on the ground and made | | clay of the spittie, and He anointed the eves | of the blind maneswith the clay, aod | said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Bi | loan Supt. What did the bliod man do? Behool—He went his way therefore, and | washed, ana came seeing Supt. — What question did Jesus put to the man 0 whom He bad given sight? School-Dost thou believe on the Son of God? . Sopt. What did the man do when Jesus had made Himsalf known unto him? School—He said unto Jesus, Lord, lieve. and he worshiped Him Bupt. —W hat did Jesus say of Himself? School—1 am the good shepherd: thegood | shepherd giveth His life for the sheep. — | Westminster Question Book, I be Ture value of tilles in Great Britain theatrical manager, is knighted be- | cause of the manner in which he enter | Mayor of the little “core” of London speech and other flankyism on the same ooomsion. But, after all, these origins of title are more creditable than pome ancient ones now considered blue- blooded. The soccomplishments of a theater manager and the bows, serapes, toggery, and toadyism of a petty mag: istrate are worthier fountains for honor, such as it is, than the vices of monarchs and the crimes of courtiers which gave life to so many aristooratic roots that flourish ise green bays now, THERE 18 & Kind of & summer girl out here in the West whom you never read of in the papers, Her neighbors do not associate her with eool white dresses, idleness, novels, and ham. mocks, but they think vastly more of her. She is the kind of a summer girl who puts up fruit in the hot kitchen, who is her mother's help, and who knows more about the ingredients for making a peach cobbler than she does about the latest style of a lawn-tennis dress. She is the Western man’s ideal of all a summer girl should be, and all wise men of the East agree with him after they have tasted some of hor | electric train making 1 | would | made some { with a | Its ingredients have not been nn | | lic, the pressure to which it i’ SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ts— Bottles are made by machinery. Bethlehem, Penn., bas the biggest hammer, Chicago is about to add to its attrice tions a steel chimney, 250 feet high, Electricity is now being made to serve for use of headlights on locomotives, Eye blinds and dark stables are said to be the greatest cause of blinduess in horses, A locomotive is running on the Chi. cago and Alton road which consumes its own smoke, It has been calculated that 100 laying bens produce in egg shells about 13 pounds of chalk and limestone snnuslly Heory Curtis Spalding claims that the idea which Greathead utilized in his pat. ents for tunneling really originated in America, A French amateur photographer has mounted a cameras on a kite, and gets remarkably clear views from a height of 100 to 150 feet, Papier mache oil cans which are now being made are very durable, snd im. pervious to any spirit or oil likely to be | used in a machine room. asserts that an b which trician 25 miles require 7000 feet in come to a standst An expert ele an ur 10 il, A physician in Crac remarkable new medicine An English physician, Dr. Lennox Wainwright, affirms that a mixture of menthol and of ammonia has proven to be the best remedy for hay fever. i carbonate It is used as smelling salts, Steel is now being used in struction of large chimneys, weight is about one-third that of a brick struc ture of the same conducting power, aad much economy in space is secur A hu entirely the Its con tel in Hamburg bas been of compressed wood, whict is sub] ected, is rendered as hard absolutely proof fire. A light and er teel or iron columns has been placed the market. They ¢ of two I beams bent longitudinally at right an- gles and bolted together with a small [ beam between them. The tigh price of coal on Mexican railways has resulted in the adoption of iron, as wel BA against the atlacks 4 4 moa { + ’ mp iorin oi sist | & novel type of compound engine and | locomotive, and a consequent saving of | twenty-five per cent. in coal is obtained with only a slight increase in weight. Delicate electro-magnets are now suc. cessfully used in optical surgery for the removal of pieces of iron or steel which have entered the eye. The attractive | power of the magnet causes such par- | ticles to be drawn to it, and they adhere when the magnet is drawn. The largest gasometer in the world is now being built for a London come pany, Its diameter will be 300 feet, and the height 180 feet. Its capacity will be 12,000,000 cubic feet and weight 2220 tons. It wili take 1200 tons of coal to fill it with gas, The use of the search light on naval vessels when on blockade duty is being severely criticised, as it has been shown that they serve to show the position of a vessel when she would otherwise be invisible, thus making an attack with torpedo boats possible A novel idea in the running of street cars is that recently suggested and tried near Richmond, Va. Eight beavy springs are used, which are connected to the axles by suitable gearing. A wind- ing engine will be buiit at the ends of the lines, which is four miles long. Some of the monstrous cranes used in the Baldwin locomotive works at Phila- | delphia lift a big locomotive as easily as a mother does a baby. Each of them saves the labor of 150 men and does away with the necessity of having a com- plicated system of tracks for shifting the locomotives, A late invention, the cushion ecar wheel, is described as being a thick rub- ber band placed between the tire and centre of the wheel, and which acts as a cushion, absorbing all vibrations. The rubber is so attached as to make any danger from a hot box or from corrosive action an improbability. A new Swedish glass is claimed to have important advantage for microscope and other fine lenses, giving greatly ine creased power, The chiel improvements over other fine glass consists in the addi- tion of phosphate and chlorine, which impart absolute tran ¥, great hard. ness and suspectibility of the finest pols ish, An Electrode in the Stomach. Herr Einhorn, a medical electrician, has devised an electrode for en the stomach so as to enable the or to send a current of electricity from the in. terior of the body to the exterior, or { vice versa. The electrode consists of a fine wire, which is inclosed in an india. rubber tube, terminating in a capsule. 80 as to sllow wire to escape to the the wire The patient drinks some water and swallows the eaprule like a pill. The other, electrode is applied to the skin u thd ordinary way. — Londen Gisbe.
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