REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON, Subject: “Nature's Wonders and Heaven's Glories" — (Farewell Sermon in London.) Text: hands and ts in kings’ palaces.” arbs xxx., 98, Permitted as I was a few days ago to at- tend the meeting of the British Sclentifie Association at Edinburgh, I found that no paper read had excited more interest than that by Rev. Dr. McCook, of American, on the subject of spiders. It seoms that my talented countryman, banished from his pulpit for a short time by ill health, had in the flelds and forest given himself to the study of insects. And surely if it is not bee neath the dignity of God to make spiders it is not beneath the dignity of man to study them, ? We are all watching for phenomena, A sky full of stars shining from January to January calls out not so many remaks as the blazing of one meteor. A whole flock of robins take not so much of our attention as one blundering bat darting into the window on a summer eve, Things of ordinary sound and sight and occurrence fail to reach us, and yet no grasshopper aver springs, upon our path, no moth ever dashes into the evening candle, no mote ever floats in the sunbeam that pours through the crack of the window shutter, no barnacle on ship's hull, no burr on a chestnut, no limpet clinging to arock, no rind of an artichoke but would teach us a lesson if we were not so stupid, God in His Bible sets forth for our consider- ation the lily, and the snowflake, and the Jocust, and the stork’s nest, and Jthe hina's foot, and the aurora borealis and the ant hills, In my text inspiration opens before us the gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid the pomp of the throne aad the courtier, and while we are looking around upon the magnificence inspiration poiots us to a spider plying its shuttle and weaving its net on the wall. It does not call us to regard the grand surroundings of the palace, but to a solemn and earnest nsideration of the fact that “The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings’ palacss’ It is not very certain what was the par- ticular species of insect f in the text, but [ shall proceed to les from it the ex- of the T'h Prove Spoken 1echanism, 18 § chami to the pal and looks ar 1 n i say and the serv with on the pa a about the wind All the machinery « make anything so deli » earth could not nd beautiful as with that spider § ry, or as any of its eight eyes ) not have to go so far up to see the of God in the tapestry hanging around the windows of heaven. ‘or in the horses or chariots of firs with which the dying day departs, or to look at the moun- tain swinging out its sword arm from under the mantle of darkness until it can with its scimeter of the lightaing, I love better tb study (God in the shape of a fly's wing, in the formation of a fish's scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond lily. I love to track His foots in the mount. ain moss, and to hear His e in the hum of the rye fields, an the rustle of His robe of light in the wind. Oh, this wonder of divine power that can build a habitation for God in an apple blossom, and tune a bee's voice r= pal orchestra, acd can say to a firefly, there be light” and from holding an ocean in the hollow of His hand, to find heights and « breadt { om dism ha \ strike ey tt aa 14H] until it is fic for the e PT goes forth ing tae shall H while 1 gaze and wl I will kneel and v, t and works, Lord God Almighty Again, my text tea cance is no excuses for inaction This that Soiomon saw wall mig said: [ can't weave a web worthy of great palace; what can Ido amid all gold embroidery? I am not able to make anything fit for so grand a place, and so i will not work my spinning jenny.’ h $0 said the spider. “The spider taketh hold with her bands.” Oa, what a lesson that is for you and me! You say if you had some great serm to preach, if you only hada great audiencs to talk to, if you had a great army to marshal, if you only had a con stitution to write, if there was some tremendous thing in the world for you to do ~then you would show us Yes, you would show us! What if the Levite had refused to soull the could not be a high priest? What if the humming bird should refusa to sing its songs into the ear of the honeysuckle becauss it cannot, like toe eagle, dash its wing into the sun? What is the raindro should refuse descend because it is not a Niagara What il the spider of text should refuse move its shuttie becavss If cannot weave a Solomon's robe? AwWhy with such folly | If you are lazy with the one talent. you would be lazy h the ten talents, If Milo can- not lift the calf he never will have strength to lift the ox. In the Lord's army thers is order for promotion. but you cannot be a eneral until you have been a captain, a lieutenant and a colonel. It is step by step, it is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Christian character is builded, There fore be content to do what God commands you to do God Is not ashamed to do small things. He is not ashamed to bo found chissling a grain of sand, or helping a honeybee to construct its cell with mathematioal AcCuUracy, or tingeing a shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of a chaffinch., What God does, Hedows well. What you do, do well, be ita great work or a small work. If ten talents, employ all the ten, If five talents, employ all the five. If one talent, employ the one. If only the thousandth part of a talent, employ that, “Bethou faithful unt: death, and 1 will give thee the crown of life.” | teil you if you are not faithful to God in a small sphere, ou would be indolent and insigaificant in a rge sphere, Again, my text teaches me that repulsive ness and Joathsomenoss will sometimes climb up into very elevated places You would have tried to kill the spider that Sol. omon saw, You would have said: “This is no place for it, If that spider is determined to weave a wab, let IL do so down in the cel. lar of this palace or ln sone dark dungeon.” Ah! the spider of the text could not be dis. couraged. It clambered on ani climbed up, higher and higher and higher, until after awhile it reached the king's vision, and he sald, “The spider taketh hold with her bands, and is In kings’ palaces.” And so it often in now that things thas age loathsome and repulsive get up into very elevated places, The church of Christ, for instapos, is a I, oon rroa aes n the in the ancient temple candle because he the wit windows of agate, and the fountains of sal. vation dash a rain of light. It is a glorious palace-—the church of God is, and yet times unseamly and loathsome things “The spider taketh hold with her | | with great | portions, i must be! | some whim, some evil habit {| many people do not | nave Nappenad to hotice, and It is gradually { spoiling that man's character—it is grad. | ually going to injure his entire influence. { Others may not see it, but you are anxious | In regard to his welfare, and now you dis. | and the gloom of the | desconding in | lars | and all the glories of | soending in a stalactite, making a piliar on and love and pardon and grace; yet a spider in the palace! Home ought to bo a castle. It ought to be the residence of everything royal. Kind- ness, love, peace, patience and forbearance ought to be the princes residing there, and yot sometimes dissipation crawls up into that home, and the jealous eye comes up, and the scene of peaca and plenty becomes the scene of domestic jargon and dissonance, You say, “What is the matter with the house,” I will tell you what is the matter with it, A spider in the palace. A well developed Christian character is a grand thing to look at. You see some man intellectual and spiritual pro- You say, '‘How useful that man But you find amid all his “splen- dor of faculties there Is some prejudice, that a great notica, but that you ' cover it A dead fly in the ointment. A spider in the palace Agaln, my text teaches me that perseve- rance will mount into the king's palace, It must have seemed a long distance for that spider to climb in Solomon's splendid resi. dence, but it started at the very foot of the wall and went up over the panels of Leba- non cedar, higher and higher, until it stood higher than the highest throne in all the na. tions—the throne of Solomon, Ani so God has decreed it that many of those who are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall gradually attain to the King's palace, We soe it in worldly things. Who & banker in Philadelphia? Why, hs used to be thé boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard while tke million. y went in to collect his dividends, Ark from a barber un- he palace of invention, from cflice of a nto £ that Mm ur into on the wherd until he gets the palace o Rom tcher tolls on uo from the insign ant {amily position until he get into the palace of Christian eloque garth, eng yt on up | he reaches world renowne | art The sop gots ’ toils up most aewtar p the wall craw 1p the * WAS no wih lookin mpared with the the of the ing with pearl buncle, are lifted to the banqueters, while standing white they drink to the honor Ki » me," 4 ana shiv es i igh wn In the | ht and fro plunge that « A sense oO "ro waivbm depth, making new roveati { the awful pow & piace as that thes upon ns two hundred ani from the summit made such iooation © you think mt you ars fifty feet in a straight lin surface of the earth Ibe guide after awhile takes you is called ‘star chamber.” and says to you, “Sit here.” and thea the lantern and goes down under the rocks and it and darker night is so thick that the hand an inch {r the unotservable. And the kindling one of the lanterns and placing | nao the rock a reflection onst on t ome of and there are stars coming out in consteliations—a bril lant night heavens—and you involuntarily exclaim, ‘Beautiful! beautiful Then be takes the lantern down in other lopths of the cavern and wanders on and wanders off until he comes up from behind the rocks gradually, and it seems like the dawn of the morning until it gets brighter and brighter. The guide f&# a skilled ven. triloquist, and he imitates the voices of the morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and you stand congratulating yourself over the wonderinl spectacle. Weil, there are a great many pesple who look down into the grave as a great cavern They think it is a thousand miles subterran sous, and all the echoes seem to be the voices of despair, and the cascades seem to be the falling tears that always fall, and the gloom of earth seems coming wp in stalagmite, eternal world seems the stalactite, making pil of indescribable horror. The grave is no such place as that to me, thank God! you then he he the takes larker until ave there, is BN CAve | Our divine guide takes us down into the rent caverns, and we have the lamp to our eet and the light to our path, and all the | schoes in the rifts of the rook are anthems, and all the falling waters are fountains of | salvation, and after awhile we nok up, and | behold! the cavern of the tomb has become a king's star chamber, And while wa are looking at the pomp of it an everlasting morning begins to rise, and all the tears of earth orystaliizy into stalag- mite, rising up in a iiine on the one side, waven seem to be de the other side, ani you push against the gate that swings between the two pillars, and as that gate flashes open you floa it as one of the twelve gates which are twelve rie. Bilessod be God that through this jospel the mammots eave of the sepuichr has become the illuminated star chamber of the Kiog! Ob, the palaces! the eternal palaces! the King's palaces! Carlous Traits of Rice, “While all rice is white,” says a com. mission merchant, ‘the size of the grain varies greatly, according to the locality where it Is raised, | have seen rice grains as fine as grains of mustard almost, aod again it is nearly as large as beans, As for taste, it is all about alike, but the amount of cooking depends altogether on the size of the grains, It takes an artist to cook rive properly, You have noticed oconsional black grains, Well, that is what is called hot rice, and 1s so discolored by being overheated In the process of milling "Chicago Herald, | of Christ, SABBATH SCI SABB SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR BEPTEMBIEIR 25. Lesson Text: “I'he Lord's Supper Profaned, I. Cor. xt. 20.34 (Quarterly Tomperance Lesson) Golden Text:l, Cor xi, 28 Commentary. 20, “When veo come together, therefore, into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Bupper.,” The RV, says: It is not possible to eat the Lord's Supper.” The diversions of this epistle are easily recognized by the words, “Now concerning or as touching” tehapters vil, 1; vill, 1; xii, 1; xvi, 1). If the section in which our lesson is found be carefully read, the prominent topic will be found to be that of glorifying God in eating | and drinking (x., 81 and when people come together to enjoy themselves in eating and drinking, they cannot traly eat the Lord's Bupper, for it poiuts to the death of self, not the life of self 21. “For in eating, fore other his own hungry and another is « people coming together for a ge they say, and after enjoying themselves the full, proceed to commemorate the death. These did worse than that, for actually made the Lord's Supper a drun feast. 22, “What? have ye not houses to drink in, or despise yo the The suoplying of cur bolily thing, but the worsaip of God is an en different matter. One of the most prominent characteristics o hrist was that He neve Hved for Himself, but always as a sacri! for others (Rom. xv., 8: John vi, 88 6 If we have not His it we are none of His (Rom, vill, © abide in Him we will walk as He walked (1 John ii. &, 28. “For 1 have received of the Lord that which als delivered unto you A the Lord Jesus, was betrayed, took taketh and one Ix Imag ine wl time, as * church needs tir “And when He b y it and sald, . pampered or i ri x remem Dra nce ing of the passover He was crucified per (Luke xxii, ciples these embler to be used by them in coming ories of His death He would hs not only Alled with gratitude be sacrifices on their behalf, but also ready ay down their lives for Him, or pour the ut in loving service on bebaifl of ' John #i., 16; John xv. 18 26, “For as « drink this cup, 3 till He come.’ rifle, we are sxpect pur old man as cru present our bodies a tained and cheered by be ours in the resurre ng Matt, xv - IN evVing Tm grate! bread iy and | irinket judgment Lord's humble ar { the this Le» hearts we partake wine as emblems of His b “For he that eateth and , eateth a not i drinketh the bonds ’ x ry discerning jaily business believer, in order that the life of Christ be manifest in us @ Cor, iv, 11 One lives to gratify self and yet partakes of the Lord's Supper, the emblems of which speak of death, and life through death, of neces sity condemns himaelf, #0. “For this cause many are waak and sickly among you, and many sleep ' Phy sical health was promised on condition of obedience and disease was threatened if they disobeyed (Ex. xv. 20; Lev, xxvi At Corinth, because of disobedience were sick and some had died, We taught that all sickness is becaus of dis obedience John ix, 3; xi, 4, but that it fs sometimes the case that sickness and death follow the disobe lience of believers 81. “For if we would judge ourselves, should not be judged If we would walk humbly with God and good He withhold from us, we would escape muck chastening would test every thing by the judgment seat and do only wont H Approves, aid thus walk in the light with Him ray who tna are n wa thing would and we w | and enjoy constant fellowsgiip 22, “But when we are judged ® Are | chastened of the Lord, that we should not be | condemped with the world,” Whom the Lord loveth He chastened (Heb, xii, @. The same word translated chasten, chastening or chastisement, in Heb, xii, 5-5 and in this verse of our lesson, is in Eph, vi, 4 nurture; in 2 Tim. ii, 25, instruct, and in Titas ii, 12, teach, #0 that by chastening us when we do wrong our Heavenly Father instructs us to do better, and nourishes us by His love 38. “Wherefors, my brethren, when yo come together to eat, tarry one for an other.” p yn taught His disciples to be humble and delight in serving rather than in being served. 10 be first and uppermost is not His Spirit, but rather to esteem others better than ourselves (Matt, xx, 20.95, Phil, #., & 34. “And If any man hunger let him oat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation, and the rest will [ set in order when [ come.” The worship of God, the service of Christ, and the showing forth of His death till He come, leaves no room whatever for the display of self or for self gratification in any way, If in Christ there is no condempation (Rom, vill, 1); and as to the daily life, “Happy is he that cone demeth not himself in that thing whieh he alloweth™ (Rom. xiv, 22). As temperance in Soripture signifies seii-control, and includes ths subduing of all that pertains to self, we have in this study a good temperance lesson. w= Lasnon Helper. JAoR~-What are you feeling so blue about? Tom--1 got into the habit of kissing Imogen whenever she got angry at me. Jack-—Yes? Tom-—And now her temper is completely ruined. ~New York Herald. One the law as good citizens 1s » maxim which a lot of people should paste In their hats and read it every time they feel themselves wi hot under the collar 9’ a live uprichlly, no | If we | Gray is the dignified color. Hound waists are much worn, Velvet dresses are in fashion now, Bleaves are larger and {aller than ever, The craze for short hair has spent it- self. Green is to be more fashionable than usual, 1 There ae 3 industrial pursuits in Massachusetts Miss Cincinnati, Ohio, “The Mermaid,” It is estimated that )0,000 women engaged in Lawson, a young sculpt nas there is a dally display of $5 10,000 worth of diamonds | ’ the st at Saralogr L80n., Lady P« wt interesting and clever n Victoria’ London furriers asonby may be said to be woman ted with Que y coming season t three 1 sabe. The new 1 nperiai Ticioria has its ent ] with ly, many i thas | ) adopts : the in and Yul Of hair close to the top. ribHon two pointed ends on The | Tei | pretiy which enamelle gold produced now and pre Polk, wido National diamonds Mrs. L. L. Presideat of the tinues the publication of the Farmer at Raleigh, N. C., in name. The Farmer is published in interests of the Peoples Party. her Emilis Bazan, the Spanish authoress, to which Each edition con principal runs a monthly review she is the only contribuler, tains a dis juisition on topics of the day. a review of the most potable books of the month, and a story, The bellakirt remains, but it is short, just clearing the groun i, and is either plain or trimmed, according to taste, the But however plsin the skirt may be, the waist fully makes up for any lack of gar. niture on the lower portion of the cos tume. In one consignment recently a feather dealer in London received 6000 birds of paradise, 360,000 birds of various kinds | from the East [ndies, and 400,000 hum ming birds, In three mouths another dealer imported 856.398 birds from the East Indies. The jingling, nerve destroying chate. Inine is to be worn again this year. Quite a little medicine case or surgeon's equip. ment is now appended to the milver or gold bow, Thereisa book, whose leaves are of court plaster, a silver flask of salts, a tiny cruet and a scissors, knife and memorandum book! Miss Zelia Nuttall, of San Francisco, Cal., is making a mark as an anthropolo: gist, Just now she is in Dresden, Ger many, where she has a fine collection of books on Mexico, Her apartments are furnished and decorated in Mexican style, and she is wonderfully well informed in Aztec history and arts, Eminent specialists are declaring that josanity, diseases of the eyes and ner vous are largely traceable to the fitting narrow toed shoes now 0 . There are certain nerves in the fest which seem to be abnormally of narrow shoes, A correspondent of the London Times snys: ‘The bearings of the Washingtons two bars gules, in chief of the second, itt ie armorial Ary nt mullets nre; three Cousequently there seen thnt designed the flag in the Washington arm on the very seal which he us the liberato from reason to doubt pol the s thes - nt R— A Distinguished Physician, Every one has heard of Dr, Hoxsls Croup Ours This g reed Dr, Hoxsle hin ret viodlondi'e ifniling Crow Ik and Man Lh A dog bitten Florida was cured of ministration of gunpow Laxative Prin The True Or the pian phe nent iple asant remedy, 8 Scrofula n lost 40 Ibs, | Hood's Sarsapa rilla, and t on Mr. G.W. Dener. gain in flesh, Hood's Pills ar I” octive. Showid Mave It ip Dropped on Swarr HNRON EAR vied Hin The House, hild rer Ov ) Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, SWINE Te i DRHKILMER'S WAM " : ve ‘ t y . 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