TREY. DR. TALMAGE. nr BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON, Subject: “Half a Planet.” Text: “Lift up thine eyes westward,"- Deuteronomy iif, 27. Ro God said to Moses in Bible times, and so He said to Cristoforo Colombo, the son of a wool comber of Genoa, more than four hundred vearsago. The Nations had been looking chiefly towar | the east, But while Columbus as his name was called after it was Latinizad, stood studying maps and examining globes and reading cos mography, God said to him, “Lift up thine eves toward the west.” The fact was it must bave seemed to Columbus a very lopsided world—like a cart with one wheel, like a soissors with one blade, like a sack on one side of a enmel, needing a sack on the other side to balance it, Here was a bride of the world with no bridegroom, I donot wonder that Columbus was not satisfied with nalf a world, and so went to work to find the other half, The pieces of carved wood that were floated to the shores of Europe by a westerly gale, and two dead human faces, unlike anvtbing he had seen before, likewise floated from the west, were to him the voice of God saying, “Lift up thine eves toward the west” Old navigators said to young Columbus, “It can’t be done.” The republic of Genoa said, “It can't be done.” Alphonso V, said, “It can’t be done,” A committee on mari- time affaires, to whom the subject was sub- mitted, declared, “It can’t be done.” Vene- tians said, *‘It can't be done.” After awhile the story of this poor but ambitious Colum- bus reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and she pays eighty dollars to buy him a decent suit of clothes, so that he may be fit to ap- pear before loyalty The interview in the palace was success ful. Money enough was borrowed to fit out the expedition. There they are, the three ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain. If you ask me which have been the most famous boats of the world, I would, say, first Ncabh's ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat ond, the boat of buirushes, in which Moses floated the Nile: third, the Mayflower, that put out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim Fathers, and now these wo vessels that on this the Friday morning, August 3, 1482, are rocking on the ripples There is the Santa Maria, only ninety feet long, with four masts and eight anchors The captain walking the de YOeArs « white, he was gra k aquiline and his » the averages here are and a few lands ready to risk the dition, There are year. ‘Captain Co sailing for?’ before you will ’ nl “All as! those who wish For sixteen lead and that pleases the captain because it blows them farther and farther away from the Eurvpean coast and farther on toward the shore of another country, if there is any. To add interest to the voyage on the twentieth day outa violent storm sweeps the sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries what it can do with the Santa Maria, the Vinta and the Nina. The mutinous crew would have killed Columbus had it not been for the gen. eral opinion on shipboard that he was the only one that could take them back home in safety I'he promise of a silk waistcoat and forty dollars in money to the mau who should first discover land appeasad them somewhat, but the indignation and blasphemy and threats of assassination must have been awful, On Friday morning at 2 o'clock, just long enough after Thursday to make it sure that it was Friday, and so give another blow at the world's idea unlucky days—oa Fri day morning. October 12, 1492, agun from the Pinta signaled “land ahead Then the ships lay to and the boats were lowered, and Captain Christopher Columbus vod upon the shore amid the song { birds and the air a surge of redolence and took session in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Ghost, 80 the voyage that began with the sera ment ended with *“loria in Excelsis Deo.’ From that day onward you say there can be nothing for Columbus but honors, re wards, raphsodies, palaces and world wide applause: No! no! On his way back to Spain the ship was so wrenched by tl tempest and so threatened with destruct that he wrote a brief account of his dis ery and put it in a cask and threw it over board that the world might not lose the ad- vantage of his adventures, Honors awaite him on the beach but he underis } vovage, and with it came all maligning an persecution and denunciation and poverty. He was called a land grabber. a liar, a cheat, a fraud, a deceiver Natioas Speculators robbed him his good name, courtiers depreciated his discoveries, and there came to him ruined health and im prisonment and chains, of which he said while be rattied them on his wrist ‘q will wear them as a mement the grati- tude of princes.” Amid keen appreciation of the world's abuse and cruelty, and with body writhing in the tortures of gout, be groaned out bis last words, “In manus tuss Domine commendo spiritum meum” ~"“Into Thy hands, O Lord, 1 commend my spirit.” Of course he had regal obsequies. That is the way the world tries to atone for its mean treatment of great benefactors. First buried in the church of Santa Mara, Seven years afterward removed to Seville, Tweo ty-three years afterward removed to San Domingo. Finally removed to Cuba, Four postmortemn journeys from sepulcher to sepulcher What most impresses me in all that wondrous life, which for the next tweive months we will be commemorating by ser mon and song and military parade and World's Fair and congress of Nations, is something 1 have never heard stated, and that is that the discovery of Amerion was a religious discovery and in the name of Goa, Columbus, by the study of the proph- ecies, and by what Zechariah and Micah and David and Isiah bad said about the “ends of the earth.” was persuaded to goout and find the “ends of the earth,” and he feit himself called by God to enrry Christianity to the “ends of the earth.” Atheisin bas no Fight hare: infidelity bas no right here: vagabondism has wo right here, And as God is not apt to fall in any of His undertakings at any rate | have never beard of His baving anything to do with a failures, Amerios is going to be Gospelized, and from “the Golden Gate of Call fornia to the Narrows of New York harbor, and from the top of North Amerioa to the foot of South Amerion, from Bering straits to Cape Horn, this is going to be Immanne's A divine Influence will sweep the con. tinent that will make iniquity drop like slecked lime, and make the blatant in. fidelity declare it was only joking when it said the Bible was not trus, and the worst athelsm announce that it always did be love in the God of Nations It woul not do for our world in Its lost SOC - hair | his face is round, tature a little taller two doct to remain go t avs the wind is east, of pos MOR BM | : i of of + y OF It would morale, Put walt until this world is fully redeemed, as it will be, and then perhaps interstellar correspondence may be opened, The great Italian navigator also impresses me with the idea that when one does a tring he cannot appreciate its ramifl of his death Co. Fim Be oat ony paver n ary whet new to old Asin, Had he North and ns Europe, the happiness would have been too much for mortal man to endure, He had no idea that the time would come when a Nation of sixty million people on thisside of the sea would be joined by wll the intelligent Nations on the other side the sea for the most part of a year reciting his won- dertul deeds, 1t took centuries to reveal the result of that one transatlantic voyage, When Manhattan Island was sold to the Dutch for twenty-four dollars neither they who sold or bought could have foreseen New York, the commercial metropolls of America, that now stands onit, Can a man who preache: a sermon, or a woman who distributes tracts, or a teacher who instructs a class, or a passerby who utters encourag- ing words realize the infinitudes of useful ! result? Every move you make for God, however insignificant in your own eyes or ie the eyes of others, touches worlds larger the one Columbus discovered, Why talk about un- important things? There are no unimpor- tant things, Infinity is madg up of infini tesmals, After the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson, the Admira!, went into a hospital and halted at the bed of a wounded sailor who had lost Ji arm and said, “Well, Jack, what i= the matter with you? and the sailor revlind, “Lost my right arm, your honor,” and Nel. son looked down at his own empty sleeve and said: “Wall, Jack, then vou and I are both spoiled for fishermen, Cheer up, my brave fellow and that sympathetic word cheered the entire hospital, While studying the life of this Italian nav. fgator, I am also reminded of the fact that while we are diligently looking for one toning we find another, Columbus started to find India, but found America, Go on and do your duty diligently and prayerfully, and if you do not find what you looked for you will find something better, Hargreaves, by the upsetting chine and the motion of its wheels while up. set, discovered the spinning jenny So, my friend, go on faithfully and promptly with your work, and if you do not get the success you seek, and your plans upset, yo something just as good and srhiaps batter, Another look at that career of the ad miral of the Santa Maria persusies me that it is not to bo expected that this world will do its hard workers full justice, If an ought to have ben treated well fr to last it was Columbus, Let others de pict soul the centuries 1 will get man i from frst He had h But a not prol them, have have bam hero who after the This eontinent Columbia, t coverad it, who furnishes i wg r » of the last Ilive by bors by twenty y and perils, roof in Spal have no re most bil! suffer injustice, L#t us be sure that have pliot, and the right « and captain and that we start in the right arse but times have not : " Be not surj art, rection. It will be to each « the Lord a voyage m covery than that which C Aye, feliow m roogh sea of this life, thr fogs and mists of ear! you not already the outline of the country? Land ahead! Land ahead er and nearer we come to heavy age. Throw out the p anks, and ste; a into the arms of your kindred, who have ’ LH] whan Ss wo Ariners, been waiting and watching for » hour o your disembarkation lar t graces of Christ, our Lord, may we all havs such blissful arrivall SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ’ Five volumes of air contain one volume of oxygen. Onyx bas been found in Rockingham County, Virginia An spouts hour. Life is shorts lands than Cal., every artesian Petaluma, 80,000 gallons of walter r in the valleys sad low. unong the | Mout. tains, tht a red light distance On a ciear mi at a grealey hight: but ¢ CAL ye seen than a white ght the reverse is : a dark ul the case the mach that can be A medical voices of suthority states singers and actors better preserved if used ia theatres lighted with elec At the there tricity rather than gas, { of Bothnia . ’ summit of head Gal i532 mountain 2 Lhe which the sun shines perpetually dur -19, 20, 21 ’ in the five days of June 3 and 23 The trolley bears such an important relation to the general operation of the overhead railroad system that attempts are constantly being made to increase its effi A Freschman ency. nas discovered by means of a recently improved pyrometer | that the temperature of the average ian electric lamp is about 3300 degrees Falirenheit, candescent Banava makes a first.class in delible A spot on a white shirt from a dead ripe banana is marked for. ever, and the juice from bananas thoroughly decayel isa bright, clear carmine. Nice nx, The rescits of experiments 01 hasten ing the germination of seed show that camphor and oxygenated water appear to be the most energetic excitants, not only as regards the acceleration of germi. pations, but as allecting the vigor of the plants, Volewnic ashes often travel a long dis. tance. A remarkable shower of volesnle ashes hat occurred recently in several parts of Fioland, The ground in some places has been covered to the depth of nearly an inch. The phenomenon is sitributed to voleaaie eruptions in lee. land. A teaspoonful of boiled water three or four times a day should ba given to babies, says an ex rienced and succes ful doctor, Milk is a food and does not quench thirst, acd a great deal of an in. fant’s uneasiness is due to it. The water should be boiled fifteen minutes and prepared fresh daily, It has always been generally believed, by the way, that snow keeps the grouad warm, but no very accurate dats oa the subject has hitherto been forthcoming, Accordingly, it is lateresting to learn, from observations recently made at Katherinburg, that at a ‘dept of four. teen inches the soil, when covered witn two feet of snow, war ten degrees warmer thao at the surface, ofa ma | mur Uy 1 AE TO GET RID OF MOLES, It is advised in the American Florist to get rid of moles ns follows: Knock off the rosin from a ball of potash, pul- verize the potash, make openings in the runs, drop in a tablespoofur of the pot- ash and cover the opening with a flat stone. I tried it and the moles disap- peared in a few days. Ball potash is very caustic and must be handled with caution to avoid injury to the one using it, WHEN BUYING FERTILIZERS, Farmers should bear in mind that the ‘commercial valuation” is not the thing to be taken into consideration in buying a fertilizer, says the Rhode Isl- and Station. To that the crop acd soil demand largely phosphoric acid and potash and little pitrogen, then a fertilizer with nitrogen, but 8, would be of only percentage of low t t other elemer little to the mercial is not farmer, however h value might be. DOW many pounds of the money, but how much potasl phoric acid and AND BRIARS in timbered re gion this question iss lem. The wh teresting prob ry with there is a some, with the sign of Z d tree or shrub shot ut to root and brane! All end but years of experience theories, A in the winter that aay quarter and {he kill it this sounds we ugh to them, verify has failed to such sapling be cut will never sprout, and it may be cut io the light of the moon in August, the sign is in the heart, and sprouts will appear abundantly. We cut brush every day in the year, may wher no matter when they were cut, and som will not die. If sprouting is done twice a yéar, say June and August, for two or three years, no sprouts will appear the pext year unless it be oak runners, The whole of killing, other than grubbing, seems to be in sap pois oning. the roots, Hence some practice cutting the stumps a foot or more in heigth An experiment of this kind showed a sassalras or post secret decided gain, since the stumps rotted | out in fou* years’ time from cutting, The killing ol briars, especially dew berries, baflls all skill snd indostry. At one time it seemed they were gone, but when the land was put down to meadow they came up as strong and vig orous as ever. Sassafras has been al. luded to; nobody ever killed one by cutting it off at the ground. The same is true of persimmon. They weed very different treatment. When out a foot or two from the ground sap poisoning is more possible and effective, — American Farmer, WILD FLOWERS AXD THEIR CULTURE. People usually make too bard work of | cultivating wild plants, They are apt to attempt to imitate the natural conditions under which they flod the plants, This, to a certain extent, is wise, but in most onses it is oasily carried too far, The problem is simplified when we once come to understand that wild plants grow where they are obliged to grow, rather than where they desire to grow. Be. cause & plant grows (no the woods 1s little reason to expect that it may not grow equally as well in the sun, And then, it is not necessary to walt until fall or spring to take up the wild plants, At every outing, whatever the time of year wil the ground is not frozen—I mean to go prepared to bring home roots, In illustrate: tuppose | on high J linc in th rht place, that a | ] and some will die { The sap must sour, which kills | a For these sultry July days I am bringing home wild herbs, and next year I ex. pect to see most of them bloom. I dig them up with a comfortable ball of earth, cut the tops off nearly to the ground, and keep them moist until I get them home; then they are set in the border, and if dry weather follows, a little water given occasionally at sun. down helps them to grow, 1 do not pre- tend to say that July is as good 1 time as April or October to move plants, but one must capture the good things as he finds The orchids, how. ever, require careful ment, being among the most diffcult of Most of them shade and them. pative usually IANA E- native pl ants to colonize. | require complete or partial moist subsoil, If a water plat und upply is at hand, a moist r trees or about buildings, where ie protes from wind, can and clumps of many { ved with safely. Lis there is sot tion | be 3 best n summer, when the is past - American AND STORING POTATOES, tatoes require even more care in harvesting, is verified by a Unle nz should never be sx the soil is very left ja the groun to toughen their ten briate easy abrasion, but, rincipal reason therefor : may ecome RDMAsoOn. t is always th r in the field n loto a field, from which they when ] i. Do not mass the potatoes together in big bins; t} 1 #s hay or heat and for potatoes in pits to select a dry elevated buried above wey will “sweat” the same grain when in bulk, and wil { rot if there is no ready To store spria escAps the moisture, retain until Ig, below the the ground, sways leave a free space over the pota- toes for the evaporation of moisture, Potatoes thus kept will not sprout dur- | ing the winter, — American Agriculturist, and, whether ace, or sp ". covered GARDEN XOTESs, FARM AXD Late hatches of turkeys seldom prove profitable, A pond fs not necessary lo misiog Pekin ducks, Sheep cannot thrive on filthy food or fithy quarters, It is always an item to keep sheep wa clean as possible, The Chinese sacred lily blooms as well in pebbles and water as in soil. Orange trees may be plaoted success. fully almost any mouth ia the year, Change the flock to fresh pastures | occasionally ; they will thrive better, Select now next year's hens and fatten | off the surplus unless they are fit to sell ] a breeders, | The Newtown pippin is popular, not {only for home consumption but for the | foreign trade, | With sheep, as with other stock, the { best tooding 1s a good variety regularly and liberally given, The earlier the sheep are matured the less chance they will have to eat their heads off while growing. Roman hyacinths are extensively used for forcing, which may be dove at a temperature of sixty degrees, When the lambs are wessed be sure that they have access to a good supply of water, This is essential to thrift, While a few sheep can be kept on al- most every farm, they should not be yarded with the cattle and horses, Jonquils are suitable alike for pot culture or for planting out. 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