REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Harp and Javelin.” Text: "And David played with his hand as at other times and there was a javelin in Saul's Rand, And Sad cast the javelin, for he said, J will smite David even to the wall with if, And David avoided out of his presence twice.” I Samuel xviii, 10-11. What a spectacle for all ages! Saul, a giant, and David, a dwarf, An unfortunate war ballad had been composed and sung eulogizing David above Saul. That song threw Saul into a paroxysm of rage, which brought on one of his old spells of insanity to which he had been subject, If one is disposed to some physical ailment and he get real mad, it #8 very apt to bring on one of his old attacks. Saul 18 a raving maniac, and he goes to imitating the false prophets « ] who kicked and gesticulatad wildly they pretended to be foretelling events, Whatever the physicians of the may have prescribed for the diso I know not, but Davi Having keyed up the h to pull the rhythm from Thrum! Thrum! Thrum! u king will not listen to the exquisite He lets minstrel to the w weapon and that he could, as | spirit by music Again dodges it and d part Roseate David with ¢ with a javelin. Wh th ye than flin l not the ww harp and j place was I cannot the ly was first s drawing of the sinews ] and that the flute owing of the wind that the ratio o 1 i rp, the , but David dod on, for ho w The oldest nged instr is the barp. Jubal inded } book of Genesis, David pla 8 on the harp while | nu punish tI knowing that the boys to sing t taught the bos pia ODE Iamentoxz fint under the Ho eating at the tabie nitive song in whieh the air bad behavior, and the w Of the music eried out y is forgiven he rag of Achilles was assunged by a harp Asncle Indes swayed rebellions multitudes by a rp After the battle musician was to suffer fora the days of anmsthetios, the wounded artist ealled for a musieal instrament and lost not a note during the forty minutes of amputation, Filippo Palma, the great musi clan, confronted by an angry oreditor, played so enchantingly before him that tho ersditor forgave the debt and gave the debtor ten guineas more to appease other creditors Arn eminent physician of olden time con tended (of course carrying our theory too far) that all adlments of the world could be cured by musie, The medieal journals never report thelr recoveries by this mode, But in what twilight hour has many a saint of God | solaced a heartache with a hymn hummed or sung or played! Jerome of Prague sang while burning at the stake, Over what keys of plano or organ consolation has walked, Yea, in church one hymn has rolled peace | of Yorktown, when a 1 amputation, and be { the suffering over a thousand of the worried, perplexed and aginized, While there are hymns and tunes ready for the jubilant, there is a rich hymnology for tears set to musie, All the wonderful trinmphs of surgery and all the new modes of suceessful treatment of physical aad men | tal disorders are discussed In medical eon. ventions and spread abroa in medical books, and it is high time that some of the milliocs of souls that have been medicated by music, vooal and instramental, let the world know what power there Is in sweet sound, whether rolling from lip or leaping from tightened chord or ascending from ivory key, Musie is a universal language, At the foot of the Tower of Babel language was plit into fragments never to be again put together, but one thing was not hurt, and that is musie, and it is the same ail the world ver, Last summer in place wa were greotod as wo entered a great auditorium, which was fliled with thousands of Russians, whose language I could not understand any more than they could under- stand mins, But after the grand band had, out of pliment to us, played our two great Ar an ales, I stepped on the platform and said bandmaster : “Russian air! Russian ur!" and then he tapped with his baton on oom {to the IRS A ariosity made by a javalin & not , but at the dull end of the olds it. I leave it to » best of that Nght In rmu : Saul Hoo also In my subject that the fact that a sotimes dodges Is not against lus My text says that when Saul as salled him, “David avoided out of his pres. o twice «that fs, when the javelin was flung, he stepped out of Hs direction or bent this way or that In other words, he dodged But all those who have read te Hie of David kpow that he was not Incking an pr David had Inuits, but eownrdio was of them When David, woo was, I guest, about four and a half feet high, went out to mest the giant, who was, | gurss, about 10 fest high, it was a big andertaging, and he | ties of the struggle were so giea® iat H struck the giant's idea of the |idierogs, and All SON rage “nh yO a yt one he suggested to the little fellow cast bo azald | : make a fine dinner for 8 buzsand or 4 pn ! “Come to me, and 1 will give thy fleck © ato the fowls of the air and to the beasts cf the fleld,” When David went out to mes? that giant and conquered him, he demonsirated, ns he did on other occasions, his coursge. But 1 Naomi” and “Eventide” and | “Autumn Leaves’ and “Come yo disconso- | late,” and whole portfolios and librettos of | Russia at a watering | [ am so glad that when Saul flung that javelin | David dodged it, or the chief work of his life would never have been done, What a lesson this is to those who go into useless danger and expose their lives or thelr reputations or thelr usefulness unnecessarily, When dut demands, go ahead, though all earth and hell oppose. Dodge not one inch from the right osition, But when nothing io involved step Pack or stop aside, Why stand in the way of perils that you oun avoid? Go not inio guixotio battles to fight windmills, You will be of more use to the world and the church us a= active Chris. tinn man than as a target for javeling, There are Chiristinns always in a fight, If they go into churches, they fight there, If they gO into presbyteries or conferences or conspcine tions, they fight there, My advice to you is, if anything is to be gained for God or the | truth, stand out of tha way of the javelin. 11, “David I Samuel, xviii, his presence twice, Washington was as mighty in his retreats ns in his advances, His army would several times have been destroyed if he had not He dodged on Long Island; he d on New Jersey heights, Lincoln on his way to inauguration at Washington was waited for by a suing, but he took another train and dodged the desperadoes, We iL son avoided out of dodged, have nman ats NOS believe on Lhe Bon Ineffable hary Transporting harp! Harp Harp of heave Harp saintly Harp of God! Oh, | like the idea of that old un ent in the ancient hurch st Ullard, near Kilkenny, Ireland, I'he sculpture n that monument, though hiseled more than a thousand years ago, as appropriate to-day as then, the sculpture representing a harp upon a cross, That Is where | hang it now ; that is where you had better hang it Lot the javelin be forever buried, the sharp edge down, but hang the harp upon the eros And now upon our souls let the harps of hoaven rain musio, and as when the sun's rays fall aslant in Switzerland at the approach if eventide, and the shepherd among the Alps puts the horn to his lps and blows a blast and says: “Glory be to God,” and all the shepherds on the op heights or down the deep valleys respond with other blasts of horas, saying, ‘Glory be to God,” and then all the shepherds uncover their { enrtl and seraphi silence some shenherd rises from his knees and blows an.itie’ Last of the hers ani nays, HW a sy 0 004. and all trough the mo £0 the response comes £0.25 TIE san, “Thanks be to God," so Lois mo- ment lot all the valleys of the sartn respond to the hills of heaven, with soua's of giory and thanks, and it be harp of earthy worshi to harp of heavenly worship, and the wor equals | of Bt. John in the Apocalypse be fulfilled, “I hoard a voles from heaven as the voles of many waters and as the volos of a great thunder, and as the voles of harpars harping with their harps.” EE —————— ee —— The highest voleano is Popoeatapetl, Mexico-17,748 feet, with a» crater a mile in diameter and 1000 foot deep. heads and | knoal in worship, and after a fow moments of other | SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MAY 28. Lesson Text: man," “The Excellent Wo- Prov. xxxi., 10-31 Golden Text: Prov, x xxl., 30 Commentary. The chapter opens with wise an eounsel from a mother to her ro on. would have him to be no true Ni poor and the needy. CC 1-8: Pp, lxxil.. 14. Num. oan ompure And who help thinking of Him who is the true brightness | r. is the of God, for such, a moaning of Lemuel Then follow these our lesson conocernir onch verse in the Hobrow o letter of the alphabet in r forming an nerostic In th f tl no th { th cording to twenty. } + toristios that they : When Jesus would John the Baptist that He was Messiah, He told the messor among other things, that the gospel preached to them (Math. will be one of the features of the when the church has me the Christ that the poor and needy shall special care (Ps, Ixxil, 2, 4, 12, 18) In verse 30 we learn that all but the fear of the Lord is only vanity, or, as it I» said in I Cor. xiii, there Ia a Jove without which all else, even the giving of one’s body to be burned, Is pothing. Without Me, says Christ, ye can do nothing (John xv, 6), Paul sald noerning His lfoand His works, “Not 1, but Christ.” “Not 1, but the grace of God” (Gal. 8... 20:1 Cor, xv., 10 it Is 80 with every baliover and the o} a whole, then will this excellent wi fully manifested, Lesson Helper, - —— A CONTEMPORARY gives the start. ling information that persons should “dress quietly when attending the funeral of a dear friend.”—Philad« phia Record well poen t pr indead gers bee ola ne ireh as Con— “This Is a temperance hotel, isn's It?” asked one guest of another, *1 think it must be,” was the reply. “J never knew It to be full.” Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly. - ——— . A MAX doesn't wish he was a boy again when he sits alone in the gloam- ing and reads over the essays ho wrote during his school days ITs a trifle singular that some of these 810,000 circus beauties receive only #16 a week and board with the canvasmen. ] azarite and a | roal friend to the desolate and « ppressed, the | vi, | When ft | nan be | Japan boasts female stevedors, More women marry between the ages of twenty and twenty-five than at any other time of life of Ru sttendance DON The Empress when in win's y an I lis nugust patient receives a fee of 8350 a day Walking, women phy bes riding ian BAY, Are fencing, the i smong the gymuastic exercises for women, Ella Whisg 1% said to ler Wilcox, the poct- fad in matters , and that is for Fu nave on pare OWNS ROWHA, I pottery Maltes of Sutherland ndon the other Several mths in fa Dowager Duchess in L 3 VEeral mo idsome WO a statue to has Indies « Van that the AVenn« ng the Queen started by sevoral et) York, headed by 5 | Mack. The i t shall stand at the trance to Central Park, fac of Columbus Mrs. Irene Sheridan, Major-General Rucker, Army, and widow of been f New tentio fMatue en danghter United General States Phil Sheridan, still lives in the residence in | Washington which was given General by his Chicago friends devotes her life to the training of four children to the She her As a result of a newspaper contest, a woman was found in Boston who wonr a shoe No. 11 (ehild’'s sine of A width, 7} inches in length and 2} inches in width at the broadest part of the sole. The winuer is a young Indy twenty years old and four feet eight inches in height, Can At the graduating exercises of the Woman's Medical College of Fifty. fourth street at Chickering Hall, Now York City, Dean Phoobe Wait made » most elogunent address “Woman's place is in the sick room,” she said, “and among other things she was created a natural dootor.” Mrs. J. Crosby Brown, who has § fine home on Orange Mountain, of New Jersey, has for the past nine years given happy afternoons in her grounds to poor mothers from New York, The mothers come in groups of eight, each bringing her own or some other child with her, and are brought up from the station ‘N carriages. A Gigantic Cask of Wine, The largest cask ever known to be imported into this country has just been landed st the London Docks from the steamer Benbow from Oporto [ta holding capacity is abont 1150 gallons The lifting appliances not deemed sufficiently strong to this cask from the hold «¢ ut the dock were rane f the Etten | statue of , and therefore its contents of | wero pumped into smaller James's Gazette, nt — The world is full of | never tasted what they like, Hall's Catarrh timonials, f Peecham's walters, Beec! 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