REV. DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Story of Ehud.” Texr: “But when the children of Israel oried unio the Lord the Lord raised them wp a ! deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, a Benjam- He, a man left handed." Judges Hl, 15 Ehud was a ruler in Israel handed, and what was peculiar about the tribe of Benjamin, to which he belonged, there were in it 700 left handed men, use of the loft hand that the Bible says they could sling stones at a hair's breadth and | not miss, Well, there was a king of the name of Eglon who was an oppressor of Israel, He imposed upon them a most outrageous tax, Ehud, the man of whom I first spoke, had a divine commission to destroy that oppressor, He camp, pretending that was going to pay the tax, and asked tosee King Eglon. He was told be was in the summer house, place to which the king retired when it was too hot to sit in the palace. This summer house was a place surrounded by flowers and trees aud springing fountains and warbling birds. Ebud entered the summer house and said to King Eglon that he had a secret errand with him. Immediately all the attendants were waved out of the royal presence, King Eglon rises up to receive the messenger, Ehud, the left handed man, puts his left hand to his right side, pulls out a dagger and thrusts Eglon through until the haft went in after the blade. Egloz forth to blow a trumpet of recruit an ni id the mountains of Ephraim, and a greq marshaled, and proud Moa®h subn conqueror, and Israe let all Thy ener all Thy friends tri I learn first fro: left handed | mel he 2 falls, nits to the OU Lord, O Lord, let is free. Bo, es rish! Bo, ject tha power of ¢ some men who uch ut there pa which in his usa the i in oft Bon le V ‘Lady prised if in ora’ fore y I learn also i of worldly elevation, Thi the world called a great man, There ware hundreds of men who would have considered it the ere donor of their life just to have nim speak to n. Yet, although he | high up in gition, he is not be the reach dagge r. Isom a groat many peo trying to elimb up in social position, lo an idea that there is a sala piace somewhere far above, not knowing that the mountain of fame has a top like Mount Blane, covered with perpetual snow. We langh at the children of Shinar for try- ing to build a tower that could reach to the heavens, but I think if our eyesight were only good enough we could see a Babel In many a dooryard., Oh, the struggle is flerce | It is store against store, house against house, street against street, Nation against Nation. The goal for which men are rune ning 18 chairs and chandeliers and mirrors and houses and lands and presidential equip- ments, If they get what they anticipate, what bave they got? Men are not safs from ealumny while they lve, and, worse than that, they are not safe after they are dead, for 1 have seen swine root up graveyards One day a man goes up into publicity and the world does him honor and people climb up into syeamors trees to watch him as he passes, and as he goes along on the shoulders of the people there ia a waving of hats and a wild huzens, To-morrow the same man is caught between the jaws of the printing press and mangled and bruised, and the very same persons who applauded him before ery © “Down with the traitor | Down with him ™ Belshazzar sits at the feast, the mighty men of Babylon sitting all around him, Wit was what yi jo wm yond she ir sparkles like the wine and the wine like the | wit. Muasie rolls wp among the chandeliors ; the chandeliers flash down on the decanters, The breath of hanging gardens floats in on | «Be DIght alr ; the voles of revelry Boats out, Amid wreaths and tapestry and folded ban- | The march of a host is | Laughter catches inthe | ners a finger writes, hoard on the stairs, throat. A thousand hearts stop beating. The blow is struck, is richer hued than the wine on the table, The kingdom has departed, Belshazzar was no worse perhaps than hun- dreds of people in Babylon, but his position slew him. Oh, be content with position as God has placed you in | got bo said of us, or was a groat general or “He was an honored chieftain,” thing may be sald of you and me, “He was 6 good eitizen, a faithful Christian, a friend of Jesus,” And that in the last day will be the highest of all eulogiums, { comes to the summer house, flower loaves that | tains ; | tering on one tree branch { that came up to shake feverish trouble out of Bubject: “Lesson Learned From the | | of death, { when the snow is n shroud, | wind is » Sixge, it is easy to think of our Ho was loft | and | yet 80 dexterous had they all become in the | the | The blood on the floor | ust such a | It may | | they carry thelr chains, or “He | wan mighty in worldly attainments,” but this | 1 learn further from this subject that death iglon did not to die in that fine place. Amid all the drifted lke snow into the in the tinkle and dash of the foun. in the sound of a thousand leaves flut- tin the cool breezes expect window ; the king's locks, there was nothing that spake but there he died! In tha winter, and when the mortallly, but when the weather is pleasant and all Lr surroundings are agrecable how diffleult it is for us to appreciate the truth that we are mortal! And yet my text teaches that death does sometimes come to the sum- mer house, He is blind and cannot see the leaves, is deaf and cannot hear the fountains, if death would ask victims, wo could point him to hundreds of people who would rejoice to have him come Push back the door of that hovel, Look at that little child cold and sick and hungry, It has never heard the name of God but In blasphemy. Parents intoxicated staggering around its straw bed. Oh, death, there a mark for thea! Up with it into the light! Befors these lttie feet stumble on life them rest, Hao Oh. us for is Here is an aged no work. He has done it gloriously panions of his youth are dren dead. He longs wearily the. di y and the nig says. “Come, Lord Jesus, Oh, death, Oe is a mar from him the staff and gi Up with him into the grow dim, and the the [¢ not do that, De straw bed and from the skies and coms nn, Ho has done Hen ARIF WILK the at the brights marksman 4 Hush, now! and the Laaghte hink that the the dead o who weer wi ny heart ac bu mand of breaking hearts t me' This Inst look { faces r brighten again’ This last kiss of hat never will speak sgain This widowhood and orphanage! Oh, whe will the day of sorrow be gone After the sharpest winter the spring dis. mounts from the shoulder of a southern gale and puts its warm hand upon the earth, and in its palm comes the grass, and there come the fowers, and God reads over the poatry of bird and rook and b and ONOUNASS it very What, my friends, for wary winter had not its # ring, and every night ith day, and » very gloom its glow, and avery bitter now ite sweet hereafter? If you have heen on the sea, you know, as the ship passes in the night, there ia a phosphorescent track left behind it, and as the waters roll up they toss with unimaginable splendor, Well, noross this great ocean of human trouble are the hes | A SOT. nat i thers Wom good Josus walks, Oh, that in the phosphorescent track of His feet we might all follow and be amined | There was a gentleman in the rail car who saw in that same car three passengers of very different cirsumstanoes The first was a maniac. He was carefully guarded by his attendants ; his mind, like a ship diamasted, was beating against a dark, desolate const, from whien no help conld come, The train stopped, and the man was taken out into the asylum to waste away perhaps through years of gloom The second passenger was a enlprit, The outraged law had seized on him, Aa the ears jolted the chains rattied, On hic fave wore erime, depravity and despair. The | train halted, aod he was taken out to the penitentiary, to which he had been oon. demned, Toners was the third passenger un- der far different clreumatances, bride, Every hour was gay as a marriage bell, Lite gitiored nnd bookonad, Her come sandon was taking her to his father's house, The train halted, The old man was there to welcome het to her new home, and his white locke snowed down upon her as he sealed his word with a father's Kins Quickly we ily toward eternity, We will poonn be there, Some leave this Hie cons demned culprits, They refused a pardon ; Oh, may i be with us that, leaving this fleeting Hie fof the next, wea may find our Father ready to groot us to our new home with Him forever. be a mariage banquet, Father's waloo nv! Father's bowom! Father's kiss! Heaven! Heaven! { outflelds in the League, | of 8 pathway give | { ther Turner, She was a | THE NATIONAL GAME. Tur Boston infle 1a is now the strongest In the League. Bavrrimone has ons of the best throwing Tur Bostons have made fewer sacrifice | hits than any other team in the League, i : HUpooters' slug- Hexaron GORMAX has Joined the O'Rourke's bund of Washington | gers, eld that Louis hard to find than an inf the Bt, Ir would be works more earns quartet, Tur ioing as gu League, Tue operating oa City, Penn, Just bear in mind that the and short stop have to bear the infleld work this year IT is the helght of players’ ambition to of the Boston League team Wann, Connor and Da Yorks, bat right-handed eve s left-handed pitcher and do JACK Nes old Metropolitan Ia ! yf ball, th lly in the Peite, er in Louls eat ther, work as any oats voung Bt, od Hecker, 18 now club at Oil her, Guy independent ex- king pit little third baseman brunt of the all New ne England bred day be a member Vis, $A pits Atlantic Chicago's big too awkward on the proflefent as his Fred, Pleffer Pur Philadel; left-handed bat Leagu Reilly & prod FIVE PERISH BY FIRE. Tenants Wake | RT From Sleep ape Cat Of, to Find M'KINLEY RENOMINATED. No Other Name Presented in the Ohlo Republican Convention, In Colum! the State Conve MeKinlev'a Bob Nevins Ww Republican ntion at wae { Dayt Nichols ts Gove r nar ne presentad hy Colonel 3, and seconded by Senator J , of Belmont There was were no the Gove mn a scene of other nominations, and ir was declared renominated amid enthusiasm A mmittes broaght the Governor into the hall, where he was cheered for several moe ments. He then addressed the Convention, accepting the nomination All the present State off] ors were then une stnimously renominated i oI — PICNIC PARTY DROWNED. They Were Upset From Their Car riage Into a Deep Spring. A dsspateh from Springvalley, Minn, , says that at a pienie party at Kummers Springs shout six miles northeast of that place, Lu Otho Stevens and daughter an Mrs. Morrow got lnto Mr. Turner's carriage wont to the Spring for water and In going had to drive along the side of the Spring which is very large, descending suddenly right from the water's edge. In some way the team became frightened, jumping off the bank and upsetting all into the water, drown ing them and the team, CHOLERA IN TURKEY. Thousands of People Dying on the | Lower Tigris. Reports from several cities of Asiatic Tare key say that the cholera has appeared in many districts and ia spreading rapidly, Along the Lower Tigris and the Shat-el-Arab River people are dying by thousands, Whole villages have boon destroyed by thosy floaing from the pest, The panic basome 80 that few [smilies wait to bury thelr sad or oven to nurss their sick, but flea to the next towa tn bar the infection, Over 70,000 pernons hive fled from Bassora prov {noe alone, | what has become of them, exce | up in change, | still outstanding, | spoud in value to English Queer Facts About Money, Therg, are 119,900,000 ld copper pe nnies some where, Nobody knows pt that once in a while a single spec _. turns A few years ago 4,500, - 000 bronze two-cent pieces were set afloat. Three millions of them are Three million threo cant nickel pieces are scattered over the United States, that one is seen, Of 800,000 half eente, which corre. farthings, been returned to the Goy errment for recoinage or is held hy the Treasury, Congress appropriate from £100,000 {fo 150, 000 4 the uncurrent silver now in poss of the Treas These are mostly half dollar, pot circulated, because there is mand for them. Not long ago the stock of the inted to 826,000, 000, but it is only ahont half that now, The mone y aside for recoining is not intended wr the cost of but 1» quired to reimburse the Treasurer I United States on sceount of weight which silver pieces abrasion, The loss 1000, not one has Vi nrly recoining coin CES10N nury. and Aare no de- pay f« minting, the Ovi ry an 1 in order tos traight cE —— Ihe Origin of «William,» but it is very rarely | ” | iit] Timidity of Elephants, A Vig elephant which was to drag away the carcass of » bullock and had slzwed the burden to | en the kidneys and liver to a healthy setivity, employed | dead | be attached by ropes withont observing | | what it was, happened to look around | | and instantly bolted, its fright increas | ing every moment as the | ject jumped and beioped at its heels, After running some miles, like a | with a tin can tied to its tail, the | phant stopped and allowed itself to he | tnrned around, and drew the back again without protest. 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