EE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN~- DAY SERMON. Subject: *‘Comfort for Business Men.” Texr: “Speak ye comfortably to Jerusa- lem," Isaiah x1., 2, What an awful six weeks in commercial circles! The crashing of banks from San Francisco to New York and from ocean to ovean. The complete uncertainty that has baited all styles of business for three months and the pressure of the money market for the last year have put all bargain makers at their wits' end. Some of the best men in the land have faltersd--men whose hearts | are enlisted in every good work and whose hands have blessed every great charity. The church of God can afford to extend to them her sympathies and plead be- fore heaven with all availing prayer, The schools such men have established, the churches they have built, the asylums and beneficent institutions they have fostered, will be their eulogy long alter their banking fnstitutions are forgotten, Such men can never fail. They have their treasures in banks that never break and will be millionaires forever, The stringency of the money market, I am giad to say, begins to relax. May the wisdom of Almighty God come down upon our National legislature at their convening next month in Washington and such results be reached as shall restore confidence and revive trade and multiply prosperities! Yet not only now in the time of financial disaster, but all through life, our active business people have a struggle, and I think it will be appropriate and useful for me to talk about their trials and try to offer some curative prescriptions, In the first place, I have to remark that a great many of our business men fee! ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and lHmited capital in business, It is everywhere understood that it takes now three or four times as much to do business well as once it did. Onoe a few hundred dol- lars ware turned into goods—the merchant would be his own store sweeper, his own salesman, his own bookkeeper, He would manage all the affairs himself, and every- thing would be net profit. Wonderful changes have come, Costly apparatus, ex- tensive advertising, exorbitant store rents, heavy taxtation, expensive agencies, are only parts of the demand made upon our commercial men, and when they have found themselves in such circumstances with small capital they have sometimes been tempted to run against the rocks of moral aad financial destruction. This temptation of Hmited capital has ruined men in two ways. Sometimes they have shrunk down under the temptati They have yielded the battle before the firs, hot was fired. At first hard gun they surrenderad. Their knees knocked togethe, at the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, The, blanched at the financial peril. They diy not understand that there is such a thing a heroism in merchandise, aad that there are Waterloos h and that a man var battle with the sword than he can with the yardstick. Their souls melted in them because sugars were up when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell and unsalable goods were on the shelf and bad debts in their ledger, The gloom of their counte- nances overshadowed even their dry goods and groceries, Despondency, eoming from limited capital, biasted thea Others h felt it in a different way I “Here I have been trudg been trying to be h the counter, ve hey have sald » ing along I hav» these years | ¥ iL Is make or ail sould have stood stream is put out yond the lighth the great sea of speculation, Ste dice with which he gambles. He bought a few dollars vast tracts of we Bome man of the east living on a fat hom stead meets this gambler of fortune and persuaded to trade off his estate here for | tna western city with large avenues an enstly palaces and lake steamers smoking at the w trains with lig LAN 1% WKS are t stern everyt will De is the pr ; i tempted through | tation labyrinths from which they trical I wouid n prise Iw the avenues open before young men, would like cheer then when they reach the goal, such muititudes of men going this life and the life that is to ¢ wrong notions of what are lawful spheres of enterprise it is the duty of ministers of ra lgion and the friends of all young men to utter a plain, emphatic, unmistakable pro- test, These are influences that drown een in destruction and perdition Azain, a great many of our business men are tempted to over-anxiety and care. You know that nearly all commercial businesses are overdone in this day. Smitten with the love of quick gain, cities are crowded with men resolved to be rich at all hazards They do not care how money comes, Our best merchants are thrown into competition with men of more means and lesagponacience, and if an opportunity of accumulation be ne- glected one hour some one else pleks it up. From January to December thestruggie goes on. Night gives no quiet to limbs tossing in that iation contrary, 1 to rin ne through the our restlessness, nor to a brain that will not stoo | thinking. The dreams are harrowed by imaginary lose and flashed with imaginary gains. Even the Sabbath cannot dam back the tide of anxiety, for this wave of worldli- ness dashes clear over the churches and leaves its foam on Bibles and prayer books, Men who are living on salaries or by the eulture of the soll cannot understand the wear and tear of body and mind to which our merchants are subjected when they do not know but that their Hvelihood and thelr business honor are dependent upon the un- certainties of the next hour, This excite. ment of the brain, this corroding care of the heart, this strain of effort that exhausts the spirit, sends a great many of our best men in midlife to the grave Th find that Wall street does not end at the East River, It ends at Greenwood! Their life dashed out against money safes, They go with their store on their back, They trudge like camels, sweating from Aleppo to Damgs- ous, Thev make their iife a crucifixion. Standing behind desks and counters, bane ished from the fresh alr, weighed down by earking cares, they are #0 many suicides, Oh, I wish | could to-day rub out some of thesa lines of care ; that I could lift some of the burdens from the heart that [| could give relazation to some of thes worn muscles | It is time for you to begin to take it a little easier, Do your best, and then trust God for the rest, Do not fel, God manages all the affairs of your life, and He them for the best, Coasider the God did not wake you & pack horse, yourselves out from and the shelves, and In the light ot York oartuin you oan aving food and sontent, earry nothing ou mant, be therewit! itl EH HE : : E m | wonderful advantage of that { house! {| dayt | trampled the | steam pipes | gave one great lurch and was gone! ARaIn, I remark that many of our business mean are tempted to neglect their home duties, How often it is that the stors and the home seem to clash, but there ought not to be any collisfon, Tt is often the case that the father 18 the mere treasurer of the family, a sort of Agent to see that they have dry goods and groceries. The work of family government he doss not touch, Once or twice in a year he calls the children up on a Sabbath after- noon when he has a half hour he does not exactly know what to do with, and in thas halt hour he disciplines the children and chides them and corrects their faults and gives them a great deal of good advice, and then wonders all the rest of tho year that his children do not do better when t 10y have the semi-annual castigation. The family table, which oughtto be the place for pleasant discussion and cheertul- poss, often becomes the place of perilous ex- padition. If thers be any blessing asked at all, itis cut off at both ends, and with the hand on the carving knife. He counts on his fingers, making estimates in the inter- stioss of the repast. The work done, the hat goes to the head, and he starts down the streat, and before the family has risen from | the table he has bundled up another bundle | 01 ROOOS and says to the customer, ‘‘Any- thing more I can do for you to-day, sir?" A man has more responsibilities than those which are discharged p> putting competent instructors over his children and giving them a drawing master and music teacher. The physical culture of the ehild will not be attended to unless the father looks to ft. He must sometimes lose his dignity. He must unlimber his joints. He must sometimes load them out to their sports and games, The parent who cannot forget the severe du- ties of life sometimes to fly the kite, and trundle the hoop, and chase the ball, and jump the rope with his children ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and un- redeemable solitariness, If you want to keep your children away from places of sin, you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may preach sermons and advocate reforms and i denounce wickedness, and yet your children will be captivated by the glittering saloon of sin unless you can make your home a brighter piace than any other place on earth to them. Oh, gather ull charms your If you ean afford it bring books and into { pletures and cheerful entertainments to the | household, But, above all, dren, not by half an bh Babbath day, but day teach those chil ir twice a year on the after day, and every ach them that religion is a great glad. ness that throws chains of gold about the nack ; that it takes no spring from the foot, | no blitheness from the heart, no sparkle from ! the eya, no ring from the laughter, but that ! “her ways are ways of pleasantness, and aM her paths are peace,” I sympathize with the irk being dons in many of our cities by whic oy ful ro Are set apart by our Young Christian Associations, and I pray God to prosper them in all things, But, I tell yo ere is some thing back of that and before that. We need more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian homes In Americ Have you ever eiphered out in the rule of loss and gain the st “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and Jose his soul?" However fine your apparel, the winds of death will flutter iit rags Homespun and a threadbare coat have some times been the shadow of coming robes made white in the blood of the Lamb. The pear] of great price is worth more than any gem you can bring from the ocean, than Aus tralian or Brazilian mines strung in one ear cans Seek after God, find His righteous ness, and all shall be well hers ; all shall be well hareafter jut | must have a word with those wh during the present comn ial ealamities have lost heavily, o estate, If a man lose years of age erally by which later he It i= all fol! yor & like miy asharp di “OmeR LO Iarger sun y for a man to sit down discouraged The marshals ! Napoleon came thelr ymmander and sald, “We have lost battle and we ar being it Pleo,’ Napoleon took his wat his pocket and sald «lg is only 2 o'clock in the afternoon. You have lost that battle, but you have time enough to'win another. Charge upon the foe ™ Though the meridian of life has passed with you and you have been routed in ¢ a conflict, give not up in discourages There Are N tories yt sometimes monetary man when there is sor : his ag something in his health or something in surroundings which make him know well that he wiil never get up again, In 1857 1 was estimaied that for many years previous (0 that time annually there had been 30,000 fatiarss {nthe United States Many of those persons never recovered from the misfortune, But let me give a word of ymfort in passing. The sheriff may sell you out of many things, but there are some things of which he cannot sell you out, He cannot sail out your health, He cannot sell out your family, He cannot sell out you Bible. He eanuot sell out your God cannot sell out your heaven, You have more than you have Jost Sons and daughters of God, children of an eternal and all loving Pather, mourn not when your property goes. The world i» yours, and life is yours, and death is yours, and immortality is yours, and thrones of im- rial grandeur are yours, and rivers of Iadness are yours, and shining mansions are yours, and God is yours, The eternal God has sworn it, and every time you doubt it you charge the King of heaven and earth with perjury. Instead of complaining bow hard you have it, go home, take up your Bible full of promises, get down on your knees before God and thank Him for what you have instead of spending so much time in complaining about what you have not, Some of you remember the shipwreck of the Central America This noble steamer had, I think, about 500 passengers aloard Suddenly the storm came, and the surges decks and swung into the hatches, and there went up a hundred volesd death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave ; the pitching of the steamer as though it were leaping a mountain ; the dismal flare of the signal rockets ; the long cough of the the hiss of the extinguished furnaces ; the walking of God on the wave! Coan midlife th the - a from | The steamer went not down without a strug- gle, As the passengers stationed themselves in rows to bale out the vessel, hark to the thump of the buckets as men snused to toll, with blistered hands and strained muses, tag for their lives. There is a small seen against the sky. The flash of the distress gun Is sounded. Ita voice is heard not, for | It is choked in the louder booming of the sea, A low passenger moaped, but the steamer Ro there are some men who sall on prosperously in life, All's well, all's well. Bat at last some financial disaster comes —a suroclydon, Down they go ! the bottom of this commer | celal wos strewn with shattered hulks, But pecause your property goes do not let your soul go. Though all aise perish, save that, for | have to tell you of a more stupendous shipwreck than that which I have just mentionad. God launched this world 0000 yours ago. It has bowen going on under freight of mountains and immortals, | but one day It will stay er at the ory of fire, The timbers of rook will burn, the mountalns flame like masts and the clouds Ike sails in the judgment hurricanes, Then God shall take tae passengers off the deck, and from the berths those who have long boen asleep in Jesus, and He will set then far beyond the reach of morm and perl, But how many shall go down? That will never be known until it shall be snnounesd go, though ail r earthly possessions pore ish, may Almighty God, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save all your souls In California an act passed the des that h . | the upper coasts, came to Ephesus,” | the Lord willing (18-21). | strengthening the | Ghost since vo believed? SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JULY 30, —————— Lesson Text: “Paul at Ephesus,” Acts xix, 1-12 -Golden Text: John xvi, 13-Come mentary. 1. “And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth Paul, having passed through From Corinth, where we left Paul in the last les. | son, he returned to Antioeh In Syria, taking with him Priscilla and Aquila as far as Ephe- sus, where he left them, promising to return, After some time at Antioch he started on his third tour, and passing through Galatia and Phrygia, disciples, came in due time to Ephesus This Apollos of Alexan dria, eloquent and mighty in Seripture, had meantime passed through Ephesus and had been greatly helped and enlightened by Aquila and Priscilla. How wonderfully ghe Lord provides teachers lor thoss who are seeking to know Him! Consider the cases of Cornelius and the man of Exntopin. 2. “And finding certain disciples he said unto Have received the Holy And they said not so mach as heard Holy Ghost.” There are many lke these to-day who have heard of the love of God and of Jesus as a Bavior from the wrath to come, and they have roe ceived Him and are children of God (John §., 12). and therefore have the Holy Ghost in them as believers (I Cor, vi, 19; xii, 7), but yet know little or nothing about the Holy Bpirit and never have received Him as their power for life and service Compare John xiv,, 17, with Luke xxiv, 48 i. “And He sald unto them, then, wera yo baptized Unto John's baptism This was as far as Apollos bad taught them (18.2356) and would ¢ repentance, remission of sins and for repentance oul tal i them, yo unto Him, We have whether there bo any Unto what, And thoy sald, I an expe oly Ghost (Luke tii vation, but ; ir service sald Paul of reper meant aa i tenderand lovin » patiently and prayerfa them the word of God concern the Christ 9 But believed ng indicates nus | ng J n when divers were hardened and t, but spake evil of that way be- i iititude, he departed Ir then and separated the discig puting dally in the seh of one Tyrannus When truth is rejorted, the heart '« nnd when « heart I= turned away fromthe mily Peat in this dark world the only prose pect is the outer darkness where light never Yot Jesus has taught us that ya portion of the send will fall on good ground and that tares will grow a nd until the harvest 10 And this pov} two years, #20 that all they which dwelt in Asia hoard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks Ihe provines of Asia, In which were the seven churehes of Revelation, is distinguished from the other provinoes of Asia Minor in chapter xvi, 6. In this sertion of the country he testifies that f ha consed DOt 10 warn every one night and day with tears, teaching publicly and from baase to house, keeping back nothing, and all the while with his own hands ministering tthe necossition of himself and those who were with him (chapter xx, 51, 20, 34). Thus earning his own living he would have nooe casion to fear losing a portion of his salary if the truth he preached should happen to hit some of his hearers rather soveraly IL “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul” Whether it be a mir acle of healing of the soul or of the body, “it Is God who worketh™ (Phil, i, 19) Whether it be wisdom or knowledge or faith or gifts of healing or mirmcles, it is all the work of the one sell same Fpirit dividing to every man severally as He will (I Cor, xii, 9411). We will know His power more when instead of seeking Him to use Him for God we allow Him to take us and use us as He pleases, 12. "So that from his body were brought no fore yhe nm iow omes hardened noe the OOTY ON the wheat ’ onti by the space © Or three yonrs foto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and | the diseases departed from them, and the | evil spirits went out of them.” There must Rave some good reason for these aps lal manifestations of the power of God In this unusual way some special form of une belief or deviltry which needed just these manifestations for the Spirit does wothing noodiesaly, — Lesson Helper, I — AX Inventive genius has applied for a patent on a machine which he thinks will inaugurate a new era In methods of infecting capital punish. nent. It consists of a frame or chair in which the condemned man's | body is securely fastened. ‘The hesd Is then set tightly in a metal or leather cap which is connected with machinery #0 arranged that ot a given signal the criminal's bead can be whirled about two or three times rapidly on his shoulders. The ad: vantages of this device can be seen at once. It would pever fall to work and wouid be absolutely painlesg— after the first whirl, | | | makes it thelr favorite remedy, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Men on an average weigh twenty pounds more than women, : The death rate from apoplexy is highest at Turin, Italy 610 in 10,000, It is now proposed to make the trolley do the work that mules have been accustomed to do for canal bond The Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris has recently acquired a cameo of large size and finest workmanship, showing a duel on horseback between a Sasen- nid king and a Roman emperor. M, Bableon, the keeper of the department | of coins, recognizes in the subject a traditional representation of the cap- ture of Valerian on the field by Sapor 1. (A, D. 2060), One of the most wonderful discov eries in science that have been made within the last year or two is the fact that a beam of light produces sonnd. A beam of sunlight is thrown through a lens on a glass vessel that contains lamp-black, colored silk or worsted, or other substances, A disk, having slits in it, is made to re- volve swiftly in this beam of light, so as to ent it up, thas making alternate flashes of light and shadow. On put- ting the ear to the glass vessel strange sounds are heard so I the flash- ing beam ie falling on the vessel Or openings cut gE A few const lines on the world’ face re i y Jono eo Ants TT} 1 main undefined A Musenlar Magistrate, ture obstraet Lhe which Le room, his was ht % 3 lown wel then fo the i pon ng searched a belt of idg sa and inch irom marched « ber an eight dirk him, mm addition to secvred by the judge NH any State in the Und vier lawgiver than Judge Coleman wonld like to hear from it. The jndge ean be found in his office at all of the day or night ———— Horses for the Army Abroad, wire taken the two rest is n haz a ner. wo hours In Prussia, Franee and Anstria eav- airy and other horses for the nemy are bred in stables owned by the Uovern- ment. Every stallion must pass the severest veterinary examination. They are allowed tu serve approved mares belonging to farmers and breeders, If the colts from these maros come op to tho required standard, theo the Gov ernment buys them to educate them for cavalry horses. --New York World, A ——— The Ladies, The pleasant effect and perfect mfety wih which ladies may use the California guid lax ative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions Toget the trow and genuine article, look for the name of the Caltfornia Fig Syrap Co, printed pear thw bottom of the package We Care Rupture, No matter of how long standing. Welt for free freatise, testimonials, ote, to ~ J Hollensworth & Ca, Owego, Tioga Co, N. ¥ Price $1; by mall, $1.18 ert Burch, West Toledo, Ohl, says all's Ontarrh Care saved my Nfe.” Wir him for particulars. Sold by Droggists, Ti, Hatol's Universal Cough Syrup takes righ’ hold. Fold everywhere, 25 conta Momi Hoecham's Pills witha drink o water, harm's no others, 2 conta a box If afflicted with ROTe ¢)'08 use Dr, Jaane Thomn son's Eyecwater, Drugrists soll at #0 per bottle A “Nn Travels of a Thimble, Fire * Chief Mitchell has a silver | thimble, whieh if it conld speak, | doubtless conld tell a wondrous story, { Hoe came by it in an extraordinary manner. While flushing the gutters | the hose was coupled onto the hydrant n front of the Centenary Church. I'he resulting stream of water brought | the thimble to view. It is untar aished, shows but little use and has the | tnitials ‘YJ. 8." terior. To have arrived where found this thimble had to travel a long and varied mile, It engraved upon the ex of battle | + came from the Mormadake | | River somewhere to the drain at the pumphonse, where it was sucked into the water main, thence foreed into the reservoir here in town through two or three miles of water pipe, thence forced through the water mains of the city to the hydraut at the corner of Main and Austin streets, where it passed through several hundred feet of fire hose to the street, where it was picked up Nevada (Mo. ) Post, wtii— In boring the Mont (Grothard tunnels ordinary then compressed air nen 's and St, were Coenie eR IIN first used, By using Royal Baking Powder to the exclusion of all other leavening agents, lysts report it to be strength than the other times the leavening strength of cheap alum powders, os ns 3 I'he official ana- m0) / » apr 1 Nl: 2794 greater in leavening powders. 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