REV. DR. TALMAGE, HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: ““( ‘hildren’s Rights.” Text: “My father, if thou hast opened thy nouth unto the Lord, do to me according to hat which hath proceeded oul of thy mouth,” Judges xi., 36. Jephthal was a fresbooter. Early turned | in, In some of the cities parents do not allow thelr children to graduate for the simple reason, they say, “We cannot afford to allow | our children's health to be destroyed In | order that they may gather the honors of an | institution.” Tens of thousands of ohildren educated | into imbecllity, so connected with many such | literary asylums for the wrecked, intellect {8 bewildered, and the | memory i8 wrecked, and the health is gone. There are children turned out from the | schools who once were full of romping and mat from a home where he ought to have | yeen cared for, he consorted with rough men ind went forth to earn his living as Lest he sould, ght for a man to go out on independent nilitary expeditions, Jephthah was a good nan according to the light of his dark age, Sut through a wandering and predatory life ye became reckless and precipitate, The grace of God changes a man's heart, but aever reverses his natural temperament. The Israelites wanted the Ammonites friven out of their country, so they sent a felogation to Jephthah, asking him to be nder<in-chief of all the forces, He might have said, ‘You drove me out when you had no for me, and now yon tre in trouble you want me back,” but ha did aot say that, He takes command the army, sends messengers to the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country, and getting ao favorable response marshals his troops » on eo ne nso of or battle, Before going out to the makes a very solemn vow will give him the victory then on his return home whatsoever first comes out of his door. way he will offer in sacrifice as a burnt of fering. The battle opens, It was no on the edges of danger, no bering of batteries two miles awa) hurling of men on the points of swords and spears until the ground could no more drink the blood and the horses reared to leap over the piles of bodies of the slain. old times opposing | would their swords were broken, an woul intil teeth to grip, war Jephthah that if the Lord sire unlim mishing roes { throttle his man teeth, grip to Huzza thah, se amid acels not on the exeite that he had made 2 ing from viet eame out of t should he has his anxious | der what spotless lamb, what bre will be thrown offering. Oh, horrors! FPaleness blanches his cheek, Despair s« heart. His daughter, his only ch out the doorway to thr yw bh father's arms and shower upon kisses than sacrifice As a in k upon the upon the fires of the burnt r of death zes his rushes ersell in her him more there were wounds on his hreast n his shield, All the triumg vanishes, Holding bac breast and his eaving nthe matter was ing, holo av have been like a raindrop she water WY, twitha » may not reach and only woman surrenders herse crifs « father, if th mouth ni the Lord ever hath proeeeded from She tn y often compass she death, text, re ha knife we to the Knife at the father’s her name or names twisted for jor, had gone into th are twisting the t is well that her name came not CAR wear it, They may name of Deborah or Abigail or , but y ome in all the ages can have o title of this daughter of saerif Of course this offering was pot pleasing t he Lord :but before hurl your denuncia ons at Jephthah's cruelty, remember that den tir when » made, men yught they t execute them, perform them, wers wicked or good. There were two wrong things about Jeph thah's vow. First, he ought never to have made it, Next, having made it, it were better broken than kept. But do not take on pre tentious airs and say, ‘I could not have done as Jephthah did.” If to-day you were stand. ing on the banks of the Ganges and you had been born in India, you might have been throwing your children to the crocodiles, It fs not because we are naturally any better, but because we have more gospel Might, Now, I make very practical use of this nestion when I tell you that the sacrifices of Jephthah's daughter was a type of the physi. éal, mental and spiritual sacrifice of 10,000 children in this day, There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their chil dren a class of Influences which will as cor tainly ruin them as knife and torch destroyed Jephthah's daughter. While I gpeak, the whole Nation without emotion and without shame looks upon the stupendous sacrifice, In the first piace, I remark that much of the system of education in our day is a sys tem of sacrifice, When children spend six or seven hours a day in school, and then must spend two or thiee hours in prepara- tion for school the next day, will you tell ma how much time they will have for sunshin: and fresh sir and the oitaining of that exu berance which ia necessary for the duties of noming life? No one can feel more thankful than I do for the advancement of common school edu cation. The printing of books appropriate for schools, the maltiplication of philosoph eal apparatus, the establishment of normal schools, which provide for our children teach ery of largest caliber, are themes on walel every philanthropist ought to be congratulat od. But this herding of great multitudes of children in 11} ventilated school-rooms and yorly squipped fialls of instruction is mak be many of the places of knowledge in this country huge holooausts, Polities in many of the cities gots into ad. ueatioua! affairs, and while the two political «parties are perabbling for the honors Jeph- thah's daughter perishes, ALOR Riri 8 the n nes YOWSs wer day which aro preparing tens of thousands of invalid men and women for the future, so that in many places by the the time the child's education is finished the child is fin. fshed ! In many places, in many cities of the omy t In connection with that might Sypei mature intilact, dhl dren ight own to school with a 0 books half as high as thempelves The Inet r, but the | In those times it was considered | laughter and had cheeks health, who are now turned out in the after- noon pale faced, irritated, asthmatie, old be- fore their time, It {a one of the asddest { sights on earth, an old-mannish boy or an old-womanish girl, Girls 10 years of age studying algebra! loys 12 years of age racking their brains over trigonomeiry ! | with their mother tongue erying over their It is so much so hat there are many schools inthe country to. | Latin, French and German lessons ! vivacity of their nature beaten out of them by the heavy beetls of a Greek lexicon! And vou doctor them for this, and you give them a little medicine for that, and you wonder what is the matter with them. I will tell you what is the matter with them ; they ars finishing their education. In my parish in Philadelphia a child was #0 pushed at school that sho was thrown into a fever, and in her dying delirium, all night long, she was trying to recite the multiplica tion table. In my boyhood I remember that in our class at school there was one lad who knew more than all of us put together. If wo were fast in our arithmetie, he extricated us, When wo stood up for the spelling class, he was almost always the head of the class, Visitors came to his father's house, and he was almost always brought in as a prodigy. At 18 years of age he was an idiot. He lived 10 years an idiot and died an idiot, not know ing his right hand from his left, or day ght. The parents snd the teachers made him an idiot You may flatter yoar pride by shildren to know more than any fren, iid if by i are making The child wil ment with no of ite from the i whi ua Bat it was the are many heir children with l -£00 KI There the household, wrong sys 2 rigor or too ehiidren in fa They WHIT & The high chair in which and the ratte t len 1 her and 1 ren come u Wi ba EE { w There is no chance in this v that has never learne ol Fawn i) ole be God and the v Divine aut! thumbs fot hie in rains irfp through the roof « he » her ar swaoter than the wines bere must harmony betwee sther's governm and the mother's gov The father will be tempted to to The mother will be tempted to creat lenlen Hor tenderness will yme her, Her vy is nn little softer her hand seems better fit to pull out a thorn and soothe a pang.” Children wanting any thing from the mother ery for it They hope to dissolve her will with tears dat the mot r must not interfere, must not COAX © must not beg child pul of Helbon be nt ronment, great vigor ver sion Bye 1 for the when hour comes for the assertion of paren supremacy and the subjugation hild's temper, There comes in the { every child an hour it whether the parents shal Es shall rule, That is the crucial heur, If the ehild triumgp that hour, then he will some day make you eroush, It is a horrible I have witnessed it <a mother old age, shivering with terror in the pres 120 of a son who cursed her gray hairs and nocked her wrinkled facsand bagrudged her the crust she Juunched with her toothless gums ! hist is tests the child when rule Ain ane, mi to Hose sharper than a serpeni’s tooth KX i» To have a thankless child Put, on the other hand, too aust be avoided, It is a sad thing when do- mestie government becomes cold military jespotism. Trappers on the prairie fight fire witn fire, but you cannot successfully fight your child's bad temper with your own bad temper. We must not be too minute in our inspection, We cannot expect our children to be perfect, We must not see everything. Since we have two or three faults of our own, we ought not to be too rough when we dis over that our children have as maay. If tendition be true, when we were children wo wers not all little Samuels, and our parents were not fearful lest they could not raise us because of our premature goodness You cannot scold or pound your children into nobility of charaster, The bloom of a child's heart can never be seen under a cold drizzle, Above all, avoid fretting and scolding in the household, Better than 10 yonrs of fretting at your children is one good, round, old fashioned application of the slipper! That minister of the Gospel o whom we read in the newspapers that he whipped his child to death because he would | not say his prayers will never come to ean | onization, The arithmetios oannot eal enlate how man* thousasds of ohildren have been ruined forever either through too great vigor or too great lanfeney, The heavy. | ens and the earth are filled with she groan of the sacrificed, In this imporiant matter seck divine direction, O father, O mother, Bome one asked the mother of Lord Chief Justics Mansfield If she was not proud to have three such eminent sons and all of them so good. “No, she sald, “it is nothing to be proud of, | their ohlldren to a spirit of worldiiness, Some one asked a mother whose ohildren | : had turned out very well what was the secret | by which she | “This was the secret. When in the morning establishments there ought to be | It is push and | | crowd and eram and staff and jam until the | | child's erimson with | Childiein unacquainted | All the | parents who are’ great rigor | but something for which to be very gratefnl | Again, thers are many who are saarificing | reparad them for usefulness | {and for the Christian life, and she said: | | arma.” “Oh” you say, “that was very old | fashioned.” It was quits old fashioned, But | do you suppose that a child under such nurture as that ever turnod out bad? | In our day most boys start out with no | {dea higher than the all encompassing dol- | lar, They start in an age which boasts it can | gerateh the Lord's Prayer on a 10 cent plece, | and the Ten Commandments on a 10 cent piece, Children are taught4o reducomorals and religion, time and sternity, to vulgar fractions, It seems to be their chief attain. ment that 10 cents mabe adime, and 10 dimes make a dollar, How to get money is only | equaled by tho other art, how to keep it, Tell me, ye who know, what chance there is for those who start out in life with such | perverted sentiments? The money market resounds again and again with the downfall of such people, If I had a drop of blood on the tip of a pen, I would tell you by what awful tragedy many of the youth of this country are ruined. Further on thousands and tens of thous sands of the danghters of America are sacri ficed to wordliness, ‘They are taught to be in | sympathy with all the artificinlities of society. They are induced into all the hoilowness of what is called fashionable life, They are taught to believe that history is dry, but that 50-cont stories of adventurous love are deli- sions, With capacity that might have rivaled n Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis. tries, or made the father's house glad with filial and sisterly demeanor, their life a waste, thelr beauty a curse, thelr eternity a demolition. In the siege of Charleston, during the Civil War, a lieutenant of the army stood on the floor beside the daughter ernor of the State of South Carolina, were taking the vows of marriage, | shell struck the roof, dropped into the group and nine were wounded and =iain : among the wounded to death, the bride, While the ridegroom knelt the carpet trying to stanch the wounds the bri the core ba Com ple night take parture, and thou b# iaith 8 pao sald, * of the ex-Gov- on ony the w on the wa hei departed sisughter and tho sa tho of the fa: may be 20 will inat ming re) ngratulate all those who are tolling for ast and wandering. Your work will over but the influence you are setting in m a will never stop. Long alter you » been garnered for the skies your pray- your teachings and your Christain influ- ence will go on and help heaven with bright inhabitants Which w i rather see which scotia iid vou r mingle in in the Inst groat being able to say, “I added h and land to land and manufactory to manufactory : I owned hall the city : woat- evar my eyes saw | had, whatever [| wanted I got,” or on that day to have Christ look you fall in the face and say, “I was hungry, and ye fed Mo; I was naked, and yo clothed Me; I was sick and in prison, and ye visited Me ; inasmuch as ye did it to the least of My brethren, yo did It to Me? I —— The Hermit of the Bowery, Four or five years ago the people of New York talked for a day about the story of Hermit Coe of the Bowery and then forgot it. A dozen years before Leonard Coe, that being the name he was known by, had taken up his resi- dence in a Bowery lodging house, He seemed very poor, but paid his rent promptly, and spent a fow cents each day for food He was morose and taciturn, could seldom be drawn into conversation, and rarely left his room. When he did he always earried with him a brown paper package. Finally hie fell sick and was taken to a hospita When told that he conld not recover, he sent for John Haller, a former fel- us ber fav ors to pooj in w ay hous rath ase tO low lodger, and informed him thet his | real name was Baer, and that he had relatives living in Lancaster, Penn. He also made a will, naming Haller as his | executor, and intrusted to his keeping the brown paper package he had so long guarded with jealous care. The day following his death Haller opened | the package and found to his astonish. | ment that it contained over $24,000 in | greenbacks, An examination of the hermit's papers showed that he was a graduate of Yale College and had stud- ied both law and medicine, Later he had engaged in the publishing busis ness with his brother, but had in time { retired with & competence, and had | finally drifted to New York, There, | for some unknown reason, he had sunk | his identity under the name of Coe | and adopted the squalid life of a here {mit of the slums New York Ree | corder. I — The total number of colored Pod ne privomli non ili i Civil War was 186,017, ing | with the stalks uppermost { remain there for a couple of hours, | This will destroy the | cluster in the lenves, and they will sink HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, INERCTS ON VEGETABLES, Sometimes you will find small in- pects clinging to the vegetables fresh from market, Make a strong brine of | a pound and a half of salt to a gallon of water. Place the vegetables in this Let them insects which to the bottom of the pan. —New York World, TO ICE FRUIT, To ice any fruit, dip first in Che beaten white of an egg, then in pul- verized sugar, Do this until the icing is sufficiently thick. should be pared and cut in halves, and sweet, juicy pears are treated in the way. Cherries, strawberriesand other small fruits are iced with the stems on, only the largest being chosen. Pine apples should be ent into thin slices, Peaches BRING and these again divided into quarters Oranges =-.. emo should be and all the white skin removed, lemons cut into horizontal oranges divided into York Times, pared the the —New slices, quarters, MN) WASH how merely so that chen table the despi ymes almost a pleasure, DISHES, Do yon Not wash dishes? them off he chins closet, and dreaded This that rgsnit 1 KUHOW get ton swomplis h As soon as the ¢ all the cooking ute hem to soak, ! scrape all the plates with a knife, for that nicks soit over 1 the pile, the ooking is d« fill nsils with water and When the ne, meal 1 mt with a Put the water f there with =» Dry on a with silver . silver; hot for . ciean wash the tis tin them purpose polish wv the clean t and powder, Next wash yo ups and one at a time, p with a ban dle, and don’t, in this day and gi tion ¢ without kitel mvyeniences ko shaker Wipe each cup and » putting it out of your han i. or ll dry partially and streakily, and rough to the touch and saucers, fame sancers SA MOY ners one of those wire WH 8 8 BORD sancer Wasi Then cle | then the pots andl pans Knives, ru Way D Jopper utensils shoul i h brick dust and flannel ‘hie dish cloths and mops shon wend de i an i dried The towels should n aside in a damp lun should be hung to dry, dropped into the kitchen gainst washing day. The dishpan. should be : washed with soap and water, red and rinsed with sealding water, dried and hang on its own hook. Then the sink should be scoured and rinsed with scalding water, in which common soda has been dissolved. — New York World after using thrown ip, but then ham pe r and thoroughly BOOT IN LOVE-APPLE SEASON, Tomatoes are healthy and tomatoes are growing cheap. Therefore, the New York Recorder concludes, rules for tomato cookery ave in order: Tomato Eggs—Cut three or good-sized tomatoes in hall. Take ont a little of each inside. Fry the tomatoes lightly in a pan containing two ounces of melted butter. 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