~~ / [HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Week Day Religion.” Fd : Text: “In all hy ways acknowledge Him." wTroverbs iil. 6, F There has been a tendency in aii innds and leasions for espeotal religious service, and to Rhink that they formed the realm in which re- Ygion was chiefly to net, days and holy places have their use, they can never be a substitute for continuous exercise of faith and prayer, a worldling all the week, for Southampton and sail one day in that di- rection and the other six days sall in other get to Southampton? Just san will get to heaven who sails on the Sab- bath day toward that which is good, and the other six days of the week sails townrd the | You eannot | eat so much at the Sabbath banquet that you | world, the flesh and the devil, ean afford religious abstinence all the rest of the week. Te a v . ¢ smodia, do 0s | . Genuine religion is not spasmodie, dot | belittling to put a tax on pins and a tax on { buckles and a tax on shoes, | taxes do not amount to much, but in the | pot go by fits and starts, is not an attack of chills and fever—now cold until your teeth ehatter, now hot until your bones ache. Genuine religion marches on steadily wp steep hills and along dangerous declivities, fts eye ever on the everlasting hills crown od with the castles of the blessed. I propose, so far as God may help me, to ehow you how we may bring our religion in- | a wheel to ordinary life and practios it in common | spiritual strength and satisfaction, things And, in the first place, yesterday, to-day, to-morrow, tion. A dam breaks, and two or three vil lages are submerged, a South American earthquake swallows a city, and peopls be in to talk about the uncertainty ife. and in that conversation think they are engaging in religious service when there may be no roliglon at all, I have noticed that in proportion as Christian experience is shallow men talk about funerals and death- beds and hearses sand tombstones and taphs, ¥ If a man have the religion of the gospel in | power in his soul, he will talk chiefly it this world aad eternal world and wery little comparatively about the insignfl- cant pass between this and that. Yot how , it is that the religion of Christ is a If a man fall of the gospel ‘hrist goes into a religious elrele and be y talk abo sacrad things, all the con shed, and things become ox- wdingly awkward, As oa a sammer day, { hirp and earol, epl- ome theme ! { song and of bird harn stra, if a hawk appe e skv. all the yoloes are hushed, so I have sotimes seen a social cirels that professed be Christian silencad by the appearance of ’ of God and religion. senda, 3 wo pave the religion ot in our sov will vk about it in sore refreshing ter tian the sun ) ¢ hare {id prepares everiasting piness bel the { God. And t, if "he thems of troduced into re elrele, ped un (ons perhaps an the corner of the meothing ought to sr the other and sighs yes ; that's so!” " Jesus Christ Is groaned about, but t and sing about, your sie is that men pro- h of the gospel are often so at they are afraid their con- harmonize with their life, he gospel unless we live the 3 find a man whose en 1 of inconsistencies Alling his with such expressions as, “We 7 “The Lord help us g their i Are every- her vy frradiate fessing the ia inconsistent tl lo sinners reaiion with whi anting, aad TISY an have the grace of God in his heart t a talk relig and it wil , and men being re v it. will be stiracta 1 Do you know that when two Christian people talk as they ought about the things of Christ and heaven God gives sind attentd He writes it all dow TH of Malachi HL, n they t wd talked arkened ought to bring the into our ordinary “that's a very Bat | remark again, we a of! Jesus Christ mena, “Ob.” you say, wood theory for a man Who manages a iarge ed s2. who has great traffic, who holds a great estate—ft is a grand thing for bankers and 1 } dil my Y tl r shippers it in ¥irimo it, in manot estabi lite, you apply s grand gosple principles.” Who toid you that? Deo yom aol know hat a faded | na brooks surface attracts God's attention as certainly as the path of + biaz fn sur 5 nt the m that croeps \\p the side of the rock attracts God's attenti'n as certainly as the waving tops of Oregon pine and Lebanon eodar, and that the ermokiing of an sider under a cow's hool sounds as Joudly in God's ear as the snap of a world's econflagrati and that the most insignifi- eant thing in your life is of enough impor- tance to attract the attention of the Lord God Almighty? My hrother, you eannot be oalled to do any- thing so insignificant but God will help you fn it. Ifyou sre a fisherman, Christ will stand by you as He did by Simon when he dragged Gennesaret Are you a drawer of water? He will be with you as at the weil eur when talking with the Samaritan mroman., Are you a custom house officer? Christ will call you as He did Matthew at the receipt of custom, da¥’s wages In his pooket as certainly needs religion as he who rattles the Work « i » aa and could abscond with a hundred thousand | hard dollars, And yet there sre men who rotess the religion of Jesas Christ who do pot bring the religion of the gospel into their ordinary occupations and employ- ments, There are in the churches of this day men who seem very devout on the Sabbath who ara far from that during the week, A coun- try merchant arrives in tlds oity, and he goes into the store to bay rofesses religion, but no grace in his wy The country merchant is swindled, home that week ; REV. DR. TALMAGE. | snd “Old Hundred" are not worth much if we do not sing all the week, A sermon is of little account if we cannot carry it behind tha counter and behind the plow, The Bab- bath day is of no value if it hours, “Oh,” says some one, **if { had a great sphere, I would do that. lived in the time of Martin Luther, if I could have been Paul's traveling companion, if I vou say." I must admit that the romance | into smithies, | inn or. hile holy . nnd ol or i 11a steamar stakt | have been cut up for firewood, and the man directions, how long before the steamer will | #00ne8 for action will not as soon as the | { mon lle, I remark, we ought | oa bring religion into our ordinary conversa = - : of human | The man who has only a | keys of a bank | J of a man who | and knight errantry have gone out of life. | There is but very little of it loft in the world, Ages to sot apart certain days, places and oe The elassio mansion at Ashe has been out up into walking sticks. The muses nor a Sylph, | Inst only 24 | blessings you will never think of mentioning before God, We must see a blind man Jed along by his dog before we learn what a grand thing it is to have one's eyesight, Woe must ses a man with 8t, Vitus's dance beforo we learn what { grand thing it is to have the nse of our physi. If I could have | eal energies. Wo must see some soldier | erippled, limping along on his erutch or his { empty eoatsleove pinned up, before we learn had some great and resounding work to dao, | then I should put into application all that what a grand thing it is to have the uses of all our physical faculties, In other words, wo are no stupid that nothing but the misfors | tunes of others can wake us up {6 an appre. | eiastion of our common blessings, : i he temples of Rouen have been changed | | ton and come to | “draw” have retreated before the emis | | gract's ax and the trapper's gun, and a Ver- | monter might go over the Allaghany and the | Rocky mountains and ses neither an Oread i In other words, a man cannot be so good a | Christian on Sabbath that he can afford to be | The groves where the gods used to dwell | who is looking for great spheres and great find them, And yet thers are Alps to scale and thero are Hellesponts to swim, and they are in com- would serve God if you had a great sphera, It is absurd for you to say that you | If you do not serve Him on asmall scale, you | would not on a large scale, If you cannot stand the bite of a midge, how eculd you en- {| dure the breath of a basilisk? Our national government does not think it The individual agiregate to millions and millions of dollars, And I would have you, oh Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyanes and vexa- | tion that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in singls but in the aggregate it would be a great revenus of onsos, A bes can suck honey even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God ia your heart you ean get sweetness out of that which would otherwise (rritate and annoy A returned missionary told me that a com. pany of adventurers, rowing up the Ganges, were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons i earth strewn with the by insect annoyances, prepared for the great troubles of life sonquer these small trout Suppose a soldiershould say, ** This is only a skirmish, and there arsonly a fow ener walt until I got into I won't load my gun some great general engagement.” That ! is a coward and would be a coward in asuy sphere, If a ma skirmish, ! ya are not faithful going e-handad 1 not carcasses of The only way to get is to men sls os, nits this life great artillery o This { ought to 1 into our trials, wa lose our fortune, for com to taka the religion to the You have y My friends, of the Lord Jesus nary trials of your life, f ir nos, you ™ your vexati 3 shape my character, sinos I have lost my prog very wuiférent man brother, it is the {fe that are souring ar moral character and s and less of a man artist a of annoy ir disposition, Ig ¥ making studio soulipta harder ehisal ha goes click ! and 3 ean | stroke that there 8 any impression made spon the stone, and yet the work is going on. You say, “Why don’t you strike harder?” “Oh he replies, “that would shatter the status i must make it in this way, stroke by stroke.’ And he continues on by week and ®m until after awhile every man that enters the stadio is fascinated A 1 dealing with so 1 for time and sh I say, “0 Lord, + sndous blow of strixn hardly see fr hh nia man ! miamity shape that man for the next world?" God says, “That ¢ the way I deal with this mar | it sstr after stroke, annoyance afler annoyanoe tion wiler irritation, and alter aw y and a glad spectacie for angels men.” Not by one great stroke, hat little strokes of mis by ten thou yrtune Are You know t larg seattered by being pald yoy, aad the largest ¢ hat CAD RO0On he all sums of m Christian wi by these » H epletions We must brian } religion © Christ to in ligtle wes, Do n that anything insignificant your chamoter Rats may Ons lucifer natch may destroy a temple, A queen got her death by smelling of a poisoned rose, The seratoh of a sixpeany sv give you the lockjaw Columbus. by saking for a § f bread and a drink water at a Franciscan convent, came to th new world And thers ia wat counection between trifles snd Im neitios, between nothings and every things, Do you not sapposs that God oares for your insign!ficant sorrows Why, my lrlends, there is nothing insignificant in your life How dare you take the responsibility of say- ing that there is the whole universe is not ashamed to take sre of one violet? 1 say “What are you joing down there in the grass, poor little violet? Nobody knows you are here, Are you not afraid nights? thirst, Nobody cares for you, suffer ; you will perish.” “III wateh over it to-night.” the cloud, “I'll give it drink.” | the sun, “I'll warm It then the wind rises down the grain M4 | i JRA helg these annoy Bs too avery of & You will “No,” says a star, “No,” says No," says in my bosom.” And and comes bending snd sounding its walm through the forest, and [ say, | “Whither away, O wind, on such swift wing?" and it answers, “I am going to cool the cheek of that violet." And then [ soe pulleys at work in the sky, and the clouds ars deawing water, and | say, ** What aré you doing there, O clouds?” They say, ‘We are | drawing water for that violet.” And then I look down Into the grass, and I say, "Can it We get on board a train and start for Bos. Norwalk bridge, and the is off and eorash! goes the train, Fifty lives dashed out. We escape, Wao come home in great excitement and eall our friends around us, and they congratulate us, and we ail knell down and thank God for our escape whils 80 many perished, But to morrow morning you get on a train of cars for Boston, You cross that bridge at Nor. wall ; you eross all the other bridges; you get to Boston in safety. Then you return home, Not an accident, not an alarm. No thanks, in other words, you seem to ba more grate. ful when 50 people lose their lives and you get off than you are grateful to God when vou ail get off and you have no alarm ot sll Now, you ought to be thankful when you es. cape from accident, but more thankful when they all escape, In the one case your grati- tude is somewhat selfish ; in the other it is more like what it ought to be, Oh, these common mercies, these common | blessings, how little we appreciate them and how soon we forget them! Like the ox | grazing, with the elover up to {its eyes, like | the bird ploking the worm out of the furrow onthe 27th of N { by day i | but have seen the | Do you not know that ! You will die with | i i : be that God takes ears of a poor thing ke | | you?" and the answer comes up, “You, you, | | (tod clothes the grass of the feild, and He has never forgotten me, a poor violist, Oh, my | friends, if the heavens bend down 10 such In- | signifieant ministry as that, I tell you God is willing to bend down to your oars, since He | a just aa enroful about the construction of a wplders eyo as Ho 1s lu the conformation of | flaming galaxies, Pisto had a fable which | have now nearly fatyont bat it ran something like this ; He sald aplirits of the other world cams back this world to iad a body and find a sphere of spirit cume and took the body of But, I remark again, we of b FAAS Christ ] : makes to avery never thinking to thank God, who the grass grow and who ile Hving thing from the animalculm in the sod to the seraph on the throne Thanksgiving vember, ia the autumn of the year, but blessings hour by he Hives yur and day and no thanks at all, I compared our indifferenc perhaps | wrong Know but that among may have an instinot LE RB a to the brate, sd the brate, I do not its other Instinols Jat by which It recognizes 1 hand that feedr it. I do no holding floes $ n The Tq yw by the looks very nuch a bird of the flowers arising and the v: fit . § ri it Hke thin wo AER OF groat fa Who th nkstot nd tion of mn y day be a Sabbat ni, every ro » burdens t We all have | ing gariands aad ta the Wave gant It is estimate wlies embalm , when mummn ve } Dd 10at1 11 n first practised, t y ), when it ceased, mnts to 431 000, 000 Some Egyplologista, who nd the be z of the art to a h earlier date, estimate the {f mummies at 741,000, 000, ry productive am ext ginnin mine nume These i nies are ve to the Egyptians I'he modern traveler is not content le =z% 4 : rid 3 — : 28) =» 8 Bia aria g statues and such sm He mast The game, bring home au ancient Egyptian amount of business done of late years in this grim kind of bricsa-brac has been very considerable, Mummies, however, are expensive hobbies, only to be indulged in by the wealthy, From $300 to $500 was at one time the average price of a fall sized specimen, while from 850 to $60 was asked for a baby.~ New York World, —— es — China's Literary Prodigy. The marvelous child mentioned in the Chinese classics who, at four years old, was able to recite the 860 verses of the T'ang poetry as woll as the Ancient Book of Odes, has been eclipsed by an infant prodigy of the same age, who has presented himself at the recent licentiate examinations in Hong Kong as a oandidate for literary honors, The P'anyn Chehsien personally ex- amined this tiny eandidate, and found that the child could write a concise essay on the subject that had been given him, alth gh, of course in an infantile scrawl. It is observed bya local commentator that it now remains only for the Literary Chancellor to “pass” the prodigy ere he oan be styled as “having entered the of the Dragon's gates” that is, ob- tained the degree of ‘‘Sin-ta’al,” or licentiste. — London News. Queen Victoria leads a busy sife, do- spite the number of ministers and ser- vaults she has. Daring the summer she dives down from Windsor Castle sbout § o'clock and breukfnsts at Frog. ins tent on thelawn | tian salutations, | to-day dealing with the practical question of | I 9 | “1 have glorified Thee on the earth.’ SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON SEPTEMBER 17, Lesson Text: “Personal Responsibil- ity,” Bomans xiv,, 12 238 Golden Text: Romans xlv,, 21 Commentary. 12. “So then every one of us shall give ao. count of himself to God.” This epistie may be divided into threo sections and labeled doctrinal ( chapters §, to vill), dispensational (chapters ix, to xl.) and practical (xi. to xvi). The practical, with which wo now have to do, may be subdivided as follows : xii. character ; xiil,, relation to elvil rulers : xiv, relation to brethren ; xv. , labors ; xvi., Chris. So that we find right relations to the brethren, and especially in the matter of eating drinking. We are reminded of the judgment seat of Christ (verse 10 ; ses also 11 Cor. v., 10) of In dividual responsibility 18. “Let ug not thersfore ne an other any more, but judges this rather, that no man put a stumbling bio pL to fall in his brother's way 5, we aro exhorted to judge the time until the Lord come, it is written that “he shall without mercy that hath = and mercy rejolecth against judgment,” while Jesus Himself sald, “If yo had known wi this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacri. floe, ye would ndemned the (Math, x are here not to lve unto our the Lord (verses 7, Hand by a Christlike life lea and and kK Or an oocas) ''Inl Co nothing in Jas, havo judgmen owed no mercy, 4} J guiit- not have © We but unto : , a] Gives, p 10 #4 4 made ite the many of untou shed total atwtinence may § block in other directions, and in other departments of Christian work, The only sure way is to adopt IJ Cor. iv, 11. as a daily motto and be willing to die to self in all dire tions that the life of Christ may be manifest in our mortal feel When we , but Christ, who livetls . all will be well Hast thou faith before God waibly be a stambling #0 Wy frag i me y SAY (Gal. Have it to thysell Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which He allow eth.” for {f our hearts condemn us not then have we confidence toward God (1 John Hl, To lve always as in the sight of Lord aith a constant aim to please Him will surely give a life free from offenses, “Walk | before Me and be thou perfect, upright, sin. core,” was God's word to Abram (Gen, xvil., 1, margin), To us the Spirit says through Paul, “Whatsosver ye do, do Rt heartily, as | tothe Lord and not unto men” (Col. Hi, 28) 23. “And ho that doubteth Is damned (or | condemned) If be eal, because he eateth not | of faith, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” It is sin to do what you doult to be right ; it | fs also sin not 0 do what you know to be | right (Jas iv, 17), [by “Will 2 | All 1ife is either for self or God and others. If everything is tested please Jesus?" wil will be well, Christ was wholly for God and man, never for self, and could truly say to His Cart i right relations to man must spri from right relations to God, Without hits impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He i the Rawanda of them that diligently seok — Abuvut Baoteria, Bacteria are simply microscope plants of varying size and shapes, wme of them being so small thas 15,000 laid end to end would not make a row more than an inch in Jouk Sowa are flat, others round or ov and stil] others are rod shaped. The oddest form of all is that of the one that is the exact counterpart of & cork. screw. In all cases they are so mie nute that one needs a powerful mi eroswopo to order to study them, and in no casa van they be perceived with the unaided ave alums. . 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