REV. DR. TALMAGE. | WHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN» DAY SERMON. Subject: ““Unhorged.” Text: “And as he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round | about him a lLght from hea to the and heard a voice his Saud, And | Lord sa oulest™ The Damascus of Bible times stiil stands, with a popalation of 135,000, It was a gay city of white und glistening architecture, its minarets and and domes playing | with the Hght of the morning sun ; embow- ered in vilve and citron and orange and pomegranate ; a famous plunging its brizhtness into the scone; a city by the ancients styled “a pearl surrounded by em- ", ‘qr orescents groves of river 1 { the Ors some their lender inattrs metin tive in respects, as are Insignificant in per- itness the Duke of Wellington and Archibald Alexsader, But there is hing very intent in the eye of this v text, and the horse he rides is hered with am of a long and quiek of 185 He urzes on his steed, hose Christians must be captured and vd, and that religion of the cross must ihilated, the ! miles, y the horses shy offand plange un. riders are precipitated, Freed fers, the horses bound snorting ¢F that dun animals, at tl earthquake, or ws heavens, putting o Christ, ) Highest nt that his ho But wit oa should his dig And r took arose into the apostle in all ages, and vet Out BO it Is tor God and 1 anyihing spin They who gradust with the highest ma the pias stray cutis seal of a {an angry w st the br 1 HN Loar, « g fire n ral ot pirttual elevat! ) nhias ! ith worldly upsetting gal } » the t that the resigion i rst thing People in this Heve that Christianity | thing of sn aliber, for n with n , for ehilidren In r six years of age, but 1 men. Look st this mag of the text ! Do you not think that the religion that could cap ture such a man as that must have some power ia #* He was a logician : he was a metaphysician : he was an all conquering orator ; he was a poet of the highest type, He had a nature that could swamp the lead. ing men of his own day, and hurled against the sanhedria he made it tremble, Heo loarnod all that he could get in the echool of his native village : them he had gone to a higher school and thers mastered the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himeelf in belles lettres, until in after years he astonished the Cretans, acd the Corinth fans, and the Athenians by quotations from their own authors. | have never found aay- thing in Carlyle or Goeth or Herbert Spencer that could compare in strength or Paty with Paul's episties, I do not think there is anything in the writings of 8ir William Ham: liton that shows such meatal discipline ss you find in Paul's argument about justiflon- tion and the resurrection. | have not found anything in Milton finer in the way of imag- foation than I can find ia Paul's illustrations drawn from the amphitheator Theres was nothing in Robert Emmet plead- fng for his life, or In Edmund Burke ar- rlgning Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall, that compared with the scene in the eourtroom when, before robed officials, Paul bowed and began his speech, saying, ‘I think myssd! happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day." [| repeat that a religion that ean capture & man like that must have some power in it. It is time you stopped talking as though all the brain of the world were opposed to Christianity. Where Paul leads, we san afford to follow, I am glad to know that Christ has in the different ages of the world had fu His disel. loship a Mozart and a Handel in music, a hael and a Reynolds in painting, an An- gelo and a Canova in seuipture, 8 Rosh and » Harvey in medicine, a Grotios anda Wash ington In statesmanship ; a Blackstone, a Marshall and a Kent In AR And the time will cots when the religion of Christ will conquer all the observatories and universi- vies, and philosophy will through her tele. scope behold the morning star of Jesus, and in her jaboratory see that all things work togethiar for good,” and With ler geoiogionl hammer discover the “Rook of A . Oh, igstoad of cowering a shivering when the skeptic stands before you an talks of raligion asthough it were a pusiliant- mous thing. -inwiéd of that take yous New Testament from one pocket show him the plotare of the Alla tual yism of all the ages prostrat od on the to Damasove % . wr silianimous ake us for me spacity ntaont class for stalwart ! sitting on ! tng in the pride of our soul. No, | clean I” | from the belly of | dust until Christ shall by His grace lft us up | as He | that the grace of God can | same time in | antipathy to | hated everything about Christ. He { down to | giadt | wanted to take off | dare t | Paul sald, “I'll take care of the RE C—O Then ask your skeptic what ft was that frightened the ons and threw the other, Oh, no, it is no weak gospel, It Is a glorious gospel. It is an all conquering gospel, It is an omni. potent gospel, It is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation, Again, I learn from the text 4 man cannot become a Christicn until he is unhorsed. The trouble is, we want to ride into the king dom of God just as the knight rode into castle gate on palfrey, beautifully caparisoned, We wint to come into the kingdomof God fo fine style. No kneeling down at the altar, no anxious seats,’ no erying over sin, no begging at the door of God's mercy, Clear the road and let us come in all pran wo will We must while his horse is flying wildly away. pover got into heaven that way, { dismount Lrnere 18 no knight errantry in religion, no fringed trappings of repentance, but an | utter prostration before God, a going down in the dust, with the cry, ""Uneclean, un- -a bewalling of the soul, like David | hell—a going down in the Hfted Paul, hearer, you must get off tnat horse! May ns Hight from the throne of God brighter than throw you! Come down into the dust and ery for pardon and life and heaven, Again, I learn from this scene of the text overcome the per Christ and Paul were boys at the diffgrent villages, and Paul's CLrist was increasing He was go wokets to fe was not Oh, proud heartad sun in gacutor, down then with writs in his have Christ's disciples arrested, ing | going as a sheriff goes to arrest a4 man against whom he had no spite, but Paul arrest those people beca ) arrest the I'he Bible says slangh- ter He wanted and he wanted them butohere TONAL he ello [3 slash and cl steads i think that pr an ever become a Christian is & voice like a t uttering t ) Foras, the was going 156 ho was 1d equestrian in annt Aid awWas a | Rh yors or read t hard to beg fnquity, Al ahi! LR glittering sxe name a Saul, why pers Again, 1 saul met people who kn Pi Very 1 eyesight wi blindness, people ead and who had been resurrecte by the Bavior, and the people who sid tell Paul all the particulars of the crucifixion ist how Jesus looked in the | hour iat ! grew black in the face at bens net ho w the » torture heard that recited every were aoqualn i all QAvTns lay bn tha 1s v tod with Does. An yet in the res) f amory f that wa to persecute Christ's dis riples impatient at the time it takes to feed the horses at tha inn, not pulling at the snaffle but riding with loose rein faster and Iaster Oh. he was the chief of sinners | No outbreak lesty when he sald that, He was a murderer, Hestood by when Stephen died and helped in the execution of that nae When the rabble wanted to be unimpedad in their work of destroying Stephen and their oosts, but did not lay them down lest they be stolen, i. senna he g of mo good oats,’ f Paul, and he watched the they put them down at the feet he watched the costs, and | horrid mangling of glorious Stephen, Is It | | 8 wonder that when he fell from the horse he did not break his neck-that his foot did not oateh somewhers in the trappings of the saddle, and he was not dragged to death? He deserved to die wretchedly and forever, notwithstanding all | his metaphysics, and his eloquence, and his | logic, He was the chief of sinners, was true when he sald that, And ye! the | geaoe of God saved him, and so It will you, | If there is any man in this house who thinks | be is too bad te be saved and says, “I have very grievously from God: Ido | wandered not believe there is any hope for me,” I tell | you the story of this man in the text who was | brought to Jesus Christ in spite of his sins and opposition. There may be some hers | who are as stoutly opposed to Christ as Paal {| was, There may be some here who are eap- | tive of their sine as much 80 as the young man who sald in regard to his dissl habits : “I will keep on with them, know Iam breaking my mother's heart, and I know I am killing myself, and I know that when I die I shall go to hell, but it is now 100 Inte to stop,” The steed on which you ride may be swifter and stronger and Br mettied than that on which the Ciliolan or rode bat Chotst oan eatoh it by the bridle and hurl It back and harl It down, There Is mere for you who say you are 100 bad to be saved, Yan say you have put off the matter so long ; Paul bad neglected it a great while, You say that the sin you have committed has been among the most stances ; that was so wit You say you have exasperated Christ and conxed your own ruin ; so did Paul, And yet ha slits today on one of the highest of the heavenly thrones, and there ie mere 1 J for you, and . , If you will only take the same first threw him down and then { bubble? { ture, and not a man of hallucinations, | when I see him fall from the saddle, blinded | and | been somethin | Hgion and kicked | miserably, | He sald what | ing | all the ages, saying, “This is a faithful say- Ing, and worthy of all acosptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I mm chief,” Once more, I learns from this subjocs that there is a tremendous reality in religion, If ft had been ou mers optical delusion on the road to Damascus, was not Paul just the man to find it out? If it had been n sham and pretense, would he not have pricked the Hoe was aman of facts and arga- ments, of the most gigantic intellectual na- And say there must have And, my dear brother, something in re- question is overwhelmed, 1 in it, you will find that there is i somewhere, The only . Where There was a mu rode Btam- ford to London, miles, in five hours on horseback, swift, Ther WHS 4 W nr OW who rode on horseback a thousand miles in a thousand hours Very But there are those noare--aye, fil of us are speeding on at ten. fold that veloofty, nt a thousand fold that rate, toward eternity, May Almighty God, from the opéning heavens, upon your goul this hour the question « your eternal destiny. and oh, that Jesus would this hour overcome you with His pardoning mercy as He stands here with the pathos of a broken heart and sobs into your sar for thee, I come with My bleeding, 1 with My rt with the nails, 1 come with My brow ach- ing from the twisted bramble, | na with My heart bursting for your woes, 1 can stand it no longer, 1 am Jesus whom thou persecutest from swift 1. flash ne Deefer jackets grow in favor. Albany, N. Y., has two women doe- tors. Palmistry is said to be a society amu sement., A large Methodist church in Detroit, Mich., has a woman as assistant pastor, Eleven of the g a of Chicage University have been won by growing neral fellowship IMAITIARS dOowear Oi of the Vanderbilt fami 100, 000 mestio There are servants in than 1% amid pace with the Englan i there were ten years ago, but i the quality has no quantity Mrs. Nellie Gran ceived a large increase of ine the death of her husband already rich, as her father-in-law, at his death three years ago, left her an income of 835,000 a year and the Lon- don house, “ 4 SRILOTIS Florence Nightingale has just cele- brated her seventy-third birthday. For many years she has been confined to her house by constant ill health, She makes her home with her brother in-law, Sir Harry Vernon, in shire, England Devon- Queen Natalie, of Servis, instead of constantly bewailing her wows as for. werly, has decided that there ia some- thing left in life, aud the other even- ing appeared elegantly at a ball given in Mentone in her honor by Mrs. Meller, an American. dreesed Women as well as men are eligible for the vacant Professorship of French just advertised by the University Col lege of Wales, Aberystwyth Jy the are competent Board of rors, Council and Senate at Aberystwyth. Mrs Jennie Atchley, of 800 colonies of bees, devoted entirely She college charter women to serve on the {tov Texas, has to queen rearing is the most ax- tensive breeder of queen bees in the world, She is thirty-eight years old and has eight children, with help she doesall the work in her apiary. The will of the late Jane Holmes, one of the richest women in Pittaburg, Penn., among other charitable be- quests, gives 820. G00 to the Trustees oi the General Assembly of the Presby- terian Church of the United States, and 85000 for the relief of disabled ministers whose Mme. Fateno, wife of the new Jap- anese Mioister to the United States, gays: *‘I like American dress, all ex cept the corset, but I find it extremely difficult to grow scenstomed tc it. In Japanese attire it in easy to sit on the floor, but one cannot do so gracefully or comfortably in American clothing.” Princess Maud of Wales is particu- larly fond of assuming an alias and dropping some of the red tape of roy alty. Every year she goes to visit her former governess, who lives in Devon- shire. Always the sensible princess in- sists on being called ‘Miss Mills” and upon being treated as a member of the family. Moire antique in the faintest tints is among the newest fabrics for evening wear, some of which are patierned with | almost invisible dots, calling for black garniture. Shot moire is as beautiful as it is novel. Shot satins are exhib- ited with small flowers scattered over the surface, the flowers in natural eol- ora, the changeable grounds faintly re- flecting their tones. Miss Laura Yorke Stevanson has the reputation of being Philadelphia's greatest woman scholar, She is the curator of the Archmological and Pal- eontologioal Museum of the University of Pennsylyanis, and to her energetio labors is due the fact that these muse- nms take their high raak in the muse- ums of the world, Miss Stevenson is also quite well known to the lecture world by her talks upon the subjects of ancient customs and art. The best dresses are being made with V-shaped open front, which ad- mits of the intervention of abecoming eolor wear the fase Handsome guipure dresses in black or white are worn over a plaingilk bodice and skirt. The same dross may be worn over ud HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, GERSE AXKD DUCKS, Geese and ducks should be yonng, but it is more diffienlt to judge of the age and quality of the goose than of any other bird. Both geese and ducks should have white, soft fat, yellow feet and tender wings, The windpipe should be brittle, breaking easily when pressed with the thumb and Lager, Wild and tame are usually easily distinguishable. One point can always be noted. Tame ducks have thick, yellowish feet, while wild ducks have feet of a reddish tinge. Of the wild ducks the finest is the canvas back, which is distinguished from the | others by the feathers of the head be ing short and smooth, and the head | and neck of a deep chestunteolor, The | bill is entirely greenish black, while that of the red head, which with the { mallard ranks next in quality to the | eanvas back, is dull blue. —~New York World. HARIOOT OF MUTTON, Two pounds of loin chops, two onions, one bay leaf, one tablespoon- { ful of murtiroom catsup, one stalk of celery, oie furnip, carrot, one tablespooniul of flour, half s pint of water or stock, one tablesyconful of butter, salt and pepper. Put the butter in a frying-pan, xwi when very hot, fry both sides; take them up, and add the flour to the butter remaining in the pan; mix, and add the stock or water; stir constantly until it boils. Then the chops back, add the onions cut into slices, salt pepper, the o« lery ent into small pieces, and the catsup. Stand over a slow fire to simmer for three-quarters of an hour. Cat the carrot and into slices, then into with vegetable cutters; o with b water, boil drain add them, bay leaf, & meat, and allow them the meat the full When done, serve ona the chops brows on prt turnip fancy shapes Ver them unites; ning ten mi and with the SOME VINE FRENCH SAUCES. Sauces must be served very hot, and to keep them so without letting them boil the stewpan should be placed either in a bain-marie or & saucepan with boiling water. An enamel sance- pan is the best in which to make sauces. Never let sance boil after acids or egas have been added. Bauce Raifort {eold) Bonk a horseradish for hour, grate it finely and add an equal quan- tity of bread crambs, a lump of sugar (powdered), some salt, pepper and a little vinegar; add four tablespoon- fuls of whipped cream and stir all to- gether. Baunce a "'Huilo—Take the peel and white from two lemons, cat them in thin slices, place them in a baxin with three tablespoonfuls of good salud oil, one tablespoonful of vine gar, salt, pepper, 8s teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley, a few tarra- gon leaves and a» little spice. Mix will together. This satce is good with grilled fish, BSance Mayonnaise Put the yolks of four basin, stir in a little salt and (with a wooden spoon), teen tal lespoonfuls ff go wl olive oil, being very careful to put very little in at a time. When the oil is perfectly abeorbed, should be thick and smooth ; when nearly finished, add a little tarragon vinegar and a squeeze Alwavs the 18 generally one RES in Aa pepper add about six the sance of lemon, stir way, This sauce with lobster and chicken Bearre Jd'Anchois— Wash and five anchovies, pound them in a samo nsed sainds, bone mor tar, pass them through a meve, and add one ounce of fresh butter. Sauce Raifort— Put two ounces of butter and two ounces of flour in » stewpan, and stir until the flour is cooked, but not Add pint of white stock (or water) and half a pint of boiled milk. Let it boil for fifteen minutes, then add four tablespoonfauls of finely horseradish, with a little salt aud a lump of sugar; serve hot, but not boiling Sauce Verte Put a teacupiul of veal broth ina stew pan with a little lemon juice; pound thoroughly some chervil, tarragon, cress and pimpernel ; strain the juice and mix it with four yolks of eggs; add this to the broth, season with pepper and salt, heat up the sauce, yat do not let it boil. Sance an Cit ron-—Take half a pint of fish stock (or water) in a pan, add pepper, salt, chopped parsley, one ounce of butter and the juice of a large lemon; keep hot without boiling. Ssuce sa Civet {for hares and rabbits) Partly cook the liver of a hare or rabbit, in butter or lard, put it in a stewpan with half a pint of stock, four onions, a couple of bay leaves and a few mushrooms; let all simmer until the flavo. in good; brown, half = grated | strain carefully. New York Herald velvet or other rich black fabrics for | THE DINNER TABLE Celery glasses are quite out of date | and long and low glass dishes shaped | like a seroll are in vogue. Bouillon cups are made with or without covers; they are low and broad sud have handles on each side, One of the latest things in decoration shows a deep border of solid dark green with a vein of gold in small en- graved vandykeos. The ornate rocoso style with its elaborate ornamentations is relegated to occasions of extreme elegance on account of its costliness. Fern dinners come to mateh dinner or luncheon sets, or they are of pierced silver. Growing ferns in tin receptacles are placed in them. 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