"REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject : “Strangers Within the Gates.” { Text: “I was a stranger and ye took Mi fn. "—Matthew xxv., 85. It is a moral disaster that jocosity has de spoiled so many passages of Seripture, and pny text is one that has suffered (rom irrever ent and misapplied quotation, It shows reat jotesty of wit and humor when peop! ake the sword of divine truth for a game at fencing or chip off from the Kohinoor dia- mond of inspiration a sparkle to decorate a | fool's cap. My text is the salutation in the fast judgment to be given to those who have | shown hospitality and kindness and Chris- | tian helpfulness to strangers, By railroad and steamboat the population of the earth are all the time in motion, and from year's end to another our cities are cro with visitors. Every morning on the tracks of the Hud gon River, the Pennsylvania, the Erle, the Jong Island Railroads there some passenger trains more than I can number, that all the depots and the wharves are a-rumble mand a-clang with the coming in of a g dmmigration of strangers, come for purposes of barter, some for mee anism, some for artistic gratifi for sightseeing, A great many o out on the evening trains, and o« the city makes but little impres them, but there are multitudes who in the hotels and boarding houses make temporary residence, They tarry here for three or four days, or as many weeks, They spend the days in the stores and the evenings in sight seeing, Their temporary stay will either make or break them not only financially, but morally, for this world and the world that is to come, Maultitudes of them come Into « 1g and evening services, I am at I stand in the presen one wded 80 Fy A Some of then scious tl 1 Ton this house {at . if history if gli into others than a wintry uld stand here and and their nents, and and + fe A , and their d escap their bereave their vietori be in thi wsed by the h any other jar hose that are n brated for brilliancy of tapestry and mi cannot give to the guest any costly Apart ment unless he can afford a parlor in addi- tion to his lodging. The stranger, therefore, Will generally find assigned to him a room Without auy piotures and perhaps any rock- dng chair, oe will find a box of matches on | & Lurean and an old newspaper loft by the | Previous occupant, and that will bg about all | the ornamentation. At 7 o'clock In the even- ing, after having taken his repast, he will look over his memorandum bo work, be will writs a letter {0 | then a desper i out. You h under ye wo that procession, ave joined it. Where J YOU Say Better make up Perhaps the aiways are yo I haven't made up n i wi r. At the lag gates fore my soul are you golag? roiling up {tO see OMS adverts . I should like to goalon er the same catalogu ou Kensett and Blerstadt Nothing 117 ay ythe Y will PES 4 the mus is hi i i, and Christiar il, 1 wish every city had as fine a pases fits Men's Christian Associati as Now has, Where are you ge “Well, say, ‘I am going to take a | walk up wdway and so turn ar the Bow: I am going to study hur Hie.” I. A walk through Br 8 o'clock at night is interesting, eduenting fascinating, appalling, exhilarating to the last Stop in front of that theatr and see who goes fn. Stop at that sal and see wh omes out. See the great tides of life surging backward and forward end beating against the marble of the eurbstone and eddying down into the saloons Whoa is that mark on the face of that debauches It is the hectic flesh of eternal death, What is that woman's laughter? It is the shriek of a lost soul, Who is that Christian man going along with a vial of anodyne to the dying pauper on Elm street? Who is that belated man on the way to a prayer mesting? Who is that elty missionary going to take a box In which to bury a child? Who are all these clusters of bright and beautiful faces? They are going Lo some lateresting place of amuse ment, Who is that man going Into the drug store That is the man who yesterday lost all his fortune on Wall street, He is golng In for a dose of belladonna, and before morning it will make no difference to him whether | stocks are up or down, I tell you that Broad. Way, between 7 and 12 o'clock at night, be tween the Battery and Central Park, Is an Austeriitz, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where | kingdoms are lost or won and three worlds mingle in the strife, I met another coming down off the hotel stops, and I say, “Wheres are you going? | You say: ‘I am going with a metchant of New York who tins promised to show ms the underground life of the oity, I am his ous. tomer, and he 1 going to oblige me very much.” Rtop! A business house that tries to got or keep your custom through such a process as that is not worthy of you, There are business establishments in our cities | which hawe for years bosn sending to de structiog handred and thousands of mer | chants, They haves secret deawer in the | counter where money is kept, and the clerk goes and gets it when he wants take these | visitors to the city through the low slums of | the place, i Bhall I mention the names of some of these | t commercial establishments? 1 have | hem ot my lips, Shall 17 Rothaps I had | better leave it to the young men who in that process have been destroyed themselves while they have beon destroying others, | care not how high sounding the name of a commercial establishment if it proposes to gt customers or to keep them by such a pro- influence t ve ™ in the 1 Btates una mdway ¢ lagre degrees { not fit | not go to a smallpox | pose of exploration, ¥ | because you are afraid of contagion, i whi ' lon th and dissects the mind and cess a8 that, Drop thelr acquaintance, They ! will cheat you before you get through, They | will send you a style of goods different from that which you bought by sample. They will give you under weight, Thera will be They will Oh, you feel In my money gone?" They have vou of something for which dollars and cents ‘Is | can never give you compensation, rob | your pockets and say, robbed | When one of these Western merchants has | been dragged by one of those commercial { agents through the slums of the eity, he is | The mere memory of | | what he has seen will be moral pollution, 1 to go home, | did not believe it, think you had better let the city missionary | and the police attend to the exploration of New York and underground life, You do hospital for the pur wl do not go there And { yet you go into the presence of a moral lep rosy that is as much more dangerous to you as the death of the soul is worse than death of the body. 1 will undertake to say that nine-tenths of the men who have been ruined ir our cities have been pating, The fact is that underground eity life is a flithy, fuming, recking, pestiferous depth sh blasts the eye that looks at it. In the reign of terror in 1792 in Paris people escap ing from the officers of the law got into the sewers of the city and erawled and walked through miles of that awful labyrinth, stifled with the atmosphere and almost dead, some of them, when they came oot to the river Seine, where they washed themselves and again breathed the fresh alr, tell you that a great many of the men who go rork of exploration through the un und gutters of New York life never out at any Seine River where they wash off the pollution of the moral Stranger, if one of the represen a commercial establishment pro. » take you and show you the “sights { the town and underground New York, say “Please, sir, what part do you pro Ww me?" sixteen years ago as a ministe 1 I felt livine he Iniquities of our cities, aergre ome can sewerage, bad a loge Is do students § tin shows them the reality, I went and saw and come forth to my pulpit to report a plagno and to tell how sin dimests the bod dissects the soul, “Oh,” say you, “are you not afraid that in conseqaencs of such explomtion of the inl. quities of the sity other persons might make . seation and “If in company do themanives with 1d Paci) ight rol f God's Torgiy the mid heavens read warmth and light and orning. Momilng 1hles Morning ms, M huried ons sun re : sin norning old that Moria soul in raing for the resuscitated house! RA aan Ww siting H{ ny r the eradio and the erib already disgraced with being that of adrunkard’s ehild, Morr ing for the daughter that has trudged off to hard work beonnse you did not take oare Morning for the wife who at forty or fifty yours has tho wrinkled face, and the stooped shoulder, and the white hair, Mom ing for one, Morning for all, Good morn ing! In Ged's name, good morning | In our last dreadful war the Federals and the Confederates wore enoamped on opposite sides of the Rappahannook, acd one morn ing the brass band of the northern troops } ur return if home pinyed the national air, and all the northern | troops chearnd and cheered, Then on the pposite side of the Rappahannock the brass ruined by simply | | going to observe without any idea of partiol- But I have to | | vest, | one, and whon to hand | about,” | moment, such men are succumbing to the | worst satanic Influences in the simple fact Now, if a | | Fry or hand of the Confederates played ‘My Mary. | land” and “Dixie.” and then all the orn troops cheerad and cheersd, Pat after awhile one of the hands struck up Sweet Home," and the band on the opposite side of the river took up the strain, and when the tune was done the Confederates apd the Federals all together united as the tears rolled down their cheeks in one great | huzea, hess! Well, m today, friends, heaven comes very near tis only a stream that divides us, | south ! “Home. | the narrow stream of death, and the voloes | there and the voloes here seam to sommin gle, and wo Join trampets and hosannabs and tnlielujabe, and the chorus of united sone of earth and heaven is “Home, Sweet Home," Home of bright domestic cirnle on earth, Home of forgiveness in the great heart of | God, Home of sternal rest in heaven, Home! Home! Home! But suppose you are standing on a emg of the mountain and on the edge of 8 preel. | ples, and all unguarded, and some one either in joke or hate shall ran up behind | you and push yon off, push you off, But who would do so das. t. | of every day and every hour of every Right. | the machines, Men coma to the verge of oity life and say “Now, we will just look off, Come, young oung man, do not be afrald, Come near ot us look off.” He comes to the edge and lonks and looks until, after awhile, saian sneaks up behind him and puts & band on It is sany snough to | ench of his shoulders and pushes him off. Sooloty says it is evil proclivity on the part of that young man, Oh, no! Ho was slime ply an explorer and sacrificed his life in dis- | covery, { in the package half a dozen loss pairs of sus- | | penders than you paid for, | you, A young mun comes in from the country bragging that nothing can do him any harm. He knows about all the tricks of oity life. “Why,” he says, “did not I receive n elreu- lar in the country telling me that somehow they found oft I was a sharp business man, und If I would only send a eertaln amount | of money by mail or express, charges pre- paid, they would send a package with which | I could make a fortune in two months, but I My neighbors did did not, no man could money. Why, No man could take ft. No man could cheat me at the faro table, Don't I know all anhout the cus box, and the dealer's box, and the'cards stuck together as though they were in my checks? Ob, I know what I am same time, that very they can't cheat me, while at the that they are going te observe, man or woman shall go down into a haunt of iniquity for the purposes of reforming men and women or for the sake of being able in- telligently to warn people against such perils ; if, as did John Howard or Elizabeth Fhoruns Chalmers, they go down among the abandoned for the sake of saving them, then such explorers shall be God pro- tected, and thoy will come out better than they went in. Bat if you go on this work of exploration merely for the purpose of satis- fying a morbid curiosity I will take twenty per cent, off your moral character, Sabbath morning comes, You wake up in the hotel, You have had a than usual, You say. “Where am thousand miles from home? I have no fam- fly to take to chureh to-day. My pastor will not expect my presence, I think I shall look over my sccounts and study my memoran- dum book. Then I will write a fow business letters and talk to that merchant who came in on the same train with me." Stop! You , ot afford to do it, But,” you say, “I am sannot afford to do it, y #1.000.000." 2 A worth 2500.000." You say, “I am You eannot afford to do wi gain by breaking the Sabbath You will lose one of three wt, your morals ur t point inthe whole this rule, God for Himself, nth, He will ali the other six Mount Washington, nn bulit, guide w n ti gives us six days and Now, if we try set the work keeps © to got the Fl oe pie oa Ral i of th bath of a little of the Sabbath off do not keep the this end twenty-four hours, Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to | { koep it holy. ™ 1 have good friends who are quite sscus. | tomed to leaving Albany by the midnight train on Saturday night and getting home huret Now, there may be cosasion itis right, but generally it Is wrong. should run off the track into I hope your friends will preach ¥ ir funeral sar ' yan awkward thing for he train 0 intry Ave trans bioath, which ta If any wih on uation rush baskets and back May God quint American the nt vast 1 niry with ward ni ves and they come ixioated, ye me to the great city! re, and not any physi. Men onming from in. have Lere found May you pardoning » knows but the festruction of s0 ur ternal redemption? years ago Edward Stanley, pander, with his regiment, The fort was manaad by Edward Stan) inading his men at him with a spear his Life, but Stanley and the Bpaniard to jerk the spear away from Stanley, fed im up into the battlements, No sooner had Stanley caken his position on the battlements than he swung his sword, and his whole reg- iment leaped after him. and the fort was taken So It may be with you, O stranger, The city influences which have destroyed so many and dashed them down forever shall be the means of lifting you up into the tower of God's mercy and strength, your soul more than conquered through the grace of Him who has promised an especial benadiction to those who shall treat you well, saying, *'1 was a stranger, and ye took Me In" ———— 300 Spaniards ip to the fort, iard throst fostroy , When a Span- intending to eaught hold of the spear in attempting Tommy's Opinions, Little Tommy had heard that his sister, who wings in the choir, had » sweel voice ; but when she scolded him for not doing as he was told he said: | “They say you have a sweet voice} | | [think it is a sour voice sometimes.” | At another time his father had ex. | plained to him the difference between | hard and pine wood. Of course he was anxions to display his knowledge, | | so being in the cellar with his younger | sister, he took up a piece of oak and then | mid: "That is hard wood" picking np a piece of pine, “and this in eany wood. "Boston Transcript. - — - Comparative trinls of sheep shear. | ing by hand and by machine made in tardly a dead! Why, this is done every hour | i Australia resulted largely in favor of It was found that 1000 sheep conld be sheared by machine for about 810, and the yield of wool is about eight ounces per more than when sheared by band. but I | take my Iecarry it in a pocket inside my longer sleep SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL APRIL LESSON FOR er a Lesson Text: “Joseph Egypt,” Gen. x11., 88-48 Text: I Samuel ii. Commentary. Ruler In Golden 30 88. “And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one ms this, a in whom the Bpirit of God is? Very and fall of trial had been the ten years or more of Joseph's Ife since his brethren sold him to the Midianites, and several of them man had been passed in prison through the lying | of 8 wicked woman, As we see him now he has just been brought from the prison to in terpet, if he ean, to Pharaoh his double dream. Disclaiming all power to do so of himself (verse 16), but giving the glory to God, he, by the Spirit, interprets and + plies the dreams : hence from Pharaoh words of this verse, 39. “And Pharaoh sald unto asmuch as God hath shewed thee this, there is none so disereet and wise as thou art.” Joseph had suggested that ofMeers ba nppointed who during the years of plenty should make provision for the years of ine to follow, perhaps without a tt that he who bad just been brought prison might be of any servi to favor Jose ph ha i coma LE AZO are on the wi Li Merafore will the Lord Bles Joseph, For. wll "ii fam ought fron AY wait Wi gracious, 1) for Hin 40 I'hou shalt be over 1 ding unto thy word be ruled than thou shal only in the thy Truth is st a prison re God b n Him a name t the name ol rxalted wh ¥ Jasus every knoe ab isabove oy name that ald bow (Phil, ii, 8-10) If we have the mind of Christ we will cheer fully humble ourselves unto the death of sell oe . "And Pharaoh sald unto Joseph, Tum Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up bis hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” Of Jesus it is written that sll things were by Him and for Him, and that in Him we live and ve and have our being (Col rrestod yim t wren I stan to stand 1 4 earth brought forth Ly God I» about to 4d Pharaoh,” were the wo interpreted the dreams (verse 38 see in these years of prosperity the Lord for good ft was H % Israel s land which in the six} bring forth fralt for three years 1 The blessing of the L rich, and toll addeth ne =. RV 4 And he gathered up all the fool of the which were in the land of Egypt, and ald up the food in the citles the jood of the field whish was round about every city latd he up in the same In pros perity he prepared for adversity. While we ging “The Lord Is my shepher i. 1 shall not want,” wo ure not authorised to be sither enreless or improvident, Our Lord did not commend the unjust steward, but He drewa a practioal lesson irom bis forethought (Lake xvi 8 9), Consider in verses 51, 54, the very sugaestive names Joseph gave to his ohil dren. Compare the “Go unto Joseph, What he saith to you do.” with Mary's worss to to the servants (verse 55 and John if, 5), = Lesson Helper the hand of blessing upon year made It Lov, xxv, wd it maketh thing thereto (Prov BOYER YOArs —————— . Southern Industries, The Chattanooga (Tenn) Tradesman hae | issued ita report of new Indust ries sstabiished in the Bouthern States for the first quarter of 1804, showing a total of 617, as agsiost 65% in the same period of last your, 640 in | 1R52 and 608 tn the first quarter of 1881, The Tradesman says that in view of long eon. tinnsd duliness this is showing, Oeorgin and Texas lead, sash he. ing eradited with 86 new industries for the quarter, Virginia with 61, Alabama 62, and wach Routhern Stato bas a share, sanding with 20 in Misslesipol, Turbulent Central Amerien, The epidemic of revolt thrastens 10 swae over All of Central Amerion, Nioaragua's eovelons gage is sald to bw now directed towards Costa Rion, The Blasfields envoys and Minister Gusman conferred with Seore tary Gresham over the Diuefelds affair, varied | a very favorable | RED LIGHT AND SMALL-POX. | INTERVIEW WITH THE DISCOVER- ER OF AN ODD REMEDY. Dr. Finsen Says That the Red Room is Only a Beginning of What May Be Developed in the Future, ment of emall-pox has made his name famous, is a physician in Copenhagen, Denmark He holds the office of prosector ar demonstrator in the snstomical see- tion of the University Medical School. His discovery comes at a time the whole world is agitated by a when sud den recurrence of the half-forgotien | small-pox plague in all climes and lands. of this revival of one of the worst enemies of mankind has not yet been fixed, but the fact is beyond The scientific explanation is that a hundred of vaccination nd consequent immunity from small The caus que stion. 5 Car OX i and precantic be had made the world forget danger and that it again safe until gb hly nated ease or by the doctors, Whether this be the tion or there 1s danger just to give ‘ nalxe, not has been thor it by revacci the dis true explana of the Fins enough Dr, discovery a general well us The doct fame, mnmterd of athletic amiable and very . bd may truly be said n Oesterfarimag the eff i tht upon the skin, I baped my hypothesis, Every- body knows sunburn or tan, which is simply an inflammation ; but it is not the sun only that has this effect. Vers strong electric light is capable ritating the The : hief is the viol skin sOure ras patient [ mes as receplive pher’s plats Theret it protected as this latter ogra ‘113 DAVE ph wre | isin the pho Red light is this, beosuse it excludes And that t raphe t's dark roon the entire the wt best for chemioal 1» | room Svendsen, | Bergen, Ne the first attempt Inst summer. He experimented with eight among them two unvaccinat he RYH is Lhe ry of re “Dr ma je my Frway, with ut patients, od children In results were very good instance the dootor at tempted, after the pustules upon the face and body of one of the patients had dried up, to let him go out in the sunlight, and lo! the pustules on the one hands grew worse and deeper and left sears, while those on the face had not “Jt was unfortunate ly impossible for me to personally observe the results in Bergen I could not leave this city then Since then the red room has been established in the Western Hos pital here. They have put in red win dow glass, and in sddition there are red curtains, The lamp chimneys are red. There are red portieres before | all doors, and even the windows in the ! hall have red glass panes. The results have so far been most encouraging. | All of the ten patients which have been | #0 treated have recovered. Their cases proved very light, althoagh several of them threatened at the start to become quite severe, Not one of these patients | in pitted, “It is to be noted that the treatment fs of no use unless begun in tho first stages of the disease, but if it is so be gan, it seems as if it dried np the pus. | tales entirely in less than » week | provided that the patient does not die wiore they br out, which, how: | ever, is of very rare oocurrence, “Will the red room be applicable in other skin diseases?” “I don't know, I have only begun | my observations and cannot | what may become of them, | least, not { should not be so, 1 consider that I am | more than repaid for my work { shall be shown by some hundreds of i the one disease the . B. N. J. FINSEN, whose dis- | covery of the red light as a valuable agent in the treat A practicing | | are situated in the celebrated h f t It Fven tell is, at improbable, if it if it experiments now being made or about to be made all over the world, that in ‘red room’ is able to afford relief, shorten suffering, re- move danger and prevent the pitting that disfigures for life.” —New York Buu, —— - SELECT SIFTINGS, locks and kevs, Homer mentions The African King Presterd had an existenc to tl lor] left 1000 umbrellas behind never Visitors ( hica- RO, One of thi Cree k, Col ealled "Crutches The horseshoeing peared in Germany, were first used for horses 1 he Book of Job, B & . describes them. small hamlets on Cripple i# very appropristely first Ap wihiere iron shoes written abot very Boot JT OCOARROE In the British Museum, IR en named K s nt Fort Smith, Ark fraction Indian within a France, has rd that I+ hereafter he * Thevy's swells hesavs ‘Human Terra; ob all 4d" turtles, sounds more 'ristoeratic tle Be Ny name “Tur- Al dan Charles Good, a veteran of the Me War, of Plattville, Wis , cele- is 100th | IVEersary or was nis tical irthday ant as A pricele Herr Herman Bremen, was noted { | Hi Dass) a high |§ ers in wax fig f the New } ares for barbers, the shops ers or other trades there modeled arn which The thumbs are nature hand can Ix beautifully dis FIOYes wrists, jointed where sid almost any secured ——— Novel Cure lor Nleeplessness, A novel eure for insomnia has been proposed by an English dootor. He savs that chloral and the like are per. drugs that and often should have uo followed by results, and cures for should Lower the sapply of nicious Ar serious fatal Prine Among sleeplossn oss Nature's plan be tried instead f oxygen to the blood, produce » little asphyxia, limit the quantity of air to the lungs, and the heart and eirenla- tion becoming quicker, the brain loses its stimulant and sleep follows Dr Huxley's advise is: When vou find the prospect of a sleepless night looming convincingly up, cover your head with the bed clothes and breathe and re breathe only the respired air. Thus the stimulating oxygen will be re dueed and you will fall asleep. There is no danger, for when asleep You aro sure to disturb the coverings, and get an much fresh wir as you require. -- New York Telegram — Blowing Wells of South South Carolina has a large of “old” or “blowing” wells Carolina, numbos They “Sand Hills, region,” sad the majority of them are of enormous depth. The force of the current of sir which cons tinually comes from them varies in ine tensity according to atmospheric cons ditions, beicg partioulariy strong for several hours before and alter heavy thunder storms. —3t. Louis Republia)
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