AGE. SERMON. Subject: “Sulclde.” Text: “He drew ont his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the pris. oners had been fled, Bat Paul eried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm.” Acts xvi, 27, 28, Here 18 a would be suleide arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and ac. cording to the Roman law a bailiff himsel! must’ suffer the punishment dae an escaped prisoner, and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endungeoned for three or four years then the sheriff must be en- dungeoned for three or four vears, and if the prisoner breaking jail was to have suf- fered capital punishment then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment, Tho sheriff had received espocial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not had confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergy- men, about whom there seemed to be som thing strange and supernatural, Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep and supposing these ministers have ran away, bi knowing they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's ax on the morrow and suffer publie disgrace resolves to precipitate his own decease But the sharp. keen, glitterir gger of tho sheriff could strike his heart one of the unloosenod prisoners arrests the blade by the command, ‘Do thysel! no harm," In olden time, and where Christianity had not interfered with it, suiclde was con gldered honorable and a sign of courage Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's embassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orat Isocrates killed himself rather than render to Philip of Macedon, Cato, rather than submit to Julius Cmsar, took his own Mfe, and atter three times his wounds had been dressed tore them ope Mithridates killed mit to Po vy, the ec destroyed his life by considering suicide, Brut: ol Moscow him a preparation of his servant heard the something in a gl after the groans and It was skill he was the opiate, Th I bafore rs sur- hir earable a suicide, life un 199 ar Mmssage Ot Pea ters, quit fortunes go cannot endure o ed affection, | that fellow in his attempt at parricide, weapons with which to defend it two arms to strike back assailants, two eyes to wateh for invasion and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert, Assassination of others is a mild erime compared with the assassination of yourself, bhecauso in the latter ense it is treachery to nan espocial trust, ft is the surronder of a castle you wero espocially appointed to keap, it is treason to a natural law, and it is treason to God added to ordinary murder, To show how God in the Bible looked upon this orime I point you to the rogues’ pfeture gallery fn somo parts oO. the Bible, the pietures of the people who have coms- mitted this unnatural crime, Hers is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathe ahan. Here is tho man who chased little David —ten foot in statue chasing four, Here {s the man who consulted a clalrvoyant, witch of Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, aska his servant to slay him, and when the servant declines then the giant plants the hiit of the sword In the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws his body on it and explres, the coward, the suicide! Here Is Ahithophel, tho Machiavelli of olden times, betraying his best friend, David, in order that he may be- come prime minister of Absalom and joining Not gotting what he wanted by change of politics he takes a short cut out of a disgraced life into the suleide’s eternity, There he is, the ingrate ! Hero is Abimelech practioally n sulelde, He is with an army bombarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grind- stone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life ha has left in a eracked skull he commands his armor bearer, “Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me." There is his post mortem shotograph in the book of But the Fare of this group is Judas Iscariot, Dr Donne says he was a martyr, and we have ir our day apologists for him. And what won ler in this day when we have a book reve ing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of litera ture, and in this day ! are he trayals of Christ « y of His pretended apostles black it makes the Infamy Yet this man by his the exeeration of all the Samuel, th (hs 80 up our northern heavens, confounding as- tronomers as to what it ean be, is the wave ing of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors home from church militant to ehurch triumphant, and you and I have 10,000 reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get thers either by golf Immolation or impenitency, All our sing slain by the Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divine- ly spread, and then the elang of the sepul- chral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us, O God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's burial, « Christian's Immortality ! SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL AUGUST LESSON 20. FOR Lesson Text: “First Jesus,” John il, 1-11 Text: John fH. Commentary. Miracle of Golden the third wna of thers 1. "And ringn Jesus was of thy day there was n Gallles, and the 1 l I'he number thr moat suggestive o int { Bible num It stands fo nne hers Genesis to Revelation, ness and, in ction with y fullness, of resurrect Isane and J nal of the f sled The Andrew, Philip and Nathanael, » for aught on of Nathanael, f John xxi., 2), ®&« . if nocessars Wom and the discipl marriage an It is safe AOrve Or w take place « y morn z : vd Ol Jess narringe.’ probably ng ah and His {isciples at WHS been, Aus attend a y doing AUS an “And MIE {1 or— Austria's Empress has 81,000,000 in jewels, Indianapolis (Ind.) girls ran a co. operative laundry. Flower scissors in steel or silver aro now included in a set of scissors, The Princesses Victoria and ‘Maude of Wales have developed into bicycle riders. Female bootblacks are reported be multiplying in Paris and French cities, Miss Helen R. Benedict, of New York City, is said to be the best whip among women in America, Amelie Rives Chanler is pronounced by the London Literary World *‘the most beautiful woman in literature.” to other At Flemingsburg, Ky., a woman had to pay 810 damages to another woman for placing a bent pin in her church pew. Mrs. said to be tism, at adept. Lady Margaret English golf Mary E fond o which Lease, of f practici gentle So: champion championship at the Lattlestone, Women smoke Russia, run smoking car alma men in and well patronized, R. D. Mehta and his wife started from Cal { Mrs, Mehta bei to take the Mrs. Mile of the United of Mrs. Don Sherman's tri THER k keepers ERIE RIE 3} r “great” qualitie AE r iE A KE takes the place of tartar, 1S more co BS — pudding and dump more delicious and Those who take finest food say that sable therefor. 3} r TER IY ROYAL BAKING Ns Rd a POWDER © | Rafal Bad vy ” EIR A A Poisoned by Fly Bites, Hwy There are here, the bites, One doctor has there are other cases A Prime Minister's Dairy Herds, rof Gre BAKING nomical, and makes the biscuit, cake, Lo 3 fy [| EE are any housc- not using ROYAL 4 POWDER, its ww . s y warrant them in making a trial of it. _ The ROYAL BAKING POWDER soda and cream of nvenient, More eco ling lighter, sweeter, wholesome. pride in making the it 1s quite indispen- , BT NEY r WA ny Modad ated ide of ANd & » 5 W a » ALIA AE So AEA AT Queen Vietoria’s Children, Queen Vietoria had had GUAR. ANTELS A IERCE ===. GURE OR MONEY IS REFUNDED. Disease fol the liver in » of Golden Medical Dis Mrs 16th pleases me hat - impatience, that | had 4 a. destit $ x11 4 . a inf } r pon eat n \ ier 2 : us i ipon infi iy to the thine nb being come { is never too . haskinm an : 4 con nd had it open sufficient 1 for absec ; from thi yosticism tt hole thing, here in “ nr Doatll a H ' , J bread short BR } SE 5 ’ three times, life by Paris green, by lau am, { oli&~ | be no here r if that : we biias L ont q 4 t hous made in flannel or flannette, shaped i strain uise’ py I d it was not donna, by Othello ful withe ate all : n Vario , I waa ain un leap from the abutment Ma ‘eh n very Bug arms More eases of wa ale, way } tri There was a decided ms, h , 5 fn \ g , between this w kn change after using “Dr. two years ithe world's existence, Octave Than Pierce's Golden ediond is more and more spreading Discovery,’ 1 took § iy 8 ned with feath et i L ““folo de se g walter, A pulpit ago expressed so doubt as to whether there was really a thing wrong about quitting this life wl. it became disagreeable, and there are found in respectable circles people apologetic for the erime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that suicide is the worst of all erimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakable, Bat in the early part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that have ever lived bave committed self destruction, but always in dementia and not responsible, have no more doubt about their eternal DAYEe O tae ri n the déliriam of typhoi While theshock of the catastrophe is very great, I charge all those who have had ‘hristian friends under cer al aberration step off the biundaries of this life to h no d their happiness, The dear L took them right out of their dazed and fren. gled state into perfect safety. How Christ jeels toward the insane you Lay know fr the kind way he ated the demonin Gardara and the child lunatie, and the po- tency with which bushed the tempest either of sea or brain \ : » land § AVS nts rl 1A : tre { rol , had none grander or science a descendant of Donald Boy, a mat for his piety and the rare gift sight, His attainments, climbin did from the quarry and the stonemason, drew forth the mirmtion of Buckland and scientists. and Dr. Chalme and held told them t God in the That man ever lived to is the God tuning fork he brought g in divine wors “Footprints mony of the KH of wer science and revelation, he t lay and night, nature and | I God, unt: sleep, and bis brain gave way, andl he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the eruel instrument having had two ballets one for him and the other for the gunsmith who, at the coroner's Inq WAS exan jing It and fell dead, Have you any doult of the beatifieation of Huzh Miller after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in hin study st Portolello? Among mightiest of earth, among the mightiest heaven, No one ever doubled the plety of Cowper, the author hymns, ‘Ob, For a Closer Walk With God !™ “What Various Hindrances We Meet!” “There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood” William Cowper, who shares with Isaneo Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hympoiogy., In hypochondria he resolved to take his own fe and rods to the river Thames, but found & man seated on some goods at the very point from which he egpected to spring and rode back to his home and that nignt threw himsel! upon his own knife, but the bis snd then he banged himself to the co vat the rope parted. No wonder that whea God merci. fully delivered him from that awful demen- tia he sat cown and wrote that other hymn Just as mumorable God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants Hin footsteps in the we And rides upon Lae storn Bling unbelief ls sure 10 ore And soon His work in vain, God is His own Interpreter And He will make t plain, While we make this merciful and righteous allowanss Ie regard to those who wer: plunged into mental incoherence, T declare that the man who in the use of his reason, by his own aot, snaps the bond between his body and his soul goes straight into perdie tion. Snall I prove it? Revelation xxi, 8, “Murderers shall have thelr part in the Inka which burneth with fire and brimstone Revelation xxil,, 15, ‘Without are dogs and poresrcrs and whoremongers and murder. ers,” You do not belleve the Now Testa: ment/ ‘Then perhaps you believe the Ten Commandments, * Thou shalt not kill," Do you say all these passages refer to the taking of the life of others? on | ask you if you ars not as resgonsible for your own Hie as for the life of others? God gave you A special trust in your life, He made you the enstodian of your life as ha made you the custodian of no other life, Me gave you an universities spe« he story ol stir could not he th (reat in- tha | Williar those three great i clear back, my | tot | wounds, | stead of that that immortality wretched according as Christ or rejeet sd Him, You say ir business trouble, or you say it is electri Arrents, or it ia this, or it is other ining... Why wot go friend, and acknowledge that In every oases it is the abdication of reason or the teachin yf inlid which practi this life, gt lity glor s the an ) ows it, and mixes the strychuiue for the swallow, If infidelity could carry the 3 and persuade the m people that it > a ry es 0 made ag {ifference how you g blasted with t with lust, thy b tion goat, centuries ! ity, part mat dragon, stand Thy hand red 1 hast washes of the , Satyr, leper monster ir art reptile, | 3 ba part paather, ip and take with thse blood fu which thy fest crimson with the through which thon hast waded, nd take thy senten Down with p on the nnd 1 hast blasted, and roll hich thou hast sharp. sick jet thy musieo be { those whom thou forshead of inf. ) sell immo tucy on the part of those who y is ) ’ wa BODE hers the everiasting sr er hast damned It tu deity with all rie jor the | the eof ation ist had thoir reason, My Iriends, Il weve Yur abrasions and Is molestations ¢ unbearable, and you are quit it by your own behest, do Yourselves nt WoOrese than others Christ Himself was tempted to cast Himsell from the roof of the temple, but as He resisted so Christ eame to medicine all our In your trouble I preseribe life in dont) People who have had It worse than yon will ever have it have gone pongial on thelr way Remember that (ot keeps the chronolory of your fe with as much precision ns He keeps the chronology of nations Why was it at midnieht, just at midnicht, the destroving angel struck the hlow that pot the Isenelites free trom bondage? The 430 years wore up at 12 o'clock that night, The 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 410 years were up at 12 o'clook, and the de- stroving angel struck the blow, and Israel was free, find God knows just the hour when it Is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By his grace make not the worst of things, but the best of them, If you must take the pills, do not chew them, Yourever- lasting rewards will accord with your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa on chain of gold as heavy as had been his shaln of fron, For your asking you may have the same grace that was elven to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, dewn in the Anrkest of dungeons, dated his letter from “the delectable orchard of the Leonine prise on.” There is a sorrowless world, and it Is so radiant that the noonday sun is ouly the | lowest doorstep, and the aurora that fights ' through its | should soem tempted £2] not consider resist ve His ali in being promptly xv. 15 6 “And there were set there six water. ts of sions, after the manner of the puri. of the Jews, containing twoor three firking apiece.” Vessels for purifying. How suggestive! And six of them, the hema number, the number of man, and Jesus presently use them. How many verses coma to mind, “A vesssl the Master's "We have this treasure in earthen , metimes thes wt (II Tin ihe g meet for use, oe vessels of It Cor. 14 | & Dear toll Him in connec. narriage? Then with living water, £3 Draw Senne a reo i ra, 10 ese We w how it the iva the Wa rn sy a Il Tin 8, “When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knsw not whines It was, but the servants which drew the water knew, the ror ol the called the brid ss how the water, probably as it was drawn out, was changed into wine As wagive lourth the living water it maketh glad the heart of man, likes th wine of the king lon te true bridegroom, Whose appro narriage wa greatly re. jolen in, is Jesus Himself, and it is well when the water we bear 10 others makes them so gind that they inquire for the bridegroom, People say Where do you get such good wine? How do you find 0 much an! such precious things in the book? Tae servants who draw the water know He does It all, ROW fons egroonm 8s yng 10, “And saith unto Him, Every man at | the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men have well drunk then that which | is worse, but thou hast kept the good wine | until now.” Confining ourselves for 8 mo. ment 10 the actual event in Cana that day. son how Jesus, who wrought the miracle, is waned by and the bridegroom gets the oredit, t requires groat grace to be the instrument in 8 goo! work and see another get the credit of It, but His grace: is sufMcient even forthat, Lot us ses that we in all things magnify the Lor! aa we hope that bridegroom did that day, Informing the governor as to the author of the wine, Inall the feasts where the Lord provides it is better farther on, and the last will be the best, 11. “This beginning of miracles did Jo sus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory, and His Him." His glory will be manifested at His own marriage ers Ho shall return for the fuifithant of nations, the conversion of srael and the establishment of His kinglom under the whole heaven (Dan. viv, #7). Then aball all our cups of cold water be changed into the new wine of tha kingdom, and all Israel shall believe on Him as they shall look upon Him whom they have pierced and sing © **Blessad be He that cometh in the name of the Lord.” “This Is our God, We bave waited for Him," «Lesson Helper, n— . Faselaating Woman In Polities, Miss Emma F, Bates, Republican eandl. date for Buperiutendont of Behoois in North Dakota, has turned a formidable Hat ld an advooate by promising to marry she ls elected disciples believed on | in photography. a number of the taken as illustrat of Balti- {1} MOL HAN Lafayette eral f a tour ol ) (101 when he Wan makin 2 country in 1824 New York dealers in photo graphs of celebrities say that the pie- of Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the the ' Eotion Army, is among the most popular in the market This is b describes } Countess sixty-seven naturalized French.” A fund is being raised for the education of th of In lia, who are to soliiary and school is to be og iy Mr. Howells's only livin Mildred, is quite an artist done an poems of her father’s and is giving art very serions Hesba Stretton, First Prayer,’ best paid writers in i cently received a royalty a short story, cop a shilling each, Miss Agnes Reppli visiting London, ary lioness in that ei has given a dim among the guests ber Muller, the philologi OOCASIONAL Jains auth iN sal Lady Londonderry remains in bel n whole day every fortnight No friends are admitted, aud she permits nothing to disturb her. Her ladyship says that this custom enables her to retain her youthful appearance, Mme. Carnot, widow of the mur. dered French President, is not only given to deeds of philanthropy, bat she is a model housewife. There 1s no work in her home which she is not as competent as apy of ber own servants to do. Edmund Russell says some things to women that are very good For in- stance, he advises them to choose for evening dress tints as nearly as possi ble like flesh tints, “‘for,” he says, “flesh has the most beautiful tints in the world, " The sanitary corps of New York City now embraces three female phyw cians, who are under the same rule, and are required to do the samo amonnt of work, as their male associ ates, They are Dra. Alice Mitchell, Helen Knight and Frances (i. Deane. 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