REV. DR. T ALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Bubject: “Autumn Thoughts,” TEXT: ““The stork in the heaven knoweth ber appointed time, and the turtle, and the orane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord, "Jeremiah vill, 7. When God would set fast a beautiful thought, He plants it ina tree. When He would put it afloat, He fashions it into a fish, When He would have it glide the air, He molds it into a bird, My text apeaks of tour birds of benutiful instinot—the stork, of such strong affection that it is allowed familiarly to come in Holland and Germany and build its nest over the doorway; the sweet dispositioned turtledove, mingling in color white and black and brown and ashen nnd chestnut ; tho crane, with volee like the clang of a trumpet ; the swallow, swift as a dart shot out of the bow of heaven, falling, mounting, skimming, sailing--four birds started by the prophet twenty-five centuries go, yet flying on througn the ages, with rousing truth under glossy wing and in the sluteh of stout claw. ‘I suppose it may have been in this very season of the year—autumn —and the prophet out of doors, thinking of the impenitence of the people of his day, ears a great ory overhead, Now, you know it is no easy thing for ona with ordinary delicacy of eyesight to look nto the deep blue of noonday heaven, but he prophet looks up, and there are flocks of storks and turtledoves and cranes and iwallows drawn out in long linns for flight iouthward, As is their habit, the cranes ad arranged themselves in two lines, mak- ng an angle, a wedge splitting the air with wild velocity, the old crane, with command- ng call, bidding them onward while he towns, and the cities, and the sontinents slid under them, The prophet, aimost blinded from looking into he dazzling heavens, stoops down and bee gins to think how much superior the birds wre in sagacity about their safety than men wre about theirs, and he puts his hand upon the pen and begins to write, ““The stork in the heaven knoweth his appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow sbsarve the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." If you were in the fleld to-day, in the slump of trees at the corner of the fleld, you would see a convention of birds, noisy as the American Congress the last night betore wdjournment or as the English Parliament when some unfortunate memb more economy in the Queen's how } a convention of birds all talking at once, moving and passing resolutions on the sub. Jeet of migration, some proposing to norrow, some moving that they go to ut all unanimous in the fact that they mu g0 soon, for they have l from the Lord written on th sheet of the frost and inthe p shanging leaves, There is not a belted kingfisher, or a shaffineh, or a fire crested wren, or a plover, or a red legged partridge but expects to spendthe winter at the South, for the apart ments have already been red for them n South Amerioa or in Afries, and alter thcusands of miles of fight they will stop In the very tree where they spent last January, Farewell, bright plumage! Until spring weather, away! Fly on, great band of heavenly musicians! Strew the oconti- nents with music, and, whether from Ceylon isle, or Carolinian swamps. or Brazilian groves men see your wings or hear your voles, may they yot bethink them. selves of the solemn words of the text, ‘The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtie, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." I propose so far sn. God may help me in this sermon carrying out the idea of the text to show that the birds of the air have more sagacity than men, And I begin by pes. ticularizing and saying that they mingle music with thelr work. The most serious undertaking of a bird's life is this an- nual flight southward. Naturalists tell us that they arrive thin and weary and plumage 1 all the way, tha we were tian 5 lieve thers is sue piteh of Christian and Kk might mos: to gal It man : hear hi 1m a roundelay, ter sign when you hear him of Isane Watts or Charles Wesley chorded and strung, if something ally strikes it, and there is such a thing as having our hes attuned by divine grace that even the collisions of Hie will make =» enly vibration, I do not that the power n been nlly tried. roll the the street | I believe t and the sin by heaver sin makes music, i Haydn, the oelebrated musician, why heal. ways posed such cheerful musie, “Why,” he sald, “I ean't do otherwise. When I thiak of God, my soul Is 80 full of Joy that the notes leap and dane irom my pen." I wish we might all exult melodionsly bef the 1 With God for our Father and Christ for Saviour, and heaven angels for future eo for a lifetime, we should strike n of joy. Going through the this world let us rem wr that we are on the way to a summery clime of heaves from the migratory populations f through this sutumopal air learn keep singing : Children of the Heavenly King, As ye journey, sweetly sing, Bing your Baviour's worthy p &) Glorious in His works and “A ving y orn for our homes npanions, and oterni the note wilderness and ying niwayst Yo are traveling home to God In the way your fathers trod, They are happy now, and we Boon their happiness shall see, The Chureh of God never will umphant charch until it church, I go turther and remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we In the fact that in their migration they fly very high, During the summer, when they are in the fields, they often come within reach of the gun, but when they start for the annual fight sont he ward they takes their places midnesven and RO straight as a mark, The longest rifle that was ever brought to shoulder ban. not reach them. Would to God that we Were as wise as the stork and erano In our flight heavenward! We fly so low that we are within easy range of the world, the flesh and the devil, We are brought down by temptations that ought not to come within a mile of reaching us. Oh, for some of the taith of George Muller of England and Alfred Cookman, once of the chureh militant, now of the church triumphant | So poor is the type of prety in the shurch of God now that men setually earieature the ides that there fs any such thing as a higher life, Moles never did belfeve In eagles, But my breth- ren, beenuse we have not reached these heights ourselves, shall we deride the fact that there any such heights? A man was ones talking to Brunel, the famous engl neer, about the length of the railroad from London to Bristol, neor sald: “It 8 not very great. We il have after bo a trl becomes a singing | ns | ten or fifteen years ago, | We cannot extemporize heaven, | mot get prepared in this world, we will never | than eagle's stroke put out for | Beated awhile a steamer ranning from Eaegiand to New York,” They Inughed him to scorn, but we have gone so far now that wo have oopsod to Inugh at anything as impossible for human sohievement, Then I ask, is any. thing impossible for the Lord? Hove that God exhausted all His grace Paul and Latimer and it attainment to be reached In the future nges of the Christian world. You tell me that Paul went up to the tip top of the Alps of Christian attainment, Then I tell you that the stork and crane have found above the Alps plenty of room for tree flying. We go out and we conquer our temptations by the grace of God and le | On the morrow those temptations | rally themselves and attack us, and by the | down, grace of God we defeat them aeain, but staying all the time in the old encampment wo have the same old battles to fight over, Why not whip out our temptations and then forward march, making one raid through the enemy's country, stopping not until we break ranks afterthe last victory. Do, my brethren, let us have some novelty of combht, at any rate, by changing. by going on, by making advancement, trading off our stale prayers about sins we ought to | | have quit long ago, going on toward a higher | state of Christian character, and routing out sins that we have never thought The fact fs, if the church of God, If we individuals, made rapid advancement in the Christian life these stereotyped pray- ers wo have bean making for ten fiftoon yoars would be as inappropriate to us as the shoes, and the hats, and the coats we wore Oh, for a higher flight in the Christian life, the stork and the erane in thelr migration teaching us the los. son ! of yet, or Dear Lord, and shall wo ever live At this poor dying rate, Our love so faint, 80 cold to Thee, And Thine to us so great? Again, I remark that the birds of the alr are wiser than we becanss they know when to start, If you should go out now and shout, ‘Stop, storks and cranes, don't be in a hurry I” they would say : ‘No, we sannot stop. Last night we heard the roaring in the woods bidding us away, and the shrill flute of the north wind has sounded the re. treat. Wo must go." So they gather them. selves into companies, and turning not aside for storm, or mountain P, shook pf musketry over land Hoa, straight as an arrow to the mark, they go. And if you come out this morning with a sack of corn and throw it In the flalids and try and get them to stop til are so far up they woald » it. wy are on their way south, You could r top them that we were as wise start for God ar ) til it is a little later rey. Wait until some es of hope are all dried seattered, Walt ntl ne Alter awhile we start, an t and we perish in the way when God's wrath is kindled but a little, Thereare, you know, exceptional cases, where birds have started too late, and inthe morning you found them dead on the snow. And there are those who have perished ball way between the world and Christ. They walted until the last sickness, when the mind was gone, or they were on the express train golog at forty miles an hour, and they came to the bridge, and the “draw was up,” and hey went down, How long to repent and pray? Twoseconds! To do the work ofa lifetime and to prepare for the vast eternity in two seconds! Iwas reading of an enter. tainment given io a king's court, and there were musicians there, with elaborate pleces of musia. After awhile Mosart came and began to play, and he bad a blank plese of per before him, and the king familiarly ooked over his shoulder and sald : “What are you playing? I see no music before you." And Mozart put his hand on his brow, as much as to say, "I am improvising.” It was very well for him ; bat, oh, my friends, If we do and hardly » he best tin We say in the season 0! the xt i too ate is too inte, ave take part in the orchestral harmonies of the an L. Oh, that we wore as wise as the crane | and the stork, fiylag away, 8ying away from the tempest | Some of you hava felt the plashing ofsin. You feel it to-day. ! happy. I look into you 5 you are not happy your soul that wil you that you are sine the pardor pardon ¢ frost of sorro ' you say, yor vel" X A Bouse ROW ns not want as large a house / family ‘s not so large” Whe gone to? Eternity! ¥ mind goe through that inst sickness, and the almost supernatural aeffort to keep life, through those prayers that seemed availing, and through that kiss whic! received no response because the were lifeless, and [| hear the bells t and I hear the hearts breaking, W speak I hear break. A heart! other heart! Alone, alone, alone! world, which in your girihood and was sunshine, is cold now, and, oh! dove, you fly 1 this world as tho you would like to stay, mr them aroun . when ths wind the frost, and the blackening ads woul bid you away into the heart of an all forting God You may have noticed that when the chaMach, or the stork, or the orane starts on its migration it calls all those of its kind t The tree tops are full of chirp and whistle and earol, and the long roll eall The bird does not start off alone, It gather all of its kind, Oh, that you might ne wise in this migration to heaven, and thes you might gather all your families and your friends with you! I would that Hannah might take Samuel by the hand, and Abra ham might take Isaac, and Hagar might take Ishmaal, I ask you i those who sat at your breakfast table this morning will sit with you in heaven, [ ask you what in- fluences you are trying to bring upon them, what example you are setting them. Aro You eating them (0 gO with your Aye, aye have you started yoursell? Sturt for heayen and take your children with you. Come, thou and all thy house, into the ark, Teil your little ones that there are realms of balm and sweetness for all those who fly In the right direction, Swifter heaven, Like the arane, or the stork, stop not night or day until you find the right pinoe tor shopping, to-day In Curstian service, will you sented in the same glorious sery. foe when the heavens have passed away with a great noise, and the slements have malted with fervent hamt, and the redesmed are gathered arcund the thrones of Jesus? The Saviour ealls, Yo wanderers, come, Uh, ye benighted souls, Wer longer roam? The Kpirit calls to-day Yivid to His power, Oh, grieve Him not away, "T's merey’s hour, - 555 yan 100, be The African Exodus, The Alrioan Steamship Company of Phila delphia has oharterad six large steamers te go into the trade of exporting colored emi grants from the Unite! States to Liberia, A Petty Robber’s Life Sentence, Judge Wallaen at Ban Francisco, Onl, sentenced John Joy to life imprisonment for robbery under ths Habitual Criminal Act Joy robbed a man of 88, w—— I do not bee | Edward Payson, 1] believe there are higher points of Christian | | so that we must | not being thege |! i viak SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON NOVEMBER 4. FOR Lesson Text: ““Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath,’ Mark 11,, 23.28; iil., 1-5.Golden Text: Mark i, 28 Commentary. 23. “And it eam to pass that He wont throueh the cornfields on the Sabbath day, and Hix disolples began, as they wont, to pluck the ears of corn." In Math, xii, 1, it is written that His disciples were hungry, | mind that there haar in was an actual bodily nead to be supplied, He himself was ofttimes hunery and woaary (Math, iv,, 2; xx!., 18; John iv., 6), and the discinle must he content to be ag his ter (John xv,, 20). also rolgn with Him our abundance If wo suffer, wo shall {i Tim. #.. 12). In wo are apt to forget Him, and He ofttimas proves us to sea if wo are | clreumstances | relying on Him (Deut, viii, 2 24. "And the Pharisees sald unto Him, De hold, why do they an tha Rabbath day that which is not lawful?" The class of religious people t yt extinat, who ware fall of talk, but lsekine in deeds, ox copt when thelr would bring them praise of men. They were hypoerites and whited sepulehors, fa unclean within (Math, b, We may be sure that He who sald, member the Sabbath day to keen it ho would in no sense transgress His own o mandment nor lead others to do ft hypoerites make mo think of a captain on a forrvhoat whom [I saw collecting fares one Lord's day and at the same time findin fault with a man f« whistling the air of sacred song, 25. "And Ho sald u never road what David and was an hungered, he and they that s with him?” I believe there is an anal Seripture for about every nt in lifer ean ) ANY one Jos the word, know just how it: h wo 80 often } is wri " “Have yo n many church meno heads in “H or (yon on our xil,,. 1) deads xxiif., 8, Thoso wr i them, Haws 11d when he had 1 nto ay come te ab AVE vO ne 8. “How } v8 of Al did eat the shewlirea to eat g } 2 At in ths da inhar, “And He sal bath was made for m Sabbath.” Thi ’ Mark in this i{ncid It service, and every servant of God Is to serve God every day, but one day in seven is specially set apart for man that on that day he may wholly and peculiarly delight him self in the Lord and thus be refreshed for the work of the other das Man is nota slave of the Sabbath, but the Sabbath is for his special benefit and joy, not to en joy him- solf (Isa, Iviil,, 13, 14), but that he may de light himsel! in the Lord and thus learn to ride upon the high places of the earth, 28, “Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.” This statement is also found both in Matthew and Luke. Allthings were made by Him and for Him, It is His day. Hoe is the maker of it and the proprie- torof it. Hogave it to us that we might the better glorify Him and enjoy Him, He cartainly bas a right to tell us what He would like done with His own property When we, by faith in Him become His prog erty and truly eall Him Lord, then the day and the people being all His and for His pleasure He will surely be glorified 2 the The secret of rest and victory toe ing able to say heart, Thou art worthy, O 1 Land I # for Thy pleasur H ] found ant ORLG ONY {4 is the gospel ol too fs i is found in y fo the (Rev Habbat} YDAZOR He was always! the Bal Ae OP} ware n world, kk it was His 2 “And they wate! would heal him on the they might accuse Hin people did go to chur long ago, and He kn J opie they were, Yot He won fo must have had more grace His followers nowad Yot that “if any man have not the sp he is none of His Rom. should they want to a» never did any harm about doin povord 7 reinted to » wi the brethren 5. “And the withers sare, sustom to} w I than many 3g is writteg Ww when He Always went ist Ate 1} * vii Hin » any, but They n nan ont ughts? hearts $ Only by mag | with We are no f t us, and pondering ughts thoughts that are pros Are re|ponsi them 4 “And He saith unto Is it lawlhn to do good on the Babbath days or to do evil, to save life or to kill But they held their peace.” In Math, xii, 11, 12, it is written that He ased the lllustration of the lawlial noas of taking a sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath day, adding, "How much better fa a man than a sheep?’ and then said, “It is lawlul to do well on the Sabbath day.” We are certainly safe in doing on the holy day whatever will glorify God and tend to mag nify Him through any work of necessity or mercy, 5. "And when He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, Ho saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand Ani he stretohed It out, and his hand was restored whole as the other.” What a good thing for that man to be found In the synagogue that day! How much he might have missed by Think what Thomas missed for a whole week by not being with the brethren on the night after the resarres- tion, Lesson Helper tham th " The Sliver Dollar's Centennial The silver dollar of Unele Sam eelobrated the centennial anniversary of its birthday spon Oeteber 15, On July 18, 1704, the Bank 27 Maryland deposited at the Putladel« Mint French coins of the value of 80.718 tor colnage Into silver dolixrs under the set of 1755, The first lot of these finished wine was delivered on October 15, 179. here were 17568 of them in all, and they xere the precursors, the first waves of the vast floodtide of sliver dollars that has fonies out upon the country during the uadred yoars that have elapsed, Shortage in the Bean Crop. A shortage in the bean erop Is lable to occur on secount of the drought, Although the noreage 8 twenty per cent, groater Yhan INL yenr, the crop is estimated shout ten por eon, short, The erop Is produced mostly in Michignn, Wisconsin and New York, Among foreign countries Canada is a st com= petitor, aud beans are also Im now from Holimnd, Italy, Austrian, Hungary and Bouman, Mas. | ‘harisses were no | Settal in Japan, In the early years of the present period, and particularly prior to the construction of the railways in Japan, there used to be in most passes or by the roadside of steep and much traversed paths certain stations known as settai. Here tea and water were offered for the refreshment of wayworn pedestrians, fuel supplied for their pipes and benches provided to rest upon. The peculiar feature was that the owner or keep payment for the ton or whatever had ween supplied ; the money offered was | firmly and definitely refused, One of these establishments still ex- ists on the southwestern slope of the Hakone Monntains, not far from Ya- | The history of it is in- munaka Musa. structive. Long ago, over a century, they say a man in desperate straits, who had come to the very end of his resources, met here with help and managed in consequence his fortunes, He erected the settai thereaftor in grateful me mory of the timely aid, and his descendants were charged with its maintenance This rest station is now ke pt up by a company of no less than eighty peo- Every three vears three of those / No ple. interested wen by lot matter what their occ they must at tion, an annusl sum of ven being given by the is the purchase tea and being sttainabl mountains, are che pation once repair rem embers to WAr ater, of course, the ust two of 8, nd them with th forwards LS Iawars., custom are probably settal the wi of the largest and in Faku Shima prefecture Sura is the expression use who give Years of comfort and refreshms 0 travelers. —Japan Weekly Mai -— rs not He cout try best known | i by thos ive WEATY { L The new rifle used by the Ita lian | army sends a bullet with such fo ree that it penetrates a log of solid ash to a depth of five inches at a distatice of three-quarters of a mile. 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