tEV. DR. TALMAGE, | SUNDAY’S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Subject: **Shamgar’s Oxgoad.” Texr: “After him was slew of the Philistines 600 goad." Judges iii., 91. One day while Shamgar, the farmer, plowing of whoa of battle, trouble, which an ox- Shamear, men with Wis with a yoke of oxen, his command haw gee was changed to the shou Philistines, always ready to make march up with sword and spear, Shamgar, the plowman, had no sword and would not probably have known how to wield it if he had possessed one. But fight he must or go down under the stroke of the Philistines, He had an oxgoad—a weapon used to urge the lazy team: a weapon about eight feet long, with a sharp fron at one end to puncture the beast and a wide fron chisel or shovel at the other end with which to serape the clumps of soil from the plowshare, Yet with the iron prong at one end of the oxgoad and the iron scraper at the other it was not such a weapon as one would desire to use in battle with armed Philistines, But God helped the farmer, and leaving the oxen to look after themselves he charged upon the invaders of his homestead Some of the commentaries, to make it easier for Shamgar, suggest that perhaps he led a regiment of farmers into the his oxgoad Only one of many oxgonds. But the Lord does not need any of you to help in making the Scriptures, and Shamear, with the Lord on his side. was mightier than 600 Philistines with the Lord against them, The battle opened. Shamgar, with 1 strengthened by open airand plowms reaper's and thrashér's toil, uses the 1 weapon at hand and he swings the oxgos up and down and this way and that, n stabbing with the iron prong at one er and now thrusting with the seraper st the other, and now bringing down the wh weight of the instrume.. the | the enemy. nd the supe blow that stances have victim lifel walked over the 200 dead, 300 on combat, is iron upon The Philistines rnatural forces come in uld not unaer other prostrated or slain ess, 1 whe are ino a w ‘n 100 deal 1@ end and of this NAWKWAr oh on han until he coul arched and t snl Rot War and wheelin forward to ald have ) he takes hold of, called int against wr the ki al But there is some fordes we can wiel you have not, INR Wa Can GoAn Do not wait for what use what you have Perhaps you have not eloquence, but you have a smile. Wall, a smile of encourage ment has changed the behavior of tens of thousands of wanderers and brought them | back to God and enthroned them in heaven. | You cannot make a persuasive appeal, bu you can set an example, and a good exa lag saved more souls than you nayear if y . the cannot give $1( as the widow the =r best fam ever versitios You have I SAY ’ t at} ~All Babbath-ach intenden I Clans, Was t she would have t Orat fighting. , but the superit ) again, and th vided him Was pr hkiss shel y shoulder a glittering 1 thing you can lay blacksmiths | I stick ora plane or a ! oxgoad th the surprises f will be what grand results simple means, Matthins J | ne a great apost ie EHTS fr hearing Jo} ey preach, but fr Meing him kis stairs, Again, ight that atten Yur peuter farmer's heaven from how the vile mar ‘ i ehild on the Wt springs uj Hating thes pr 1a ape nn px nlpresepcs and all 1 into the ealeuln n that plowed fleid One hearer says, “1 Nha ther hearer se “1 see 600 Phil My hearer, have missed the chief personage on that battlefield of plowed ground. I also see Shamgar and 600 Phils tines; but, more than all and mightier than All and more overwhelming than all, I se God, Shamgar with his unalded arm, how. over muscular, and with that humble instru ment made for agricultural purposes and never constructed for combat, could not have wrought such a victory, It was omnipo- tence above and beneath and back of and at the point of the nxgond, Before that battle was over the plowmaa realized this, and all the 800 Philistines realized it, and all who visited the battlefield afterward appre- elated it, I want in heaven to hear story, for it ean never be fully told on earth ~perhaps some day may be set apart for the rehearsal, while all heaven listensthe story of how God blessed awkward and humble ine stromentalities, Many an evangelist has come Into a town given up to waorldliness, The pastors say to the evangelist: “We are th reusn and the other atrreil tion, Whom 4 of my text Har An stines.” I ust take ten _. AH the | glad you have come, but it is a hard field, | and we feel sorry for you, bers of our churches play The mem- progressive | shore of eternal safety, {+ What euchre and go to the theatre aud bet | at the horse races, and gayety fashion have taken possession of the town. We have advertised your meetings, hut are not very hopeful, (tod bless von," This evangelist takes hig piace on platform or pulpit, Hs never graduated at college, and there are before him twenty gradaats of the hest universities. He never took lesson in elocution, and there are before hin twenty trained orators, Many of the ladie present are graduntes of tho highost female saminaries, and one slip in grammar or one mispronuneintion will result in suppressed gigele, Amid the general chill that pre vades the house the unpretending evangelist opens bis Bible an‘ takes for histext, “L that my eyes may be opened,” in the gallery ouriously scrutinize the speaker, He tells in a plain way the story of the blind man, tells two or three touching anecdotes, aud the general chill gives way before a strange warmth, A classical hearer wno took the first honor at Yale and who is a prince of proprieties finds his spectacles becoming dim with a moisture suggestive of tears. A worldly mother, who had been bringing up her sons and daughters in utter godlessness, puts her handkerchief to her eyes and begins to weep Highly educated men who eame to eriticise’ and plek to pieces and find fault how on their gold-headted What Is that sound from under the gallery? It is a sob, and sobs are catohing, and all along the wall and all up and down the audience there is dee; emotion, sO that when at the close service anxd ils are invited to es seats or the Inquiry room, they come 8 and kneel and repent and rise pardoned; the wi shaken places of evil tended and rum h the chur rommunity is feed. t y hear t Not ong rd Canes, 8 80 "Oras a sparsely ss their patrons, an ged, and the wh ised and elevated and What power did the evangelist bring that town for righteous \ ant epigram did he ter. No | gesture did he ms Not one rhetorical climax did he plle But there was something about him that ple had not the estimate when t} prophesied the failure of that work. 1 not taken into the caloulation the e ofthe H #t. It was not of a Dama It was God, re and bohind und the oxg When peop crime will never | hes are capture ly Gh amph and the hangelie, de w the weak the saving, *'( artillery." Water] way between others will do best with manuscript spread out before them Some will serve God by the plow, raising wheat and corn and giving liberally of what LARG rain and wibing for the rid , and att 8, defending Innooencs and ng rights the : } the Almighty y have | found t have not 4 forGod as t lacks, and great hunter and Ang to th Adir ul ean take my » ap to Paul Smit} when I arly the incks this pment and 1 wae wil lin ithe, that rat hundreds n and sach elaborat h guns of all styles nod baskets and id not And ny even writ. should 1ches and many more even gu riend of on ait things T 0 the of, big had sd engaged men who m:any ms into the forest and earry bh the deer and the trout, It the mountains id have and understood It at the ue there would have been panie the antlers and the fins through all the John Brown's Tract.” Well, I am n hunter, and not a roebuck or a game fish did I injure, Bat there were hunters there that » ! ind nothing but a plain gun and a sleep on and a coll of fish. ing line and a box of ammunition and bait, who eames in ever and anos with as many ol the captives of forest and stream as they and two r threes attendants could enrry. Now, 1 fear that many Chris tian Workers who have most elab rate educational and theological and profes sional equipment, and most wonderful wea poury, sufllelent, you would think, to eap- ture a whole community or a whole Nation for God, will in the last day have but little exoept thelr tackling to show, while some who had no advantage except that which they got in prayer and consecration will, by the souls they have brought to the wove that they have been gloriously sue WAI aa fishers of men, and in taking many who, like the hart, were panting after the water brooks, made the Amalekites ran before Gideon # army? Each one of the army knew how much racket the breaking of one pitcher would make, Ho 500 men that night took 800 pitchers and a lamp inside the pitcher, and at a given sigoal the lamps were lifted the ton " me th among MaOn fine ana | Opera glasses | and the pitchers wars violently dashec down, The flash of light and the racket of | the 300 demolished pitchers sent the enemy {into wild flight, Not much of a weapon | you would gay, 18 a broken pitcher, but ithe Lord made that awful orash of crockery the means of telumph for Hit people, And there to ba a battle with the pitchers, The night of the world's dissipation may get darker an | darker, but after awhile, in what watch o { the night I know not, all the ale pitchers and the wing pitchers, and the beer pitchers and the whisky pitchers of the earth will be | hurled into demolition by converted inebri ates and Christian reformers, and at tha! awful ernsh of infernal crockery the Amale | kitish host of pauperism and loaferdom and { domestic quarrel and cruelty and asses dination will fly the earth, Take the first weapon you can lay your hands on Why did David choose the sling wher ho went at Goliath and Goliath wen! at him? Brought up in the country, like every other boy, he knew how to man aze a sling, Saul's armor was first put or him, but the giant's armor was too heavy The helmet was clapped on him as an ex tinguisher, and David said, “I cannot ge with these, for I have not proved them, And the first wise thing David did after put. ting on Saul's armor was to put it off. Then the brook Elah, the bed of which was dry when I saw it and one vast reach of pebbles, furnished the five smooth stones of the brook with which Goliath was prostrated, Whether it be a boy's sling or a broken pitcher or an xgond, take that which y AD Manage and ask God for hel Wer on earth inh | is can against the the odds are matter of worldliness and wompared with the virtue 600 for vies and ared with ne, Ol «i abroad Philistines, ARALnSt follars nh dollars t me, sin and rn INO8s 10.0 0 4 1 iay of the Bible | h and the the g elostial heaven. COLD DUST IN THE MINT Cleaning Oat the Sweeplags of the Phila. deliphia Institution, bar af ' " wo labor are iner Will us h Htoel nk ae pu Tens In the srmation of the m its rough state to the perfectly punotild worry million ir r ever d all ver, transl " | stamped eolns thers is unavoidably a cortadn they sell to churches and missions; some as | merchants, and out of thelr profits will dedi- | cate a tenth to the Lord: some ns physicians | every thousand ounces of amount of loss. The aolaner at the mint ls allowed an unvarying proportion of loss on bullion trans Of 1000 ounces of more than #0 ' { the same ferred t § to 1} department, ver he » t retu ® 6XA tly $04 The sWoeep- DO AWAY WITH TYPEWRITERS. Lounlsville Men Take Dispatches From the Wire on a Linotype, nent was telegraph Lire: by a I'he intro- we telegraph tly facilis service, ie n nd the Ass that the tele ly with the num rate of attained, In 1 of thirty STRANCE FISHES IN A CAVE Quarrymen Discover an Interesting Sub- terranean Cavern, Nt sth er r the y village on the Erie «it and Susquehanna, liscovery made n Nome quarrymen, in flagstones, found the h ran a stream of water utalning speckled green without eyes and their tall, They in un backward and have a motion inlike that of a fresh-water crab, Several sent to the Pennsylvania Fish ners as curiosities, The quarry was loeated in a bed of limestone rock lu an unfrequented place When the laver had been removed it waz further observed that the internal walls of the cavern were lined with transinoent stalactites and stalagmites imperfectly f Pe ple thers are discussing tho Rallway, ! in Interested iterranean removing inyer of ivern. through whi greenish hue The 1 propel them variably aw nom ’ os n Yahi shes are sclvem by have been { mies formed possibility of its being another “mammoth” me, THE CATCH OF CAVIAR The World's Record Beaten at the Put-In- Hay Hatchery, A report from Put-In Bay, Ohlo, says that the hateh at the fish hatohery at that place beats the world's record In the number of agus taken in one peason st one station, Dur. ing the season, whien has just ended, there have boew taken at this station 115,000,000 whitefish egg, 11,000,000 ciscos or lake her ring, 404,000,000 pike perch, besides lake trout, grass pike, yellow perch and other varietion, Besides the ogge and fry shipped awny, 400,000 whitefish, 11.000, o and 200,000,000 pike perch fry have been turned into the waters of Lake Erie. With fish sggs so plentiful, there should be ne soarcity of Russian caviar this season. ‘ con. | tan | aen | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL JUNE LESSON 14. FOR Lesson Text: “Peter and the Risen Lord,” John xxi,, 4-17 -Golden Text John xxi, 17- Commentary, 4. Baven of tho disciples had, under the leadership of Peter, gone a fishing, But al though they toiled all night they took noth- ing. Perhaps Peter thought of another night when they had labored in vain, b in the morning the Master filled two boats, He was now no longer with them. and perhaps it w His absence and their need that led th this time to turn to the old upation In the morning stood on the shor whom they knew not and asked them if they had any meat. They were compelled t fess their emptiness and helplessness as they answered 3 should have trusted Him unseen as wh He was visibly with them. But they were Hke slow to learn full of and unbelief 6. At His word they east th and as on a former oconsion them to forsake all they cate fishes. Heochanges n the same. If we woul might alwave 1 i xv it 5. ! one and Joht to recogniz been gome fsa It was ui seed he for would rn { dead Christ Nations | Nati for His nan ple asa dwelling pia aD), and that Peter was th door to the Nations (Act 12. “Jesus saith unto your fast” (KB. V), has gone faking i them, and Bee now why they They were evidently han. gry, bad been fasting for some time, and no 10 seemed 10 care bread alons (Matt iy esteem the s DOOERaRry 18. “L the questi “more than these Ie testify ir we the 1 | } me feel that t | 14] rd al th the great | veto Him is, . talked of in publi { us by caring for His shes; others as He manife and lambs; | would do were He ing on John's admonition, ‘Let in word, neither in tongue; but in truth” (I John iii, 18 17. “Lovest thou Me question comes, for it i= a heart Would Peter think of } denial? Why was he grieved thing of how we grieve the Lord Let u pray Ps, exxxix., 23, M4 Peter had offered to die for Christ w tells hin that he shall have that {vorees 18 19); has he love en Have you w Losson He iper here us in } hing threefold How little w Ap PE 1s one, nargin Jesus n privilege I igh for that? I — Horse Meat Not Labeled, Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bareana of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department, S[leaking of the report that a large horse slaughtering and packing industry had been started in Portland, Oregon, sald that there Was no law compelling such ments to bo Ia baled, aa in onsen of oleomargarine when sold as butter, Dr. Salmon says that the de partment had endeavored to secure legisla tion similar to the oleomargarine law, which will compel dealers In horse meat to have it Iabeled so that consumers nesd not be de ceived Anniversary of Waterloo, Next June will osour the eightieth anni Yorsary of the battle of Waterloo, Pranos has still ois her pension roll four survivors of the fight, the oldest 102 and the youngest ninety-nine years old. At the beginning of this year there were forty-five veterans of She otntemporary War of 1812 on our pen stranger surprises in tie English Titled World, | THE GUNMAKER Of The English titled world is full of | JEFFERSON MM, surprises and almost fairy-like trans TEMPTING formations such as this. There is the CHINESK Farl of Btamford, who was a sehool- teacher when the death of a distant relative landed him in the House of Peers; while the present Earl of Had- dington worked, not even as an ap prentice, but as a mere boy, with a mechanic, when his father was sud- denly called upon to assume the title and enter into possession of the en- tailed estates of a consin who they had never known. There are peers who have started in life as carpenters, others who have been railroad conduc tors when called to the Upper House; while there are several instances of tho heirs to earldoms, and even mar quisates, having been found before the mast on sailing ships, and on ranches, where they were ns wins the ILION, CLOUGH REFUSES A OFFER FRON THY GOVERNMENT. His Health was too Voor to Permit thon to A Great Bat Hecovered, Mass, 1 Atten. Business, Sufferer for Many Yenrs Has Now ng fis serving as cowboys, with Lord Shannon, who was sought in vain for over two Cake years in the Western States and in the wilds of Canada, The colonies present yet eve metamorphoses, where we find Sir George Dibbs, the Prime Mio ister of an Australian colony, promot. nD ing to the Governship of a great peni tentiary a man who had been his par- | sioner | BFC : of | another piecs he had served twelve-months’ term in that very ja Sir John Thurston, has just reached England, and holds the office of Her Majesty High Commis the Western Governor of the | life as the as an Australian conntry tienlar warder when who who for Pacific and 1 0 i Islan N ] M] mene sistant in a small it 128) tow] ly WHE Wreck crew that succes he settled, « le where British ¢ Fan Shoes Mill Fashienable F 1 + of wn 1 LO ain i ABSOLUTELY PURE ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR *® New Yersion of Turpin, In these days, when so many means earning a livelihood are closed save to the ring classes, it 1s estiug to | the cette, © reviva | y O04 A 7 [} He that of the w inter Pall Mall Ga i pr AUTH T % | Dysp e Inf " Pn and AGED PERSON JOMN CARLE & SONS, New York, * py i» Nelic at | 1 J e Vv UCT ML vil > 0 wy LY i AN AN CLE EFFICIENT. cy On fife Cars, ye oa ve) wy¥ At the Thea're, Ee ie En a ateme | Anvwhere, IF YOU WOULD BE IN FASHION ed to ran the Tabules| took him W i 3 were their boxes ugh 18 preturesqu bieveles were gaun the right esoaped t He, however, | : city” of York, preserving 'Ripans nn — ALONG 1 Magnetism WHEREVER YOU GO. 28 Yon virgin, ol Tongs, Eel will magnet upon th JE TRE and wit! of steel The not yet satisfactorily explained York Journal, Dr. PIERCE’S PLEASANT C—— R PELLETS , a CAN se New IK | walle | “CURES SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, RK sasily secured the uh 5 oariy applieation or Leos Agency 10 sell the DAVIS CREAM SEPARATORS 4 | § to Farmers and Dalrrmen. 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