SERMONS OF THE DAY. RELIGIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED BY PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS. ''Look at the Good Side of Life"—Sixth Ser mon in the New York Herald** Com petitive Series. Written bv Rev. John I>. Lonif, of Babylon, long Island. TEXT: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things arehon est, whatsoever things are just, whatso ever things are pure,whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good re port; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, l hlnk on these things."—Philip pians, iv., 8. In other words, keep your eye open to the good that is in the world and, as far as possible, close it to the evil. David said In his haste, "All men are liars," but he acknowledged that it was n hasty conclusion, and so, presumably, not strictly correct. Vou, In a similar spirit of impatience, may sometimes be tempted to voice the same opinion. But don't. For, in spite of lies, white nnd black, polite lies, business lies and malicious lies—lies that seem to worm themselves into every cir cumstance of life—the world in general hates the lie and loves the truth. This is why you cannot insult a man more deeply Mian to give him the lie. The insult is duo to the fact that public opinion domanils the truth. Look, then, on this side of life, instead of allowing your mind to dwell on what is false. No doubt there is much dishonesty in the world—dishonesty from the milkman who waters his milk to the railroad magnate who waters his stock. Your calico won't wash, your sugar contains glucose and your pepper sawdust. But never mind, after all people in general are honest and at heart jelieve that "honesty is the best policy." In tho main they must act upon that belief, >therwise the wheels of business would itop to-morrow. Think, then, on this bet :er aspect of human life. Rome say that things are very unfair in his world—that, for example, tho man who steals a loaf of bread goes to jail while the man who steals a million of Tioney at worst goes to Congress. There s doubtless some truth in this view. And t'et there is a just God, and though Bome irnes He may seum a littlo slow, His grist s, on tho whole, a pretty good article of ustice. Bemember always that in the ong run, anyway, even in this world, right nakos might. Think on this, and don't et the fact that many conditions seem un iven and unfair sour your spirit. Again, there are those who look for dirt ind find plenty of it. Human lite is by no neans immaculate, It is true, but none the ess the world is full of the purity of in locent childhood, glorious womanhood .nd noble manhood. Look upon this side 112 life—the side that lies out in the sun glit of God's approval. Tho pessimist uinks that everything is imperfect. He xnmines the blade of grass and finds it mlty. It is sure to be split or crushed or unted or otherwise malformed. He al ■ays discovers tho worm in the heart of he rose or tho thorn on the stem. Don't oin hi« company. See, rather, the loveli ess sc. ' '.ered over tho world with such a •.vlsh hand. Why, as someone has shown s, even the wayside mud puddle, if ; ewcd at the proper angle, is a thing of jauty, and mirrors tho sky and reflects in s bosom the clouds of heaven. Then why give heed to ill report, either? orget tlie bad that you hear of your fel ws and remember tho good. There is :eat need of this advice. We are all a ttie too fond of evil reports. The daily apers, which really only print wlmt tho üblic demands, show this. What is the enu of our breakfast paper? Iu large ensure a plato of violence and robbery, a sh of filth and a bowl of blood. "Give a )g a bud name and that's the end of him." d.-t so. Well, refuse to think on ill report ad you will not repeat it. If you wish to dp God and goodness think and speak ings of good reporl Yes, if there be any virtue, and if there any praise, think on ttieso tilings, nnd •u will be better nnd happier. Life is very jeh as you view it. As tho proverb goes, 'he jaundiced see all things yellow." le gamin says, "Oh, it's all in your eye." id so it is. Look on the right side of life d not on tho wrong side. Life, no doubt, is a seamy side, but be charitable. Don't ink on this side. A painting lias a face d a back. All tho pictures in your par •, I venture to say, are hung with the 30 out. Hang your pictures so in the rlor of ycur mind. Look for what is odin tho lives of your fellow men and u will bo happy. No doubt this is a ■rid of sin and misery, and the back ouud of human life is full of shadows, t look at tho brightness and seek for the luty and goodness in God's world. Jesus rist was able to seo something worth ing in tho publiuan and the harlot, mlate His example and you will find the ne result. .'hen there is another side to this sub t. If you try to soe only the good side life ycu will help to make the world as u soe it. Mark and mention tho good in ir fellow man and ho will soek to rise to i full measure of your esteem. He will stimulated to deserve your good opinion, ve faith in a man and you will help to ke him faithful. Vlien a man does a good deed—say a id act—notice it, speak of it, and he will it again. *y following the advice given in the text i will promote your own happiness and, at is equally important, you will do nothing toward making tho world bet- JOHN DIETRICH LONG, itor Presbyterian Church, Babylon, L. I. COMMON SENSE IN RELIGION. Talinage Advocates Reform in Man agement of Spiritual Affairs. EXT: "Thechildren of this world are heir generation wiser than the children iglit."—Luke xvl., 8. hat is another way of saying that Chris is are not so skillful in the manipulation piritunl affairs as worldlings aro skill in tho management of temporalities. I all around me people who are alert, uest, concentrated und skillful in mone r matters, who in tho affairs of the soul laggards, inane, inert. Thegroat want he world is more common sense in mat of religion. If ono half of tflo skill foroefulness omployed in financial af s was employed in disseminating the lis of Christ and trying to make the Id better, within ten years the last Jug mut would fall, tho last throno of op tion upset, the last iniquity tumble and anthem that was chanted over Bethle on Christmas night would be echoed re-eohoed from all Nations and kindred people: "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good-will to men." ' the first place, my friends, we want e common sense in the building nnd luct of churches. The idea of udap ness is alwayß paramount in any other 1 of structure. If bankers meet to ter, and they resolve upon putting up a i, the bank is especially odnpted to ting purposes; if a manufacturing com jr puts up a building, it is to be adapted lanufacturing purposes; but adaptive- Is not always the question in the rear >f churches. In many of our churches vant more light, more room, more ven lon, more comfort. Vast sums of ey are expended on ecclesiastical strue s, and men sit down in them, and you i man how he likes thechuroh; be says: ke it very well, but I ean't hear." aln I remark: We want more common o in the obtaining of religious hope, aen understand that in order to BUC in worldly directions they must eon rate. They think on that one object, iat one subject, untH their mind takes with tho velocity of their own ghts. A'l their acumen, all their egy. ali their wisdom, all their com- mon sense they putin that one direction, and they succeed. But how seldom it is true in the matter of seeking after God! While no man expects to aooompllsh any thing for this world without concentra tion and enthusiasm, how many are there expecting after a while to got into the kingdom of God without the use of any such means. Again, I remark: We want more common sense In the building up and enlarging of our Christian character. There are men who have for forty years been running the Christian race, and they haven't run a quarter of a mile! No business man would be willing to have his Investments unac cumulative. If you invest a dollar you ex pect that dollar to come home bringing an other dollar on its back. What woula you think of u man who should Invest SIO,OOO in a monetary institution, then go off for five years, make no Inquiry in regard to the investment, then come baok, step up to the cashier of the institution and say: "Have you kept those SIO,OOO safely that I lodged with you?" but asking no question about interest or dividend? Why, you say, "That is not common sense." Neither is it, but that is the way we act in matters of the soul. We make a far more important in vestment than SIO,OOO. We invest our soul. It is accumulative? Are we growing in graca? Are we getting better? Are we getting worse? God doelares many divi dends, but we do Dot collect them; we do not want them. Oh, that in this matter of accumulation w« were as wise in the mat ters of the soul . we are in tho matters of the world! How little common senso In the reading of the Scripturesl We get any other book, and we open it, and we say, "Now what does this book mean to teach me? It Is a book on astronomy; it will teach mo as tronomy. It is a book on political econ omy; it will teach me political economy. Taking up this Bible, do we ask ourselves what it means to teach? It means to do just ono thing, get the world converted and get us all to heaven. That is what it pro poses to do. But instead of that we go Into the Bible as botanists to pick flowers, or wo go as pugilists to get something to fight other Christians with, or we go a 9 logicians trying to sharpen our mental faculties for a better argument, and we do no.t like this about the Bible and we do not like that, and we do not like the other thing. How little wo uso common senso "in prayerl We say, "Oh, Lord, give methls," and "Oh, Lord, give me that," and "Oh, Lord, give me something else," and wo do not expect to get it, or getting it, we do not know we have It. We have no anxiety about it. We do not watoh nnd wait for its coming. As a merchant, you telegraph or you writo to somo other city for a bill of goods. You say, "Send me by such ex press, or by such a tteamer, or by such a rail-train." The day arrives. You send your wagon to the depot or to the wharf. The goods do not come. You immediately telegraph, "What is the matter with those goods? We haven't received them. Send them right away. Wo want them now, or wo don't want them at all." And you keep writing, and you keep telegraphing, nnd keep sending your wagon to the depot, or to the express office, or to the wharf, until vou get the goods. In matters of religion we are not so wise as that. We ask certain things to be sent from heaven. Wo do not know whether they come or not. We have not any special anxiety as to whether they como or not. We may get them and we may not get them. Instead ol at 7 o'clock in the morning saving, "Have I got that blessing?" at 12 o'clock, noon day, asking, "Havo I got that blessing?" at 7 o'clock in the ovening saying, "Havo I received that blessing?" and not getting !t, pleading, pleading—begging, bogging— asking, asking until you get it. Now, my brethren, is not that common sense? If we ask a thing from God, who lias sworn by His eternal throne that He will do thnt which we ask, is it not common sense that we should watch and wait until we get it? But I remark ngain: Wo want more com mon senso iu doing good. Oh, how many people there aro who want to do good, auu they are dead failures! Why is it? Thoy do not exercise the same tact, the same In genuity. the same strategeru, tha samo common sense in tho work of Christ that they do in worldly things. Otherwise they would succeed in this direction as well as they succeed in the other. There are many men who have an arrogant way with them, although they may not feel arrogant In their soul. Or they havo a patronizing way. They talk to a man of the world in a manner which seems to say: "Don't you wish you were as good as I am? Why, I have to look clear down before I can seo you, vou are so far beneath me." That manner always disgusts, always drives men from the kingdom of Jesus Christ, in stead of bringing them In. Suppose somo business man in whose skill you had perfect couiidence should tell you that to-raorrow. Monday morning, between 11 and 12 o'clock, you could by a certain financial transaction make SSOOO, but that on Tnesday perhaps you might make it, but there would not bo any posl tiveness about it, and on Vednosdny there would not be so much, and Thursday less, Friday less, and so on less and loss—when would you attend to the matter? Why, your common sense would dlotato, "Imme diately, I will attend to that matter, be tween II and 12 o'clock to-morrow, Mon day morning, for then I can surely ac complish it, but on Tuesday I may not, and on Wednesday there is less prospect and loss and loss, and I will attend to it to-morrow. Now, let us bring our common sense In this mattei of religion. Here are the hopes ol the Gospel. We may get them now. To morrow we may get them. Next day we may and we may not. The prospect less and less nnd less and less. The only sure time now—now. I would not talk to you in this way if I did not know that Christ was able to save all the people. I would not go into a hospital and tear off the bandages from the wounds if I had no balm to apply. I would not have thefaoo to tell a man he is a sinner unless I had at th< same time tho authority for saying he maj be saved. "Mamma," said a little child to he] mother, when she was being put to bed af nigbt, "mamma, what makes your hand s< scarred and twisted and unlike other peo pie's hands?" "Woll," said the mother, "my child, when you wero younger than you are now, years ago, one night after ] had put you to bed I heard a cry, a shriek, upstairs. I came up and found the bed was on fire, and you were on fire, and 1 took hold of you and tore off the burning garments, and while I was tearing then: off and trying to get you away I burned mj hand, and it has been scarred and twisto? ever since, and hardly looks nny more llk« a hand; but I got that, my child, in trying to save you." Oman! O women! I wish to-day I couW show you the burned hand of Christ burned in plucking you out of the fire, burned in snatching you away from the flame. Ay, also tho burned foot and the burned brow and the burned heart—burned for you. "By His stripes ye are healed." RICH YIELD OF SALMON ECGS. Previous Records Beaten—Millions Foi Eastern and Western Waters. The work of collecting salmon eggs at the California Fish Commission hatohery on the Sacramento Blver at Anderson has been concluded for the season. The results of the season's operations are the most remarkable on record. Forty-eight and a half million 'eggs were collected, ex ceeding the previous records made at this it* ! > , y twenty-two millions, and t wenty efght milllons more than were collected at 1897 otber hatoheries on the Coast in The eggs are to be hatched and the fry p.anted in the waters of the State, with the exception of three million that are to be sent to Oregon and six million that goto I, i. /!f. England States' station on the United States CommiMsioner'S CUT. I THE REALM OF FASHION. | A curious new fad jnst now seems on the point of gaining a foothold in the range of feminine fancy, and if it continues to grow pussy will peep out over the brim of many a stylish hat KITTENS' HEADS FOR BONNETS. this winter, for the cat seems about to have its inning as a factor in personal adornment. They are more artistic than owls, and the milliner defends her practice as much less barbarous than the use of birds, for the decapitation of cats will save many a hapless feline from the miseries inflicted by malicious youngsters. Black and malteso are favorites, STm MISSES. though occasionally a white head is used on a dark velvet bonnet. Attractive Costaine For a Mlsi. The stylish and attractive costume shown in the large illustration, and described by May Mauton, is made of lightweight wool in Sumatra brown, with yoke of silk in the same color, sash and collar of plaid ribbon and trimming of embroidered passe menterie. The bodice, which iB slight ly pouched, is made over a fitted lin ing that closes at the centre front. The outside is fitted by shoulder and underarm seams only and closes in visibly at the left shoulder and under arm seams. The yolk of silk is facod onto the lining, the overlapping edge of the serge being outlined by a band of trimming. The sleeves are two seamed and show only sufficient ful ness at the shoulder to support the epaulets. The skirt is five-gored and fits smoothly across the front and hips. The fulness at the back is laid in un derlying pleats, which form the fan back. It iB lined throughout and has an interfacing of haircloth six inches deep. The edge is bound with vel veteen. To make this bodice for a miss of fourteen years will require one and seven-eighths yards of forty-four-inch material. The skirt will require three and seven-eighths yards of the same width goods. Ideas In Headgear. Bonnets are not worn by women much under sixty. Large hats, toques, and the boat-shaped variety are the favorite styles, with here and there a poke for the few who can wear it. Feathers are put onto slant baok from the face and fall a little over the j hair. Miroir velvet haß the prefer ence for millinery, and glaoe silk and satin are both used. Anything glossy is in style. < Ladles' and Misses' Tzarlna Blouse Coat. Ruisian-green cloth, black mohair braid in scroll design ard Persian lamb fnr combine to make this gar ment one of the most handsome and most stylish shown '.this season. The hat of mode felt is faced and trimmed with bands of green velvet; variega ted quills standing np from a small bow at the left side. While the suc cess of the blouse ooat is an assured fact, Manton, many ladies that are not of slender frame will hes itate to adopt it in some [of its varia tions. The model here presented is one that will be found very generally becoming as the front alone pouches whilefthe back fits the figure snugly; a style that is suited to all figures. Its simple construction and fitting by shoulder, under-arm and baok seams renders it easy to develop, and the closing is made invisibly in centre front with coat hooks and eyes. A unique feature is the shapely collar that forms a plastron front and baok and extends below the belt to the lower edge. The belt is shaped to fit the figure rounding helow the waist line in front. The ooat sleeves are of fashionable proportions, box-pleats adjusting the fulness at the top. The stylish Medici collar is seamed to fit closely, flaring apart high above the neok. Coats in this style can be made of material to match or contrast with the skirt, the different varieties of camel 's-hair,zibe line, rep and velours being very ap propriate or of kersey, melton, cheviot or other ooatings. Fancy linings of Ro man stripes or plaided silks are chio and fashionable, an interlining of thin flannel being necessary when dre3s goods are made up for street wear. The varieties found in the shops makes the question of garniture a comparatively easy one and the man- COAT OF BX7SSIAN-GREEN CLOTH. ner of applying the same is only a question of individual taste. To make this coat for a lady in the medium size will require two yard* of fifty-four-inch material. A JOYFUL MOTHER OF CHILDREN, cUp Mrs. Plnkham Declares that in the Light of Mod* ern Science no Woman Need Despair. There are many curabio causes for steril in women. One of the most common V !Oi\ * 8 general debility, accompanied by a ft. fr'fo; | VI) t: t x!culiar condition of the blood. 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Aha will tell you, free of charge, the cause of your trouble and what course to take. Believe mc, under right conditions, you have a fair chance to become the joy ful mother of children. The woman whose letter is here published certainly th » n i C lm more than proud of Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and cannot find words to express the good it has done me. I was troubled very badly with the leucorrhoea and severe womb pains. From the time I was married, in 1882, until last year, I was under the doctor's care. We had no children. I have had nearly every doctor in Jersey City, and have been to Belvin Hospital, but all to no avail. I saw }lrs. Pinkham's advertisement in the paper and have used five bottles of Iter medicine. It has done more for me thkn all the doctors I ever had. It his stopped my pains and has brought me a fine little girl t have been well ever since my baby was born. I heartily recommend Mrs. Pinkham's medicine to all women suffering from sterility."— Mas. 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