SERMONS OF THE DAY. RELIGIOUS TOPICS" DISCUSSED BY PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS. •Trace In tlie Soul" I« the Title of the Rev. George H. Hepworth'* Sermon, Preached In the New V..rk Herald'* Columns—An Address by D. 1. Moody. •'For the kingdom of God .is joy and pence."—Romans xiv., 17. The Bible is the most practical book in the world. There is very little theology in it—not as much as some people think—but a great many inspired bits of advice as to the eonduot of every day life, as though the writer loved the men and women who would read his word and was actuated by no other motive than to help them over rough places. For this reason the Book has maintained its hold on mankind. It is friendly, kindly and encouraging, a book not to be read through at a sitting, but io be taken up at odd times and glnneed at just as you would look lit a handful of jewels for a moment and then put them away. I have noticed that it makes many, very many references to peace and joy—not the peace of a nation, that busy peace in which we compete for personal gain, but the peace of the heart, which creates content ment and keeps the soul in poise and equilibrium; the peace which makesa man feel that everything will come out right in the end because nothing can come out wrong when God is guiding our affairs. It is once spoken of in very extreme lan guage as "the peace that passeth under standing," like the peace which a sensitive soul enjovs when it gazes on a magnificent landscape, or like that which the lover of music has when he is listening to some su perb orchestra, or like that which a moth er has when she is sitting by the cradle of her lirst born, a peace that refuses to be analyzed, but is so deep and strange that no one can describe it to a person who has uot felt it. I am talking to myself as well asto you ■when I say that we could get a great deal moro out of life if we were more reposeful. We expend to much energy on trivial things, things so unimportant that it does not matter greatly how they go. We allow ourselves to be disturbed by small matters, whereas the soul is big enough to look on them with indifference. We keep ourselves in a condition of nervous tension, which is not simply hurtful to the body but equally so to the spiritual nature. Body and soul are so closely related that over excitement of the one seems to throw the other off its balance. Vou and I cannot be at out best until wo are tranquil in tyeart with that kind of tranquillity which rests on the ilrm basis of faith that the angels of God are looking after our interests and trying to persuadeus totake the right road to heaven. There is just an atom of insanity in us, and when we grow restless that atom is fanned into a flame. The truly sane man is the quiet souled man. I say, therefore, sinco Christianity teaches a man to be quiescent, that the Christian religion will both make us sane and keep us so. When crossing the ocean recently our •hip ran into a storm. Tho sea was very rough, the fog closed in on all sides, and wo iiad an uncomfortable time. The waves were in an ugly mood, and on two or three occasions swept the deck. I enjoyed it as little as did the other passengers and should have been grateful for a ray of sunshine. But that was not to be thought of. Sup pose I had taken on myself the responsi bility of the situation. The captain was on the bridge night and day, but suppose I had allowed myself to wonder whether he knew his business, and had offered him ad vice as to the conduct of tho vessel. Would that have allayed the tempest, would it have stilled the troubled waters, would it have kept tho ship from rolling uneasily? 1 sho'.i|fl not only liavo done no good, but should have interfered to my own detri ment. My duty was to keep on my feet as best I could, uot togo beyond my province as a passenger, to bear in mind that tho captain had passed safely through a thou sand worse storms und was showing no anxiety about this one. If I had faith in the master of tho craft there was no need to be afraid. Any doubt as to his ability would at once create havoc of mind and body. My duty was to keep still and to cherish the conviction that all would be well in a few hours. Now the spiritual difficulty we encounter in our lives Is this subtle suspicion that after all there may not be a God, or, if there is, that He is not equal to the emer gency. That rankest of all heresies lies at the foundation of our religious restless ness. We may as well face this fact and govern ourselves accordingly. The man who does not cheerfully meet his fate has a larking doubt of God's existence, lie may deny it to others, but he must needs admit it to himself. He may accept the longest creed that was ever written and b i orthodox in all the details of his professed belief, but if you eould find your way into his heart of hearts you would discover that his faith in God is a social or ecclesiastical luxury, and as such is worth very little. Did Christ have any doubt that a legion angels would minister unto Him In His essity? Can you conceive of Ilim as ing at tho window of His friend's house Bethany on the night before the cruci on and wondering if Ho could go ough tho next day's experience? On i contrary, He was self-possessed, even .eerful, and if the opportunity to avoid le cross had been offered Ho would not ive used it. He knew that the Father was ■re, that the Father would be with Him, d that the cruel nails could not pain Him much as a doubt of that Father's love, "e «-annot follow that example except in r-oIT way. He said Thy will be done •v.it a tremor, but we can say it with a ■r. The highest excellence is repose, ul repose of soul, but you cannot be assessed until you know that you are ssert of God. The essence of religion je soul's consciousness that as its day hall be its strength; that God and you .do anything and bear anything. After it you will be at peace, quiescent and cqulescent. Ho who has hold of God's Kind and knows it is the most cheerful I il this side of Heaven. GEOIIOE H. HEPWOKTB. ICHT L. MOODY SPEAKS. by the Kvaucellst at a Crowded Meeting 111 New York. L. Moody lias been holding a •rowded meetings in New York, wing account is from one o/ the .•an gel Ist'B addresses there: ke xfx., 10. is the keynote of this *'ng: 'The Son of Man is come ve that which is lost.' Even down. A life-long friend saying that his health Is only a question of time 1 am sad, I say, yet beautiful lifo'here vours has lost his You sympathize h him. And yet ro is a hope for •nary, across 1 am told blind. I nit a pang t that a child to ts eves little 'Yes,' ■vs.' en i i in al m pe pe or Saviour Jesus Christ. And yet—and yet It is so hard for people to realize what it means to be lost—yea, L-O-S-T!" The evangelist's voloa thundered as lie hurled this down upon the audience, A low murmur came In recognition of its force. "What is it to be lost! When I came to New York twenty years ago little Charlie Boss had just been lost. The whole nation was moved as it had not been moved fllno® the war They gave me the picture of the child, asking that I search mv congrega tion for some trace of him. Devoted friends of his mother came day after day, search ing for the little ohild. Many and many a mother wept at the thought of the anguish of that boy's mother. And yet there are millions of toothers that have lost their sous, for these sons have missed the word of God! _ "Again, I will tell yon another storv. In one of the towns in tho West where I was preaching two little children had wan dered into the woods —a brother and a sis ter. All day men searched for them and they were not found. The day following these men could do nothing at their labor. So they formed a line—a thousand of them —all a few feet apart, and scoured the woods. Then when the word came down the line that the little ones had been found safe and well, how that town was stirred. "And yet, I toll you, here ure hundreds and hundreds of drunkards, young men lost In vice, lost forever, and yet this town Is never stirred. Think of the young men going down, down, down, deeper into "Vice, while no one seems to be moved. "Except that man be born again he can not see the Kingdom of God. "There is not a poor drunkard nor a fallen woman that God does not want. They do not believe, perhaps, that God wants them. Go hunt them up. Tell them the Word of God. "A certain woman hasten pieces of sil ver, and loses one. Does she let it go? No! She gets a broom and raises a dust and a commotion. She doesn't wait for the silver to come back. Then when sh» is success ful she says: 'Rejoice with me, I have found the piece of silver.' "There will be a groat joy in New York when the lost are found. Luke said: 'Then drew unto Him the publicans and sinners.' It got out that Christ wanted the lost ones to comp unto Him, the publicans and sin ners. Then they came. What you must do is to publish that ..God seeks tne sinner. If t hero Is any one that is tired of sin, I bring you good news. The Shepherd is the same. He is still seeking you. "A mother wrote to her infidel son, 'Go to Moody and San key's meeting.' That was In 1874. Ho satd 'Yes,' and that was all she could get out of him. He would go if it wasn't too much trouble. The first meeting in Brooklyn chanced to bo within a block of his homo. He came. He said that he had no thought when he gave the promise that It would be so near, but It was a bore, anyhow. Next night he was con verted. 'Have you written your mother?' I asked him. "'No,' said he, 'l've oabled.' That's the way the Shepherd seeks. "While theiion of God seeks, you seek, too. I never knew ono that was really seeking that didn't find. I told a man I know that I could nnme tho day and hour when he would be saved. 'Ho,' said he, 'I didn't know there was a prophet In your family.' 'Neither is there.' said I. 'l'm no prophet, but I can toll.' 'When?' ho asked. 'The day and hour when you earn estly seek God.' "God isn't going to save the mnn that Is asleep. I saw a man at one of.ourjrneetiugs who stood with his hands In his pockets, leaning against a pillar. 'Do you wish to be saved?' I asked fiim. 'l've no objec tion,' he answered. Seek the Lord where ho may be found. Can the Lord be found here to-day? Come, I ask you. Can the Lord be found here to-day?" ' . -*1 "Yes, ye*," cried a dozen voices In re ply. The evangelist nodded his head in pleasure. "Seek the Lord where ho may be found. Seek as men seek gold. It won't take long to find Him. Look at the crowd rushing into the Klondike. If men were as anxious to get Into the Golden City as they are to get Into the Klondike they would be saved readily enough. If they were as anxious for God as some of them seem to be for war just now, they would And Him easily enough. "You don't have to wait to be saved. Pray now 'Lord, save me.' If It Is a heart felt cry, you'll be saved. If out of work or discouraged, cry out. God will hear you. How do I know, you ask? Because I have seen thousands savod. It Is one of the easiest yet one of the hardest things In the world to be saved. But it's easy when you once make up your mind. "Now let us prav that all in this house be saved. Let us continue In silent prayor." Kneeling, the lifted his face, still clutching at his breast the song book. After a moment of restlessness, the great audience settled in a deep, intense silence. It was broken by the evangelist arising and asking that a hymn bo sung. Then he spoke again. "Come with me!" he cried: "come and be saved. Let all that wish to know the word of God come with me into that room over there. I will counsel with them. "If thoro Is any ono beside you that needs converting, speak with them. If they l>e timid, bring them with you. Come." Arising, the evangelist moved down from the platform, taking his way to the room at the rear. The crowd turned, and dozens of Individuals followed in the evangelist's wake. There In that room they obtained his counsel and cheer, and with smiling faces went upon their ways. COUNTERFEITING IN PRISON. Convicts Take Metal Froin the Eneinu and Coin Nirkela. A counterfeiting plant hns been discov ered within the walls of the State Prison at Folsom, Cal. The work was done In the engine room by Convicts L. H. Coyne and James Brown. So far as known only nickels were coined, presumably because no silver could bo obtained. When tho officers rushed in Covno and Brown leaped through a window and threw their dies and cruci bles into a canal leading to the American Itlver. A large number of well executed live-cent pieces were found. They were made from Babbit metal taken from the engines which run through the prison grounds for tho purpose of hauling rock from the quarries. It is thougnt thnt the dies or moulds were not made by the mon who coined the money, but by some of the expert counter feiters In the prison. Several of the bogus coins have been found in circulation In the town of Folsom. SHARK CATCHERS DROWNED. Four Jajianrse Lose Their Lives in the Surf in mi Exciting Hunt. Four Japanese fishermen woro drowned near Pacific Grove, Cm., while harpooning sharks. Japanese catch sharks for oil, which nets twenty-five cents a gallon. Two boats went out. with three men In one and four in the other. The boats were lashed together with cross pieces so that they would better withstand the lunges of sharks when harpooned. A school of white sharks appeared early in the afternoon, and one. fully twenty-live feet long, was harpooned, instead of rushing out to sea as wounded sharks usually do, this one made for the shore and dragged the boats into the surf. T'our huge rollers were en countered and capsized the boats. Threo men In one of the bonts reached shore. The others were drowned. ;w»r on Food Adulteration*. The pure food congress at Washington was attended by about 200 delegates. War against food adulteration was declarod in strong terms. Prosperous American Farmers. American farmers received $5,000,000 more for their produots in 1897 than they did in 1896. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. 4 Copartnership—Remarkable Reception Given Octogenarian Teetotaler* In Lon don—Fort y-thrne Attended the Banquet —Extracts From Speeches and Letters. Sir Wilfrid Lawaon has thrown off the following lines, called forth by a letter trhieh recently appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post, on the subject of a publication la a oertain. town, who combined in a double-fronted establishment the business if drink seller and funeral undertaking: His customers with sparkling ales This worthy victualler treats, A liquor which we know entails The "funeral baked meats." Death lurks within the alluring bowl For him by whom it's taken; This victualler, then has, on the whole, Done what he's undertaken. Octogenarian Teetotalers. As an object-lesson on the subject of human longevity we have seen no publica tion more instructive than a beautiful Ut ile book, published by tho National Tem f'erance League, of London, entitled, "Oc ogenarian Teetotalers." It is the narra tive of n reception to octogenarian teeto talers, given by the League in May, 1897, tnd speeches and letters ineidont thereto. Relations were established with nearly {OO ontogenarluns, of 163 of whom life »lcetohes were prepared. Forty-three at tended the banquet in London, tho nver tgc of whose ages was years, among irhom were Dr. F. It. Lees (ajfe 81) and Rev. Newman Hall, D.D. (age 80). We guote briefly from speeches and letters: Dr. Lees (81).—It has been said that we cannot "arrange" the Kingdom of God. True, but we have indicated a fact more to the purpose—that the wloked interests of the world have sown tares while the virtu ous people slept; they have been allowed not only to "arrange," but to establish and tntrench, in law, the kiogdon of the devil, ind thus to thwart and defeat the missiOD of Christ. Dr. Newman Hall (80). —I have been torty-two years la London, preaching on in average three or four time a week, and ( have been only six Sundays out of har ness, Ju consequence of sickness. Henry Brown (80). —I have been a pool customer to tho doctor. I havo not sup plied them with a sovereign yet and I havo led an active life. George Fropfrjohn (81), walks eight miles a day in following his trade, as a builder; sometimes up and down ladders; wherever hti occupation calls him. Frederick Miller (80), printor for sixty fight years; not for a single day in iho last twenty years to omit going to his jocupr.tton! J. N. Diokinson (82). —An abstainer titty two years. Never had a serious illness. During the fltty-two years" abstinence, only three times under medical treatment, the last time having been twenty-six yeuri ago. Rev. Charles Fisher (81).—An nbstalnet sixty years. At the ace of 80 wrote: "I have never laid in bod from sickness ot paid five shillings for medicine for myself, Often working ten to eighteen hours nei ilay, and often preaching Sundays." Samuel Saunders (82).—Teetotaler sixty six years. Never had a headache. Nevei in bod through illness. Rev. Peter Mearns (80). —Fifty years in ministry. Never aslnglo Sabbat'i beeu un nblo to preach on account of ill-health, Within a month have climbed two of the Cheviot Mountains, each requiring a walk of two hours. D. G. Paine (80)— My doctor's expense (for myself personally) during sixty-five yenrs has been, total .£2 165., or an average of 10Yd. annually. William Hardy Root (91). —In his eighty sixth year, for six consecutive days waikud seven to eight miles a day. The Spirtual Side. The curse of drunkenness on the side ol Its physical devastations has been abun dantly depicted by the advocates of the tem perance reform. Tho amount of grain con sumed in the manufacture of lntoxioating liquors; the number of men whose lnbor is worse than wasted in producing and vend ing them; the number of lives destroyed by them; the number of paupers and insane persons whose woes nre traceable to this Bouroe; tho effects upon bttio health of in dividuals—all of these things are frequent ly set forth with sufficient fulness in im pressive rhetoric. Homo allowances must lie made for the overstatements of zealous advocates, but there are facts enough of an appalling nature In these representations to call for the most serious thought. But the worst side of drunkenness is not that which appears in these familiar figures. Tho most frightful offeots of the drink habit are not those which can be tabulated in statistics and reported in the census. It is not tho waste of corn nor the destruction of property, nor the increase of taxes, nor even the ruin of physical health nor the loss of life, which most impresses the mind of the thoughtful observer of Inebriety. It Is the effect of this viee upon the charac ters of men as it is exhibited to him, day by day, in bis ordinary Intercourse with them, tt is in the spiritual realm that the ravages of strong drink are most terrible. The Other Sldr. A gentleman snid to us, "I do not favor prohibition—lt would be an Injustice to the men in business; besides, it would throw thousands out of employment." We replied, "You do not look nt this issue froui the right side. You take a con tractor's view." Just before the war closed a Government contractor said in a car, "I do hope the wai will not close under two years. I will lose thousands of dollars; besides, many men will be turned out of employment from the Government works." A lady passenger, clad in weeds of mourn ing, rose to her foet, and, with tearful voice, said: "Sir I have a bravo boy and a husband sleeping tho sleep of death in a soldier's cemetery. I havo only one boy left, and he is in front ot the foe. Oh, God! I wish the cruel war would close now." He saw the point. Do you? It may be your boy or your girl that will fall the next victim to the drink "in dustry." (?) Would you consider tho "trade" worthy such a price?— National Temperance Ad vocate. Ruins Every Effort For Oooil. Intemperance ruins every effort for good. Pour money bv the thousands into tho slums, multiply institutions, improve tho rookeries, reduoe the ren-s, and, unless you somehow or other concurrently reduce the temptations to indulgence in strong drink, you will simply furnish so much more material for fostering the vice. Pro vide free education, feed the children, clothe them, distribute alms—all that can bo saved in such ways will go in drink. Rum's Bondsmen. 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