DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. An Appropriate Topic— The Great Need »112 Reform—Churches Must Change to Work For Good—Kellelon That Will Make a Revolution In the Family. TKXT: "These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also."— Acts xvil., 6. There is a wild, bellowing mob a-ound the house of Jason, in Thessaloniea. What has the man done so greatly to offend the people? He has been entertaining Paul and bis comrades. The mob surround the bouse and cry: "Bring out those turbulent preachers! They are interfering with our business! They are ruining our religion! They are actually turning the world upside down!" The charge was true, for there is noth ing that so interferes with sin, there is nothing so ruinous to every form of estab lished iniquity, there is nothing that has such tendenoy to turn tne world upside down as our glorious Christianity. The fact is, that the world now Is wrong side up, nnd it needs to be turned upside down in order that it may be right side up. The time was when men wrote books en titling them "Apologies for Christianity." I hope that day has passed. We want no more apologies for Christianity. Let the apologies be on the part of those who do not believe in our religion. We do not mean to make any compromise in the mat ter. We do not wish to hide the fact that Christianity is revolutionary, and that its tendency is to turn the world upside down. Our religion has often been misrepre sented as a principle of tears, and mild ness, and fastidiousness; afraid of crossing people's prejudices; afraid of making somebody mad; with silken gloves, lifting the people up from the church pew into glory, as though they were Bohemian glass, so very delicate that with one touch it may be demolished forever. Men speak of religion as though it were a refined im becility; as though it were a spiritual chloroform, that the people were to take until the sharp cutting of lifo were over. The Bible, so far from this, repre sents the religion of Christ as robust and brawny—ransacking nnd upsetting ten thousand things that now seem to be set tled on firm foundations. I hear some man in the house say, "I thought religion was peace." That is the final result. A man's arm is out of place. Two men come, and with great effort put it back to tho socket. It goes back with great pain. Then it gets well. Our world Is horribly distorted and out of joint. It must come under an omnipotent surgery, beneath which there will be pain and aiigulsh be iore there can come perfect health and quiet. I proclaim, therefore, in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ—revolution! The religion of the Bible will make a revolution in the family. Those things that are wrong in the family circle will be overthrown by it, while justice and har mony will take tho place. The husband will be the head of the houeshold only when he is lit to be. I know a man who spends all the money he mnkes in drink, as well as all tho money that his wife mnkes, and sometimes sells the children's clothes lor rum. Do you tell rae that he Is to be the head of that housohold? If the wife have more nobility, more courage, more consistency, more of all that is right, she shall have the supremacy. You say that tho Bible says that the wife is to bo subject to the husband. I know it. But that is a husband, not a masculine caricature. There is no human or divine law that makes a woman subordinate ton man un worthy of her. When Christianity comes into a domestic circle it will givo tho do minancy to that one who is the most worthy of it. Again: Christianity will produce a revo lution in commercial circles. Find me fifty merchants, nnd you find that they have fifty standards of what is right and wrong. You say to some one about a merchant, "Is lie honest?" "Oh! yes," the man says,"he is honest; but he grinds the faces of his clerks. He is honest; but he exaggerates the value of Ills goods. He is honest; but he loans money on bond and mortgage, with the understanding that the mortgage can He quiet for ten years, but as soon as he gets the mortgage, he records it and begins a foreclosure suit, and the Sheriff's writ comes down, and the day of sale ar rives, and away goes the homestead, and the creditor buys it in at half price." Hon est? When he loaned the money he knew that he would get the homestead at half price. Honest? But he goes to the insur ance office to get a policy on bis life, and tells the doctor that he is well, when he knows that for ten years he has had but one lung. Honest? Though he sells prop erty by the map, forgetting to tell the pur chaser that the ground is all under water; but it is generous in him to do that, for he throws the water into the bargain. The fraudulent man piles up his gains, bond above bond, United States security above United States security, emolument above emolument, until bis " property has become a great pyramid; nnd, as he stands looking at it, he thinks it can never be destroyed; but the Lord God comes, and with His little finger pushes It all over. You build a house and you put into it a rotten beam. A mechanic standing by says:"lt will never do to put that beam in; it will ruin your whole building." But you put it in. The house is completed. Soon it begins to rock. You call in the mechanic and ask: "What is the matter with this door? What Is the matter with this wall? Everything seems to be giving out." Says the mechanic: "You put a rotten beam into that structure, and the whole thing has got to come down." Here , is an estate that seems to be all right now. It has been building a great many years. But fifteen years ago there was a dishonest transaction In that commercial house. That one dishonest transaction will keep on working ruin In the whole structure un til down the estate will come in wreck and ruin about tho possessor's ears—one dis honest dollar in the estate demolishing all his possession. I have seen It again and again; and so have you. You have an old photograph of the signs on your street. Why have those signs near ly all changed within the iogt twenty years? Does the passing away of a generation ac count for It? Oh.no. Does the fact that there are hundreds'of honest men who go down every year account for It? Oli, no. This is tho secret: The Lord God iins been walking through the commercial streets of our great cities; and he has been adjusting things according to the principles of etor nal rectitude. The time will come when, through the revolutionary power of tho Gospel, a false hood, instead of being called exaggeration, equivocation, or evasion, will be branded a lie! And stealings, that now sometimes go under the head of percentages aud commissions, and bonuses, will be put into tho catalqgue of State-prison offenses. Society will be turned inside out nnd up side down, and ransacked ot God's truth, until business dishonesties shall come to an end. and all double-dealing; *nd God will overturn, add overturn, and overturn; nnd commercial men in all cities will throw up their hands, crying out, "These that have turned the world upside down are come hither." The religion of Jesus Christ will produce a revolution in our churches. The non committal. do-nothing policy of the Church of God will give way to a spirit of bravest conquest. Piety In this day seems to me to be salted down just so ns to keep. It seems as if the church were chiefly anxious to take carp of itself: and if we hear of want, and squalor, nnd heathenism outside "What n pity!'" and we put our our pockets, and we feel around '-cent piece, and with a great e put it upon the plate and are at the world is not converted in «. Suppose there were n great there were three hundred thou- ■and soldiers, but all ot those three ban* dred thousand soldiers, excepting temmen, were in their tents, or scouring their musk ets, or cooking rations. You would says "Of course, defeat must come in that case." Is is worse than that in the church. Millions of the professed soldiers of Jesus Christ are cooking rations, or asleep in their tents, while only one man here and there goes out to do battle for the Lord. I saw in some paper an account of a church in Boston in which, It Is said, there were a great many plain people. The next week the trustees of that church came out in the paper, and said it was not so at all; "they were elegant people and highly conditioned people that went there." Then I laughed outright; and when I laugh, I laugh very loudly. "Those people," I said, "are afraid of the sickly sentimen tality of the churches." Revolution! The pride of the church must come down. The exolustveness of the church must come downl The financial boastings of the church must come downl If monetary success were the chief idea in the church, then I say that the present mode of conducting finances is the best. It it Is to see how many dollars you can gain, then the present mode is the best. But it it is the saving of souls from sin and death, and bringing the mighty population of our cities to the knowledge of God, then I cry, Revolution! It is coming fast. I feel it in the air. I hear the rumbling of an earthquake that shall shake down, in one terrific crash, the arrogance of our modern Christ ianity. The talk is. whether Protestant churches or Roman Catholic churches are coming out ahead. I tell you, Protestants, this truth plainly: that until your churches are as free as are the Roman Catholic cathe drals they will beat you. In their cathe drals the millionaire and the beggar kneel side by side. And, until that time comes in our churches, we can not expect the favor of God or permanent spiritual pros perity. Where and when will that Revolution be gin? Here, and now. In your heart and mine. Sin must go down, our pride must go down; our worldliness must go down, that Christ may come up. Revolution! "Except a man be born again, he can not seethe Kingdom of God." Why not now let the revolution begin? Not next Sab bath, but, now! Not to-morrow, when you go out into commercial circles, but now! Ar ihias, the magistrate of Thebes, was sitt' g with many mighty men, drinking wir A messenger came in, bringing a leti. .• informing him of a conspiracy to end his life, and warning him to lice. Archlas took the letter, but, instead of opening it, put it into his pocket, and said to the mes senger who brought it: "Business to-mor row!" The next dny he read it. Before lie opened the letter, the Government was captured. When he renil the letter it was too late. To-day I put into the hands of every man and woman, who hears or reads these words,a message of life. It says: "To-day, if ye will hear His voice, harden not yoiir heart." Do not put away the message and say: "This business to-mor row." This night thy soul may bo required of thee! A Uullet Its Own Doctor. In sjiite of the terrible incroase in the destructiveness of modern warfare, the tendency of the times is to make a conflict as humane as practicable. For this reason the use of copper-covered bullets has been frowned upon, and a Philadelphia physi ciau has a plan that he claims will wonder fully mitigate the suffering of a man whose body has been perforated by the modern small-caliber bullet. It is well established that the velocity and penetrating force of these bullets are so great that unless they chance to strike a bone they will pass en tirely through a man's body without his knowing it. The physician's idea is to at tach a small wad of antiseptic cotton to the rear of tho bullet. This would be cov ered by the shell of the cartridge, and could not interfere with loading or firing. As the bullet passes through a person tho wad will antisepticize the wound and pre ' , Georgia man, nnd after he died she went to Hnvnua, and there met Gomez, whom she married shortly after ward. As the Martin family was nn old and wealthy one, Mrs. Gomez hrn hud all the advantages, social and educational, of a refined and cultured Amerionn woman, CUBA'S FUTURE. It Will he Under the Btarii and Stripes Until Peace Is Restored. President McKinley has authorized as surances to be given that everybody's rights will be respected, and that, when the people of Cuba establish their govern ment, it will be under the supervision of the military authorities of tho United States, nnd all qualified electors, whether combatants or non-combatants, will be given an oppurtunlty to participate in the formation of the constitution. The Island of Cuba will be under the Stars and Stripes until pence is restored and some guarantee can be given that no outrages will occur. A Great Year For Comets. The year IMS is the time appointed for the return of a number of periodic comets. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Seven Stage, of Rum—Tlie Unan.wer able Reason Why the Allowance oi Grog to the Bluq|acketa In Our Navy Wu Discontinued. All the world's a tavern, And all the men and women merely drink ers; They have their cocktails and tbelr whisky straight. And one man la his time drinks many quarts. His c.ourse being sevea stages. At first a clear bead, . Sober and steadfast In all good resolves; And then the morning bitters, with cherry red And slice of mellow pine, creeping like snail Unwillingly to work. And then the tippler, Sneaking back agntn, with a woful story About pains internally. Then a toper, Full of strange oaths and loaded to the guard. Jealous In plotting, sodden, and quick to imbibe, Seeking the bubbling repetition Even at the bottle's mouth. And then the drunkard, In grumbling belly with poor liquor lined, With eyes bleary and board for days uncut, Full of rash words and prone to quarrel ing; And so he plays his part. The sixth stage shifts Into the grim and ragged roustabout, With carbuncles on nose and patch on head, His shrunken face unshaved, while bar to bar He beats his way; and hie onoe manly voice, Unhinged by sloth and thirst colossal, pleads And whimpers for a drink. Last scene of all, That ends this sad and shameful history, Is beastly sottishnt'ss and foul oblivion— Sans rum, sans beer, sans pipe, sans every thing. —John W. Fostgate. Temperance in the Navy, Now that the course of events has brought into prominence the ships of oui navy and the sailors who man them, it will b« interesting to know that the prac tice of serving out a ration of liquor daily to United States man-of-war's men was discontinued many years ago. It was found to be a bad scheme, for while many of the men used the rum in moderation, the ration of liquor only served to ntlmu late an appetite for more, among a great number of the bluejackets. When this fact was satisfactorily proven, the serving out of "grog" to United States man-of-wnr's men was discontinued. Sailors in all other of the world's great navies still receive their daily "grog." though temperance reforms iu Great ]>ritain have been for many years working to put a stop to its distribution on the ships of her Brltanlc Majesty. It is claimed thut much injury is done to the apprentices aboard the ships jy creating the appetite for liquor among 'them, and this claim is not with out foundation, for the lads get the same amount of rum from the boatswain as the oldest sailor. Another reason for discon tinuing this practice is now being consid ered by the British admiralty ofTlce. It seems that British bluejackets have, many of them, got into the habit of accumu lating their grog, Instead of drinking it as it is served out. When they have aggre gated a large quantity, they enter on a debauch for one or two (lavs, and gener ally wind up in the "brig" iu double irons for sobering-up purposes. It is consid ered probable that grog, as a part of the British naval rations, will soon be cut out for this reason. It is gratifying to know that the temptation has been removed from the men of our navy, and that the navy of another nation may soon be free of it also. The Drunkard. Under the above caption a recent number of the New York Independent has an article from which we make the following ex tracts: "That the drunkard should destroy his own body and consume it in the Ilres of alcohol is bad enough, but the crudest side of the picture is t he suffering ho causes other Innocent people. Heartbroken fath ers, and weeping mothers, and wives whose lives are one protracted tragedy, couli' alone adequately describe the "neediest misery. "But the saddest phase of the drunkard's career is found in tlie legacy he bequeaths to posterity—ldiocy, hysteria, epilepsy and Insanity. That a 'drunken father has a drunken son' Is as old as Plutarch; but the more comprehensive denunciation of the Scriptures, 'The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations' is but a common-place observation of all our Insane and Inebriate asylum superintendents. Doctor 8. G. How reported to the Massachusetts legis lature that ot 300 Idiots whose parentage had been traced 147 were found to be tho children of drunkards. Doctor Wilson gives the statistics of one family where all the seven children of intemperate parents , were either Insane, epileptic or criminals, one woman having been arrested forty-two times for criminal actions. "And one of the saddest features In the matter is that tho deterioration ot the ner vous tissue not onlv makes the child an easy prey to the desire for alcohol, but possibly skips one generation to break out In the third." Testimony of a Governor. In a communication recently sent by Governor Wolcott to the police commis sioners of Boston regarding the number ot drinklng-places, the following significant passage occurs: "I have for years felt that the number «112 saloons in the immedi ate proximity of some of the principal railroad stations is excessive, and tends to make the approaches thereto disagreeable to respectablo citizens, especially to women and children, and to place an extraor dinary degree of temptation in the way of the weak. I should personally regret to seethe immediate neighborhood of the new station reduced to the conditions whloh have surrounded some ot the older one; which are now displaced." Shafts Shot at tho Demon Drink. Flenty of beer in the summer means little fire In the winter. Chicago, It is said, spends annually tor beer $23,000,000. "What maintains one vice would bring up two children."—Benjamin Franklin. Some babies are brought up on the bot tle, and a good many men are brought down by It. Tbere Is nothing elevating or refining nbout drink or drinking places; their whole tendency is downward. "In tho bottle discontent seeks for com fort, cowardice for courage, and bashful ness for confidence."—Johnson. The man who gets drunk without suffer ing injury is not over-burdened with brains. Drink neither wine nor strong drink, so long as by It you make weak or cause to stumble, and tempt into ruin or misery the soul of a brother. "A drunken man is like a drowned man, n fool and a madman; one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him, and a third drowns him."—Shake speare. There are quite a number of people who will now begin to drink intoxi cants for spring medicine. Those are the same people who in the other three seasons of the year do not fall to find excuses for tbelr inclination to drink. Haymaking- In India. At Allahabad eight oattings of grass are taken dnring the season, which begins early ,in the monsoon, and lasts, say, from the middle of Jnne to the middle of March. From manured lend the total weight varies from fif teen to forty tons per acre, according to the quality of the soil and the num ber of years which have elapsed since the manure was applied. The jhabau, a native hook which resembles a scythe blade, is preferred to the grass mower drawn by bullocks, as the clean cut of former is less injurious to the grass stubble than the clipping action of the latter, which reduces the number of cuttings from eight to two. On poor, unmanured land only one crop can be cut for hay In October. The haymaking season begins in the middle of September. It is im possible to make good bay before this time, for, even in periods when there is no rain, the ground is so wet that moisture is drawn up by the hay, which, quite independently of this circumstance, does not dry properly in the humid atmosphere. There are forty-eight good species of natural grasses, some of which are as valuable as any British grass, and frequent cutting develops a fine quality of prb duce.—Blackwell's Magazine, The President's War M»p. Not many of the President's visitors are admitted to the war room. Those who are thus favored see something novel in the way of war planning. A very large map has been prepared and mounted with a wooden back. It shows the Atlantic Ocean with the Roasts of both sides and the islands between. The map covers that part of the ocean from the banks of New foundland to the mouth of the Ama zon. When the measurements are given some idea can he formed of the scale. 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