DR. T AIM AGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE e». NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Making the Best of Things"— Advice About Looking on the Bright Bide—Blessings In Misfortune's Guise- Bereavements Fortify Our Spirit. TBXT: "And now men see not the bright light which is In the clouds."—Job xxxvii;, 31. Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm signals out. Ship reefing matntopsall! Awnings taken In. Prophecies of foul weather everywhere. The clouds congre gate around the sun, proposing to abolish him. But after awhile ho assails the flanks of the clouds with flying artillery of light, and here and there is u sign of clearing weather. Many do not observe it. Many do not realize it."And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds." In other words, there are a hundred men look ing for storm, where there Is one man look ing for sunshine. My object is to get you and myself into the delightful habit of making the best of everything. You mav have wondered at the statistics that in India, in tho year 1975, there were over nineteen thousand people slain by wild beasts, and that in the year 1876 there were in India over twenty thousand peo ple destroyed by wild animals. But there is a monster in our own land which Is year by year destroying more than that. It is the old bear of melancholy, and with Gos pel weapons I propose to chase it back to its midnight caverns. I mean to do two sums—a sum in subtraction and a sum in addition—a subtraction from your days of depression and an addition to your days of joy. If God will help mo I will compel you to see the bright light that thoro Is in the clouds, nnd compel you to make tho best of everything. In tho first place, you ought to make the very best of all your financial misfortunes. During the panic years ngo, or tho long years of fluancial'depresston, you all lost money. Somo of you lost it in most unac countable ways. For the question, "How many thousands of dollars shull I put aside this year?" vou substituted the question, "How shall 1 pay my butcher, and baker, anil clothier, nnd landlord?" You had the sensation of rowing hard with two oars, and yet all tho time going down stream. You did not say much about it because it was not politic to speak much of finan cial embarrassment; but yoUr wife knew. Less variety of wardrobe, more economy at the table, self-denial in art and tap estry. Compression; retrenchment. Who did not feel the necessity of It? My friend, did you make the best of this? Are you aware of how narrow an escape you made? Suppose you had reached the fortune to ward which you were rapidly going? What then? You would have been as proud as Lucifer. How few men have succeeded largoly in a financial sense and yet maintained their simplicity and religious consecration! Not one man out of a hundred. There are glori ous exceptions, but the general rule is that in proportion as a man gets weil off for this world "he gets poorly off for the next. He loses his sense of dependence on God. Ho gets a distaste for prayer meetiugs. With plenty of bank stocks and plenty of Gov ernment securities, what does that man know of tho prayer, "Give me this day my daily bread?" How few men largely suc cessful in this world are bringing souls to Christ, or showing self-denial for others,or are eminent for piety? Vou can count them all upon your eight fingers and two thumbs. One of the old covetous souls, when he was sick, and sick unto death, used to have a basic brought in—a basin filled with gold, and his only amusement and the only relief he got for his inflamed hands was running them down through the gold and turning it up in the basin. Oh, what infatuation and what destroying power money has for many a man! Now, vou were sailing at thirty knots tho hour toward these vortices of worldllness—what a mercy it was, that honest defalcation! | The same divine hand that crushed your store-house, your bank, your office, your insurance company, lifted you out of de struction. The day you "honestly sus pended in business made your fortune for eternity. "Oh," you say, "I could get along very well myself, but I am so disappointed that I cannot leave a competence for my chil dren." My brother, tho same financial mis fortune that is going to save your soul will save your children. With the anticipation of large fortune, how much industry would your children have?—without which habit of industry there is no safety. The young man would say, "Well, there's no nce'l of my working; my father will sooa step out, nnd then I'll have just what I want." You cannot hide from him how much you ure worth. You think you are hldiug it; he knows all about it. He cau tell you ulmost to a dollar. Perhaps he has been to tho county ofllce and soarehed the records of deeds and mortgages, nnd he has added it all up, and he has made an estimate of how long you will probably stay in this world, and is not as much worried about your rheumatism and shortness of breath as you are. The only fortune worth anything that you caD give your child Is the fortune you putin his head and heart, Of all the young men life with seventy thousand dollars'capital, howmany turned out well? Ido not know half a dozen. The best Inheritance a young man can have is tho feeling that ho has to fight his tii battle, and that life Is a struggle into vhieh he must throw body, mind and soul, ir be disgracefully worsted. Where are die burial places of the men who started life with a fortune? Somo of them in tho potter's field; somo in tho suicide's grave. But few of these men reached thirtv-llvo years of ngo. They drank, they smoked, they gambled. In" them the beast de stroyed the man. Somo of them lived long enough to get their fortunes, and went through them. The vast majority of them did not live to got their inheritance. From the gin-shop or house of infamy thoy were brought homo to their father's house, and in delirium began to pick off loathsome reptiles from the embroidered pillow, to fight back imaginary devils. And then they were laid out in highly upholstered >arlor, the casket covered with flowers by 'ulgent parents—flowers suggestive of a "rrection with no hope, you sat this morning at your break able, and looked Into the faces of your 'en, perhaps you said within yourself, ■ things! How I wish I could start in life with a competence! How I been disappointed in ail my expectn of what I would do for them!" Upon u-ene of pathos I break with a piean igratulatlon, that by your financial your own prospects for heaven and ospect for heaven of your'ehildren are ily improved. You may have lost a it you have won a palaae. Let me v, in passing, do not put much stress rensures of this world. You cannot m along with you. At any rate, lot take thorn more than two or 'es; you will have to leave them at ery. Attlla had three coffins. So he of this life that he decreed that >uld be buried in a coffln'of gold, len that should bo inclosed in a ver, and that should be inclosed 112 iron, and then a large amount ihould be thrown in over his io ho was burled, and the men im were slain, so that no ttie •here be|was burled, and no one 'ntcrfero with his treasures. i world, who want to take th you, better have three rk, you ought to make the bereavements. The whole ood over these separations • time to the handling of departed, and to make tho cemetery, and to say, iok up again; my hope Is 3 gone; my religion Is gone; my faith In God la eonel Oh, the wear and tear pud exhaustion of this lone liness!" The most frequent bereavement is the loss of children. If your departed child had lived as long us yon have lived, do yon not suppose that he woald have had about the same amount of trouble and- trial that you have had? If you could make a choice for your child between forty of an noyance, loss, vexation, exasperation, and bereavements, and forty years In heaven, woald you take the responsibility of ohoos lng the former? Would you snatch away the cup of eternal bliss and put into that child's hands the cup of many be reavements? Instead !ot the com plete safety Into which that child has been lifted, would you like to hold it down to the risks of this moral state? Would you like to keep it out on a sen in whloh there have been more shipwreoks than safe voy ages? Is it not a comfort to you to know that that child, instead of being besolled and flung into the mire of sin, is swung clear into the skies? Are not those chil dren to be congratulated that the point of celestial bliss which you expect to reach by a pilgrimage of flity or sixty or seventy years they reaohcd at a flash? If the last 10,000 children who had entered heaven had gone through the average of human life on earth, are you sure all those 10,000 children would have Anally reached the blissful terminus? Bosldes that, my friends, you are to look at this matter as a self-de nial on your part for their beneflt. If your children want togo off in a May-day party; if your children want togo on a ilowery ana musical excursion, you consent. You might prefer to have them with you, but their jubilant absence satisfies you. Well, your departod children have only gone out in a May-day party, amid flowery and musical entertainment, amid joys and hilarities forever. That ought to quell some of your grief, the thought of their glee. So it ought to be that you could make the best of all bereavements. The fact that you have so many friends in heaven will make your own departure very cheerful. When you are going on a voyage, every thing depends upon where your friends are —if they are on the wharf that you leave, or on the wharf townrd which you are go ing to sail. In other words, tho more friends you have In heaven the easier it will bo to get away from this world. Tho more friends here, the more bitter good byes; the more friends there the more glorious weloomes. Some of you have so many brothers, sisters, children, friends in heaven, that I do not know hardly how you aro going to crowd through. When the vessel came from foreign lands, and brought a Prince to New York harbor, the ships were covered with bunting, and you reme-mber how the men-of-war thundered broadsides; but there was no joy there compared with the joy which shall be demonstrated when you sail up the broad bay of heavenly salutation. The more friends you have there, the easier your own transit. What is death to a mother whose children are in heaven? Why, there Is no more grief in it than there is in her going into a nursery amid the romp and laughter of her household. Though all around may be dark, see you not tho bright light in the clouds—that light the irritated faces of your glorified kindred?; So also, my friends, I would have you make the best of your sicknesses. When you see one move off with elastic step and in full physical vigor, sometimes you be come impatient with your lame foot. When a man describes an object a mile off, and you cannot soe it at all, you become im patient of your dim eye. When you hear of a well man making a great achievement you become impatient with your depressed nervous system or your dilapidated health. I wilt tell you how you can make the worst of it. Brood over it; brood over all these illnesses, and your nerves will become more twltchy, and your dyspepsia more aggra vated, nnd your weakness more appalling. But that Is the devil's work.to tell you how to make the worst of it; it is my work to show you a bright light In tho clouds. Which of the Bible men most attract your attention? You say, Moses, Job, David, Jeremiah, PauL Why, what a strange thing it Is that you have chosen those who were physically disordered! Moses—l know he was nervous from the blow he gave the Egyptian. Job—his blood was vitiated and diseased, and his skin distressfully erup tive. David—he had a running sore, which he speaks of when he says: "My sore ran in the night and ceased not." Jeremiah had enlargement of the spleen. Who can doubt it who road Lamentations? Paul lie had lifetiuio sickness which tlio com mentators have been guessing about for years, not knowing exactly what tho apostle meant by "a thorn in the flesh." I do not know either; but it was something sharp, something that stuck him. I gather from all this that physical disorder may be the means of grace to the soul. You say you have so many temptations from bodily ailments, nnd if you were only well you think you could be a good Christian. While your temptations may be different, they are no more those of the man who has an appetite three times a day, and sleeps eight hours every night. From what tl have heard I judge that invalids have a more rapturous view of the next world than well people, and will have a higher renown in heaven. The best view of tho delectable mountains is through the lattice of the sick room. There are trains running every hour between pillow and throne, between hospital and mansion, between bandages and robes, between crutch and palm branch. Oh, I wish some of you people who aro compelled to crv, "My head, my head! My foot, my foot! Mv back, my back!" would try some of the Lord's medicine! You are going to be well anyhow beforo long. Heaven is an old city, but has never yet reported one case of sickness or one'blll of mortality. No ophthalmia for the eye. No pneumonia for the lungs. No pleurisy for the side. No neuralgia for the nerves. No rheuma tism for the muscles. The inhabitants shall never say, "I am sick." "There shall bo no more pain." Again, you ought to make the best of life's flnalitv. Now, you think I have a very tough subject. You do not see how I am to strike a spark of light out of tho flint of tho tombstone. There are manv people who have an idea that death Is the submergence of everything pleasant by everything doleful. If my subject could close in the upsotting of all such precon ceived notions, it would close well. Who can judge best of the features of a man— those who are close by him, or those who are afar off? "Oh," you say, "those can judge best of the features of a man who are close by him!" Now, my friends, who shall judge of the features of death—whether they are lovely or whether they are repulsive? You? You aro too far off. If I want to get a judg ment as to whit really the features of death are, I will not ask you; I will ask those who have been within a month of death, or a week of death, or an hour of denth, or a minute of death. They stand so near the features, they can tell. They give unanimous testimony, if they are Christian people, that death, instead of being demoniac, is cherubic. Of all the thousands of Christians who have been carried through the gates of the cemetery, gather up their dying experiences, and you will find tliey nearly all bordered on a jubilate. How often you have seen a dy ing man join in the psalm being sung around his bedside, the middle of the verse opening to let his ransomed spirit free!— long after the lips could not speak, he looking and pointing upward. Some of you talk as though God had ex hausted Himself in building this world, and that all the rich curtains He ever made He hung around this planet, and all the flowers He ever grew He has woven Into the carpet of our daisied meadows. No. This world is not the best thing Qod can do; this world is not the best thing that Qod has done. One week of our year Is called blossom week—called so all through the land be cause there are more blossoms In that week than in any other week of the year. Blossom week! And that Is what the future world is to which the Christian is invited —blossom week forever. It Is as far ahead of this world as Paradise ts abend of Dry Tortugas, and yet here we stand trembling and fearing togo oat, and we want to stay on the dry sand, and amid the stormy petrels, when we are Invited to arbors of jessamine, and birds of paradise. One season I bad two springtimes. I went to New Orleans in April, and I marked the differences between going toward New Orleans and then coming back. As I went on down toward New Orleans, the verdure, the foliage, beoame thicker and more beautiful. When I came back, the further I came toward home the less the foliage, and less it beoame until there was hardly any. Now, it all depends upon the direc tion In which you travel. If a spirit from heaven should come toward our world, he Is traveling from June toward December, from radianae toward darkness, from hang ing gardens toward icebergs. And one would not be very much surprised if a spirit of God sent forth from heaven to ward our world should be slow to come. But how strange It Is that we dread going out toward that world when going Is from December toward June—from the snow of earthly storm to the snow of Edealo blos som—from the arctics of trouble toward the tropics of eternal Joy. - ' Oh, what an ado about dylngl We get so attached to the malarial marsh In which wo live that wo ure afraid togo up and live on the hilltop. Wo are alarmod bo cause vacation Is coming. Best programme of celestial minstrels and hallelujah, no in ducement. Let us stay here and keep ig norant and sinful and weak. Do not in troduce us to Elijah, and John Milton and Bourdalone. Keep our feet on the sharp cobblestones of earth instead of planting them on the bank of amaranth In heaven. Give us this small Island of a leprous world instead of the immensities of splendor and delight. Keep our bunds full of nettles, and our shoulder under the burden, and our neck in the yoke, and hopples on our ankles, and handcuffs on our wrists. "Dear Lord," we seen to say, "keep us down here where we have to suffer, instead of letting us ui> whera we-might livo unut miss-fires in his belt; but this is such a common fraud that no one takes notice of it, and a bad cartridge seems to serve as readily as a good one.— New York Times. Bread Riots. Ihe world has seen many bread riota. In 1756, when harvests all over the world were short, wheat went up, and iu England there were many in surrections on account of the scarcity of bread. In 17G7, when the price of wheat rose in Mark Lane to the equiv alent of SI.BO a bushel, there were serious disturbances all over England, and great violence was done by the starving populace. Iu 1775, when the price of wheat again went to an almost prohibitive price to the poor, it was necessary, iu France, for the troops to guard the markets, and a general insurrection was only kept down by the prompt masting of troops in the I disaffected and suffering places. The j world well knows what a formidable ; part was played on the eve of the i French revolution by the rise in food stuffs, and it will be equally recalled how frequent, since that revolution, were the expressions of popular hun ger aud despair up to the time of the i enormous expansion of the American ; grain production and the fall in agri -1 cultural prices. It is most pitiful to ! think of people, driven by want to the i cry for bread, a cry which, if made too j insistently, is answered with bullets. ! —lndianapolis News. | Attendance at the World's Kxpo Alt lons. 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