DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Bobj«ct: "Lire's Minor Chord"—Trials and Tribulations Are Necessary For the Proper Development of Character- Man's Compensation For Sliflrrlug;. TEXT: "I will open my dnrk saying upon the harp."—Psalm xllx., 4. The world Is full ot the inexplicable, the Impassable, the unfathomable, the insur mountable. We cannot go three steps in any direction without coming up against a hard wall of mystery, riddles, paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths; problems that we cannot solve, hieroglyphics tliat we cannot decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason David in my text proposed to take up some of these somber and dark tilings and try to set them to sweet music. "I will opeu my dark sayings on u harp." So I look off upon society and find people in unhappy conjunction of circumstances, mid they do not know what it means, and they have a right to ask, Why is this? Why Is that? and I think I will bo doing a good work by trying to explain some of these Btrango'things and make yon more content with your lot, and I shall only be answer ing questions that have often been asked me, or that wo have all asked ourselves, while I try to set these mysteries to music and open mv dark savings on a harp. Interrogation the Hrst: Why does God take out of this world those who are use ful and whom we cannot spare and leave alive and in good health so many who are only a nuisance to the world? I thought I ■would begin with the very toughest of all the 9eemiug inscrutables. Many of the most useful men aud Women die at thirty or forty years of age, while you often And useless people nlive at sixty and seventy and eighty. John Careless wrote to Brad ford, who was soon to be put to death, paying: "Why doth God suffer me and such other caterpilllars to live, tlint can do nothing but consume the alms of the church, and take away so many worthy workmen in the Lord's vine yard?" Similar questions are often asked. Here are two mon. The one is a noble character and a Christian man. He chooses for a lifetime companion one who has been tenderly reared, aud she is worthy of him and he Is worthy of her. As merchant or farmer or professional man or mechanic or artist he toils to educate and rear his children. Ho Is succeeding, but ho has not yet established for his family u full competency. He seems indispensable to that household; but one day, before he has paid off the mortgage on his house, he is coming home through a strong north east wind and a chill strikes through lilm, and four days of pneumouia end his earthly career, and tho wife and children go Into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a man who though strong and well, lets his wife support him. He is around at the grocery store or some general loallng place in the evenings while his wife sews. His boys are imitating his example, and lounge and swagger aud swear. All the use that man is In tbat house is to rave because the coffee is cold when ho comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutting things about his wife's looks, when he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that family would be that man's funeral, but he declines to die. He lives on aud on and on. So wo have all noticed that many of the useful are early cut off, while the parasites have great vital tenacity. I take up this dark saying on my harp and give three or four thrums on the string in the way of surmising aud hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man was taken out of the world because he and his family were Bo constructed that they could not have ondured some great prosperity that might have been just ahead, and they altogether might have gone down in tho vortex of worldliness which every year swallows up 10,000 households. Aud so he went while he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severities of life kept close to Christ and fitted for usefulness here and high seats in heaven, and when they meet at last before the throne they will ao knowledge that, though the furnace was hot, it purified them and pre pared them for an eternal career ot glory and reward for which no other kind of lil'e could have fitted thsm. On the other hand, the useless man lived onto fifty or sixty or seventy years because all the ease he ever can have he must have In this world, and you ought not, therefore, begrudge hlui his earthly longevity. In all the ages there has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There Is no place for liiai there to hang around; not even in the temples, for they are full of vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. If the good and useful go eaily, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. And If the useless and the bad stay, rejoice that they may be out in the world's fresti nlr a good many yeurs before their final incar ceration. Interrogation the second: Why do good people have so much trouble, sickness, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their Here# beaks into ono sot of jangled nerves? I think now of a good friend I once had. He was a consecrated Christian inun, an elder ic tho church, and as polished a Christian gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out and ho hobbled around 011 a cane, an old man at forty. After awhile paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost what property he had. Then his beautiful daughter died; then G son became hopelessly demented. Another son, splendid of mind and com manding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father's household, but under tho swoop of yellow fever at Fernandina, Flu., ho suddenly expired. So you know good men and women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush fifty people. No worldly philosophy could take such u trouble and set it to music, or play it on violin or flute, but I dare to open that dark saying on a gospel harp. You wonder that very consecrated people liavo trouble? Did you ever know any very consecrated man or woman who had not had great Never! It was through their troubles sanctified that they were made very good. If you find any where in this city a man who has now, and always has had, perfect health, and never lost a child, and has always been popular and never had business struggle or mlsfor tuno, who is distinguished for goodness, pull your wire for a telegraph messenger boy and send me word, and I will drop everything and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that and never will be. Who are those arro gant, self conceited creatures who move übout without sympathy for others and who think more of a St. Bernard dog or an Alderney cow or a Southdown sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They never had any trouble, or tha trouble was nover sanctified. Who are thofie men who listen with moist eye as you tell them of suffering and who have a pathos in their voice and a kindness in their manner anil an excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? Thev are the men who have graduated at the Itoyal Academy of Trou ble, and they liavo the diploma written in wrinkles on their own countenances. My, myl What heartaches they had! What tears thoy have wept! What Injustice they have suffered! The mightiest Influ ence for purification and salvation is trouble. Thore are only three things that can break off a chain—a hammer, a file or a Are —and trouble is all three of them. The greatest writers, orators and reformers get much of their force from trouble. What Rave to Washington Irving that exquisite tenderness aud pathos which will make his whilethe English language continues to be written and spoken:? An -- T—T— "" early heartbreak, that ha never one* mentioned, %nd wlieu thirty years after the death of Matilda Hofftaan, who was to have been his bride, her father picked up a piece of embroidery and said, "That la a piece of poor Matilda's workmanship." Washington Irving sank from hilarity Into silence and walked away. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen's mightiest re enforcement. Calvin's ''lnstitutes of Be llgion," than whloh a more wonderful book was never written by human hand, was begun by the author at twenty-five years of age, because of the persecution by Francis, king of France. Faraday toiled for all time on a salary of £BO a year and candles. As every brlok of the wall of Babylon was stamped with the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the temple of Christian achieve ment is stamped with the letter T, stand ing for trouble. When In England a man is honored with knighthood, lie is struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to knighthood In the kingdom of God were first struck, not with the flat of the sword, but with the keen edge of the scimeter. To build his maguiileenco of character Paul oould not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What Is true of individuals is true of nations. The horrors of the American Revolution gave this countrv this side of the Mississ ippi Biver to independence and France gave the most of this country west of the Miss issippi to the United States. France owned it, but Napoleon, fearing that England would take It, practically made a present to the United States—for he received ouly 515,000,000 for Louisiana, Missouri, Arkausas, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon tana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out of the lire of the American Revolution came this countrv east of the Mississippi, out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi Biver. The British em pire rose to its present overtowering k'randeur through gunpowderplot and Guy Fawkes' conspiracy and Northampton in surrection and Walter Baleigh's beheading nnd Bacon's bribery and Cromwell's disso lution of parliament and the battles of Edge Hill and the vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth itself, before it could become in appropriate and beautiful residence for the human fumily, had, according to geol ogy, to be washed by universal deluge and scorched and made incandescent by uni versal llres, and pounded by sledge hammer of icebergs nnd wrenched by earthquakes that split continents, and shaken by vol canoes that tossed mountains and passed through the catastrophes of thousands of years before paradise became possible and the groves could shake out their green ban ners and the first garden pour its carnage of color between theGihon and the Hidde kel. Trouble—a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for Individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point, Why do the good suffer? I open the dark saying on a harp, and, though I cun neither play an organ or cornet or hautboy or bugle or clarinet, I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: "All things work together for good to those who love God." Interrogation third: Why did the good God let sin or trouble come into the world when He might have kept them out? My reply is, He nad a good reason. He had reasons that He has never given us. He had reo6ous which He could no more make us understand in our llnite state than the father, starting out on some great and elaborate enterprise, could make the two year-old child In Its armed chair compre hend it. One wai to demonstrate what gran deur of character may be achieved cn earth by conquering evil. Had there been no DVil to conquer and no trouble to console, then this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua ar au Ezekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington or a John Milton or a John Howard, and a million victories which have been gained by the consecrated spirits of kll ages would never have been gained. Hud there been no battle, there would have been no victory. Nine-tenths of the an thems of heaven would never have been sung. Heaven could never have been a thousandth part of the heaven that it is. r will not say that I am glad that sin and sorrow (lid enter, but I do say that I am Klad that after God has given all His reasons to an assembled universe He will be more honored than if sin and sorrow had never entered and that the unfalleu celestials will be outdone nad will put ilown their trumpets to listen and it will be in heaven when those who have con quered sin nnd sorrow shall enter as It would be in a small slngingschool on earth If Thalberg and Gottschalk and Wagner and Beethoven and Bhelnberger nnd Schumann should all at once enter. The Immortals that have been chanting 10,000 years before the throne will say, as they close their librettos, "Oh, If wo could only sing like thatl" But God will say to those who have never fallen and consequently have not been redeemeij, "\du must be silent now; you have not the qualification for th: an them." So they sit With closed Hps . id folded hands, and sinners saved bv grace take up the harmony, for the Bible says "no man could learn that song but the hun dred and forty aud four thousand which were redeemed from the earth." A great prima donna, who can now do anything with her voice, told me that when she first started In musio her teacher in Berlin told her she ™»ld be a good singer, but a certain note she could never reuoh. "And then," she said, " I went to work and studied and practiced for years until I did reach It." But the song oi the singer re deemed, the Bible says, the exalted har monists who have never sinned could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one bar of the musio on this gospel hurp, "Unto Him that hath loved us and washed us from our sins In His own blood and bath mndo us kings aud priests unto God and the Lamb, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, amen." But before leaving this interrogatory, why God let sin come into the world, let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffering and outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they have been a long while past we can see that It was better for them to have been fought, namely, Sal amis, Inkermnn, Toulouse, JArbela, Agln oourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington. Sedan. But here I must slow up lest In trying to solve mysteries I add to the mystery that w#; have already wondered at—namely, why preachers should keep on after all the hearers are tired. So I gather up into one great armful all the whys and hows and wherefores of your life and mine, which we have not had time or the ability to an swer, and write on them the words. "Ad journed to eternity." I rejoice that we do not understand all things now. for If we did what would we learn in heaven? If we knew It all down here In the freshman and sophomore class, what would be the use of our going up to stand amidtbe juniors and the seniors? If we coul.l nut down one leg of the compass and with tbe other sweep a circle clear around all the insorutables, If we could- lift our little steelyards and weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if we could with our seven-dav clock measure eternity, what would be left for heavenly revelation? So I move that we cheer fully adjourn what Is now beyond our comprehension, and as, according to Bol lin, the historian, Alexander the Great, having obtained the gold casket in which Darius had kept his rare perfume, used that aromntlo casket thereafter to kr\ep his favorite copy of Homer in nnd called the book, therefore, the "edition of the casket," and at night put the casket and his sword under his pillow, so I put this day intc the perfumed casket of your richest affeotlons und hopes, this promise worth more than Homer ever wrote or sword ever con quered, "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter," and thatl call the "edition oelestial." A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DKINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Cans* of Temperance Aided by k Widespread and Enlightened Public Sentiment Which Frown* Upon Intoxi cation—The Light Wine and Beer Kvil. A correspondent whose letter we have printed, takes exception to the statement made by us, that the growth of temperance in this country in the matter ot the use of intoxicating liquor is chiefly due to a wide spread and enlightened public sentiment which frowns upon Intoxication. He as serts that the chief cause for the growth Is the introduction and general use of light wines and malt liquors, particularly the latter. There would be more force in this argument of our correspondent if it was not offset by a number of highly sugges tive facts. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits in this country is less than half what it was in XB7O, and as this oon sumntion includes an enormous increase of alcohol used in the arts, manufactures and medicines, the amount of distilled spirits used as a beverage must be on a per capita basis much smaller now than it was a generation ago. The use of light wines, or wines of all kinds in 1870 was more per capita than It is at the present time; iu fact, on the per capita basis, there was more than twice as much wine drunk In this country in 1880 as there was iu 1896. When wo come to malt liquors the signifi cant fact is presented that the use of these is on the decline. In the sixties, seventies and eighties there was a great increase in the per capita amount of malt liquor used, but since the early years of this decade the tendency has been the other way, and we should not be surprised if the consump tion of malt liquor during the present cur rent year was on the average quite two gallons per capita less than it was in 1893. As, therefore, the consumption of spirits, wines and malt liquors is decreasing, it can hardly be said that the gradual eflface ment of drunkenness is due to the substi tution of one form of beverage for another. Then, too, it should not be forgotten that the use of malt liquors and light wines has not been found in Europe to be B means of checking intemperance. The French for generations have used light wines in large quantities, and within the last two or three decades tiavo been considerable consumers of malt liquors; but. in spite of this, since 1870 they have developed a taste for dis tilled spirits which threatens, if continued, to convert those who were formerly con sidered, In the absence ot intoxication, a temperate people, into a nation of drunk ards. The same statement holds truo ot Switzerland, where the peop'e have for a long time past used both beer and light wines, but are now finding the Inducement to resort to distilled spirits almost irresist ible. Even in Germany, the home of beer and also of light wines, the official reports aunounce that there is a Material growth in the average consumption of distilled liquors, a statement which we believe also holds true of the kingdom of Belgium. In England the average per capita consump tion of distilled spirits remains practically stationary. In this country—and ours is the only one—the consumption, never very large, has been steadily decreasing. This change must be due to distinctly local causes, since the use of beer and light wines in all other parts of the world does not appear to produce the consequeuces which we llud iu our own country. In look ing about for a unique cause—that is, a cause which obviously has application here and does not have application elsewhere— the only discoverable one is the growth here in a marked decree of public opinion inimical to intemporance, this being the only great civilized country of the world where drunkenness brings to the drunk ard, in all but the very lowest classes, dis tinct social punishment, and in most in stances material business and industrial loss.—Boston Herald. Saloons Too Numerous. Why are saloons so numerous In the poorer districts of cities? It is not because the working people drink morethauthe so called "upper class," but because they do not wield influence enough to keep the drink establishments from the.r very doors. Whether a city goes for license or no-11- ceuso the people who live on the aristo cratic uvenucs aud boulevards arn always sure that their surroundings will be free from the degrading contact of the saloon. It is manifestly unfair to crowd the streets inhabited by the working people with sa loons, while the rich are allowed to live far from the brawls and the vice of saloon infested neighborhoods. If the men in whose hands are the grant ing of licenses were compelled, with their families, to live iu close proximity to some of the "dives" that disgrace our cities, they would receive a much needed lesson, that, if they were just men, would make thorn more careful as to whom they granted permission to sell liquor. The nature of the neighborhood and the claims of the children of the poor to decent surround ings would also, we have no doubt, come in for a little of that consideration a plenti ful lack of which Is shown at present by such men.—Sacred Heart Review. French Views on Temperance. The French Minister of Public Instruc tion issued last year a decree imposing on all schools, whether for boys or girls, the necessity for giving lessons on the evils of intemperance. "I.e Signal" says that the policy of this decree has been uctively for warded by the University of Toulouse, which 19 at the bea.» of education through out a district which contains over ten thousand teachers. It has divided this district into forty sections, and summoned all the teachers In each to hear an address on temperance teaching. A university prize will be annually awarded to the schoolmaster most successful in his temperance lessons. Last year one school master at Toulouse, Mr. Jilbaut, enrolled as pledged abstainers 1008 young folks between the ages of twelve and sixteen. An Insidious Hawaiian Drink. The Kansas City Journal thus quotes the letter of a soldier in Honolulu to his friends: "The Now York regiment here want togo homo very bad. They are dying oil very fast, there being a funeral from their camp almost every day. It Is mostly their own fault, as they won't take care of themselves, but drink and carouse around all the time. The natives make a kind ot beer called 'snake.' If a white man drinks it it will make him crazy and probably kill him. One of our soldiers went to town yesterday and drank some ot this 'snake.' It didn't do a thing to him but make him crazy. They had to keep him in irons most of the night. He is all right to-day, but walks around with a guard over him all the time." Notes or the Crusade. Ireland has 230 distilleries; Scotland has 143. The British Army Temperance Associa tion recently held its regular half-yearly meeting in London. Lord Roberts, Com mander-in-Chief of the armies in India, presided. Drink is an enemy to decency and up right living. Total abstinence is a reliable safeguard against the degrading influence of drink. Under a law just passed by the Vermont Legislature no town in that State need have a liquor agency, if the majority of the people are opposed. The editor of the Kennebec (Me.) Journal says: "There is less drunkenness in Maine to-day than during any previous year of its existence as a State. A temperance new lecture hall and gym nasium was formally opened recently in Dublin by the Dublin Workman's Total Abstinence Association. High Sheriff Al derman Pile presided at the opening cere monies. A Trick of a Hotel Meat. "The strangest type of hotel beat 1 ever encountered," said a veteran New- Orleans boniface, "walked into our bouse one evening about ten years ago, registered, and went directly to his room. I was at the desk, anil noticed casually that he was a stout, good-looking man, and that he wore a handsome fall overcoat. He had no baggage, and paid in advance, re marking that he had merely stoppeil aver en route to Qalveston, and his things had gone on. Next morning there was a terrible uproar. The stranger, it seemed, had been robbed. According to his story, he woke up tc find the room in disorder and hit 3oat, vest and shirt gone. He claimed to have had a gold watch, several hundred dollars and a number ol valuable papers in the pockets of hie coat and vest, and three diamond studs in the shirt. "I felt sure the loss was exagger ited, but there was no doubt about the things being gone, and I was on the point of compromising the claim when my lawyer—poor fellow, he'f dead now—insisted on holding him off until we investigated his record, We soon found some of his state ments to be false, and he thereupou took alarm and quietly departed. ] never saw him again, but a hotel de tective of my acquaintance encoun tered him in Chicago, and he tolc me how the scheme was worked. The beat had on neither coat, rest noi shirt when he registered, and had merely pinned a collar and cravat in side the lapels of his overcoat. Ii was simple as A, B, C, and made ou i clear case when he raised the row ir the morning."—New Orleans Times Democrat. A Unique I'ogtage Stamp. Canada's new penny postage stamp is unique. When Postmaster-General Mulock was in England recently he was struck by the failure of the great mass of the people there to appreciate at their true value the portions of the British Empire beyond the sea. The thought occurred to him that no more effective object lesson of the vastnesi and soldarity of the empire could be given thau by presenting a picture or the new imperial penny postage stamps, contrasting the dimensions ol Glreat Britain with those of all othei Powers. The feature of the stamp i' a neatly executed map of the world ir miniature, distinguishing the Britisl Empire from the possession of all other Powers. The British posses sions are printed in red, and thes< *tund out in bold relief against adarl background. Surmounting this pic lure is a representation of the crown mderneath which is a bunch of oal tud maple leaves, symbolizing tin mity of Great Britain and Canada.— Sew York Post. Koiton Outulilne* the World. 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