TWO SCHOOLS. I put my heart to school, Tn the world where men grow wis. "Oo out." I Htiiil. "and learn the rule; Come back when you win the prir My heart rame back again. "And where 1 the prize?" 1 rried. "The rule wa false, and the prize was pain. And the leather name was Pride." I put my henrt to selinol. In the wood where wilrl bird ning, ' In the field where flower spring, . Where brook run rool and clear. And the blue of heaven bend near. "On out." I said, "you are only a fool. But perhaps thty can teach yon here." And why do you tay o long. My heart, nnd where do you roam?" The answer came with a laugh andasong, "I rind thi school i home." llenry van Dyke, in the Atlantic. K-ti.Ai.i.i.A.tiiJU,.l..iJ.i..iAAAi.AAl'?; The Baleful Eye. Bu Anthony P. Morris. "J APItOMINENT Btore In Pails was that of Jean Guilonu, linker, a widower with one ,j child, llorlouiio, just seven teen J'tnra of age and very beautiful. .lean wisely took no part in tho com niiinisllc orgies running riot on t ho streets immediately subsequent to the Erunco-Prnsslnii war; but, wilh plenty of provisions in ids cellar, lie philo sophically closed tho doors nnd win down, withdrew IiIh sign of business, nnd Kuiokcd his pipe contentedly in tlio secltislve companionship and filial love of Ilortense. One so pretty nnd piquant ns she could nut be exempt from a besieging of lovers. The two most prominent of these were her father') graduating ap prentices, Henri Edouin nnd Gulseppe "dark Gulseppe" and "the baleful eye," tho latter Was frequently uppel lnted by his Intimates, because of tho treacherous glance in his hard, black orbs and a lurking untile forever fixed about Ills lips. To Henri, Horteuse had long since given her heart. If was quite late one night, when Henri departed from the enibrn.ee. of his promised bride. As Ilortense re treated through tho narrow doorwn3-, an unexpected form, like an apparition from the gloom, confronted her. "Gulseppe!" she cried. "It is I," ho replied, calmly. "Oh, you frightened me! Whence conio you so suddenly V" "From close beshh girl. Ah, thou coquet! A word. I hnve heard nil " "A listener you? Shame!" "Tell meis it true iudeed I need hope no more to win you?" ."You say you have beard till?" ."Yes. I nut not deaf." "And yon have seen, loo?" "Yes. I am not blind." "Much good may it du you, then, for l you art) answered!" And, Willi the sharp speech, she slammed the door in Ids face, angry at his having spied upon what was to her a sacred interview. For many ulghls after that her dreams were haunted by llie baleful eyes of dark Gulseppe, mid In her .ears continually rang the fearful im precation she heard him mutter, coupled with the name of Henri Edouln. The favored lover was grttatly sur prised n few days later, at receipt of a communication from the Versailles Government. It wan delivered by an entire stranger, who whispered these six ominous words: "For your eyes only. k0 discreet!" The sealed billet contained this: "I.nst dispatches by balloon ac knowledged. Inclosed herewith an order for 500 fraucs, puyable when France is redeemed from her enemies. "M. Edouin, Tarls." Henri should have destroyed the mysterious scrawl Insiantly. Instead, he stood gazing at it in sheer amaze ment. He had had nothing what ever to do with the Vorsaillese, though iis heart was honestly with those who struggled so nobly to save tho country from the doom of a bloody anarchy. Tlie few moments' stupefaction proved bis greatest misfortune. There was u peremptory tap nt the door. Gulseppe entered, grinning infernal ly: behind him "dressed" Uireo radians of tiie National Guard. "All, Monsieur Edouin!" he said. "Oh. is it you. CuiseppeV" replied Henri.' Guisoppo advanced with snaky quickness, and ero Henri couhl antic! pate, snatched away the fatal paper. Flourishing It aloft, bo tried: "Away with Tilin! Seo what I hold -a paper that will lmve him shot, un it ss I greatly mistake!" And. Gulseppe hissed maliciously Into his rival's ear: "I nm now n trusted spy of the Com inline. Your ilenth is certaiu. You will never wed with Ilortense Gull eau!" Unfortunate Henri was soon in pris on. He fully rcnliised his danger, and It required but littlo reflection to con vince hlra of the foul trick played by crafty Gulseppe. The days of his confinement went tediously by, while ever before him loomed the horrid prospect of a violent death. Then Gulseppe confronted his victim, .aud accompanying him could it bo reality? was Ilortense. "I bring to you a gleam of sunlight, Monsieur Edouln," suld tho dark browed villain, with grluning sureasm. Henri sprang forward to embrace his betrothed; but Gulseppe interposed. "Hold! I did not bring her here for a. love-aeono. Gvo ear to me. Minutes for Henri Edouln aro vuluable. Judg ment is to bo given In your case with in tho hour. You know what it will he-death! I eomo to offer you life." "You?" "Aud pray, why not? 1 bold the document that is to riddle you with bullets. Buy tho word, and I will de stroy It. I will retract my charge as a Btnpld blunder." t "What word shall I say?" "Henceforth you will work and fight on tho side of tho Commune. That will suvo you-if I choose. Gulseppe the spy is quite another person than Gulseppe, tho baker's apprentice. Mou--y and lutiueuce both aro uiino now. Besides, our prisons are ' cramming With too many hostages. Exchanges are. slow and wo need men. So, come, I have your sworn word?" "Never!" burst from Henri's lips, In. dlgnnnfly. Throughout, Ilortense had renin ii.od passive. Now she threw herself on her knees, with clasped hands, before the man she so dearly loved. "Oh, yes yes!" she cried, passionate ly. "For me for your own precious life! Promise! Swear! Hero on my knees I hog you, Henri!" Her voice was broken with wild sob bing; her eyes were brimming with tears. The young man's bond dropped, then raised desperately, while his eyo (lashed on tho trencherous spy. "So be It, villain Gniseppe! I give my sacred promise ns you ask." Tho mysterious nnd convincing let ter was Instantly torn Into fragments. Gulseppe had not boasted vainly. Two days later, Henri Edouln was liberated aud mounted In the Natlonnl Guard. For a long time he found no oppor tunity of seeing Ilortense. When nt Inst tho lovers did meet, it was to real ize the greatest sorrow of their two fond hearts. As the price of saving Henri's life Ilortense had solemnly aareed to wed 'with Gulseppe. Ever memorable will lie the 2Sth of May, 1871, when the following procla mation appeared: "INHABITANTS OF TAIUS! "The army of Franco came to save you. Purls is delivered. Our soldiers, carried, at four o'clock, the last posi tions occupied by tho Insurgents. To day the struggle is finished. Order, labor nnd security will now survive. "DK MAO MAIION. Due do Magenta. "Marshal of France, Comuiander-in-Chief." Crowds nnd columns of prisoners were being inarched to Versailles. Tho prisoners' camp nt Sutory was an anomalous picture, even shudcrful to contemplate. A man with baleful eyes and snaky lips npproaehed one of the entrances to the stable-pens. The prompt "Qui Vive?" halted him. "Pardon!" was the affable, grinning response; "but I nm a quartermaster. You have hero, by u great mistake, a good cousin of mine, who will answer to the name of Henri Edouin. Be so good us to summon ulm to mo. I nm not so great a fool us to ask his re lease just now, but would speak with him. if I may." Villainous Gulseppe, ever treacher ous, and fearing that Henri might es cape to annoy him In tho future and Jealous to insanity that the man should live to whom Hortense was so avowedly attached ho had sought the prisoners' camp with murderous in tent. In his bosom he carried a pistol, and with the wenpon ho was resolved to slay the rival he hated. Ills speech nt the gate was Inter rupted by n savage cry. A bronzed gendarme, who i was standing near, threw nsido his mus ket, nnd, springing forward, griped the pseudo-quartermaster by tho thront. "This wretch lies!" he vociferated, excitedly. "lie Is Gulseppe, of the Commune Gulseppe, the spy who ordered forty of my comrades shot. I alone esci'ped! I know him well!" A fierce struggle ensued. There wits a flash, a bang, and tho gendarme dropped dead. But simultaneously n musket butt crashed down through the skull pf Gulseppe. The baleful eyes were dimmed forever. It would be difficult to describe tho tearful pleadings of beautiful Ilor tense before the gentlemen of the Mili tary Bureau lu Hue Satory. She knew nnd revealed the trick which had placed Henri lu Guiseptie's power; she told the Btory of her heart's sacrifice to save her lover's life, and his unwill ing yielding to the proposition of hla arch-enemy. It was an appeal to touch the deepest sympathy of her hearers. Henri Edouin was forthwith set nt liberty. He and his true Ilortense were shortly afterward wedded, und when Paris had subsided to comparative quiet, old Jean Gullenu gave a merry feast to tho handsome couple. Satur day Night. "Why Don't II Bust?" We quote from the Century an an ecdote related us one of "A Woman's Experiences During tho Sicga of v lcksburg." Spenklng of fuses, the rector told us one day n very funny tiling ho hnd Keen during one of his trips to town. Lvery day, us long" ns tho siege con tinued, he crossed that hospital ridge, passed over the most exposed streets on his way to the church, always car rying with him his pocket communion service, apparently standing an even chance of burying the dead, comfort ing tho dying, or being himself brought home maimed, or cold lu death. His leaving was a daily an guish to those who watched him van ish over tho brow of the hill. Ouo evening, coming back lu tho dusk, ho saw a burly wagoner slip off his horse and get under it in a hurry. Hla head appeared, bobbing out lirst from one side, then from tho other. Above him lu tho nir. bobbing too, and with u quick, uuensy motion, was a lum inous spark. After n full inlnuto spent in vigorous dodging, tho man camo out to prospect. The supposed fuse was still there, burning brilliant ly. "Blamo tho thing!" be grunted. "Why don't it bust?" Ho had been playlts hide-and-seek for sixty sec onds with a lino specimen of our Southern lightning-bug, or firefly! - Alarm Clock on Ferryboat. A naval architect living on Stnten Island bought a forty-three-eent alarm clock the other afternoon, but ho doesn't intend to get another. He pur chased tho clock iu Brooklyn und stuffed it in lits pocket while he made some calls. Eventually ho forgot all about it. Ho took a late buut for Stnt en Island very much nt peace with himself in particular aud wilh the world In general. AllUough he denies It, his friends say that he fell asleep. At all events, the clock saw its duty, aud did It. for it "went off" with a bung and a rattle which brought Its owner to his' feet and startled every body else on the boat. Tuo naval architect blushed, and the other passengers laughed while tho alurm ran on for three or four minutes und then stopped with a sigh of satis faction. The architect says that he is going to tlo the clock in his front yard and use it for a watch dog. New ioils Mall und Express. FLOWERS II ARD TO GROW TRIALS OF A WOMAN WHO TOOK " UP THE FLORIST'S BUSINESS. ft I Not an Easy Occupation Hard Work itnil Jernrnrance .lteqtilrecl For Hue-rim-Littlo Trage'lle Thnt Unit 11 Endured I'roOt Not l ame. A young woman who owns and manages a largo wholesale flower busi ness lu New Jersey and a retail flower shop on Broadway recently talked to a New York Sun reporter about her ex perience. "When you hear any one say that the flower business is an easy nnd profitable occupation for women, don't believe It," she said. "Tho magazines nru full of stories about the romantic and beautiful side of the florist's work. Thpy nro enough to give any girl a tempting vision of a Ufa all sunshine. You would think, to read them, that nil a girl florist need do Is to wear a white frock and gather roses and vio lets. I always smile when I rend the fairy stories. A florist's business is profitable enough, If one succeeds; but us for Its being easy, I know better. "I was fortunnte enough to have some money so that I could go into the work under favorable conditions, but as I look back nt my experiences I wonder that I held on those first mouths and years. I was not strong, but had always been eager to do things and injured my delicate consti tutlou by . nil sorts of experiments in work. My family protested, but I vowed that I couldn't live without an absorbing occupation. I needed conn try life, but I wouldn't stay in the country aud stagnate "Finally my family proposed that I should build a greeu house . on our country place nnd go in for raising flowers. They thought the work would be healthful nnd would keep me at home and I suppose they had no idea I would take it very seriously. I did. I went into the new experiment with nil my might. I was utterly discour aged any number of times, but I wouldn't give up. I finally wou out, but life was a succession of tragedies for the first two years. "In tho lirst placo there, was the building of the greenhouses. I had two houses, 100 by twenty feet in size, nnd then a smnllcr cold frame house. They were built according to the most Improved principles of greenhouse con struction. I selected a slope with the right exposure. When the men begun on the cellar they found It hud to bo dug out of solid rock. The rock was too hard to bo worked with picks and too soft to b) worked with dynamite; nnd, as the men said, we had the devil's own time with It: but I consoled my self by thinking the cellar could never be damp. Still to make sure we dug a foot and n half below tho floor nnd filled iu with broken stone. "Tho houses were Jnlshed in No vember. I put the flowers in nt once, nnd just ns soon as I had them In the man came tenrlug to the house one night to tell me that there was four feet of water Iu the greenhouro cellar and the fire were out. That was nt four o'clock on a December morning. I knew it probably meant destruction to nil tho plants, but I climbed out of bed and went out In tho cold to see whnt could be done. There wasn't any use in crying. "Wo patched things up, ufter ulmost killing one workman, nnd then I put in nu nutomntic cellar drain. Three weeks later there was another flood, worse than the first. After thnt we blasted a big ditch under tho cellar and down tho hill, so we had no more floods, but there were other tragedies. "Everybody hnd told me thnt I was perfectly crazy to undertake the thing, that no woman conld do it, tliut it meant work night nnd day, fright ful exposure, unending care, expense and responsibility all that was true except tho statement that n woman couldn't do tho work. I did every thing except ruu the furnace. "Every leaf had to be drenched, the paths had to be wet down. I dragged hose until I thought my back was broken, and I drenched myself so thor oughly ns the flowers. Then, of course, I took horrible colds. By and by I got rubber boots and a water proof short skirt nnd blouse. After that things went better, but there was still plenty of excuse for colds. "I worked hour after bour in tho moist hot nlr of the greenhouse, and then went Into the cool nlr outside. I got up at 4 u. m. to do the packing for shipping, stood iu the cold storage room nnd dabbled In Icy water, until my bauds were so numb that I could not even tlo the strings on the boxes and had to get the furnace man to come in and do that. "I got up nt all hours of the night and went out to the greenhouses with a lantern to open or shut ventilators becuuso the temperature had changed. You know u fall of six or eight de grees in temperature may be u very serious matter in n greenhouse, and I wub so worried for fear the weather would change In the night thnt 1 didn't half sleep. When I did sleep I dreamed awfuj things about red spiders und mildew and eel worms and grubs. Oh, those, diabolical red spiders that you can't see! Yet mildew is worse. A draught or damp weathei, or too high temperature, aud mildew may np peur from nowhere and ruin all tho foliage. "Then tho grubs! Did you cTer see a grub? I'll never forget tho first one I saw. I went to the greenhouse, one morning, and there wus my favorite rose tree, looking like a wilted collar. It wan utterly limp und ruined. I couldn't see anything to account for It, so my common sense told me to dig. I dug; and, down by the roots, I found a fut whito worm, with big, vicious, black eyes. I'm positive it glared at me, and I was In such a rage against It, that I was sorry I could kill It only once. I met lots of tho creutures after thnt. "Florists put tobacco stems . all around a greenhouse to drive away the green fly, but sometimes the littlo wretch gets a hold, in spite of tho pre cnutions. Then one has to fumigate with tobacco smoke. Tho green files descended upon my plauts, and I hnd to resort to fumigating, but I hato to bacco smoke, und, every time I fumi gated tho house I wus desperately kick. "I never hod any big catastrophes, but the days were full of maddening littlo ones. Vlr'et culture Is very dif ficult. You would think to rend tho articles about, tho women who are doing It, that it Is ns simple us wear ing u bunch of violets, but It. isn't. Sometimes one will have phenomenal luck with violets for several years, but It doesn't last. For some Inex plicable reason, a blight will suddenly come on the plants. As the florlata say, tho violets iVlll Just go off. No one seems able to cxpuiln the trouble. Tbero is a big profit iu successful vio let growing, but the chances of fail nro nre perfectly tremendous. You don't bear about the failures. 'Carnations have a way of going off, too, from no perceptible cause. They Just seem to die of anaemia, sometimes. Then their calyxes burst, nnd they arc a prey to rust. Altogeth er, they fairly turn my hair gray, but they are Interesting, because there has been such progress and develop ment In them. A good carnation Isn't a cheap flower uuy more. Itoses aro the easiest things to raise. They don't often go to the bad entirely, though the American Benuty is a serious prob lem. Dull weather will spoil it, and any number of florists huvc been rulued by the culture of American Beauties. "A good many florists failed In business last your because of the price of coal. Fires huvo to be kept going night and day, I buy my coal by the hundred Ions, nnd it makes a pretty big item of expense All expenses nre big. "At the cud of my second yenr, I had been successful enough to warrant my spreading out. Now, I have eight houses. I pay over floo a month for expert labor Then there is the to bacco, the fertilizer, the wear and tear and repair, tho handling and shipping, nnd tho losses. You have lo get good prices to make nny profit. "But then, there is always a market nnd a high price for good flowers. The trouble is that so many of one's flow ers must, necessarily, fall below first grade. "I've given yon the seamy side of tho business, haven't I? n regular talo of woe. Well, It is all true, nnd no woman, without u strong constitu tion and stubborn courage, ought to try the wholesale flower business; but there's n pleasant side to it. "The work Is never monotonous. There is never a time when tho green houses nre really still. There is con stant Interest lu the growing tilings. Now that moat of the drudgery is done by my employes, and I have only tho superintending, I find the wholesale business fascinating, luit I dislike the retail business. "Tho latter is profitable and em ploys a woman's taste to advantage lu the choice of paper for boxes, new Ideas for, putting up flowers, table decoration, wedding decoration, etc. In spite of high prices, the' profits are not so large ns they used to be. Iu tho first place, the quality of the llow ers Is better. "Fine lasting roses on thick, sturdy stems nre procured by cutting long stemmed roses nnd so leaving few eyes on u rose branch. Ml the strength will go into the shoots nnd blossoms coming from those eyes, and the re sulting roses will be exceptionally fine; but a. good many roses have been sacrificed to make those few good ones and the price is naturally high. Still, if buyers would only realize it there is more satisfaction In two or three of the fine roses than lu a dozen of the weak-stemmed, drooping sort. "Handsome noxes and ribbons and all those tlilugs are a necessary part of the retail florist's business now. and, except in the case of a big order, they cut down the profit considerably. I've often sent out small orders on which there wasn't n cent of profit, but the customers were valuable to mv, and I had to satisfy them." Trad in tho Philippines. American jewelry und watches, which should lie of decidedly showy designs, aro wanted by every native who Is uble to pay for them. All man ner of Ingenious American electricul machinery and supplies huve a waiting market. Musical Instruments, those of wood being constructed to resist dump noes, have only to be displayed to tlud ready buyers, for no people on earth are greater lovers of music than the Filipinos. Dealers in agricultural tools can find fortunes ready for the gathering in any part of the islands. There nro nearly 70,000,000 acres of public lauds, und already applications from American investors show that the Philippines will soou be one of tho great farming sections of the world. Once Congress grants the necessary authorization for selling the public lauds there will bo n rush of American agricultural capital, to tho benefit of uenrly every other line of trade. Aside from rice, tobacco aud cotton, Indian corn will grow in nearly every part of tho Philippines. In Central Luzon it will ripen iu eight weeks from the day of planting. Leslie's Weekly. Freak of u Cycloue. If a cyclone be blown over a pond, atmospheric pressure will force the water, together with many frogs, fishes or Insects, It may contain,, into tha rarefied portlou. Au authentic ex ample may serve to confirm and ex plain the wording of this curious ef feet. Profes or Smythe, while at Ten erlffe, experienced a small whirlwind, which passed close to his tent, und, seizing upon the cud of a roll of blue cloth that was hanging out of a chest, unrolled it, although it was forty yards long, nnd carried it up into the sky, so high that it looked like u piece of ribbon. There It sailed slowly round iu a circle, accompanied by other light article of nttlro sucked out from the tent; after which, de scending leisurely, it fell about 4U'J yards away. London Chronicle. The Mliltef Solicitude. Ordinary folk were much amused at tin example of how seriously II. M. ships observe the navy regulutlous which occurred during ihe demonstra tion to welcome tho Governor General. As the Devon war ships steamed slow ly Ui lino up Sydney hnrbor, the flag ship Itoyal Arthur, which was lead ing, carefully took soundings every few minutes. Eacli war vessel lu tho procession solemnly "hove the lead," even the tiuy gunboat Knrrnkaltn be ing most anxious to lcnru if tho tldu (the wuter was evidently deep enough for the big flagship in front of her) WUS sufficiently high to enable her to reach uiovi'iug. Sydney Bulletin, IHE WORLD'S REDEEMER. Dr. Talmage Gives Portraits of Some c( (lis Great Disciples and Exponents. The Love of Christ Set Fortli-'Hc Thai Com eth From Above is Above All." ICoTprlirlit loot. Washington, V. C In thi discount Ea '""lSe ound the praises of the world Redeemer, and put before ua the portrait of gome of II m great rlieiple and exponents; text, .John iii, 31, "Be that cometh from above i above all." The moat conspicuou character of hi tory tct out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light, point" cd down to Him from the Bethlehem ky was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology; the finger of event all five finger pointing in one direction, t hnt I the overtopping figure of all time. Be I the vox hiiumna in all mimic, the Rraceful!et line in all sculpture, the mot exquisite mingling of light and shade in all painting, the acme of all climaxc. the dome of all rathcdraled grandeur and the peroration of all splendid language. The Greek alphabet is made up of twenty-four letters, and when Christ com pared Himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and omega, Ho ap propriated to Himself all the splendors that you can spell out with thoe two let ters and all the letters between them. "I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the lust." Or, if you prefer the words of the text, "Above all." It means, after you have piled up all Alpine and Himalayan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to spread it wing and descenil a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a high mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympu. a high mountain, but mythology tells us when the giant wur-ed against the god .they piled up these three mountains and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens, hut the height, was not ?;reat enough, and there was a complete nilure. And after all the giants Isaiah and Paul, prophetic nnd apostolic giants; Kaphael ami Michael Angelo, artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and arch angel, celestial giants have failed to climb to the top of Christ's glory thev might all well unite in the words of the text and ay, "lie that cometh from above is above all." First, Christ must be above all else in our preaching. There arc so many books on homiletic scattered through the world that all laymen, as well a all clergymen, have made up their mind what sermon ought to be. That sermon is most effec tual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of (ill sin and the correction of all evil, individual, social, po litical, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There ure those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of istification, sanctifi ration, covenant of works and covenant of (Trace, therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the smne truth, but under different phraseology. Now, I say there is nothing in all the opulent realm of Auglo-Saxonism or nil the word treasures that we inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-European, but we have a right to marshal it in reli- ?ious discussion. Christ sets the example, lis illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barnvard fowl, the crystal of salt, as well as horn the seas and the stars, nnd we do not pro-, pose in our Sunday-school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits. I know that there is a great ileal said in our dny against words, us though they were nothing. They may be misused, but they have nn imperial power. They are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. What did God write upon tho tables of stone? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of words. "Let there he light," nnd light was. Of course thought is the cargo and words arc only the shin, Mit how fast would your cargo get on with out the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sunday-school class, in your reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge our vo cabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ in heaven. We ride a few old words to death when there is such nn illimitable resource. Shakespeare em ployed 15,000 different words for dramatic purposes. Milton employed 8000 different words for poetic purposes; Kufus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal purposes, but the moat of ub have let than a thousand words that wc can manage, less than SOU, and that makes us so stupid. When we come to ct forth the love of Christ, we ure going to take the tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, nnd if it ha never been used in that direction be fore all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ the conqueror, we are going to draw our simile from triumphal arch nnd oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. The French nuvy lias eighteen flags by which they give signal, but those eighteen lings they can put into (i(i,000 different combina tions, combinations infiuito and varieties everlasting. And let me say to young men who are ufter a while going to preach Jesus Christ, you will have the largest lib erty nnd unlimited resource. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in the severest argument ever penned, and John Hunyun preached Christ iu the suh limest allegory ever composed. Edward Payson, 8u.k nnd exhausted, leaned up against the side of his pulpit und wept out hi discourse, while George Whitetield, with the manner and the voice nnd the art of un actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would huve been a different tiling if Jonathan Edwards hud tried to write und dream about the pilgrim's progress to the celestial city or John liunyan hud at tempted un essay on the human will. lirighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas, are these gospel themes. Song lius not melody, flowers have no sweetness, sunset sky has no color, compared with these glorious theme. These harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their tire und pro ducing revolution with their power, light ing up dying bed with their glory, they are the sweetest thought for the poet, and they are the most thrilling illustration for the orator, and they offer the most in tense scene for tho artist, nnd they are to the embassador of the sky nil enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweet est comfort for ghastliest agony. Bright est hope for grimmest death. Grundest resurrection for darkest sepulcher. "Oh, what a gospel to preach! Christ over all iu it. Ilia birth. Hi suffering, Hi miracles, His parables, Hi sweat, Hi feurs, His blood. Hi atonement. His in tercession what glorious themes! Do we exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do we have love? It fastens on Jesus. Have we a fondness for the church? It is be cause Christ died for it. Have we a hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went aheud the herald aud the forerunner. The royal robe of Demetrius was lo costly, bo beautiful, that after he had put it off no one ever dared put it on. Iiut this robe of Christ, richer than that, the pool est and wannest and the worst msy wear. "Where sin abounded grace may much more abound." "Uh, my sins, my sin,", said Martin Luther to Staupitz; "my sin, my sins!". The fact is that the hrawnv German stu dent had found a Latin liible that had made him quake, and nothing else ever did make him quake, nnd when he found how, through Christ, he wa pardoned and saved he wrote to a frieud, saying: "Coino over and join us, great tnd awful sinners saved by the grace of God. You seem to be only a slender tinner, and you don't much extol the mercy of Clod, but we who have been such very awful sinners praise His grace the more now that we have been redeemed." Can it be that you are so de perutely egotistical that, you feel yourself in first rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the ton you are Kcurley anil immaculate? What you need is a looking glass, and here it i In the Itible. Poor anil wretched and mis erable and blind and tiaUod from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wouii;'jB and pujc frill g m)te,"'ii health in n. Antt then tak (he Tact ahiit CRrfitl gathered up all the note against u nnd paid them and th-n offered lis the receipt. And how much we need Him in our Bor rows! We nre independent of circum tnnce if wc have Hi grace. Why, If mode Paul sing in the dungeon, nnd under that grace St. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the npnrnlyptic trum pet. After nil other candles' lmve been BtiufTed out thi i tho light thnt get brighter and brighter unto the perfect day, and after, under the hard hoof of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoy ment have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock, the Chris tian, from cup of granite, lily rimmed and vine covered, puts nut the thirst of hi aotd. Again I remark that Christ is above all In dying alleviations. I have not any sym pathy with the morbidity abroad about our demise. The Emperor of Constantino ple arranged thnt on the day of hi eoron nation the stonemnson should come and consult him about hi tombstone that after a while he would need, and there nre men who are nionomnnicnl on the subject of departure from thi life by death, and tho more they think of it the les prepared nre they to go. Thi is an unmnnliuc not worthy of you, nor worthy of me. Snladin, the greatest conqueror of hi day. while dying ordered the tunie he had on him to be carried nftcr hi denth on a snenr nt the head of hi nrmv, nnd then the ohicr ever and anon should stop and say: "Behold nil that is left of Salndin. the emperor and conqueror! Of all the state he conquered, of nil the wealth he accumu lated, nothing did he retain but this shroud!" 1 have no sympathy with such behavior or such absurd demonstration, or with much that we hear tittered in regard to de parture from this life to the next. Thern is a common-sensical idea on tin subject that you nnd 1 need to consider thnt there arc only two styles of departure. A thousand feet under ground, by light of torch toiling in a miner' haft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us, nnd we mnv die n miners death. Far out at ea. falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the halyards, we may die a sailor' death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid bro ken bone nnd reeling leprosies and raging fevers, we may d:e a philanthropist's death. On the field of bnttle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the gun carriage mny roll over us. and we may die a patriot' death. But, nfter all, there are only two styles of departure the death of the righteou and of the wicked, and we all want to die the former. What did the dying Janewny say? "I can as easily die ns close my eye or turn my head in sleep. Before n few hours have passed 1 shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thou sand and with the just men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches and honor nnd glory and majesty nnd dominion unto God and the Lamb." Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on his way thither broke away from the guardsmen nnd went bounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for Him. Sir Charles Hare in his last moment had ueh rapturous vision that he cried, "Upward, upward, upward!" And so great was the peace of one of Christ' dis ciple that he put his finger upon the pulse in hi wrist nnd counted it nnd ob served its halting beats until his life had ended here to begin in heaven. But grander than thnt was the testimony of the wornout first missionary when iu the Mamartine dungeon lie cried: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time' of my departure is nt hand! I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, tho righteous judge, will give me in t hut day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearing! Do you not see that Christ is above nil in dying nllevintions? Toward the last hour of our earthly resi dence we are speeding. When I Bee the spring blossoms scattered. I say, "Another season gone forever." When I close the Bible on Sabbath nlcht, I say, "Another ' Pubbnth departed." When I bury a friend, 1 say, "Another earthly attraction gone forever." What nimble, feet the year nave! Tho roebucks nnd the lightnings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to skyv they go nt a bound. There i a place for us, whether marked or not, where you and I will sleep the last sleep, and the men are now living who will with solemn tread carry us to our resting place. So, nlso, Christ is above all, in heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is the chief theme of the celestial ascription, all the thrones facing His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down at Hi feet. Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, reducmed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the Saviour' earthly sacrifice. Stnnd on some high hill of heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scar of His Buffering, in silence first, afterward breaking forth into acclamation. The martyr, all the purer for the flame through which they passed, will say, "This is Jesus, for whom we died." The apos tles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the Bcourging through which they went, will sav, "This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and in Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and nt Jerusalem." Lit tle children, clad in whito will say, "Thi is tho Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed ns, and when the storms of the world were too cold and load brought u into this beautiful place." The multitude of the bereft will say, "This is the Jesus who comforted us when our heart broke." Many who had wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: "This is the Jesus who pardoned us. Wo were lost on the mountains, and lie brought us home. We were guilty and He made us white ns snow." Mercy boundless, grace unparal leled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverance and peculiar mer cies, recited them ns by solo, all the voice will come together in a great chorus, which shall make the arche re-echo with the eternal reverberation of gladness and pence and triumph. Edward I, was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to ex pire he bequeathed $100,000 to have hi heart after his decease taken and deposit ed in the Holy Land, and hi request wa complied with. But there are hundreds to day whose hearts are already in the holy laud of heaven. Where your trcas-ire are, there are your heart also. John Bunyan, of whom I poke at the opening of the discourse, caught a glimpse of that place, and iu hi quaint way he said: "And I heard in my dream, and, lo, the bell of the city rang again for joy. And as they opened the gate to let in the men I looked in after them, and, lo, the city Bhone like the sun, and there were streets ;of gold, and men walked on them, harp in their hands to sing praise with all. And after that they shut up the gates, which when I had seen 1 wished myself among them." NEWSY CLEANINGS. There are 32,000 Sumoaus under Ger Uui rule. Oil hn been discovered uear Hart ticlle, Ala. Steps are to be taken to form n com mercial museum lu Madrid, Spain. Italy's new coinage with the head of Victor Emanuel IU. will bo ready soon. The Hungarian census shows the population of Budapest to bo 7tty,4-W. Tho Prussian railway authorities are making experiments with American cur couplers. A combination of gasoline lamp manufacturing Interest bus becu cf footed at Chicago. Tho Gorman c.ty of Cassel will cele brate the thousandth anniversary of Its foundation iu 101:1. Canada's Governor-General will slop fishing nt Old Proprietor Lodge, N. 1!., by menus of dynamite. The total output of beet nnd enne sugars In the countries of Euiopj for 11)00 was 8,(;.'n,00t tons. A Constitutional amendment permit ling women to vote bus failed of en dorsement iu the W luce unit! l,iiu-lure. EPW0RTH l. April 28-One Lee P. Ixv. I; Eccle. "When thou vowesf ii. defer not to pay It." The criticism hero ugnlust the in. a vow. It seems to bo assume pledges will bo mnde. The txh tiou of the wise man Is that when su, phslges nre made they shall lie kept. It Is a great mistake to promise to do whnt we do not fully tinderatnnd, aud the performance of which we have not carefully considered. It may bo asked whether the officers of our Leagues ure not much to blame be cause of the cureless attitude of many. Young people are often asked to sign the pledge us though it were nothlug more than singing one's name to au ordinary constitution and by-laws. The pledge Is repeated often iu so careless a way, with so llttli- emphnsls on Im portant points, that the attention Is not secured. Gradually conscience is dulled mid the pledge might just as well not be so far as Its lullueuco on iiiatiy lives Is concerned. On the other lintid, the pledge should Is' very thoughtfully read nnd explain ed to all applicants for membership. Before singing there should be a sea son of prayer. Then every effort shotdd be made nftcr tho pledge Is signed to persuade new members to form the habit of doing Just what they hnve promised. A pledge like that of the Epworth League should be understood as having been made to God. Having bii'ii made to him. It should be performed us iu ills sight, lie who inn lies a promise like that which one does make lu signing the Epworth League pledge should not only determine with himself to per form It with the help of God, but should pray daily that he may per form every part of It ns In God's sight nnd unto God. This pledge Is In three parts. Tho first Is, "I will earnestly seek for my self the highest New Testament stund nrd of experience aud life." Second ly, "I will do whnt I can to help others attain this mime experience." Ix-t us note that word "earnestly," nnd the phrase "highest New Testament stand ard." Whut that standard Is should be understood. To seek a thing earnestly Is to seek it continually nnil hopefully. ThJ highest New Testa ment standard of experience nnd life Is nn exceedingly high thing. The sec ond part of the pledge is a promise to abstain from nil those forms of world ly amusement forbidden by the Dis cipline of our Church. The third clause Is JusT as binding ns the other two paragraphs: "I will attend bo fur as possible the religious meetings of the chapter and the church nnd take some active part in them." This, as will be seen. Is made up of two parts. The first part is limited by the words "so fas as possible." Let it bo noted that this does uot say, "so far ns convenient," or "so far as It is pious ant," but "so far as possible." It should be noted also thnt this promise covers not only the religious meetings ' of the chapter, but also of the church. The second part of this hist clause puts the one who has signed It under the obligation of not only taking some part In the meetings of the chapter and the church, but the taking of some "ac tive" part. But to take an active part surely menus something more thnn simply coming to the meetings nnd joining lu the general exercises, though he who takes such part actively is preparing himself to fulfill his pledge in the fullest sense. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. April 28""Fidellty to Pledges: 1 Promise." Ixv., 1-4; xl. 1-8; cxvl. 12.U. Ps. Scripture Verses Matt. vll. 21: John xvl. l.r. 21: Acts II. 41, 42; iv. 1S 20; xxl. i:i; xxvil. 2Ii; Horn. 1. HI, 17; Eph. v. 2.-1-27; Hob. x. 23 25. Lessou Thoughts "Am I making the least of my pledge or the most of It?" "We should be as proud of our promises us n soldier Is proud of his uniform, which is bia promise to servo his country." "Our pledge is easier for us to keep, because we know that so many others are keeping It with us. lx-t us In turn make it easier for them by our fidel ity." Select Ions-The first word of the pliMlge is "trust." This is the mniii spring of the Christian life. Without it all else is vain; with It all things nre possible. God requires nn unre served committal to lilm, an entire surrender, perfect trust. This trust Is such that the soul leans on Christ for what It coiinot now discover, just as the mariner proceeds In the dark witli the compass to guide 1 1 1 m, though he cannot see the polar slnr. The pledge stands for growth. Whatever Christ would like to have done by the young man of twenty means more than whatever ho would ask of Hie same young man nt eigh teen. The new consecratlou called for every month does not menu begin ning ngiiln on the first April nt the same point from which one started on the first of March. "More and more unto the perfect day" Is the Ideal ever set before the Endeavorer. The Christian Endeavor pledge points out certain duties to be done nnil the helps toward doing them. It puts forth unhesitatingly the thought of duty; with that it puts thought thnt transfigures duty's severe face so that It shines with the light of love, which Is needed to make nny service accept able. RAMS' HORN BUSTS HERE is no gain without giving. Regret cannot bring the arrow back to the bow. Blessings will b poured In only as you pour them out. There Is no prof It la reliKton whora kcvl 1 9 there ,B no lo88' MKN Jkitr -Tho hireling haa MVK??. yt"' his hire but tha I J (, 4 ' Shepherd haa the. sheep. Influence Is Immortal, Cheap success la ever too dear. Willingness to bo God's slave Is the way to become His son. Sometimes God1! storms are but to drive us Into harbor. Every sla commlted com'mlts one yet more to the way of sin. Ho who Is unwilling to face failure ran never secure success. You do not need to wear a stony look to be a pillar In the church. The man who revolves around him self will never get anywhero. The telescope of love has tho lotige.tt ran go for celestial vision. The assets of character ure In whut jt.u ure and not what you have.
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