DR. TALMAGE.
4ssas"ss "
rOWF.R Of GOOD E90liUTION8
i i
Fln AP0'0'0" OltweA n Mon in
Eichm for Their Bin
Trxr "If rn,'k mi1 ,r'' no"
J,ter, nad ''' ' ft'"" V h"ni",
nrf mi' "-n etothf ohatl abhor me.
Job Ix ,
All-rt Barne honored he hi name ot
earth andln heaven-went straight tww k to th
original writing of my text, and translate
it mi I have now quoted It, (riving substantia1
rwmn for o doing. Although we know
letter the ancient had an idea that in mow
water there waapecial power to cleanse
ani tht a garment washed and rinsed in it
would t an clean a clean could be; nut it
the plain now water failed to do tta work,
then they would take lye or alkali nnc
mixed It with oil. and tinder that
iirejuratlon they felt that the last impurity
would certainly he gnu. Job, in my text,
in niiwt forceful figure set forth thl
Idea Hint all hi attempt to make himself
pure More Ood were a deed failure, an
that, unles we are abliited by something
l-tter than earthly liquid and chomica!
rrviMirntionn, wo are liwithnoma and in th
ihteh " If I wash myself with now water,
and should I cleanse iny hand in alkali, yet
shall trtoii plunge me in the cliU'h, and in I in
own clothe hall abhor me."
You are now sitting for your picture
I turn the camera olmcura of ttod'i
word full upon you. and I pray thai
the simhine falling through the akylihf
may i-nntd me to take you Just an yor
are Slmll it be a tlnttering ii'tun, "I
shall it I"" a true one You say: "Iot it In
true one." The flrst profile that wa evel
Liken nan taken three hundred and thirtt
ywirs Mor Christ, of Antignnu. He hao
a blind eye anil he compelled the art
tut to tnk hi profile no an to hide th
defect in hi vision. Kut sini-e that invcii
turn, thr.-o hundred ami thirty your Is-fon
Christ, there have Inun a (freat ninny pro
Bli. Slmll I to-dny (five you a onc-sid.!
view of yourselves a proIHe, or shnll it Iw a
ull l.-iKth portrait, showing you just what
fnu ar- If U.si will help me by ill nl
nighty grace, 1 shall give you thut last kind
if a I'ii tare.
When I Hrst entered the ministry I used to
si-ite niv sermon all out and read them, and
run my hand along the line li-t I idiould Ion
ny plii.-e. I h:ve hundred of thorn menu-s-npts.
Shall I ever preach them? Never;
'or in those iluy I wan somewhat over-mas-err.
I with the 'idea I beanl talked all around
ilsiut, of the dignity of human iintiire, and I
nloptisl the 1 1-il. llllil I evolved it, Mild I Hill
irated it, and I argued it; but coming on in
ife. nnd having wen more of the world, and
itudied Is-tt-r my llible, I tlnd that that enrly
a-adiing was faulty, mid that theru i nodig
nty inhuuian nnture, until It i recntiMtruetetl
lr the grace of Hr. Talk almut viowd going
m piecia on the Htcrriiw, olf Irelnnd! There
ln -er waucli a shipwreck a in theOihou
tind the liiililck"l, river or Ivlon, wher
Mir tint trentn foundernl. Talk of a
.tenmcr going down with live hundred
liNK-nger on Iwari: What I that to tha
'iMpwro'k of fourteen hinulnil million wills'
ji are by nnture a masH of unclenimes mid
utrvfurh'jii. t roiu which it takeo nil the oin
iioteiice and inlinitudo of (iixl grace t)
pifiiw m. ii i waxn mywir wiin kiiow
hot. ana Knoum i cieanw my nnim III al
bill, yet kliult thou plunge me in the ditch.
ui.i my own clonic niiaii aiilior me."
I remark, in the una place, that itomu hh
lie try to clcaiine their wnl of sin in the unow
iter or line nxilogieH. itero I one imui who
kvt : I am u mtiner; I roufem that: but 1
lerited thin. My father wa a mnner. mv
rnKlfnther, my gri-iit-grout-irrniidfather.
kd nil the way )nck to Adam, and 1
L..I k...t (I Kfu l j. .
uiuii i. neip iiij-M'ii. nij liroini, nave
nor, every any in your life, add
ouiethlug to the original entnUi of
thnt wiim lHpieathed to you? Are
bu not brave enough to roiifeaa
utt Voil hnvn iioiiietinifMi iiiii'r,)iijl,,ei,l uli.
piefi you ought to have compicred? I ask
ku whether it i fair play to put uhii our
cmiry iiiingn lor which wn ourxelve are
W-aomtlly reonxihlu? If your nitturn wa
liew when you got it, hnvo you not nouio
bie given it an additional twixt? Will all
tonilistomn of thixui who have irectyle)
make a burriendu high enough
eternal iiefeiiw? I know a ilevnni
an who had hluxpliciuoiiH lutreiitage.
now an honext man whoMi father was a
ef. I know a pure man whose mother wiu
waif at the Mreet. The hereditary tide
Vy Iw very Htrong, but there In uch a thing
jteiiiniing it. 'Hie fact that I have a mr
t nnliire i no rea.soii why 1 idiould yii-ld
i 'it. The ihip !n'iiB of our mm I can never
rnshsl out by the, snow water of nucl in
fllcient aMiogy.
jKill further, a.VH wuuo one: "If I have
ic into sin, it him lccii through my com
toion. my coumideit unil my nMK'iiit.'s;
y ruiu.l me. They taught me to drink,
try took me to the gambling hell. They
tiig'-d me into the bouse of mm. Tlicv
kiinl my soul." I do not believe it. (!m
e to mi one tlu? pow.r to destroy yuu oi
I If n limn is ilcsl royei heiswlf .l,t'rovst
Hint unlwaVHwi. Whydiil vou not bfcnk
fr.m tin-in If they hndiried to ht.-id
r purs,-, you wouM huva kniH-kl them
f n ; it they hud trie.1 to purloin your go
Vh, you would have riddled them
liithot; hut when thev triil to hI.-M v
. . ' I'"" "oy iiniiiiii-i ro it.
hail lellowshnve a cup of lire to drink;
t lH.ur your run int.i it. In thiu m.,it..J
i" m.uI, every imhii for hiniKelf. That
lison!, Hro not rmiy reNiMiimililu for
m. I prove Iit the fact that von utill
rt with them. You cnimot get off by
ling them. Thoinrh Vim irnlliuv tit. ll
uiogun; thoiigli there were a groal
P or them; though they should cimeduwu
the force of the niultinif umwi fr.,te
"on, they could not wah out one taiu
ur IIIUllorLllI mml
II further, hoiiih imtmoiu apologize fi
in by snviiiir ru . .i. ..
ir tlmu hoiiiu people. You aee people, all
a hunt u that are a ureut .hl
",,al."' 'l""ar in yom
"T. and liM.k down noon tl,.. m,kf.
rile in their hul.il and eriiiie. Whal
" orouH-rr i ( through reck-
mill Wlrknl I
I'l 'lltti . isthn matur ulleviaU-l at all
i"i' tact that mum-body elwi hat
f '"r Inm.lied thousand dollar,
Lni"" r?fv ''SM f,,r two miiidnW
lollani? Oh, . If I hav.
'"ralgiu, h,nll I refuse unslii-ul attend
I is,,llM, , ....ii.i,,. ,m vtruit.nl
'l fever? The fact that bis disco
tlmu ini,u-..,H. that cure mum
i" rough IV fK.ll,ar.liinnK, leap off inti
I ' ,t break the fall to know
t I,.T"l .V'.r a h'K'"-r "
u "" lhu rivei
n . ili. it alleviate the mutter at all thai
I" T tw three ,k.-oi,1,i H.iiig bur
tvten-wveitv-l lvi, ...I ...i i.
ps,MliiirM Hm I . ., ,.u .. ... I J-
" my ileiuavii v a... i i.......
"lev? IVilint... 1 1.... 1....I
".us ti, v ... y w
t iuui. lor
,""-n:,"''''''H ill lifo wen
Towering Vrl,,. t, lllml
i r.T? ".",1,:r t,,M ku," "
ft'""i,, m,t(.tt,, of iuili m-ru touy
i"'l'.lH.!!oV,M,,',, ,,!"klnR' '"oughth.
M H.iiiu..,l,ary. I-e,lm, Uwunimi
Vm t:," u.":l.ur a1.? !"
ui-uiv.w,.f.7i......-"
are ,. """iougiinnaiointf
(ilien Tmr l til.
PpreveniM ;,nu,lu "? I'"'K. UQ
Ma?. w " "'Jr "T.thai
ti. 'tr thirty year
t Oh!K I , the tail
In h."""' wasting oui
kourv,";'llU'Uu, bout "'n""
d? Wh.''' luyrtlona, Whw. b
. Uat are our sins f Whataraou-
tk ,r!.. """'I'.'" ttreet. the laugb
full :".Uj,f;8 Krtef o?tl.e angel
neflHta f Wbataraour peril f What our
notiej T lt each one nay to himself: "Whera
will I Im ? fthall I range in summery field,
w jrrlnd In the mill of a great night? Where!
Where ?"
Some winter morning you go out and tee a
mow hank In graceful drift a though by
ome heavenly rcmiiam It had been curved
and aa the ran rliota it the lunter I almost
inimfforable, and it eeema aa if Ood had
wrapped the earth In a shroud with white
plait woven In loom celestial.
And you aay: "Waa there evei
anything o pure aa the enow, wr
Is-autlfnl a the mow f " But yon brought
pail of that mow and put it uixm the iov
and melted It; and you found that there wa
a wsliment at the bottom, and every drop of
that miow water wa riled; and you found
that the mow liank had gathered tin th
impurity of the field, and that after
all it wa not fit to wash In. And o I snv it
will he If you try to gather up these contrast
and comparison with other, and with theae
aH.ogie attempt to wash out the sin of
your heart ami life. It will te an unsuccc
fill ablution. Buch mow water will never
wash away a single stein of an immortal
on I.
Nut I hear some one snv: "I will try some,
thing better than that. I will trv the t,,m
.if a jrood resolution. That will be mori
pungent, more caustic, more extiriiatlng,
more cleansing. The snow water ha failed,
and now I will try the alkali of the good,
itrong n-solutlon." My dear brother, havi
you any idea that a resolution nlsml
the future will liquidate the past? Hup.
pose I owed you five thousand dollar
and I should come to you to-morrow and
ay: "8ir, I will never run in debt to vou
again; If I should live thirty year. I will
never run in ileht to you again;" will you
turn to me nnd sav: "If vm will not
run In debt in the future, I will forgivt
nm the five thoiisnnd dollar." Will you ir
that' Not Nor will U,l. We have li-cn
running up a long score of indehtcdmws with
Hod. If for the future we should abstain
from sin. thnt would benodefravment of past
indebtedness. Though vou should live from
this time forth pure as an archangel Is-fort
the throne, that would not rcd-vm the
past. !. In the Bible, distinctlv
li-clnres thnt he "will reipiire that which
i Jiast" ast iortuiiitif. WMt iieg.
tects. ist wicked words, pact Impure nn
iglnntloiis, past everything. The twist Is n
jtreat cemetery, nnd every day Is buried In
it. And hre Is a long row of three hundred
mil sixty-five grave. They nre thf
lend days of ISSN. ,tv is a l!ng row of
rtiree hundreil nnd slxtv-flvp more grnvi-s,
ind they are the (lend day of ls7. And
lere I n long row of threo' liundreil and six
iy-tlve mure graves, nnd tliev nre the dead
Jnyai.f I smi. It is a vast ivmetery of the
.inst. But (sl will rouse them nil up with
resurrect ionnry blast, mid as the prisoner
itnnds face to face with Juror ami judge, sc
rou and I will have to con.o up and look
lsm those depni-ti-d day face to fai-e, exult
ng in their smile or cowering in their frown.
"Murder will out," is a proverb that
(tops too short. Every sin, however sumll,
l well as great, will out. In hard time
n Knglnnd. years ago, it is authentlcnllv
itntcilthnta manufacturer samm the way,
ithalmgof iiiom-v, to pav off his hands. A
linn infuriated witli hunger met him on tho
inl, and tsk a rail with a nnil in it from a
.ir.ling fence and struck him down, ami tho
mil entering the skull Instnntlv slew him
Thirty yearn after thnt the' murderer
went back to thnt place. He iuikmnI into the
rrnve yaril, where the sexton was digging
crave, nnd while lie st.ssl there the spade .
'.he M-xton turned no a skull, am I. lo ! tin.
liurd-'rer saw a naif protruding from tin
Imi'k part of the skull; and n the sex
ii turnisl the skull it seemed with led
ow eyes to glare on the inurderer:
md be. tlrst iM-trillcd with horror. Mood
II sileucu, but soon cried out. "Cliiltv!
fuilty! ) Hod!" The mystery of the
rime wo over. The man was tried
mid executed. My friends, a'l the un
pardoned sins of our lives, though we
may think they nre buried out of sight
tnl gone Into a mere skeleton of
jiemory, will turn up in the cemetery
if the iat nnd glower upon u with
their misdoings. I say all our unpardoned
tins, tlh, have you done the pressterous
thing of supposing that gixsl resolution for
the future will wie out the pant? (iissl re
tolutioiiH, though they may Iw pungent ami
.iiiistie us alkali, have no jsiwer to
neutralize a sin, have no power to
wash away a transgression. It want some
thing more than earthly chemistry to do
this. Yea, yea. though "I wash myself with
mow water, and should I cleanse liiy hands
in alkali, yet shiilt thoi. plunge nie in the
iitch, nnil mine own clothes shall abhor me."
You see from the Inst purt of this text that
Job' idea of sin wns very different from thnt
if Kiigenu Hue, or (loorgo Sam 1, or M. J.
Micheli-t, orof any of the liundnslsof writers
who have done up iniquity in iiicrotint,
mil garland. -d the wine cup with e
Iniitiuo and rosemnrv. and ni'ide tin
path i if the lilsTtme end in bowers ot
-nse iustenil of on the hot Hugging ofcteriin'
torture. Vou sen that .lob thinks that sin it
not a flowery parterre; thnt it is not a table
laml of Hue prospects; that it is not
music, dulcimer, violoncello, enstanet
md randenn pip.-s, all mnkiiig miisif
logether. No. He savs ir Is a ditch, lone;,
l.-ep, loiithsoin , steni-tifnl. and we are all
,iliiiige. into it. and there we wallow and sink
md struggle, not able to get out. luriobei
t propriety and rols-s of worldly profesxi. li
tre saturated in the slime ami alH.iniuntioii
mil our soul, covered over with transgression
huti-s it covering, and the covering hat-s tin
smi until we are plunged into the ditch, nm1
mr own clothes ubhor us.
1 know that some mod.-rn religionists cari
cature sorrow for sin, nnd they m:ike nut nr
-Hsier path than the "pilgrim's progress'
that John Hunvan divnnii-d of. The roar
they travel docs not stop where John's did, ni
thu city of Destruction, but ut the gate ot
the university; und I urn very certaii
thnt it w illnotcomii out where John's did
under the shining rumparts iit the cclcstia
fity. No re-ntaiice, no pardon. If you dr
not, my brother, fis-1 that you nre down ii
the ditch, what do you want of Christ to lifi
vou out? If you have no appreciation oi
the fact that you are astray, what do y.u
want t.f him who came to seek and save thai
which won lost? Yonder Is the City of
I'aris, the tw if tost of the Iumniis, coming
across the Atlantic. The wind is abaft,
o that she tins not only her engine
U work, but all sails up. I nm on
Iswrd the Cinl.-ln of the Cu-uird
line. The Isiat davits are swung around
lhu IwMit i lowerml. I get into it with H
red tlag and cross over to where tint Citv of
I'ari i coming and I wave tho flag. The
a I. tain lis.k off from the bridge und sav
" What do you want? ' I reply ; I come
to take koiiio of your passengers ncrosi
to thu other vessel; 1 think thev will be safer
and happier there." Tim captiiin would l.s.k
1own with indignation and sav: "(ii-t out. ol
the way, or I ill run you down." And then
I would hack oars, amidst the jeering ot
two or three hundred .e..pl'o lookin;
lver the tnHrail. Hut the I'mbiii.
and Hie City of Paris meet muter ili'.. j-i ni
:'irciiiustauci-s alter a while. The City nl
I'liris is coining out of a cyclone; the ' lifi
IsMits are sinnsli.il; the bulwarks gone; tin
vessel rapidly going down. Tho Ismtswain
,iveM his last whistle of despairing com
maud. The passengers run up and down the
Jeck, and some pray, and all iiiaku u great
outcry. Tho captain says: "You hiivt
nls.ut tlfUs-u miniiti- now to pr part
for thu next world." "No Iiom!" bouiub
from stem to stern ami from
the ratlines down to tho cabin. J
ee the distress. I am let dovu. by
the aide of the I'mbrin. I push
off aa fast it I ran toward the sink
ing City of Paris, lief, r J I come up people
are leaping into the water in their anxiety to
get to theboat, and when I have swung up
under the side of the City of Puns, the
freiuied iiasxi-iigers rush through the gang
way until the ..Hirers, with ax and cluU
and pistol, try U keep Uu-k the crowd,
-ah wailing bis turn to come next.
There la but one llfo Isint, and tliey all
want to get into it. and the t-ry is: "M
next! me next!" uu see the application
'jufore I make it. A long aa a man going
in iu hi sin feels tliat all is well, that be ii
couiliur oivt at a ti-antlfi.l noit. ami hss all
rn: rutaeV.ro,
Avl convictin- ndrtt he sh.lt ... ....
uort conrleting jlrit he (hall nee that br
reason of tin he i dismasted and water
logged, and going down Into the trough of
the sea where he cannot live, how am,n ha
Out the eea glas to hi eve and weepa the
aoriaon, and at the first igu of help
rrie out: "I want to be saved. I
want to Iw saved now. I want to lie saved
forever." No sense of danger, no applica
tion for rencue.
Oh, that Uod' eternal spirit would flash
llm us a ense of our sinfulness! The Bible
ll the tory In letter of fire, but we get ued
ioit. We joke alsuit sin. Wemakemerry over
t. What i ln? I it a trifling thing? Kin I a
famplre that ! sucking out the life bl.ssl of
four Immortal nature. Hin? It Is a Bastile
;ha no earthly key ever unlocked. Kin? It
exiNvtriation from Ood and heaven. Kin?
It 1 grand larceny against the Al
nighty, for the Biblo asks the question:
'W ill a man n-bUod?" answering it in the
tftlrmative. Thl (Josjvel is a WTit of reple
vin t recover property unlawfully detained
'rom Hod.
In the Khetland Island there Is a man
with leprosy. The hollow of the foot ha
iwollen until It 1 flat on the ground The
(olnts liegin to fall away. The ankle
.hicken until it look like the foot of
k wild lsast. A tare unnatural
omea to the eye. The nostril
constricted. The voice druim to an
timimt inaudible hoarseness. Tuls-i-cles blotch
the whole Issly, nnd fmm them there come
an exudation that is unbearable to the be
holder. That I leprosy, and we have all got
It unless rlcascd bv tho grai-e of Ibsl. See
licviticui. Kee If Kings. H.-e Mark. Kiw
I.uko. Ki-o tlfty Bible allusions and confir
mation. The Bible I not compliment nrv in it lan
guage. It doe not snk mincingly alsmt
mir in. It diw not talk as.ogetically.
I here i no vermilion in it style. It d.s
not cover up our transgressions with bloom
ing metaphor. It il.s-s not sing alsmt
them in weak falsetto; but it thunders out;
"The imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth." "Kverv one 1ms gone liaek.
He ha altogether Issiime Plthv. He is
abominable and lllthy, and drmk.-th in in
iquity like water." And then the l.rd
Jesus Christ flinga down nt our f.-et this hu
miliating catalogu (Hit of the heart
' i men procccl evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornication, murder, tli.-fls I. '
lliere is a text for your rational
ists to preach from. Oh, the dignity
jf liiininn nature! There is ail
dement of your science of man
hnt the nnthroMiloglst never Ims had
the iimrago yet to touch; and the
Bible, ill all the ins nnd outs of tin
most forceful style, sets forth our natural
pollution, mid represent iniquity as a fright
ful thing, a an exhausting thing, as a loath
omo thing. It is not a mere Is-miring of the
feet, it is not a mere Is-foullng of the hand;
it is going down, head and irs under, in a
ditch, until our clothe ubhor us.
my nrolnren, shall we stay down where sin
thrusts us I shall not if you do. We can
not afford to. I have to-day to tell you that
there is something purer than snow water,
omething morn pungent than alkali, and
that is the bl.ssl of Je,us Christ that
:-lcansoth from nil sin. Ay, the river
of salvation, bright, crystalline' nnd heaven
Isirn. niNh.i through this nudieuiv with bil
lowy tide strong cuoiu;h to wash your sins
conipleU-W and forever away. Hi. Jesus, let
the ilnii. Hint hohls It biu-k'uow break, and
the HikhIs of salvation roll over us.
1 el tin- Hsi.-r nml tie- I.IihsI,
Kn.ru lh? sl.u, s h.-nllns llcssl,
lie of ila the tloiil.li-ear.-.
sv fn.ni wrsth nn.l ninke me ,ure.
Let us get down on Is.th kn.s-saud bathe In
that I.I.mhI of mercy. Ay. strike out with
Isith hands mid try to wini to the. .t her shore
of this river of ('l.sl's grace. To vou is the
word of this salvation sent. 'fake this
largess of the divine Isuintv. Though
y..U have gone down in the ib-cpest ditch
of libidinous desire ami corrupt be
havior, though you have sworn nil blasphem
ies until there is not oho sinful word left for
you to sis-ak, though you have Ims-ii siiIh
mcrged by the transgressions of a lifetime,
though you are so far down in your sin thnt
no earthly help can touch y-jr case
the Iiiird Jesus Christ IhmuIs over you
lo-dny, und offer you his right hand, pro
mising to lift you up, first making you whiter
than snow, nnd then raising vou to glories
that never die. "Hilly," said a Christian
IsHithlnck to another, "when we come up to
heaven it won't make any difference that
we've linen Iss.tlilueks here, for we shall get in,
not somehow or other, but, Billy, we shall get
siraigiii inroiign uiegate." Hi, ir you only
knew how full uad free nnd tender is the
offer of Christ, this day, you would all
take Him without one single exception; and
if all the d.s.rs of this house were locked
save one. and you were comM-llcd to
inuke egress by only one dis.r, and I
tssl there and ipn-stiouisl you, and the
llospel of Christ had made the right impres
sion iimiii your h.-urt to-day, you would an
swer me ns you went on, one and all: "Jesus
is mine, nnd I nm His!" oh, thnt this might,
l the hour when you would receiv.i
Him! It. is not a li.isp.-l merely for
fis.tpads and vagrants and Luc
cancers; it js lor the highly polished and the
rducu'.sl ami the ivllm-d as well. "Kx.-cpt a
man Is- lu.rn again, he cannot m-o the kin
Join of ti.sl." Whatever may Im your
associations, nnd wlmtever yi.ur win-Idly
r.-llnemeiits, I must tell you, as
Is-fore liisl I exp.s-t to answer in
the last day, that if you are not changisl by
the grace of tl.sl, you are still doivn in the
ibt. li of sin, in the ditch of sorrow, iu the
ilitchofcoudemuatli.il; a ditch that empties
into n deeM-r ditch, the ditch of tho lost.
Hut blessed 1st Ood for the lifting, cleansing,
illustrating K.wer of His (iosp.-l.
riiuvoleent free Krui-e cries, Ku-iim! In the iimuii
tulu; Vnr all that h.-llive, -hi 1st hai imeiic.l s r..iiiitiiln.
iiullelujnli! to ilia l.uml, wbu liss IxiukIiI us our
l.sr.lt. n;
WVII iiralx lilm snnlii when wiaiii over J.ir.Uu.
TEMI-KIIANCK NKW8 AND NOT EH.
The arrestd for iuroxication in New York
city averaged over 1000 a week last year.
A suliMiu kwMr in the New York Legisla
ture givos hi vocation a an "undertaker."
Two thousand girls were in training lust
year in the kitchen gardens of the W. C. T. U.
Bulgaria ha ten temperance ociotiea, four
of which are oiernted by ineii and six by
women.
An Inter-State W. C. T. U. Omfiirence
will I hi held at Mounlutu Lake Turk, Mary
land, from July 17 to W.
There are said Ui lie forty vegetarian
reetauranU ill l.ndon, sonio of which serve
over a thousand dinnem per day and no al
cohol is prov ided.
Mr. I'owderly states that iu one l'ennsylva
nla county, in a sin-rlo year; 17,oon,(MK) were
eut for liquor, und it was estimated that
$11,000,000 of the niuouut lamo from work
ingmeli. The Iivul Temperance legion of Mil
waukee, Wis., Iwi-ari work about a year ago
with fourteen children pli-ktxl up from the
atrect. It now Una a membership of three
hundred.
The teniierniico question wax ably pre
sented Is-fore the Iii.lawure Hunday-scn.sil
Convention held in Wilmington lust month.
The fact that the salisin as well a the Sunday-school
is after tho youth of our land wu
forcibly einpliusitted.
A record of 1) time arretel wa loft by
a Now Haven man, who died insane. His ar
rest were i hielly for driiukenness, and it wa
through hi ex. -chaos that hi mind gave way.
It was one of hi tricks, when arrested, to
throw hi shoulder out of joint, and then by
frantic groan to solicit the sympathy of the
olllcer in charge. - lie wa about seventy
year of age.
The Do Moines Reyiater say thnt Iowa l
having great difllculty to get enough con
victs to complete it contract at the Fort
Madison I'euitoutlary ; that every year the
nuinUir of prisoner la smaller, so that the
convict thut would uutiirully belong iu the
Fort Madison territory do not begin to be
enough to do the work contracted for, and
that iu consequence two-third of the Htate
must be scoured for convict to help out Kort
Muilison where all the (hop are and where
the coutract labor i done.
SABBATH SCHOOL
t Uill'llill 11 kJJ llJJ Li,
INTKRtf ATIONAfi I.K8HON
JVSK U.
Toil
tMMn Text! "Jraua Ileforo tho
Council." Mark lr., rift-nrt
Golden Tcxtt John xv., U5
Commentary.
65. "And the chlof priest and all the coun
cil ought for witness ngaint Jesu to put
Him to death; and found none." After the
arrest they bound Him and led Him away to
Anna, the father-in-law of Caiaphaa, the
high priest, and If we accept the 11. V. of
John xviii.,24, it would seem tluit the Oliver
antion and smiting of Jesu recorded in John
tviil., lu-ai, took plai-o N-foro Anna, after
which he ent Him bound to Caiaphaa, where
we now find Iliiu In the presence of the
priest and council who are seeking evidence
against Him that they may haveome plausi
ble reason for putting Hint to dmth. A gissl
while More till thev had determined to kill
Him (Matt, xii., 14; John l., Mi, but lnckisl
orortunity M-aue Hi hour hiul not come
(John vil., ); vlil., M; but now thnt Hi
hour hail come (John xill., 1; xvil., 1) and Ho
had suffered them to take Him, t hoy felt that
they must have antiin nnmblnnce of right iu
what they wero nls.ut do. To find noma
real evidence of guilt on Hi part wa tha
hardest work they ever undertook, for He
wa holy, hanulcfM, undetlhsl and separate
from Inner; Hi life and teaching had Iwn
open to all.nnd nothing inconsistent with Hi
public teaching had over Isvii said in ocn-t
illeb. vii., mi; John xviii., an. Kvery sa. ri
flee bad to Is without blemish, nnd a Ho i
about to become a sacrifice for that nation,
according to tho very words of Cainplwa, tin
wittlnply isken (John xl., 4V-:,ji, they are,
without knowing it, proving lluu to (s tho
Iviinb of Oil without bb-mish and without
lot, a lit sncriHce for their sins nnd for tho
sins of the world.
ft". "Many lore fnbe witu.w against Him,
but their witness agreed not together." This
also wo foretold ci.iii-erniiig lluu, for it is
written in the I'snhns: "False ittuses nr..
risen up against Me, and such as breathe out
cruelty;" nnd again, "False witnesses did
riso up; they Ini.l to Mv charge things that 1
knew not." (I's. xxvii , p.'; xxxv.. Hi. If
wo would In. His fnilhful follower- we must
not 1h surprisisl if things are laid to our
cliarg.) that we know nothing nls.ut, nn.l if
wo souiotnncH hnve false witness Is.nut
against us; but rather count such Invito,, nt
a privilege nnd rejonv in Is-ing partakers of
His suffering thut whet. His glory in t.e
vcaI.i) we may lie gln.l with fx.isihng joy.
l 1'ot. y., Ii!, Kh. We nre not told who
these fnlsn witn.wes were, but they tuny
liavo Uwn ome who had profesmsl nt on.i
time to bo His followers; H-rhnps somo of
I nose who went Imck nud walked no morn
with Him. (John vl., m.) There are mnny
false witnosww in our time and we ihh: not
go oubtido of our ekiin-h in.-inls-rs to Und
them; tho ipus-tioii for the reotl.-r is: "Am
I in nil my daily lifo a tnie witnesa for
Christ r
fi7. "And there nr. we is-rtaiu. nnd Utrn
fnlso witness ngainxt Him." Matt, xxvi., IV,
say: "At the last came two false nit
n runes." who n-mind us of the two um-ii. sons
of Belial, whom Je-liel causisl to testify
agiiin-t Nals.th that he might Is-put tod. villi
(I Kings xxi., 7-1-1). It is Uie same principle
nil through the Bible from the days of Als-I
to the ilay of John, and inasmuch a-s tin
devil is the author of it, and he i still at
large, we may exss t to Hnd it prevailing till
the I.rd come and the d.-vil is shut up, and
scaled in the iM.ttomlcNS pit.
f. "We heard Hun sav, t w ill .l.wtroy thi
teinplotliatisma.li. with hands and within
threo day I will build another made without
liaml." Just what Ho did say was: "Iawtrov
thl temple and iu three days I will raise it
up" (John ii., p.i), nnd John snv that H.i
koof the templo of His ImhIv; but th.-y
inuko Him to snv thnt He Himself would de
stroy the temple, which bad at that time
Isx-n forty-six year in building, and in thro
lny built another. They cast tho same
thing ut Him n Ho hung iixn the cross
(Mark it., !Sl), not know ing that they were
then destroying tho temple, and that In three
day it would Iw raised up. Observe two
thing here: If woureiuemlM-rsof His Isslv,
let us not think it strange if our words an.
(.fttimo perverted and we are made to say
thing which we never said nor intend.-.! to
wiy, but rather let us. smut it another privi
lego of fellowship with Hun in His suffer
ings; then consider, a memls-rs of His
Issly the resurrection which nwnits that
Issly, w hen s-rhaps we may sis- in an actually
r.torl temple nt Jerusali-m some new light
iijhiii Ho. i., i: "After two days will Hop
vivous; intho third day llenill rai.se us up,
und wo shall live in His sight."
Ml. "Neither io did their witness ngr.s to-
f ether." The law said that a mini is.iil.l not
o condemned nor put to death at the i it It
of one witness, but that it niii-t ls by the
testimony of at least two or three itn.
(Dent, xvii., ti; xix., I.'n; and yet up to this
lime they cannot get two witnesses loagr.s-,
ko they had in. riw.
'. "And the high pri.-st st.ssl up in th.
midst and i.sk.sl .)e,us. saving: Ansvi.-iot
'I'liou iiothing" What is it whi. h Ih. s.- il
ins ngninst This-"'' The high priest thus
givi-s evidence of Ins feelings aain-l the on.,
on trial, nhi.-h he has now allo., to over
come him and cans.- him t act and i-p. aU iu
this unjust wav; lie knew that n.-eordiiii-, lo
their own law there was in i a against the
prisoner, for nothing had Is-.-n really t.-stitl.-.l
inasiiMii-n ns no two oi me wilnesv, ncrosi
I'd. "But He held lliss-aci ami answered
nothing." Nothing Is-ing conllnue.1 a.Aain.l
Him, there was iiothiug for lluutoroplv to,
tho law was on His side, and in the presence
of these furious, murderous hypocrite.-., J !
inajoMticully holds Ills iv; "as a slus-p b.s
fore her shearers is .Intnl., so llevK'iis not
liu mouth."
tV3. "Anil Jostui sni.I, I nm," To kisp si.
luce In the facoof mi.-h a .U"tioii would 1st
to deny that Ho was the Christ, therefore Ha
now replies in the momentous words of Kx,
lii., 14. When Moses wish. si to know what
he would says Ui the children of Israel n to
who lent bun, ho as instructed to suy "I
AM hath sent mo unto you," concerning
which somo one haa written;
Whn tl.sl wnul.l lesch inuukln.l Hin name.
llsea'Js Hli.is. lf ihKn-al -I AH,"
An.l leaves ft bUu.k ; Is-Uvvi-rs Insy
eu..ly tb.su- ihluits for wlil.-li tlii-x .ray.
"And ye shall ms tho Son of Miui sitting
in Uio right hand of power, nnd coming iu
the clouds of heaven.' Wlint a contract ttiB
will bo. Kisj Him iu this lesson standing np
paruntly helpless and friendless Is-fore an un
just judge, and think of Hun when Ho shall
coiiio in His glory, and sit iqsm thu throne
of His glory, and Is-fore Him shall Isj gath
ered all nations. (Matt, nr., Ill, It! )
tst. "Then the high priest rent hi clothea,
nnd Kiiith: What ncisl weiuiy further wit
iuwsmi)" Apmirently Jesus is guilty of blas
phemy and tins holy (?) high priest is full of
righteous Indignation; but in the ey.w of the
Ood of Isruel, Jiwus, the Christ, the Hull of
the HIcKscd, the Hun of Mail, lias spoken the
truth, und this rending of garment nnd ap
parently holy wrath is all of tho devil, miner
the clonk of religion and u-nl for (iod.
IM. "Yo hnve heard the blasphemy; what
think ye? And they nil condemned I lim to
Is: guilty of ileal h." Just as Ho Himself had
foretold and ns Ood hud before determined
(Matt, XX., 18; Acts iv '.'7, UH); but that doe4
not iu any wuy t-xcuse them nor lighten theif
guilt.
(''. "And x.ino laigan to spit on Him,' nnil
to cover His tiuv, and to biuret Him, and to
ny unto llim. Prophesy; und the servants
did strike llim with the inlinsof their linuds."
This also hud Ihn-ii foretold, for iu Isa. 1., 0, it
I written: "1 hid not My face from shamo
and spitting." A wo look Uh.ii llim m.s-kly
enduring it nil, do not our h.varls say : "O my
Kaviour, how could You lie so uitient, how
could You boar such treatment, what sus
tained You, whut wu your strength?" lot
llim with Hi. loving, searching, isniiwiMrion
tu eyo look Into your and down into your
heart, and hear lluu a Ho says: "For you 1
bore It all, a a ransom for you, that your
sin might be blotted out and that you, poor
Innor might bo delivered from the wrath to
mine, and made one day to share My glory
which la givon Me and shall be revealed whoa
I roturn jg ftlraiu." LtKim Utlpw, '
KELIGIOUS HEADING
tin. atAn.ARicx o! n.ownas.
Tlia itov. Ir. Alexander Maclaren, of
Uancli ster. Kngl m.l, in ntiilng a flower
how nt West Oorto ., mid' there could be
nothing but nihility and eoneo'd Is-tween
beauty In nny form nml the highest truth.
There enn bo nothing except harmony Ixv
Iween U.sl work in nature and Hod'
work In hi higher revelation of himself.
The flower of the field our M ister had uo,I
a text of one of the lesson which had
unk deepest into tho imagination and henrt
of the wholt. world; and when ho mid
"Con-ld-r the blie of the fled, how they
(rrow," It wa bid.lkig in to do whnt hi
oianh.snl. that was so tremblingly sensitive
to all things fair and wondrous, 'hnd often
done before it gnvo that command. If wo
thought of tho... wor.U of our l.rd tln-y
pointi-d us to the luvsterii-s of gronth in
the low. r world a typical of the true nature
of Christian life and progress. The flower
not only preached 1 ).., lesson of uncareful
drinking in of nil Urn Lles-ing thnt 0s
save, but they ) reached to n, likewim- the
lesson that growth In it highest and tiobliwt
form nerd not Isi i-ffort, and should not Isi
fotilllct. But we could not nil of us cotno to
Hint, llio flow. r urcw so. We could not
grow sis except very isvnsioimlly. Koine
rrow under nil manner of dtsndvan-
ge and ndierse clrcumstan.s, and so it
-a that CIii-1-.i' children often hnd to grow,
ile wa gratitlisl nt seeing this attempt t.i
riiig Is-auty. and a love of Is-aut v and a
!.re for Is an' v, into homes thnt would be
111 the happier 'iu the measure in which thi
,nst e wu cultivated. He did not upise
.hnt grow ing l..w. r would do inii.-h
iniik.i )ss.pl,. Christlnns, but it might
lo a great do. I to help to
ti-cp then, out of the ptibli- hou-e.
tie did not suprm it would nm-tifv human
iv, but at. ii.i-i.ii.-t ll.-.l humanity was Is-tter
Alien it h id learned somo sensitiveness to
mine f. .nils of t io I's r -V -l.it .. ,u t hat. when It
lad none, and anything, lumcvcrsmnll, that
lelp d Hiplo to undei-tand how much
ilcnsiire ili.-r.- might Is. iu ct ium..u thing-,
ind le w fair O...I m ant the world to ho was
ill OI1 the side of g.sslness. "F.VerV little
K-li.-s" .in, I in view of the conditions of lifo
tii.l.-r which so much of our b.w n p. ulntion
inssisl its days, nny nuxil nry on the side of
s-auty, org-sslnes or rlevation of anv sort
night to l- welcoiu.-.l nud not looked askance
it by Christian men. He hos-.l the day
Acre passing it thv be not pass. .1 - w I. en
r.HMl, saintly nm s Oint Iuui Christ's Oos-
preach would say "Nothing esc will save
iien except the goss, and theief. re I
hull have nothing to do with anything
l e." He I. bevel hmiM-lf that nothing rls.i
aoiiI. I save men except the (iospel of Jesus
v'lirist, and p.-.. I., might w rk at culture
ind rellu.-iiieiit to all eternity, if they sc.v
.ratisl it ft on. ( hrisllaiiity, and they 'would
lo nothing. Hut uoiwithstan. ling lie hailed
ill cll'orts ii. the ilii'is-tioii irf g.ssbu-ss, and
is the water from the river might s-i meat
the h..iI far nwuy from its chanucl.uiid might
refre-h luanv a plant that grew very distant
1. 'Ill Its course so the Oo,s-I of Christ,
passing nud percolating b. ueath many of
ili.-sii apparently iii.lei. -n. lent works, might
make th.-iu bring f. it Ii lau.-r lloncrs nil I
grow with 11 brighter lustro.
"I IIAVK NO TIMK."
Mr. J. A. Kt.s.ke, of tie. China Inland
Mission, relates this incident: line Sun-lav
morning, nt one of our usual native s. i vie s,
n crowd of Chincsi. c..ll.s-tis ,ut-nl- our
chaH- iwhich is c. se to the main roii.b, ut
Iructisl l.y hearing the foreign doctrine Is-nig.
plea. In . I witiiu. One of the w hi. lows b-ing
o-n, twoor tln-.s- more inqiii-itive than th
r.-st had succis-.le.l iu I'liml.m up to have a
g. ssl view of how things w.-re going on,
whereupon the preacher kiudlv linked on- tc
coiiio in nn.l sit with the rest, but his reply
wn, "u miin-iit kuny fu' "1 not lutv
tinio or leisure.'1 .
Hero in China wo often henr this ex -us
n h-iii our brethren urge them to give heed tc
the study of higher nud nobler tilings than
ni.fchauiliso nud cash. Thank O.sl, tlier
nre not n lew who do Hud time and H-urn,
nud in these iiortlu rn prov.n.sw iniiny nr.
biiriiing th.-ir idols and following Jesuit, tho
mighty to save nn. I keep.
Alter the Chinumau had gone his way, 1
Is-giiu to think of the bun. beds of Chrisiianr
in privilegisl Fnglaii.l, who, w hen askisl to
satisfy tin. mul thirst of Christ, bv giving
theiiiM-lves. or their interest, to tin- dark
h. allh-n. practically say, ns did this one, "1
have no tune." (iiui in .oii.;ii.
If th. ue nr anv such reading Iho-o words,
let me entreat tlugn to ccic-idcr their r-.n
nl r.-spoiisil.ibty .11 the matter, niidread very
caret uilv those searching words 111 I'rov. "I:
II. 1'.', "If Hi. .11, ' etc. There are two or
throe things we nil would do w.-ll I 1 rcinetn
I. r concerning such an excuse:--First, 11.1
tiui" means no de-ire to r.-si-ue the li- atheii
world from its ilarkness and sin. In China
to'inv the all abs.. rbing topic on the street
or load is, "IVi.-n - ts e n ts'i. n" ("Money
money - nimu-v"). Can w. Maine these
Chinese for this, w hen III on r home . liu rche
. ..lav Christ's claims hav.. to give way to
the cia ing for gold and silv.-r, which -r-isheth
with the very u-ingv Mav th.. I.r.l
wake us up to the tel l'll.le . 11. Ii inl 111-11 wo
It Is- to.) 1 ite!
Necoml, no tiin-. means 110 love. To Is.
t. .'. I straight that y. n did led ..e Christ
would be hard, p. rhap , to b. ar, yet thu
fact remains, oii have 110 time f-.r the con
s'. I. ration of Christ's ilcsU-cs about the, inil
I .1111 lb- loved I. ..lie f.il nnd loves to seek for.
Mv brother, where Is thy love?
Third, 110 time means 110 1. 1. --sin-,'. Think of
w hat is missed, it not in truest sympuihy
w .th our liiviiie l ord Our tiino all alc-orUs!
w ith self. No fellowship, no bl.i-siug. TI
Lord stir us all up. II 'on und II oi k.
In tho lifo of tho late Hugh Miller we find
the follow ing passnge from Mr. Stewart of
Cromarty, whom Miller considered one ot
the very Is-st nud nl.l.t of Scotland's minis
ters: "N.sih did not close the d.s.r. There
nr.-w.-rks thnt ti.sl k.s-ps for hiiiis.-r. The
t ut en is t. m. heavy for tho back of man.
To shut that door on a world about to n-ridi
would have Iss 11 t.s. great a re-insil.iliiy
for a son of Adam. Another moment, and
another, und another, and another, might
have Ihs-ii grant. si by Noah, and the d.s.r
night never have Ims-ii shut, nnd tho ship
that curried tiio life of the world iniflit have
Us-n swauiM.. An.l so it is in the ark rf
salvation. It is not the church, nor tho
mini t.-r, that shuts or os-ns tho d-sir.
Th -so do U si bidding; they preach right
oiisiicss; they oil. r salvnt on; and it is ti.sl
t hut shuts and .s-ns the d.s.r. Oh, what a
null and shudder w ill pa-sthroiigh the listen
11. g universe w hen t iod shall shut tho door
oi the h' uvoidy in k 11 pou the lost.
L.-ligioii in Its purity, Is not so much a
ti-iisuii us 11 temper, or rutin r it is a t.iupor.
lending to the puisuit of all that is high and
In. I., lisfnuudiiti.il is faith; its action,
works; its temper, Ii linos.,; its aim, ol edi
i iii-i. to (iod in improvement of sell, and be
nevolence to ineii. -.'liinins.
UK Took I. IN.
Mr. James Uuthrie, n strong tcnicraiic
11:111, an.l also that rut her rare siineu, a
Scottish w it, surprised his niulieiiisj on.-o bv
iniiouiiciug liimsi'll' "11 moderate .Irinker,"
Alio took "two kinds of gin." They were ro-issiiri-il
when they found he 111. ant "oxygen
rid hydrogen," the constituents of water,
l'hat is tho only kind of "gin" any of us
iiiould take.
Tho strongest animals the horse, ox,
ilepliunt, lion und othei s.ull thrive 011 water;
vhy should man desire a dilfereiit drink? It
lot only gives strength to the Issly, but it
1 1. so '.eeos the brain in more healthy isui.li.
.1011. Hemenils-r that water drinkers are th
tlciiiv.st tliinkem. 'J'rntjtrvunve ilnnner,
Tho W. C. T. IT. of Western New York la
waging war on illicit liquor vendiiiK m 110
I. cense towns. Through It effort seven toeu
law breakers wero arrosteil in out) day and
obliged to give ball for fJUU each.
TEMPERANCE.
cvsif aTAoiwor rnui!Mg.
All the world' a liar,
And all the men and women merely drinkers,
Thev have their hiccup and their staggering;
And one man In a day drink many glassea.
Hi art being seven stage. At first th gen
tleman, Steady and steadfast in hi goes I resolve;
Ami lli nr. f )in sin- .,l 1 . 1 f I .. ...... i
- .... an, a'rr-, iw, ,
And pining, yearning look, leaving like
sunn
The comfortable bar. And then tho argu
ments,
Trying like Herctile w ith a wrathful front
age. To refuse just one more gin cocktail. Then
the 111 ystill.sl.
Full of t range thought, unheeding gotsl ad
vice. Careless of honor, sodden, thick and gutt'ral,
leaking tho troubled res-tition
K veil in the bottle's mouth; and then quit
jovial.
In fair g.ssl humor while the world w im
round.
With eyeball misty, while hi friend hint
cut.
Full of nice oath nnd awful bickering;
And o he lav hi part. The sixth ago shift
lino stupid, slipping drunken man
With "blossoms ' oil his nose and bleary-eyed,
ills Rhruuketi face uiishavoii, from side to
side
te rolls along; and his unmanly voice,
Huskier thau ever, full and Hum
And leave him nUggcring round. Iyi.it
scene of all,
Plat end this true and painful history,
I stupid childishness, ami then ol.hvniu
ions watch, sans chain, sanscoiu, saiiseverv-
thmg. '
U'ujiinyfon Critic.
ritAuE in nRiNicttni habwii.
TIivmi t-liunges in ilritiklnK knblta are not
.-oiniiiisl to the Tinted States. They are hard
ly less noticeable in Ureal Britain. In n
vi.tly presmtmg the budget to the House of
Commons, the ChuiicMl .r of the Kxchequ.-i
.-ailed attention to the fa.-t thnt during the
Inst quarter of a century there ha Ins-n a
greut, a material, and 11 striking fall in th
cousiimptlou of spirit. .us liquors us shown
by the receipts from th.-i x ise tax "I have
g.ssl news ngain for the friends of the tem.
s-rai.ce cause," ho said, .'though It has mn.U
.111. 1 continues to make n gup 111 the receipt
f tho F.x.-hcqiii-r. This great revenue d.s-i
not grow in proirti..ii to s.pulati..ii. It
might. Ih thought, ih.w that we are at n criti
a I moiuent in the revival of trade, thnt thu
w ould again h ad t. an increase in the revenus
from ill ink. Hut it has not done so." ll
pronssl to show in detail that spirituouf
drinks have fallen more nud more Is-hind for
the last doen years; that n mrresxudina,
'.'hange has come 011 in w ines so that inor
than half the w uie now consum.sl Is-longs te
the lighter kinds, while fonnellv the hglitef
kinds were only one third of the whole, thnt
since 170 the total consumption of wine hnt
1111k from IT.noo.noo gallons to I :t. (.( m .
gallons while the total consumption of 'the
lighter kind of wines has ris.-n from . f M at . M !
gallons to h,(io,0'Ki gallons; tluit less w ine of
all kinds was cousuni.sl Inst year than m th
previous )ur; nud that the total drink r.-v.v
line last year showed n falling off, despite th
inci-ea.se iu fs.pulatioi., thev.Ve increase Is-ing
ill Us-r, and that mcn-asc only two-thirds oi
one -r cent.
Such fact show conclusively that in isitb
Uleat Hrituiuatul the 1 ni'.sl htatesthenum-ls-r
of iss.ph. w ho abstain entirely from th
,ise of liquor Is steadily increasing, and that
those who use liquor of uny sort ore more and
.....re inclined to drop rum, whisky, and
brandy for the lighter wines, alo anil Iss-r
l'hat the-- changes of habit have already
(tone furcnnuuh to prislm-n I10ti.1al.le eff.s-tn.
is demonstrated by the wou.lerfiil sobriety oi
'.ho Centennial crowds. Public opinion now
Frowns on drunkenness, nud a man suffer?
MTiotis harm w ho allows himself to Is over
Mine by liquor. The next step should Iw th.
)rgnnizing of a public sentiment which will
tippres Ihesal.sin by making it disreputebl
for a mnii to enter such a place. That th
n-xt centennial celebrntion will tlnd th
I inte.l htnti-s 11 nnt ion of total abstainers, it
.11 the highest degree improlu.ble; but it i not
Iihi much to hoH thnt it mny Hnd the conn.
:ry, although consuming a large amount of
iquor, friHsl from theilemoriilimg inllnencei
f "stand up drinking " iti rum-shops. .Vrw
'urk I 'out.
rK VU'TIH 111 LllUNk.
"Alcohol is ileuth to the soul. It slowly
(mi surely destroys the moral faculties, ft
enders conscience mil.s-ling, and ite victim
Beis.iues capable of the most brutal acte
A ithout any sense of remorse. It destroy
jaturul ul! ret ion. und its victim at length
iates those he should love and cherish. It
'iithralls tho will end makes its victim 11
'hc I.-t me give you n single instau. e.
''The Hon. 'l'liomas P. Marshall was one of
Kentucky's most gilt. si sous. His brilliant,
jitcllc. tual endowments and splendid ora-lorn-ill
git t early attracted public attention,
m.l w. r.. lecogni.sl by his election to tho
Lower House of the National Congress.
Hut following the customs of the tunes hi.
..s ame addicted to the use of strong drink.
I'll.- I1.1l.it grew 11 1 h u bun until he Ihs-uiiio
ilariu.-d at himself. January T, IM'J, lu
inter.-.l the House in a state of nervous
K It . 1 in lit that was alarining. Approaching
loveriior llriggs, of Mussn.-husct ts, bis
ipis-ial friend, he implorisl help, and re
viving eii.-'.iii.iu-i'ineiit, he there, in tho
(.resell.-., of Ills lelloW-mellllH-rs, sign. si tho
iotal al.stllleuce pledge. Soon (.tier, hn
lignisl the pledge again iu the pr.-seu.s. of n
large concourse of the citi.eus of Washing
ton, where, on the same occasion, ho delivered
1 thrilling teniiM-run.-e address, th. the 'J.'.tli
)( February of the sumo year ho uddressisl u
iiass-uns-t.ng in the House of Representa
tives oil the inqsirtuu it total ulistineiios)
slid the danger of the drink habit.
"The Muy follow ing he came to this city to
lcliver an address Is-fore the American Tui-,-M-rauce
I'nion. w hich he did iu tho Hroud
s uv Tulx-rim. Ic. The follow ing evening ho
iM,o with great power in tho old Ori-cno
.-street Metlnslist r.i.isi-opal Church, of w hich
the vi ueruble and luiui-iited l'r. Hang wan
the pustor. For some time ho engaged earn
rstly iu the teinisTance reform movement,
llld seemisl to be emancipated from hi for
:ner ls.11.L1ge. Hut the enemy w lis only
,'huiu.sl for the time, awaiting bis oi iK.rtun
,ty. That oi.k. rt unity cmne. Mr Slursliall
hecame involvisl in a'ditllculty with J. Wat
. Webb, w hicll resulted ill a duel III w hieli
mo former ns-civeil u slight wound. Thl
was the opportuuity which his old enemy
d lss-n awaiting, und he was not slow Ui
luke udvuiitagc of It. Marshall won indue,, I
to drink to steady his nerves for the coutlict,
hut it was a fatal drink. At ouco the strong;
ni. -my that had lus-n Is. nn.l for a timn t.s.k
poKsission of his victim and Is.iind him for
the burning. Ill 1.', after lending the llfo
f 11 vagrant for a long s-ri.sl, Marshall was
found 11 1 ii the str.s-ts of l'oughkccpsic, N.
Y., u Hit hy, homeless vagabond. A former
friend tried to save him, but nil ill vain. Ho
rallied for a few days, and remained sols-r
long enough to deliver an uddress on tho -it I.
Df July of the year iitiuied, in w hich ho mam
tested some of the brilliance nnd eloquence of
liis best days but lie I' .-turned to tho South
slid to his debauchery, und soon thereafter hu
tilled u drunkard's grave. How few com
paratively that have Ix-cn once entlii alhsl by
ileolu.l recover their freedom and mitintiuil
it to tho end of life! AVie York l'oii-r.
UKATH To TliK llill.r.
"Alcohol is death to the bsly. The ma
who drinks it r. nilem himself susi-eplible U
liseuso, und particularly to discuses that pro
rail iu epidemic forms. When yellow fevel
r cholera upH-ar drinkers ure the Hist tote
Ittackeit. In the lust yellow fever epidemu
in Jacksonville, Fla., the physician reirtW
'.hat hard drinkers w ere tho Hrst to fall. Ha
tides rendering its victims susceptible U
llseuse aln.hoi Ii-sm-iis the )s.wer to resist tin
ravages of disease w hen once tho attack hat
x-cui-red. Tho drinker that I tittucked I.J
Any acute form of diseuso is likely to ssedilj
nice limb. Hut inure, ulcohol pro, luces a dm
.used physicul coiiditiim Inch is kuowu at
Alcoholism. What a harvest thl dost ro vol '
gather for the grave year by year." Foioa