JOW TO MAKE FRIEND3.
L flKN HIE DEFENDERS COME.
icrf(til Dlrlne Art Dl.cu.seil
Py the er. nr. nim.jo.
... n kifh A-fif tnt
L!iV.'4 fritndlv." rrorerb. srvlll., s.
- . " man - . ... ...
iw,nt th Micreo -
nv i -
. ilar r"shnsof lavld anaon laeoiner
tSFw&tof of Isaiah, th. greatorf .of th.
It m""'r of baphasard
. mmT friends we hava or whether w.
ZTS trUi at eJl: but then la nothing
Lndrtltal .bollt It. 1 UtT. 11
r". th secretion and dispersion of
Liulships. Tliey n ju ""II
ti.pt did not "Just happen so,'
FT 7 .i,- ..m lint hamen to rise or ot.
-.science, an art, God-Klrwi rejrula
" t.ii m how friendly you ar. toothori
L? I will tell you how friendly others ar. to
U I do not my you will not hav. ene-
.... r.lui.t n.tmttHi If Von irot
"., women will always have enemio be
lL..-nf the attack of your assailants.
' i I ...... Wr,,,-
ihutori will think of you. The bent friend.
,,rrr hnd apicsred at nome juncture when
err. civmllv Nnnliarded. There have
m times' in mv Uf. when unjust assault
i .(jpiirtl mr friend, a near a. I could
; ntf, iiKmt lifty a nilnuto. Vou nro
'in. t.n-iiiiB ixx'i'lo by many cord that
htW tin'" nor eternity nii brenk, and I
1 1 .irmnt tlmt nmny of those eord wer.
nit.-J hr h'inl malevolent Human na
i wa !iip Teeked nln)ut flfty-ninn con
t .- nc". tl.i' 1'aptaiu of tlmt crnft on.
iijiti. and hi tlm nmto, running thn fo
" rar' i nirrminil on a mnu In tho Kiver
ll l- ki'l; but there was at leant ono (food.
,tnf hiui'iiii imture thntwndd mf.'ly
I n fru'M tlmt nhipwreek, and that I th".
n.witi.m t tnke the part of thono unfairly
B.twlth. When it la thoroughly demon
ni.xl tlintk noma ono in being twriwv
... although ot the atart aliinderout
njm were busy enough, defender.
;iv catheretl around as thick n honey bee.
tiillincpf bruiwl honeyauckle. If, when
I upn by the fiirinn, you can have praee
hudh to kwp your mouth aimt, and ire
t ymir etpiipoia, ancl let other, tight
urUittles, j-cu will find yourwlf after a
i with a whole cordon of allies. Unci
i the world Riven to Christ on Hi. arrival
Iraliritlue a very cobl shoulder, there
ilil nt havelioen one-hnlf as many anceli
t:itinj clorv out of thn hymn lxxks of the
Inuml in blii'-k lids of midnight. Had it
twn for the heavy and jnKeJ anil tortur-
trnw. i nriAi wouiu not imvo uHn me aa
lrl and loved of more people thon any bo-
itno ever wuenen iikii on eimer tno enxt
iir western heiiiiophere. Instead, there
. of civiiiK up in dnair berauso vou
oinMiiifs, rejoice ill tint fai-t that they
tor you the nvwt, helpful ami eutbusiaif
.vlmirem. In other wnrdx, there I no
lence. huinimordialHilie, that ran hinder
tett from cominc truo: "A man that
Ui frunds must show himself friendly."
n iiij- ainuuion iirojeci, espooi.iuy
th Toumr. a thought which ma b-
tily sham their destiny for the here and
nerealter. lieMre you ahow yourself
V lly you mn!.t Imj friendly. I do not rec-
b:t':hi n uruuiaiizmi K.'niaillJ. mere I.
Ii a thing n pretomliiii to I en rapport
Luther when wo are their dire dmtruct-
k and talk against them anil wish them
liuity. Jmbs coverol up hii treachery
I ranundiii); kiss, and ciirvtiHe. may lie do-
iwm. ueiier ine myrnoiogicai Lertie
the three-headed dqjr of hell, burkiug at
than the wolf in aheep'. clothing, it.
lied hide covered up by deceptive wool,
its deathful howl cadenced Into on inno-W-ntine.
Disraoli write, of Iord
urwL who, after committing many
gf upou the people, aoerued suddenly
twenme friendly, and invitcl them to
uujuet. After iinwt of the course, of food
Iwen served ho blew a horn, which was in
n times a sipul for the servants to bring
hi dessert, but in this case it was the gig-
r atwuiiins to enter and slay tho guests,
pretended friendliness was a cruel fraud,
there are now poople whose smile is a
iiood. Before you begin to ahow yourw
friinlly you nuiiit be friendly. Uet your
t right with liod nnd man and this grace
Uivme eony. You may by your own
ktlon get your nature into u Hembluncu
lliis virtue, but the grace of God emi
li'iely lift you into it. Sailing on tho
tr Thames two veksels ran agrouml. Thn
its of one gut one hundred horse ami
hi on the grounded ship nnd pulled
n piece. Tho owners of tho oLher
J'li-d v.,l waited till tbo tiiles
J "i :id ea-ily I'oaUnl the ship out f nil
l ie. Ni, ho may ull nnd haul at our
iii'leii Iiiiimhii nature, and try to gut into
(r emdition; but there is nothin;; like
icatnc t:di-s '( Uo.t's uplifting grace to
i us into this kimllinuai I mil eulogizing,
hen umler the tlnsli of the Holy (iliost
s'oarowu fuililiw mul .l,.f.wt ,i .i
hiii-s, we will bo very lenient and very
with others. We will look int..
b"ter fur things (ximnuindntory and not
'J. ii Jim noiuu ruD vour nmi
nttie more vigorously you would mid a
in it, the extraction of which would
)ou o l,uy you would not uuvo mucU
to shoulder your liroadnx and go
w split up the beam iu vour neigh
T0. In a Christum m.!H u
ring the characters of those vou
Sl.in , i am u you "ill fluil
alilng in them ili.lir.htfi, I -.i o ... -
litmnof friendliness. You invito mo
nie to yur country a.vtt and spend a few
iBiiiikyou! Inrriynnbout noon of
ntiful summer day. What do you do
1,yr!veyou ti-ko xue out under
to the artitlcud luUo, the spotted trout
i iii a,,u,"K 'be white pillar, of
2 2k A ou t"kB n,e 10 tl10 tll nd
" whore you keep your fine stock, and
"o the Durham cattlo, and the OorJon
"ami the hiirh sttniiiuir t..l i.v nu.
P1 neizhilll?. thani.lv
aikinir fur linn,-.. n.u.Xn -...i .
turn down the road. Then we ro baeU
noil uu.i you Rl)t ,UIJ ju ,hu rj h
aQll Show tim L'..
the IUervtji.lt .... i- ....n
- 'II 1,1119 HUL
e ine intu tUu - a -i..!!:
mm cages, the ennarie. in the bay
oiV tUM "U'nces. Oti, my friei
virt , u" .tho fault
Uhil A. Uj tUU
116(1 of universal ,n :...
i.ti.lu
extol
1
. - IIULQ
Of Utllv.ra.,t f.l.,..JIl :n
.,, II HIULUUIUH WU1
ta U, a yt'i1" ? corning for a
Is it Jtfi ti'8air witn wootne., as
WLU-tt.whi,tla UP frin h
f ben we hear something bad about
k. nil "".Vy l'l-wd to be
take out your lead peucU and aay; "Let
ltth.t:I.'larpt th,4t "tory
sirauTn'r9, P"r.cnt. fr the habit of
Kd th. hticU MT who
tit?f 'r the Ution. which.
1 thlP 0 rvwyco'nunity has
tuoSi o? ', b" Pt Into cir
Uio off sevonty.flv cent Uui
U kwlnu friend. I cpea.-a Kioicr. on
Ei75Mr beard of any on. preacn ng
L,i JU (d thought It of .nough mportanc.
flHta th. mfcMl. of the Bible, thm
LK of Solomon, bounded on one aide by
ts
k i their Botnlnew W a perpetual renuKe to
Ell' but th' antagonism of foe. will male.
' ,,tetne th lore of your adherent..
t ... friMvl. will trather closer around you
Th.
k i i " w, rooms mine tree toi.
r,.J'iU: l.l.!8Vjir."nJ",t mys.df more in
k' hngth of tune. Now, why do we
P hat way i . .H.an! un clmra,.u,r4
p rs, am) .how tiie bloom uud the musio
pot LriK.it fountains? iio. We aay
p.'mfc and ht ,c show you that man'.
tiinH ti 'r.u , Kr"n eumimy frog
i l it , '"')'"ti'.V"llar, and I guesi
V2l JX Uf for uu m,ur or regale
jl hav. not hrard hln tid. of the atory at all,
and for that reason I take off th. remaining
itwenty-flvetwcent'' Excuse me, sir, I don't
beiieve a word of It.
i Hut here comes In a defective maxim, so
oftn otiotedi "Where there la so much
amok, there mnst be anme fire." lytok at all
the rnnoka for year, around Jenner.the Intro
doner of vaccination j and the amok, around
Columbus, the discoverer; and the amok,
around Martin Lnthar, and Savonarola and
Oalllto,and Paul. and John, and Christ. and Ml
me where was the fire? That Is one of th.
8a tan to art. to make smoke without fire.
Slander, like the world, may be made out ot
nothing. If the Christian, fair minded, com
mon aensical spirit In regard to other pre
dominated In the world, we should have tho
millennium In alxnit six weeks, for would not
that be lamb and lion, row and leopard lying
down together? Nothing but the grace oi
Hod ran ever put us into such a habit ot
mind and heart a. that Th. whole tendency
is in the oppote direction. This I the way
the world talks: "I put my name on the back
of a man', note, and I bad to pay it, nnd I will
never again put my name on the back of any
man', note. I gave a beggar ten cents, and
Ave minute after I saw bun entering a liquor
store to spend It. I will never again given
cent to a beggar. I helped that young man
tart In business, and lo, after a while, h.
came and opened a store almost next door to
mn, and stole my customer, I will never
gain help a young man start In business. I
trusted in what my neighbor promised to do,
and he broke hi. word, and the Psalmist was
right before he corrected himself, for 'all
men are liars.'" Ho men become suspicious
and saturnine and British, and at every addi
tional wrong done thorn they put another
layer on the wall of their excluslveneee, and
another bolt to the door that shut, them out
from sympathy with the world. They get
cheated out of a thousand dollars, or misin
terpreted, or disappointeil, or betrayed, and
higher goes the wall, and fnster goes another
bolt, not realizing that while they lock others
out, they lock themselves in; and mmt day
they wake up to find themselves Imprisoned
in n dastardly habit. No friends to others,
others nre no friends to them. There's an
Island hnlf way between England, Hcotland
nnd Ireland, called the Isle of Man, and the
seas dnsh against nil sides of it, nnd 1 am told
that there is no more lovely place than that
Islo of Man; but when a mnu becomes insular
in his disposition, nnd cuts himself off from
t main land of thn world's sympathii. ho
is despicable, and nil around him Is an Atlan
tic Icean of selllshnoM. lichold that Isle of
Man I
Now, supposing that, you have, by a divine
regeneration, got right toward (tod nnd Im
munity, nnd you start out to practice my
text: "A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly." Fulfill this by all forms of
appropriate salutation. Hove you noticed
that the head 1 so poised that the easiest thing
on earth Is to give a nod of recognition? To
swing the head from side to side, ns when it
is wagged in derision, is unnatural and un
pleasant; to throw it back. Invites vertigo;
but to drop the chin lu greeting is accom
panied with so little exertion that all day
long and every day you might practice it wit h
out the least semblance of fatigue. 8o also
the structure of tho hand indicates h.tnd-i link
ing; the knuckles not made so that the finger
ran turn ou, but so made that the fingers
ran turn in, as in clasping hands; and th
thumb divided from and set aloof from tho
fingers, so that while tho lingers tako your
neighbor's hand on one aide, the thumb takes
It on tho other, and pressed together, all the
faculties of tho hand givo emphasis to tin
salutation. Klve senium In evory healthy
band urge us to hand-shnking.
llesides this, every dav when you rtartout.
load yourself up with Idud thoughts, kind
words kind expressions and kind greeting.
AVhen a man or woman dou. well, tell him so,
tell her so. If you meet some one who is Im
proved In health, and It Is demonstrated In
girth and color, say: "How wall you look!"
lint if, on the other hand, under tile wear nnd
tear of life he appears pale and rxhnustcd,
do not introduce sanitary subject, or say
anything at all about physical conditions.
In the cao of Improved health, you have by
your words given another impulse toward
the robust and the Jocund; while In thn
case of the failing health you have arrost.ij
the decline by your silence, by which he con
cludes: "If I were really so badly off, b.
would have said something about it" We are
all, especially those of a nervous tempera
ment, susceptible to kind words and discour
aging words. Form a conspiracy against us,
and let ton men meet us at certain points on
our way over to business, and let each ono
aay: "How sick you look;" though
we should start out well, after meeting
the first and bearing his depressing saluto,
we would begin to examine your symptoms.
After meeting th. second gloomy accosting,
we would concludo we did not feel quite a
well as usual. After meeting thf third, our
sensations would bo dreadful, nnd after meet
ing the fourth, unless we expected a conspir
acy, we would go homo nnd go to lied, and
the other six pessimists would lie a useless sur
plus of discouragement My dear sir, my dear
iniiiliun, what do you mean by going uliout
this world with disliearteiiinunts? I not tho
supply of gloom and trouble and misfortune;
enough to meet tint demand without vmir
running a factory of pin and spikes? U'hy
should vou plant black und blue in the world
vi hen owl s. i sol. . mi phut tln-mr Plenty
of Mcnrlet colors, plenty of yellow, plenty (if
ureen, plenty or piiik, but very seldom a
plant black or blue. 1 never fjiw a black
tlower, and there's only here und thcreabluo
bell or a violet; but the blue 1 for the most
onrt reserved for tho hky. and wo have to
liMilt up to soo that, uud when wo look up no
color can do us barm. Why not plant along
the pat hs of others the brightnesses instead of
the glooms? Do not prophesy misfortune. If
you must lie a protihet nt all bit an Ezeldel
mid not a Jeremiitli. In ancient times proph
ets who foretold evil wore doiii't right for
they were divinely directed; but tho proph
ets of evil Id oiu- time are geuerully
false prophet, ftomo of our weather wbte
people are prophosying we shull have a sum
mer of unpuralleltKl scorch. It will not be'
that at all. 1 think we are going to have a
Bummer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate I know us much about it
as they do. ljut full all the weather proph
ets agreed in saying wo should have a win
tor of extraordinary severity, blixxurdou the
heels of blizzard. It was tho mildest winter
! ever remember to have pussed. Iiulotsl.l
the autumn and the spring almost shovel
winter out of the procession Keal trouble
have no heralds running ahead of their soiu-i
bcr chariots, and no emu has any authority,
in our time to announce their couiing. lxiuil
voursolf up with helpful words and deeds.
The hymn once sung iu our churches is unlit
to be sung, for it says:
We shnuM (import sms 'linger near
Wtiero suponni dellgbl.
In other words, nimage to keep misornbJa
all the time. The old song sung at the pianos
a imarter of a century ago was right: "Kind'
Wonl Can Never llle." Such kind words
have their nettu iu kind heart, and when
tney a ro hatched out and take wing they cir
cle round in flights that never cease, ami
nporUmau's gun caunot shoot them, and
storms cannot rutile tholr wiugs. and when
they cease tiight in thuee lower skies of earth
they sweep around amid the higbur altitude,
of heaven.
Ob, what a glorious state of things to have
the friendship of Uod I Why, we could afford
to have all tuo world agolubt us and all other
worlds against us if wo had Clod for us. He
could iu a minute blot out this universe, and
iu another minute make a better universe. 1
have no idea that thid tried hard when Hel
made all things. The most brilliant thing
known to us is light, and for the creation of
that He only used a word of command. As
out of flint tho frontiersman strikes a spurk,
so out ot one word Uod struck the noouduy!
sun. For the making of the present universe
I do not rood that Uod lifted so much as a
linger. The bible frequently speaks of
God', hand, and Uod's arm, and God',
shoulder, and Uod's foot; thon aup
pose He should put hand and arm and
shoulder and foot to utmost tension, wliuS
':ould He not make? That God, of such,
lemoustratod and undomoustratod strength,
ou may have for your present ami evorinsw
ig frioud. But a stately and reticent friend,
ird to got at, but as approachable us s
mutry mansion ou . summer day when all
.i door, and window are wide open.
Christ .aid: "I am th. door. And Tie hi
wide door, a high door, a palace door, an
always open door. My four-year-old child
got hurt, and did not cry until hour, after
when her mother came home, and then ah.
burst into woeping, and some of th. domes
tics not understanding human nature, said
to herj "Why did you not cry beforef 8he
answered: "There was no one to cry to."
Now I hay. to tell you that while human
sympathy may b. absent divine sympathy
Is always accessible. Uiv. God your
love and get His love; your service
and secure ni. help; your repentance
and have Hia pardon. God a friend? Why.
that means all your wound, medicated, all
?'our sorrows soothed, ami If some midden ca
nstrophn should hurl you out of part h It would
only hurl you Into heaven. If God Is your
friend, you cannot get otit of the world too
quickly or suddenly, so far as your own hap
piness Is concerned. There were two Chris
tians Inst Tuesday who entered heaven; tha
one wa. standing at a window iu perfect
health watching th. shower, and the light
ning instantly slew him; but the lightning
did not flash down th. sky as swiftly ns his
spirit flashed upward. The Christian man
who died on th. same day next door had
been for a yearor two falfing in health, and
for the last three months hnd stiff ered from a
disense that made, thn nights sleepless and th.
days an anguish. Do you not really think
that the ense of tho one who went instantly
was more desirable than the one who entered
the shining gate through a long
lane of insomnia and congestion? In
the one case, it was like your standing
wearily nt a door, knocking and waiting, and
wondering if it will ever open, and knocking
and waiting again; while in thn other case.
It was a (winging open of the door at tbe
first touch of your knuckle. Olvo your
friendship to God, nnd ianve God's friendship
for you, nnd even tho worst accident will I
a victory.
How refreshing Is human friendship, and
true frlonds, what priceless treasure! When
sickness come, and trouble cninen, and death
comes, we send for our friends first of nil,
and their nppcaranco in our dorrwny In any
crisis 1 re-enforcement nnd when tfiev have
entered we nv: "Now it is all right:1' Oh.
whr.t woiiM wo do without friends, personal
friends, business friend, family friends? Hut
we want something mightier than human
friendship in the great exigencies. When
Totinthnii Edward In bis final hour had given
tho last good-by to all bis cart hi V friends,
ho turned on his pillow and closed Ms eye.
confidently wiving: "Now where i Jesus
of Nazareth, my truo nnd never failing
friend? Yes, I admire human friendship as
seen in thn case of David nnd Jonathan, of
1'nul and I nciiphoru,of Herder and Goethe,
of Goldsmith nn Hevnolds, of lteaiimont and
Fletcher, of Cowley nnd Harvoy, of Eras
mus nnd Thomas for of losing and Men
delssohn, of Endy Churchill nnd Prince.
Anne, of Orestes nnd Pylade. each re
questing that himself might take the pointof
tlio dagger so the other might bo spared; of
Epauiliinndn nnd TYIopidn, who locked
their shields ill Imttle determined to die to
gether; but the grandest, the mightiest, th.
teudcrest friendship in nil the universe
is tho friendship between Jesus Christ
nnd a lielievlng soul. Yet after all
I have said I feel I bavo only done
what J ami's Marshall, the miner, did
iu HH, in California, before it. gold mine
were known. Ho reached In and put
iism the table of hi employer. Captain aut
ton.athiinblefill of gold dust. "Wheredid you
get that?" said bis employer. Tho reply was:
"I got It this morning from a mill race,
from which the water hnd liecn drawn off.
Kut that gold dust, which could have ls-en
taken up 1st ween tho linger and the thumb,
was tho pniphis-y and sjieuimen that revealed
California's wealth to all nsstion. And to-day
I have only put Is'fore you a secimen of tlm
Value of divine friendship, only a thimbleful
of mine inexhaustible and infinite, though'
all timo and all eternity go on with th. ex
ploration, TIIE CnOWTII OK TFMI'KIIANCF.
Any ono who reue'iulr th. drinking
habits of thirty or forty year ago, or any
mm who has studied the record ot social cus
toms in New England since the settlement of
the country, must heaware that a steudy and
immense gain in the direction of temperance
has been made, which ha extended to all
classes of society, eicept possibly to the very
most unfortunate. Th. drinking custom, of
the inst generation are well known. Hcene
nt the tables of thn wealthy and cultivated
were tolerated, and in fact expectod, which
would now irrec-laiiiidhly disgrace respectable
people. Tb clergyman bad hi. pitcher of
rum on the pulpit with which to moisten hi.
lips us hu discoursed Usni thn moral virtue.
There are i.till extant lulls for quantities of
intoxicating liquor, usisl nt "raisings" of
church buildings, and paid for by the rish,
which show an astonishing consumption of
Intoxieniit and an absolute toleration of their
use. The pe.il of rum sUmk! upon thocoiinter
of the country store, nnd customers helieil
themselves w ith a dipper. The results of all
this were what Welii to he exjMs teil. In tint
parish record of deaths, a hundred year
ago, tho word "alcoholism" and "drink''
placed opsisil certain names as the cause of
death, ligure with startling frequency.
The fad i that the gem-nil community ha.
ndvauitsliu a most marked degree in point of
temM'i'iiuce. The change bus been so radical
that it bus entensl into the life and habit. of
the mple; und it has bivn brought nbout by
the inllil' iice of iin!i i'luiil i, pillion mul tlm
growth of individual coux'iviico. Uustun
i'rc.ntcrijit.
whis::y r.'.r;:;? tii? int-iav r.EVAi.T.
Captain l-'.toueh. Third infantry, husreort
ed to the War Department the tollowiug re
sult of the investigations of Captain Ilun
liey, Third infantry, into the recently repriz
ed Indian outbreak ut the Miilo Lacs ltujorva
tiou, D. T. :
"The shooting of tho whito man was the
result of drtinkf iiuuhs. Three families who
left tho licighlxirhood of the Indian camp
were new arrivals, Swede, and were fright
ened olf by drunken Indian. They were
atxmt six miles oif . The Indians will deliver
up the one who did the shooting, Wadela,
ns soon as the t-iheiiir conies for him. He will
lint leave his present wherealMiuts. The shoot
ing tHik place in the Mille I.acs country.
There seems to bo some apprehension on thn
Jiart of white, and some ill will on the part of
niliaua, partly because of the accidental kill
ing of ono of their number hist w inter, by a
white man, and partly l ecnunt they still
think they have some title to the land here
alsiuts, but thorn is no danger of nu out
break. When drunk they may have luade
threats, but there is littln in them. Tho whis
ky and alcohol trad. Ut;jUwii . fejtuiuy
the tuulUtr."
rxcLAMn cnowino sritiF.n.
P.ev. K. E. Hale, says in the Cosmuiiolitun:
W hether auyof the great moral wars which
have been set on foot by such men as Euther
Matthew, or the Washiugtouiuns, or by the
red ribbon movement, or the women's union,
can show as great a result as this, it would
lie hard to say. Tho reduction of tbeamount
tif liquor coiumned in England in the last de
cade was, till 1m7, so considerable a to af
fect vibibly what Mr. Gladstone called "thn
drink revenuo." The year 17 brought an
Increase, but it was siipixsted that this was
due to the festivities in cnusoouence of the
Queen's Jubilee a sad enough issue to a
popular celebration. At the moment when I
write thuso lines, we have not Mr. lialfour's
budget soech of 1KHS and can aot tell whether
the consumption of liquor fullagulu after the
jubilee was over.
All this reduction Is due to steady "temper
ance work" of the old-fashion kind In Eng
land; totlio-'Uisl itibbon Movement," uud
the "Salvation Army." and other vigorous
nnd manly endeavors to r.iake men refuse to
drink who drank before you jwrsuadod them.
Undoubtedly such work can b. advanced
by ex)iedients like those of "prohibition,"
and by every device by which the nuisance
of the open bar is suppressed.
Hut tho two classc of niove:ueut must go
baud lu baud,
Th. peal anarchist, say Rev. p. s. Han
son, D. 1., Is th. aaloonlKt. But instead of
.hooting bim or stringing him up w. givo
him a charter as illimitable m the wiud and
wuku biut uu Aldurmau.
SUNDAY " SCIIO'JL.
ML'HJ EC 1' F O It ! VS DA V, .1 V I.Y 1 4
'Hi Pnrmwliil Death or HI" t
lain,, iv 1 lit -nMeiiirxt I.
twiui., Mi., 1:1 Vote.
' 1. "The word of Pntnuel came to nil Tsrnel."
ITbat I. tlie word of th. Ird t hrough Samuel,
for ho, as the Lord's prophet, would snl:
jth. Lord's meeeago (Hag, 1., HI); and thus nil
Israel would know through him the will of
th. Lord. In studying nny portion of tlm
history of Israel we must rememlier that
Ithey were chosen by God from nniong all tlm
nation, of th. earth and placed In tlmt good
,land in order that He through them might
mako Himself a name nnd lie ningniMisI by
'them in the eyes of all tho notions (II Ham.
yii.,!W; 1 Chr. xvil., 21; Isn. Ixiii., I J), Ho
showing in every way that He hnd m.ulo
thorn a peeulinr people unto Himself (Kx.
Six., 51. "Israel went out against the Philis
tine. to battle." It was during a forty years
oppression of Israel by tho Philistine that
Kamson wa. enabled by tho Hpirit of God to
do his mighty works, and it was by the Phil
istine that Israel wns defeated when Haul
and hi. anna were slnlu; if we judge from I
Kara, xvil., 2rt, Vt, we nre to look upon them
ns dellers of tho living Gtxl, tho God ot
Iararl, over wdiom truo Israelite, should al
ways have tho victory. (Dent, xxviii., 7.)
I 9. "Israel wns smitten before tho l'bsti.
Itinoa." This indicate that Uod was not wit h
them, for hnd Ho boon In their mldxt vHory
would have lieen certain; "one should chasn
a thousand nnd two put ton thousand to
flight." Ho had promised to tight for them
when He sent them forth (Dmit. 1., 3d; Iii.,
2; sxxii., Un, so that this going out ngniusf,
tho enemy and this defeat wns not thn re- ult
of Ofsl's loading. Whon they were defeated
at At It wa lieeanso of sin in the camp, and
tho sin which Ell knew nnd did not put away
may bavo Uvn partly the causo of thin de
feat; but our next Iokboii will tell us that they
had a a nation forsaken Uod (ehnp. vil.,
and this jii,l;uniiit reminds us that "the hand
of our Uod i iiHn all them for good tlmt sk
Him; but Mi (tower and His wrath is neninst
all them tlmt forsake Him." (Kr.rn viii.,
8. "lt Uh fetch the ark of the covenant of
the Iord; It maysnvo us." They
did nol liMik to tho ljnrd to save them, thev
weronot nt this timo worshiping Him, but
idoln, and tney KjM n'c of this holy vessel ivi if
it wore nn Idol which peihnps mny hnvii
more power than tbo other idols which they
womhipnd; butthoir iniquities had sciwuat. I
between thorn and 15ml, and their sins hud Iiij
111 face from them (Isa. lix., S; Jer. y., AV.
4. "So tbo people sent to rihilnh, that they
might bring from thence tho ark of tho cive
nant of tho Iionl of Host, which dwclletli
betweeu tho cherubim." Thus they mid sin
to sin and are an blinded Hint they wi not thn
euonnity of this siu. Consider tho signill
canco of this holy vessel, mentioned eleven
time. In this chapter, and that it place in
tho tnhernnrle was In thn Holy of Holies into
which tho High Priest alone entered but one.t
year and never without the blood of Urn
sacrifice, typifying tho blood of Josus Christ;
oomudiTalsotliiiexpnKiioir'dwelloth lM-twccti
the cherubim" found here for the first time,
and only seven time in nil Scripture (II Mam.
vi., 8; II Kings xix., 1.'.; I Chr. xiii., '.; P.
Ixxx., 1; X'-ix., 1; Isa. xxxvii., Ifi; cnri-ving;
us bnck to Ex. xxv., '.'J, whT wo llnd it
origin. Tho Iml of Host will la cut rvnt.il
by, and do great things for, every snitout.
heart that humbly seeks Him, but w hen sin H
blind and blasphemous hands npproa'A Hun
they can only export His wrath.
6. "All Israel shouted with n great snout."
It was not like the great shout when tho waHt
of Jericho fell, or when tho fuumbition of tho
neooml tcmpio was mid (Josh, vi., 'J; Kzru iii.,
11-1H), for then it was a shout Us-auso tho
Lord was in their midst and tho work wn
for His glory, but this wa dimply tho shout,
of Israel without reference, to thn glory ot
Uod; It may bav. been a louder shout tlinu
on tho other ocensioua, but it was all uoiso
w ith no power to it.
M. "God 1. coma Into the camp." When
the Philistines beard tho shout, and under
stood the cause of it, they were afraid, sup
posing the ark was Israel's Uod a Dagon
was theirs, but although they trouible at tho
possible result, remembering what they had
hoard of the wonder in Egypt and in tho
wildernewa, they are ready to mako trial of
tho !WL-r of their god against Israel's Uod
and urge their soldiers to li strong and quit
thomsixlvoa like men, least they btss.nm ser
vants to tho Hebrew. It is not to bo won
dered at that the Philistine knew not tho
God of Israel nor His niightv jsiwer, when
Israel knew not their own God nor relied
Upon Him. Had He Indeed come into tho
tamp of Israel tlmt would hovo settled thn
matter.
10. "Israel was smilton; there
fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. " Is
raid wivs chosen to rely upon God that Ho
inbhtshow forth His oer, nnd whenever
alio failed todo so bcr defeat wns sure. Two
things were rtspilrssl of her; that she should
tt holy mid by implicit reliance upon, andobe.
Jieiiro to her Uod, ningiiify His name. Thn
name two thing nro required now of every
Christian andnf every church.
11. "Tbo ark of U, si was taken;
the two anus of Kli were slain.'' Thn next
two chapters tell of tlm joiirneyingsof theai'lc
in the land of Philistines, and how the bniid
of the lord was against thn xsiplo wherever
it re-sled until they were glad to return it I i
Israel with an otToring. Uud will see to Hit
own glory and w ill earn for Hi own ark,
i von if Iii people despise Him and the enemy
soom for a time to priwpcr.
1U-17. "Eli sat upon u scat by thn wayside,
watch lnf for hi luwrt truuibhsl for the ark
. t Uod." Only twice outdidc of these Untt foul
chanter, of I Ruinuel do wo llnd tlm name of
Eli in th. Diblo (chap, xlv., 8; I Kings, ii..
27), yet he lived to be l years old and judged
Israel forty years, no (loos not stHn to bav.
wulked very closely with Uod or to have been
Very intimate with Him.
Hi. glory of Israel was not tho house of
Eli, of which four died thutdnv, nor oven tho
ark itself, precious holy vessel though it was:
but Uod liiiiDMilf, the Uird of Hunts, tho Gi
of Israel, whom no Philistine could touch,
and whom the death of all tho priest ami
Jirophet. that ever lived could not affect,
et us fix our eye ujion Jesus, rely wholly
upon Iliui, keep His oommuudmnnta, inagtit
fy His naino, setik His glory, nnd losing sight
of self, or church, or denomination, except iu
to far ns thoy mny honor Him, seek with thn
wholo heart and nil our might to hasten the
completion ot Hit church uud the coming of
His Kingdom. i
18. "when bo made mention of the ark of
God ho died." Tho man of benja
min who brought tho tiding from tho Held
of battlo broku them to Eli a gitilly as pos
sible, reserving tho worst lor tho last.
"Israel is Hod, a groat slaughtor,
thy two sons aro dead, tho
ark of God is token;" but it is too much for
tho old man, and when it Is mentioned that
tho ark i. gouo he fall buck ward and dies;
and unw the ear. of all Israel aro tingling be
cause of the judgment of tho Lord iin tho
bouse of Eli, on account of sin tolerated in
high place. (Chap, ill., U-14). What shall
it be like when "tho Lord cometli ontof Hia
Jiloce to punish the inhabitants of thenar Ui
or their iniquity" (lsn. xxvt, 81), nnd how
would you stand should Ueoomu to-day?
Lt$o Utlptr, .
"l nnng to maxu me work," said a young
mnu to an olV ray-headed man of 70. " Yen,"
he replied, "it will. I thought just so. I have
buried two boys in druuarkd' graves. Iain
an old man aud fcoblo. I have sHut a com
pelunoe in drink, and now my overtyeom
!) me to work when I should have rest. Ye,
drink and it will make you work, young num.
I'D. aaloonkoepersof New York are making
an effort to Introduce the system ef coru
wtmenU in their establislunenU, with place.
wher moo m.1 womou ran drink togelher. (
Th. newspaper are already pointing out that
4 It fax sjaritl r.a . il - I. m I
this will b. on. of tho most baleful result.
iroo ruiQ."
RELIGIOUS READING.
"i.rrrt.t cmi.rnr.!, i.ovk oxb akothkr."
A little girl, with a happy look.
Kit slowly remlt'ig a p mderoiis Itook,
All lionnd with silver nnd cdg.-d with gold,
Ana It weight was more than tli. child
could hold;
Yet dearly shn loved to ponder It o'or,
And every day she prized it more.
Eor it snid and alio looked at her smiling
luolher
It said; "Little children, lore ono another."
Rhe thf ti-rlit It was beautiful In the Jbvdc,
And the .,on honvi to her heart shetisik:
Hhe walked on her w ly with a trusting
grace.
And a dove-like look In her meek young
face,
Which snid jut ns plain ns word could any,
"The Hoiy bible 1 must obey;"
80, mamma, 1 II Ut kind to my darllni
brother,
For little children must love each other.
I'l tnsorry he's naught v, and will not play:
Hut I'll love bim still, fur I think thn way
To make him gentle nnd kind to me
Will I) better shown if I let Idol sen
I strive todo what I think Is right,
And thus when 1 kins I In prayer tonight,
1 w i'l clasp my hand et oim I mr brother.
And say, l.ittlecliildrcn, love one another."
The little girl did ns her Itible taught.
And pli'i-niit Imbed was tho change It
wrought;
Kor the lsiy looked up In glad surprise,
To m et the light of Ic r loving eve;
His Inait wa full, hn cull, I not ssnk,
Hut be pressed a kiss on bis sister's chifk:
And Uod I'H.kisI down on that happy mother,
Whoto bltlc children loved each other.
Itvx nr K.XITIt.
Have v 11 cter tlnui.tht of the llfocfn
child? Vbv, the life if II I'hll I Is a S'I f.s't
lite of faith, 'licit little child what can
that littl child do? Why, it could not llnd
its way to tin- slns, eiel and buck again. It
Would b-lost if jmi trusted it nlono. It
could In ! lil.it thn next lllelll. If left bl
itself, i- xv, ml, I die of XMint. The little one
could not liirnish 11 shelter for its head t -it
- lit And xer, has the child iinv fenr
nboiit If has It any sort of iilarm alnnit it?
N, t lit nil. I low come it the child s life is
ho hut ox ? liecaiise It K instinctive! .-, n life
of faith. The child 1 1, not buv the next
loaf, but it has 11 llrin b-lief that "fat her''
can. It could not provide for ilsclf the gar
ments for tomorrow, but it has unbounded
faith in 'father' nnd "mother' s' power to
do it. It is 11 bin of p rfect faith.
A Cllll.tl'H Mlllir.
Thero Is often a d pth of w isdom In thn
thoughts nnd savings of the little ones which
maturity hn failisl to fathom, and which
those who urn but "children of a larger
growth might do well to apply. Such wis
dom wa beautifully cxeiuplllled III the ensn
of n little girl who once returned toiler home
from a Jaunt iu tlm wissls. h r f i e c tvered
with 1110 quito bile.. "Why did you not
drive them 11 nay?'' wild the 'unit her. "Thev
would not so," said the child. "Why did
vou not kill them?" "! would not' bav
Won right," wns tln an-Mvr. "Hut I bavn
Seen Voll kill thrill lit home " urged tho sur
prised mother. "Ye mnniii i," argued tlm
child liruilv, "If they c 1111 into niv boiisn
nnd bile me. I kill them. Hut if I go into
the woods that is their house aud I have no
rl.t to kill them."
XVAIT AMI KK.
"I never let bairn or fisil see mv pfe
tine until they are done," said a Scotch
nrtist to ine one.., quoting a tnniilmr prov
erb of In counti t men. Wo are nil but
bairn in God s si ht, mul xx-e sadly tdny thn
fii in regard to Hi providential dealings.
As no nrtist is willing to have Judgment
plonuunitsl upon painting or statue until
tho woik Is conipletisl, so our heavenly
Teacher bids 11 sisi-sour souls in pat intuit.
"What I do thou knowe.-t not now, but thou
rhalt knoxv berenltcr." Vi'o must wait ami
see. This world is but tlm preparatory
school, In w hich character is on the easel or
under thn chisel; cxhd.i'ioii days will coiun
in another world, ibsl'shinnl lays 011 dark
color very often; IlischU'l cuts ilis p. No
trial of our fiiith is Joyous, but grievous;
licvei tlnlesM, aflerxvard, it may workout tho
eternal weight of glory.
Ill) Vlif l-lt.xv IN HKi'HKTf
Prayi rfiilness xvill scare, ly I1 kept up loti
linle-s yoti set iipart tune- nnd srasi us for
prayer. There urn no limes laid dmvn iu
Jscripturn except by thn cxaniple of holy
no 11. for the I. old t ril-ts iiiik-Ii to the love of
bis -s ij le and to 1 be spontaneous mot n ,11s of
the iin cr lile. He dies not sty, "I'layat
t o'clock iu the morning or pray nt,
in at or !i, or d. or 1 1 ,' but s.iv. "I'lav
without c using. " Yet evi ry Christian wilf
I111 I it ii-. Mil to bnve bis regular tines
I r ni u ,10, ni, and 1 doubt xxhether imy
- Ml i I It'll t I'ietV call be Xvilllollt these he.lsollS
b' jcg carel'ullv and nTiq,uiui-dv observed,
W e re ni ill I he old trad. lions of James thn
Ap ,stle that lie primd so much that hn
Lines gicw I11111I t(iroiij.h long knisling;'
nl it is 11 corded by I'o.x. tlnU
I nt mer, during the time of his im-i
Iuisoiiiueiit was si much upon hi.
ii.e. ti nt fn qiienl Iv the M,or old iiim iii
could not rise in his meals, mid had to Is
lilt d up by his servants. When he cold nn
h n .'el' pi en Ii and xx a.s iiiimurcil w ithin stonn
walls his pray' I J xxent up to heaven fur his
nunf ry, nnd we nre in these time receiving
the blessing. Daniel prayed with tho win
lows ojs'ii daily and at regular interval.
".Seven tunes a day." sailli one, "will I piaiso
Tine.' David declared th it nt "evening,
and morning, and at noon," would be wusl
ti I k u Uod, till, that our interval of prayer
were not so distant one from tlm other;
would Uim) that on the piUnin ige of life tho
wells nt which we drink were more frequent,
lu tills way should wo continue iu prayur.
iV, lll'Oi'UU.
pnt'SKAnns' nvKprrstA.
Alcohol, says Dr. Oswald, in the Voice, has
bivn mistaken for a pentic stimulant, but fow
physician, would now deny t ho correctness of
Dr. Urahuiu's conclusion that "110 form of
indigestiou is more, ilillicult to euro than
drunkard's dyspepsia." Tbo proiimatn cause
of that uxMrieuce can bo realied by a study
of th" plates in the llritish College of Sur
geon (or a similar set iu the Mistical Depart
ment of Columbia College, New York), repre
senting the progressive elt'.-ct of ulcohol on
the tissue of tho hiiinun stomach. Instead
of tho pulo reddish color of the gastric mem
brane 111 a stato of health, the lining of the
drunkard' stomach exhibits all the evidence
of chronic iiilluiiiiuutiou; engorgement of tho
blissl vessels, ulceration, contraction and
col,. it y of tho mucous tegument, nnd uu
uphtlious, or mildewed iipjHirnnce of the
lacerated sin fuis. Alcohol often completely
changes thn structure of the liver. It studs
it witli tubercles, anil by obstructing the
X'nscular ducts expands the diseased organ to
twice, and sometimes to Uv.i times its naturul
size, but at the samo time more and morn
disiiuuliilu it for the proper performance of
its functions. Tho weight of a healthy liver
varies from five to eight iunris; and Pro
fessor Youmuns mentions the post mortem
examination of an Kuglish drunkard whoso
liver was found to xxelgh tif ty pounds, and
who, nevertheless, Imd died from a deficiency
of l ilc. ly congest ion the blisul vessels and
tho bile secreting cells, beer as well as brandy
tends to disorder diginUvj' functions even of
moderate ilrinl.-c re; and al ter continuing tho
uso of alcohol for five year.-, few drutn-drink-rr
fail to exp -rienco the consequence! of tho
diseiiki) known nH "fntty degeneration of the
liver." 11 complaint which in tunny cusr de
stroys ilm tissue of roiir-llfths of the affected
organ, a. tuUerWes dootroJT W eo;TU:ii tho
.W'VoyilUisJsiu.
Thrre Score and Ten.
Mr.. Jnlia Ward Howa hu Jna
celebrated, at hor home in Bonbon, th
aayctitielh ntibivorsarj of her birthday.
Kim was the recipient of many Rift
anil letter, from tlm leading author
and reformer.. Among thuao was
brnutiftil clioeolatn )t In retmnasi
eilver. Tjion the Imttmn wa. the fol
lowing iimcritition : "Presented t
Jnlia Ynrd llowe on her aeyetilietl
birthday 1y tho Fortnightly Club of
I'hieago, Jlay 27, lSH."
Tlm letter, contained enttprnttilA
tiotiH from lr. Oliver tidell I Inline. ,';
tlwirKe William Ctirti. Miclinrd Wat
con tlilder, Mr. MueVengh. of thai
t'liicnRo rortnitrhtlv Cltili. Sculptor
i.i x xvAiin ituxx p.
Story of lluiiie and nlher. Mr. tiildcf
ilinppcil into punt ry wiih tlii scnti
1 o ut :
, fi w bnve riniiidiil out so full n life.
I'r-est. ss of 1 n-lit.sMis nt and Imlv c'lii-e;
Poet 11 n l -nt,-, fiii inl. si .ti-r, in, , 'In r wi'e,
lniU li It itu Unit noble In art shull iin.
. Fourth of July Fplsntlo,
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"w.u Pool iliu;ot to i.i:t t;o."
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Tub testimony In tbo A. T. Stewart wilk
contest iu New York city covered 1 0,000.
folios, aud twenty-fivecopius of it have been
made at a cost of ulsmt t'lS.mt. If there is
a uomproiuise, Judge Hilton will have to pay
this and everything eluo. ItoscouCoukliUKla)
rutaiuer was t-U.oiki, and thoee of several)
other lawyers xvure not much less.
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