V offl"Ttl T aw . I a - Vttfff1 lEBMON BY D1V TALMAQE. HT Hootni Tber- Am la tb Heavenly Manaioa. "fimy Flhtr'$ Aomm art many babnttleof medicine that to a cur I ,, Th disciple wore eaa ana i,nn oi-I!1- .V1'. i. .n alternative, a gtrmulant IK ?nl(. Up ,liowa them that their or ! only lkF?"Bd of br'?h Kjrfur of cnn.ii.g felicity, lie lei hn know that tnongn now wiey un fTth lowland ha11 T Sai on tba uplamla. 'Nearly all I the .tibia Srt of' hvn may be flnraro. i mi d.. p."Ura that in all heaven there to 1 -Jr-n or hum or nearly rata or asYeor chariot. They may borynel KiStrata th plorhja of tha place, but how "J, tll(,r itl Tha favorite symbol by ...i it. Ma nreeenta celeertinl happmasi u house Vtuil. who never owned a hnnsa, Suf h ha hired one for two years in Italy, "2,v,0( heaven " "houaa not mad with Jk- and Christ In our text, the transhv Ya o which I a little changed soa te give U mora accurate meaning, sava: "In my l'sthr's house are many rooms. " TIS divinely authorised comparlami of kmren to a preat homestead of Urge nceom inoilsuens 1 (tropes to curry out. In somo bmllhy neighborhood a mau build ft nimmodious luibftatlon. Ho inuxl iiVe twin '" " uis rhlldren. The come to be called after tlie different member of tha family. That la mother's rK)m. That to tteorga' room. That is Henry's room. That I Florae foom. That to Mary'e room. And tho honse it ail occupied. Hut time jroos by and tha sns P 't i"1" the world and build thoirown homo and daughter are married (t have talent enongh singly to bo ont and do a good work hi the world. Attar a wliilo the father and mother are almost alone lit the Bijt houso and, seated by tho overling, stand, they say: "Well, our family to ni i.ntr now thnn whon we started together vears airo." Dut time anas still fiirtlMr hT (in.l unlit 'f tho children aro unfortunti 1 . . . . . I.. ..I I 1 . 4 1 4. I . tn. r-III. U l4' l-un uiii i.Fiiirr.M-iii ii iitu, tnil the grand-clillilran como with them, and lrlmp gnat-srnndchUdrcn, and again ihrf b"ti- to full. Many millenuia nj:o Uo'l built on the hills of Hniv. en a prrnt Lnmeetend for n family innumor nlile, vet to be. At llrt lie liwl alone in tint iront Iioiue, but aftr a whilo it waa occujiied by a very largo family, charubic, tornplik', niiRolifl. Tho vtornitios paMMd on and many of tha inhnbitanta bwamo way inl and left nover Ut return. Aul many of the aimrtinenta were vacated. I rofar to the fallen nn;;cLi. plow thene apartmeute nr filling up ui;nln. Thoro nro nrrivoto at the old liomante.nl of Uod's rhildreu evory day, and tbo dav will cmie whun there will be no unoccupied room in all the hotua. Al you nud J expect to enter it and make Ihnroetrrnul resiiluuro, I themht you would like to cct aoiiin moro t(rticiiUr about that many-roomed liomonU-nd. "In iuy r'athar't hnuf'o aro many roonn.'' You see tho pUvn U to be apportioned olf into nrtn.eutM. We nlmll lovu nil who nro in heaven, but thoro are some very giod tieoplo whom we would not want to livo with in tlm same room. Thov nmy lie bettor than wo aro, but they are of a divergent temperament. We would like to meat with thorn on the golden utreeln nud worship with thotu iu the temple nnd walk with them ou tho river bank, but I am clad, to sav that wa huiiII livo In different npartmunt. "In my Fathar'a hoaw are ninny rooms." You too heaven will be so Inrgo that if oue want an ontlro room to himself or herself, it can lie nlfordod. An In genious stutiNtii'lun taking the statomont made in ltevelntion, twenty-first ehaptor, that tbe heavenly Jerusalem was measured and found to be twvlvo thousand furlongs and that the length and hoicht and breadth of it are expial, says that would make heaven In size (MS aaxtUUoa Wi qutntiliion ruhlo foot, and then renorTinfC a certain portion for the court of heaven and the streets, and estimating that toe world may last a hundred thousand years, be ciphers out that there are ovor live trillion rooms, oarh room seventeen feet lone, sixteen foot wide, flteon feet hinti. But I have no faith in the accuracy of that calculation. lie make th rooms two small. F. -m all I can read, tho toums will bo lialatinl, aud thuee who have not bad enough room in this world wiU havo plenty of room at tho lot. Hie fact ia that most ticoplo In Ihis world are crowded. and though out on a vast prairie or in a ,.......:.. .1!. ..-!.. i i.. 1 muuiiuiiii tiinvi iui. xi)iu uinjr nave more room than tlicy want, in most caies it is hoaxe built close to house, and tho stroeta are crowilod aud tho crudlo to crowdivl by other cradled, und the graves crowded in the comotery by other graves, and oue of the riehoxt luxuries of many pcoplo in cetting out of this world will bo tha gaining of uiihimlorod and ui.crampnil room. And I should not wonder if InsUvtil of the room thnt tho statistician ciphered out an only seventeen fotttby sUtoim, it should be larger than any of tho imperial rooms at Ber lin, tt. James or A'ii.Ur l'nlaco. "In my Father's Isouso ore many rooms." Carrvin'? -out still further the symbolism of tho text let us joiu hmuls aud go up to this uiajestio bon.eskad and seo for ourselves. Aswe ascend the golden steps, an invisible guorduunn swings oien tho front door mid we aro ushered to tho right into the recop Eou room of tho old homestead. That to the tilacowUi ro wo first meet tho welcome of heaven. There must be a place where tha tepartad spirit enters and a place in which it 'iiira. vua mnau.uuiui CMixaliaL Tha rite feptlou room of the nowly a.rtvo.1 from thti world what acunos it must havo witnessed ajj.ee the llntt gmwt arrived, the victim of the llrst frutrl. ido.piom. Abel. In that room Christ lovingly Krooted all uew com rs. Ho redeemed, them and llo bus the fight to the llrst embrace on their arrival. hat a miuuto when tho oscendod spirit llrst tJ'?,1L"'', t,l0 w "vxr read bout Him or talked about Him or sans about Him in all the chiu-ol.Bs aud throu 'U all our earthly lifetime, will it be, Just for one second to seo Him. The most Traplurous Idea we ever hail of Him ou sacramental days or at tho ludght of soma jri et revival Z'lZ t" u)'UtUil Utou ot oratorio the Hnl,UT "'."wnsM "'"'Pared with mJr tT.,,,"1' ut Jlw. "I'lrance in that nTu when you a.,i v.).. io7iiiii.... A.r'Li : JI?U ' TtZn ' !" , ."'irgin.- of emotion that Z f u"''.'"--Hl"-iou. hook I They m, ,, - - - t'u vim miui y e&tuj, tii , "i"",.1".0 ,,,ftt r"'1l" room pour L.I.,''l0,,. kinsfolk.1 Kuough V of "unmy retention to k.t wit without their wound or their sick- K.f.. i". f,,r u,om- Ho rBdiut. Z bi u'"PJBly lovely. TheycuU ardot ,, poitloiMvl to tho auguish of ZZVT!?"" '""-hof uV sVpara' Waters! Ilrothorsl Fi iouds! I wish you Joy. . yeaisB)art, togothor ugalu in tile r.vf iney ill know you aro coming. There are twiriLtow' qsX bet lit-iV He.ruanJ uaveu thut uowslike tluU Oie ou n g a"T" to other world ou errand from 0si a sigusj would 1st ..own tlt would fotch theX ThourfTyou ffi1" -st feldd and ovorawoat will li o uruili J,1"'"r, ail that fooling aluKU' "J tlCn't touch of hoaveuly J n.v "l a"J We wiU "7 ' "O "y lost boy u my lost oompanion,"0 my lost friund are h, m . ' a'J? rocel,u room of the uld awW.1 .room than ythlng they w iu I bwaoU'i palaco; Duvid aid tUo Utui UB FATHEKa UUUSJi. i f1 :u'-.,'l't moment of an im- fhfli! for wham he otto faeted and wept: .nsHsr ins neartbraali ol Bethany; Timothy aud grandmother Lois; Isabella Graham aad her Bailor eon. Alfred and G aorta Cookman. the mystery of the ana at tout made manifest: Luther and Maavfalana. tha dauvhtor ha !. moaned; John Howard anil the prisoners whom he gnspenaed; and muKitadns without number who, once so weary and so aad, parted on earth bat gloriously met in heaveo. Among all the rooms of that house there to no one that mora enraptures my aoul than tuat reoeption-rooin. "In my Father's house are many rooma." ; Anotner room in our Father's house to the throne room. We batons' to the mral Cms. Iry. The blood of King Jams flows ia oar veins, to we have a light to enter the throne room. It to do easy thing on earth to got through even the outalde door of a King'i reaidence. During the Pranoo-Garmaa war, one eventide in the summer of 1870, I stood studying the airjuWte sculpturing of tha gate of the Tullerioa, Pnrto. Lost In admira tion of the wonderful art of that gate I knew not that I waa exrating suspicion. Lower. Ing my eyaa to the crowds of people I found myself being closely inspected by governmental offleinla, wh. from my corn piaiton Judged me to be a German, and tha for some belligerent purpose I might bo ex amining the gates of the palace. My ex planations in very poor French did not satisfy them and they followed me long dsv tancea until I reached my hotel, and were not satisfied until from my landlord they found that I waa only an Inoffensive A man con. The gates of earthly palaces are care, fully gnardatl, and, if ao, how much mora severely the throne room. A dazzling place to it for mirror aud all costly art. No one who ever saw the throne of the first anA only Napoleon will over forget the letter N embroidered in purple and gold on the up holstery of chair and window, the letter I gilded on the wall, tha rot tor N chased on tho challcaa the latter N limning from the catl ing. hat a conflagration of brilliance the throne room of Charlos Immarael of Hardlna, of Fordinand of Spain, of Klixnlieth of Kng. land, of Boniface of Italy, But the tliro.xi room of our Father's house hath a glory eclipsing all tho throuo rooms thnt aver saw scepter wavo or crown glitter or foreign Ambassador bow, for our Father's throne is a throne of grace, a throuo i inorcy, tt throne of holiness, a throuo of Jutirc,ntlu'oft of universal dominion. We need not nlond shivering and cowering before it, for our Father says we may yet one day come up and ait on it beside Hun. "To htm that ov-ercom- eth will I grant to sit with Main My throne." You sea we ore lrinces and Princesses. Forhapsnow we move almut incognito, at Fotcr the Grout in the garb of a ship rarKn terat Amsterdam, or as (Juean Tirruh hi tha drena of a peasant woman seeking the prophet for her child's cure; but it will be found out after awhile who we ore whon we get into the throuo room. Ayel we neod not wait until than. Wo may by prayer and soug and spiritual uplifting this mo tueut enter tlm throne roam. O King, live foreverl We touch the forgiving scepter and prostrate ourxel rue at Thy factl The crowns of the royal families of this world are towed about from generation to generation and from family to family. There are children four years old in Berlin who have saan the crown on three F.mperors. But wherever tho coronets of this world rise or fall, they are dtwtiiod to meet in one place. Aud I look and see thorn coming from north aud south and emit and went, the Spanish crown, the Italian crown, the r.ugllsh crown. the Turkish crown, tho Russian crown, the Tersian crown, aye, all the crowns from un der the great archivolt of heaven; aud whila I watch and wonder they are all flung iu riuu vx (uamoniu around u.o piercoa rewt, Jrsns stall reign whnr'er the sun line hM NtiercMtva Journevs ri.a, III kingdom treh'h trvui akors lo skore Till sua saall rise sail set bo mors. Oh. that throne room of Christ! "In me father's houso are many rooma." Another room in our Father's houso Is the musio room. Ht. John and other Bible writers talk so much about the musio ot heaven that there must be music thoro. perhajsi not such as ou earth was thmmmod from trembling string or evokod by touch of Ivory key, but if not that, theii aomething better. There aro ao many Christian harpist and Christian com posers and Christian organists and Christian choristers and Christiau hymnelogista thai have gone op from earth, there must be for them soma place of especial delectation. Shall we have music in this world of Otoconia and no mumo iu the laud of complete har monyf I cannot givo you the notes of the first bar of the uew song that to sung in heaven. I cannot imagino either the solo of the doxology. But heaven uiohiis musio, ami can mean nothing olse. Occasionally thai music has escaped tho gate. Dr. Fuller dying at lleanfort, 8. C said: "Do you not hear?" "Hear what!" QTclaiuied tho bystanders. "Tho music! Lift nu unl Open tho windows!" In thai mnsio-room of onr Father's liotiso, you will soma .toy meet the old Christian musters, Mozart and nandal and Mendelssohn aud Beethoven nud Doddridgo, whose sacred pootry was as r nutrkable as his sacred prone, and James Montf-nmery and William Cowper, at la.sl got rid of his spiritual melancholy, and Bishop Heber, who snug of "Dreei.land's icy ii.ounti.ius and India's coral strand;" and Dr. Hnlllos, who wrote of "High in yoniht realms of light," and Isaac Watte, who wont to visit Sir Thomas Almey and wife for a week but provcl himself so agreeable a guest that they made him stay thirty-Hix years- aud sido by slile, Augustus Toplndv, who lias got over his dislike for MethmlisU, and Charles Wosley freed from bis disliko for C'ulvinihts; and Geitrge W, liethui.e, as sweet as a song maker as lie was great as a preacher aud tho author of "Tim Village Hymns;" and i.mny who wrote in verse or song, in church or by eventidi cradle, and many who were psssionat-dy fond of musio but could make none them selves. The poorest giuger thore more than (fiiy earthly prima donna, and tho poorest players thuro more than any earthly Uottschalk. Oh that u.usra room, the heoUmarters of caileiuia and rhythm, symphony and chant, psalm ami autiphnnl May we be there some hour whon Haydn site at tbo keys of one of blsown or atorios, and Duvid the iwaJmUt llugors the liarp, and Miriuiu ot the ilod sea batiks claps tbe cymbals, and Gubriul puts bis bps to the trumpet ami the four-aud-tweuty soldiers chant, and I.iud aud l'area reuder iiiateh liwt duet iu the u.usiu lotun of the oil heav enly homesteail. "In my Father's houso aro many rooms." Another room In our Father's bonne will be the family room. It may corruepond somo wunt with the family room on earth. At ruoruiuR and evening you know, that to tho place we uow moot, 'llwnih every member of U.o household have a separate room in tho family room they all gath er and Joys aud sorrows and cxpori oi.ces of all stylus are thoro roheorsod. Ha cred room In all our dwelling! WbotUor it bo luxurious with ottomuus aud divans and bKiks in Itiuulau liiU Ktoiuliug ui mahogany caso, or thoro Im only a fow plain chairs and a cradle. Ho the family room ou high will bo tho placo whoro tho kinsfolk awem bio aud talk ovor tho family experiences of earth, the weddings, the births, the burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thaukgiv iug reunion. Will tho children deputed ro main children tuurer Will the agod remain atfud tberef Oh, no; everything to perfoct there. Tbo child will go ahead to glorified maturity aud the aged will go back to glo rified maturity. Tho rising sun of the oua will rise to meridian and the doeconding sun of the other will return to moridiau. How. aver much we love our children on earth wo would consider it a domeatio disaster if tuoy stayed childreu and so we rejoice at their grow til bora, Aud whon we meet in the family room of our Father's house, wa wfl be glad that they have grandly and gloriou ly matured; while our porei.U who wart aged and infini. hero, we shall be glad to And restorod to tho most agile and vigorous im mortality thoro. If forty or forty-live or llf. ty years be tha iwx of physical and mental life ou tho eti.li, wen roe hcavouly child, hood will advance to thnt and the houvoulj old age will retreat to that. When we Join them in that family room wa shall havo much to tell thorn, We lual want to know of thera right away encb wings as ineeet ma yon ens us In tola or thai or the other struggle f Did yon know when we lost our proporty and sympathise with usl Did you know we bad that awful sickness) Were von hovering anywhere around when vra plungod Into that memorable accident) Did tou know of our backsliding? Did you know of that moral victory? War you pleased when we started for heaven? DM you re le urate the hour of our conversion? And than, whether they know It or not, we will tall them all. But they will have mora to tell ua than we to tell them. Ton years on earth may be very eventful, but what must be tha biography of ten years In heaven? They will have to teU us the story ot coronations, stery of news from all immensity, story of conquerors and hlerarrhs ttory of wrecked or ran somed planets, story of angello v trior y over dlabolio revolt, of extinguished anna, of obliterated constellations, of new galaxies kindled and swung, of stranded eometa, of worlds on Are, and story of Jehovah's ma Jaatie reip. If in that family room of en Father's house we have ao much to tall them rwhaa wo have passed through since we parted, how mnch more thrilling and arous ing that which they have to tall as ef what they have parsed tnrongh since van ported. Buroly that family room will be one ef the most favored rooms in all our FnlinYi house, what mng lingering there, for w shall never again be In a rmrr. "Let me open a window," said an bumbta Orkrhan servant to In1y Kafflev who, because of the death of bar child, bail shut harself up In a dark room and refused to see any one; "von havs beoa many days in this ilork room. Are yon not ashamed to grieve in this manner, whan yon ought to be thanking God for having given you the most beauti ful child that ever was seen, and instead ol leaving hlra In this world till ha should be worn with trouble, baa not God taken him to heaven In all his beauty? Icavo off weeping and let me open a window." So to-day I am trying to open ton the darkness of earthly separation tho windows and doors and rooms of the heavenly homestead. "In my Father's uniTOxv mnny rooms. How would it do for my sermon to leave you in that family room Uxlny? lam snre there is no room in which you would rathet tay than In the enraptured circle of y onr as muled nnd gloritlcd kinsfolk. We might visit other rooms in onr Father's house. There may lie picture galleries iienrilcd not with earthly art but by somo procam unknown tn this world. preserv ing for the noxt world tho bright est and most stupendous scene of human his tory. And thoro may lie lines nud fon-ie of earthly Ix-atity preserved for hmvenly In spection in something whiter and chaster and rlchor than Venetian sculpture ovor wrought. Itooms liesido rooms. Ilooms over room. Ijirgo rooms. Majestic rooms, opakweent rooms, amethystine rooms. "Iu my Father1! house are many rooms." I hope none ot us will be disappointed almut getting there. There Is a mom for tw If we will go and tako It, but In order to reach it it is nlisolutely necessary that we take tho right way; and Christ is tho way: and w must enter at the right door, and Christ ll the door; and wo must start in time, and ta only hour you are sure of is tho hour the clock now strikes and the only second tl.eoneyouf watch to now ticking. I hold In my hand a roll of bitters Inviting you alt to make that your home forever. The New Testament Is 'only a roll of letters Inviting you, as tho spirit of them practically says: "My dyinff vet immortal child in earthly w-ighWIiooil, I have built for you a great reMidcnco. It is full of rooms. I nave furnished tlieni as no palace was ever fur nished. l'ivtrl aro nothing, emeralds are nothing, chrysophrosnis is nothing; illu mined paneLs if sunrise and sunset, nothing; tho aurora of tho northern heavens, nothing oomparod with the splen dor with which I have gnrniturrd them But you must lie clean beforo you can enter there, and so I have opvtind a fountain whore you may wash ail your sins away. Como now I l'ut your weary but cleansed feet on tho upward pathway, Do you twit sen amid tho thick follagn on tho heavenly hill-top the old family homosteadrV "Id Uiv FaUiol's house aro many rooms. Tn wimcKt Tn right of tho careless passer Whosaos, but not with tho sailors eye,' The wreck lies stranded high aud dry. A noble ship once staunch and strong, Whose caHna echoed tbe Joyous song, Whowi dock was trodden by a bnppy throssv Oonn are her towering mastaand s;iars, Thut almost seemed to reach the stars, Crownod iiimiy a tiino by gallant tars. The battered hull now rnmhed nnd thin, Where the rt.ing tides rush out and lu, Wus built in oceun wars to win, Sho fell I But not by the hand of time. This bnrk Mu.uld now lie In her pri.uu, A jxTfert ship lu any cliiuo. She fell, r.sfnlleth mortal man, W ho lm.- thwnrti d heaven's slotted plnu By tho cv.rtcd i uji life's poisonous bail. Two wricks! one sinks'nild tears and prayers, But how the iim-Ii whip's wreck fan No mortal known, no mortal cares. Mr.M.A.hii!itrr,i Temperance Adivcatt Tn Tinrrgn.tircE question in ixntA. From an article by Bishon Hurst niu!r the ' above title, in the Century we quote tho fol lowing: "Au army surgeon, of twenty years mtimute knovledgo of India, In a paper road before tho Colonial Temperance Congress in lbtl, wrote thus: "Twenty years' personal observation In the Northwestern provinces has demonstrated U u.e tho appolliug fact that tho entire raco it hereditary owners of the soil have all bwii iwept oil by drink. Brandy or Govsrnmeut rum to wliat these poor creatures tako to e boo the taste bos been lighted up; aud it to snrtuinly a subject for tboughrful considera tion, tliat, wlvilo we in this country are re (olcmg at tho risluction of the exciw revsuue ui Britain, what are we to say of the gradu ally iucruuidug linuor revenue iu India?" "Wlmt wonder? A penny's worth to all that to nnedod to Intoxicate, madden and wreck. Kveu if a poor native bos no money, he cau manago to got liquor. He con get it tn credit, aud mortgage his fow powuiont It so bo ho can qualf tho Intoxicating cup. then the back that invention of the saloon keopor in Ureat Britain aud tho United Suites to made to do its full work, if the propria. tors prevent ingress by tho front. "2ow, dark as this picture U whfch we havo uuwlilitigly been compelled to draw, there to no real ground for Uiscouragoinent. rUo Gtwpel has never been curried to a oouik try without at the same time, if not earlier, tho transportation ot tho vices ot the land vblch sends tlie truth. Already tho mis sionaries are awake to tho daugur. The Fuglixh iteopld.are becoming arouMid to it. The ruul rulers of India do not hold council in Calcutta, ut enact laws in the Wvstmlii. Iter House of l'arlinment, but are the vast Minmoualty of the British Isloe or, rather, re the whole Anglo-Saion race. India will be conquered fur Chrtot. It will bo a com plete conquest alike over tho evils of false laiths uud ovor the vices which still grow, as tare among tho wheat, lu Curistiuu luuds." TtTB WATTO-f AT, DKISC WFLu. Adding these various items, we have for the United States the following liquor bill: Direct cost of liquors iXX 00ft 000 Lost labor of drunkards and tlp- Vluru. 00,000,000 Ixist lalxir of aobor mon 0,()00,0(i0 Fauporism 8,000,000 Vruu0, 87,600,000 Iusunity and dtoabiUty 17,000,0(10 Slcknoss 100,000,0(10 Lost labor of liquor-makers 800,000,000 Ttl 11,803,600,000 AJe came out of our Civil War with a dobt of 3.8OU,0U),()00, and we thought tliat wa terrible. How, la a time of profound peace, we are socrillcing every 18 months almost the ocst of the Civil War iu maintaining the li quor tratllo to reduce our froo-boru moil to ft uopvlok tiavery. . . J 4 SUNDAY SCHOOL, SUBJECT FOB SUNDAY, JULY 31. "Samoet, the Iteformar," t Samacl till 1-ia Golden Text, laa, I lO-17 Commentary. I. "And the mon of Kirlnth-Jnarbu came and fetched tip the Ark of the U.rd." This holy vessel, the Ark of Jehovah, which was the most sacred vessel in tho Tals-macla, or In tho Temple, the same Ark being used in each, and which is mentioned now at least thirty-five times since chap, lit., 3,1s tn n.oono of the most interesting of Bible, studios, and spooks to mo of Jesus Imth ns Hod and mon, God's law in His hearts delighting todotho will of God, fulfilling all righteousness, tho end of the low for righteousness to every ono that Udioveth, our mercy scat, our hidden manna, our High rricst chosen by God, tho great hand of the church from whom the cben.blm are formed, tho revelation to us of tho Father's lovo nnd eternal purpose; and yet, though it thus talks of all these glorious things, the full significance of it will not a known till the temple of God is opoiud In Heaven, nnd there Is seen In His temple tha Ark of IllsCnvennnt. (Key. si., 111.) II. "Whilo tbo ark nlsslo in Kirjath-J.virim it was twenty years; and all the bouse of Israwl lomwited after tho lord." We know from II Sam. vl., 1-3, that tho ark was inthobouseof Abiundab a very much longer period thnn twenty yenrs; but the hist clousn of this versa may indicate thnt this wns the period that elacd nfter tho return of the arlt Isifore Israel was awakeneil fnnn her sin to gather together unto the lird. 3. "Hot urn unto the lonl with all your hearts, put awny tho strnnge gods, " rnpnro your hearts unto the Imrd.and servo Inn only." This wns the cxhoiiatiou of Samuel to Israel as they lamented after tho Iionl.and he nwoire.1 them thut if they would thus sincerely turn to God He would deliver them out of the hand of the I'hillNtiui's. H Joshua plendoil with tho people em bo was tnkenfrom them (Josh, xxiv., 1 1 and so Mows had ii.strucUsl them (Deut. xxx.. 2. 3. 10). lst any Kdiever iletermino thnt everv Idol shall go, that he will deny xclf, take up his cross daily, and follow Jesus, and he shall surely havo victory over nil his enemies nud become a grmt poiver for God. 4. "Then tho children of Inrnel did put awny Baalim and Axhturoth, mid servivl tl Lord only." Good desires ntul rcaolutioit ore no uwi unlir carried out; tlio prodignl sii. might have perished if ho hud only said: "I will ariise and go," and bail not tu'tuully ariseu anil gone; many Christians know that thov nro far from eniovhn- fellnu-Hhlu with I God liecauso of Idols cherished ill their i hearts, nud they often rewilro to put them awny anil le whom l.enrtisl ror l hni-t, lut there to nothing accomplihheil until, like Is rael In this verso, they n-tually do It. ft. "I will pray for you unto tho Lord." In Jns. v., Ill, wo aro teld thnt "tho effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availctli much," and' wo know that Moses by his in tercaKsion saveil Israel from dest ruction moro than once. In Jor. xv., I, MoM'sand Sanmel ureaivioeiateil as men mighty in prayer. God told Ahimclech that Abraham would pray for him nnd thus bring blcuiing to bin. anil bis houso (Gen. xx., 7-17); nnd Abraham's in tercession for Sodom (Gen. xvlil., Jit;n iH n memoralili) occskIom. It is to bo fen res I thnt much prayer is simply saving words, but Unit only is trim prayer which is i.skin, rom tlm heart, in tho name of Jesus, for thr.t which we really dmire for His glory. (V "They gathered together, drew wnter, pourel it out Is-foro Wio Isrd, fasted ou thnt dny nud snid there, we havo tinned against tho Isrd." The vn.riug out of wnor svm lolir.od their belph-ss nnd snitcnt condition; they wero as water spilt on the ground, which cannot ho gathered up again (It Sam. xiv., Ml- they had nothing to plead but their guilt and their great need, and ronvincnl of this they tiirmxl with fasting imti tho Iord. 7. "Tlie rhilistlnes heard." It tho iiln Lof God come together in truo hiuiillity to sooK J tin. ami the enemies ut Uod will bo suro to boar of It. It to surely true that "Satan tremble whun he sees tho weakest saint upon his knees," and it one praying saint make him tremble a nation iu trim ieltential prayer must make him awfully afraid, so that we do tint wonder that t ho t'liilistiues father against Israel whon they hoar that srael have gathered unto tho lord. "ll.o children of Israel wero afraid of tho l'bilistines." Thnt wns decanto of their sins nnd wanderings from God. Had they Incu right with I list they would have had no more fear than David bad of Goliath. 8. "Ceamj not to cry unto tho Lird our God for us." This was their prayer bi Sam uel. It is good to lnr them sav "(he lord our God," and thoy have a rigid to sav it now since they have tiulv turmsl ti lliui, and Ho will innlouliN dlv rove Himself to bo "tho fird their Gixl,'1 for Ho kvs: "Cull lloll Mo in the day of troiililn; I will ih liver tlieo and thou shnlt glorify My." il'snlrus I., 1.1). 0. "And Samuel took a sucking lumh nud offinsl a burnt oiririni? wholly unto tho l'i'd. and Sniiiuel criisl unto tho I, id lor I irnel, nnd the l.or. heard him," Tlm burnt otreriii'.' lypilies the saerili.s" of tlm Loni Jesus, w i i in nil oir riii;',s iu one, the only Mcrilii-K for sin; and reininils us th'.l without hel-li:i'; of blood thi re is no romis.-.ioii, nu I thnt only in the iinmc nud bv virtue of tho merits of ( 'lirisl.cnn we draw near or ismie to tlod. (lleli. ix., tfj; Acts iv li.) Samuel did not approncli (ind bis ause ho washolv or trusting In Ins merits, Is.t only as one nh i ts-lievtsl (i(hi and cauie trusting; in the sarri lice; thus triLsting ho came with isiulldenco In God uud wo lus.i'il. 10. "Tho t'hili.stines drew near to buttle, against Israel; but tho Ird tl.ui.ilero-1 with a gront tlmuiler nnd diMsniiflled tbom." Tho rhilictliies may havo thoi.glit that as they (siiiiiierol oven when tin ink was in the campof Israel, o they would con iiuer now, but circumstances bail chunked. At that time Israel reliisl on tho ark, uml it was simply a buttle between men and men, but now Isrnel was rely ing iihiii GmI, mid it was a coiillict between' tho I'liilistines mid tlm God of Israel, and isinwspieiitly they could not but lie smitten. Thornier is tho voire of Jehovali (I's. xxix., 3, -t; Job xxxvii., 1-5; John xii.. B, U".'!uiel h'uku lI'iKpeaks in Jmlg niont none cue stand U'foro Him, all Ills ene mies must fall. ll-IJ. "Klienozer. bitherbi huth the Lord liuljxid us." lsrai-1 pursued and unoto tho I'hillstino-s, for tho l-ord fought for them, aud Samuel, to comiiioinorato tho victory and strengthen Israel's faith iu tho future, setup this hteno nud called it lOlienej-r, saying: "Hitherto both tho Lrd helped us." Tho word Klmnezer U only fouml in thuso three lJucos (hap. iv., 1; v., 1; vii., l'Jl, the llrst two referring to tho victory of tho I'liilis tines, but this ono to tho viet-iry of Israel when they truly reHiuted ami relied on Je hovah. How many pkieei call wo look back to whoro tho enemy ts,ii'U"rcd Ihs-iiiiso wo wero siuful and diMibodieut, and in bow many such place havo wo now set up nu l'Ui enoser to mark thu fiwt tluit where once wo fell ona'ouut of sin, wo now stand firm lie causo we have rupeuted, rely on thu lord und aorve Uiiu only. Wesson Jleljer. ON WAY 0 ENCOURAGING) INTTMricnANCK. MA good cigar fclvuu away with every cbooner of boer." I went in and took a schooner. Tbe beer was bad, but the cigar was worse than tho boer. But other inducement were iiuudo to loud me on. A goblet containing a half gallon and lta diinonsions guaranteed by thestatemunt wason tho counter. Twenty five cent waa the forfoit it tlio drinker breathed while drinking. The reward was the same in case of success. The saloon pro prietor geuurolly got the forfeit. It to on record that one man got the reward, but ho has not been heard from siuco. Hit may bo In the Morgue. This to tho way Intemperance to encouraged la Uia Fourth, yvard. .Ym York UvrulU, RELIGIOUS READING AlfaWKM TO rR ATM. The leader In Joim Street Fraver-MaaMng for Busiii-as Men told a remarkable Incident, Illustrating the principle of faith, and what deieiiiloiioe upon Gtsl in an emergency ac ci'inp'isha I. In substance he shld : Some years asn a student at West I'olnt Military Academy wn so Indolent and stti. pid thnt lie was regard.sl as alstiil the jtooicv student in his clnso. Thero was uni te I with Indol nee nud stupidity a remarka ble love of pleasure, which made blm w holly In.litr. ri nt nb ut theoiinionsof his teachers. Th--re occurred, nbout this tins', in West Feint a remarkable, religious aw ikeuing, in which this young innn wns converted to God, mil tho erToet if the wondei fid chntigit of heart which piissisl within him wns soon In the entire cliang.t which ch iiacterl.c.l lift , ba'its of study and his obedience to tho laws and pn feois ol the ioititutioii. I His intcll -ct now brigliteuitl up as by a mirnc' nnd very sisui by ililig nco and np plicttion he took first rnn'k lunll his studlis tnve ono, lending his class in all but ma tae nia tics. The dsy of graduation was f ist atpronch Ing and the young coiiverteil cadet fenrtsl bis detlcleiicy in the nltovn n-ionctv and folt thnt be would ovrtainly 1st is j.s-teii. The day caiiie. The'exniniiiation hnll wns rnmded with rofestrs, students nnd spec tators. Tho exnm niug professor, appronch ing the blnckbo:ir.l, tlrew a llitro nud te s'd bnck, calling on the young end.-t todeni onstriite the proposition. It was n cnicinl moment. With trembling knees and pule fncit th- student went slowly to the blnckltonrd. He knew that every ey'o throughout I lie breathless au Hence was'llx'etl upon liiin. He took the chalk. II ' saw nt once tltat the proposition wa one of the mo-t nl(nive nn. I ilillli iilt character, nil. I he had not the r-mot, -t cone, ptiou of bow to Is-gi'i the denumstintion. Just then he lifted H heart in silent prny. er to the Snv our vtlio wns so pr.s-ioiis to Im soul nud said: "I I., rd, help m . It is Itnpo-MUe to sue cee.1 li.'in without Thv help. I, rd JesiH come In me now and give me i, loll! mi l ability t't ileiiioiistriite ihis in st tlilllcult proK.-itioti f r 'Ihv i.iime's sake." HiiilC'ly bad tho la-t Word of prnVer passed flout his heart when the l.id im tT'sscd Ins mind in n remni k.ilile manlier. V'ivst, one thought wns given and he put it dwn mi the bliicklionrd, nnd then nnother lliui nnother until the explanation wns com plete nnd full. II" stood looking nt the II; lire ami th u nt wlmt the Lord hud mi.ivs.e.l Upon his no n. I to pi ice ii hi the I ...aid ho Sid" it. lie ste.pei blli'k, ItWllltlllg till) coliim lit i f bis exuinitier. The profess .s l.s.ked lit tbo prelMisltlotl, nnd ihen looked wi'h suiprisi'iit i-iicli other. "Yon .g man," mid one of them, "wheru di I ym. tl ti 1 that leii'oii-triitii.ii!' It is won derful. It is certainly the Is-st we have ever tii'ti." And they kept up for sum t nu tint I. I'lvritc conversation with tho greatest sisi l.lo interest. The ciithti-iii-m f.f the ns-cmlih d sscta lors in niiitiifestn..iis of svinpatliy nnd np. pliiu-e knew no boiin Is. The Vo.mg Chris t ill tl cadet, by the help of hi- divine Mas'er, won the day.' ll-vei v' s on ihereiifter d -cidisl to nil. in !on l is bright prsH-ots ns an i. Illeer in Die nrmy an. I enter the ministry nt Christ. Ho did no; nud ufter a ilistingtii-he.l i rvic of years a-a s. ul w inner, his happy spirit pas-,d upward to his heavenly r. wiird ll.-v. John fo;. i.i M. 1'. Il'ifacss. CmtlSTIAN I'liNHf IufSNKSSi. Willi nil that Ii-is Iss'ii said iijk.ii this ub Ject, there is much iu the popular mi.I meut tint imli'-ates a want of it ou the pm t of limy who Is-nr t'e Chi Minn iiinii" ns t. Vel.lei1liltllelil.it of I r. A Ildersoii's nri tele In the ltcligioiis ycni'if of May -il. usui Clnircli lotterii-s. There is n lack of i on-M-ioiisuchM of that which is unrlii ist;an. A lussl of a more liscriniiuiitin Christinii cnl t"n'. There is ninnilest Um little "for Chrst's S'ikc" i.ml t.Hi iiiuell allowed for the rake of the t ectiviury gain, and for the en Jovinent of M-nsiial jili-nsures. The bnnip.ets for raising I llll'ls for iHUievolent objis-ts, thu on tort ni ii i item a for inissiounry purposes, the balls for city missions, the vurioiis things suggestive of the lott. ry, nil call for a ihs criiiiiiiiiiin.' b twis n that which is ChriMiuti nud thnt which is not, lest the Christian, or the Chri-tiiui church 1m pi iced in nu entirely fills.' mil ion. At liost, on-t is Iribl i to bo plais'.l in doubt ill regnrd lo bis dut v. Dr. WiisliiiigtonGliid.h u, iu his work nit on "Applied to Clll'lstlllllitV,'' 1'epresellt M t h't pllilll-i phV of the cloiivll ill the prist llp'ill popular limns iiieiils, to have lus'i. largely eml raiel iu tho u-1 vice of I long I is .).-! .1.1 to t'oso about to tniirry, "Ioi t:' I tn - wo should no' therefore li s. to tho eppo-lte ex treme without ilisei iininntion, Henry War I Beech r, w hom no on will nccuso i f b' ing over scrupulous ortotro- t ' ict ive, eil her ill pl'illcipl i I pr lot ic ' SJ.V-, "In nil riis'i w h. re in. -ii in - in doubt nnd i plexity as to w h is right and w lritis Ii st, us to w Ht tu y do nu. I wlft ymi liny no! d I eviir, to.iethet;ieiiti I .el.'ali t ' b i the moral cl in -i 1 1 . If you nri I. o u I .; -:nli '. h t it b on !h" i i-; lit sule Ii i-i l.e t- r ll.at a in in s!i uld not avail him . if of liUrli sth t he niiuht tali", than tint ho sh .i.l.l in nil hiius. ll i I ii'lvaiila:". I Ii ;t he sle ul I t ot ink". It is bi tter I r n inaii to l.e too c ii'.liil und hiti i hi Ii ol -, lhaii l.n- Imii t be Ull-il 1 1 pll I'll-. II 11.1 i-i i. s. Men t hat I " Ii lit i-ven t liin simply in th li,;!it ot their own int. . si -, crow iiiiir.ot. ni' .n and ooi-h, and al la-t c mm to stand lu th .'ir own htht " Again he savs, a man who Is ntt' tnp'i'r' ti liv a Chi i-i hi lifeioi. on.' side uml n worldly lii the i .I In r. is like a tick man who has inn. le up his mini that what tli" ih ictor sn s is nil folly, mi l thnt, since ho il' csn.it like the re.; men nnd the iii.'ili.'iii ", he will do that which is ne st m;r ealile to him. When the ph-ician find nurse nro out, lie steals int'i the p inti y uud . ads his stomach w ith things that uxgiavate tlm dis ease. Tlm suggestion of ir. I'u.-biii II, to tho young lu.lv impiiriiig ns to the pioiiri 'ty of illdlllfing III llllllls.'lil'llts III out w huh peit 1 1" d Hi tel. that l.e was sorry her mind was troubled with t re unit or. It. Would 1st Im Is'tter not to want then., but to In desirous of far hi: her sotirc s of enjoyment. It would settle, ut o lice ninny ijuestion.t f doubt. Them Is n place for amusement in life, but it is its a nu -mis. not as mi end. It is a way of r freshing the mind uud in vHirnting tint strength; but wh u e iter taimuelit is the priii'-ipnl thin,' s..li;lil, vh"l in tho nirsiiit tint loin. I is i nleel.l d, and 'li t beulth injured, it Ih uu-s u .erversioii uud wa te of Loin.;, tlegradiug and ruinous. HUM DID IT. I The traft" defith of Mrs. r.nee rwtn1n w us caused by tho drinkiug habits of bur bus band a muu whose sprees havo become tiro tome to tho lwoplo of Nyock. A heartbrok en women, Mrs. Une.r, bko countless other of her sex, clung to a drunkard through love and for thesakunf four little ones uow moth erless and worse than fatherless. Mio wtit to Spark Ul to bring him home vei-y oiu) knows thu rest of tho terrible tiry. It was the liquor Bear drank widen .'ast his wife under the deadly wheels of the locomotive, whUil. dashed bur Into eternity. If liuer to sober enough to realize Ids lost lot him vow at the mangled form of the sroman he promised to cherish, that novur again will he tusto an intoxicant. It wiil not bring bur back to life, but it will bo a ray vt bono for the future of his childreu. Like many othei-s ho has boon lost to all lenseof manhood and decency whun drunk, (tody nnd soul, If need bo, for rum, but ruin ho would havo, and tho men who sold It to him are equally criminal. Mr, liner' s blood is on their hands also. All too fiwiuent arutheso lessons, yet when (hey come they should bo applied. If the tragic death of Mrs. Baer will work the refor mation of her husband it will accomplish lomo good, though at a terrible cost. Baer, quit drinking, and lie a man if you U be, .Vvat.V 'Y. F.) Joui nuf, - tnK KTEMIKO LAktr. T M. C. HOIMtB, OOOCHl Hew twsel I ths lime whn tti )lnme t, s m p I llthttd. and ftsth. errd sruiiiid II the hoiiMdiold so danr. frura Sclnsil mid from plT snd from loll reuitlleil, to rem till the ssnil iiisntim.ii wtlluppenr. I's pa, ttew enjeylns bin nienietitsel Irl-tlto. In ttlsrs and rsy rhslr drswn lo Ih srnte, ipiullnf ih Kn-e I'resn sml Is heanilns with flcature uu loved little tet w ho cu s.sy up till eight. Mntnllis. A dtoe.l so ncnt 1v, bv-hlr tilm Is knitting the running Mt acK-Va fertile hstiyswe fret; snd. lenrnlng llietr lew.nf, ar iiulrtly slttliis the tet ef srhnlar the j.li ture's romplete. The elm k on th inniitel hitiost "eight." ettlv Isjlng their ln)rtlitiiK' awnr nd with fnotstepi IIkIiI, Ih lota gn wlih trot ra nis upstslrs, wrtlr ssTtug. "I love no, lies r I'sps, 1 kiss no; gootl night t" Th Clock ehlmtnu "nine'' nu.lt th wt little si lielsrs tn ret tutsv l.rslus a-itl In il renin Is ml tn uttsy. a, list utT go tln ll (hues ami their Jseketa slid rellsrs, ml lot In s Jitly they're lecp. tug . Not ins mm a and pspa rni..y th rrfo tleii el test lot the beily and cm Inr the iiilud, till Ih Ismp, growing dim, l put out with sllec'lnn, sml U'tK sll sletie itlel In ilsrkne-a eu-hrlni'1. i;:.:;;::;;;;;:;:::;;::;::::. Her Hist Illscttlt. r V ' . . . li 'JlrViw HiJil!i A Nuti-il Miliols I'olltichltl. Julm K. Tliiitiius, i.f Mi tio iili , III., was burn ut .Mount Vrriiiui, .li lt'i'i'stuj ('(.iintv. Illiiinis. Octi.l.i f II, lli'i, mil rcrt ivcil il i'iiiiiiiiiii-sclni.il duration. ('Apr. joiin rt. timmah. Wlii'ti tint civil war ln-oko out lio en listed into tl.o I'liimi uiiiiy un.l rnso from tho rank of iiviiii to that ot I'nptnin (if infiititry. W'licti ju aco wan rcliii'l lut coiiinicticcil to study law, und wns inlniitttil to tho luir in lSCi'.l, nerving uh Stato's Altoincy from IHiii to M7ti. llo wns CoiitfivsHinun from tint 'J'wcntictlt CoiigrcHsiontil lin trict itl Illinois, ami rcir'Ht'ittcJ hu district for livo ternm longer limn any other ii i ia i i lud'oro liit.i, tuul would liuve coiitiniiL'd in tl.o rcjiroHi'iitution had not liis liculll. proved a liar. In lii.-t Htcnd tlcorffo W. Smith, from .Tnckson County, M'uh elected lust full. Thu uiii.Uii fcuturo of ThointiM' career wail that, in Hjiito of Logan'si oiuisitioti iu that Heetiun of tho State, whero tha "llluck Enlo" van most iioiulur, ha nlvnyn lient Lopfttn'a n.iin. In CongreHt ho served on tho Naval Commit too, and lately achieved fuuio lv drawing llunn for a Bubiuuici'd v.ar bliip. -vl U i 5' :!! J i ""'lsfll.w, '.TFVWnfvi' ' sum " " r v t " , -
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