THE EARTHQUAKE. - I oxB wav oy.MQtra I OPEN A MulMgh ' ccnr ,n rrl,n Hie Lesson II leacuce. .. Mdlf t.rlr dull dump, loathsome places Wliil'i'l.rTWorw ia tbo epos- p"r; i iVn.iln. to-day w" ritnd. ,affi dungeon. 1 ynn n,1 M "Ll" hm i' you not hear the groan ot fiwJ th chill? nnt who for ten year remember their hthw-iW o( women ' their wasted estate? Llston 1 mourn nrnr t of r con,ttmpur, or aid. u . h niirhtmaro ,W ?hnrrnr You listen again and hear ot M' KinJ rattling aitae roll, over . 1)1 'Hi" - . " . . end you says: "od pity the ta."" the la another sound ia f)rviti'- . i. . n of iov nnd Gladness. FlXs to sing in I tlie music com. iVthroligh ih corridor, of th , prtaon, ud in A' U1" Vr" ?, wht.'. thntr "!: ril"l,Vrf Pnl -id Slta They "Ji Jeep They hove been whipped, wry OMnetsk-ep. " l.,c imshoa on their . l!i&.ng yet. They lie flat on tho n'' ftlVo rfeet fast mwood"nsnck. fJSdS 'the" cannot..eep But thcr JfiT nW Why have they ln put in nh thff have been trying to mako ' '11 I, that all? That in all. "".TV" t..,.l. ? . i ,r Joseph. A lion cava ior .'an 1 pit fr Hhadrach. JtbA " job" Wesley. An anathema f . Philip Mflancthon. A dungeon ',,r .' cm., lint while we nra stand n the glis-m of the 1'hllmplan dungeon. hoar the mingling voice of sob ami Jrand blasphemy and halleluiah, .md X dearth, ua'.e I The iron ham of the trtrfffMx'n- ne J""'r. "" """7". " !m,hle f..r thev. pri-wnen. and ivi"K, S,.SJe Hrntnt kiUo.1 hinwelf. mv J'.Ti. Ll himlf. ami CassLu kilW ;.'lfiiiit hi word to hU own heart, Xr,iina : with ouo trtronp, kom thnint to Ent in el to his ecitincnt nnd acttation. "r.lcri-.ont: -SM Stop l"lx thy nohnn... Wo ar. al here." Then I b.j 5h inilcr runniiifr throURli tho dust and amid U, ruin of that prison, nnd I sea him throw L Inrnlf dowu at : tha fejtof th-j; pr.n- thu pUco liefer there In another earthquake; Jther priwiwrt, they get away!" Ko word of that kinL His com '.j ikril'.itif. tremendmis nnwor. an- nK-iiiurablrt all through earth and heaven, was: "Relieve on tho Lord Jcrus Christ and thou Nlinlt be eaved." Well, wo hvoa!I liiird of Hie eartluj'iaUe) In Llslxm, in Lima, in Aleppo, and ill Caracca, but wj liT.no Utituilo where anvero volcanio di tnriances ro rar. And yot we have eon fifty eartlupwkes. Hero it a man who has bxen biiiMins up alarco fortune. 1IU bll on the moii"y miirknt a.i folt in all tho citiin. U think ho hni got beyond all annoying rivitlries in trade, aud be nvvs to himself: $nw I Bin free and eufo from "all pos-ihln perturbation." But in 1S-J7, or (u lOT, or in 173 n imtiunnl ponio ltrike tho foundations of tho commercial worl'l, and crash I (ffos all that maRiiitleent boKimtM cstul'lishmciit. Here is a muu who bu hailt up a very beautiful home. His daughters have just come from tho seminary srith diplomas of graduation. His sons havo Mrteit in lifo hone.'it, -teinpornte and jmro. When tho evening lights are struek thoro is a happy and unbroken family circlo. But there has boon an accidont down at Lon branch. The young man ventured too far out in the surf. Tho telegraph hurlod tha terror up to the city. An earthquake struck under the foundation of that beautiful homo. Toe piano closed; the curtain droppod; tho buuhter huxhod. Crash I go all those domes tie hopes and prospoctaand expectations, rlo, my friends, wo have all folt the shaking down of some great trouble, and there was a time when we were as much excited as this man of the text, and we cried out as hedid: "What shall I dof What shall I dor Tho same roply that tho apostle mado to htm is appropriate to us: "Relievo on the Lord Josiis C hrist and thou shalt bo saved." Tharo are some document of so littlo Im portance thnt you do not caro to put any more than ynur lost namo under thusn, or even your initials; but there are some docu ments of so great importance tl.nt you write out your full name. Ho tho Saviour in soma parts of the liible Is rallud "Lord," and in other parts of the Bible He is called "Jesus," and in other ports ot tho Bililo Ho is calkd "t'hri.it;" but that there miht lo no mistake. alut this ia.wage, all thr.-o nnines coiuo to gtlier "Tho Iinl Jesus Christ." Now, who is this being that yon want ma to trust in and behove in Men Komotinios ooiiih to mo with credentials and coi'lihYiti's of good character, but I cannot trust them. Theio is S'nuo dishonesty in their looks that makes mo know I sluill bo cheated if I c hi- fldf in them. You cannot put your heart's cnnfMiMico in a man until you know whur. artull hu U mado of, and n:u I unieasoimbl.j to-iluy when I stop t i sv-k you nlio this is thnt you want mu to trnst in? No man would think of ventur Inn hi life on a vessel going out to sea that had never been insoctod. No, you muse have tho certilieate, hung amiiiships, tillin how many tons it carrios, ami how long aj. It was built, and who built It. and all about It. And you cannot expect mo to risk the caro of my immortal interesss on board any craft till you tell me what it is made of, and whoro it was made nd what it is. When, then, I ask you who this ia you want me to trust in, you toll mo lie was a very attraetive person. Contem porary writers describe His whole appear ance hi Iwing resplendout. There was uo need for Christ to tell tho children to come . "attor litUe children to come unto Mo," was not spoken to tho children; it wassjioken to the disciples. The chil.lren came rea.lily enough without any invitation. Bo sooner did Jesus appear thou tho little ones Jtimpel from their mother's arms, an avaluneuo of beauty nnd love, into His lip. Christ did not ask John to put his head uowp on His Iwsom; John could not help but put his head there. I suppose to look at Christ was to love Him. Oh, how attractive ifis manner. Why, when they saw Christ coin ing along tho street thuy ran iuto t hoir houses, ami they wrapped up their Anvalcls as quick as they could, and brought them out that lie might looic at them. There was soma tiling so pleasant, so Inviting, so cheering in everything ' did. in His very look. When these sick ones were brought out,did llo sny: "o not bring Me theao sores; do not trouble L1wi.tl' lll0S0 iBprosiour No, no; there was Bind look, there was n geutio woril, thnro was a healing touch. They could uot koeu away from Him. In h lition to this sxjftuoss of charactor, there was n Uery momontum. How the kings ft the earth tuiiuxl pale, nero is a plain man with a few sailors at bis back, coming cir the sea of Ualilas, going up to the palaco W the Lienors, uiakiug that palace uuako to the foundation and utterfng a word of d kindness which throbs Uirough all rth, and through all the heavens, and 1 ")U " ges. Oh, Be was a loving Christ, ih v not ffomiuacy or iusimdity of w Tu r " WM acoompaulod with majesty, inuu its and omuipotout. Lest the world tn, . u? ra,Lt HUearoestuuss, this Christ nouuu the cross. w7 "T1 "u Christ has to die, why not ? tom6 ""'y PoUon and lie oo it "Hith in some bright and beautiful bomef If intentions." No, the world must hear the Sr" m8r,0,, hds ot the spike. The world must listen to the death rattle of the fV The world must feel His warm wood dropping on each cheek, while it looks T tnto the face ef ITTs angnUh. And so tha cross . must be lifted and a bole dug on the top of Calvary. It must he'dng three foot deep, and then the cross is laid on the ground, and tho sufferer Is stretched upon it. and the nails are pnnndud through nerve and hiuscle and bona, through tho right band, through the left hand, and then they shake Ilia right hand to soe if It Is fast, and they heave up the wood, half a doson shoulders under the weighs, and they put the end of the cross . in the mouth of tha holo, ud they plunge it In, all tho weicht ot His body coming down for the first time on the spikes; and while orae hold the cross upright, others throw in the dirt and trample it down, and tramplo it hard. Oh, plant that tree well and thoroughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no other tree ever bore. Why did Christ endure it? He could have taken those rocks and with thom crushed His cruciflers. He couXl have reached up and grasped the word of the omnipotent Qod, and with ono clean cut have tumbled them Into perdition. But no; He was to die. He must die. His life for your life. In a European city a young man died on tho scaffold for the crime of murder. Home time after the mother of this young man was dying and the priest enmo In. and he made confession to tho priest that sho was the murderer and not her son; in a moment ot anger she had struck her husband a blow that slew him. The son camo suddenly into the room, and was washing away the wounds and trying to resuscitate his father wnen some one looked through the window and saw him, and supposed htm to bo the criminal. That young man died for his own mother. Yon sayi "It was wonderful that he never exposed her." But I tell you of a grander tiling. Christ, the Ron of Ood, diod not for His mother, nor for His Father, but for His sworn enemies. Oh, such a Christ ns that so loving, so pa tient so self-sacrillctiig can you not trust jurar i toinK mere are many umior the in- iluencn of the Hpirit of Ood who are saving: I "I will trust Him if you will only t"ll mo I how;" and the great quest ion nskod bv thou- ! sands is: "Howr Howr" And whil I answer your qncstion I look up and utter the prayer which llowlniul Hill so often uttered In tho midst of his sermons: "Master, help!" How are you to trust In Christ? Jnst as you trust any ono. Yon trust your partner In Iiukiih m with important things. If a commercial house gives you a note pnyablo three months hence, you expect the pnvment of that nolo at the end of three months. You have per fect conHdetiee in their word and In their ability. Or again, you go heme expecting there will be food on tho table. You have confidence In that. Now, I ask you to have tho same confidence in the I-ord Jesus Christ. He says: "You Is-fieve I take away your sins, and they are all tnkeu away." "What!" you say, "before I pray any nioro? Before I rea"d my Bible nay more? Before I cry over my sins any more?" Yes, this moment. Believe with all your heart and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you ;ive to scoros of jwople every day. hat s that? Coutldonco. If these people whom you trust day by day are more worthy than Christ, if they are more faithful than Christ, if they have done more than llirlst ever diil, then give them the preference; but If you really think that Christ is as trustworthy as they are, then deal with Him as fairly. "Oil," savs some ono in alichtwny: "I liollovethat Christ was born in Bethlehem, and I believe lhnl He died on tho cross." Io you lsdlove it with your bo id or your heart? I will lllu. atrato Urn difference. You are In your own house. In tho morning you open a news pnpr and you read how dipt. Braveheart on the sea risked his lift) for the salvation of his passenger. You say, "What a grand fellow he must have beeiil His family de serve very well of the country." You fold tho nowspacr and sit down at the table, ami erliups do not think of that incident ajaiu. That is historical faith. But now you aro on tho son, and It Is nlglit nnd you are asleep, and you are awakened by the shrink ot "Kirol" You rush out on the deck. You hear amid the wringing of tho hands and the fainting, tho rryi "Nobopel no hope I We are lost I wo aro lost?" The sail puts out its wings of fire, the ropes moke a burning ladder in the night heavens, the spirit of wrecks hisses in the wavo, and on the hurricane deck shakes out its banner of smoke and darkness. "Down with the lifeboat !' cries the captain. "Down with tho lifeboats !" Peoplo rush into them. Tho boats aro about full. Hoora only for one more man. You are standing on the dock Iwetdo tliecaptaln. Who hall it lie? You or the captain? The cap. tain? The captain says: "You." You Jump and are saved. He stands there and dies. Now, you believe that Captain Braveheart sacrificed himself for his passengers, but you liellove it with lovo, with tears, with ho and long continued exclamations, with Krief at hts loss, and joy at your dohveranoo. That Is saving faith. In other words, what you boliovo with all the heart, and lieliovo in regard to yourself. On this hingo turns my sermon; nyo, the salvation of your immortal soul. You often go across a bridge you know nothing nlsiut. You do not know who built that bridge, you do not know what material it is made of; but you como to it nnd walk over it ami ask no ques tions. And here is an arched bridge bhutod from the "Kock of Ago." And built by the architect of tho wholo universe, spanning tho dark gulf Iwtwoeri sin ami rie;litooujiuosN, and all (lod asks you is to walk across it; and you start, and you come to it, and you stop, nnd you go n littlo way on and you stop, nnd you full buck, and you exeriinent. You sny: "How do I kuow thnt bridge will hold uie" Instead of marching on with firm step, ak ini no questions, but feeling that tho strength of the eternal Ood Is under you. uh, was there ovor a pri.o proffered so cheap as pardon and boo veil aro offered to von? l or how much! A million dollars? It is certuinly worth more than that. But cheaper than that you can havo it. Ton thousand dollars? Less than that. Fivu thousnud dollars? Less thou that. One dol lar? IiOM than that. Ouo furthlng? Los than that. "Without money and with out price." No mouoy to pay. No Journey to take. No penuni'u to suffer. Only just ono decisive action of the soul: "Relievo on the Lord Jasus Christ and thou shult be saved." Khali I try to tell you what it is to be saved? I cannot tell you. No man, no nngul can tell you. But I can hint fit it. l'or my text bring me up to this ixiint. "Thou shalt be saved." It means it happy life here, and a peaceful death ami a blissful eternity. It is a grand tiling to go to sleep- at night anil to got up in the morning, and to do business all tluy fouliug that all is right between my heart tkvd Ood. No accidont, no aicknsda, no pur socutton, no peril, no sword can do me any permanent damage. I am a forgiveu child of Uod and He is bound to see luo through. The mountains may depart, the earth may bum, tho light ot the stars may bo blown out by the blast of tho Judgment hurricane; but lifo and death, things present and things to iino are mine. Yea, further than that It means a peaceful death. Mrs. Ho mans, Mrs. Higourney, Dr. Young, aud al most all the poets have said handsome things almut death. There is nothing beautiful about it. When we stand by the white and rigid features of those whom we love, and they give no answering pressure of the baud and no returning kiss ot the lip, we do not want anybody poetizing around about us. Death is loathsomeness, ami midnight. and tha wringing of the heart until tho tendrils nan ami curl in tho torturo, unless Christ luill be with us. I confess to you an Infinite fear, a consuming horror of death, unless Christ shall be with uio, I would rathor go down Into a cavo of wild beasts of a Jungle of reptiles than into the grave, un teas Christ goes with me. Will you tell me that I am to be carriod out from my bright homo and put away in the darkness? I cannot bear darkness. At tho first coming of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the furthor on in lifo I get the more I like to have my friends round about mo. And am I to be put off for thousands of years in a dark place with no one to spoak to? When the holidays come and the gifU aro distributed, shall 'I add no joy to the "Murry Curistunu," or the "Happy New Yearr Ah, di not point down to Wis hole In the ground, the grave, and call it a beauti ful place. Unless there be some tupirnatnral Illumination I shudder back front It, My whole nature revolts at It. But now this glorious lamp is lifted above the grave, and all the dnrkness Is gone, and the way Isclear, I look Into it now without a single shudder. Now my anxiety Is not boutdreth; my anx iety ia that I may live aright, for I know that If my life is consistent when I come to the last hour, and this voico is silent, and these eyes are closed, and those hands, with which I beg for your oternnl salvation to-day, are folded over the still heart, that then 1 shall only begin to live. What power is there in anything to chill me in the last hour if Christ wraps around me the skirt of His own garment? What darkness ran fail upon my eyelids tiled amid the heavenly daybreak? O Death, I will not fear thee then. Back to thy cavern of darknem, thou robber of all the earth. Flvl thou dccpotler of families. With this battle ax I hew thee in twain from helmet to saudnl, tho voice of Christ sounding all over the earth and through the heavens: "O Death. I will he thy plague. O Oravo, I will bo thy dostruo- I timi." To be saved Is to wake up In tho presence I Of Christ You know when Jesus was npon earth how happy He made every house He went Into, and when Hu brings lis up to His house in Heaven, how great shall be our glee. His voice has moro music in It than is to be henrd In all the oratories of eteniif v. Talk not about banks dashed with cfToree- ; renoe. Jesus is tho chief bloom of heaven. We shall see tho very face that beamed sym rathy in Bethany, anil take the very hand i lint dropped Its blood from the short boom 1 ef the cross. Oh, 1 want to stand In eternity ' with Him. Toward that harbor I steer. To- ' ward that goal I run. I shall bo satisfied I when I awako In His likeness. Oh, broken hearted men and women, how I sweet It will be In that good land to pour all of yonr hnrdshlis and liereavements and losses into tho loving enr of Christ, and then have Uim explain why it was beat for you to , lie slrk, and why It was licst for you to 1m widowed, and why it was licstfor you to bo I ..rvjv 'ii ( I h ii.l M-) , it ,.. I r ... i. tried, and hove Dim H.int toan elevation pro- , iMM tionnte to your disquietude hem. savin: ou suuereii wun tne on earth, eiinn up now and Ihj glorified with Mo In heaven." Homo one went Into a house where there had l-een a gissl dial of rouble, and said to tho woman there: "You seom to lie lonely." "Yes." sho said. "I am lonely." "now nmuy in tho family?"' "Only "invsnlf." "Havo you bad anv children?" ''I bad seven chll ilren." "Where are thoy?" "none." "All gone?" "All." "All ilendv" "All." Then she breathed a long slh Into the loneliness, mid said: "Oh, sir, I have been a good mother to the grave." And so there aro heart hero thnt are utterly broken down by the bereavements of life. I point you to-day to the eternal balm of heaven. Arotherenny here that I am missing this morning? Oh. you poor wntting maldl your heart's sorrow i loured in no human enr, lonelv and sad I Iowglnd you will Ikj when Christ shall dis band all your sorrows and crown you nueen unto (lod nnd tho Lamb foroverl Aged men and women, fill br His love and warmed by His grace for t'hreo-scoro years and tent will not your decrepitude I'hvige for the leap of a hs'rt when you como to look fueo to face noon Him whom bavins Hot seen you lovo? That will Is) tho Good Shepherd, not out in the night anil watching to koep off tho wolves but with the lamp reclining on tho sunlit bill. That will be tho captain ot our salvation, not amid the roar and crash and boom of battle, but amid His disbanded troops keeping victorious festivity. That Will be the Bridegroom of thn Church eoroiiw from nfnr, tho br do leaning upon His arm, wuiie 110 iooks down into uer nee. and sara! "lieholit, thou art fair, my lovo I thou art fair I" Behold RELIGIOUS. i.tvixo tub ciiuisT i.tnt What is your idea of Christianity? If yon are mistaken ou that p ilut, every thing else wil. be wrong. If a man thinks that Chris tianity consists In feeling happy, he will bn wholly lit the mercy ot circumstance. If his liver is sound, and ho is comfortable in himself, he will think that all is right be cause he feels happy; but if he has neural gia he will feel unhappy, and will Imngine the devil has got hold of him, and that ho is a lost man. Tho man who judges of bis Christianity by bis fooling, builds on the shifting sand. There is nothing that will help us but this one point that Jesus Christ has cMlcd and made mo n Christ iau thnt He may live In mo His lite over again. It I not by relieving tlil t ing or that thing that I can get to heaven, bul by Jesus Christ living and dwelling in me. Ha wants mo to livo His lif 1 in the olllce, in tho workshop, lsdiind tho counter, for w hen pooplo see a Christian living n Christ-liWo life, they will behove in Christianity. There is only ono work on tho evidences ot CI11 istinnity worth Imvin; a work I have iii"f, with here 11ml there. It is rnther scarce but tlinnk (lisl some new edi tions are coming 0111. Itis IhiiiiiiI in cloth from five to six feet of humanity living a Christ-like life. It is mi uso aruiii;; with jieoplo 10 prov i tiie existence of a Creator only. Downright out-iind-out gixslucss und Kimple every day I'hi'isUikoucss can w in the victory. Are you golcg to be witnesses for Christ, or while your fell ws lok upon you ns Christian, in- you going to be ungry, and lie nil, nnd hnrsh? If so, sjie will shrug tiieir shoulder nnd shake their lien. Is, and sny: "Ah. there's your Christianity! If religl'.ii dis-s 11 t govern your temper and cure your meanness what's the gmsl of it? Sen! here is a man w ho is brought boforn a judge under suspicious circumstances, and wlietfier ho is acquitted or not dcjiciuM upon liivcviilei.ee. 1 11111 called us n witues, 1 11m oskisl what I know. I bungle in mv sMoch, nnd am careless. I put in w hat I ought to have left out, und leave unsaid whut I ought to have said. Tho judge hluiUes his head counsel for prosecution rubs his hands and Kits down smiling. The counsel for the do. fence looks aghast, the jury whisper togeth er, and my p or frinils turn p.eailingly t in", us if to s.iy: "Is thnt the best you can do for nw? So Jesus l In 1st, wlmm wo love, stands in us nt tho bar of public opinion, and whether He shall 1st excepted or rejected do ends upon our evidence evory dav, and hour by hour. Will you not then give yniirselve right up to Jesus Christ, and quietly, earnestly mid res luti lv livo His life? Kneel dowu in His presence nnd say, "Io d, 1 can think of 110 greater ambition than 1 1 make the world think well of Tlust. I don't want to be great, but I want so to livo that men can not help Is'lieving in Thee." Ho dm in't want splendid gifts or spnrkliu; genius, but eurnest, thorough, out-and-out iiien in whom ilo ran live His life oyer again. What bet ter thing canst thou do than give thyself wholly to Him? That ulonu is Christ's i lea of Christianity men and women given up to 11 1 in, t hut they may 1st filled with His power. Now, what are you going to do? I don t want you to put strain and agony upon yourself, to iniiko great resolutions and splendid prom ises they ore just blown uway by a puff of wind; but 1 do want you to say, "Lord, 1 give myself to Thee; Thou shalt livo Thy life over again in m c I hold myself us Thy tjwu." livo. Murk O'uj Vurco. He is doubly a conqueror who, when a conqueror, can conquer himself. Modera tion and mercy shed over the laurels of ths conqueror tho luVro of true glory. Tho Biblo may be In the hand or home, nnd not lu the heart. Food is nut ofloctual for our nourishment until it roaches ths blood. The bread of life, too, must roach th 1 heart, the very source of life, licfors the tissues of tho soul can rocoive plntunl life and growth. When Orlmshaw first fouud Christ, he told a friend thut "if Ood had sent to hun another Bible, it could not have been newer to him." Yot the only diffcrenos was lietwutn the word In tha hand and ths word in the heart: but how wide aud won derful I SABBATH SCHOOL. . INTERNATIONA fi LFSSON AUGUST 11. ron Laftsaonl Tciti "Samuel's Farewell Addr," I Sam. xil., 1-1 jy Golden Test! I Ham. xll., 21 Commentary. After the servant passed on leaving Paul and Hamuel alone, Harauel took a vial of oil nd annnfntjvl Haul nnnt.in ..,.. T 1' - inheritance, at the samo time telling him of ! several events wnicn would happen to him as he returned home; allot which signs came to him that day. Hoon after that Saul was mil liclr elected and ordained as kind, the Lord ordering the lot. In the Instruction of Kam. nol to Haul that memorable day there is one sentence which I lielieve it Is the privilege of J ,true followv".Tf .J.ft!"1! to "TProprlato andenioy.and yet I find but few have not iced "! " ln 7,P??r "V? J"- ""l1 'j Do as oceasion ith thee." It is n helpful precept, and I find great comfort in It. May every reader appropriate it. 1. "And Samuel snld unto all Israel." Thn place ot to-ilnv's lesson is OilKa), the first ramping ground of Israel in the promised land, after they crossed the Jordan, where the twelve stones from Jordan were set up, the people rircumolsed and the reproach of Kgypt rolled away, the possover kept, and Joshua's headquarters from which he set out and to which he returned as he sulsliied tho land; where, also, they hnd Jnst now been offering sacrifice and renewing the kingdom. (Chan, xl U, is.) a. "And now, liehold, tho king wnlkth be. fore you." When Samuel says in the first Verse thnt ho hod hearkened unto their volin and mado them a king lie was siml;iiig ns Clod's representative, for in Ver IM lie my: "The lord hath set a kinir over von:"!!!!,! wlmtever Kninuel did he did as Mini's servant anil as hi His siuht; if the new king would do ,,k,?tw.1"" 1,11 m,,-nJt ,v"i 1,0 I have wnlk. d l;for.. you fri 'out mv I'hiM. ' hood until this day." There are two sides to yoiirlifeand mines well as to thnt of .am- ' nol, that which seen of men and that whidi I Is seen only by (led. The out ward words nnd acts and the motives back of nil; hnppv tln mini whose llrst thought always is, "What. : does Ood think of this!" nnd governs himsi if . accordingly. !!. "Witness ngalnst me before the Tird." 1 With all his life from his vouth up lived be- : fore the people, he now asks them to testify If they havo ever known him to defraud, r ; oppress or take a hrilie; he places himself be- ' fore tho lord and n.-ks their closest scrutinv, ready to innlio anything liht which they limy any has Is-on wroiiir. . 4. "Thou hast not defrauded us, tmr op pressed us, neither best thou taken aui;lit of any mnn's hand." Surely here is n rllitisms , man, one against whom, like Daniel, tin y , could find iiono oeonlon nor fnult; for ns , much as he wns fnithful, neither wn them : any error of fnult found in hinuDnn. vl., 41; and this lifo hels'gnn to live as a child, mid ! any boy or girl niny bein to-dav to live tho same righteous life ami live it nil their davs 011 the earth, for the same llolv Spirit who lived this life In Samuel and lintiiel, mid in many others, is ready to live it again in nny one who is w illing to let Hun. ' f. "The lord Is witness ncninst vmi." ; Their testimony to Samuel's faithfulness wns their own condemnation; his faithfulness tes titlisl asalnst their unfaithfulness; their m knowleiliueiit f his righteousness osth"ir own evidence against their unrighteousness; ' to Is'liove t iod is to cnndoll'tl self, and to n I Jl,ct tho counsel of (iisl aKninst self, us did the lawyers in the time of ( 111 1st (l.ulte v i i . . 1 I to condemn Ood and confess ourselves Hi 1 tun I'll''! nil's. . "It is tho Lord that advance 1 (nn isilntisl, 11. V.) Mos and Aaron, and that brought your fathers out of the laud of Kgypt." Snmuel would not ki-cp them fai n to face withllisl and remind them of l!is love to them and His gracious dealings wit a them, ns win 11 Paul tells us in Act xvn , t-''N. that It isthsl who giveth to nil lifo and breath, and all things, and Hint In Him wn live and move and have our being; or ns wbon Daniel snld to Dclsha.zar: "Thn Ood In whoso hand thy breath is, nnd whose nro all thy ways, hast thou uot glorified." (Pan. v.,!M.) 7. "Vow therefore, stand still, that I may reason with you Is'foro the lord of all tlfu righteous acts ot tho Lord." Or as in vor.-o 24, consider how great things He hath done for you, and therefore fear tho lonl, and servo Him in truth with all your heart. 8. "Your fathers cried uiito tho lord, then the lord sent Mows and Aaron." Samuel re minds them llrst how Oral heard thnrry from the Iron f urimiv of Kgypt and delfveris'l t hem Hud brought them into the land of Ciinauu. This great deliverance from cruel bondage and gift of ii land flowing w ith milk and honey ought to liuve bts'ii enough to bind them fcrever to such a deliverer 111 the most loving and grateful service, but alas for hu man ingratitude; 1111 1 lire not Christian to. day just oh I ind, when so ninny who profess to havo received tint forgiveness of sins mid deliverance from the bondage of Satan si" :n no ungrateful that, instead of serving tho lord constantly iunl wholly, they do not even seem to ncknoH lislge Mini ns their lord, or think their deliverance worth mentioning. IM1. "They forgat the lord their Ood; they cried unto the lord; the Lord sent mi l delivered." This covers the history of the nation foruboiit -.'o year-;, or from the first of thu judges until siimin I (Acts xiii., ii'ii, when, notwithstanding their oft re.nt.sl trnnsi.Tiissioiis, forsnkings 1111 I idolatry, 111 s sm ns they truly repentisl nnd criisl unto tho Lord, He sent tliem juiigi-s who delivered Iheni ami cans d them toihvell in safety. How sad tlmt tin y should forsake, forget and grieve such a gracious Ood, but how wonderful that lie should again and aguin forgive them nnd shower Hi mercies ujMin them. 12, VI. "Now, therefore, behold the king whom yo have chosen, whom vo have di sireil." (iod hud given them tlin desire of their hearts ami they now had a king like other nations, but it was on their part a ih purturo from a sole reliance upon Oisl, und n putting of a man in 1 1 is phuv. The same sin Is manifest now when tneoleof (iisl in any way lean 011 an urm of flesh rulher than ou the almighty urm of thu uiisccii but ever present Lord Jesus Christ. 14, 15. "Continue following the lord your ficxi." Although they havo sinned, and Hod has given them their iletiiro, yet here is a way of blessing still left to them. If they anil their sing will fear thu Lord us Samuel did, and serve Hull and ols-y His voice, and not relsd against Him, then the handof thn Lord will still lie Ulsm them for good; hut if not, His baud will bu against them us in thu day. of tho judges. l oui Ih-ljirr. "After Your Hoy." During the Christian Kmleovor Conven tion at Chicago, oueof the ilolngaU'i, a younu buiiues man drested in a nutty rough-und. randy suit, uvury inovuii.ent alert und eager aud tailing of bottled enorgy within, cams siidilsuly iihiii a r 'd-fucid eitisu who evi dtinlly had been patronizing the hotel bar. Buttonholing tne ilelogutu a trills uucsre luouiously, the lutlsr said: "What are you follows trying to do down at ths Bat tery I You are hot 011 temperance. 1 se by the psistra. Do you think you could maksa teniX)i anes man ot iimf" "No." replied the delegate, looking him over from head to foot with a keen glancs slightly contemptuous, " wo evidently couldn't do much with you, but we are after your boy." At this unexpected retort the man dropped his jocular tone and said seriously: "Well, I guess you have got the right of it there. If somebody had Isieu after 111s whsu 1 was a boy I should lie a better mini to day." The youug man gave in a nutshell the sum and substance ot ths Christiuu Kuucavoi movement.- The Outlook. A Senator asked Mrs. Rallie Cnapin wny woman did not leave the temperance work to men, to make the lawa; they would be responsible and take the consequences. 'Because,' she answered, "you do ths work bow, and women take the consequsnces." TEMPERANCE. The Tounff Corporal. A lad, a corporal In the French armr, when drunk, struck his superior oilleer. H was tried by a crurt-martlel and sentenced to lie shot, and east Into prison to await ths execution of his sentenee. There was an effort made to secure his psrlon, but without success. The Colonel, however, was much attached to him, and was unremitting In bit efforts to secure a pardon, which he at length succeeded in doing, ou condition that if ever known to be drunk- again he should lie shot dead. The Colonel went to tho prison to Inform the young corporal of his pardon. "Ah, Colonel." said tha unhappy young man as the olheer entered, "see w hat my folly has brought me to." "Suppose," said the Colonel, "that I should tell you that on condition tnnt you never in your life drink again a pardon is extended to you." A gleam of hope brightened ths yonnii mnn's tai-e. "Your life to lie the for feit it you ever tati liquor again," added th Colonel. "Impossible!" said tho pvr lml "I can not live and not drink. Must I never drinkf "Never." The poor young fellow ro1np9d Into hope lessness. "Nothing could keep me from it. It woulJ 6e lmKissible to koep the condition." "I want your word and pledge of honor ns a soldier," said the Colonel, npalitig to ths military spirit an I high sense of honor he 11 f .ell knew the youth to imissss. The Ind's si .ill kindled within him. Tin Pieal wrought the effect inteinled. "See, Colon. il," cried the youn soldier. "See here aud now," and he lilto l his arut toward heaven, "that never with the hlp ot Uod, will I put liquor to my lip n;ni " That la I lieeame commander of the Im perial Ouard whose very name lurauie such a power, an I he k -pt the pie. Ije in the same spirit that characterised his nienioraliln ut terance: "Tho Old Ouard dies, but never surrendt r. " .Sow you set bow mil. h that sting of the lhlUor ser;H'iit costs. It e.'inie very u-ar cost ing that leave voting corporal his life. It is a very cost I v thing to ths country in dollars and cent.s. It costs us three hun.ired and sixty times ns miieli as it doss to pav the n tlarii' of all tht ministers of the gospel. The s.ilo ri" of our ministers amount to sixty null . ions or ilollsrs. And it costs twenty-two hundred iiii hons 01 oi.ll.ir to l;p th' I'npior trallie. an 1 keep the sting ot lb liquor sir pent doing its w ork. Damages for 11 Drunk nrd'n Death. When William Mcl'nrthv went home at thn end of In day s work he as sober. Alter siipoer he went id Wells's salism, ifrimH "a glMsn full of whiskv," staved thoro had nu hour nnd left partly intoxicated. lie drank at several other places ilurin the evening, sed !y ten o clock waao in- toxi nte. tun t "he niearei mialiln to walk and was 111 charge ot two men who had hold of him, one 011 eiich side, and were en t'Diirngitv Ii 1 til to try to walk." He was not KSi-n nltve after that. His truly was found in a mill-race, w here ln had Is'ou drowned in about three feet of water. This was in Oiienl.t Count v, . Y. Hi widow sued Wells under the Civil Damage uct of IS::, whn h providi s that l.very luisleind, wile, child. parent, guardian, employer or other per-on whn shall 1st iniureil in permn, properly or ineuu of support by an iiitoxic.tteii psisou, or ill conse. lUelieii of the intoxication, habitual nr otherwise, of anv leTson, shall have n right ot action agalnsi nny srson or r-oii ti 1111 snail, oj senilis "r giTing away utoxieatini: li'iuor, have cniiseil tha in toxication in whole or 111 part. Mrs Met 'art iy won her casn on trial mi l cot a veruict. for ilam;is from the iurv. Wells Itisstxil that lie was not liubli for Mel nrthy s di'atli and lip! enl, ,1 to the Oneral Trrm of III" Supreme Court. That tnU1n.1l has deiMle.l against him. "Wa art of op. moil,'' say .list,is .Martin, "that tin evidence w as sullh'ient to wan ant the jury in finding thnt the il-ntn of thn plMintill hiMhainl wns caused bv his iiitoxicatiou. hu I that Ins intoxii ation was I'lius-d III whole or in part bv liquor furnished him bv tne dv fondant." Arm lei. I'.nuhl. How? A II truo temporal! e workers are striving for tho final and complete overthrow of th host ot rum; lint the question conies: "what ran wa do in thut direction nowf In our nor!: there are two thing so intimately con tnctnd that to accomplish the second we aunt ais'nmpliali the first, end bv accom plishing the first wu work toward the ae roinpll'ihmsnt of the second. The one is ths enforcement nf ths present liquor laws, and the other of the triitlie. Whut we should do now is to enforce the existing laws, and by doing this we will work toward and up to lotai prohibition. How strict the law hi re tard to Sunday sailing to minors and to hall luial drunkards! Ami yet here 111 our own town how openly am the laws vfolutcd. Al most under ths shadow of our churches and p a e where the work of lio 1 i proclaimed lo we find thn iluinning stuir dealt out Sun llav alter Sunday. True, there was an ef fort made not long ago to enforce the Sun liny Inw, nu I with son s success, but is tin lustier to drop hni 8 Shall tho public ol!. rers and others lulere-ted in the enforceiiiiiut nt the law put their li.iuds to the plow nnd then turn back: A gi ol beginning was half the liaUle, hut not all. If a:t"i- a coo. I In (inning the warfarn is ali.iinloiied, thecnomv sre thn in-torn. 1 .1 1 11 not ih sist. hat rather lllit to the tlrath and overcount tlu'oiigli U. Lord ef Uos'.s, who is surely ou our elo. riiilil nrnnkni'ils in Wliiteclinixd. The I'aU .lii il-.-.flU- publishes an a I Jre'vs 011 tumtieranco in I, on Ion, by Lady Henry Somerset, 111 winch sno picture the luis-ry oecasiotiit I bv strong m ini; in ths hiteelutpei district, wherein there have been the past year s iiiiiny mysterious an I 'loeliiiig murders of women : ami reterrin I i juvenile drinking, sho said: "Itnw cull 1 put beforn yuil the sin and misery of t!i:.t seeuef To se thu cluhlreii flocking out of those ileus of sin! 1 statu no exaggeration, no overdrawn picture. You have only to ritad the ji dice report. Last year you will lin 1 in Loudon nloon .'iisl children under ten years old were laheu up ilcu'l drunk, and them were l.MH under fourteen, ami '.'skI under twenty-one." VT iint a coiiti ast imltwd is tne life ot these expned children III jin don compnivii with the eight-year old Kan sua boy who hud never even seeu a liquor Kiluou till ho Visited 1'ittsburg.' A 'Jemplo of TfinyTiiiicn. Ths project of building a .National Tern pirmiCM 1 ample, twelve stories high and costing &siki,ouu, was ut first but n dream ot thu W oiiimu's Chris' 11111 Teiiiis-raucH I niou. ihis dream, however, is last taking siuis as verv substantial und prucfcal reality lltlildliig stoi'k to the amount of almost l.lM.ono him already ben 11 subseril I, ami tariuus m.-tlusis are Iwing eiuploved to mine than double tins sum. Mrs. .Matilda li.Carse, I'rosiiloiit of the Jiiiililing Assiiciatuui, whose remarkable business ability, tireless energy Slid (luiintless eutliusiasui ure wholly devoted lo tins work, is conliilHiit of ulimmtn ami l'ooil-to success, 'J li, buildiiig will Is. tsalhd the "Woman's 'Temple," and will Is national Inetilipiarters fur till pliilunthnsilo nai liter ury ussouiatiom ot women. Drink ltolm One ot Diccloiis Years A collective invsitigating committen 011 "Habits of JutMiuperuucu,'1 apsiintsd by the I'.riti.sli MeJical Association, have muds a re port, publishwi in the iiritink Metliral .ollr au, in which, us one of their conclusions, they say: "That of inuu who have passed tho uge of twenty-five, thu strictly temperate oil thn avarags live at least ten vears lunger than those who have become decidedly 111 toiiqernte." If their conclusion concerning the effect of liilemM-rance Uhiu the average length of hfs Is correct, it will be seen that the nuinlier of years thus sacrificed annually by the army of drunkards in our owu and other countries, is in the aggregate euor. inouily Jurs. At Kuoxvillo, Tioa couuty, toverul fluys h'o, a 0 mplo of ingi.las engaged In U'l ciifniiu'.er with thu sister of ono of Ihciu as rjll'ioo. An Juollenslve. citkeu tiiilcnvoic I ti stop the light un J wai se. tcrcdy culled by the rcforcu. wobbixo Tnie bvtr 1 jru .'.5 V -U r-r. . I 1 r w - r.'W-'W CIGARETTES WITH 1 EVERY OOZEfJ PHOIOCRW A I In cij.r.'iretto-iiinki rs ni( givipo l wny plmti prapli 11 n bait for duilcn, it cinl,lu't be a luul i.lcu fur the plu ,i'Kii'''"'r to llibqit Miuictliiiig 1 1 k llic iilinvc. nml work llie iliulc fur uU io i. wort It. Chivaijo l.tilijer. 'J lie Hon Vhant." '-S-TW.J per doctor tnys I das, nt sinoko Aiiinfili r cigarette. 11 else my nmnois Mud. Dor blokol I'll give 'ill soil', you bet '. Dcr dry ol' f..:.,le Wofs he know AlioUl del' jllicc o' lit, ;' lie's mi 1 "u but a lio'y show, .V t inner den a knife'. I wouldn't be dllt ill V ol' Cli- Kur nil dor world end give! l' -r ain't nobody knows, but us Young b'llov.s, how to live! .Neil' 1 or.'; .VntY Cm i;i JultmcL I Knglisli lip. Tlie ootiii!iiint uf tln'triivclcr ngninst tin1 Knglisli KVstcin of "lipa" wiimm every year nuuo biftcr. It lias lieooine illlimsilil( fur pcrsotlH of llioilel'llte '.iiciiiiH to isit tit liirgn t'Htiibli.slimi'iitsi, no iniiltcr uniii w lint footing tlioy Htiiiul with tlie ow iici'M, liccaiisc it costa hu inuch to fi n tho servants. "1 cniuo 11 way from l'.nglaml without poing to sco luv sister," a gciitlcnitn tuiiil, rcceiitl v, "Im ouuho 1 will Lot suh tnit to f lie tij'jiing. 11 or litisliniul lum 11 Lie; o.stiililishiiicpt, ntul it would nuiko nil t lie scrMiutH tliiuk slio luul sliiildiy lc!iiticM fur 1110 to i;d tlicio und hot tin tho convciitioiial tiling! lliultliiit 1 vill liot Htibliiit to. W lion tliey well' licio last year, tliov hIiivciI with mo tlnvo wi cks, iitul wlieti they were fjuiiii? 11 wny lie w lllltcil to fed the scl VUIlt s, lllld I told liim tlmt thut wns tin insult to 1110. 1 Mii'l that it was 1111 itilitiuilioii that I cuiil I 1 it it or would nut lmw liim priqi rrly wrvcil williuiit bis pin inn fur it : iunl t lint in Atneiicti it was 11 point oi liuiu.r with ti. to m o tlmt our Imspitul it v wns nut 1 ii. ii I fur bv tlu nucsf. I ilun't lliitil; he liked tln w it y I put it, but lie could nut think of unythin to bav.---Uostin ('uui ur. (lotlics Make (lie .12nii. The. stylo of his city clothes,. And of his country outfit. Tori iLraUl. A it mm r i,yir s- "'t?') i--:1 1 ' f .
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