i "NATION'S CUKSE. iMssaaa XSD PHTilCAI LOS9KS. It.' pwcrlb" n Sorrow ana of the Drunkard lioom . I ,nc rr basket corning tip w- 1 , Vina Jbu. I am mm '''''''m .to out what i. in the ta0U. tIT. M . II h(to f f . n Wince. Ai the basket JJ.st of th palace, e bead are h'n?!.J;-.i the King com., out. P the" bt cries out with a ring- D I. Th.ro in no 1IM of mf rJ,IrUmo'l.i trying to give ymi st rfi to devsstation and ruin and rhira wHt jjntidn not seem to mean ntry. .,.-, na-r these -- . ,ir,nk Has wroueLi ID . . .Zl tt th.t fifty thousand t", ir. or fifty thousand lest Ltnm are ' nonitlnim. l-thTpuWI" mind. Suffice it U ".. J.. - k.a slnin on in. . ""TVi':: . , "vinces-th children Uborhood their are two heap, of . .i.m- n( tha household C "est of th. .lain: and at the 'i u legislative ball thore are two ." ,k, .lain; and at the door of tht rrtr threre two heap of the slain; .1 threat. . V the siain. " '. "i" delation I m abnost fran--Tih tho scene, while 1 .... -Who slew all theso?" I ran answer ,'vtin in linlf a minute. Tha mini- I .. . . I. m witit nn wa miner tirt, .f Inw tbut have ottered tbe licon. '. UAdittlwiftril. tho hundrMlf iljivf nm -v - . ni h nrnntolid in tlipir indifferenc r .. .1... .(.... .nra t toll vnn whni tk'irtth irrwaud tha doom of tht Kurd. that ynu to whom 1 apeak maj tnaafci torment. L r on ): "You had lwttr lot tuow M lnne. ny. "'7 iireiurrn, m k . . i-.i a lt tliMtn AlnnA if thftv would L tlcne: but wbi'n I have in my pocket ft mr r now wjiiih. 'j ;"j prav f.-r niT n, pray for my brother, f,ir hiT friend, who h the captive of H driuk." I reply, we are rtaiy to lui -jction alone wh"n it i willing to Inttu 1 !... m-Iim it. tTirl hlnrkinir lln thu t'. hVaTn, and ke;iinit multitudes away ibe LrJ ro.uire their blood at mf L fc,nk the nibjVt hn ban kept bark muoh I'T tlio nierrimeiit people make thinm klnm hr itroue drink. I used to Wnr treiry over thro things, having a rnof the hiilicroiii. I here was aouie- Tery Krotewti in the gait or a dnink It i not so now ; for I saw in one of tht 4 ol fliilniielpliia a sight that chanced hnliubi(t tonio. There was a younn linz leif home. He wns very much in- kt.l he was raving with iutozica- Two young men were loading ttonK. 'The boys hooUd iu thu men laughed, women anecred: a haiened to be very n.r the door r be went in it was tbe door of hil kr't huiiae. I saw him go up stairs. 1 I hull Hhoutmz, Dootma; ana blasphem Ho baa lost ins nat, ana the uierrl incTiid with the mob until be camd door, and as tho door was oiwned hut tr nuns out. When I heard her cry took all the comedy out of the scenei I that time when I see a man walking bb tho street, roolltig, the comedy is all soil it is a tragedy ut tears and groans teartbreaks. Never make any fun) hj mo alwut the grotegquoueM of a isrd. Alas for his hornet ' i firrt utlei-lnir of the drunkard Is in p-i of his good name. Ood has so e.r' fi it tliat no man ever loses bis good seioept turougn Ills own act. All tho lit of men and all the assaults of dnvild tt destroy a man's good name if he malnl.iiin his Integrity. If a man it trintM nud pure and Christiau, Uod aiurniiu. AiinouKU lie may be bom I fur twenty or thirtr vuarn. hi intoir- w never lint and hi.s good name is never B nl. No fon-e on earth tr in hell feature such a (JihrulUr. But whon it It of a man, "Ho drinks," and it can roved, then what employer vrnnts f r workman w hat store wants liiuv l.-lrrk? what church wants him fnr ii lT? who will trust him? wlint dvln.. 'iiUd aiiiiiit him his executor? lie ue liwn forty years in buildins un Imitation it goes rlown. Letter of nirml.-itixi, the backing up of business a brilliant ancestry t-anuot save him. 'irnlnhiesoir. WllV? If l vliiunurorl riuskt'iecominunity, "Ho drinks; bo "Msiiiiu. i nou a man loses itstuiu for kobriuty tin might as well ba l'tt'iu of the wn. Tl um ntA mun r !io have tln ir good name as their ouly ii. ou are nw achieving your own uimiT nud, ny your own rigut Now liHik out tllllt there la tin iloul.e ir Kuhii. tv, D,i not create any sue- ") going innmi out of immoral places,' aiy odor of your breath, or by any '(your ere. or lv nm i,,,,.uf,,,.i i,,i. nheek. ou cannot afford to do it. f, y,ur 'y capiui, ami Itnst is hlastod with the rcnutatioa ol t strong drink, all is Bono. t low niucu th8 iuuoriaio suffors i l , V , ,u"" soon as a man I u .and hud tint he is the captive o C, . il" f,x'U demeaned. 1 do noj . ua"cu- o niay say, "J I"', h" ". He cannot look a rf!","1"0 u"u, iwith posttivt hwoul,Uot otherwie say ; he doei I tw would not otherwise do. When Pl "S be wanu to do Is to persuade you rS""'';Pn,V time he wants to. IU fit ni i ,?1" naro bound bim hand tirltr:. 'T" PUt OUt hil k kn!;."; fanuot -U,P- I will prov ,:; . '"" "s course l bringing d id l?h. o,'!'i".,K? hiiMsolf- 110 b.vesljln., "lie could ntou ....i. i Ti- i ! 11 P i." oulJ au.ptf hecould. br o ". hB coulJ thr nionthj f" a month. He amu.t- .....,. i... prnitepQ Tears wn ,ri,. thwiin,!. I1'.',1 """Kemeans. He had nomamlsof do era r.. iiiKi ..!.;. .. puiatory m.tituthTus 'it .U rta! ' "top t any tin',; iFl wa'n, nUU yet anion 7 h u i.u ean stop t any time." H. dbi n uld not atop It. Oh, (If caunot ston! . "Hlr Tl lm: Vi,d to ChrUtiaii had -ii 7. :U to-morrow night unl BriMthV i.-.T1"! cu off. 1 WOUI. hr.'" IT Kr cut the; V. hos;I!i de-J' rtn In Pbil ws auuu us evw Ittn . "a'v auiutc V I II II i wish ou tw ?, Iiu iiy woui'J rill I U Would "P " "Why," ho 1 ltUta?U" hiB 'e'lum tromensi ll' stnn J.''1'1 7 after that he saidl habit, mI.Ii "Unola I can give it up.' If there irtootl a cannon, and it was loaded; and a gin of wine sat on the mouth of that cannon, ond I knew that you would Are it o(? Jurt as I came nn and took tho glass, I would start, for I must have it" Oh, It is a sad thing for a man to wake up in this life and feel that he Is a captive. He save: "I could have got rid of this once, but I can't now. I might have lived an hoaorable life and died a Christian death; but there Is no hope for me now; there is no escape for ma Dead, but not burled. I am a walking corpne. I am an apparatlon of what I once was. I am a caged immortal, heating against the wires ol my cnye In this direction and in that direc tion: beating against the cage until there it blood on the wires and blood upon my sou), yot not able to get out. Destroyed, without remedy !" I go further and soy that the Inebriate suffers from the loss of bis usefulness. Do you not recognixe the fact that many of those who are now captives of strong drink only little while ago were foremost in the churches and in reformatory Institutions? Ih you not know that sometimes they knelt in the family circle? Do you not know that they prayed In public, and some of them carried around the holy wine on sacramental davst Oh, yos, they stood In the very front rank, but they gradually fell away. And now what do you suppose is the feellnj of such a man as that when he thinks of his dishonored vows and the dishonored sacrament whon he thinks ol what be might have been and of what he if nowf Do such men laugh and seem very merry? An, there is, down In the depths of their soul, a yery heavy weight. Do not wonder that they sometimes see strange things, and act very roughly In the house hold. You would not blame them at all if you knew what thoy suffer. Do not tell such as that there is no future punishment. Do j not ten nun mere is no such place as uc.il. He knows there is. He is there now I I go on, and say that tho inebriate suffers from the loss of physical health. The older men In the coucregntion may remember that some years ago Dr. Newell went through this country and electrified the people by bis lec ture, In which he showed the effects of alco hol nn the human stomach. He bad seven or eight diagrams by which he showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physi cal system. There wore thousands of jieopln that turned back from that ulcerous sketch swearing eternal atatinence from everything that could intoxicate. Ood only knows what the drunkard suf fers. 1'ain files on every nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws every bonu, and burns with very flame, and stings wiUi every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over hiscreop. tng limbs! What (lends stand by his mid night pillow) What groans tear his earl W lint horrors shiver through his soul I Talk of tho rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk of fh funeral pyre, talk of Hie crushing Jug gernautshe feels them all at once. Have you ever been iu the ward of tho hos pital where these inebriates nre dying, tbe stench of their wounds driving liack the attendants, their voices sounding through the night? The keoKr comes up and says: "HuMi, now, lie stiil. . Htop mak ing all this noise!" Hut it is effectual only for1 a moment, fur as soon as tha keeper is gone, they begitiagain: "Oh, Ood! oh, Ood! Help! help! Kum) Hive me rum! Help! Taku them off inel Take them olf me! Take them off me ! Oh, Ood 1" and then they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out their hair by haudsful, and bite their nails into the ouirk,; and then they groan, and they shriek, and they blasptiomn, and they ask the keert to kill them. "Stab me. Smother me., Strangle me. Take tbe devils off me!" Oh, It is no fancy sketch. That thing is going ou In hospitals, aye, it is going on in some of tho ; n nest, resiaonces oi every nvigniiornoea on this continent. It went on last night while you slept, and I tell you further that tliis is going to be the death that some of you will die, I, know it. I see it coming. Again: the inebriate suffors through the. loss of his home. I do not care bow much ha loves bis wife and children, if this passion; (or strong drink has mastered him, Le will do the most outrageous things, and if ha could not cot drink in any other way, ba would sell his family into eternal bondage.' How many homes have been broken up in. that way. no one Rut Ood knows. Oh, is Acre anything that will so destroy" a man for this life and damn him for the lifni that is to come? I hate that strong drink.', With all the concentrated energies of my soul, I hate it. Do ynu tell me that a man. can be happy when be knows that he id breaking his wifu's heart and clothing Ids children with rags? Why, thera, (iro on tbo streets of our cities to-day little children, barefooted, un combed and unkempt; want on every patch of their faded dress anil on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenances, who would nave been in churches to-day, and as well clad as you are, but for the fact that ruui destroyed their jmreuta and drove them into the grave. Oh, rum! thou foe of Ood, thou destroyer of homes, thou recruiting ollleerof the pit, I abhor thee! Hut my xubject take a deeper tone, and that is, that the Inebriate suffers from the loss of the soul. The Kililo intimates tlmt iu the future world, it we ure unforgiven hero, our funl pussioni and appetites, unrestrained, will go along with us and make our torment there. Nj that I suiisj8o when an iucbriatu wakes up in this lost world be will fisd an in finite thirst clawing on him. Now, down n the world, although he may have leu aery poor, he could beg or ho could steal live cents with which to get tlmt which would slake his thirst for a little while; but n eternity, where is the rum to como from? tives cYmld not get ouo drop of water, r'l o:n what chuiicu of eternal tires will the hot liM of the drunkard drain bis draught? No one to brew it. No ono to mis it. No one to pour It. No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds then for the dregs which tho young man just now slung on thu saw-dusted floor of thu restaurant. Millions of worlds now for the rind thrown out from the punch bowl ol an earthly luinquet. Dives cried for water. The iutfiiriato cries for rum. Oh, Um deep, exhaustiug, exasperating, everlasting thii'at of tbe drunkard in bell! Why, if a fiend came up to earth for Nome lnfuriuil work in a grog shop, nud should po back taking on its wing jiirit ouo drop of tlmt for which the inubrlato in the lost world longs, what ex citement it would make there. lut that one drop from off the fiend's wing on thu tip of the tongue of the destroyed inebriate; let the liquid brightness iuxt touch it, let the drop be J smnll if it only have in It the smack of alcohollo drink, let that drop Just touch the lost iue briate iu the hist world, and be would spring to his feet and cry: "That is rum! aha I that is rum !" and it would wake up the ecjioea ol the damned: "Give me rum ! (live me rum ! Hive mo rum !" In the future world, I du not believe that it will be the absence of God that will make the drunkard's sorrow; I do not believe that it will be the absence of light; I do not believe that it will be the ab sence of holiness; I think It will bo the ab sence of stroug drink. Oh I "look not uion the wine wheu it is roil, when it moveth it Jelf aright iu the cup, for at the last, itbitotu ike a serpent and it still net h like an adder.' Hut I waut in coucliisiou to say one thing personal, for I do not like a sermon that has jio tiersonalities in it. 1'erhaps this bos not bail that fault already. I want to say to those who are the victims of strong drink, that while I declare that there was a point beyond which a man could not stop, I want to toll you that while a man cannot stop in his owu strength, the Lord Ood, by His grace, can help him to atop at any time. Years ago I was iu a room in New York where there were many men who bad been reclaimed from drunkenness. I beard their testimony, anil for the first time in my life there flashed ouJ a truth I never understood. They said: "We were victims of strong drink. We tried to. give it up, but always failed; but somehow, lince we gave our hearts to Christ, He has taken care of us." I believe that the tiniii will soon oome when the grace of Ood will how its power here not ouly to save man's soul, but bis body, and reconstruct, purify! elevate and redeem it. I verily believe that UHhougu you feel grappling at , the k-onta ef ynnr tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, lf yon will this moment rive your heart to God He will help you, by His grace, toconaunr. Try It. It is yonr last chance, I have looked off npon the desolation. Hit ting under my ministry there are people In awful peril from strong drink, and. judging from ordinary circumstances, there is not one chance In five thousand that they will get clear of it. I sea men In this congre gation of whom I must make the remark, that lf they do not change their course, within ten years they will, as to their bodies, lie down In drunkards' graves; and as to their souls, lie down in a drunkard's perdition. I know that it is an awful thing to say. but I can't help saying it. Oh, beware I You have not yet bneo captured. Hewarel As ye . open the door of your wine closet to-day, 1 may that decanter flash out upon yout Beware! and when yrai pour the beverage Into tha glass, in the foam at tbe top. In white letters, lot thera be spelled out to your , Woul: "Beware T When the books of judg ment are open, and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I, to-day, in the fear of Ood, and in the love for your soul, told you with all affection, and with all kindness, to beware of that which bas already exerted its Influence upon your family, blowing nut some of its lights a premonition of the blackness of darkness forever. Oh, if you could only hear this moment, Intemperance, with drunk ard's bones, drumming on the head of the wine rank the Dead March of immortal souls, tnethinks the very glance of a wine cup would make you shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of the blood of tbe soul, and the foam on the top of the cup would remind yon of the froth ou the mauinc's lip, and you would go homo from this sorvico and kneel down and pray Ood that, rather than your children should become captives of this evil haldt, you would like to carry t hnra out some bright spring day to the ceme tery and put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flowers would come up all over the grave sweet Iirophecies of the resurrection. Ood has a altn for such a wound but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher? i RELIGIOUS RKADLNG. rmiMrTtor-H in rnavKn. I cnuro' l iny; vet, Iird! Thou knowest '1 he pain u i to m i T. have my VhiiiIvs rnprling thoughts Thus torn away' from Thcu. rv.iycr w as not meant for luxury Or Hellish pa-time svtisit: 'Tis the prostrate creature's pluoa At his C reators feet. II '.1 I, dear IWd, no pIcitMiro found Hut in the tli.uulit of Tin', l'rayer would bavu como unsought and been A truer hhvity. Yet Thou art eft most present, Lord, In wei.k, ilisinict. il prayer; Tbe inner inn of heart wi'lh self Mont oft'.ii tluds Tins) llieio. For praer that hum lea, sets tho soul From all illu ions free. And teaches it how utterly, Do r Ixu d, it lianas ou Thoo, The heart that on self sacrifice Is covetously hunt. Will bless Thy clin-t"ning band that mnkes lis prayer its punishment. My Saviour, why s ould 1 complain, Aim w ny tear uug lit Mil mii? Distract ions nr.- but outward thing, Thy iuco dwells fur within. These surface troubles como and go Like millings of the sea; The d.stpcr ilept i is out of reach To all, uiy Ood, but Tbej. rnnow Toun baos ovrnnoAnn. When Captain Murrell of the steamship Missouri found the Danish steamer Danmnrk with her seven hundred assengers lying helpless iu mill .s can, he was otdiged to como to soma decision as to what he would rio in tiio cuso. His cargo II I list tho vessel, and he was under obligations to carry it across the Atlantic, but hundreds of human b.Miigs were in danger and in n littlo whilo must sink in the engulfing waves. He must cli. oso between landing Hie cargo "lid saving the men; between Ntivring straight for his Iiort, or turning asido to tho Azores, where ic could land the iuiH'h!isl pnascngers. He did not take long to decide, he took the responsibility, and overboard went the bales of ran, etc., to make room for living men and women and ibiblri n And then, while the owners were wondering why tho Mis souri did not arrive, he was steaming for the A res, where be might pla. o iu safety thu hundreds whom he could not undertake to carry n cross tbo Atlantic for luck of pro vision. Ho has his reward !n Iho love and nfTectlon of the rescued, in t he npproval of his em- I ilo vers, in tbe pnn-c of millions in oil hinds, ii ovations nud b-niiniouiuls from person known mill unknown, nml finally in tbo honor cf kui.'littnnvl from thn ktui; of U'li niark. Ik' sacrilic 'il riisibat lie inihjmvo lives, nu I thus won honor nud fame and reputation that few men woiill uchiuvu in a llio-time of ambitious toil. Thorn urn multitudes t.slny who nre as busily employed us was the captain of the Missouri. Tin y have their work to do, their Voyage planniM, their c ir;;ooti board; they suppose their duty is set lied nud their course Is llxod. Hut Mills ure peri.-hing; men and wom.iii are tulTcriug and dying signals of ilis:ros ure seen; and tho cry from Mace donia, and from every other quarter Is, "Como over and help us." Shall we cxch ourselves? Shall we plead our duties, our obligations, our occupations? hhall we cling to our earthly pos-ossiona, while souls for whom Christ did nre drift ing helplessly on time's wuves? Or shall we with pioinpt, vigorous mid ds'isivo action icok to rescue tbo perbbing and save th lost? , What shall bo said of the man who count his millions aved, while souls m ound bim have gone down in unfat homed depthaf What ml vantage can thur.i be in tbo immioss. ion of wi ulth, iionoi', fume, if with it there iball be the haunt in',' memories of duties un done, of l)Ki tunities lle'lts-ted, of soul w ho might have las n rescued, but w ho bavo unk in darkness and . nth? O. Christian, besit i i no longer. Decldo for Ood and for utcrudy; throw over tho rags, and tie content to let earth s cargo por-s-h if you cuu brin ; souls homo in salety to lb kingdom of our Ood The Christian. TODAT. Tired fathers, weary mothora, when Is your happy day coming? !ng since you expected it t duwu. It is not here yet, nor Will it ever be so long as you do not deter mine that It shall be to-duy. This failure to take comfort as you pass along life's p itn way, but ever looking forward for all enjoy ment of good, is throwing away tho reul sweets of lit i. You may as well attempt to store up Hummer sunshine tJ warm in Win ter, or bottle moonshine for el'.udy nights; Tits real and cnlv true way is to iiud in t.ie ediii all the kk I Ood gives us. Our whole lives liny be filled with joy if we are only willing to learn that in all good work there is prollt, in all sorrow are some rays of sunshine, and in all care some com pensation. Make the most of today and your future will grow brighter and brighter as you step Into it. Let the old saying that ''Man never is, butalways to be, blessed" tie proven false by our finding in the present all tbe fuilues of blessing it really possesses. Thore Lai been a docreaie la Immi gration during tho last your. Tbo total arrivals in June were only 40,030,1a compared with 09,173 a year ago. The total for tbo 13 mootbt ending July 1 wat 430,010, which U 101,201 lest thn (or tbo preceding 18 month. SABBATH SCHOOL INTKItNATIONATi M'.SHOX AUGUST la roii lyoswon Text i "Raul llojoctcil by tbe Jjord," I Sam. y., loa;t Golden Tcxtt I Sam. v., 23 Commentary. The Intervening chapter between this les son and the last one are chiefly occupied with Paul's first victories over the'riiilistines, and also over the Moabltes, Ammonitisj and Kd mites; but there is a sad statement concern ing Saul, and a precious one concerning Jona than, his son. to each of which we ought to give good heed for our own prollt. The first refers to Saul's foolish conduct and disolmli. enoe in the matter of the saaritlce (chapter J xlil., 8-14), which brought from Samuel th message: "Now thy afcigdom shall not con tinue; the Lord hath sought Him a man after His own heart." The wssind is the noble conduct of Jonathan and his armor lsarer ami the rood words: "There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few." W may, it we will, lie men and w-onien after I rod's ewn heart, and daily profit kv the grsxl word of Jonathan. The lesson to-dav is the story of Saul's disobedience in the matter ol the Amalekites. 10, "Then nunc tho word of tho Lord unto Ramucl." Saul's orders were: "Oo ami smite Amalrk, and utterly destroy nil that they have" (v. 8); but lie saved 'Agog tho king alive, and spnnsl the best of the sheep and oxen. (v. Ii). Thus, as in the matter of the sacrifice already referred to, ho did what seemed right Ut himself, acting upon his own judgment rather than the express command of Ood. 11. "It repentoth me that I linve set up Paul to lie king." So in verse :V "the Lord repented that lie had made Saul king over Israel;" and Vet in verso !W it is written: "Tho streneh of Israel will not lie or r pent, for He is not a man that Ilo should re pout." Couqiare also Num. xxiii., Ill; 1's.cx.. 4. Now the question is how b reconcile tbeso apparent contradictious, for the con tradiction is only seeming, not real. We must first get firm ground on which to stand, and we have it in the fact that a Ood of Truth (Isu. Ixv., lf,i rannpt lie; and a Ood to whom nil His works nre known from the beginning of the world (Acta xv., IN) cannot Hm.,iby nmko n mistake or Is. sorry for anything lie bas done. Even the treatment by llero.1, 1'ilnte, tho (Untiles and Israel was "mil V what God had determined before to ls done (Acts iv., VT.'JS). but that did not lessen tho guilt of Herod and tbeotbers. God certainly knew be fore hand Just how Saul would turnout, bow long He would have to boar with him, ami Just when He would set him asi.le ami put David in his place. When O.sL in His infinite wisdom, doing what He nlwavs knew that Ho would do seems to us to change II is mind ami do a now thing, Ho is said in Scripture to re imnt; man, on the other hand repents w hen he actually does change his mind, mid docs what be had not intended liefifre to do. l'J. "Saul come to Cnrmel, uud, K'liold, ho set him up a placo." The Itevisisl Version says he set up a monument. It seems to have I aim, like Absalom's olaco III Sam. xviil., 1X1, a pillar rather for his own glory than the glory of Ood, rather to coiumcfuorato his own name than the name of Jehovah. lit. "Moaned bothou of the Ijord: I havo performed the commandment of the Lord." This was Haul's greeting when Samuel came to him; if in the previous verso we see his vanity, surely here we seo hypocrisy. M. "What ninetieth then tliis bleat ingot the sheep. and the lowing of the oxen?'' All things are naked nud open to tbe eyes of Him with whom we have to do; and from Him who sourclivtb heart and vvias uo secrets can be bid. 15. "The people spared the liest of thesheep and of the oxen, to saeritbsj unto the Lord thy Ood." Being cornered, as wo say, be now Iiuts the blahie on the people, yet seeks to ustify them by vaying it was for the Ixird, iut his heart is somewhat shown in his say ing, the I.ord thy Ood. instead of "the Lord our Ood." It is evident that Saul did not know the Lord; he did not understand that the Lord wants nothing that belongs to UU enemies. 10. "Stay, and 1 will tell thee what the ixmi cam said to me tbls nigiit." JUisuumI Samuel who talked with God ami with whom God talked, who sought only to know the mind of Ood and do it; when he came to die It would not be n very great change for him, for he had from his youth lived with Gou and served linn. Why should we not In our dally Hie thus walk with God, enrol u I n-lsive all things to know w hat He hath siuik, that we may believe it and do it, 17. "When little iu thine own sight the I.ord anointed thee king over Israel." Had Snul only continued littlo in bis own Kiejit and sought to be great in the eyes of the Iird who had oxalPsl bim, all would have boon well, but be forgot the lord und thought more of Saul and his dtssls. IU. "Tho Lord sent thee on ti Journey, and said. Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Ainalekittsi." Saul was not r.spiired to giva bis opinion, or mako any suggestions, hut only to do as he was told. 1!. "Thou didst not oliov tho voice ot tho I.ord, but didst evil iu the sight of the Lord." It seems hard tor some ssiplu to realizo that Go.1 msim nil their actions, und eveu the motives for their uctions, aad no tices all things; yet H is written that "Tho wave of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He pondereth all hisgoiiigs;" nndiigain: "The eyes of the Ijord are iu every plucu, be holding the evil and thu e;ood." (l'rov. v., 1; xv., Jl. "Yen, I have obeyed the voice of tho Lord and have gone the wny which the Lord sent me." Still justifying himself, and re fusing to humble himself la-fore God: making out that Samuel wiu wrong and flint God was mistaken, and that he nJone wus right; insisting that his view of the case was the correct olio, and that in doing as be did ho bail iudoed obeyed Gist. Thu time has not ijoiie by when jssiplo pervert tho words of the .ord (Jer. xxiii., Jli) und yet insist that they are right. Haul had to learu that God meant just w hat He said. 'Jl. "Tho people took of the spoil, thin? widen should havo Imen utterly de stroyed." It is sometimes easier to H.s) tbo sins of others than to see our owu. Ho had previously said that it was the people who soared the best ot tho sheep and oxen, lor", tlmt tuuy had spared them for a gotst end, making the end to justify the deed; now he confoHhOS that the ilis'd ou the people's port was wrong and that sheep and oxou should have been utterly destroyed. His eyes are opening out very slowly: bo sees now the people's sin, but not his own. After tho piercing words of tho next two versos, which close our lusson. h sees hi owu sin and con fess. it, but still pleading, an an extenuation of hi guilt, that ho did it because he feared the HMple and obeyed their voice. That km waa not a truly huinhlod and ponitont man even then is evident from verse '.Ml, where he liegs Samuel to turn and honor bim liefore thu people. Where there is true brokemiesa of spirit, thore Is no honoring but rather a loathing of self (Job xlil., tl), and the eyes and heart are directed to Ood and uot to the people. 2'i. 'Behold, to obey Is hotter than sncri flee, and to hearken than tbe fat of rains." Iu Jer. viL, Ul-23, it is written that when (rod brought them out of Kgypt He did not talk to thum ot burnt offering or sacrifices, but of obudienoo; and in the same prophecy tbe Lord complains of them at least fifteen times that they obeyed uot. The two wonts, oboy and hearken, in this vorse signify, to bear and give heed to. 38. "Because thou hast rejected the word ot the Lord, He bath also rejucted thee from being kins." By this rejecting the word of the Lord, Ce bad proved blmself guilty of re bellion and stubbornness, or willfulness, and bad thus lost the kingdom. There is nothing standing lu tho way of tbe salvation of any sinner who bas beard ot the lova of Christ but bl own will, Ltton Helptr. There are 13,247 policemen ia London tid 14.207 hacks. TEMPERANCE. TKurtftANCK an At.t, wn. Must w call delay defeat. Shell our gallant lnd retreat, From a hard-won Hold? Never! for our cause is right: And though long the bitter fight i Wrong at last must yield. rMowbr as the tide come in We gaining through tho din Timid souls may shake; Par above the bait le's roar Cries and oroaus rise evermore "Help! for love's dear sake." ran toclear the smoke-dimmed eyes; l'ause then as the arrow flies. Swiftly charge the f.ss, Tush the war for hearth and home; Jake no compromise with ruin; Forward ! forward, go. Harriet A'. A'lcoau'uJv, ia tht Void. TmXNKr.NKEftS AitU DHUMK Ann-M AK1(1. Commenting upon the new Minnesota law declaring drunkenness a crime, tho Cumbrr fuaif rshfHnn savs: The Legislature of 'Minnesota has passed a law declaring drunkenness a crime, and im posing a fine or imprisonment forth first twoolTenaos, anil for every subsequent offense Imprisonment for not less thau sixty nor more than ninety days. This is a very gisnl law as far as it goes. It should lie accom anid by a law making it a crime to sell in toxicants, and then legislation on tho subject ef inteniiereiice would Iss complete in Minne sota, but, strange to say, Minnesota makes tho liquor tratlic a virtue and liquor-drinking a crime. The sale and manufacture of in toxicants in the State are legalized, and drunkenness is punished as a felony. Cer tainly a biw that permits a man to sell in toxicants also permits the buyer to use them, all extHTietioo goes to prove" that nuslerate drinking leads fodrunkeiiness, and that noth ing else can. Now, if a man U indulged by the law in forming a habit tbnt makes him a drunkard it. bsiks iucotisiMcnt to punish him for it. But tbe Minnesota law is but another exhibition of the follv of trying to deal with iutemts'raiicelii any i.ut a radical way. Tho drunkard should be treated as a felon, and the drunkard-maker as his accomplice. When a man is found drunk that oiibt to be all the evidence required for his punishment, but the investigation should not stop until his accomplice is found and punished for putting the boltlo to his ucighlsir. Trvi-KiiANra nkwh and notes. The criminal statistics ot prohibition Iowa for lXs" report just one vagrant. Six prohibition tents, well equipped with ablo Ssiikers, are sturdily marching over th prairies of South Dakota, making many converts to tho cause. Sam Jones says that Georgia has already 117 counties redeemed from whisky, tlmt only twenty are left where it Is still tolerated, and that during the next twelve iiamths they propose to put legs under the demijohns and run them out of these counties also. Before the Isxrnf an enlightened conscience and the tribunal of Gisl, every other sin will pale into iiisigiiittcnnce beside the awful crime of forcing upon the helpless child a marred aad tainted inheritance of blood und brain and nerve, mortgaging the future for the base, Ignoble indulgence of tho present. Ilacino (Wis.) saloons wero closed by law rn the Mil of July. Anticipating thi Mil waukee breweries got up a free stcamlxiat excursion to the "city of bsr," conditioning the frisi ride upon the purchase of fifty cents' worth of Imst tickets gad in any Milwaukee saloon. Another illustration of whatsaloou Ists will do to destroy their fellow men. Tho "Hundred Dollar Band" is a new In vention for raising money for the teuiiicraneo temple, to lie erected iu Chicago. It is to consist of a thousand white riblwmers who pledge to give 100 each to the building fund within two years. Many ladies have already Joined this band. A similar hundred dollar land, to lie comisised of a thousand men, ba also been started, A monster petition lu favor of Sunday closing of snlisuis was received at the House of Commons reently from the Solvation Army. The roll, signed by 4'fi, TstKI persons, was Isirne through the streets of London to the Hons, drawn by four horses, and pre ceded by a baud in the army uniform. Tho united efforts of six men were required to carry thu roll Into the cloak-room. "So certain are the criminal effect of tho llcriist d drinks of the saloon and bar-room that a chemist iu analyzing them should not lie surprised to detect crime in a crystalline form, existing as an original clement iu their romiHisition: while it would not require the Uilcrosisipe to discover the monad cells of every sin incident to fallen man in the foam cf Hi ber mug or thu dregs of the w ine cup." So says llou. A. U. Uichmotid iu thu CVuitif.iiiiiiia. Tim taim.kn Trusrn. A wealthy man was in want of a male ser vant nud heard of a Chinaman w ho was said to possess many desirable qualifies. The Cul-t-stial was si nl t ! accordingly. "You smoke!''' nU.s the gcntlcr.iau, "No, me no Mtiokoo!'' "You drink?" "No, ma no dlinkca!" "Y.ui gamble?" "No, lueiio gambleo!' "Then you're just the man I want." was the prompt answer. A few nights later Ibe master of the house gave an elegant sups-r for tl party of geutla men. W mellowed iu rivers, betting ran high at cards, and ciar smoke as dense as a Ijon don fog shroud.sl everything in the risnns. The I'liinumiin iniulo the nipper table a marvel of bcauly, and waited to a cliiirm. When the next morning came, however, the getitlciuau found no preparation for break fast. "Drunk, the scoundrel, I've no doultf he said as he steered his way out to the rear quarters, expecting to encounter the prist Irate ImmIt of the Chinaman. No, there in the kitchen sat thu Celestial sober us a imf i.ji "Why haven't you got breakfast?" "Mo no stuyeo here!" was the answer. "Don't I uty you bleb wugc enough?" "Yessee; but you askce mel sinokeo? audi say I no sniokco; I dlinkee? ami I say I no dlinkee; I gambled? and 1 say 1 no gaiublee; ami you smokee, dliukoe nud gamlilee, all tree, 1 no stayce here!" i'oatoi lleruld, WIl AT ALCOHOL tlOKH Statistics, suys Dr. Oswald, have fully es tablished the fact that the percentage of Idiocy boars a close proportiou to the preval ence of iiibuiipermica. Before the 1'arlia ment Coiumitte on the amendment of the liquor laws Dr. Charh Austie Untitled that "tho tendency of drink licgets hereditary dis orders of the brain. Wheu both parents have lawn intemperate, 1 think it is a physi cal certuinty that such ill waders will be traced In the children. 1 have no doubt that many persons who were fond of their bottle, though never drunk, iu thu old port-wine ill inking period have transmitted very un stable nervous systems to tlmir children." it would indeed he a mistake to supjHine that the ruinous effects of the alcohol vice are uonfiiied to habitual Inteuqicraiice iu its gros ser forms. Small beer as well us lager beer, wine as well as brandy and rum, tend to im pair the functional vigor of every organ of the human system; and thetimeis near when no intelligent moralist will venture to deny a truth tacitly or openly admitted by the ablest physicians of tho nineteenth century, vis., that the alcohol habit, in all its forms, and in every stage of its development, is a health destroying and uiind-degradhig vice. ITS DESTRUCTION INEVITABLE. The saloon seems to have tightened Its grip Ou some communities of lute, but tbls fact should cause no despair, nor even discourage ment. The saloon is such an indescribable breeder of sin and sorrow that advancing civilisation will just as certainly destroy it as spring sunshine melt iue. II is an Intoler able nuisance, and must disappear. Desiiair on this subject implies belief in the persistent existence of the worst institution iu the civil Iced world, rrtem VhrUtian AdvueuU. 4 Tainting Tint fot fit 10,000 CcVf Ing tt Amrrirn. The American ji'iMlc, rnyt theClitcag Herald, will sooti liavo the dcasure of seeing i masterpiece of modern art. Jean Francois Millet's wonderful jiaintinp;, "Tim Angelus," fur Hie possession of which much desperate effort wus niRileoo behalf of the French Government, hat been secured by thn American Art A sorintion, and will lie exhibited through out this country. At Ilie Sccrctau sal in Paris, Monday, July I, M. I'roust, who1 bid the Government, oi'Ti-rcd .l Id.GO'J for tiie puinting, ntid it was knocked down to 1 1 i in ns the representative of Hie Louvre. The fact appeared that Mr. I'roust tlij not have an; thine; like the amount he of fcred, and when t'lmllonicr, the mic tiuuctr, asked for the money it v wt AS OITt.IXl! OK TIIK 'Mif.l.Pf.'' furflieomitiir. The men xlm in Gallic exultation, when the picture was put on sab' the second lime, sule-i rib-d liutuii ciU of tli'iusani'.s ot iiaiii'S, wire not to la! fol!fl'l. f 'iiallotiier tlu'ti sen! for Mr. fiiitor, (,f the Anurieaii An As. o, tation, and asaed bim to take the picture at ItH bid of I 1 0.-100. Silttotl bad iidvcllised w illilti'licss to L'ivc ID, llllll to the poor of I'aris if nllowed to take tin; "Angi itis" ut tin' 1i:;ur- at which il wa. bid nil for the Louvre, und his delight knew tin bounds when told of 111" new turn of af fairs, ltcfnri' lie could u t to Challonicr witlin certified check liii.di ollici rs of the) Government had induced the aiii tioiii'iT to wait until '.I o'clock a. m. of .Inly 4, and in the meantime Huron Kothsf liild hud been induced to give bis check for the entire amount on behalf of the Gov ernment. Hclievinc; he had no further show to buy the picture, Mr. SuUon de rided to apply to the French Government for permission to exhibit the picture iti New York next autumn, and, as mi in ducement intended b olTcr to liiaKe over half the proceeds to Millet's widow, who i i now living in extreme poverty iu llar bi.on. However, the cables announced that M. i'roust had written u letter in which he niinouirvd the withdrawal of the request of the CliamliLT of Deputies for ti credit for the purchase of (he paint ing. The cable also announced that Mr. Sutton had secured the famous painting, which will be exhibited in the American Art Gallery in New York after it luis liccii shown in I'aris for the benefit of tho painter widow. J can Francois Millet, the "painter of peasants," was born October 14, 1K14, in thu village of Gruehy, commune of Gro villc, cutitnn of Beaumont (Manche), France. With the exception of his lust years, when his genius hud been recog nized nud lie received many orders for paintings, hi.s life was one long struggle) with sickness, disappointment and sor row, lie ditd .Imiuiiry 20, JfS75. So littlo were Millet's works esteemed during hi lifetime that for the "Ange lus," his greatest production, he received only aotHI francs, or ,100. Of this mas terpiece tho artist, Kiehard Heath, writ ing in 1 SS2, said : "Tho religious senti ment which pervaded Millets painting from the time In; first begun to follow his trini vocation nttains its highest ex pressions in the 'Angelas. ' It is tlmt moment of the day when the whole fro nt ion is one in adoration. The sun has just passed away, nud the purple nfter glnw KiilTuses all things. A man and it woman have been digging tip potatoes; I Id- sound 'f the Miigclus limiting through I in- air has just reached them; they liavo risen ami are repeating the traditional wolds: 'Angelas doiuini tiiuiiti.iv it nut ria.' The man stands solemn and mo tionless; the woman, her head lient, is wrapt in praer. This painting, to our coin eption, rscecds in feeling aiiylliiti-j tlie mediaeval artists produced." I' The Chinese I.auniiri nun I'tllizrs Ills I'ttetii'. ris - Tt.uii Mftingt. it is not generally known that a news, paper in classical Latin is publl-nud fort, iiiiihtly in Italy. Its editor il Carlo Ar rlggo l lrichs, a young scuolur of Itallut) ' purentugo on one Bute ami of German patentago on tho other, and tie has the) assistance of several learned contributors , io both nations. It is full of anecdotes, jokes and verf.es in classical dross. Tht) only thing as yet wanting to its present i onslbtency la tha translation of tha ad-. yortUeineuU Into tbe toucuo of ( icera. A Hud Dranln. i Jr jaws, . sr a-tr I"! ( , -i r-r' , . , 4
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