(J;
1 fSAMSONS.', :
COAXED INTO SIN.
x ARB
Lvelllati ofilwrieieM Da, n,
1 heir "mii.
'"I ,.,. nwth'iu hit mranf uw
rvl'll " ' . .e. trill nirm
I f i. nlf('t fill". "' "'
thmw" I eV pre t.hu offered
flwM1' of a giant! It would take m
:y'T,;rrehit to picture Samson ma
1 . W most fmcil- wl r.
ITmliHi to describe him. He u m
"!,ri . ,hiM- the conoiioror and the da-
. the niL'h of m mmiden. Ha wm
1 3r commingling of virtus and
,l,lh'is and the ridiculous; sharp
,;tI in I "URht fa the
' unerfl.-lal stratagem ; honest
T1 J,ttl hi debt, and yet out
""i.mbliing somebody else to got the
" iVTiIir tt ; a miracle and a selling;
ilor J and a burning shame.
sJ .t.i K .mln up above other
. m.matain of fbsh; his arms bunched
11" that can I'ft th; Bat- of a city:
10 n mfitiKl defiant of armed men and
Hi. hair had never lieen cut,
1 kJ.,I down In seven great plaits over
jknaH'i adding to his fierceness and
. nkiii.iiMiM want to conuuor
r' nii-rvfore ther must And out where
l-rst ''f hi" strength lies.
I . ...initti livins In the valley of
LThi tht nun ' of Delilah. They ap.lnt
tit. 'it m the case. The l'hllistlnet
l,vd in the some building, nnd thim
Ju?1.the,retnf bisstrength. "Well,"
... -,f t..ii should take seven green
.h ' tlirv fasten wild lsvtsts with.
I mi thnn around me. I should be per
t ViTit " So she binds him with the
1 n WltllCS. IIH'11 NW tinj
I"1 ' . ..n... ...... -ih. I l. 1 1
f . . .... .-1I-- ...it thrimrll iliitr.
(Ill lie ......
I......... SIlinmTt.. mm H'nltl
.IIW U'll liiw .iv
f ,t r. .in? !h: and lie rt'lilie: "If Tou
L i uiamie nl-e that haro never been
L .ii.) tif me with them, I nhould be Junt
I- 1 wl.. ..... l.i... lth II,.
L rlm hr liaiid and hiut: "They
vh"l:'l lift-re not aniline oiirw
hhn'-'iHH him RKain, and he any:
. ,i r.m .hniil'l take theMi wven lonz
L..'hir ami br tint hnuxe loom weave
En inUi a 'l. I eonld not got away." Mo
a,.uvl'i'UI lamiieu no, nun hih nuuiun
(a,kwarl aim forward, ami ine long
,if hn.ir are woven into m won. men
.tapli'Tlian bs and aaya: "They come1
Hulntincs:'
!, ";it at p.toiUr aa he did before,
Lpnc a p:n t of the loom with him. Hut
Lrinhile p "ritiiadin him t4 toll the
. Hfv.: ir ynu siiuiii'i taicea razor,
rar. aii'l 'iit nir'this lunir hair, 1 Kliouhl
itI''. ami r the hand of my eiie
" Samw'ii vlf'ii". nnd thnt ahemay not
, him ui ilurinj tlm pna-eM of ahearing,
L4i'a!iil in. oil know that thehnrhern
. Kji.I have mich a akillf ul war of inan-
Lui! the head, to thL" very clay ther will
.man, wiili' awake, nouiih aaieep. i near
i.iiilen of tliHsheain arrimliiie airainst each
)rr. anil I n the long Im'ka falling off.
.hip, or razor, a-oiniilishe. what grexm
nil iifT ruMn and ii)umi loom could
to. Su'l'lenly Hhe vhn hor handa and
The I'liilistiniM lie upon thee, Kam
Heroines up with a atmggle, but bin
kirth ia all ion! He la in the hauda of
Iriicmien! I hear the cronn of the cinnt
key take hiaeyea out, and th'.'ii I ee him
jHTff ? 011 111 oiinuneas, Tociing nil
. zoet ou toward Uaza. The priwin
r a nptueri aud the giant is thrust lu. lie
iiiowu aim puia im nauua on ine mui
kk, whi' h. with exhauatiug horizontal
id, rm" (lav alt4r ilay, week after week.
fcth aftor mouth work, work, work!
nmstemation of the world is captivity.
'. .fk thorn, his eyes punctured, grinding
liiuliaza. In a previous sermon on this
Irirter 1 learned some Icswns, butauuthcr
of li'iNins are before us now.
lini tirt how very strong people are
Lime cuaxed into great iinlievilities.
imu hu I no richt to roveul the secret of
-tmij.-:h IMilah't llit attempt to find
i a failure. Ho savs: "(ireon withes
p biu l in.',"' but it wns a failure. Then
mv: -A new rope will hold me," but that
I rs a fnilure. 1 hen be snvs: "Weave
lN ks into a web and that will bind me,"
Out nl.-'i wax a failure. Hut at last you
hiiw ihe cnased it out him. Unimiiortaiit
p his in life that involve no moral princi-
msy "iiiiciiu injury ne suiijecteil to
ut p.TKiiaxioiiH, but as soon as vou have
M to tun linn that seiiHrnt4s right from
n. muiimic'i'ini'iitor blaiulishiuont ought
make y m t..p over it. ttupose a man
berii bruiiirht m in flirl.ti... Ii.iu.
11 and tuuulit nucreiUv to nWvn
Kalilia'.h. Suiidav conuw von want
h sir. Ttfiiintation sars; "Similar
jurt like other dnys; now don't lie
tel. we will ride forth anions tin. work
)1: the wlmU e.rll. i. Mi. .......!..
II not go into any dissipations: come. now.
ke the carriage en?urMl nn.t w. .li.ll t.
Fk """Ugh to go to church in the
ain; don't yield to l'urltanio notloca;
Ii will l no worse for a rido in the coun-
the liln.sotus aro out und thev say everv-
fit 1 looking glorious." "Well. I will iro
r''a you," is the resiioiise. AhH mil.
v go over the street, consc ience drowned
iut or me swiit hoofs and the rush
us rcsouuilinir wliel ti,..
kii may have had moral character enc'ugh
L .kthS Kro withea of ten . thousand
.ue allurements, but he has been over.
pie hv miiviiii
ioyUiig men jawing down this street
". .Mt. a drinking saloon with a red
ler hung out from the door to light men
'r lt us go in." kavn niu
Dt, my the other- 'lt1a..,r,i u
BBJ-SBB 'I a.V fc" M 1
U. .hut. W I have lfn IZ
I twu years and it hasn't hurt nm. Home
mium; bea man. If vou ciin't t-..t
filling strong'T, take a little sherry. Tou
h,Z. ,"e w"rW " il 1 ! believe
I Mb 'X!'au'vV,y'."we thu, y"- I'i
rciruikiiii? in, .-i t it
.ii . v "'ii . nam, hi. ion
S in.!'.' t'Z"' riKht I'ersuasioit
I 1 iieie.1. SuiusonyiuUs to the coaxing
tnT f'in'ivni iu he that night
'nf the I lnlMin.w a, they shout: "11a!
. s y9 Klt la,,,." T1(1J(U who ,mve Ul
i ttklf in ' i""" "y'l'tttlu-tic natures are
vL . ! 'l"!!W--., "'"-very dis,,sition
I'lesj. others will )0 the very trap they
'..' ,y"," H?ro " mud harsh and severe
yur i.atl e T()U would not be tampered
Hi J,?1 ""?rr heilgebog. The
"Xr!''m'r.,M ,n"nl.w never kisses
vour . w"rmthand susceptibility
'uST ?, Ur" lU i"l9 the mireil
I.W, L i""K " K1'". W "ut 'or
ni wh!, . , S""!'". the strongest
J" eer lived, was overcome by coax-
' disjaiMsi woman. In the portrait
lo 7,1.1 , ' ?uee w find Abigail anc
''nth' niT?" V",,U n'1
' nd th.Ko Kllery ' loliee station
Leli !iF l,urM vi women as well as
Uutia ,!, fd mor9 ower than ail
u rCtt he, ou,uer4 the gates of
5 Ul? ,ilken which
i,y?f, rioUus retreat with the
tb itl. Jr... ""'tiug them hip and
S IV Uut't'-. ow fall captive
rrof A ?sh . J J!.!1 "tnormble com.
J JsLhli 11 udlll'h. and Bathsheba,
"bel, ""J AtuaUoh, and Herocliaa, .
ITow ilerttortb'e Ir.Suenee of mich fi
rotitrast with Robrcca and FhoVje and HuV
flah and Trrphona and Jep!itha daughter,
and Mnrr, the mother of Jesus. While the
Litter gllttnr In the flriranient of God's woi-d
like ri pstellrlicns with sternly rlierru!.
holy light, the fortnr shoot like baleful me
teors acrtwa th terrifiel heven mninnns of
war, disaster and death. If thers is a divine
power in the good mother, her fare bright
with purity, an unelflh lore beaming from
hereye, m gentleness thnt by pang and suffer
ings and holy anxieties has been
mellowing and softening for many a
year, tittering iteelf In every syllable, m dig
nity that cannot be dethroned, united with
the playfulness that will not be checked, her
hand the charm that will instantly take pain
out of the child's worst wound, her presence
m perpetual benediction, her name our de
fense when we are tempted, her memory an
ontgushing well of tears and congratulation
and thaukftglving, her heaven a palm waving
and a coronal ; then there is just as great an
influence in the opposite direction, in the
bad mother, her brow beclouded with
nngoveroed pension, her eye flashing
with unsnnrtifled ftro, her llpe the
fountain of fret fulness and depravity,
her example a mildew and a blasting, her
name a disgrace to coming generations, her
memory m signal for bitterest anathema, her
eternity a whirlwind and A suffocation and m
darkness. One wrong headed, wrong hearted
mother may ruin one child, and that one
child, grown up, may destroy a hundred
people, and the hund-M blast a thousand,
and the thousand a million. The wife's
sphere is a realm of honor nnd power almost
unlimited. What a blewing was Parah to
Abraham, was Deborah to Lapidoth, waa
Zlpporah to Moses, was Ifuldah to Blialhim.
There are multitudes of men in the
mart of trade wbese fortune have
been the result of a wife's frugality.
Four hands have been achieving that
estate, two at the store, two at the
home. The burd-ns of life are compara
tively light when there are other
hands to help us lift them. The greatest
difficulties have often slunk away Viecause
there were four eves to look them out of
countenance. What care you for hard
knocks in the world as long as you have
a bright domestic circle for hnrtsirl
line cheerful word in the evening tide as
you come in hns silenced the clamor of
unpaid notes and the disappointment of poor
investments. Your tablo may le epiite fru
gally spread, but it seems more lieautiful to
you than many tables thnt snioko with veni
son and blush with Ilur?nndy. Peace meets
rou at the door, sits beside you at the table,
lichts up the evening stand, and sings in the
nursery. You have seen an aged couple who
for score of years have hclied each other on
in life's pilgrimage going down the stop of
years. iong asws'intinn has made them
much alike. They rejoiced at the sameovent,
they lient over tho same cradle, they wept at
the same grave. In the evening they sit
quietly thinking of the past, mother knitting
at the stand, father hi his arm chair at the
fire.
Now and then a grandchild comes and
they look at him with affection untold and
come well nigh sjioiling him with kindnesses.
The life currents lies t feebly In their pulses
and their work will soon lc done aud the
Master will call. A few short days may sc
arate them, but, not far apart in time of de
parture, they Join each other on the cither
side the flood. Sido by side let Jamb ami
tiachel lie Imrlecl. Irft one willow overarch
their graves. Ixt their tombstones stand
nlike marked with the same Mcriutut e. Chil
dren and grandchildren will come In the
spring time to bring flowers.. The patriarchs
of the town will come nnd drop a tear over
departed worth. Side by side at the marriage
altar. Side by side in the long journey.
Side hy side in their graves. After life's
lltful fever they slept well.
Hut there are, as my sublect suggests, do
mestic scenes not so tranquil. What a curse
to Job and I'otiphar were their companions,
to Ahab was Jezebel, to Jehoram was AtliH
liah, to John Wesley wns Mrs. Wesley, to
Samson was Delilah. While the most excel
lent and triumphant exhibitions of character
we find among the women of history, ami tho
world thrills with the names of Marie An
toinette and Josephine, and Joan of Arc and
Maria Theresa and hundreds of others, who
have ruled in the brightest homes
and sung the sweetest cantos, and en
chanted the nations with their art and
swayed the mightiest of sceptors,
on the other hand the names of Mary tho
First of Kuglnnd, Margaret of France. Julia
of Home and Klizabeth i'etrowna of Kiikmh
have scorched the eve of history with their
aliominations, and thrir uniites. like banished
spirits, have gone shrieking and cursing
through tlie world. In female biography we
find the two extremes of excellence aud crime.
Woman stands nearest the gate of heaven or
lieurest the disir of hell. W hen adorned by
grace she reaches a ixilnt of Christian eleva
tion which man cannot attain, aud when
blasted of crime she sinks di-epcr than mini
can plunge. Yet I am glad that the instances
in which woman makes utter shipwreck of
character are comparatively rare.
Hut, says some cynical spirit, what do you
do with those words in 'Kcelcslaitex where
Solomon says: "Ucdiold. this have 1 found,
Httith the pi-eacher, counting one by mm to
Hnd out the account; which yet ray soul
seeketh, but I find not; one man among a
thousand have I found; but m woman among
all those have I not found?" My answer is
that if Solomon had tiehaved himself with
common decency and kept out of infamous
circles he would not have had so much
difficulty in finding integrity of char
acter among women and never would
have uttered such a tirade. Ever since my
childhood I have beard speakers admiring
Diogenes, the cynical philosopher who lived
in a tub, for going through the streets of
Athens in broad daylight with a lantern,
and when asked what he did that for. said:
"I am looking for an honest man." Now I
warrant that that philosopher who hnd
such hard work to find an honest man wns
himself dishonest. I think be stole Isitlt the
lantern and the tub. So, w hen I hear u mail
expatiating on the weakness of women, I
immediately suspect him and say there is
another Solomon with Solomon's wisdom
left out. Still, I would not have the illus
trations I have given of transcending excel
lency in female biography lead you to supsisu
that there are no iHtrll in woman's pathway.
God's grace nlone can make an Isabella
Graham, or a Christina Alsop, or a Fidelia
Kisko, or a Catherine of Siena, 'temptation
lurk alsiut the brightest douiextiir circle. It
whs no unmeaning thing when tlod sat up
amidst the splendors of His word the charac
ter of Infamous Delilah.
Again, this strange story of the text
leads me to consider some of the ways iu
which strong men get their locks shorn. ( Jod,
(or some reason best known to himself, mails
the strength of Sumsou to deMud on the
h'ngth of his hair; when the shears cliiHs! it
his strength was gone. The strength of
men is variously distributed. Some
times it lies iu physical development,
sometime iu intellectual attainment,
sometimes In heart force, sometimes
in social position, sometimes in finan
cial accumulation; and there is always
a sharp shear ready to destroy it. Kvery
day there are Samsons ungianted. 1 saw a
young man start iu life under the most cheer
ing advantages. Ills acute mind was ut
home in all scientific dominions, lie reached
not only all rugged attainments, but by deli
cate appreciation he could catch the tinge of
the cloud and the aparkle of the wave aud
the diaimson of the thunder. He walked
forth in lifo head and shoulders alsive others
in mental stature. He could wrestle
with giantain opisislng systems of philosophy
nnd carry, off the gates of the opisiHing
schools and smite the enemies of truth hip
aud thigh with great slaughter. Hut be be
gan to tamper with brilliant free-thinking.
Modern theories of the soul threw over
him their blandishments. Skepticism was
the Delilah that shore hia locks cIT, and
all the I'hilistiiiea of doubt and darkness and
despair were upon him. He died iu a very
prison of unbelief, his eyes out.
Far back in the country districts Just
where I purposely omit to say there was
born one whose fame will lust as long as
American Institutions. His name was the
terror of all enemies of free government.
He stood, the admired of Millions; the nation
uncovered in his presence and whan bespoke
Senates sat breathless uudtr the j'xl. The
plotters gainst good Rorernmmil attempted
to bind him with green withes and weave hie
Jorks in a web, yet he walked forth froi-l the
enthrallment, tint knowing he hail burst
m bond. Hut from the wine cup there
arose m destroying spirit that enme forth
to capture his soul. He drank until his eye
crew dim and his knees knocked together and
I ins strengtn laiieii. j-.xnansieci wiin lueiong
dissipation, he went home to die. ministers
pronounced eloquent euloglum. and poete
ining, and painters sketched, and sculptors
chiseled the majestic form into marble, and I
the world wept, but everywhere it was known
that it wa strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah, and his locks were shorn.
From the Island of Corsica there started
forth a nature charged with unparalleled en
ergies to make throne tremble nnd convulse
the earth. I'ledinont, Naples, Havarln, tier
many, Italy. Austria and F.nglnnd rose up to
crusli the rising man. At the plunge of bis
'bayonets Hast lies burst open. The earth
croaned with the apmles of Hivoll. Auster
lite, HaragosMiand Kylnn. Five million men
lain in his wars. Crowns were showered at
Ms feet, and kingdoms hoisted triumphal
arches to let him pass under, and Eurojss was
lighted up at the conflagration of con
miming cities. He could almost have
made a causeway of human bones be
tween I.lslsin and Moscow. No power
short of omnipotent tlod could arrest
him. Hut out of the ocean of human blood
there arose a spirit In which the compieror
found more than a match. The very am
'liitlon that had rocked the world was now to
be his destroyer. It grasiHsd for too much
mnd Its efforts lost all. He reached up after
the scepter of universal dominion, but slipped
and fell back into desolation and twnish
ment. The American shin, damaged of the
storm, to-day puts up in St. Helena and the
crew go up to tee the stsit where the French
exile expired in loneliness and disgrace,
the mightiest of all Samsons shorn of hi. I'M'ks
liy ambition, that most merciless of all
Delilnh.
I have not time to enumerate. F.vil
associations, sudden successes, stiendthrift
habits, miserly proclivities and dissipation
are the name of some of the shears with
which men are every day made towcrlc.
They have strewn the earth with the car
casses of giants and filled the great prison
house with destroyed Snmsnn. who sit
grinding the mills of despair, their lis-k
shorn and their eyes out. If parents only
knew to what temptation their children
were subjected they would lie more earnest
in their prnvers and more careful alsnut their
example. No young man escape having the
mthway of sin pictured in bright rclow
before him.
The first time I ever saw a city It was the
city of I'hiladclphia I was n mere lad. I
stopped at a hotel, nnd I remetnlsT in tho
eventide a corrupt man idled me with his In
fernal art. He saw I was green, He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He painted
the path of sin until ft lM'ked like emerald;
but I was afraid of him. 1 shoved back from
th basilisk. I made up my mind he wns n
basilisk. I remetnlM-r how lie reeled hischnir
round in front of me and with a coutrntcd
anil dialMilical effort attempted to destroy my
! soul; but there were goes! angels In the air
: that night. It wns no gisxl resolution on my
part, tint it was t lie nil encompassing gracoof
a gid tlod thnt delivered me. Hew are! bo
nrot Oyounj maul
There is a nay that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death. If all the
victims of an Impure life in all land nnd
age could be gathered together, they would
make a host vaster than that which " Xerxe
led across tho Hellespont, thnn Timour led
across India, than William the Compieror
led across England, thnn Alsiu-Hekr led
across Syria; and if they could Is stretched
out in single tile across this continent. I
think the vnnguard of the host would stand
on the beach of the I'acitlc w hile yet the rear
guard sUksI on the beach of the Atlantic
I say this not hivauso 1 eXH't to reclaim
any one thnt bus gone nstrny iu this fearful
pnth. but lscniise 1 want to uttera warning
for those who still inniutain their integrity.
The cases of reclamation of those who liuv.j
given themselves fully up to an impure life
are aofew, probably you do not know one of
them. I havesocn a gissl many start out en
that road. How many have I seen come
back? Not cms that I now think of. It seems
as if the spell of death is on them and no hu
man voice or tho voice of (end can break the
smbII. Their feet lire hoppled, their w rists
are handcuired. They have around them a
girdle of rept ih-s bunched ut the waist, fas
tcning them to an iron dome; every time
they breathe the forkeil tongues strike them
and they strain to break away until the ten.
dons snap und the blood exudes; and amidst
their contortions tlu-y cry out: "Take mo
bnck to my father's house. Where is moth
er Take me home! Take me home!"
Do I stand ts-fore a item to-d:iy the lock
of whose strength are being toyed with, let
me tell you to cschm lest the shears of do
st ruction take your moral and your spirituul
integrity. Do you not see your sandals ls
giiiuing to curl ou thnt red not path? This
any in the nnnio of Almighty Uisl I tear
off the Isjuutifying veil and the em
hroidered mantle of this old hag of
iniiiuity, and I show you the ulcers
and the bloody Ichor and the cancered lip
and the imrtiiig joints aud the mncerabsl
limbs and tho wriggling putrefaction, and I
cry out: ( h, horror of hoi inrs! In the still
ness of this Sabbath hour I lift a wuruing.
ItememlH-r it is much easier to form bad
habits thnn to get clear of them; in one
minute of time you may get into a sin from
which all eternity cannot get you out.
t)h, that the voice of God's truth might
drown the voice of Delilah. Come Into tho
ways of pleasantness and the put lies of peace
ami by the grace of a pardoning (iod start
for thrones of honor and dominion iisnt
wltich you may reign, rather than travel the
road to a dungeon, where the destroyed
grind in the millsof despuir, their locks shora
and their eyes out.
DRINK AXD INSANITY.
Mr. Wines says! 'It Is startling 'to'lrotrey,
that, of MM jo. us) of inhabitant (In 1HH0).
over 400,000 are either insane, idiots or demi
mutes, or are inmates of prisons, reforma
tories or poor-house. If to these we add the
out-door oor and the Inmates of charitable
Institutions, the amount will swell to nearly
or quite iKMi.ooo, or 1 imu cent, of thn populav
tiou." At thnt rate the number would now
Iki alsiut C. Ki.ooi). Hut we will keep to the
nsMrdsof Ismi, and consider only tho 4KI,.
IS kj who were, inmates of chnritnblo institu
tions. Of thnt uumlsT the 70,01)0 who were)
)irisoners and the tiT.lXMI who were puiix'in
lave been already considered. Those de
ducted would leave U,(sio of "defective per-
uis." Assuming tho uvurago cost of their
liiaintuineuce to Ik) fJO0 (and in many of these)
institutions it runs up to nearly !dM) per
capita, as skilled teacher and physicians'
must be employed at great expenso), the, ex.
Js'iise of maintaining these "defective per
fcous" would exceed i.U,IHl(l,000. If we uU
lunU) one-third of these disabilities to be due
to intemperance, actual or inherit!, wa
ball have tl7,(s),(lKl auiiunl loss to the na
tion from the insanity, blindness, deafness
mud other disabilities which inU'inpeiBiico
produce, i ne relation or insanity to lutein
lMrance is a Jsilnt deserving careful study.
State and National Hoards ure now greatly
exercised over the rapid and undcninblo in
crease of insanity. It is worthy of itiijiiiry
whether m ratio do" not exist iKttweun that!
and the increased consumption of liquor
within the last twenty years. We see plain
ly that liquor will make m person insane for
m little whilo. It would seem reasonable to
suppose that enough of It might make hun bo
IMtriiuuienUy. !" Voice,
rBTI!rtNT Ql'KBTIOKI.
The New York 7Vibune recently repre
sented the "Man in the Moon" iaying a
visit to our planet and commenting as fol.
lows ujKn the drink system: "Thoso fluids,
you say. intoxicate; make pooplo crazy, furi
ous, silly and wretched; load them into
-j .... t-wmw4, ivou mem inwj
... u.. j duu.u tuoiii mj uuNury. up in tue
tnoon we should consider that tort of fluid m
poison. Here you legalize ita male and you
license "men of good moral character' to traf
fic in it. How con you find a man of 'good
Inoral character1 willing to poison hi fellowr
Do you license good moral persona to commit
murder, or to rob or to swindler Pertu-Mut
questions fur real men to contuder.M
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lesson iron su.ni i y ocronna o
The Tr'hn United Under David," II
Smnt. 5, 1-12 GloMcn Icxiii's
133 Vo'e.
I. "Then came all the tribes of Israel tej
David unto Hebron," After the death of
Saul and hli tons, as recorded in the last leJ
aon, the way teemed open for David to take)
the throne to which he hail beeen anointed
years before, and for which he hnd to pa-j
tiently waited- not taking matter Into itisj
own hands and ridding himself of his enemyj
a he might have done on several occasion,'
but calmly waiting Uod'sown time ami way;,
and now that the time for his accession to tfie
throne has come, he will not even go up into
any of the cities of Judnh without inquiring'
of the Lord, to careful Is he in this matter t
follow and not run before Him who hnth
chosen him. The Lord having told him to
go up to Hebron, he went thither with hi
men and all their families, nnd there the men
of Judah anointed David Kl'igover the house
of Judnh (chap. Ii., 1-4), and lie was content
to lie King only of Judah for seven years and
tlx months, one of Saul's sons reigning for
two yean over the rest of Israel (chap. iil),'
It); so there was long war between the house
of Saul aud the house of David: but Dnvid'
waxed stronger and stronger.and the house of
Saul waxed weaker and weaker (chap, ill., 1).'
Now. at length the Lord's time has come for
David to be King of all Nrael.so all the tribes'
come to him to Hebron, saying: "Heboid, we
are thy bone and thy flesh."
8. "When Saul waa King over us, thoii
wast he that leddest out and broughteit in
Israel." They rememtnTed how Ilavtd, nnd
not Saul, slew Uoliath nnd delivered them
from the 1'hlllstiues, and how David after
ward led forth so successfully the nrmle of
Israel (I Sam. xvill); but the wonder is thnt
they did not think of this sooner. Why did
they not crowu David King of all Israel a
soon as Saul was dead? Why allow seven
years and aix months to pass unimproved
when they knew thnt these things concerning
David were undisputed?
"And the l,ord said to thee, thou slmlt
feed my people Israel, and thou slmlt Is? a
captain over Israel." Why, then, not car
ry out the Lord's wishes long ere tiiis? Let
the questions come home.
8. "They anointed David King over Is
rael." So the Isird bnd decreed, and so it
Anally came to pass, for every purpose of the
Lord shall be performed.
4. "David was thirty years old when he
began to reign, aud he reigned forty years."
Then all his rejection, humiliation and suf
fering came to him as a young man; so it
waa also with Jesus our Saviour and coming
King. Young men and women are apt to
think it hard to have to sulfer and ts humil
iated; let them rememlMtr David and Jesus,
and that it is writteu : "It is gissl for a man
that he hear the yoke In his youth;" and
again: "Take My yoke U)sn you and leant
of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart."
(Lain. Ill 27; Matt, xi., '-MM
8. "In Hebron seven years and six
months; and in Jerusalem thlrty-threo
years." It is very profitable in Hible study
to associate places with the events which
occurred there. Hebron, a city of Judnh,
some twenty miles south of Jerusalem, will
ever lie a delightful place to the Hible
student, not only because of David's two
auointiug and his seven years' reign, but
also because of Ita earlier assts-iatious with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joshua aud
Caleb; thre lies, still sacredly guardisl, the
dust of the patriarchs, and from tho cave
of Machpelali shall yet come forth their
glorified 1ms lii-s. Jerusalem, of all cities that
nave ever Ihth or ever will be, stands first;
there our Ind was crucified, there His
precious blood tlowed forth, iu i'lliitc's hull,
in Uethsemane and on Calvary, there He
was buried and there He rose front the dead;
from thence He ascended to the right hand
of Uod, and thitner He shall return in
yt.wer and glory to rebuild ion, make
erusalem His throne, und conseioieutly the
capital of the whole earth. (I's. ru., It); J sr.
Ul., 17, IS.)
ft. "A I'd the King nnd hi men went to
Jerusalem with tho Jebusites." The old
nnme of Jerusalem was Jehus; it was a great
stronghold, and we rend that neither the
childruu of Judnh nor Hcnjuiiiiu could drive
out the inhabitants, but tin y were allowed
todwell there with Israel (t i'luon. xi.. 4,!i;
Josh, xv., t'l; Judges I., .'l.) This mis a
standing disgrace to Israel during all their
history since Joshua led them into the hind
up to this time; mud now. when David de
termines to wie out this disgrace, he is told
by these detters of I iod and His pisiple that
the blind and the lame are able to hold the
fort against him.
7-lt. "Nevertheless, David bk tho strong
bold of ion; so Duvid dwelt In the
fort and called it the City of Dnvid " He
who in the name of tlm tbslof Israel slew
Uoliath went forth ill the same gnsst name
against these enemies of tiod uud provisl
the faithfulness of Him who said: "There
shall no man Im able to stuiul before Tlnsr."
tl'eut. vIL, 'J.)
10. "And David went on and grew great,
and the Lord O'sl of II. .ts was with Iliin."
Thus shall our daily life Im a going and grow
ing; but we shall never gut to it till, like
David, we realize that "The Lord llisl of
Hosts is with us," and firmly believing this,
seek with the whole heart a move intimate
acquaintance with Him, and thus cultivate a
more Implicit reliaace upou Him.
II. "And Hiram, King of Tyre, scut mes.
tengers to David, and cedar trc-s. and car
issnters, and masons; and they built David
an house." Here is a Outitilu King and hi
people, owning cheerfully to the King of
Israel to do Mm honor; thus shall It be, as
the prophets everywhere tell us, when the
kingdom shall liave been restored to Israel.
U. "David perceived that the Iord had
established him Kuig over Isruel, and that
He had exalted His kinudoui for His neonlo
Israel's sake." Notice iu this verse two
things: First, thnt the Ird hud done it all;
it was not David s patience or w isdout or
lulght, but the Lord alone thnt did it all;
end, second that it was done for His pmplu
Israel's sake. When we toll Christians of to
day of the great things Unit (tod is going to
do for Israel's snko, we are apt to bu consid
ered decidedly Jewish in our views; but. lew
ish we will lw, nevertheless, for our Saviour
Is a Jew and King of the Jen s, nnd Scripture
does not authorize us to expnet the so call. si
rouversiou of ibis world until Jesus come to
His loug promised Throne of David. I.emon
JUljier.
NO "TEMPEKANCg" WITH ALCOHOL,
1 remember well tho Urst dose of ulcoho) I
took a a medicine. 1 rememlT,too,tho first
ilrink of It I took as a beverage, but what I
do not reniemlsir is when I Isjcumii tlm nIlv
of drink, and Is-gan to wear the iron collar
of the dram-seller. So I thing there is no
such word as "Uimperanco" as. applied to alcohol-
it is a good word as touching work
and play and study, but as touching the drink
it is senseless jargon, a quicksand of language
liot to lie trusted by the fuet of reason, or
crossed by any ruhlclo of thought. The tem
perance of one man is the debauchery of an
other. The teiuiMirance of to-day will bo
sheer drought tuu years hence, in the estima
tion of the drinker who aoutiuuee so long to
drink Jvhn U. Wuollty,
A oooo HAIIOAI.
At a temperance meeting where several re
lated their experiences, a humorous Irish
man who spoke was acknowledged to be the
chief speaker. He had on a pair of ftii
new boot. Said he: "A week after I signed
the pledge I mot an old friend, and he says.
'Them's a fine pair of boot you have ou.'
They are.' savs I. 'and bv the same toLon
'twas the saloon-keeper who gave them to
me.-
'That was generous of him,' says he.
'"It was.' savs L 'but I made a harcaln
with htm. Re was to keep his drink ami I
was to keep my money. My money bought
me these flue boots. I got the best of the
bargain, and I'm going to stick to it.'"
Hoys, will you do the tamer Will you
keep your money, and Invest iu souiuthiug
also than druikf las Manner.
RELIGIOUS READING.
nonrAs.
Af Jnppn a Chrl-tl n womnn
Hnd fallen sick nnd died,
A htimlile-minde I wonpili.
Yet nil the neighbor cried t
"Whnt t'inll we no without, herf
And one hid frrnce to snyt
"At I.vddn tarries IVer,
Fetch him without delay ."
An I so across the country
Some fifteen mile or mor
Tw-o men to meet the sunrise.
SmsI fri m tho ruggi-d shore
To "the tnlnts who dwelt at Lydda"
Klnding comfort in their need.
For prayers to heaven, faith Isden,
Oavo tho throe men god e d.
W'-irm hearts have held the picture
For elghieen hundred venis;
The group within thnt upper room
Thetolsi, l.inients nnd tears.
The "widow, weeping, showing
The coats thnt she End mndi"
Like n bit of ancient tnitcstry
nine muiiows every slindu.
This Tflblthn. cnlled Doren,
Her quiet life hnd filled
With "good works and with alms-deeds"
We read not, "She h id willed
Her frugal, I nrd-enrned savings
A church or school to found.
That after death her pint e
lu public might resound.''
All her sweet lifo consisted
In sowing loving seed,
In caring for her ie igldior.
In thought nnd word end deed;
And so her nets nrn handed down
To comfort In-ni ti like our,
Like pn-cloii Jnrs of tweet pel flUllv
Wrung front long withered flower.
ilr$. Annie A. Vrmton in Advancn.
criftrtiiKNcK im I'UoviPKsjrn,
Thn thought that n con.t ant nnd ptrtlets.
Inr I'rovidet.ce Is exercised over tlm worl.l,
bv th" infinitely wis i nnd benevolent (Jod
should lend us ever to ho satUlled with nil
bis denlliiK. Wo are soiitetiiii" prone to
c tin lulu of our earthly lot, i r to murmur
n.;niii-t what seem to I e, in reference to our
selves, "mysterious l i - -.fit I .us of 1'rovi.
deiu'H." Hut If we cherili a linn, titishnki'tl
faith In tin Scripture doctrine of 1'rovi
ilenco, wo shall rejoice that a flml of Infinite
w is bun and goodness is i ll thn throne, and
that He orders ail things with the wisest
counsel, nnd for the best ends.
U hatever our condition or circunistnnce,
whether prosHTou or adverse, joy on or
alllictlva, we shall recogniK, in the allot
ment the kind baud of our heavenly Father;
nnd if others are more fnvored than our
selves. We shall U sat islled that it is for th
wisest and Is-st rensons. Whatever our sta
tion in lifi we shall feel that it Is for us, the
station of honor, and fitness, nnd duty; and
that the divine estinmte of our cliarncPr de
li ills, not cut the elevntioii of our sphere.
Put n the maimer iu whl. li we till it; not on
our circumstances, but ou tho spirit w
clierish ill them.
So bo of tho seeming Inequality of the
dealings of lY'iviilenc ' us manifest ar-tind
II, Hg.'.lll-t ..'llil'll w.. .., . . ..:i.p,Md
i.i i.i"' mill, lis unjiisi or severe. I refer not
to th theoretical objecti'.ns of the infidel,
which nre easily answered, but rather tot lit
want of entire practical faith, of entire
practical confidence In ll"d, in those dark
ol-'iisiili.ins of his pro ideiic, with which
even the goml are sometimes tempted to Isi
disvitisll il, e if they could have advised for
t Im better. With regard to all such !isn
sution., every rising miiimur should
lit once be bushed by the thought that
(I. si is infinitely perfect; ami thnt if many of
bis d"iihnga nnd pro id' iitinl movements
n iw appear unjii-t or unw isc, it is only I
cai se they are not sis-n in all their lei itions,
nnd as they will bo in eternity. Ami far
fr"'u dishonoring the providenco of Jeluv
v.ib. by during to sit in Judgment on hi
i pcrntlnns, we should ever cherish nil im
plicit und childlike fait Ii in the rectitude of
Ids iletilings, know ing iltey nr.' c inducted by
ii liuit" wisdom and infinite gisslnes.
Tiieie is n Jewish trnd.lion concerning
M.cs, which hi beautifully illii'-ti nt.-s this
point, ns to lie worthy of uiiiver-al not ice,
lor though merely a f.iblc, it is not ou that
account, the In. intriiciivo. Tlm great
J.n pln'1, says one of the Knbblns, was once
v ill. d bv t hsI to the top of a high iii.iuntiiiii,
mid there pel nutted to proposiiany question
Im pleased concerning llie government of
tho universe, lit the midst of one of
bis Inquires ns to I'l'ovnli'iice, tin wns di
I'eciisi to l.sik down upon the plain Isdow,
where was a clear spring of water. At this
spi n g u soldier had alighted from hi horse
t'lili iuk. No mm. in r b id be nit i. lied his
thirst an I i;on", thitii a litlle boy canto to
t he slime Place, and finding a purse the sol
dier had ill'ops'., pick d I' Up nil. I went
nwiiy. Soon after, tiinrm-.i'ii1 uu iulbin old
mini, with hoary finirs, nnd weary with ngo
nnd traveling, who, having quenched his
thust, sat down for rest find reirishment by
th side of the spi ing. Tho soldier by this
time had litis. csl bis purse, and returning,
ileiiiiiinls it of the old limn, who fif
th ins that be had not wsm it, und npp"at to
benveii to attest his iiiiwc nee, and the truth
of Id assertion. The soldier, not believing
i i. uniTti' us, kills l.im on I lie . j ,t t i,r m
l"ll ou hi In e in horn r und nuiiis. inent,
thnt such an event should Isi inruiittwl by
Hod; when the Divimt voice thus prevents
hi expostulation: "Hu put ur
I nsed, Slow-, that tho Jud o of all
the in rt 11 should liuvo suffered this
In come to pas. 'i'o you there ap
pears no reason why that child should be
tln'.s'casion of that old man's blood I eln
spill id; biitknow, thnt thnt sumo old man
some i s a;o, wns the inuid. rer of that
child's father. And m in overy dispensa
tion, of I'rovideiicii, ihnro is soujo wise ibv
i:n: ai d iu every one the Judu of all the
ui th will do what is right!"
MT nv! rir'TrrtRl
Suppose nil Christians were lust like tin.
W hut would become, of tho World!' Suppose
Hone prayed more, or more fervently, bow
inaiiy sinners w.pld I si iiwakeneiD How
runny revivals sent r Suppos no wore more
faithful in exhoi'iing Hie iuiH'iiitent, how
many would be led to Christ jr nonnevincisl
more of the power and spirit of holiness in
their lives, how inaiiy gainsnyers and skeptic.
Would bo coin inced find put to Hllencef If
imu.' were more hli. .nil thnn 1 , how would
tho pastor be sustained, the. g .i-pel spreuil,
the kingdom of tlm lle.leeui. r cxteiidnltu
n.o einm in mil eili uir JllSIIOI't, ir 11 II I lirl-
tinus went just like me, when w ould tlm mil-
llllllillllii Ooiti.. ll. .. 'I '.. ...i .
- ' " "HJ - .iuii ll lllllipil,
when there i lmll bo one lord und his imiiie
one-every kin o bowing, und every tongue
conii'sslng to him uloni.r Alas! have 1 not
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y, -...... ii i. lovm in fear mui. inni nappy UttV
is yet far distant, if no one is to be more ef
ficient in bi inging it about than I enif Oh,
If inv faith and my lils.rulily wore I he niea
urn for th i whole Church, there would lie a
nd prosicct for this dark, ruined world!
Who would takec tiv of our country, if noon
wns more willing to meiillce hi own case
and comfort for it than I iimf Who would
givo tho water of eternal life to furnishing
millions in hi nt lion lands, if no one hud
more bowels of jouqvissiou than 1 have!
And why should any one fuel more resiHiusi.
bility in this mailer than I dor If I can
free my skirts, why not othersf Hnvo ws
not nil one .Mador.ono Judtf to whom w must
render our uccoiintf If then I can
an-wer for mv delinquencies, other will
have no more difficulty. There is no Justin
In easing one, wliilo the rest aro burdened.
If I can get nny disposition to serve Maui
mop, or Hellal, or self, why may not othersl
If I limy love the Ixrd with loss thnn my
whole soul, and mind, and strength, and my
neighbor ! than myself, so may every
discliilo of Jesus. And if I may seek tha
if ratification of mv nwn .1,1 n .
end of my beginning, so may all the world
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. . . .. ......... ..u , . i"b aiiiiu universal
ruin anil li.uklli till i 1... -1...11
f ,. imv fc ij Kuan
wake us all to receive according to deed,
Ifelluttlul. -...S..I 1...I
A Mmmnotli Done.
FninV Klverson, who lives on l'oitif
Lobo avenue, between First nnd Bccoiul,
wns some whnt startled two days ago when
ft Imrly look In;; excavntor stopjicd s)
Wftijoti opposite his place nnd lugged out
a hui;e tii'ias carefully wrapped up in
cloth.
Tho object was rarried to thn doorway
of F.lvcMon'a house nnd proved a bi
load for tha bearer, weighim? over eighty
uitid. Having removed the wrappint;,
Mr. F.lvotsoti :iw wlmt ho mlmittcil
without hesitation to lie the Itiircst bona
he Imd cvrr Been in his life. The excava
tor, who hnd been cluing irinl i nif work
iu the sand duties farther clowutUu avit- '
tnr. no sr. t rt i a cnAin.
ty.is not anxious to haul the bone to own,
' barjjniti was struck whereby Mr.
Klvi'Mott handed over six bit nnd a
drink in fee simple for the prize.
A Vhronielf reporter vn invited to
view the. specimen, its nature not bavin;
yet been cletcrinincd. It was manifestly
the head of the femur or thiit bone of
prehistoric elephant thn ntnmitioth
(cleplum priiiii-p'inis). The sand drift iu
which tlm bono was diseovc nil bclontrs
to precisely tho p'ololo-jicnl epoch which
is usually associated w ith tho remains of
fossil elephants.
A tupu measure, jmssed nrmuid thn
"ktinli" at thn tirciadest portion sliowcd
that it was forty-throe inches in cireiim
f crimen. Transversely tlm incusiireineiit
was tliii ty-ninc inches. The slmft of tho
lionc at it tmrrowest portion wit twenty
seven inches in circumference, or larger
tliuii tho tlii'h of a stout man. Tho
length of the fr.iirincnt was nearly threw
feet. Assiiiiiini;, on the priiiciplesof coin,
imrative amtlomy framed by Cuvier, that
the Jiroportions of the oi'i'.innl aiiimn)
were 011 the elcili;tntine order, th" owner
of this thioh In me must have been from
fifteen to eighteen feet hili ut the timo
it wnlki!'! cm tin earth.
Thn eaiici lliilcil strin-t n;- of the Initio
is well show 11 in purl ioi.s where fi:i ;mc'iU
have been eliifipi"! olT. The In :.. i of tin
bono is tolerably well prnVi-lcd by a di.
posit of sili us mutter. Inn tic pr. i!m-
bility is tli.it unleis cnrfu'iv mui ijuii kly
preserved by si nliu up the p i.es IV.uit
con I act witii ui. l!ii inte: e- ini,' relic of 11
prehistoric ii'.;c will 1 lily eru:u!i" ht
bicecs. .Si. 1 ''.ihci I'.ur :k'i-.
A Mrtbtef Strolc.
Lift.
'Ilio lire I 8 in the (ir-t elht months
in tho yeur is less by Tl,:,!'.4,!io0 thuu iu
the like month of IHSS, or I. '.I pur cent,
lem, nnd j.i percent. Ic-s thin iu itf87,
ulthough tlm Ati-iiHt loss is larger than
last ytur or tie jear befoio. ho tiro
loss is ceit lin to lie I ire in any case,
but thu fact th it dots i,ot riau above
tho last two years ih tolern ly good proof
of general pio-i erity. Nothiui; brinH
on so iimiiy 'iiceidontiir lircs in mer.
cliuudi.su block U4ii fulling inuilttt.
The Kvolntluii of the ritclicr.
Tho Shuh or 1'f.rai.i B.u..pl. .1... .1
K. 'VIII lUllt 1119
iviiiuiior is an unlock v inwm 11..
poiui to the laot that tho ljut-ea lust
her hu.bujd so. u alter coiuini? iuto dosv
session of tho famous itouo.
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