r). USES OF TROUBLE. - r -t ! t fl Wnplil art HpAn o0,""r" MiNnrnv op sotiiow ...... n Ti ' CUi M an nvrr..win fwiKMtkm .5 Mi iifii A-ade-ny of Music I. Hrffillrn A 7'J . mi.,.,,- kvf P"' Vint, the onirinall iW- kc to i .1 made an enlarge- 'rttcmt almost ns much a a church. Ill lil!i ' .. n i,-, Than we L, Tp th hiiildin,? recently destroy,, and P'P . hon the Whole country H",,n,?' . ,. fl.ianc.ial distress. tho rep"'' disasters that L L niil.fiitlr. but any church would die ' ... mln.niMe. Now for Lira titmiV. we are out of debt. Hut wa Ll 7t Ixnst one hundnsl thousand dollar to PV. . i. riwiitvh. and wo mil 'llv" f ii creed and all land, to help. ' 'i i..,i.. .t.Mlimtn a new church we muit r""' in f i. !.!. I will never tvn'l" i'rt'-r f eliureh in d.'l.t. It has I1 . ' - ... -II nir movement, ami I LiSn'r.r aicain. war the shackle. I have last ni"-u i. r"'" v" ,,. in tvopln sitting aud stand It- tifli' a rvinistn", .'.- j - L r-n-t I'l l,Bt Wl" ,,mi SiKM 1 i ,,,,1 h? stir ir. i-n ii - ...-.v.. ;v,... -Here ar.- nlti.0.sif rou will tin ii'tnorisl structure, an I en!I it af ter r..vn "1V le;al'ted f'th,r or ehlld Mi'i iiiMin TV 1 want nut Imforn all nations 1 1,..- u.l tun ." And so it will lie done. ...... "(nd ln'l tri'w turay all lenrs mVin ;. "Key. vil., 17. Mb; r. tixk a western prairie, wild ,,-i i t the huh of the carriage wheel, ! w lu' -'.i I in; iliHtnnci from any shelter, v f it i''" .i I len howcr, and whllotho n i fnilini: In tornnita, the miiii wa mi-; iw hnclillv as lever saw it sliiiif; I I 'l!i.ii'-!it. v.lint a brautifill spwtnrlo , i so 1 1ui ti'urs of the llililo ar.i ni Ini.-lit st'irm, hut rain on pnnsird k,rum swwi linn Kiim:':i umii(ui. j r'in":niT unit Dome wnirn niivin . k-l n mntainins toans and Marys , nnd rani s roars, Biid Ltirint s 't, nnd t!i" lmrv(t of joy that Is to finui tin1 sowing of tears. (iod itlr'm. (i-xl rounds them, (ioil shows :i n .i tp to full, tlod exhales thetu. A u i tiik'"i of thn.and thorats a record th" iit 'in -nt when they are Uirn, and h i tin- pin of th-'ir Rravo. Teirs of Imd i .an1 nt i;int. Aiexanuur, in nis sorrow. tli liiir rlipii'.l from bis hon Bnd v mill nmilo a -r.'t ado about hi (rriof ; in s!l Hi" vifiCHof heitven there Is not one Vlt'itin.l.-r's tj-srs. I spivilt of the tars of Alnsiiflo! they are falliiit all tho In siimiii'T, you sometime hear the sliiic thunder, nnd you we there Is a -:n mil'-nav; hut you know from tho irt'if th" cloud that it wul not como anv- n ni-ir vmi. Hi i, though it mny lio all Lht arniui l u-,tli"rn la a xhower of trouhlo wlirrenll tin time. Tears! Tears! V but is the us? of thorn anyhow Why .nlMitiitt) laughter? Why not mnke this rll ivlicro all the ppoplo are well nnd v n il Mtrnn;i'r to pain and aches What; u ' of nn eastern storm when wo miht s i-Txtu;il nor'wiister Why, when a ily i put together, not have them nil i.nr if they inut lie trmiHplantnd to miiko r hollies, then have them all live tliefmn rKfird tclliiiK a story of mnrrinae and hlin. hut of no dentlm. Why not havo the viU chase each other without uinj toil Why tho hard pillow, hard crust, tho hard strntrrle easy enough to explain a smile, or a trs, or a congratulation: Imt, conie now, nrtn; all your dictionaries ami all your npnios nun an your reunions, and uelp plain a t '.-ir. A chemist will tell von it is made up of suit and limy and other innt 'arU; but ho mii"S the chief linntK tho acid of a soured lifo, tho in-si in of a hitter memorv, tho frag- of n broken heart. 1 w'ill toll yon a t ur Is: it is nt-ony In solution, u- me, then, whilo I (lin-ourso to you of of trouble. t It is tho design of troublo to keep s.orld finui being too nttrnctivn. So-ni- c t:ni no none to muka u williujt to iu;i e.-.ii. nce. ir it were not for troublo rid would b a Rood enough iinveu Ynu mill I Would Im Wlllmir t till.-,. "f this lifo for a hundred million year iv were no troublo. Tho enrtli null. U ami uiiliolstcrwland pitlansl and chan-p-.,'lv.ii such expense, no story of other ii iKtild enchant us. We would KM V mil enougli alone. If you want im I have your IhhIv ilLsillt L'rat.l in nt. and your soul Co out on a celestial bit uru, then you can go; but this world i enougn tor inn." ou might as well a man uhohas hud. untornd Hi.i ns, and toll him to hasten off to tho Ire galleries of Venice, or Florence. Iv. he Would KBV. "what is the iim i,f ing there Tllero are Kombrnniltn mill ns nnd lUtlihaeis li.irn tlu. 1 hnio,.'t 1 at yet." man wants bi go out of this world, or uny house, until he has a better house, iro this wish to stay here, CJod must i cream a usuit for our surround- now snuii ho do it? He cannot afford nee tug horizon, or to tear off a fiery iroiu the sunsxi hp t ...i.t.. . .... fmm the water lilv. or. tn Unlh ti.a tnt aroma from tho mignonette, or to ....... mi ii xue inorning in the tnire. eiUinot AIlMf't. I 'l.lu....l n-u.. a. PW OWIl St. PllilV i.,u.l.il .: l F'lKelo t ,) t . . i.i , !71t'.rr',lla"do1 todiscord his "Isiaol Mt. and von raiimof. n...i . . t . . . vaiicvv i 1 1 111 m file nn:hitectnre im.l ui How then aro w to tut nm,i .iik.... ve Hero i. .h iXT .""'"'J . . uuuiuD v'IIU's III. tittftl fit flT.nl.li. s -VeU, (am ruadv tn m. II i;. . , ; uwbw uwi uirvsu l tttK, L tvuui n m till Hi P' '"where that does not distress K'Jf, 1 Would like tn lir..nll,. If It t. f " 'y 'uwhere where Inure is no tittlo- would like to live there. If lio-ir, circle somowhoro where I iiL . , ' .. "l irienus, x hi g,i tuere." He UMMi t,. , 'mil hhT. i . . chietty. now he t -uuigcd t.enesis for Revelation" Ah I fitotw anxious chienv u. h, i, i rid was mailu. nml li .l.... MructioM. ' x.:su..7rxr..L" r '" "sihs, anit who livo thoi ...- wW. i."8 r7"N "volation tm, t. iiuJ th- "I'L" i"S.i'lcrete, Um s and tho earth." due not thrill El ," uattn "' nw earth " L.LT,htt,tmn,,l,,!' he turn. L.k ,rf lu.'!''., to r''18 hU rl. r" of llevslstlons is a nrosiieetus now I id ,t 'n,rj! iuto he hM s uq out, and avenues ownol, aud Uous P nd nuuuious Imilt le uZht'i.'j' tllt,,'xl I'Uc come. uughtily, and I declare that If tl.i. tW,.,K,l.t.!,il, n'1 " were f u(""? i. one'hand could b. tT. .2 108 of heaven, I fill I Could cot n mn.lf iJ . s- thn i. ...u"n world " ' is natural. Hut f f-ur. I vou wu, be ready" HZt im naa lion worn ,.n, i hmise. It is tha ministry o? trx:'.!i tnn':sj this wos-;j ..o:-;!i iu cu.l hiavou worta more. Again, it Is fie cs or tr.wh'a to ma?; s feel our "omrilefe d-pendnici uixui (oil. King Alphonso -aid that If he had lion pn rnt at the creation he moid have mado a bel ter world than this. What a pitr h-s was riot priwnt! I do not know whnt (od will do when some men die. Men think ther can do nnythin unt il ( lotl shows them they do noth ing at all. We lny our great pl.vi and we like to execute them, ft looks big. God comes and Likes rts down. " As rromot't-'us was assaulted by his enemy, when the lane truck him it opened great swelling that had threatened his d"ath. and he frrt well. Ho it is the arrow of trouble that lets our great swellings of pride. Wa never feel our dependent ti;on (iod unfit we get trou'.il I wa riding with my little child along tho road, and she asked If she might drive. I said: "Certainly." I handed over the reins to her, and I hr.d fo admire the glee with which she drove, lint after a while we met a team nnd we had to turnout. The road wa narrow, nnd It was sheer down on tioth sides. Khe handed the reins over to me, and sa.d: "I think you had better take charge ni the horse." Ho we are nil children; anil on this road of lifo we like to drive. It gives one such an aiip?nran.,c of superiority and power. It looks big. Hut after a while we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow, and it is :ihcrdown on luith sides; and then wo ar- willing that (Jod should take tho reins nnd drive. Ah I my friends, we got up set so often because we Ju not hand over tuo reins soon enough. I Can you nt tell when you hear a man ' Fray, whether ho has ever hnd any trouble? can. Tho cadence, the phraseology indicate) it. Why do women prav liettcr than men Heeause thr have had "more trouble. He- foro a man has hnd any trouble, his prayer aro poetic, and he liegins awav up among the sun, moon nnd stars, and give the Ionl a prcat il-nl of astronomical In fur tint Ion that must bn high! v gratifying. He t.ie:i comes fin down gradually fiver lMxv.it if nil v table lands to "forever and over, amen." 'Hut af- tor a man ha hnd trouble, prnver Is with' him a taking hold of the arm of (tod and crv- lie out for help. I have heard earnest pray- j crson two or three occasions that 1 remem- . ber. Once, o:i tho riiielunati etpres train, going at forty miles tho hour, and tho train jumped tho track, an I wo were near a clinxttl eighty fist flwip; and the lueu who, a few uiltiutfs Is-fore, had been swearing and blaspheming Clod, liognu to pull and Jerk nt tho lrll rope, and got up on tho backs of tho seats and cried out: "O lol, savo us"' There was another time, aliout eight hunilre.1 miles out. nt sci. j tm a foundering steamer, after the last i llfolmat hail been split tlncr than kindling wood. They prayed then. Whv is it you so often hear people, in reciting t ho lat ex Mrlone of soma friend, say: "Ho mailotho most iMAiitiful prayer I eviir heardT' What makes it beautiful It is tho earnestness of it. tih, I tell you a man is in earnest when his stripped an 1 naked soul wnds out in tho soundless, shoreless, bottomless nnn of . eternity. It Is trouble, mv frien Kthat makes us fe ! ' our dependence upon Uod. Wo do not know ! our own woakness or Hod's strength until i th3 last plunk breaks. It Is contemptible in ' lu when there is nothing else to t:tko hold of, . that we catch Itfild of Oodoulv. A man is unfortunate in business. Ho iias to raise a groat deal of money, and raise it quickly, llo borrow on word aud note all ho can lsr row. After n while li put a mortgage on i hi Ixiuse. After a whilo he puts n sismih! 1 mortgage on his house. Then ho puts a lieu ' on his furniture. Then ho mak. fiver his : lifo insurance. Then he assigns all his prop- I crty. Then he goes to his father-in-law nnd , u-sks for help! Well, hnving failed everywhere, com pletely failed, he gets down on his knees nnd : wivs: "Itlford, I hnve tried evervliodv mi l everything, now help mo out of this thian ciul trouble." Ho makes (iod tho last res.irt instead of tho first resort. There nro men who have paid ten cents on n dollar who could have paid a hundred cents on n dollar If they hnd gone to Uod In tinm. Why, you do not know who tho Ixird is. Ho is not an autocrat seated far up in a p.ilaco, from which Ho emerges onco a year, proc.-ili'd bv li Jialils swinging swor.ls ti clear tliewav! No. lint a Father willing, nt our call, to , stand by us in every crisis uud prodioumvut I of life. I tell you what some of you business men make mo think of. A young mnn gis-s off from homo to cam his fortune, llo goes with hi.i moth-r's consent nnd beiieiliction. (She has largo wealth; but ho wants to miikii his own fortune. Iio goes faraway, full Mck, gf ts out of mony. Ho sends 'for the, hotel keeper w hero ho is stayin-., asking for lenience, and tho answer ho'gets is: "If you don't pay up Saturday night you'll ba rf- niovcd to tho hospital." Thu young mini sends to a Cfunrnile in the same building. No help. Ho writes to a banker w ho was a ! friend or his deceased father. An relief, llo writes to an old schoolmate, but gets no lieip. Hat unlay night comes uud he is removed to tho hospital. (Jetting there, ho is frenr.lod with grief; nnd he borrows a sheet of paper and a itugo stamp, and ho sits down, and ho writes home, saying: "Dear mother, lam sick unto death, t'ome." It is ten minutes of 10 o'clock when she gets the letter. At 1U o'clock the train starts. Hhe is five minutes from tho depot. Hhe gets there in time to have five minutes to ) sparo. Hhe wonders why a train that can go thirty miles an hour cannot go sixty miles an ! iiour. nue rushes into tho hospital. Hhe says: "My win, what does all this moan Why didn't you send for me You sent to everylmdy but mo. You knew I could and would help you. Is this the reward I get for my kindness to you always" She bundle him up, takes him oome, ana gets him well very soon. How, some of you treat (xl Just ns thut young man treated his mother. When you : got iuto a tiuani'ial perplexity, you call on'tho banker.you call on the broker, you call on your creditors, you call on your lawyer for legal counsel; you call uion everybody, and when 1 you cannot get any help, then you goto Hod. I You say: "O Ixird I coma to Thee. Help me now out of uiy perplexity." And the J.xira comes, though it Is the eleventh hour. Ho says: "Why did you not send for iMe before As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." It is to throw u back upon an all comforting liod thut wo have this ministry of tears. Again, it is the use of trouble to capacitate u H for the officii of sympathy. Tho priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by having water spi nikhsl on their hands, feet nnd bead; and by tho sprinkling of tears pfsiplo are now set apart to the olllco of sympathy, Vhcu we are lu prosperity wa like to havo a great many young people around us, aud we laugh w heu they luugti, and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing; but when we have troublo wo like plenty of old folks around. Why They know how to talk. Take an aged mother, seventy years of age, and she is ut most omniMitent in comfort. Why? Hhe has been through it all. At 7 o'clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a youujj mother who has lust lost her babe, Urutulmotlier knows all about that trou blo. Fifty years ago she felt it. At 13 o'clock of that dav she goes over to comfort a widowed soul. Hhe kuows all about that. Hhe has been walklug in that dark valley twenty years. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon some one knocks at the door wanting bread. Hhe know all about that. Two or three times In her life she cam to her last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she goes over to sit up with some one severely siek. Hhe kuows all about It. Hhe knows all about fevers and pleurisies and broken bone. Hhe bas been doctoring all her life, spreading plasters, and jMiurmg out bitter droxs, aud shaking up hot pillows, and contriving things to tempt a poor appetite. Doctors Aberuothy and Rush, and Hosaok and Harvey were great doctors, but the greatest doctor the world ever saw Is an old Christian woman. Dear met Do we not remember her about the room when we were sick In our boyhood? Was there any one who oould ever so touch a sore without hurting it? And when she lifted her spectacles against ber wrinkled forehead, so she could look closer at the wound, it was three-fourths healed. And whou tha Lord took her nouns. annniij-n you may have been men and women thirty, fortv, fifty years of age, you lay on th eoiTln lid ami soblx-d as though you were only five or ten yeirs of age. O man, pro I so Ood If you have in your memory thepictnre of an honr, sympathetic, kind, se'f sacrifti-Ini.Christ-IIko mother. Oh.lt takes these pco pie who h.".ve hnd trouble to comfort others In trouble. Where did Paul get the ink with which to write his comforting epistle? Where did David get the Ink to write his comforting I'ralms? Where did John get the Ink to write his comforting Iteve'ntion? They cot It tint of their own tear. When a mail fin pone through the curriculum, and hn taken a cnurse of dungeon and imprisonments and shipwreck, ho i qualillisl for tho work of sympathy. When 1 began to preach, my serr-ions o-i tho subject of troublo were all noetic nnd In semi-blank verse; but (tod knocked the blank verso out of tuo long ago. and I havo found out thnt I cannot comfort js-ople except as I myself have lieen troubled. Isl ma!;o mo the son of .consolation to the people. 1 would rntlier Ik the means of soothing into per turbed spirit to-day, than to plnv a tune thnt would set all the sons of mirth reeling in thn dance. I am a herb dis-tor. 1 put. into the caldron the llisd out of dry ground without form or comeliness. Then I put in tho Hose of Hhnron and the l.lly of the Valley, Then I put into therildron some of the leaves from the Tree of Lifo, and the Hranch that was thrown into tho wildern-ss Mnrali. Then I pour in tho ti-ar of Kethnnv nnd (iolgothn; then I stir them up. Then I kindle under thei-aldroun llro mn.le of th wood of tho cross, nnd one drop of that sitlon will cure tho worst sick ties that ever alTlicte l a human soul. Mary and Martha shall revive their lzanis from tho tomb. Tho damsel shall rise. And on the ilarkn shall break the morning, and Uod will wipe nil tears from their eyes. Yon know on a well spread table tho food becfimes more delicate nt tho Inst. I havo fed youbwlny with the bread of consolation. Lot the tnbln now Iss cleared, nnd let us set onth.i chalice of H-'aveti. l,ot the King's cup ls?arers come in. (lood morning, II -a-Ven! "Oh," savs some critic in th" audience, "the Ililile fotitrmhets itself. It Intimates ngaiu nnd ngaiu Hint lie re are to be no tears in heaven, nnd if there be no tears in heaven, how is it possible that Ibsl will wixi any nwnvr' 1 answer, hnve you never sen a child crying one moment ami laughing the nest; and w hile she was laughing, Vou saw the tears still on her face! And perhaps you sfopissl her in the very midst of her i sumisl ;lis', and wipisl off those delayed tears. Ho, I think, alter the heavenly rn;v tures have come ujxm u, thero mar 'lie the mark of some isartlily grief, ami while tin me tears nro glittering iii the light of the nspr sen. ( lod w ill w its- them awny. How Well llo can do that. Jesus had enough trial to mnko Jli-n syni:hctic with all trial. Tho short est verso in tho Hihle tells thn storv : "Jesus wept." The scar on tho hack of cither hand, tho sear on the nreh, of cither foot, t'10 row of scars nlmis. the i;;o of tho hair, will keep f.U heaven thinking. Oh, thnt great wce-r is just the dim to silence nil earthly troublo, wipe out all stains of earthly grief, Oentle! Why, His step is softer than the step of tho flew. It will not U n tyrant bidding von to hush up your crying. It will Iss a Father w ho will take you on Hi left arm. His fin e glisiming into you:-, whilo with the soft tip of the fingers of tho right hand, lie fi!l wipe awnv all tears from your eyes. I have no tice I n leu tho children get hurt, mid their mother is away from home, they come to mo for comfort nnil MTiipathv; but 1 have no ticed that when tho children get hurt and their mother is at home, they go right jsist lue and to her; 1 nm of no ntssmnt. So, when the soul comes up into heaven out of tho wounds of this life, it will not stop to lik for I'iiiiI, or Moses, or David or John. These did very well once, but How the villi shall rush past, crying: "Where Is Jesus? Where is Jesus!" Dear Iird, w hat a manl. lie. iit thi'.ig to ilie if Thou slmlt thus viki away our tenrs. Meihiuk it will toko us some time to get iiklsI to heaven: tho fruits of liod without one sHs'k, the fresh postures without mm nettle; the orchestra without one snaped string; tho river of ghidiics without one torn bunk; thesolferinosandthe nJTron of sunrise and sunset sw allowed up in tho eternal day that beams from God countenance! Why sle.lil l t Klsh to linger In th" WIM. When Thmt srt ttaltin,:, ruth'T, in rt'eetvi Tiir 1'IUMf If wo could get any appreciation of what (Iod has in rcs-.-rvo for u it would make us so homesick wo would be unfit for every day work. I'r.ifcssor L'smard. formerly ol Iowa L'nivcrsity, put in my hand a meteoric stone, n stone thrown oil' from some other world t this. How suggestive it was to me. And 1 hnvotot .il you the lx-st representations wo huvo of heaven are only aerolites Hung off from thnt world which rolls on. Iwaring tho multitudes tif tho rcdccmisl. We analyze thesnaerolit.es, and Uud Hu m oryslalizations of tears. No wonder. Hung off Xrotu heaven. "(tod shall wihj uvkuy all tears from their eyes." Have you any appreciation of the givsl and glorious times your friends are having in heaven? How dilVerent it is when th-y get news there of a Christian's ilenth from what it is here. It is the ditfcrenco Is-twccn em barkation nnd coming into port. Everything ileieiids ii jk hi which side of the river you stand w lieu you hear of a Christian's death. If you stand on this side of the river ynu uioum that they go. If you stand tm tho other side of the river you rejoice that they come. Oh, tho ditferonco letween a funeral on earth and a jubilee in heaven Is'twoeu requiem here and triumphial march there parting hero and reuuiou there. Together! Have you thought of it? They are together. Not one of your departed friends in one land and another in another land; but together, in different rooms of tho same house the house of many mansions. Together! 1 nover appreciated that thought so much as when we laid away in her last slumber my sister Sarah. Standing there in tho vil lage cemetery, I looked around and said: "T here is father, there is mother, thero is grandfather, thero is grandmother, there aro whole circles of kindred;" and 1 thought to inysolf : "Together in the grave together in glory." I am so impressed with the thought that I do not think it is any fanaticism when soma ouo is going from this world to tho next if you iniike them the bearer of dis patches to your friends who are gone, sav ing: "(iivo my lovo to my parents, give uiy lovu to my children, give my Jove to my old comrades w ho are in glory, and tell them I am trying to tight the good tight of faith, and 1 will join them after awhile." 1 believe tho mutisngo will lie delivered; nnd I holiove it will ineivnso thu gladness of those who are Is-fore the throne. Together are they, all their tears gone. No trouble getting good society for them. All Kings, iiioeu. Prince, and 1'rlnousses. In 17M there wa a bill offered in tho lCnglish parliament pro mising to change the nliiinnac so that the 1st of ilurch should coma immediately after tho ISth of Februurv. Hut, oh, what a glorious chunge in the calendar when all tho years of your earthly existence are swallowed up iu the eternal year of Ood! My friends, take this good choor honii with you. Those tears of bereavement that course your chuok, and of persecution, nnd of trial, are not always to Im there. Tho motherly hand of Uod will wipe them all away. Wliat is the use, on tho way to such a consummation what is the use of fretting about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration it ought to be in Christian work I Hoe you the pinnacles against the sky? It is the city of our Ood, and we are approaching it. Oh, lot us be busy in the few days that shall re main for us. The Haxons and tha liriton went out to battle. The Haxons were all armed. The Uritous had no weapons at all; and yet history tells us the Britons got the victory. Why? Tboy weut into battle shouting three times, "I.aUelujanI" aud at the third shout of "Hallelujah," their ene mies fled paulo struck; and so the Itfituns got the victory. And, my friends, if we could only appre ciate the glories that are to come, we would be so tilled with enthusiasm that no power of earth or hell could stand before us; and at our first shout tho opposing forces would be gin to tremble, and at our second shout they would beiu to fall back, and at our third rnmit tney wout.1 tie routed forever. 'I hers is no power on earth or in hell that could stand before three such volleys of halle lujah. I put r.tls Isilsnm cn the wounds of your heart, liejoleo at tho thought of wiiat your departed friends hnve got rid of, and thnt you havo a prospect of so soon making your own escnjic. Hcnr cheerfully the ministry of tears, and rxult at tho thought thnt soon it It to be ended. There we -tisil march np thr h-sr-nlr street, AnJ ground our arms at Jius's feet. SUNDAY SCHOOL l.l'.SSOV fan OVKMIIH II "Da vlil'a Itrliel Ions Hon," II. Bniii., . l-IU-doldcn T. : i:. xx., 1 2 romiiietits. After th everlasting covenant made with David roneernln-t hi son and kingdom, as rrordl in our Inst lesson in this liook (chap, vll.). we read of David's great prosrity, subduing all his enemies round alsiut ami reigning over all Israel, executing judgment and justiisj unto all hi people (vill.. I,'-1.M. Then, in his prosperity, come his awful sin, by which he gave great occasion to th ene mies of the Ixird to blaspheme; which I followed by th record of hi son Amnon's sin and Ills death nt tho hands of his brother Absalom, followed by the flight of Absalom to tils mnternal grandfather, tho RELIGf OUSJi EADIKG. row ich or EXAurr.R. A gentleman once said to hi pnor, "How on I bst train up mr lsy in the war be shf uld go" "Ily going that war yourself,'' replied th" minister. Thl recalls th story tol l bv Dr. Thompson, author of "Tho lnd and the Hook." Ho had climbed nearly to the top of tl e mountain, lilting his fot carefully f.ver the projecting ns-ks, when faintly troni below be hvanl a silvery Voice cnll out, "I nk the safe pnth, lather, 1 am ci mln , after you." Iho boy was planting his feet in the footsteps of his lather. If the lather was on the safe roml, thes-m would ls: on the o'her hand. If tho father had stopped tm n crumbling pr.-ci- lets and gone down to a destructive gulf slow, the son won! I have followed him to the same pln.'o of ruin. When lathers take the storm-swept road f intemperance, the boys are apt to follow in the sNiun I hssl statue I font-tcps. If tho inotnor be woidly, fond of glittering it vie, loving tho enchanting hull of th" intoxicat ing dance, her daughters will follow nudist willing imitators. When men climb tho towering Alps they tio themselves together, aivl if tho lea. lor stiimld sail I fal s, they are all liable to g i to the bottom. Ho families are tied together. BA!n iikai's koii rmn riiit.rinr;. The Massachusetts Kni'Tgeiicy and fly. gl"ii As-ix iatl ni provid -d Riven sand henp I day-grounds in l'oston f. r poor children nst sumiii r, nt a cost of II for each of tho lour biindrisl lit i In fines iitortnine t for lght weeks. In H-rliu the government provides hciipsof clean sea sand in the parks ,-1 - . - . . .... ' t IM.1,1. jviiix iii iiesiiur. wiiere lie nnoo inriHi years ...l i.. .1.1 e .. i.n i . i . , . - , , , , , , . nu. eiiiiiM'1 i.i niui-;i in., .termini l lilioieii In banishment from hi lather an.l his.- pnVi , r ,, Kn,,rnl enr . f the police, home (chnps xl., xni). I i. . ,,. ..,, ,,.,,, .,, ...' , the M'hiM l-committist gme the lis t of the 1. "And it cnnio to, tmss aft-r this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses and fifty men to run l.rore him." The words "after this" seem to refer to the events of tho chapter Immediately preceding. If Absalom's chariot nnd horses and men were intended in some way to do honor, or show gratitudo to his fnther, tho King, it would sum but right and natural; but that they should be tokens of rebellion ngainst and In gratitude to this forgiving father seems al most incrif iililc; yet such was the case. ii. And Abinloin rose upenrlv, mid stood tssfide tho way of th;gato." The g.ite of nu eastern city was a place of public resort nnd delilieratioii, and also a place for the adminis tration of justice, and of nudiemsj for Kings and rulers nud nmliassador. "Hose up early" is an cxprwdon signifying great i earnestness; it isabotit the sumo os "putting : one' shoulder to it;" it is used ten tinio-i in Jeremiah concerning liod' iiuweariisl I earnestness in urging HI people to repent and turn to Him. In Isa. v., II, it ts used . concerning tho eunntnessof the w ickod.attd in that sense It Is used iu this verse of our lesson, for here wo see Absalom in th gate I of the city cordially greeting every tme who I came with any mailer to tho King for Judg 1 ment, telling them that there whs no one ap I pointed by the King tohenrthem, and nssur ' ing them that If ho was a Judge ho would ses j that every one had justice, i 8, 4. "Absalom said moreover. Oh that I j were mado judge in the laud." The title of our lesson 1. "David's rebellious son," and bis name is uiontiotiod tlilrtisn times in our lesson. Kverythingssnis to go by emit rant in reference to him; his iiamoKigniHs"t''iitlier of Peace," but what a father of lies nnd dis turber of peace ho proved to be; then ns to his personal apicnrattcc, thero wns not a tlncr looking man in all Israel (xiv., 'J.'ii; but W.mI, j who looks on tho heart nnd not m theout- ward appearance, saw nnything but benuty there. His hair, which he must have Ihoii I very proud of, and w hich ho had cut only once a year, weights! when js.ll.sl about seven and a half pounds Troy (a shekel being about nine iieuiivneights) (xi'v., but this, bis prido, was tuo cause of his death (chap. , xvill, U). I 5,(1. "Ho Absalom stoln the hearts of tho men of Israel." Hv fair words to every man who came to tho King for judgement, bv taking them by the hand and kissing tlieui, hn thus won their hearts to himself, David M-.-S0 Alwaloin wn of tho sumo nature as the lather's kiss to the m-ihIu-hI son tl.n iv 80); but these kissesof Absalom were more of the nature of the kiss of Judas when he be trayed our I,ord Jesus Chrit, for every one of them was a stab nl his father's heart. 7. "let mo en and l av my vow. which I I havsvowd unto tho Lord, iu Hebron." Thus said Absalom to "avid, tho King, probably j after four years instead of forty us in this verse (see H. V. margin) ; but w hat a liar ho was ami how desperately w icked; tlu ro was i Icinds in nun I in . I murder in his Heart and thnt against his own father, but Im seeks to hide it under a pre tense of paying a vow unto the Iord, while I all his vows must huvo licon to tho devil rather than to thn !nl; ami that ho should select Hebron for his base purpose where lav burled tho Iks lies of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob indicates only more fully tho extreme hardness of his heart. 8. "If tho Iord shall bring mo again in deed to Jerusalem, then 1 will serve the Lord." This, he snid, was tho vow which he had mad to tho I-ord while iu his banish ment iu rfyria. l,ct nuy father or mother who have ever rejoiced over th conversion of a wayward sou say what must have lieou David's feeling nu hearing these words from his much loved but heretofore erring Absa lom. Oh, that he hnd only meant it, but alas that the heart can liecoino so hard that it can put on religion for a cloak and think to deceive even (iod Himself. 9. "And the King said unto htm. Go in peace." Relieving him to lie sincere he gives Dim a father's hlcMiing and bids him go in peace; but there was no iieaoe in that foul heart, covered by so fuir an exterior and such plausible words, for "Thero is no iieace, suith the Lord, to the wicked" (Isa. ! vil., '.Mi. 10. "Absalom reigueth iu Hebron." No sooner does he leave his father's presence, with that father's last words to him as words of peace, than he sends spies through all Is rael who at a given signal ur to cry: "Absa lom reigueth in Hebron," which was virtually saving: "I hereby rebel agniust my father and drive him from his throne;" so David understood it, for ho said tiuto all hi ser vants: "Arise, and let us lice, for we shall not else escape from Absalom," aud the ser vants said: "Heboid thy servants are ready tfi do whatsoever my lord the King shall ai point" (versos 14, 15). ('entrust thn conduct of the King's sou with this reply of David's servants, and tho conduct of lttul, a stranger and exilo (verse l'.t-'Jl), uud does it not re mind you somow hat of the conduct of those of whom it is written: "He cumo unto HI own aud His own received Him not, but ns many a received Him, to thorn gave llo rower to become the sous of Liod." (John i., I, K.) 11. "They went in their simplicity and they knew not anything." This is written of the two hundred men out of Jerusalem who went with Absalom, if we would fol low Jeaus in this spirit, simply trusting, not Knowing nor iiesirmg uiiyimng nut ins win, achiMil-ynrds, tho money, and poor but reluiblo inotherl women were cmp'o.ed four days in tho week to tiinlr. niz.t tho little' folks, li was a pretty Mght to stst the-e smt chil dren, distiiicd to iHnd the summer in town, pln nig with shovels nnd pails in the 'and, whist fn filiation wns until. ling. Other went piny ing hoiso with worst d rein-, or to sing Ih-iiii-Iui :, skipping r.p nud ploy ing ball. If a tlitb rent s. t hud emmi every fbiv, it is ciilcul iie, that the mat ions would hnve fiitxrtniiiinl nlmo-t I I '.n; children. Now nud tl'on a basket of Mowers would bo c lilribiito I, so ti nt each c' lld went homo with a iiftscgny This sea on it is hope I I lie contributions will be utile ently generous to e.tnl.ll-h twenty sninl gardens, uud extend the bcnotlts. H'oi i ivif. r Shu. fAT.VATI()sc BY CttUIST. Oh, no man who hn over held the Cross, nnil found iu it the lufugo thnt ho sought, can ever preach It down. If ton nro not a sinner, you can d without the fro s. Hut, us for mo, when you havo read out thn roll of sunken ones, from Cain to Hurnhhns, ami from Hnral bas to tho last waif who hn drifted from the dock to the gallows, 1 write Un n thnt 1 1 -t of fallen nngols, in tho crim son tvoiMu of in v shame, "of which I am chief." Ol all tlm wrecks which strew the sea since Ad mi struck up. li the r.cks,mv hnnpio is sore-t torn. Such as havo weathered ev. ry storm, such as hnve shot pioiillt pan the fitr'he-l bubble i.f Char, b lis nnd urneo fully n me I.i! .he jut tni spur, of Scvlln's i rag, may ta Ik of salvation l.y chaini lei ; lilt I, gone l.y the boat .1. battered by tem pest of Iii v own pnssnm. liulwHi ks nil splin-t.-iiil, sail- rent, nil ..,t, nnd nothing but my nuked soul t t save. I need n Saviour stronger than inv-cll. When tl drow nin lints his rntt of surf nnsliinl pars to ether, nnd waits upon the vnrin ; hits t f Hi" sea for ft tiling ilenth, his Inst Ins tut swallow. .!, his last drop of water dunned nuav, ho pl ilits ns his en-iii of de. nir n sorrt mast nil his wet deck, ol d tl"ll s a s glial of distress ii . .li the bnez". Oit.-n no eyes but thin of hints ol rev lieli'ild It ns lliev wait tor ileal h to oll'er ihem their lueal. Hut i i tin- fluttering rag there is unit st i to nl nt io.i, nnd le-ciie soiu t lines cui. s. H , Liiiibol Calvary, I re-ir niv Muttering rng of bhiiik appi'itl. 1 will one word, uud one alone, Upon it. Not "clin meter," but 'nieti yt' And wi Ii my Insi M'ccavr" on III V bps, 1 1 1 v I l" I hot eve d"siiis n sail li o:i the a. It gl. d.'s . in of tho sunlight nf th"ca t. nnd no dove .wing were ever sil ei el with mi sol t a 1 1 lit It betii s don n 1 1 1 n 111'', and i U'riiiis I he i le of st ilk n ; Denih. A I't'e." I. nl Hi 'prow, guidon with g.i I y. mil v 'I led with hue A p. lot leans tivi r tl it Inilwarss, i ml a. 11.. wrens Ills in s". a wound upon II. s palm; and I f" I I he h. .1.1 is s l ong I.e. cause tin. love . mil it... It i, e who lakes nil. in'o left Hv II ' grace only nm I NIV. d II ' takes I lis w ami for homo " l'o that dear hum , stfn in lis wounded sidit. Wheto only broken hu rts their sin and shame may hide " ily grace v are saved; and that not of yoiii-clves. it is tho gi.t ol (i 1 1 " -.'iv .tr t.'m.' Mitrsrll. TEMI'J'KAAUU it TUB ItKjkSON WHT. There wa an old woman, ami what do Vou think? ' Bhs hsd bread to eat, and milk to drink. Clothe and home, and best of diet, Yet she wns sad, and couldn't be quiet. Hhe was sad in her heart over very bad laws. And she worked night and day iu the Tern- Msrani cause. "If they wouldn't make whisky and sell it," said she, 'Not a lieggar or drunkard abroad would I see." Mm. J. .Uc.Vair HVifnf, THFJ FOR Or TMIC OIIOO 8IHIP. Mr. Terence V. Powder! r Is iindenialdy the foe of the grog shop. While addressing an Immense audience of Knights of Ijilmr on a reivnt Hundar, in Central Musio Hull, Chicago, lie arraigned the saloon as the work Inginan s enemy, ili larni Ins belief that tha saliHjii should bu closed not onlr on Kiinday but every day in the year, nnd re-aMlrmeti his detorminntioii to exeliid liipmr dealers from the organization, j0 lso paid a high compliment to laboring wouie.i, eicluiining: "Many a time I have lieen (Miistrainetl Ui vihh that every man iu the order were a Xlllttll." TEMPERANCE NKWH AND NOTES). ot a physician in Lyons. Kansas, ora- whut blesstsl ptopla we w ould bo aud w hat f;lory lie would get tlirouiih us; but to fol ow a louder like Absalom thus blindly is sura perdition. 13. "The people Increased continually with Absalom." How thoughtlessly the crowd will follow a popular leader. How multi tudes turn away from the Uod of truth and His dear Hon to listen to an Iugersoll. If a railroad company will run its cur to soma mountain park or seaside resort ou the Lord's day, what multitudes will turn away from the God of the Hubbstb and His loving com mandments to doevil. If a city will tolerate Hundar baseball what thoughlefcs crowds will flock thither. And so in all directions an in creasing multitude is ever following the one whom Absalom followed, and who would lova to destroy Jesus, the King of Kings, and all Ua followers. Lttton Helper. rnxit 4hd now. lie was a man of some account And well among bis neighbors stood1 For any reasonable amouul Ui liaiua was good. Tie took to drink and soon bis nosa Assumed a tint as red as blood, And now, aa far as credit goes, His Dame U Dennis, Hotlow CourUn, scribes alcohol in medicine. The sum of f.100,000 passes over the saloon bars in high license Chicago every Huuday. The W. (!. T. V. pavilion at the Paris K. position took a gold incdul for superior mm it. An infant urbanization of the W. C. T. U. In Falcon, Col., ha already banished two saloons and compelled tho rest to clase on buiiday, A girls' industrial school has lieen estab lished in Tokyo, Juwu, with Mrs. Toyoju Sssuki, au active white ribbon worker aa principal. Henrietta Hchroiuor, a gifted sister of Olive Hchi't'iunr, the author, is Ji dauntless leader in the temperance cimsade w .'ape Town, South Africa. One year's work of one woman, Mrs. Helen L. Hullock, hasbrougnt more tlum 1500 active and nearly 7u0 honorary members Into tha W. C. T . 0. of New York Btate. A notlceale growth of temperance senti ment anion- the Indians of Houthern Cali fornia is r rted by local Htiperintendeuts of W, C. '1 , work among them. The National Prohibition Committee an. Bounce the offer of t'-UU as cash prize for tha best productions Unu the tbome: "How Will Prohibition Benefit the Wage-workerr" Paper must be in by December IX Sir Noel Paton, of England, has just nnisueu a new picture causa -in cuoioe," which represent a glass of sparkling win as ition or stii. a critic says thai tha picture Is wonderfully rich and searching tha impersonation of aril. in it symbolism, and Is nue of the mos impressive works of its earnest-minded pointer.. . Fled ltffor the Wrnth to Coma. Tlirj were alwaya very jMilife to each otlier wlieti t hoy" wr aiRitinR, and when fliov contrnilictcil one. anolbei very flat it waa t.lwav with a most elalftratcly jwilito pn fticc. They Lad it t lt other flight. "I ben your j'tirilnn. dear, Imt yon renlly tntist bo tnistaktn. It was " "Mo, tny awect, ytm're wrung. Il wns " "Now, ilitrlitig, I know better, l'iiln'l I " r.n1lr, wife, ton arc away off, 1o rnnsii I " "My iiour .'film, ymi aro tnistaken, (jnite tnitii1.(n." "Well, since vtnt know nil alxitit it, Of CIU11HI 1 " "It is you who know nil nlsmt it. 1 merely say " "Volt don't know nnvtliitig ulstut it You're all wrontf " imU- At this point tlio nices were ettiti), rntlier liigli. uiul the Mntill kill, pluving with lit r iIiI1Iioiim i'i the corner, hiuI ilonl.v .'ot up, juillcil her little hkirt tut, ami mi;. I : "I i'less I'll c;et nut of this." Alitl ilie tool, lliree trii iit big hte) tiiwiml the tiistr. 'I heu father lltitl Intither lnnKeil lit lier anil I hell lit elicit other, utnl it wits tin much for them The argument whs nil over. lint Air in ll.illoons. Charles 1'. Fcst, of (Jcrniiintoun, lVnn., las invented u new llin,' machine, llo las ub.'iniloiied the idea of usino; hytlrocn tas nnil uses ho . air. lie bus made a )alloon of nianill.i paper lu ll! by ii net work of cords. The liallooii is iliifi'tctl )y conical nnlici s which can be opened III vi:ht s invkstio.st. nr hhut. The Imllonti is Illicit with air heated by gasoline continued iu cans. Mr. Fcst i (joino; in send up one of his balloons soon, uinl In expi 'i ts it to across the ocean. The liallnon will carry his name and miilrcss, ni:i ho wnnls thn tin I f t tn cominuiiicatt' v illi him. Mill uinl 1'rnrr.ia. viscrclioti. i M mm !ri,,..ViJ- Mi m. fi .. .- L ft fl . . -. I 1 sVkTv - , Tliu .Sinnll One l'Say, if a man should call you ii liar, whnt would you do?" Tho I.nr(,'n Oihi (.with cinpliiisi.i) "I'd knock hint ilnwn." I The Small One "Thanks, I was jusl Koino to uildri'ss ii few I'euiurks to you, but I'll wait 'till 1 jjet in Kuroiie nid thou drop you u few lines." J.iie. A insurances! urc lScooitro1 . "i ..v Jil.ndI '"Hello! .Soniebotiy" Packet book."' ( Tbo .Mayor in Frauce who has th, smallest constituency U In tha communt of Mortoau, it u said, lie is Mayor ol Pi inhabitants, and the tsxca last year amounted to (9 20. iiut he wai invited, all (he same, by thu Governor to meet Us follow Mnvors ut the Paris bmquet. TSp.w Vouk jouriiulihiu is at a very low ebb when it k'vch colnnuiH to Honiis "KitiRdf tho Dudes," a it Iium done. Yet it succrs at tho "rural" tiuwHpaiiur. ' ' 'i J i,l j' 'Si ii rii I i I 1 V' f 'i . i - L f --1- ' V M: -r ' ' WSlHrliSllI I SSIJSSSI,)' H- 'tsi' S . - IV1 . , I WW .' llV !l.rVlIA..t.vJ ,
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