Att i on ami nrodi CURSE UPON CURSE. 4SSI- SSSSSISS jfcB. TAUCAOX'l SUNDAY BERMON. Hsrita of ths Slav to ths Win Cup. TTTt ".Wta planted a tineyrtrrf, nnd A amnK or in wins ana teal dm Genesis is., !, St. This Noah did the best and the wont thing for tan world. Il built an ark gainst the deluge of watnr, but Intro sriuoed a deluge against which the human ,race ha ever tinne lieen trying to build an rk the deluge of drunkenness. In my test jwe hear bit staggering steps. Hhem and iJaphet tried to cover op th disgrace, but Ither he is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world when, to ear the bout, there wa no lack of water. Inebriation, baring entered the world, hat not retreated. .Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who tared the flock of Natal, her husband, from con fiscation by Invader, goes home at night and finds him to Intoxicated she cannot tall him the story of his narrow escape, Uriah -came to see David, and Darid got him drunk and pared the war for the despolia tion of a household. Rren the church bishops -nestled to be charged to be sober and not ,Xirnn to too much wine, and so familiar were people of Bible times with the stagger trig and falling motion of the inebriate that Isaiah, when he comes to describe the flnnl dislocation of the worlds, ears, "The earth shall reel to and fro tike a drunkard." Ever siuceappleeandgrapetand wheatgrew the world has been tetnptd to unhealthful stimulants. Hut the intoxicants of the olden timo were an innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda water as com wired with the liquids of mod ern inebriation, int.) w.ileh a madness, and fury, and a gloom, and a fire, and a suicide, and a retribution hare mixed and mingle,!. Fermentation was a, wave kuown, hut it eras -not until a thousand years after Christ that distillation was invented. While we must confess that some of the ancient arte hare been lost, the Christian era is superior to all others In the bad eminence, of whisky and rum and gin. The modern drunk is a hundredfold worse than the ancient drunk. Noah In hit Intoxication became imbecile, but the vic tim of modern alooholism hare to struggle with whole menageries of wild beasts, and jungles of hissing serpents, and perditions of if blaspheming demons. An arch flood arrired In our world, and Be built an inrisibla caldron of temptation, lie built that caldron strong and stout fur all ages and nations. First he squcesed Into the caldron the Juices of the forbidden fruit cf Paradise. 1 hen he gathered for it a (lis- j tillation from the harvest fields and the Orchards of the hemispheres. Then he poured into this caldron capsicum and copperas and logwood and deadly nightshade and assault and battery and ritriol and opium and rum and murder and sulphuric acid and theft nnd potash and cochineal and red carrots and poverty and death ami hops. Hut it was a dry compound and it must bo moistened, nnd it mutt be liquefied, nnd so the arch fiend poured into that caldron the toars of centu ries of orphanage and widowhood, and ha poured in the blood of twenty thousand as asxinntiona And then the arch fiend took a shornl that be had b -ought up from the furnaces be neath, and he put that shovel into this groat caldron and began to stir, and the caldron began to beare and rock and boil and sput ter and hiss and moko,and the nations gath ered around it with cups and tankards and demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all, and the arch fiend cried: . "Aha I champion fiend am II Who has done more than 1 have for coffin and graveyards and prison and Insane asylums, and the populat ing of the lost world f And when this caldron is emptlod I'll fill It again and I'U stir it Sgaln, and it will amok again, and that uoke will loin another smoke, the smoke of TArmnMnji-jriinetli lor ever ana erer. I drove fifty ships on the rockt of New foundland, and toe Bkerrlea, and the Good wins, l have ruined more senators than gnthor this winter in the na tional councils. I bare ruined more lords than are now gathered In the house of peer. The cud out of which I ordlnarilv Ulrlnk U l.la...i.o. .L-..II I - mm mt uanvwuv. UUIIIH 0-.UI4, mill, U9 mpholhUry of my palace Is so rich a crimson, (because it is dyed in human gore, and the Jmosaic of my floors it made up of the bonus Wif children dashed to death hv drunken yareuts, nnd my farorlto musio sweeter than Te Deum or triumphal march my avorite music Is the cry of daughters turned uiat iniuiilgnt on tLe street because father as come homo from the carousal, and the ven Hundred voiced shriek ot the sinking earner, because the captain war not him If when ho put the ship on the wrong jkourse. Champion fiend am II I have gindled more tiros, I have wrung out more igonles, I have stretched out more mid- iglit shadows, I hnvo opened more Uol othas, I have rolled more Juggernaut, I ave damned mora soul than any other uiHary of diabolism. Champion fiend an li ft Drunkenness Is the greatest evil of this Ration, and it takes no logical process to Cove to this audience that a drunken nation nnot long be a free nation. I call your at tention to the fact that drunkenness is not tibsidlng, certainly that it it not at a stand till, but that it it on an onward march, and I is a double quick. There U more rum kvallowod iu this country, and ot a worse Und than wot ever swallowed tinoe the first Istillery began it work of death. Where lore whi one drunken home there are ten runktm homo. Where tbote was one runkard's grave there are twenty drunk rd's grave. It is on the Increase. Talk out crooked whisky by which men moan he whisky that does not pay the tax to gov rumen t I tell you all strong drink it Rooked. Crooked Utard, crooked Cognac, Tooked chnaps, crooked beer, crooked Ine, crooked whisky Iw.thubo it make a ftu'i path crooked, and bis life crooked, and death crooked and his eternity crooked. If I could gather all the armies of thedead luikard and have them ooina to rosurreo 1i, and then add'to that host all tho armies .' Ii'ng drunkards, five aud ton abreast, i tueu if I could have you mount a horsj ' i ride along that line for review, you tild ride that horse till he dropped from - taustion. and you would mount another m and ridi, ntit.il hi full r.,,.. o.h.Mi,... I you woull take another and another, I you would ride along hour after hour I day after day. Great host, in regiments. sriirade. (ii-Mut rn,i.u ,,f An. I if you had voice stentorian enough to : them all hear, and you could give the mand. "Forward, march!" their first p would make the earth tremble. 1 do re which way you look in the commuu- A.loa . I. f 1 I . . i ww vu a increasing. all attention to the fact that there are jr.' 1' "anus ot people born with a thirst for I urina a fact too often ignored I some ancestral lines there run the a ill IHiMnluttiiii 'I'll ..... ... . . l. . i l ,hi!.r a sw, f - of 1 i I of a. swaddling clothe are torn off tho iihii mrm uillioreu . aiauya lamer has made this anr' Ik..... Jan- .' I bequeath to my children my house Ian 1 1 nds and estates; share and share thall ' j i uarsio i ami my band and tea T, -irasenea nf m a M . at vary man has made another will people hare nertr read, ami that been proved in the courts. That will Wl-ltiliO wnulil IWil lib. it "Io the name of disease aud appetite Mi. amen. I bequeath to ray children. CoB- tM tt cup shall be thairs, mr destxovad taauiia. m UUIVOI SUaU IX UMITB, Uon shall be theirs. Hhare and share loll they in the infamy. Hereto I af- ' nana ana teal in the presenoe of all tiiatldinii K m. n lu. A W.ll tl n the uultltutie ot thoee who hav il habit bora with them this army it be giutuited. And I am aorrr toaav iti.t a HUM many of the drug tura are abettiag 1 11, and alcohol U told under the n iir. It is bitters for this and bitters at and bitter for some other Uiiux. tj gootl men deceived, Mt knowing there is any thralldom o.' atcohontm coming from that aonroe, are going down, and soma day a man tits with the bottle ot black bitters on his table, and the cork file out, and after it file a fiend and Clutches the man by hi throat and aays: "Aha I I hare been after fou for ten year. I bare got yon now. own with rou, down with yoof Hitters 1 Ah Ires, They make a men's family hitter and r-te home bitter and hit disposition bitter and hi death bitter and bla hell bitter. Hit, tera A mat army all the tlm increas ing. It aeem to me It 1 about time for the' 17,. 000.000 professor of religion In America to take side. It te going to be an out and out battle with drunkenness and sobriety, be tween heaven and hell, between God and the derfl. Take sides before there Is any farther rational decadence, take side before your on are sacrlflced and the horn of your daughter goes down under the alcoholism of an imbrutod husband. Take aide while your roioe, your pen, your prayer, your rote may hare any Influence In arresting the despoliation of thit nation. If the 17,0u0,000 professors of religion should tnkaideon this eubiect It would not be very long before the destiny of this nation would be decided In the right direction. 1 drunkenness a state or national erllf Does It belong to the North, or doe It belong to the Houthf Does it belong to the East, or doe It belong to the Westf Ah, there 1 not an American river Into which it tear bar not fallen and into whloh It suicide hare not plunged. What ruined that Houthern plantation erery field a fortune, the pro prietor and his family once the most effluent supporters of summer watering places. What threw that Mew England farm into decay and turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of the Ureen Mountains into the pallor of despair? What ha (mitten erory street of ererr rlllagn, town and city of thit continent with a uior.il pestilence? btrong drink. To prove that thit It a national evil I call np two Htates In oppottto directions Maine ami Georgia. It tuetn testify In regard to this. Htate of Maine says: "It is so great an erll up here we hare anathematis.l it as a State." Htateof Georgia saysi "it Is so great an erll down here that ninety counties ot this Mtate hare made the sale of Intoxica ting drink a criminality." Ho the word come up from all part of the land. Either drunk enness will bo destroyed iu this country or the American Gororaraent will be destroyed, afrunkennesa an I free Initltutlout are com ing Into a death grapple. Gather up the mouoy thit the working classes have spent for rum during the lant thirty years, ami I will build for every work Ingman a houot, and lay out for him a gar den, and clothe hta sons in broadcloth and his daughters In silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and securo him a policy ot life injur sues so that the present homo may Ikj wen maintained arvr he Is deud. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of tho working closmsi U Intoxicating liquor. It Is tho anarchist of the centuries, and has boy cotted ami is now boycotting the body and mind and soul ot American lulnr. it an nually swindles industry out of a large per-M-ntage of Its earning. It holds out IM blasting solicitations to tho mechanic or 9prntire on hit war to work, and tit tho noon spell ami on his way homo at ovoii lidu. On (Saturday, whou the waes are Mid, It snatcbe a largn part ot the money that might com to the family aud acrillcis It among the saloon keeper. Stand thu Mloons ol tint country side by lido, aud It Is carefully extimntod tliat they would roach trom new lorkto unicago. This evil la pouring It vitriolic and dnm- nnble liquors down ttio throats of liundrwls of thousands of lulsirers, and while tho ordinary strike are rulnnui, Ixith to em ployer ami employes, I proclaim a universal itrike against strong drink, which strike, if kept up, will be tho relief of tlx) working Slassos and tno salvation ot the nation. 1 will undertake to snr that there is not a healthy laborer in the Unite 1 8 in tee who, within the next twenty years, if he will re fuse all Intoxicating beverage and lie sav ing, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Oh, how many are waiting to toe if some thing cannot be done for the (topping of in temperance! Thousands of drunkard wait ing who cannot go ton minute In any direc tion without having the temptation glaring before tholr eye or appealing to their no- trim, they nghtlng against It wun enreebled will and diseased appetite, conquering, then surrendering, conquering again and sur rendering again, and crying, 'Uow long, U Lord I now long before these Infuinous solicitations shall lie gone!" And how many mother are waiting to see if this national curse cannot liftf Oh, It that the boy who hnd the holiest breath who tomes home wltu breath vitiated or dis guised? What a change I How quickly those Dibits of early coming home have been ex changed for tho rattling of the night key In the door long arter the last wavtiraan Ins gone by ami tried to see that everything wus closed up for the night. Oh! what a change for that young nmn, who we hail hoed would do something in merchandise or in artisuiuhio or In a profos lion that would do honor to the family name, long after mother's wrinkled hands are folded from the hint toll ! All that exchanged for i startled look when tho door 111 rings, liwt something has happened; and the wish that the scarlet fover twenty years ago bad been fatal, for then he would have gone directly to the bosom ot his Kuviour. Hut aliul poor old soul, shu has lived to experience what Holomon said, "A foolitih sou is a heaviness to his mother." Oh! what a funeral It will be when that boy is brought homo dead! Ami how moth er will tit there and tay: "Is this my Uy that I used to fondle, and that 1 walked the iloor with in the night when be was sick? U this the toy that I held to tho baptismal font for baptum? Is this the boy for who n 1 toiled until tho blmxl bur-it from tho tips of piy lingers, that he might have a good stnrt aud a goou nomer iru, wuy uast i uou iee me live to too this? Cau it be that theso swolleu hands are the one that used to wan der over my face when rocking hlm.to tleep? Can it be that this swollen brow is that I onca so rapturously kiss If I'oor boy) how tired ho doe look. I wonder who struck him that blow across the temple? I wnudur if he uttered a dying prayer? W ake ut, my sou: don't you hoar me? wake up! On I he cau l hour me! Uuudl dead I uuani 'un. Absalom, my ton, my son, would God that I had dlod lor tlieo, on, Absalom, my son, son I' " I am not much of a mathematician and I canuot estimate it, but la there'anr ono here quick enough at flguros to estimate how many mother there are waiting for some thing to be done? Ay, thuro are many wives waiting for domoitlo rescue. lis promised something dltferent from that when, after the long acquaintance and the careful scrutiny of character, the band and the heart were offered and accepted. What a hell on earth a woman live in who has a drunken butband! O death, bow lovely thou art to hur, and bow soft and warm thy skeleton hand! The aepulcher at mid night In winter is a king's drawing-room compared with that woman's home. It is not so much the blow on the head that hurts a the blow on the heart. The rum fiend came to the door of that beautiful borne, and opened the door and stood there and said: "I curse till dwelling with an unrelenting curse. I curse that father into a mauiao, I curse that mother into a pauper. I cures those son Into vaga bond. I curt thoa daughters into profligacy.- Cursed be bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch and chair, aud family Hible with record of marriages aud birth aud deaths. Curse upon ours,'' Oh, bow many wives are there, waiting to see It aotouthtug cannot be done to ahake these frosts of the ssoood death oil the orange blossoms I Yea, God Is waiting, the God who work through human instrumentalities, waiting to nee whether this nation Is going to overthrow this evil, and if It refuse to do so God will wipe out the nation a He did rboulcla, a He did Rome, a U did Thebes, a Us did Dabylon . Ay, U I waiting to ees what the church of God will do. If tbs church does not do it work, then Ho will alps it out a Us did th ohnTch of Rphesns, ehnreh of ThrmWre, church of Sardia, Ths Protestant and Ro man Cathollo churches to-day stand side by side, with an Impotent look, gating on this eril, which costs this country more than a billion dollar a rear to take care of the 800, 0(10 panpera. and the 811,000 criminals, and the 80,000 Idlote, and to bnry the 70,000 drunkard. Protagoras boasted that out of the sixty year of bis life forty years he bad spent in ruining youth; but this evil may make the mora Infamous boast that all its life it ha been ruining the bodies, mind and on Is of the human race. Put on yonr spectacle and take a candl and examine the platforms of ths two lead ing political parties of thit country, and set what they are doing for the arrest of thit eril and for ths orerthrow of this abomina tion. Resolutions oh! yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It Is safe to attaclt thator- g suited nastlnes two thousand miles away, nt not on resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation Into on bestial Halt Lake City. Resolution against political corruption, but not one word alout drunkenness, which would rot this nation from acalp to heel. Resolution about pro tection against competition with foreign in dustries, but not one word about protection of family and church and nation against th scalding, blasting, all consuming, damning tariff of strong drink put upon svory finan cial, individual, spiritual, moral, national interest. I look In another direction. The Church of God is tho grandest and most glorious Institu tion oo earth. What has It hi solid phalanx accomplished for the overthrow of drunken noa? Have it forces ever lieen marshaled? No, not in this direction. Not long ago a great ecclesiastical court assembled In New York, and resolution arraigning strong drink were offered, and clergymen with trong drink on their tables and strong drink In their on! Ian defeated ths resolu tion by threatening sp,echM. They could not bear to give up their own lints. I tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of, that to-day not in the millennium, but to-day the church hold the Nilnnee of power in America; and if Christian people the men and the women who profess to love thu Iird Je.ni Christ and to love purity and to bn the sworn cm tnle of all uiiclcanneas and delmuchery nnd sin it all such wmill march side by tide ami shoulder to shoulder this evil would soon ho overthrown. Think of three hundred thou sand churches and Humlnv-sr'h'l in Chris tendominarchingshouliliTteaiioul ter! flow Very short a time It would take tlmui to put down this evil. If nil the churches of God, transatlantic ami cisatlantic, were innnl on this subject? Young men of America bass over Into the army of Ut-totaltsin. Whisky, goo I to Iireaerve corpse, ouht never to turn you uto a orMe. Tens uf thousands of young men have lieen drn,'ged out of repiH-buiility and out of purity, and out of good clmr setor, an I Into dark lies-: by this infernal stutT railed strong drink. IK) not touch It! Iu hot touch It I In the front door of our church In llrook lyn, a few summers ago, this scene occurred: Habitat h morning a yotin man was ent -ring for divine worship. A friend passing along the street salii, "Joe, coinu along with me; I am going down to Coney Island nnd we'll have a gay Humlay." "No," replied Joe; "I liavo started to go her to church, nnd 1 nnt going to attend service here." "Oh, Joe," his friend said, "you can go to church any time! Tho day Is bright, an 1 we'll go to Coney Island, and we'll have a splendid time." The temptation was too strong, and the twain went to the beach, Swut the day III drunkenness and riot. The evening train started up from llrightou. Tho young men were on it. Joe, In hi Intoxication, when the train was iu full speutl, trie. I to pass around from one seat to another and fell ami was crushed. Under the lantern, as Jon Iny bleeding hi life away on tho grass, he said to hi com rade: "John, that was a bad business, your taking me away from church; It wus a very bad business. You ought uot to have done that, John. I want you to te'.l the boy to morrow when you siw tbem that ruiu and Habhath breaking old this for me. And John, while you are tolling them I will belli hall, and It will be your fault." Is it not time for me to pull out from the great organ of God' word, with many bank of keys, the tremolo stop? "Iook not upon the wine when It it red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at last it b.tetli like a aerpent und stiugetb like an adder." Hut this evil will lie aiToted. liluchercuine up Just before night and saved the day at Waterloo. At 4 o'clock In the afternoon It looked very badly for tho English. Generals Ponsouby and Pickton fallen, rlubers broken, fines surrendered, Mcoti Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men left out of tho Herman brigade. The English army falling back nnd fnlliug back. Nuuoleoii rubbed his hands together and said: "Aha! nhn! we ll tencn that littlo Englishman n lesson. Ninety chances out of a hundred nro in our favor. Magnillcout! uingnlllecnt!" He even sent messago to Paris te say he hail won the day. Hutlwfore sundown lllu.-her came up, and he who had been the conqueror of AdutorliU became the victim of Waterloo. The name which had shaken all Europe and filled oven America with apprehension, that name went down, and Napoleon, muddy and lintlc.in,uii I crazed with his disasters, was found feeling for the stirrup of a horse, that he might mount aud resume the eonnici. Well my friends, ulcoholisiu it Imp 'rial, and it 1 a conqueror, and there are good people who ay tho night of nation il over throw 1 coming, and that it Is almost night, liut before sundown the Conqueror of eurtu and heaven will ride In on tho whito horse, and alcoholism, which has had its Auit.irlitt of triumph, shall bave It Waterloo of de feat. Alcoholism bavin? lost Its crown, tlio grir.r.ly an 1 cruel breaker of human hearts, erased with tho disaster, will be foiiu 1 feel ing iu vain for the stirrup in which to re mount Its foaming charger, "do, O Lord, lot Thine eueuiie perish 1" . w a ricTme or "daiikest mew touk. Iu a recent odlcial report on the "prison ..id ttutlon house" of tho city. Dr. A. H. I'uulol, physician In charge of the Iaaao T. Hopper Home for discharged women pris oners, referring to the untoward saloon In fluence, as a source ot tho abnormal tncrsaso of crime, suyt: "We have nine thousand saloons, in parts of th city whora they are most harmful, the proprietor of which 0eiily violate at leant two important laws tho ojcu door on Bumiayt and mo seuing oi liquor to children under sixteen year ot age doing this at any hour ot tho day or inifht. Tho oast tide saloon are owned chiefly by browen." The account which Dr. Daniel give of tho sondition ot intoxi cated women brought to tho various station house, dissolute and disorderly, to bo under tho care and control ot men otdy, I most shocking iu IU duUil. The report sayti "Among the women we find old and young, lying more or less drunk; many vicious, all hopeless; many, through no fault of tholr own, out ot work and unable to find it; women with little children, and the young ervaut girl out of a place, apply for a night' lodging; and all are accommodated until there I not oven room on the floor W tloep." Alas, for "Darkest Now VwrkT' - ALCOHOLIC coirrxonoirxBT . Those people who bave been in tha hattl of becoming Intoxicated by consuming brandy chocolates may be compelled to cbangs their method of dissipation. A pe tition ha recently been sent loth) Lsgisla tur by L. Edwin Dudley, Secretary of ths Law and Order League, in which a request U made for tho enactment of a law prohibit ing the manufacture and tale of any kind of oonfectionory containing alcohol or intoxi eating liquor, and thit ba been referred to th Committee on Public Health. Although this petition wa circulated by Mr. Dudley, th Inspiration cam from the Woman Christian Tomperan- Union, which had re ceived complaints of Instance of inebriation and the acquisition of a taste for aloohoUn children through thi mean. iioiton Ir&n- Diuvixa nail into the iky la rather a raudoxu biuiaeat. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON TOW SUNDAY, MARCH ft. "Naaman Hald,n fl Kings, 1-16 Golden Tszt; Psalm rlli., ft Commentary, .Jv, NoT?"man- Ptm of ths host of the king of Hyrla, wa a great man with hi am? honor,,1. because by hlin the JIVr ?"'li,r"n,lv"-anceunU) Hyrla." Tha Mlble I full of contrast. The great contrast Is between tha Son of God ami the devil; then between those who believe God, stand before Him and serve Him, and luch as are only mZn r.11 worl'1' ""'"IC "f in and Ratan. . And the Hyriant had gone out by oompaniea, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid and she waited on Naaman' wife." Lot any little girl consider woll tho situation of thi little maid, stolen from home, which wa as much to her home is to any child, and now a little slave In a far off land, with little if any prospect of seeing father and mother nain; and yet she seems to be faithful In her new home under these hard circumstances. Let the boy consider Joseph, stolen from home by hi own brethren aud serrlng a a alare in Egypt; and yet w read four tunes In one chapter that tho lord wa with hltn (Gen. xxxix., a, 8, Sil, 23). 8. "Would God my lord were with the prophet thnt I in Hnmnrla! for Ho would ro corer him of his leprosy." Not only faith ful as a servaut, but faithful In testimony, and that for the benefit of her enemy, re minding us of Item, v., (MO, Matt, r , 41 Horn, ill., IXl 31. Hheknuwof the mighty works done by Kllsha, seven of which are recorded In the last three chapters, and she believed that such a mighty man of God could heal even a leper. If Christians had a much faith In Jesus as thin littlo ninld had In Kllsha they would be point rng erery lu sick and heavy laden soul to Him. 4. "And one went iu ami told hi lord, av. ing, Thu aud thu mid the maid that is of the land of Israel." The little girl's saying is bsing airead abroad. It has now nachel his ears for whom It wa Intended. We have only to eak of Jesus as w huvo op portunity, and we may la sure that ths message will In duo time 1m owned of G.. 6. "And the king of Kyria said, (rote; go, and I will tend a Utter unto th king of Is rael." The little girl spoko ot th prophet in Israel, not of the king of Israel, but kings and such prophets as Klijah and Klisha were not often In vniathy (I Kings xviil., 17; xili , 1H; II Chron. xvl., K); xviil., VVi, ii'i), and the king nf Hyrla may have thought, that if there was aiiv power in Israel to heal leprosy the king of Israel would surely know It. Hut neither of these kings knew the God of Klisha nor the power that could hrnl the leper. n. "Heboid I baro sent Naaman, my ser rant, to thee, that thou mnyest recover him of hi leprosy." Thus wrote the king of Hyria te the king of Israel. Tho Lord whti rave deliverance to Hyria Is not re.-ogni.ed. We cannot wonder nt this if wo consider the church nf Christ to-da valid see her re liance titnn money and influence ami the fa vorof this world, while He whoso name she bears is comparatively unknown and un sought andunhnnorisl. 7. "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this limn doth send unto me to recover a man ot his leprosy?" Thin spake the king of Israel, when having read the letter h rent his clothes nnd fancied that Hyria' king sought a quarrel with him. "Am ( Godf" remind us of Jacob's an'ry words to bis wife Rachel (Gen. m., 'J), and killing and funking alive reminds us of (VmiI xxxil., I Ham. II., . The king of Israel Wa In the place of God's representative, nnd Instead of retting angry be thould have felt honored, aud breu able to tiut to Him who alone can kill and ina alio. , 9. "Let him come nor to me and hn shall know that there Is a p f,',et in Israel." Thu pake the man of God wn"n h" heard that the king bad rent his cirthe. Here it the one to wh im Naaman shoiJd har pome; hn fear not man, nor does he seek houor irora niau, but ha loves to honor (rod. U. "Ho Naaman came with hi horses and with hi chariot, ami stood at the door of the bouse of Klisha. A great aud honorable and mighty man of this world stands at the door of this poor and daiiendent servant of God. He is now in the right place, but not in the right spirit. He knows that he Is a leper, that be has a deadly disease, and lie baa come a long Journey seeking for health; but then be Is no poor man: he doe not come as a beggar; he Is not like the leper of Matt, vlil., nor the ten of Luke xvil. lie is able to pay lor his healing ami ho wants it done as to a great ami mighty man. He is dealing with men and wants his position before men to tie recoguized. He does not know Luke xvl., 1.V 10. "And KlUha sent a messenger unto liim saying, (Sound wa-h iu Jordan seven times, and thy tlei.il shull come aaili to thee, und thou t.hnlt be clean. lint inag nitlceht IndilTerenco to earth's potentates ami earth's favors. What an opiHirtunity to make a friend with great influence and obtain a great Mini of money, liut. like A brain before the king of Hodom, lie is conscious that the Mjssesmr uf heaven and earth 1 his friend, and he can ufTord to hay concerning the king of Hvria's gold and silver, "1 will rei-eive none'' (vs., lit), liut what a gracious message he euds t Naa man, and what a simple requirement and glorious result. 11. "liut .N nnmiin was wroth, nn l went away and Ntid, Behold, 1 thought'' He wunted health, but lie wanted it given in a style belltuug his hwh oailioii, und he hud til own thoughts as to how it ought to be lone. He fancied lust how Klisha would come out and cry to Jehovah, and with great demonstration make him it well man. Hut nil his thoughts are swept awuy. Klisha doe not even come out to him, and there is no demonstration, but only a kind messago telling him what to do and promising health. Many are to-day out of Christ and unwivo l just because they have their own thoughts as to how they ought to bn converted, and they won't come any other way. ii. 'Are not Alums und Pharpar, rivers et Damascus, Ixitter thuu all tne waters of Israel?' Here are some more of his thoughts; Hyria Is better thun Israel, HumuscUH thnu Jerusalem, A nana and Pharpar than Jordan. It is a great humiliation for bi in. a Hyrlnu, to come to Israel seeking any fuvor, and he does uot want favors; he can pay for all he gets, liut to be treated thus, and then to be sent to Jordan, 1 too much for hi Hyrlun (irlde, ami lie went away In a rage. Hi. "My father, If tho prophet had bid thee do tmuo great thing, wotildst thou not have dona It?'1 Thus reason his servants with him, showing more wisdom than their master, for "Oreat meu are not always wis' (Job xxxil., 0); ami they had him, too, as we tay, for that was just the thought ot hi heart. 14. "Then went ho down." That is good, for every proud person must come down, aud if they coma willingly it will save God the trouble of bringing them down. "And dipped lilniaelf seven time In Jordan, according to tb saying of the man of God." II is now obedient and in the way of blessing, and blessed ba shall be. Jordan 1 the river of Judgment. Had there never been sin there had never been sick ness. Bin must be Judged and condemned and put away, Boven times denote perfect cleansing. "Aud hi flesh came again like unto the flosh of a littlo child, and be wa clean." Just a the man ot God bad said so it cams to past. It alway ha been, 1 and will ba Just as God tay. There is nothing like the word ot God, and on our part nothing like obedience. It is not toms great thing ws are to do to be clean, but Just come a ws are, and accept Josus as God' gift to u and He wiU do great thing for ua. Lesson Uttpr. Tai Tirltlth forces, under the command of .Major Hmyth, hare captured the itookade ot tne Taawbwa of Wun tho, in Upper Bur mab, killing twnty-even of th defender. The 'fsawbwa' palace wa set on fire, looted and finally destroyed, Tbs DrltUh Jo was RELIGIOUS READING. Rrsl(l!(ATln! 'Since thy Father' arms luntaln thee, Peaceful ho t When a rhatenlng hand restrains Hire 1 it He. Know Hi love In full completeness Kills the measure of thy wraknrti; If He wound thy spirit sor Trust Him more. "Wlthont murmur, uncomplaining, In Hi hand Lay whatever thing thou cnt not t'mlerttaml. Though the world thv folly spim.etb From thy faith In pity turm th, Peace Ihv inmost soul shall fill, I.) Ing Kill. ''Like an Inf-mt, If Hum thlnkcst riii'li canst stand ; Childlike, proudly pu-hlng back The idVereil hand : Courage sonn is elmnged to fear, Strenntli doth feebleness nppiar, lu His lot if ilmii abide, J to will guide. "Fr.iret sometime that thv Fa'he llntli forgot? When the clouds nrntim! the gat tit r Doubt Him not. Alwuy hath the daylight broken, Always lint Ii lie ronifort spoken, lit'tirr hutli He been for yean Than thy fears. Therefore, whntsoe Vr brtideth M:lit or day, Know His love for thee provlditb Good alway. Crown of sorrow gia llv take, (int. ful. v. tur it for Ids Sweetly liemliiiH to Ills will, Lying still. ''To Hi ow n t Ii y saviour givr'.h I'.i lv strength ; To each troubled soul that Hvfth Pr-'ce at length. Wcaki st Ir.inl.s lave largest shark Of this tender Miepiierd's care; Ak 1 1 i in not, then, Wind!." or 'How? Onlv bow.'' riisRM rre vs rsvtiinHMrNT. A human will. Ilnnly set on a life of tit .1 1-nr-s, niav nial.etl.e inot untoward ei.viroii inent only a ltie:iiis of progress onward nnd upward. In short. In spile of environment we laid thai man is what lie wills to be; thnt ou'Vtard rlmim-binre determine rharne. '.er imly so far as it is permitted to deter mine It. by Impelling n man on In thnt course that hr lias more or less rotim-lnusly determined to pursue. The more we con' elder the tern lung of erli nee, and thr conclti-intis of science, the mure we discover the Scripture to be profoundly true t hut ays, "As a man thinketh in Lis heart, so Is he." It Is the deepest current nf man's nature, far below the surface, nml lliuiilecte.; ! y outward circumstance, that determine th.- i entlal character. To the ilevel(.p:::.nit of this seif-iletei mined nature environment powerfully contributes, and to one unacquainted with' the hidden springs nf netiuti Its cried nuiy well seem to be cuuiipi ti nt. Hut by one who knows tint underneath siirfneeVurrent the tide of n man's iinf:re is setting from or toward God nml good, the tl. ct of those things Hint merely touch the cu tace u 111 not he exagger ated. Man Is what I.e. in the depths nf hi heart, will to he, nd what his surroundings iiiuke liim. This, science, experience, and the Word of God unite In testifying. itji'1;! Oiisit. ,.rOVIC iNS A.loTllr.H. The atithoi 1 ' these word Is John, the I 'lvine, w ho ""J1'' "eloved, let u love one another ; for l''v'' '" "' ""', and knoweth God." Hudi ,'lvlnity contain more csscn Hal Christianity ,,m" HjToduced by ninny worldly wise d1"'1"" of divinity, with all their pulled up I'hito-opliy, or better said, earthly, ''evilltdi wisdom, 'vhereb' mpfusion are iren- ci HosT" .;.i that wld.. vlitrh Cometh from anove which 1 pure, peace able, gentle, and cssy lo be cntrentcd, full of inercv and good fruits, without pnrtiallty und wit hunt hypocrisy. Where our people uts-ept the divinity of the Holy Hcriptures, nnd nbedleiitly Walk III the light lis God Is Iu the light, they get nlnng nieelv without any ipinck doctoring, and it is sinein lv ho'd that the time w ill never cmue ulieii sinli diH'torlug ill be Iu demand among us. It should never be forgotten that "the fruit of rit,'hlcmigucs. I now ii in ' ice of tlieni that make pence." ' l,oe, joy nnd peace" are the llrst triple blessing- 'of the Spirit, which cinno'. be m piirnted willioiit doing violence to our liolv religion. Who. ever would command conli lencc nml re-peel lis a teacher nf the religion of ,Iell lirlst mil -t liiiii-i K take heed that lie continue In the doctrine he preaches to ot hers, lines he ti n Ii others to live in pence ami oc one another, then he must himself not coiuiiieiicv or continue in strife, but "follow the things that make lor peace," nml In all sincerity nml truth ny, "lleloved, let us love one another." This cannul be a hard tusk, If truly born of (iinl and Idled with the con straining love of hrist. Is not this the bet el Idctn e we can have that we are born of (iod w Im ii we love the brethren, love tle.-e that are hcu'otti n of hjiu.' 1 m w e m I read : "l.o e Is ot ( imi, end every one that locth I- horn of do. I. and I, in. wi th ioil'".' lint wind in u-t we think of Melius ay they love iod nml yi t, by llielr works, uliow that thev liatu their brethren? hoes not John call t Iioiii liirsy 1 1 .lohn 1 : 'Jo.) This is plain laliL'iia.'i', iind set- rather snugly on tliosi who want to indulge tin lr sinful pi'o eiiiities. and yet be refill detl us Chris liau gi iitliiiieii. To iirsiie a course of malice aud tinwnr riuit ililc opposition a.'aiiiNl the hrol lierliood. Is hiii-t iiu-t Ii ri -1 iuti nml di-a-lioiia to the eaiiienf Christ, liiir Saviour cuniiuaiiileil us to loe out' another, as He loved u, even to the extent of laying dow n our lives for the brethren, if needs be. This may, in our day, be seldom required. Yet, there is ttuiplc room for the vigorous exercise of love one toward nnot her. Here Is a brother whohns i filially tn ,iscd ngulnst you. You ri'i'ilke him und he ren iits. Of course you will now turghe him a )our heavenly rat hi r forgave you. liut hu continue to trespit."- against you perhnp even ev'ii times. Now your patience I ulmost ex hausted. You n.iy, what is the use of trying to get along w ith nu ll a one. Hut stop, brother! think how often you have tres passed a','ttliint your heavenly Father and needed fnrgivci'ic; nnd will iiotyou lorgive voiir patient brother, as often ns you have been forgiven, nml yet may have occindon lo I forgiven, of tours, you will. lite v. J, W. Loose. tthtkranck news akd ni. 17 early 30,000,000 barrel ot boar wer browed In th United titatet last year. The education department of South Aus tralia bus Issued a Teuiperauoo Pledge Hook (or un in tho schools. Inconnoctlon with ths British Women' Temperance Association, a Temperance Horn fur Women ha beou established,' The widow of John B. Gough, who lire In Worcester. Mass., it th victim of pro granirs pkralsU and is In a helpless condi tion. An English Mayor bad signed tb pledge for bi term ot otUce, because a chief magis trate be could not reconcile drinking him self and (ending ma. to prison for ths taws thing. An English physician says that where a case of aeriou Illness requires a consultation th chanoe of recovery are estimated chiefly by ths drinking habit of tb patient, and they most hopefully wUmats ths chanoe of th total abstainer. Dr. Parker, of London, In his recent ad dres on "Individualism" stated bis own plan for making General Booth's scheme an almost perfect tuocsas. It was to "shut np th piiuli house;" for permanent rsforma tiou ii impossible while ths present stats of tUusrt exist in thU rapo. - " TE5IPERANCE. TATtlKR IS WTTIt fg AT inOHT. " Fatlier is with u St flight," I once beard a young man nay, And oh I how hnppy tlio evouln arssi I think of them all day. Ho matter how bard I work. It give mo so much delight To think In our cosy little homa Father la with us at night. " Deartnottier, how pleased the Is HhcM't him the large arm-chair And then when around the table. How niuch we enjoy the far., We oat of nur mother bread, And listen to father's talk, That tweet ns th hour ot all next day, And brighten tho hoiuoward walk' Ah! wnnM. In this busy world, That every brave lad could nay, A they puss to the (tor or counting room. e..An', 'n th'lr work ncn 'jri i Thnt no matter how many car ol ' Our home at least t bright: For we have thi thought lo cheer tu up. Father is with us at night. Ur.JL KuMler,in Temptnxne Laiuxtr. ' f.Atr to grrpriMs DticivM!ncM. Tt Is eirwcted that a genoral law for ths suppression of drunkomiosi will lie enacted, and nut. In r.ipi... In n i.A -.... t il.ii - ... ...... ... B. urn Vt MJQ VH.TT man confisleration Iwfore tho yonr I ended. ui.ii.ii tun miojsvs no ieen prepared by tha lVusHlnll f lumpniiim, a... I I... mt a . . .......... HUv HW HKVITSJ ths approval of tho Kmperor, who from ths dnv lie stlfcnedihl ), I . i It i ' . - ' -- iiw uih is-mn- ently demanded omo restriction upon ths sale of Intoxicating li.mor. For nearly Wires year hi ministers have been engaged la collecting statist ii- and evidence on the points ronceriusL mil the il.n-iMi,ins l..-. . nt hnwslr. s ly n-vn snnctloneii by tha bun dusrath. The bill decree the withdrawal of Miloon lirvnsc-s nnd the ImpoelUon of flue upon saliK.nknetsTs win enoourago persons of liitcinperste habit. The druukanbi tliom selves will lie lined It they nro poor so a to rirevnnt thi.ni fr.uit Im.IiiI..Im.. ... u .i m - .....ui,..i ,i. biisi t m Jt iitemprrunco, nud term of imprisonment !.. t. . 1. i I 1.. I. J . ..w .... 1 1 1 1 j. , tu iswi siii-rvs monetary tins would probably not hav th dcauod cf lulls TrtET pied Bourn. ' ipropoof Oenornl Cutclioon's remantt on octal drinking in Washington, tho general was led to tell tho story of an army exper ience of his with whisky. It wa in tho tmicho-t before rcb-mburg. A ooloncl of the regiment he hnd pnhibited tlie salo of liipior savo on a doctor' order, and in that case prohibition pr.iliitntisl. The division couimiuider, however, Issued onlerstUat a ration of whisky should be served to each man In the trsnche aud tbs Inpior for the twentieth Mi-higan sal l'ioiidit in two great iron kettles. As the men clustei-l nr.. und with their tin cup some one eric I out; "Hoys, if I'm i;oing to be hot to-dny, I want U die s. ls'1 ! ' Tliecrywus taken up by tlie regiment. The kettles were ten-! by willing hands ami ttie whisky was poured on tho ground. Fifty two out ol Un of tlie brave Michigan hoys of the twentieth were hot that day aud every ono who diod, died KiUr. Iifrvut 'lit buiie. Tnrrrn national tkmi'khawk cfx'rtfcttox. The Ninth Nutioual Temperance Conven tion, held iu Karatoga Springs, lssl. ro quctod nud rmpowereil tlie National Tern- Isjratico Nociuty to i all auoth.;r convention n tho series, when, in their Judgment, ths exlgeuces of the coam (diould ropnro. The Board ot Managers of the society, believing tho time ha fully como for such a convention, opointol tho following corn nil tb-e to Issue such a call. We do, therefore, earuwtly nn 1 cordially Invite all associations of minister and churches, all general assemble und synods, all goneral and annual ronfereneea, clssse. prssbyterle, snd religious national or Utats c. -inn e nation Ntat teuv s perancs organixauoiu, . woman's n...dal and Htata unions. Urnud Division Sou of Temperarico, lira .d Lodge of Hood Tem plar, Grand Temple of Honor and Tom Muranc( and other 8UteTeiiiperancolH)dies, to send dolegate to a national temperance convention, to be held, commencing at tun o'clock A. M ., July 1.1, 1VJ1, In the First Methodist Church, rWatoga Springs, N. Y. l'ach body to Is) entitled to Bund (evert duleguUM, of which tho presiding oillcer ami secretary shall Ik two. In the Methodist Kpiscul Chur'h, where the bishops sev erally are presidents of n iiuinln'r of con ferences, this rule muy not be binding. Tbu tame variation of this rule may Uply to other organisation similiu-ly cuiiktituteil. In case any presbytery, association, conferenco or orgaiiu.-ition, shall not bo til seshlon nfb-r thu issue of this call an I prior to tho meeting of the convention, r hhall fail to appoint delegates, tho presid ing otll.vr, or, in liis aliNcuce or failure to do o, tho secrstary muy uppoint the name. All delegates unlet liuve credential duly signed ly one or both of tho olllc-ersof their ronpeu livetwslio. 'a-iinciivi iu delegations may lie filled by the remaining delegates, it is pro posal that the convention hall be couissuil entirely of delegates from deleMtive bodies, and not from subordinate oraui.ations. Teuis ranee mutters have never had moro liearly rucognitiou from all clasps of .ciety than to-duy. More thuu ever curse us, ami breuthu out threaten i ngs u;aint,t u.s.but moro also pmy und work for us. Lines ot opposi tion ore more sharply drawn, aud tho num ber ot tho inditTuriut it being steadily ro dlietsl. It is therefore In tho highest degree neco Mry that ull friends of Uniiperuuce, forced by now peril und new opiKirtuuities, take coun sel together for a forward movement against this MHs-ial agent ot that vilu trinity; ths worlil, tho lleoh, and the devil. Arrungemeuln hava liwn mu ki for a re duction ot fare on th principal railreails nnd ut tho hotel. For purticul.-r apply ta the fcjw rotary of thu committee. TniMpiiKK L. L'uvi.kh, i'mndent, J. H. bltAUN.s, Con aspoudiug bed. Viiiilli'('i'liited Atluclinient. A geutlomcn of loUiuro, wishing ta lonve the country, will trtdo (thougbv rery much attached to him) a fine watchj dog for a fifty-four calibre revolver or ti Gatllng gun. Uf. To purify grcaty sinks and pipes pour down pailful of boiling wutcr in which three or four pound of washing soda, hava been dissolved. A good disinfectant U prepared in the tame way using cop peras. Copperas its poitou and Jkano, bo loft about, ' a n r f ,.";-''!5'"rtr"T '' - - I-WSISJII - -
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