CITY OF THE REOEEUEO. BEV. DH. TALMAOE'S BEXtMOB jf the Wall of Hmo ii to Dessllngli Ferieo now snucn Hort to What 1 Behind t Txt: "Th foundations of iht trail of tft$ fty were gamihH with all moiivr of prrrioM ttonni. Revelation xl., 19. Bhall I be frank ami tell you what are tnf design on yon to-davr They ara to make joa homesick for hMifn : to console Ton oon sssrning Tour departed Christian friend by giving Too noma idea of the brilliancy of the arena In which thev now on-mningle; to (tire all who lore ths Lord more elevate! Idoa an to where they ara goin r to pasi the most of tha yers at their existence, and to Detail tha indifferent and neglect! to quick aud immediata preparation, that they may have It likewise. Yea, it ii to Inriuo many of our young people toatudy rolurae of Uod that faw Ter open, but without aotne acquaintance with which it la Impossible to understand tha Bibb t menn the precious atnnea, their crystatixttlon, their powers of refraction, their cleavase, their fracture, their luster, their phosnhoreaence, their transparency, their Inflnity of color and hp., and what they had to do with the welfare and doom of families and the destiny of nations are. the positive reveation they ma'eof Ood Himself. Mr text atanda us in tha preaenca of tha most stnpen ious sp'.en lor of theunlver. and that la tha wall of heaven, an I tars of its foundations that they are garnished with all manner of precious stone. All tha ancient cities had walla for safety, and heaven ha a wall for everlasting safety. You may say that a wall made up of all manner of previous stone is figurative, but you cannot understand the force and signifi cance of the figure unleea ycu know some thing about the real structure and color and value of the precious stones mentioned. Mow, I proposs this morning, ao far a the Iord may help me, to attemnt to climb not the wall of heaven, but tha foundation of the wall, and I ask you to J ln me in the attempt to scale acme of the height. VV'e shall only get part of the way up, but better that than to stay down on tha stupid lerel where the moot of us bar all our lire been standing. We begin clear down at the bot tom and where the wall begin. The first layer of the foundation, reaching all around the cltv and for 1V) miles, i a layer of jasper. Indeed there I more of jasper in tha wall of heaven than of any other brilliant, becuise It not only compose part of the foundation, but males m the chiuf part of tha superstructure. The jasper is a congregation of many colors. It I brown, it ia yellow, it i green, it Is vermil ion, it ia red, it is purple, It I black, and is ao striped with colors that much of it is called ribbon jisper. It is found in Hib Tin and Egypt, but it Is rare In most lan Is and of great value, for it is ao bnrd the ordinary processes cannot break it off front t ie places where it has been deposited. The workmen bore boles into the rock of jasper, tben drive into these holes sticka of dry birch wool, and then saturate the sticks and keep them saturated until they swell enough to split the rock, and the fragment are brought out and polished nnd transport I and cut into cameos and put behind the glnsa doors of museums. The portrait of Hotnan emnerors were cut into it. The finest Intaglio ever seen is in the Vatican museum, the head of Minerva in jasper. By divine arrangement jasper adorned the breastplate of tha higb priest in the ancient temple. But it most significant position ia where it glows and burns and darkens and brightens and preauhoe from the lowest stratuai of the wall of heaven. Glad am I that the very tirst row of stonoj In the wall ot heaven is jasper of many col ors, and if you like purple it is purple, and If you like brown it is brown, and if you like green it I green, an I if you liko ocher yel low it li ocher yellow, and If you like Ver million it is Vermillion, and if vou like black it ia black. It suggests to me that kA,M la , nl " .11 I- I . opinion, co or of creel, color of akin, col ors ot taste. But we must pasa up in this inspection of the foundations of the great w ill of heaven, and after leaving th jasper tha next pre cious stone retched is sapphire, and it sweeps around the city 1500 mile. All lapi daries agree in saving that the sapphire of the Bible is what we now call lapis lazuli. Job spenk with emotion of "The place of sapphires." and Uod thought so much of this precious stone that He put it in the breast plate of the lil Ii priest commanding, 'The second row shall bo un emerald, a sapphire and a diamond." 1 he sapphire is a blue, but varies from faintest huo to deepes: ultramarine. It is found a pebble in tlie rivers ot Ceylon. It Is elsewhere in compact iimsew. i'ersia and Thibet and Burinnli mi I -Sew South Wales aud North Caro.ina yield exquisite speci mens. It bluit eye la rfon In tlie valley of tbelthine. Altoi a burial of thousands of year it has been brought to sight in Egyp tian monumcnta ami Assyrian cylinders. At Moscow una St. Petersburg an I Con Uutinopolhiiven. cn grout mas of this sapphire, commonly cillud lapis lazuli. The closer you study its veins tuo more enchant ing, aud I do not won lor thut the sapphire is called into tlie font) littion of tho wall of heaven. It mnl:es u strong stone for the foundation, for it is tho liar Rat of all min erals except the diumnud. Sapphire based on J is;iur. a blue sky over a flory sunset. St. Jo.iu points to it lu Kev. rlation and .ays "I'iu sccoul, sapphire," and this mggtsts to in a that though our earth aud all its turniture of mountains and seas and atmosphere are to collapse and vanish we will throughout all eleru ty have in some way kept lite mo.it beautiful of earthly appearances, wbnthei' you take this sappbire of the second layer as literal or figurative. The deep ilua of our skins and the deep blue ot our seas must uot, will not, be forgotten. If a thoun.iu I years after the world has gone to as..oi you or 1 want to recall Low tbe earthly skios lo3ke I in a sum mer noon or the niMoua.iu in a calm, we will have only to took at lue second row of tlie foundaliou ot thu wall ot heiivea. Oil, 1 am so glad that rit. Jolin told us about itl 'The second, suppbirel'' While w are living in sihiot that wall spirits who have come from other worlds and who never saw our earth win visit at, and we will visit tlium, an i some time we will be in conversation about lois earth when it wan yet afloat and aswing, and wj shall want to tell tbeui about now it looited at curtain times, and then it wdl bo a grmt onject leisou for all ecuriuty, mi I we will say to our'vmitor troiu somo other world, as we IKiiut toward the wall of litaveu, "It looked ike that stratum ot foun lntiou next to the lowest." John, tw iity-thsb chapter and nineteenth vuri, "i'no sucond rip,ihire." A step hih'T and you come to chal cedony, another lay.T in Mi foil i.lation of the wail and tha ruuuin ; 15 mile around the heaveulv city, (Jlialoedouyl Trans lucent. A divine mix ure ot agates and opal aud coi udIi uih. ritriptd with white and gray. Das ted of pallor biusuiug inti red and darkening into purple. Ice a i l an 1 the Hebrides hoU torlh ovautiful spjouuous of chalcedony. But now we must make a swift asoent to the top ot the foundation wall, for we can not minutely examine all the layers, and so, putting one ioutou tueuunloedony of which we have been ieaain, we apriug to tbe emerald, aud we are ou-thir l of tu way tothetopof the foundation, for tlie fourth row ia emerald, t'hat, I wjuid jude, is God' favorite among g4 us, ueo tusj it hold - what sueuiaevi'iuat tu ills tavoriie color on earth, the green, union tint lathe color most widely dilTuadd auroii all the eartu' onti ueutt tbe graw, the lonae. the everyday dress of nature. Toe eiiieral ll King ue it as a teal to stamp proiiunciamcntoa. The raiulnw around the throuo ot Uod is by tit John coinnure.1 to it. Conqueror have considered, it the great- VE prise to uoil-llir. iv utb ruimnaani when the soldiei oc Viiiri o pouoJed it with their hammers! KmeraM hav had ttraeh to do with tbe destiny of Mexico, rive of tb em ware nreamtal bf Cor tea to his brida. one cf tbem cut Into the ahane of a rose, an other into tbe shape of a tr limpet, another into tha shane of a bell, with tongne of pesri, ana tni presentatioa aronaed ue jeal ously of the throne and canud the eonae qnent fall ot Cortea. But the depth of the aea were decorated with thoae emeralds, for in a ahipwrecV they went down off the coast of Barbary. Napoleon wore an emerald at Austerlits. In the Kremln musenm at Moenow there areorown and toepbw and outspread mira cle of emerald. Ireland is called the Emerald Isle not because of its verdure, but because It waa presented to Henry II of England with an emerald rlnr. Nero had a magnifying glass ot emerald through which he looked at the gladiatorial contest at Rome. But here are 1500 mile of emerald sweeping around the heavenly city in one layer. But upward stilt and you put your font on a stratum of sardonyx, white and re I, a seeming commingling of snow and fire, the snow cooling the Ore, the fir melting the now. Another climb and ynu resch tbe eardlus, named after the city ot Bardius. Another climb and you reach the chrolite. A specimen of this, belonging to Emnhanus, in the Fourth I'enturr, waa said to be so brilliant that whatever wa put over to con ceal It was shone through, and the emperor of China has a specimen that is doatribed as having such penetrating radiance that it makes the night as bright as tha day. A higher climb ani ynu reach the beryl. Two thouwa t year ago th Urees used this precious stone for engraving pur pose. It was acoountat among the royal treasure of Tyre. The hilt ot Murat's word was adorned with it. It glows In the Imperial crown ot (treat Britain. Inther thought the beryls of the heavenly wall was turquoise. Kallsch thought it was chryso lite. Joseph us thought it a golden colored jewel. The wheels of Ei'klePs vision flamed with beryl and were a revolving Hre. The herrl appears in six aided nrlstna and is set in seals and Intaglios, In necklace and coronete. It was the lay of ancient jewelry. It ornamented the aftlfnt with eardrops. Charlemagne presented it to his favorite. Beautiful bervlt Etiuisltlv ihaned berrlt Divinely colore 1 berrit It teems like con gealed color. It lo ks like frnxm fire. But stop not here, t limb hightr and ynu come to to;ix, a bewildormont of beauty and named after an Hani of the Hoa. Climb higher and ynu come to chrvsnn- rasus, ot greenish golden hue and hard as flint. Climb higher and you roach the Jaolntli. namet after the flower hyacinth an 1 ot red dish blue. Take one more step an I you reach the top. not of the wall, but the top of the foundation ol the wall, and at. John cries out, "The twelfth an amethyst ! ' This pre cious stone when found in Australia or In dia or Europe stands in columns and pyra mids. Kor color it is a violet blooming In tone. For its play of light, for it deep mysteries of color, for it unoeen Egyptians, in Etruscan, in Roman art It has been hon ored. The Ureeks thought this stone a pre ventive ot druukenueas. The Hebrew thought it a source of pleasant dream. For all lovers of gems it 1 a subjwt of ad miration and suggestiveneas. Yes, the word amethyst means a prevention of drunkenness. Long bofore the New TeU ment made reference to tha amethyst in the wall ot heaven the Persiaus thought that cup made out of amethyst would bindr any kind of liquor cotituined thoreln from becoming intoxicating. But ot all theaiue thystine cups from which tbe ancient drank not one had any such result of pre vention. For thousands of years tbe world ha been looking in vain for such a preventive ame thystine cup. Mlaggering Noah could not find it. Convivial Abasuerua driving Vashti from the gate could not find it. , Nabal breaking tbe heart ot beautiful Abigail could not find it. BoUhazxir, tbe kingly reveler, on the night that toe Chaldeans took Babylon could not And it. Not one ot tbe million ot inebriate whose skulls pave the continent and pave the depths ot tbe a could find it. Thre is no auch Htrong dhdg from hoifoWof ametnVst int imites tbe same a strong drink trom pew ter mug. It is not the style ot cup we drink outof, but that which the cup contains, which decides the helpful or da nnlnir result of the beverage. All around tbe world last nizht and to day, outof cups costlier than amothyst, men and women hive been drinking their own doom and the doom of their children for this life and tbe next. Ah, it is tbe amethystine cups that do tbe wildest and wort slaugh ter! Tbe sniash of the nltby goblets of the rumraerles would long ago have taken place by law, but the amethystine chalices pre ventthe chalices out ot which legislatures, congresses drink bofore and after they make the laws. Amethystine chalices have been the friends ot intoxication iiixU-ad of its foes. Uver the fiery lips ot the amethystine chalices is thrust the tongue of that which bittb like asurpent and stingetb like an adder. Drunkenness U a 03in lunation of upoplexy and dementia. The sOJ.OOJ.oOl victims of opium come out to meet tne 15 '.OOJ.oili vic tims ot alcohol, an I the two ngonts ta.ee the contract for tumbling the bu uau r.ice Into perdition, but whether tbey will succied iu lultillmj the contract depuud ou tno action ot tbe amethystine cup, tbe amethystine demijohns the amethystine ale pitchers, the amethystiue flagons, the amethyxtiua wine cellars. Oh, Persian! Oh. Assyrians! Uu, Greeks I Ob, Egyptians I you were wrong in thinking that a cup or amethyst would prevent inebriation. But standiug on tbe top ot this amethys tine layer of tue foundation of the wall of heaven I bethink myself ot tbe mistake that ninny ot the ancient Hebrew made wben tnov thought that the amethyst wo a pro ducer ot pleasant dreams. Jutt wear a piece of amethyst over yo tr heart or put it under your pillow, and you would have your dreums titled with everything beautiful an 1 outrano in. No, no. The style ot pillow will not decide the cbaract3r oil the dream. Tbe only recipe lor pleasant dreams is to do right aui think right wheu you are wide awake. Con dition of physical diseass may give a good man uightmura, but a man tihymc my won, it bo behave himself aright, will no: be trou tiled with bad dreams. Ni-bueUttJiii'ZZir. with engles down under his betid and Tyrian purple over ir, struggled with a bad dream tint ma la htm surtax out tor the soothsayers an J astrologers to come aud Interpret it. Pharaoh, amid tha murblo palaces of Memphis, was comou'i iei by a dream in whic'i lean cows ate up tbi fat cow and the s-nall euri o: corn devoured tlie seveu lurge'i-ars, and awiul f annua was prefigured. Pilate's wife, amid clou Is of richest upholstery, had aswrt im dream. becausd ot wuum sua sa.it a iuuago in uoi haste to a courtroom to keep hr hmoin I from enacting a judiciil outra,;o. But Jaoob, at BHhel, with a pillow ot mountain rock, had a blissful dream of the ladder angel blossoming. Bunyan, with his hoa i an a tmra pianvot Bedford' jail, saw tbe gates ot tbe Celes tial city. Su John, on tha barranest island ot the j-Ejeanbea, in bis dream heard trum pets and saw cavalry men ou wuite horses and anew heaven and a uaw earth. No amount of rough pillow can disturb the niirht vision of a saint, an 1 no amount ot amethystine cnarm can deloctate tbe dream of a miscreant. But, some one will say, wby bare you brought us to thi amethyst, tbe top row ot the foundation ot the heavenly wall, It you are not able to accept tbe theory ot the an oient Greeks, who said that the amethyst was a charm agaiuat intoxication, or if you are uot willing to accept the theory ot the ancient Hebrew that tha amethyst was a producer of pleasant dreams! My answer is, I have brought you to the top row, tbe twelfth layer of the foundation ot tbe heav enly wall ot 15 Jo miles of circling amethyst, to put you in a position where you can get a new idea ot heaven; to let you aee that after vou have climbed up twelve strata of aloi v tou are only at tbe base ot tbe atwaaJ grandeur-' to let you. with enchant ment of anal, look far flown ami look fat n and to force noon yon the conolusioa that If all nor climbing has only shown a the foundations of this wall, what matt the wall Itealf be; and if thh- la the outside of heaven, what mast the Inside he; and if all this ia figurative, whst must tha reality be; Oh, thl piled ao magnificence of the heav enly wall! Oh, thi eternity of decora tion ! Ob, thl npaleenent, florewnt, prismatio miracle ot architecture! What enthronement of all entora I A mingling of the blue of skies, and tbe surf of aeaa, and tbe green of meadows, and the upholstery of autumnal forest, and the Are of August ranseta. All tbe splendors of earth and heaven dashed Into those twelve row ot foundation wall. All that, mark you. only typical of the spiritual glories that roll over heaven like the Atlantic and Pactflo Ooean wing in one billow. Do yen not see that it was Impossible that yon understand a hundredth part of the snggnetlvenea of that twenty-first chapter of Revelation without going Into eome of the particular ot the wall of heaven and I dipping up some of it dripping colors, and running your eye along some of it won droui crystallisations, and examining some of the f rosm light In Its turquoise, and feeling with yocr own finger the hardness of it sapphire, and ihie'ding your eyes against the shimmering brilllanc iu'its beryl, and studying the 150) miles of emer ald without a flaw? Yet all this only the outside of heaven, an I t'.ie poorest part of the outddo; not tbe wall itself, but only the foot of the wall, for my text ears, "Tbe foundation of the wall of the city were gar nished with all manner ot precious stone. " Ob, get down your harp If you can play one! G it down a palm branch If you can reach one! Why, it makes us all feet like crying out with Jumet M nt;omnr: When shall these eyes thy hesven built walla And pesriy gates behold ? Oh. my aoul I If mv text shows us onlv tlieoutaidn. what mutt thelnside btt While rhling last summer through the emperor' park near t I'etersburg, 1 was cantivate t with graves, transplanted from all sjnea. and the flower tied mile this way and miles that way incarnadined with beauty, and the fountains bounding in such revel with thnsunllght as nowhere elst is seen. I said; "This is beautiful 1 never saw any thing like this b.'fore." But when I entered the palaus an I saw the pictured walls, and tha Ion Una ot stat uary, and aquariums afloat with all bright scaler, and aviaries a-chantlth bird voices, and the inner doors of the palacw were swung back by the chamberlain, nil I I saw the emperor and empress and princes and princesses, nnd tiiey greeted me with a cor diality of old acqiiaintamsMhip, I forget all the groves and floral bewltchm -nt I had seen outai la before entrance. An I now 1 ask, it tbe outside of heaven attracts our aoul to-day, bow much more will lie the up lifting when we get inside nnd ee the Kiug in His lieauty au I all the princes ami princesses of the palaces of amothyst Are you not glad that we did not stop in our asoent this morning until we got to tbe top round ot the foundation wad ot heaven, the twelfth row, the amethyst! Perhaps tbe ancient Hebrew were not, after all, so far out of the way when they thou ;ht that the touch ot theamethyst gave pleasant dreams, for tbe touch ot it this hour give me a viry pleasant dream. Standing on this amethyst I dream a dream. 1 closs my eyes and I Me it all. We are there. This Is b in vent Not the outside, hut the inside of heaven. Wita what warmth of wolcomi our long ngo departed loved ones have kissed us. My I How they have ojangel in looks' Tbey were so sick when they went away, and now they are so well. Lxik' Yonder is tha pines of our I. r t thu King. Not kept a moment outside we are ushsre I into thu tlironerooin. Stretching out tilt frarred hand He says, "I have loved tne with an everlasting love," an I we respoud, "Whom have I In heaven but TheoT" But, look 1 Yonder is tho playground ot the children. Children do you want a tbroue. A tbroue would not lit a child. There they are on the playgrounds ot heaven tbe chil dren. Out ot the sick craJle of earth they came into this romping mirth ot the eter-ial playgrounds. 1 clap my hand's to cheer them ia tbe glse. Yonder are the palacee ot tue martyr aua W.W.V.''. n-ywwev to flowers, crimson as the bloody martyrdom through whion tbey waded up into glory. Yonder is Apostolic row, and ths biglieet turrets is over the home ot Paul. Here Is Evangelist place. Yonder are the concert halls tn which tbe musicians ot eartu and heaven are taking part Handel with organ, ani David with harp, au I (inbnel with trumpet, and four and twenty elders with voice. And an angel ot Uod says: "Where shall I take you? Un whut street ot heaven would vou like to live? What celestial habitation would you like to occupy'1 And 1 answer: "Now that I have got inside the wall made up of all manner ot precious stones I do not care where you put me. Just show md where my departed loved ones are. I havesueu the Lord, ami next I want to see them. "Rut here are those with whom I toiled in tho kingdom of Go I on earth. They are from my old parishes at Belleville and iSyra cuisaud Philadelphia uud Brooklyn, ani irom inauy places on both sides the sea where 1 have been penmtte.l to work with them and lor them. Give tbem the best pi ices you can llu I. I will help steady them as lln-y mount the throues. I will help you hiirnisli their coronet. "Take tb-se, my old friends, to as good rooms as you can get for them in the bouse ol many mansions, and with windows look ing out upon the palace ot the great Kiug. As for myself, auy where in heaven is good enough for me. Halleluiah to tbe Lamb that was slain." But 1 awake. In the ecstasy ot the moiuoiit my foot slipped from the layer of amethyst, that so called producer ol dreums, anJ in the effort to catcu myself the vision vautsbed. Aud, lo, it was but a drea ml Lunatics lit) Not Shod Team. Oue of the most curious facts son Ducted with madness ii the utter absence of tear amid tho iusaue. Whatever tbe form ot tho tmtdnesi, tear are conspicu ous by their absence, as much in the de pression of iiiolauctioly or excitement of mania us in tlie utter apathy of dementia. If a patient iu a lunatic asylum be dis covered iu tears it will bu lound that it is odo bcj,'iuoing to recover or un omo tioiial outbreak iu au epileptic wh) is icaroely truly iusaue; while actual iu gaou persons appear to havo lost the power of weeping, it is only returjing. reason wincu cau once more uuioojj mo fountains of their tear. Kveu wheu a lunatic it tellintr oao in fervid language how she had been de prived of bur children, or tho outrages that have been perpetrated ou herself, her oye is uever eveu moist. Tho ready gush of tears which accotnpanios the plaint ot tho same woman contrasts strangely with the dry-eyed appeal of the talkative lunatic. It would indeed seem that teats giro relief to feeliug which, when peat up, lead to madness. It is one ot the privileges of reason to bo able to weep. Amid all tho misery ol the lasauo they find no relief ia tears. Our boldest bridge jumpers were out dono by a "3a;u" Patch ot the Middlo Ages, the Austrian Knight Ilarras, who survived a leap from the top ot a cliff, to the valley of the Zohoppaa River, a ver tical distance ot 403 feet. The Berlin Telephone exchange bai 7000 wires iu connection. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 99. "The Bplrltof The Lord". Zeoh . 1-10. tr. Ootden Text: Zeeh, iv. 6. Com mentary. !. "And tha anxel that talked with m raine again and wake I me, as a msn that is wakened cut of his lee." The mortal ho ly ran stand but little of Joy or sorrow without refreshing tleep. Kven on the mount of transfiguration and In tha garden of UHh semene, the miwt Joyful and the most sor rowful vents of Seripturs, we see hoi v men asleep. As to an an jel't touoi see I Rins XiX- t: Act xil., 7; Uiu. x., 10, and re inemtier that they minuter unto vou if you ere an In Ir of salv.ition (Hob. i., Mi. a Jl'lrltual sieep or inability to grssp or even I ecome interested very mil -h in ths thin of Hod b giestlv to be denlored, but is very common even among Christians. Cure and riches and pleasures nf this life choke the word tl.ulie vitl., Following men In stead of thk Max, or deiH-nlint uponorll. nances inxteml ot upon I' tit, ten I to spirit ual sleen (I Cor. ill.. 1; xi., Mh. But see Bom., x.il.. II; Kph. v., 14. and .et us nk Uod l.y His (Spirit to awnaen us at any cut. ' "And said unto me, Whut leesr, thou' And I snid. I hav looked, an I, behold, candh sties all of gold." 1 he prophet would think nf the. olden csudiestick of the tatier nacie and thoa of the temple. Thev cave light in the holy place and w,rT dni.y trimmed an I replenished with oil. Nnu'd had tieeii cncw-ii and i roil. 'lit out ot Kypt to lie a light for Uod amo ig the nations. Iheir sin sill captivity bai o'm-nrod the light, which was Hod, lu t.ieir mi l-t. The i rophet Is now being taught that (lol will yet make l,rael a light notwithstan mix her irewntiiisolnieciii liti.nl. Not only shnil he le clesn-e-l and clothed as in tne pr virus v sioit, but it shad be said to her: "Arise, shine i(.r th light Hoime, nmlihi elor ol the Lor I is rieu inm thev." Tne I Til shad te unto thee nil evernitnn lisjhr, and thy Uod thy gmrv" (1st. Ix.. I, l!, !m. il. "An I two olive lews by it, mi., uii.iu the right side of the howl nu t theathcr lino i the leit side thereof." Mv rei ting verse I I wilh verses 'J and o it wool I e-m that the prophet sw a lnmpstand ls'inin seven lump; a tin at ivmr il lowl having eitti-r cne or reven pipes leading to eneli Inmp; then on the otliiM-side an o iv. tree, with a golden pipe trom eaeli tive U the c-ntral l.owl in other words, a sel: -supplying l imp stand np:irt lioui any heln of man. 4. ".So I niiotveret mi l spnko to the stigel that talked with me, sayitifr, What re those, mv Lordf ' Tin question is re. pen ted iu Verses II an I l'J mi I nnw. red ill verse I I, and a those vers.! are not includ ed in the lesson this Is the place to consider them. As without tlie oil there could be no light aud without the trees no oil. we se.i tho ltiiMirintioo of this question and niiwer. lint then Is meiiiit by the two anoin'el (tiisr Hie only c ass nf people anointed III Mcriptute are priests and kings nt prophet once). Jesus Is the great Pnect-Kin.-. He waHtyietied in these ofllces by Anrnii an I Mom, lut at the time of tun lesson by Joidma ol the prevmis eli;ipter and . Tub baelil of this chapter. It you wouel bo a light in this nifli for Hun, you must know linn not cnly as your rext, having put nwey your sins nn i living to make it.terces sion lor you, but also )our iersonal king or lord or pioprietor, you l lug ready to do whatever He may appoint. ". "Then the nugei tlmt talked wit i tne nnswere i and said unto in, Knove-t thou not what there be! And 1 said. No, in Lord." See also verse l'i. Conlession o( ignorance, combine! with willingness to be tnuglit, is a good attitude ot soul, au I where tins is lound Uod will sent a tech-r in nngiil II need lie to show us tint which Is nnied in the hcripture of Truth iHiii. x., -II. Meeihe story of Cornelius and Peter and the angel In Act x. i. "Hits is the word nf the Lirdunti Zei'iilitiat'cl, snvmg Not by niirht nor by tower, but liy My Spirit, smtb tne L irl of Hosts." Not the wisdom nor the might ot iuifi., uk'Vii." i!;jt ,,''.. rr. it'1 ,). " vnii plli.li auy work lor Uol. We are not to Klory m wisdom or rich" or might, but only in the Lord (Jer. ix.. ','1. -M). Jesus i-nul, "Without Me ye enn do iiotnmg" (John xv., 5). And even the men wuo had been nvartrt to Him hal to wait for th decent ot the M ir.t, that til v might lie enoured with power lor service (Luke xxiv., 4'.'; Acts l., S. 7. Who art thou, l great moiint iinf lletore eruhh'ilM'l thou slialt liennina a plain. '' A mountain may represent nuy great I'lfllculty mid is o in tiines uaod to repreM'iit a kingdom (Jer. Ii., J I, 'J'n. The klliKilom of satun shall yet nit Ihrowu donn. All the kingdoms o.' this world hliall ytrt beiiime the kin loms ot our Lord end of His Christ (Kev. xi., lol. The true Zcrulibabel (dinpurser ol contiisiom Mull yet l) liiniiiliwt in Jesus of .Nn. u eth as head of the church, Messiah of lsroal, King of Kings and Ixjrd of lairds, and from lw ginning to end tlie worn shall b seen to lie all of grnce. h. "Mori-over, tho Word of thu Lord cam t unto tue, saying," while all else may pass away the t ord of our Uod shall stand forever, and be that doeth the will of tin I abldeth lorever (Isa. xl., S; 1 John II , 17i. "Korever, O Lord, Thy word is settled In Heaven (Ps. cxix., H'.li. U. 'Uho bands ol Zerubhahel bava laid the foundation of this bouse; his linn Is shall also tliush It." This was literally truo of that building, .rite Kz. vl 14. It shall be true of Jesus and all that thu Father has given Him to do. 11 finished tint work of atonement (John xvii., 4i. He will finish the building of His body, the church; He will put away the iniquity of Israel and bring in everlasting rignUsiusness for Iter, and He will 1111 the whole earth with Hi glory. He will sulxlue all things uut Him self and give back to the Father a perfect earth without sin or stain (Kph. i , 3.', ,':). Dan . ix., Us; Ixa. x' 0; I Cor. xv.. For your own Mtrsoual comfort eat, II Tim. I., 12; Phil. I.. . 10. "Kor who bath despised the day of small things?" It is not the soon but the unseen that moves the Isihever, who, like Moses, endures as seeing Him who is invis ible (Hob. xi., 27; 1 1 Cor. iv., 17. IS). He, by the grace ot Uo.i, is able to say with Asia, "lord. It is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many or with them that have no power" ill Chron. xiv., Ill, and with Jonathan, 'Whore is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few" (I Ham. xiv., A). Thu Lord choomm tha weak things of the world, and things which are uot, to bring to naught things wnieh are, lor He will have no flesh to glory in His presence (I Cor. i., V!7. -JNi. Then see the comfort iu the lost clause of this verse of our lesson and put with it II Cliroii. xvi , D, an I take It home to your sol', an I be strong in ths Lord and iu the power ot His luiylit (Kph. vl., If). Be stroug and work, for the Lord ia with you (Hag. ii., 4). Lesson Helper. Hoy Wanted Inside. " RELIGIOUS READING. CAS UK CARS.. Among so many. cn he cr! Can pe lal love be everywhere? A myriad home, myriad ways, And Ood's eye over every plsce, Over but InT The world is full, A grand omnipotence must, rulei But I there life thst doth abide With mine own living, side by side From the great spares, vague and dim, May onesmsll household gather hlinT I asked: my aoul bethought of this: In Just tlmt very place of Ills, Where he hath put and keepeili you, Uod bath no other thing to do. A. 1). T. Whitney. MR A MIRRORS. One of the nplest descriptions of a human being Is that he Is a mirror. As we sat at the table tonight, tbe world in which each of us lived mid moved tliroiii;lioiii. this day was focu-sed In the room. What we saw as we looked at one another, was not one an other, but one another's world. We were sn arrangement nf mirrors. The scenes we saw were all reproduced; the people we met walked tn and fro; tbey spoke, they bowed, they passed us by, did everything oer again as if it had been resl. When we talked we were but looking at our own mirror and de scribing velmt tlitted serosa It; our listening was not hearing, but seeing we but looked on our neigh'ior'a mirror. All human In tercourse is a seeing of reflections, I meet a stranger in a railway carriage. Tbe cadence of bis Unit word tells me he Is Kne'ish ,-,... fr-.., Yorkshire. With out know ing it he has rc'Ttcd hi birth pluce, his parents, and the lung b'si.ity of their rsce. Even plivslolciglcs.lv be Is n mir ror. Ills second jen'teiire records tli it lie Is a politician, end a faint inflexion In the way be pronounces The Times revenls his pnrty. In his next remarks I see reflected a n lm'lo world of experiences. The honks he lias read. Ihc pciple he bns met. the itillin invs that have pluved upon ! lis nnd mule him the msn lie I.-these are all registered them by a pen which lets nothing pass, and whose writing can never be blotted out. What I siii reading in him tncintime he is also read ing In tne; nnd In-fore the journey is over, We could lia'f write cai ti other's lives. Whether we like It or not. we live in gins, houses. The mind, flic memory, the soul is siniily a v.ist chmuher panelled with looking-glass. Ami njoii tins miraculous ar rangement and emlow iiient depend- the ca pacity nf nini tnl souls to "reflect the charac ter of the Lord." Hut this is not all. If nil these varied re flections from our so-culled secret life are pstent to the world, bow close the writing, how complete the record, within the soul Itself? Kor the Influences we meet are not simply held fur a moment on the polished surface, nnd throw n ml' u.'nin into space. Kadi is retained where first it fell, ami stored up In the soul forever. Tho Changed Life. mm. rum s i;imhn.i iin nii. The evil of Impure lilrrnlnre is one that assumes many Tonus and disguises, and np (icsrs at linlooked tor points, lis miasmatic influence is felt long nllcr Hie original cause lias disappeared. There is evidence Hint the. grosser forms of literature have ceased to circulate as freely as ormerlv. but (he poison i administered In a more unsuspected and therefore In n more daiigcroii fui iu. Only recently cup nf our prominent wp-klira piiln lisbed a story in which ti e render came ohruptly ii !! a paragraph llimou-hlv brutal and npulsive In its suugcsllvV incident. It was until to he read nl 1 iu the fnini y cir cle. Writers who steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil lu obtrude their wares upon us, ami we are powerless to avert the evil Is-rause it finds us so unprepared. Publl.liers, whose unities have hitherto been a gunrnntce ol purity and tipiightm ss, accept a slorv from soinc noted nutlmr nniii. iw 7 ;uiijiiiu w nil, ailu s lid out to be world the concoction of an iiiipu.e biiv. -..: . it w.nv.i. nsy r.an we remedy thl c I'l.lllion ofslTnlrs, how quaran tine our literature until it can come to us with a clean bill of health thai we may wel come It to uiir f itnilics'.' Tnere le but one way, Villgniice is good, and indeed impera tive. With the w ide riigne of n ailing at our roiiunaiid, we nm-l no ninre M-i niil litera ture wilh the filmiest tinge nf impurity to sully our lioiiii s than we would place n loaded liomh-lirll down by the genial wnrinth of our fireside expecting it to re main there harmless. ion's Herald. A wki;t voii'K. There I no power of love so hard to gel nnd keep ns a kind voire. A kind band is deaf and dutnli. It iiiny he rough in lle-li and hlood, vet do the work of a soft heart, ami ilo it with a soft touch. But there Is no one thing that love so mini) needs us a sw eet Voice lo tell w hat it means nnd feels, and it I- hard tu get it and keep it in the riht tone, one must start in youth and be on Hie watch night and day,' at work, at play, to get and kei p a voice that shall Hpckalnll times the thought of a kind heart. But this Is the tune when a stiurp voice is most up! to be got. Vou often hear buys nnd girls say viordsat play with a quick, sharp tone, us it' it were the snap of a whip. When one of llieni git vexed you will bear a voice that sounds a If It were made up of a snarl, whine and a bark. iSiich a Voice illcn speaks worse than the heart feels. It shows more III wl I in the buie than in the words. It is ofteu iu uiirtu that one geta a v Ice or a tone Hint is sharp, nnd sticks tu him through life and stirs up III will and grief, and fall like a drop nf gall on tbe sweet joys at home. Such as these get a sharp home Voice for li', and keep llinir best Voice for those tht-v meet elsewhere. I would say to all boys and girls: '-Use your guest voice at linnie." Watch It by day as a icarl of great price, for it will be worth lo you iu the il.iv to come more than the hest pearl hid in the sen. A kind voire is a lark's song to a he irth and home. It Is to the heart what light is to the eye.-Jewish Messenger. noli id IPK.4 11 IS CIIII.P. The longer I live the more sure I am that lo the devout soul Uod is constant ly speak ing by the little Incidents nrd dly life. Hucti a man will lime thai rxpi i ieiicc corroborat ed hv the word of Uod nn flu- oue hand and sympathetic circumstances on the oilier. And though everybody ' the man is act lint In a siiiciilai niiiiin'er. the man himself is convinced by ways he can tint define that lie has learned i lit- will of Uod. It inav be that this relates to flic giving up of a bttlilt. inking a certain course or step ping nut in some untrodden I'uth, but tbe mini knows that he knows the will of Uod. If, however, vou do not know, do not act. If I had a little child w ho could not tell what I wanted, but w ho lit the same time needed to know my will, 1 would ex plain even to the adoption of the simplest upei'ch nd the shortest words. So we must trust (iixl to make known bis will to lis. Uod also works In a man "to do." When you know what Uod wills, you know that you have sutllcictit power to do w hut he purposes. Vou must, not wait to feel it. Be lieve It In there. JUtv. V. B. Meyer. Tint total num'ier of bnilioj recjiv.il at (he Morgue, New York City, during lS'JJ, was 7s71. () these s)'J were adults. Fi i-u Is buried Will udulti au I 11 children. T.iere were buried ill tbe'Citv Cemetery (Potters' Field) 'MM adults and '-M51 children. There werelWt Coroners' cases disiiosod of dunu the year. The bodies of 1UJ unknown persons were received. ui vuese bujuij-uhsi recounized and WJ were buried as unrecog nised Tha disinterment from tn City Cemetery by friend number! ntuety-eigbt during tbtyear TEMPERANCE. mt Rrrr.it or aim. pier a river dark with a murky tide. It banks are high and Its enrmnt wide. And iu circling pddiea are wift and strong It constant roar I tha siren' song. The shores are all dara and mirey clay. Strewn with life's hope along the whole way. The father's pride has gone down it wave, The man of great wealth as well as the slave, I he wisp, the gifted, the brilliant and grand. Have all been wrecked on Its blighting strand; She who but lately was a laughing bride Now mourns alone by the river side; I he widows and orphans who cry for hrsa.1 Mi rn for the fa'.hor who was worse than lead. That river ia made of manv a rill. But the cause of all comes 'out of the still, I hopoisju hi I irom the light of the sun, rurius the vasf, tid t of the Hirer of Bum. Disr.s;; ToVTsVmtitTf . Stntist ci i.f Mti'.sniisnrr sU I for inebriety extending over long perio Is, will pmit i.'t certain years in which a maximu n In mi oi lers was nn, he I, follow.. I py a retrograde movement hncj to a iiiini'iiii il. i'his Ii e. lue move'ii..it Is sometimes clear, then oiecure. ( i ten it t marse i by Imttl epi iieuiii' and eiideiiuo waves an I is trace I m the prev.il. uc of iiiobriety In towns an I cities, nn I in the reaction note I by temper ance rev ivais. 1 1 Ins p-yciiological ebb nn I fl iw was pointed out by pr. Westphnl III Nwelei, many years ago, an i au interval nf seven-te-m irs was indicate I as the time bet wctui the maximum nnd minimum peno is of in. eori-tv in th it country. Shorter periol have im.ii not.) iv other olMerver IudiU.ip. ent c.iiiiiiries. fNTKIlMirTRXT lllttXRRHS. There would Im liltl. use in mv descrihlng hat I believe to Im tliecauseand the course f intcrnntt.'iit, drinking unless I st forth y experience as to the various iii"thoils in iso to ch.s-k or cure the disease. It may Ixt iskeal, "Has nut a man a will powert and :au he not. of bisiiwn volition abstain front a-hat he knows to 1st simply self-lestnn-lion?" M. answer, unliai pil v, must be that I mail w i has nu fairly fallen Inl t tha irink Imhit, wnether constant or inU'rniit lent, has sc.ircelv unv will power w hile the It Is on him. nn I, ns I have s il I, ei. h tit raves his will fivnlcr nr. I .s nhhi to wit.h it ind the l-tiiiptntti of a so lntive of w.iicli in has pi oved tint power an I id which ho u wo prone to forget the danger. The Interinitt. nt di inker, ns soon as be has abstained tor a few weeks, f org ts tlm iisastroiiseire-tHor bis last atta -k. He ti. heves hiuisoif as t-.tiiperat't an I discreet a mail as any of his frien Is who takei his pint Isittlitof d iret nt. ilmiier ami enldum takes noro. He does not un. why he should not in likewise. It. is thu hardest tli.ng to con vuiceaii intctnia-rnte drunkard, wno is able to abstain f.ir a is-riod. taat lie can never by sny chain' i become a molornlo ilrmkar. Nevertheless, the principle nl his drinking I iistmct from flint of a moicrnta man. If he trie to return to his two or three glass. nf claret, he is aus iluteiy certain lo go on tu bis secret, "nip'' of brandy or of whisky: slid his "nips" will increase, and he will (in l himself naek again lu tho old road to ruin. The pntieni, if lie really wants to bt ciirod. must clearly mako up tits mm I thai It must bo total unstineiicu or .-lf-Instruction, gru iiial, perhaps, but uot thu loss sura Matiminl Kuviuw. At.COIIOI. IN NUllill:V'. The Journal of Inelinely invites nttontloa to the "Mnuu il of O tei ativ.t Hurgery," bj the well known surgeon of the I. mdoii Him pital, lr. Krednrick Troves, in which, re lerriug totlie risks ntten ling operations ol the ls lies of drunkards, hesavs: "A scarcely worst subject for an opera' t ion can 1st I ou u I thnu is provided by thl habitual drunkard. Ti e ivnd t on contra Indicates any but the in .st nec ssary and urgent proc.i lures, such n-. nmiiutatioii fot severe crush, hitrnioto'iiy. and the like, Thi mortality of these operaiio.is among alco holies Is, it is nntMlless to sav, enormous Many Individuals who state that they M, not driuk.' nnd who, altb . ' "rhn; s uevei drunk, are ym. aiwnvs ta.iuK ' " .titi'j . laut in the form of 'nip.' and ao as on a gla'S,' are often as bad subjects fo urgica treatment as are tbe acknowledg s. drank' oris." "tjf the secret drinkiTS," coiitmii s Mr Treves, "th.isurgenn has totw in I"' 1 1 wara. In his account ol 't'llamities ol Surgery, tsir James Paget mentions the cae of a pur ami who was a drunkard ou the sly, and yal lint so iit'ioli on the sly but that it was well known to Ins in ire intlinato triends. llu d ibits were uot asked after, and one of hit tinkers wns removeil because joint dis'tas. bad spoile i il. Ho died us u week or t"i lays with spreading cellular lull iinriinUuii, such as waslur from unliKelv to occur in ai habitual tiruiiKar I. Kven ahstineiice from alcohol for a week or two I id ore nn opera tlou does mil seem to givitt.y modify the re suit. Dwelling on the iniinens) Importauct to nn op rut ir of cu tivatnig "a surgical han I," th" fame writer nnts nut that "1 shaky hail I in iy I o ilitve.npe I by irregulat modes of living, by the muter. ilo us.' uf al cobol, uni by k notting " SOfl'll I'AIICII.INA II SKW t.AW. Tin. lollop l.iur isliii.l. is In i.o int.. tit... Im i s " Si .in ii t ii ul'ii" mi the lirst of next July will be tringeiii. If will prohibit the iiiamifnu- tni e, sale, liarter or exchange, or the kis'is- lug mil oir. ring lor sale, barter or ex- hang.t ol any suirinioiis. malt, vinous. ler ut d, or (ther intoxicating Inpiors, or nnv coinp em I or mixture fliei istl. .State ngeiiis, nowev.-r, will lie erupowertsi to sell 1 1 I . or, in it uiiner sui'ii close restrictions as vt nl I lit it i ill ot the power ot most people 1. 1 I li v it. Another c n use iu the law makes it a nils lemi uni ir, punishable ny linn or uu pi i-oiiinent, lor nuy cult to have liquor ia its po-si s-ioii, t veu it it is not sol 1 or givon iiwny. Tue St ite Legislature Irnsl to pas the most cist-iron lienor law in the world, au I it nip'.iri to liavo dono so. Dttrui f fl'Ul I CSS. TRMPKKANCK NKWS A N't J NOTKR. A tempTiiuce society has been cstab lisnud iu il irviird College. Frances Willard is f.vsnen I somo time II F.ngluii l Willi l.idy Henry Souiursot thil winter talking nt tu uperuueo. Thero are 'J7,UJ') pluces for tho sale d liquor iu Paris, mil throughout the Ko j iinlic there is one Miloou for every eighty. kuven people. The Chief of Police in Baltimore says that llu never lonu I Hoys in the saloons until higi r Peer was intro luce 1 uud games pre parodtoollticothe.il in. A law was passe I in Kngland in 17.V) U the fifed Iliac al parties ' ia lies must uol gut iii unk on uuy pretext whalovor, uni gentlemen not before U o'c.ot'k." Sines women have been npiioluted HUU iil.i'uriaus iu Keut.ic.iy uud vlissusippi, as abseiict ot wmssy and touaccj is uolioed, aud a reign of order and attention beuu. "Take something with me," remarked oat laboring mail to another, heading libit to ward a aaloon. "Take something from your wife and cuildren, you mean," replied tbe other, an I tha lirat uiuo blushed aud loo nod ashamed. A friend to the Woman's Chriatial Teuiperauce Umou of Motiuif, 111., was Mrs. Ann Atkinson, wbose legacy ol ti'M for th work ol the union w is accept! witb deep thankfulness and appreciation by bur or rowing co-workers. A x salons missioii'iry has carried the wal from Atricu into Molforl. ilo delivered an linpassiouu 1 a I itvss in that aucienl Masauuiiusett. town th j other day aud ap (waled to the inhabitants uut to ship any more rum ti the Kust indies. The highest statistical authority In th United Stalts, Uavid A. Wells, declare that the yearly ' watte in tae Unite I State through uring is at least f5iM,U00,UJ. la forty yesrs IO,o(kJ,lXio,lWJ have been thus wasted. Tbis is equal to the whole saving ( the people from lisJ to 13 j 7. Judge.
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