4 ' " " "" '""""T"l" """ -'' l 1 II' OlfO Hi mm! ; 01 wi ill i of BO LITTLE. Eareafter, when I sleep beneath the graartb yonder churchyard plot, And what I iu, or might have boon, I then that which U not. It J on should come In kindliness to stand there by the spot. And sometimes think of me A If I were not Imttnr than you thought, but that t wore lee bad, I know In that dark, dU-nal grave of mid) I should M glad Through all eternity. ',V. J. l.ampton, lu Now Tori Pun. "SUMAJH." OTANLKY (IIIMOV. KN DERSON, "what's t li 11) C H II I II K ' 'Snuiajh,' ch? I'-urly t h i h morning I was w a n il o r i n g niiont n mile out on t li c K i s t n p o r c roBcl, jllHt llll tliC f'dffO l)f tin jungle, y i ii know, ami rnn RCftlS HiltllC tell ir n dozen natives i n it riiiR r.r.iiir.d n poor wretch of n leper. Ufb ! In' tint first I'vo seen nuil bo made iiii feci Im 1, I can tell you ; I don't want to see nuy more." '"Hah !" broke in Hondenoii ; "and linir do vim know the man u leper, if you liml never m en one liefnre, eh?" "Oil, In win n leper right enough there was o horrible grayish souley liMik upon liirn, nnd h- vos 1lint'il kill hit ann i were m.ly Minimi ml-" "Thot'n ciio;ikIi I pass," said Henderson quickly, with n shudder. "Wi ll, tliin leper Hi'i'incil to lie ask ing o great fnvnr of th other fellows --imploring them to tin something, you kimw- uinl tli"v iliiln't want to ; uml tln poor 'li:ppi t'iriii'il from ohm to tho other iiinl iniMiui'il ntul cried : nnl wiill, upon my word, ili-inlcrsoii, what with his pitiful appearance, I felt well I couldn't hit ijiiiti' i-t ru i cli t fur n little while Ami l ink here; I thought lepers weren't allowed to emu r Iicur Any I ii il v "Mm," Henderson's face assumed a puzzling expression, half pitying, Imlf utiTii, bh he rose from the camp ehiiir iu which he hh lolling, l'lucing; his hands ou my shoulders nud looking i u tn my eyes, lm went on : "So ym want to know tho inclining of thut word, ilo you? Let's sec ; how long hiivti you lieen grilling in thin devil's kitchen, eh?" "Nearly five weeks," replied I, sur prised At the peculiar hardness of his voice ; for Henderson, 1 had already mien for myself, wait hitf hrother to all the children of the cuntonment. "iioj five wteka." Hi voice as urand a najjcal tone. "Five weeks ' ' . u knoll- tb luuxuiige yet ! You're very nlow for a competition wal lah. And what did you understand of tho conversation lietweeu your leper au 1 hi frieudn, eh?" I "Why," Haiil I, liridliup nji nome wlint, "I learned a Rood bit of the luu giiun before I cauie out, and I know um tnui'h of it now, I'll Kiiaruntce, im tho average uian iIooh after he'd been hero a couple of yearn." "Modest," dryly ejaculated Mender bop, waiting for an uuswer to his ques tion. "Oh, I understood it all riht enough except that blehrted word 'hUlimjli.' It wan wrapped up in very tlK'irutive hm guoKe culliuK the earth hin mother and tho hiiu hiH father, and all that Hurt of htuff, you know. He wanted them to do 'HUinajh' for him ; b;;t it Keemed aft if they were half afraid to do what ever it mcuii.t. In the end, though, they (ave way, and the pour chap was wonderfully pleased, for he held his wanted arum to the hky and invoked b!enniuqs on them, and then crouched down and kisHed the earth ; and finally burnt out into u sort of xoni; that didn't l very far before it faded away into a iliHiual croak thut win painful to listen to. I couldn't htund il any longer, and cuino nwiiy." "Ho; thut'x all you know about it, ii it? Well, youngster, take my advice and it'rf Kiud, too don't ioke your in. Mil into the natives' business. Let them alone as much as you can. Culti vate a convenient memory when you're reading the regulations about them, ltuinember, thut the men who make most of those rules don't have to keep them ; and bctwocu you and lue, their knowledge of tll theory of goveru nieut ia ouly excelled by their ignor ance of the practice of it. As for thut word you're so citric us about, forget it, and don't hear it again -understand?" With that ho went out abruptly. I was greutly perplexed. Half the night I pondered over Henderson'it nt range conduct, and wond.'red w hy on curth he hhould refuse to tell me the meaning of a simple word. I did not euro to ask any one else, for fear of its getting to Ileiidersou'seHrs. Although 1 was on pretty familiar terms with him, ho was my chief, and in addition I had ulrctidy become much attached to him. Tho next morning, I tackled him again. "Henderson thut word?" Jlo turned and ga.edfit me with half closed eyes and naid deliberately and coldly : "Tho kceiii:esH of your curi osity would do inlluite credit to a corporal's wife." Ho cleared hi throat and Kuid testily: "Picnic, picnic; that's what tho word means; he wanted them to treat him to a picuio in tho junglo; and you any they consented. Ami" ho turned ou mo quite ttcreuly "why hhouldn't they? And look Lore, my boy, if you May one word about it to any one else in the cantou tucut, I'll make it warm for you." I was hurt aud augry aud guvo Hen doraou A wide berth for the reat of the dujr. In the 'jJiataiMire evening I strolled clown the i ore road. It was Against the egnlations, for the jungle ran right np to the road and at night there was certain amount of danger to Iw feared fro-n the wild beast that occasionally explored the road, almosrt np to the cantonment. Kut in my brief excri ence I had nen tho spirit, if not the letter of oua or twoof the regulations, ignored end I wanted to be alone, to think out the meaning of Henderson's strange words and manner. It was Almost the last of the few brief moments of twilight, whcn.licing still some couple of miles from home, I quickened my pace. The night was fulling as only those can understand who have witnessed A nightfall on the edge of the jungle. No need to tell them how the ilarknrss drops like n heavy blanket nor of the startling transformation of the tangled tinder wood and the gigantic grasses, which suddenly become strange monsters en dowed with life, moving to and fro, now smoothly, now jerkily, pointing with strnnge lingers; now uttering husky crios of hate, now jibbering idiot-like. And the wild animals in tho thickness of the interior, how they howl und shriek aud cry aud moan nmr.H of defiance, screams of pain, trumnetings of victory! All made lnoro intense by being subdued, a if the vegetation were nnwillingtoletthe out tide world know of the scenes cn acted in thot fearsome place. I eoufe is I started t run, holding my revolver nt the full cock. Uut iny nteps were suddenly arrested by the magical appearance, directly in my path, of several lights. I pulk'd up sharply, nnd stood stocV -still. The lights advanced, keeping time with the thumping of my heart. At last I could dimly descry a body of twenty or thir ty natives, several of whom carried torches, which tbey must have jU'-t lighted. 1 awaited their coming not without trepidation, for I could not imagine what they were about. .Tnst before reaching me, however, thy turned quickly into the jiiugli). They wer;i Hot five paces distant from me when they Iff t the road, and 1 felt sumo surprise at their not Having seen r.ie. Hy a sudden overpowering im pulse of curiosity I htarted to follow them, in order to learn the meaning of their strunge journey. With us little noise us possible I swung round, step ping almost iu their footsteps. I hud little difficulty in doing ho, for they followed whut seemed to be a beaten track. For Homo hundreds of yards the strange procession went alowly on. Suddenly I heard a strange noise that thrilled me through and through. There was something about it, too, that seennVl familiar; but my brain was evcitcd und refused to recall the souud. It was a kind of moan, half human, half auimul. As the natives und I drew nearer it took tLo character of a chant ; and then it flashed on mo that I hud heard the Hound before; it was the beer's voice 1 Tho poor wretch was crooning a dismal hvmn or invocation,1 '.'aa he hull uorie" wTien soliciting hls, datives to do what I was to my great satisfaction, about to find out. His low, weak voice rang out Htangely clear. "Ohei, Ohei. Mother, my mother. Thou only urt merciful. Thou only. Ohei, Ohei, Brethren, my brethren, lead ine to my mother; hhe only will welcome, she ouly will give pence. Ohei. Ohei. Tho voice died av.r.y in a moan that mingled with and seemed to rise uguiu in the soft whistling of the long grasses, as they quivered with the breath of tho wind that presaged the coming rains. 1 shivered. The party having now arrived at a space which had been cleared of the taiigle-wood and grass, abruptly stopped and formed into a ring. I pressed for ward us near as I dared. Then 1 saw, in the centre of the ring, a largo cav ity, perhaps four feet deep, with the earth banked up ou either side. The torch-bearers ranged themselves at tho heud and foot of tho hole, which, now that it was in the light, 1 saw to be of oblong shape, shelving somewhat at the end tieurer to ine. The other na tives stood at tho sides, four with tom toms and two with little puts of burn ing incense. The the leper limped out, from the jungle seemingly, andcroiiched at the shelving end of tho hole, I had expected him to uppear on tho sceue, yet when ho did mi, 1 could not help giving u bit of a start. Not one of the natives looked at tho leper, nor did ho seem to see them. As soon, however, as he approached, the whole of the na tives set up a cry subdued and dismal beyond description. The .burden of it was something like this: "To Thee who art all knowledge, all power, all love, all hate. To Thee, kuowu only of Thy self. To Thee who urt Life aud Death. To Thee wo bring our brother. Mo Hi-eks Thee where Thou art. Ho comes to Thee. He comes to Thee." Their voices und tho noise of tho tom-toms died down ; and as they faded away the leper, who had been beating time by nodding his head, crawled down the slope utid squatted down at tho deep end of tin hole, lu a shrill, quavering voice that Hounded strangely piercing; on the electrically churged uir he took up tho refrain. "Ohei, Ohei. Fire of the Light uings, I come. Cloudlets brightness of the sky, I come. Wiugod Messenger of the Mountains, I come. Ohei. I come!" Then, amid more chanting and tom tom beating, two of the natives handed the leper Home liquid in a small bowl aud some food. After drinking a little of the liquid and eating a little of the food, he east the remainder into the hole in front of him, accompanying the action with Hubdued but intense cries. But now several of the natives re tired for a moment, returning with large flat pieces of wood. With these they started throwing earth into tho hole. The leper did not move. They were going to bury the poor wretch alive I The thought in all iu hideoas- BflM flashed through my brain. For th ' instant I went as cold as ice and was nnable to raise, a finger. Only for a moment though ; and then, acting for the second time that night on the im pulse of the moment, I dashed forward, my revolver still in my hand, to do what, I could not tell. But before I had gone two steps I found myself seized, disarmed, gagged and pinioned. I ktrrggled, or, rather, attempted to straggle, for 1 could neither Hnove nor titter the slightest sound. I gave my self up for lost. I expected nothing but death, and I remember doing what I hod not done for years : I offered up a prayer incoherent and vague ; but never was prayer more fervent. Con trary to my expectation I was only dragged back several paces and tied hand nnd foot to what I suppose was s small tree. My captors had bound me with my back towards the leper, appa rently determined that I Hhould sou nothing more of what was going on. However, by screwing my neck round I could just catch flight of the wretched creature in the pit that I now felt cer tain was to le his grove. The horrible sight fascinated me. 1 had no thought for anything else. Even my own perilous situation caused me no more four or anxiety. The natives, still singing that sad, monoto nous refrain, were now quickly thiow ing th- earth round the leper. Ouicker and quicker they shovelled, louder and louder they sang: "Ohei, Ohei, thy wish is thine is thine." The four beating the tom-toms threw them down and joined in. The earth mounted higher and higher round tho doomed man. It reached his breast; he waved his poor stumps of arms towards the nky ; he putted the earth with them, as if he were fondling a loved one. It reached his shoulders he bent and kissed it passionately. Oh, that seeno! th natives casting in the eurth with frenzied energy; tho torch-bearers standing like bronze statues, their torches throwing a rod uliire on the leper's head, now fast dis appearing as if sinking in a pool of blood. Then the eurth crept up to his mouth, his nostrils. With a convulsive effort 1 shut my eyes. In another moment the noise oT tho shoveling and singing ceased. My eyes involuntarily opened, just in time to see the torch-beurers thrusting their torches in the earth heaped up over tho grave; they gave un uugry splutter and then went out. For an instant there was utter darkness and silence. Then came the crowning horror. A vivid tlash of lightning lit up the scene. It seemed to hang over the spot. And while the natives were thus en veloped with the ghastly hue of death, I heard I vow I. heard muffled and faint as the shriek of a gagged man, the cry of tho leper the echo of a Voice the Echo of a Life ! Louder and londer grew that terrible voice ; it roared like a cataract, like a thousand peals of thunder ; it liecume a thing tangible, palpable filling tho uni verse, pressing on my brain c-flhiug it -t ill at last something tfL,.1.r.l0nd 1 I knew no more. Three weeks afterward J vroke up. I was lying ou a bed in my quarters. Henderson was bending over me; ho raised his hand to prevent my Hpeuk ing, haying, with a queer little smile: "Yes, yes keep quiet ; a touch of jungle fever, my boy, that's all a trifle heady ; you'll be all right again in a jiffy." That "jiffy" was neovly three months Chambers's Journal. Money May lie Too Sale. "I huvo no doubt that many a fam ily now struggling along under the belief that the father died and left nothing would be well off could they go to the safe deposit vault where the head of the house kept his valuables, open the door of his particular com partment und carry away its con tents." The speaker was a man who is con nected with an establishment of the kind mentioned. Ho evidently knew what he was talking about. Tho safe deposit vaults are a mod ern institution. In them a man, by the payment of S or upward annu ally, can keep his money, jewelry and papers Hiife from tire and burglary. Armed guards further protect his prop erty, but even without their presence no gang of burglars could work quick ly enough to despoil the vaults, built, as they are, of steel and granite into the very backbones of immense build iugs. But the very care of the tenant is tho doom of his nearest kin," said the interested gentleman ; "he doesn't ex pect to ilie suddenly, but that mode seems tho most general nowadays. No man Hhould havo his affairs so secret thut his loved ones suffer the rest of their lives by whut he considered his forethought. "A recent caBo occurs to me. A young man with apparently many years before him, suddenly went in Bune. Ho was fond of jewelry, but one night a would-be thief snatched a very valuable scarf-pin the young mau wore. After that, though he foiled the high way robber, he would not wear his dia monds, but put them iu his safe, nnder the care of the deposit vaults. "Hud he not told mo of the incident nobody would ever have known what became of the diumouds. No man puts his uame aud address in his safe, and the company only knows him person ally and not his relatives." Even savings banks have been able to build handsome edifices with the uncalled-for money deposited by men or women who have disappeared. Take many thousand accounts, and a cer tain percentage of them will never be called for. 'They are advertised, but very little results from the advertise ments, and the bank is the winner. The amounts thus lost to sight ag gregate niany hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is a grim . fatality about the "safety " of a vault New Yolk Journal ON THE BANKS OFTHERED SEA i REV. DR. TALMAOK'S SERMON. An Cloqusnt Diieourts oa a Bubjsot Boldom Balsotsd. Tsit "i4nil Miriam. thf nrnjhffn,(hf tU. tfr of Aaron, took a timhrrf in hrr hand, awl all Ihf vomen rnl oul after hrr with ttmbrtl and vith dan. And Miriam rniiinnvd them. yr tn Ih lAtrd, far IU hath trU mnhi qloritnu'y: the hortr and hit rider halh He thrown into the tea." Exodus xv., 20.31. Bnrmonisnrs ars naturally so bnsy In jrst tins the IsranlitHi ssfnly through the paitt Ilvl sna and ths Egyptians submcrgm! tn tha returning water that but llttls time is or dinarily givn to what ths Lord's rstople did aftsr they got woll up high and dry on ths rmaeh. Thnt wnn thn boaeh of ths Rd swa, which is at Its irnatt width 300 miles and at IU least width 13 tulles. Why is ths ad ject Its "red" uaed In deerlbln this watar? It Is called thn lied sea heeause the moun tains on Its western coast look as though sprlnklod with brick dust, and the water is colored with red seaweed and bos rsd xoophyte and red coral. This sns was cat by the keels of Kfeyptlsn, Thirnii'lan and Arabln shipping. It was no lnstgultVaiit pond or puddle on the beaeh ol whlnh my text calls us to stand. I bear upon it the sound of a tambourine, for which the timbrel was only another name an In strument of mus In made out of a circular boop. with pleers of metal fixed in the sides of It, wbl''h mad a Jingling sound, tnd over whli'h hoop a piece of parch ment was distended, and this was beaten by the knuckle of thn perform? r. The Israelites, standing on the bna-h of the Kd sua. were making music on their do llTerance from the pursuing Kgyptinns. and I hear the Isrnelltlsh men with their dep boss voices, and I bear the timbrel of Miriam as he leads the women in their Jubilee. Rut her lively Instruments, yous.iy, for religious ser vice, the timbrel or tambourine. Uut I think Oo'l sanctioned It. And I rather think we will have to put a little morn of the festive into our religious services nnd drive out the dolorous and fuuereal. nnd the day may come when the timbrel will resume Us plnie In the sanctuary. Hut that which oeeuplnd thn attcntiou nt nil the men and women of that IsraelltUh host was tho celebration of their victory. They had croasod. They had triumphed. They wure free. More wonder was Hits victory and defit than when the hosts of llichurd overcame the hosts of Halndin at Azotus, than when nt llaunockburn Hcotlnnd was set front than when thn Karl of Northumberland was driven back nt llranham Moor, than when at the buttle of Waketleld York was slain, than when at lioswortli Field Kiehnrd was left dead, than when the Athenians under Mil ttades nt Marathon put thn Persians to flight, for this vli-tory of my text was Knlnnd with out sword or catapult or spear. The weaiion was a lifted and ppstrated sa. And Miriam, thn prophetess, thn sister of Aaron, look a timbrel In her band, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dnncw. And Miriam answered them fcUng ye to the Lord, for Un hath triumphed gloriously ; thn horse nil 1 bis rider bath He thrown into the iea." Hrooklyn Tabernacle to-day feels much as Moses and Mlrium did wheu they stood on the banks of thn lied sea after their safe emergence from thn waters. Hy the help of Uod and thn generosity of our friends here and elsewhere our HO. OIK) of flouting church debt Is forever gone, and this house, which, with the nround upou which it stands, represents 4410,000. I this day reoon eornte to I lod thn Fattier, Uod the Hon and (tod the Holy Ohost. A stranger might ask how oould this church get iuto debt to ou amount that would build several large churches? Sly answer la. Waves of destruc tion, stout oa aiiy that ever rolled across tha Mod sea of my tvst. examine all tne pages oi cnurcn nistory and all thn pages of the world s history and bow me au organization, sacred or secular. that ever bad to build three great structures, two of thorn destroyed by tire. Take any of your biggest lite Insurance companies, or your biggest storehouses, or your biggest hauks. or your lilggest newspaper establlsli mente and let tbeui have to build three times on the same foundation, and it would oost them a struggle If not demolition. My text 4iitks of rbe lied soa cuco crossed, but oun Itnd sea would not have so much overcome us. It was with us Hed sea after lied sea. Three Hod seas ! Vet to-dny, thunks 1 to Ood. we stand on the shore, and with organ and cornet in uliscnce of a timbrel we eluiiit : Stng ye unto the Lord, for He hath tri umphed gloriously : the hors and bis rider bain lie thrown Into the sea." Hut why the great epcnse of this structure? My answer is the immensity of it and the Uriauess of it. It cost over :M .000 to dig the cellar bofuru uue stouo was laid, reaching as the foundation docs trom street to street. and then the building of the house was con structed in a way. wo nretold by experienced builders who had nothing to do with It, for durability of foundation and wall such as clmructc,ri-8 hardly any other building of thtscity. To the day of your death and mine, and for our children and grandchildren after us, it will Htiuid hero a bouse of (tod and a gate of heaven. For me personally this is a time of gladness more than tongue or pou ortypecunever ten. For twenty-four years I had tswn building ehurelici lit Hrooklyn and seeing them burn down until 1 felt I could eudure the strain no louger, aud I had written my resignation ua pastor aud bad autiolnted to read It Iwj ftahbaths ago and close my work In Hrooklyn forever. 1 felt that my chief work was yet to litt done, but that I could not do it with the Alps on one one shoulder and the Himalayas on thn other. Hut Cod has Interfered, and tbn way is clear, and I am hern and expect to be hern until my work on earth is done. My thanks must be first to Uod and thenta all who have contributed by large gift or small to this emancipation. Thanks to the men, women and children who have helped, and sometimes helped with self sncrltloe that I know roust have wou the applause of the heavens. It you could only read with me a tew of the thousands of letters that have oome to my desk In The christian Herald Ofllce. you would know how deep their sym pathy, how large their sacrifice has been. "I have sold my bicycle and now send you ths aicuev,'' is thn language of one noble young mJi who wrote to The Chrlstlnn Herald. "This is my dead son's gift to me, und 1 have been led to send It to you," writes n mot her In Khodo Island. As a church we from this day make new departure. Wo will preach more instructive eruions. We will offer morj faithful pruy sr. We will do butter work in all depart ments. We will In the uutumn resume our lay college. We will llll all the rooms of this maguillceiit pile with work for (lod and suf fering humanity. More prayers have boeu offered for this church, and ou both sides thn tea, than for any church that hus evor ex isted, and all those prayers will be answered. Clear the track for tne Hrooklyn Tabernacle! "Slug ye to the Lord, for He hath tri umphed gloriously j the horse and his rider bath He thrown Into thn tea." It we never shouted victory till wo got flear through the struggles of this lire, wa would never shout at all. Copy the habit of Miriam and Mosoa. The moment you get a victory celebrate it. The time and place to bold a Jubilee for the safe crossing of the Red tea Is on Its beach and before you leave it. It Is awful, the delayed hoeuunahs, the be lated halleluiahs, the postponed doxologies, the trains of thanksgiving coming in so long After they ore due ! The time to thank Ood for a rescue from temptation Is the moment .after you have broken the wins flask. The time to thank Uod for your salvation Is the moment after the first flash of pardon. The time to be grateful for ths comfort of your bereft soul is ths first moment of Christ's aiipaaranos at the mausoleum of Lazarus. Ths time for UUxlam's tambourine to sound Us moat Jubi lant note Is the moment ths last Israelite pats his foot on the sand on ths parted Inland oonan. Alas, that when Ood s mercies have unh swift wings our praises should hare inch leaden feet ! Notion that Miriam's song la my text bad for Its burden the overthrown cavalry. It was not so much ths Infantry or the men on foot over whose defeat she rejoined with 1 ringing timbrel, but over the men oa horse bark the mounted troops '. "The horse and his rider hath He thrown into ths sea." .Tre---mendousarmof war Is the cavalry I Josephus says that In that host that crossed the Red sea there were 60,000 cavalrymen. Epamln ondas rode Into battle with 5000 cavalrymen and Alexander with 7000. Marlborough de pended on his cavalry for the triumph at Illnnhnlm. It was not alone the snow that despoiled the French armies In retreat from Moscow, but the mounted Cossacks. Cav alrymen decided the battles of Leuthnn nnd Lnlpslc and Winchester and Hanover Court House and Five Forks. Home of you may have bnnn In the relentless raids led on by Forrest or Chalmers or Morgan or Htiiart of the southern side, or Pleasanton or Wilson or Kllpntrlck or Hheridnn of the northern side. The army saddles are the thrones of battle. Hurricanes in stirrups are the cav alrymen. No wonder that Miriam was chiefly grateful that the Egyptian cavalrymen, pursuing thn Israelites down to midway the Hml soa, were unsaddled, unstlrruped, unhorsed. And I have to tell you, U child of Ood, that Ihe Lord, who Is on your side now and for ever, has at His disposal and under His com mand all waters, all winds, all lightnings, all 1 time and all etenlty. Come, look mo in the face while I utter the wor I Ood commands me to speak to you, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper." lion't throw away your tambourine. You will want It as sure as you sit there and I stand here, and the tuno you will yet piny on It, whether standing on beach ol time or beach of etern ity, will lie the tune that Miriam played when she cried "Hlng ye to thn Lord, for Ho hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and bis rider bsth He thrown Into tbn sea." I expect to hnte a good laugh with you In heaven, for the lilliie says In Luke, sixth chapter, twenty-first vcrw, "Hb'seisl are y that weep now, for ye shall laugh." Wi shall not spend nil eternity psalm singing, but sometimes In review of thn past. s Christ snys, we shall laugh. There Is nothing wrong In laughter. It all depends on what you laugh at, and when you laugh. Nothing. It seems, will more thoroughly kindle our heavenlv hilarities after we havs got Inside the pearly gate than to see bow In this world we got sen red nt things which ought not to have frightened us at all. How often we work ourselves up Into great stew alout nothing! The lied sea be fore may Im deep, and the Egyptian cavalry behind us may lie well mounted, but if we trust thn Lord we will go through no more hurt by the wnter than when lu tsiyhood we rolled our garments to thn knee nnd bare, foot crossed the meadow brook on tho old homestnnd. Tbn odds may seem to be all against you, but I guess It will Im all right with you If you have Uod on your side and nil thn angelic, cherubic, seraphic nnd arch angelic kingdoms. "If Uod Im for you, who can be against you?" Hut let me crlticlsn Miriam a little fur ths Instrument of music she employed in the di vine service on the sandy Israeli. Why not take some other Instrument? The harp was a sacred instrument. Why did she not take Hint? The cymbal was a sacred instrument. Why did shs not take that? The trumpet was a sacred Instrument. Why did she not take that? Amid that great host there must have lsen musical Instruments more used In religious service. No. Hhn took that which shn liked thn best nnd on which she could I test express her grntulution over a nation rescue, first through tho retreat of the waves of the Red sen. and then through the clap ping of the hands of their destruction. Ho I withdraw my criticism of Miriam. Let every one take her or his best mode of divine wor ship nnd celebration. My idea of heaven is that it Is n pluce where we can do as we please and have everything we want. Of course we will do nothing wrong aud want nothing harmful. How much of the material and physical will dually make up the heavenly world I know not, but I think Oabrlel will have his trumpet, snd David bis harp, and Handel his organ, and Thalberg bis piano, and the groat Norwegian performer bis violin, and Miriam ber timbrel, and as I cannot make music on any of them I think I will move nround among all of them and listen. Hut there are our friemls of the Scotch Covenanter church who do not like musical instruments at all In divine worship, and they need uot have them. What a day It will be when we stand on the beach of' heaven nnd look back ou thn lbil sea of this world's sin mid trouble and celebrate the fuct that we have got through aud got over and got up, our sins and our troubles attempting to follow gone clear down under the waves. Oh. crimson floods roll over them und drown them, and drown them forever! In this world wn have so little time for that. I am looking forward to eternal socialities. To he with Uod ami never sin against mm. To be with Christ and forever feel His love. To walk together In robes of white with those with whom on earth we walked together lu black raiment of mourning. To gather up thn meinlx-r of our scattered families and em brace them with no embarrassment, though all heaven 1st looking on. A mine In Hcotlnnd caved In and caught amid the rocks a young man who In a few days was to have beeu united In holy mar riage. No one could get heart to tell his at11iini"d of the death of her Istloved, but some one made her believe that he bad changed his mind about thn marriuge aud willfully disappeared. Fifty year passed ou, when one duy the miners delving in tbn earth suddenly came on the body of that young man, which had all those years Ihm-u kept from the air nnd looked just as it was the duy of the calamity. Htroug, manly, noble youth, he sat there looking as on the day be died. Hut un one recognized the llent form. After awhile they called the oldest Inhab itants to come and see If any one could rec ognize htm. A woman with bent form and ber bnlr snowy white with years came last, and looking UHn the silent form that had tswn so completely preserved gnvo a bitter cry and fell into i long swoon, It was thn one to whom half a century Isifor ) she was to have been wedded, looking then Just as wbeu In the days of their youth their affec tions boil commingled. Hut tho emotion of ber soul was too great for mortal endurance, and two days after those who fifty years be fore were to have joined bauds In wedlock were at lusi married In the tomb, und Side by side they wait for the resurrection. 31 y friends, we shall oome at last upon those of our loved ones who long ago baited in the journey of life. They will lie us fair and beautiful yoa, fairer and more beauti ful than wheu we parted from them. I see thorn now the glorified assembled for a celebrutlou mightier and more Jubilant than thut on the liouks of the Red sea, and from all lands and ages, on beach of light above beach of light, gallery atove gallery aud thrones above thrones. In circling sweep of 10,000 miles of surrounding and upheaved splendor, while standing before thum ou "sea of glass mingled wfth tire" Michael, the arch angel, with swinging scepter heats time tot the multitudinous chorus, crying; "Hingt Hlng! Hlng ye to the Lord, for He bath triumphed gloriously ; the horsu and bis rider hula tie thrown Into the sea." Children Burned to Death. Thrse children named lirouilet, between 2 and 0 ytsrt of sgs. were burned to death in a tenement bouts in Qsrau Laut, Mon treal A Mil In Twsnty-rivs Bsoonds. A new locomotive on ths Ontario and Weifsrn railway ran a mils In 23 seconds on a trial trip ths otnsr day, FimxN Thousand prisoners, exclmlvt of women and children, sro In tbs prisons of Idosco', awaiting dispatch to Siberia. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON rOR SUNDAY, JUNit ?........ ..I ru.m. s . 1.19 tloMni TI Ra... - . .m all., 11. Commentary, This Is the book and mirror of tt.s nisi man. i nn tnreau oi tne nook is the Inn iril llu mn ' klh Im ....... ""I " .... u - 1' '11 1 u mt, re 1 1 mil twt-iiij-iiTr. iiiufn. imeonfliit 'Fear Ood and keep His commandment. . in It no redemptive power, but preparl mwmw tn I Vl lluilMma, fvm . . S "J -.- . .... . .. iv . a Uff , wno aione can mane an inings new i Erdman). The life of F.cclrslaste comrJ mm iiiim vi ,ui7 mm vi ouiwniun m U , seventh of Romans compared with the' ji is me iruniFss nnort to uo gooj an good apart from Him who alone Is onnA all the tlmes" of chapter III., 1-8, ther time iu pruy. 1. "Keen tiiv font when thort Drawl - bouse of Ood .tnd be more ready to heart id give ine sncrince oi ioois, lor thv al.t n !, t.iw .1a -..I I i ii... a,,. ..-. .v I'HW ,,, ...L.I . . . , .. . "I ve ,i8 to ine uouse oi itou, nut 111114 , hearts are right with Ood wo shall be anfr, 'ine lite or a Christian Is in thn New T. ment compared to a walk. We are to ! worthy of our vocation, walk In love. children of light, walk circumspectly ef t It. "Ho not rash with thy mouth and t thine heart be hnsty to utt"r nnvthtn,; i,.; Ood. for Ood Is In heaven ami thou v im. i mrrium iii wij wonis o lew. v only MO our reet nemt Keeping, but ftl a 1 ii.iiiiim. j.rn,ini r- niMiiin WH a goo,J " I som l will take neeo to my wns th sin not witn my tongun ( rs. xtxl.v., 1 1, ongun ( i s. xvxi.v., rt uppropriate, "Set a wi: y mouth : keep the ,1 1 ... :t. How I im w. ! J riiyer ts aiway a O Lord, before my niy lips t I s. exit. our words aright before Ood? I know : i wsy so good as being filled with His w ,. Men how iu Ho, llv., 3. He puts t!i.. word in our mouths which He would h? ussuy. And there are prayers throiiLTi, the I'sa'-ms suitable to every KViihle u i sion, a. "For a dream comet li through the :i tltude of business, and a fool's vole in tn by multitude of words." There nre lr from above the sun from Ood Himself which many are recorded in Hcriptur ordinary dreams ore from wordly car to a multitude of words, wn nre told t in sucn mere wsi'.icm not sm (I'rov. x., i ami this may 1m true even of some pr,, we know alsmt which occupy anywhere ir 10 to 20 minutes or more. Contrast with waste of words and time the prayer nf Lord In John xvii., not over live m inn tit. length. 4. "When thou vowest a vow unto Ci defer not to pay It. tor He hath no ninn.l In fools. 1'ay that which thou hast vi.nv Compare with this verse Num. sxx., 2 , Ii. mill., 21-23 i 1's. Ixvl., 1.1. 14. and be enr. bow you make promises to Ood. He Is fnlthful promlser (1 Cor. I., 0; x., l.t Tbess. v., 24 s II Thess. Hi., 3 : Hob. x.. and our part is to trust Him, confide lu H for all Ills promisee are lu Christ, yea amen (II Cor. I., 201. 5. .Hotter is It that thou shoul.b it vow than that thou ehmihW vow nnd iay,' because that would Is) simply ly and neither deceit nor Ilea can dwell in lb sight I Hs. oi., 7). Home iieople calld Ch iinns iiiinic it an right to make bromls. their fellows which they have neither nbi nor intention to meet. we would comm to such the lust clause of I'.ev. xxi.. H. liars shall have their part In thn lake wl Durnein wita nm ana brimstone." ' . ."riufTer not thy mouth to cause thy I to sin." One member of the body may a another member or even the whole (toil. suffer. We know this to be true physic It is also true spiritually. Bee I Cor. 12-27. If we believed this, we would be, mmu.u,. v Vfc.lT-iv lOTIIUKB UU WMI1U l( snouin thoughtlessly cause another to 7. "For in tha miritit.iiin rtf Aro many words there ore. also divers 1 but tear thou Ood." Ood said to AbraniT am the Almighty Ood ; walk before Menul J IhAll luwl...!'! . I I.A J . 1 tunii. itu., i.) Jesus says to us. . am with you always" (Math, xxviil., 20.) Ii' fact believed is thegreatest piwslblecorn-T of one's life If we tblnk of Ulm aa the H: who so loved ua that He gave Himself for Then Ills lovnwill constrain us to love wu lie loves and to avoid what He dislikes. 8. "He that is higher than the hiirue4 r- Rardeth, and there be higher than th'j Oppression of the por "u,t perversion Justice are among tho perplexing tiling life even to this day. Hut it is a verv v story. David. Asnph und Jeremiah were - uiMuriHSii by these things (l's. xxxvil., 1. IxA-iii.. 1; Ji r. sll.. 1). but Hunt is foun.1 the context of each passage, and this vr- ci our lesson assures us thut Ood do und care. Our need Is faith aud p-iti-n (Hob. x., 311. 37 : llev. xili., 10 ;xiv., U). Ti finished story will muke all clear. U. ''Moreover, the profit ol tho onrth i.i! all ; the king himself is served by the IU M Nothing lives unto itself ; all things exist I the good of all i oven tho kinir with all t wealth baste depend upou the prodis v ' thu Hold. No one can truly tulk of Isiin,- it dependent. The Ood In whoso laud breath Is, and whose are all our ways, it wnom wo live and move and hr.vo our li-u: (Dun. v., 33 j Actsxvll., 2H). will requir- t account from us for tbesetuuurs. 10. "Ho that loveth silver shall not be si's- fled with silver, nor ho that loveth abundau with increase. This is also vanitv." Tt' king wbo could niuko silver id (hi im uleDtila. as stone (I Kings x., 27) w.is nuallfleit t speak upon this subject. A greater tlu; bolomon hat advised unthut wc should lay o: treasure In heaven, aud by His Spirit bv taught us that tho love oi money Is the r of all evil (Math vi..lU-21:I Tim. vi.,10 Nothing under the sun can satisfy tho burnt soul, but it Is written. "My people shsll l ansiiea witn .uy goouuc, saltn tun Lora (Jer. sxxl.. 14). 11. "When goods increase, they nre It creased that ent them." To dosscss and ft Joy Is worth while, but to possess merely I ' i ue sake oi guziug upon is surely vanity, an yet take out of most lives all that is not trulj prolltable, nnd bow very little of earth goods will be left as the portion which ga satisfaction? Nothing under the sua satisfy the eve nor llll tho ear fahatitor I.. but let us behold our Creator and ltedoetiw In the person of Jesus Christ, and He will to us the chiofeht among 10,000 yes, sll irether lovely (Koug v., 10, 16). 12. "The sleep of a laboring man is awi1 whether be cuts little or much, but tl abundance of the rich will uot suffer hunt1 sloop." niches are uncertain, and profit u In the day of wruth (I Tim. vl., 17 ; I'rov. xL. ), but there are durable riches which acccs pany righteousness, even the riches of HL' grace aud glory (I'rov. vllL, lHtEph. L.' is), which the poorest tailoring man can h Without money and without price, and wbui win cause Mm to sleep all the mors sweeuj. xeeon Jioipur. Value of Nlokel Metal Nickel ts a metal of more lmpof tance than it used to bo, iinco it b been discovered that combined wl: teel it make the best and hardest armor for war ship, and these uoutS ern Oregon mines should not bav been allowed to pass into tho lianl of an English syndicate. Tho nlcVd for tha armor of the battlo shins no building- at Philadelphia Is procured from Canada under a regular cor:ra with the navy department. It U a most the only material entering Inu the new war vessels which U out pr ducod la the United States. Boitoi Journal Wk are willing to endure the crin line if the girls will agree not to u barbed wire. Utlca Observer. : 'cv- ; iinTY"""! '
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