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UfAOB PRIACHE8 IN TBS
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U of ChrUtUaltr. Tot of tho
1 conot Ac" m Ar Method
( Attack on Ood'a Truthi.
UlJ
M-kI rfi rhittlrvn tif Urart pilrhul
,,m WAV ftro iWr ,forJl p Wi." I
fct.,a7.
thirty-thre king drunk in onu tnt
tiplT open. in'ywr nine pioi-
the nifi'nnruw 01 iun jini i irai.
A I tin! ii a lion roar a noi'K or
III shiver (in. I huddle together. (Inn
u!d compter A tnousamt Kids. Th
pen. Thera ar a grat multi
,( Hyrlans under OHner.il lien
strong a lion. Tin Israel
few and weak. Ilka two liltlo flocks
Who beat. The lions, ot ooiirst.
: the kids, for It nil depend whether
in the side of the lions or thn kid.
Iik lttl 100.000 Hyrl.m lay dead on
I. nnil 27.000, attempting to ny, ram
l.v n great wan, wmcn toppled nud
I them to death.
i w.i the stronger weapon great
sword or little Davld'H slim
had five smooth stones rrom th brook,
iv u I one In striking down (lollath.
d' a surplus of ammunition. He had
h to takedown four more giant If they
;,i-ur I in the war. It nil depends np
.tluT (lod Id on the Hide of the alien.
l.oy or on the (tide of th" tcinnt.
re have i-ecn many in our tiny wno
n-utiir-il the opinion that Christianity
Im'l n.'k. nn l tnnt in ou ycnr It will he
t. They loumi inoir opinion on the
it-d fa--t that the Bible Is not as imi -h of
k is It usedtn le, and ti.nt portions of
, repulsive to the people, I reply hy
... Which one of the publishing ho'iisi
w York, I'hlladclprtlii. lloston or Chl
is publishing the Hib!-i to-day with the
i.n of a single versn or chapter? Are
nr publisher intelligent nieur And
i tl...- i'nntriirv to their tlrotnelnl liit..
-. j - -- -
i-rntuiue to publish the llihln without 1
xisslon ot a single ehnpter or n single
II It were becoming uu unpopular book
. people did not want It ?
liirpers or Appleton or iserlhncror Up.
It should publish a lllblo with the
inn of one ehnpter, they would not sell
i.-s in 10 yurs. 1 lie lne that through- I
Clir.stendoni there nre hundreds of j
ring pre" (Tinting the wor I of (lod
mt the omission of a chapter or n verse ,
m (li lt the lliblc Is popular, and the
tint there are more being printed In
il.'.'ii I" than any other decade proves
the lsllile Is Increasing in popularity. I
o throilicli the courtrooms ol the cotin-
W herever I (In I :i jud"'s hen.-li or n !
s I find the llllile. )iy what other I
would they tao so!i!!!i!i oath? What!
rv apt 1" nmotiif the bride's presents? I
lilWc. What is very apt to lie put in th" '
; of the younif man wuen he starts fur'
Ife? The llllile. Voltaire predii'teil
ihi' !lill4 ilurliu the ulnetoeiith .ntiirv :
i IwoMie an olisolete ioo!j. Well, we
tftty neariy through thenineeeiith'iii.
The iiilile Is not ol.solete yet. There
I lnU''ll propis't of It beeomilli; olisolete,
have to tell you that that room - the
room In which Vollair.i wrote that pre
hi -some time aifo wits crowdod from
to celling with Bihlee for Switzerland.
Ippose the congress if the I tilted States
pass a law that no llililca shou d be
iriuted In the I niteil Htati's,
ith nre ;lll,000.00) crown men and
imen In the country, then theru would he
.OOl.O'JU peoile nruied nifainst such a law.
it suppose the oouirress of the I'nltel
all's should iiass u law that M;ninl;iv'
Liter)' ort'linrles Kea le'ii novels should not
rea l could you sret half ns liirifcim army
the fourth us lare un iiruiy? In othi'r
inls. there are. as you know and I know,
thousand men who would die fur their
sj5 her there nr 50 men who would
r any other book. The fact that then)
iiw more lilblos licinsj printed than
fore, that publisher Mud It n IIikiih-IhI
est for them to continue the llllile.
r0re8 that this book Ustiilthe most popular
b-'k oa the planet.
J "Hut.'' wiy those who are nntaironlstlc.
I -Cliristliinlty Is falling back from the Inet
' tint the church Is not aa much reunited nn
it useil to lie and It Is not na lufliieiitUU." I
reply to that with the statistic that one de-
... I ... I . L. .. f... 11... I . .
uvnuu.uiuu i no ju.riiiouirH cnurcu ncconi
In to astntihtic Kiveu by one of the bishops,
rii'ilieiites on un uveragu n new church every
day of the year. Three hundred mid slxty
l)m new churches in one (lenominatkui In n
year and overa thousand uew chur.du-H built
everv yeur In this country. Does that look
as though the church were falling In It.s
powi-rnnd were becoming n wornout institu
tion? Around which institution in our com
muuitits gather the most ardent iilTcilone?
The pcistoHlee, the hotel, the courthouse, the
city hall or the churches?
Wny. when our old Taliern:i"le w:is burii
Ing tiicn were hundreds of men Man ling in
the street wlio never went to lliurch. te.irs
raining down their c ln"k. It Is b iiiscMic
church of tlo l stiinds nearer to the Ai;rl
fan people than any other institution. Men
may caricature the chur -h and call It a col
leetion ,( hypocrites, but when their chil
dren arc swept nlT with the diphtheria for
whom do they send? To the post mast ir, to
the attoruiiy generul, to the alderm or to
fhs pastors of the churches? And if there
be not room for the obsequies in the private
house what building do they solicit? Tim
academy of music, the hotel, public hall,
couriiiousei" oi the churches. An l II
they w.int music on the s.id occasion do
they select the 'Marseillaise" hymn, or
"(lod Save the QuWn,' or our own grand
National ulr? No. they want the old hymn
With which we ang their old Christian
mothers to sleep. They want the Sunday
acbool hymn that their little girl sing th-
last Kablmth nfteruoou she was out before
ahe v seized with the awful sickles. that
bioke ilit tier's heart and mother's heart. Oh,
you know as well as l do I shall not dwell
on it any longer the church of Cod. instead
ot being a wornout institution, stands nean r
the sympathies of the people than it ever
lld and oclips-s all other Institutions.
But our antagonists eo on and say that
Christianity! falling back, In the fact that
intldeliiy is bolder now unit morn blatant
than it ever was. I deny the statement. In
'fidelity is not near so bold now as it was in
the days of our fathers and grandfathers.
There were times in this country when men
Who were openly and above board iulldel and
antagonistic to Christianity could be elected
to high olllce. Now, let some man wishing
hlh position In the State proclaim himself
the foe of Christianity an I an inlldul. how
many States of the I'ulon would he carry?
how many counties? how uiauy wards in
Brooklyn'.' Not one.
Ah, my friends, Inlldelity In this day is not
half ns bold us it used to lie. If it comes
now, it Is apt to come under the disguise of
rhi'torio or fantastic sentimentality. I know
if a man with great Intelligence does become
an inlldul and begins an attack on Chris
tianity it makes great excitement of course
it does, and people come to the conclusion,
weakmlnded Christians come to the conclu
sion, that everything is going overboard be
cause some niuu of strong intellect assails
Christianity.
If a man jumps overboard from a C'umird
eteamer, lie makes more excitement thau nil
the C0U sane passengers who continue in the
berth I or ou the decks, but does that atop
the ship? Does that wreck nil the 600 pas
sengers? It makes great excitement when a
man leaps from a platform or u pulpit Into
Inlldelity, but does thut hinder our glorious
Bible troin taking its millions Into the skies?
1 tell you iultdulity is not ball a bold now as
It used to be.
Do yon suppose such things could he
enacted now uk were enacted lu the days of
ltobespierrc, when a shameless woman was
olected to be goddess, and she was carried
on a golden chair to a cathedral, and the
people l owed down to tier as a divine being
lnd burued luoen.e before her she to take
the place of the bible, and of Chrietlamty,
amd of the I.orJ AWilguty? And while that
eorainony was going on la the cathedral, Ju
of SJ
h! .P1 I""1 ,n ,h" '""Mors a.ljolnlna
n the wot-iT k ! n,,Jr were envied such
as the world had never seen. Co iM such a
thing as that transpire now? No sir Th!
poll; would swoop on It. wh-ther In pi",
rorn:,r,,r,,r,9n'thfti:M
I. "!!!;1"k uT ""S"nM.. "Chrlstlanltv
li u.k ause science. Its chief
rj?". .I' ' ,1rl,,mPh'n "ver It." Now. I deny
ta5I?r W" aelencean.1
IhlTm .'J"'" ft In science
triat may not he ma I to harmonlne with the
atateinent, f ,h, n)K urh J(
" i nTfk ' "M PwfeMor Hllllman , so
said Professor Mitchell.
lu" ',r,"ta,! of Hay were all agreed,
and they came up with solid front to attack
h.r '""'I' I",r,1l "-y might make
some Impression upon It. but they are not
agreed It Is often said that we religionists
"" aoroeaey of Christianity
because we differ In our theologv. I tell you
we do not differ Inside the church In theol
ogy half ns much as they dfT-r outside the
church In science. If they reject our rellg.
Ion liecjuse we differ In some minor points,
we might just as well reject science les-Hlls..
the scientists differ, but ns far as I can tell
the war of ItilUel science against Chrlstl
anlty is not so severe as It used to lie. be.
cause these men are antagonistic v each
other, and as far as I can tell It Is going to
be a war lietween telesitipe and telescope,
I.eyden Jar and I.eyden jar. chemical appar
atus an I chemical apparatus. They do not
agree on anything.
Do you suiiposcthattlils illhlethorva!io it
the origin of life is goimr to lie overthrown
by men who have different theories -,v dif
ferent theories nlsiut the orlirin of life?
And when Agasslr. comes nut and puts both
feet on the doctrine of evolution mid says In
regard to many scientists . "I notlce'tha:
these young niturillsts are adopting as the
ories in science things which have not passed
under observation." Agiu.l; saw what we
nil s -e thai there nr m,. wn,, vry
wis ly who know but very little, n-i I that
just as soon as a young s dentist nn s,mt the
difference between the feelers of a w.lsp and
the horns of a in , he begins to patronlxe
the Almighty and go iilMC.it talk illl? .'tliiiiit
culture as though It were spelled e-u-i-e-h-:i-r
eulehar '
It maki me sick to sen thes literary fops
going down th" street with a copy of D-ir in
under oiiearm. and ac.iseof transtlxed grass,
hoppers and butterflies un ler the other arm.
talking alsiut the survival of the t'ltte.,t,"
and Huxley's "Protoplasm." and tho Nebu
lar Hypothesis," mid talking to us common
men as though we were fools ! Ifthey agr I
In their theories mid came up with solid facts
against Christianity, I say perhaps they
might make some impression, but they do not
agree. Darwin charge upon l.amarck. Wal
lace Upon Cope. Ilersellel even charged
upon Ferguson. They do not agree about
the gr.tdattouof til" species ; they do not
agree about embryology. What do they
agree about ?
llcrseliel wrote n whole chapter of what he
calls "Krrors In Astronomy." I.a Plneesiys
that the moon was not put' In the right nlace :
that if it had been put four times th" distance
irom o;ir worio there would have been more
harmony in the universe. ;ut I.lonvillc
comes up just In time to prove that the Lord
was wise mid put th-moon In the right place.
How many colors woven Into the light?
Seven, sas Newton. Tnrec. says David
Brewster. How high Is the aurora 'hop-alls?
Two and a half mlb-s high, says Bias. Due
hundred nn I sixty-live miles, siys Twlnlg?
How far is the hiii from theearth? Seventv
six million rtiib-s, says Biic-illle ; Si.don.ihMi
miles, says Humboldt : W,IO:I,0(M miles, says
Henderson ; lil4,0i;i.niH) miles, savs Mayer.
Only 11 little dllTeretice of VS.OOil.lMH) miles:
These men say we do not agree In religion.
Do they agree In sclenee? Have they come
up with solid front to assault our glorious
Christianity?
"(Lmtlemen of the Jury, have youngro l
upon your vor-llcl?" the court or the clerk
says to the jury, having been out all uight,
on coming lu. "11 ive you agree 1 on your
verdict?'' If tlicy say yes. the ver.iiet Is
taken and recorded. If they sny. "No, we
have not agreed," they are s-ut back to the
jury room. Ii one Juryman should sny, "I
think the man is guilty of luur ler,' and an
other juryman should s iy, "I think he Is
guilty of manslaughter. ' and another Jury
man should say, "I think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent to kill," the
iudgu would lose his patience and say, "Go
nick to your room now and make up a ver
dict. Agree on something."
Well, my friends, there has been a grent
trial going on for centuries and for ngea be
tween Skepticism, the plaintiff, verses
Christianity, the defendant. The scientists
have been imp.iueled mid sworn on the Jury.
They have been gone for centuries, .some of
them, an I they oome back, and we say,
"(icutlemen of the jury. hav you ugreej
upon a verdict?" Tney siy, "No, we have
not agreed.' Then we s iy, "lio Im 'k for a
lew more cetdurlesaiel then come In audsee
If you can agree, st e if you can render some
verdict." Now, tin-re is n it the meanest
prisoner in the Tombs Court who would be
condemned by a jury that did not agree, and
yet you expect us to renounce our glorious
Christianity for such a miserable verdict as
Unset men have reinb-re , they thurus -lvcs
not having been able to agree.
But my subject shall no longer be de
fensive j It must be aggressive. I must show
you that instead of Christianity falling back
It is on the march, an I that thecoming relig
ion of the world Is to be the religion of the
I. or I Jesus Christ lO.OO'i times intensiib-d.
It Is to take poss -ssion ol everything of nil
laws, all manners, all customs, ull cities, all
nations. It is going to be so mighty us com -pcrcd
with what it has been, so mm-h more
iioghty that it will seern almost like a new
religion.
I adopt this theory because Christianity
has gone on straight ahead notwithstanding
all the bombardment, and inlldelity has not
destroyed a church, or crippled a minister,
or rooted out one verse of t tie Bible, nil 1 now
their ammunition seem to be pretty much
exhausted. They cannot get iiuythlngnew
against Christianity, ami if Christianity has
gone on under the bombardment of cen
turies und still continues to advance, may we
not conclude that, tis the powder and shot of
the other side seem to be exhausted, Chris
tianity Is going on with more rapid stride?
I find au encouraging fact in tho thought
that the secular press In this day and t lie
pulpit seem harm sse I In the same team fori
the proclamation ol tne gospel, to-morrow
there will not be a banker ou Wall street o
State street or Third street who will not have
in liis pocket or ou his table tre.itises on
Christianity, calls to repentance an 1 Scrip
ture passages, 'JO or :u of them, in the re
port of the Christian churches of this cliy
mid oilier cities. Why, that thing would
have been impossible :i few year ago. Now
ou Monday morning and Monday evening
the secular press spreads abro.id more re
ligious truth than all the tract so'-ieties of
the country spread lu the other six days.
Blessed be the tract societies ' We hallthem,
and we hail these others.
I say It would have been impossible a few
years ago. Hundreds of letters would have
come to the secular newspaper olllees. say.
Ing, "Stop my paper : we have religion on
Sunday : don t give us uny through the
week. Stop my paper." But 1 have been
told that many of the secular papers have
their largest circulation on Monday morning,
and the whole population of this country are
becoming senium renders. Besides that,
have you not uotieed the papers proclaiming
themselves secular almost every week have
religious discussions in them?
(io back a few yeure when there was not a
decent paper lu the I'nlted Stati-S that had
not a discussion on the doctrine of eternal
punishment. Small wit made merry, I
know, but there was ns: an intelligent man
in the United State that a u result of that
controversy lu regard to eternal punishment
did not ask hlmseli the question, "What la
to lie my eternal destiny?" And some yearn
ago when Tyudall offered bis prayer gauge
there wua not a senular paper iu the I'nlted
St .its that (lid not discus the question I
"Does God ever answer prayer I May the
creature impress the Creator?"
Are not ull thes-j fucu eueonrutfing to ev-
ery Christian nnl evsry philanthropist
Besides, that, the rising generation are be
ing saturated with gospel truth aa no othei
generation by thla International aeries of
Sunday-school leseons. Formerly the chil
dren were expected only to nibble at the lit
tle Infantile Scripture storlee. hut now the)
are taken from Genesis to Itevelation, th
strongest Dilnds of the country explaining
the lessons to the teachers, and the teacher
explaining them to the classes, ami we art
going to have In this country fi.000.000 youth
forestalled for Chrlstlanltv. Hoar It ! Heat
it !
Besides that, you must have noticed. If you
nave talked on these grent themes, that they
are finding out that while science is grand
in sceninr directions, they cannot give any
comfort to a soul In trouble.
Talking with men on steamboats snl in
rail cars. I find they nr coming hack to the
comfort of the gosped. They sny, "Somehow
human science doesn't comfort me when I
have nny trouble, and I must try something
else." And they nre trying the gospel.
Take your scientific consolation to the
mother who has Just lost her child. Apply
the doctrine of the "survival of the fittest.''
Tell her that her child died because Its life
was not worth as much as the life of one that
lived. Try that If you dan Goto the dying
man with your transcendental phrnesoiogv
and te hi in he ought to have confidence In
the great "to lx' and the everlasting "now."
and the eternal "what Is It?" and go on with
your consolation and see if he Is comforted.
Go to that woman who has lot her hus
band and tell her it was a geologlcnl neces
sity that that man passed out of existence.
Just as the megatherium disappeared in or
der to make room for n higher style ot cre
ation, and go on with your consolation nn 1
tell her that there Is a Misslhillty that 10,.
OOii.niHi years from now we oiirseives mny lt
gisilogieal specimens on the geologlcnl slid',
pi-trilled specimens ol the extinct human
race.
And nter you hnve got all through with
your consolation. If the poor afflicted soul Is
not utterly cra.J. I will send out the plain
est Chrlstim from my church, and with one
half hour of prayer and the reading of
Scripture promts -s the tears will lie staid,
an I the consolation tin I Joy In that hoit
will be like the calmness of an Indian sum
ti er sunset. There will be n glorv flooding
the house irom floor tii cupola. Oli, people
are Hil ling out themselves -and thev all
have troubles they tin I that philosophy mil
seien -e do Hot help tlle-li when tin-re Is a
deal babein the house. They arc coming
ba -k to our glorious ol 1 fashioiie I sympa
thetic religion.
oh, young man, do not be ashamed to be
found on the side of the .MiMc. Do not Join
those young men who In this day put their
thii'iib lu their vi-st an I swagger niMiiit the
street and the stores talking about th glo
rious nineteenth century, about its light lie.
Ing suiileieiil without nnv Bible un I without
liny Christ and Without nnv Co I, The time
Is coming we may not live to s-e It, but 1
should not be surprised if w did see It -
when this whole eoiintrv Is to be one great.
church, the forests the aisles, the Allegheny
and the Itoeliy Mountains th" pillars, the
chain of Inland lakes tin baptist rii-s. and the
worship the hallelujahs .-horns to Him vho
was an I Is and shall be evermore, oh, nan
over to the majority - co iic mi ler t lei ban
ner of Ivnntmcl.
Vernon was t no so a i.fuu Knglls'i spilr".
He was brought up lu great elegance. There
was a neiii working ou the pla f tne name
of Balph. Vernon used to often talk with
It alph. After awhile Vernon went off to
college an) c ime I nick with his min 1 full of
skepticism. He talked his skepticism to
Kalpli. the workman. After awhile lemon
went Irom home again. w.is gone for years.
came back, and among his ilrst i(iiestions
wheu getting home w.is, "Where Is K-llpll.'
"Oh; said the lather, "llalp'i Is in prison
w ilting lor the day of ex 'c-itloii.'
Vernon hastened to see lialph. Balph,
looking through the wicket of the orison.
said: "Vernon, how good you are to come
and see mo'. 1 urn glad to sec you. I hardly
expected VOII Would colll' and see me. I
don't blame you : I don't hl.rno anybody : 1
only bhime myself ; but. Vernon, I wmit you
to promise me one thing. Will you?" Vernon
replica. "I will. "I want you to promise
me never to talk skepticism In the presence
of auyliody. ion see It might do them rnrm.
When you used to s iv there was nothing lu
the Bible, and it didn't make uny difference
how we lived, wn would come out happy at
the last, somehow It had a bud Influence up
on me, aud 1 went from had to worse until 1
am here, and I must die for my crimes. ''
By almost superhuman effort the sentence
was changed, and no was to lie transported
to another country for life. The ship going
there was wrecked on Van Ulemetis l.niid.
Among those who perished was Ibilpti. the
victim of Vernon's skepticism. Vernon tell
the storv to-day with tears and a broken
heart, but It Is too late! Oh, do not talk
skepticism! le-rool lei true, though i-vry
man be touiid a liar.
Tin I'olc's Allracllon.
Tln piili 'H attraction fur nther 1
jocts lu-siilcs till' tnic;iii-tio tieeille Las,
tip to the pri'srlit tilne, lit-i-ti ill luht
imperfectly iiuili-rstnoil, owing to tint
i im'i mi li t i'Ik ss f the iliitu f iiruinlii il
By those wlii iniike Mich iiialters u
htmly. That miltiy ulijei-ts possess n
will iimlki il polarity, however, tlu-rc
ih not tin- least iloiilit. It is a well-
known fact that if n luir of eoft iron
tie hi is t-i 1 1 1 c 1 1 hiilVu-ii'litly lone; in tho
air, eny tit n height of from ou-- to
four fit-l uliovt- the Mirfiii'f, it will he
roine iiiiiglii'ti.i-il, ami tin mhls in what
position it wns originally plu.'eil, it will
(if so liiiliuii'i-il us to h.i free to inovi1),
eventually iiKHiitnr ii north nini sonth
direction.
It in also I'luimoil By experimenters:
that n 1 i v i 1 1 k human Innly, Htreteheil
rigidly upim u Bouril perfeetly jiivoteil,
will quickly "lino up" in u north an. I
south direction, the hi-ml pointing; to
ward the pole. This faculty i not
preht-iit in n corpse, ami it occurs to
the writer thut if there is really any
thing in it, it would Be u splendid
Mouth teat."
Another "polarity" proof in thla:
I'hicu one end of a demagnetized Imr
of iron upon the ground, iiii-lined ho
that tho end in your hand point to
ward the polo htur, atriko it one wlmrji
Mow with a heavy hammer nud it will
immediately tu'ipiire "polarity" and
will Be found to exhibit nil the well
marked tpiulitiea of a muglict. Kt.
liuiiia ltfpulilic.
Bullet W lives.
Ono of tho interesting results of the
recent experiments in J'mglund in
photographing flying Bullets has Been
to allow thut tho disturbance in tho
uir travels faster than the bullet Hi
self.
Tho photographs exhibit uir wuvea
in advance of the bullets, even when
the luttt-r uru moving faster than the
velocity of sound.
Iu ono cast where the bullet was
moving considerable faster than souud
travels iu tho uir it wux preceded By un
atmospheric, disturbance which, ut
the moment tho photograph was taken,
wua half uu inch iu advance of the
point of tho bullet. Even when tho
bullets were, traveling four times as fast
un sound tho atmospheric disturbuueo
kept ahead of them.
TEMPERANOl
Vjintkd.
Wanted, a water drinker
Who tastes not wine or Wr,
Put nobly keeps his temperance PloJgyt
And drinks a beverage elea J
Wanted, aa act ire soldier,
To boldly take his stand.
And seek to drive our great cat fo
from our beloved Ian
Wanted, new memlers quickly,
To Join us on the field :
And, thus Increasing day by day,
The enemy must yield.
Wanted, a tried teetotaler,
With courage brave and true. v
Who never fails when asked to drln'i '
To show his badge of blue.
Vnnted, an earnest worker,
Iu this grat cause of right,
Who bravely works In sunshine's smllo.
Or In t bla.-k.sjt night.
Wanted, a daring David.
To slay the giant drink.
And until this coinpiest Is achieved
Our hnnd will neier shrink.
K .te Kelsey, in Temperance Banner.
wnv TAKK run rt.fctmt?
PsnjS: "I took the pledge when I was a
lpy. 1 think It has saved me much trouble
and pain, nnd brought me much pe,,e. iln I
enjoyment. As I look back I see nianv oftiiv
early acquaintances whose pros) ts were
fully as good as mine were, but who have
been overcome by poverty and disgrace be
cause they Indulged in a social glass. "
K says i "I work for a concern emp:oi,n-
many men. I was diMippoln'od In s '.-urui
i romotloii n couple of times. 1 hap 1 to
lienr the reason was that I sometimes (.,.,!
more then was god ler me, so I ouit. .ml
lately my pay has been raised. '
TDK t.oNO CANAL'S Vll TIM l.
Ilave you never heir.l of thai e.-,n-il th-d
runs through this country llttv miles :.,m
forty feet wide an I ten f.s-t ,e.-p.' ,!
strungel Why. It is not only one of the ..(,
dem of earth but a w.iii b-r t-i the Inhabitants
of heaven as well. It i, ulled witli li.,i..r- i
new supply every y.-ar -and down ea.-n bank
.. ........ ... . ami niioiner line ,,itvu
the middle -m arly l.vi miles of corpses
I hey are the yearly victims of the c,r -ai. t
llobls-r on Barth. He is through roM-in
Ihemtlie hue taken evervthing, in 'In lin
their life, nn I liny h- ,s no lurth.-r use f,,r
'hem. He Is at work on others. ,,, ,K -lt a
mnp nnd you w ill s e Pi.aginarv Im. s ru-i-
tllllg Irom one side of the I'llile'.l Mates to
-.he other, Iln s, ,,f latitude j but there is one
lino which the geographers have lorgotten t-i
mt In, nnd it runs from the Atlantic to th .
I'a.-lllc, clear across th milii-nt. What is
It? A line of ris ling, staggering, maudlin
humanity, if.Sisi.msi driiiiknrd- bv a c;.,s .
Miniate, roblw 1 ot everything. ilmost (.e,.pt
life by this witnn tircatcst B0i,i r u Baftiu
-Voice.
tin'. Triiim r or scmi r.
"Hill," cry out the i hainpions of alcohol.
"If It Is neither a food nor a hctt-givcr, at
least It aids In the digestion ,,f food." Soin.
jM-opIo are never tired of telling their neigh
iHirs that they Iln I a great beneilt fr un
n glasa of I r or wine taken at
dinner. It would be more correct for
such people to say that they lind great
henellt from their dinner, for It' Is the dinn. r
that strengthens them, and n-t the I r or
wine. As n matter of fat alcohol In any
form actually retards the digestion of !...., I
and it Is unfortunately an every-dnv oectir
teiice for drunkards to vomit half digested
ir wholly undigested food hours and eveu
tlnvs after partaking of It.
The peculiar case of Alexis St. Martin, whr
was wounded during the American war, has
afforded splendid opportunity of studying
this Important point. The injury which the
Ball lntlli-tcd r-n hlin was sueh that a hole
Was made In the stomach, which remained
open and was used "as a door by which to
Introduce substance into the stomach, and a
Window through which to look lu and ex.
amine effect!." Dr. Beaumont, the nrmy
Mirgcon at tho time, brought St. Martin tis
Ills own home and kept hi in there for three
years, during which a series of most careful
experiments were made which have pro veil
of inestimable value eyersiuce. Now, among
the substances Introduced into the stomach
of St. Martin was alcouol, the cITccls of which
Dr. Beaumont carefully watched nnd tioied
down. It was found that when this was
glveu to the patient the stomach Is-came
covered with Inllamatory and uli-er-ms
patches j the secretions were vitiate mid the
gastric juice diminished III quantity, and of
an unnatural viscidity: and vet.' notwith
standing this, he described himself as per
fectly well, and complained of nothing. Bv.
dently, therefore, from the testimony of St,
Martin, great harm may result from the in.
Induction of alcohol Into the systc-n, ul.
though the person who indulges, even in
small quantities, may be altogether uncon
scious ot its injurious results.
n eminent Kdiubiirgh physician. Dr.
Pigg, t'dls us that he has be.-n frequently
railed in to prisicriha for patients after their
drunken debauch of Saturday night, uu I
that a "mustard emetic has always It. varia
bly brought up the substance of the dinner
d the previous day, with little or no change,
save that produced by mastication." It Is
Scarcely nec-ssary to remark that had tlnn
persons not tes-u drinking, nil traces of their
dinner would have disappeared from their
Momuch iu the course of a few hours.
Here Is one of the examples he pro luce to
prove that alcohol docs not aid lu the diges
tion of food "An intemperate. Irreclaim
able woman partook of a little barley broth
for her midday nn-al, previous to joining a
festive party iu the house of a sailor's wife.
Having an unlimited supply of spirits she
drank herself to sleep at 4 a. in., and was
found dead at 0. Ou opening tho body the
barley broth was found intact, the gram i nud
Vegetable unreduced."
TEMPrSANI'K SKWS AND SoTI'S.
The President of the lioyal College of Phy.
Slclans, Ireland, says - "All theclarct in the
universe could not manufacture uu,i drop of
blood."
The annual meeting of the National Non
partisan W. C. T. I', will be held lu Chicago,
lit the Isabella Hotel, the Urst week of No
vember. If cither the rum drinker, the rum seller
or the rum maker should gc out of the busi
in s entirely, the other two Would Juivo to
hut up shop.
Five Good Templars are members of the
present British House of Commons, nud
ubout sixty other members of I'arllameiit nro
understood to be total nlistaincrs.
Tho money value of the alcoholic drinks
consumed by the Belgians In tho year ls'.'l
amounted to nearly 450,000,000 fram-s, which
is about a third part of tho wholu uvcragu
wages of tho workers.
It Is stated that out ot :n,00.) school chil
dren in Knglnnd examined by tin doctors,
more than thirty per cent, were found sutTer
lug from physical or mental defects, largely
attributable, either directly or Indirectly, tu
the drinking habits of their parents.
The Scientific American, which cannot bo
Accused of fanaticism, says : "It Is our ob
servation that beer drinking In this country
produce the very lowest kind of inebriety,
closely allied to criminal insanity. The most
dangerous class of ruflluus lu our large cities
are beer drinkers."
Mrs. Jennie Hauser, of Lm-know, India,
has been appointed President of the W. C.
T. U. ot India. Mrs. Hauser says of that
country "Aside from the missionaries,
oareoly one In five hundred of Kngliah peo
ple are total abstainers. But a great inter
vat In temperance is being awakened among,
influential natives."
xov can una a & unci red people who
are courageous where you will And
oue w&pU patleot
SUNDAY SCKOQb
LESSON FOB SUNDAY, SEPT. 94
Quarterly JUsvlsw, Acts svl.,
Qoldtn Tsit: Roman .
Commentary
nvlll
17 I.tssos I. Tsui called to F.Jropo (Act
Ivt.,B-lJ). Golden Text (Math. XX vlll. . Ill),
"(Io ye, therefore, and teach all nations,
baptising them in tho name of the Father,
and of the Hon. aud of the Holy Ohoet.
This quarter's studies might he summed up
in the phrase, "(lod glortll.-d In Paul" (!hI.
I., 2i tor wherever he went and whatever
he did his ambition was that Christ should
tie magnified In his tiody i Phil. I., W). This
particular lceon Illustrates the words,
"Led by the spirit of Ood." "Do as occasion
serve thee, for Ood Is with thee," "My word
shall not return unto me void" (Horn, vlll.,
14: 1 Sam. x., 7 i Isa. Iv 11).
I.r.sso II. Paul tit Philtppl (Acts xvl
19-341. tlolden Text (Acts xvl.. 31). "Be
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt lie saved." As we follow Paul from
place to place, let us rememlM-r his words,
Not I, but Christ." '-The life of Jesus
manifest in our mortal fbsth" if Bit. II.. an j
II Cor. iv., 11). IB- bus grace to praise dod.
even though his back Is .oiirg-d, his feet In
Iho Mocks nnd lie cast into prison. He takes
pleasure In rejoach. s and persecution i II
Cor. xll., 101 for Christ's snke. He has no
llitlueni-e with the in.igistr.de. but he has
power with (lod. nn I a household finds
Christ.
f.r.sso III. Paul . Athens (Acts xvil.,
'ii-'M K Cioldcn Text iJohi. iv., ill I. "(tod Is
a Spirit, and lin y that worship Hun must
worship 1 1 1 in in spirit nud In truth." Jour-
bevlng through th liters of earth's wisdom
and culture and seeing the hlitidcss of people
to the rcallt ii s of time end eternity, he is.-oii-stralned
to tell them of tne true (lod. who Is
lot w llling that any should prisi, but that
ull should come to repentance ( ( Vt. ill. , ;i i,
ami of him who Is to be the judg" .. all, even
Ho w ho wa ilclii.-rod for our o.'T- iises and
rise again for our justlib-atmn (Komi. iv..
2:l-'.'.'i i.
l.i;sso! IV. Paul ut Corinth (A-'ts xvlll.,
1-11. I t. olden text I I Cor. I., IS. "The
preaching of the cross Is to tlieni Hi u perish
bullishness, but unto us which are saved it Is
the power of (lod." See the hand of th"
I.ord lu bringing Aqulla and I'nseilla to
('oriut Ii about this ti-ne. Thus Paul is pro
vided with a home nud employment s i that
he mnv Ireely pre.i.-h th" gospel, aiel they
became qualified to teach others of Christ
( verse -21'.. I N"te the Lord's care of Hissi-r-
n lit and Ills kind wor.is to lii-n in verses i.
In. Make much of the promts ' "1 am with
thee," n ii.) compare l-'.x. III., IJ ; Iv., I'J ; .losh.
I., ft. l:.lu.lg. vi.. in :. ler. I., N, Hag. I..
Bl : Ii., 4 ; Math, xxviil., 'JH.
I.rssox V. Paul at K hesus i ..-ts xlx.,
I-U.l lioldeii Text i.lohi- xl.. Bli. "When
lie, the Spirit of Truth. Is come, He will guide
you Into all truth." Now we have two years
at I'.pheHiis resisting In all In the pr ovin if
Asia hearing the gospel i verse 10 1 and so left
without excuse. t seems to m-. that the
Lord would be glorified and His coming
greatly hastened if the church would neglect
some other things und arise o give every
soul ou earth a chance to hear lie- gospel
once at b-list.
I. fssoN VI. Paul at Miletus (Acts vwlll ,
H M."i. i liohlcn Text i lleb. xiil.. 7 viicmcinhcr
them w hich havcthe rule over you, who have
spoken llllto you the Word "f tin. I." II" Is
lew on his way to Jerusalem, returning from
bis third missionary tour, lie knows that
more MiiTcring awaits him, hut he gives that
no thought. He only .bsircs to testify of
Christ and Ihii-h his ministry i verse -j i.
1. 1. "so Vll. I 'mi I ut Jerusalem (A-ts .l.,
27-:l;n. (iolden Text (Phil, i., -j:m, --I'orunto
you It Is given in the 1,1-half of Christ not
only to believe on Him, but also to slitter for
His sake," I'uu has now fallen into the
bauds of religious -eulots who Iriicw not the
Lord Jesus, nud gladly w-iilid tlicy kill him
as they did his Masi- ri but Paul is safe till
Ids work is done, though be may bo calluo
upon to endure much suffering.
Lesson MIL- Puill Before I-'ellx (Acts
XXiv.. 10-26). (iolden Text (I Cor. xvl., l.i),
"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you'
like nieu, be strong." Paul is now a pris
oner at Ciesiwi .t, iu the liandsof the Komarrs,
and this lesson is hi testimony before the
governor, pellx, and In answer to his ac
cusers, the high priest ami elders Irom Jer
usalem. He confesses to bis llrm faith in
all the things written iu the law and in the
prophets, iu the resurrection th,- dead and
in the n ssity of having a conscience void
of offense toward (lod nnd man. Later in
tile lesson ho preaches Christ before I'elix
mid Drusilln, and reasons o. righte iusih .,
tcmperunce and Judgment to i
Lkshon IX.-Paul Before Agrqipa ( A--ts
XXll., l'.l-:l'.'l. (iolden Text ll Cor. I.. I'll.
"Christ the power of (iod and the wisdom of
(bid." After two years Paul is sllll a pris
oner at Cn-h iP-a (chapter mv.. 21 , and inn
ing appealed unto C.-rsar, 1'i-sius. tho new
governor, desires him to tctity before King
Agrippa, that he may have some . Infinite ac
cusation to send witii him to Cn-sar.
I.v.snon X.- Paul Shipwrecked ( A- ts xwll..
30-441. (Iolden Text ( Ps. xlvi., II. --ilod Is
our refuge and strength, n very present help
III trouble." The close i(-t lesson lliado
us feci sorry that Paul ever appealed to
Cn-sar, but (tod's ways are higher man ours,
and we learu in terse '24 of this chapter that
It was (bid's purpose to bring Paul before
Cn-sar. Nothing can frustrate to id's pur
poses ( Ps. xxxill.. 11; Isa. xiv.. all. while
man's vain imaginings will always come t.
naught. Hatitu hud inuuv tluiue nought tJ
kill Pnnl, and this storm t probul-iy nnot'ier
attempt of his. but the l.o. I ilivern. mi l
s.giin is coiifoiinde I, What J-'-us said con
ee'tiing His church Is tni" also of every
inemtier of it t.Malh. .vi.. IS; John x. , i!s i.
I.l.sso.v XL- Paul at Borne i Acts xxviil.,
20 III i, (ioiden Text ( Kom. i.. lf, "I nm
not ashamed of tint gospel of Christ." Tho
purpose of Hod has thus tar I u accom
plished, and Paul Is at last in Ttonic, still u
prisoner, it is true, but free to r ive all
who come to him and to prci-h to them the
kingdom of Hod and the things concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ ( verses Mil, Ml). This
is almost the last we hear of Paul, and wu
find htm still expounding Scripture, and
from Mo.ji-s nud the proph-is preaching Je
sus I verse IWi. May the last heard ol us be
Oil the same line,
Lksson XII. Personal Bcsponsibildy
(Bom. xiv., fi J.'li, (A Temperance lesson. )
Golden Text ( Horn, xiv., '.'II. "It is good
neither to eat Ib-sli. nor to drink vine, nor
anything whereby thy brother st.itiil.lcth."
1 would emphasize in this lesson ju-t the
thought of the whole quait-r thai these
bodies of ours are for Christ, not lor our
selves: thai as "even Christ pleased not
Himself" i Bom. xv., !l ). so W" are t.j live,
not unto ourseives, put unto Him who died
for us and rose again ill Cor. v.. 15 1, the
kingdom of God ami His righteousness being
always llrst with e ( vers.- 17 nud Math, vi.,
SUiiunl everything tested by "How will it
appear" nt the Judgment scat of Christ
(verse 10 ; II Cor. v.. 10)? -Lesson Helper.
Who Were Darby nml .Juan?
The. miiiioi lur!iy ami Jmwiaro now
synonymous with man unil wife.
They or Initiated In a jxit til;ir Ballail
called "D.u bv and .loan," writ tun By
Henry Woodfall in Mm last century.
It Is not generally known that tlie,
two characters of the Bullad were
roal personatfcH. J( hn Darbv and his
wife lived at Karl holoincw Close, and
died Id lT.'iO. In tho pnoin Joan get
dissatisfied with Being a household
lirudtfe, and declares that hur work
Is harder than her husband s labors
In tho Cold, lie offers to ext hiinKo
places with her, and ahe consent.
The result is that I oth aro oulte con
tent to go tack into their legitimate
inheres.
rOPCLARSUEXCE.
An artesian well strnoV at Chamrier
lain, Hoiith lnkota, lias flow of 8000
galions of water irr rninnte.
Knglisli medical journals Lnre new
Ueorjr that scarlet fever ia catching
before what ia knowu as tho peeling
periuil.
If yon were on tho moon tho ervrth
would appear to be aixt.r-fonr time
larger than the sun does to tho real
denta of our globe.
People of good sense, delicacy anl
refinement h ive eyelids that nra sharp
I.T define 1 and ahndn at leant half tlitl
UjM r iart of tho eye.
To make 101)0 enbie feet of illumin
ating gas eight pounds of coal, costing
tw.i cents an I four gallons of naphtha,
costing twelve cents, are rcijinrod.
In Ktigland, Francn and nermnnr
the ratio of multiple) births ia thirteen
twins per 1000, mi l IHO triplets nnd
eight ipt-i lruplcts per l,tti),),0:)0 births.
The ureit telescope ennstrttrdpil for
the nbservat iry near Nice, Italy, his
an object glass three feet ill diameter
and w ith a f.i.-al lcnelii of fifty -throu
feet.
The ruby, B-ipphire, oriental topn,
orient it amethyst, oriental npt
tniiritie, oriental clirysnlite, hyncitith,
Htur rttliy. si iv s'ljipliire, star topnz nro
nil coriiti Innis of ihil'. reiit colors.
"Walk in b-if" is tho nam" of an
insect whie'i makes its living on tliea
by tiiukiii f itself rcseitile ii 1-t.f tri a
tree. When th niisiHtiectitrj 11 y
alights within rci -h it is cuulit und
crushed in u t .uii'.lnu',
in nn nrti--!e by Poclorl. Schlii'hter
on th" historical evident as to tip)
nntii!iitv of th- .itnb-ilnve ruins, t if
vrit--r el iinn thit the works are pr.?
Tsliimic, un I c.nil. I nol possibly hv
been built Infer tlri'i six e-ntiiru-s be
fore the Molri'itmedati era.
Killing niiiili ss ilo .;s mid eat 4 is tti"
very hitest use to vvliich the Hcientilin
Chief of Police of Hartford, Conn., i
piittitie; ele.dri-Mty to. Ill the rear of
th" station Inmso ho h-is h i-l a me.i
rigged up with el -clrieal eotitiectiotiM.
The cage is just Isr.g" eiioiigh for a
dog to stale! ill. Tile fore feet of thn
niil'iinl rest upofi one i h-ct rode and Ilia
hiti-1 lei t upon iitiidln-r. Wln ti lie in
in position on tlcetrio current is
t-w ill-hod on.
''Ileliuho'.t '," s ivs I'.leetricily, "Ims
th nvn t Ii it tie' fundi of t lie eyes nro
th 'luselves bnoitioiis, and he was alibi
to - i i t d il diirl nesi. the move
nieiit of ii i st urui by the light of his
own eyes. This Is one of the most r.f
innri.ali!e experiments record'-d in tho
hist iry of science, und probably onlf
n lew men could satisfactorily repeat
it, for it is wry likely that the lumin
osity of tin- eves is associated with un
co, union activity of tho brain an i
Krent im-kgiu.it ivii power. It is ilitor-esi-cnce
of brniiiii 'lion, ns it were."
Artificial ti.iiiiatiire miroris of tho
bore-i. , y .irietv' Ii , 1 ilodliceil
Un
Hive, the l-'re.'.cll Blk-
a"I f
t'romf..!li:'
ji.ihtro.ii, the Swedis
III Professor Lens, it
cxpi rimeiii 'whieli w .-re biiiJi! in t
hind, the n ak of n hi'h mountain t
vurroiiudod by a coil ut
ut iuti rvals with t in nibs. 'i'ho wire
was then char .-oil with electricity,
whereupon a brilliant aurora appearm.'
iibove tlie mountain, in which ap.'ctro
neopie nnalysis revealed the ;-TeeiiisUr
vellow ravs so eiinr i.'teriHtic in ink-
lure's display of "northern li;",!it."
Hoarding Houses lor I'hcifs.
A ti w it t i 1 novel o ciipntiou for wo
men to open boarding houses for
plants.
IL re is ii field oH'. riti ; pleasiitit work
nn I lair remiiiierat ion.
There is ii grow in"; demand for miiiih
one nblo and w illiu--; to take i-ure of
valuable plants and llowers during tint
owner's iibs'-iiee. A family goes
ikbroa I for the winter, or to the mchv
eid" for the Mim:n-r, Hi" house is
closed or else li lt in til" churge of ser
vants who may not know uu orchid
from a fin 1 i ll. i ,v . r. What become of
the rare lilln-s, the heliotropes, tho
fuchsias and th" other fragile beauties
which have been so tenderly cared for
by tie- ladles of the household? For
one such family which can afford it
private gardener tlo-re are looj which
canted. The need of n plant boarding
house is thus apparent.
I know u woman who has established
such n temporary home for llowVrs aud
is milking it uu increasing; soiirco of
profit. She began several seasons ago
merely to iicoiiuuodatc it friend who
had valuable chrysanthemums. Others
llsked her to take their llowers lllso,
und hooii she found herself ut the head
of ii regular business. Now she has a
full-fledged greenhouse, nn,) will soon
be obliged to make enlargements.
Visiting the curious establishment, I
found it well filled with costly plants,
iiuioiio them ii collection of chrysan
themums, In-longing' to a wealthy wo
man traveling iu Kuropc. She has a
small fortune invested in llowers.
There were chrvsunt heinums, gerani
ums and camellias iu cool rooms and
begonias, roses, siuilax, hi'liot'.iropes
and fuchsias iu hot rooms, an 1 ferns
and iviei in bhiub-d rooms and there
was one r-mm entirely tilled with Home
body's gorgeous orchids.
i learned that no system of ilo-.ver
insurance has yet been devihed. ll an
an orchid worth S10.M dies during its
Htay iu tin) plant bo irdinv; honsu the
owner has no redr -ss. 1 y evtrik pay
ment, however, it enn bo arranged thut
tin) (lowers receive Npei'inl foods all 1
tho greatest possible cure.
Tho ordinary charge for a valuable)
plant per month is ubout 81.
However, 1 should judge that all thn
plants were iiiiido tho subjectsof apuciat
study; iu fact, treated very much like
so many children, for their feedings
and airings und baths und blanket iu.s
from the cold seemed us carefully up
portioned as though they worn Uuuiau
beings. Chicago lluoord.
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