I i i t h ro r Th ;t. th tO wl, fro. fbirij oo t9 w ou atto. if O nobt fi t t jl e( lit Kill tho four fc ' wr I) i 1 Jk WHEN THCTl'3 NO MORS. i there's no more of sighing Wa there's no more of Hong Whea there's no mors of dying For right, or yet for wrong ; Tie world will still bo la Ood s grse, Out not but not our dwelling placet Wh there" no more of loving When there' no morn of hate; ' Tt wor.rl will still be moving Oa to it final date ; Will In O i I love, and In III grace. Bat nut. thank I our dwelling place. F. L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution. JANETS VICTORY. I)T BCfiTflA PA CARD rt'll.RT. r - inr, sun iii in a mellow flood of beauty upon the new rag carpet of the guest chamber. The creamy curtains were pulled back, so n chance was left the sun for loing less than its whole duty. A greBt boiiipiet of autumn grasses and lliiffy g o Id e n ro d rested m pruttv "A now chamber set and ft will 1,0 Bice," and Mrs. Maylcr half closed her yes mi 1 look in the supposed effect. Then for the twentieth time, perhaps, ho went over the mime road, calculat ing h..w much he- chickens and turkey would bring. "An I if they are as fur a I think, I will lay by chough for Christmas pres ents all hi, mini an I subscribe for that journal t,o," aud with a light heart nd smiling face she hurried down stairs, I'.abe was busy with his blocks, she went into the kit'licn to pre pare tint little supper just hers-lf nd .Ted and little Hoy lllue and a quietly happy family it had ever been. If it whs hard sometimes to lar and forbear, they tried for love's sweet rake. And if Janet wa the oftenest to yield neither seemed to notice it. Ooly a look at her bright, loving face nd one might guess she was very well ornetomed to forgetting No. 1 alto- Rnther, and he h" was a man, just 1 an easy-r yiir. half-blind nun that ' was all.. , . I Aft 3, HI 'I H. I . the bind." poultry was all r-'-.-i.t II I'M, l .-.. usages mill ii'"'n.i ior i i-nior- . . t f A are ntill on the bilbiter nu almost sad : v lit iii!.', Jack 't til-; next morning saw I uitlli with 't hard summer's work mil' white in r tu-j hill to market. It was' taut ell oil Jnvirt.o about Friday I'.abe and I will . . . . AUil ()va and iuvest oar money," of raw lnughed almost like a child as Uins lt.,i tuu 1(il)v vJi!ler com'nK. "J min"." Tost nli ' f,4to Bhe carrieJ ur boy Ulsli l;!',t,t'tiJ?btful ride up to the bar'u Qlld ( TpeCtH a about two weeliH . n. sti- v 'Wli ; y sell, Jec? Fat.wefo mnuuVr "-'J 1 "n " M wbcu tho wagon topped at tue irn. Fat as butt r and got highest price." "Cash?" and she potted ol 1 Tride on lus velvety nose. "Yes," aul he led tho horses into : their stalJa. ".Sapper piping hot," she called . 'back over her vlmuMer, as she went t tho house. Hupper passed pleasantly, Jed relat ing all tlii) new fr un town and she (listening nn I feedil'g baby, goiug mi freipient journey into the little bot tomless in-mt It after stray crusts or, other forbiddeu matter which hap pened too near. "Aiiil n v let me have A, Jcl, all in ray bun 1, and see if it' worth the coii staut iMire mi I work I've endured," ud she set the boy on his knee. " iViiat, Janet?" aud Uo looked at her absent iy. , "My money," au l still her hand was ( outstretched. "Why, wife, I paid fr tho binding twine with it." "You did ! and you said last spring 'Do your best and reap the proceeds,' " ud her eyes tlashed ludigmiutly. "Why, I didn't suppose you bad any use for it, nnd you are reaping the firoceed wiwu tho debts are paid," and he tried to look naturally. "Hut that was mine, earned by put ting iu over hour aud extra days, " and sho could not hide a soli. "Oh, well, never mind. What's mine's yonrs and your nune," and ho put baby down without hi eveuiug rouip and went out with tho milk pail. Aud Janet hurried into the dim sitting-room and hid a good cry good, because it relieved her over-wrought feelings. He must h.ive noticed her swollen eves, for after a:i ntt.'inpt to talk over his paper, ho went to bod. l)ar pamv'd on and month too, antil little Hoy Blue was a little man of three, lbiriug that time Janet had been a patient wife to a good hu banJ, but she was w iacr, and that lit tle lesson learned a year previously ho had never forgotten, and ho de termined, for the sake of her inde pendence, for the sake of their future wedded life, and for hi bake too, never to be so put upou again. Sho had discarded her ilea of raisiug IKMlltry, but she had u nice fat steer whii'll was t' be bold with the rent of 'itho car loa I xoou. ... When ba'uy still a little sleep-.-.lyi bun 11', Je I hal brought into the yiiilolt.u ttn w ealf. It wa a raw. bit-isl.uvi-M ,lav, and the littlo thing was ""'-: lMea I when discovered. 'd;"'1 i-'.i as well kill it, and fc..- l Su,U-'t it l,ve ,f it can,' lone ' Janet poiiKiv. servu . Sunday cvetiin"th it if you waut to. llouii in Hpciidi' whatever it aiuouut cousin, L'Htio Ci settled, .uursh. -re it could stand it began to get :u its own life, ong.' Its legs , 'iby and firm. it of amuse- ment between the two, to aee Janet's tw overtake and thon slowly oot trip Jed's of the same age. But it was now considered in prime condi tion, nd was to go with the rest to Chicago. Janet said nothing, bnt frit greal deal. Ho when the return ctne she waited for him to give her hor share. lint no word was said, so she reminded him of it. "Oh, stuff nd nonsense!" he re pliod, almost angrily. "If we tnnst keep an acoonnt between ns, I think it's n pity. If I have it or you have it, what odds?" "But you always have it," she To plied, quietly. "lint I am the man, and its my place " "Not to ent mo down to asking for what is my own. Yon pare me the calf, ami would have killed it but for tue. " "Who fed it?" he asked. "If it's half and hulf as yon say, I fed it, ami sin of the other thirteen that you say are yours." "Hut it's nonsense your acting so. Ain't you comfortable?" "Perhaps. Hut it i not that. It's iiif'Hiuwi 01 ngut. nave 1 not ns I good judgment as you?" aud her face , was very pale. Well, of course, roil II liavrt course, rou II have the last word, bnt I have the money and you haven't" and he failed in hi at tempt to smile naturally as he turned to go. "Wait, wait! and so you claim you have a ritrht to sell mv lroiicrtv and j keep my money," and she looked at ; liim haughtily. "I say it ours. If you need ft new i dress or anything, say so," aud he slummed the door. mm oiii imi soli tin time, she was tiioroiiuhly indignant and proceeded to carry out her pluu. Jed went to ' town the next day again, which favored 1 her plan. A soon a he was gone she took babe an I walked a mile to see a man who had long wanted to buy a two-year-old colt of theirs. At one time Jed had almost accepted the offer, next thought better of it, and would not let the colt go. She found little trouble in closing the bargain, he supposing Jed h id sent her. Ifer only fear had been from hi inability to pay cash. Hut he handed her the money and she told him be might take his property directly. So when Jed came Lome at night he found au empty stalL Hehutried into the hou'. Mi st"sr.t the blood a litle faster, that was all. "Where isTopsyJeu? Ilia stall is empty .' "Isold him to Mr. Forrest." "Sold him t Sold my colt?" "Ours, you mean. I thought best to let him go, and what difference docs it make? It's all iu the family." "DitV.u-euee ! I would not have sol to understand r.'iui ablL 'JL, -. 1 . au " in J own affair," ho crieiL "Quite likely you are. But you in sist that my affair r re yours and so, of course, your are mine. 1 knew where I could put that sunt to good advantage, so I let our colt go," and she sat down to rock balo to sleep, while Jed stood a if dumb. " There's no usi) talking, Jed May ler," Janet went on with determina tion, "1 never was used to having no nioiiev whatever to call my own, aud I am too proud to beg." I "No one asked you to, "he answered doggedly. "Let me enrrv the purse one month ! and see if you don't call it begging," came buck with emphasis. "I will not be ft hen-pecked hils ban.l," and he gave the cat a smart slap which sent it out of the rocking ( hair and out of peaceful slumber at one and the same time. "Nor I a dependent, begging, grov eling wife," aud she left tho room, while Jed stood as she left him for many minute. This was gotting to bo pretty serious. Jou standing in op position to him, aud ho lord and mas ter! He'd show her- he'd cut her ! down to bread and butter, hod aud just then hi eye fell uti Daudy, his fancy five-year-old colt. It hail come i out of tho county fair with Hying ' eol r (blue ribbon of course). What ! if she should sell him! Back over their married life he went, aud with a long drawn sigh he remembered Janet's capabilities of carrying out what ever she doemed necessary. Thou he began to walk up aud down, whilo Jauet, iu tho next room, tried to ascer tain the tierceuess of tho storm by the heaviness of his tread. Suddenly it ceasod. Ho poked his head iu through the doorway. "Well, what do you waut?" "I did not speak," Jauet answered innocently. "No, what du you cspect tne to do, to lift you out of pauperism?" ami his J voice wart mocking and stern. "Surely, your business capabilities can suggest some plan," she answered. "None," ho continued nuekiugly. "Then I can. I will eithtr hire out to you as cook, nurse, washerwoman, chambermaid, housekeeper, waiter, gardener, seamstress and 'bottle washer, ' or else I will go halves iu the proceeds of our united efforts, and ctrry some money a loug as you carry I any, aud spend when and where my 1 in lament deem best ; and more, if I by extra work try to raise money for extra luxuries, that money is to be : mine." "His scorn turned to anger as she finished. A lung as I am a husband, I am tho heal of tho family aud mas ter," aud he stalked out of the house in a furious rage. "I wonder if I hove lost," Janet moaned, aa she sank down helplessly. "But I will not yield. I'll try once more," and ao feverishly she brought dowu her trunk, dragged it down, rather, and aet it in a conspicuous idace. Then she slowly went through ! the yrooesa of packing but ahe did not commence until time ior 4a to eomt in after the milk pails. He saw her busily at work, and hit heart sank within him, Bnt be went out again, to Janet a dismay. lie could not endnre it long, however. "What are yon doing, Jen?" and he pansed on his make-bvhove errvnd. "racking." "For what?" ' "doing home to aoe motH l, and she looked so unconscious ofi.' is rres rnce ft she tossed some spools to little Jioy i5iue, ho was thoroughly die armed. , "Say, Jen, I surrender. " "On what terms?" iir, , . rquai snares, ana yon your cxiras. ( "Very well. Here are six dollars. I took out of the money just what my steer ami mo cnickens would have amounted to, and I had this more." "No, keep it," he answered, generously "but, say, what ulid the colt bring?" "Ah, but that is a secret," and she laughed gaily. "Ask his owner." "Don t, Jen don't be o t'fllsh you don t seem like mr little old Janet, at all," and he pulled ber to mm. "I'm not. I'm Mrs. Janet Mayler. pcrtner and equal sharer in the firm ot Mayler and" nnd his big palm stopped further speech. Lut ho took it away to kiss tho lips that had once been so hardly won, itnd thon to toss little astonished Mayler, Jr., np and np, to come down safely again upon papa's shoulder, for a diizy ride around the disordered sitting-room. After supper, whilo Jen was busy washing dishes, Jed was in the Bitting room, rocking baby to sleep. He never could sing bnt iust the first strainsof "Sweet By-and-By," but he would go over these with tintiring zi'st, never even halting long enough to let his voice fall, nntil sometimes, out of very agony, Janet would plant her foot where she knew the period belonged. Bnt to-night she listened with sweet content. Mbe knew he was w-oti completely, for he never at tempted his one song nnless very peaceful with all the world. And as she thought over ber little attacks aud skirmishes she felt well repaid, and from her heart went wp a prayer for streugth to be s woman fearless and independent where right was concerned, and a mother worthy such a dear littlo boy. Farm, Fiold aud Fireside. Thrifty Carelessness. A very amusing story is told by a famous story teller about m harness maker who lived many years ago in Loudon. He had a handsome saddle iu his shop occupying a conspicuous place therein. On his return from luncheon one day he observed that the saddle was gone. Calling to hie fore UUj:'f.tUi f "John, u . i -ii'- I die?" ,-r "I'm sure I don't know, sir,' said the foreman, ecratchiug hia head as jf he were trying to think. "I cannot tell, and the worst part of it is it hasn't been paid for. While I was at work in tbe tntck part of tho shop a gentleman came iu, priced it, decided to take it. told mo to charge it and, throwiug it iuto hia wagon, drove oft before I could think to aak his name." "That was very stupid of you," said the harness maker, disposed to bo ntgry at the man's carelessness. "Very likely wo have been robbod." "I don't think that, air," said tho foreman, "for I m very sure that tho gentleman has traded here before." "Weil, I can't alTord to lose the money, sant the barnoss maker. "We'll have to find out who took it aud send him tho bill. Ah !" ho added w ith a smile, after a moment's reflec tion, "I have it! We'll chargo it up to the account of every one of our cus tomers who keeps accounts here. Those w ho didn't get it will refuse to pay, so we shall be all right." The bookkeeper was instructed to do this, and the bills in due course of time went out. Koine weeks later the harness maker asked tho bookkeeper if he hal succeeded in discovering who the customer was. "Xo. sir," ho replied, "and we never shall, I four, sir, for about forty per sons have paid for it without saying a word." Toronto MaiL Greatest ot Their Kind. Tho longest canal in the world ex tends from the frontier of China to St. Petersburg, Russia. It is 4472 miles in leugth. England has the greatest number of lighthouses and lightships one for every fourteen miles of its const lino. Tho largest sun spot ever noted by astronomers appeared in the fall of 1807. It was 280,000 miles long and aud 190,000 miles wide. Four hun dred planets tho size of the earth could have been laid aide by side in that "soot" without touching each other. Tho deepest lake- in tbe world is Lake Baikal, Siberia. It is 4350 feet deep, and its level is only 1330 above that of tbe ocean. The greatest depths of Lakes Superior ami Michigan are but littlo over 800 feet. A check for 5,333,050 on the Bank of England, iu payment for tho Kimberlev diamond mines, is said to be the largest ever drawn. The highest price per pound evet paid for tea was at the Mincing Lane tea auction on February 5, 1891, when a five-pound parcel of "Golden Tip" from Ceylon was knocked down at 25 10s. per pound, or at a sum enual to 8123 in United States cur rency. Tbe building with the highest alti tude is the Alpine Clubhouse, on Mount Boss, in the Alps. Its founds tion stone are exactly 12,000 feet above the sea level St. Louis Ke- publio. IBLED TO THE DUST. if BY V. DR. TALMAGE PHV.Ar.nr Paul's Conversion to the Christ He Persecuted. Hope Tor Those Who Have FslUn. Txt i "Ami at h jemrneyrt hf enmp nrnr Vit-nosrii, nnd v4Unly thrr tMnnl round rm-tt him n light from hrnren,, nnd K frll I virfa and heard a mirr Haying unto hir , Saul, Sat I, (My perrrrtilrtt thou Mr An hr Mid, Who art thou, J,ord' And th Js f aid, I am Jrnu whom thou wtm. wf"Artslx.,8-. T, mltamaseua of Blhle times still stands. wMI a population of 1.13,000. It was a gar city f white ami ffllntenlnv arrhlteoture, Its mtn irc and crescents and domes playing wltbA the Hirht ot the morning tun t emhow rsjltln -rrovss of olive sml citron nnd oranire anl -omgrannte i a famou river pluoiring tirightnsu Into the ue; a city by the anebents styled "a poarl surroundea by em. erslcl A roup of horssainn srs a Its nclng upon that leltv. Let the t'hrmtlnn f.i..i' that leltv. hlils.! for hill 1 mil smsll ami for that oavsli'i tn coming oer the i made up of rmr-.-futon i thslr l..,t.. ami ii n attract I vm In -.n-na . Inaile r sometimes an lusliriiltlcam in rL... son-'wltnf- ths Duks of Wellington and J'r. Ari'hibnlil Aleximlnr, l)ut thnro is something very Intent In ths evu of this rnsn htth text, an-l ths hor.)'ho riilns U lathet Wjt thi fom of a long ami quick travel of 133 miles. Ha urifo on hi stood, for thixn Christian mum Imi ... i sllno,l. sad that religtoa of the ensw must w anriinilnte i. Hull lonlv I lie hnnm hf nflTnn.l rl.,n.. !k I rM"r "n prwlpltutisl. Fmo.1 from the rid wr. tho horte hound nrtln swsv. i on know that dunili animal, at tholi;bt fib 0'l,,'' nrnn earthiiiske, or anything like a iiiiernatiirnl mnernD'e. soneitiiiint beooin. . ,Mrv uinv)iiirollut,le. a m-wsun ha.l NH'n ki ndl'll In the heaven niitrln. nn s. g are ol the ordinary mi. 'hrlt. with tho Kline, of heaven wrapp.-! alsnit Him. lookod,,t frm Houd. and ths splendor Was InaiifTeruole. and no wonder fh linnu-a spranir vnd th equestrian drnnrMKl. init -overe and bruised, feitil attempt to I IhesevroinsDfojjhhypjjjjj k-. u,', IMIIIIUV fill FTM Willi ni. Il.liil. rAm iuii . in,r ns t struok stone Hind as ho orle out, ho art thou. I-nfil?" ...) swerd hlin ; "I am the oo you have Iwwn chainir. lis that whips ami scourges those Iaiuai'ne Christians whips and seourtre Mo. It I not tholr ba'k that Is blewllnir : It Is Mine I It Is not their heart that is hmak In i It i Mine. I am Jhm whom thou per- III WM , From tthnt wild. eT.'ltinc nl,i In H, there rise up fhn grentest prea.'her of all tho aires -Paul in, whom behalf pHaon wore r-vko.1 down, before whom soldier tiirue.1 pale. Into wtusie hand Mixliterrlioean sea nantaiu nut mntmi i their shlpwreekln craft, and whose ipistlo are tho atrsnt i-onrior of a resnrre-f Inn .- I b'arn' from thl scene that a wnrl.liir t.oi sometime pre.-e. spiritual uplifting. A man noes nut int much avninuihv l.- f,.iii.... ... , I m (Tahora . I...l. ' . . L f ' I . " ' - - .-I -. i-'- "-"Hum nut io nnre : rn, Inln I .1.. .. i . i . . . ... I gni inio 'uie saildlo If he could not ride, inose oi u who were brought up In the country remember well how the ,ii-l laughed When, on our wav I. f..n brook, we suddenly lost our ride. When in a grand review a general tonnle.l frn-n th.. tlrnip. I. became a National merriment. Here I Paul on hnral,aek - i.,,..l ...... riding ou with Oovernment documents in his iita-ifi, a Krauuatsot a most famous school. n Wilton ba celehratatl fir r.u,.ll..l h. l been a piyoanor, perhaps hsving already at tained twT of the throe titles of the school ran. tun 111 ,t j rahtil, the second, and on the way to rat k. the tbtnl and highest title. X know irr hi temnarament that hia hni an . h,nik, ',- k.-- 'v www' vr T - 1 nity. hi." S 1 .led Intl. i J dull.1 ni ot thut was the bet ride Paul ever took. Out of that violent fall ho arose Into the apostle ship. Ho It has been in all ages, and so It i now. You will never be worth much for Ood and thn ehureh until you loo your fortune, or hnvn your r putatlon upwX. or In sonio way. somehow, are thrown and humiliated. You must go down tmforn you go up. Joseph II n I hi pa'h to tho Kgypttau court through, ths pit Into which hi brother threw him. Iiaiiiel would never have walked among the bronzed linn that adorned the lialiyloulsh throne if he had not lint walked amoug tho real lion of the cave. And Ianl marshals all the generations of Christendom by fall lug tint on his face on the rwi 1 to Damascus. Men who have been always prospered may be fttli'lcnt servants of the world, but will 1st ef no advantage to Christ, You may ride majestically seated on your charger, rein In hand, foot in stirrup, but you will never Im worth anything spiritually until you fall o(T. They who graduate from the school of Christ with tho htghoat tumors hsve on their diplo ma tho ami of a llou s muddy paw. or tho plash of an angry wave, or the drop of a strsv tear, or the brown scorch of a perse eutlng tire. In 'Jno cases out of lOOOthero Is nomor.tlor spiritual elevation until there ha been a thorough worldly upsottiug. Again, 1 learu from ths subject that tho religion of Christ is nig a pusillanimous thing. Peoplo Iu this day try to makn us be lieve that Christianity is something or men ot small caliber, tor women with no capacity to reason, for cluldreu In (be imant olssa under six years ol ago, but not for stalwart men. Look at this man of thn ten 1 Do you not think that thn religion that could cap ture such a man as that must have some power in it t tin was a iogiciK i be was a 4natafhyli.'lun ; ho wa an all conquering oVator ; he was a poet of the highert type. lie hail a nature that could swamp the lead ing men of his own day, and hurlol against the sanhedrin ho made it tremble. Ho learned all that he could get in the school of his native village ; then he had pone to a higher school aud there mastered tbe Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himself ln-blles lottres, until in after year be astonished thn Cretans, aud tbo Corinth ian, and tho Athenian by iUotntion from their own authors. I have never found any thing In Carlyloor Ooethor Hcrtwrt Hpeneer that could compare in strength or beauty with Paul's epistles. I do not think there I anything In the writing of Hlr William Ham ilton that show such mental discipline as you find In Pnul's srgument about justil)cs tion and thn resurrection. I have not found anything iu Milton tlner In the wy of imag ination tbnn I can nnd in Paul' Illustration drawn from the amphitheater. There was nothing in Hobert Emmet plead ing for hi life, or In Edmund liurke ar raigning Warren Hastings In Westminster Hall, that compared with thn scene in the courtroom when, before robed officials, Paul bowed and began hi speech, saying, "I think myself happy. KtugAgrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day." I repeat that a religion that can capture a man like that must have some power In It. It Is time you stopped talking us though all th brain of the world were opposed to Christianity. Where Paul lea Is, ' can afford to follow. I am glad to knoa that Christ his In thl different ago of thn world ha t In ids dl ii- iiloahlp a Mozart an t a Handel In uiuiic, a laphael and a ll-jynolds in painting, an An- gelo and a Canova In t :utpturs, a Rush an 1 a Harvey In medicine, a Orotlu nnd a Wash ington in tatemuhip ; a lilackstoan, a Marshall nnd a Kent Inlaw. And the time will coins when the religion ot Christ will conquer all the observatories aud universi ties, and philosophy will through her tile. scope behold tbe morning star of Jssus, sud In hnr lalsratory see -'that all things work together for good," and with her geological hammer discover ths "Book ot Ages." Oh, Instetd ot cowering and shivering when tbe skeptlo stands before you aud talks of rollgtou asthough It were a pusillani mous thing Instead of that take your New Testament from your pocket and show bin tbe pioture of the totsllnotual giant of sll the aea prostrated ou tbe rovl ta Damascus 31 while hts horse is flyiegwildiy awy. Then ri e,HHj wnac n was toat frightened the one and threw ths other. Oh, no, It Is no weak opn. it a ulorioiis s-ospel. It Is an all eonquerln opl. It u an omni potent iron pel. it ths power of Ood and the wisdom of Ood onto salvation. Aaln, I learn from ths tt a man cannot J-ome a Christian until he Is unhorsed. The trouble Is. we wsnt to ride Into the kin, dom of Ood just as the k night rode Into csstle gets on palfrey, beautifully eaparteoned. We want to come into toe kingdom of Ood in fine style, so kDimiiB? down at the altar, no sitting on anxious seat," no rryln over sin. no letngstthdoorof Ood s marry, t ler the roid nnd let as eome In all prano. login the prlds of our soul. No, we will never get foto heaven that way. We must dismount. I ners is no kntgnt errantry in religion, no fringed trapping of repentance, but au utter prostration before tJo-i. a going down In the dut. with the ory, -fnelean. un clean , a bewailing of the soul, like David from ths belly of hella going down In the dust until Christ shall by His grace lift us up .-. .... ....... un, proui neartod hearer, you mut got off that horse ! May a light from the throne of Ood brighter than the sun throw you! Come down into the dust and cry for pardon and life and heaven. Again. I learn from thl seen of the tett that ths grace of Ood can overcome the per seeutor. Christ and Paul w 'ro boy t the same time In dili-rent villages, and Paul's antipathy to Christ wa increasing. He hated everything about Christ. He wa go ing down then with writ In his pockets to have Christ's dl"lple arrests.!. 1m was not going as a short ff goes to arrest a man egaiat whom ne nai no spite, nut rum w. going down to arrest thoe people because he wa glnd to arrest them. The Hltile say. Ho breathed out slaugh ter." He wanted them captured, and he wanted them butchered. I hear the cltok. aud clash and clatter of th hoof of thn gal loping steed on ths w.iy to I)amncu. ttt. do you think thst proud man on horseback cuu ever Isicouie a Christian' Yes! Them Is a vole from heavm like a thtiinleri'lttp uttering two word, tho seennd word the same as the tlrst. but uttered with more oin phal. that the ptnu I eipiestrtan may have no douU asto whom Is meant : Saul ! Saul !" inai man wa aveii, an l ho w a popux'U tor. and so Ood rid, by Hi grace, overcome ""' psrawutor, The dasof sword and flr for Christian cm to have gonn by. Tim bayonet of ..Napoleon L prmd pien thi "loipiisitlon" nnd lit the rotting wretches out. The ancient dungeon around Home are to-lay men PTiriosiric for the traveler. The Coliseum, where wild tast used to tuck up the- life eg the martyrs whilo the emperor watched and I.olla raullna at with emerald adornment worth fi0.000.ono tercns, clap Inghcr hand a the Christians ditsl under the paw and tbetooth of tho lion that Col iseum Is a nilu now. The euenn of the Hmlthfleld lire havmarket. The day of fire and sword for Christian seems to have gone by. Mut ha the day of persecution eiwisiyly No. Are you not caricatured for your rellg (n In proportion ns you try to serve Ood and lm faithful to Him, are you not sometime maltreated' - J hat woman find It hard to bea rhrii.n v. ku. k...i i ..ii . . . 1" "-"""' ami j.jer W11IIH SHO IS iryi ... lllg to say her rmivnr or rca, I tha lin.in That daughter find It hard to l rhi-utian I with the wholo family arrayed against her i father, mother, brother and sister making ; her the target of ridicule. That young man find It hard to be a Christian in the shop or : factory or store when hi comrades jeer at mm been se he will not go to the gambling bell or ofler place of iniquity. Oh. no.the days of persecution have not eeaaed aud will not until the end of tho world. Hut oh, you persecuted ones, is It not time that you began to pray for your perse cutors? They are no prouder, no flnroer, no more set In their wsy than Was this perse- Clttor of the text lie fall Th.- Ill il it r&CbHi&i the heavens grandly and glort- , .vriov;,, "a-ihn, oorfc- 1 His na M.ki Ita liffataSplfil'a tP - leriMve-Indignatloa at Christianity only a little while before- he- became a Christian. -Out of my house.' entd a father to his daughter, "if you will keep prsying." Yet before, many month pa"d the father knelt at the name altar with tho child. And the Lord Josua Christ 1 willing to look out from heaven upon that derislvw opponent of h Christian religion and ad. .Tons Inui, not In glittering generalities, but calling him by name: "Johat (ieorgn! Henry I Saul, Haul, why perMicutint thou M!" Again. I learn from this subject that thnro I hoi fia-the worst WTenders. It was par ticularly outrageous that Haul should have goun to Damasi-u ou that errand. Jesus Christ had been dead only three years, and the story of hi kindness and hi generosity, snd bis love tilled all tho air. It was not na old story, as it is now. It wa a new story. Jesus hsd only three summers ago hecu in theso very places, and Haul every day in Jerusalem must have nut people who knew Christ, people, with good eyesight whom Jesu ha'i curod of blindness, people who had been dead and who hail been resurrected by thn Huvior, and tho people who could tell Paul sll the particular of the cruoitlxion i jiut how Jesus looked In the last hour, just now tnn heaven grew niacic iu uio iac ut tha torture. He heard that recited every day by people who were acquainted with all the oircum statuses, and yet in thn fresh memory of that i-eun he goes to persecute Christ's disciples, Impnttiint at the tlmn It takes to fund the horse at tbi Inn, not pulling at thn snaffle, but riding with loose rein faster and taster, Ob, hn whs the chief ol sinners ! No outbreak ot modesty when he said that. He wa a murderer. Hestoo I by wtieu Htcphnu died and helped In the execution of that good man. When the rabble wanted to be unimpeded in their work of destroying Htephnn aud wanted to take off their coats, but did not dare to lay thnm down lest they be stolen, Paul said, 'Til takn care of the coats." and they put them down at thn feet of Paul, and be watched the coats, and he watched tbe horrid mangling of glorious Htephnu. Is it a wonder that when be fell from the hone he did not break his neck that bis foot did not catch somewhere in the trappings of tbe taddle, and he was not dragged snd kicked to death? He deserved to die miserably, wretchedly and forever, notwithstanding all his metaphysics, and his eloquence, and his logtc. He. was the chief of sinners. He said what was tru-t wheu he said that. And ye: th grace of Oo saved him, and so it will you.. It there Is any man In tnts house who thinks be is too bad to be saved and says, '1 bave wandered very grievously from Cod : I do not believe there is any hope for me," I tell you the story of this man In the text who was brought to Jesu Christ In spite ot his sins and opposition. There may be some here who are as stoutly opposed to Christ a Paul was. There may lie some here who are cap tive of their sins a much so as thn young man who said iu regard to hi dissipating habits i "I will keep on with them. I know I am breaking my mother's heart, and I know I am killing myself, and I know that when I die I shall go to hell, but it Is now too lute to stop." Thn steed on which you ride may be swifter nnd stronger nnd higher mettled than that ou which the Clllnian persecutor rodo, but Christ can natch it by tha bridle and hurl it beck snd burl It down. There is murey for you who say you are too bad to be saved. You ssy you have put off the mutter so long i Paul had neglected It a great while. You suy that thn sin you bave commuted has bnen among the most aggravating oircum btsnces i that was so with Paul's. You any you havs exispersted Christ and eosxed your own ruin i so did i'au1. And yet be sits to-dsy on one of the highest of the heavenly throne, an 1 there Is mercy for you, and good days for you, and glad ness for you, If you will only take ths same Christ which first threw him down sod then raisnd him up. It seems to me a if I nan sea Tsui to-dny rising up from the hlghwsy to Damascus, snd brushing oft ths dust from bis oloak, snd wiping tbe sweat of exjltn xent from hia brow, as be turns to us and 1 all the ages, saying, "lnts is a faithful tar- iik. aim wumiyoi an accpTiion, tnat Christ Jesus came Into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." Onoe more, I learn from this subject that there Is a tremendou raallf r In religion. If It had been a mere optical delusion on the road to Damascus, was not Paul just the man to find ft out? If It bad been a sham and pretena, would ha not hsve prickodthe bubhls? He was a man of fact and argu ments, of the most glgantii Intellectual na ture, and not a man of hallucinations. And wha I see him fsll from the saddle, blinded sod overwhelmed. I say there must have beon something In It. And. my dear brother, you will find that there is something iu re ligion somewhere. The only question la. Where? There wss a man who rode from Rtam ford to London, ninety-five miles, In five hours on horseback. Very swift. There wa a woman of Newmarket who rode oa horseback a thousand mile in a thousand hours. Very swift. Hut there are those hers -sye, all of us are speeding on at ten fold f hst velocity, at a tbouml fold that rate, toward eternity. May Almighty 0-d, from the opening heavens, flash upon your soul this hour the question of your eternal : destiny, and oh, that Jesus would this hour, overcome you with His pardoning mercy as He stand here with tho patho of a broken heart and sobs Into your ear i "I bavi come for thee. I tome with Mr back raw from bleeding. I come with My feet mangled, with thn nails. I come with My brow ach ing from the twisted bramble, I come with My heart bursting for your ww. I ran stand It uo longer. I am Jesus vhom thou persucutest ! ' AN ITALIAN HEROIN!. Working In tha Mines to Fetch Her Parents Over. .ii thi summer of ISfiO, a bright .Han girl came tv New York and secured employment a a servant, b.tvlng In new the saving of money enough to pay the parage of her par ents frvm Italy to thl-t more favored land. A Srief eiperience showed her that at thi low wage she was able to obtain It would be a long time be fore she: could hope to see her patent here, and she decided to adopt tho garb of a uianv In order that ahe might obtain man' wage. She did so and readily found employment on a railroad which wa helotf built in I'cnnsyii anl; Despite the blistering of her hand and the Hardship of the laoor, sho tolled faithfully for months, Urlo by herself in a small hut not far from Ilaeiton, and a much a ijsslble avoid ng association with her follow laborers, by whom the sminosorl effeminate young man wa not nld in high esteem. , ho had nearly accu.nulatett tho amount of money necessary to bring tho larcnts to America, when a former neighbor 0f the fjnillv In tho old country was given employment on the railroad, and place I In the same gang with the strong-hearted young woman. He immediately rec ognized her, and tho fact of her dis guise was re. orted to the foreman; but the latter, on. hearing her pa thetic story, did not order her dis charge. He simply consented that she should go on with tho work ahe pursuing,, anuat last TO nan Dee a pursuing,. ll""' " was '"T.VfV T wleMing . tha iqg K0 - GJu noUfckeftVjR. The- Right Klnit er Heroism. The "Historical Record ot ttt" Forty-third Light lufa-utry. " that famous regimen, which, played ariost Important part In KnliSU warfare during the last quarter of the eight ectitli century anil the early part of the nineteenth, contains a stirring incident of prompt aclloa which averted a tragedy. Worn, out with i hard ruarcli, tho brigade uuder CapU Lloyd approached tba convent at Itenevente, where the cavalry and re scne still remained, hoping fot shelter. They were disappointed. Thecon vent wa occupied by several thou sand infantry, and tue lower galleries were so densely packed with horses of the cu airy and artillery that It was hardly possible for a man tomakt his way anions' them. Two of the officers stood looking Ii at the dubious prospect through tht single door that gave ingress and egress. A sudden cry of alarm burst from the Hps of one. "Look there!" he cried, pointing over the backs of the horses. At that moment ono of tho iosidt wooden shutters hurst into flames, writes a contributor to Youth's Com panion, llorrllloil, the officers looked ut the burning shutter aud realized the hopelessness of tho situation. It would be Impossible In get the 6,000 men and horses out, and they must stand by and see their comrades perish miserably. There was no water near, nnd if there was, how could they get at tho fire through those densely crowded horses? The flames crept upward toward the rafters. "(Jood heavens! Something must he done!" cried C'apU Lloyd. And Ihen, with a motion to those outside to be quiet, the brave Captain leaped un the back ot tho nearest horse, and, depplng from back to back ot tha mimals, ran to tho blazing shutter, tore it from its hinges, and pitched it from the window. Then ho made his way back to the door In tho samo way as before. .So quickly was the act performed that even tho hor.-es were scarcely disturbed. Tho building was saved. ! and there was no panic, which would j have been as disastrous as tho llarues j Tbe Captain's eyebrows and mustach , were scorched, but that was all. "And tney'U grow again" he said) with a laugh. M-eai, tho Kngilsh editor who conducted tho notorious Pall-Mall Gactte tzposurcs of vice in hlghj places in Great Britain, says that; America and her leople reminded blm of Russia. If there were really much of Russia In the American make up, Editor Stead would now be on bis way to tho frontier for mak ing Invidious comparisons or being guilty of lese inajeste or something equally reprehensible. w on 1st I .7 TBI XK.t.ut,. a recrutly passed tbrouvl adoptt -"- r ss..:..! v ..
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