COT THE 3LESSINQ.
Tstst Hnndsv thar mm prnarbln', an' ws (II
sratil nut to hear ;
The MMIerniireli mia led, fur tlia rlrh eu'
poof was tilers;
It a r a spltti .Id anriuon an th ilTiRlu'
(all n fras
'Alnsstn grace, ham i the sound that Itr4
a wrsteb Ilk In.
Wbsntosll ilia ,rnim
wm In kind
(plen.lil. I tuaan It
To laka (leap runt an hear git
frul j In asry
ainnat mirei ,
It M (nil of onaolillia f r wear
lM -
'! lull uf invltatlnu to Christ
craai.
hearts lit
an I Dot I?
Tha tit w 'bout tha prodnp.1 who spent lilt
11 I ii' tiaal.
t'ntll ha ama at Isit t won the husk tlia
win old aal ,
Hut a rat ill itiiflit gs linn comlm t whan b
hardly llnl to lia
I will So nntu hit father for my father will
torsi a
in talkiit' to vdii f,il lr a. " ani l Mm ur
her,
'hare ti iliy,
Wbo 'ot tlia Miint llvlu In a i-otui'rr f'ir ;
away ,
Too va got til go abate I lint fa'lrr an veil !
caul lall alii hp how
Hut coma tia-k lo 1 1ri tattici ha wmulla fit
yo no : i
f-'mm th amen rorncr to tlia li-r tlia ti
l.atltarnl Da.
An' "Tray fur iib ' (li'iv -tliimled ;m II leoajnd .
tha l.nnt u tlieia .
An' ti-a a (reat titii laliaklu'f well I ha prseiou I I
uiua U i-atl
Hut tha old Hum Ii in liu Mi kao-ds gut
lil- u III .1 II Is.i I
- Aumtl onstiiiitioii.
IYI50XK DAYS.
'J ho day was in .Inly, and tin- limit
mid af tcrnuwii.
'Jh! situation Is a liontler town in
tho thiidiivv i,f trim old ii"utudiin '
a rulleelion nf sliintcs, tent, and!
iliiiC'Mit and facing tin one i"iig and
narrow street up and down wh eh '
th ui.iil-coucbes trjtcl ai tlie.v otut;
and go. i
'I'no typical Iron'ier town, as it j
wns, hut never will tut .igun. Jl ih
type of town that li.ts vanished vv.tl:
the lier.lsnf buffalo and t lie count les- i
ncies of mic'a tni'd land. In the six I
lies and seventies the town rune 1
tlisi law and order next. In the ;
eighties law and order bej.iti to take. ;
llie iilaet! of tins i! in and the tenor.
In t ho slxt ie men who refused to I
Irink with a stiaiui-r w !( sinitdetd
:i tit the bartender dragged tie
corpse elear of tho door. In thomj
days t ai'h low.) had its terror, and it
was a matter of pride with
hi m to see his victims hur
ried and headboards erected
with his ally-mark. In the oihlie
the terrors disappeared fiom sl;lit,
and the cowboys held up the town at
int.-rvals. Today both tenor and
row boy are but names, and law and
outer rules. Law Is kinn. and his
heavy hand Is tespected. Order
means progress and clvllial.ou. and
therefore there is order.
"Whoop! Hurrah! Pop:"
The yells and the ;istol shots
startlo t he whole tow., for an in
stanU but only for an instant At
flight, the noise would not have ex-
- f - ila'"t
lld remark, but now some miij
i'.ircli-ssl v iii'iiires the imiiv, and he
is as carelessly answered'
"Oh! I;ig .la k has bor 'd atioih'r
man. Just got out of led and is fuel
ing ugly. He'll soon cheer up now.
That one makes the seventh, 1 be
lltne." The typical 'town terror is no ino.'o
nor less than a burly, big l ufllan an
ex-miner, ex-prospector a gambler,
advctitiiier, and outlaw. He lias set
himself up as "the boss'' of the town,
of saloons and gambling hells. Some
bad men are bl infers ami duffers.
This one isn't Tliev "tried him
out" several weeks ago an I toiind
him t'ame. Two or three men
tried to make htm "take water'
who i
are !
burled ov 't there in the gully. He
brags and he bluster, but he is no
iv.ward. The vlg lance committed
sent him warning, and he sent back
th ' ears of their messenger. Other
terrors resented his taking possession
and reaping t he honors and he paid a
Chinaman a dollar apiece lo dig their
graves.
Yes. 1'iig Jack was drunk last night
and has slept later than usual. He
awoke with a headache and a parched
throat, and while stumbling across
the street to a bar some one ran
against him. lraw level pull trig
ger, and liig Jack, swearing like a
lilrate, doesn't even pause to see who
bis victim Is. It is a stranger to (be
place some one on the railro;id sur
ve.
"Iig a grave ami plant him with
the others?" says liig Jack to the
smirking Chinaman, and that ends
It. The lody is dragged awav to the
Kulch and the murderer, feeling more
like hiinsell for the drink and the
"booting, touches up the street to
the ll.ipiy-(io-Lucky" saloon. This
is his head .uat't ts. He has killed
two men in here, but has promised
the proprietor not to kill any more if
he can restrain himself. Not that a
murder hurts the proprietor's feel
ings In the least, but that makes him
extra laUtr and Paralyzes business
for ten or fifteen minutes. There
are a dozen or mote men in the sa
loon wait ing lo fawn upon "the boss"
and bask In the sunlight of his
entile. An emperor has his follow
lug: so ha the meanest ruffian.
When Hlg Jack laughs, all laugh;
wheu he asserts and declares, all
agree. He pulls the string and tho
'lull I I'NNKII Nil H I'I IHtlNK Willi HITS :
iltilWIl" I
p-iippoH dance, and yet ill hte and
despiae him and would like to too
him wi)od nut.
At a roiitfli t.il.le in a corner of tho
T'ioiu sits no tindersted man, aboutf
ihirty jrrar bid. tie wran hi half
lontf, hi sombrero is one of the larif
est, and In hi Imlt are his two Colt
:md ,i knife. No one Know h m.
Ill tnimtunn is tit the door, and he
Is inside t break his fast It Is
Charlie White, a Government srnut,
wIki has served with Croolc and Custer
ami others on tho plains, and who
has stood in the shadow of death a
hundred times. A irood-looking ma'i,
mi-
ur. srnoi) r ui i n K me onus a aviso
ion'Kr.tso."
: with a calm, blue eve. aquiline nose.
thin lips and a unlet voire The
i Towd ha I sized bun up: '(Julet,
I luit d. Ulcerous " The estimate was
' oltect.
Ititf Jack swa uers into the salooa
; to receive tliu salutations and con
jrattilat ions of the crowd. He is
I l etter-ti itured than bo was. bulthetu
i is a look in his eyes which forebode'
' I. inner. Three or four men slip
' iinetlv out nf the back door, while
j the others rawn and tlatte- and press
; "the bos" to drink with them. He
is willing enoiiun: that Is a part of
the homage he demands. As he
stands at the bar, glass In hand, his
eye lights o:i the stranger for the
first time. Instinct tells him tho
man's occupation and warns lilui nut
to pick a quarrel. Unite strength
ind bull dog courage overpower his
instinct. It Is a golden opportunity
to make a man "crawl" for the
amusement of the crowd. It is "all
i hands take a dr nk." but the stranger
! has not left h s seat. That is an ex.
pressioti of contempt and dellance.
'Dt I Vt ye hear." bellows KlgJark
as he r;is on the bar with his
knuckles and eyes the stranger.
The stranger looked up. Ileknew
with whom he had to deal, and he
knew what was cwtnlii'- 'J'hosa
no .t -"I-1
,y If
- iue lino nia eyes, anu
compressed. Hlg Jai'a turned bis
back to the bar, rcstid both tellows
iikjii it, and there was u leer on his
face as he ontliiued:
"Too cussed nice to drink with
this "rowd. 1 expect: M-bbe ye ar'
lookln' fur champagne tind a while
shirt gang! Mebt o je want a carpet
spread down lo walk on as ye move
ai out:"
The stranger looked lilg Jack
straight in the eves. The lines mi
his 'nee hardened and t hero was a
Itngerous flash in his eyes. The
t'uliiin noted these s'gns, and real,
li-d that the s"out was a bad man to
stir up He had gone too far to re
treat, however. The crowd had fall
en back lo right and lc:t, and the
j tw i had a clear Ileid. To turu from
I (be stranger was to lose prestige.
I Loss of prestige meant death to him.
1 Two kinds of courage were opposed
I to each oilier that coarse-grained
I fearlessness which Is born with brute
j strength, and which delights in gl
itig and receiving blows and that
I iiilet but dangerous characteristic
j which men call "sand,'' and wh! h
l Is never cruel nor brutal. For a
! long minute the two faced each
! other, and liig Jack's adherents saw
l him change color. He was figuring
i on his chances. He might blutT the
stranger down, but failing In this he
honed to get the droD on him.
"The man who won't drink witli
in j insults me. and the man who in
sults me has got to crawl outdoors on
his hands and knees or git a bullet
In his head:"
So growled the rufliaii. It was his
blutT. He looked bis fiercest as he
spoke tho words, but in his own
heart he Knew that they would have
no weight with the man whose blue
eyes had the gleam of a new bowle
knife, but who had not st rred a tin
ge r.
"(iit down anil crawl -git down,
will ye, or I'll riddle yer carcass with
lead:"
Tho bluff had fai'.od. Now for the
drot, Of a su Ideu liig Jack druped
his right hand to the butt of a revolv
er hardly six inches away and pulled
the gun and tired. Two or threo men
started to cheer, but almost as the
sound left thoir lips, and following
the other report like the stroke of a
bell, came a second discharge. Tho
k'iaut did not fall to the right or to
lb" left. Ho stood for five seconds,
swaying and tottering, eyes wide open
and llxed on the stranger, and then
without a moan or a souna he sank
down in a heap on the floor, shot
plumb through the heart. His bul
let had passed through the brim of
the stranger's sombrero a poor shot
for any sort of marksman only four
leen feet awav.
"Is his pardner here?" asked the
scout us ho looked over the awe
stricken and silent crowd, while
from the tnu.leof hit revolver A thin
streak of blue smoke curled lazily up
wards. All looked at hloi but no one an-sworod.
'Has he any friends who wish to
tak It ii pi"'
'lo had no pardncr no friends:"
said one who had cringed and fawned
and Haltered without mint
"Then let his Chinaman plant
him:" said the scout; and throwing
a silv r dollar on the tabln he rose
up. relumed his un to Its holster
and walked out without another
look around. Three minutes lator he
had ualloped out of sitfht on his way
lo lrt (.lister.
CKEIETONIZINGI LEAVES.
A I'laaaaat I'aatlma for Ilia tall anil Onr
Protlfle or Haatitlful Kaaulta.
There will fie found an interesting
pastime din ing the month of Septem
ber. The leaves chosen must bo
(juite perlcct and not too young, of
gathered on late In the season.
Haiti w ile- i best for the soaking
process Cxposo the tub to the suu
and repNynish the water as required.
Place the lenes in the water and let
them remain until partially decayed,
until the skin becom s decomposed;
but remove them before the tlhrou
veins of the leaves ate atta ked.
The time usually needed to carry
the proc?ss of decomposition to the
right Hiiut is about a fori r.lght, after
which they should bn examined twice
a week, or daily If the weather Is
warm. When thoroughly soft and
pulpy iemove them to a basin of
clean water. They will bo too ten
der to touch with the hand, and
must is1 lifted gently .on cards Into
the clean water. Have two brushes
at hand, an old toothbrush and one
of camel's hair, soft, but thick as a
pencil.
Having lifted a leaf out of tho
water on a card, brush tenderly with
the soft brush until the whole of tho
skin is removed, then dip into water,
I and having reversed the leaf under
the water, tepeat the process on the
i oihor side. If the skeleton Is riot
i by this time unite dear of the pulpy
i matter, use the toothbrush, not with
a sweeping motion, but with a few
I gentle laps. ;ivo the skeleton an-
other washing in clear water the samo
I way as before, then lmturse In the
bleaching solution, made by pouring
water on chloride of lime, and pour-
ing off the clear water when tho sedl
' tnent has unite settled
I Delicate Ic tv. s, such as the Ivy,
I will bo thoroughly I leached in a
couple of hours, but others take
i longer. They will be spoiled if al
lowed to remain too long. Th n Im
merse in several clean waters, and
leave for half an hour in the last.
' Alter tins noat too si -letou on a
I cjrd, in as natural a position as pos
l si hie, and drain preparatory to the
I drying, which should follow lulckly.
An oven not too hot Is best
The skeletons will now bo strong
enough to bear delicate handling,
Leaves like the oak, which contain
tannin, resist decomposition and ate
unmanageable. The best leaves foi
sk" iling are those of the Ivy.
wo.iy, iiii uu.
orange, lemon, walnut, willow, chest
nut, white hawthorn and vine. The
petals or th hydrangea are excellent
tor the purpose, theroolsof tho hem
lock, the calyx of Winter cherry,
the seed vessels of the thorn apple,
henbane, canterbury bell, and colum
bine. It will be wise to interest the chil
dren In this work, and thus create an
liuCT.sL in the stu lv of bolativ.
lllSl(HlS.
Hospitals, as we now i.tuletsfaud
the term, are of modern urowth.
True it Is, as Mr. P.urdette tells us in
the historical section of 'Hospitals
and Asylums of the Wor d," that in
the records of Kgypt and ancient
India we tlnd allusions lo institu
tions that, foreshadow the hospitals
of later times, and even our asylums
for si -k animals are bort owed frotu
the Kast
An inscription engraved on a rock
uear tha city uf Sural tolls how
Asoka, a King who rcighed in liuje
rat in the third century K C. com.
luanded the establishment of hospi
tals in all his dominions, unit placed
one at each, ot the four gates of the
royal city of Pain a. Six hundred
jears after thi, Pall Ian. an Intelli
gent ( hlnese traveler who visited
India in A. !., reeurds that
Asoka's- hospitals otlll existed and
flourished, but the successive foods
of con tiest swept all away, and by
the beginn ng of this i entury only a
hospital for animals remained of all
tho pious King's foundations.
Ancient Kgyptiau records arc more
vague it, their allusions to the treat
ment of the sick; but it seems likely,
from a legend which is given in the
Papyrus Khers, . that a clinic exist d
in connection with tho temple of
Hcliopolis. It is equally ptobablo
that. If tho h story of the temples of
Aesculaplous could be tin veiled, w
should find that in them also a hos
pital supplemented tho shrine, and
that the sick who o ,ered sacrlllces
there found comething more than
"fa th healing" within their walls.
Put fiom none of these are our hos.
pilals derived; they were destroyed
or forgotten In the barbarian con
quests, and so utter Is the oblivi n
Into which they fell that It is now an
article of the popular creed that It is
lo Chrstianity we owe the tlr.st Idea
of care for the sick and afflicted.
The tvuarterlv Poview.
No Mules Mentioned.
Arkansas has 1 00,000 farms which
produce 000,000 bales of cotton, 1)00,.
000 bushels of sweet potatoes, 1,000.
0)0 pounds of tobacco, 42,000,000
bushels corn and 2,000,000 bust els of
wheat From the Arkansas forests
are cut over 20,000,000 feet of lum
ber every year.
Rtoe Climate.
At Great Falls, Montana, the mer
cury has been known to drop 23 de
gree inside of five minutes.
REV. DK, TALMAQK.
TIIK IIUOOKI.YV llVIK3 SlX
1.V SKKMOX.
Subject: 'T:ie flare Ann of Soil.,
Trtrr "T' t.,nl hiili ,i hire rfh'u
arm." Ismail III., 0.
If nlmoat tfikaa. our br'ttli awsr to nntd
soma oftlm llllila imtgarv. Tlmra la urh
bolilnass of metaphor In my ti-Kt that I hava
b-nn tor ao-iia tiiiin ir-ttlnir mv eotiraira npfo
rrMi-li from If. Issinl.. tha avauirnllatin
pMihr, la aoiimllug tha JiiMlntn of oar
tlnnt railmMiiail an. I i-rios out, "Tha I.ortl
liivlh tnitda nra Ilia holy arm." Whnt over
wliMlminir auxirtlviiia4 In thnf nVUra of
apoech, Tim bara arm of Ornt !" Tha pan
fla of I'nlMatlii to I his ila v wa ir much blminr
lug aiipsril, an t wlian tliv want fo run a
ap s-lal Miss, or lift a apsoial linrl.-n. or tlht
a Mim-lnl I'MttK tlmy put off tin oulsldx
apptral, aft in our lanil wlimi a msn proposes
a niiwIiiI exertion hit puts off hla post and
rolls up hla alwvaa. Walk through our
ioiiiiilns. our ms.i'hiiis sho;i, our mln-n,
our f"torl. nii'l you (111 fln l thm most of
tleMollMr liav tlimr eons oT an 1 their
l"vfa rnllx up,
Isilnli iw tliat thar" must l,a a trains,
ilons nuiuitut of work dona liefora this woriit
lia.-onia wlml It oiiulit . lie, nn I hn fora
wlt nil ni-.MinpllMiia.l. ntnl in-cotuplishail
I v th Almiijlity. ii. t as w- orlinarily think
of Him. tmt liv tha Almliity well tha slaava
nflliarolw rll,l hark to Ilia ahoutiiar,
'I'll.' I..int Inith mil. I.- Iinr If in holy arm."
Nothing mor l'nirfsss ma In the tlllila
llinn Iho i-nsa w.tti whl.-li So. I doaa moat
t'Uiiifa. ')'lnra is su.-ii n r-srva of power.
H- Ims tiuii-.- ihnn li-rUilis than Ha lias avar
ItiiiCMii ir.i llirht than Hi has avnr iliatrlb.
utM.I. itn.ru IiIiih ttisn with which Ha ha
oviT.ir-ln'1 tin sky, mora irrcau tlmu thnt
with whl.-h H hits Hmralila.1 the grna.
mora .rima.iu than that with which Ha has
liiirinsiia.l tha iinals. I s.iv It wit it revar-mi.-e,
from nil I i nn s-f, tiod liua navar half
tnl.
You know n wll ns f ilo thnt many of tha
most i-liiliur.il ami expnlv Iniluntrlea of
our worl.l hnvn liwn amplnyisl In rreatiog
nrtlll i:il lluht . Hulfof tlia tlm tha world
is iliiri. Th maun iin.l tli- atar hava their
gloriiuis iiaas. but us nistriiiiinw of llluml-
; linn. hi tny nr tut i o r. Thi-y will not
i iiliuiv ymi to rn.iil n Imoi or stop tha rnnian
, Imii yuiir Krnt itl.w. Il.i l not tha dark-
I II persistaiitly lullKlit Im.-k I'V nrtlll-
I i'iiiI im-utH. th most of tha world'a entar
; pnsi-s wuiil.l IrivH hnltail half the time, while
, th i-rlitii- uf our KrHt munii;lpilitlHa would
i tor hull tin lima run mmpiint and unra
i liuko.l ; hi'u.-a nil lti Invantions for cnvillnif
I iirtilli-inl lliflit. from tha Mint struck attains!
j aleel iu ci-iiturli M past tottia itvnamo of our
elm-trienl mnnuriii-torlia. Whiit um-ouutad
I niiiiiiH-r ofpwipiK nt work tha yanr round In
in.'ikin i-liioiilMlifrs and lamps and fix! urea
, and win-a and liatti-na wharo litfiit ahnll bo
iiimle, or nlun which liudt ahull run. or
wiht.) iiiint nli.-ill p.jiae: How many bar
Hruia of human toll -atul aoma of thoae lra
arms ara very tirad - In tha creation of light
an. I ila apparatus, nud after all tha work tha
Kr.'ati-r part or tlin coutinants unit hernia-pln-ras
at ulu'lit have no llifht at nil, except
pi-rlinps tho llri-llli-s fl islilu than- aiuall ian
terns acrosa tlia awtimp. j
Hut mh how oasy (io I mndx tha light. Ila
did not makit linn Ilia nrui ; Ha'did uot a van
put forth His rohed arm : Ha did uot lift s
niui-h us ii llnniT. The flint out of whien H a
Htrni-k the noonday uu waa tha wort I.
'Light." "I.at thera I iKht !" Adam did
not smm the ami until the fourth day, for,
though the aim waa erf hi fd on tha first da).-,
it took Its rays from the first to tha fourth
duy to work through the douse mass of fluUU
by wiileh this aarth was coinpHfd. Did y1U
ever hnr of anything o n-y n thai? tjio
iini.iur.' Out of a word eamatha blncltm
aim, the fath-r of flowora. and warmth at id
light I Out of a word buildlun a flre-dfuv
lor all tha Nation ot the earth to warmth
aolruabvl Yaa. aevaa othrr worlds, flra '
. . .noriti, m
nallar aoala ! The warmth and light or
thla Kt-aat brotherhood, gmat aiatarhooJ.
ur.iut funilly of worlds. Hliitr-aaven laru-r
or ftiiiB'ler worlds, nil from tluit ona niagnill
; flit llreiilaoi', mada out of the ona word
l.litht. Tin" nun SMl.O(K) mllea in diBmater. I
lo uot know how iniK-h grandiT a aolar ays
ti'in liod c-oulil Iiihh entuled If Ha had put
forth Ilia rolatd urni, to any nothing of an
arm nmdo tinre ! put tlna'l know, that our
noonday aiiu was u xpnrk atrm-k from tha
iinvll ol una wnr.l, mid thnt word "Light."
Hut." says some. one. "do you pot think
t lint in m.-ik uu; t li iiia. liiui-ry' of ihn unl-i-tTSe.
of wiii -ti our solar svitom la com
piir.ili v.il v :i small wliml workinit Into mlKlit-l.-r
whavls. it must hava cost liod ouia ex
rtlon' The uplK-aval of an ami niftier
robed or an arm made Lara'.'" No ; we are
dmtin.'tly told otlierwiaa. The machinery of
a univi-r-iiCod iniidnslmply with Uu tinkers.
Int id. Inspired In it ullit souu, uy o
'Wlieu 1 c insider Thy heaveus, the work of
Thv lliiifers."
A Scottish I'leritymiiu told me a few weeks
ago of dyapeptii: Thomas t'urlyle walking
out with a frii-ud one starry night, and as
the trieiil looked up nud Slid, "What a
fpli'inhd aky!" Mr. Curlvlo replied ua ha
Kluuend upward. S-td sight, aad algid !"
Not so thought Unvid ns lia read tha great
H'-ripluro of the night h-avein. It waa a
sweep of embroidery, of vast tapmtry, (Joi
manipulated. That is the allusion of the
psalmist to the woven hangings of tnpeatry
as they weie known long iietora Llavid'a
time. I-'ar back In the ngtm what enchaut
luentof thrnnd and color, the I'lorentlua
velvets of silk and gold and J'entlau earpcli
woven of goals' hair ! If you have beeu iu
the (iobeliu manufactory of tapestry In Pari
alas, now no more! you witnessed won
drous things ua you saw tha wooden needle
or broach going Im.-k and forth and in and
out ; you were transfixed with admiration itt
the pattern wrought. No wouder that I.oui
MV bought It, und It became n possession of
the throae, nud for a loug while noue but
thronca nud palaces might have any of lis
work 1 What triumphs of loom I What
victory ot skilled lingers ! Ko bavid ay of
the heaveus that tiod'a fingers wove into
them the light ; that Ood'a lluger tapeatrled
them with star; that (iod finger em
broidered them with worlds.
How much of the linnu-nsiiy of the heavens
f 'avid i.uderatood I do not kuow. Astronomy
w.ts lioru iu I'hlna asiM) year before Christ
tv.w born. Huriug the ruigu of Honug- IT
astrouoiiiers were put to deuth if they tuade
wrong nalculations about the heavens. Job
understood Iho rairactiou of the auu's rava
aud said they were turned as the clay to the
eul." 'J'ho pyrnmlds werenstrouonilual ob
servatories, nud they were ao loug ao built
that Isaiah refers to one of them in bis nine
teenth chapter nnd eHl it the "pillar at the
uoruer. ineiirstol nil t lie sciennes porn
wus asironomy. wnetui-r irom knowledge
ulreudy ubroad or from direet liispiration, it
seems to me lavid hud wide knowledge of
the heavens. Whether be understood the
full force of what ho wrote. I know uot, but
the Uod who inspired him kuew, und He
would uot let David write anything but truth
aud therefore ull the world that the tele-
eopc over reached or Copernicus or Galilei
or Kepler or Newtou or J, unlace or llersuliul
or our own Mitchell ever unw were o easily
made mat they were made, with the linger.
A easily as with your llugers you mold the
wax, or ine eiav. or the dougli to parllo-
ular shapes, so lie doe Mod the shape of
our world, and that it sliould weigh alx sex
llllioutlbus aud appoiutad for all worlds
their orbit und decide.! tueir color the
white to Hiriua, the ruddy to Aldebaran, the
yeuoy to I'ollux. the blue to A It air. marrr
lug some of the stars, as the 2400 double stars
thut Herscbei observed, administering to tha
whims of the variable wnr a their glauoa
liecomes urlguter or dim, preparing what
aslronsinor called, "the girdle of Androme
da," and the nebula iu the sword handle ot
Orion. World uu worlds ! World under
worlds I Worlds almve world t World be
youd worlds ! Ho many that arithuiatlc ara
of uo use iu the calculation I Hut liecouutod
Iheu) ua He made them. niiJ He uaiiu thei
r
U His fingers! Ttnaorvstion of power!
Ku reaa'on of omnlpotenea ! Hsonrnns as
yet Intouchad I Almlghtlueas yet undemon
atrate l t Now. I ask. for the benefit of all
1lshartaned Christian workers. It flod ac
eore dlahail so mucb with His tin era, what
oan fa do when Ha puts nut all His strength
and. 'hen He nnllmlvers all the bntleriea of
Hia nnipotanee? The Ilible speaks again
and tain of Ond'a outstrate'.ie I arm. but
onb nee, aud that In the text, of the bare
urn flod.
V text makes it plain that the rectiilea
tloi f this world Is a stupendous under
tak It takes more power to make this
wot -er again than it took to make it at
fir. word wns only neeeasary for the
flra creation, but for the new creation the
nnlved and unhindered fore arm of the
Almighty I The reason of that I ean under
stand. In the ahipvarda of Liverpool or
tllar.w or New York a grant vessel I con
structed. The architect draws out the plnn.
the leoirth of tha beam, the capacity of ton
Data, the rotation of wheel or aerew. tha
ealilo. the masts and nil the appoint mauts of
thl arrest palaea of tha deep. Tha nrchitect
flniahaa his work without any perplexity,
and earpeutera and the artisans toll on
th1 craft so many hours a d.-iv. ea"h ona
lo ng hia part, until with Riga Hying, and
thruaands of people humaing on the docks.
th vessel is l.-iun-hed. put out on the sen
that ataamer breaks herahnft and Is limping
slowly along toward harbor, when Cnrililieau
whirlwinds, those mighty hunter nf the
deep, looking out for prey of hiM, surround
that wounde. vessel an I pit. -h it nn a rocky
eoaat. and she lifts nnd falls In th breakers
tint II every joint is loose, and every spar la
don. and every wave sweeps over the
buTlcane deck ns s'ie parts midships.
Would If not require more skill and power
to ('t that splintered veas d off the rocks
an reiHiustriiet it tlutn It retpurni origin
allr to fiiiibl her.' Aye! Our world thnt
Hod tniflt so liaautiful. and which started out
with all the flags of Kdcni foliage nnd with
th chant of paradisaical bowers, has been
sixty centuries pounding in the skerries of
sin and orrow and to gt her out. and to
get bar off, and to get her on the right way
again will reUlr" more of omnipotence than
It required to buital her and laun -h her. Ho
I am not surprise,! that though In tha dry
doek of one w' our world was made. It
wi l take the nnsleed arm of Ood to lilt her
from the rocks an 1 put her ou tha right
course again. It is evident from nivtaxt
an I Its comparison with other texts that It
would not las so grent nu undertaking to
make a whnle constellation of worlds, and a
whole galaxy of worlds, and a whole astrono
my of worlds, a 'id awing them in their right
orfills as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
d eat roved world, aud make it as good as
l.en It started.
Now. just look at the enthrone I dltTb'uMes
Inltba way. the removal of which, th" over
throw of which, seem to require the bare
rlijtiit arm of omnipotence, fhera stands
beMtlieniim, with Its StlU.OOO.rHHl victims. I
ibJ not care whether you call them Prahmans
nrl5uddhlsts. Confucians or fetich Idolaters.
Atitbe World's Kair in Chicago last summer
tble monstrosltiea of rellgiou tried to make
themselves reapeitable, but the long bair
and baggy trousers and trinketed rohes of
thoir representatives cannot bide from the
wbrid the fai-t that those religions are tha
authors of funeral p; re, aud juggernaut
crtisblng, and llangaa liifnn'icide, nnd Chi
nese shoe torture, nud the aggregated mas-s-i'res
of ninny penturies. They hava their
he-da ou India, on Chins, on Persia, on
Borneo, on three-fourths of the acreage of
ou poor old world.
J know that the missionaries, who are the
mcst u-rltloiug and Christllke men und
women ou earth, are making steady and
glcrlous inroads upon these built up aboml
na'lons of the centuries. All this stuff thut
yo sen Id some of the newspapers nbotit the
missionaries as living in luxury nnd idleness
Is .iroinulgated by corrupt American orKug
llftl or IScotch merchants, whose loose be
lli vior In heathen cltii-shas lieen rebuked by
t ie mlsaionnrles, nnd these corrupt mer-
ihants write borne or tell innocent nud un
. uspectlug visitor lu India or (,'hlua or the
sarkauea uiaii ot the sea these taiseuoods
. " - ... '-" Tho
luruUi itielr tatek on noma nud civilixatiou
aud emolument and comfort, spend their
lives In trying to Introduce the mercy of
the gospel amoog the dowutrotdeu of
heathenism. Home of those mer
chants leave their families iu America
or Kugland or Hoot land und stay for a few
years in the ports of heatheulsm while they
are making their fortune iu the tea or rice
or opium train, nud while they are thus
ahseut from home give themselves to orgies
of dissoluteness such ns no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of all decency,
attempt to report. The prete-u.v of the mis
sionaries, with their pure and imble house
holds. In those heathen ports Is u con-duut
rebuke to such debauchees and mlacreuuts.
If satan should visit heaven, from which he
was once roughly but justly expatriated, j
and lie would write Home to the realms pau- i
demoniac, til correspondence punusue,! iu
lUalioios (ia.ette or Apoiiyouic .New, a'siut
what he had seen, he would report the
temple of (iod aud tho l.ainb as a brokeu
dowu church, uud the house of many
mansion as a disreputable place, ami
the cherubim a suspicious ol mor
al. Kin uever did llku holiness, and you
hod better not depend upon satuuic report of
the sublime aud multipoteut work of our
missionaries lu foreign lands, lint notwith
standing all that these men aud women of
uod have achieved, they reel and we all P-el
that if the Idolutrous iunds are to Im Chris
tianized there needs to be a power from the
heuveus thut has not yet coudoseended. aud
we feel like cryiugout iu the wordsof Charles
vt t-sley i
Ann of I lie Lord, aakc. sa-skf!
1'ut uo Thy atrengili. the Nslious hake!
Aye, it is not only tha I. or I's arm that Is
needed, the holy arm, the outstretched arm,
but the bare arm t
There, too. stands Mohammedanism, with
it 170.000,000 victims, it bible i the Korau. U
book uot quite as large ns our New Testa
ment, wul. -li was revealed to Mohammed
when In enllentle tits, and resuscitated from
these fit he dictated it to scrllies. Yet It is
read to-day by more people than any other
book ever writteu. Mohammed, the founder
of that religion, a polygumist, with superflu
ity ot wives, the first step ot In religion on
the body, mind and soul of woman, uud uo
wonder that the heaveu or the Korau Is an
everlasting Hoc'oru, an inllnite oraglio,
about which Moliummed promises that ouch
follower shall nave in that place seveuty-two
wlvea, iu addition to all the wives be hail on
earth, but thut no oil woman shall ever
auter heaveu. Vt ben a bishop or J-.nglaud
recently proposed that th best way of
suvlng MohammeJnus wus to let tbem
keep their rellgiou, but engraft upou
it some new prineipltst Irom Chris
tianity, he perpetrated uu ecclesiastical joke,
at which no man cau laugh wbo ha ever
seeu the lyrauuy aud domestic wretchuduee
which always uppuar where that religion
get foothold. It bus marched across conti
nent j uud uow propose to set up Its llllhy
and accursed banner in America, aud what
it baa doue for Turkey It would like to do
for our Nation. A rellgiou thut brutully
treut womanhood ought neverto tie fostered
In our country. Hut there uever was a re
llgiou so absurd or wicked that it did uot get
disciples, uud there are enough fools lu
America to make a large discipleship of
Mohammedanism. Tbl corrupt rellgiou bus
lateu making steady progress tor h uud rods of
years, and notwithstanding all the spleudld
work done by the Jessups. aud the floudelU,
nud the blisses, and the Vau Dyke, aud the
Posts, and the' M!ji-s Dowens, aud the Misses
Thompson, aud scores of other men aud wo
men of wuorulhe world .was uot worthy,
there It stand, the giant of sin, Mohamme
danism, with one foot on the heart of wo
man aud the other ou th heart of Christ,
while It mumbles from its minarets this stu
peuduous blasphemy i "Uod is great, aud
Molisiumed Hi I prophet." Let lb Chris
tian printing ireas at be) root nud Constanti
nople keep ou with tbelr W)rk aud the meu
aud women of Uod lu tha uiiaslou Held toil
uutiitlie Lord orown them, but what we
are all hoping for Is some superuatural fvoiu
tha beaveua. as vet uusecu. soiuetuiug
sfreleheil down out of the skla. something
like en arm nneov?reJ, the bare ami of tha
God of Natious!
There stand also tha nrc'.i demon of a ' no
holism. Its throna la white ani msdn of
Maaeheil human skulls. On one side of that
throne of skulls kneels In obeisance anil
worship democracy, aud on tha other aide
republicanism, and the one that ktane tba
cancerous and gangrened font of thla daapot
the otteneat gats the most banedictinns.
There is a Hudson River, nn Ohio, a Missis
sippi of at rot drink rolling through this
Nation, but as the livers from which t taka
my figure of speech empty into the Atlantlo
or the Oulfthls mightier flood of slckneaa
and Insanity and domestic ruin and crime
nnd baukrnptcy and woe e-nptles Into the
hearts, and tba homes, and tha churches,
nnd the time, and the eternity of a multitude
beyond all statistics to nnmlieror dascritte.
All Nations are mauled and vsrlll-! with
baleful stimulus, nr killing narcotic. Tha
pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Ilrar.il. the
hsheeah of Persia, tho opium of China, tha
guavo of Honduras, the wedro of
Kussla, the soma of ludls. tha aguardiente
f Morocco, thearaknf Arabia, the mast in
of Hvrla. the rakl of Turkey, the lew of Oar
many, tha whisky of Scotland, the ale of
f'.ngiand. the nil drinks of America, ara do
ing their beat to stupefy. Inflame, dement,
impoverish, hrutalir.e nn I slay the human
race. Human power, unless re-tuforeai
from tha heavens, can never extirpate tha
evils I mention. Much goo I has hnnn ac
complished by the heroism and fidelity of
Christian reformers, but the f.vt remains
.1... . i. i 1, i ... .... .. .
I I iihi i nin ain iirii -ii.-ii.iii iiii-ii ail'i iimn-
tillleent women this moment going ov.tr tha
Niagara ahvam of iiiliriety than nt any time
' sluen the first grape was turned Into wins
: aud the tlrst head of rye liegm to soak In a
brewery. When people tou-h this subject,
they are apt to give statistic as to how many
I millions nre in drunkards' grave, nr with
quick tread marching on toward them. Tba
Inud Is full of talk of high tariff and low
I tariff, but whnt aliouttha htg!i9t of all tariffs
III this country, the tariff of a'00.0O0,000
I which rum put upon tba Tinted Htntea in
s). for that Is what it cost us.' You do not
I tremble or turu pale when I say that. Tba
fact Is we have become burdened by atn-
tistica. ami tney make nine impreas;on.
Hut If aomo on" could gather into one
mighty lake nil the tears that have lieeu
wrung out of orphanage and widowhood, or
Into one organ diapason all tint groan that
have been uttered by the suffering victims
of this holocaust, or luto one whirlwind all
the sigh of centuries of dissipation, or from
the wicket of oue immense prison have look
upou us the glaring eyes ot all those whom
strong drink has en liingeonad, we might
perhaps realir.e the appalling desolation,
lint, no, no, the sight would lorever blast
our vision , the sound would forever stun
our souls, do on with your temperance
literature; go on with your temperance plat
forms: goon with your tcMiperane laws.
Put we are all hoping for something from
anove, an-l while the hare arm of suffering,
and the bare arm of luvalldis-c. und the bare
arm of poverty, and the bare arm of domes
tic teolntlon.' Irom wnieti rum hath torutbn
sleeve, are lift ed up ill beggary nu l suppli
cation aad despair, let the bare nrm ot Go 1
strike the breweries, and the liquor storea,
and the corrupt poltt.-s. aud the license
laws, nud the whole inferno of grogshops all
around the world. Down, thou a "cursed
bottle, from tha throne! Into the dust, thou
king of the demijohn ! Parched be thy lips,
thou wineeup, with ilrds that sj tll uiver be
quenched !
Hut I have no time to so tcily the manifold
evilt thut challenge Christianity. And I
think I have seen lu so ne Christians, nnd
rend in some newspapers, nud benrd from
some pulpits n ilishearteiiment. as though
Christianity were ao worst oil that it is bar lly
worth while to af tempt to win this world for
l bid. und that nil Christian work would col
lapse, und that It is uo use for you to teach a
Sabbath class, or distribute tracts, or exhort
iu prayer meetings, o.' preach In a pulpit, aa
mtau is gaining groiud. To Dhuke that
pessimism, the gospel of smashup, I prauob
this sermon, allowing that you ara on the
winning side, tiouhead! Fight on ! What
I want to tnakeoi't to-y Is that our ammu-oitln-
not exh tat all k '
bee a accompllsli4 una umu ute,'-
Ishing before the great Armageddon ; that
ti at more than one of the thousand fountains
of beauty lu the Klug's park bus begun to
play : that not more than one brigade ot ths
innumerable hosts to be marshaled by the
rider on the white horse has yet taken tba
field ; thut what liod lias dous yet has been
with arm folded In flawing robe, but that
the time is coining wheu He will rise from
Histhroue, aud throw off thut robe, nud
come out of the palaces nf eternity, and come
dowu the stairs of heaven with all conquer
ing step, nud halt lu the presence of expec
l ii i it Natlou. uud tlaslUug Ills omniscient
eyes ucross the work to be done will put
buck the sleeve of Hi right arm to the shoul
der, nnd roll It up there, and for the world'a
llual und complete rescue uiake bare Ills
arm. Wbo can doubt the result wheu ac
cording to my text Jehovah does His
Isstt i when the last reserve force ot omnipo
tence take the Held; wheu the lust (word
ot eternal might leups from Its scab
bard? Do you know what decided
the battle of HedanV The bills a thousand
feet high. T.leveu huudrod caunuus on tha
hills. Artillery on the heights of Olvonue,
and twelve Herman Isitteriei on the heights
of l.a Moncello. The Crown Prince of Has
ony watched tba scene from the heights ol
Mairy. Between u quarter to 0 o'clock la
the morning und 1 o'clock in the afternoon
of Heplenile-r 'i, 1H7I). the hills dropped the
shells that shattered the French host In tha
valley. Tho l-'reucu I'.mperor aud theSo.000
of bis army captured by the bills. Ho In thla
couflict uow raging between boliuess aud
siu ''our eyes are unto the bills."
Down here In the valley of earth we must
be valiant soldiers of the cross, but the Com
mander ot our bust walks the heights nud
views the sceue far better than we cau in the
valleys, nud at the right day aud the right
hour all heaven will open it butteries on our
side, and the Commander of the hosts of un
righteousness with nil bis followers will sur
render, and it will take eternity to fully oelo
hrate the universal victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. "Our eye ureuuto the hills."
It is so certain to be accomplished that Isaiah
ia my text looks dowu through the field glass
of prophecy and speaks of It ns already ac
complished, ard I take my stand where tha
prophet took his stand aud loo' at it as all
done, "Halleluiah, 'tU done." Kee! T hoae
cities without a tear! Look! Those con
tinents without a pang. Heboid ! Those
hemisphere without a siu! Wby, those
deserts, Abrublnu desert, American des
ert, uud t reat Hahara desert, are all
irrigated into gardens where Uod walks iu
the cool of the dnv. The atmosphere that
eneirole our globe flouting uot one groan.
All the river and lakes aud oceans dimpled
with uot oue falling tear. The climates ot
the earth have dropped out ot tbem tho
rigor of the cold aud the blasts of tue beat,
aud It Is universal spring ! Let us change
the old world's uume. Let it nu more be
called the earth, as when it was reeking with
everything pestiferous aud nialevoleut, scar
let ed with buttlellelds uud gashed with
graves, but uow ao changed, so uromatlo
with garduus, and ao resouuut with song,
mid so ruboaeeut With beauty, let us cull it
Iuimanuel's Land or Ueuluh or niillennlul
garden or paradise regained or heaven I
Aud to Cod, the oul wise, the only good, '
the only greut, be glory forever. Auieu.
Domestic Diamonds.
That the United Htates uu tubers the
diuruoud amount its many precious
atones is an uudoubted fact, aud, al
though none of uy size to compare
with those from India, Brazil and
South Africa have beau fouud, yet
front the niHuy evidences of finds of
uudoubted specimens of merit, there
is reason to hope that some geu of ex
cvptioual value may be evoutually dis
covered, either acridoubilly or through
avstematio seat th. New Orleans
l'icavune.
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