DISTANT 1HING3. 0, white Is oiil iu tlio faraway, Anil dirty tho :iil nl thn ilook t And dilr urn the cliff across the lay Ami black Is the tinar-by rook. Viiough glitton Ilia maw on the peak a tar, At our feet it Is only white , and bright I thegleiun of thn dhtnnt star, Though a lump worn twlo as bright I Tho rose thnt nods beyond our reneh. I redder than roso of ours , Of thought Hint turn our tongues to speech Our fellows leave greater dowers. Tho water thai How from tho hidden springs Aro sweeter tlmti tlmso by our side 80 we strive through III" lor tl:u distant tiling And never are :ilN!l I ! Sown Mrivn thro'.uh life for t!io.i distant tiling But I'vi'rthoy liiil 1 their pi ice Till bent I If.) 1lr11.11 mi I death doth coma And w- look In hi mocking fi"o. And !!: dWt.'int thing crowd neur nn 1 close And fulfil ' T (- ir- dingy and gray ! For Hi- M.tr;n In lost when the, lino l rroo I 'Twlxt her" .in I fur away I'nr th ' 'niriii i ! t Wi'.i'ii lln' lino is i r"l And w thing as Hi ' HP- ; Aud know 1 1 1 :it ill clean in th! 'ill nt tho I 1. k A' tho Mil on tlioon nfar . As .r 1 ulit the ray f the near-by lamp A III" glnm of tho distant xiur. F.I wye I. lIufTfiian. 111 PittM-nrg tif(.rio;i. AN EASTER OFFERING. AVS A SHI CM S. I'-iM! lUKC'LAV Mit in 1 1 r riKitn stitcliiu.g lillsily, Hllll Ht the httl.ll tune I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 nir- eastles, till' inno cent llir-l'listlet i f a R i r 1 of eighteen, who is just Wakening to tlie INlllseiolISIiei.S of a heart to li Slio would have won ntnl given. Mualied with indignutiou nnd wound ed feeling, ii ii. I any utio toM ht-r olio was actually iu love, 11ml there would have lieeu 110 fnU hood in her denial. Vet, since tho lli v, .Tuines Custleton hud iMiiw to Itoscdale, ntnl taken tho church under his rare, life hud nieuiud briKhU-r to Susie. The Jii-v. .Fames CVtlctoti was a luiot, rather reserved man of thirty tivi', not handsome, not especially gifted with i-li)iiii n(.v. lint in hi suit gray I'vcc, in I la- curves if his gravely set mouth lav an cMprcHhion (f ooii ncKH, o( iinostciitntiiitiN, true j'ifty, that Hindi' his hiiiijiIo luniiui' ino'ru efli't'tivo than tho most -luliorato urn lory. Old w ifiicn lironght their Bor rows to Sir. Ciifth ton, aud went away poiiifortcd, Moaning him for an imaf ffcted nymiiathy that doiildod the raluo of hi counsel. Child-"n chin tcrcd al .it hiui wherfvor ho called, nd loooked oucrly for hin coiuiuk into the Suuduy-sfhool. Tho young jito-ilo liked huu and trusted him, woiuU'riUK a littlo MiniftimeH that otio 10 prao and quii't could bo thoroughly nnderKtuud the troubles uud teniita Uoiih of youth. He hud allow ti an intercut iu Susio Barclay for iimr.y rciu.oiiM. Shu was n orplnin mid hud lost both ptircuU ud a Ki.ster within n fortnight, vie timaofa niiiliniiiit fever tagin iu UokciIhIc, four years liefore. She whh ioor, havitif,' taken a position as house hold teacher in 11 Keminury, and heen aousi hold drudge as well, to eurn 1111 education. At the timo Ir. C'astletou same to Itoseditlc, Susie was teachilif music, was organist at St. Mark's, and I in leisure time at home earned mutiv au odd dollar by embroiderv. ! And it was 110011 embroiderv sbn whh i biisv oil the week preceding Kaster iur. v asiidbou s nrsi r.aner in liose iale. Ai organist, Susie was com It,.. . .... peueti 10 iaKo pari 111 all tlie services it St. Mark's, but beside this regular ' kttenduuee, slui was a devout, sincere member of the church, and gave her lime, little as she could spare it, to Jhe work in th'j missionary society, owiu,v .iicles au I festivals of the )iar. And tiie work upon which she was eving so stea lily Susie called, iu her her heart, her Master offering. Mrs. Staeey, tho richest woman 111 Hose iale, often employed Susie's busy fin ders, and it only made the gentle girl uliille scornfully when she lumrd lies in Slacey j raised for the exquisite embroidery her owu active lingers wrought. Mrs. Staeey intended to make an Kiu-ter offering, at St. Murk's, of a new set of church linen, uud she had migaged Susie to hemsiiteh aud em broider it, promising her ten dollars for work she well knew would cost her three times that sum iu aiiy city store. And Susie hid already appropriated that sum, iu her mind. She would ouy 11 Isrt'ii cross of w hite flowers, inch as she had seen iu her visits to the city, and present it to St. Mark's. Not one penny of those ten dollars sould she use for her owu expenses; tlid il llessie Staeey let it bo under itooil that hho had embroidered tho linen her mother presented, why, Susie could give her cross, and so balance mattcrr'. For, hitmew hero iu the depths of her heart, so far down she had never called it to the surface, Susie knew that there was rivalry between LVssie Staeey aud herself. Sho knew that Mr. C'astletou was frequently at Mrs. Staeey', to luucheou, to dinner, to trrauge various church matter iu which Mrs. Slaccy suddenly wakened to au interest she had never felt when joitd old Mr. Murray presided io the pulpit. Aud lies is wore the most becoming tlresiew right uuder the minister's ayes, while Husie' modest dressew were hiddeu beoiud the curtains of the urgau-loft. IIY mm Ad nli a worked In tho pvwion-floweM encircling her cress, Husio thought of thn order she would seud to her Aunt Mary in th city for tho cress she. meant t )uy. She, had steadily put away the temptation to buy a Dew Rpriug hat or one new dreM, resolving to make over her prry poplin once morn and havo her old liut cleaned and preyed. And, really, one must lio i-igliteen, with a very limited, linrd-earticd wardrobe and a atroug deHire to appear attractive in tho eyes of 0110 person, to appreciate the sncri lice Susie w is making. Ten dollars, with hrr economical habit s, her skill in sewiui, won I d go no far toward girlish adornment ! l!ut it was to be her l.-isler offering ; and if there lurked a thought of Mr. t.'iif-tletou'H word: of praise or his grave eves Jnokiug approvingly upon her tasteful gill, was she so very much to blurne? She hud finished her work beforu sunset, and took it home. Mrs. Stacy was iu the hitting room, where Messie wus opt ning the parcel containing n new s'lk Hit i t for Kithtor Sunday, and Susie was tiled upon t admire the color, the itvle, the general effect. 'It is ihirk for hpriug," llt'ssio h:iid, fretfully. "You know very well yoti cannot bear light colors," snid her :nother. "Your eyes and hair are nil you can desirej your teeth are good, your fea tures regular and your figure is dimply perfect; but your complexion is t'liek and sallow, and always will lie ill. Ill Mill stop eating such rich food. Now, here is Susie without ol:e really good feature in her face, with an insignifi cant figure, eyes of 110 color in partic ular, a sort of bluish -gray, but with a complexion like a miniature painting. She can wear blue uud softly tinted fabric', but you cannot'' She might have added thit Susie's hair wa the color of corn-silk nnd one mnsH of golden waves and no ft ring let; that Susie's month was like a baby s in its tender curves and swtvt rxprcphioli I that Susie's eyes were full of intelligence and gentle, womanly sweetness ; but she forgot to mention these punts, 1111 1 Smie wus crushed, as she intended her to be, iu spite of her complexion. I 'it t Mrs. Stacor took out her pocket book and froiujt a teu-dollur gold piece. "Yon can buy a new hat," she said, in a patronizing way indescribably ir ritating. "No," Susie said, quietly; "this is to be my Kaster offering. " "Oh! And speakiug of Euater, would you mind, on your way home, taking this liueu to Mrs. Hyrne's io wash and iron. Tell her I must havo it on Friday at tho very latent !" It was growing dark, and Susie re membered thill no far from being "on her way home." Mrs. lJyrno lived nt the other end of l'osedale, but she was to Bhy too refuse, and rolled tho liueu up agaiu. .Mrs. ly. was a inirJ-worW'' woman with uevon eii:v.- husband, alter subjecting her to all the miseries of 11 ilruukurd'n wife, had released her by pitching head-first oft' the bridge below llosedale, ' into the river. Womanlike, she grieved for htm, as if he had limde her life a bed of roses, and turned to her wash-tubs for 11 living, putiei.tly aud industri ously. A very sunbeam of a womau she was, in spite o( her troubles, and Sueie wasamu::ed to find her sitting 011 the d iloor-htcps sobbing like a child. She rose to receive Mrs. Stueev'a I message, and promised to d'i tho i work, and then, iu answer to Susie's J gentle, "You aro iu trouble, I am ' ui'ruid," her grief broke out in wel ds. no rigm to eompiain. miss, h,,e "f"r the Lord 'a been very '-J0'"1 " " I'""' '''' ':w drownded, but indeed it's a eliaueo lost I'm frettiug for." "A chance lost?" said Husie, her voice Khll full of gentle sympathy. "It's Nora, miss. She' been deli- cnU' ",lhH. ,vr bi.n00 W11H ,,or,b aiiil the air here 11 hail lor her in tirely. The docther save her lungs is wake, and it'a u bad cough she's got, and we're too near the sav here in l!itwiilnlt An. I mo iii-.tt u-Tiri livouut ' IS--, 1-lie's wrote she'll take Nora for her owu, au' give her bchooling nnd not let her work till she's stronger, She's not much of her own, hasn't sister Mary ; but she's uo childer hiuce she put four in the church-yard, ajid she'll be good to Nora, an' the child just dyiug here by inches, for she will help me, an' sloppiu'iu the washing's bad for her. She coughs that bad at night, miss, and the doctor says the air in H would be the makiu'of her." "Dnt, surely, you will eeud her," said S.isie. "There it is, miss! Mary, she can't hind money out au' out, and it costt) six dollars to go to 15 . I was up to Mrs. Stncey's, to ax the louu of it, and work it out a little at a tiuio on the washiu' ; but she told me she could not spare it. Au' she rich 1 I'm thiukin', miss, perhaps she'd be serviu' the Lord as well as saviu' a girl's life, yon may say, instead of buyiu' all this embroid ered linen to show off at Ht. Mark's." The words struck Husie like a stab. Was it to serve the Lord or for her own vanity sho wanted to give the white cross to Ht. Mark'? Saving a human life I The thought almost took her breath. "You can send Nora if you have ten dollars?" she asked. "Yes, miss; but it might ah well be a hundred. I can't get it." "Yes, for I will givo it to you; and you cau ask the Lord to bless my Easter offering." And before the astonished woman could reply, the shining gold piece lay in her haud and Husie wa speeding homeward, "Tho Lord be good to her I The saint blew her bed I" cried Mm Byrne. "An' she t'aohiug for her own bread and butter an' trudging altout in al) weather to earu a dollar I" "You Aferti aurpriaed at aomethlng, Mr, llyrne," aaid a qniet, deep voice at her elbow, and aho looked np to sen Mr. Caatlcton xtanding beside her. "I came over to nee if you could come tip to the parsouaxe and help Mr. Willi to-morrow. Hhe has some extra work on hand." "Yes, airf I'll como, and 1e thank ful to you, An' I am snrprisud just dazed like." And out came the wholo story from the grateful woman's lijis, ending with : "And its workin' she is ft hard as meself in her own way, while Mrs. Stacey, that's rollin' in money couldn't spare jest the loan of it, for it's not begging I'd lie !" Muster services were over, and Mrs. Slaccy hu 1 invited Mr. t'aslletoti to dinner. She had told no direct lie, but certainly had given the impression that the lovely embroidery upon the new linen was the work of Hessie's lin gers. As thev drove home, she asked Mr. (Vllctoti "sweetly. "hon't think me impertinent, but which of the offerings was Miss liar- "None that I know of ! Was there one ottering ot -f ion .1,.!. Iur iu the collection?" "No a five-dollar bill was tin lir- "Such hypocrisy !" sneered F'.essie. "It was not necessary for Miss Harclav to tell you, mamma, she wits going to irive ten dollar fur all Kaster offering, but v)ik need Hot have told a falsehood about it I" "Nor did she," said Mr. Custleton. "Hi r Kaster offering was ten dollar." Hut ho made no fuither explana tion; nor did Susie, when summer time brought her a letter, asking her to shire his life and labors, know that Mr'. I'.vrrie hml told him the story of her charity. New York Led Kit.' A Dcutlwimil lynching. Vjf. under l'iehar dson gives, in the New York Sun, tiie following vivid de scription of the lynching of a murderer at l'cadwood in the seventieo-. When the preparations were com plete the prisoner's hauds were man acled behind him, and he was ledo.it side. The crowd cheered and then hooted as they saw him. The yellow of his skin had chnii'.'ed to au asheii hue, and his one active little eye swept the horizon with a venomous glitter. Hut he did not wince, lie clutched his half-smoked weed convulsively with his teeth, pulled himself together and stood firmly 011 his feet, with his chin elevated defWntly. He was lifted to the back of the horse, and silting there, bolt upright, was led away across the gulch to where a long rope dangled from a limb of a gaunt dead tree. Iu oneendof thisrojie there was aniiiniug noose. The other end, after passing over the limb, was held by several men furl her up the side of the gulch. The horse was led under the tree, two gnards, with rifles ready, walking on it her sido. Thecr eh" J' onward like au angry river, pnnteo with excitement that broke out in curses and vile exclamations. The noose was adjusted, tho horse, was led out from under the murderer's form, and at the same moment the men holding the opposite end of the rope ran up the hill with it for a few pui'c. The body of the tall Missouriau, writh ing horribly iu agony, flew upward. A docu shots from pistols and rides rang sharply out. Tho malefactor's UUgaiuly teet, which had been drawn up iu the first contortion of suil'eriug, fell buck. The bony hands, which hud clutched tlehparutely at the back of his shirt, relaxed and hung down, limp aud pulseless. Tho teeth, which hud been clinched in the tiuul and supreme effort of self-control, parted, aud tho remnant of the last black cigar cam floating to the groiiu 1. The artificial eye, uow not more sightless than its furtive companion, cast a coldly sinis ter stale out over the throng below, a throng hushed with tho spending of its fury. Tho body, twisting with the strain upon the rope, swayed to aud fro iu the freshening breeze. Tho peo ple, who were sobered aud reflective, turned slowly away aud dispersed. The World (ironing lletler. It may sound a little slangy, but the popular expressiou, "we're getting there," seems to fit the times exactly. Tho world is grow ing better because the people ore better than they ever were before. The suu may not shino a:iy brighter, but wo appreciate tho light more highly, lhero maybe iw dark places as ever there were, but we are able to avoid them. ('ertuinlv there never was a limo when gentleness and purity, human love and human sympathy were more respected or more generally appreci ated. Coarseness and vulgarity, rude ness and riot will melt away before these mild influences, until finally this old world will be so bright aud so lovable that even tho good will regret having to leave it. We aro becoming raoro btimap, which means that the savage iu our nature is being eliminated. l'itUburg Commercial Ouzette. A Studio Trick. Iu the corner of an artist's shidio in this city is au iugeuiou arraugement of screens, upon one of which, over au aperture about the size of a face, is an inscription: "Likenesses taken in stauteonsly." The innocent visitor peeks through the hole aud i aston iuhed to behold an exact likeness of himself a a hump-baoked jailer iu a scarlet coat, opening a prison door. The secret of this effect is simple. The jailer i a life siee painting strongly rendered. The place for the face is cut out and a mirror inserted, reflect ing the feature of the spectator.' The conception of the amusing fantasy is not entirely original. It wa impor ted from the studio of Wiertz, the Kwlvts artist PlitlHlt.lii HjwwtMl REV. DR. TADIAGE. niK ;KROOKr,YN DIVINE'S DAY SEKMON. Subject: 'From Conquest quest." to iCon- TTT! "Tlrho'iit thf tiy mm. nl tf Lord, thai Ihr ptuirtnan $KnU overlai tht reaper. Amos lx., 13. Pioturfof a Ironloal rllm. with a o proprou that th harvest reaohtisMfar ovortotlin plnntlne lime, nnd the swirtnr huhnndtran nwinirlntf the slokls In thsthlck erain nlmost feels thn lireath of th hor' on bis shoulders, ihs homos hitched u ths plow preparing for a now erop. "ivhoM Ihoilnys rume, s.iltli the I.ortl.lhst th blow mnn shall overtake tha reaper." Whin Is that? That Is now. Thnt I this day, whoa hnrdly linve yon done raplni( onu hrost liofore the plowman Is gi-ttlu realr for mother. I 1 know that many doelsrolbal Christ Ajnltr ha oollnpsed that the IilM Is nn oli-oMs hook ; that tl: Christian church is oil h ri'lriMt. I will horo an I now Ihow thai opt'osim of thnt Is iruo. Au Aran uuldo wns lending a Frmo fldol across a li'rt. snd ttvor and ano Arab guiiln would get down In ths am! pniy to tho ,ord. It ilmtontud the F Inlidel. and niter nwlillo as th Aral) Kit up from on of tils proven the Infldol kald, 'How do you know there is any Ood'I ami tho Arnh iruldo satd : Mow do I know that n mnn and a camel pnssod along our tent lst Dik'hl? I know It I vtho footprints in the nud. And you wnnt to know how I Inow whether t hero Is any flod' Look nt that sunset. Is that tho loot step of a mnn?" And liy tho snnvi prooois you nnd I hare coie to ninlortiiuil that this book is the loot stf of slioil. 1 but now let us sm w'.iothortbs Blh'. is a lnt year' almanac, l.et 11s s whnthor the phuroh of Ood is In a Dull Itun rotroat, mii'ki't, canteens nnd linvorsnoks strevlng ill thn way. The irrent Enclish liistotian. Slinrou Tumor, a diiiii of vast learning nnd of croat accuracy , not n clergyman, Imt an attorney nn well a a til-torliiu. Rives this tverw'holmliiir statistic; Iu rcgnrd to Chris tianity nnd in nvar l to tlio number of Chris tians In th (IIFTeron centuries : In the first century, fioo.000 Christians i In the swond century. V.'KtO.ODO Christians : In the third century, C.onn. (loo Christians s In the fourth poniury, to.imo.noo Christians! Iu the tin h century, l.Vimil.cK) Christlnni 1 in the sixth century. SO.liOO.tiOO ChrlMinns ;ln the seventh century. iil.nun.riOO Christinn : In the eight ti century, iiii.Whi.imio Christians; Iu the nlnlti eentury. 40,fMin.Oon Cliristlans 1 lu tho tenth century. 60.000.IKK1 Christians; in the eleventh century. 7i,OO0.nO0 Christfsns : iu tliotwelllh century, bO.OOO.noil Christians ; In the liilrteentli ceniury, 75.000,000 Christ ians; in the fourteenth, century. 80,000.000 Christians: in the Ufterr.tb century, 10U, (lOil.OOO Christians ; Iu the sixteenth cen ury, 123,OXtO.oo Christians : iu the soron teenth century, 155.000,000 ; In the eight eenth century. .00,000.000 Christians a de cadence, ns you observe, In only one eentury aud more than rr.ado up in tho following cen turies, while it U the usual compu tation that there will be, when the record ot tho nineteenth century Is made up. kt least 300,000,000;chrlMlan. l'oor Christianity ! What a pity It Las no frloudsl How lonosomit It must be! Who will tnko it out of the poorhouse? Poor C'liristlnnlty ! Three hundred million lu one century. In a few weeks of lha year last 2.l!00,t00 copies of the New Testament dis tributed. Why, the earth Is like an old cas tle with twouty Kates and u purk artillery ready to thunder down every Kate. Lay tslilo all Christendom and son how heathen dom Is being surrounded and houeycombed and nttneked by this all conquering fiosiol. At the beginning of this century there w re only 150 missionaries 1 uow I here are 15,009 Mluuarius aud nstive helper and ovap there jrere only C0. 000 heath ad converts ; now ! there are 1,7:0,000 converts from heathen- lo:n. There Is not a seacoist on the nl.innt hnt the battery of theKospel is planted an 1 ready to march ou north, south, east, wst. You all know Unit the chief wort of an army is to plant the batteries. It nuiv take many dnvs 10 plant the butteries, and thev nniy do all their work lu tn minutes. These batteries r t cinx planted all aloiw the seacoastt and in all nations. It may take a nod wlolt to (Int.: thorn, tin t thi.y may do all their work noonday, they will. Nations aro to be born In one day. Hut Just comn bn'k to Clirtstendom and recoeuiza the fact that iurtnif the Inst ten years iu luuuv iieonle havo connected themselvii with evitnif 'Ileal jliun-he as conn vte t themselves wltn the churches in the first Ufty yuurs ot this ceu- ury. ho Christianity Is falllna tack, and thn Bible, they siy, is becomluir au obolet book. I ko Into a court, and wherever I llnd a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a Bible. I'pou what book could them be uttered the solemnity of an oath? What book Is apt to be put In the trunk of the young man fis hu leaves for city life? The Bible. What shall I tlnd In nine out of every ten homes in Brooklyn The Bible, la nine out of every Inn homes in Christendom' The Utile. oltnim wrote the prophecy that the Bible in the ulnoteeuth century would be come extinct. Tho century is nearly gone, and ns there hare bceu more Bibles pub lished lu IHe luttor part of the century thna in tiie termor part or tne century, 00 you think the Bible will become extinct lu the next six yearn 1 uavi) to toll you 'thnt the room In which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not Ion," ago was crowded Irom floor to celling witu Bibles from Switzerland. Suppose the Con Kress of the Culled Htate should pass a law thnt ttieio should be uo morn Bible priuted in America mid no more Bible read. If there are 40,000,000 Krowa people lu the L lilted Slates, there would be 40. 000, C00 peo ple lu au army to put down such a law and defend their rlht to read the Bible. But suppotc the Congress of the I'uited State should make a law a:ilust the reading or 1 lie pubiieiition 01 nny other book, bow many people would ko out in such a crusade? Could you Kt 400,000,000 people to no out nnd rls'i their lives in defense ot Kliake- I 'ware's tratfodies or (iladstoue' trs'ts or Macaulay' "History ot EugluudV" You know that there aro 1000 uieu who would die iu defense of this book where there is not more than one mm who would die lu defend of any other book. Y'ou try to lu ult my common sense by telling me the Bible Is fatiu out from the world. It Is the most popular book of tho century, flow do I know II? 1 know It just a I know in regard toother books. How many vol umes of that book are published? Weil, you tay, 6 000. How many copies of that book are published? A hundred thousand. Which Is the morn popular? Why, of course the one that has 104,000 circulation. And if this book has more copies abroad In th world, If there are Ave time a many Bibles abroad a nny other book,' doe not that how you that the most popular book on thj planet to-day Is the word of Ood? "Oh," say people, "the church 1 a collec tion ol hypocrites, and it Is loslug Its power. aud It is ladlug out from the world." Is It? A bishop of the Methodist church told me that that denomination averaie two new churches every day or th year. There are at least 1500 uew Christian churche built In America every year. Does That look as though the church wure fading out, a though It were a defunct institution? Which lot it u tlon stands nearest the heart ot th people of America to-day? I do not car lu what village, or la what city, or what neighbor hood you go. Wbloh institution i It? I it th postoltloe? Is U th hotel? I It th lecturing ball? Ab, you know It 1 not. You know that th institution which ts ads near est to th heart of th American people 1 th Christian ohurob. If you have ver ea a ob u run burn dowu, you nav seen thou sods of people standing aud looklug at It people who never go into a ohuroU the Inars rslnln? down thair cUeeks. The whole story is told. You may talk aVtnt thn church beln? a eollnctlon of hyrocrltns. but when thn diph theria swoops vonr children off whom do you send for? Thn postmaster, th aftornoy. general, thn hotol-kooper, alderman? Not you send for a minister of this Bible rnsrioo. And If you ham not a mom In your house for the ounrultw, what bulldlnir do you so licit? Do you sav, "Oive me thn finest room In thn hotel?" Io yon say, "Olvs mo that thnatrn?" Do ymi say, "rtlre mn a place la that public bulldlnir. whrn I can lay my dead for a little while until we sav a prayer over It?" No. Yo J suy, "Oive us the house of Ood." And If them Is a snncf to suit at thn obsequies, whnt drt von wnn'7 What does anvbody want? "Tiio Mursoiilalso" tiymn? "(Jod Have the Qiioe nV" Our own irrand nntlonnl air? No. Tbor wnnt thn hymn with which they snni their old Christian mother Into her lat sleep, or they want sung the Kahbath-nchool hymn which their little girl sang thn last Sabbath afternoon she wns out before she rrot tnt nw'nl sickness which broke your hoarf. I appeal to your common sense. You know tho most endoarlnsf In stitution on earth, the most popular Institu tion on earth to-day Is the eliureU of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Inlldels say, "Infidelity shows Its s-io. cesses from thn fact that It Is everywhere accepted, and It can say whit It will." Why, my frlomls. Infidelity is not half so Hitaut in our days ns It was In th d-iys of our fathers. Io you know thnt In thn linys of our fathers! thorn worn pronounced Inlldels In put'llo authority nn.l they coul I got nnv political poltioii? Lot a man to-dnv declare himself nntauoni.ttlo to thn Christian re Union, and what city wsnts him for mayor, what Htate wants him lor eovernor, what nation wants him for president or for klnu? Let a limn openly proclaim himself tho enemy of our glorious Christianity, and hn cnunot gt a majority of votes in any Kat, In nny city, in any county, Io uny ward of America. Do you think that sueh a s"n ooul t be enacted now as was enacted in tlie dnys of Holiesplerre, when a shameless wom-tn re elevated ns a goddess snd was csrrliv' a golden chair o a cathedral, wbern ,e o" was burned to her and poopln lowe., own before her as a divine bclui-, she tiku,- tlie plne of tho Bible snd (lo I Almighty, while In thn corridor of that cathedral wr en acted such scenes of drunkenness nnd do. bauchery nod obscenity as has nver boon witnessed? Do you believe sie-h a thlnsr could possibly occur in Christendom to-day? No, sir! The police, whether of I'ari or New Y'ork, would swoop on It. I know Infidelity makes a good deal of talk iu our day. It is on th principle that If a man Jump overboard from a Cunard steamer hn makes more ex 'ltotnent than all the COO people that stay on thn docks. But the fact that h" Jumps overboard does thnt stop the ship? Docs that wreck thn 500 passengers? It nmkes greit excitement wherta man Jumps from thn lecturing plat form or from the pulpit in fidelity, but does that keep the Bible and the Church from carrying their million ot paisougors into the skies? Thojr say, these men. that sclenen is over coming religion In our dny. Tbny look through thn spectacle of thn infldol scien tist", and they say "It Is Impossible that this book can be tru". People nre ttnding it out. The Bible has got to go overboard. Heleneo Is going to throw It overboard." Do you balleve that the Bible account ot thn origin of life will be overthrown by Infidel scientists who have fifty difTornnt theories about the origin of life? If they should come up lu solid phalanx, nil agreeing upon one sentiment andono theory, poihaps Ciiristlau Ity might bs damaged, but there are not so many differences ot opinion Inside the church as outside the church. l'eople used to , Thorn are no many different denominations of Christians that hows there Is nothing in religion." I have to toll you that nil denominations agreo on the two or three or tour radical doctrines ot the Cur.'stlan rullglon. They are unanimous In regard to Jesus Christ- 'ad thev are ej ed n ' etnlr- Ho Hiripture. How la It on 1. other slds? All split tip you cannot find two ol them alike. Oh, It make me sick to see thesn lit erary fops going along with a copy of Dae. win under one arm and a case of traus.lxed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, telling about the "survival of the tit test." and Huxley's protoplasm, aud the nebular hypothesis. 1 lie met is tnat some nit urn lists lust as soon as they flud out thn dlfi'erenoe hot ween the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle beglu to patronize the Almighty, while Agus- 817., glorious Agassis, who never made any I 'retentions to beiug a Christian, puis both lis feet on the doctrine of evolution aud ays, "1 je that many of the naturalists of our day are adopting facts which do not bear observation or have not passed under observation." These men warring against each other Dnrwiu warring against I.a niarohe, W allace warring against Cone, even llerschol denouncing perusou. lUey do not agree about nnvthl.iL- Thev do not agree ou embryology, do not agree on the gradatlou of the specie. What do they agree ou? Herschol writes a whole chapter on the errors of astrono:ny. La riacn doelnrea that the moon was not re.it in the right place. He says that If it had been put lour times tanner from the earth than It is now there would be more harmony iu tUn uuiversu, but Llouvllle comes ud Just lu time to prove that the inoou was put iu the rhjht place. How manv colors woven into thn lluht? fteven, says I-aao Newton. Three, s-iys David Brewster. How hlh Is the aurora Isirealis? Two and a half miles, say Lias. One huudrnd and sixty-eight miles. sav Twiniug. How far is the suu Iro'n the earth? Heventy-slx million miles, says I.acalle. t.iguty-two million miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says Hn'udersou. One huu tred and our million miles, say Stayer ouly a little difference of iiljOoa.OUO miles ! Ail spilt up anioug themselves not agreeing oaauytbln?. Tbey come an I sav that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on tile great do'itrlues. All united they are, In Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the H.-rlp-lures. While they come up and propose to runder their verdict, no two of them ugree ou that verdict. Oentlemeu of the Jury, havo vou agreed on a verdict?'' asks the oourt or thn clerk of the Jury as they come iu after baring spent the whole night iu deliberating. If the jury ays, "Yes, we have ajreed," thn verdict is recorded, tut suppose oui of the Jurymen says, "I think the niau was guilty of mur der,' another says, "I think he wu guilty of mansluugbtor iu the second dgrce," aud another man says, "Ithiukhe was guilty of assault aud battery, with iutent to kill," the Judge would ay : "(Jo back to your room and bring In a verdict. Agroj ou something. That Is no verdict." Here these Intldel scientists have Impan eled themselves as a Jury to decide this trial between lutldellty, the plaintiff, and Chris tianity, the defendant, and after being out for ceuturles they come in to render ibeir verdict. Gentlemen of the Jury, have you agreed on a verdict ? No, no. 'i'tien go back for another 500 yean and deliberate and agree on something. There I not a poor, miserable wretch in the Tombs coart to-morrow that could be condemned by a jury that dtd not agree on the verdict, and yet you ex pect us to glv up our glorious Christianity 10 pleas these tneu who ouuuot agree ou anything. Ah, my friends, th church of Jesus Christ Instead of falling back, is on the advance ! I am certain it Is on the advance. O Lord Ood, take Thy sword from Thy thigh aud rid forth to th victory I I am mightily enoouragd because I And among other thing that while this Chris tianity ha beau bombarded lor ceniurle in fidelity ha not destroyed ou church, or crippled on minister, or uprooted oue vena of on chapter of all th Bible. The ohurob all th ttin getting th victory, and the shot ana neil 01 it enemie nearly exnusted, I bar been examining their ammunition lately. I hre looked all through their cartridge boxes. They hav not in th last twenty yar advanced on new idea. The have utterly exhnutl ttir.tr rnmtinltlaisiL the battle against thn church and ,r.VT thn flerlntiirm. while thn nrf t .1." . I the Herlpturn. while Ihn word of th Law Almighty Is ns fcoon ns It ever wa. nJjJJ Just getting our troop Into line. TheT S coming up in companies, and in regioi J!? and In brigade, and yon will hear a shorn nnd thn heamn ring with "AllnluisiK will be this. "Forward, the whole llni And then t find another most enentirari, Ihouirht In thn fact th.tt ihn snonlae press and pulpit senm harnessed In taei team for the proclamation of tho gntv? Every Wall street banker to-morrow in si York.ernry State street banker to-morrn. In Boston, every Third street banker tn-J row In Philadelphia, every bnnker to Unit nd State, and every merchnnt will d.J, In his pocket a treatise on Christian , call to ronentenoe, ten, twenty nr tiijlj passages 01 Herlpturn In Ihn report 01 J slon preached throughout thmn cltloj, throughout the bind to-day. It will I M J Chicago, so lu New Orleans, so In ChsrlC! ton. so In Biston, o la rhllalolpiua, M everywhere. I know thn tract societies srn do'.an grand and glorious work, but I tell youtd Is 00 power on earth to day equal to t, fact that the American priutliig pr"slttlk. Ing up the sermons which ar preached t0 j few hundred or a few thousand people ,v on Mindav morning an I Mnn lay erntnj . j the morning nn t evenln? ripors, settt T j. thnt truth to thn millions. What a thou. It Is t What nn en'-'o-jragnmeut for ev Christian man ! 'Moe that, him you noticed that ilvi-, the past few year every one of th" do 'trl; of thn Bible enmo under disomy.,,, k thn seeiiiar press? Po you not romeni'-, a few years ago, when every piper In ts Cnltoil States ba I an editorial on th J""t. "Is There Such a Thing ns Filturo rm. lsliMnt" It was thn strnngest thin.' lt there should t a dlsousslon In the n. papers on that subloet. but nvery rai'r i the United statist and In Christen lorn .Is euced, "Is Them Kujh a Thing as ltetri!t. lion?" I know thorn were amall witu made sport of the discussion, Imt lh"r'w n.d an lutolllgent man on earth who, aii r-su!t of that iltscutslon, did uot ask hl:n the n-ieiitlon. "What Is going to be mv t. ml iWiny?" 80 It waslu regard to TyoliL, prayer gauge. About welv vonn ago, you remetr.V the s-culnr paper ills'iiss'td that, an I win just ns lunch earnestness as the r"!ui:.,, papen. and tliernv not a man In Chri!i, ilmn who did not ask htmsoll tlie qu"tiir. "Is thorn anything In prayer? Slay 1, creature Impress the Creator?" Oh. whv, mighty fact, what a glorious fact tho k lar printing press ant tho pulpit ot t church of Jesus Christ baru.-ssod iu tho si team ! Then look nt thn Intomatlonil sorlr Sunday-school lessons. Do you kuow t!. evcrv Habtinth, between Surd 6 o'clock, th" are 5,000,000 children studying tho satii" I ton a lesson prepared l y tho Ictdiug ciii o! tho country and' printed in tint pap"r and then thesn subjects art discussed . given over to thn toachops, who give tlr overto thechildron? So, wherm, once, n: within our memory, the children liib'.l here and there at a story In the Bi'de. m they nr taken through froai O.tnes's to I; veiatlon. and we shall havo fi.000.003 c!i. droa lonwtalled for Christlunlty. My soul full of exultation. I fool as If Icoiildslii I Kill shout, "Alleluia, the Lord Ood oH ntrotent relgunth ! Tiien you notice a more l3iilflcant fact.! you havo talked with people on thn s'lbji" thet they are gcttlii'- dissatisfied w philosophy and science as a matter comfort. They say it doffs not amount nuything whou you have a dead child In t house. They will toll you, when they w sick and the door ot the future s-en, opening, the only comfort thry could 1;. was In the Uospnl. People are hav,. domonstratod nil over thn Ian 1 that s?iei: and philosophy cnunot solace the trou and woes ot the world, and they want so other religion, and tney are taking Chr tlanlty, the ouiy sympathetlo religion tU ever earn into tu worio. . th me men f If 1 . .ve u.trMi. . t et.au Ar and thev do not believe It I everdone, ii a group of men who say they havo nev heard the volue of Christ: they have nnv beard the voice of God. They do uot boli'" It ever transpired or was ever near J ti. anything like It ever occurred. I point 20.000.000 or 1.P00.003 people who si "Christ was crownni In our hearts' afl Hons ; wn have seen Him nnd felt llimiu a souls, and we have beard His voice ; we hu heard It in storm aud darkness 1 wn Iur heard It again and agaiu." Wuoso test (mo: will you take? Thesn wn who ay th have not heard the voice, have not sceu t1 coronation, or will you take the thousac and millions of (Christians who tostify what they i.iw with their owu eyes uud he:i wiiq their owu ears? Yonder Is nn aged Christian nfter fl! vears' experience of the power ot godllu in hi oul. Ask this man whether, when burled his dead, the religion ot Jesus Cbr was not a consolation. Ask hlin if tbrojJ the loug years ot his pllgrimugo tha L ever forsoo'i him. Ask him if, when heloi forward to the future, if he has not b no J aud a Joy, aud a consolation the world not take uway. But this testimony of wl he ha eeu aud whnt hn ha felt opposite tlmtestltiionv of h nihn who avs lie L-H I mo anythlugou tho subject or lolt auytbiJ on the subject, w 111 you tauo tne ie,s:imv of people who have uot seau or .iiioplo w have seen? You av morphia puts ono to sleep. T say in time ot sickness it Is very useful, deny it. Morphia never puts anybody sleep; it nmi-r alleviates rale. You n mn wny 1 say mat. 1 uava nuv tried it. I never took it. I d: that morphia is nny soothing1 to t nerves or uny quiet lutlme ot sickness, deny that morphia ever put auvbody sleep, but here nr twenty person who 6 they have all felt the soothing effects 0' physician s prescribing morpnino. vi ne testimony will you taku? Those who to. the medicine or my testimony, 1 never im Ing taken tho medicine.' llore ts the tiosi of Jesus Christ, un anodyne for all troiibl the mightiest medicine that ever came dow to eurfb. Hero U a man who say don't believe iu it. There ts no power In it Hire are other people who say 1 "wo hni found out its power and know Its sootfcli influence. It has cured us." Whose tel luouy will you take lu regard to this ucuhJ lueulclnr. I feel that I have convinced every man this housethut it is utter foliy to take tl testimony of those who have never tried tl liospei 01 Jesus ennst in ineirown noart ut life. We have ten of thousand of w liesses. I bellevn you are ready to take tie testimony, toung nia, uo not bo as nam to Isi a friend of the Bible. Do not put yo thumb in your vest, as young men so mot 111 J do, aud swagger about taming 01 tne gio ous light of the nineteenth century aud tilers being no need of a Bible. They tin the light ot nature in India aud Chtua aud all tee dark place on eartn. Did you ev bear that the light of ntture gavetheiu coi fort for tbelr trouble? They have lancet cut aud juggernauts to crush, but uo coi fort. Ah, my friends, you had better st vour skentlcisin. Hiinnosit vou nra nut this crisis : Oh, futhur, your child Is dyla What are you going to say to nor? Colonel Kthau Allen wa a famous Infl in hi day. HI wife wo a very consecrat woman. The mother Instructed thn dauj ter In th truths ofCUrlatlaulty. TUuduuJ tar sickened and was about lo die, and s said to her father 1 "Father, shall I ta your Instruction, or hall I take mother' i struct Ion? 1 am going to die now. I mil have this matter decided." That man w had been loud In hi infidelity, sold to q dying daugnter. "My near, you baa oett the sum to you ob, young man, you hi better take your mother's religion. Y know bow It comforted her. You ko what h ald to you whan sha wa dylul You had better take your mother' rallylut Tha apriaz, or bundle of reed pip ia the prototype of the bagpipe.
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