'ft SEARCH FOR THE LORD n. Tfcira Point Oat Throe Ways In Tr.tr: "Seek ye theLirJ whllo Ho may be fotinrl."-Inl"I . I.s!ah stands head and shoulder nhove th other Old Iwnmoct authors in vivid do p.riptivcness of Christ. Other prophet iflva nniitll:iof our Saviour's features. Homo of ItH'tn present, ns It were, the side fe of Christ, others a htist of Christ, but Isatnh (riTcsusthn full lenirth portrnlt of Christ. Other Scripture, writers excel in somo things Ez'klel moro weird, David mor pathetic, Salomon moro colprnrnmntle, Huhakkuk morn suhllmo but whn you want to boh Christ coming out from tho gain of prophe cy in nil III Rrnndeurnnd ulory you Involun tarily turn to Isiitnh, s-) that If tho prophe cies in regard to Christ tniirht bo cnihM the Oratorio of th Messiah" tlm writing of Ialsh Ik tho "Halleluiah Chorus." where, nil the Mtoin wavo and all the trumpets conn In. I.aluh was nit a mnn picked up out of in.iciilfleanee by Inspiration. !! was known Mil honored. Josephns nnl Phllo and Htrs'h extolled him in their writing. What psnl wa ntnonir tha npostli-s Isaiah was smcn? th proplii'ln. Mr t"xt llnds hlr.i .standing on a moun tain of Inspiration, looking cut Into tho fu ture, iienuldlnir t'hrl.t advancing nnl inv tons that nil nvn might know Illtn. Kin ring down the ages, "Hcek vo the Ir.l wlill" H mny bn found." oh,1' avs ,m ene, "that was for olden times." No, kt hearer. Ifyouhnvo traveled in other knds, you have taken a circular letter of credit from some banking house in Now Yrk nnd In St. rotopurg or Venice or Bw or Melbourne or Cnleutta. von prc .Dtisl that Jotter and got financial' help m ineilititcly. Ancl I want you to understand that the text, Instead of tx'lng appropriate for one ngo or for ono land. Is a circular let tr for ail age and for nil lands, and where M.r It Is presented for help tho help comes. S.vk ye tlio Lord whllo He may Iw found." I come to-day with no hair spun theories of riigion, with no nice distinctions, with niielnlKniitodlsoulMtlon, but with on urgent cull to personal religion. Tho poppet of Chrl.it Is a powerful medicine. It either kill r cures. There are those who sav: "I would llk to liecomn a Christian. I'havo tmn waiting a good while for tho right kind of Influences to eonie," and Mill vou r waiting. Vou aro wiser in wortdlv thmtfs than you are In religious things. If vnu want to get to Albany, you go tho Grand (Votrnl I'epot or to tho xtenmbont wharf, md having got your ticket you do not sit down on tho wharf or sit In tho depot. You pt a'xmrd tho bout or train. And yet thero r men who gay they nro waiting to get to heaven, waiting, waiting, but not with In flligent wnltlng, orthey wonbl get ou board the llncnf Chrl-tian lullueupeB that Would bear them into tho kingdom of God. Sow, you know very well that to seek a thing is to soarvh for it with earliest endeav or. If you want to seo a eertain man In thU city, anil thero is a matter of S10.000 connected with your seeing him, and you 1'amiot at (livt find him, you do not give up the search. Vou look in thu directory, but rannnt Hud tho name. Vou go in circles where you think perhaps ho may mingle, anil hiving found tho purt of tho eity where ho live, hut perhni'S not knowing tho street, you ro through street after street ami from block to block, and you keep ou sourchiug for wc.'ks and for months. You say, "It In a matter of f 10.000 whether I ee, him or not." Oil, that men wore as persistent In Booking for t'iirlht! Had you me-hall that pursisteuoo you would louir nifo bare found Illm who is tho Joy of tho for- uiven spirit. Wo may puy our debts, we may Htteal church, wo may relieve the poor, we may be public benefactors, and yet all our life disobey the text, never boo Ood, nwver Win heaven. Oh, that the Hplrit of God would help mo, whllo I try to show yon, In htyiiih uui iiim men 01 my text, nrtit how to mn me L.ora anu m tue next place when to tti Him. IrcTuark. In tho first nince. vou are toannv p Lord through eurnet and believing rayer. God Is not an autocrat or a despot -eateden a throne, with Iiis arms re tin iron fawn lions nud a sentinel pacing ui mid Ijwu at tho foot of the throne. Ood is n ;!athr seiitod In a bower, waiting forllischll !ivn t.) como and eli'nb ou His knee aud get iilu kiss nnd llu beni'dli'tion. Prayer Is the up with which wo go tho 'fountaluof living rater" lull din uo refrc-thmi.nt f. flinty soul. Grace does not come to the part as we set a emk at tho corner of the Liuse to catch tho raiu in tho shower. If u pulley fastened to the throne of God, which pull, briiigiug tho blessing. luonm care so mu-h what posture you jc iu prajur uur now largo un umouut ot il'Sj you use. ou might iret down nn ur face before Ood. If vou did not nmv Nht inwardly thero would be no rosDonse. (ju might nry at the top of your voleo, and d you had a believing Bnirit within vour 7 would not go further up than tho shout i..u n ijujr m UM oxt.-u. i-rayer must uo Sieving, earnest, loviug. Vou nro in your iue some summer day and a shower come '. and a bird, affrighted, darts into H. fmdow and wheels about the room. Vou It. Vou smooth its ruffled plumage. inci us uuiienug neart. ou say, "I'oor jug, poor thing!" Now, a prayer gooa out 'the storm of tilts world Into the wlml.iis ! Ood's mercy, and He cati.'hes it, and He r- iu iiuiiuriiig puise, ana lie puts it in f own bosom of affection and safety. pyer is a warm, urdent, pulsating exercise. ou eiooirio oattery wiilen, touched, rtlU to the throne of God. It is the diving "lllQ which wo go down into the depths of 4 mercv and brinn un 'nenrls of ifrviir Infe." Thero was an instauce where pruyer me waves oi tne unuuesaret solid as rue pavement. Oh, how muny wonderful t'a(fs prayer bus acoomiilished Have vou ft tried it? In the days when the Scotch temintors were persecuted and the enemies re after them one of the bemi men umiiui Covenantors prayed: "Oh, Lord, we be wa i men unless Ihou shalt help us! Oh, "1. throw the Inn of Thy cloak over these I T tliiiiLTH!" Ami iimtiintlv helupttd and bid the persecuted from their cnon tne promleM lllerully rulllllej, hllo tllev are vet stieuidinr I will luoir " I'i'ivu you ever tried tho power of pruyer? i ". no is loving aau luiturui aud pa I Do vou believe that.' Y.u nee t.il.1 ' t'lirlst came to save sinners. Do you 'eve tliatV Vou are tol i that all von Iniva Iu to get tho pardon of tho gospel is to I1 '"fit. Do Vol! liMliHVrt thitlV 'ritMiin.uti Hiio and say: -U Lurd, I kuow Thou i Muuiile. Thou liast told me to come 'Pirdon and I could ut It. looino. Lord. f i'.Thy pro mlno and librat'i uiy vnitivu "u, that you mlgiit have an aitar In tho I'1-. In the kiteliuti, in the siorc. In the i s, for Christ will be willtui to come again inn manger to har prayer, lie would P to your plifo of busiuoss as Ho oon- -"u Jiuunew. tue tux eoiinnssiouer. Xf wtaure should come before Congress that thought wonlil ruin the Vntlon how von seud in ietitlous and teuioustruneej. joi mere inn iK'on enouga sin iu your ft to ruin It furover, uud you huve never Musiratoa or etltiona against It. If -'physical health fulled aud vou bad the I'lJ, you would go iiinl t.end the summer "rmany aud the winter in Italy, aud you ilium it a very clieup outlay II you logo all rouud the earth to irot back I -'Physical health. Have you made any t, any expenditure, nay exertion for 'immortal and spiritual healthy that you might niw begiu to seek ''Ood with earnest oravur! Some of vou I been working for years aud years for upport cl your lumllies. Have you " oue-Palf Jay to tint working out of ir nalvaitou wi'h ;ar uud trembling? 1 (awe here with nu earnest purpose, I , as t naB oonie nitner witn an earnest He, and we meet face O face, and 1 tell jron. first of all, If you want to fla ths Lord you must pray an J pray and pray. I remark again, you must took tha Lord tbeough nible studv. Th nible l the new est book In the world. ,,Oh." you ay, "It wa mado hundreds of years ago, and th learned men Of King Jamns translatexl It hundreds of years ago," I confute that Idea by t"lllne you it Is not five minutes old wlrn Ood by His blessed spirit retranslates It Into the heart . It you will, in th seeking of the war of life through Hcrlptura Mudy, Implore Ood's light to fall upon the page, you will find that thesn promises are not one second old, and that they drop straight from the throne of Ood Into yonr heart. There ar many people to whom thB Blbla does not amount to much. If they merely look at tho outside benuty.whv.lt will no more lead them to Christ than Washington's farewell address, orthe Koran of Mohammed, or the Minister of the Hindoos. It is tho in ward light of God's word vou must get. I went up to the Church of the Madeleine In Paris and looked at the doors, which are tho most wonderfully constructed I ever saw, and I could have stntd there for a whole week, but I had onlv a little tlm". Ho, hav ing glanced at the wonderful carving on the doors. I passed in and looked nt the radiant altars nnd the sculptured dome. Alas, that so many stop nt the outside door of Ood's holy word, looking nt the rhetorical beauties Instead of going In nn 1 looking at the altars of sacrifice and the domoof God's mercy and salvntlon that hovers over penitent and be lieving souls! When you com" Into th religious circle, come only with one notion and only for one purpose to find the way to Christ. When I sen people critical about sermons, and criti cal about tones of voice, nnd critical about setmonlo delivery, they mnke mo think of a man In prison. Ho is c.mdemnc I to death, but nu oflleer of the government brings a pardon and puts It through the wicket of tho prison and says: "Here l your pardon. Couiennd get It.' "What! Do you expect ni" to take that pardon offered with such a voice as you have, with such an awkward manner as you have? I wool. I rather die than so compromise my rhetorical notion." Ah, the man does not say that. He takes it. It is his life. Ho doe not care how it is handed to him. And If toilnv that pardon from the throne of God Is offered to our souls should we not seize it regardless of all nonessentials? Iiut I come now to the Inst part of my text. It tells us when we ore to sek the Lord, "while He may be found." When is that? Old ne? Vou may not no old age. To-morrow? Vou may not see to-morrow. To-nlglit? Vou may not see to-night. Now! Oh, If I could only write on t-verv heart In three capital letters that Word N-O-W now! Sin is nu awful discos. I hear people say with a toss of the hea l and with a trivial manner, "Oh, yes, I'm a sinner." Kin Is an nwful disease. It is leprosy. It Is dropsy. It is consumption. It is all moral disorder In one. Now, you know there is a crisis in a disease. Perhaps you have had some Illus tration of it In your family. Sometime the physician has culled, and he has looked nt the patient nud said: "That case was sim ple enough, but theerisls has pave 1. If you fiud called me yesterday or this morning, 1 could have cured the patient. It Is too late now. Tlje crisis passed." Ju-t so it Is In the spiritual treatment of the e mi I thero Is a crisis. Ttiero nre some hero who can remember In stances in life when, if they m I bought a certain property, they would have Iwcomo very rich. A few acres that would have cost them almost nothing were offered them. J They refused thorn. Afterward n larg:i vil lage or city sprung up on those acres of grouud, and they Mo whut a mistake they mado in not buying the property. There wus nn opMirtunity of getting it. It never came back again. And so it Is In regard to a man's spirtual and eternal fortune. Them Is a chance. If you let that go, perhaps It never comes back. Certainly that one unvur comes buck. A gentleman told me that at the battle ot Octtynburg he stood upon a height looking off upon the conflicting armies. II said it was tho most exciting moment ot jils life. Now one army seeming to triumph aud now the other. After awhile the host wheeled In such a way that he knew in live minutes the whole question would be decided. IrVsald tho emotion was almost unbearable. There Is just siK'h.a time to-day with you the forces of light on one side, the forces of death ou the other side, and in a few moment the matter will bo settled for eternity. There is a time which mercy lias set for leaving iKirt. If you are ou board before that you will get a passage for heaven. If you are not ou board, you nilss your passage for heaven. As in law courts a cose is some times udjourned from term to term and from year to year till the bill of costs eats up the entire estute, so there are men who are ad journing the matter if religion from time to time and from year to year until heavenly bliss is the bill ot costs the mail will have to pay for it. vYby defer this matter, oh. my dear hearer? Have you any idea that slu will wear out; that it will evaporate; that it will relax its grasp; that you moy llnd religion as a man accidentally buds' a lost ockotbook? Ah, no! No man ever became a Christian by oo clilent or by the relaxing of sin. The em barrassments are all the time increasing. Tho hosts ot darkness are recruiting, and the longer you postpone this matter the steeper the path will become, I ask those men who are before me now whether in the ten or llf toen years they have passed In the postpone ment ot thesu matters they huve come any nearer Ood or heaven? 1 would not be afraid to challenge this whole audience, so far as they may not have found tho pea 'e of the gosjiel, In regard to the matter. Vour hearts, you are willing frankly to tell me. are becoming harder and harder, and that If you come to Christ it will be more of an undertaking now than it ever would have been before. The throne of Judgment will soon be set, and If vou havo anything to do toward your eternal solvation you had better do it uow, for the redemption ot your soul Is precious, and It ceas'jth forever. Oh, if men could ouly catch ono glimpse of Christ, I know they would love Html Vour heart leaps at the sight ot a glorious suurisii or sunset, tan you be without emo tion as the Kuu of Itightoousness rises be hind Calvary uud sets behind Joseph's scpuL cher? He Is a blocd Saviour, Every Na tion has its type of beauty. There Is Ger man. U-auty, aud Swiss beauty, and Italian beauty, aud Kuglish bounty, but I care not iu what laud a man first looks ut Christ ho. pronounces lllin "Chief among 10,000, aud tlieoue altogether lowly." The diamond districts of Ilra7.il nro care fully guarded, and a man does uot get iu there e.vept by a pass from the Government, lint the love of Christ is a diamond district we may ull enter and pick up trou-eircs for eternity. "T-i-Jay. If ye will hour His voice, burden not your hearts." Take the hint ot the text thtt I have no time to dwell upou the bint that there Is a time when Hec-inuot bo found. There wat a tnaii iu this c'.ty eighty years ot ng i who said to a clergyman who c:ime In, "Do you think tn ut a mau eighty years of age cun gut ii.trdoiied?" "Oh, yei. said th clergyman. The old man aul: "I csu't. When I was tweuty yean of age I am uow eighty years the sjiirit of God came ti my soul, and I felt the Importance of attending to these things, but 1 put it off, I rejected Ood, and siiuethen I huvj had uo feuliugs" Well," said themiuister, "wouldn't youliko to have mo priv with you.'" Ves," replied the old limn, "out it will do no good, vou cuu pray with me if yju like to." The minister knelt down and prayed aud commended the man's soul to God. It 'te:ued to huve uo effect upou him. After awhile the lost hour of the man's life uume, and through Ills delirium a spark of intelligence seemed to flash, and with his lust breath he said, "I shall never be forgiven." "Oh, seak the Lord whllo He may be found!" Itcers Price Drove Hint to Suicide. James Vatman, thirty-five years old. shot hlim-elf through t Ho heart while in his barn at Sutler, Morris County, N. J. Vatman was a butcher. The high price ot beef caused his trade to fall off. This mude him despondent. SABBATH SCHOOL IXTEnNATIONAT, I.KSSON MAY C. FOR Lesson Text i "Tho Aj-ony In CJcth .ernatn," Murk xlv., JW-4U Golden Text: John xvliL, 11 Commentary. 92. "And they cam to a pla which was named Ootlisen.anp. nnd Hesnlth to Hisdis. elples. Sit ye here while I shall prnv." tm their way to the mount of Olives He told them that, according to the Scriptures. H i would N smitten nnd they would forsake Him. Hesald also that Peter would deny Illm, upon which Peter nnd all the others said that tin y would never do such a thing (verses 27 to Hi). They then come to fjeth. Bemnne, which signllles an oil press, sugges tive of the bruising which H" was hero to un dergo that He might give to us tho anointing of the Holy Spirit. Frtho trials of tieth somatic special strength was needed, cotierp. Ing which Ho must talk with ills Father, but Into this nnd many other communions His dlscipifs cannot enter, so He goes nlouo tJ l-ray. fill. "And He taketh with Him refer and James and John and began to ie s-re amazed and to le very heavy." Matthew savs 'sorrowful nnd very heavy."' It could not I anything II did" n t kU,,w nlout I efor. hiind. for H ' knew nil things, but the powers of darkness were nl' iut to do their w..rt, the great erils to which H bad lo.'kc I f ir ward from eternity was at hand, and it tnlght besald that entail was ulnil to en gage Him In a bund to ha.id contiiet. :. "And sayeth unto them. My c nil i c. reeling sorrowful unto death. Tarry yu here nud watch." In Math. xxvl.. as. it j "Watch with Me." His humanity craved" their sympathy, but how little H i found! Il was truly the loivly man as well as tho man of sorrows, nnd even the favored three, of whom the led ived John win nearest to Him, Could not enter into His experiences. If ever a sense of heaviness and darkness comes over you Iu your Christian life, when you know in your heart that vou desire above all things to serve th" I," r 1 and d i only His will, think upon 1st. I.. ii and praise Ood tor fellowship with His s,u Jesus Christ. 35. "And H" went forward a little nil fell on the ground nn I prayed that It It wer. possible the h mr might (.ass from Him." Ho seems tc have left eight of the disciple) just inside the garden, to have tikon the three a little fart her, nnd then to have gono alone about a stone's east (I. like .xxll.. 41), ami to have kneeled down, then fallen up.,u His fa-'e. He certainly did not shrink from the cross nnd the atonement which He ciimio to make, but n careful study id Heb. v., 7, will show that the agony was so great that Ho feared lest He might die under It and not reach the cross to liuLsh the great atone. merit. 3ti. "And He said: Ab!,n. Father, all thing are possible unto Tin"-. Take awav this cup from b. Nevertheless n,.t what 1 will, but what Thou wilt." We re.i I elsewhere that He .rayed earnestly, with strong crvlng an I tears, and sweat as it wept dmpt'of blood, and that an angel strengthened Him. He was willing to die in the ardeii nn 1 leave His great work uulliiUhcd If It should pea- the Father to have it so, but the pas-ae In Hebrews says that He was heard, an I there fore delivered from this premature death. This is the best light I have upon It, and present It as such, but let cadi search (or himself in reliance upon tho Holy Spirit. There nro mysteries in the atonement which We cannot comprehend. 37. "Aud 1I eometh ami flndcth (hern sleeping und snith unto peter Simon, sleepej.t thou? Couldst not thou watch one hour?" The Krent glory of the Transllgunt tlon ns well as the great sorrow of Geth semnno was too much for tho llesh, for they seem to have slept in the former (Luke lx., Si) as well ns in the latter. 8S. ''Watch ye uud pray lest vo enter Into temptation. The spirit truly i ready, hut the Besh Is weak."' Like as a father pitb th his -children, s the Lord pitb'th them that lenr Him, for He kuow-th our frame ( pi. clil., l:l). What a comfort It is! lint let i s Hot pity ourselves us satan through 1'et-r advised Jesus to do (Math, xvi., i , margin). Though our Lord recognize and pities our weakness He Himself lias provided that Ho will let our strength so that we may slug. "The Lord Jehovah is mv strength niid my si:ng" (l-n. xii., K. We are to realize our wcuknees and never to rely upon ourselves, for His strength Is made perleet in weak ness, an 1 to them that have no might He in crenseth strength ill Cor. xii., V, Isa. TJ). S'J. "And again He went awav and uraved and snake the Mime words." We n I not tear the repetition o( the same words in our prayers provided they nre from the heart, nor need wo fear to ask many times tor the same thing, for Paul also besought the Lord thrice to remove his thorn In the llesh, and Jesus Himself has taught us to 1st Importunate in pruyer (.II Cor. xii., H; Luke xl., N), At the same time Ho hits put us ou our guard ngiti list vain repetitious for the sake of much speuk ing (Math, vl., 7). 40. "Aud when Ho returned I'o found them asleep again (for their eyes wore heavy. Neither wist they what to answer Him. Wo think of the teu virgins going out to meet the bridegroom, yet ull slumbered aud slept. We think of Jonah asleep In the storm, while tho sailors called upon their Rods aud put forth every effort. Wo think of the multitudes of Christians who now seem to be asleep through one or other of satau's many soporillo doses, and ot the preachers who seem to be asleep, too, and cry peace to the people when they ought to ouud an alarm because of the great apostasy and the manifest nearness of the uud ot this age. 41. "And He comcth the third time nnd faith unto them: Sleep on uow uud take your rest. It is enough. Tim hour Is come. lie. hold the Son of Man Is betrayed into the bands ot sinners." Ho hail goue away the thirl time und prayed, saying the same wonU (Math, xxvl., 44), and returning lin.U them still asleep. Then He says these words. Contrast the nvt which He here calls "your rest," us Ho thus uddroKsos them, aud the rest which ne nas provided by th"se very HtitTorings of His (Math, xi., 2Ht, but to which the majority of believers are so lu lllb-rent, for they seem to know nothing of It. They will not cease from their own works cither as to salvation or service (Heb. iv., l.;x..ll; ltom, iv., Sj Kph. 11., lu;,uudthurctoru cannot kuow ills rest. 42. "Itise up. Let us go. Lo, lie thnt be. trayoth Me is ut hand." And so, being strengthened, He goes forth t o meet His cue. rules and to give Himself into their hands, for His hour to die had come, and Ho was ready for thosucrillce. No man took Ills lile from Illm. lie lak'il Jowuof Hiimejli (Jun x., ia. ItVTT.nXyCK AND m'SINMS, Tha statement made that a very promlnnt Praia specujutor In Chicago could uot get broker to ect for liiiu one Tues lay, when the speculation in corn aud wheat was forc ing toe prices ot these commodities up by leapt and bounds, beoause of hi Intoxica tion, and that, id couiequence, he was com pelled lo loe a grout many tliousin U ot dollars. It a striking argument iu favor ot tha came ot tempers nee, (ays an editorial article la the JJo.ton Herald. M nl-i n busi. nest method are Intensely exacting and o'. ten exciting, but t hoy demand of inns who engage lu them clearness of brain If lluunclal disaster Is to be avoided. Tneru was a tlm When business mau, as well as othe-s, felt thut they could burn the cundleof existence at both ends, could drink deeply at nlgnt and yet be onpabla of couluctlng their affaire during the day. . Hut a hard experi ence I teaching those who have uot ub:in donsd thl deiusivn that it Is one that 1 fatally faulty, and almost nny business man of middle age can point to ptiyslual, mental and Uuanolal wreck lu hi experience wnioti have been brought about by en attempt to Uo lusiaea u l y iuduljp tho liquor habit. RELIGIOUS READING. A OOOD INTaoDCCTIOff. A missionary In one of the western terri tories once lost his way when traveling through an extensive forest. Wearied with effort to find a path through the almost trackless wilderness tired and hungry, he levnme nt Inst completely worn out and ills, eouraged. In this situation he could only lift up his heart to Ood In enmct prayer, and ask to be delivered from tho perils that sur rounded 1,1m for shadows tf night were already falling, nnd the country Isilng newly settled, thero wn great danger of nn attack, either from Wondering tribes of Indians, ot savage lieusts of pre v. After awhile he resolved to allow his faith ful horse to become his guide, so throwing the r ins on bis neck, be left him to pick ut bis own way through the womb, Tl; wearied animal began to prick up Ids ears, und ipiickened Ills pa into a trot. Altera bw miles he nelgln d frequently, ns if tlcv were coming into the neighborhood id civil led life, and, to the gentleman's great joy, there soon npH'nrcd tl Icnrlng of a wttle'r, with Its little log cabin und ueat tilling torn e. The traveller alighted and went Into th" house, Intending to ask for shelter and food both or himself and bis tired uulina!. !ut lie found the man and bis wife who were tbo owners of the cabin, rather unwilling to re ceive him ns their guest for the night, al though It e t:icd Impossible for It t 111 to con tinue bin Journey. 1 he woman, especially as she placed some eatables on the table, lookr I nt l:l:u with .ll-tru.-t nud eu-pb-ion on In r COUIltelial.ee. The good man, who coiil, l net help seeing that lie was an unwelcome vi-itr. felt iv t a l.ttle eriil nrra--. I. an I noticing two bright eyed bos playing about the ro, tu, he began t ' talk to tl.eui In it winning way tin. the children love. Taking from bis pocket n b ok with cob red pictures, which at ote-e drew thnn to tils side, he went on to tell them about Jesus, and how be loved an 1 be I little ehll .r- II such lis they. The uomnn li-ti-iied with much emotion. A tear stole down her cheek. "O. John." she ex 'lal'i.ed. Its her llif-lotti 1 c-iine in from atti -tilling to the traveler's botse, "this Is a good ii.nn, we nee, tf -t feur lodging blni t' night. Now, sir, ou will tell us something about the Nivlor we b.en love. Wo have uot lieirl preaching ,,r years." I he good missionary compiled, and when, 111 the course of years,' tic settlement giew, an I a church nnd Sunday n-ln.nl were formed lieltle-r he nor his ent.-rtiuners had cnu-e to regret that he bad once ot bis way lu the wilderness. Child's World. rorhirsT to hi i iuors. A tr::ly Christian man has no Inferi .r. In the xcli-c of ib-pl-mg then:, or ft ex i. ting hliu-i'lt above them. The law of love is a great leveh r bringing all beings upon nn equality, in re-pect to moral rights. With bun Contemptuous treatment of It enW-betig is Impossible for i tie of the llrst promptings of Ins renewed iiutute, as well as ol the articles I of bis faith, is to honor all tiieti. A true v.s- Ion of the Inllnite worth o the liumiin sei.l Miiks outward d'.-tlnctio,s into lioCiliigm-s, nnd he vili spiritual sep-es have been ipiicki'M'd I y tile I'lVllle life, -o( 4 . very human being, however lowly, tlm clement, ,,f an nwliil grandeur which admits i.( neither nu a-urcmeiit m r contempt, xh,, g ., pel's item, erotic tendencies me iudlspuiai ly lu-b-rnl le iron the view it gives men of their p'ritual nature ntid eternal destiny. lint apart Ir tn spuitual motive's, a t- nn s true claim to n I'.m ne iit ol character mid good M-;.o( s belter tested by scarcely lit l V social liii-lile'it than by the way he tr .it his inferiors lu lile, .Nothing hows a greater n'.jecti.os of spirit than un oyeil eating (em. per. in insult or to abuse t!i. v. . cannot te--t, r dure tii.t rix nt the Injury Is a sure inatk of cowanilce, us it would I e'to dr.tW a sword ti ou a woman, 'lite man who can ci iiscnt to abuse his inferiors, you n.nv be i ute will creep t 1,1 Mtpenors i for tlm sumo elements of character go to mal.e the bully uud the coward. Tint treatment a inaii gives to his -erviints or iipprentl es, or Wile and cllll'lreli, will often be the true Ilieii-llto ot Ills u.auliue-s. lie who tvrall- i nb.es there, would lord It every- Where If 1. 1-could. '1 he iti-oieiice which be displays win-re he can, and Hot the courtesy ami gentleness ho shows whom he must, is the Index of his rial character. I. title ,1 i lie n think of tle n.lrr..r tin v are hold, ng up to them -ci i s. in the fan.iiy, tin1 shop and the field. They discver t le u. selves where they b ust expect it. A true n un is curlcc,. everywhere. It Is the law id his being - the bat iirul lmpi.be .) 1. 1 native gel, it--. ly und te use o( ri;LL N. V. l.vang. WHAT k LTIN I MAN flll To Ills IUI1.NU. I.uMib r M entions the lnl visit he paid to his tno-t iiiiiiniile friend. All pie.ent iiavlng b it the room, the living man said, "Let me tell you Hi a few words that 1 have uot led the life of a Christian. "I have not been a hypocrite not what the world culls u hypocrite; but 1 have not been u Christian. And I trust yui will thank me iu the next won. I, for this wound I must kJilllct on your heart "We have uot been Christian friends. The love of Jesus has not dwi It Hi us. our fr. end ship wus not fouuded mi 1 1 tiii. Iloiv many hundred hours of our short life have wi killed by useless conversation with plans ol ambition! Whut the world calls tiol,,, mQ. blon Is abominable in the sight of God; at ever-destroying poison to the soul; a biue to all virtue; a hell to the heart wined perceives it Is lit the gates of ch-.-Uh. which begins lo 1st sensible ,,f the eter aity of Ood, of Christ's unspeakable majes ty, and His Incomparable Inutility. O my friend ! that pu--Uon has caused mo a thousand burning tears ot unutterable grief. L'uspeakably have I been iilllicl.'d by every Impulse ot tJiut monster, uow I anion the tiriuk of eternity. O how heavenly trim are those words of my Saviour, 'Wlcsoevnf hall exalt himself shall be abused!' J.sus L'hrist wic humility Itself. It l- enough that iho decline be u.s his lord (I friend ! Iic.iveu and eartli shall phss liu.iv but let the words jf Christ. How mv b. -t actions dwindle sway on t! brink d ''ie grave ! i.'.ov liortl1.!,. ! re tn v limits nnd I s, which 1 formerly thought bttle. towering up! Alas, h.ivr lit.le i Jo we Lie. vv .ur-elvi s. t!ioiig!i th,. I i;.t of I life be cvr .-o g.-mle! i), how dreadful is ilie stillness ol lbil!ll ! I.OVV tenPIc I In- .,i,y ion. i oi our own lie, ut: p-ve r: luie-i : What name tUi.l I give to 1 hv n.-rcv, which Mil i rgive lorevcr those eliorilloll. UCtsof hoiigbil. mics ; and d'-strov, tarou-'li Jesus Christ, all the I nd n.iis .fii, n.i tl: n pro duced lo ii. e and utl.eu? Thou icl lbou urt Luu." tiANor:: c r risst mns. I have ob-erveil one very un. lesliitble faet In my own ex; crie.u-e nud'in my observation of others ; tills In. t lis Unit everything do- ends oil the iil;;ilier III W'lileli !i--t ,, lllnl llrst sllp from the tight nth nr- tr.-a'ed. If it first Huse step is promptly met by ii thor ough repentunec mi. hi the case. p.ters lie In Pilate's hull there the mischief ends. The soul soon recovers .is he.ntliy tone, and is somi timi s the wiser nud stronger for Its sad cxpeiicie-e. Hut if the ilrsl siu is followed by a srcoiii an. I u third and Iniirth, without nny contrition before God, then eiuiscieu.ee soon becomes benumbed and powerless. In lime It Is "seared us with a hot in. u." This is the case with those profej.cj christian who lapse into sensual ucos, or who are de tected in dishonest defalcations or I .readies of trust. All thePe muti could easily have been mved right alter the first truusgrossiuni but w hen (hut was pic.scd without compunc tion th Mpids soon whirled the:n over the I'litnruet. It Is astmiu-hing to observe how fast u will soothe i vi-u a Christian cuu koiouce. Cuylcr. We live in the midst of blessing till we are Utterly Insensible of their groutuees. aod ol the source from wbeuce they flow. TEMl'I'l'.ANCi:. what ir? W-Bt if thB rivers were rtlle I with Rla Instead of the wnti-r clear? "Why, none of the fishes could live there'n, And we'd hnve ncue to eat. Oh. drur !" Whnt If tha cows cave only wins Instead of the milk so pure? ' WlTi poor little clilldrcu would fret and pine ! They would never grow up, I'm sura!"' Whet If th chickens laid brandy eggs. And tne fountains and streams flowed beerT "Why, the iwsns nnd tho ducks couldn't stand on their leg. Quite Mruuk nnd disorderly,' dear I" j Whnt If In place of the rain and dew ! There fell on the earth vile drink? liier-Mi la do more Cowi-rs, no grain, fruit. And we"dnll civ up living. 1 think !" Jlrs. JL A. Kidder, iu ToiLporaucciJ iuiHr. joh! b.rsjs o TXMrr.r.tNf. The crestcr part nnd more Interesting r.rf if mv hour's talk with John Hums, tlm I'.ng. bsh labor agitator, was on the relation ot ! the temperance movement, will's Charles ! P.. Spnhr In tho Outlook. Wo had Just been , talking of the new nttiludeof the church toward social questions, nn I here I found ! I lin somewhat indifferent, plainly regarllng : the change a more Important to the etnireti ! than to tho labor movement. When, Low- ever, the conversation turned tn the progress I of the temperance movement In the minis of l labor he suddenly became enthusiastic, not enly aponthls euhcct Itself but on the social reform work of the churches in connection with it. Nothing could have ex le his i praise of whnt the Salvation Army. In Mirtlc. alar, Is doing for the spread of iemp"r.itico In F.nglnnd. Its success In reclaiming drunkards Bocmed to hltn the most wonder ful thing in recent religious hl-tory. Mr. Iturns ha not only been a lllelong total ab stainer but a lifelong temperim-n ngltator. I aim, ursiuio nis secularism, he recogui ;e, ino rougiou worn ot reclaiming lost druiik nr Is a tomething beyond tlm s-ope of "municipal statesmanship." Nevertheless, municipal statesmanship and temperance re form eemod to him to have so many-sl led it connection as to be essentially one. "Hos tility to nubllo-housis," he said (I quote Iroiu memory), "runs through our labor move menf. Nearly every lender of the 'new unionism' is a teetontler, nn I among the lender In the old unions total abstinence is gaining an altogether disproportionate hold. Even the men In the unions who drink them selves and growl nt the unsociability of thoso who don't wlil rote nearly every time for it temperance man to con. lu.'t the business of the union. This accocrds for tlm dispropor tionate tcetotiillstu among the leaders, but loraporiineo Is spreading among; the rank, uud lile. Puriug my boyhood, nnd I am hardly iiii.ldle-ngc'd, It Used to be charged that this, that, or tho other labor leader had been paid x 5, iin, or even i'ld) toVhnng the meeting plno of the union from t!io Horse aud lragon to tho Pig nnd Whistle. Nowadays the owner of a 'pub' would rather pay to get rid of a trade union than to havo it meetut his rooms. As a matter of fucf, wn are not meeting nt public-houses unless wecan't help ourselves. Hotnetlmr we meet lu rooms belonging to churches, often lu those belonging to co oprratlve osleties, and, whenever w can, lu room connected with town halls. Nearly every man who I prominent In the labor movement is opposed to tho public-houses, Tho MM officers of labor union who signed the petition last yenrforthe local veto (local option) bill include 1 print b-iilly the whole brains and power ot the labor movement. Not nearly all ot them were teetotalers, but they bad all got that far, nt nny rate. They nil know that drluk is the chlci cause ot pov erty. "At thj same tlm they all believe that poverty Is tin chief cause ot drink. Most of our lubor-Tf 'pin - raeasuri-s si.u to red Jca ilruiikenne. .by making healthier living po slole. Tuts Is true not only ot the larger measures, such ns the shortening of the hours of labor, but It is even more directly truo of our municipal reform. Wo believe that the construction of muuiclpal hulls ac. ces-l de for public muetlngs In nil parts ot the cities Is n direct blow at the public, bouses. We believe that all our London county council measures providing pulili.j play grounds, gymnasiums, reading-rooms, nnd the likeiire lemperaii.'M measures. Wo have now In London ton) fro-i tenuis conns, '1 :.c city furulshi s the couris and the frame work to support tho nets. The players, ot course, furuisn their own rackets. Almost Mtiv ft iturday afternoon you may sen John Funis mi l his wi:e on one of thesn courts. 1 believe It Is the healthy way to live, and th.i young peoplo who have these healthy re creations are not so apt to crave the "pule I c.' There are now so many i f the courts that it Is rarely dltlh'ult to get a chance tc play. For the ml. Idle-age I men who don't care for tennis we have provided quoits, and tor the obi fellows we are about to lay oul ksivcrul Lowliug greens." orrosrnnsj to tub strony. "Thousands of young men In New York go to the devil becsuse there seems to lie no where else to go," says a N tiv York cb-rgv. man. "Suppose the ten Ihousaud i.-iloom in New York were opposed by dye thousand coT-ie houses on the stylo of the Kn-.'lls'i s. tabllshmonts. Kupnoss they wor i U' 1 up as handsomely and situated as well, and tilled with good cheer, would not drinking be r (lueed ton mini mum? f have yet to hear of the every-dav young man who buys it keg of beer or whisky, takes It up to his cheerless room, sits down over It, uud driulu merely tor the sake ot drinking." TRsmsjtsxce trrws axd icotes. Tn 1893 l,202.U.,07l gallons ot boor were mude in Germany. "Indiana women ennnot hold u license to Sell intoxicating drinks," say the .Supreme Court of the Utiitc. Ileer placed lu dishes near fl tw -r pots will tempt all tin snails In the vicinity, tin I the next morning they will be (ouud lyiug along side dead. The total amount of beer drank In tho World during lH.l.i is estimate l by a Genu i:i statistician nt 4,&J0,0UJ,iau Bullous cuougu to Hoot a nav. It I altogether a mistake to believe that even a moderate use of Intoxicating drluk is nt all useful to the hitman constitution. Hon. U. Whit worth, iu British Parliament. The prodls of the Ilritisb syndicates willed control beer breweries at Chicago ut Mil. waukeerost from 055,270 In Isiij to 41.. 6s.7,t3u in 11X1, and in ui),C:0 la the pre. tW year. I find thnt alcoholio drlnJ.- give no strength. No, on the contrary, lirlnk builds ap nu muscle, but destroy its power and make it lew autive for wort Ur. U. W. Uiohardaon, - The Woman's Counoll of Indlnnapoll. which is coaiposet) ot fort ysni ne societies representing eignt thouisnl womeu ot tne city, I working actively for the passage ot a bill suppressing wiue room. A Wilkesbarre (I'eun.) rsan, ovoroome by the craving for firiuk, und having exaaustei all hi resoi(rca for proourlug more rum, emptied the she ot his wife's first husUuI out of a silver arn and told thst. President Cannon, cf tha First National Think In Now York, In nn address at tha meeting ot tie Clearing House Association, suldi "No use wuo drinks or gambles, or Whose private life outside the bank is open to suspicion, ho aid b eligible to a pasllluu la a bank." i In the IotKi option bill befora the Now Zealand Le iislnturs, there Is a clause pro viding that ureryoue noavioted ot being in habitual iTVutknrJ shall be phoiogrspned at Ms own oxpouM and every saloon-keeper iq the district in which he Uto most be sap filed With s copy, 1Y0RDS OF WISDOII. A new sled will pnsh boy up hill. It Dover raina exactly when it ought to. i'ino feathers tuuko fino sofa-ensh- lonr. When the rnek is cmtdy the milk I'ftil leaks. Hunger is tho best gntico ami nsk tao snticer. Too runny cooks Fpoil tho coruer polici'tunn. Menn well nn l tlo ill nu l get vour idf tlidlikcil. ('no ilyspeptia htotua.'U cm sour it whole family. It is rasier to win nthiise than to make p.iiim rts. Killitc; time ia tho ciiinnioiicst kinl of foul Biiieiile. Man bus n ri futt -it i u to make, wo iimti but idle to bee, The wurlil cimtiot nllnr.l t ilo with out rcasuiialilo jdcitsiires. If yoit wntiM be n sago ntnoti;; fools never express Btt opinion. He inure eaittio'.is in l-n.lin your intliietioc t )iit!i your tnntiry. "Ilatnlsi.tne is" nil th time; but hiwnlsoiiio does otily ni'ca-i.iiialy. Few h:ivi- Biiriicietit eotntnati.l ol liihgtliix'o iiktinw when to keep est ill. 1'iishioti c ircs less for whnt vott s ty about its character t!it:t about its clothes, lteinl what vou writo when it is C"M, an 1 yon may tint be ho warm over it. I'at hun.l.le pie tf yun lutist ; but yiil iieeil nut hiiulo nt the Hiitno time. Ynti will uccil all facial fnrru for your jaws. After nil it is not so very nice to ln ono of thoso men who "always kisses all his fetn tl,. relatives ;" ho has to kiss bu many that he iloesu't want to. Ilmilit the Ship 'lh.it brmiglit Illm. An interestitii; ntioclote is tnM of tho Into ('aptaiii Then biro .Itilius, whoso ilenth iieciirrcl within the past week. S Hue tltne :i;;it C.iptiiin .Tiilitls went over to a shipyard in (ainideii to take it look at tin; old packet ship Ton itwatidit, which was being; converted into it eoul lmr:;e. The enptain took it particular interest in the old ahip, be cause of his having; nerved ut unto aboard her in the early sixties. Whiln ho htood wnti'hin;; the old Vessel, it t.it.tl i-traner upprouclie I him, n:i I asked : "Imi'I your nutno Julius?" Tho Captain replied in thunlllrtu'itivo. "Von were it mate in that hhip in tho summer of ls:',:i?" "Yes," said tho Captain. "Ynu don't remember mo," continued t!ii.".tta:p,.-r, "but I remem ber you very well. I was a Htee-rilfjo piisseiurer on tho Tutiiiwittidn nt that time, beini; ou my way to this) coun try, l'vo bet n pretty prosperous, nud I've just bought the old ehip, nnd am K"iu to make it coal barge of her. L.ii . i . .'""'t, it, that I should cuino to own tho ship ti. ' '. ' prnctienlly penniless, to ihia enuu try ?" rhiludclphiii Kucord. Th K-'Vptiiiu Lentil. It is in K;,'ypt thut tho lentil cro;iis of tlio most value, fur in tho Inn I ot tho rimrnnhs tho lentil forms one-sixth of the loud of tlio people, besides beiti txtelisive!y exported to other countries. It is well united to tbo Boil and climate, us it requires littlo irrigation mivo what tho Nile pro vides. Tho Kgyptiau lentils nro re puted tlm best uud most nutritious iu tho world. From ('aim to Assouan, tho farmers, of the Nile Valley regularly rotate tho crop with wheat or mui.e, oj.itheriug; it iu ubotit the oii.l f April. Every peasant (,'rows enough for his own consumption, making; it into porridge, which ho IIihIh both wholesome and Hiistuiniug, and tho cheapest food ho cuu obtain. Iu Cairo, Alexandria, I.stuatlia, Sue, Tort Said an. I tho other to wtm tho consumption in soup is very luro. Most of tho export Km1 to London, there to bo couvertod into invalid or pn.tetit" food, under Homo fanciful name at a faueitul price. -Chambers's Jourual. What u Ibuigni,' Costs. Tho price of luuigiug; a murderer will bo li.t'.'d, in nil proli tbilitv, by tlio Li-high CVunty Court. Slicruf Franklin Ibiwt-r deman Is 'il.'i.od fur having bwting Harry Juhusoit into eti'ruity, but the gouiuiissimiers pro poho to (iwu hitu only -s i'ls. Tlm nheriir to-dny uotiikd tlm county audi tors that ho would led accept 1 1 its hiualler Mini and usked tlietil uot to u)provo the liiiitncial htateiueut of tins ouiiitiiissioiu r.s for lsj. 'i'lu. audi tors will iuvisstigate tho fnatti-r aud the btitteinent will not gi-t their m;ui tures for it ishort tiruo at least. Hurry Johnson, tho murderer, was the young; nun who tlirew his littlo daughter into tho Lebigh Kiver nud drowued her. Ho was hanged during tho Butnmor, and Sheriff Uower thinks $1.51) wivi uot too big a price for tho job. Tbo commissioners regarded SbVfcHfJ us tho proper tlguro for a few minutes' work. I'hiludelphia Record. Window IJarihnluff In tlree rJaml. . Al luoniber of tho Peary relief ex peditiou has describcsl iu the llrooklva Standard-C'uion a visit made, last July to tho house of Governor Almquist, IJisoo, (ireeuluud. seveutwth dogrea of latitude. Iu tho aoutht.ru windows Mr. Almquist hu 1 gerauiinus iu full bloom, tucusitiH, mtguouette, cuoti, wus plant aud all tho commou varies ties of tha tempers zone, whilo a trujiioal paltu ahowttd every ovideuot of health aud vigor. Tho Governor called atteutiou to his "opeu-uir gar den," a lp purhajis twelve foot Ions 1 uud sis w'Ue, iu which turnips nnd I kalo xietu ijfgiuaiuj their fight witbj
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