” Like OR TALHAGE' SERMON COMFOR1S OF RELIGION. } Sermon as Delivered by the Brook- : lyn Divine Texr: “A goodly cedar, and under it ( of every wing.”—Eze- he cedar of Lebanon “is a royal tree. It six thousand feeet above the level of sea. A missionary counted the concen- circles and found one tree thirty-five dred years old — long rooted, broad anches, all the year in luxuriant foliage. se same branches that bent in the hurri- cane that David saw sweeping over Leb- ; rock to-day over the head of the can traveler. This monarch of the with its leafy fingers, plucks the hon- irs of a thousand years and sprinkles them sipon its own uplifted brow, as though some ) llelujah of heaven had been planted L on and it were rising up with all armed strength to take hold of the mee it came. 2 ih, what a fine place for birds fo pest in! n hot days they come thither—the eagle, ve, the swallow, the row and the . ‘There is to many of us a complete tion in the structure and habits of s. They seem not more of earth than ven—ever vacillating between the two. No wonder that Audubon, with his gun, fgramped through all of the American for- _wsts in search of new specimens. Geologists have spent years in finding the track of a- Birds claw in the new red sandstone. ; There “enough of God’s architecture in & snipes Bill or a grouse’s foot to confound all the universities. Musicians bave, with clefsand i ed to catch the sound of the nightin- gale and robin. Among the first things that - a child notices is a swallow at the eaves, and grandfather goes out with a handful of crumbs to feed the snow birds. ‘The Bible is full of ornithological allu- sions. The birds of the Bible are not dead and stuffed, like those of the museum, but _ living birds, with fluttering wings and plu- mage. “Behold the fowls of the air,” says Christ. “Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down,” ie ms Obadiah. ‘‘Gavest Thou the goodly Ings unto the peacock?’ says Job. David describes his desolation by saving, “lam like a pelican of the wilderness; 1 am like an owl of the desert; I watch and am asa Sparrow alone upon the housetop.” ‘Yea, stork in the heaven knoweth her ap- pointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judg- ment of the Lord”—so says Jeremiab. . Ezekiel in my text intimates §s the cedar, and the people from all quar- Gers are the birds that lodge among the Branches. “It shall be a goodly cedar, and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing.” ‘As in Ezekiel's time, so now—Christisa . goodly cedar,and to Him are flying all kinds of le—young and old, rich and poor, "men high soaring as the eagle, those fierce as the raven, and those gentle as: the dove. “All fowl of every wing.” . F First, the young may come. Of the eigh- teen hundred and ninety-two years that bave since Christ came, about six- geen hundred have been wasted by the good in misdirected efforts. Until Robert Raikes came there was no organized effort for sav- . ing the young. We spend all our strength trying to bend old trees, when a little pres- ure would have been sufficient for the sap- ling. We let men go down to the very bot- #om of sin before we try to lift them up. It 3s a great deal easier to keep a trainon the track than to get it on when itis off. The experienced reinsman checks the fiery steed atthe first jump, for when he gets in full swing, the switt hoofs clicking fire from the pavement and the bit between his teeth, Ais momentum is irresistible. “It is said that the young must be allowed $0 sow their “‘wild oats.” Ihave noticed _ %hat those who sow their wild oats seldom _ ry to raise any other kind of crop. There are two opposite destinies. If you are going %o heaven, you had better take the straight i woad, and not uy to go to Boston by way of New Orleans. hatis to bo the history of this multitnde of young people around me “to-day? I will take you by the hand and . show you a glorious sunrise. I will not whine about this thing, nor groan about it, Dut come, young men aud maidens, Jesus wants you. His hand is love, His voice is music, His smileisheaven. Religion will put 0 handcuffs on your wrist, no hopples on yourfeet, no brand on your forehead. " I went through the heaviest snowstorm I : have ever known to see a dying girl, Her ‘cheek on the pillow was white as the snow ion the casement. Her large, round eyehad mot lost any of its luster. = Loved ones stood “all around the bed trying to hold her back. { mother could not give her up. and one mearer to ber than either father or mother mwas frantic with grief. I said: “Fanny, jow do you feel?” “Oh!” she said, ‘happy, Miappy! Mr. Talmage, tell all the young “folks that religion will make them happy.” i As I came out of the room, louder thanall ~€he sobs and wailings ot grief, I heard the + lear, sweet, glad voice of the dying girl, *3ood night; we shall meet again on the ‘other side of the river.” The next Sabbath _ Swe buriedher. We brought white flowers “and laid them on the coffin. Thare was in ‘all that crowded church but one really happy {and delighted face, and that was the face of {Fann . Oh, I wish that now my Lord Jesus ’, Yaw go through this audience and take all these flowers of youth and garland them on {His brow. ‘The cedar isa fitrefuge for birds "lof brightest plumage and swiftest wing. {See, they fly! they fly! “All fowl of every wing.” A + Again, I remark that theold may come. “Wou say, “Suppose a man has to go on _eratehes; suppose he is blinds sup he is deaf; suppose that nine-tenths sof his life has been wasted.” Then I answer: Come with crutches. Come, old men, blind and deaf, ome to Jesus. If you would sweep your Wand around before your blind eyes, the first “hing you would touch would be the cross. Jt is hard for an aged man or woman to have fown old without religion. sone. ch and the grape have lost Bir | They say that somehow fruit not taste as it used to. Their hearing efective, and they miss a great deal Bat is said in their presence. Their friends have all gone and everybody. so strange. The world seems to go from them and they are left all alone. zin to feel in the way when you into the room where they are, and they re their chair nervously and say, ‘‘I hope not in the way.” Alas! that father and smother should ever bs in the way. When ‘were sick and they sat up all night rock- ou, singing to you, administering to did they. think that you wers in the } Are you tired of the old peopie? Do you soap them up quick and sharp? You ‘will be cursed to the bone for your ingrati- ig figkindiion 1 ald. folks J B , how. many dear folks Jesus has sleep! How swe He has closed reyes! How gently folded their arms! DW © has put His hand on their silent hearts and said: ‘Rest now, tired pilgrim. is all over. The tears will never start Hush! hush!” | So He gives His be- sleep. I think the most: beautiful ob- on earth is an old Christian—the hair not with the frosts of winter, but the of the tres of life. I never feel yr a Christian old man. feel ‘those upon whom the glories of .l world are about to burst? The » to the goodly cedar. Thoug “are heavy witn age. God shall strength like the eagle, and ny their nest in the cedar. “All There taste is that Christ . ‘said to them about their souls. Consider me as putting my hand on your shoulder and looking in your eye. God has been good to you. ou ask, ‘How do u know that? He has been Very hs on me.” “Where did come from?” “Home.” “Then you have a home. Have you ever thanked God for your home? ave you children?” **Yes.” “Have you ever thanked God for your children? ho keeps them safe? Were you ever sick?’ ‘‘Yes.” “Who made you well? Have you been feed every day? Who feeds you? Put your hand on your pulse. Who makes it throb? Listen to the respiration of your lungs. Who helps you to breathe? Have you a Bible in ne house, spreading bsfors you th future life? Who gave you that Bible?” Oh, it has been a story of goodness and mercy all the way through. You have been one of God's pet children. Who fondled you and caressel you and lov ed you? And when you went astray and wan to come back, did He ever refuse? I know of a father who, after his son came back the fourth time, said, “No; I forgave you three times, but I will never forgive you again.” And the son went off and died. But God takes back His children the thousandth time as cheer- fully as the first. As easily as with my handkerchief I strike the dust off a book, God will wipe out all your sins. Again, all the dying will flud their nast in this goodly cedar. It is cruel to destroy a bird's nest, but death does not hesitate to destroy one. Theres was a beautiful nest in the next street. Lovingly the parents brooded over it. There wera two or three little robins in the nest. The scarlet fever thrust its hands into the nest, and the birds are gone. Only those are safe who have their nests in the goodly cedar. They have over them “the feathers of the Almighty.’ Oh; to have those stretched over us! © Let the storms beat and the branches of the cedar toss on the wind— no danger. When a storm comes, you can see the birds flying to the woods. Ere the storm of death comes down, let us fly to the goodly cedar. wn : Of what great varieties heaven will ba made up. here come men who once were hard and cruel and desperate in wickedness, yet now, soft and changed by grace, they come into glory, “All fowl of every wing. And here they come, the children who” wera reared in loving home circles flocking through the gates of life, “All fowl of every wing. These are white and came from northern homes; these were black and ascended from southern plantations - these were copper colored and went up from Indian reservas tions—**All fowl of every wing.” So God gathers them up. It is astonishing how easy it is for a soul to enter heaven. A prominent business man in Philadelphia went hore one afternoon, lay down on the lounge and said: “It is time for me to go.” He was very aged. His daughter said to him, “Are you sick?” He said: *‘No; but it is time for me to go. Have John put it in two of the morning papers, that my friends may know that I am gone. Good-by;” and as quick as that God had taken him. It is easy to go when the time comes. There are no ropes thrown out to pull us ashore; there are no ladders let down to pull us up. Christ comes and takes us by the hand and says, “You have had enough of this; comp up higher.” Do you hurta lily when you pluck it? Is there any rudeness when Jesus touches the cheek, and the red rose of health whitens into the lily of im- moral purity and gladness? When autumn comes and the giant of the woods smites his anvil and the leafy sparks fly on the autumnal gale, then there will be thousands of birds gathering in the tree at the corner of the field, just before departin to warmer climes, and they will call an sing until the branches drop with the melody. There is a better clime for us, and by and by we shall migrate. Wegather in the branches of the goodly calar, in prep- aration for departure. ou heard our voices in the opsning song; you will hear them 1n the closing song—voices good, voices bad, voices happy. distressful—:‘*All fowl of every wing.” y and by we shall be gone. It all this audience is saved, as I hope they will be, I see them entering into life. Some have had it hard; some have had it easy. Somes were brilliant; some were dull. Some were rocked by pious parentage; others have had their infantile cheeks scalded with the tears of woe. Some crawled, as it were, into the kingdom on their hands and knees, and some seemed to enter in chariots of flaming fire, Those fell from a ship’s mast; these were crushed in a mining disaster. They are God’s singing birds now. No gun of huntsman shall shoot them down. They gather on the trees of life and fold their wingson the branches, and far away from frosts and winds and night they sinz un- til the hills are flooded with joy, and the skies drop music, and the arches of pearl send back the echoes— ‘All fowl of every wing.” Behold the saints, beloved of God, ‘Washed are their robes in Jesus’s blood, Brigtter than angels, lol they shine, Their glories splendid and sublime. Through tribulation great they came; They bore the cross and scorned the shame; Now, in the heavenly temple bleat; With God they dwell; on Him they rest. While everlasting angels roll Eternal love shall feast their soul And scenes of bliss, forever ne| Rise in succession to their view DO YOU PRAY ? David did. His circumstances, indeed, were unfgvorable. A crown was upon his head. The cares of a kingdom pressed him. He might have said, “I have no time.” But he praved much, It was one of his most in- fluential habits. What proofs and illustra- tions abound in those wonderful composi- tions, the psalms. How touching, carnest, sublime often, were his cries unto God. How have his spiritual exercises been an incite- ment and pattern of devotion in évery suc- ceeding age. Daniel did. He was indeed a statesman and courtier. He lived in the midst of idola- ters. To them his religion was offensive. The king bade him not to pray unto Jeho- vah, If he did it was at mortal peril. The great men of Babylon conspired to make this very thing the means of his ruin. Still he prayed. He did if, not ostentutio=sly, but without concealment. His religious prin- ciple wus stronger then his fear of men. “Three times 8 day he kneeled and prayed sad gave thanks before his God, as afore- ime. Paul did. It was the first pulse and ex- pression of his new Jife in Christ. - “Behold he prayeth!” saith the Spirit. The fact was the surprising but conclusive proofof his spiritual change and transition. From being Saul, the persecutor, it was thus showa he had become Paul the Saint. However, after that event, was his life one of prayer, as well gs of heroic labor—of prayer for him- self—for his countrymen—for the Gentile world— for the blood-bought church. Holi- er, intenser, sublimer aspirations probably rever ascended from a soul this side of heaven. Jesus Christ did. It is a ‘most impressive truth. It ought to be pondered by all who donot pray. The Saviour was perfect. He was divine. He sustained po such relations of dependence as we sustain. He bad no tins to be forgiven. There were in him no lusts to be restrained and purified. He was subject to no temptations he could not re- gist. He was assailed by no enemies he could not conquer. He had life in himself. He had creative power. He had infinite merit. But he prayed. He prayed in secret with his disciples. “(o’d mountains and the midnight air ‘Witnessed the fervor of his prayer.” Yes—David, Daniel, Paul, Jesus Christ, all prayed. They were men of pray yer. Do you pray ?— [Presbyterian of the West. 1 find time to visi the sick and the poor: and I must do it if I believe the Bible, if 1 helieve the marks whereby the Shepherd of [srael wall know and udge His sheep at the now swarmin 0 Bay and the gat by soft, warm, eternal wings. SUNDAY. SCHOOL: LESSON FOR SUNDAY MARCH 13. Promises of A New Heart,” Ez:kiel xxxvi., 25-838 Golden Text: Ez:kiel xxxvi., 28 Commentary. 95, Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I Jeremiah and one in Ezekiel give us but the merest glance at the 166 chapters of those three , and yet the teaching of these lessons is in perfect accord with all prophecy. The words of this verse refer primarily to the yet future cleansing of the nation of Is- rael (verses 22-24: Jer. xxxiii., 7, 8), and yet may apply in a sense to every true believer. 26. **A new heart also will 1 give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.” The seat of all our difficulties being within us, there must be a change there before anything can be right. 27 ‘And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutss.” The same spirit -who spake and wrought in Christ, and in prophets and apostles, God will give to Israel, and gives now to every believer, Our part is to welcome Him, and surrender to Him our whole being and He will do the rest. (John xiv., 16, 17, 26: xv., 26: xvi., 13) 48, ‘And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My people and 1 will be your God.” There 1s no way of applying the first part of this . werse to ther church or to believers now: it "is peculiarly and only for Israel in the suture. The churci has no special land, her inheritance is heavenly, the New Jerusalem, from which she shall reign with Christ over the whole earth. The last part of the verse may be spiritually applied to the church. See II Cor. vi., 16-18. 29. I willalso save you from all your uncleannesses;land lay no famine upon you.” No good thing will he withold from them that walk uprightly (Ps., Ixxxiv., 11), and while Jesus, by His great work of atone- ment, saves from the wrath to come, He also saves by His present power and by His word ane Spirit in us, from daily sins (Math. i.- 21: Rom. v., 10; Judge xxiv, R. V. 30. ‘‘And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, that ye shall receive no more reproach among the heathen.” Peculiarly for Israel, and yet when a believer is seen longing for and enjoying the things of thig world that are not of God (I Johnii,, 15 17.. then it 1s as if he said, ‘Jesus cannot satisfy me; IL must have the world too,” and thus the man- es} famine in such a soul is a reproach to od. 31 “Then snall ye remember, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities.” The Lord will pour upon them’ _the spirit of grace and of supplications, and there shall be true repentance whea they ses their lonz rejected Kin (Zech. xii., 10). The sight of the King in His glory always causes loathing of self (Isa. vi., 5; Job xiii., 5, 6, Dan. x., 8) Pride or self esteem is a proof that we have not seen Jesus. , 32. ‘Not for your sakes-do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you.” Israel was not in the first place chosen for any good that wasin them, but all was done for them because of God's promises to Abraham and to Dayid (Deut. ix., 5, 6, 24: I King xi., 32, 34; Mie. vii., 20). Jesus of Nazareth isa Son of David,Son of Abraham,the promised seed (Math i., 1; Gal. iii,, 16), and all who are in Him have all things made sure to them for His sake (Gal. iii., 29). 33. **Thus saith the Lord God, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be builded.” Compare Zeca. viii, 7, 8. Cleansing first and then restora- tion—this is always the order. If you have lost fellowsnip with God through sin, the sin mast be confessed and forgiven betore the communion can be restored. 34. **And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.” Its desolateness was res proach to God, and a constant advertises ment of Israel's sin. We, as believers, glorify God only when we bear muca fruit (John xv, ¥. Ifsour lives are selfish and self indulgent we are then like Israel in her rebellion and sinfulness. (Hos. x.,1,2; xi. 7.) 85. “And they stall say, Ths land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eaen.” That will causs people to praise the God of Israel, and thus other nations will be drawn to God, even as the Queen of Sheba was drawn to Jerusalem by the fame of Solomon. 36. ‘Then the heathen that are left around about you shall know that I, the Lord, build the ruined places. I, the Lord, have spozen and I will go it.” Muititudes out of the nations snall perish in the judgments pre- ceding lsrael’s national conversion, or in connection therewith, but some shall be left, and these shall go up to Jerusalem from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts (Zech, xiv., 16). The nand of the Lord shall be so ‘manifest :that:all shall see it, 3i. “Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of bygthe house of Israel todo it for tnem.” He will prepare their hearts to pray for the blessing He is dbout to give. ‘thisis His way. While He isever ready to give every good toning, He will have us feel our need and ask Him. When we are specialiy led therefore to pray for any thing or for any one, we nay sately coa- clude that the spirit 1s leading us to ask for that which He 1s ready to give us. 35. ‘*Asthe flock of Jerusalem in her sol- emn feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that Iam the Lord.” Or, according to Zech. i.s 17, “My ciiies through prosperity shall yeb be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jeru- salem.” And Zech, ii, 4, ‘‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle there- in.” These days are already dawning, and the full accomplishment must be near. Ol believer, make full surrender to and have perfect trust inthe Lord, that He may make the most of you this little while, and make Himself known through you. One of the clearest evidences that Israel will soon be re- stored to her own land is that the restora- tion has already begun, and even now the population of Jerusalem-has overflown the walls of the city, and numerous buildings are being erected on the very lines men tioned in Jer. xxxi., 35-40. Jesus said that *:Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke xxi., 24). When a city is visibly being built up and about to become a railroad center, it cannot well be said to be trodden down any longer We there- fore know without a doubt that the times of the Gentiles are about fulfilled, Israels redemption is near (though the tribulation must first come), and the elect church must be well nigh completed, Let us be con- sumed with zeal to bring in the remaining few and hasten the kingdom.—Iiesson Helper. THE RUM CUKSE IN AF£ICA, The United States Consul at Sierra Leone, Hon. B. Bowser, in arecent letter to a citi- zen of Hartford, Corm., referring to the ravages of the liquor traffic in Africa, writes: go I am not a missionary, nor the son of one, but I judge the present from the past. The Christian nations of the earth must set a better example than flooding this country with rum and gin, and landing it on the Sabbath day at the wharf, within fifty ards of the church. Istood on the wharf ast Sabbath, and saw steamers come into the harbor from Germany and England, and they commenced to land rum and gin. There were over one hundred men employed all day, and the customs officers had to be on duly. The native kings are petitioning the Government to stop the liquor traffic. [tis ruining their people. One king says if they continue it will cause him to leave his coun- try, and go where the white man’s rum can't po his people. CANADIAN Fatrons of Industry ave form. cleanse you.” - Six lessons in Isaiah, four in’ RELIGIOUS READING. SAFELY HOME. I am home in Heaven, dear ones, Oh so happy, and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief are over; Every restless tossing passed; Iam now at peace forever, Safely Home in Heaven at last! Did you wonder I so camly Trod the valley of the shade? Ah! but Jesus’ love illumined Every dark and fearful glade. And he came himself to meet me - In that way so hard to tread; And with Jesus’ arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely For I love you dearly still; Try to look beyond earth’s shadows, Pray to trust our Father’s will. There is a work still waiting for you. So you must not idly stand; Do 1t now while life semaineth— You shall rest in Jesus’ land. ‘When that work is all completed, He will gently call you home: Ob, the rapture of that meeting! Ob, the joy to see you come! — [Charlotte Murray. DUTY OURS. vs Duties are ours, events are the Lords. When we go to meddle with events, and ta hold a.court, as it were, ubon the Lord’ providence, and to ask Him, How will Thou do this or that?’ faith then begins tq lose ground. We have nothing to do there, 1t is-our part to let the Almighty exercise His own office, and steer His own helm. There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of weak souls in well-doing upon Him who is God omnipotent. And when what we thus pursue miscarries, i shall neither be our sin nor our cross.—[Gur- nall. RIGHT IS MIGHT. As sure as God liveth, as the Holy one of Israel is the Lord of Hosts, the Almighty, right is might, and ever wus and ever shall be so. Holinessis might ; meekness is might; atience is might; humility is might; faith s might; loveis might; every gift of the spirit is might. The cross was two pieces of dead wood, and a helpless unresisting man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will triumph over it.- Heaven and earth shall pass away, but no pure holy deed, or word, or thought. | On the other hand, might, that which the children of earth call so, the strong wind, the earthquake, the fire perishes through its own violence, self-exhausted and self-con- sumed. : RESOLUTIONS OF LAVATER. I will never, either in the morning o1 evening, proceed to any business, untill have first retired, at least for a few moments, to a private place, and implored God for his assistance and his blessing. I will neither do nor undertake anything which I would abstain from doing if Jesus Cnrist were standing visibly before me, nor anything of which I think it is possible shall repent in the uncertain hour of my cer tain death, I will, with the divine aid, accustom my- self to do evervthing, without exception, In the name of Jesus Christ, and as his discie ple; to sigh to God continually for the Holy Ghost; and to preserve myself in a constant disposition for prayer. Every day shall be distinguished by at least one particular wish of love. Wherever I go,I will first pray to God that I may commit no sin there, but be the cause of some good. I will never lay me down to sleep without prayer; nor, when I am in health, sleep, at most, Jonger than eight hours. I will every evening examine my conduct through the day by these rules, and faith- fully note down in my journal, how often I offend against them. God! Thou seest what I have here written. May 1 be able to read these my resolutions every morning, with sincerity, and every evening with joy and the clear approbation of my conscience. THE SABBATH A FRIEND. 1. To Educatioh.— Compare countries with and without the Sabbath, its ministrations powerfully quicken and invigorate the human intellect, while a vast amount of knowledge is accumulated. : 2. To Government.— Where are honored Sabbaths and despotism. co-existent? It shows the nature of human rights—adapts laws to the actual wants and-eircumstances of men—creates a conscience that sustains laws and qualifies men to make as well as to obey them. 8.” To Health.—By promoting cleanliness, by furnishing needful rest for the body and mind, by promoting cheerfulness and elas- ticity of spirits through its power to produce a peaceful conscience, and by its sublime in- fluence over the hateful passions of men. 4. To Good Morals.—By Yecping in sight the character of God,by unfolding the claims of his holy law, by creating a distaste for unlawful pleasures, a public sentiment that frowns upon immorality, and through that sentiment causing wise and effectual laws for the suppression of vice and crime. To Piety.—By causing a right view ot God to prevail, by constantly pouring on not dress it from without. Within lies the robing-room, the sculptor’s workshop. For whosoever wou'd be fairer, illumination must begin in the soul—the tace catches the glow only from that side. It is tbe 8pirit’s beauty that makes the best face, even for the evening's company; and spirit beauty is the only beauty that outlasts the work and wear and pain of life —[The Bombay Guardian. GREATNESS AND SUCCESS. In general, it is not very difficult’ for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them. In the first place, elevation of senti- ment is almost always an insurmountable obstacle to fortune; it is an eflectual barrier against a thousand easy and certain means of advancement: talents areeven adverse toad- vancement, unless accompanied with vast in- trepidity of soul. with a sort of courage that men of truly honest and upright bLearts do not wish to possess. For if, on the one band, they multiply our means of attaining the proposed end, they, on the other. place our eyes in but too forcible a point of view, the obstacles we have to surmount. This incon- venience is great, and the multiplication of our means is not always an advantage. I am persuaded that in carefully examining the conduct of those who have attained to any extraordinary = fortune, we shall be tempted to believe there is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over-brillinnt, as to be entirely wrapped up in oneself, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object. It is incredible what may be done by dint of importunity alone; and where shall we find the man of real talents who knows how to be importunate enough? He is too soon overcome with the disgust inspired by all matters which have interest only for their object, with the de- sire of perpetual solicitation; he is too much alive to all the little movements visible on the countenance of the person solicited, and he gives up the pursuit. The fool sees none of these things, feels none of these things— he pursues his object with uuremitted ardor, and at length attains it.—[Baron de Grimm. ug report of the State Superintendent ss that the fire and marine insurance. ies in York year ab. ‘another saloon for more. TEMPERANCE. “ WE'RE FOR TEMPERAKCE. We Bove that you do not suppose, dearest That our ery long silence on temperance, portends A lazy or wearisome shirking, In this t, busy world we've a great deal But we stand as a band, fo our pledge, brave and true, ® N..cowards among us are lurking. We love our co¥d water in springtime'ssoft showers, We loveit, when brightening the summer's sweet flowers; . : In autumn its pleasures are chosen, : When winter comes on with its days cold and bright, It is water supplies with unbounded delight. Oh! I tell you it is glorious when frozen. So if we are silent you must never suppose That our juvenile army is lost, drowned, or roze, In this land where these .d: abounds For when swimming, or boating, or coasting . we'll steer So far from the dram-shops you need have no fear; ‘We're for temperance all the year ’round- _ ==Mrs. 8. Irwin, in Temperance Banner. THE MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND In a review of the FOgTess of the tem- .perance movement in Sy d the Glasgow ‘Reformer finds cause for atification to .@very true-hearced friend of the reform. {The activities of temperance wor have been felt in every Sireckion 2 especially in ;church organizations. ere is a rising tide’ of public opinion against the liquor dealer, due to persistent prohibitory teaching and a {realization of the injury and loss caused by ithe traffic. The hopes of the great temper- ]ance army turn to the new parliament that tis almost certain to be elected during the | present year, The efforts that have been | made to strengthen the teaiperance party iparlianient will then tend to a settlement of !the question of thedirect veto at the outset. i This is a cheering outlook for the earnest {Scottish temperance reformers and one that sends its reflection clear across the water . DRUNKEXNESS DESTROYS LOVE FOR GOD. Mark the drunkard coming out of one place when he has been filled: he goes into 1 Well, Isayany man who gives drinic to one he sees already under its influence is a soul-murderer; words of condemnation are not strong enough on him. Behold the drunkard coming out of one of those low places, letting fall from his lips oaths the most shocking, phemy the most revolting, that wouid make the very devils in hel shudder. Looking around the: ‘church Sunday morning, we sés a poor woman, hidden, perhaps, in some corner of the church, ashamed to be seen because of the poverty of her clothing or some other such reason. = Ask her where is her husband, once as faithful as she to come to church. What is her answer? Ho is at home in bed, sleeping off the effects of a Saturday night drunk, or, perhaps, rising Sunday morning, goes away again to one of those vile piaces to continue the debauch of the previous day.—Father Nicolt, O. M.I. LIQUOR DRINKING IN LONDON. Some statistics have been lately published by the rector of St. George's-in-the-East, which is said to ba the very poorest district of London, England, concerning tke con- sumption of liquors by the people of bis care. There are eighty-one public houses to supply with drink the 113 people who occupy the rector’s district—one house, that is, tor about every 135 persons. Friday evening, October 30, last year, many of the public houses were visited, and taking the average, forty-five persons were found in each house. Sunday, November 7, seventy seven adults were counted entering one door of a public house. One evening, in the short space of thirty-five minutes, sixty-seven children were counted entering drink shops, with cans, jugs or bottles, From such figures it would seem a moderate computation that $1000 a year must be annually paid in over the counter to keep up each of the eighty- one houses; $31,000 is thus spent every year by 11,000 oi the poorest people in London, — ew Orleans Picayune. : : TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES, The Lords side is never the whisky side. Beer consumption is on the increase in Paris : The “Whisky Trust” Directors at Chicagd decided to reduce the price of whisky. Saturday night, tradition has it, the sober man in quaint, old Melrose, Scotland, is the exception. : The town of Union, Mes. boasts of a citizen who in three days drankétwenty-six gallons of cider < : New York consumes 80,000,000 barrels of beer annually. 8,000,00) barrels a year The value of the food products of our country for a single year is about $600,000,- 000. The cost of alcoholic drinks is about $1,485,000,000 . Every lawyer in Jackson, Miss., has been retained to defend druggists of that city who have been indicted for the chargeol unlawfully selling alcoaol. In two days of the civil term of court just closed at Bangor, Me., sixteen decrees ot di- vores were entered. Eight of these were for cruel treatment and intoxication. The Iowa Supreme Court has decided that a firm of wholesale liguor-dealers of St. Louis can collect for liquor sold to an Iowa saloon-keeper in violation of the prohibitory law, An official in a Texas town recently wrote to the local Treasurer asking that his salary should be sent to his house, as he had not been sober enough to leave home for several ‘weeks. The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the wells known statistician, isanthority for the state- ment that for every dollar paid in by the saloons for their license about $21 1s paid out by the people. A United States revenue inspector while collecting in the western and northern sec- tions of Pennsylvania discovered 2500 “‘speak- easies.” These places are mostly grocery stores, cigar stores and drug stores. Some of the Scottish temperanca socisties are organizing “Burns Temperance Demon- strations” in order that the ‘‘name and in- fluence of Burns may be purged frem the drink associations which still’ misinterpret and obscure them.” William Shannon, aged thirty-six years, was found dead in his bed recently, at Mount Holly, Pann, He had been given a quart of whisky by some strangers, and a coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of ‘‘death from an overdose of whisky,” | Suit was begun by Mrs. Frederick Wehr, of Porterville, Penn., against A, W. Mar- shall, a druggist of that place, for $10,000 damages. or husband was recently found frozen to death near his: home, and sae claims that he got his whisky from Mar- shall. Illinois has the unenviable distinction of being the stronghold of the whisky power. The internal revenue collections of this State for the year ending in June were more taan twice that of any other State—-New Yorz yielding $16,565,522, while Illinois paid $33,- 464.3127 : The temperance people of Toronto, Ohioy after trying all legal means to drive a saloon- keeper out of town, warned him to leave or his nouse would be ourned down, No atteis ticn was paid to the notice, so on Tuesday of last week the saloon was gutted by a fire of incendiary origin. The lst day has ad for filing applica- tions for liquor licenses in Pniladeiphia, is: Retail, Penn. The entire number filed is: 8014, wholesale, 561, Last license applications were ‘ant, was handling a loaded revolver, :a'loss of about $75,000, surance. The rate of’increase is rear 8358 retail i and 1258 wera Jorx SUTTON, ying ‘néar ‘Haydento Fayette county, fal shot his 5-year-gid brother by carelessly handling a revolver: Ware Charles Lewis, of near Mt. Pleas, laced it under the chin of a boy named obert Keyser and pulled the trigger. The result is that Keyser is minusa chin. and way die. a i 8. FuUSRHOUSER; the boy who bad th eyes, an arm ana a rn off by '& ihe of dynamite last week, died Thursday after terrible suffering. Wie. F, Keck convicted of murdering Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nipch at Ironton on Novem ber 18 last, was sentenced at Allentown to be hanged. Li oe Epwarp Nostroy, employed in the Na- tional Rollings Mill at McKeesport, was caught in a set of rolls and drawn 1 through. He was “instantly crushed to death. Cuarres KepeLE, a 11-year-old Freeport boy, hanged himself beeause his father : threatened to whip him. : Epwarp West, of New Brighton, while drunk Tuesday Aight tied his. wife, heated. a poker and was about to cram it down her throat when neighbors saved her. 3 : H. H. Lang, a foundry man of _Hunting- don, assigned, with $10,000 liabilities. = Grvesnie Jones, 17-years-old, died Wilkesbarre, from the effects of dancing. RexwIck SLATER, while attending a 80cis at Rev. George's residence in Beaver Falls ‘Tuesday night, dropped dead. A RorAND Gasgrrn had .both legs broke and was injurned internally in an eleva at Carnegie's mill in Beaver Falls. . Mrs. Wrtziax Reep, of North Beaver township, Lawrence Sounty, gave birth to titles, two girls and a boy. All doing well. ‘ DIPHTHERIA is again Yaging, at Locust Gap, near Ashland. One family has lost three children in a week and two others are dying. The State Board of Health has pro= hibited public funerals. A Five in the shoe manufactury of Mona- ghan Bay Company, of Harrisburg. caused fully covered by in- Groner WiLsoN, aged. 14. years, of Me- Alevy’s Fort, was kicked on the head: by a colt and almost instantly killed. : ; Mes. Kare CusninuAM, of Blairsville, while a passenger on the Pacific express en the Pennsylvania railroad, was struck by a stone thrown through a car window near Jeannette and dangerously injured. Ar Mt. Lookout colliery top rock and eoal fell in two parts of the mine. One of the falls caught a Polish laborer, John Mische, and instantly killed him. A miner named Thomas John, who was at work near the fall, was fatally injured. The second fall occurred while the victims of the accident were being carried out, which resulted in fatally injuring another Polish laborer. THE State treasury statement shows the general fund to contain “$6,503,285 80 as against $5,606,524,234 a month ago. ~The sinking fund is $325,682 34 as against $761 3 34 on February 1. The tofal amount of the February (1892) loan outstanding is $140,000. vo 3 James Brooks, of Tarport, was found dead in the snow a few feet distant from .his ° residence in that village. The : coroner ig investigating the affair. It is supposed Brooks was intoxicated, and fell down in the snow and froze to death. ; HACKNEY sTaTION and the general store of J. C. Addelman, on the Waynesburg and = Washington railroad, were destroyed by fire. Total loss, $1,000; partially insured. Trz Beaver Valley Traction Company in-- creased the wages of its conductors and motormen from 14 to 16 cents an hour. Tar Secre tary of State at Harrisburg fur- nished to the County Commissioner of each : county of the State copies of forms of blanks, made necessary to put the new ballot law into operation at the next elec-. tion. They are certificate of nomination, nomination paper, official ballot, specimen official ballot, letter to County Commission- ers and Sheriffs certifying nominations, let- ter of transmittal to County Commissione: Jetters of transmittal to Sheriffs an watchers certificate. : Mrs. TRuXALL, the wife of a Brownsville man, is lying at the point of death from a bullet wound in her stomach inflicted by her husband. Several days ago she was ab Uniontown and called on ‘a physician, who found she had been shot through the leg. She said her husband had done it. She went back to Brownsville and the physician Jearned the woman had been shot a second time by her husband and that she will die. Joux Bortz, a farmer living near Chicora, was fatally gored by a mad bull. Frank CHESHAL, 3 miner, met with a ter- rible death at Bi ountain Colliery, near Centralia. While walking about the break- er, near what is known as the manway, he slipped and fell headlong to the bottom, a distance of 300 feet. He was found an hour ate with almost every bone in his body roken. Nricmoras WILHELM, an employe at the Madison mines, near Greensburg, was fatal- ly injured by a fall of slate. 2 “Tar Humane Society of Western Pennsyl- vania lost its case at Beaver Falls against EK. E. Hazenand J. W. Tombell, who were charged with cruelty in that they dishorned their cattle. The testimony was very con- flicting as to whether the practice is cruel. The justice discharged the defendants. The ‘Humane Society is anxious to get a case of this kind into court. Cuarres EniswortH,a B. & O. brakeman, was fatally injured at Connellsville. MAGDALENA BLACK of Gettysburg, sued Adams county for $10,000 damages for the death of her husband, who was killed by his iraction engine breaking through a road ridge. A 14-yzAR-oLD son of H. C. cidentally shot and instantly shooting gallery at Evans City. Orricer Douds was attacked by two glars at Beaver Falls and stabbed. coat prevented serious injury. Tae glass factory of the United GlassCom- pany at Wellsboro was burned, involving a loss of from $25,000 to $30,000. The fir caught in the cutting room, = One hundred and twenty-five ‘men are thrown out of work for the rest of the season. The Prop: erty was insured for about $18,000. The factory was the second best belonging to the United Glass Company. Sn Bo, £8 Was = iitted in a bur- His gum D.W. SEILER, aged 58 years, genefal secre tary of the State agricultural society, died in Harrisburg. ; v x La . Carr HarTMAN, aged 18 years, died at Rochester in awtul agony. He and Edward Chaffee, while searching In the woods for sweet myrrh, found a.root similar i and ate freely of it. Hartman was with convulsions and expired in a tiime, Chaffee’s recovery is doubtful. Hartman and her daughter Louisa, partook of the herb and are critic EE
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