i ka RE
DR. TALWAGE'S SERMON.
Ths Sermon as Delivered by the Brook-
lyn Divine.
Text: “Only Og, king cf Bashan,
mained of the remnant of giants; behold
| bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is itnotin
Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine
cubiis was the length thereof and four
cubits the breadth of it.”—Deuteronomy
i. 11.
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The story of giants is mixsd with myth.
William the Conqueror was said to Les
been of cvertowering altitude, but when in
aftertime his tomb was openad his bones in-
dicated that he had been physically of only
ordinary size. Roland the Hero was said to
have been of astounding stature, but when
his sepulchre was examined his armor was
found only large enough to fit.an ordinary
man. Alexander the Great had hélmets
and shields of enormons size made and left
among the peovle whom he had conquered,
sons to give the impression that he was a
giant, although he was rather under than
over the usual height of a man. But that
in other days and lands there were real
iants isauthentic. One of the guards of
the Duke of Brunswick was eight and a
half teet high. Ina museum in London is
the skeleton of Charles’ Birne, eight feet
four inches in stature. The Emperor Maxi-
min was over eight feet.
Pliny telis of a giant nine feet high and
{wo other giants nine and a half feet. So I
am not incredulous when I come to my text
and find King Og a giant, and the siz: of
bis bedstead, turning the cubits of the text
into fect, the bedstead of Og, the king, must
have been about thirteen and a half feet
long. Judging from that the giant who oc-
<cupied it was probably about eleven feet in
stature, or nearly livica the averag: human
size. ‘thers was no need of Rabbinical
writers trying toaccount for the presence of
this gant, King Og, as they did, by saying
that he came down from the other side of
‘the flood, being tall enough to wade the wa-
ters beside Noah’s ark, or that he rode on the
top of the ark, the passengers inside the ark
daily providing him with foo, There was
nothing supernatural about him. He was
simply a monster insize
Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds of gold,
an« Sardanapalus had 150 bedsteads of gold
burnad up with him, but this bedstead of
my text was of iron—everything sacrificed
for strength to hold this excessive avoirdu-
pois, this Alp of bone and flesh. = No wonder
this couch was kept as a ‘curiosity a§ Rab-
bath,and the peopie went from far and near
to see it, just as now people go to museums
to behold the armor of the ancients. You
say what a fighter this giant, King Og,
must have been.” No doubt of it. I suppose
the siz: of his sword and breastplate corre-
sponded to the sizs of his beadstead, and his
stride acress the battlefield and the full
strose of his arm must bave been appalling.
‘With an armed host he comes down to drive
bac< the Israelites, who are marching on
from Egypt to Canaan.
Wo have no particulars of the battle, but
I think the Israelites trembled when they
saw this monster of a man moving down to
crush them. Alas for the Israelites! Will
their troubles never cease? What can men
five and a half teet high do against this war-
rior of eleven fest, and what can short
swords do against a sword whose gleam
must have been like a flash of lightning?
The battle of Edrei opened. Moses and his
army met the giant and his army. The Lord
of Hosts descended into the fizht, and the
gigantic strides that Og had made when ad.
vancing into ths battle were more than
equaled by the gigantic strides with which
he retreated. uzza for triumpbant Israel!
Sixty fortified cities surrendered to toem.
A land of indescribable opulence comes into
their possession, and all that is left of the
giant king is the iron bedstead. *‘Nine cubits
\ was tbe length thereof and four cubits the
breadth of 18.”
Why did not the Bible give us the
size of the giant instead of the siz3 of the
bedstead? Why did it not indicate that the
giant was eleven feet high instead of telling
us that his couch was thirteen and a half
‘feet long? No doubt among other things it
was to teach us that you can judge of a man
by his surroundings, Show mea man’s
associates, show me a man’s books, show me
a man’s home, and Iwill tell you what he is
without wvour telling me one word about
him, «= You cannot only tell a man accord=
ing to the old adage, *‘By the company he:
keeps,” but by the books he reads, by the
pictures he admires, by the churca ho ats
tends. by the places he visits. Moral
giants and moral pygmies intellectual
giants and intellectnal pyzmies, liks physical
giants or physiogl pygmies may be judged
by their surroundings.
When a man departs this life you can teil
what has been his influence in a community
for zood by those who mourn for him and
by Low sincere and long continued are the
regrets of his taking off. There may be no
pomp or obsequies and no pretense at epi-
tapheology, but you can tell how high he
was in consecration, and how high in use-
fulness by how long is his shadow when he
comes to jie down. What is true of indi-
viduals is trus of cities and nations. Show
me the free libraries and schools of a city,
and I will tell you the intelligence ‘of its
people. - Show me its galiary of painting and
sculpture, and 1 will tell yon theartistic ad-
vancement of its citizens. Show me its
churches, and I wil tell you the moral and
religious status of the place.
From the ract that Og's bedstead was
thirteen and a half feet long, 1 conclude the
iant himself was about eieven feet high.
ut let no ona by this thought be induc.d to
surrender to unfavorable environments, A
man can make his own bedstead. Chantrey
and Hugh Miller were born stonemasons,
but the one became an immortal sculptor
and the-eother a Christian scientist whose
nuns will never die. Turner, tne painter,
in whose praise Jobn Ruskin sxrended the
greatest genius of his life, was the soz of a
barber who advertised “a penuny shave.”
‘ Dr. Prideaux, one of the greatest scholars of
all time, earned his way through college by
scouring pots and pans. The late Judge
Bradley workei his own way up from a
charcoal burner to the bench of the suprems
court: of the United States. Yes, a man can
decide the size of his own bedstead. :
Notice furthermore that even giants mast
rest. Such enormous physical endowment
on the part of King Oz might suzgest the
capacity to stride across all fatigus and
omit slumber. No. He required an iron
* bedstead. Giants must rest. Not apprecia-
ting that fact how many of the giants
yearly break down. Giants in business,
giants in art, giants in eloquence, giants in
usefulness. They live nos out more than
halt their days. They fry to escape the
consequences of overwork by a voyage
across the sea or a sail in a summer yacht,
or call on physicians for relief from insom-
nia or restoration of unstrung nerves or the
arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is
what this giant of my text resorted to—an
iron bedstead. x .
* Let no ons think because he has great
strength of body or mind that he can afford
to trifle with his unusual girts. The com-
mercial world, the literary world, the artis-
tie world, the:pelitical world, the religious
orld, are all thetimeaquake with the crash
‘of falling giants. King Og no doubt had a
throne, but the Bible never mentions his
throne. King Og no doubt had crown, but
the Bible never mentions his crown.
King Og mo. doubt had a scepter, but
the Bible does not mention is os tor,
| Wat one of the largest verses of the Bi
oto iting his belstoad. So God
“down the Bible honurs sleep.
‘with his head on a pillow of Eden
“Has his slumber blest by a divine gift
ful. companionship. = Jacob, with
‘a pillow of rock, has his sleep
attder filled with descending
nels. Christ, with a pillow
Folded p coat of a iisher-
e bacic pars oi the
dont: phon paola arese at the
gti - ——
voice of the bird, retired at the tir
the bird puts his head under his ‘wi. ne
of our national sins is robbery
f sleep.
Walter Scott was so urgeat about this Duty
of slumber that, whén arriving at. a
where there was no room to sleep in except
thatin which there wasa co inquired
the deceased had died of a contagious disease,
and, when assured he had not; took the other
bed in the room and fell into profoundest
slumber. Those of small endurance m
certainly require rest if even thegiant needs
an iron ‘ : :
Notice, furthermore, that God's people on
the way to Canaan need not be surprised if
they confront some sort of a giant. d not
the Israelitish host had trombls enough al-
ready? No! Red sea not enough. Water
famine not enough. Long marches not
enough. Opposition by enemies of ordinary
stature not enough. Thev must nead Oo
the giant of the iron bedstead. ‘*Nine
cubits was the length thereof and four
cubits the breadth of it.” Why not let these
Israelites go smoothly into Canaan without
this gigantic opposition? Oh, they needed
to have their courage and faith further
tested and developed! And blessed the man
who, in our time, in his march toward the
Promised Land, does not meet more than
one giant. Do not conclude that you are not
on the way to Canaan because of this ob-
stacle,
As well might the Israelites conclude they
were not on the way to the Promised Land
because they met Og, the giant. Standing
in your way ‘is some evil propensity, some
social persecution,some business misfortune,
some physical distress. Not one of you but
meets a giant who would like to hew you in
twain, Higher than eleven feet this Og
darkens thesky and the rattle of his buekler
stuns the ear. But you are going to get the
victory, as did the Israslites. Inthe nama
of the God of Moses and David and Joshua
and Paul, charge on him, and you will
leave his carcassin the wilderness. You
want a battle shout!
Take that with which David, the five-
footer, assailed Goliath, the nine-footer;
when that giant cried, with stinging con-
tempt both in manner and intonation,
“Come-to me and I will give thy flesh unto
the fowls of #he air and to the beasts of the
field,” and David looked up at the monster
of braggadocio and defiantly replied: ‘‘I'hou
comest to me with a sword, and with a
spear,, and with a shield; but I come to thea
in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of
the armies of Israel, whom thou has defied.
This day will the Lord deliver thesunto mine
hand, and I will smite thee and take thine
head from thee, and I will give the carcasses
of the host of the Philistines this day unto
the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts
of the earth, that all the earth may know
that there is a god in Israel.” :
Then David, with probably three swirlsof
the sling about his head, got it into sufficient
momentum and let fly till the cranium of
the giant broke in and he fell and David
leaped on his carcasss, ofie foot on his chest
and the other on his head, and that was the
last of the Philistine. But be sure you get
the right battle shout and that you utter it
with the right spirit, or Og will roll over
you as easily as at night he rolled into his
iron bedstead.
Brethren, I have made up my mind that
we will have to fight all the way up to the
Promised Land. [used to think tbat after
awhile I would get into a time where it
would bs smooth and easy, but the time does
not come and it will never come in this
world. By the time King Og is'used up so
that he cannot get into his iron bedstead,
<some other giant of opposition looms up to
dispute our ways. Let us stop looking for
an easy time and make it a thirty years
war, or a sixty years’ war, or a hundred
years’ war, if we live solong.
Must I be carried to the skies
un flowery beds of ease,
‘While others fought to win the prize
And sailed throuzn bloody seas?
Do you know the name of the biggest
giant that you can possibly ‘meet—and you
will meet him? He 1s not eleven feet high,
but one hundred feet high. His bedstead
is as Jone. as the continent. His names is
Doubt. His common food is infidel books
and skeptical lectures and ministers who do
not know whether the Bible is inspired at all
or inspired in spots, and Christians who are
more infidel than Christian. You will never
reach the Promised Land unless you slay
that giant. Kill Doubt or Doubt will kill
you. How to overcome this giani? Pray
Tor faith, go with people who have faith,
read everything that encourages faith, avoid
as you would ship fever and smallpox the
people who lack faith.
In this battle against King Oz use not for
weapons the cruteh of a limping Christian or
the sharp pen of a controversialist, but the
sword of truth, which is the word of God.
The word *'1f” is made up of the same num-
ber of letters as the word “Og,” and itis
just as big a giant. If the Bible be true.
if the soul be immortal. If Christ be God.
If our belief and behavior here decide our
future destiny. If. If, If. I hate that
word “If.” Noah Webster says it is a con-
junction; f say it is an armed giant. Satan
breathed upon it a curse when he said to:
Christ, “If Thou bes the Son of Ged.”
What a dastardly and infamous “If.”
Against that giant “If” hurl Job's “I
know” and Paul's “I know.” ‘I know that
my Redeemer liveth.” ‘‘1 know in waom I
have believed.” Down with the If” and up
with *“I know.”
Oh, that giant Doubt is such a cruel
giant! It attacks many in the last hour.
It would not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After a life of holi-
ness and consecration such as I never heard
of in any one else, she said to my father,
*‘Father, what if after all our prayers and
struggles should go for nothing.” Why
could she not, after all the trials and sick
nesses and bereavements of a long life and
the infirmities of oli age, be allowed to go
without such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the
giant? Do you wonder I have a grudge
against the old monster? If I conld I would
give him a bigger bounce than Batan got
when, hurled out of heaven, the first thing
he struck was the bottom of perdition.
With Og’s downtall all the sixty cities
surrendered. Nothing was left of the giant
except his iron bedstead, which was kept in
a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and
stout he once was. So shall the last giant
of opposition in the church’s march suc-
cumb. Not sixty cities captured, but all
tne cities. Not only on one side of Jordan,
but on both sides of all the rivers. i The
day is coming. Hearit, all ye who are
doing something for the conquest of the
world for God and the truth, the time will
come when, as there was nothing left of Og,
the giant, but the iron bedstead kept at
Rabbath as a curiosity, there will be noth-
ing left: of the giants of iniquity ' except
something for the relic hunters to examine.
Which of the giants will bs the last slain {
know not, but there will be a museum some-
where to hold the relics of what they once
were. A rusted sword will be hung up—the
only relic of the giant of War. A dewijohn
—the only relic of the giant of Inebriation.
A roulette ball—the'only relic of the giant of
Hazard. A pictured certificate of watered
stocks—the only relic of the giant of Stock
Gambling, A broken knife—the only relic
of the giant of Assassination. A yellow
copy of Tom Paine—the only relic of the
giant of Unbelief. And that museum
do for the later ages of ths world what the
iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earlier
ages. Do you not see it makesall the differ-
ence in the world whether wa are fighting
on toward a miserable defeat. or towarda
final Victory?
All the Bible promises prophesy the latter,
and so I'cheer you who are the troops of
10d, and thouzh many things are darz now,
ike Alexander I review the army by torch-
night, and I give you the ‘watchword waica
Martin Luther proclaimed, ‘*I'he dof
Hosts!” The or Hosa? and i ory
out exultingly wi ver Cromwell a 0
battle of Batons. “Let God arise: let His
enemies be scattered.” Make all the prep-
arations for the world’s evangelization. |
Have the faith of Robert and Mary Moffatt,
the missioners, who id preashing, 1
Bechuanaland ven years !
convert when asked avid they orould like vo
have sent them by the way ot git :
Fuogland, said, iFenda conanion service,
tor it will be surely mneeded;” and sur
| enough the expe
ith from |.
souls ‘realizad and th union ser<
ies ic. oelebrate it. Ape
ei did that missionary writesin an
Bibam when his autograph ws requested: |
‘Myalbum is the savage breast, ~~
BD ers hore tA. is
see 8av we 's :
Is my prone delight Fine
Whatever yout work and wherever you
work for God—forward! You in your way
and I in my way. With holy pluck fighton
with something of the stren of Thom
Troubridge, who at Inkermann had one leg
shot off and the foot of the other log, a
to carry him off the
when they pro
field, replied: ‘No. I do not move until the
battle is won.” Whatever be the rocking of
the church or state, have ths calmness of the
aged woman in an eartbquake that fright-
ened everybody else, and who, when
asked if e ‘was not afraid,
“No: I am glad that I have a
wno can snake the worid.” Whether your
work be to teach a Sabbath class, or nurse
an invalid, or reform a wanderer, or printa
tract, or train a househbld, or bear the
quernlousness of senility, or cheer the dis-
h , or lead a soul to Christ; know |
that by fidelity you may help the
time when the world shall be snowed under
with white lily and incarnadined with red
rose.
And now 1 bargain with you that we will
come back some day from our. su
abode to see how the world looks when it
shall be fully emparadised--its last tear
wept, its last wound healed, its last shackle
broken, its last desert gardenized, its last
giant of iniquity decapitated: And when
we land, may it be somewhere near the t
of earth where we have together toiled and
struggled for the kingdom of God, and may
it be about this bour in the high noon of
some glorious Sabbath, looking into the up-
turned faces of same great audience radiant
with holiness and triumph.
SUNDAY SCHOOL:
LESSON FOR SUNDAY MARCH 20
Review of the Past Quarter.
Golden
Text Psalm 21, 1. E
REWIEW EXERCISE,
‘Superintendent—How is Christ's coming
foretold?
School—There shall come forth a rod out
of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow
out of his roots.
Supt.— What shall be the condition of His
kingdom? :
School—They shall not hurt nor distroy in
all My holy mountains: for the -earth shall
be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea.
Supt.—What will the Lord do for His
trusting people?
School—Thou wilt keep him in perfect
eace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because
e trusteth in Thee.
- Supt.—What wos does the prophet pro-
nounce upon Ephraim?
School Woe to the crown of pride, to the
drunkards of Ephraim. The crown of pride,
the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
under feet.
Supt.—What charge does he bring against
udah?
School—They also have erred through
wine, and through strong drink ars out of
the way,
Supt.—What did Hezskiah do when hs
received a threatening letter from the king
. of Assyria?
School—Hezekial went up into the house
of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
. Supt.—How did the Lord answer Hezs-
kiah’s prayer?
School—The angsl of the Lord went forth
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred and fourscore and five thousand.
Supt.—For whom did Christ suffer?
Schoot—He was wounded for our trans.
gressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
the chasfissment of our peace was upon
Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
Supt.—What is Christ's gracious call?
School—Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come,
buy wine and milk without money and with-
out price.
Supt.—In what form is the same call
again given?
School—The Spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take tha water
of life Fredy:
Supt.—What is the new covenant that the
Lord will make with Israel?
School—I will put My law in their inward
pasts and write it in their hearts; and will
their God, and they shall be My people.
Supt.— What did Jehoiakim do when Jere-
miah’s prophecies were read to him?
Schoo!—He cut the roll *in pieces, and east
it into the fire until all the’roll was con-
sumed.
Supt.—What sentenca did the Lord pro-
nounce upon Jehoiakim?
School—He shall have none to sit upon
the throne of David:.and his dead body shall
be castout in the day to the heat, and in
the night to the frost.
Bupt.—On what false charge was Jers-
ciah put in prison?
School—He was charged with treason in
deserting to the Chaldeans.
Supt.—By whom was he taken from the
prison?
School—Zedekiah the king sent and took
him out; and asked him secretly, Is there any
word from the Lori?
Supt.— What was Jeremiah’s reply?
School—Jeremiah said, There is: for thou
shalt be deliversd into the hand of the king
of Babylon.
Supt.—When did Nebuchadnezzar take
Jerusalem?
School—In the eleventh year of the reign
of Zedekiah.
Supt.—What was done with Zedekiah and
his sons?
School—The king of Babylon slew tha sons
of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; and
put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Supt.—What became of the city and
peopie? ;
School-~The city was destroyed, and ths
people were “carried away captive into
Babylon. :
Supt.>~What promiseof cleansing did the
Lord make to the captives in Babylon?
School—Then will 1 sprinkle clean water
upon you, and ye shall be clean. from. all
your filthiness, and from all your idols, will
cleanse you.-—Westminster Question Book,
RR " wis SPIT A
THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS, i
The evils which the drunkard inflicts on
his posterity are beyond computation. Dr.
Henry Maudsley once traced back for four
generations the history of an idiotic youth
in the asylum at Rome = In the first genera~
tion he found the habit of drinking, the*
great grandfather was finally killed in a
tavern brawl, In the second he found
hereditary drunkenness, ending in paralysis;
in the third, the father of the youth, sober
by habit, but the victim of delusions and
diseased tendencies; in the fourth, stupidity
and the beginning of idiocy at sixteen pets,
Dr." Howe, of chusetts, found that
fifty per cent: of the idiots the examined
were the offspring of intemperate parents,
It is said that alcohol every year turns two
hundred thousand little children into vaga-'
en
beyond help before they draw their first
breath of pain. So cruel is every father
who is a ,
J. A, Torta, onoe a weaithy planter of
Horn Lae Mis wont to Motnphis, Tenn.,
“to get suppiies for the coming year. Tha
low ot cotton caused all merchan
rth, hark |
| a ron
tween $7
YrHY . SonD : EN.
+ To every one on earth
God gives a burden to be carried down
The road that lies between the cross and
crown, :
No lot is wholly free;
He one to thee.
: Some carry it aloft
Open and visible to any eyes;
And all may see its form and weight snd
size, : J ny
Some hide it in their breast,
And deem it thus unguessed.
Thy burden is God's gift,
And it will make the bearer calm and strong
Yes, lest it press too heavily and long,
.- | He says *Custit on Me,
And it shall easy be.”
And those who heed His voice,
Ana seek to give it back in trustful prayer.
Have quiet hearts that cever can despair;
ge And hope lights up the way
Upon the darkest day.
Take thou thy burden thus.
Into thy hands, and lay it at hia feeb
And whether it be sorrow or defeat,
Or pain, or sin, or care,
Upon the darkest day.
It js the lonely load /
That crushes ont the light and life of
heaven,
But borne with Him, the soul restored, for-
ven : .
Sings out through all the days,
Her joy, and God's high praise.
— [Presbyterian Record.
BROWTH IN GRACE.
Let us try every day for some’ superiorit
to the preceding day.something that shall
distinctly mark the passing scene with pro-
gress;lsomething that sha 1 inspire hope that
we are rather less unfit for heaven today
than we were yesterday. ' The celebrated
artist who has recorded that he passed
no day - without drawing a line,
drew it not for repetition,
but for progress; not to pronounce a given
number of strokes, but to forward ‘his work,
to complete his design. The Christian, like
the piinter, does not draw his lines at ran-
dom; he has a model to imitate, as well as
an outline to fill. Every touch conforms him
more to the great original. He who has
transfused most of the life of God into his
soul, has copied it the most. successfully.—
[Hannah Moore. :
CHRIST, THE GREAT SUBSTITUTE.
It is not by incarnation but by blood-
snedding, that we dre saved. The Christ
of God is no mere expounder of wisdom,
no mere deliverer or gracious benefactor;
and they who think that they have told the
whoie gospel when they have: spoken of
Jesus revealing the love of God, do greatly
err. If Christ be not the substitute, He
is nothing to the sinner. 1f He did not die
as the sin bearer, He has died in vain,
Let us not be deceived on this point, nor
misled by those who, when they announce
Christ as the deliverer, think they have
preached the gospel. If I throw aropeto a
drowning man, and risk my life to: save
another, T am a deliverer. ut is Christ no
more than that? If Icast myself into the
sci, and risk my lifeto save another. am
a deliverer. But is Christ no more? Did He
not risk risk His lite?
he very essence of Christ’s deliverance is
the substitution of Himself for us—His life
for ours. He did not come to risk” His
life; He came to die. ‘He did not redeem us
bv a little loss. a littlesacrifice, a little labor,
a little suffering; He redeemed us to God by
He gave all He had—even His iife—for us.
This is the kind of deliverance that awakens
the song, “Fo Himthat loved us and washed
us from our sins in His own blood.’—[Dr.
onar.
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
‘rvhree things enter into | beauty—fine
teatures, color and expression. The features,
the forms of brow, nose and chin, bequests,
coming often from fur ancestors; ourcelors,
too, are in the main bequests, depending on
the quality of tissue and of blood the more
immediate parents give it; but expression is
very largely our own affair. And, even with
good features and the clearest colors, ex-
pression is'the best part of beauty. The
play of thought and will and feeling on ‘the
face—of noble thoughts, firmness, self-con-
trol, and pure, unselfish, gentle feelings—
we can secure if we will. Ten years of habit,
three years or only one, will affect ‘expres-
sion much. ‘Some one said that ‘‘Every face
ought to beautiful at forty,”’ and another that
“No old person has a right to be ugly, be
cause he has bad all bis life in’ which to
-grow beautiful.” - That is to say, life’s oppor-
tunities of nobleness, or even forty years of
oppurtunity, if well used, are enough to
make so much within that it cannot help
coming through the surface i graceful
habits of the nerves and muscles. The
transficuration of a pleasant smile, kindly
lightings of eyes, restful lines of self-confroi
about the lips, pure shinings of the face as
great thoughts kindle inwardly—these things
no ent makes inevitably ours, and no
fitful week or two of goodness gives them,
and no schooling of the visage either, but
on
within; and this willgive them all, =
Splendor from within! It is the only
thing which makes the real and lasting
splendor without! Trust that inevitable
law of self-expression. Be, not seem! Be
to seem; Be beautiful, and you will by and
by seem so. Carve the face from within,
men’s minds those great elements of piety,
the divine truths of Revelation, by thus
generating all right affections towards God
and man, by shadowing forth and pointing
men to the Sabbath of heaven.
Therefore, the Sabbath is the friend of the
nation, the family, everybodyv’s friend, and
never fails to repay true and devoted friend-
ship for it with the most precious blessings
for time and eternity. :
Religion is essential to the development
of mankind, both individually and col-
lectively. No man can be at his best nor
character and achievement, without religion,
neither can the race as a whole ever develop
the mental and moral and social possibilities
within itself without 'it. Bot ‘it must
be ‘a religion of vital power to break
the dominion of . sin, to , disen-
thrall human nature, and to quicken
the pulses of Soclely with new and lofty in-
pirations: The religion of Jesus has accom-
plished the best results in these particulars.
Itis the only force at work in human societ
which elevates men to the standard oy
for them by the Creator, This is not due
merely to the unqualified moral purity of its
Founder, but to the divinity of His person,
the sacrificial merit of His. death, and the
diffusion of His Spirit among his followers.
He who lives simply for. this world will
soon lose all he has pained, be it much or
little. It cannot last longer than he lasts,
and may not as long. A prince and a pau
per in the grave are just equal. Neither
brought anything with’ him into this world,
and: neither takes anything out with him
when he leaves it. Death abrogates all the
distinctions among men thaf, relate merely
to their earthly condition.
crestures and visible things are but shadoavs,
and that God is God, Jehovah, the true
eternal substance. eel
* MILIIoNS of herring are mow swarming
in the harbor in Semiahmoo. Bay and the
Ci of ee A os Et)
AY men,
and salted 1n barrels for market. Li J
THE iron companies organized to work on
Range, ota, represent be.
5,000,000 and $77,000,000 capital,
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Hs blood—'“the precious blood of Christ.”
habitual noblencss and graciousness
attain the highest point of excellence in
One thing I want truly'to learn, that is,
i threatened to w.
MAirmix Curry, the Washinton county
farmer, has again suffered from incendiar
ies, three of his hav-tacks being consumed.
A year ago be lost $5,000 worth of hay by
fire-bug raids. !
= Ax albino deer has been seen on: the hills
about Pentield several times recently, Iv is
a fine large buck with long ° spreading
antlers, and several gangs of hunters are
after him in spite of the law. :
Mgs. Davip X. MogrgAx, of Plymouth, ’
committed suicide by taking a hammock
and hanging herself to the door of her bed-
room, allowing her feet to rest on the floor.
She became incensed at hier husband while
unk. :
Mike Brier, a farm hand employed by
Cal Linn, of Canonsburg, fell from a. loa:
of hay and received serious if not fatal in-
juries. His spinal chord was injured.
AT Harrisburg it is stated on what is said
to be good authority that the governor bas
stated confidentially to a friend that itis his
intention to proceed both civilly and erimi-
nally against the managers of the Reading
deal, and that he will insist that the eaal
fight shall be vigorously prosecuted.
Josnua Tuomas peered. into an oil tank
with a lamp in kis hand at Jeannette. An
| ‘explosion occurred, fatally injuring him,
Frve and eight cent testaments have
caused much comment on the action of an
offici§l member of the West Newton ‘school
“board, who is also and active and official
member of one of the ieading churches and
-Sundav schools there. JSeverdl days age an
agent for these books visited
schools, and with the : it
sold several hundred, nea
scholars and teachers: be
‘When the official heard what the agent was
doing, he wrote him a postal card, request-
ing him to keep out of the schools and off
the premises with his testainents. a
THE Gettysburg town conncil has
lay!
“the public
he teachers
ing purchasers.
an ordinance taxing all non-resident dram- |
mers who sell to private families fram $1
to $3 per day. ed
THE court at Bellefonte granted eighteen
saloon, two distillery and one wholesale 1i-
cense in Center county. This is an increase
of one. Several applications are held ower.
W. H. Geary fell froth the new Presby-
terian church at Latrobe and was killed.
Ar Frenchville while the 8-year-old
daughter of Lewis Bluebell was standing;
near the fire reading, her clothes caught fire
and she was burned so badly that death oc-
curred a few hours later, !
Jor Heres, a speak-easy pro
Mt. Pleasant, was sentenced at Greensburg
to pay 8500 fine and costs and undergo
sig t months’ imprisonment in the Work
ouse. ; i
Crrizens of Monongahela City are making
preparations for the erection of a handsome
soldiers’ monument there,
A sensation has been created in Mt.
Pleasant by the reported disappearance of
Banker Kail, of the Slavinsky bank atthat
lace. He did business exclusively with the
ungarians and Slavs in that vicinity, and
had in his possession when he shook the
town about $8,000. Kail\dralt in steamship
tickets and acted as banker for the army of
foreigners employed at the coke worksin the
neighborhood. The Huns who had money
on deposit are wild over their loss.
’
rietor of |
Or, Crry sportsmen have projected a game |!
preserve.
Durine a dance at the Grange Hall near
Greensburg Oliver P. Smith stabbed Joe
Miller with a penknife, and his victim may
die. Smith, whois 4 wealthy farmer, has
not yet been arrested.
Jog PAvoskr, a Slav workman of Tpisen-
ring, while on his way home from a bank
Sas neh by three highwaymen and robbed
° : ;
A. L. WooManskg, a New York, Pennsyl-
yania and Ohio brakeman, of Randolph, N.
Y., fell from a train at: Meadeville, and was
instantly killed. ; 5
. MoCrLeELtAND MEXTZER was fatally injured
Yesterday at Johnstown by a drawhead pen--
etrating his abdomen while he was trying to
couple a car and an engine. :
By an explosion of fire damp at the Elm-
wood colliery, Mahoning City, five miners
were badly burned. The gas was lighted by
a naked lamp. i» ;
Grorar HENDERSON, of Webster, while as-
sisting in extinguishing a fire, fell from the
roof avd struck his head on a flagstone, dy-
ing from his injuries. Trae i
A DRUNKEN Swede struck a Hungarian wo-
man with a shovel at Crabtree. estmore-
land county, during a drunken brawl, sever-
ne her arm at the elbow. The woman may
e. : :
Ox account of the breaking out of typhus
fever among the students, the Wyomin
Seminary at Wilkesharre,. has been closed.
There were 400 students in the institution,
CLARENCE GREUVER, aged 22 years, while
standing on the roof of his house last even-
ing watching a fire in a building near by
wag seized with an ‘attack of apoplexy and
fell to the ground, breaking his neck.
ALEXANDER ZANA, an Italian, was fatally
injured at Monongahela City by jumping
from ameving passenger train.
Mgrs. CHRISTIANA BENNETT, of Pittson, be-
gan suit at Wilkesbarre against the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company to recover $20000
damages for the killing of her 14-year-old
son.” He was recently squeezed to death by
a car in a gangway while ab work in one of
the collieries. :
THE leases by which the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad company has assumed
control of the Lehigh Valley and New Jer-
sey Central railroads will soon be open to:
public inspection, as the Attorney General
will file them with the bill in equity, which
he is preparing for presentation fo the
court of Dauphin county onthe complaints
of A, J. Cassatt, T. V. Powderly and Sena-
tor Henninger. | Lhe leases are very vyol-
uminous, X
Gov. Parrison. appointed Col. W. W.
Greenland, of Clarion, to be adjutant gen-
eral, and Col, O. E. McClennan, of Harris-
burg; to be quartermaster general of the
national guard. :
GrNEVA CoLLEGE at Beaver ‘Falls, had to
suspend, owing to the prevalence of scarlet
fever among the families of the instructors.
The public schools in White township, in
the same district, were closed fer the same
cause. ;
Ep. 8. FuNnkHOUSER, the boy who had
both ‘eyes, an arm and a leg torn off by an
explosion of dynamite last week, died
Thursday after terrible suffering.
Wat. F. Keck convicted of murdering Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Nipch at Ironton on Novem:
ber 18 last, was sentenced =t Allentown to
be hanged. 5
Evwarp Nosrron, employed "in the N
tional Rollings Mill ai 5 Ketaport, sd
caught in a set of rolls and drawn clea
Sirongh, He was. instantly crushed te
eath,
5 ¥ i
Caries KxpPLE, a ll-year-old Freepori
boy, hatiged hinge iE beeniiso ‘his father had
Epwarp West, of: New Brighton, while
drunk Tuesday night tied his wife, heated*|
a poker and was about to cram it down he:
throat when neighbors saved her. rh
rly all of the |
‘head, like those
Chines Eperar
Son of Heaven” by the Celestisls.
In the Chicago (Ill) militia pr =
are not allowed to dance on the same
floor with their colonels. = =
The first idea of electricity was given
by the friction of two globes of quick-
silver in the year of 1467. °°
An alligator measuring nine feet five
inches 1 length was found in a small lake
in Lonoke County, Arkansas, ~~. =
"The paper tree of the South Seasis as
kind of mulberry, with an inner bark of
peculiar delicacy and softness. ~~ =
Cream-of-tartar is often mixed with
sand, phosphate of lime, quartz, starch,
- flour, tartrates and sulphate of lime.
The first book containing musical
characters was issued in 1495 from the
press of the celebrated ‘‘ Wynken de
Worde.” ne =
Seals when basking place one o
number on guard to give alarm in
danger.. The signal is a quick
the flippers on a rock. = ; :
A copper rod projecting from the face
of a cliff in Saline County, Mo., 1ndica
that at some date in the Far West, be-
yond the ken of man, copper mining was.
carried on in that vicinity.
A curious fad for obtaining Indian
relics has taken possession of the people
about Reading, Penn., who go out in
‘numbers, armed with spades and pic
axes to, dig for arrow heads and «
remains of the red man.
said to have made some about 12:
It is reported that a lamb was borr
Hornitos, Merced County, Cal., recent
that had eight legs, three eyes three
ears, with two perfecs bodies attached to
one head. One of the ears and also one
“of the eyes were on top of the heal
lived several hours. ree
Pens were first used early in the seventh
century. . They were, of course, quills,
and steel pens did not come into use un
til 1820, when the first gross of them was
sold wholesale for $36. The quality
these pens was greatly inferior to that
those for which the English n
twelveconts a gross.
+ The Island of Fowkave in the Gulf
Siam has a peculiar kind of dogs.
male being of a lighter shade),
black muzzles and dak lines on the for
somelimes seen inb
dogs. ie AT
‘ @pke is the name given to coal fi
“which the volatile ccnstituents have been
driven ‘off by heat. The best kind is ob-
tained from coal when carboniz
3. : ?
an inferior quality, from the retorts
gas works after "the gases have bee
separated. ; &
In Abukir, Egypt, three colossal
statues in rose-colored granite, each about
ten feet high, have been discovered, The
first two represent King Rameses II and
Queen Hentmara sitting on their throne,
a unique group, the like of which has
not yet been discovered in Egypt. The
third statue represents Rameses standing
in military garment and position, with
sword and scepter. The statues are cov.
ered with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The Persian Shah's Treasury.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff obtainea
permission for Mrs. Bishop, the author-
ess, to visit the Persian Shah's ©Mu-
seum,' or ‘treasure house.” ‘She says of
ite" ie : ot fetnnalny
¢‘The proportions of the room are
perfect.’ The floor is’ of fine tiles of ex-
quisite coloring, arranged as mosaic. A
table is overlaid with beaten gold, and
chairs in rows are treated in the same
fashion. Glass cases round the room
and on costly tables. contain the fabu-
lous treasures of the Shah and many of
the crown jewels. :
+Possibly the ‘accumulated splendors:
of pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds,
sapphires, basins and vessels of solid
gold, ancient armor flashing with prec-
ious stones, shields studded with dia-
monds = and’ rubies, scabbards and
sword ‘hilts ‘incrusted with costly
gems, helmets red with = rubies,
golden rays and vessels thick with dia-
monds, crowns of jewels, chains,’ orang
ments. (masculine solely) of every
description, jeweled coats of mail, dating
back to the reign oi Shah Ismael, ex-
quisite enamels of great antiquity, allin
a profusion not to be described, have no
counterpart on earth. They are a dreaur
of splendor not to be forgotten. he
‘*Among the extraordinarily lavish
uses of gold and gems is a golden globe,
twenty inches in diameter, turning on a
frame of solid gold. The stand and
meridian are of solid gold set with
rubies. © The equator and elliptic are of
large diamonds. The ' countries are
chiefly outlined in rubies, but Persia is
in diamonds, The ocean is represented
by emeralds. = As if all this were not
enough, huge gold coins, each worth
$165, are heaped round its base,”—e
Galginani’s Messenger. ep
mn. %
A New Industry For America.
Preparations are being made ia this
country for the manufacture of a new
material for lining vessels. It is made
from the cellulose of / cocoanuts, which
bas the property of absorbing eight
times its weight of water, The material,
which is a into sacks, is used as a
lining for vessels, and it is not onlyex-
tremely difficult to make a hole. in it,
but'should it be punctured by shot or
any other means the inrush of water will:
have the effect of instantly expanding
the material and filling up the gap.—
Wew York Telegram, = ER
re re
In Chins a bride and bridegroom never
see one another until they are married.