Ve have, for thely. certified iy we have spread out before him, “stars advancing and others «cradle of our 3h : . that in the days of the Roman em ' maladministration ! 5 4 DIVINITY AMONG THE STARS. {The Sermon as Delivered by the Brook- lyn Divine. © Tmxr: “Seek Him that maketh the Seven “1 Stars and Orion."—Amos v., 8. ’ ! “A country. el wrote this text—Amos : or Tekoa. . © plowed the earth and thrashed grain by a new heeabing machine just fhe as formerly the cattle trod out the a gathered the fruit of the syca- more tree and scarified it with an iron comb Just before it was ripe, as it was and customary in that way to take He was the son of a listines and Syr- ans and Phoenicians and Moabites and A'm- fonites and Edomites and Israelites trem- Moses ‘was a law "giver, Daniel was a rince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king; : a, he only = my text, wage Z and, as mi supposed, near yall his parallelisms are Phi aE iecy full of the odor of new mown hay, and “devouring the flock while the shepherd came iout in their defense. He watched the herds by day, and by night inhabited a booth ‘made out of bushes, so that through these he could see the stars night long, and was Jnore familiar with them than we who have Sight roofs to our houses and hardly ever see the stars, except among the brick ‘chimneys of the great towns. But at sea- sons of Fi Years rian the Dore were in wy al danger, he w stay out in the . Hola is Yo rr all through the dar his onl shelter the curtain of the night heaven, wi fla embroideries andsilver tassels of What a life of solitude, all alone with -therds! Poor Amos! Andat12 o'clock a hark to the wolf's bark, and the lion’s roar, and the bear’s growl, and the owl's te-whit- _ ite-who, and the serpent’s his 3, as he unwit- tingly steps too near while movi } ving through _. the thickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, t the habit of studying the map of the. eavens, because it was sc much of the time He noticed some .— ta dawn and setting with cer- tain seasons of the year. H a poetic nature, and he read night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem of the constellations, = divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars espe- cially attracted his attention while seated on the gr ing on h under the Spen scroll of the midnight heavens—the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, add Orion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, as it rises about the first of May. The latter he a associated their . winter, as it comes to the meridian in Janu- ary. ‘The Pleiades, or Seven Stars, con- mected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, _ he herald of the tempest, The Ancients ‘were the more apt to study the physiognomy : and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a special in- If the moon every few hours ; I ig lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic ocean, and the electric storms of the sun, by “all scientific admission, affect; the sarely why mot the stars have proportionate effect ~ And there are some things which make me i think that it may not have been all super- tion which connected the movements and ca of the heavenly bodies with . great moral events on earth. Did nota me- 20r run on evangelistic errand on the first night and designate the rough § ord? Did not the stars in eir courses fight against Siseca? Wasit * merely coincidental that before the destruoc- tion of Jerusalem the moon was eclipsed for | twelve consecutive ‘nights? Did it ‘merely . happen so that anew star ap peared in con- tion Cassiopeia, and then disap Just before King Charles IX of France, who was responsible for the 8t, Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it without significance or Jus- n war and famine were p ed by the ss of the sun, which for. nearly a year ve no more light than the moon, although ero were no clouds to obscure it? ‘Astrology, after all, may have been some- thing more than a brilliant heathenism, No wonder that Amos of the text, having heard these two anthems of the stars, put down the stout rough staff of the herdsman and . took into his brown band and cut and knotted fingers the pen of a prophet and advised the recreant people of his time to return to God, saying, "Seek Him that maketh the the Seven Stars and Orion.” This command, which Amos gave 785 years B. C., is just as appropriate for us, 1892 In the first place, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made the Pleiades and Orion must be the God of order. It ‘was not so much a star here and a star . ‘there that impressed the inspired herdsman, but seven in one up and seven in the other group. He saw that night after night and season after season and decade after de- ‘cade they had kept step of light, each one in its own place, and sisterhood never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the time Hesiod called the Pleiades the ‘‘seven daughters of Atlas,” and Virgil wrote in his Alneid of “Stormy Orion” until now, they have observed the order established for their _ ‘coming and going; order writen not in man- uscript that may be pigeonholed, but with the hand of the Almighty on the aome of the sky, so that all nations may read it, Order, - Persistent order. Sublime order. Omnipo- tent order. What a sedative to you and me, to whom communities and nations sometimes seem ing pellmell, and world ruled by some oy at haphazard and in all directions The God who keeps seven worlds in right circuit for six thous- and years can certainly keep all the affairs of individuals and nations'and continents in adjustment. We had not better fret much, for the peasant’sargument of the text was right. If God can take care of the seven worlds of the Pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orion, He can probably take care of the one world we inhabit. 2 I feel very much as my father felt one : day when we were going to the country mill to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of seven years, sat in ‘the back part of the wagon, and “our yoke of oxen ran away with us and along a lavyrinthineroad through the woods, so ‘that I thought every moment weshould be dashed to pieces, and I made a’ terrible out- ‘ery of frignt, and my father turned to me with a face pepfectly calm, and said: ‘De “Witt, what are you erying about? 1 guess we can ride as fast as the oxen can run.” And, my hearers, why should we be affrighted and lo:e our equilibrium in the swiit move ment of worldly events, especially when we are assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are drawing us on, but that or- der and wise government are in the yoke? In your occupation, your mission, your sphere, do the best you can and then trust “to God; and if all things ars all mixed and | disquieting, and your brain is hot and your heart sick, get some one to go out with you 4nto the starlight and point out to you the Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some observatory, and through the telescope see further than Amos with the naked eve could ~—nameiy, two hundrei stars in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula computed to be two trillion, _ “two hundred thousand billions times larger an the sun. Oh, beat peace with the han thes ali that and controls all that—the wheel of ‘the constellations turning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands. of years without the breaking of. a cog or the slipping ."jof a band or the snap of an axle. Foryour |. idity and comfort through the Lord|. rist I charge you, ‘Seek Him that maketh the Seven and Orion.” Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the of the text lo these two a pat God : making ope star and hav everl to everl mon that A a all been lovingly 4 as distinct as the names “Hb telleth the number calleth them all by their names” The seven Pleiades had iiasios given to them, and y are Alcyone, Merope, Bn ectra, Sgerope, Taygete and Maia. 1% But think of the billions and trillions of daughtefs of starry Hent Sivas Sa Salis oy name as they sweep m with ming brow and lustrous Yobe! So fond is God of of nations, of Righteousnes rising with healing in His wings. O men and women, with 80 many sorrows and sins and perplexities, if you mam; ight of Soufors, light of pardon, gn, Highs ness, in earn prayer Chnist, *‘Seek Him that maketh the Boron Stars and Orion.” : n, Amos saw, as we must that Apai the God who made these two archipelagoes of stars must be an ¥achanging Sad. There had been no change in the stellar ap ance in this herdsman’s Aifetime, an father, a shepherd, reported to him that there had been no changein his lifetime. And these two clusters hang over the celes- tial arbor now just as they were the first night that they shons on the Edenic bowers; the same as when the Hgyptians built the pyramids, from the topof which to watch them; the same as. when the Chaldeans cal. culated the solipges; the same as when u, according the book of Job, went out tostudy the aurora borealis; the same under Ptelemaic system and Copernican sys tem; the same from Calisthenes to Pythag- oras, and from ‘Pythagoras to Herschel. ess must have fash- and Orion! Oh, what an ant amid the upsand downs of life, an the flux and reflux of the tides of prosperity, to know that we have a chan; God, tha same ‘‘yesterday, So-day and forever!” , Xarxes garlanded and knighted the steera- man of his hoat in the morning ani han him in the evening of the same day. he world sits in its chariot and drives tandem, and the horse ahead is Huzza and the horse is Anathema. Lord Cobham, in King James's time, was applauded, and had thirty-five thousand dollars a year, but was afterward execrated audlived on sora stolen from the royal kitchen. the Great after death remained un thirty days, use noone would do the honor of shoveling him under. The Duke of Well on refused to have his iron fence mended because it had been broken by an infuriated populace in some hour of political ‘excitement, and he left it in ruins that men might learn what a fickle thing is human favor. *‘But the mercy of the Lord is from ii to them that fear Him, His hteousness unto the chil- dren's children of such askeep His covenant, and to those who remember His command- ments to do them.” This moment ‘‘3eek m that the Seven Stars and rion.” . Amos saw, as we must ses, that the who made these two beacons of the oriental night sky mustbs a God of loveand kindly warning. The Pleiades Tsing in midsky said to all the’ herdsmen and D+ All navigation was regulated by these two constellations. Theone said to shipmaster and crew, “Hoist sail for the sea and gather merchandise from other lands.” Bu Orion was the storm signal, and said, “Reef sail, make things snug or put into harbor, for the hurricanes are getting their wings out.” As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion was the warning prophet of the winter, Oh, now I get the best view of Gol I ever hadl, There are two kinds of sermons I never want to preach—the one that presents God so kind, so indulgent, so lenient, 80 im- becile that men may do what they will against Him and fracture His every law and Bt the pry of thew impertinence and re- ellion under His throne, and while they are spitting in His face and stabbing at His heart, He takes them up in His arms and kisses their infuriated brow and cheek; say- ing, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven.” The other kind of sermon I never want to preach is the one that represents God as all e and torture and thundercloud, and with red hot pitchfork tossing the human race into. paroxysing of infinite agony. The ser- am now preaching believes in a God of loving, kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of Pleiades and on. You must remember that the winter is just as important as the spring. Lest one winter without frost to vegetation and ice Pe bind the rivers and snow to enrich our fields, and then you will have to enlarge your hospitals and your cemetaries. ‘A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard,” was the old proverb. Storms to purify the air. Thermometer at ten degrees above zero to tone up the system. December and Jan- uary just as important as May and June, I tell you we need the storms of life just as much as we do the sunshine. There are more men ruined by y than by adversity. It we had our own way in life before this we would have been impersonations of selfish- ness and worldliness and disgusting sin, and pufed up until we would have been like ulius Ceesar, who was made by sycophants to believe that he was divine, and that the freckles on his face were as stars of the firme ament. One of the swiltest transatlantic voyazes made last summer by our swiftest steamer was because she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing her from New York to Liverpool, But to those going in the opposite direction the storm was a buffeting and a hindrance. It is a bad thing to have a storm ah pushing us back; but if we be God's children and aiming toward heaven the storms of life will only chase us the sooner into the harbor. I am so glad to believe that the monsoons and typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of the land and sea are not un- chained maniacs let loose upon the earth; but are under divine supervision! [ am so glad that the God of the Seven Stars is also the God of Orion! It was out of Dante's suffering came the sublime ‘Divina Com- media,” and out of John Milton's blindness came *‘P. Lost,” and out of miserable infidel attack came the “Bridgewater Treatise” in favor of Christianity, and out of David's exile came the songs of consola- tion, and out of the sufferings of Christ come the possibility of the world's redemp- tion, and out of your bereavement. your persecution, your poverties, your mistor- tunes may yet come an eternal heaven. Oh, what a mercy itis that in the text and all up and down the Bible God induces us to look out toward other worlds! Bible astron- omy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the Psalms, in the prophets, major and minor, in 8t. John's A ypse, practically saying: “World's! worlds! worlds! Get ready for them!” We have a nice little world here that we stick to, as though losing that we lose all, We are afraid of falling off this little raft of a world. We are afraid that some meteoric iconoclast will some night smash it, and we want everything to revolve around it, and are disappointed when we find that it revolves around the, sun instead of the sun revolving around it. Whata fuss we make about this little bit of a world, its existence only a short time between two spasms, the paroxysm by which it was hurled from chaos into order. and the paroxysm of its demolition. i ; And I am glad that so many texts call us vo look off to other worlds, : : . 3 0 : Son : Fastata of: the a Don’t us persist in wanting to stay in barp this shed. this out-house ppd, when all the King’s palaces already occupied by many of our best friendsare swinging wide open their gates to let usin. { When 1 read, “In My Father's honse are ns,” I do not know but that lerfes, stellar hallways, stellar windows, stellar domes. How our departed friends must pity us, shut up in these cramped apartments, tired if we walk fifteen miles, when they some morning, by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back in time for matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is the residence of ‘the martyrs; that up of twelve Tumi iH Is the odjestial ome o the apostles. erhaps that steep of light is the dwelling place of angels cherubic, sera- phic, archangelic. A mansion with as many rooms as worlds, and all’ their windows illu- ‘ 1 for fes.ivity. Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimun- latesour expectations! How little it makes the present and stupendous it makes the future! - How it consoles us about our pions dead, who, instead of being boxed up and under the ground, have therange of as ‘many rooms as there are worlds, and wel come everywhere, for it is the Father's house, in which there are many mansions! Oh, Lord God of the Seven Starsand Orion, how can I endure the t, the ecstasy of such a mn! I must y my text and seek Him. I will seek Him. I seek Him now, for I call to mind that it is not the material universe that is most valuable, but the spir- itual, and that each of us has a soul worth: more than all the worlds which the inspired h saw from his booth on the hills of Tekoa. I had studied it before, but the Cathedral e, Germany, never impressed me asit the last time I saw it. It is ad- mitted the grandest gothic structurs in the world, its foundation laid in 1248;only eight or nine years ago completed. More than six hun years in building, All Europe taxed for its Senstruckion, Its chapel of the . Magi with ous stones enoug! pur- chase a teh Its chapel of Bt. Agnes with master-pieces of painting. = Its spire inging five hundred and eleven feet into rh heavens, Its stained glass the chorus of all rich colors. Statues encircling the pillars and encircling all, Statues above statues, un- til sculpture can do no more, but faints and falls back against carved stalls and down on pavements over which the kings and queens of the earth have walked to confession. Nave and aisles and transept and tals combin- ing the splendors of sunr Inte interfollated, infercolumned grandeur. As I stood outside looking at the double range of flying buttresses and the forest of pinna- cles, higher and higher and higher, until I almost reeled from dizziness, I exclaimed: MGreat doxology in stone! Frozen prayer of many nations 2 . But while Shamding there I saw a poor man enter and put down his pack and kneel be- “side his burden on the hard floor of that cathedral, And tears of deep emotion came into my eyes as I said to myself: “Thera isa soul worth more than all the material sur- -roundings. That man will live after the last innacle has fallen, and not one stone of ail hat cathedral glory shall remain unaocrum- bled. Ho is ow 2 Sdaras . in rags and ver and weariness, but immor- tal iy ” gon of the Lord od Almighty, and the prayer he now offel theug ‘amid many superstitions, believe God will hear, and among the apos- tles whose sculptured forms stand in ‘the sur- rounding niches he yvill at last ba lifted, and into the presence of” that Christ whoss sut- ferings are represented by the crucifix be- fore which he bows, and be raised in due time out of all his poverties into the glorious home built for him and built for us by “Him who maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.” BR JACK THE RIFPER. Women and Children With Their Throats Cut and Left to Dissolve in Chloride of Lime. . Lrverroor, March 19.—The police of this town have been pursuing an inquiry into the disappearance of a woman and her children, who formerly lived at Rain Hill, a part of Liverpool. The inquiry was started in connection with the arrest at. Melbourne, Ausiralia, of a man named Williams, who is charged with murdering a woman there. Information of this arrest and certain mat- ters that had come to the knowledge of the Melbourne police was cabled to Liverpool and an investigation was at once set on foot, as'it was inferred that the disappearance of the woman and children was not due to their having left their home, but to murder. The police to-day went to the house former- ly occupied by the persons in question. They lifted a hearthstone from its place and after a half-hour's digging discovered the body of the missing woman. This ‘was lifted from its resting place and immediately beneath it were found the bod- ies of two children on the top of which the woman’s body had been lying. The mur- derer had made a Dlentify use of chloride of lime to destroy the bodies of his victims and his object had been in a measure at- tained, for the bodies had been partly con- sumed by lime. After the three bodies were taken the police continued their dig- ging, it being rumored that bodies of other women or girls who had wisited Williams’ were missing. The excitement caused b the discovery of the first three was great, but it reached fever heat when the es of two other children were found to have been buried under the house. The first of the children’s bodies was that of a girl 12 years ‘who had been strangled; the second was that of a girl of 7; the third of that of a boy of 5 and fourth that of a baby about a year old. ‘Thethroats of the last three victims had been cut. JACK THE RIPPER, _Loxpox, March 19.—A plausible theory has sprung up from the discoveries of the bodies in a at Liverpool to-day, and the further the affair is: investigated the stronger grows the belief that Williams is none other than the world-known ‘‘Jack the Ripper.” | Williams while a resident of Liverpool, made frequent visits to London. The police have traced his movements be- tween the two places, and it has been found that his visits to London correspond with the times that the unfortunate women inthe Whitechapel district were found with their throats cut and their bodies mutilated in the shocking manner that characterized the crimes of the “Ripper.” It will be recalled that a description was given to the police of the man who was seen in the company of several of the unfortunate women whose bodies were subsequently found lying in the streets of Whiteshape . This description tallies exactly with the appearance of Wil- liams as giver” by people well acquainted with him. - MORE RIOTING IN BERLIN. Socialists Commemorate the Anniver. | sary of the German Revolution of ' 1 y BrrLiN, March 19—The anniversary of the revolution of 1848 was observdd by the Socialists yesterday who visited the graves of those who fell in that year. A collision with the police took place and the Socialists were dispersed, several arrests being made. t. | The disturbance continued in the afternBon, the crowds getting into hand-to-hand fights with the police. Red flags were displayed . by one group of men. People in the crowds which lined the streets shouted: ‘Long live anarchy!” “Down with the government.’® made by the police (Jonah ii, 9) from beginning to end. vised Version), SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 327. ‘Blessings of the Gospel,” Isaiah xi., 1-10. Quarterly Mission Lesson Commentary. 1. “Comfort yg comfort ye, M eopl saith your God P This our Sn The second section of this great prophecy, which is so frequently quoted from by the New Testament, writers as words of Isaiah the prophet that every believer should be per- ectly satisfied that the sanis Isaiah wrote, by the Spirit, the whole book. See Math. viii, 17; xii, 17; Luke iv., 18, 19. 2. ''Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, - and cry unto herthat her warfare (apoointed time margin) is Resomplished, that her ini- guity is pardoned.” This is Jerusalem, the throne of Jehovah, thevprincipal eity in the Holy Land, representing God's people in the days ot Isaiah, J: udah and Israel; and these words are for their hearts, with special ref- erence to days yet future when their ap- pointed time of deliverance shall come, and the iniquity of the land shall be removed in one day. (Zech. iii, 9.) Gabriel spoke of this to Daniel in the revelation of his seventy weeks which should end in the bringing in of everlasting. righteousness, and making an Tho Sevemott ap a conion and ain. For Ww or period we sti v Ihe 5 a 24.37). pel e still wait 8. "The voize of Him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, a t in the desert a highway for God.” From Math. iii., 3: Luke iii, 4, 5; John i, 23, we have no difficulty in locat. ing the application of this verse, or, at x itanearer application, for many prophe €cles have a double borizon, a nearer and a more remote, 4. “Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low.” All hindrances shall be removed or overcome in that day, and all things restored to Israel that the prophets have foretold: but in Acts iii., 21, we read that this shall be when Christ shall come a second time. When John the Baptist came in the spirit and. power of Elijah he was rejected bv the rulers; Math, xi, 18, 19; xvii, 12). aad He pla told Israel that they knew not the ny their visitation, and that they would not see im again nntll they could be ready to wel- come Him (Luke xix., 41-44: Math. xxiii, 5. ‘And the glory of the Lord shall be vealed, and all flesh shall ses it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” When Jesus came the first time it was in humiliation, not in glory (Phil. ii., 5-8), and His glory was seldom seen, and by but a very few, as on the Mount of Transfi tion, and at the marriag 14: il, 11331 Pet, 1., 16,17), But when Ho all come in glory bringing His saints with Him, every eye shall see (Math. xxv. 31; Col. iii., 4; Rev. i., TY; Our lesson does not therefore describe the blessings of the Gospel as now preached to gather out the church from all nations (Acts xv., 14), but ths bieesin ngs that will Pe hen atter Christ's C ing el s| e th i - aries Jo the whole world. Yao eislon e voice said, Cry. And he sai tshall I ery? All flesh is grass, oli the goodliness thereof isthe flower of the field.” We see the meaning of this verse by comparing Psalms ciii, 15; James i, 10, 11. Verse 17 of this chapter also helps to explain it. Man can do nothing toward his own redemption. Salvation is of the Lord 7. "The grass withereth, the flower fad- eth, because the spirit of. the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.” To lean upon Egypt or Assyria, to puv conf. dence in man and worshi idols, the worke of men’s hands, was Israel's sin, To desire a king like other nations, when God wished them to be separate from all nations and let Hi be their King, was a great sin against 8. ‘‘The grass withereth, the flower fadeth but the word cf our God shall stand for: sver#' Man and his glory shall fade away; his lofty looks and his haughtiness shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be ex. alted in that day (Isa. ii., 11, 17). The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: bat he that “doeth the will of God abideth forever a John ii., 19) Man’s thoughts and ways and religiousness and purposes are all vain, unless in accord with the word of the Lord (L Pet. i,, 28-25), 9. “0 thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that teHest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength: lift it up, be pot afraid; say unto the par of Judab, Be- bold your Goo” (marginal reading and Re- : A magnificent verse, but - Zion, Jerusalem and Judah mean just what the names imply and not the church, Isa. xxv.,, 8 9; lil,, 7-10 give clear light upon it. The Lord shall build up Zion when He shall appear in His glory (Ps. cii., 16), and then He will bring the church back with Him (Col. iii., 4, rats let us be obedient and give Him no rest till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth, (Isa. Ixii., 6, 7). Every soul now won to Christ hastens His return. 10. “Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him; ' behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.” = At His first coming He came in weakness, but He will come again in power for the Sulemption of His people, Israel; recompense to His people, vengeance to His enemies. = Please take the trouble to read carefully these passages and prove what ] say (en, xxxv,, 4; Ixiii, 4; Luke xxi., 27, 28: Heb, ix., 28). Even we who are now saved and have the first fruits of the Spirit wait longingly for the redemption of our ies at the resurrection of the just the first resurrection, when we shall receive our rewards for service m, viii, 28; Phil. iii, 20, 21; Luke xiv., 14; Rev. xx. 5, 6; xxii, 12). After that He will return with us in ‘glory for the redemption of Israel and of the world. For weread, “The Lord my God shall come and all the saints with Thee.” “The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His Saints.” “If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even 80 them also, which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him” (Zech. xiv., 5; I Thess. iii,, 18; iv., 14), and in Rev, xix., 11-16, we read that when Christ shall come in glory as Kingof Kings and Lord of Lords, the armies in Heaven shall follow Him, as He comes to overthrow the beast and the false prophet, and shut up the devil in the bottomless pit. These armies we judge from their clothing to be the saints, the re- deemed from the earth (verses 7, 8, 14). The great and ever recurring question in every esson should be, *‘Is He my Lord God, and do I rejoice in Him? If am I by His “steadfast, unmovable, ways abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that my labor is not vain in the Lord?’ (I Cor, xv., 58). To be a vessel, empty, clean, filled with His Spirit and meet for Hie service, is this my honest desire? —Lesson per, THE GREATEST PRODUCER OF CRIME. wo 53 recent address by Jud Kimball, of asl , on crime, speaking as the re- EE erin asa I judge in the National Capital, he said: “There is nothing that produees so much crime as liquor,” He stated that during the year ended December 31, 1891, there were over 18,000 cases in the police court, Something over 12,090 in his own court. He added: *‘The only way to stamp out this curse will be very earnest and ve work among the people.” e cited a num- ber of pitiful cases of misery and de Hoa brought about by the use of liquor, and in to be ? there should ba an jine- ; out) but w 3 @ suggest that it the ¢ hops, and Targa extent ¢ ABO the Sevee and so also was the Christ (Luke i; 17; pare its monitions, from time to time, with THE TWO PATHS. Two paths before each soul we see; Two ways our feet may tread; Both lead us to eternity, And of these paths our Lord hath said— r “Straight is the gate, narrow the way,” That leads to realms of endless day; While **broad the way, and wide the gate,” To the abode where love and hate, And death forever reign. Choose well the path thy feet shall tread, And make the choice today ; In childhood’s hour give God thy heart And he wiil shield thee from each dart, And gently guide thee all life’s way: ‘Walk in his soetsteps who has trod For us the way; and follow on Till life’s last hour; and trust in God, Then walk with him for aye. — (Mrs. M. L. J. Hadley % - GOLDEN THOUGHTS. I never yet found pride in a noble nature, wor humility in an unworthy mind. Of ail these, I observe that God hath chosen the vine—a low plant that sreeps upon the help- ful wall; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar, nor the spreading palm; but a bush—a humble, siender, abjeet bush. Asif he would by these selections check the conceited arrogance of man. Noths Ing produces love like humility; nothing hate, like pride.—[Feltham. A SEARED CONSCIENCE. Reader, would you escape the intolerable curse of a seared consciefice? Then seek by constant study of the word of God, and by continual prayer for the direetion of the Di- vine Spirit, to enlighten your eonscience, to make it quick to discern and embrace the right, and alive to every approach of evil. To such a conscience ld a constant obedience. Never seek to pervert its free ut- terances by sophistry; and listen to its first suggestions, as Elijah listened to the “still small voice” when he wrappid himseifin his mantleand went forth to meet his God. Com- the words of the Most High, and follow them with a prompt and ready ebedience. Re- member that among all the propensities of the soul this, the moral propensity, is—what the great Chalmers once truly pronounced it —‘the lawful sovereign,” and every other passion that may assume the throne is to be dethroned as an usurper. - GO HIGHER: Why are the stellar observatories placed n elevations? Why is the Lick telescope located on the desolate summit of Mount Hami'ton? Not to bring the object glass nearer the stars, but to overcome the world —the great, rowhd, bidering world; * the rough, broken, fretted world; the werld with its huge opaqueness and its petty obtrusions! That is why. And thatis why Christ rises so into the regions of ideal; to overcome the world, to lift us above the world. Climb the mountain. You begin in the vailey and end in the clouds. Climb Christ's life! You begin with the rea} and end with the ideal. You begin with a enter’s bench or a fisher’s net, and end with a martyr’s cross and a victor’s crown. ‘You begin with the human, you end with the divine. The mountain does not seem so very high, not much higher than some of $he surreunding mountains. But the higher vou go, the higher it rises; the farther from it you recede, the loftier it appears.—[Rev. J- Brainerd Thrall, : BONG. If the day be cloudy and depression; wnich all your resolution cannot shake off, creeps into your haert, sing. Though you may not feel in the least like singing, yet persevere, Choose some sweet and comforts ing hymn, and sing it through to the end} then another, then another, and if, at the end of the third, sunshine does not return to your heart and face, your malady is in. deed obstinate. Sing to your little ehildren. Your voice may be untrained, but it will -sound sweet to them, and in after years they will recall with tender recollection the songs you sang as you rocked them to Sleeh or as they leaned upon mother’s knee in the twi- light hour. } Sing in the Lord’s house as an act of wor ship. 1f your voice be strong and sweet, re- oice in this good gift from your Heavenly ather, and sing aloud in his praise. If it be weak and perhaps broken with age, still let it mingle softly with the others. hen the voice begins to break and quaver; pride will’ counsel silence, but if the counsel be obeyed, the power to sing is lost altogether, an en people thus lose the means of solace in many a lonely, quiet hour. Never give up singing.—[Congregationalist. BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS. God has sent scme angels into the world whose office is to refresh the sorrows of the poor, and to lighten the eyes of the disconso- late. And what greater pleasure can we have than that of bringing joy to ous brother; that the tongue should be tuned with heavenly accents, and make the: weary soul listen for light and ease: and when he per. ceives that there is Such a thing in the world and in the order of things, as comfort and joy, to begin to break out from the prison of is sorrows, at the door of sighs and tears, _and by little and little begin to melt into showers ahd refreshment—this is glory to thy voice and employment fit for the bright est angel. So I have seen the sun kiss the frozen earth, which was bound up with the images of death, and the colder breath of the north, and the waters break from their enclosures, and melt with joy and run in useful chan- nels; and the flies to rise from little graves in the walls, and dance a little while in the air. to tell that joy is within, and that the . great mother of creatures will open the stoek of her dew refreshment, become useful to mankind, and sing praises to her Redeemer. So in the heart of a sorrowiul man under the discourse of wise comfort; he breaks from the despair of the grave, and the fetters and chains of sorrow; he blesses God, and blesses thee, and he feels his life returning. A PATTERN. 80 Paul called himself in his eonversion to Christ. But how a pattern? Of how great a sinner may be saved by grace. Was he not a blasphemer and perse- cutor? Did he not breathe out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples? Did he not aid in the murder of Stephen? Did he not .drag helpless women te prison and judgment? Did he not imbue his hands in the blood of many martyrs? Did he not cherish. the most intense malice against Jesus Christ himself? But he obtained mercy. Who then need despair? When to the name of Manasseh, and the Magdalen and the sinners of Jerusalem, was adde that of Saul of Tarsus as saved by grace, was there not a demonstration that no child of Adam need perish. Of how great a saint such a saved sinner may become. Was there ever an instance of loftiér or purer devotion? Do the annals of the world furnish a character of superior ex- cellence? Was there not almost an utter ‘abnegation of self and consecration to Christ? Did not his Moral ¢ourse indeed resemble the morning light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day? What untiring activity. What quenchless zeal. What sub- lime heroism. hat seraphic love. And yet this man was once the chief of sin- ners y Yes—a pattern. one aspect of which for. bids sinful despair; the other aspect of which allures and impels to holy hope ané | exertion | AV Ciry (Nev.) youth was TRGINIA n yay 21 Shooting an detected 2 a a tho. rea oF he oul oil to RELIGIOUS READING. GRAND ARMY COLUMN The Part Taken by the 60th Ohio in Cap- turing Those Rebsl Guns. I notice in a paper, an account of ‘he battle above the clouds and Mis- sionary Ridge and on to White Oak or Pigeon Ridge, and the capturing of the four pieces of artillery during that dark night. I wish to say to ¢ ariter and others, that my regiment was there und had a hand in the af- ‘air, : ; The night was a very dark one, a f I'mistake not, there was a fine mist of rain, and we were in pursuit of the retreating Johnnies. My regiment w in the rear of the brigade, and we disv Jovered campfires ahead, about as many as would have been built to ac- sommodate a brigade of troops. We Yanks began to feel as though we would soon go into camp for the re- mainder of the night and get some much needed rest. But not se, We oarched some little distance to thi right of said fires, then the word passed along the line to move up as fast ast bad road and darkness would permi and do it silently, as there was: som: thing ahead of us and we wanted capture it. Well, we moved in single file, for we had gotten o the road into the woods, and each ma must follow his comrade 1u front. nally the foremost regiments halt and bunched up, and as we, in singl file, came up, we took our places. was not long after my company ge into linc until the brigade was forme 8s my company was G, leaving onl one more compang to double up, whic was Company B. : The order was then given to fron and when we did so anil moved a { syards, there was quite a bank loo wp, and I think it must have been fill for a railroad. It was about 25 fe at base, and about 14 feet high. could see the reflection from fire on oppositeside. The order was given to charge and not fire unless ordered to do 80, but when we gained the top of t embankment the temptation was tot great for nearly one-half of the com mand, and they cut loose on & enemy. : : It seems that in our immediate fron Immediately after the firing our Co nel shouted, “Cease that firing.” Th result of that sneak was the capture of four pieces of artillery belonging ¢ Furgerson’s famous South Carolin battery and 11@ prisoners. The 68 Ohio formed a square apd marche the prisoners back some distance an went into camp for the balance of th Who took charge of the prisonersnex morning I de: not remember, but the guns were taken to the rear and then, to Chattanooga. Gam Pease, a co rade of my company who was left in the rear, tells me there was a detail o! the 60th with the battery, He wal taken: sick after the capture of Mis- sionary Ridge and was sent back to camp to bring up our cooked beef rations, which he nobly did. He started from Cameron Hill with 63 pounds of eooked béef for our come pany on the morning of the 26th in company with a number of others who started on the same errand for their respective commands, and I think thi man: Pease was the only one that ever reached their commands with the much desired food. os He came into bur camp on the even- ing of the fight on White Oak Ridge, and E want all to know he was welcomed most heartily. We soon de voured his 63 pounds of cooked meat that he had ‘‘toted” for two days an nights. His comrades wanted him t throw it away, but he was a true com rade und said may. He said that hs would “tote” it wntil the regiment was found or until it became soured, and then he would knock the flies off of a few hours in the hope that some one would still dare to eat it. : The brigade that captured the bat- tery was composed of the 19th Ill, 11th: Mich., 69th Ohio, and the 15th, 16,and! 18th battalions of Regulars, We wer in a woods clear of underbrush, bu the trees stood pretty thick. After the volley was fired therebs came running: up to us to surrender. One fellow about seven feet, and an ax-handle tall, ran into me,and of course I halted: him. He surrendered in the following: language: “You done got my brudder Ike, you done gqt my brudder Joe,an now you done got me.” I replied, it the ones you name are as tall as. you we certainly have in our posession some length of the rebel army. The ones whe seemed to want to make their escape would jump from tree to twee. "We could see them move and would command them not in the sweetesf terms ever uttered to halt and come forth and throw up their hands an say, “I am your prisoner,” which most cases they did. A negro 1 about nine years old, quite: small, and the color of new leather;havinga small brass snare drum, jumped up. and sang out in a clear, boyish negro accents “Massa, I's your prisoner, too.” In the morning he was nowhere to be found. I think he made good his"escape when we were marching them back, as went through a piece of ground had been recently cleared and wi of stumps. I think it altogether liki ly that he sat down by one of th stumps and let us march by GEoRGE PRrETS, in National T “TEE Lord giveth wisdom ‘His mouth cometh knowl u ng
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